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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-09-24
PITTSBURG WRITER GREAT
BOOSTER OF DARE COAST

Last year there was a deluge of
vacationists and tourists coming
to the Dare Coast from the Pitts
burg area. Local operators were
astounded. They could not un-
oerstand how it all came about
not until Gilbert Love, an editor
ial writer on the Pittsburg Press,
who also conducts travel col
umn for that great newspaper
sent Dare County Tourist Bur-
eau some clippings. The Tourist
Bureau and local personnel of
National Park Service had been
contacted by Love on his first
trip here for data about the area
which he later included in sew
eral columns under his by-line.
This week, and only recently
back from a round the world
tour, Gilbert Love and Mrs. Love
were back on the Dare Coast for
a short vacation. On Wednesday
with Aycock Brown, Tourist
Bureau Manager he made a trip
to Hatteras and other places OF
interest along Dare Beaches and
Roanoke Island. He plans more
stories and columns about the
area.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-09-24
HOMECOMING EVENT
THIS WEEK END AT
EAST LAKE CHURCH

Annual Homecoming services
are to be held at the East Lake
Methodist Church, Sunday, Sep
tember 26, beginning at 1890
am. The message is to be
brought by the pastor, Rev. A. L.
c.. Stephenson. This date is the
last Sunday in the year on which
the summer schedule of the
Croatan Sound and the Alligator
River ferries can be used. Serv-
ices are scheduled to close
around noon when picnic lunch
is to be held in the church yard.
Sunday night at the East Lake
Church a quarterly conference
is to be held with the Rev. c.
Freeman Heath, district superin-
tendent, bringing the message.
Stumpy Point. Manns Harbor,
and East Lake M e tho d S t
Churches are to be represented
at the conference.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-09-24
LIONS CLUB
SPONSORING
BLIND DRIVE
Manteo Organization to Seek
Funds Sept. 81 Through
Oct. 4

The Manteo Lions Club is
sponsoring a White Cane Sale
and membership drive beginning
September q through October 4.
Memberships will be sold as well
as tiny white cane bangles. All
membership receipts go to the
Association but the Manteo Lions
Club will keep one-third of the
proceeds from the sale of the
bangles to be used in their local
work for the blind and usually
handicapped.
The North Carolina Associa-
ton for the Blind has provided
services for the blind on a state
wide basis for 20 years this
month. This is the only state
wide voluntary agency of its
kind with no administrative ex-
penses. All its funds are spent
on the blind either directly or in
directly. Directly on services to
the blind of North Carolina; in
directly on educational materials
dealing with the manifold prob
lens of the blind and the terrif
need for better eye care TO pre-
vent blindness since 500 OF
blindness is preventable.
The Association was organized
by the Lions and other civic
minded individuals in Statesville
September 1884. The main OBJ
jective was and still is--to help
the blind help themselves.
This is a lay organization
whose membership is open to
any person who is interested in
making this state a better place
for our blind citizens to live and
work. 1t bridges the gap between
what the Lions Clubs and the
State Agency, the Commission
for the Blind can do. The only
criteria for it's services is that
there is a need and there IS no
other resource available.
The services provided are so
varied, they could not all be
mentioned. However, here are a
few such as providing glasses,
clothes, food, medical and den
tai services, educational and
craft materials, white cane walk
ing sticks, radios for old shut-in
blind; vibra-phones for the deaf
blind, a summer institute for
mothers of pre-school blind chill
dren and the hundreds of other
items that bring joy, comfort and
a better life to the blind.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-09-24
THREE DIE AS
PLANE CRASHES
OFF KITTY HAWK

Three Navy men died when
the Guardian-type plane they
were flying crashed into the
ocean off Kitty Hawk beach
early last Thursday night.
Wreckage of the plane was found
in 80 feet of water about 300 feet
offshore. A Coast Guard rescue
craft found one body, that of
Marvin F. Apple, aviation ordi-
nanceman, of Miami, Fla, short
lyafter the crash.
1t is understood that the plane,
based in Norfolk, was on a rou
tine mission when trouble devel-
oped and the accident occurred
soon thereafter. Two other
bodies have not as yet been re-
covered; they are: Ems. Henri R.
DeJan of Hendersonville, N. c.,
and Gary N. Goodwin, Baltimore,
Md.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-09-24
EDUCATION BOARD
OFFERS REPORT ON
TEACHERS LOAD

