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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-06-10
D. BURRUS DIES
SATURDAY AT BUXTON
Was Well Known Coast Guardsman
and Service Station Operator;
Funeral Services "Wednesday

Calvin Dallas Burrus, 65, died
Saturday at a. m. at his resi-
dence in Buxton after a short ILL
ness.
Mr.. Burrus was a member of
one of the best known families of
Hatteras Island, and removed from
Hatteras to Buxton, several years
ago, and entered the service sta
ton and garage business. He was
skilled mechanic in several
fields, and for many years MAIN
tanned the Coast Guard telephone
lines in his area.
A retired Coast Guardsman, he
was the son of Ethelbert Dozier
Burrus and Achsah w. Burrus. He
was a member of the Masonic
Lodge, a Shriner, and a member
of the Buxton Methodist Church.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Effie Spires Burrus; five daugh-
tiers, Mrs. Rosa Foster and Mrs.
Achsah Oden, of Hatteras; Mrs.
Aulise Balance, of Crasi, Calf;
Mrs. Marcella Davis, of Daley
City, Calf, and Mrs. Elizabeth
Burrus, of Buxton; two sons, Cal,
vim D. Burrus, Jr., and Conrad
Darius Burrus, of Buxton; a sis
ter, Mrs. Lula Fulcher, of Buxton,
and two brothers, Maurice B.
Burrus and Luther D. Burrus, of
Hatteras.
The funeral of Mr.. Burrus, con-
Quoted at 2 p. m. Wednesday in the
Methodist Church, and concluded
at the Dudley cemetery was one
of the largest ever held at Cape
Hatteras. The church was filled to
overlooking, the floral offerings
were profuse. Rev. Dan Meadows,
the pastor and Rev. Andrew Stir
ling conducted the service. Masons
served as pail bearers, and held a
service at the grave. The church
choir sang Somewhere The Sun
is Shining" and "God Be With
You Till We Meet Again" Mrs.
Andrew Stirling sang Beyond the
Sunset" Pail bearers We're John
Herbert, John Austin, Herbert
Midget, Dewey Parr, Cecil Mid
gett and Ulysses Peele.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-06-10
LURE MARKED
I EFFORTS TO BUILD
LIGHT ON SHOALS
Rough Seas Were the Winner
Against Three Attempts Off
Cape Hatteras in the sos.
By EARL DEAN

If anyone should ever ask you
to name the most difficult and
dangerous engineering feat ever
undertaken in the history of North
Carolina, you would probably be
safe in saying the efforts to build
a lighthouse out on Diamond
Shoals, over 71a miles at sea off
Cape Hatteras. For three deter
mined attempts to erect a light
house tower on the outer edge of
Dare County's famous shoals all
resulted in defeat and. failure.
The first efforts to establish a
light at sea out on Diamond Shoals
began in January, 1888, when
more than 300 insurance under
writer's, merchants, shippers and
masters of vessels engaged in
coast-wise trade along the Atlantic
seaboard petitioned Congress for
a warning beacon off Hatteras'
shoals to supplement the light
house ashore. But it was more than
five years before Senator Matt
Ransom, of North Carolina, was
successful in getting bill passed
by both Houses of Congress to
provide funds for such a tremen-
dous undertaking. Finally, on
March 2, 1889, largely because of
the appalling increase in the loss
of life and property off the North
Carolina coast, Congressional
appropriation. of 100000 was
made available for the project.
Leading engine ering firms
throughout the United States bid
on the job and the following July
a contract was awarded the low
bidder, Anderson & Barr, of Jer-
sey City, N. j., who agreed to
build suitable structure out on
Diamond Shoals and have it ready
for lighting on or before January
1, 1892. Their price for the hazard
Gus undertaking was $485,000.
In the spring of 1891 the New
Jersey contractors began assem-
bling material and equipment at
Norfolk, Va, the base of opera
ti~"s, and by the middle of June
had constructed a 45-foot
70 t iron caisson with a con-
~ illing two feet thick which
II feet of water when
launched in the waters of Eliza
beth River. On June %, 1891, the
huge structure, towed by three
powerful ocean-going tugs, was
started on its way to the proposed
site off Cape Hatteras. Four days
later it was anchored in about 25
feet of water off the outer edge
of Diamond Shoals.
The big wrought iron cylinder,
which weighed $4,000 pounds, and
cost more than $4,000 to as
semble, was to be the foundation
for a 150-foot tower which would
provide living quarters for a
keeper and his family, as we'll as
See FAILURE, Page Ten
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-06-10
OCEAN PIER FISHING GOOD

