davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Milford chronicle., 1954-10-08
Delaware Land Values
Hit Peak In Mid $50

Delaware farm real estate values
doubled during and since War III but
appear to have hit their peak dur
ing the summer Of 1853. Since that
time they have declined about five
per cent.
The greatest decline in land
values is in the mountain states
and the states in the drought areas
Colorado showed the greatest drop
Of y per. cent, with Idaho and New
Mexico each down II per cent. MANY
OF the eastern seabOard states show
declines ranging from two to six
per cent.
Voluntary sales OF farm real
estate declined during the year. The
volume Of foreclosures Increased
slightly but in most states re-
manned at a low level.
Milford chronicle., 1954-10-08
MARK OF MOSCOW

VIENNA up Romania has
remodeled its grammar after the
Soviet pattern" and broken away
from the "out-dated Latin tradi-
ton" Bucharest newspapers re-
Vealed.
The idea, said the papers. is to
rid the Romanian language Of eos
mopolitanism and idealism and in
trOduce the teaching of Marxism. =
Earlier this year, Romanian
spelling was reVamped to make tt
simpler and eliminate more than
10000 French and Latin-sounding
words.
Milford chronicle., 1954-10-08

You'll siuY proud Of chevFolet's last
Ing good looks. Other low-priced
cars don't have that quality look!
You save when you buy and when
you trade. Chevrolet is priced
below all other lines of cars. And
at trade-in time, you save with
Chevrolet's higher resale value!
You'll enjoy exclusive features For
liner motoring. Body by Fisher
the highest-compression power Of
any leading low-priced car-the
Milford chronicle., 1954-10-08
LONG DISTANCE PARTNERs

MARTINEZ. Calf. - lP Bro
theirs Steve and John Contorines
are co-partners in a restaurant and
hotei set didn't see each other for
nearly 30 years. Steye's restaurant
is here-John's hotel in Athens,
Greece.
Milford chronicle., 1954-10-08
Thirty Years Ago

Joseph Henry Fisher 81
Dagsboro, is going TO open a
broom factory on the dupont
Boulevard. He expects 10 start
making broons next week.
Robert KNOTS Of Vernon.
has moved 10 selbvviiie
John Thompson and family
viii occupy the house vacated
by him.
Milford chronicle., 1954-10-08
InferHe Eqqp

Infertile eggs should be produced
during the hot sumner months
since fertile eggs deteriorate more
rapidly. Poultrymen should get rid
OF all male birds not needed Tor
production Of hens.
Milford chronicle., 1954-10-08

About 55 per cent Of fatal traffic
accidents in the United States oc-
cur at night
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-21
BACKYARD DEATH TRAPS
Continued from preceding page

month later, another water-filled
sand pit in that community,
under the jurisdiction of the
same police and the same district
attorney, claimed a third child
as its victim. As / made the
rounds of this town. / could not
help but be reminded of Captain
Awards statement to the effect
that any police force that says it
can do nothing about poten-
TALLY dangerous situation simply
isn't doing its duty. Was that the
trouble here?
0ne Vieupeins
l SPOKE to one of the officials
who handled these cases. Here
are my notes of his remarks,
Just as l took them down:
The people at fault here
are the parents. Kids today just
don't have enough discipline.
Hell, when l was a boy if my pa
said stay away from that sand
pit, I stayed away. Kids are like
spaniels - they need training.
IF they're trained right. they
won't get killed. Those kids that
drowned just needed good
strapping. It's not the property
owners fault that their fathers
didn't use the strap enough.
What good 3 having a law against
these things? Why should the
D.A. be expected to do all this
extra work because parents are
50 bad about their kids today?
Maybe a few get killed off, par
ents win wake UP and begin to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-21

train their kids properly" Cap
tain Award was certainly right.
OF course. if you have public
officials like this in your city, the
only remedy is to turn them out
ofoffioe. But fortunately, / found
that most cities operate quickly
and efficiently when young lives
are involved.
In Chicago. Alderman Robert
Merriam showed me relevant
nuisance ordinances that are in
voked to deal with various HARM
full conditions. In Pittsburgh. a
city detective took me along on
an attractive nuisance complaint
that he was investigating. In
that case, on being informed of
all the facts by the detective. the
owner promised to remove sew
eral ioeboxes and old automo-
biles from his premises within
two weeks.
Check Yoax Property
If YOU are a property owner,
you should carefully inspect your
property, whether you live on it
or not, to make sure that you are
not harboring something that
might attract a child and harm
him. Accompanying this article
is a list of some of the things
courts have held were attractive
nuisances. Of course, the law
tries not to be unreasonable, and
the Supreme Court. for instance,
has refused to hold an owner
liable for the drownings of two
COsstimMed 90 page "a
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-07-16
In Nostalgia Mood, Col. Langston
Recites the Life and Times of
Hyde and Dare 60 Years Ago
Preachers Son Recalls Delights of Living in the
CoastIand; Now Visiting in Manteo and
Meeting Old Friends