Now that all communities have
got into the swing of the school
routine for the year 1954-55, the
authorities looking after the well
fare, studies and general smooth
running of our schools are able
to check up on some of the facul-
ty problems that cannot always
be clearly ascertained before the
schools open.
One of the problems is whether
any school or teacher is over
loaded per ALLEGATION of pupils to
teacher and the North Carolina
Board of Education regulations
regarding additional teachers
states that ''after two weeks of
the school term-if the average
daily attendance will justify,
additional teachers may be allot-
ed. For both high school and
elementary. they allow zone
additional teacher may be allotted
when 1t can be reasonably deter
mined that the teacher load will
be as many as 30 pupils in aver
age daily attendance per teacher
allotted"
For the Dare County schools
after eight days of school, attend
ance and enrolment figures are
as follows: Avon elementary,
1899 per teacher; Buxton ele-
mentary and high school respec-
lively, 30.5 and PATS; Hatteras
elementary, 30.5 per teacher;
Kitty Hawk, elementary and
high, 1923 and 1879; Manns Har-
Dor elementary,2 1858: Manteo
elementary and high, 26.75 and
27.93; Stumpy Point elementary,
%; Wanchese elementary, 80;
Roanoke elementary and high.
1882 and 1875
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-09-24
SKIPJACK TUNA TAKEN
OFF OREGON INLET

Mays Head. = Seventy five
skipjack tuna, 185 pounds of dol
phin, and two baby bluefin tuna,
scaling at 10 and eight pounds
each was the one day catch of
several members of Norfolk's
Cosmopolitan Club here on the
week end.
Sharing in the catch were DR.:
w. 1. Carpenter, Earl Caddill,
Charles Ballard, Oscar Austin
and Richard Austin of Norfolk
and Wiley Howard of Virginia
Beach. They were fishing with
Capt. Omie Tillett skipper of the
cruiser Jerry Jr. T. F. Cook, an
other member of the Club landed
2812 pound wahoo, the largest
taken during the day of fishing.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-09-24
PROPOSAL TO BE
HEARD SEPT. ~ AT
POPLAR BRANCH

A proposal to close Currituck
Sound to commercial fishing
each year from April 10 to Sep
TENDER Is will be aired at a pub
lie hearing scheduled for IL am,
Sept. 81, at the Poular Branch
schoolhouse in Currituck County.
The hearing will be conducted
by the State Board of Conserva-
ton and Developments CONNER
cial fisheries committee. Cecil
Morris of Atlantic is committee
chairman.
The committee will also consi-
der a proposal to increase the
distance from the head of pound
nets to gill net operations from
400 to 600 yards in that part of
Croatan Sound lyning north of
the line running from Northwest
Point on the North end of Ro-
anoke Island to Briar Point
Director Clyde Patton of the
N. C. Wildlife Resources Com
mission has requested the liason
committee of the commercial
fisheries committee to meet with
a like group from his commission
following the public hearing to
hear a proposal to surrender to
the Division of Commercial Fish
cries that portion of Yeopim Riv-
er from its mouth at Albemarle
Sound to a place two miles up
the river that is known as Deep
Water Point.
In addition to Chairman Nor
ris, other members of the COM
mercial fisheries committee are:
Henry Rankin, Jr., Fayetteville,
Charles H. Jenkins, Ahoskie,
Charles S. Allen, Durham, and
w. Eugene Simmons, Tarboro.
William A. Ellison, Jr., direc-
tor of the Institute of Fisheries
Research at Morehead City, has
also been invited to attend the
hearing as have officials of the
Division of Commercial Fisher
les, Department of Conservation
and Development.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-09-24
MAKO SHARK LANDED
IN GULF OFF DARE

