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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-08-05
BOAT BURNS, INJURYING
THREE AT OREGON INLET

A South Norfolk man, his son
and another youth were severely
burned Wednesday when their 80
foot fishing cruiser exploded and
was destroyed by fire at Oregon
Inlet nea., Manteo. Robert B. Ed
wards, of 1908 Park Avenue, his
son, Jack Edwards, and Jack
Shannon, Jr., of Manteo, Dare
County, suffered first and second
degree burns.
Witnesses said Edwards had in
stalled a new battery when the
old one wouldn't start the boat,
and then sparks probably ignited
fumes from the gas tank.
Fishing boats tied up near Ed
wards boat, the"Lucille," were
removed before the flames could
get to. them. The boat was berthed
at the Oregon Inlet Fishing Gen.
ter.
The Edwards were spending
their vacation at his Summer
home between Mays Head and
Manteo.
Edwards and his son were
taken by ambulance to Leigh Me
mortal Hospital, Norfolk, and
Shannon was taken to the Norfolk
Marine Hospital. Their conditions
were termed satisfactory" at the
hospitals.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-08-05
FINE ENTERTAINMENT
IN MANTEO MONDAY
Performance By Roanoke Island School
Of Fine Arts Enthusiastically
Received

Bringing to Manteo entertain
ment which members of the audi
ence were heard to proclaim as
good as a Broadway show, the Ro-
anoke Island School of Fine Arts
on Monday evening presented a
threefold program entitled Trio
for Theatre.
The first part of the program
was presented by the Lost Colony
chorus under the direction of Nena
Williams, music director for the
Lost, Colony. The chorus consisted
of Lost Colony choir voices and a
number of other singers who had
enrolled for the chorus classes.
The music was Beat! Beat!
Drums!" and "To Thee, Old Cause"
from Drum Taps" by Walt Whit
man, music by Howard Hanson.
The applause was enthusiastic and
Miss Williams was called back on
stage to take a number of bows.
The inspired accompanying of Fred
Haley and Hedley Yost at the
piano provided the instrumental
foundation for the voices.
The second part of the evenings
entertainment consisted of ex-
cerpts from the Spoon River An
thology by Edgar Lee Masters, ar
ranged and directed by DR.. Eliza
beth Welch, head of the speech and
diction classes of the school and
assistant stage manager of the
Lost Colony; and Marvin Gordon,
instructor in modern dancing
classes, and also photographer
for the Lost Colony. The somewhat
gruesome scene from the Spoon
River cemetery was done with pre-
cision and force and much credit
is due the directors for an ex-
ceptionally fine performance.
The final part of the show was
presented by Mr.. Gordon and his
dancing class, made up of
professional dancers who are
with the Lost Colony and
several dance dents. A
group of six dance compositions
was put on, the choreography be-
ing done by Mr.. Gordon, with the
exception of one number which
was Photographed by Charles
Nicoll. The. dancers took curtain
call after curtain call, showing how
well they were received by the
audience.
y The performance took place in
the Manteo school auditorium,
which was not filled to capacity,
but nevertheless housed a fair
sized and appreciative audience.
James Byrd was in charge of the
lighting effects.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-08-05
PARK OFFICIALS STUDY
HATTERAS SEASHORE AREA

Visitors to the Cape Hatteras
National Seashore on planning and
development over the past week
were Thomas C. Vint, chief of De
sign and Construction, Washing
ton, D. G.; Harvey H. Cowell,
supervising landscape architect,
Eastern office of design and con-
struction, Philadelphia; with Hodge
l. Hanson, landscape architect, and
Ross E. Sweeney, civil engineer of
that office. Also present with the
group was Paul Henderson out of
the Washington Office of the U. S.
Public Health service. Attention
was given to the Improvement pro-
gram of the National Seashore in
the field from Ocracoke to Bodie
Island and including also, Fort
Raleigh.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-08-05
BLUE AND WHITE MARLIN
PLENTIFUL IN DARE AREA
Many Raised To Bait By Inexperienced
Anglers Who Then Lose Fish