Col. Langston adds. "She was
Sallie Ann Gibbs from Wysockin.
On recent visit to Hyde 1 stop
ped by to see Mr.. John o. Gibbs
OF Engelhard and he remember
ed my mother and my grand par
ents too. They were Jonathan
and Jennetty Gibbs"
Il learned to swim at Hatteras
when 1 was eight, Col. Lang
Ston recalls. ''That was a terribly
Isolated region at that time, he
says. "Manteo and Swan Quarter
were just about as isolated, and
all three places could be reached
only by sail boat. There was not
a doctor or a drug store at Hat
teras. don't know, perhaps you
could get turpentine at the gen
eral store"
"As remember it was just
about that time l came down
with that boyhood affliction gen.
orally known as the seven year
itch. Sulfur and lard is the time
honored remedy but there was
no sulfur to be had. My grand
mother was an ingenious wo-
man, however, and she recalled
that one of the ingredients of
gun powder is sulfur. So she got
down my fathers powder horn,
mixed the powder with lard and
amounted me from head to foot.
See MEMORIES, Page Four
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-07-16
YOUTHFUL CRIMINALS
ARRESTED IN DARE
Pair Broke In at Mays Head; Also
Wanted in Forsyth County

Two Salem youths,
held in Manteo this week on
charges of breaking and enter
ing Perry's Drive-In at Mays
Head July 9, were released to
Winston-S Salem authorities We'd
nesday to face charges of break
ing and entering in Forsyth
County.
The pair allegedly broke in a
back window at Perry's around
one am. Friday morning and es-
capped with about sos. Dare
County authorities were aroused
by suspicious actions of the two
and reports that their car had
been seen around Perry's on the
night of the robbery. 'They
weren't tourists and they weren't
working, said Sheriff, Frank
Cahoon, land we became suspi-
cious'. They slept on the beach.
They were picked up for
Questioning by Deputy Sheriff,
D. L. Cannady, Monday at $50
pm. and arrested for driving
without license.
Both were already involved in
robbery cases. The older, Bobby
Taylor. %, will now have to
serve an eight to ten year sus-
pended sentence for breaking
and entering. Zeno Hutchins, 18,
has already served II months
road sentence for breaking and
entering and was to face two
similar charges in Forsyth
County next week
About 200 dollars of stolen
sports clothes from a store out
side of Winston-Salem were
found in their car. Under ques-
tioning by local officers and s..
B. I. Agents, Hutchins confessed
to the Mays Head robbery. They
had returned to Winston-Salem
during the week end and enter
ID the store there, he said. They
aen picked up Taylor's wife and
eturned to Mays Head. He con-
fessed to a series of filling sta
ton thefts at Roxboro, Sunbury,
Oxford and Littleton. They took
only a small amount of money
and cigarettes from the filling
stations.
Authorities say that Mrs. Tay-
lor knew nothing of the crimes,
The pair will be returned mere
in October to face trial
S. B. /. Agents Allen from Tar
boro. Cannady from Kinston, and
Spence from Elizabeth City
assisted local officers on the case.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-07-16
WEATHER w ORKS
TO DISADVANTAGE
OF FISHER EN-
Commercial Operators Have
Discouraging Season

The north east wind which
brought cold bad weather to this
area early this week disrupted
already poor commercial fishing
around Roanoke Island and re-
duced catches to almost nothing.
Crabbers report an average to
good season and early shrimping
reports indicate an average sea-
son following an exceptionally
good one last year.
Only a few fishing rigs are
operating in this area. most Is
land fishermen selling their cat
ches farther south at Avon, Hat
teras or Rodanthe where the fish
are larger and of a generally
better class.
Wanchese fish dealers say that
the season started out good with
more fish being brought in than
last year because more boats
were operating. Catches then be-
gan falling off, they report, to
poor week last week with about
100 boxes brought in.
Fish prices are poor, about six
cents a pound for spots and five
cents for croakers. Average
prices would run from eight to
ten cents.
Pound net fishermen have
been having good catches of star
buffers and Spanish Mackerel
near Hatteras.
Early predictions for shrimp
ing season, which started around
Wednesday and will last until
cold weather indicate fair cat
ches cut somewhat by over ex-
pansion and too many boats be-
cause of a good season last year.
Prices may be slightly less be-
cause of a surplus of frozen
shrimp, again caused by good
catches last year.
Less than ten shrimp boats are
expected to operate from the Is
land this year as compared to 80
or 40 in earlier years.
Crabbers catching from five to
Is barrels a day are getting from
two and half to three dollars a
barrel. Ronald Tillett operating
a new crab picking business in
Wanchese finds prices for the
lest meat, lump meat from the
ok fin, $125 a pound as last
ar. Claw meat and regular
See WEATHER, Page Four
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-07-16