Mays Head. - A 4O0-pound
mako shark, the only member of
the shark family which carries a
game fish classification, was
landed in the Gulf Stream, off
Oregon Inlet Saturday. DR.. Fred
Schwerd of New York City, who
boated the big shark after an
hour and a half battle, was using
a 40 reel on q nine ounce tip
rod.
While mako Cor mackereD
shark are not considered I'M
usual in the Gulf Stream off the
Dare Coast, this was the first to
be landed so far this season. It
was by no means a record size,
but may be record for 1854.
The largest of the species ever
taken with rod and reel was a
1000 FOUNDER landed near New
Zealand several years ago.
DR.. Schwerd was trolling from
Capt Chester Tillett's cruiser the
'.Spur" when the big shark hit
his bait. Fishing with him were
Stanley Lancaster of Baltimore,
Free Munford, of Montclair, N.
j., and Sheriff Joseph Fay of
Cincinnati, Ohio. They accounted
for 10 dolphin, three wahoo and
IL false albacore, in addition to
the mako catch.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-09-24
DRIVE UNDERWAY
FOR BOY SCOUTS
FUND IN MANTEO
Rotary Club Backing Project
To Build Boy Scout
Home on Island

Residents of the Roanoke Is
land area, first contacted in the
Rotary Clubs drive to raise
$4,000 for the construction of a
building for the Boy Scouts have
shown an immediate response,
according to Ralph Swain, chair
man of the clubs fund raising
committees.
Theodore Noe, scoutmaster of
the local troop, a guest of the
Rotarians Monday, gave mem
bers some pointers on the great
need for a building the scouts
may call their own and use as
meeting place. He also discussed
the matter of ownershiP for the
proposed building.
The club voted favorably on a
plan whereby the proposed
building would be, held in trust
for the Boy Scouts by the Rotary
Club, and that committee from
the club would be named as
trustees.
SWANS committee includes
Ernest Meekins and Gordon Kel-
logg. Their job is to work with
the subcommittee which will
contact everyone in the area ask
ing for donations for construc-
ting the building and acquiring
property on which to erect the
structure. Meekins is treasurer, of
the fund raising drive and all
monies collected are being depos-
See DRIVE, Page Eight
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-09-24
ISLAND SURF
ALIVE WITH BASS
Good News For Those Entering
Islands First Fishing TOurna-
ment at ROdanthe

From Oregon to Hatteras In
lets this week came reports of
excellent surf fishing and this
was he news that many anglers
planning to take part in the Is
lands first fishing tournament
which began in the Rodanthe
Waves area Thursday were wait
ig to hear. Some anglers report
ed catching large numbers of
of channel bass while others
brought in big fish, some
going to 43 pounds to prove their
statements.
Best catch of the week accord
ing to reports was made last
week end by a group of Manteo
and Norfolk anglers. Reuben and
Jim Scarborough of Manteo. and
Pinkie Fisher and Julian A.
Lewark of Norfolk casting in the
surf on night tide Friday near
the Point of Beach on south side
of Oregon Inlet accounted for 80
fish, ranging in size from six
pound puppy drum to the larg-
est, a 25-pound channel bass.
Later Etheridge returned to the
area with a party which caught
20 more channel bass.
Willie NewSome from his
sportsfishing headquarters at
Hatteras came through with later
reports saying that channel bass
weighing up to 43 pounds have
been landed by anglers who had
taken their catches to his place
for storage.
'They have been landing them
all the way from Avon to Hat
teras Inlet" said Newsome. mot
only have they been catching
plenty of channel bass, but also
blues, sea mullet and some
| trout"
Due to foul weather earlier in
the week, early reports from the
I
Rodanthe-Waves area where the
Civic Club is sponsoring the first
fishing contest ever held on the
island were not too encouraging.
R. D. Owens of Chicamicomico
Motel between the two villages
stated on Wednesday night that
registering for the contest was
slow. Much of this may be the
result of stormy weather recent
", as we'll as inadequate promo
ton.
Persons entering the contest
will have the opportunity to win
excellent prizes for their big fish,
including fishing tackle.
Anglers going to the area to
enter the contest may get initial
information about the current
tourney which ends Saturday.
September 25, from w. w. Ed
wards, CMB-in charge of Oregon
Inlet Coast Guard Station, from
Owens at Chicamicomico Motel
or from A. H. Gray, at Gray's
store in Waves, or Zeke Mid
gets in Rodanthe.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-09-24

