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about you, Willie, because you've
lived up to every bit of it. So now,
we have only one concern about
you: We hope you keep your bal
ance. After all, we know from ex
perience that it isn't easy to keep
level head when all the baseball
world is at your feet, and you are
sought after, lauded to the skies,
and made to feel like something of
a god among men. We know that
others before you have had tough
time taking the adulation of the
throngs, and they went off on tan
gents. We remember that Babe
Ruth lost his equilibrium at one
point; Jesse Owens allowed him.
self to be persuaded to quit school;
J. c. Caroline is struggling now to
get back on an even keel. There
are others we could name. Some
of them found their way back on
the track again; others fizzled out
for good.
Fellows like Harry Wills, Roy
Campanella, and Ralph Metcalfe
have kept level-headed and have
become successful business men
and useful citizens. They have
charted good course for you to
follow. Our hope for you, Willie,
is that you follow it. You have
too much talent to let it be dis
sipated by the cheers of the crowds,
and the righteousness of phoney
publicity hounds who seek to at
tach themselves to you.
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Shriners Point
oWard Atlantic
City Meeting

Plans are being consumated for
what points up as being the largest
national convention of The Ancient
Egyptian Arabic Order of Mobiles
of the Mystic Shrine (Shriners) q.
Booker T. Alexander, Detroit,
Michigan, National Director of
Promotion for the organization has
been in the city during the past
several days holding a series of
conferences with Charles Randall,
General Chairman of the H o
Temple Convention Committee;
Grover C. Jones, General Secre-
tary; C. Morris Cain, General Ad-
visor and Charles Donaway, Vice
Chairman of Parade Activities.
Alexander is principally concern
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GrambIing Grid
Coach Resigns

GRAMBL1NG, La. Especially -
Albany Jones, widely-hailed back
field coach at Grambling college,
has resigned his post to accept a
coaching position in the East Ba-
ton Rouge public school system.
The college athletic department
released the information Wednes-
day and said resignation becomes
effective Immediately.
A soft-spoken former Grabbing
All-American fullback and team
mate of Tank" Younger, Jones
joined the coaching staff in 80
and did an excellent job of teach
ing Eddie Robinson's bread-and-
butter single-wing tactics.
Robinson often referred to the
2S-year-old tutor as his right arm
and admitted that Jones knew his
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pass and punt-return patterns, re-
verses, off-tackle plays and pass
defenses as we'll as he did.
Jones was credited with putting
much of the snap and precision
into last years Grambling eleven
which won eight and lost two.
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The history teacher was con-
Quoting a little quiz, and she ask
ed, what battle was it in which
General Wolfe said, 4 die happy
when he heard the enemy was on
the run? Can you tell me, Willie ?"
Willie hesitated, then replied
doubtfully, "I'm not sure teacher,
but it must have been his last
one"
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PAGE sKVEN


Calgary.-Crude oil output in
Alberta in the week ended June 90
amounted to 234,641 barrels daily,
a decline Of 39,754 barrels from
the previous week.
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erby, Kentucky; J. Bracken Lee,
Utah; C. ]. Rogers, Wyoming;
Johnston Murray, Oklahoma; and
Dan Thornton of Colorado.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-07-24

BRITISH AMERICAN OIL CO.,
LTD, plans to install a catalytic
reformer at its Calgary, Alberta,
refinery.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-08-20
LAST SCREW PILE
LIGHT HOUSE IN
N. C. GOING OUT
Roanoke Marshes Light To
Give Way to Beacon;
Ralph Burrus in Charge

The last of the famed "Screw
Pile" lighthouses on the inland
waters OF North Carolina, is still
in service in the middle of Croa-
tan Sound off Wanchese, but it too
is slated for the discard at an early
date, and with it will go three men
to be replaced as have all the 9TH
ers, by a mechanical light on
platform, which requires attend
ance every few weeks only.
Ralph w. Burrus is the present
officer in charge of this lighthouse,
a man of 25 years service with the
Coast Guard, a native of Hatteras
but now resident of Manteo. The
old lighthouse was built about 60
years ago, and is so named because
it is built on steel piles screwed
into the sand. Time was when Gro
atan Sound was a busy thorough
fare dotted with sails. But the
Alligator River-Pungo Canal has
diverted a larger part of the water
commerce that has not yet surrend-
cred to trucks.
A quarter a century or so ago,
these lighthouses on which men
lived the year round, and some
times kept their families, number
ed 20 or more in N. C. waters.
They were a great comfort to
boatmen; they rendered a great
service. One by one, they have gone
away, sold to junkers, and torn
down.
The lighthouses formerly stood
at North River, the upper end of
Croatan Sound, Long Shoal River,
Gull Rock, Roanoke River, Wades
Point, divers Reef, Pamlico Point
See LIGHTHOUSE, Page Four
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-08-20
OPEN HOUSE AT
DELRAY BEACH
THIS WEEK END
Will Show New Beach House
for First Time at Kill Dew
il Hills Development

