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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-07-17
NEW DIAL PHONE SYSTEM
FOR BEACH is ANNOUNCED:
TO Be READY in SPRING
Subscribers Will Be Able to Dial Direct to
Others in Mays Head, Kill Devil Hills and
Kitty Hawk Without Additional Toll
Charges, Company Reveals

Dial telephones for the beach
will become a reality next spring,
according to an announcement
made today by the Norfolk &
Carolina Telephone & Telegraph
Co. The announcement came
from the Elizabeth City office.
The new dial system will SER
We the entire beach and Kitty,
Hawk village, and will be de-
signed so that it can be expanded
as more telephones are installed.
Under the new system, Mays
Head, Kill Devil Hills and Kitty
Hawk subscribers will dial dir
ectly, without extra toll charges,
between those communities. I'm
der the present set up, calls have
to go through Manteo.
p In addition, a group of long
distance lines for the exclusive
use of the beach dial system will
be installed between the beach
and the Elizabeth City toll office.
There a new intertoll dial switch
ing system is being installed, to
be ready for operation Jan. 1.
Associated with the intertoll dial
system will be a network of long
distance lines for nationwide
operator long distance dialing
directly to distant subscribers
phones. Long distance calls to all
major cities will be dialed dir
ectly by operators from all ex-
changes of the Norfolk & Caro-
lima company, thus saving time
and improving service.
Since Kill Devil Hills is the
approximate center of the area
as far as wires are concerned,
the new dial exchange will be
erected in that part of the beach.
The company plans to erect its
own building, but has not vet
selected a site.
Every type of service is to be
available to commercial and pri-
vate customers, the company has
announced. That will include in
dividual lines, two, four and
multi-party lines. AS yet rates
have not been announced, but
the company has explained that
these will be based on location,
class and grade of service.
Announcement of plans for the
new dial system follows expen-
sive tests made over long per-
iod of time.
atmospheric conditions at the
beach create special problems"
Harry Dewey, manager, said to-
day. I'VE believe we have solved
See PHONE, Page Ten
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-07-17
TWELVE TRIPS DAILY BY
OREGON INLET FERRY

HatteraS. Five additional
round trips daily added to the
summer schedules of Oregon In
let ferry has resulted in addition
al hundreds of persons visiting
Hatteras Island this summer but
on the week end the service now
operated by the State is fire.
quently criticized, as MANY
autos are left waiting for the IL
car capacity craft to make a
round trip before it is possible to
tlnd a place on the craft. The
first ferry leaves the north shore
at 3 o'clock in the morning and
the last northbound ferry leaves
Hatteras Island at Tbs o'clock
More relief for autoists making
the trip to and from Hatteras
will be effective soon bv tho
addition of a larger 2O-car craft
Already the special slips for the
new craft are being built.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-07-17
MANTEO SCHOOL
is UNDERGOING
MANY REPAIRS
Much Needed FaceIifting Un-
derWay as School is Clos
ed for Summer

Extensive repairs and much
needed paint job are underway in
the Manteo school building, now
that school is out for the sum-
mer. Earlier this year a water
proofing and paint job was done
on the wings and back of the
main building and the gymna-
SUM. The waterproofing is guar
anteed for a life time, and it is
hoped that the seeping of mois-
ture into the building can be per-
manently stopped.
A large room for a science lab
oratory is. being provided and
equipment will be installed be-
fore school begins in the fall.
Several rooms have been re-
modelled, partitions taken out,
and others put in, thus creating
the large science room, a first-aid
room which will open out of the
principals office, and a large
storage room. There will be am
pie classroom space for other
classes.
Among other improvements,
the rest rooms are being put in
first class condition. Ceramic tile
floors and tile covering the walls
to a height of several feet, will
improve the sanitary conditions.
A drain is being put in the CEN
ter of each rest room, in order 3oI
facilitate washing and cleaning
the floors.
Repairs are being made to
walls and ceilings, and new
paint, in two shades of green, is
heing applied throughout the in
terror of the building.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-07-17
FINAL RITES MONDAY FOR
THOMAS DIXON ETHERIDGE

