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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-12-06

how well they always come
out"
sex dished out by Hollywood.
Look at Lucy and Drag.
net,'" observes Hall. Neither
depends on sex, and more peo-
pie watch them in one week
than see a top movie in a life
time"
Hall, of course, is a tele-
vision star himself now. and
admits to prejudice. He has
m ade So "Ramar of the
Jungle" films.
"And I have yet to kiss a
leading lady in one of them"
he adds. And I now make
as much money in three
months as I used to make in
one year in the movies"
In fact, he. seldom uses the
same leading lady twice in any
of his films, which ARE
Syndicated to 100 stations
throughout the Nation. He
owns a good chunk of them,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-12-06
Viewing TV
Two Writers on q Spot
It's Only Show but I Love Lucy Must
Be Funny Again Every Monday Night
By Hal Humphrey

writing Lucy scripts that we
never did have time to read
them" Bob recalls.
At the beginning of every
week they sit down with Pro-
ducer Jess Oppenheimer to
plot the next script. Then Bob
andSMadelyn spend the next
five days writing it. Sometimes
they each take off on their
own, each writing a script and
taking the best of each for the
final draft.
Oppenheimer goes over the
finished script, putting in some
polishing touches and some
times rewriting portions of it.
Most frequent criticism heard
of the Lucy" show now is
the similarity of situations
her attempts to crash into show
business with Ricky have been
the springboard for many a
show.
Advice Is Conflicting
Its a peculiar thing. but
when we do write something
completely different, the let
tiers start pouring in protesting
the change" says Bob. Some
letters, say, Let's see more of
the baby and others vehe-
mently write that, We've had
enough of that kid" Obvi-
ously we can't listen to all of
this advice. We just try to see
that the script is entertaining
each week and let it go at
that"
The other morning the filling
station attendant where Bob
has his Jaguar sports roadster
serviced put in his 2 cents
worth
II didn't think the show was
so hot last night, Mr.. Carroll.
1t was the wrong part for Desi.
1t wasn't like him, if you know
what I mean,' said the gas
jockey turned critic.
Yessir! Along about now,
Bob and Madelyn would be
happy to trade places with
Damocles. Who's afraid of a
little old sword?
Copyright, 1858. Mirror Enterprise
Syndicate)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-12-06
He Finds Stamina
N Acting Asset
BY the Associated Press
HOLLYWOOD.

Wendell Corey believes the
two most important assets an
actor can have on a live tele-
vision dramatic show are a
good pair of lungs and strong
feet.
You think I'm kidding?"
he asks. "Just try doing an
intimate scene on one set,
exit gracefully, make a So
yard dash over bass violins,
TV cameras. cables, techni-
clans and then walk gracefully
into the next scene and try to
talk while out of breath-all
in 80 seconds"
Corey believes live TV de-
mands the utmost in talent
from an actor.
II know" he comments. Il
never yet have gone into a
show with all my lines men,
orized. There just isn't enough
rehearsal time, and the whole
show seems to run on hySteri-
cal fatigue.
I'm continually amazed at
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-12-06
Film Amour Ovenoted, Practitioner Avows

and this explains his financial
love of television.
Based on his top movie SAL
airy of $4,000 a week, Halls
return from his jungle TV
series puts him into a claimed
million dollar-a-year class.
His films cost $4,000 each to
make.
His crew turns out three a
week. The first three of any
series are integrated so that
they can be spliced together
into a feature-length movie
for showing in theaters.
Hall said that the success
of the movie cowboys gave him
the idea that sex as a box
office commodity was over
rated.
$50 I decided to become a
Gene Autry of the jungle,
says Hall. "Gene kisses his
horse. I kiss an elephant"
What if Jon had suggested
to his movie bosses that there
be no sex in such movies as
Hurricane" or those BOSOM
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-12-06
Viewing TV
HOLLYWOOD.

A pair of Hollywood TV
writer's now know exactly how
Damocles must have felt when
he watched King Dionysius
suspend that sword over his
head. If the horsehair hold
ing the sword ever snapped,
DamocleS was a dead duck.
Madelyn Pugh and Bob Car
roll don't have a sword hang
ing over their heads, but they
probably would prefer this to
the spot in which they now
find themselves.
All that Madelyn and Bob
have to worry about is writing
a new script every week for
the II Love Lucy" show. With
more than 80 Lucy" scripts
behind them, and over half
the Nations TV viewers tuned
in every Monday night to see
if it's as funny as last weeks.
this writing duo easily could
work up a terrific persecution
complex.
IF we ever stopped and
asked ourselves why 40 million
people watch the show, we'd
shake with fear all week."
says Madelyn, a tall good
looking girl who refuses to be
impressed with her job.
"We try not to think about
1t too much. The scripts are
just as good or bad as they
ever WERE" chimes in Bob a
somber sort who wears a par
tial beard. When he shaved it
off once few years ago, there
was so much rubbing from his
friends that Bob decided he
was doomed to wear chin foil
age.
Started on Radio
They met six years ago when
both were staff writer's at CHS
here and assigned to script
the radio show, My Favorite
Husband" which starred Lu-
ellie Ball. When Lucy and hus-
band Desi Arnaz plunged into
TV they took Madelyn and
Bob with them.
"We bought books on how to
write for TV, but got so busy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-12-06
BY the Assoeiaied Press
HOLLYWOOD,

