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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-07-19
OTHER EDITORS
LOST COLONY OPENS
SCOTTISH ESSAWST
AND HIS1ORHW

(The Washington Daily News)
The Lost Colony has opened its
seventeenth season. Last Saturday
night at the waterside theateI
more than 1000 persons witnessed
showing number 821 since the
drama started in 1887.
This is an outstanding produc-
ton, and it is. the type of outdoor
drama that one likes to see each
year. The drama has meant much
to Eastern North Carolina, parti-
cularly in the Dare County area.
1t is a wonderful spectacle, ard it
brings to life the days of early
North Carolina. 1t is truly history
relived.
There are many people in the
Pamlico area who have never seen
the Lost Colony. We want to urge
as many of our people as possible
this year to see this magnificent
presentation. The music, lines, set
tings, costumes, and dancing are
all excellent. 1t is the type of show
which old and young alike will en-
joy. We urge you sincerely to see
it this year.
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LOSS TO THE COMMUNITY.

(From The Durham Herald)
the passing of Mrs. Matte Buchanan the community
has lost leader and friend
A devout church member and worker devoted mother
and homemaker she active in church and school affairs
and her phianthropies extensive than many
people aware
Without public notice. she has contributed widely and
regularly to the relief of the needy of the city for great
many years Also the years. she had quietly and with
out fanfare provided college scholarships for de-
serving students
the lives of those around her. and those with whom
she into contact her influence will continue felt
She had genuine and friendly interest in people And
the examples in her life she set without meaning to-
without knowing she doing it. long will live after
her.
She was truly good woman.
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JOHN T. TAYLOR, so,
DIES IN COLUMBIA

John T. Taylor, 80, died Tues
day in Columbia Hospital after q
long illness. He was a native Of
Virginia but had lived in Tyrrell
County for the last 62 years. He
was the husband Of Connie Combs
Taylor and member of Sound
Side Freewill Baptist Church.
Surviving, besides his wife, are
10 sons, w. W., of Long Island;
Robert of Burlington, Wallace Of
Manns Harbor, James, Earl, Co
lumbus, Manford and Jack Of
Tyrrell County, Morgan T. of Nor
folk, and Sam of Hammond, Ind
26 grandchildren and five great
grandchildren.
Funeral services were conduct
ed Thursday at a pm. at the
church by the Rev. Charles Over
ton, assisted by Don Wagner
pastor of the Missionary Baptist
Church. Burial was in the church
cemetery.
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YAUPON AND OTHER HOKUsI
(The Sanford Herald)

Inc SANFORD f1erdlQ)
The Goldsboro News-Argus has
tossed us into the yaupon roasting
pan for suggesting that the old In
dian "black drink" of the Abe
marie isn't as magical as Tar Heel
feature story and editorial writers
usually claim it to be. "There mus
be more to yaupon tea than San
ford's editor admits" our contem-
porary insists. "How else would its
legends have remained with us
since the first English colonists
landed in this goodly land?"
How else?
The yaupon legends, we suspect
have survived the same way as the
legends about Roanoke Island be.
ing the site of the first attempted
settlement of the New World.
They have survived like the leg.
ends of Virginia Dare's importance
to history.
They have evaded cold scrutiny
like the legend that Theodosia
Burr was made to walk pirates
plank out there off the Dare capes
somewhere, and the ones in which
crewmen from the swamped Moni-
tor lie under mound in the shadow
Of HatteEas Light.
They have been kept alive like
the legends of the Wright Brother:
having had the active support il
their first flight of at least one
member of every family domicilet
between Elizabeth City and Ports
mouth Island.
They have resisted debunkinl
like the legends of the Wreckerl
and of Old Christmas and of Black
beard and Of surfmen ballastinl
their long boats with their medal
and of old wives navigating trawl
ers with their thumbs.
They have existed-nay, the!
have flourished-like the legend
that the sands in which the yaupol
trees grow sustain also a peopl
who speak tongue purely Eliza
bethan, the infusion of shipwreck
ed Lascars and of sports-shirte'
Yankees Notwithstanding.
How, indeed, have the yaupo,
legends held up! ~
Through the drum-beatine
Goldsboro News-Argus, of tn
most effective company of pres
agents. professional, artistic an
merely enthusiastic--ever to dig i
south of Madison Avenue.
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NEW FEED MILL
BEGINS OPERATION
IN HYDE COUNTY
Maifamuskeef Industries. Inc. Also
Offers Complete Purina Farm
Supply Service