Mays Head. Billfishes are
plentiful in waters off the Dare
Coast at this midsummer season
and dozens of blue and white mar
lin have been raised to bait during
the past few days. But few of the
bilIfishes were actually landed. A
few sailfish have also been raised
with scattered catches reported,
but most of the anglers seemed to
be too inexperienced to bring their
fish aboard after it was raised.
Largest white marlin taken
during the past week was a specl-
man that measured seven feet and
five inches from tip to tip. John
l.. Wood of Princess Anne, Va,
who is spending the summer at
his cottage here and fishing the
Gulf Stream often from his prl-
VdCG cruiser Lie SOlllllC bAOAAAAS,
made the catch. -.
He was fishing near Wimble
Shoals, southeast of Oregon Inlet
when the white marlin hit the
skipped bait. 1t was only matter
# minutes before his fish was
boated, because Wood is an expert
angler. He and his guests aboard
the Connie Dionne on the day the
white marlin was caught also
boated several dolphin and amber
jack. His guests were Robert /.
Lee Sr. and Jr., of Raleigh.
Several blue marlin have been
reported raised to bait since mid
July when the last one was landed,
but all were lost. The billfish score
on Dare Coast to date for the
Oregon Inlet (Nags Head) and
Hatteras area for 1866 is two
blues, seven white marlin and sew
eral sailfish.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-08-05
LARGEST WAHOO LANDED
BY ANGLER OFF DARE

Algie Steward of Suffolk, Va,
landed what may be the seasons
record for wahoo this year while
trolling from the cruiser Phyllis
Mae out of Dykes Fishing Center
this week. His big wahoo, measur-
ing &c inches from tip to tip scaled
at 81 pounds. 1t was believed to
be one of the largest fish of this
species taken with rod and reel
off the Dare Coast at any time.
Steward and his party of five
were fishing the Gulf Stream
southeast of Oregon Inlet when the
big wahoo struck. They also
caught SO dolphin. !
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-08-05
|$50,OO0 SOUGHT
| FOR MOSQUITO
| CONTROL IN N. G.
Governor Hodges Seems Inclined
To Wait Until Attitude OF
Counties and Towns is
Apparent.

(Carteret County News Times)
Governor Hodges has been asked
by the Salt Marsh Mosquito Com
mission for $4,000 for an immed-
late assault on coastal mosquitoes
Counties where the mosquitoes are
reported thickest are Carteret
Beaufort, Pamlico, Dare, New
Hanover, Hyde and Onslow.
The Governor assured the CON-
mission that the state is ready to
help kill off the mosquitoes but
he suggested that the proposed
budget for the battle be more care
fully drawn and that the commits
sion determine what the counties
and communities in the mosquito
area are doing and what they are
willing to do to combat the pest.
Charles M. White, chief of the
insect and rodent section of the
State Board of Health, and chair
man of the Salt Marsh Mosquito
Commission, said a circular letter
is going to the towns and counties
along the coast asking what they
are doing and are willing to 10 II
the state joins in the eXtermina-
ton fight.
Survey Made
The commission based it's request
largely on an aerial survey made
of the coast by Clyde Fehn, Of the
communicable disease section of
the U. S. Public Health Services
district office in Atlanta.
He said that a long range pro-
gram continuing for five or 10
years, would be necessary but that
an interim program could be start
ed Immediately to alleviate the sit
uation now.
The interim program, he sug-
gested, could consist of spraying
the breeding grounds and Jogging
the areas where the mosquitoes are
worst.
The commission said this would
cost about $4,000 but it listed
items running only to $32,500, eX-
planning the other would be needed
for situations that could be expect
ed to arise as the program develop
ed.
1t proposed to purchase five
pieces of Jogging equipment Tor
distribution in the coastal section,
to be manned locally and used UNI
der the supervision of trained
man.
To Use Planes
Also, it would spend approx
mately $1,000 for spraying from
airplanes in the areas where the
Jogging equipment-transport by
truck or jeep-could not go. ApG
it would buy the insecticides to be
used in the mosquito warfare.
The long range program, Fehn
said, might cost as much as $780,
900 year. Virginia is spending
over 100000 on a similar program
this year, White said. Florida de-
votes approximately $1,500,000 a
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-08-05
SPEAKER
Continued from Page One)

ton of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. He has been pastor at many
Baptist churches and was former
president of Coker College. Having
published two of his books he is
still a regular contributor to
journals and newspaper of state
and national circulation. He has
been an active Rotarian having
presided the clubs at Durham,
Richmond, Va, and Huntsville, s.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-08-05
ear to fighting mosquitoes.

year to fighting mosquitoes.
Mr.. White explained that his
commission hadn't had time to bud
get its request properly but, he
said, it figured that $4,000 would
finance the interim program.
The legislature in setting up the
Salt Marsh Mosquito Commission
gave it $4,000 for a study of the
and Council of State to determine
how much is to be invested by the
state in the fight itself. This would
come from the, contingency and
emergency fund.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-08-05
REV. JOHN A. FARROW TO
OPEN MANTEO. MISSION