Kitty Hawk.-Charles M. Hurdle
and Adrian Hughes, of South Mills,
fished for II hours one day last
week end and landed $50 bluefish
and also 20 sea mullet. H. S. Stew
ems of Elizabeth City, fishing from
the Kitty Hawk pier, accounted
for $50 blues. A party from Dur
ham, including Ed Holt, Thomas
Dunnagan and Bruce Fowler, reel
ed in 235 while jerome Doxey and
T. w. Williams, of Currituck, ac-
counted for 278.
In one day, more than 1000
blues, averaging / pound each, to-
falling approximately 2 tons, were
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-06-10
FIRST NIGHT GAME OF
SEASON IN MANTEO FRIDAY

The Manteo Cardinals will COM
pete with the Wanchese Tigers for
the championship of the w. F. Fry
conference, Friday night, June 10,
at $3.50 at the Manteo ball park
near the waterworks. This will be
the first night game of the season
and a small admission will be
charged. Tickets may be purchased
from Johnnie Cox or Clyde Has
sell, or at the gate. The Cardinals
recently defeated the Kitty Hawk
team in conference game.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-06-10
43,379 VISIT HATTERAS
SEASHORE DURING MAY
BY AYCoCK BROWN

Cape Hatteras National Sea-
shore Recreational Area, extend
ing from Mays Head southwark
along the Outer Banks for 70
miles to Ocracoke Inlet, was top
tourist and vacation attraction
during the month of May Travel
figures for the month, released to-
day by National Seashore Super
intendent Allyn Hanks reflected
that 43,379 persons aboard 1928
cars crossed the automatic counter
on the highway entrance to the
recreational area.
"This does not include local
travel, or persons living within
the area" Hanks stated.
National Seashore travel figures
reflect that during the first five
months this year total of 62,873
persons in 1915 vehicles (exclud-
ing local traffic) have visited the
new oceanside recreational area of
the National Park Service here on
the Dare Coast. This is more than
one half of the grand total for the
entire year during 1854 where an
estimated 10000 persons, exclud-
ing local people, visited Americas
first publicly owned oceanside
unit of the National Park.
The total visitation count for
was based on number of per-
n rossing counter at northern
~ &c of the National Seashore.
.es not include persons who
may have entered the area from
the south via Ocracoke Island
mailboat.
OF the total number of visitors,
20,04O visitew Oregon Inlet Fish
ing Center during May.
On Hatteras Island, according
to the official count of persons go
ing to the Point of Cape Hatteras,
a total of 28,331, were there, not
including local traffic. During the
month 932 persons climbed to the
top of Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
and 1,842 visited (and registered)
at the Museum of the Sea. There
were 248 persons listed as over
night campers.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-06-10
Is BUXTON GRADUATES;
DANIELS. SPEAKER FRIDAY

Sixteen graduated from Cape
Hatteras High School Friday,
when Melvin R. Daniels, Dare
County Register of Deeds deliver
ed the address of the evening in
the old high school building, the
last time it will be used. The
school has had a successful year,
and looks forward to its greatest
term beginning this fall in the new
building now under construction,
which will take the place of all the
schools on Hatteras Island. Mr..
Daniels delivered an inspiring mes
sage, the theme being faith of our
fathers, and the foundation of
true citizenship.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-06-10
TlLLETT'S SOUTHSIDE
INLET LODGE IS SOLD

Tobey Tillett's fishing center
built on the south side of Oregon
Inlet some four years ago was re-
Gently sold to the National Park
Service for some $4,000. After
operating the place awhile, Mr..
Tillett gave it up to take over the
concession on the north side of
Oregon Inlet, which was leased to
him by the National Park Service.
The southside property will be
used for recreation purposes by the
Park service. 1t is located on land
leased by the U. S. Fish & Wild
life Service.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-06-10
MANTEO BALL TEAM WILL
PLAY PORTSMOUTH SUNDAY

The Manteo Baseball Club will
meet team from the Portsmouth
City League of Portsmouth, Va,
at two o'clock Sunday afternoon,
June ~. The game will be played
on the ball field near the Manteo
waterworks. A small admission
will be charged.
Last Sunday afternoon the Man
teo team defeated the team from
Glendale Village, Norfolk, Va,
with a score of IA to 2.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-06-10

