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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-08-31
SUNDAY. SEPT. 2ND
LAST PERFORMANCE
OF 10Th SEASON
Last Showing Of Lost Colony in
1855 VIII Take Place Labor
Day Eve.
BY AYCOCK BROWN

Labor Day Eve, this year fall
ing on September 2, will mark the
10th season finale of the Lost Col
ony, Americas longest-lived out
door production. 1t will be the
82Oth performance of the Paul
Green drama which was shown
first in Waterside Theatre during
the summer of 1887, and during
each summer season since then ex-
cept for four World War II years
when it was necessary to black out
this coastal region as a security
measure against enemy subma-
rines operating offshore.
The Lost Colony, first of the
outdoor symphonic drama types of
production, is presented at Fort
Raleigh on the actual site of the
original happenings of the story it
tells. The story is of Elizabethan
England and the New World in
which Sir Walter Raleigh attempt
ed to plant a permanent settle
ment during the 10th Century per-
iod of 1584-87.
1t also tells the story of Vir-
ginia Dare, first child of English
parents born in America, whose
369th anniversary was celebrated
here last week on August 18, with
the Governors of North Carolina
and Bermuda, former members of
British Parliament and high U. S.
government officials present to
help pay homage to the famous
babe.
Performances are presented
nightly, except Mondays, by high
ly trained actors, some profession
ais, other advanced students of col
legiate drama on multi-level stag
ings in a vast open air theatre
overlooking historic oanok e
Sound. There are 1874 persons in
the Lost Colony Company and cast
this year.
The final performance of each
summer season is presented on the
eve of Labor Day. The reason for
this was something learned sever
al years ago, that holiday vacation
lists celebrating Labor Day at this
North Carolina coastal resort re-
gions, do their celebrating on the
holidays eve, and during daylight
hours of Labor Day. By evening,
the throngs who would be potential
customers for the drama are home
bound from their vacations.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-08-31
THE IMPORTANT AMENDMENT TO
BE VOTED UPON SEPTEMBER Sth

We think it is important for the
people of North Carolina to inform
themselves fully on the Amend
ments concerning our public
schools, to be voted on Saturday,
September 9Th. We think it is i'm
portant for everyone to go vote
and express his opinion on a mat
teras of grave concern to our peo-
pie.
Many people believe that the
Supreme Courts decision on mix
ing whites and negroes in the
schools will mean the end of public
schools in many parts of the south.
The Pearsall Amendment plan is
believed to offer relief from this
grave problem. We urge our peo-
pie to read the following:
Here, in the words of the Pear
sail committee, is the best way to
preserve public schools and help
preserve the public peace"
Governor Luther H. Hodges
gives his full support to this plan.
The General Assembly approved it
overwhelmingly; the Senate by 40
to and the House of Representa-
by 116 to 2.
The State Board of Education
overwhelmingly endorsed this plan.
So did other school groups, includ-
ing the Executive Committee of
the North Carolina Education
Association, representing nearly
10000 white teachers.
A majority vote by You, the
people, on September 8 will: ID
Permit the granting of education
expense grants at State and local
levels to any child for whom no
public school is available, or who
is assigned against his parents
wishes to a mixed public school;
and (2) Permit by later vote Of
the people the closing of school
or schools in a community where
conditions become intolerable.
Questions and Answers
1. What is the purpose of this
Amendment?
A. 1t is an effort to preserve
North Cardinals Public School
system.
2. Why should we amend our
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-08-31
N. G. TOWNS SHARE
SIX MILLION SPLIT
FOR STREET WORK
Largest Amount Yet From Powell
Funds Divided Among In
corporated Towns