Thomas Dixon Etheridge, 81,
died suddenly Saturday morning
at his home near Manteo. Funer-
al services were conducted at
2:30 Monday afternoon in the
Manteo Baptist Church, Rev.
H. V. Napier officiating. The
church choir, with Mrs. w. R.
Pearce as organist, sang Face
to Face" and my Faith Looks
Up to Thee. The casket was
covered with pail of red roses.
Pallbearers were Frank Cahoon,
George Hale Dudley, George
Powell, w. M. Meekins, Benja-
min Shannon and M. L. Daniels,
Jr. Burial was in the Etheridge
cemetery near Manteo.
Mr.. Etheridge was native of
Dare County. He was the son of
the late Augustus and Roxfe
Etheridge, and was the owner
and operator of the Roanoke Inn
near Manteo. He was a member
of the Roanoke Island Baptist
Church. He is servived by
his widow, Mrs. Zenovah Ether
idge; one son, Augustus Ether
idge of Manteo; four daughters,
Mrs. R. H. Atkinson of Manteo;
Mrs. Richard Salet of Mankateo,
Mimi; Misses Annie and Natalie
Etheridge of Manteo; two grand
children; and one sister, Mrs.
Lee Dough of Manteo.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-07-17
HAYMAN CLAN TO
HOLD FORTH AT,
WANCHESE TODAY

Reports from the special COM
mittee on arrangements headed
by Mrs. Ethel Hayman Tillett,
indicate that plans have shaped
up well for the big reunion of
the Hayman Clan of North Caro-
lima, to be held at the Wanchese
Methodist Church today. Mem
hers of the Clan are expected to
descend upon the friendly Wan
CHEESE community early Friday
morning, July 17-and by ten
o'clock the grounds at the Meth
odist church will be, filling up
with Haymans and their friends
from every nearby community
and from distant parts of this
and other states. The Committee
has notified the President of the
Clan that everything will be in
readiness for the gathering on
Friday morning, July 18th.
The desire of the officials and
members of the Clan this year
is to extend a cordial invitation
to the community of Wanchese-
regardless of blood-kin and to
all other communities to join the
Clan in making this big day,
and a time to renew old ac-
quaintances-both among the
kin folk and the hundreds of
friends of the Haymans. Those
living nearby, are invited to
share in this first reunion of the
Clan Meeting on Roanoke Island
and to share, also with their
picnic baskets and all have lunch
together.
In general the program will
consist of registrations on ar
rival, get-acquainted-half hour,
the devotionals and indoor bust
ness session, followed by picnic
dinner on the grounds. There
will have to be short afternoon
session to hear the report of the
Committee on nominations for
See CLAN, Page Ten
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-07-17
MRS. SARA E. RANKIN
DIES AT HATTERAS

Mrs. Sara E. Rankin, 72, died
at her home in Hatteras Satur-
day afternoon at 6 o'clock. She
was a native of Chattanooga,
Tenn, and had resided in Hat
teras for the past five years. She
was the daughter of the late
Richard H. and Barbara T. Banks
and the widow of the late James
V. Rankin. She was a member
of the Church of Christ of Tracy
City, Tenn. She is survived by
two daughters, Mrs. w. M. Ham
il of Chattanooga, Tenn, and
Miss Rhoda Alverson of Los An
geles, Calf; one son, Joe Sewell
of Hatteras; five sisters, Mrs.
Margaret Clark of Jasper, Tenn,
Mrs. Alice Lee of Hartman,
Tenn, Mrs. Dora Blancitt of
Chicamaugh, Ca, Mrs. Elva Ac-
uff of Victoria, Tenn, and Mrs.
Ida Oliver of Lookout Mountain,
Tenn; two brothers, Houston
Banks of st. Elma, Tenn, and
John Banks of Dayton, Ohio.
Funeral services were held Mon
day morning at 10 o'clock in the
Hatteras Methodist Church, Rev.
w. B. Gregory, pastor, officiating.
The body was sent from Hatteras
to Tracy City, Tenn, where bur
lal followed in the Tracy City
Cemetery.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-07-17
JOHN GASSNER
TO BE GUEST
AT LOST COLONY
Distinguished Senior Editor
of Theatre Arts Magazine
to Be Visitor at Tues
days Performance
BY AYCocK BROWN

