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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-01-09
BOARD PLANS TO
BUILD A HEALTH
CENTER IN DARE
Commissioners Plan $4,000
Health Center In Manteo
Next Community
Bldg.

The Dare County Commissioners
this week approved plans for the
building of a health center in Man
teo, which will cost about $4,000
Lawrence Swain was named to
work out the plans and w. M.
Weber was appointed architect to
draw the plans.
The building will be financed
with state and Federal funds. The
Federal share will be $9,921, the
State share $13,335, and the bal
ance of $5,973 to be put up by the
county.
The board voted to put in the
1858 budget the sum of $3.50 to aid
the Cape Hatteras Health Center
in buying equipment. w. A. Gray
chairman of the Health Center
DR.. D. w. Tharp, E. R. Midget of
Rodanthe and Asa Gray of Waves
appeared in behalf of the project
The board voted to increase from
$500 to $500 the pay for collecting
garbage once a week on the Dare
Beaches.
Motion was made to ask Rep
Bruce Etheridge to pass a law
whereby building permits will be
required in Dare County, and a law
permitting a liquor referendum OF
Hatteras Island.
B. M. Hedrick and Sherman Gull
pepper were appointed to fill va
cancies on the Dare Beaches ION
ing committee.
The Board asked for hardsurfac
ing the west end of Broad Stree
in Manteo, and for some improve
ments to roads in Hatteras.
The Board urged the plumbers
of the county to get together ant
plan a plumbing code to be enacted
into law.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-01-09
COLOR PICTURES OF JAPAN
AT ROANOKE I'D. BAPTIST

Moving pictures in color will be
shown on Sunday evening, Janu-
airy II, at the Roanoke Island Bap-
fist Church near Manteo, by the
Rev. Frank B. Dinwiddie, pastor,
in connection with his regular eve
ming service at 1880. The pictures
were made by Phil Saint, the ar
fist whose program at the Mays
Head Baptist Mission on Monday
night filled the church, while he
was in Japan during the last sew
eral years. The pictures will show
the land, people and customs of
Japan, also something of the po-
litical movements, the forms of
worship and the work of the Chris
tan missions. The public is cor
daily invited to attend.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-01-09
WATERSIDE THEATRE
UNDERGOING REPAIRS
First Lost Colony Tickets For
Season of 1853 Reserved

First Lost Colony Tickets for
the 1853 season which begins in
Waterside Theatre here on June
27, were reserved Oh Tuesday of
this week, according to Dick Jor-
dan, general manager of the dra-
ma which will be shown for its
18th season this year.
Miss Annie Mae Slider. of the
Trust Company of Georgia, in At
lanta, made the reservation for
herself and a party of friends who
are planning to spend their vaca-
ton in the Dare Beaches and Cape
Hatteras National Seashore area,
near Roanoke Island.
The Lost Colony will go into
rehearsal during early June and
under the direction of Clifton Brit
ton, it will be ready for its sea-
sonal premiere by Saturday, June,
81. Approximately 100 persons will
be in the cast this year of which
several will be doubling in one or
more roles. About 60 per cent of
the cast will be native born island
ers but most of the persons having
leading roles in the production will
be back again in 1858.
Albert @. Bell, in charge of the
vast waterside theatre which has
seating facilities for 5000 persons
currently conducting off-season
novations at the site where the
Aow is presented each year. APP
proximately $1,000 in theatre re-
pairs and improvements will be
made during the off-season and
prior to the opening date on June
81. One of the properties to be
rebuilt this year is the "Pinnace"
which The company members call
"Sir Walter Raleigh's Ship" This
ship passes before the audience
under blaze of floodlights during
Act ii of the drama, first arriv-
ing from England in 1887 with the
colonists who were to attempt set
Element here and then a few
months later returns to England.
Up until the time the ship ar
rives from and departs for Eng
land Playwrite Paul Green follow
See THEATER, Page Five
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-01-09
DARE YOUNG PEOPLE
AT INAUGURAL BALI