Jon Hall believes sex is much
overrated as a Hollywood
commodity.
That's a strong opinion from
an actor famed for his torrid
lovemaking under tropical
skies with such movie queens
as Dorothy Lamour and Maria
Montez.
He argues that television
proves that the American pub
lie is fed up with the brand of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-12-06

and-sand epics with Miss
Montez?
Why" he answers, "they
would have laughed me right
out of Hollywood"
The coastland times., 1953-08-14
ROBERT LEE HUMBER
COLONY SPEAKER ON
VIRGINIA DARE DAY

Robert Lee Humber of Green
vile, one-time an international
lawyer in Paris until Hitler's in
vasion of France during the early
40's and since chat time important
in world federation efforts in this
country, will be the featured guest
speaker during intermission at The
Lost Colony on the 366th anniver-
sary of the birth of Virginia Dare
next Tuesday.
The Tuesday night program will
also feature a pre-curtain concert
by Elizabeth City's famous high
school band and a demonstration
by that organizations beautiful
and talented majorettes.
During the day the North Caro-
lima Garden Club members will
make pilgrimage to Roanoke Is
land for the purpose of visiting the
Elizabethan Garden which is being
created here under their sponsor
ship. In addition to high state Of
ficiais of the Garden Clubs expect
ed here for Virginia Dare Day, all
Garden Club members in counties
of the Albemarle have been urged
to attend.
The coastland times., 1953-08-14
THOMAS BASNIGHT
LEAVING NATIONAL
TO GO WITH ATA

Thomas A. Basnight, Jr., chief
of the CAA control tower at
Washington National Airport,
has resigned effective August s
to take job with the Air Trans
port Association, national organ
ization of scheduled airlines.
The Alta has appionted him
air traffic control specialist, a
new post.
Basnight, 33, has served IL
years with the Civil Aeronautics
Administration, which maintains
airport control towers. He start
ed as clerk at National, and
has been chief of traffic control
at Norfolk and Charleston, w.
Va.
AS chief at National, he is in
charge of planning and super
vising air traffic UP to 40 miles
away, In bad weather, this in
cludes traffic landing and taking
off at Anacostia Naval Air sta
ton and Boiling Air Force base.
Sse RASNIGHT, Page Foar
The coastland times., 1953-08-14
OR ECON INLETS
NEW FERRY BOAT
ALSO INADEQUATE

With the addition of the "Gov-
ernor Umstead'' to the Oregon
Inlet ferry fleet, more anglers
and various other visitors
thought they would have an
opportunity to visit the fish-fa-
nous waters of the Hatteras
Island area and be assured a
good chance to return to the
north side of the Inlet without
difficulty and the possibility of
long waits to get aboard. How
ever, the rush this past week end
was so great, that the bottleneck
was about as bad as before the
new boat went on. The old boat
had to run also.
The new ferry, a converted
all-steel Leu has facilities for
hauling % automobiles, just
twice the number the largest of
two wooden ferries could acsom-
modate. The wooden ferries, the
Barcelona and New Inlet will
be retained at the Inlet to help
traffic is at peak and espec-
take care of automobiles when
tally on the week end, according
to John Wilson, superintendent
of the state owned and toll free
floating equipment in the Oregon
Inlet, Roanoke Island, Manns
Harbor and Alligator River links
of modern all-paved us. High
ways of the region.
Creation of the new Cape
Hatteras National Seashore and
the fact that a new all-paved
highway now extends from us.
Highways 158, 64 and 264 at Nags
Head to Hatteras village some
so miles southwark, has resulted
in thousands of additional tour
lists visiting this once isolated
maritime region this year. While
thousands have visited the is
land, others turned back at Ore
gon Inlet due to inadequate ferry
Accommodations.
The Governor Umstead" made
its initial trip on Saturday. Un-
able to take care of all the traffic
coming to Hatteras Island it was
necessary to also operate the old
ferries
The coastland times., 1953-08-14
MISS LAEL. MCMILLAN, IL
GETS AIR PILOT LICENSE

