The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-04-20
FRIDAY APRIL II TO OPEN
PIRATE JAMBOREE WITH BIG
FISHERY, HATTERAS VILLAGE
Invitations Out for One and All To Come to Sec
ond Annual Pirates Festival On the Dare
County Coast. Lasting Three Days with Events
at Ha++eras, Mays Head and Roanoke Island.
By AYCoCK BROWN


eastern coast vacation season will
be launched during the second an
nual Dare Coast Pirates Jamboree
during three days of celebration
beginning Friday April 81 and end
ing Sunday April 20. Presented
last year as a more or less expert
mental festival the event gained
widespread popularity which re-
suited in sponsors planning another
Jamboree along the same pattern
and covering all of the territory
included in the region known as
the Dare Coast, a fabulous sector
OF North Cardinals legendary
Outer Banks.
The schedules of events will be-
gin at Hatteras on Friday where
the program including fishing con-
tests, Coast Guard life saving
drills, browning of beauty and buc-
cancer royalty, the worlds biggest
salt water fish fry, beach buggy
races and Ocracoke Boy Scouts ex-
hibiting their banker ponies, will
be held for the most part on the
exact spot of beachland where the
late General Billy Mitchell based
bombers while proving that sur
face craft were vulnerable to
bombing attacks from airplanes
back in September 1880, when he
sank the battleships New Jersey
and Virginia. The Ocracoke Scouts,
only banker pony mounted troop
in the world, will come to Hat
teras Island from their island vii
lage nearby where Edward Teach,
the notorious pirate Blackboard,
was run down and killed in IT'S.
The Jamboree festivities at Hat
teras will conclude with a colorful
waterfront carnival and dance.
On Saturday, the following day
the program moves up the Outer
Banks to the Mays Head, Kill Devil
Hills and Kitty Hawk area. A full
day of activity beginning with a
nationally sponsored model plane
contest at Kill Devil Hills Nation
al Monument, marking the spot
where the Wright Brothers flew
the first airplane in 1908 will be-
gin at 8 o'clock and continue
through 2 pm. Other morning
events include treasure hunt for
children, and the unwilling of a
464 pound blue marlin, second
largest caught in the United States
last year and music by Elizabeth
City High School Band with it's
colorful pirate costumed majorettes
at Kitty Hawk. This will be fol-
lowed with a Pirate Landing Party
from Kitty Hawk Bay, led by the
king and queen of piracy who will
be chosen at pre-Jamboree Pirate
Ball at Mays Head on April 81.
The afternoon schedule of events
includes jeep obstacle race across
the slopes of Jockeys Ridge at
Mays Head, a great mountain Of
sand which has the distinction of
being the highest coastal dune
along the Atlantic or Gulf Coasts.
Soon after the obstacle races
thrilling jalopy races along the
Mays Head surf are planned. On
Saturday night the most colorful
social event of the 3-day Jamboree
will be the Grand Pirate Ball in
Mays Head Casino at which the
buccaneer royalty will be crowned.
On Sunday morning, concluding
day of the Spring vacation season
launcher religion will have its role
when DR.. Sylvester Green, vice
president of Wake Forest College,
Winston Salem, will preach in the
Lost Colony's Waterside Theatre
at Fort Raleigh on Roanoke Is
land, site of English-speaking
Americas spiritual beginning in
1884 during the Elizabethan Era
of Sir Walter Raleigh. And fol-
lowing the religious services,
promptly at 1915 o'clock the first
of 20 speedboat races will begin
in Mantco's Shallowbag Bay har-
Dor on Roanoke Island. The speed
boat classic is sponsored by the
local boat club and is nationally
sanctioned.
Pre-Jamboree events began on
Friday, April IS, with Pirate
Street Dance in Elizabeth City,
under the sanction of that
city's municipal council and
mayor. On Saturday evening,
April IA in the Carolinian
Hotel here on Mays Head
Manteo Rotary Clubs bearded
pirate quartet, challenged six other
quartets in a Barber Shop Song
Shop. On Sunday. April is, first
in . series Of pirate motorcades
and television shows began, the
first to Washington, N. c., with
others scheduled for Norfolk and