REV. L. D. HAYMAN'S visit to
Dare County today is keenly an
ticipated by numerous friends,
relatives and other admirers,
For Mr.. Hayman is president Of
the Hayman clan, a prominent
Eastern North Carolina family
which holds forth in annual ses-
sion at Kitty Hawk, today, Fri
day the 10th. Mr.. Hayman, a
noted Methodist preacher us
ually fills a pulpit or two for
his home folks on his annual
visits. He lives and serves at
Carolina Beach.
The Hayman reunion will be
day of feasting and fellowship
among old friends, and many rel
atives long separated. This
weeks event is expected to be
one of the biggest. Clan re-
unions are usually held at Kitty
Hawk, Wanchese or MAINS Har-
Dor where large groups of the
kinsment reside, but members OF
the tribe, come from many dis
tant communities and states to
enjoy these occasions.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-07-16

DIR. A. c. HOLLAND, newly
elected principal of the Manteo
School, is taking the place of A.
o. Ayers who has served as prin-
cipal for the past two years. The
Manteo School Committee has
expressed deep appreciation to
Mr.. Ayers for his excellent serv-
ice and reluctantly agreed to re-
lease Mr.. Ayers as principal at
his request. Mr.. Ayers will re-
main on the Manteo faculty as
history and physical education
teacher.
DR.. Holland comes to Dare
County well-qualified. He served
as Superintendent of Jones
County Schools for IA years and
Superintendent of Falcon Or
phanage for six years. Since
1949, Dr., Holland has been
Teacher of Education at South
western College in Oklahoma
City. He has his Bachelor of Arts
Degree from the University of
North Carolina and his Doctor
of Education Degree from the
University of Oklahoma.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-07-16

NOAH A. TOLER of Tarboro
who has been recently elected
Supervisor of Dare County
schools, a position which has
been vacant since Mrs. Mary
Evans was elevated to position
of County Superintendent three
years ago. He was employed this
week by the County Board of
Education. He has taught in the
Tarboro city schools for the past
five years. He holds B. S. De-
gree and an M. A. degree from
East Carolina College, and comes
highly recommended to the
county.
Other teachers recently elect
ed include Clifford Wagstaff,
teaching principal of the Wan
cheese school; Mrs. Helen Trew,
elementary teacher for Kitty
Hawk. One vacancy remains to
be filled in the county schools.
Mr.. Wagstaff, who has been
employed for the past three
years in the Siler City Schools,
will be the principal and teacher
of the seventh and eighth grade
at Wanchese. Prior to the 1954-55
school year, Wanchese has had
only three teachers. For the next
school year, however, the Wan
cheese eighth grade students will
be taught in Wanchese instead
of coming to Manteo. This has
resulted in an extra teacher be.
ing allotted to Wanchese by the
State Board of Education.
Mrs. Trew holds a B. S. de-
gree from the University of Vir-
GINA and has had teaching ex-
perience in Virginia and South
Carolina schools. Her husband is
employed in Manteo.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-07-16
DR.. POTEAT TO SPEAK,
AT COLONY SERVICES

The Rev. Edwin McNeill Po-
teat, pastor of Pullen Memorial
Church, Raleigh, will be guest
speaker at the Lost Colony wor-
ship service on Sunday morning,
July 10.
Widely known for his religious
work the Connecticut-born Bap-
fist minister was the son of a
Caswell County-born father.
He received his formal educa-
ton at Furman University and
the Baptist Southern Seminary.
For several years he had lived
in China at Picking and Kaifong
before pastoral duties in Shang-
hal. His pastorates have included
tours of duty in Cleveland for
six years and in Rochester for
four years.
AS a writer of religious arti-
cles, DR.. Poteat's work has been
published widely in magazines
and he has many books to his
credit.
In addition to the Rev. Mr..
Poteat's appearance at Waterside
Theatre next Sunday, special
features of the religious program
beginning at II am. will be mu-
sic by The Lost Colony Chorus,
and solo by Katharine Currie
of the dramas Chorus. James
Litton will be the organist and
Thomas L. White will be host
minister.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-07-16
PAUL GREEN
PRESENT AT
LOST COLONY
Group To Produce Play
Wright's New Drama At
tend Show in Water
side Theatre

