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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-07-09
ONLY ONE ACCIDENT
DURING LONG HOLIDAY
Highway Patrol Official Commends
July 4 Drivers on Good
Safety Record

The Dare County area had the
safest Fourth of July on the
highway in many years, highway
patrolman, R. c. Holt, reports.
In contrast to former years
when as many as four accidents
have been Investigated on one
Fourth of July before noon,
highway officials report only one
minor accident investigated dur
ing the entire holiday week end
beginning Friday at $50 and
ending Monday at midnight.
No one was hurt when the
cars of Leo Tillett, driven by his
wife, and ]. R. Holmes both of
Manteo collided one mile south
of Manteo. The accident occurred
when Mrs. Tillett turned into the
yard of Kelly Midget after CIV
ing proper turn signals. Holmes
was attempting to pass. Damage
to each car was between 500
and $3.50 dollars.
In addition to three regular
patrolmen on duty, 2 extra
patrols were brought down from
Elizabeth City to take care of
the extra holiday traffic.
Patrolmen attributed the good
holiday safety record to careful
driving by motorists. 'We can
stop only a few drivers and try
to catch the most dangerous
ones, Patrolman Holt said.
Safety depends on the care
exercised by many motorists.
The Highway Patrol would like
to thank the motoring public for
its cooperation in making this an
unusually safe Fourth"
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-07-09
FIRST DIVISION ROAD
WORK is ANNOUNCED

Raleigh-The State Highway
Commission complete I'd 1928
miles of road improvements in
the First Highway Division dur
ing June, according to Emmett
Winslow, Commissioner of the
First.
Two Currituck roads, both 18
feet wide, on the secondary
highway system were surfaced
with sand asphalt course. The
two roads, and their lengths, are:
from Shawboro south to the
Camden County line at the In
diantown Creek Bridge, A
miles; and from US 1873, ST miles
west of Barco to the intersection
of paved county road, 0.8 miles
north of the Indiantown Creek
Bridge, two miles. g4
In Tyrrell, contract forces COM
pleted 0.3 miles of hydraulic fill
at the Northwest Fork Bridge
which is on the relocation of MS
"a south of Columbia The work
was done for a proposed ID foot
wide pavement over the fill.
Other surfacing in the First
Division included the following:
in Camden County, So miles; in
Gates County, 1919 miles; and in
Perquimans County, SO miles.
Camden, Currituck, Gates,
Perquimans, and Tyrrell are in
the First Highway Division along
with BERTHE, Chowan, Dare, Hert-
ford, Hyde, Martin, Northamp-
ton, Pasquotank, and Washington
counties. Division headquarters
are in Ahoskie. w, w. Spruill is
division engineer.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-07-09
MANY All MEMBERS SEE
LOST COLONY EACH WEEK

More than 100 All Club men,
bers from Franklin and Halifax
county saw performance of
Paul Green's drama The Lost
Colony Tuesday night. 1t is the
second such group to see the
show here this year. Last week
club members from Washington,
Tyrrell, Chowan, Wake and
Gates County, more than 125
persons saw the seasons third
performance.
Before the summer has passed
approximately 1900 club men,
bers from all parts of North
Carolina will attend Tuesday
night performances of The Lost
Colony. They are club members
who come to Roanoke Island on
weekly encampment trips each
year.
Seeing The Lost Colony is
only one of the many interesting
things the All Club members do
while they are at the Roanoke
Island All Camp" said L. B.
Dixon, assistant state leader in
charge of the group "They visit
Fort Raleigh, the Wright Nation
al Monument at Kill Devil Hills,
they climb to the top of Jockeys
Ridge. highest coastal sand dune
is eastern America, at Mays
Head, and they also take a boat
trip" fby ferry to Manns Harbor,
across Croatan Sound from their
encampnent, located at the
Manteo Airport).
Since the encampment was
established here eight years ago
more than $4,000 All Club mem
bers have attended-and each OF
them have witnessed perform
ances of he Lost Colony. 1T Is
interesting to note that many OF
~ ,lder members who attended
1A encampment several years
Aow are married and return
:, year with members of their
family" it was stated.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-07-09
MAN STEALS BOAT;
RUNS 1T AGROUND
AT OREGON INLET
$4,000 Yacht Is Damaged
While Being Beached BY
Larry Bouten

