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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-04-03
GRASS ROOTS
OPERA APR. 10
IN MANTEO
Don PasquaIe," Comic OPP
era, To Be Sponsored by
PTA; Large Attendance
Expected

Grass Roots Opera will appear
in Manteo on April 10 in a per-
Torrance of DON PASQUALE, it
was announced today by Mrs. Ray
mond Wescott, president of the
Manteo PTA. This unique travelling
organization, formed in 1949 by
A. J. Fletcher, Raleigh attorney,
to give aspiring singers chance
to appear in operate productions
and at the same time give the pub
lie an opportunity to hear opera in
English, was last heard here in the
opera SCHOOL FOR LOVERS. AS
a result of the success of over one
hundred performances in the past
two seasons, the company has
gained international fame, feature
articles having appeared in eight
national publications and one book.
The State Department announced
its intention of reprinting an arti-
Gle which appeared in Etude last
December in a publication which
will be distributed to all foreign
countries.
Last season Grass Roots Opera,
which is administered by the Ex-
tension Division of the University
of North Carolina, presented sew
enty nine performances throughout
the Tar Heel state and Virginia.
For the first time plan was work
ed out with the public schools
whereby training in opera listen
ing was integrated into the music
appreciation courses. Approximate
ly forty five thousand school chill
dren received this training, twenty
eight thousand of which saw for
the first time an actual opera per-
Torrance. The idea of opera in En-
glish, performed in a logical man.
ner, was soundly approved by the
students, and their elders, as evil
denced by countless letters writ
ten by the children.
The Manteo PTA, sponsors of
the local performance, hope that
the public will not miss the oppor-
tunity to see an entertaining, well
staged musical performed by sing
ing actors of professional caliber.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-04-03
CENTRAL HERSHEY
FINALS SPEAKER
AT MANTEO I'll. S.

Major General Lewis B. Hershey,
head of the Selective Service Sys-
tenn for the United States Army,
will make the commencement ad-
dress at Manteo High School this
year, it was announced this week
by Mrs. Matilda Inge of the facul-
ty.
In a letter to Mrs. Inge he ac-
cepted the invitation to make the
address, giving her the assurance
that he would be here unless some
thing of national Importance came
up which required his attention
elsewhere. The commencement ad-
dress will be delivered on Friday
night, May 20, in the high school
auditorium.
Members of the faculty and stu
dent body here were elated to
learn that a person of such prom
inence as General Hershey, who is
in demand by schools and univer-
sites in much larger towns and
cities, had accepted the invitation.
General Hershey is no stranger
to many persons in North Caro-
lima. He is close friend of Col.
John D. Langston of Goldsboro,
father of Mrs. Mary Langston Ev-
ans, Dare County Superintendent
of Schools.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-04-03
SHRINERS PLAN
PILGRIMAGE TO
OUTER BANKS
wo Nights at Hatteras and
Journey to Ocracoke
Scheduled April 17-1o

A pilgrimage to Hatteras and
Ocracoke for Shriners and their
wives is planned for April 1913,
according to Bob Smith, secretary
of the Dare County Shrine Club.
The Atlantic View Hotel at Hat
teras has been reserved for Friday
and Saturday nights. On Saturday
the party, after breakfast at the
Hatteras hotel, will take a boat
to the shore of Ocracoke, and will
journey down the sands to the vil=
lage for sightseeing trip.
After leaving Ocracoke village
at 1870 Saturday, the party will
meet for picnic lunch on wreckage
of Ghost Ship, and at 2:30 board
the boat at Hatteras Inlet for re-
turn trip to Hatteras.
Potentate Lester Gillikin will adj
dress the shriners, following a din
ner at the hotel at Hatteras. Fol-
lowing the breakfast Sunday morn
ing, the party will depart for home.
Everything is Dutch. Mr.. Smith
wants immediate notice if reserva-
tions are desired.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-04-03