A new business goes into opera
ton in Hyde County this week
that is expected to assist greatly
in the development of the county's
livestock and poultry enterprises.
The new firm is the Mattamus-
keet Industries, Inc, which, in
addition to offering a complete
Purina feed and farm supply serv-
ice, will make available to farmers
a new grain grinding and mixing
service, using the most modern
equipment in the state.
| Mattamuskeet Industries new
mill and store building is located
between Swan Quarter and New
Holland at the intersection of
Highway US 264 and the Juniper
Bay Road, about seven miles east
of Swan Quarter. They are now
open for business and will be glad
to, have all interested farmers
drop in and look around.
The new business is managed
by H. H. Watson Jr. of Swan
Quarter, who is part-owner along
with several of the county's farm
ers who have invested in the new
mill in order to promote the devel-
opment of the county's farming
economy.
Purina's Check-R-Mix formulas
will be used by Mattamuskeet In
dustries in grinding and mixing
feeds, and Purina concentrates
will be added to the grain to make
perfectly-balanced ration. The
unique milling unit, built by the
Daffin Manufacturing Co. of Lam
caster, Pa, is automatically con-
trolled, and the entire grinding
and mixing operation may be
handled by one man.
Farmers taking their grain to
the mill will simply back their
trucks up to a hopper outside the
building and unload. A conveyor
will carry the grain into a ham,
mermill from where it is carried
into a weigh bin; the scales can
be preset so that when a speci-
fled amount of grain has been
ground the conveyor is stopped.
The operator then releases the
grain from the weigh bin into the
mixer where it is carefully blend
ed with concentrates and molasses.
An intricately-designed, but simple
to operate, Check-R-Mix dial will
indicate the proper amount of con-
centrates to be added to any
amount of grain to get the most
economical feed for any particu-
lar use; the dial includes formulas
for feeds for both beef and dairy
cattle, hogs, poultry, and turkeys,
with the formulas varying with
every two weeks age of the ami
mails.
Farmers who prefer to do so
may have their grain custom
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ground and mixed according to
their own formulas. Also, feed
users who do not have their own
grain may buy the complete Mat
tamuskeet Industries Checker
Mix feed in 5O-pound bags.
A full-line of Purina farm sup
plies will be carried in stock, in
Guiding Purina elbows, health
aids, and feeders and founts. Farm
ers will also be offered Purina's
assistance in solving feeding and
management problems.
H. H. Watson, Jr., the firms
manager has had experience and
training that makes him we'll
qualified to render valuable serv-
ice to the county's farmers. He
was born at Pioneer and attended
school at Belhaven. From May
1943 to May 1916, he served in
the Navy. He began his college
education in the fall of 1916 at
North Texas State College; in the
summer of 1947 he attended East
Carolina College and then in the
fall he entered North Carolina
State College, where he received
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The Bible - A Noble Book

best elements of a peoples SYM
phonic drama, a folk-opera natively
and delightfully."- ours. The ritual is
so impelling that in the old days
neighbors rode in buggies over
distorted suggestions of highways
to be in on the ringing fun.
Choosing the appropriate melons
for the deluxe feast was compar-
able to the historic process of sep
arating sheep and goats. Once
painstakingly selected, the green
mammoths of unutterable delight
were tenderly plucked with the dew
still heavy on them. They were
kept cold in the spring or branch,
mainly, but some folks dug holes
and buried them in the cool earth,
and every so often they were stuck
under the bed in the "chilly" room
and covered with brush from a
tree.
When the crowd collected, every
enc laughed and talked to enhance
the final joy by protracting it.
Finally, the treasures were sliced
and happy people fell to like polite
cannibals. Today. automobiles and
refrigerators have but little alter
ed the process. Many summer songs
are sung but the one they all like
best still goes. "Give me, oh, give
me, really wish you would, That
watermelon hanging on the vine."
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SCIENTISTS WORKING TO
CONTROL OYSTER DRILLS
By PETE IVEY

