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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-04-17
TAXPAYERS WORKING
UP A STORM OVER
HIKE IN VALUES

The general talk on the streets
of Manteo this week has to do
with the turbulent minds of many
taxpayers of Dare County about
notices of hikes in valuations of
property, and they are planning to
go before the commissioners next
week with some mighty pointed
questions.
Four years ago, following a gen
eral revaluation, the commission
ers in two years paid off a $4,000
operating deficit and during the
second year cut the tax rate ten
per cent. 1t was apparent that a
further cut of ten per cent might
easily follow. In spite of all this,
the board the year following jump
ed the tax rate ten per cent, and
since then have been allowing some
departments of the county to get
away with some mighty high bud
gets.
The taxpayers want to know
why it is necessary in the face of
the tremendous increase in proper
ty constructed each year on the
Dare Beaches it now becomes nee
essary to keep on kiting taxes.
They insist on the other hand,
there is every reason that reduc-
tions are in order, if good business
Judgment is exercised.
Anyway, it looks like the board
will have full session on April
21st Tuesday of next week.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-04-17

DR.. HARVEY B. MANN of Lake
Landing is among % nominees
picked by a joint House and Senate
committee of the State Assembly
for the board of trustees of the
Consolidated University of North
Carolina.
DR.. Mann, president of the Anne
rican Potash Institute with head
quarters in Washington, D. c., is
a graduate of North Carolina State
College in Raleigh where he did his
undergraduate work and received
his masters degree in agronomy.
He received his doctors degree at
Cornell University.
DR.. Mann and his family main
tain their residence in Hyde Coun-
ty He is the son of the late Mr.. and
Mrs. T. j. Mann of Lake Landing.
He also owns a beach cottage at
Mays Head.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-04-17
MRS. MATILDA BAUM OF
KITTY HAWK DIES

Mrs. Matilda Etheridge Baum of
Kitty Hawk, who was 8S years old
last month, died in Albemarle Hos
pital, Elizabeth City, after an ex-
tended illness. She was the wife of
the late George w. Baum who died
80 years ago; a lifelong resident
of Kitty Hawk, and the mother of
E. w. Baum and Miss Nora Baum.
She was born on Roanoke Island,
the daughter of the late Truxton
and Mrs. Emmeline Etheridge.
Surviving her are the following
sisters: Mrs. Hildegarde Perry and
Mrs. F. H. Midget of Kitty Hawk.
Funeral services will be con-
Quoted at o'clock Friday after
noon at the Methodist church. Bur-
ial will be in the family burial
plot at Kitty Hawk.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-04-17
MORE THAN $50
PERSONS IN LOST
COLONY IN 1853
Thirteenth Season Begins
June 81 in Manteo
BY AYCOCK BROWN

Manteo.-More than $50 persons
will be in The Lost Colony COM
pany this year when the famous
symphonic drama by Paul Green
begins its 18th season here in Wat
erside Theatre on June 27. From
an economic standpoint the show
is Roanoke Islands biggest indus
try and one of the three leading
business of the Dare coast, which
during the summer months are va
cationing, sportsfshing and the
drama which has now lived longer
than any outdoor production in
America.
In addition to 40 principal actors,
not including the Lost Colony Choir
us, and large number of persons
having minor roles such as Indians,
pages and heralds, flower girls,
and milkmaid dancers, there are
more than 80 persons on the tech
nical staff of the show
This year there will be 65 per-
formances of the. drama, a show
each night of the week except
Mondays through September 6.
During the Lost Colony season the
average weekly payroll will be ap-
proximately $4,000, and this year
from beginning of rehearsals un-
til the finale there will be approx
imately IA weeks, the longest sea-
son in the history of the drama.
Samuel Selden of Chapel Hill
will be supervisory director of the
Lost Colony this year with Clifton
Britton of Goldsboro as his asso-
ciate. Richard E. Jordan of Mays
Head is general manager of the
drama and Albert @. Bell is his as
sociate. Already many members of
the staff are actively at work on
this years production.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-04-17
PULP COMPANY
LAND CLAIMS
BEING FOUGHT