was taking no chances in the inky
darkness.
Another time, the 25-foot boat
in which Tillett and other Coast
Guardsmen We're out was almost
cut down off Bodie Island by a
convoy.
1t was during the war, too, that
Tillett and others went % miles
out to sea to rescue boatload of
survivors from the British ship,
Empire Drum which had been tor
pedoed. The men had been in a
lifeboat seven days when picked
up. They said that after the ship
was torpedoed, the crew took to
the lifeboats, but separated. Those
that Tillett helped to rescue be-
lieved that their comrades had been
machine gunned.
Once, during Prohibition days,
Tillett was sent to Florida, near
Fort Pierce, for a temporary four
month assignment One night they
had tip that rum runners were
near, but when they Investigated
the rumored rum runners turned
out to be innocent fishermen in
trawlers.
After Mr.. Tillett enlisted at Dan
Neck Mills station, he served there
two and a half years. After short
assignment at Cape Henry, he was
transferred back to Dan Neck. His
next assignment was at the Curri-
tuck Beach station at Corolla and
it was from there he was sent to
Florida. After four months looking
for rum runners, he returned to
Currituck Beach and from there
was transferred to the Kill Devil
Hill station, where he remained
almost 10 years, from 1881 to
1910. For a time he served as a
coach on the rifle range at Fort
Macon, where Capt. w. H. Lewark
of Kill Devil Hills was in charge.
For five months he was loaned
to the Navy at Norfolk, Va, leav-
ing there just 20 days before Pearl
Harbor. His next and last assign
ment was Caffey's Inlet station.
Although the Coast Guard does
not have as many rescue missions
as it once had, because there are
fewer shipwrecks, two stand out
in his mind. One occurred off CAT
fey's Inlet when Tillett was a
small boy. He saw his father help
in the rescue of survivors of the
See TILLETT, Page Four
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-04-03
MRS. KATE w. HAYMAN,
81, DIES IN MANTEO

Funeral services for Mrs. Kate
Wise Hayman, 80, who died Mon
day at her home in Manteo, were
conducted Wednesday afternoon at
2:30 at the Twiford Funeral Home
chapel in Manteo by the Rev. H.
R. Ashmore, the Rev. H. V. Napier
and the Rev. F. B. Dinwiddie.
Burial was in the Manteo Gene
terry. Mrs. Hayman was a native
and lifelong resident of Dare
County, the daughter of Joe and
Elizabeth Midget Wise, the widow
of John T. Hayman, member of
Mt. Olivet Methodist Church, a
member of the Woman's Mission
airy Society, and a member of the
Home Demonstration Club. Sur
viving are three daughters, Mrs.
Frances Kermidos of Durham, Mrs.
Marcus Midget of Skyco, and Miss
Mary Hayman of Manteo; one son,
c. W. Hayman of Edenton; one
sister, Mrs. Lille Hassell of Man
teo; one brother, John Wise of
Mays Head; 10 grandchildren, and
Is great-grandchildren.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-04-03
FIRST CHANNEL BASS
OF SO SEASON HITS
SURFCASTER'S BAIT

First channel bass of the 1858
season to be landed by an angler
on the coast of Dare County this
year was 56.5-pounder taken in
the surf at Hatteras on Friday,
March 81 by Charles A. Vollum of
Philadelphia.
Fishing with Harry Stelwagon,
president of the Anglers Club of
America, Vollum got the strike
on his first cast. He and Stelwag-
on were fishing at the north boun-
dairy line of GooseVille Club prop
critics across the beach from low
er Hatteras village.
Menhaden was used as bait. The
angler was using a glass rod and
12-thread, 36-pound test line.
Vollum's channel bass was only
three and half pounds short of the
American record for the species
in 1862. The largest channel bass
taken last year anywhere along
the coasts of America was 60
FOUNDER landed by E. P. White of
Buxton on Cape Hatteras. His rec
ord fish was caught on November
IL near Cape Hatteras lighthouse.
While Vollum's fish was first of
season, channel bass should be ap-
pearing in Oregon and Hatteras
Inlet waters before the week has
passed. Already scores of channel
bass have been taken in pound,
long haul and beach nets of COM
mercial fishermen but angling for
the species was retarded during
the past week end due to a. half
gale which originated off Cape
Hatteras for two or three days.
Striped bass are being caught in
Roanoke and Croatan Sounds and
large mouths and crappie are at
tracing fresh water anglers to the
bays, lakes and ponds of Kitty
Hawk, Mays Head and the Dare
County mainland.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-04-03
STUMPY POINT LOSES
OUTSTANDING CITIZEN
Mrs. Aldine TwifOrd Meeins
Succumbs Saturday Night at
Midnight; Burial Monday
at 3 p. M.

