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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-08-24
TWO GOVERNORS SEE MANY
INTERESTING POINTS IN DARE
ON AUGUST 18TH OBSERVANCE
Governor Hodges Takes Bermuda Guests on
Flight Over Ha++eras and Ocracoke Following
Visit to Lost Colony and EIizabe+han Gardens,
and Ceremonies on Virginia Dares Birthday.
BY AYCOCK BROWN

Following a tree planting pro
gram at Elizabethan Garden Sat.
urday, visit to Alpheus w
Drinkwater at his Drinkwatel
Folly later, then enjoying a boun.
tiful lawn supper at Roanoke Gar.
den before appearing on the stage
of Waterside Theatre to pay hon.
age to the memory of Virginia
Dare, Americas first child OF
English parentage born in the
New World, Governor and Mrs
Luther H. Hodges and their
guests, had a busy morning on
Sunday before taking off for Ra-
leigh via private plane, at 2 pm.
The flight was over Hatteras Is
land and Ocracoke in order to
give the visitors view of the
National Seashore Park.
The guests, 1t. General Sir John
Woodall, Governor of Bermuda
and that islands military COM
mander in chief and Sir Stanley
Squirting, were much pleased with
their visit to Roanoke Island and
the Dare Beaches area.
On Sunday morning, following a
busy Saturday afternoon the Gov
ernor's party visited the Wright
Brothers National monument, at
tended a religious service at St.
Acknowledgements at which the
Rev. Peyton Williams, rector of
Christ Church and St. Lukes Epis-
copal churches, Norfolk delivered
the sermon. Next they saw the
Bodie Island section of Cape Hat
teras National Seashore Recrea-
tional Area. Of particular interest
to Governor Hodges were various
phases of sand fixation projects
in the Mays Head-Bodie Island
sector, each of which North Caro-
lima through his cooperation had
sanctioned or sponsored.
Attend Celebrations
Governor and Mrs. Hodges left
the Democratic Convention in Chi
cago early Saturday morning via
commercial airliner for Washing
ton, where he met his distinguish
ed Bermuda guests and they flew
to Roanoke Island aboard a pri-
vate plane, arriving here shortly
after noon. Governor Hodges told
news and radiomen at the Manteo
airport that in addition to the of
fetal ceremonies in which he and
his guests were scheduled to take
part that he also wanted to give
them an opportunity to visit vari-
Gus sites of historical significance
here on the Dare coast. He added:
"And 1 am also very anxious
for them to meet Alpheus w.
Drinkwater before we leave tomor-
row for Raleigh"
Following luncheon at The Caro-
linian where Mrs. Lucille S. Pur-
ser was their hostess, the party
returned to Roanoke Island to take
part in a Virginia Dare day cere-
mony at the Elizabethan Garden,
sponsored by Roanoke Island Gar
den Club.
Mrs. Sam Mitchell of Greenville,
district head of the Garden Club
of North Carolina, after words of
See OBSERVANCE, Page Six
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HATTERAS COOP MEMBERS
TO MEET AT BUXTON SEPT. l

The annual meeting of the men,
bers of the Cape Hatteras Elec-
trio Membership Corp, the cleo
trio coop which serves the seven
villages of Hatteras Island will
meet Saturday night of next week,
Sept. 1, at 1870 pm. in the High
School building. Reports will be
made at this time and nine direc-
tors elected.
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EXAMPLE OF NEED
FOR AN AIRSTRiP ON
|HATTERAS ISLAND