East Lake.-Claims to certain
lands in East Lake Township now
being made by the West VirginGa
Pulp & Paper Co. are being object
ed to this week by answers filed in
Superior Court OF Dare County
through Leroy e. Goodwin of Eliz-
abeth City, attorneys.
These attorneys represent P. P
Gregory of Shawboro, and D. V.
Meekins and Catherine D. Meekins
of Manteo. Mr.. Gregory opposes
the claims of the company to GER
tain lands in the Beechland section
on Mill Tail Creek. Meekins claims
that the company attempts to take
so acres of Cypress Swamp and
other lands in the Lake Neighbor-
hood section, and title which he
holds has been continuous for
some 200 years.
The Pulp Company recently in
stituted action in the Superior
Court to perfect titles to upwards
of 100000 acres of land in Croa-
tan and East Lake Townships, I'M
der what is known as the Torrens
land law. Notice was served on sew
eral hundred persons who are or
may be parties in interest in lands
adjoining, or encompassed by sur
veys made by the company last
year. Under this action, if no de-
tense is made of titles in questions,
the Pulp Company may be adjudg-
ed the owner of the entire area it
seeks under the petition.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-04-17
A BATTLE WITH
RATTLESNAKES
ON THE CAPE
Ma and Pa Snake Vanquished
BY Hardy Surveying
Crew ar HatteraS

Buxton on Cape Hatteras, April
16.-First and last there been a
lot of committees on Hatteras s.
land with divergent notions about
the National Park Service and 9TH
er matters but for the engineering
party headed by Engineer w. c.
Gubanks the committee to end all
committees confronted them some
where west of the Great Light
house along Austin's Ridge one
afternoon this week and for brief
moment the surveyors were ready
to give the Island back to the ma
tives in its entirety.
This committee was headed by a
spokesman who made apocalyptic
noises. He was the grizzled grand
father of all the rattlesnakes on
the Island and he made noises with
an incredible number of rattles at
tached to his tail. Also he had
fangs about a yard long and when
he struck, it appeared to the mo-
mentarily panic-stricken surveyors
that his reach was from here to
yonder-or from there to here.
Surveyors retired to previously
unprepared positions, their line of
retreat being marked by a consid-
cradle yardage of hide and gar
ments which festooned the thick
underbrush. After consultation
their lines were reformed and Sey-
mour Gray, of Avon, a senior mem
Der of the assisting crew, advanc-
ed cautiously with a bush axe. The
RATHER lunged and Mr.. Gray caught
him neatly back of the ear with
his bush instrument. The snake
was stunned.
Other members of the crew ad-
vanced, boldly now. Jim Gray, also
of Avon, got in lick. Presently
the snake was annihilated, reduced
to exceedingly and insignificant
fragments. But not before some
thought was taken of his size. He
was six feet long, not including the
IL rattles and one button and "as
big around as my thigh" 1t takes
a thigh Of considerable aroundness
to cope with running land lines
down Austin's Ridge.
And scarcely had the triumphant
surveyors got themselves launched
upon congratulation of them
selves, both for escaping the saw
agery of the snake and concerning
their own proves as snake kill
ers, but they became stupefyingly
aware that they were not alone.
Mrs. Rattlesnake arrived. She had
no rattles with which to make
apocalyptic noises, but she had a
good long reach with her neck and
fangs that looked at least six feet
long. Actually, she was a foot
shorter than her deceased lord and
master but she was a willing wife.
And she was quite fat, rather larg-
er than the thigh of a surveyor.
Here the narrative becomes a
little blurred in outline and it can
not be said with much certainty
who killed Mrs. Snake. 1t does APP
See BATTLE, Page Eight
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-04-17
OF
FIRST DISTRICT
AT MACS HEAD
r. r. Kessinger Host Satur-
day at Dinner at Car
Gilman