Mrs. Aldine Twiford Meekins,
46, died Saturday night at the fam
lily residence in Stumpy Point fol-
lowing a short illness. She was a
lifelong resident of Stumpy Point.
She was a member of the Home
Demonstration Club, of the Shiloh
Methodist Church, president of the
Woman's Society of Christian
Service and served as church or
ganist. She was installed as wor-
thy Matron of the Order of East
ern Star, Hyde Chapter No. 213 on
the Friday before her death. She
was the daughter of Augustus T..
and Lula O'Neal Twiford.
Besides her parents, she is sur
vived by her husband, Garland E..
Meekins, one daughter, Mrs. Jan
Meekins Butler, of Wiesbaden,
d rmany 1.-TWO sons, Philip E.
4ekins, principal of the Camden
high School at Camden, and James
G. Meekins, United States Navy,
stationed in Norfolk, Va, four sis
tiers, Mrs. Lillian T. Midget, Mrs.
Norma T. Gregory, both of Nor
folk, Mrs. Anne Nicholson of Den
yer, Col, and Mrs. Claudia 7. Dali,
of Williamsburg, Va; one brother,
William Glenn Twiford, of Norfolk;
one grandchild.
Mrs. Meekins' sudden death oc-
cured while her husband was in
Elizabeth City at the bedside of
his mother, Mrs. Molly Meekins
who has been critically i'll for a
long time.
The body was taken to Twiford
Funeral Home in Elizabeth City
and was returned to the home at
Stumpy Point Sunday night. Flu
neral services were conducted at
pm. Monday at Stumpy Point,
from the Methodist Church.
Funeral services for Mrs. Meek
ms were conducted Monday after
noon at o'clock in the Shiloh
Methodist Church at Stumpy Point
by the Rev. A. L. G. Stephenson,
pastor.
The church was filled with
friends from several counties, and
the floral offerings were the great
est recalled in her community.
Members of the church choir
sang "Have Thine Own Way,
Lord" and 81 Would Be True" ac-
companied on the piano by Mrs.
Gertrude Wise. At the grave the
choir sang Goods Tomorrow"
The casket was covered with a
See LOSS, Page Eight
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-04-03
OCRACOKE NATIVE, SO,
DIES IN CHESTER, PA.

Thaddeaus w. Scarborough, ma
tive of Ocracoke, died on Friday,
March 9th, at the home of his son,
N. B. Scarborough, at Chester, Pa.
His age was eighty-three. Funeral
services were conducted at Ocra-
coke on Tuesday afternoon, with
Rev. w. Y. Stewart officiating. His
son, N. B. Scarborough and wife
and children of Chester, Pa, and
his daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Fos-
ter and two daughters of Phila-
delphia, were here for the serv-
ices. Other survivors are brother,
Charlie M. Scarborough, and a sis
ter, Mrs. Elizabeth j. Williams,
both of Ocracoke, and four other
grandchildren and three great
grandchildren.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-04-03
KITTY HAWK NATIVE
DIES IN NORFOLK SUN.

Mrs. Martha Ann Beals King,
60, wife of the late C. Clifton King,
died Sunday at the home of her
sister, Mrs. Helen G. Beasley,
Berkeley, Va, after an illness of
two years.
A native of Kitty Hawk, she has
resided there for 80 years. At the
ne of her death she was living at
\ Hughes Street.
y She was the daughter of the late
4orris H. and Sarah Ann Perry
Beales.
She is survived by three sisters,
Mrs. Beasley, Mrs. Sally Ann
Morse and Mrs. Lily Mae Beales,
all of Norfolk 1.-TWO sons, A. L.
King, of Norfolk, and Paul ]. King
of Princess Anne; one brother,
Adolphus Beales, of Williamsburg;
three half-sisters, Mrs. Fielena
Rainwater of Norfolk; Mrs. Minnie
Lee Fletcher of Great Bridge, and
Mrs. Sadie E. Saunders of Norfolk;
one half-brother, T. B. Beales of
Norfolk; IL grandchildren, and one
great-grandchild.
Burial was in the Riverdale Me-
mortal Park.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-04-03
SPORTSFISHING GUIDES
ANNOUNCE 1853 RATES

Sportsfshing guides on the Dare
Coast announced their new rate
schedules for 1858 following a
meeting this week.
For fishing at Oregon Inlet the
rates this year will be $35 to $40
daily as compared to $35 last year.
This rate will prevail for sound
fishing also it was stated.
Gulf Stream charters this year
from Oregon Inlet will be $40
daily as compared to $50 and $65
last season.
Fresh water fishing guides in
the Colington, Kitty Hawk and
Duck areas will charge So for half
day or SIS daily.
At Hatteras the prices for inlet
and sound fishing will be $40 daily
and for Gulf Stream fishing from
$50 to $40 and up depending on
the type of fishing an angler wish
es to do and whether outriggers
are used.
Anglers coming to the Dare
Coast for the sportsfishing can
make arrangements for charter
through the operators of fishing
centers at Manteo, in Wanchese, on
Mays Head or at Oregon Inlet.
Most of the hotel and motor court
operators will also help anglers
make arrangements for guide serv-
ice and boat charters.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-04-03
SENIOR PLAY PRESENTED
TWICE AT MANTEO HIGH