Raleigh.-The State Highway
Commission has announced the al
location of $6,219, 1862 in cash
aid to 400 incorporated, active,
eligible and qualified municipali-
ties for improvements on non
highway system streets.
This is the largest amount ever
distributed since the Powell Bill
Act was passed in 1851, when a
total OF $4,543,O96.20 was divided
among 386 towns. In 1852, a total
of $4,948,842.30 was shared by
1888 towns. In 1858, a total of
SIS, 244,203.4O was diveded among
1874 Tar Heel towns. In 1854,
$5,391,717.41 was shared by 1876
TOWNS. Last year, a total of S.
711,978.98 was divided among 399
towns. This years ALLEGATION
brings the total six-year disburse-
ment of Powell Bill Funds to
$32, 059, 175.11.
The complete list of ALLEGATIONS
to several eastern towns is as
follows: Aurora $3,207.59; Bath
81, 478.22; Belhaven $11,623.23;
Columbia $4,113.S1; Creswell ST.
900.S2; Edenton $15,579.36; Eliza
beth City $42,677.47; GAINESVILLE
$2,356.53; Kill Devil Hills $685.
SO; Manteo $2,786.53; Pantego
$909.18; Plymouth $16,490.24; Ro-
per $3,715.O5 Washington $780,
543.84; Washington Park $2,513.-
49, Williamson $21,342.76.
The increasing annual total dis
bursements are due to the ever
growing volumes of gasoline being
used in motor vehicles. The fund
comes from a Ne per gallon of the
total OF gross &c gasoline tax
(less refunds) during fiscal 1856
Sc, when the gross State gasoline
tax totalled $74,690,855.92.
Checks will be mailed to the
participating towns in mid-Sep-
TENDER.
Half of the total ALLEGATION, or
So, 109,668.41 is divided among all
qualified municipalities on the ba-
sis of population. The per capita
rate is $2.04 this year. Last year,
it was $1.88.
The other half of the total allo-
cation is divided among all the
qualified municipalities on the ba-
sis of relative mileage of non
State system or local streets which
comply with the Act. The milage
rate this year is $496.66. Last
year, it was $472.65.
AS Of July /, 1856, the 400 par
ticipating towns had 6,261.17 miles
of non-highway system streets.
Their total population, according
to the 1850 census, was 1875, 1898.
ALLEGATIONS We're figured to the
penny by the Highway Commits
sion's Division of Statistics and
Planning under the direction of
See FUNDS, Page Seven
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-08-31
A MOVIE DIRECTOR FLIES
EAST TO SEE LOST COLONY
Henry King Nov on List Of Seasons
Notable Guests to>Pasesnt

Aboard his private plane, Henri,
King, one of the top ranking Hol
lywood movie directors, came tt
Manteo this week to see a per.
Torrance of the Lost Colony. He
was scheduled to land at Mantec
Airport Thursday and see the dra
mas S17th showing of the outdoor
production which has outlived al
others and has been seen by al.
most 100000 paying customers
during its long history.
Manager Dick Jordan was ad.
vised earlier this week by Pau
Green, author of The Lost Colony
who is now in Williamsburg writ.
ing a new play to be presented as
a part of the jamestown EXPOSE
ton next year, that King was fly.
ing in to see the show this week.
What may be in the background
of his cross-continent trip to see a
performance of The Lost Colony
is not known at this time. King is
with goth Century Fox and he has
directed many big pictures includ-
ing State Fair, Carolina, Jesse
James, Maryland, Song of Berna-
dette, Black Swan and Love Is a
Many Splendored Thing.
Despite rainy weather, or the
kind that threatened rain, an aver
age of 1000 persons have seen
each showing of the Lost Colony
during the past four performances.
This has pushed the seasons tota
as of Wednesday night to 1856
paid admissions or more than g.
600 ahead of last season which
during August had been effected
by rains and storm warnings.
This week Lansdale Bounce
Anderson of Sports AfilnI, thu
movie company now shooting NOV
les of Cape Hatteras National Sea-
shore and the Dare coast vacation
attractions, has made several Sc
quences of the Lost Colony. Even
tually millions of people through
out the nation and world will see
these National Park Service NOV
les.
If there are no rainouts this
week end, The Lost Colony viii
end IT'S 1866 season with perform
ance 800. or 55 for the current
season. The management of the
show has announced that the Lost
Colony next year 1857 will be-
gin on June 90 and continue
through September for a total
Of IS performances.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-08-31
HATTERAS ISLANDS
BIG DETACHMENT
OF SEABEES LEAVE
This Week End Marks Departure
Of Big Task Force
BY BEN DIXON MacNEILL