Morehead City.-"Desperadoes
of the Deep" don't know it vet,
but marine scientists are plotting
ways to rid the ocean bottoms of
the most dangerous saltwater
villain: the deadly oyster drill.
Seafood enemy No. and killer
OF oysters and CLAIMS, the drill may
soon. find himself a most unpopu-
lar denizen.
The Institute of Fisheries Re-
search of the University of North
Carolina, which maintains head
quarters at Morehead City, has
joined forces with the oysters and
the CLANS in their mortal struggle
against the sinister snail, common
ly known as the drill.
The shells of the oysters and
the CLANS are no protection
against the resourceful snail.
He has silicon-hard jack-ham-
mer snout and rows of teeth like
a shark. He first bores a hole
through the shell and then sucks
out the meat. The drill actually
chews out tht oyster and the clam.
The drill is no bigger than an
oyster.
DR.. Melbourne Carriker, marine
ecologist in the UNC Department
of Zoology, is far advanced in his
research in laboratories at More
head City. He seeks to find out
how the drill attacks the oyster,
how the oyster may be defended,
and how conditions can be invoked
so that existence for the drill will
be impossible.
What inroads the drills are
making on the clam supply in the
sounds on the North Carolina
coast can be shown by pointing
out, says Prof. Carriker, that one
growing drill devours anywhere
from IA to Fl CLAIMS a day.
That is lot of seafood for one
small oyster drill to eat every "a
hours, but the appetite of the drill
is ravenous.
Even shortly after birth, the
drill starts feeding on oysters and
CLAIMS. No studies have ever been
made before Of the newborn oys-
ter drills, but Carriker has been
able to study them in his labora-
tories at Morehead City and OBJ
serve them from the time they are
Matched from eggs.
DR.. Carriker raises oysters,
clans and drills in salt water
tanks. The idea is to study what
actually happens, how the drill
preys upon the others in the tank,
and what seems to deter Or en-
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courage the drill.

courage the drill.
He has found, for instance, that
the drill is extremely sensitive to
light and invariably moves toward
light away from the pull of grav-
ity. The drills prefer young CLANS
and oysters. The snail possess a
keen sense of smell under water,
enabling them to detect the pres
ence of a clam or an oyster yards
away.
To illustrate the tremendous
number of clans and oysters that
are born and have the potential of
living-if they are not destroyed
by predators or by other hazards
DIR. Carriker reached into a tank
and picked up handful of tiny
creatures. In the palm of his hand
he held half million CLANS!
In the Fisheries Research Lab
oratory at Morehead City, which
is directed by DR.. Alphonse Chest
nut, DIR. Carriker and others are
patiently studying the habits of
the CLAIMS and oysters and their
main enemy, the drill. Upon their
findings may rest large part of
the financial future of the most
lucrative source Of North Caro-
lima seafood products.
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his BIS Degree in agriculture in
1850. After graduation, he was
employed with Armour Fertilizer
Works in Norfolk as a district
representative for eight eastern
North Carolina counties, including
Hyde, and he held this position
until resigning October /, 1856,
since which time he has been en-
gagged in getting the feed mill or
ganized and built.
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WATERMELON TINE
1.-THE News & Discovery

More unvarnished joy has been
expended accidentally at water
melon feasts in this State in one
afternoon than Hollywood could
have in five years IN purpose. Eat
ing watermelons here is not mere
ly a trip the palate takes to
Seventh Heaven. It contains all the
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MACS HEAD ocEANslDE