So successful was the perform
ance of 81 Remember Mama" by
the senior class of Manteo High
School last Friday night that a
second performance was given
Tuesday night, with a good at
tendance. Only standing room was
available at the first showing, and
the second performance took care
of the overflow.
Many compliments have been
heard on the fine staging of this
drama, with Mrs. Hal Ward of the
high school English department di-
recting. The costumes and stage
props, as we'll as the play itself,
were taken care of by the stu
dents, under Mrs. Wards super
vision,
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-04-03
CITIZENS PREPARE
TO DEFEND LAND
COMPANY CLAIMS
West Virginia Pulp & Paper
Company Sets Up Claims
That Will Be Disputed

Claims being made by the West
Virginia Pulp & Paper Company
will not go undisputed by num-
Der of landowners in the East Lake
and Croatan Townships in Dare
County. In Stumpy Point, several
citizens are preparing to defend
claims to lands which they have
occupied for many years, as well
as ancestors before them and
which they say the company is
trying to assume the title there
of through it's current Torreniza-
ton proceeding.
Some landowners in the East
Lake area are also making SINH
lar protests, and will file their an
swers in court. Last week, the
company brought a proceeding
against upwards Of 100 people who
are parties in interest in a large
area of the Twiford neighborhood
settlement, and some of these are
up in arms about the company's
claims.
During 1852, the company sent
out a group of young surveyors
into the territory to run lines, all
of whom were unfamiliar with the
territory, and who relied largely
on hurriedly gathered helpers and
informants, some of whom knew
little or nothing about the land in
question. On the basis of these in
complete maps, the suits are now
being brought by the company
which may result in much trouble
and expense to former claimants
of the land, some of whom are I'M
able financially to defend their Ii
ties.
During the past few months, the
company has made purchases of
land from a few prominent people
in the area. 1t bought out the rights
of the claimants of the old long
disputed $685. acres near Long
Shoal River, and for it paid some
$4,000. 1t bought $50 acres from
Mrs. Sarah Cahoon of East Lake
for $4,000; a tract from Thee. S.
Meekins for $840; a tract near
Mashores from H. R. Craddock for
$1,000; a tract of 153 acres from
Carl Mann near Manns Harbor for
81 $50; tract at East Lake from
Ray Lewis of Manteo for SLIGO;
some timber rights from Dalton
Cohoon of Columbia, and about
one and half acres from C. w.
Mann of Manns Harbor for $1,000.
Old residents, who recall the long
and losing battles with the Dare
Lumber Company of so years ago,
when so many people lost lands
which they had claimed, through
being worn out and financially ex-
hausted year after year in the
courts, forsee a tougher fight in
this instance when they have to go
up against a multimillion dollar
corporation, well armed with a
strong array of the leading legal
lights of the region.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-04-03

Bremerhaven, Germany.-Thom-
as w. Shallington, son of Tom B.
Shallington (mother deceased) of
Columbia, N. c., was recently pro-
NOTED to Army lieutenant colonel
at Bremerhaven, Germany.
Colonel Shallington, whose wife,
the former Jackie Bissette of
Spring Hope, and two children are
with him in Germany, is officer in
charge of the dependents process
ing section of the Bremerhaven
Port of Embarkation.
He served with the Chinese
Training Command for two years
during World War ii.
After the war, Shallington was
elected to the North Carolina State
Legislature for the 1947-49 term.
He re-entered the Army in Janu-
airy 1949.
He graduated from North Caro-
lima State College in Raleigh with
bachelor of science degree in an
imal husbandry. His father is one
of the most interesting and color
full men of his community.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-04-03
DARE BEACHES C OF C.
TO MEET NEXT TUESDAY

The Dare Beaches Chamber of
Commerce will hold meeting at
eight o'clock next Tuesday eve
ming, April Z, at the Hotel Kitty
Hawk at Kill Devil Hills, accord
ing to announcement this week by
secretary c. j. Townley. Ellwood
Parker, president of the group,
urges all interested to be present.
Arrangements will be made at that
time for opening the information
booth.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-04-03

ALEC DANTRE, a baritone well
known to North Carolina opera
audiences, alternates in the roles
of Doctor Malatesta and Don Pas
quale in the forthcoming Grass
Roots Opera production of DON
PASQUALE which will be given
Friday evening, April 10, at the
Manteo school auditorium at eight
o'clock. A native of Texas now
making his residence in Raleigh,
Mr.. Dantre first sang this opera
with the Colony Opera Guild in
New York. Grass Roots Opera 60
ers will remember him for his role
of Don Alfonso in SCHOOL FOR
LOVERS.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-04-03
NARROW ESCAPE FOR
BOB MlDGETT SAT.