Open house is being held at Del
ray Beach, Kill Devil Hills newest
development, Friday today, Sat-
urday and Sunday. Purpose of the
showing is to acquaint all with the
new type ranch-house beach home.
''The Bellaire," as the new home
is called, was built by the Shana-
berger Lumber Co. of Kill Devil
Hills. Many more Of these homes
are planned and construction will
begin on these within few days.
"The Bellaire" offers many fea-
lures not usual for beach cottages,
and it is understood that the pub
lie is taking a liking to this new
style of beach homes. Arrange
ments may be made for building
this home outside the Delray
Beach area, should anyone desire.
Delray Beach's development was
begun several months ago by w. R.
Deaton of Kill Devil Hills. Streets
were laid out and paved, property
leveled, and sale of lots was begun
Deaton announced plans this week
'or $3.50, 900 construction of streets
and homes during the next IL
months.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-08-20
''MIRLO DAY" TO
BE OBSERVED AT
RODANTHE IN '55
Coast Guard Rescue of 1918
To Be Featured BY
Celebration

On Monday August 16, 1918,
the late Capt. John Allen Mid
gett, and five other Chicamico-
mico Coast Guards made not
able rescue of 46 crew members
of the British Tanker Mirlo, tor
pedoed by a German Submarine
six miles off the North Carolina
Coast.
Monday of this week, the an
niversary of the event, a group
of people of the communities
HARDLY, met at Rodanthe and
took note of this occasion, and
gave rousing cheers to Arthur v.
Midget, of Waves, 80 years old,
and one of the two survivors of
the group of men who made this
rescue.
Next summer, the people plan
to hold a celebration worth
while; one that will not only OBJ
serve this important event, but
will honor the great record Of
the Coast Guard, which has
made its most notable history in
N. C. in the Rodanthe area.
A committee has been appoint
See MIRLO, Page Four
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-08-20
CAPE HATTERAS
ELECTRIC COOP
MEETING SEPT. l
Nine Directors To Be Elected
at Avon Wednesday
Two Weeks

Week after next, on Wednes-
day, September l at 1880 pm. the
stockholders of the Cape Hat
teras Electric Membership Corp.
are being called into annual
meeting for the purpose of elect
ing nine directors for the coming
year, and for reviewing the bust
ness of the Coop, which now
serves all of Hatteras Island.
The meeting will be held at the
Avon school.
George H. Meekins of Avon,
Secretary of the Corporation, has
mailed out notices dated August
10th, urging all members to at
tend, and to hear the financial
status if the coop read. All con-
sumers or customers of the coop
are stockholders, and are en-
titled to be present.
Nominations for Directors to
be voted on, are now being made,
the notice says; although add
itional nominations may be made
at the meeting. Voting will be by
secret ballot.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-08-20
NEW ENTRANCE
TO BE BUILT AT !.
FORT RALEIGH

Plans for building a new en-
trance to Fort Raleigh were out
lined Wednesday at the annual
meeting of the Roanoke Island His
torical Association.
V. Roswell Ludgate, regional
landscape architect for the Nation
al Park Service, told the associa-
ton that when funds are available
the government plans to erect a
new entrance to the Roanoke Is
land historical site. The entrance
would be designed to accommodate
the three attractions, the Water
side Theatre, the Elizabethan Gar
dens, and Fort Raleigh.
General Manager Dick Jordan
gave a progress report to the AS
ISOLATION on the Lost Colony. "Due
to four rain-outs and three partial
rain-outs," he said" attendance
has not been as good this year as
usual" He continued that attend
ance is expected to be better for
the remainder of the season.
Headed by Chairman Martin
Kellogg, Jr., directors and others
present were Russell Grammar of
Chapel Hill, DR.. Christopher Crit
tenden, head of Archives and His
torical Department, Raleigh; Mel
PARROT from Berea, Kentucky,
head of the Archives and Histori-
cal Department in Raleigh; Mel
vim R. Daniels, Dare County Reg
istrar of Deeds; Miles Clark of
Elizabeth City; M. X. Fearing,
Bruce Etheridge and Albert @.
Bell of Manteo; Samuel Selden;
Allyn Hanks, Charles Marshall and
". Roosevelt Ludgate of the Ma
tional Park Service; and Mr..
Parrot from Berea, Kentucky,
where the outdoor drama, wilder
ness Road" will be shown next
year.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-08-20
MRS. ROSA W. SCHALLER
DIES AT 81 IN BUXTON