Ocracoke. =. Isaac Willis
O'Neal, age 80, died at his home
here Saturday night, September
18th. Popularity known among
his relatives and friends as big
Ike O'Neal," he was the Islands
oldest citizen and the one who
knew the most about Ocracoke's
past. He was born here on July
81. 1865, son of Willis and Eliza
beth O'Neal. In 1889 he married
Helen Williams, who survives
him. In his youth he served for
twelve years with the Ocracoke
Life Saving Station; later for
many years he was a well known
merchant, operating one of the
Islands stores.
Mr.. O'Neal was a charter mem
Der of the Masonic Order 245 of
Swan Quarter, N. C.
Funeral services were held lin
the home with Rev. Robert L..
Vickery, Jr., officiating; inter-
ment was in the old O'Neal
graveyard. He is survived by his
wife, Helen w. O'Neal, a daugh-
ter, Elizabeth Anne Howard, of
Ocracoke, two sons, Horatio Will
lis O'Neal of Washington, D. c.,
and Earl Williams O'Neal of
Philadelphia, Pa, and three
grandchildren.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-09-24
CLARK URGES ISLAND FOLK
TO BEGIN DEVELOPMENT OF
HISTORICAL ATTRACTIONS
COastland Booster Calls Attention to Many
Opportunities for Citizens to Develop Many
Things Which Visitors To Region Would
Like to See; Opportunities Begging.

Some times business men on
Roanoke Island pull a long face
when business comes across the
ferry and high balls it for the
beaches where there are many
new and luxurious tourist courts
providing ocean side conven-
fence. Then too, during Lost
Colony season, where tourist
homes developed helpful bust
ness in accommodating visitors
to the show, business has dwin-
died with the development of
motels in the area. So it is, that
the opinion is often expressed
that Roanoke Island has little
business future, and the new
bridge while bringing more pee
pie, will simply aid motorists to
whiz through the island a little
quicker to the beaches.
But this is something that can
be changed, in the opinion of
Miles Clark, an Elizabeth City
business man who is we'll known
in Dare, for out of his interest
and generosity during the past
quarter OF a century have come
many benefits. Mr.. Clark thinks
Roanoke Is'.an' has many buried
or forgotten attractions that will
attract and keep many persons
here for visits, and bring count
less new visitors. For eXa :? pie:
In 1901-02 Reginald A. Fessen-
den, inventor of the wireless
telephont, the forerunner of
radio receivers, and other inven-
tons for safety at sea, carried
out important developments of
the wireless telephone he con-
ceived and perfected. This was
done at Weir Point, which also
was the site of Fort Huger of
Civil War fame, a short distance
below the contemplated landing
of the Croatan Sound bridge
Mr.. Clark also mentions that
west of Manteo, General Burn
side had his headquarters, and
captured nearby Fort Barlow,
and that third fort, Fort Blan-
chard, was also on Croatan
Sound, shortly north of the Man
teo Airport.
In the Burnside area, huge
sawmill was built and other in
dustries and schools were estab-
lished on Roanoke Island for the
rehabilitation of thousands of
negro former slaves who were
ouartered here. Near Fort Ra-
leigh is burying ground holding
remains of 400 negroes who died
of Cholera while the Yankees
were feeding them and en-
deavoring to teach them to work
and read.
Now Mr.. Clark thinks, and he
is usually a pretty successful
thinker, that Roanoke Island
people, and their neighbors
might we'll unite in movement
to uncover these old places. Dig
up their history, mark them so
that tourists would enjoy visit
ing them.
And he also suggests number
of other things that would pay
off at Roanoke Island. Docks and
waterfronts might be cleaned off,
more accommodations provided
for yachts, etc.
There are lot of other people
who also think that Roanoke Is
land needn't go without lots of
business, if its citizens are inter
ested in preparing for it, by
launching the necessary pro-
gram. Among other things Roam
oke Island needs Chamber OF
Commerce or similar organiza-
ton to be the dynamo to energize
these projects.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-09-24
DELAY IN AWARDING
COASTAL ROAD PROJECT

