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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-02-05
STRATTON GETS
TRANSFER FROM
SEASHORE PARK
Charles Marshall To Take
Over Management of
Land Acquisition
Office

A. Clark Stratton, land acquisi-
ton officer for the National Park
Service who has been in charge
of Cape Hatteras National Sea-
shore Recreational Area work
here for the past two years, will
return to the regional office in
Richmond on March /.
Taking over the land acquisi-
tim duties here will be Charles
Marshall who has been Stratton's
assistant during the period that
lands have been acquired for
Americas first oceanside national
park.
Stratton was no stranger on
the Dare coast when he came
here to supervise the purchase of
lands between Mays Head and
Ocracoke Inlet for inclusion in
the National 5eashore. During the
1905 he mad been in charge of
National Park Service beach ero-
sion work along the Outer Banks.
was formerly connected with the
His successor, Mr.. Marshall,
National Park Service in York
town, Va.
The General Superintendent of
the area is Allyn F. Hanks who
will take over March l, and main
tain an office at Fort Raleigh.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-02-05
MRS. LAURA ROGERS BAUM
BURIED AT KITTY HAWK

Funeral services were conducted
Sunday afternoon in Elizabeth City
for Mrs. Laura Rogers Baum, SO,
a native of Kitty Hawk, who died
Saturday as the result of burns
sustained Tuesday of last week
when her clothes caught fire from
a cookstove. Burial was in the
Austin Cemetery at Kitty Hawk.
She was the wife of A. c. Baum,
and is survived by two daughters:
Mrs. Mary Pritchard and Mrs.
Clyde Liverman of Elizabeth City;
four sons, Tommy Baum of Nor
folk, A. D. Baum, Oscar and Earl
Baum of Elizabeth City. Three
sisters, Mrs. A. C. Harris of Kitty
Hawk; Mrs. T. W. Perry of Ocean
View, and Mrs. ]. H. Fulcher of
Currituck. A brother, Will Rogers
of Kitty Hawk.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-02-05
.SEASHORE PARK
MANAGER NAMED;
BEGINS MARCH l
Allyn F. Hanks Will Be, Ad-
ministrative Official Of
Banks Area and
Fort Raleigh

Allyn F. Hanks has been
named Superintendent of the
Cape HatteraS Natioal Seashore,
and will have charge of the prof.
ect which plans the expenditure
of something like a quarter of a
million dollars next yer IL the
development of the park. This
office is separate from the land
acquisition office operated from
Manteo, and which is under the
direction of Charles Marshall.
Mr.. Hanks, whose amily
claimed kinship with Nancy
Hanks, the mother of Abraham
Lincoln, since January Is, 1858,
had been assistant superintend-
ent of Everglades National Park
in Florida.
He will assume his new duties
with temporary headquarters in
the John White Cottage at Fort
Raleigh on March l, until new
headquarter facilities are COM
pleted this spring at Bodie Island
near the north boundaries of the
National Seashore at Mays Head
ad Oregon Inlet. In the begin
ming he will have, in addition to
secretarial personnel already en-
ployed, three rangers working
with him. They are Gus Hult-
man, chief ranger, and Charles
Lamb on Hatteras Island and
Balfour Baum of Manteo north
of Oregon Inlet.
Shortly after taking over his
new duties, Hanks will begin ex-
pending monies on new develop
ments within the park area. A
total of $270,000 has been allotted
this development beginning with
the new fiscal year. In the mean
by the National Park Service for.
time, such projects as converting
the old Bodie Island Coast Guard
Station into a park service build
ing to serve as headquarters un-
til a new administration building
is constructed, and finishing
touches to a marine museum
building, will continue. The ma
rine museum will be located in
one of the former light house
keepers quarters at Cape Hat
teras Lighthouse.
For his initial training with the
Park Service which began in
1923 Mr.. Hanks attended forestry
schools in Montana and Colorado.
He served as park ranger in
Yellowstone National Park and
Grand Teton in Wyoming. He
was a chief boatswain in the
Coast Guard during World War
II and later was superintendent
of Theodore Roosevelt National
Monument Park before his trans
fer to Everglades last year.
Mr.. Hanks is married and they
have one child. The family will
move to the Dare Coast when he
takes over his duties as superin-
tendent of Americas first ocean
side national park.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-02-05
DARE co. BOYS BADLY
HURT IN CAR MlSHAP