Mrs. Rosa Williams Schaller,
81, of Buxton, died Saturday
at 6 pm. at her home after an
illness of two years. She was
native of Avon but has been liv-
wing in Buxton for many years.
She was the daughter of the late
Merchant and Mary Scarborough
Williams.
She is survived by three sis
tiers, Mrs. Brittania Gray, and
Mrs. Rebecca Farrow, of Buxton,
and Mrs. Sadie Peele, of Pamlico,
and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were conduct
ed Monday afternoon at pm.
in the Penticostal Holiness
Church at Buxton, by the Rev.
Robert Rail, pastor, assisted by
the Rev. Dan Meadows, pastor of
the Buxton Methodist Church.
Burial was in the family plot in
Buxton.
Face to Face, "There is No
Night There" and after" were
sung by the church choir. Pail
bearers were Curry Miller, Indy
Miller, Vance Miller, Raymond
Basnett. Amy Jennette and
Loran Midgette.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-08-20
ROAD OFFICIALS.
MEET THURSDAY
PLAN TURNPIKE
North Carolina. Virginia
Road Group Convene
at Mays Head

Virginia's Coastal Turnpike Au-
thority met with North Cardinals
Carolina-Virginia Turnpike Au-
thority yesterday at Mays Head to
work out final arrangements for
building a toll road up the coast.
One of the first chores of the
joint meeting was to set dates for
taking bids on the construction.
Highway Chairman A. H. Graham,
an ex-officio member of the North
Carolina Authority, said the two
agencies hope to open bids by the
middle of September.
If this can be done, Graham es-
timated, the contractor could start
work in October or November, and
the road might be finished and
paved by the end of next summer,
although it probably would not be
open to traffic until later in 1865.
The toll road, the first for North
Carolina since the highway COM
mission was formed, would be
about Sd miles long with 81 miles
lying within North Carolina. 1t
would begin at or near the pres
ent intersection of the Duck road
and U. S. 1853, a few hundred
yards east of Wright Memorial
bridge; continue up Duck road for
about three miles and then run
north along the Atlantic shore. At
the Virginia end, it would tie into
a road which now runs south for
about two miles from Virginia
Beach.
Graham said bids will be taken
on three types of construction
base of gravel with asphalt sur
facing, a five-inch plant mix as
phalt and a five-inch mixed-in-
See MEETING, Page Four
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-08-20
MANTEO LIONS CLUB
SPONSORS CAMPAIGN
SLOW DOWN AND LIVE

The Manteo Lions Club is
sponsoring a "Slow Down and
Live" program in Dare County
in an effort to promote highway
safety.
"Slow Down and Live" is a
nationwide SAT ety campaign
adopted by the Lions Interna-
tional and pushed by the North
Carolina Highway Patrol. Patrol
man r, c. Holt recently appeared
before the Manteo Lions and re-
quested that they sponsor the
program.
T. H. Noe, Dare county health
inspector, is chairman of the
campaign and will direct placing
of stickers on menus, in hotels,
motels, restaurants and other
prominent places.
The public, both drivers and
pedestrians, are asked to take
part in this safety campaign.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-08-20
DAVIS BROTHERS
DO A GOOD DEED
ON WATER FRONT
Manteo Men Make An I'M
provement of Great VAL
We to Boatmen

1t takes vision to see the Man.
teo harbor surrounded by high,
drained land with homes and
parks and perhaps a bathing
beach on the point. After one has
seen Manteo's back yard from
the water with it's rotting piers,
falling buildings and implanted
walls, it takes even more imagi-
nation to picture a thriving
yacht basin with piers, lights and
facilities for the yachtsmen and
comfortable benches for tourists
and townspeople.
The Davis brothers, Vernon
and Ralph, not only have the
vision and imagination that sets
them drawing sketches and plans
and dreaming with half closed
eyes, they have the practically
to start dredging and filling be-
hind their store.
"The other is just a dream"
says Vernon Davis, developing
the land around the bay. Some
one with the money will do it
some day but right now the cost
is prohibitive". He sees no rea-
son, however, why the Manteo
water front can't be improved
this winter in time for yachts
men next summer. He emissions
a long interconnecting wooden
pier built along the entire water
front with finger piers extending
out into the harbor.
The idea occurred to him as he
was cruising through the harbor
in his boat. 81 noticed how nice
the backs of Roy and Edward
Wescott's lots looked, he says,
"all grassed and filled. Then I
noticed the disreputable appear
ance of the rest of the water
front"
When three yachtsmen asked
asked him in one afternoon
where they could tie up at a
nice place Mr.. Davis decided that
See WATERFRONT, Page Four
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-08-20
September Surf Fishing Contest
Planned for Rodanthe-Waves Area
By Hatteras Island Civic Club
North End of Hatteras Island, North Cardinals Far
East, To Boost Its Scenic and Historical Attrac-
tons During Three-Day Fishing Festival

