The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-04-10
OCRACOKE PERSONALS

AS usual a good many Ocracoke
mainlanders came home for the
Easter holidays. Among these were
Mr.. and Mars. James Williams anc
sons Johnnie and Butch of Durham
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. H. j. Viii.
liams; Enoch Gaskill of Madison
and Clinton Gaskill of Alexandria
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Gaskill;
Larry Williams, student at ECC
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Zinie Will
liams; Miss Isabel O'Neal, visit
ing her sister, Mrs. Ed Wells;
Mr.. and Mrs. d. D. Daugherty of
Goldsboro, visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
Sid Tolson. Miss Fannie Pearl
Fulcher of Raleigh, with friends,
Miss Beatrice Holbrook and Miss
Corinne Oden, also of Raleigh, Wis
tied with Mrs. Maude Fulcher. Mr..
and Mrs. Clifford Vaughn and chill
dren, Rusty and Mary Jacqueline,
of Winston-Salem, visited Mr.. and
Mrs. H. j. Williams. Mr.. and Mrs.
N. w. Hamilton and children, Mar
cia and Gale, of Richmond, were
also visitors with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. H. j. Williams. Mr.. and
Mrs. Hamilton are building a sum-
mer home here.
Miss Grace Garrish of Richmond
visited her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Urih Garrish.
Miss Mary Byrum of Raleigh
opened her cottage for the Easter
holidays and remained through the
week following Easter.
Wahab Village Hotel was crowd
ed for the week end. Among the
guests were Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil B.
Lamm and daughter, Janice, of
Wilson; Freddie Deans, Bill Rand,
Don Lamm, and Joe Rand, and
Mr.. and Mrs. 2. A. Norris, also of
Wilson; Miss Frances C. LETTERS Of
Raleigh, Mr.. and Mrs. Winfield H.
Lyon of Smithfeld, Mr.. and Mrs.
A. G. Allen and family, Mr.. and
Mrs. Richmond Rucker and family,
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold McKeithen
and family, all of Winston Salem.
Many of these were visiting Ocra-
coke for the first time and were
greatly pleased with the island.
Mrs. Woodrow Price and chill
dren, and Mrs. Wiley Pittman, of
Raleigh arrived on Thursday for
several days at the Price summer
cottage.
Mrs. Helen Barksdale, Miss Su-
san Barksdale, of Greensboro,
spent several days at their cottage,
with Chan Barksdale of the U. S.
Air Corp, and Miss Beverly Barks-
dale of Charlottesville, Va, here
and other guests visiting them.
On Saturday night there was a
community square dance in the
school recreation hall, with Enoch
Gaskill, Lawrence Balance, Albert
Styron, Jr., and Larry Williams do
ing the calling. Everyone had a
grand time.
On Friday night, April 10, high
school students will present the
three-act comedy "Aaron Slick
from Pumkin Crick", which prom
Uses to show good talent and will
be enjoyed by everyone. Gaynelle
Spencer and Danny Garrish play
the leading roles, with Bill Mid
gett, Clicky Austin, Aloha Farrow,
Susan Spencer, Maxine Williams
playing important parts, and with
Calvin O'Neal, Jr., and Blanche
Howard appearing in one of the
scenes. Larry Simpson is stage
manager; Edith Midget, prompt
er; Theodore Rondthaler, coach.
On Sunday students in the
American History Glass of the high
school will leave for four days in
Washington, D. c., with their
teacher, Mrs. Theodore Rondthal-
er. They plan to make the trip up
the Reef. While in Washington
they will visit places of historic
and civic interest. Two years ago
the same group spent three days
in Raleigh, so they are looking or
ward at this time to getting &C
quainted with the federal Capital.
April meeting of the Ocracoke
Civic Club will be on Monday, APP
ril 18th, at the school library.
There will be the annual election
of officers. A feature of the eve
ning's program will be the movie,
Historic Dare, loaned to the club
by Aycock Brown of Manteo.