Serious injuries were received
Friday night by two young men,
well known in Hatteras, when a
1853 Plymouth driven by Ivy
Peele, 20, of Hatteras ran off the
road on us. 1853 near Elizabeth
City, and after travelling some 900
feet and turning over for another
100 feet was a total wreck.
The drivers companion, Don l..
Austin, 81, of Elizabeth City was
critically injured. Both young men
were thrown from the car, which
while out of control, knocked
down two signs, telegraph pole
Nand part of fence.
~ Austin is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Gus Austin, formerly of Hat
teras, and Peele, his cousin is the
son of Mr.. and Mrs. U. Peele, of
Hatteras. Austin is in Albemarle
Hospital.
An investigation was made by
Patrolman Hawkins.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-02-05
ZONING COMMISSION
FOR DARE BEACH AREA
County Board Adjusts Tax Mat
tiers; Additional Welfare
Office Provided

The Dare County Commissioners
named four new members to the
Zoning Board for the Dare Beach
area Tuesday. Leo Midget was a
member of the Board and the
following were added: w. H. Nc
Gown and w. A. Williams of Mays
Head; 7. j. Harris, and w. H
Smith, rJ., of Kitty Hawk.
The Board ordered that the
space in the community building
recently vacated by the Health De-
partment be turned over to the
Welfare Office.
1t was voted that $96 be contri-
buted toward the rent of the NC.
Revenue Collector in Elizabeth
City.
The Board voted to ask the Ma
tional Park Service through Con-
gresham Bonner's office for year
round lighting of the Wright
Brothers Memorial.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-02-05
KITTY HAWK PLANS A
MARCH OF DIMES DANCE

The Kitty Hawk Home Demon
stration Club is sponsoring a
square dance Saturday, February
6. The proceeds from this dance
will be turned over to the March
of Dimes. There will be door
prize, a cake walk, a cake rattle,
and home made cup cakes and
fudge will be for sale.
Mr.. Bob Smith, county agent,
will be on hand to call figures for
the dance. 1t is hoped that there
will be a good attendance for this
worthy cause. o's riA
The committee for the Kitty
Hawk March 'of Dimes are Mrs
Jesse Baum, chairman; Rev. Greg.
DRY, Mrs. Elizabeth Whitfield and
Mrs. Linda Walker.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-02-05
NATIONAL SEASHORE
MUSEUM is PLANNED
FOR CAPE HATTERAS

A building originally built to
house the keepers of Americas
tallest lighthouse at Cape Hat
teras is scheduled to become a
maritime museum of the Nation
al Seashore Recreation Area
which is now being created be-
tween Mays Head and Ocracoke
Inlet.
Clark Stratton, land acquisi-
ton officer of the National Park
Service has indicated that the
museum would be ready for
mSication by early summer of
Located near the base of ia
nous Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
the museum will be within sight
of Diamond Shoals, one of the
most dreaded bodies of water, by
masters of sailing vessels. Dia-
mond Shoals was long known as
the graveyard of the Atlantic"
because so many ships were lost
in the area. A more modern name
to the general area off Diamond
Shoals during World War II was
Torpedo Junction." because so
many merchant and war craft
were attacked and sunk there by
enemy submarines. The term
torpedo junction" was first
coined by the shippers of Coast
Guard Patrol craft operating
from Ocracoke and Morehead
City Section Bases in the SUBJ
marine-infested waters off Cape
Hatteras.
In addition to the museum
which will contain many mari
time objects and relics Cape Hat
teras Lighthouse will be open to
the public for supervised tours
under the supervision of the Ma
tional Park Service.
The museum site is adjacent to
the new all-paved highway
which branches from the Mays
Head Hatteras highway as it ap-
proaches Buxton village. The
museum area has long been
noted for its maritime history and
also for its excellent surf fishing.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-02-05
RODANTHE BOY COMPLETES
COURSE in COAST GUARD

CAPE MAY, N. William D.
Midget, Is, seaman recruit, USCG,
and the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Jethro
Midget, of Rodanthe, is scheduled
to complete the 12-week course of
recruit training at the U. S. Coast
Guard Receiving Center in Cape
May, N. j., early next week. The
course schedules the basic duties
encountered as member of the
nations oldest seagoing force.
Midget was graduated with the
class of 1853 from Ocracoke High
School. He was sworn in as a re-
cruit in the U. S. Coast Guard on
September %, 1863. He is the hus-
band of the former Lou Ellie Spen-
Ger of Ocracoke.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-02-05