rescues from shipwreck for
which Hatteras Island is famed,
occurred principally on the Chi
camicomico Banks. Here trans
pired some of the most brave
and daring exploits of the Life
Saving Service, later the Coast
Guard.
Near Rodanthe is the famous
salt Spring" now long aban-
doned but which was a pheno-
mena in ante-bellum days when
it was a flourishing industry,
from which salt was extracted
and exported to the mainland
and other places.
The committee working for
the fishing contest are R. D.
Owens, Don Morrill,, Zeke Mid
gett, A. H. Gray and Woodrow
Edward. Mr.. Edwards is Presi-
dent of the Community Club.
The group which attended the
meeting held on Mirlo Day, an
niversary of a famed rescue on
August Is, 1918, and which hon
ored A. V. Midget, one of the
rescue crew, included the follow
ing citizens:
Capt. and Mrs. L. w. Midget,
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Meekins, Dan
Morrill,, Zeke Midget, Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred O'Neal, R. D. Owens,
Mr.. and Mrs. D. A. Midget, Mr..
and Mrs. E. R. Midget, Mr.. and
Mrs. G.. A. Midget, Dan Midget,
c. A. Midget, A. L. Midget, A.
H. Gray, Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil Mid
gett, Elroy Midget, Woodrow
Edwards, Creeden Midget, Mr..
and Mrs. Nelson Midget and
daughter, Dorothy, A. V. Mid
gett, Miss Jackie Farrow, Mr.. and
Mrs. Woodrow Edwards, Mr.. and
Mrs. Horatio Midget, Mr.. and
Mrs. Dorland Midget, Newcomb
Midget.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-08-20
COASTLAND JUBILANT OVER
UMSTEAD'S ALLOTMENT OF
FUNDSFOR CROATAN BRIDGE
Governor Sets Up 100000 to Add to Last
Years S75O,OOO Appropriation for Croatan
Sound Structure and Makes Trip to ManteO
and Hatteras During Week End.

The Coastland is jubilant and
grateful over the action of Gov
ernor William B. Umstead, who
last week, earmarked two mil
lion dollars for the construction
of bridge across Croatan Sound,
which added to the original grant
last year of $750,000 is expected
to complete the job; which is also
expected to begin this fall and
be completed in two years.
On the heels of this announce
ment, the Governor came to Dare
County for the week end, and
made his home in the delightful
atmosphere of the First Colony
Inn at Mays Head, enjoying the
hospitality of Mr.. and Mrs. c. P.
Midget. Saturday morning he
met with several citizens in the
Dare County Courthouse, and
discussed other highway prob
lens, and received lavish praise
from those present, spokesman
for the group being Melvin R.
Daniels.
The Governor was quick to
deny special credit to himself
for his good deed for Dare Coun-
ty and vicinity. He said he was
not giving us the bridge, but it is
being built with the peoples
money. He paid high tribute to
Hon. Lindsay Warren of Wash
ington, who has been continuous
ly working for the bridge for
many years. II do not not know
of any man whose love and con-
Germ for the whole Albemarle is
greater than that of Lindsay
Warren" he said. The Governor
later in the day recalled that he
was member of the House Ap-
preparations committee at the
time Mr.. Warren got through the
legislation for the Kill Devil
Hills memorial which has meant
so much to Dare County.
Mr.. Umstead was specially in
terested in the Cape Hatteras
National Seashore, which he
foresees will be of tremendous
good for Hatteras Island and the
whole area. He is anxious that
the ferry service at Oregon Inlet
be improved and that the road
situation to Ocracoke be re-
lieved. "It will never do" said
the Governor, "for those people
who wish to visit Hatteras Is
land, to come and find the ferry
inadequate, and be disappointed,
whereby they might tell and dis
See COASTLAND, Page Four
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-08-20