More religion is coming to Man
teo. Rev. John Alfred Farrow, for
merly a Methodist preacher, in
more recent years a Pentecostal
preacher, has come back home from
more distant fields, and will open
a Mission chapel at his home in
Roanoke Park at 2 pm. Sunday
the 7th of August. His ohone is
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-08-05

75-W. Mr.. Farrow has been preach
ing 80 years, and is retired mem
Der of the Coast Guard. A request
has been made that he specially
invite the Dare County Commits
sioners and others officers, who
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-08-05

finally rules that he cannot own
and operate same that they will
take over ownership, and lease to
an operator. "a fishing pier is a
great need for tourists and anglers
in this area of the coast" said
Mr.. Owens.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-08-05

disregard the wishes of the people,
and try to convince them of the
error of their ways.
The Lincoln times., 1955-04-21
AN EDITORIAL
Dying Of MoInutrition

We have no choice but to believe the reports yet
we cannot conceive OF Lincoln County allowing its Red
Cross chapter to waste away through pernciouS anema
Still the symptoms are there-a malnutrition caus-
ed by lack of dollars to pay the chapters bills; and
weakening of interest the part of the general public
and the lay workers as well.
Truly, the Red Cross - conceived in the community
consciousness - has long been bulWark of that civic
spirit that has famed into what we and the world know
AmercaniSm If ever there was program OF the peo-
pe by the people, and FOR the people the Red Cross
IS it
Lincoln County has been really emergency
ridden by sweeping floods or ripping ornadoes Yet this
community is not immune to the sudden ravageS OF ma
that the few dollars give to the Red Cross helps
to support certain and aid in times OF widespread
distress
1t gives the donor glow to know that his dime or
his dollar Humanity to the Rescue even though
the emergency might be tortung soul beyond the
to man in the true spirit of Him Who said: "Inasmuch
as We do it unto one of the least of these .."
Let's not lose the Lincoln Red Cross office nor its
services 1t is link between the Servceman on Tar IRON
tiers and his wife and babies at home 1t blood pasma
for the wounded in time OF war IL is the pooo trafSu
sion which returns pale and wasting mother to the
lonely child sobbng in the nighttime.
To date the Lincoln Red-Cross chapter has $1192
in the bank. It's March bills are unpaid and overdue
And has three months of this year to operate on the
money collected last year - which now mas Shrunk 10
$11.92.
next year. But only $4,000 of the $1,000 goal has been
achieved.
Those are the bare facts and it's up to the people
of Lincoln County If you spare dollar-and your
heart and reason leads you to do mail or take 1t to
Fund Treasurer Jack Lockman at Lincoln National Bank
You could give to more humanitarian purpose
for your dollar would be many times blessed
The Lincoln times., 1955-04-21
Decisions On Wheat Acreage
A||otments> Marketing Quotas
Due By Farmers On May 18th

and Marketing quotas. according
tc Loy Howard, Chairman of the
Lincoln County Agricultural Sta
bilization and Conservation Com
mittee.
The Agricultural Act of 1854,
enacted last year, moved up sew
eral dates governing proclama-
tions which the Secretary OF
Agriculture must make, Mr.. How
ard explains. May Is is now the
final date for proclaiming the ma
tional acreage allotment and the
National Marketing Quota for
wheat. Formerly, the final dates
were July Is for wheat allotments
and July l for wheat quotas.
The law requires that acreage
allotmentS be proclaimed each
year for the next wheat crop eX-
cept under emergency conditions.
Marketing quotas must be pro-
claimed for wheat when the sup
ply exceeds the normal supply
plus 20 percent.
Indications are that the Ma
tions carryover of wheat next
July / (the beginning of the mar
keting year, will be larger than
it was year earlier, in spite of
sharply reduced wheat acreage
in 1855. 1t now appears that the
carryover will approach billion
buShel, new all-time record. OF
this amount, CCC may own some
$50 million bushels.
Stocks of wheat in all positions
as of January totaled 1,460
million bushels, the largest of re-
cord for that date; CCC owned
749 million bushels of this a
mount. An additional 389 million
bushels of 1852, 1858, and 1854
crop wheat were under CCC Loan
and Purchase Agreement Pro-
grams as of January Is.
Secretary of Agriculture Ben
son recently asked the National
Agricultural Advisory Commission
to review the entire wheat situa-
ton. giving special attention to
possible means of explaining con-
sumption, as we'll as to grades
and classes of wheat and land
use programs. The study will also
be directed toward the merits of
production controls established
ON bushel rather than an acre
ass basis.
The Lincoln times., 1955-04-21