Robert Midget, merchant mar
liner of Manteo, had close call
late Saturday night when the car
he was driving from Mays Head
to Manteo got out of control at the
Bridge Turn intersection, knocked
down the stop sign in the middle
of the road and tore down two gas
pumps across the road at George
H. Quidley's service station. Mid
gett is booked by the highway pa
trolman with careless and reckless
driving. He was unhurt.
Last year motorist crossed the
road at this same spot and went
through the concrete wall of this
service station.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-04-03
STATE PLANS BRIDGE
ON NORTHWEST FORK

The present pontoon bridge over
the Northwest Fork of Alligator
River on Route "a between Gum
Neck and Kilkenny is to be replac-
ed by a new fixed span bridge by
the N. c. Highway Commission
according to announcement made
this week. Whereas the bridge
now opens for large boats, the
draw would be closed, having an
opening only 14.5 wide and AS
feet high. Col. R. G. Brown of the
Corps of Engineers has invited
the attention of the public to the
plans which may be seen at the
postoffice in Columbia.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-04-03

PFC. CHARLES HAYWOOD, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Haywood
of Avon, who enlisted in the Army
in 1850 has been stationed at Ger
mershine, Germany, since last May,
now is somewhere in France. Hay
wood took his basic training at
Fort Knox, Ky. Young Haywood is
fond of the many schools the Army
has to offer and is now with the
D.A.S. He has been with the 3rd
ordinance since he enlisted.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-04-03
SOCIAL SECURITY WORKER
AT COMMUNITY BUILDING

A representative from the So
cial Security Administration will
be in the Dare County Community
Building on April Is, 1853. Anyone
wishing to see him is requested to
come to the reception room Of the
Community Building between the
hours of $3.50 am. and IL M.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-04-03
EASTER

LAD l. Lh
Rising above the false to the true evidence
of Life, is the resurrection that.takes hold of
eternal Truth
Mary Baker Eddy
This is the wonder of the Resurrection =
That things unvalued now reveal their
worth.
Lucy Larcom
l know am deathless.
Walt Whitman
There is a Resurrection Life
That must share
tomb that must leave
Henry Park Schauffer
1--WE shall sleep" was the sigh of the midnight
I'VE shall rise!' is the song of today.
Francis L. Mace
But Easter Day breaks But Christ rises!
Mercy every way is infinite.
Robert Browning
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-04-03
SHRIN ETTE MEET MONDAY

The Dare County Shrinettes will
meet Monday night, April 6, at
the Shrine Club at eight o'clock.
All members are asked to be pres
ent,
The frontiersman., 1953-05-21
Notice for Publication

Notice is hereby given that Tommie A. Phillips has made application for a homesite un- der the Act of May 26, 1884 GAS stat. 809) Anchorage Seri- al No. G16969 for a tract of land described as U. s. Sur vey No. 3077 situated on south- erly side of Glenn Highway at approximate Mile Station 35. Lat. 61' 28' 39.5- N. (Approx.), Lon. 149' or 40" w. (Approx.) at Corner No. l, containing 5 acres and it is now in the files of the Land Office, Anchorage, Alaska.
 Any and all persons claiming adversely any of the above mentioned land should file their adverse claim in the Land Of- flee within the period of pub lication or thirty days there after, or they will be barred by the provisions of the statutes. VIRGIL O. SEISER, manager Published May 2, IA, 21, 28,
 June 4, II, 18, 25, July 2,
 1853.
The frontiersman., 1953-05-21
NOTICE VALLEY CLEANERS will be un- able to accept work during the next two weeks due to boiler change over. C-5-21-1t
NOTICE
Notice for Publication

o, Notice is hereby given that Cleo Bryan McMahan has made application for a domestic under the Act of May 26, 1884 GAS Stat 8O9) Anchorage Serial No. O18433 tor a tract of land described as land embraced in Plat of U. s. Survey No. 3l19, situated on the East side Richardson Highway near Mile 172.3 from Valdez in Latitude 60' 49' North (Approxi- mately Longitude 145'27'30" West Approximately at U. S. Loca- ton Monument Number 3ll9 containing 500 acres, and it is now in the files of the Land Of flee, Anchorage, Alaska.
 Any and all persons claiming adversely any of the above-men. toned land should file their ad- verse claim in the Land Office within the period of publication or thirty days thereafter, or they Wlll be barred by the provisions Jf the Statutes.
 VIRGIL O. SEISER, Manager Published April 2, g. l6, B. 3O
 May 2, IA, 21, 28, 1853