Buxton on Cape Hatteras, Aug.
23.-Lacking an adequate landing
strip upon which Governor Hold
ges' borrowed aircraft could set
down the inhabitants Of this island
and the Governor General of their
neighboring island of Bermuda 432
miles to the southeast had to con-
tent themselves with waving at
each other at 2:45 Sunday after
noon, which both did with vigor
and enthusiasm for several min
utes before the Governors golden
winged aircraft climbed and head
ed westward toward Raleigh.
1t was all done according to ar
rangement of the preceding after
noon when Commander E. E.
Johnson, whose Seventh Battalion
of the Navy's Seabees, with de-
tachments deployed both here and
on Bermuda, extended to Sir John
Woodall, Governor General of
Bermuda, a hearty invitation to
come and visit the attachments
stationed here. The Governor Gen
eral had already visited the de-
tachment engaged in the installa-
ton of Naval Facility on his
island.
Nothing, the Governor General
assured the Commander, could
possibly give him more pleasure,
since Cape Hatteras is the nearest
piece of dry land to his Crown
Colony. "We have so much in COM
mon-nothing but the Gulf Stream
between us and I've always heard
of it. We have. about the same eli
mate-and we know and like your
people who have been stationed
with us. But / am not sure what
Governor Hodges schedule is for
tomorrow. Maybe we can fly over
it anyway"
After canvassing the days
schedule and considering the pos
sibility of borrowing a helicopter
for the morning, it was decided
that the best that could be done
was to fly over, circle the Light
house and the Naval installations,
and the Point of the Cape which
points now almost directly toward
Bermuda, just across the Gulf
Stream.
"Tell Mrs. White and the boys
at the Coast Guard station and
my other friends on the Island
we'll just have to wave to them
this time and wish they had a
landing strip down there" Gov
ernor Hodges said regretfully, and
to the Deputy Secretary of the
Interior Felix ,Wormser, who was
coming down for the day he added,
"Mr. Secretary, / hope you will
see that my message is delivered"
Secretary Wormser, who with
Mrs. Wormser and Allyn Hanks,
Mrs. Hanks and their son Bill,
came down for the day, delivered
the message and participated in
the hand waving as the Governors
plane circled low above the light
house. Secretary Wormser had
just experienced his first ride
along the surf, from the Point to
the Lighthouse, when the air visit
o,.c arrival He MAZDA that trim
with Mrs. Wormser, in a Navy
jeep piloted by Commander john
son.
Earlier the Secretary's party
had been guests Of Commander
Johnson at lunch in the Officers
Mess of the Seabee camp. The
Commanders daughter, Miss JAG
queline johnson, and Mrs. Virginia
Austin, with whom she is staying
See NEED, Page Seven
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GIRL OFF TO
CUBA ON MISSION WORK

The following news release has
come from the Methodist Board OF
Missions in New York, N. r.:
Miss Betty Rae Rogers, OF Man.
teo, will be member of a student
group from the United States par
ticipating this summer in a work
camp at La Gloria, Camaguey
Province, Cuba.
Twelve students from the United
States and eight from Cuba will be
included in the camp personnel.
Principal projects of the camp.
which is under the auspices OF the
Methodist Student Movement, will
be the construction of buildings on
the Methodist church and camp
property composing the La Gloria
Rural Center. Campers will assist
also in community activities, such
as road repairing.
The camp period will be June
&c to August z.
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the beach near Kitty Hawk were
driven at $40 o'clock Monday
afternoon, August Is, 1929 some
5000 feet from the Point Harbor
shore line under the direction OF
George Dodge, an engineer for the
Kitty Hawk Company.
An oil painting depicting a
bird's-eye view of the Dare Coun-
ty coast in the vicinity of Kitty
Hawk Beach had been completed
and hung in the offices of the
Kitty Hawk Real Estate Company
in the Virginia Dare Hotel arcade
in Elizabeth City on August 20,
1929.
Mrs. w. ]. (Bill) Tate, of Coin
jock, went up in an airplane for
the first time on Sunday after
noon, August 10, 1929, while she
and her husband, Capt. Bill Tate,
were visiting their son, Lewis j.
Tate, in Atlantic City, N. j. Mrs.
Tate had been air-minded ever
since soon after 1900 when she
helped the Wright brothers sew
the seams on their sateen covering
for the wings of the first airplane
to fly successfully near her home
at Kitty Hawk. But it was the
first time she had ever had the
opportunity to fly herself.
Charles w. Harrison, the New
York stock broker who was a men,
Der of the real estate firm of Har-
rison & Gilbert, in Elizabeth City,
was saying late in August, 1929,
that every single person living in
the Albemarle stood to benefit by
the development of Virginia Dare
Shores and Kitty Hawk Beach, two
of his Dare County real estate
enterprises located near the new
bridge across Currituck Sound
which was we'll underway.
Miss Mabel Evans, who was liv-
ing in Jackson, was spending the
last week in August, 1929 as guest
of her father, R. C. Evans. And
Balfour Baum, Moncie Lee Daniels,
Jr., and T. S. Meekins, Jr., had
just returned from motor trip to
Baltimore, Philadelphia and Allan
tic City.
Telephone service in Manteo be-
gan in October, 1929, when the
wires of the Norfolk & Carolina
Telephone & Telegraph Company,
of Elizabeth City, were finally
strung across Roanoke Sound be-
tween the beach and Roanoke Is
land.
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MANTEo PERSONALS