Larry Bouten, who gave his
address as Norfolk, ran a stolen
$4,000 yacht aground early Sun
day morning between Mays Head
and Oregon Inlet early Sunday
morning after attempting to en-
ter Oregon Inlet and was arrest
ed by Dare County Officers Sun
day afternoon.
Bouten stole the 40 foot yacht,
called the Waneta, from Nor
folk yacht basin about 4::30 Sat-
urday afternoon according to her
owner, Lloyd R. Armory Jr.,
Norfolk yacht dealer. Bouten had
been down, Armory said, Friday
afternoon claiming he wanted to
buy boat Armory and his part
ner showed him the Waneta and
explained her operation to him.
Described as dark, good look
ing man of about Is. Bouten
claimed he was on his way to
New Bern when he decided to
come ashore at Mays Head to
get a room Sunday morning. I'm
able to enter Oregon Inlet be-
cause of rough water, Bouten
said he decided to run the boat
ashore and later back her off.
He was unfamiliar with the
ocean, he claimed, being used to
operating boats in rivers.
Coast Guard officials say that
in order to reach New Bern
Bouten would have had to take
an inland route. According to
authorities Bouten chose the At
lantic to avoid locks on the in
Land waterway where he would
have been apprehended.
The Oregon Inlet Lifeboat
Station sighted the boat at $50
am. Sunday morning. She had
washed high and dry ON the
beach with hole in her bottom.
At that time Bouten was down
at Mays Head trying to find a
room which he was unable to
get because of Fourth of July
crowds.
A message from the Norfolk
Coast Guard Dispatch Station
warning Mays Head Coast
Guardsmen of the stolen yacht
brought about Boutens arrest at
PAS pm. The arrest was made
by Dare County Deputy Sheriff
D. L. Cannady.
Bouten was taken from Man
teo to Norfolk Sunday afternoon
by 1t. Lewis of the Hampton
Police Force.
The owner has contracted
John Ferebee of Manteo to haul
the Waneta up and patch the
hole in her bottom. She will then
be launched and towed back to
Norfolk.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-07-09
HOLIDAY SPEEDERS AND
DRINKS IN COURT

The docket of the Dare County
Recorders Court was heavily
weighted with holiday speed
cases from the Mays Head area
this week.
His lawyer asked a continu-
ance until next week for DR..
Grayson S. Waldrop of Raleigh,
charged with speeding 80 miles
an hour in 35 mile speed zone.
The case is scheduled to be tried
next week
Three other Mays Head speed
cases were tried. David c. Wat
kins of Greensboro submitted to
a charge of driving so miles an
hour in a 35 mile zone and paid
a fine of $500 and costs of
court. Convicted of similar
charge, Lloyd Monroe Corley of
Weeksville paid the same fine.
SIS miles an hour in 35 mile
zone cost Charles Raymond
Evans Jr. of Elizabeth City
$4,000 and costs.
Fighting charged against Ger
aid Bunch of Poplar Branch and
David O'Neal of Wanchese
brought them identical sentences
of 80 days in Jail, suspended on
payment of a $40 fine and con-
dition of remaining away for II
months from the Recreation
Center at Mays Head where the
fight took place.
Luther H. Midget, of Wan
cheese, charged with disturbing
the peace at the Bridge Turn
Cafe south of Manteo, while
drinking, received a sentence of
80 days in Jail, suspended on
payment of court costs and con-
dition of remaining off premises
of the Bridge Turn Cafe as long
as it continues under present
management.
William Blackmond, colored of
Manteo, charged with assault
with a deadly weapon on Jerry
McClease also of Manteo pleaded
not guilty. He was found guilty
by the court and given a SEN
tence of so days in Jail suspend
ed on payment of $25 fine and
on condition that he not be con-
victed of any criminal offense
within IL months.
Margaret Scarborough Evans
requested a jury trial of a
drunken driving case suspended
from last week. The case will be
tried at Superior court in Octo-
Der.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-07-09
HAL WARDS WORKSHOP
is TOTAL LOSS TUESDAY
Manteo Fire Department Had A
Full Schedule on Week End

Fire Quilted the electrical
workshop of Hal S. Ward south
of Manteo Tuesday night result
ing in a total loss of equipment.
A half dozen firemen fought
the fire for an hour around HOO
pm. The blaze was apparently
started by an explosion in the
motor of a refrigerator that was
being repaired.
Refrigerators, motors and tools
were total loss. Damages which
have not been determined were
not covered by insurance.
Ivy Evans, Manteo fire chief,
reported two fires and a false
alarm on Saturday.
A woods fire, started from
burning trash at the home of
Raymond Rogers on the north
end of Roanoke Island, was
fought for an hour before being
brough under control. Had the
fire not been controlled, Evans
said, it would have threatened
Fort Raleigh and prevented
showing the play Saturday
night. A guard was stationed to
watch all day for outbreaks.
Manteo firemen also fought a
woods fire in Currituck that was
threatening homes near Hardin
ger Saturday. The woods fire
was not controlled, Evans re-
ported, but after three hours of
fighting the houses were saved.
Manteo fire trucks were called
to restaurant fire in Mays Head
on Saturday but the blaze was
extinguished before the trucks
arrived.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-07-09
A WELL KNOWN
FORMER SCHOOL
OFFICIAL DIES
Edward NJ. Baum of Kitty
Hawk longtime Chair
man Education Board