Buxton on Cape Hatteras, Aug.
30.-Leaving only a detachment to
gather together the loose ends of
a multi-million construction prof.
ect that has engaged them here
for the past Is months, Seventh
Battalion, Navy Mobile Construc-
ton Force - "Seabees" - exacu-
ated Hatteras Island today and on
Monday will depart from Norfolk
on the return voyage to the forces
home base at Danville, Rhode Is
land.
Seventh Battalion, under the
command of Commander E. E.
johnson, relieved elements of the
Sixth Battalion here last February
and later in the spring was aug
mented by a new detachment of
about $50 officers and men who
came in to lend a hand on the ex-
banded Naval Facility project, now
about double the size of the in
stallation as originally planned.
In addition to the Facility con-
struction they have also graded
and paved the National Park Serv-
ices bypass approach to Cape
Hatteras.
Not since the Burnside Expedi-
ton deployed through Hatteras In
let in early February, 1861, with
the mission of attacking Norfolk
from the rear, has there been so
extensive a movement of military
personnel as the Islanders witness
ed this week, beginning on We'd
nesday when the first elements of
the Battalion moved out with the
first truck convoy of equipment.
Burnside had 10000 troops-but
the Seabees just about match him
in the extent of equipment, which
ranges from the most massive
link-belt crane owned by tie
Navy, down to kitchen sinks.
Few of the men in the Battalion
wanted to go-and fewer of the
inhabitants of the island wanted
to see them go. Half of them have
found wives on the island and
more than 60 officers and men of
the battalion had moved their fam
lilies here, either in house-trailers
or into rented quarters. The pay
roll of the outfit has ranged above
100000 per month.
Moving an outfit of battalion
size into relatively small
community and maintaining it
here for more than year
has been accomplished with
surprisingly little friction and
there has been at no time any
overt incident that appear to be
the common experience of rela-
tons between civil and military
populations. The Seabees "went
native" the first week end they
were on the island with a lanky
Texan named Chuck Willis taking
off his shoes at the Islands dance
hall and dancing the night
See SEABEES, Page Six
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-08-31
STUMPY POINT MEN WIN
PRAISE FOR TIMELY HELP

A Norfolk man has written Gov.
Hodges to praise citizens of Stun
by Point who rescued and cared
for a party of three after their
boat ran into trouble on Pamlico
Sound last week.
Paul L. Pierce wrote the Gov
ernor that he, his wife and the
owner of the boat were faced with
near tragedy" when they were
rescued by two Stumpy Point fish
ermen, Dallas M. Gray and Calvin
Hooper.
The party had hoisted distress
signal after gasoline had leaked
into the bottom of the boat, rails
ing the danger of an explosion. !,
"This was when we were privi-
legged to meet some of the most
warm-hearted, generous and hos
pitable people we have ever met"
wrote Pierce. He said the rescuing
fishermen took the party on their
boat and lowed the distressed craft
to Stumpy Point.
"The people of this small town
received us with much concern as
to our safety and well-being,"
Pierce added. "They made their
homes available to us, as well as
assisted in every way possible to
gas-free our boat and install a
temporary fuel tank in order that
we might continue our voyage"
Hodges commented that It was
"the kind Of thing that makes you
proud Of the people Of that part Of
1 "a .kns.s. N,...tl. fv~,.sss.... -
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-08-31
MILLION DOLLAR ADDITIONAL
ROAD INVESTMENT PLANNED
BY WEST VIRGINIA COMPANY
Additional 100 Miles To Be Constructed on 30o,-
DOC Acres in Dare. HYDE TyrreII and WASH
ingfon Counties For Fire Protection.

Announcement of intention to
spend an additional million dollars
to build 100 miles of roads on its
100000 acres of land in eastern
N. c. has been made by West
Virginia Pulp and Paper Company.
The largest of it's land holdings is
in Dare County, with other tracts
in Hyde, Tyrrell, and Washington
counties.
The company says this second
phase of roadbuilding is contem-
plated to supplement the present
system of so miles of road near
ing completion, construction of
which began in 1862. This system
included 48 bridges and 240 cul-
verts and is mostly in Dare Coun-
ty.
The roads and canals provided
under this program are considered
essential to protection against
fires. Most of these lands consist
of peat formations, deep layers of
it, extending over vast boys, and
which once on fire, continue to
burn for many days.
Other notes of interest in the
company's announcement are as
follows:
Cooperative Job Well
Done in Tyrrell Fire
Cooperation between the North
Carolina Forest Service and COM
pany employees paid off during
early July when a fire threatened
many thousands of acres west of
the Frying Pan Road on logging
operation in Tyrrell County.
The fire which started during
the early afternoon of July 6 was
believed to have been started by a
carelessly thrown match or cigar
cite in finder dry juniper logging
debris. High winds and excessive
ground burning made the fire diff
ficult to extinguish.
The first to arrive at scene of
the fire were personnel of the N.
See WEST VA, Page Six
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-08-31
ANOTHER $500 DAY
FROM RECORDERS
COURT IN DARE
Many Contributors to Dare Coun-
+y School Fund; Biggest Sea-
sons Business Ever