Mr.. and Mrs. L. M. Mcleod have
returned to Tampa, Fla, after a
six weeks visit with Mr.. and Mrs.
E. H. Baggs.
Jimmy Basnight is visiting his
uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. Mel
win Basnight, in Toms River, New
Jersey.
MISS Miriam Ferebee of Nash
vile, Tenn, is spending a vacation
of several weeks with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Ferebee.
Mrs. F. w. Meekins and chill
dren, Susan and Warren, returned
home Tuesday after visiting Mrs.
Meekins' parents, Mr.. and Mrs. r.
A. Holloman, Jr., of Ahoskie.
Mrs. Aycock Brown and daugh-
ter, Gale and Mrs. Wayland Fry
were visitors on Ocracoke Island
Saturday, being guests of Sam
Jones. They made the trip by air.
plane. y
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter De Loatche
and two children of Falls Church,
Va, have been visitors on Roanoke
Island this week, making head
quarters at the Manteo Airport, of
which Mr.. De Loatche was man
ager for several years.
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Entry No. s; Book No. 6
Page No. 6


State of North Carolina,
Dare County.
c. w. Meekins, Claimant, having
produced to the undersigned Entry
Taker, a writing signed by HIM
self. that he lays claim and enters
a certain parcel or tract of land,
vacant, unappropriated and subject
to entry. The land is situated in
Kennekeet Township, Dare County.
Pamlico Sound and the Atlantic
Ocean being the nearest water
courses. The natural boundaries
are:
BEGINNING at a concrete
monument in the ,easterly line
of the right of way of the paved
road between ROdanthe and Hat
teras, said concrete monument
being in the Northerly line. of
tract No. 4 "a as shown ON
property map of James w. Scar
borough and James B. Mcmillan,
said map being attached to a
deed, recorded in Book As, at
page 129 of the Dare County
I, Registry, from James w. Scar
borough, ct al, running thence
with the Northerly line of said
Tract No. A east about $50 feet
to a point which is 500 feet
westwardly of the mean high
water mark of the Atlantic
Ocean; running thence North
wardly and parallel to the At
lantic Ocean and 500 feet west
wardly of the mean high water
thereof about 434 feet to the
southerly line of Tract No. S as
shown ON the aforesaid map;
running thence west with the
southerly line of said Tract No.
5 about $50 feet to the easterly
margin of the right of way Of
said paved road; continuing
thence west 800 feet TO a point
in the southerly lire of said
tract No. S; running thence
South 10 deg. 80 West 434 feet
to the northerly line Of said
tract No. A.; running thence east
with the 'n0rtherly line Of, said
Tract No. 800 feet to the
point Of beginning. There Is ex-
cepted, however from the Tract
above described the 100 foot
right of way Of said road. The
tract described (less the excep-
tion) contains by estimation 8
acres, more or less.
This Entry was made this the
End day of June 1866.
MELVIN r. DANIELS
Entry Taker
T-0-s-4tg
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NORTH CAROLINA
DARE COUNTY

NORTH CAROLINA
DARE COUNTY
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
BEFORE THE CLERK
NOTICE OF SERVICE OF
PROCESS BY PUBLICATION
VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND
POWER COMPANY
VS.
FRED w. MORRISON AND
WIFE, EMMA NEAL MORRISON
To Fred w. Morrison and wife,
Emma Neal Morrison:
Take notice that a pleading seek
ing relief against you has been
filed in the above entitled special
proceeding.
The nature of relief being sought
is as follows:.
The Virginia Electric and Power
Company is seeking to condemn
the following. pole line right OF
way across the property in Dare
County in which you own an IN
tereSt:
Beginning at Station 1872 plus
94.7 IN the property line divid.
ing Defendants property and
that of e. Ray Altizer, which
point is N. TO- So E. 240.6 feet
along said property line from a
concrete post set therein; thence
S. 80 IT E. 554.3 feet to Station
1883 plus 400 in the property
kne dividing Defendants prop
erty and that of H. C. Foreman.
which point is S. IL o. w.
4SO3.7 feet along the last-men-
toned property line from a
property corner marked by an
iron pipe.
You are required to make de-
tense to such pleading not later
than August s, 1856, and upon
your failure to do so the party
seeking service against you will
apply to the Court for the relief
sought.
This the % day of June, 1856:
C. S. MEEK1NS
Clerk Superior Court
Dare County
T-6-29-4tc
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ENTRY NO. q; BOOK NO. 6
PAGES Z AND s
State of North Carolina,