Edward N. Baum, a prominent
and highly regarded citizen of
Kitty Hawk was inferred Thurs
day afternoon with graveside
services in the Austin Cemetery
at Kitty Hawk. The funeral was
conducted by the Methodist pas
tor, Rev. w. B. Gregory. Mr..
Baum, in the 72nd year of his
age, died Tuesday at lis pm. at
his home in Kitty Hawk after a
lengthy illness.
Besides his wife, Mrs. Rosa
Baum, he is survived by four
daughters, Mrs. C. A. Caldwell of
Taylorsville, Mrs. Willard Bal
lance of Hatteras; Mrs. Edw. L.
Midget and Mrs. Alton M. Mid
gett of Kitty Hawk. Two sisters
also survive. They are Mrs. F. H.
Midget and Mrs. w. r. Perry of
Kitty Hawk. There are six
grandchildren. Mr.. Baum is the
son of the late Edward and Eme-
line Gard Baum. He was a life
long resident of Kitty Hawk, and
a member of the Methodist
Church.
The active pall-bearers were
old neighbors: Earl Keller, Car
los Dowdy, Colon Perry, Aubrey
Harris, Oscar Sanderlin, and A.
L. Hines. Honorary pall-bearers
were: R. Bruce Etheridge, Mel
vim Daniels, C. S. Meekins, H. A.
Dough, P. A. Tillett, E. E.
Beacham, w. H. Lewark and
Avery Tillett.
Mr.. Baum, long a leader in
politics in his community, had
served as County Commissioner
when Kitty Hawk first was adj
mitted to Dare County in 1922,
but has served longer as m
Der of and as chairman of - :
County Board of Education. He
was recognized as tireless
worker, and a rsourceful man,
and these characteristics brought
forth many school benefits, and
special favors as result of his
studies of school law, and fire.
quent trips to Raleigh to see the
officials. He was man of strong
lotions, and never gave up
~ elective, schools being his
y = consideration. AS a loyal
1nunity worker, he was with
out peer, and many who differed
with him respected him for his
integrity, his energy and courage
in behalf of the community
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-07-09
RAINS CAME AS
SHOWS BUSIEST
NIGHT SHAPED UP

Rain which had not fallen on
Roanoke Island since early May
finally came last Sunday night
to cut by half what might have
been the largest crowd of the
season to see the Lost Colony.
Many Roanoke Islanders and
tourists who had been praying
for rain for weeks made a sud-
den shift in their petitions as the
thunder clouds began to mass in
the late afternoon.
Despite the rains which held
up starting time for about 20
minutes and forced three stops,
the cast managed to present the
entire show except for the last
scene. Torrential rains finally
brought the play to an end be-
fore the famous final march
scene.
Only slightly more than 700 of
the large tourist crowd in Dare
County for the Fourth of July
week end attended the Lost
Colony according to Dick Jor-
dan, Lost Colony manager. 1900
people would have attended the
show had weather conditions
permitted, Jordan said. The total
of 1900 for Saturday and Sunday
nights was below that for the
same two nights last year. He
continued that he expects lar
ger crowd Tuesday night to
make up part of the difference.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-07-09
SCARBOROUGH &
PEELE GET NEW
C.G. ASSIGNMENTS
Henry Peele Goes To Little
Greek; Dewey Scarbor-
ough to Ocracoke