Announcement has been made
that a further delay is made this
week in awarding the contract
for the proposed toll road be-
tween Virginia Beach and Mays
Head. A spokesman for the pro-
moters gives the reason: ITO iron
out details" which include con-
struction problems, etc. The esti-
mated cost of the project is given
at $3,375,0o0. Revenue bonds are
to be issued and sold to finance
the cost of the project.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-09-24
FIRST FALL MEET

The Dare Beaches Chamber of
Commerce will hold its first
meeting of the Fall on Tuesday,
September 18th, at 8 pm. at the
Information Booth at Kitty
Hawk. {
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-09-24

JOHN WILLIAM DANIELS Seaman Apprentice USN
ed by his Norfolk reuer F. Chief
his recruit accomplishments Daniels of Mr. and Mrs Amos
Daniels of 8830 Old Ocean View Rd Norfolk V husband the
honorman his recruit Banbrdge Md At the grad
uaion review Capt W. Cate J USN Commanding Officer of
Recruit Training Command commended Daniels or his conscientious
attention duty Daniels lived Wanchese before Norfolk
where he enlisted the Navy Ward said Daniels the first honorman
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-30
U. 5. Tails Red Ships,
Soviet Press Charges
By the Asseeiafed Press

MOSCOW, June 3O.-The
Soviet press says the United
States is arbitrarily violating
freedom of the high seas by
having reconnaissance planes
shadow Russian merchant ships.
The news agency Tass re-
ported yesterday from Vladi-
vostok that United States planes
have for some time "systemat-
ically" trailed Soviet vessels in
Far Eastern waters. In several
instances, 1t charged. the planes
circled low, causing anxiety
among the ships passengers and
crewmen.
TasS said the flights obviously
are serving as q source Of in
formation on ship movements
with the aim of organizing
various kinds of provocations
against Soviet ships on the high
seas silimlar to that perpetrated
against the tanker TaupSe."
The TaupSe, a tanker carrying
kerosene to Communist China.
was seized last week in the China
Sea south Of FormoSa. Russia
charged the United States seized
the ship. American officials de-
MED this, and the Chinese Ma
tionalist government on Formesa
said later one Of its warships
had intercepted the tanker.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-30
Analysis Is Made
Of Evidence Against
Atomic Scientist
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times an unpleasant duty, to
cooperate with the government
tai officials who are charged
with the enforcement of Sc
curity regulations. This CO.
operation should be active and
honest. If this manner Of CO.
operation is not forthcoming.
the security system itself, and
therefore the interests Of the
United States which it protects,
inevitably suffer. The record
proves DR.. Oppenheimer to have
been seriously deficient in his
cooperation with the workings
of the security system. This
defect too is a defect Of loyalty
to the lawful government in its
reasonable efforts to preserve it
self in its constitutional exist
ence. No matter how high a man
stands in the service Of his
country he still stands under
the law. To permit a man in a
position of the highest trust to
set himself above any OF the
laws of security would be to
invite the destruction of the
whole security system.
Principle Emphasized.
In conclusion, the principle
that has already been stated
must be recalled for the sake
of emphasis. In proportion as a
man Is charged with more and
more critical responsibilities, the
more urgent becomes the need
for that full and exact fidelity
to the special demands Of Sc
curity laws which in this over
Swallowed day goes by the name
of loyalty. So too does the need
for cooperation with responsible
security officers.
DR.. Oppenheimer occupied
position of paramount impor-
lance; his relation to the Sc
curity interests of the United
States was the most intimate
one. It was reasonable to expect
that he would manifest the
measure of cooperation ap-
propriate to his responsibilities.
He did not do so. 1t was rea-
sonable to expect that he would
be particularly scrupulous in his
fidelity to security regulations.
These regulations are the spe-
cial test of the loyalty Of the
American citizen who serves his
government in the sensitive area
of the atomic energy program.
DR.. Oppenheimer did not meet
this decisive test. He was dis
loyal.
conclude that DR.. Open
heimer's access to restricted
data should be denied.