About $500 was contributed to
the Dare County School Fund in
Tuesdays session of Recorders
court, and continues figure that
has been holding up for several
weeks, representing fines collected
from speeders and other offenders
during the week end. Next Tues
day may be the last big day of
the season, when Labor Day is
ended, and traffic declines. There
may be an additional $500 coming
in from appealed cases.
Business in Recorders court
this year is estimated to be big
gest since the court was establish
ed % years ago.
Held to be guilty on total of
seven counts charging illegal
handling of beer, George R. Fear
ing il. of Kittys Hawk appealed
from total fines of $500 plus
court costs. He was arraigned on
three separate warrants of four
charges each, for alleged offenses
taking place in July and August
at his place of business at Kitty
Hawk beach, in which he was
charged with selling beer without
license, having in his possession
malt liquors, selling beer between
the hours of 11:45 pm. and 1880
am. and allowing beer to be con-
sumed on his premises between
these hours.
The charge of selling beer be-
tween 11:45 pm. and 1880 am.
was dismissed. The actions were
brought as the result of evidence
obtained by State officers operat-
ing out of Raleigh. The case will
next come before Superior Court
in late October as a result of the
appeal.
The following paid SIS each and
costs for speeding at so mph in a
35-mile zone: Roy B. Byrum,
Norfolk; Raymond E. Bryant Jr.,
Richmond; Rodney Weir Markley
Jr., Corbin Lee Cherry, Hartford;
Roy D. Cleaning, Bolivar, Pa;
Elaine May Aitkin, Colver, Pa;
Phillip P. Causey, Greensboro;
Otis Ray Griswell, Elizabeth City;
Stephen T. Parish of Ayden;
Claire Natalie Mocasean of Curri-
tuck; and Garth Leslie Rucker of
Tarboro.
For speeding at IS mphs in a
35-mile zone the following paid
500 and costs each: Robert Glenn
mons, Berkeley, Va; Robert B.
Smith Jr., Edenton; Ralph o.
Sidbery, who paid an extra $25
for having no operators license;
Albin M. Wrokblewski of Norfolk
Ellis Thos. Wrenn of Burlington;
Curtis r. Nixon Jr., who also paid
an additional $50 for reckless
driving.
See COURT, Page Six
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-08-31

Pensacola, Fla. (FHTNC) -
James A. White, aviation machin-
lists mate second class, USN, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. White of
Route 1, Box $50, Auburndale, Fla,
and husband of the former Miss
Sadie r. Midget of Kitty Hawk,
is serving with Helicopter Train
ing Unit l at Ellyson Field, Pen
sacola, Fla.
Prior to reporting to Pensacola,
he served with Advanced Training
Unit at the Sherman Field Naval
Air Station, Pensacola.
Before entering the service in
1913, he attended Redland High
School in Redland, Fla.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-08-31
CLUB MEETING POSTPONED
ONE WEEK AT RODANTHE


The usual monthly meeting Of
the Civic Club at Rodanthe' will
not be held Saturday night of this
week, but will be postponed to
September 9th, the President, w.
w. Edwards states. This delay is
due I'd the meeting of the Cape
Hatteras Electric Membership
Corp, which will be held at Bux-
ton School at the same time.
There is much interest in the
meeting at Buxton, inasmuch as
every homeowner on Hatteras Is
land D member Of the coop, and
it viii be the first annual meet
ing in two years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-23
Our North African Policy

Our Ambassador to France, C. Doug
las Dillon, has made timely and forth
right statement about United States
policy toward North Africa. President
Eisenhower, informing his news confer
ence that the Ambassadors statement
was made with his knowledge and
approval, has given it greater force.
1t is understandable that news
accounts of the Ambassadors speech
should have emphasized his declaration
that the United States stands solidly
behind France in her search for a liberal
and equitable solution of the problems in
Algeria" The Algerian crisis, at this
moment is more explosive one than the
problems of Morocco or Tunisia, both Of
which appear we'll on the way to mutu-
ally satisfactory solution. 1t is not too
surprising, Furthermore, that certain
Algerian nationalist spokesman should
be quick to criticize the word that our
Government stands behind France" in
the search for agreement on this issue.
This reaction u.s. in effect, an illustration
of the "fanatical thought" which Mr..
Eisenhower mentioned as figuring in
tneSe problems.
Actually, Mr.. Dillon's statement
should be read in it's entirety. He con-
firms, for example, that the United States
is "anticolonialist" by tradition and that
it remains true to this ideal In that
tradition, he halls the progress which has
been made, through negotiation, toward
independence for Morocco and Tunisia.
But he explains further that newly won
independence does not necessarily mean
a complete rupture of long-existing ties
as witness Pakistan and India, still within
the British Commonwealth, and the free
decision of Puerto Rico to maintain its
close relationship with the United States.
And he points to the mutual benefits to
Morocco, TuniSia and France promised by
their new relationship.
Mr.. Dillon properly recognizes AL
geria as a different problem since the
territory has been governed as part
of Metropolitan France-a status giving
representation in the French Assembly
For this reason. our official attitude has
been that the French-Algerian question
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-23
Research Crisis