John Gassner, senior contri-
buting editor of Theatre Arts
Magazine, will be a distinguished
guest of The Lost Colony on
Tuesday night, July 81, it was
announced today by Supervi-
sorry Director Samuel Selden.
His appearance at The Lost
Colony comes on the dramas re-
gular Tuesday Celebrity Night,
and he will be interviewed from
the great stage of Waterside
Theatre during intermission to
give his opinions about Americas
longest-lived outdoor production,
and similar symphonic dramas
of the nation and world.
Gassner has been a member of
the New York Critics Circle since
1886 and in New York he is also
lecturer in dramatic arts at Col
umbia University and associate
professor of English at Queens
College there. One time head of
the play department of the
Theatre Guild, Gassner today is
one of the most widely known
and celebrated critics in the
world.
In addition to being author of
such books as Masters of the
Drama" Producing the Play"
and anthologist of "a Treasury
of the Theatre" he also had to
do with the production of the
BEST Plays" series. Gassner has
also been a Broadway producer.
Celebrity Nights bring out
standing personalities to The
Lost Colony on each Tuesday
during the current 18th season.
The special nights which have re.
suited in the appearance of per-
sons ranging from beauty queens,
orchestra leaders, diplomats and
British Lords. On Tuesday this
week it was Elizabeth City night
at The Lost Colony and the Pas
quotank's mayor, its outstand-
ing beauty queen, a noted lee
turer, and the City's famous
high school band and majorettes
were featured.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-07-17
OLD TIME HORSEMEN
OF THE OUTER BANKS
BY MARVIN HOWARD, ocracoke, N. C

We hear a lot about the fish
ermen of the Outer Banks of
North Carolina, but few stories
deal with the equestrians of the
Outer Banks. Surely some of
them deserve to be proclaimed
as among the worlds best for
their daring feats at horse-pen-
ming occasions. This is particular
ly true of the old days when as
many as two hundred ponies
were penned on Ocracoke Island
alone.
AS you know there have been
Wild Horses roaming the Outer
Banks since the landing of the
Sir Walter Raleigh adventures.
None of these wild horses were
ever large except the Pea Island
pony which l believe came from
the original Quarter Horse.
(The quarter-bred horse which
has been developed as the finest
Cow-Pony ever known originally
came from the Carolinas where
they were bred for the Quarter
Mile race.) However the ponies
of the Outer Banks did vary in
weight from 500 to 800 pounds.
They lived on the range the year
round as wild as deer or wild
horses can ever be. For susten-
ance they had only the salt grass,
the boughs of live oak and red
cedar, and when the winters
were severe they dug in the
sand hills with their hoofs to get
the succulent roots of the sea
oats. These ponies no doubt had
strains of Arab steed for in num-
bers of them there was untold
beauty in color and build. Or
perhaps they were of Spanish
origin. In any case they were
fleet of foot, hardy, well lined
full of muscle. They made fine
saddle horses when properly
trained.
In my lifetime two Ocracoke
horsemen stand out. One was
my father, Homer Howard; the
other was Munroe Bragg. I I'M
derstand that these two were
equals, but never had the OPP
portunity of seeing Mr.. Bragg in
action. L did see my father per-
form many times, and he was an
equestrian par excellence. There
are many people on Ocracoke
who can recall his daring feats.
I myself have travelled pretty
much the world over. have seen
jockeys in America and England;
l have been to numerous horse
shows, carnivals, circuses, fat
stock shows, and rodeos in Cali
fornia, Texas, and Mexico. But
Ocracoke on the Outer Banks is
the only place where I have wit
messed the catching of wild
horses with bare hands.
My grandfather, Capt. Jim
Howard, was keeper of Hatteras
Inlet Life Saving Station for a
good many years. He owned
quite a few cattle and wild pom
les on Ocracoke. When was a
boy grandfather Jim bought
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-07-17
ELIZABETHAN GARDEN
PROGRESS IS NOTED

Manteo. = Considerable pro-
gress is being made here on the
creation of the Elizabethan Gar
dens at the site of The Lost
Colony and adjacent to Fort
Raleigh. Workmen have already
started landscaping the area,
building paths and roads, re-
moving some shrubbery, and
laying the foundations for The
famous Elizabethan statuary CIV
en- the Garden by the Jock Whit
ney Foundation. The Elizabethan
Garden is a project of the Gar
den Clubs of North Carolina.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-07-17
TAX VALUATIONS
IN DARE RAISED
TO OVER $4,000, 900.
Assessments Jumped This
Year an Additional ST.
304,242; Last Years
Valuation $13,050,-
600