ROBERT V. OWENS, JR., if he
keeps up the energy and love of
work for which his father and
mother were noted ought to go a
long way in life. He is now sta
toned on the Coast Guard ship
Apalachee in Baltimore, having
finished his Coast Guard training
in Cape May, N. J. during the holi-
days after which he visited his
mother, in Manteo. He is the son
of Mrs. Clara Owens, and the late
R. V. Owens, and he will be missed
this year around the Owens Tour
list Court where he was his
mothers mainstay. Bobby is 81,
and he finished Manteo High
School in 1851, after which he
attended school at State College
and ECC Greenville, until Sept
ember 1853 when he enlisted.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-02-05
MRS MARY G.. WILLIAMS Sc
AGED AVON RESIDENT DIES

Mrs. Mary G. Williams, Sc, an
aged lifelong resident of Avon died
in Manteo at 1920 am. Wednes-
day, where she had been a patient
for some time. She was twice mar
ried, her last husband, the late
Irving Williams having been dead
for many years. She was a MEM
Der of the Methodist Church.
She is survived by son of her
first marriage, Baxter Gray, of
Elizabeth City, and by four grand
children and four great-great
grandchildren.
The funeral was conducted at 2
pm. Thursday from st. Johns
Methodist Church at Avon, by the
pastor, p. M. Porter.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-02-05
DARE BEACH RESIDENTS
HAVE FLYING TROUBLES
Two Close Friends, Usually To-
gether Have Engine Trouble
in Separate Planes,
in n. c.

A news item of unusual in
terest to people of the Dare
Beaches, who know the parties,
concerns Luther Gurkin of Ply
Mr.. and Mrs. Jim Morton
of New York City and sgd Trott
of Stanton, Virginia:
On Monday, January 18th,
Mr.. and Mrs. jim Morton,
of New York City, who have a
cottage on Oregon Inlet Road,
were flying to the Florida Keys
on a fishing trip with Luther
Warren Gurkin, Jr., of Ply
mouth, North Carolina, also
owner of a cottage on Bodie Is
land. Morton, a New York news
was plotting the air.
plane, a Bellanca Cruisair. At
1000 feet over the little town of
Chinquapin, North Carolina, in
the Swampland west of Whining
ton, the engine failed, requiring
a hazardous forced landing into
a muddy ploughed field. No one
was injured and the airplane was
unchanged, and now is at Man
teo Airport for minor engine re-
pairs. The three Mays Head sum-
mer residents were fortunate to
escape injury, having landed in
one of the few, if not the only
Try field in Duplin county.
On Wednesday, just two days
alter, sgd Trott, of Staunton,
owner of Trott's Sports
wear on the Mays Head beach,
was injured in the crash of
win Beech airplane at Charlotte,
sustaining two fractured verte-
orae. Mr.. Trott was a passenger
n the twin-engined executive
aircraft, having elected to leave
lis own single-engined Navion
n Charlotte due to instrument
conditions. It was the
second air crash he has survived
n two years.
Oddly enough, Trott and Nor
on, close personal friends, usual
y fly together. Despite being in
different aiirplanes in different
parts of the state they went down
IN similar crashes. The cause in
both cases was engine failure.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-02-05
LAWSUIT WAGES
OVER 81 INCHES
OF OCEAN FRONT
Three Cases Settled This
Week In Dare County
Court

One. of the big lawsuits for
which a special term of court
was called this week in Dare
County is a dlspusEe over 5h
inches of land, near Kitty Hawk
old Coast Guard station. Along
with Is other cases of the 10 for
which this term was called, the
case was continued this week. R.
S. Carr of Edenton some years
ago brought suit against L. N.
Hollowell of Hartford, because
Mr.. Hollowell had got across the
line and built a house which
occupied 51a inches of the Carr
land. The Hollowell property has
later been sold, but the suit stays
on the books.
The principal case actually
heard, was a dispute between M.
L. Burrus and Frazier Peele Of
Hatteras involving a boundary
line, but this case was finally
settled out of court and a con-
sent judgement signed.
Another case was settled by
consent judgement, wherein E.
P. Brinkley was awarded 5000
for work done on property of and
for L. G. Hernley of Mays Head.
Cora Mae Basnight was award
ed divorce from st. Clair Bas-
night. Save for this case, no jury
was needed, and 16 of the 19
cases were continued until next
term of court.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-02-05