AND with good Mrs George Harrison Mes of Avon She
the grandmother appears left
Gray r and he careful stand his medal would not be
pcuou The medal a the fact that he the best peer currently
be found in all the public schools of Norfolk Virginia They
looking the spelling book of which Mrs Meekns taught spelling
while
Next week Gray will graduate from high school Norfolk
the his He held back than
because of major that will keep him from the
Coast Guard Academy They removed rib But he healthy
make him feel Photo by MacNei
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-06-10

landed by anglers at the local pier.
An unprecedented catch for one
day was made by Cary Evans, of
South Mills, who fshed from early
morning until ten o'clock at night
with 430 bluehsh as his take.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-06-10

THESE three Sabes thousand miles home and at home
they still be thousand miles But here WELL there's i'm
portant that the important sort of newsher
And that they also at home Cape Hat
That the left Quentin Wilson from Concord ~ H. and
his home brought
time ago158 build lighthouse And the the
Martin Lustig Dearborn Michigan His
brought New Hampshire rock here built
Lighthouse lad in the middle reading is Bernard
Freitager Dyersv reading his will do
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-10-23

beastly days when the nanny
took some time on.
Marie Chantal was fascinat-
ed by 3 giant ape. "Oh, Ma
mann. what Q lovely beast he is.
Oh. my but ! do love him. !
should like TO marry that f1ne
creature when ! grow up
Marie ChantaI Talks
Marie chantal's mother was
shocked But you can't mar
~ an ape, child"
why not. Maman?" aBe-
cause that sort Of thing Just
isn't done, Marie Chantal,
that's ALL said her mother.
Why isn't it done; tell me
Why2" persisted Marie Cham
tai WELL" replied her moth
er. ut is perfectly obvious why
not, He doesn't have any
money. !"
Way OF In Washington q
vice president Of q fashion
store retires and Paris knows
something win be missing IN
the world Of haute couture.
Marjorie Dunton says It isn't
fashion time In Paris until
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-10-23

baseball game. /" something he's
never seen and couldn't care
less about.
Baseball after all, Is an
acquired taste. like octopus,
but that doesn't stop us.
The visitor can be a junior
d. p. from the darkest and
deepest corner Of the globe. or
King Fiesal Of TRAD but he's
dragged to a baseball game.
"A good Of, Amurucun hot
dog" Is thrust into his fast and
just as he grins from ear to
ear on hearing it's time to
leave, someone snaps his pic
ture for q more idealistic cap
ton.
Stories about Marie Chantal,
the arch snob Of Paris are still
the rage--now we're delving
into her childhood.
II seems that when Marie-
Chantal was q very little girl
her mother took her to the
zoo. It was one OF those
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-10-23

to be doing too well in Eng
land. The Queen has not yet
decided whether or not to
convert the sets at The Palace.
which Is not what you'd call
enthusiastic patronage.
One recent morning saw nv
shows running nearly two
hours without q single come
mercial because there'd been
no bidders for the time.
An interesting nv accom-
plishment in Britain has been
TO make horse shows q leading
spectator sport. Jump riders
are now as well known in
Britain as tennis players. !.
Television has atrophied the
muscles Of American youth,
says a recent report. We're
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-10-23

Miss Eiizabeth Fairall Of Car
finckel q Co. has set foot IN
town.
Professionally Marjorie Is
head Of the English language
section Of the French fashion
industry. IN private life she
and her husband, Comte
Georges Panczel. are close
friends Of Miss Fairall. wen
miss her 50 much. she says.
She's as much q part Of the
fashion picture as the coutur-
iers themselves. !"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-10-23
lDATELINE PARIS
Rita HuYworth Dimes
With Daughter Not Ali
BY BRENDA HELsER

Parsley now it may be
clear that this column Is cyni-
cal on the subject Of noisey ro-
mances. So lets begin with the
one least likely to succeed and
discuss The Ali Khan.
When Rita Hayworth fed
Africa and the Prince, be
picked up the low-degree torch
peculiar to those who feel dis
satisfied because m alters
haven't ended on their own.
terms. The walked -out-upon
remains curious and interested
until his chance comes to say
the final, the fatal mo.
thanks. "
The Prince has bided his,
time with another movie star,
q young English duchess. and
most recently the most ele-
CANT mannequin In Paris.
The other evening. while
Rita dined alone In her hotel
room with her elder daughter
Rebecca, her other daughter.
Yasnlina. was asleep IN her
fathers house In the avenue
Maurice Barres.
From her nursery Yasmina
can look across the avenue to
the Bots de Boologne and Just
In front Of her eyes tmere steps
away1 is the monkey house Of
the roo.
But her natural gaiety Is
fading ever 20 slightly. She
misses her mother and sister.
She's confused by the undemo-
cratic difference accorded her.
There's going TO be q problem
making q true princess out Of
her with lessons at 1t only six
weeks q year.
Prince Ali is no snoh but
he's anxious that she master
languages both Eastern and
Western; so far progress isn't
too good.
The happiest member Of the
cast Is Young Rehecca WIN
never saw so much Of her
mother In her life: she has her
entirely to herself around the
clock.
Commercial TV seems not
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-10-23