Here on Wednesday night for
the first time this season was
Lost Colony's author Paul Green
who saw a much improved pro-
duction of his original symphonic
drama. While he was here he
autographed hundreds of copies
of the revised version of his Ro-
anoke Island Edition of The Lost
Colony, a new popular priced
edition of the script, and also
met with the Roanoke Island
Fine Arts drama group which
will present his version of Ibsen's
peer Gynt" as a project during
the current summer season.
In the audience on Tuesday
and Wednesday were members
of the Berea (Ky) Drama Group
brought to the Dare Coast by
Ted Cronk, onetime director of
music of The Lost Colony. They
were interested in the produc-
ton, primarily because Paul
Green, author of The Lost Col
ony, is now engaged in writing
the script of drama "The Wild
derness Road" which will be pre-
sented in the Kentucky College
town next year.
Exactly 667 persons paid adj
mission to see the 667th perform
ance of Paul Green's symphonic
drama The Lost Colony at the
Wednesday night showing of the
longest lived of all outdoor pro-
auctions in Waterside Theatre
on Wednesday night. On the pre-
vious night, 1,151 persons had
seen the dramas 666th perform
See DRAMA, Page Four
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-07-16
A Warm Page of Memory From
Old Days of the Coast Guard
and Iron Men of Hatteras

Cape Hatteras Has Never Ending Roster of Vicssi-
tudes To Entertain and Delight Today's Generation
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-07-16

Buxton on Cape Hatteras,
July 16.-Nothing much was
happening around here 70 years
ago yesterday in the way of an
emergency except Surfman Mid
gett's tooth. No gales, no hurri-
canes, no nothing except the
groans emanating from the af-
flicted surfman and toward eve
ming, his anguish began to attain
gale force.
1t was the first day of the
hurricane season, the first day
of Cape Hatteras Life Saving
Station as a commissioned unit.
though it had been in partial
readiness the preceding year.
This was the Stations first day,
officially, and Captain Benjamin
B. Daley, the keeper of the Sta
ton, had before him a virginia.
log book, six pen points and a
pen holder. And pint bottle of
ink.
Toward evening of that first
day Captain Daley took that pen
in hand, dipped it into his pint
bottle of ink, and wrote. He
wrote as follows: pulled Surf
man Midgett's tooth. He hollered
some" And afterward, there be-
ing still some ink on his pen and
he being a thrifty man he set
down two additional words. The
words: Weather calm" And so
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-07-16
FOURTH SAILFISH OF
SEASON LANDED IN DARE

Hatteras-Alex Kotarides, of
Norfolk, trolling from aboard
Capt. Edgar Styron's Twins T.
on Saturday, boated a seven foot
sailfish, fourth of the current
season for Dare Coast waters
where three have been landed
by anglers fishing out of Hat
teras and one by anglers fishing
from Oregon Inlet.
Kotarides's party, included his
brother Paul, and Harry Bow
man, Norfolk. and Steve Younas
and Saul Adelman of Washing
ton, D. c. In addition to the sail
fish the party landed 10 dolphin,
two albacore and one 35 pound
amberjack. They were trolling
in waters near the western edge
of the Gulf Stream east of Hat
teras village.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-07-16

ended the first day.
Yesterday Captain Dailey's
great-grandson, who is by way
of being an uncommonly effect
i've executive officer to the
Group Commander of the sta
tons on Hatteras Island, COM
pleted the record of the current
dental history of Surfman Mid
gett's great-grandson's tooth,
which was also removed. But
not with pair of pinchers, not
by the keeper of the Station. The
record, as completed yesterday,
used up about 200 sheets of good
paper.
Whether the young great
grandson hollered some does not
appear in the new record, but it
does appear from time to time
that the procedures invoked and
the expenditures had, were all in
the public interest and that all
things done to and about the
tooth were in accordance with
the statutes made by the Con-
gress of the United States and
from time to time amended, as
circumstances appeared to re-
quire.
And whether the 200 pages of
record will excite the concern of
sedentary explorer seventy
years hence is something that
See COAST GUARD, Page Four
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-07-16
CONTRACTS LET
FOR NEW BRIDGE
IN LATE AUGUST