to Malachi's Chapel for it's first
pastor, Malachi Linton.
Work was Immediately started
on the erection of a house of
worhsip, and due to the vim and
determination characteristic of its
founders, the building was COM
pleted and paid for in the early
part of 1892, and in the summer
of that year it was regularly de-
dictated under the name of NAL
achi's Chapel. Interest in the
church did not relax with the
completion of the building, and
in 1914 an additional half acre Of
land was purchased by the
church for a cemetery. This land
was acquired by deed from G. w.
Barnes and wife to w. E. Spen-
Ger, ]. T. Alexander and w. H.
Hopkons, trustees for Malachi's
Chapel Free Will Baptist Church,
dated March IL, 1914, and re-
corded in the Public Registry for
Tyrrell County, North Carolina,
in Book IS, at pages 499, etc., and
in that same year-1914-the
membership of the church and
church attendance having out
grown the building, fourteen feet
were added to the length and
eight years later, an annex was
built across the rear of the build
ing providing nine large, we'll
equipped Sunday School rooms,
and again in 1889 the front of the
church was remodled and a
steeple erected, and all of the
major Improvements were paid
for as made. This record of con-
tinuous Improvement and ad-
vancement is indicative of the
deep interest that has been mani
tested in the church and its work
by both men and women of the
community from it's very begin
ming to the present time. The
people of Riders Creek are justly
proud of their church, and its
welfare and advancement is al
ways their first consideration.
The old members, apparently
sowed the proper seed, and, as
they pass on, the following gener-
ations have taken over and car
ried on in a most credible man.
ner.
From the very beginning the
founders of what is now NAL
achi's Chapel assumed full res.
possibility of building up and
maintaining a moral and religious
standard among their people
second to none in the entire
county. How well they performed
their self-imposed duties is re-
Elected in the present church or
ganization and in the high type
of citizenship of the residents OF
Riders Creek Community, and
in the present activities of NAL
achi's Chapel. The Church is To-
Gated in one of the most thickly
populated sections of Tyrrell
County, and the men and women
living within the scope of the
Church's influence are, unques,
tionably, the most progressive
independent and God Fearins
citizens in the entire county, as 8
whole. Always manifesting 6
keen interest in, and a sincere
! devotion for one another anc
See CHURCH, Page Eight
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-02-05
TURKEY DINNER TO AID
MARCH OF DIMES FRIDAY

A turkey dinner at 81 will be
served in the Manteo Methodist
Church annex (This) Friday even
ing from $50 to 8 o'clock, the pro-
ceeds to go to the March of Dimes.
Mrs. Raymond Wescott is chair
man of this drive in Manteo. Mrs.
Wescott says that workers for this
cause will make a house to house
canvass Sunday February Z be-
tween the hours of l and pm. to
solicit further contributions.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-02-05
GROSS MISCARRIAGE"
OF JUSTICE, SAYS
THIS DEFENDANT

A rank miscarriage of justice
prevailed in trial of several men
in Manteo charged with violation
of the game laws, according to
z. F. Wilson of Kitty Hawk. This
trial was reported in our paper
last week land. Mr.. Wilson has
written a letter stating his posi-
ton in the case. It was not stated
in the paper that Mr.. Wilson had
any part in assaulting any game
protector, as he seems to infer.
We are glad to print MIR. Wilson's
statement for general informa-
ton, and which is as follows:
Editor The Coastland Times:
In regards to the Coastland
Times of January 90, 1854, Page
one, Column z, pertaining to
game law violation, would like
to state here and now that I
happened to be one man that was
sober in this party and that had
no part of assaulting any game
protector. In your column it
stated that Justice Balance tried
nine cases. Justice Balance only
heard evidence in one case; that
was a man from Winston-Salem,
N. c. All the other cases was
given the same preference as I
had; submit to the charge and
pay a fine and cost or go to fed
eral Court.
Also to the game law violation
according to a statement of game
protector, Jack Balance, prior to
January 9, that it was lawful to
shoot Blue Peter ducks from a
boat without a motor. I was not
violating any game law; how
ever, I paid the fine and cost.
I would like to outline briefly
just what happened to me and
my friend, William Twiford, on
January 9, 1854. We were hunt
ing in Kitty Hawk Bay from a
small boat without a motor,
when game protector Thomas
and Sommerell came to our boat
and asked to see our hunting Ii
cense which we showed him i'm
mediately. From these license he
wrote our name down in little
book. A short time later Jack
Balance game protector, appear
ed ON the scene and told the
group of men that if we wanted
to be tried in State Court meet
him at his house at 500 pm. We
all went to Jack Balances house
and waited for him until about
$50. Then he came. He said for
everyone to get into their cars
that we were going to Manteo
to a Justice of the Peace office
He was asked which one; he said
he didn't know. l asked him to
take the case to Justice of the
Peace Bill Anderson at Kitty
Hawk, N. c. of which he refused.
He said we will go to Manteo.
We went to Manteo to the
home of Robert Balance, Justice
of the Peace. After Justice Bal
ance, game protector, Thomas,
Balance, White and Sommerell
went outside of the room and got
their heads together, they came
back inside. Justice Balance said
he did not have proper authority
to try these cases. After talking
for some time, I finally asked
him to try me to prove my inno-
cense or guilt of which he re-
fused to do. He said if I would
submit to the charge the fine
and cost would be $1,000. He
gave me a preference to submit
to the charge or go to Elizabeth
City to Federal Court. l told him
in that case / would rather pay
the $17.00, but / was not guilty.
think this is the largest
wholesale miscarriage of Justice
have ever seen, and / think the
proper authorities should in
See DEPENDENT, Page Eight
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-02-05
Rv ]. C. MEEKINS