further depressed BY the long
known fact that our students
aren't scholars.
The other night the Louvre
offered its first lecture in q
free series Of So stretching
until june.
Standing Room
The SRO signs were posted.
Among the standees were
children. as well as young and
old adults.
Could q lecture on art by
q museum ofilcial In America
attract such interest? Prob
ably not. So we're droopes,
dopes. and buds. How on
earth did We ever get together
the mightiest Nation that ever
existed2 But we did. atrophied
brains and muscles not with
standingl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-10-23

Currently The English, who
adore our musicals. are a bit
perplexed BY the plan 70 inn
port Damn Yankees" which
is almost all baseball. The
funniest thing about the game
is Our mad passion to infiict
it on every male visitor under
81.
We're sure that hen be de-
ferrous with joy Just to be
taken to "a real Amurucun
Evening star., 1955-02-03

Of Ramsey. N. j. The word to-
day Is that J. Fred Muggs has
reached roads end in television
and Is about to be put out to
pasture or whatever chimpanzees
are put out to.
mo one said q word to us. !"
the AP quotes Roy Waldron, CO.
owner with Bud Menella of the
beast. "but we understand that
from now on he'll be used mostly
for publicity and travel" He
has been used on NB-Tv's "To-
day" and there is q story that
Dave Garroway once asked an
animal-wise friend how a recall
citrant chimp should be han
died.
BELT him one." said the
friend. Belt him one Garroway
did and j. Fred behaved just
dandy. Trouble now is that. at
the age OF 3, j. Fred is getting
muscular and could belt back.
He'll be replaced on To-day" by
a 9-month-old girl chimp name
Of Phoebe, Mr.. Waldron says.
Don't know how Garroway, a
chivalrous man who wouldn't
belt lady chimp, will make her
behave.
Evening star., 1955-02-03

Just Q plea for a more realistic
apprQach to the business Of pro-
viding logical backgrounds for
the people in plays. It is more
than a little difficult to join a
playwright in sympathy for a
poor little shop girl when we fol-
low her home and discover her
shabby hall bedroom done up in
$4,000 worth of painting and
sculpture.
If she's so hungry, she can
get out of my life, and hook a
Corot. that's what she can do.
IMPACT - Several scattered
items of evidence of television's S
impact have turned up. There
is, for instance. the case of Arena
Stage, which sent a couple of
people out to do some scenes
from "The Miser" on WTOP-
TVS "Ask-It-Basket" last Sat-
urday. Before the show the mat
inee that day was about 60 per
cent sold. A flock of ticket
buyers called Immediately after
the TV program and by curtain
time the matinee was complete
sell-out. (Patty Cavin's WRC
radio show gets something like
the same results. ANY interview
there with an Arena player is
Evening star., 1955-02-03

to be evicted because he couldn't
pay the rnSager rent.
Then the cameras followed
him inside. In a corner of the
room stood an impressive carved
credenza. A scarf and a pair of
lamps were tastefully arranged
on top of it and above it hung
a large and handsome landscape
painting.
Another dramatic show ven
tured into the cheap apartment
Of a young bank clerk who did
not have any at all Of the stuff
he spent his days counting for
someone else. The place looked
like a wing Of the Museum of
Modern Art.
The TV set designers may
have a perfectly legitimate ute
rior motive. Of course. Undoubt-
edly they practice the fine as
well as the commercial arts
whenever the opportunity arises.
They naturally wish subtly to
implant the notion that all men
beat, wives who go out and buy
bread when there isn't a single
work of art in the house.
This small quibble is not to be
taken as a suggestion that peo-
pie don't buy paintings and
shouldn't buy paintings. It is
Evening star., 1955-02-03

followed by immediate calls for
seats.
Then there Is the man who
doesn't think much Of. television.
who has just spent q month on
a jury. He thinks there may be
something to this television after
all by now, however. Almost
every witness he encountered, he
reports. reckoned time not by
the clock. but by TV. Something
always happened while ! was
watching the fights on Wednes-
day night" or right after T.
Love Lucy"
Finally, there Is the 8-year-old
member of the television audi
ence who proudly brought home
his report card the other day.
He got an rs" for satisfactory
in all but two departments,
drawing an II" for improvement
needed in, not surprisingly, con-
duct and language.
Whats language?" he de-
manded to know.
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CAREERS END - It is no
sense Of personal sorrow, you
may be sure. but the assump-
ton that somebody cares which
prompts the passing along Of
this Associated Press report out
Evening star., 1955-02-03
There Are Those, Fellows,
Who Don't Own a Picusso
On the Air
BY Harry Macarthur