1--WE would like to print your
interview alongside one from Mr..
Cline, and let the people choose
who will best administer their af-
fairs and their tax dollars Mr..
TAFT was told.
Il have no statement TO
make" he said.
NATIVE AND VET
Ira Franklin Cline supplied the
facts asked by a Times neWSman.
Mr.. Cline is a native of Lincoln
County, son of the late Mr.. and
Mrs. T. F.. Cline. He followed the
furrow and grassed the corn until
he was about 81, then donned
Uncle Sans Army khaki and
marched away with the boys OF
'l8. He now belongs to the Amer
lean Legion.
Ira Cline renamed with his
first love, Lincoln County farm,
until he was % years old, then
he entered the field or commerce
which has brought him standing
in community and a measure OF
material success in life. The for
mer is apparent in his having
been elected three times to the
Lincolnton Board of Alderman.
And a point of the latter is that
he has daughter who is in her
The Lincoln times., 1955-04-21
Side|ights Of
Vaccine Clinic
AT Legion Hut

Notes, sidelightS and obserVa-
tions from Operation Sure Shot,
the Salk Vaccination clinic held
at the American Legion Hut on
Tuesday where hundreds OF
little arms felt the prick OF lnocu-
Icing needles needles JnaC
save them the Salk polio vac
cine that they might never know
the dread ravages of the disease.
Approximately 14l0 Lincoln
county first and second graders
were eligible to receive the Salk
vaccine and the first to line
up for their shots were the young
sters from the South Aspen school
Having the dubious honor OF
getting the needle" first was
"Chuck Alexander, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. J. C. Alexander. He took it
bravely, laughed and said -
didn't hurt bit"
The clinic was set up and ready
tC start the inoculations we'll a
head of the scheduled a. m.
starting time and when sew
eral bus loads of the children
showed up at $40. it was decided
tc begin administering the shots
and by 9 o'clock fifty of the
youngsters had been inoculated.
Occasionally spotted among the
vaccineeS would be brace-Wear-
ing little boy or girl, victim of
polia. These handicapped children
were given the shots. Just like the
Continued on page fOur)
The Lincoln times., 1955-04-21
A FUND FOR THOSE UNABLE TO PAY?
Lincoln Physicians May Set
Uniform Sa|k Serum CHARGE

yet. and every physician in Lin
coin County has a growing list
of names of children whose par
ents have made application for
the Salk vaccine. Those of the
most susceptible ages will be
served first.
What the charge will be, has
not yet been determined. But
DIR. j. H. Fitzgerald, president
of the Lincoln County Medical
Society, said a meeting of To-
cal physicians will be held to
see whether a uniform scale
can be worked out - SO that
the charge will be the same
by all physicians.
He expressed confidence that
the charge will be in line with
that doctors in adjacent cities,
such as Newton and Gastonia,
make. An effort will be made to
make the charge a nominal one,
with the greater part of it go
ing to pay for the cost of the
serum.
But" declared a LincOlnt0n
doctor tOGay, mo Lincoln child
should be denied the protection
of the anti-pOliO vaccination
because of his parents inability
to pay for the shots"
He said this suggests pos
sible project for some Lincoln
civic or social club or Organi-
zatiOn. A fund - which needn't
be large put by to finance
the vaccinations for children
otherwise unable to afford them
would be "Of the most humani-
tarian", he said, land, actually,
would benefit the health Of the
entire community"
The Lincoln times., 1955-04-21

That couldn't have been the
needle or the heart, he said.
More than likely, it was a COM
bination of heat weather tenn
peratures were in the 80S) fear
and apprehension. And, the
fainting of some after the shots,
undoubtedly was due to some
mild reaction when it was all Ov-
er. None of the Is children was
injured in anyway. There was no
danger in the first place, as the
room was crowded by doctors
and nurses.
NEXT CLINIC MAY 10TH
So. Lincoln children Will be
ready for their second and CHI
mactic Salk shot May 10th. All
should be smooth and should be
run off in from two to three hours.
No word has been received here
whether a third short will be ne
cessary. but in most localities, on
" two shots are given presently,
with a wait of at least seven
months before a third.
The Lincoln times., 1955-04-21
Funeral Rites
Held Friday For
Pfc. Edgar Turner