Contracts for the proposed
$3,000.000 Croatan- sound Bridge
will be let during the last week
in August according to informa-
ton released by the North Caro-
lima Highway Commission re-
Gently. Approximately three and
one half miles of highway will
be constructed to connect the
new bridge with existing roads
A map of the proposed loca-
ton of the new bridge and high
ways has been posted in the
Dare County Courthouse. The
bridge will stretch from Red
stone Point north of Manns Har-
Dor to Weir Point on the north
end of Roanoke Island not far
from the old ferry dock.
A ditch dredged in the Red
stone Point marshes and filled
with sand from the sound bot
tom will form the roadbed of
about two miles of highway con-
Meeting the bridge with the high
way in Manns Harbor.
More than two miles of high
way will connect the Roanoke
Island end of the bridge with
Highway 264-64 at a point south
of Fort Raleigh.
The bridge will be fixed
span, having no draw, and will
have clearance of 80 feet hori-
zontally and As feet high at the
main channel.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-07-16
NO COURT THIS TUESDAY

Several minor cases, sched-
uled to be tried in recorders
court this week, were carried
over because of the illness and
absence of Judge w. F. Baum.
Judge Baum, who has been
having trouble with his eyes for
several months, was taken to
Duke Hospital for treatment on
Monday. He will be there for an
indefinite period.
According to present informa-
ton court will not be held dur
ing his absence and he is not ex-
pected back by next Tuesday.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-07-16

HERE BMc EDISON MIDGET executive officer the Group Com
mander the u Island
Capt Benjamin Daley officer when the
commissioned 70 Thursday looks through his
bears wreck rubbish
before him his greatgandahers
plot that him and his
for Lfesavng Of less than 100 issued
awarded for members this Looking
Midget member
the original and duty a Cape Hatteras.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-07-16
SCHOOL OPENS SEPT. 2

An article in the "Coastland
Times" was in error last week in
giving the opening date of Dare
County schools as September II.
School will open instead on Sept.
y
Evening star., 1954-09-14
Highlights
TeIevision Todoy.

1880, WMAL ~ = Stephen
Mitchell: The chairman Of
the Democratic National
Committee speaks on the work
Of the SD Congress.
S:2O, WTTG t5) - Baseball: /:
Washington at Cleveland.
$3.50, WMAL (7) - Twenty
Questions: Guest is Comedian
Herb Sheldon.
$3.50, WNBW l4)-Arthur Muir
ray Party: Gloria Vanderbilt
Stokowski visits.
500, WTOP (9)--Meet Millie:
Elena Verdugo gets a job as
a night club photographer to
earn extra money.
800, ,WMAL tD-Make Room
for Daddy: A vagabond phi
losopher who recites poetry
instructs the Danny Thomas
family in economics.
$3.50, WNBW (D--Circle The
ater:: A young widower tries
to dissuade his daughter from
buying hat in the comedy
"Jody and Me- starring
James Dunn and Patty Nc
Cormack.
$3.50, WMAL (D-U. s. Steel
Hour: Ben Gazzara and
Richard Kiley star in Note
book Warrior" the story Of
a concert violinist who is
drafted by the Army and
sent to radar school.
1890, WTOP .ts) - Life With
Father: Leon Ames throws
his family into near-panic
when he tries to recover his
lost chair.
1880, WNBW (4)-It's a Great
Life: Tired of sharing an attic
bed. Michael O'Shea and
William Bishop scheme to
make two other boarders
leave.
Rodio Today.
7:O5, WGMS-Concert: Howard
Mitchell comments on Orff's
'Carmina Burana."
1880, WCFM-Made in WASH
ington: News commentary by
A. T. Hadley, White House
correspondent for Newsweek
Magazine.
$50, WWDC-Baseball: Wash
ington at Cleveland.
500, WRC. = Radio Theater:
The program begins it's goth
year with Merle Oberon re-
creating her role in "Wuth-
ering Heights"
$3.50, WTOP Amos m Andy
Music Hall: Guest is Bob
Hope.
1880, WMAL-Stephen Mitch
ell: The chairman of the
Democratic National Com
mittee speaks on the work of
the 83d Congress.
1900, WTOP-Music Til Dawn:
Selections include Bruckner's
Symphony No. 8 in D minor
and Copland's Billy the Kid
Ballet Suite"