Of interest to readers in Dare
County is the following news
about a granddaughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Stick of Kitty
Hawk Beach.
Miss Lael McMullen, II year
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
John McMullen of Elizabeth
City, has recently become the
youngest person in this area to
own a private pilots license.
Miss McMullen, who first flew
an airplane on January /, of this
year, accumulated practice and
the required amount of flying
time at the Municipal Airport,
Elizabeth City.
Officials at the airport saw
that Miss McMullen is very good
and that she is one of the best
young pilots they have ever
known.
The coastland times., 1953-08-14
TOURIST BUREAU ASKING
FOR MORE FERRY TRIPS
Bureaus Drive For 1953-54 Budget
Got Underway Wednesday

The drive to raise an operating
budget of $4,000 for the, Dare
County Tourist Bureaus program
of publicity, public relations,
travel and other international
services is getting underway i'm
mediately for the 1953-54 period
beginning October /. This was
one of the primary subjects dis
cussed by the Board of Directors
at their annual meeting in Man
teo on Wednesday.
Of considerable Importance at
the present time was the decision
by the Board of Directors to
spearhead a movement request
ing additional schedules for Or
egon Inlet Ferry. Of immediate
interest was the resolution re
questing State Highway and
Public Works Commission to
retain the last south and north
bound schedule each evening in
effect. 1t has been advertised
that the $40 P. M. schedule leav-
ing north side and the 7:15 P. M.
ferry leaving the Hatteras Island
side of the inlet would be dis
continued on August Is. Appar-
emily the reason for this is be-
cause darkness as summer ad-
vances comes earlier each even
ing.
M. L. Burrus, of Hatteras, vice
chairman of the board expressed
the opinion that the State
should not only retain the $40
and Ills P. M. schedules but also
add additional schedules later in
the evening due to public neces-
sity.
st is ridiculous for anyone to
See BUREAU, Page -Four
The coastland times., 1953-08-14
PROGRESS MADE
ON ELIZABETHAN
GARDEN PROJECT
Famous Antique Statuary Is
Being Erected and To Be
Shown August 18

Manteo. = The North Carolina
Garden Clubs Elizabethan Gar
den here at the site of The Lost
Colony on Roanoke Island is
taking shape rapidly now and by
August 16, an excellent preview
of the areas potentialities will
be ready. On that date, the 366th
anniversary sof the birth of Vlr-
ginia Dare many members of the
sponsoring organizations will
come here to get their first view
of the work that is being done,
work which eventually will give
the area added cultural aspects.
Already nearing completion is
the erection of the famous anti
que fountain statuary which is
said to date back to Elizabethan
England where it was obtained
many years ago by John Payne
Whitney and Stanford White,
his landscape architect.
The fountain and many other
pieces of statuary was presented
to the Elizabethan Gardens by
Jock Whitney from his Green
wood estate in Georgia. The
statuary when finally erected
will be. display of 18th Century
culture that exists nowhere else
in America Quite properly too,
the statuary which dates back
to the Elizabethan period, is be-
ing placed at the actual site
where Sir Walter Raleigh colon
lists attempted to create a per-
manent settlement in the New
World during the 10Th Century
Elizabethan period.
August 18th will be North
Carolina Garden Clubs Day at
The Lost Colony and with the
Manteo and Elizabeth City Clubs
as hoStesses for the occasion a
great many members of the
sponsoring clubs are expected
here. They will inspect the cur
rent work at the garden and at
tend performance Of The Lost
Colony. At least two widely
known speakers are expected
to address the audiences and club
members on that date. An
nouncement of the speakers for
the occasion will be announced in
few days, according to General
Manager r. E. Jordan.
The coastland times., 1953-08-14
GARDEN CLUBS WILL
PICNIC AUGUST 16
Local Organization to Be Hosts to
Visitors; Other Local WO-
mems Clubs to Assist

The Roanoke Island Garden
Clubs, with the help of other wo-
mems organizations on Roanoke
Island, is reviving custom that
goes back to 1889, when the peo-
pie on Roanoke Island began en-
tertaining with picnic dinners
hose who came to old Fort Ra-
eigh on August 18, Virginia Dare
Day.
The local garden club has sent
out invitations to representative
members of all North Carolina
garden clubs who are to come to
Roanoke Island on Garden Club
Day at Fort Raleigh, August i8.
At $50 in the afternoon the picnic
will be served on the lawn of Roa-
noke Island Gardens, the business
and home location of Mr.. and Mrs.
Albert @. Bell.
This will follow a pilgrimage to
the Elizabethan Gardens, and af-
ter the picnic there will be a short
conference, and later guests will
attend the performance of The
Lost Colony.
Mrs. o. j. Jones of Manteo is
president of the Roanoke Island
Garden Club.
The coastland times., 1953-08-14
COAST GUARD is
NOW ACCEPTING
NEW RECRUITS