Funeral rites for PFC Edgar w.
Turner were held Friday, April
Is, at 3 p. m. at Lincoln Avenue
Baptist Church, with Rev. Rich
ard T. Howerton officiating as
sisted by Rev. A. L. Campbell and
Rev. Morris Baker.
PFC Turner was born in Lin
colnton January 2, 1884. He was
a member of Lincoln Avenue
Baptist Church, and before his
induction into the army was en-
ployed at Glenn Mills, Incorpor-
ated.
He was married to the former
Miss Shirley Buff, daughter of
MIR. and Mrs. Richard Buff of
Lincolnton July 26, 1852. He en-
tered the army in June of 1858,
and after basic training, spent
IL months in Korea. He was
transferred to Honolulu in the
fall of 1854, and his wife Joined
him there shortly afterward, and
remained until his death. He
entered Tripler Hospital in Homo
lulu April /, 1855, and died of
bronchial pneumonia April 6,
1855.
Survivors include his wife, his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. C. Tur-
ner of Lincolnton, three brothers,
Eloy, Bobby and Larry, and three
sisters, Mrs. Reid Potts. Mrs.
S,,sirley Heavier. and Miss Nor
~ Turner. all of Lincolnton.
~Warlick's Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements, and the
Local VFW provided military hon.
orS. Interment was made in
Hollybrook Cemetery.
The Lincoln times., 1955-04-21
Cline Interviewed:
Tdif: No Statement

The week approaching the eve of new Demo-
crat primary-set for next Tuesdayand the candidates
toting out their rappngs and trimmings in antici
patton
Ira F. Cline, seeking to don the mantle of Mayor of
Lnconton postponed the planting OF his Wfes flowers
to visit The Times office He by invitation to give
statement Of purpose.
A. L. TAFT the second candidate for mayor, did not
visit the newspaper office He telephoned
I'VE merely want to tell the people what their two
mayoral candidates stand for, what they aim to do
elected to office and why they believe they are best
qualified for the seat Mi TAFT was told.
81 have no statement to make, he said
The Lincoln times., 1955-04-21

Operation Sure Shot" was
launched here Tuesday when l.
40 first and second-graders,
oueued up in long lines at the
Legion Hut, bit tiny lips and
proffered slender arms for Lin
coin County's first anti-polio ino-
culations.
Prayerful parents were grateful
that the Great Day had come
that through the miracle of the
Salk shots infantile paralysis
was about to become but a his
toIic memory.
But there are thousands of
other growing boys and girls
in Lincoln County, all potential
prey to the manning, breath
choking ravages Of polio; and,
to date, no provision has been
made anywhere for giving these
youngsters the free vaccine.
1t will be available from pri-
vate physicians = as soon as a
sufficient quantity of it can be
manufactured: but. at this early
rf.our, the serum makers are work.
ing feverishly around the clock to
provide the potential demands.
Only token amounts of the Salk
serum have as yet appeared on
drug store counters.
GET MANY APPLICANTS
Within a matter of months, a
Lincolnton doctor said today, the
supply of the Salk vaccine will
be as plentiful as that on hand at
present to combat typhoid fever.
smallpox, and other diseases
which in past ages were nearly
always fatal. but which have
been under control today.
Nevertheless, those few inter-
vanins months have not passed
The Lincoln times., 1955-04-21
Presbyterian Fund
Drive Progressing

An all-out campaign for funds
is being launched by Lincolnton
PreSbyterianS. and this week a
total OF $100,39500 had been Civ
er or pledged towards the fund.
The fund goal is Sl50,000.
Money raised during the fund
drive will be used to remodel and
enlarge the persent First Presby-
terian church building. The
church membership has outgroWn
the present building and addi-
tional space is needed.
The Lincoln times., 1955-04-21

third year at Converse College,
Miss Margaret Cline, the only
child, is majoring in music tpia-
no., and when at home often
fills in for the musical portions
of services at Lincolnton First
Methodist Church.
Ira Cline grew up on the old
homeplace in the Reepsville sec
ton. At %, he went with Stand
ard Oil Co. for five years, then
became associated with Atlantic
Refining Co., connection he has
enjoyed for quarter of cen
tury. He is a wholesale gasoline
and oil dealer.
SENT HIM BACK
He first went on the local Board
of Aldermen to fill out the un-
expired term of the late Jack
Llewellyn. The voters sent him
back on three successive occas-
Sions. The climax of this career
now stands upon the Threshold
of next Tuesday. when Lincoln
ton Democrats 60 to the polls
to nominate a Mayor-which is
tantamount to election.
Mr.. Cline is married to the for
mer Miss Floyd Mace of Lincoln
County, who is a daughter of Mrs.
w. z. Mace and the late Nj.