Chief Boatswain Dewey H.
Scarborough, USCG, has re-
lieved Chief Boatswain Henry T.
Peele, USCG, as commander of
the Coast Guards Ocracoke
Group and COMMANDING officer
of the Ocracoke Lifeboat Station.
The Group includes the Hatteras
Inlet Lifeboat Station and the
Ocracoke Light Station.
Peele, who has been at Ocra-
coke since October 1949, and is a
native of Hatteras, has been
named commanding officer of
the Little Creek, Va, Lifeboat
Station.
Before his assignment to Ocra-
coke, Scarborough was serving
as commanding officer of the
Coast Guards Chesapeake light
ship. He earlier commanded the
Ocracoke- based 83foot patrol
boat, CG-83493. He was born in
Avon, in 1919, and 20 years later
enlisted in the Coast Guard as a
seaman, serving first aboard the
old cutter Modoc.
During the war years, he serv-
ed as executive officer and Off
cer-in-charge of several 83-fott
patrol boats and two Coast
Guard fireboats.
He lives in Avon with his wife
and two children.
Peele was born in 1907 and
joined the Coast Guard as a
surfman at the old Fire Island
Lifeboat Station in 1928. He
served at the Coast Guard Air
Station, Elizabeth City, N. c.,
prior to his Ocracoke assignment
in 1949.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-07-09
LARGEST JULY 4TH
CROWDS RECORDED
IN DARE COUNTY

In terms of crowds last week
end was the biggest Fourth of
July that the Dare County area
has ever had. According to fig
ures of the Dare County Tourist
Bureau, over 5000 people spent
approximately one fourth of a
million dollars in the area dur
ing the week end.
Many new motels and other
accommodations have increased
tn eDare Tourist capacity since
last year according to the Tour
list Bureau. Judging by the num-
Der of rooms available it is esti-
mated that the tourist capacity is
at present 1894. Every room was
taken this week end and many
people, unable to find rooms,
slept in their cars or on the
beach. The Tourist Bureau esti-
mated, therefore, that more peo-
pie than ever visited the area
this year.
Mays Head motel and hotel
operators reported every room
taken by Friday night and capa-
city crowds continuing through
Monday. Many private homes
were opened to accommodate
part of the overflow.
Men in the tourist business,
who have complained of poor
business this year because of alb
normally cool weather have ex-
pressed hope for improved con-
ditions following a larger than
usual Fourth of July crowd.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-07-09
SCHOOL BUDGET
IN DARE COUNTY
EXCEEDS $4,000

A school budget of $44, 283.14,
approved by the County Com
missioners, was reported to the
Dare County Board of Education
at meeting July 6. This was
$466,86 less than the amount re-
quested by the school board.
The board also approved a
school calendar for the 1954-55
term calling for school opening
on September II and closing on
June 3.
Plans to remove the board
fence around the Manteo Ball
field to make way for a new cy-
clone fence and to use the Avon
wooden water tank for school
kindling wood were unanimous
ly approved.
Roy Basnight of East Lake was
chosen to replace Wallace Tay-
lor on the Manns Harbor School
committee.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-07-09
WEll-KNOWN BAND
APPEARING TONIGHT

Ted Weems, one of the nations
outstanding band leaders, is
making an appearance at The
Mays Head Casino July 9 (to-
night. Weems, who is bringing
along his entire troupe for the
evening, may be remembered by
many music and dance fans for
his recordings of popular tunes.
'Ras" Westcott, Casino owner,
is expecting the largest crowd of
the season for this first big
name band of the year.
The Concord College Sextet,
an experienced group from
Athens, Ohio, are playing night
ly throughout the season.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-07-09
PILOT LANDS IS FOUNDER

Cape Hateras-Bill Cochrane,
local taxi plane pilot hooked and
landed a 35 pound channel bass
in the surf last week end.
Since May smaller channel
bass have been taken from time
to time by surf fishermen casting
along the beach of Hatteras Is
land, but they have been in the
yearling or puppy drum class.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-07-09
LEWIS AUSTIN, HATTERAS.
WITH INFANTRY IN KOREA

25th., Korea-Sgt. Lewis AUS
tin, %, son of Mrs. Maggie Stowe,
Hatteras, N. c., is now serving
with the 25th Infantry Division
in Korea.
A driver in the Medium Tank
Company of the 25th's 9th Regi-
ment, he had served with the
40th Infantry Division until its
recent transfer to the U. S.
Sergeant Austin entered the
Army in 1949 and has served in
Korea since last September.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-07-09
LITTLE GIRL BREAKS ARM

Carlene Holt, four-year-old
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. r. G.
Holt of Manteo, broke her left
arm in two places Sunday morn
ing while playing with her
younger brother at their home.
Carlene was treated in Eliza
beth City Sunday afternoon and
returned to her home.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1954-06-17
Senate Cloakroom
By ]. GLENN BEALL
United States Senator from
Maryland