Among those attending the in
augural ball in Raleigh this week
are Miss Wanda Burrus of Manns
Harbor, who was chosen to repre-
sent Dare County as a student;
Miss Maxine Scarborough of Man.
teo, who went as a representative
of Greensboro College; Wade Nix
on of Manteo High School; Mrs.
Matilda Inge, of the Manteo school
faculty and her young daughter,
Miss Betty Bruce Inge.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-01-09
L. c. EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE NAMED
BY CHMN, KELLOGG

An executive committee of Roa-
noke Island Historical Association
was named in Manteo this week
by Chairman Martin Kellogg of
the board of directors of the spon-
soring organization. Duties of the
committee will be to act as steer
ing committee for the promotion
and presentation of The Lost Col
ony, now Americas longest-lived
outdoor drama which opens for its
18th season in Waterside Theatre
here on June 81 this year.
"This committee will have regu-
lar meetings, especially during the
season of the drama to cooperate
with the general manager in all
problems relative to the operation
of the show" said Kellogg.
R. E. "Dick" Jordan will be gen
eral manager of the drama during
its 1953-54 seasons. A resident of
Mays Head, he is the first general
manager since the late Bradford
Fearing, to live in the immediate
vicinity of where the play has been
presented each summer Except for
the War years. since 1887.
The Kellogg-appointed Executive
Committee consists of Russell Cru
mman, of the University of North
Carolina Extension Division, Chap
ell Hill, R. Bruce Etheridge, Guy
Lennon and Melvin r. Daniels of
Manteo and Miles L. Clark of Eliz-
abeth City.
General manager Jordan will
leave here next week for Chapel
Hill to confer with Supervisory Di-
rector Samuel Selden, and former
general manager William Hardy
who resigned from The Lost Col
ony to manage Horn in the West
See COMMITTEE, Page Five
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-01-09

PFC. HILTON M. CRIMSON, 10,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Howard
Brinson of Norfolk, formerly of
lower Currituck County. He has
been in the army for two years, 10
months of which he has spent in
Germany. He attended school at
Poplar Branch and Portlock, Va.
During his school years and during
the summer he visited frequently
with J. 7. Stetson, mail carrier of
Kitty Hawk, and helped with de-
livering mail. His address is RIA
13360881, Co. A $40 A. l. B., APO
46 co Pm, New York, N. Y, and
he would like to hear from his
friends.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-01-09
DARE RECORDER HEARS
TWO TRAFFIC CASES

Judge w. F. Baum in Dare Re-
corder's Court Tuesday heard only
two cases. C. L. Ziegler of Eliza
beth City paid $25 and costs for
driving without an operators per-
nit.
John T. Pendleton, colored of
Manteo, was taxed with the costs
for driving his automobile too close
to the car ahead. He was arrested
by Patrolman o. L. Wise.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-01-09
GRADING BEGINS ON
NEW DUCK HIGHWAY

Work of grading the 81 miles
of road connecting the village of
Duck in Dare County with U. S.
158 began yesterday. The contract
for the road was awarded to Bal
lenger Paving Co. 1t is not expect
ed the actual paving can be done
before warmed weather.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-01-09

MORE THAN $50 YEARS
Hatteas which
blown by Federal soldiers Another
1870 This
unno but during the SOs the large granite blocks used its foundation
IN
feplac buildings
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-09-24

Claude Miller, Mrs. E. L. Riddell,
and Mrs. Larry Miller volunteered
to help Mrs. Robert Anderson with
vision testing, weighing and meas
uring at Highland school during
the period of October 1 through
9. The remarkable thing about
these volunteers is that many of
them have no children at High
land.
Several women volunteered to
help check lists of the Crippled
Children's Society, and a full list
Of volunteers was found for man
ming the TB mobile X-ray unit
when it next comes to Wheaton.
The next meeting will be held
at the home of Mrs. Philip Mar
Gus on Henderson Avenue at $50
am. on October Is. Election of
officers and clerical work for the
tuberculosis Association are on
the agenda for that meeting.
Any lady in the area is invited
to attend these meetings. They Of
fer an opportunity for social SER
vice as we'll as social chatter-the
latter over refreshments served in
the later morning.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-09-24

haunts and boots, Halloween is
the time for teen-agers and adults
alike to vigorously express the
spirit of the season. 1t is the fur
ious holiday preparation for
colorful street parades, "Spook
Hall" dances and masquerade
parties which makes the holiday
such highly successful one for
having fun. Therefore, it is the
desire of the Recreation Depart
ment to extend its service in offer
ing suggestions and sources of re-
ference to groups of varied sizes
OF interests during Goblin Time.
Written requests may be adj
dressed to the Recreation Office at
the Montgomery County Court
House, Rockville, Md.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-09-24