Postmaster R. R. Kessinger of
Mays Head will be host Saturday
at Mays Head to the spring meet
ing of postmasters of the First
District. More thar 100 postmast-
ers are expected to attend. This
meeting is the last meeting in this
district before the annual meeting
in May at Carolina Beach.
Postmaster Russell Johnston OF
Belhaven plans to attend, taking
with him postmasters Hal Harris
of Leechville, Mrs. Louella Swim
dell of Swan Quarter and w. w.
Watson of Lake Landing.
The dinner Saturday will be held
at the Carolinian Hotel.
While Mr.. Kessinger is host, w.
A. Armand of Ayden will be toast
master, Mrs. Effie A. Brickhouse
of Columbia is program chairman.
All state officers of the association
and North Carolina national Off
GERS have been invited.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-04-17
ASSEMBLIES OF GOD
MEET AT BUXTON

The annual business meeting of
the North Carolina District Coun-
Gil of the Assemblies of God will
be held at the Buxton Assembly
of God, April p through April %,
announces Rev. Robert Rayle, pas
tor of the church.
The openingservice at 1880 Tues
day evening will be a visual dem
onstration of the Sunday School
work entitled, "The Good Ship SIS.
Evangelism" The nautical theme
will be carried out in scenery and
music. Narrators will be Rev. An
drew Stirling, superintendent Of
the district, and Violet Bluhm, S.
S. director. Local and other talent
will participate.
Full schedules on Wednesday
and Thursday will include a COM
munion and memorial service fol-
lowed by the state superintendent
annual sermon on Wednesday
morning and business sessions both
afternoons. At pm. Thursday, an
ordination service for ministers
will take place.
At 1880 pm. on Wednesday and
8 pm. Thursday, Rev. Fred Vog-
Ter, an assistant superintendent of
the Assemblies of God, from
Springfield, Missouri, and director
of the home mission department
which includes missionary work
among the American Indians and
in Alaska, orphanages, and minis
try to the deaf, at penal institu-
tons and in pioneer fields, win be
speaking. He also will address the
ministers and Christian workers at
the 10 am. service Thursday.
Visitors to Buxton from across
the state are expected to number
over one hundred. The Assemblies
at Avon and Hatteras are cooper
ating in entertaining the delega-
ton.
Evening services will be of spec
ial interest to the general public
and Rev. Rayle extends a cordial
invitation to all to attend.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-04-17
ROTARIANS HOLD
LADIES NIGHT
MANTEO MON

Upwards of SO Rotarians and
Rotary AIMS enjoyed annual la
dies night Monday in the Commu-
nifty Building in Manteo. The meet
ing was called the most successful
event of the kind in nearly 20 years
of the clubs history. Rosebuds
were presented the ladies. Mrs.
Jessie Mann presided at the piano
with old fashioned numbers and
Mrs. Mile Brown and Mrs. Joan
Nunemaker of Mays Head sang.
The address of welcome was
given by Wally McCown and the
response for the ladies by Mrs. E.
E. Meekins. A turkey dinner was
served by Mrs. Hilda Balance.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-04-17
REV. l.. o. FOXWORTH TO BE
AVON'S VISITING MINISTER

When the Avon Methodist
Church begins it's evangelistic mis-
sion April 10, the visiting minis
ter will be Rev. L. o. Foxworth
of Townville, S. c. The charge, con-
sisting of Fair Haven and Clark
Bethel, will meet together for the
Sunday School and church hour,
and lunch will be served. After
noon services will be at two o'clock
and evening services at 7:30. Rev,
P M. Porter, pastor, invites the
public to attend.
Evening star., 1953-03-08
School With 1O6 Boys No GYM Tops in C. Area Basketball
Record Score Puts Maryland u.
In Line for u. S. Rifle Title