Norfolk. = For the first time
since last March the US. Coast
Guard is accepting applications
from young men for enlistment,
recruiting officials announced to-
day.
Enlistments were closed in
March when the Coast Guard
reached its authorized strength,
but now because of increasing
monthly quotas, applications
from all over the Fifth Coast
Guard District maryland, Vir-
ginia, North Carolina) are being
sought.
Boatswain Carl K. Scarbor-
ough, USCG, the Fifth Districts
recruiting officer in Norfolk, Va,
said that waiting lists of recruit
applicants, compiled during the
quota-less summer months, will
probably be exhausted in about
two months and wants new men
to get on the lists now.
To qualify for Coast Guard
4-year enlistment, applicants
must be between the ages of II
and rs, in good health and pass
the Armed Forces Qualification
Test.
After being signed up, recruits
are sent to the Coast Guard Re-
ceiving Center at Cape May, NJ,
where they go through Is weeks
of intensive boot training.
They are assigned to Coast
Guard cutters, shore stations or
service schools upon graduation
from Cape May.
Boatswain Scarborough also
said that Coast Guard Organized
Reserve units, which meet one
night a week at Baltimore, Md,
and Morehead City and Whining
ton, N. c., are looking for new
recruits and ex-servicemen.
Men wanted for the units must
be between II and 18 or over
26 with prior military service.
The enlistment period is for
three years.
Boatswain Scarborough stated
that many rates are open in both
the regulars and reserve for ex-
servicemen.
Coast Guard recruiting stations
are located in the Veterans Ad-
ministration building, Durham,
N. c., Room 204, Custom House
building Wilmington, N. c., and
in Room 425-C, Post Office build
ing, Norfolk, Va.
The coastland times., 1953-08-14
Single Copy II
TOURISTS SEEK
ODD THINGS ON
HATTERAS VISIT
Seek Hotel on the Diamonds
and Ask to See the
"Graveyard"
BY AYcocK BROWN

Hatteras. - Tourists and vaca-
tlonists now visiting unusual
Hatteras Island in greatly in
creasing numbers since the new
all-paved highway and improved
ferry service have been establish
ed are continually asking ques-
tlons which to the native born
are considered most unusual.
One group of vacationists from
Michigan stopped by the Dare
County Tourist Bureau office
this week to determine if there
was a modern hotel on Diamond
Shoals where they could stop
for several days. They were a bit
surprised when they learned that
Diamond Shoals" was water
covered sand bar extending from
the Point of Cape Hatteras sew
eral miles seaward in a south
easterly direction to an area close
by the western edge of the Gulf
Stream. They were amazed to
learn that on the Outer Diamond
OF this shoal it is sometimes pos
slble for person to stand en- the
bottom in water only waist deep.
"One of the frequent questions
they ask us here at the store"
said Andrew Austin, local mer-
chant, SIS, Where is the grave
yard?'
when we ask them what
graveyard, they always say.
Why the graveyard of the
Atlantic"
One of the much publicized
attractions of Hatteras Island has
been the citrus fruit which grows
successfully in the Gulf Stream
climate of this area. Many island
homes and especially those in
Buxton-on-Cape Hatteras have
orange, grapefruit, tangerine and
lemon trees growing in their
yards. One of the most publicized
trees is a grapefruit tree in the
front yard of Mr.. and Mrs. E. Ps
White of Buxton.
1T seems like everyone who
stops in Buxton asks about my
grapefruit tree now laden with
bushels of fruit" said Mrs. White.
Then they want to know how
much charge for letting a per-
son see the tree. Of course,
charge nothing. I'm glad for
them to see the tree
The coastland times., 1953-08-14
SHRIMP SEASON
SHOWING PROFIT
FOR FISHERMEN
Increasing Activity Around
EngeIhard Area; $12o
Daily Take Frequent

Shrimping has been considered
good most Of the time recently IN
the Engelhard area, and takes of
S120 day per boat are frequent.
Largest buyer of fish in Engelhard
is Harry Jarvis, and markets op-
crate at Stumpy Point and many
other points.
Some Wanchese fishermen have
been doing well. Good catches
have been made in Manteo Bay.
The season is expected to last ua-
til October.
The shrimp industry grows lit
tie poorer each year, due to the
continued inroads, with day and
night fishing going on uninterrupt-
ell, and with pursuit Of these crea-
lures underway during the spawn
ing period. Like the shad, the size
OF shrimp gets smaller each year.
Not so many boats are now bas-
ed al Engelhard as formerly. How
ever, it is an important industry in
this area.
The coastland times., 1953-08-14
DANIELS DAY TO
BE HELD AUG. 10
AT WANCHESE
Many Notables Among List
of Guests Coming to
Re-Union