Maryland farmers receive "a per
cent of their total cash receipts
from crops which are not supported
by any Government price support
program.
The per cent of cash farm re-
ceipts from basic commodities en-
joying Government price supports
is only Is per cent of the total
cash receipts of Maryland farm
ers, and 8 per cent Of that is in
support of tobacco-which, for
reasons peculiar to tobacco farm
ing, will continue to be supported
at 80 per cent of parity under the
Eisenhower-Benson program.
Figures just released by the De
partment of Agriculture show that
Marylanders are earning their in
come by the sweat of their brows
and not from Government hand
outs.
The farm picture in Maryland
turns out to be as follows:
1. "a per cent of total cash re-
ceipts are from unsupported COM
modities and dairy products.
,. SO per cent of total cash re-
ceipts are from meat animals, and
poultry products-for which price
supported feeds are an element of
cost.
3. 58 per cent of total cash re-
ceipts are from unsupported COM
modities, which includes meat ami
mails, poultry and eggs, fruits and
other crops.
4. 8 per cent of total cash receipts
are from basic commodities, other
than tobacco, which are supported
under the Government parity pro-
gram.
An interesting revelation from
the figures is that the cash receipts
from basic farm commodities sup
ported by the Federal Government
is only a minor part of the Mary
land agricultural economy, and
that the income from these basic
price support commodities is con-
centrated in nine southern states,
one midwest state (Kansas), and
two northern states (North Da-
kota and Montana.
The farm program worked out
by President Eisenhower and Secre-
tary Benson is not a cure-all, and,
as Secretary Benson has said,
"There is no such medicine, but it
(the Benson program does offer
real promise of starting the pa
tient on the road to recovery"
The argument against the fleXi-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1954-06-17
GrantSvilLe Notes

Yund, Lutheran minister of Sipes-
Vile, Pa, church.
Mrs, Nora Matthews, her son
and family, Youngwood, Pa, were
guests Of her brother, Clarence
Miller and family, Sunday
Mrs. Mary Gnagey Horn, Broad
head. Wise, formerly Of Grants
Vile, is the guest of her sisters,
Mrs. Ollie Lcochel and Mrs. }. L.
Stanton, and brother William
Gnagey and family, St. Paul, Pa.
She will also visit her sister, Mrs.
Parsons. i'm Delaware, also broth
ers i'm Baltimore before returning
home.
Mr.. and Mrs Harry Renwick and
daughters have returned home aft
er spending the weekend with Mr..
and Mrs. George Furch, SAVIOR, Pa.
Mrs. Mollie Wilson, Mrs. Renwick S
mother, who spent the past year
here, accompanied them for a visit
with Mrs. Furch.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. X. Gnagey, Jr.,
have returned to their home in
Baltimore after visiting the latter's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. lrvan Shu-
maker.
Mrs. Glen L. Miller and sister,
Mrs. Pearl Stanton, visited in Pitts
burgh recently.
William Winterberg spent sew
eral days with his son, DR.. Samuel
II. Winterberg, and family, Knox
vile, Tenn. His granddaughter,
Miss Sara, returned home with him
and will spend some time with her
grandfather and aunt, Miss Chris
tina Winterberg.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. U. Stanton, of
Grantsville; Mr.. and Mrs. Markell
Stanton, Cumberland, have re-
turned home after spending some
time with Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Stan
ton, Baltimore; and Brig. Gen. and
Mrs. William Powell, Alexandria,
Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Lohr and
daughter Deborah, Mrs. Donald
Bubcr, Silver Spring, were recent
visitors of Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Lohr.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1954-06-17

The Rev. II. Edgar Snite, son of
Rev and Mrs. +. b. Snite, Grafton,
W. Va, has been assigned to the
Grantsville Methodist charge. He
is a graduate of State Teachers
college, Fairmont, W Va, and of
Westminster Theological Seminary,
Westminster. He served in the
armed forces for three years, and
taught in Terra Alta High School
from 1916 to 1850 He was pastor
of Hallcck charge in Failmont dis
trict in l947. Since then he has
served two charges in Moorcfield
district. Rev. Snitc is married to
the former Miss Hazel Brtton, of
near Rowlesburg. They have two
children, Brent and Wcndy. The
GrantsVille charge consists Of six
churches: Emmanuel, Mt. Zion,
New Germany, Jennings, State
Line, and Grantsville. Rev. Snitc
and family have moved into the
parsonage in Grantsville.
The WINS of Grantsville and
Salisbury. Pa. Lutheran churches
held joint meeting in the recrea-
ton room of the Grantsvillc church
on Wednesday evening, with a COW
cred dish supper. Following the
supper a book review on That The
World May Know" was given Mrs.
Roy L. Yund, wife of Rev. Roy L.