ship yet, however. They re-
membered last years matches in
which early returns gave them
what was considered certain vic
tory Then the last school to
report. California. turned in a
score one point higher.
The record Maryland broke
yesterday was 1,437 set in 1851
by Massachusetts, Tech.
Contributing individual totals
to Maryland's score were Robert
Martorana Of Long Island. N. Y,
292; Edward Barton of Balti-
more, 200; Lynn Savage Of
Washington and Robert Mouser
of Riverdale. Md. both with 287.
and Roy oster Of Silver Spring.
286.
Other team scores fired yester-
day at Maryland were: Tennes-
see, 1929: Maryland No. 2 team,
1.407; Georgetown. 1,406. and
Navy, 1895.
Firing for individual titles in
the morning, the leader was Don
aid S. Holmes of Navy with 200.
Houser of Maryland tied with the
same total, but was outranked in
the score made at the standing
| position.
Evening star., 1953-03-08
Coin Toss Gives CIV High
No. 4 SPOT in State Meet

George Washington High, run
nerup in the Metropolitan basket
ball tournament last week, is
the unofficial Northern Virginia
champion and will get a seeded
spot in the State Division I
tournament which starts Thurs
day in Norfolk.
CIV tied with Washington-Lee
tor the Northern Virginia title,
but the Presidents won a coin
toss last night for the seeded
spot. George Washington gets the
fourth seeded place and plays
Petersburg at 7:30 Thursday in
the opening round. WI will be
placed eighth and must face
Glass of Lynchburg, which boasts
an 1871 record, Thursday night.
WI, however, has had good
luck against the seeded teams In
the last two State tournaments,
the Generals met the No. / fives
in opening games and won. In
1925 WI went to the finals be-
fore losing.
Evening star., 1953-03-08
Southern Coaches Favor
Sectional Basketball Play

RALEIGH, N. c.. Mar. 7 (P1.-
Southern Conference basketball
coaches are going to stand on
yesterdays recommendation to
the conference basketball COM
mittee that the circuit be divided
into two sections for basketball
play, along the lines used in
baseball.
They recommended to the
committee at their annual
tournament week meeting that
the circuit be divided into a
Southern Division composed of
the nine North and South Caro-
lima schools and Northern
group consisting of the eight
other schools. The top four fin
iShers in each section, based on
home-and-home play within the
division. would qualify for the
tournament.
The action duplicated that Of
two years ago when the coaches
association made an Identical
recommendation to the commit
tee, but nothing further came
of the action.
Evening star., 1953-03-08
ANMetropoIiton Tourney Five
Has Two Tonies, 7woFrom CIV

trating on Bill Morton, usually
GW's high scorer, the Presidents
had to come up with other point
makers. Their scoring was dis
tributed through the lineup, but
Fleming, who made II against
Roosevelt, and barley, who came
through with 20 in the St. Johns
game,- were especially effective.
Both played a fine court game
throughout the tournament.
Hawkins hit for "a points
against Falls Church and had a
2O-point performance against
CIV. He played his usual good
defensive game.
Smithers Comes Close.
Of the second-team selections,
Robbie Smithers came closest to
gaining place. Smithers hustled
all over the court, playing his
finest game of the season against
CIV, and nearly turned the tide
for the Riders in the fourth
quarter. Only the fact that
Smithers played only one game
while the others chosen saw ac-
ton in two or three tests kept
him off the first five.
Evening star., 1953-03-08

The University of Maryland's
rife team seemed an almost
certain winner Of the National
intercollegiate rife. champion
ship last night after firing a
record score 1,442 out OF a pos
sible $500 in matches yesterday
at College Park.
Scores of 1872 colleges COM
peting at 16 locations through
out the country are being tele-
graphed to National Rife Asso-
citation headquarters here for
comparison. and MAR officials
doubted any team would SurpasS
Maryland'S score.
BY late last night scores were
in from all except two locations,
and Maryland remained far in
front. Tennessee was second
with 1929. and California. last
years champion, was third with
1929.
The individual leader was Vito
ca, Cioffero of st. Johns Of
Brooklyn with 292. Last years
champion, Thomas Atwood of
Norwich, fired 289.
The Maryland rifiemen were
not celebrating the champion
Evening star., 1953-03-08
LoyoIa Swimmers Win
Mason-Dixon Crown