PAGES 4 AND 8
State of North Carolina,
Dare County;
David Stick Claimant, having
produced to the undersigned Entry
Taker, writing signed by him
self, that he lays, claim and enters
a certain parcel or tract of land,
vacant, unappropriated and subject
to Entry. The land is situated in
Atlantic Township, Dare County
Roanoke Sound being the nearest
water course; The Natural Bound
aries are:
BEGINNING at a stake or
other marker situated on the
shore of Roanoke Sound, at the
Southeast corner of the land now
owned by HI. p. Bramble, for
merly owned by David Stick,
designated as Second Tract" in
deed dated June IL, 1851, record
ed in Book AL Page S85, Pub
lie Registry, Dare County, N. c.,
said Second Tract" being the
Easterly portion of a tract
formerly known as the Ezekiel
Midget tract; and running
thence a Northeasterly course
along the East line of the afOre-
said tract a distance of 838 feet
more c.: less to a marked oak
tree, which said oak tree mark
ed the Northeast corner of the
Ezekiel Midget Tract and is
situated on the South line of the
j. M. Rideout, Jr.; formerly
Josie ]. Ferebee property; and
thence running Southeasterly
course along the Rideout South
line a distance of 1O41 feet more
or less to a concrete monument
marking the Southeast corner
of the J. M. Rideout Jr. property,
which said concrete monument is
situated in the West line of the
David Stick tract, formerly the
]. O. and ]. HI. Meekins. land.
deed recorded Book 80 Page 296,
Public Registry of Dare County,
N. c.: and thence running
SOuthwesterly course following
the course of the aforesaid David
Stick West line and following
line of marked trees a distance
of 377 feet, more or less, to a
concrete monument marking the
Northwest corner of the III. p.
Bramble property, formerly the
David Stick property and part of
the ]. o. and J. HI. Meekins land,
deed recorded Book 3S Page 296,
Public Registry of Dare County,
N. c.; and thence running
SOuthwesterly course following
the Bramble West line a distance
of 7O2 feet, more or less, to a
stake on the shore of Roanoke
Sound; and thence running a
general NOrthwesterly course
following the meanderings of
sound a distance of S78 feet,
more or less, to the point or
place of beginning. The tract
described, containing by estima-
tiOn 1871 acres;
This Entry was made this the
5th day of June, 1856.
MELVIN r. DANIELS,
Entry-Taker
T-6.15-4tc
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Entry No. 5; Book No. 6
Page No. S ..
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rage NO.
State of North Carolina,
Dare County.
C. w. Meekins, Claimant, having
produced to the undersigned Entry
Taker, a writing signed by him
self, that he lays claim and enters
a certain parcel or tract of land,
vacant, unappropriated and subject
to entry. The land is situated in
Kennekeet Township, Dare County.
Pamlico Sound and the Atlantic
Ocean being the nearest water
courses. The natural boundaries
are:
Beginning at a concrete mon
nument situated on the East side
of the diking, and located ut the
Northwest corner of Tract No.
as shown ON the property map
of James w. Scarborough and
James b. Mcmillan, recorded in
Book As, page 129 of the Dare
County Registry; and running
thence North Ia deg. East along
the line of said dixie a distance
of 421 feet to a concrete marker
situated at the southeast corner
of tract No. S as designated on
the aforesaid map; and running
thence due East course a dis
lance of 481 feet to a stake or ,
other marker at the Northwest
corner of Entry No. 572; and
running thence in a southerly
direction and along the west line
of entry No. 572 distance of
421 feet, more or less, to the
North line of the aforesaid Tract
No. A.; and running thence due
West course a distance of 43S
feet to the monument at the
place of beginning. The number
of acres claimed are Four more
or less.
This Entry was made this the
End day of June 1856.
MELVIN r. DANIELS,
Entry Taker
TIE Q dt,1
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NORTH CAROLINA
DARE COUNTY


DARE COUNTY
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
BEFORE THE CLERK
NOTICE OF SERVICE OF
PROCESS BY PUBLICATION
VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND
POWER COMPANY
ETHERIDGE MIDGET AND
WIFE, MRS. ETHERIDGE MID
GET
To Etheridge Midget and wife,
Mrs. Etheridge Midget:
Take notice that a pleading seek
ing relief against you has been
filed in the above entitled special
proceeding.
The nature of relief being sought
is as follows:
The Virginia Electric and Power
Company is seeking to condemn
the following pole line right of
way across the property in Dare
County in which you own an in
terest:
Beginning at Station 445 plus
52.2 in the property line dividing
Defendants property and that of
Percy Meekins, which point is N.
7Oe TO- E. 1854 feet along said
property line from an iron pipe;
thence s. go % E. 1908 feet to
Station 446 plus SIS in the prop
erty line dividing Defendants
property and that of Fred L.
Minnieman and Allie o. Minnie
man, which point is N. TO- TO-
e. $50 feet along the last-men.
toned property line from an iron
pipe.
You are required to make de-
tense to such pleading not later
than August 8, 1885, and upon
your failure to do so the party
seeking service against you will
apply to the Court for the relief
sought.
This the % day of, June, 1866.
C. S. MEEKINS
Clerk Superior Court
Dare County
T.6-2Q-4tc
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NORTH CAROLINA,
nAPE CnHNTY