The marriage of Miss st. CLAIR
Brooke Bowling, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. William Sinclair of Chevy
Chase, and Altman first class An
thony Francis Valente took place
September IL at II am. in Our
Lady of Lourdes Church in Beth
esda.
Mr.. Valente's parents are Mrs.
Frances Valente of Barre, Massa-
chusetts, and Mr.. Anthony Valente
Of Kensington.
The Rev. Elmer T. Fisher per-
formed the ceremony in a church
decorated with white chrysanthe-
NUNS, roses, smilaX and palms.
The bride, given in marriage By
her father, wore candlelight silk
taffeta with a fitted bodice and off
the shoulder neckline outlined in
white iridescent sequins and seed
pearls. The very bouffant skirt
had cathedral train. Her finger
tip veil of illusion was attached to
tiara of seed pearls and she car
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-09-24

whole birthday was her present
of her first "two wheeler" bike.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-09-24
County Recreation
Department to Aid
Halloween Plans

In few weeks when the night
of October 31st draws near, cos
TUNED ghosts, devils and heroes
will be wandering around the
streets to their hearts content.
During this season of hobgoblins
and gala fun the Montgomery
County Department of Recreation
wishes to announce it's willingness
to give assistance in the planning
Of community projects, parties and
church gatherings.
The Department is keenly aware
Of the excellent programs which
have been executed in the past
years by civic organizations, SER
vice clubs, P. T. A. groups and
churches. 1t is certain that this
effort toward a spirit of friend
illness and good fellowship will
continue.
With all its mystery and magic,
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-09-24
Mrs. Philip Marcus
lockwood 5-3044

Rain or shine, Saturday after
noon, October 3, will be banner
day in the Wheaton-Glenmont COM
munity, with a parade of fire
equipment and floats, the laying
of the corner stone for the Ken
sington Fire Department sub-sta-
ton at Glenmont, and the dedica-
ton of the new building-all of
which will kickoff the areas OBJ
servation of National Fire Proven
ton Week, October 40.
The parade, which will begin at
/ pm. at Plyers Mill Road and
Georgia Avenue, will feature vol
&lnteer fire companies and rescue
squads from Virginia and Mary
land, bands and floats entered by
businessmen and civic groups. Lay
ing of the cornerstone will be at
2:30 pm.
Fifteen or more trophies, dona-
ted by local merchants, will be
We'd for by all in the parade.
Invited dignitaries for the cere-
monies include Governor Theodore
McKeldin, Senator j. Glenn Beall
and County Manager Edward T.
Beall. Master of Ceremonies for
the occasion will be Eugene J. C.
Raney, first Chief of the Kensing-
ton Volunteer Fire Department.
Free refreshments will be served
at the new firehouse. The public
is invited not only to the parade
and ceremonies, but also to inspect
the new building during the Open
House.
Civic and business organizations
interested in entering floats should
contact Thomas Curtis, chairman
of the parade committee, at 10.
5-9872.
Prizes will be awarded for the
best appearing pumper, best equip
ped pumper, best appearing lad
der truck, best appearing ambul-
.ance, best equipped ambulance,
kbest appearing squad truck, band
making best appearance in the
parade, company coming the long
est distance with apparatus, oldest
piece of apparatus, company with
most uniformed men in line, best
appearing company from outside
Montgomery County, and best ap-
pearing ambulance from outside
Montgomery County.
Other prizes will be awarded to
commercial, organizational, and
patriotic floats.
Zebra Ward, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Raymond Ward, celebra-
ted her sixth birthday at her
Springbrooke Forest home last
Sunday. Guests at the party in her
honor, in addition to her sisters,
Sharon and Cynthia, were Glenn,
Linda, Gale, Gary, and Gregg Gar
win, Linda Bentley, Dickie and
Denny Widman, Patti Griffin,
Chuck and Joy Winslow, Ray Kern,
Billy Clark, Kathie Hoagland,
Dana Owens. Nancy Sue Cole.
Marie Gray, Gwen Knight, and
J Lennie Seliger.
Dehra's hTuoest +brill about +ba
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-09-24
USE lTCH-ME-NOT
FOR PESKY ITCH
BECAtISE
BECAUSE