Assessments totaling more
than three million dollars have
been put onto the property val
ues in Dare County this year,
raising the total assessment to
$16,354,242. This is a gain of
$3,204, 242 more than last year.
The valuations for 1852 were
for all townships total of $13,
050,000. Four years before, in
1949, the total valuation for all
townships came to $11, $4,000.
The gain since the last re-valua-
ton has been over five million
dollars-total gain in four years
$5,187,342.
Substantial gains were shown
in most townships; and gains in
all but Croatan Township were
noted. This township comprising
the villages of Mashoes, Manns
Harbor and Stumpy Point were
reduced in valuation about. 159s.
The loss in valuation was $11,
$50 less than the $811 ,465 valua-
ton of four years ago. The asses
sment this year is down to $799,
815.
Smallest gain in any township
was noted in East Lake township.
In this township there are no
new buildings, much of the tim
Der has been logged off, yet by
tipping assessments on lands, a
gain of $4,000 went on the
books. The new valuation is 1892,
495. The 1949 assessment was
$774,426.
Largest percentage of gain was
in Kennekeet township where
nearly 100000 was added, most
; ly on the values placed on beach
lands. In Hatteras township
$415,179 was added to property
values above the 1949 figure of
$720,688. Homes were not raised,
and in some cases reduced, as in
Kennekeet, and there has been
much new building, The amount
added in Kennekeet Township
s $599,13 more than the 1949
m lation of $369,839.
~ argest amount of gain was in
,lantic township where the val
uation jumped to $3.50, 726, or
$2,600,843 more than the 1949
figure of $2,7S8,883
Next largest amount in volume
was in Mays Head township.
The total amount of increase
added on the books is nearly two
and a half million dollars-$2,
495, 149. In 1949 the total assess
ment in Mays Head township was
$4,732,115. This years assess
is $7,227, 1854.
Normally, the amount of taxes
levied is about $4,000 each
year. Last year the rate was rails
ed from 80 cents to $100. This
year, to raise a similar amount
VI IllOilcy, IdIG VI dDOuI ~
cents will do the job. In other
words the people may now have
right to expect a Is per cent
reduction in their taxes, be-,
cause of the extra amount of val
uation on the books.
A lower tax rate would be well
coined in Dare County. The cost
of operating the county has been
run by many departments on an
extravagant and some cases a
wasteful basis. With assessments
run up so high in some cases,
equity demands a sharp reduc-
ton and any one versed with
county affairs, can see that rs
rate is now justified.
But few taxpayers will be
better off. The general run of
people will be paying as much
or more on these new valuations
with rs cent rate, than they
paid on the old valuations at the
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-07-17
LINDSAY AND EMILY ARE
VACATIONING IN DARE

Hon. Lindsay Warren, Comp
troller General of the United
States, and Mrs. Warren, emily
of Washington, D. c., are spend.
ing their usual midsummer va
cation at the Croatan Hotel at
Kitty Hawk. Mr.. Warren is
meeting many of his old friends
of the Coast Guard he has known
through the years, and other
citizens of this region.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-07-17

PELEG CAMERON MIDGETT
of Engelhard, Roanoke Islander
who went away from home and
has done pretty good for himself,
as well as doing lot of good
for others, is coming to Manteo
Monday night, July goth, to visit
and address the Rotary Club. He
has recently taken office as Pres
ident of the 189th Rotary District,
and his first official visit to a
club will be at Manteo. He takes
his running jump from the club
in his old home sector because of
special invitation from the club
to thus honor it, and to make a
good start, for his term as Dis
trict Governor.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1953-10-08

Eisenhower's tax program, however.
You remember that this past year
Congress voted to end the 20 per
cent tax on movie tickets but the
President vetoed the bill. He didn't
do this because he wanted to keep
taxes high, but because he knows
there are other industries which
need tax relief too.
It is safe to predict that next year
the President will propose quite an
overhaul of our annoying and unfair
taxes - those on movie tickets,
handbags, baby oil, rail and bus
tickets, phone calls and so on. 1t is
possible that he will suggest a gen
eral, small tax on factory products,
at the same time doing away with
arbitrary taxes on certain few
items, without cutting the govern
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1953-10-08
Hunters Warned
Of Fire Hazard

Director Ernest A. Vaughn, Game
and Inland Fish Commission, has
requested hunters and all others
who enter the woods, fields and for
ests of Maryland at this time. to be
especially careful about fires, match
es, cigarettes, and such, as the woods
and fields are very dry, especially
on the Eastern Shore and in the
three Western Counties, and small
spark could set off a large confla-
grafton.
He particularly requests the hunt
ers of Maryland who go after squir-
rels, the season for which opened on
Monday and extends through Oct
ober 81, and also those who hunt
wild turkeys in Garrett, Allegany
and Washington Counties from Oct
ober 5 to October 81, to be on the
alert for any smoke signs and to as
sist in putting out any fire observed,
or reported.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1953-10-08
Along The Potomac
from your Congressman
Dewitt S. Hyde