Prior to the War between the
States the ''Old Sharon Meeting
House" in Tyrrell County was
the seat of practically all relig-
ious activities in the county with
in a radius of eight or ten miles
of the Town of Columbis. 1t was
built as a Free Church" and
was used by all denominations
that chose to worship there.
Several outstanding churches of
the county today had their origin
at the Sharon Meeting House.
Among the most outstanding
were the Columbia Missionary
Baptist Church of Columbia, and
the subject of these comments:
Malachi Chapel.
Under the leadership of Elder
Malachi Linton, for whom the
church is most appropriately
named, the Free Will Baptist of
Sharon was duly organized on
February 23rd, 1874, and, at this
organization meeting the follow
ing men, all prominent and out
standing in the religious and
social life of what was then, and
is still known as Riders Creek
Neighborhood' of Tyrrell County,
were elected the first officers of
the new church as Sharon:
Abram Swain, deacon; William
w. Dillin and James Litchfield,
ruling Elders; Charles Brick
house, Clerk, and David Cooper,
Treasurer.
"Our church then being or
gained according to the rules OF
the Free Will Baptists, we then
chose Elder Linton to be our
pastor for twelve months. Thus
eighty-seven years ago was be-
gun what was destined to- devel-
op into one of the most outstand-
! ing and most Influential religious
organizations in the entire coun-
ty..
Regular services were con-
tinued at the Sharon Meeting
House for a period of some fifteen
or sixteen years, and the pro-
gress of the church was rapid
Its membership steadily increas-
ed and its influence was felt
throughout the entire community
and the records disclose that on
September 10Th, 1890, John w
Hopkins and wife Mary Hopkins
executed a deed of conveyance
to ]. Warren Swain, G. w. Litch-
field and J. T. Alexander, trust
ees of Free Will Baptist Church
conveying to them as such trust
ees Zone acre of land" at what
was known as "Cooper's Fork"
and the present location of the
church. This deed appears of re-
cord in the Public Registry fol-
Tyrrell County, North Carolina
in book 38, at pages 314 etc.
Having purchased a building
site in a location much more
centrally located in the com.
munity served by the church, the
church fathers obtained permits.
sion from the proper authorities
to use the school building which
was located on the land immed-
lately adjoining the church prop.
erty, and, in October, of 1890 the
church was moved to its present
location and the name change,
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-02-05

MISS NATALIE GOULD, who
for several years has been in
highly responsible position with
the National headquarters of the
National Educational Associa-
ton, this week went to the job of
Secretary to the President of
Bowling Green State University
at Bowling Green, KY, city of
10000 % miles west of Toledo.
DR.. Ralph w. Mcdonald, is pres
ident of the University, and Miss
Gould was his secretary for many
years. During World War II Miss
Gould served overseas in Europe
and North Africa with the
American Red Cross. She is the
daughter of Mrs. Eliza Gould of
Mays Head.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-02-05
RED CROSS TO MEET

Miss Jewel Graves, head of the
Red Cross for the LIST Dist. is to
be the speaker at meeting in the
Community Building in Manteo, on
Feb. II, at 8 pm. All those who
are interested are asked to attend.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-02-05

THEO. S. MEEKINS, former Re-
preventative land Manteo's oldest
business man is seriously i'll in
Albemarle Hospital, Elizabeth
City following a heart attack sus-
tanned last week. He is "a years
old, and had worked steadily up
to the time of his illness. He is
widely known for his real estate
interests. He was reported on the
critical list Thursday.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-02-05
MALACHI'S CHAPEL FREE WILL
BAPTIST CHURCH IN TYRRELL
DATES BACK OVER 100 YEARS

An Interesting Account Of Landmark Which This
Week Entertained Many Churches IN Union Meeting