The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-07-10
PECANS PUTLIFE
INTO BELHAVEN
WHITTLERS CLUB
Lethargy Contracted During
dangerous May Days
Partially Overcome by
Fresh Supply of Nuts

"A new supply OF nuts Tor the
Belhaven Whittlers Club has
brought little new life into the
members during the past week.
Just as they dwindled down one
by one during the languorous
May weather, so have they
drifted back by twos and twos
to the club room in Riddick and
Windleys.
Nearly all the members suffer-
(Some call it spring fever) when
ed a bad attack of lethargy
the winter broke up, and crabs
got to biting, and prices were
good. So off went many of the
leaders of the club to work. Then
came on the spring fever days,
and activity was at low ebb.
What brought 'em back this
time was the big supply of
choice pecans that Ned Warren
gave the fire department of Bel
haven, for rushing to his house
out of town the night lightning
struck it. The Whittlers Club
just can't get along without a
supply of pecans. The club never
buys any, but some friend of
the club usually sees to it that
the box is full, near the stove in
Riddick & Windley's. When the
nuts are out, attendance at the
club falls off.
One member of the club is not
attending promptly. He has TAX
en- so much ribbing from his
fellow members for being the
champion salesman of Bel
haven" Jake Chesson, manager
of Colonial Stores won his title
when he sold a buxom young
mother of twins a supply of
choice milk. Or thought he had
sold it, until the mother turned
red in the face and told him she
already had supply for the
twins. Jake has resolved he will
not let his urge for craftsmanship
get ahead of his observation next
time.
The Whittlers had their usual
Ladies night dinner April 1, but
crabs picked up shortly after
wards, which accounts for the
unusual inactivity.
Some of the members are also
members of the Belhaven Liars
Club, and about that time Harold
White became president of the
latter club, and put on a contest
to bring out the biggest whopper.
Louis Dillon is reported to have
won the prize. But while the con-
test was going on, the Liars club
held most of the show. About
that time the Whittlers' nuts
played out and they had nothing
to bring the boys back in the
fold. But Ned Warren's pecans
are doing the job right now.
We are asked so often for a
list of members of the Whittlers
Club, that we are again printing
it from the latest list furnished
us by Jack Riddick, the pleasant
and obliging secretary of the
Whittlers. Jack is also carried
on the rolls of the other club.
Here's the list:
Capt. Walter H. Benson is the
first and only President the club
has had. Other members are
Jack Riddick, Secretary, H. G..
Brumsey, Assistant Secretary;
DR.. w. T. Ralph, Arthur Zambos,
r. w. Mills, Milton Gum, Cecil
O'Neal, Stanley Russ, Robert
Benson, John E. Midget of Bux-
ton, Jet P. Bishop, Roy Justice,
Louis Dillon, Arson Smith, Will
lam Hacket, Ernal Mckinney,
Melvin Lupton, Ike Bateman,
Frank Noble, Frank Keaton, A.
w. Carly, Reginald Windley,
James Wilson Hodges, E. R.
(Jake) Chesson, Willis Williams,
John Whalen of Bath, Ellis Win
stead Jr., James Ambrose Jr., and
Victor Meekins.
The club has some younger
members and one or two women
have been given honorary certi-
ficates. The young members are
Jack Allen Romich, Samuel Rid
dick Windley, Howard Allen Rid
dick, Mrs Lii Jordan Caravan of
Pantego; Mr.. and Mrs. o. L..
Williams of Swan Quarter; Pat
H. Johnson of Pantego; DIR. Will
lam H. Won Gehr of Rocky
Mount, j. J. Feeney of Allen
town, Pa, and Ted Yates and
Marshall Stone of Camp Lee
Jeune, N. c.