NORTH CAROLINA
DARE COUNTY
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
BEFORE THE CLERK
NOTICE OF SERVICE OF
PROCESS BY PUBLICATION
VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND
POWER COMPANY
VS.
SADIE LOWERY BANFILL AND
HER HUSBAND, IF SHE HAS A
USBAND, BY WHATEVER
NAME HE is KNOWN
To Sadie Lowery Banfill and
her husband, if she has a husband,
By whatever name he is known:
Take notice that pleading seek
ing relief against you has been
filed in the above entitled special
proceeding.
The nature of relief being sought
is as follows:
The Virginia Electric and Power
Company is seeking to condemn
the following pole line right OF
way across the property in Dare
County in which you own an in
terest:
Beginning at Station 40 plus
$50 IN the property line dividing
Defendants property and that OF
James E. Stras, which point is
s. sac 16' w. Fl feet along said
property line from a concrete
post; thence S. 400 co. e. 297.6
feet to Station 43 plus 1876 in
the property line dividing De-
PENDANTS property and that of
Mrs. E. r. CuIbertsOn, which
point is N. SIC 49, e. 81 feet
along the aforementioned prop
erty line from the center line Of
. sand road.
You are required to make de-
Tense to such pleading not latel
than August 8, 1856, and upor
your failure to do SO the party
seeking service against you vii
apply to the Court for the relief
sought.
This the % day of June, 1856.
C. s. MEEKINS
Clerk Superior Court
Dare County
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NOTICE OF SPECIAL BOND
ELECTION AND NEW
REGISTRATION
MANTEO SCHOOL DISTRICT
OF DARE COUNTY
UPON THE QUESTION
OF ISSUING

UT JAM SOON4
UPON THE QUESTION
OF ISSUING
$25O,00O SCHOOL BONDS
A special bond election will be
held on Saturday, August II, 1856,
between $3.50 Am. and $3.50 PM,
Eastern Standard Time, at which
there will be submitted to the
qualified voters of Nanteo School
District of Dare County, which
comprises the territory hereinafter
described, the question of issuing
not exceeding $250,000 School
Bonds for and in behalf of said
School District for the purpose of
acquiring, erecting, charging, al
tering and equipping school build
ings and purchasing sites in said
School District in order to main
tain the six months school term
as required by Section 3 of Article
TX of the Constitution, and levying
sufficient tax for the payment
thereof.
The boundary lines of the Man
teo School District of Dare County
are as follows:
All that area of Dare County,
North Carolina, including all of
East Lake and Croatan Town
ships and a portion of Mays
Head Township, all of Roanoke
Island, Durant Island, Duck Is
land, and all of the various is
lands lying in the Roanoke Sound
and Croatan Sound, and bounded
generally on the North by Abe
marie Sound and the Public
Highway at Mays Head known
as "Nags Head SOundside Road"
and the South line of the T. III.
Wilcox property, on the East by
the Atlantic Ocean, on the South
by Pamlico Sound and Hyde
County, on the West by Alliga-
tor River, and bounded and de-
scribed as follows:
Beginning on the shore of RO-
anoke Sound on the Mays Head
Beach at Mays Head at the point
of intersection thereof by an ex-
tension on a course South So
deg. West from the center of
the State Highway known as the
"Soundside Road at Mays Head,
running thence North So deg.
East $3.50 feet to and along the
middle of the Soundside Road to
a point at the turn thereof;
thence North 63 deg. East 42O
feet along the middle of Sound
side Road across and to the East
margin or right of way of U.
S. Highway No. 1853 lead
ing along the Dare beaches;
thence North is deg. West
along the East margin or
right of way of the aforesaid
U. s. Highway No. 1853, IL feet
to the Southwest corner of the
T. H. Wilcox property; thence
along the dividing line of T. III.
Wilcox and DIR. Frank Wood, the