Led by the McComas brothers,
Lou and Ed, Loyola won the
Mason-Dixon Conference swim
ming championship with 70
points yesterday at the American
University pool. Catholic Uni
versity was second with 81 points
and Randolph Macon third with
20. No other schools entered
teams.
American UniverSity's lone
entry, Wayne Johnson, won the
diving title for the fourth
straight year.
The summaries:
300-yard medley relay - Loyola L.
Nc YumaS. E. NcComas and Thomas)
Catholic U. and Randolph Macon. Time:
220-yard reestyle-Bollinger Goyola)
Bamberser Goyolal, Donegan (Loyola
and Zirnicke, Cstholic u. Time: 3:;s5. i
Chafiot Randolph Macon. Gross (Loy.
ola an Thomas Ioyola,. Time: 24.a
150-yard individual medley. Nc
Cissell randolph Maconl and McCarthy
Catholic ". Time: 1:49.6
l00-yard freestyle-Rooney Goyola)
Bollinger Goyolal, Gross GoyolaI and
Lanman Catholic UD. Time 500 sec
onds.
200-yard backstroke-L. McComas
(Loyolal. E. McComas Goyola), Wheeler
1Loyola) and McNiece Catholic ",
20O-yard breaststroke-Cole tCatholic
y. Mccarthy catholic W. Cissell
Randolph Macon, and Gray CRandolpt
440-yard Observation-Disclosures 10y.
ola> Doneean lLoyolal, Harris (Catholic
~ and Zirnicke Catholic u. Time
4o0-yard reIav Loyola tThomas
Gross, Bollinger and Rooney Randolph
Macon and Catholic U. Time: 4:2
Divlne-Johnso american ", Bon
nike Catholic u, Grav Randolph Ma
COM and Volatile Lovola). WinninG
points: 71.33
Evening star., 1953-03-08
Army Blows Lead as Cornell,
Columbia Tie in Indoor Track

winner for Columbia, accounting
for two Of the Lions four firsts.
He captured the 35-pound weight
throw with a heave Of 81 feet
13s inches and won the shot
put with a throw of So feet 3A
inches. George Shaw took the
broad jump at % feet 5A inches
and Fred Schlereth showed the
way home in the 600 in 1:12.1 to
equal the meet record he estab-
liShed last year.
Cornell'S Paul Weisman also
matched the Heptagonal 60-yard
dash mark with sc perform
ance in the finals after winning
his heat two-tenths of a second
faster. Cornell's other victory
was in the deciding mile relay.
The meet record in the pole
vault went by the boards when
Van Zimmerman of Penn cleared
1864, one-quarter Of an inch
better than George Appel Of Yale
did two years ago.
Evening star., 1953-03-08
By the AsSoeioted Press

ITHACA, N. Y. March T.
Cornell and Columbia tied for
the Heptagonal indoor track and
field championship tonight as
they finished one, two, respec-
lively in the mile relay and
wound up with 80 points each.
The one, two performance by
the Big Red and the Lions
nosed out Pennsylvania, which
finished third with 80 7/12
points. Army's defending Cadets.
who led after 10 events. dropped
back to fourth with 321s points.
Following the four leaders in
order came Harvard "a. Yale
% 7/12, Princeton 14A, Navy IL
and Dartmouth AZ. Brown failed
to score.
The cadets lost their chance to
win the meet for the fifth time
in six years when they failed to
place in the mile relay.
Albert Thompson was the big
Evening star., 1953-03-08
Illinois Track Team
Wins Big Ten Title
Nv the Assecio,ed Press