G. C. Culpepper and G. C. Gull
pepper, Jr., of the Mays Header
Hotel, returned last week from a
trip to Florida.
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SPEEDBOAT ACCIDENTS
There were two serious mishaps
and one driver was injured during
a speedboat regatta at Norfolk
Sunday.
PUPIL AND TEACHER MAR
RY-A 16-year-old girl in Eng
land has married her 32-year-old
teacher, widower, and has thus
become the mother of his eight
year-old son.
RED SHIP GROUNDING
KILLS 270-A Soviet ship is re-
ported to have run aground dur
ing a storm in the Caspian Sea
near Baku; 270 persons aboard
were drowned.
ASSISTANT PRISONS DIREC-
TOR NAMED-Carl H. (Butter)
Anderson, former assistant basket
ball coach at N. C. State College,
has been named assistant director
of the State Prison System.
-WHAMMY IS STOLEN = A
Goldsboro patrolman had set up a
dummy whammy or speed clock in
front of his home Monday night;
he woke up Tuesday to find that
the whammy's cables had been
stolen.
SWIMMER DIES AFTER BEING
BITTEN-Rupe1t Wade, 81, of
Morehead City died Monday of
wounds received when bitten by
shark or barracuda while SWIM
ming in deep water about 600
yards offshore at Atlantic Beach.
ABBOTT AND COSTELLO
BREAK UP-Abbott and Costello,
one of show business most famous
teams, has broken up; the reason
is that Abbott, now 81 and some
ten years older than Costello
doesn't want to work for awhile.
MISS NORTH CAROLINA
NAMED-Elaine Herndon of Dur
ham has won the title of Miss
North Carolina for 1858 and will
represent the Tar Heel State in
the Miss America Pageant in At
lantic City, N. J, later in the SUM
mer.
JEWEL THIEF CAPTURED -
State Highway Patrolmen cap
tured a 21-year-old Negro man
near Ellington Tuesday afternoon
a few hours after he had pulled
$4,000 jewel robbery; the man was
located because he bought gas at
filling station and failed to pay
for it.
BOBBY TRAP FAILS-A trap
they had set up failed to help two
bootleggers near Goldsboro; al
though three deputy sheriffs were
tripped by a knee high strand of
barbed wire, the bootleggers fail
ed to notice the commotion and
were arrested.
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THE CHECKRMIXER DIAL at the
feed mill Quarter being explained by Manager
H. Watson r ef Earl Pugh farmer Nebraska
nifty of Hyde County The dial instantly
grinding and mixing livestock poultry may
their the mill and have
rates and mosses get the feeding value from grain
(Photo by Pratt Williamson, Jr.)
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KILLED BY GUITAR - A
short-circuit in an electric guitar
killed guitar player in tavern
in London Saturday night.
DUTCH AIRLINER CRASHES
A burning Dutch airliner with 6s
persons aboard crashed Sunday il
the sea off New Guinea.
ADMITS ARSON-A 78-year.
old Statesville man has admitted
setting fire to his sisters home
and shooting at them with rifle
as they fled the blazing building
EISENHOWER HIT ON Fl
NANCES-Senator Kerr of Okla.
homa said Monday in the Senate
that on the subject of fiscal policy
President Eisenhower hasn't any
brains.
REGISTER OF DEEDS MISS.
ING-McDowell County Register
of Deeds John Mcdowell Gowan
81, has been reported missing; he
left his home at Marion July
for a "few days" vacation.
ATOMIC TEST CAUSES DAM
AGES - The atomic weapon
"Diablo" exploded in test at the
Nevada proving grounds Monday
resulted in a shock wave that
broke windows $50 miles away.
CONTINUES SEARCH = The
father of 4-year-old Karen Kay
Conway, who has been missing
near Clear Creek in Colorado since
July 5, is continuing to look for
the little girl, but says that he
knows that she is dead.
CASEY JONES'S FIREMAN
DEAD-Simeon T. Webb, the fire
man on Casey Jones' tabled run of
the Cannonball Express in 1900,
has died of cancer in Jackson,
Tennessee, at the age of SO.
FACES MANSLAUGHTER
CHARGE-A nine-year-old Negro
boy at Wilmington is being held
on charges of manslaughter; po-
lice say he pushed a 10-year-old
companion into the Cape Fear
River Sunday and the older boy
drowned.
SHRIMPERS UNDER WATCH
- The North Carolina Fisheries
Assn. has requested that the state
crack down on violators of the
law prohibiting shrimping on Sun
days, and a plane is being used
to check the shrimping grounds on
Sundays.
BODIES ORDERED MOVED
Greece has ordered Britain to move
the bodies of 65 Commonwealth
soldiers who died fighting for
Greece in World War II; the lease
on the British military cemetery
was cancelled in order to make
room for new building develop
ment.
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KILLED BY GUITAR A
short-circuit in an electric guitar
killed guitar player in a tavern
in London Saturday night.
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DUTCH AIRLINER CRASHES
A burning Dutch airliner with GO
persons aboard crashed Sunday in
the sea off New Guinea.
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ADMITS ARSON-A 7S-year.
old Statesville man has admitted
setting fire to his sisters home
and shooting at them with a rifle
as they fled the blazing building
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ASSISTANT PRISONS DIREC-
TOR NAMED-Carl H. (Butter)
Anderson, former assistant basket
ball coach at N. C. State College,
has been named assistant director
of the State Prison System.
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BOOTY TRAP FAILS-A trap
they had set up failed to help two
bootleggers near Goldsboro; al
though three deputy sheriffs were
tripped by knee high strand of
barbed wire, the bootleggers fail
ed to notice the commotion and
were arrested.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-07-19