The most eastern spot of North
Carolina, the Rodanthe-Waves
area on the North end of Hat
teras Island is getting ready to
take its place in the sun as a
tourist and fishing center, and
made plans this week to under
take a three day surf fishing
contest, topped by several valu-
able awards.
The contest will be held late
in September.
Attending a meeting to discuss
plans for this contest were sew
eral men and women of the COM
munities, who met Monday af-
ternoon at Mirlo Beach Lodge
near Rodanthe. A committee was
appointed and plans will be
worked out at once, with further
announcements at the end of the
week. The communities Civic
Club is promoting the contest.
Advocates of the contest con-
tend that this area, which is the
most eastern point of the entire
south Atlantic coast, has no peer
for surf fishing. They cite many
big catches made each week in
the vicinity of the two steel ships
wrecked abreast of the villages
of Waves and Rodanthe, and
only a little over a mile apart.
Once the word gets around just
how good their fishing is, they
believe more fishermen and
tourists will visit the area.
This area, known as Chicami-
comico Banks, has not only
scenery it was pointed out, but
it has historical attractions, as
well as appeal to those who love
boating and bathing, either in
the ocean, or the shallow waters
of Pamlico Sound.
AS for History, it was stated
that the majority of wrecks and
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-08-20
SCHOOL OF ARTS
PRESENTS DRAMA
MONDAY EVENING
neil Stoneman Will Play
Leading Role in
Norwegian Play

The Lost Colony Summer
School of Fine Arts will present
Paul Green's American version
of "Peer Gynt" Monday night at
eight o'clock in the Waterside
Theatre.
Directed and produced by the
school staff, the play is the Gull
minating project of the summer
school. 1t is an annual event,
operating on a limited budget
and climaxing the studies of
classes in chorus, choreography,
dance, stage design, costuming,
speech, and lighting.
"Peer Gynt" is a Norwegian
poetic drama by Henrik Ibsen
taking as its hero the legendary
Peer Gynt of Morse folklore. In
the drama Peer Gynt is played
by Donnell Stoneman of Green's
boro, Father Martin Of the Lost
Colony. He possesses a riotous
imagination, is a great braggart
and egotist but always avoids
any issue.
In a long series of adventures
that take him over the face Of
the globe, he proves his true
character and comes back at last
to Norway.
There he finds Death, the but
tonmolder, played by Robert
Swain, Lost Colony" technical
assistant, waiting to melt him
back to nothing and Solvig, the
faithful love of his youth, played
by Virginia Young.
Peers doting, scolding old
mother, Aase, played by Jan
Pratt, Lost Colony costumer, is a
prominent character and her
death in the third act is an out
standing scene of the play. The
original Aase was forced to leave
the cast with a back injury and
Jan Pratt will play the role fol-
lowing one week of rehearsal.
The music, written for the
play by Edward Grieg is famous
as the peer Gynt Suites" and
especially well known is the
st Suite Anitra's Dance, etc)'
lerick Haley, Lost Colony
~ mist, and William Forrest
.anged the music for the Wa
terside Theatre performance.
Rehearsals for the play began
three weeks ago. In early stages
of practice, the summer school
schedule included two hours Of
morning rehearsal and two hours
of class study with rehearsals
following performances OF the
Lost Colony. This week the cast
has rehearsed four hours in the
morning and each evening after
the show. Dress rehearsal viii
be Sunday night after the LOS
Colony" from IL until two am
Stage manager for the pro
See SCHOOL, Page Four
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-08-20
PATROLMAN is FINED
FOR CARRYING A GUN
Norfolk Officer Found Guilty On
Concealed Weapon Charge
In Dare Court

Policeman Rondal Alliance
Dowd Jr. of Norfolk found out
this week that even policemen
have to carry their guns where
they can be seen. Dowd, in an
unusual case of policeman on
trial, was fined $25 in Dare re-
corders court this week for car
rying a concealed weapon.
Patrolmen found the gun when
they asked to see Dowd's drivers
license and he opened the glove
compartment of his car revealing
the pistol. Dowd pleat not guilty
to the charge in the grounds that
as an officer he could carry the
gun as he chose.
The court decided otherwise
and, in addition to the fine, or
dered, as prescribed in concealed
weapon cases, that the pistol be
destroyed by the sheriff in the
presence of three witnesses, the
register of deeds, deputy sher-
Tiff and the clerk of superior
court. Dowd appealed the deci-
sion.
DR.. Grayson S. Walrop of Ra-
leigh was found guilty of speed
ing 80 miles an hour in IS mile
speed zone. This case had been
pending since July 6. He was
fined $50.
Four so miles an hour viola
tons in a 35 mile zone received
the same sentence, SIS and costs
See COURT, Page Four