CHAMPAIGN, ILL.,, Mar. T.
Illinois, with its half miller. Sta
cey Siders setting a record, won
the Big Ten indoor track and
field title with surprising ease
today by beating out Michigan.
56H to 40 1/6.
The Illini swept four firsts
and cut in on five seconds and
four thirds in an amazing bal
ance of power.
Siders, the outdoor S80-yard
record holder. sped the route to-
day in 1:52.7. Michigan's John
Ross, who came in Is feet be-
hind, pushed him to the new
mark. The old record of 1929
was set last year by Henry Cryer
of Illinois.
Purdue was third with 1917
points, followed by Indiana. 1915:
Michigan State, IS 1924; Iowa,
Is; Northwestern and Ohio State.
.91a each: Minnesota 3le, and
Wisconsin 21a.
All five defending individual
champions repeated. Ross re-
tanned his 1-mile title with a
disappointing Abs. John Car
roll of the Wolverines cruised
through the 440 in 49.5 seconds.
and another Michigan repeater
was Shotputter ROLAND Nilsson
with SO feet IL inches.
Two other successful defenders
were Willie Williams of Illinois
in the 70-yard low hurdles in a
fine 8 seconds fiat, and Joel Nc
Nulty of Illinois in the 70-yard
highs with 8.5 seconds.
The Wolverines mile relay team
of Allan Rankin, Bill Barton. Dan
Hickman and CarrQ1 stepped on
3:18.5, the fastest BY a collegiate
team this year.
Evening star., 1953-03-08

st. Anthony's High School and
George Washington High, the
Cinderella teams of the 21st
Metropolitan basketball event.
fittingly monopolize The Stars
ALI Tournament team.
The TONES Jack Sullivan and
George Shugars and GW's Doug
Fleming and Butch barley take
care of four spots on the hon.
orary team. st. Johns Ralph
Hawkins is the fifth choice.
Sullivan certainly deserves the
unofficial title of most valuable
player in the tournament. AS
the TONES main rebounder, he
held his own against the tall
Wilson. Washington-Lee and
CIV teams and found time to
score IS points in the three
games.
Excelled in Pivot.
Without Shugars great work
in the pivot against Wilson, it
is doubtful if the TONES could
have gotten past the opening
round. Shugars, the TONES cap
tain, poured in IS points in the
Wilson game and was a depend
able performer in the other two
tests.
With their opponents concen-
Evening star., 1953-03-08
Blair Defeats Blades,
Enters State PIaYoffs

Montgomery Blair High OF
Silver Spring won the district
Glass A basketball championship
and a place in the Maryland
State title playoffs by beating
Bladensburg High. 49-39, last
night at the University Of Mary
lands Ritchie Coliseum.
Bladensburg had beaten Blair
twice during the regular season.
Ronnie Mcpherson with IA
points and Moose Turner with
IL were the Blair scoring lead
ers, and they paced the drive
that put their team ahead in
the third period.
Laurel High defeated Sher-
wood, 43-40, in the second game
of a double header to take the
Glass B title.
Evening star., 1953-03-08
Gene Smith Meeting
Tough Foe Thursday
In Al Mag|ieri

Featherweight Gene Smith
has been promised a stiff scrap
when he boxes AL Maglieri Of
Hartford, Conn, in the 10
round main-event fight Thurs
day night at Turner's Arena.
Maglieri. a 19-year- old Italian.
is handled by Willie Pep. the
former featherweight champion.
Maglieri actually is a lightweight
and, as such, will have an edge
of about five pounds on Smith.
who weighed 1913 in his last bout
two weeks ago.
Among the fighters Maglieri
has beaten is Filberto Osario.
whom Smith also beat in that
recent bout here.
Smith is regarded as an ex-
ceptionally hard hitter for such
little man, but Maglieri has
yet to be stopped in his two
year career. Among the hard
hitters he has faced is Pat NAL
lane, a lightweight who has
scored IS knockouts in "a bouts.
but could do no better than fight
a draw with Maglieri.
Thursday nights bout will be
the third for Smith in his come
back campaign. He took seven
month layoff after being de-
feated for the first time by Glen
Flanagan early last summer.
Irving Cohen, Smiths manager.
says he will keep Smith busy
with a fight about every three
weeks until he's ready for the
top again."
Meanwhile Promoter Vince
Mcmahon is getting together
the preliminary card for Thurs
day night. He has lined up
Featherweight Jimmy Cooper
and Light Heavyweight Eldridge
Thompson, with opponents yet
to be announced.