EISENHOWER HIT ON Fl
NANCES-Senator Kerr of Okla
homa said Monday in the Senate
that on the subject of fiscal policy
President Eisenhower hasn't any
brains.
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-WHAMMY IS STOLEN = A
Goldsboro patrolman had set up a
dummy whammy or speed clock in
front of his home Monday night;
he woke up Tuesday to find that
the whammy's cables had been
stolen.
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REGISTER OF DEEDS MISS
ING-McDowell County Register
of Deeds John Mcdowell Gowan,
81, has been reported missing; he
left his home at Marion July 8
for a "few days" vacation.
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RED SHIP GROUNDING
KILLS 270-A Soviet ship is re-
ported to have run aground dur
ing storm in the Caspian Sea
near Baku; 270 persons aboard
were drowned.
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SWIMMER DIES AFTER BEING
BITTEN-Rupelt Wade, 81, of
Morehead City died Monday of
wounds received when bitten by a
shark or barracuda while swim
ming in deep water about 600
yards offshore at Atlantic Beach.
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ATOMIC TEST CAUSES DAM
AGES The atomic weapon
"Diablo" exploded in a test at the
Nevada proving grounds Monday
resulted in a shock wave that
broke windows $50 miles away.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-18
WRC TO AIR GOULD PREMIERE

"I'll bet you people on land are
envying me-" Collingwood
choked. ITS about 70 degrees
down here"
Yesterday though. the treasure
hunters didn't manage to un-
cover much Of the $68 million
worth of treasure that is re-
Iputed to be lying in the crusted
wreckage of the galleons. All
they we're able to dig up were
a few pieces of gold and some
silver buttons believed to have
belonged to one of the i'll fated
crew members. Even so the
Odyssey host and his 10 skin
diving cameramen are having q
time for themselves.
Are we going to cut this con-
versation off right about now?'
asked Collingwood in what
sounded like a thoroughly water
logged voice. I'm afraid I'm
burbling too much. That's one
trouble anyway never had in
a phone BOOTH"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-18

this will cram all available
|children's shows (WRC-4 and
WTTG-5) into the same time
period.
Milt Grant rates a salute by
local talent for persuading Mitch
Miller and Hugo Winterhalter to
come here to judge the finalists in
the Record Hop" contest on Sat-
urday. January rs (WTTG-5)
|. These fellows can really do
something for a likely prospect
|. Grant states that over 1000
teen-agers have been auditioned
$50 far.
1t was wonderful seeing Connie
Russell back on Eddie CantOr's
program q week ago This
young Observation-Disclosures
has everything that it takes to
be a star-except her own show.
The Nielsen top ten for Deem
Der: Gin order, Ed Sullivan,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-18

he does a show, of course, but
in jittery Jerry's case this is his
first TV performance without
his singing straight man. Dean
Martin.
And Ernie Kovacs, who is tenn
|porarily without a network pay
check. a nauseous turn of events,
will be showcasting a novel idea
for one time only-a half hour
without dialogue.
(Wonder how many people
will figure their machine is on
the blink when no amount Of
juggling with the knob produces
a sOund?)
Jerry comes by his filters nat
urally. He's built that way. Just
how Importantly he considers
this program may be judged by
the fact that he's REVISED it l3
times.
Nor is it coincidence that
he's doing it from New York in
stead of Hollywood.
Jerry feels the audiences in
California are too blase. He told
one reporter that he knobs The
names OF the first 400 people in
eDery TV audience in Lo,
Angeles.
Kovacs. who lost out on ITO
night" when NBC revamped the
formal. has been toying with the
idea of a show in pantomine fol
some time. His Fabulous Mai
robi Trio" one Of his most sue
cesSful skits. had a musical SOUND
track and that's all.
As the likeable zany was say
ing the other day, "here Is one
time the parents won't be shout.
ing to the kids to keep quiet So
they can hear what's going on
| Both shows will be in color
Jerry is first. 9 to 10 pm. and
Ernie follows.
4 \ \
On The Run:
Protests mounting over the
proposed switch of Captain
Kangaroo" to 9 am. by WTOF
.. to make way for Marx
Evans new Panorama Poto-
mac" Parents point out that