Wanchese. = More than 800
persons are expected here on
August 19 when the Daniels fam
lily which is said to have had its
American origin on Roanoke
Island is held, it was stated to-
day by Melvin R. Daniels, Dare
County register of deeds who
heads the clan at the present
time Senator Clyde R. Hoey has
tentatively accepted an invitation
to attend the reunion and speak
to the group.
The reunion Will be held at
Wanchese Methodist church at
4:30 P. M. Following a meeting
in the church there will be a pic
mic dinner on the church lawn.
Mrs. Dallas Tillett is in charge of
musical features of the program
at the church.
Co-chairman of the event will
be Melvin and Archie Daniels,
the latter resident of Draper
who will be spending his vaca-
ton at his former home here.
Families of Jonathan and Jose
phus Daniels will be present for
the event. Their father, the late
Jpsephus Daniels attended the
Daniels reunion during his life
time. 1t was the onetime Secre-
tary of the Navy and ambassador
to Mexico who helped establish
the annual reunions in the first
place.
The co-chairman stated that
picnic tables would be erected
and that ice water and ice cream
would be available at the picnic
with each family attending
bringing packed dinners to serve
from the tables.
The coastland times., 1953-08-14
FISHING RESUMED
FOLLOWING STORMY
WEEK END WEATHER
BY AYcocK BROWN

Sportsfishing in of fshore
waters was being resumed here
on Monday following one of the
stormiest week ends of the 1853
season along the Dare Coast.
Only a few boats started for the
Gulf Stream on Sunday and be-
fore the day was over howling
southwest gale churned the
sound and ocean waters into a
mass of whitecaps.
The gales began on Saturday
but some good catches were
made before the boats returned
to their berths at Manteo, Wan
chese and Oregon Inlet fishing
centers and at the two fishing
centers' in Hatteras village.
Best catch reported fsom the
Hatteras area was 18 amberjack
taken by w. A. Hall and party
of Norfolk fishing with Capt.
Ernal Foster. His fish scaled in at
weights ranging from % to So
pounds. Boats operating in Hat
teras Inlet also had good luck on
the week end and hundreds of
blues and mackefel were taken.
Only one sailfish was landed
as the gale struck. This was a
AZ FOUNDER taken by Tarboro
angler aboard Capt. Fred Bas-
nights cruiser Slow and Easy.
The fish measured seven feet and
one inch from tip to tip.
Fishing at the ocean piers and
in Roanoke Sound near Manteo
and Wanchese was up to par on
Saturday but not so good during
the Sunday gale.
The wind shifted from south
west late Sunday and by Mon
day morning many of the boats
were headed seaward again, from
the Manteo-Oregon Inlet and
Hatteras areas.
The coastland times., 1953-08-14
DARE HISTORIC
SITES ATTRACT
MANY VISITORS

Visitors from 48 states, the
District of Columbia and 19 for
eign countries were logged at
Dare coastal historic sites during
July. The monthly report from
Fort Raleigh on Roanoke Island
and the Wright Memorial Monu-
ment at Kill Devil Hills were
the two reporting agencies. No
report was available from Cape
Hatteras National Seashore Re-
creational Area where thousands
of persons visited during the
month.
Robert L. Atkinson, superin-
tendent of Fort Raleigh National
Historic site reported that STATS
persons visited the area in July
1858 as compared to 1856 for
the same month last year.
With 4O,646 persons visiting the
Wright Memorial during July
this year, an increase of 2.9 per-
cent was noted over the same
month last year, according to
Horace Dough, the superinten-
dent of the monument area at the
site of the Wright Brothers fa-
nous first flight of 1908.
No count was available at
Cape Hatteras National Seashore
but it is estimated that more
than $4,000 persons visited the
area now in the state of creation
during July. The National Sea-
shore embraces the area between
Nags Head and Ocracoke Inlet,
excepting the. villages of the
region.
One of the top tourist attrac-
tions in the Seashore area on
Hatteras Island is famous Cape
Hatteras Lighthouse which is
being opened to visitors between
$50 and 1870 each morning (ex-
cept Tuesdays and Wednesdays
for conducted tours through the
cooperation of the National Park
Service and the US. Coast
Guard.