There is a complaint that will
have to be registered sooner Or
later. so it may as well be today.
It's about the scenic designers Of
television. There are a lot Of
larger targets in TV and it may
seem gratuitous to take a belt at
the set designers, who are Nirtu-
ally Anonymous anyhow. with the
exception of Kim E. Swados.
One or another Of these boys
can be caught in the act of gross
miscalculation almost nightly,
however. Their trouble obviously
Is that they just don't know how
the other half lives. They are
given to r-decoration. They
must have little contact with the
white-collar-girl set, these TV set
designers. They clearly are not
Evening star., 1955-02-03
Want Ad Poys OFF
With Double Results
By the Assoeiated Pres.

LIBERTY, Ky.-MrS. Lutte
Combest lost her lawn mower
and a fireplace CRATE. She put
an ad in the Casey County News
describing the loss and got no
response.
She decided to try the ad COL
umns again, however, to sell a
pile of lumber behind her house.
When the lumber had been
removed, the lawn mower and
crate were found-at the bottom
of the pile.
Evening star., 1955-02-03
Art Needs Dreams

1--WE know that art is not made
Of dreams" said DR.. Tom Hon
eyman, recor tof GetaoinHTH
eyman, rector of Glasgow Uni
versity. 1T is the mastery of
dreams, but the dream is some
where around"
Evening star., 1955-02-03

aware Of the fact that very few
stenographers decorate their
apartments with original Pi-
casSos.
It is almost unnecessary to
cite examples. If you watch
closely tonight you are almost
certain to discover your own evil
dence that the scenic designers
labor under the misapprehension
that everyone owns at least five
42-by-54-inch original oils.
4 \ X
A couple of examples do come
to mind. though. One of the
nour-long dramas once did a play
about a man, who. according to
the verbal evidence offered,
hadn't done a lick of work in sew
eral decades. He lived in a tiny
shack from which he was about
Evening star., 1955-02-03
LIFE In The ARCTIC
The Polar Bear-4

The polar bear found in the Arctic is long
and weighs from 600 to TOO pounds His thick fur is white and
he quickly the ice to catch fish
Here is polar bear for along with
northern friends you meeting this week.
l. Using paint you color the fish green and
shade the bear little around the edges.
2. Use library paste to the picture smoothly on
cardboard Cut out the fish and the the Apply
ing paste only to the dotted circle the hind
attach the front the hind par like
does in the small drawing Fold SO they will
the ground spread parts the bear so
he will sit up.
B. Cut slit along the line of the bears mouth that
can hold the fish. That should make him happy
Violet A
Tomorrow: Fishing through ice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-03

Wind-Southeast 1915 miles
per hour tonight and tomorrow.
River Report
From U. .. Engineers)
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
and at Great Falls; Shenandoah clear At
Harpers Ferry
Temperatures for Yesterday
tReadingS Washington National Airport)
Midnight $500 S3 Noon 81
am. - n pm OF
8 am. - rs pm. - IS
Record Temperatures This Year
Highest, 9S, on August 2.
Lowest, 10. on February 3.
High and Low Of Last "a Hours
High. 9s, at 4:10 pm.
Low, II at 5:15 am.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-03

Ichased an additional annuity Of
$500, the increase would be or
the entire $1,000.
Regarding Federal employs
who retire after December 81
1857, congressional leaders sait
the reason they were not included
in the bill is that their eventua
pensions will be increased any
way as a result Of this years T.!
per cent Federal pay raise. Fed
eral pensions are based in par
on the highest average five year.
salary of an employe.
In approving the pension bill
Congress eliminated a provision
that would have brought en-
lployes of Congressional cam
lpaign committees under the civi
service retirement system.
The bill will cost about 81.
million a year, and its eventua
total cost will be about $40 mil.
lion.
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BOND BILL-Before adjourn.
ling, Congress approved and sent
Ito the White House the bill to
have the Government pay the
cost of surety bonds of / mil
lion Federal employees who now
have to pay for such bonds.
The bill had the administra-
ltion's support and Is certain tt
be signed into law by President