President Eisenhower has received
from top-level advisory group disturb
ing report on the Governments difficult
ties in carrying on scientific researches
vital to national security. The difficulties
arise both from tagging interest in Fed
eral efforts to recruit scientists and an
exodus of Government technical person.
mel into private industry According to
the Presidents Interdepartmental Com
mittee on Scientific Research and Devel-
opment, the trouble is traceable to the
disparity between Federal and private
pay for equivalent work.
The report summed up the situation
thus: AN upward Spiraling OF salaries for
critical specialists in industry is making
Government salaries, fixed by law, less
and less adequate to recruit and retain
such personnel in Government" The
committee, composed of heads OF key
Federal research and development agen-
cieS, based its warning on personal OBJ
Servation of the current trend. The only
cure, it said, is a readjustment upward
of salaries for scientists, engineers and
other specialists needed to keep America
abreast of the chronological progress
being made by Soviet and other foreign
scientists.
Government scientists and techni-
clans now are in the classified service,
with a fixed ceiling on pay in each Of the
grades. The ceilings are from $1,000 to
$4,000 below the average pay of similar
specialists in industrial laboratories. And
private pay scales are tending to rise as
a result of keen competition for the serv-
ices of the relatively small annual output
of college graduates in science. Against
this background, the committees urgent
recommendation that fixed ceilings be
removed from Government pay for
scientists and other specialists is deserv-
ing of favorable consideration by Con-
gress. Until Federal salaries are at least
comparable with those of private engi-
neerS and scientists, the all-important
secret work being done in Government
laboratories will be threatened by delays
and disruption. This could be disastrous
in an era Of rapid atomic progress abroad.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-23
764,53Q Didn't Vote

Inc Democratic explanations of
Mlnnesota'S ug-pulling primary run
along two main lines. First, Republicans
went into the Democratic primary and
voted against Adlai Stevenson. Second
the farmers rose up against the admins
tration farm program. There is still an
other possibility, however, which seems
to have been ignored.
Presumably, some Republicans did
cross party lines to vote in the primary
Senator Humphrey, who backed the
wrong horse in his home State, says they
'focked' in. Thomas Finletter, another
Stevenson supporter is more specific He
says that $4,000 Republicans crossed
over OF course, no one really knows how
many Republicans turned Democrat for
the day, or how their votes were divided
between Mr.. Stevenson and Senator
Kefauver.
On the farm question, the Democrats
were busy salvaging such comfort as
could be found. Senator Anderson, who
supported the administration on the
flexible supports issue, saw the Kefauver
triumph as indicating the Democrats
will carry every farm State regardless of
who may be their nominee. In Senator
Humphreys eyes, it was stunning
reputation of the Eisenhower Benson
farm fiasco." Mr.. Stevenson himself saw
it as smashing reputation" of the
present administration. Other comments
were in the same or similar vein.
But what about the third possibility?
AS of the latest available count, the COM
bined vote for Mr.. Stevenson and Senator
Kefauver was 419,016 in their holly con-
tested battle. The Republican vote for
President Eisenhower, plus handful for
Senator KnoWland, was 1876, 1923. Standing
alone, and despite the fact that there was
no contest in the G. o. P. primary, this
might seem to indicate an impressive
swing to the Democrats.
In 1852, however, 608,458 votes were
cast for Mr. Stevenson alone-nearly
100000 more than the combined Steven
son-Kefauver total last Tuesday. The
Eisenhower 1852 vote was 1921. In all,
1,379,483 votes were cast in 1852 as COM
pared to 614,944 this week What hap
pened to the missing 1889 voters?
They didn't cross party lines. They didn't
rise up against the farm program. They
simply stayed home because they were
not sufficiently interested in any of the
primary issues to go to- the polls. 1t is
these voters, missing on Tuesday, who
will determine how Minnesota goes in
November.