II must please IN is MINUTES or
your 4oc back at any drug store. Get
new. clear skin after the distress Of
eczema. rinsworm. poison ivy. sih-
lefe's foot, insect bites. Quick and Of
feetive. Ncw J.. R. W. vinsen' Rock
vile, Md.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-09-24
TwinbrOOk Child
Study Group Meets
September 29

The Twinbrook Child Study
Group will hold it's first meeting
of the new season September %
1T 8 pm. in the home of Mrs.
Howard Gellman, 305 Nimitz Ave 9,
nue..
flans will be made for a series
Of discussions under the guidance
Of Mrs. Francis Simsarian, PSYCHE
atric Social Worker who is con-
rected with the Montgomery Coun-
ty study groups.
She is graduate of New York
School of Research of Columbia
University and the author of num-
erous articles to Parents and Child
Study magazines.
She guided the discussions of
this group last year and these who
attended report very enjoyable and
stimulating meetings.
Also present will be Mrs. Gladys
Gardner, formerly on the staff of
the Chicago Association for Fam
lily Life, and Mrs. jeanne Finley,
Health Educator with the County
tuberculosis Association.
Mrs. Gardner is also the author
of several books and magazine
articles on child growth. Mrs. Fin
ley, who has also done the chief
iiaison work between Twinbrook
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-09-24

and county groups in the recent
at wi nbrook Demonstration
(which put out the Community
Guide, contributed much toward
the launching last year of the
child study program.
All parents or anyone interested
n children are invited to attend
the sessions. 1t would be appreci-
ated if those planning to be pre-.
sent would call either Mrs. Leo
0rbach, Popular 2-6311, or Mrs.
Gellman, Popular 2-6286.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-09-24
Lay Com mittee Meets

Twelve members and several
guests of the Wheaton, Glenmont
Public Health Lay Committee met
at the Clement Lane home of Mrs.
Wesley S. Meginn last week. Miss
Louise Crosby, public health nurse
for the area was also present.
1t was announced that donations
Of winter clothing are needed for
children in the area who need
clothing for school, and also dona-
tons to the Committee-sponsored
loan closet are needed. A new
heating pad and an infant syringe
have been added to the Closet.
Mrs. Meginn, Mrs. Henry Klein
Ike, Mrs. Elmer Rockenbach, Mrs.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-09-24

Bowling, cousin of the bride,
Joseph Gordon, Edwin Latimer,
Robert Cremins, and Vincent Sim
mel, all of Bethesda.
Following the ceremony a recep-
ton was held at the home of the
brides parents, 215 Elmwood Rd.,
Kenwood.
The Valente's will be Mt home at
1924 Strathmore St., Chevy Chase,
following a wedding trip to New
Hampshire.
The bride attended Georgetown
Visitation Convent and Bothesda-
Chevy Chase High School. The
groom attended the HONEYWELL
School and the University of Mary
land. He is now in the U. S. Air
Force stationed at Andrews Field
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-09-24
Photo by SouthaII

RED a cascade of gardenias and
stephanotis centered with white
orchid.
Miss Ruth Shipman of Bethesda
was maid of honor. Bridesmaids
were Miss Marion Andrews, Misses
Joan Leatherwood and Helen Liv-
say, cousins of the bride, and Miss
Patricia Townsend and Miss Rose
Bowling. The attendants all wore
Paris blue taffeta gowns with loag
full skirts and matchino stoles. ard
tiny blue velvet hats. They carried
burgundy roses.
Nh. Harry Andrews of Bethesda
was best man. Ushers were Joseph
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-09-24