WASHINGTON, Oct. - The tax
program of the Eisenhower Admin
istration in now becoming clear :
Taxes are going to be fairer and
lower.
Several developments in recent
days have shown this. President
Eisenhower has told the nation why
his Administration will not seek a
federal retail sales tax; Defense
Secretary Wilson has told us the de-
Tense budget has been cut just about
all it can be. and the new economy
drive has assured tax reductions.
The President, the Cabinet and
Congress were unable to make these
policies defin9te sooner, because of
the COD. bills which are inherited
from the previous Administration
A great amount of government pur-
chasing had been planned because
of mistaken estimates of what the
government income would be.
There has been considerable spec
ulation th7t the President would
seek a national sales tax, but the
fact that a Treasury study of the
idea showed how wrong it would be-
The President wants the authority
to levy such tax left with the
states and cities whose response
bility it is to build badly needed
schools, hospitals and highways. The
alternative would be the familiar re-
frain, "Let the federal government
do it." We don't want that.
The new government economy
drive has produced results, and it
will enable all of US to enjoy the ten
per cent income tax cut and the
dropping of the excess profits tax,
less that three months from now.
Finally, Defense Seer tary
Charles f. Wilson says he will need
. $40-billion budget next year -
almost as much as this year. This,
plus the governments two other
big, fixed expenses - interest on
the national debt and veterans
benefits - will set the basis for the
governments expenses in 1854.
The cut in income taxes and the
decision against a sales tax are by
no means the end Of President
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1953-10-08
Raney Announces
Transfer Of Players
Blake, Miller And Guyton Only
Members OF 1852 Club To Stay

Eugene J. c. Raney, owner of the
Hagerstown Braves, who returned
from New York on Monday after
taking in the World Series and con
ferring with John Mullen, Farm Di-
rector of the Milwaukee Braves, has
announced the following disposition
of the players assigned to Hagers-
town by the Milwaukee Farm Sys-
tenn for the 1858 season:
Ted Laguna, the Braves catcher,
has been transferred to the Milwau-
kee Braves Club.
Ray Bortz, the infelder; Bill Will
son, the catcher, and Jack Concan-
non, the shortstop, have been trans
ferred to the Glass A Jacksonville
Club of the South Atlantic League.
Bill Barrett, the outfelder; Jimmy
linn, the second baseman; Robert
Myers, the first baseman, and Ed
Lenthe and Stan Slack, pitchers,
have been assigned outright to the
Evansville Club of the Glass B
Three-I League.
Don Damiano, the shortstop, and
Dick Notermann, the catcher, have
been assigned outright to the Class
C Eau Claire Club of the Northern
League
Wendell Davis, the first baseman,
has been assigned outright to the
Wichita Falls Club of the Big State
League.
Jack Larson and Tom Horton,
pitchers, who were sent here on OPP
ton from Jacksonville, were both
recalled by that club as soon as the
season ended, and Earl Hersh, who
came here on option from Toledo
was also recalled at the end of the
season.
This leaves only Joe Blake, third
baseman; Dick Guyton, the right
fielder, and Charley Miller, the
pitcher, on the Hagerstown Club.
All three of them, of course, are
owned outright by Hagerstown.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1953-10-08
PirrliCo Race Meet
Opens October Il

Five Feature Races VIII Be Run
During The 12-Day Meet. Pim-
leo Special VIII Be Run Oc-
tober "a.
Pimlico's fall meeting of II days,
starting Monday, October IL, will
get under way with the running of
the Pimlico Breeders Stakes as the
first of five special attractions. This
$500 dash for Maryland-bred juve-
niles highlights the opening program.
More than 200 bome-breds were
nominated to the Breeders event and
of these at least so have been win
ners to date, indicating that a size
able field will be shooting for the
first money.
Among the more prominent con-
tenders for honors in the Pimlico
Breeders Stakes are Laid, Latitude,
Bronze Warrior, Open and Shut,
Rare Music, Big Night and Kith
N'Kin.
Nominations to the Marguerite
Stakes for two-year-old FLIES and
the Gallorette Stakes for FLIES and
mares, closed with fine lists, indi-
eating these two features of the
meeting will produce races as thrill
ing as those of 1852. The Marguerite
will be run on Wednesday, October
IA, and the Gallorette one week later
on October 81.
Post time for the meeting, which
uhers in 48-day autumn season in
Maryland, has been set for 1870 p. m.
daily. The daily double on the first
and second events will close at 1:20
each afternoon.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1953-10-08

ments income so low that it has to
go further into debt.
On my calendar: I'll attend the
birthday celebrations for President
Eisenhower in Montgomery County
Saturday and the dinner sponsored
by the Allegany County Young Re
publicans at Ali Chan Shrine Coun-
try Club in Cumberland next Tues
dag.