Observation-Disclosures parents who
have children going to Montgomery
Hills Junior High School (and
many of US doD will be interested
in knowing that Mr.. George R.
Hitchcock is now principal of the
school. Mr.. Hitchcock has been at
Montgomery Hills for ten years
during all of which he served
as Vice-Principal.
Mr.. William P. Hall is now Vice
Principal at Montgomery Hills.
Mr.. Hall, who has been with the
County school system for seven
years. was former school counselor
at Richard Montgomery High
School in Rockville.
Also of interest is the fact that
three members of the schools staff
have been there since the school
opened in 1887. They are Miss
Margaret James, school secretary:
Mrs. Helen Warner, Librarian; and
Mrs. Iris Bosley, Home Arts teach
er.
Mobile Unit Functions
The Mobile Unit of the Ladies
Auxiliary of the Kensington Vol
unteer Fire Department certainly
turned out in full force when call
ed during the now-famous West
land Building fire in Silver Spring.
The Unit was called to serve
coffee to frefghters in Silver
Spring at 8 o'clock in the morning.
They worked there until $50, and
from then until after 8 they served
breakfast to the fremen in the
kensington Firehouse.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1953-09-24
Wheaton Glenmont Gleanngs
Wheaton G|enmont P|anninq
Fire Prevention Parade,
Cornerstone Laying October 3

whole birthday was her present
of her first "two wheeler" bike.
Mr.. and Mrs. William E. Cum
Minis of Gait Avenue and their
children, Barbara Jean and Walter,
spent their vacation in the north.
They visited Quebec, and then
went on to Acadia National Park
in Maine. This is the park where
the mountains rise right out of
the water-one minute you are
following mountain trails, and the
next, you can battle in the At
lantic.
The Cummins returned by way
of the White Mountains, and
brought back with them Mrs. Cum
Minis sister, Mrs. Paul Freiberg,
and her two children, Claire and
Stephen.
Coffee Get-tOgethers Popular
The morning coffee get-togethers
are becoming more popular-and
are a wonderful way to entertain.
The latest in the neighborhood was
the one held by Mrs. Richard Flem-
ing at the Fleming's lovely home
"Rudix" on Georgia Avenue last
Friday.
Coffee, tea, tiny sandwiches and
cakes were served from a table
set in the sunroom. The table was
beautifully center-pieced with
large bouquet of red Gamma with
fruit accents.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Hughes of
Hardy Avenue recently returned
from their vacation spent with
Mrs. Hughes parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Daniel Gallagher at Beverly
Beach. The Hughes youngsters,
Dannie, Patsy and Jack accompan-
led their parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Lenet are
being congratulated on the birth
of their new daughter, Tamara.
The baby, who was born at Wash
ington Sanitarium, has two sis
tiers, Sandra and Karen.
Milford chronicle., 1953-08-14
notice.

Notice is hereby given that Let
ters Administration G. T. A. were
iii due form of law granted unto the
undersigned, on the 10th day Of
July A. d. 1853, and that all per-
sons having claims against the es-
tate Of the deceased must present
the same, duly attested to the said
The First National Bank and Trust
Company, Administrators C. T. A..
Of the estate of Mary L. Bridgham,
on or before the 10Th day of July,
1854, or abide the Act of Assembly
in such case made and provided.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
AND TRUST COMPANY
By: Wallace F. McFaul
Trust officer
Administrators c. T. A.
Address,
Milford, Delaware. 8-7-3t
Milford chronicle., 1953-08-14
EMPTY APARTMENTs

RIO DE JANEIRO -(P)- The
new American embassy office build
ing in Rio de Janeiro has eight
lovely apartments which apparent
ly aren't going to see much use
thanks to red tape. The eight
apartments occupy two upper floors
Of the history, $2,8OO,O 900 building,
which was opened for use in April.
They were intended to be used by
newcomers who were looking for
apartments of their own, or by
touring guests or diplomats.
But soon after the opening, a
ruling came down from somewhere
about the use of the apartments
For security" reasons, couples
with children would not be allow
ed to use them-only single persons
or childless couples.
So about the only occupants for
the apartments, aside from an
occasional visitor, have been a few
neWly-arrived secretaries. The story
goes that they would prefer a hotel
near one of Rios famous beaches.