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The coastland times., 1957-05-31
COMPLAINTS OF P. M.
STRAINS AT GNATS;
SWALLOWS CAMELS
Public Rane and Disgust Express
ed at Efforts TO Gust Man.
feo Mail Clerk
By VICTOR MEEKINS

A most amazing example of the
extent to which a person will go
to discredit a fellowman, and rail-
road him out of his job is revealed
this week in the latest of series
of charges brought against Ben
Shannon by acting postmaster
Ray w. Jones of Manteo.
There is much public resentment
and disgust at the action of Jones
in straining at gnats and swallow
ing camels, to raise a rukus about
lot of trivialities too simple to
be considered by intelligent men.
Mr.. Jones holds an interim ap-
pointment, obtained following the
retirement of postmaster Charlie
Evans, who actually was railroad
ed into retirement by a nuisance
OF trumped up charges. To his
great dismay and disappointment,
Mr.. Jones failed to get on the list
of three highest candidates when
examinations were held. Imagine
the disappointment among the Re-
publican leaders when three Dem
ocrats stood highest on the list:
Clerk Ben Shannon, Ralph Swain,
and Lawrence Swain in order
named. The acting postmaster
didn't make the grade.
Now what appears the only
hope of getting Mr.. Jones in the
list of candidates would be to ELI
inmate Clerk Shannon. 1t never
occurred to the advisers of Mr..
Jones, that the sort of campaign
planned against Mr.. Shannon
would boomerang and create for
Mr.. Jones more i'll will than good.
Mr.. Jones, who couldn't do much
at first for lack of experience in
the office, depended largely on an
advisor or two, noted for their
two-faced natures; people who live
at the expense of the people, but
are interested often in serving
themselves.
Mr.. Jones is a fine young man,
and had been doing fine, but when
he took off into political fields he
got led astray by poor strategy. In
the midst of the early stages of
the campaign for postmaster, he
had the hard luck to get picked up
and charged with violation of
Federal game laws. He had de-
pended on his father-in-law Mel
vim Daniels for legal advice, and
| in fact Mr.. Daniels did 60 to
Elizabeth City with him TO appear
See COMPLAINTS. Page Four
The coastland times., 1957-05-31
FOREIGN STUDENTS WILL
SPEAK IN MANTEO SUNDAY
Three Young Ladies To Speak at Mt
Olivet Church on Religious Gus
toms in Their Homelands

Through arrangements made by
DIR. Elizabeth Welch of Salem Col
lege, Winston-Salem, three attrac-
tive foreign students will be guest
speakers at the II o'clock service
on Sunday, June 2, at Mt. Olivet
Methodist Church. According to
the pastor, the Rev. L. A. Aitken'
the speakers will be Miss Silvia
Osuna of Monterrey, Mexico, Miss
Jytte Liljeberg of Copenhagen
Denmark, and Miss Christa Men
gel of Hamburg, Germany. They
will tell of the religious customs
and influences in their home lands
Miss Osuna is the daughter OF
Senor and Sonora Miguel Osuna,
Her father is a civil engineer and
Silvia has been educated in Amer
ican private schools where English
is spoken. Selected by the Insti-
tute of International Education for
a years study in this country, Sill
via has studied courses in elemen-
tary education. She wants to be-
come a teacher of handicapped chill
dren in Mexico.
Miss Liljeberg is the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Kuno Liljeberg.
She graduated from a private
preparatory school in Copenhagen
and was also selected by the Insti-
tute Of international Education for
a years study in the United States.
She hopes to enter the business
world of her native land.
Miss Menzel came to the United
States on a special scholarship
provided by the Moravian Home
Church in Winston-Salem for a
Moravian student abroad. She is
the daughter of a merchant and
The coastland times., 1957-05-31

CHARLES S.. ETHERIDGE, for
merly of Wanchese, will graduate
Friday, May "a. from Southeast
ern Bible College in Lakeland, Fla.
Mr.. Etheridge. who is a graduate
of Manteo High School, and who
has served IL years with the U. S.
Coast Guard, decided to enter the
ministry after leaving the Coast
Guard, and has been a student in
Lakeland for the last four years
He plans to continue his studies
until he has received his Masters
degree. He is the son of Lates Eth
eridge of Wanchese and Mrs. Nan
cy Atchins of Norfolk, Va. Among
those attending his graduation will
be his mother; two aunts, Mrs
Ivey Evans of Manteo and Mrs
Edward Davis of Wanchese; anC
his sister. Mrs. Llewellyn Daniels
Jr., of Wanchese. His wife anc
six children are living with him in
Florida.
The coastland times., 1957-05-31
SIGNAL HONOR COMES TO
MACS HEAD. HOTEL WOMAN

Mrs. Lucille Purser Winslow of
Nags Head and Hertford was ac-
corded signal honor on last week
end when she became the first
woman president of the North
Carolina Hotel Association, which
met in annual session at the Caro-
linian. Mrs. Winslow, long noted
for her success as managing direc-
tor of the Carolinian, has been
active in civil affairs, among many
posts having been President of the
Nags Head Chamber Of Commerce,
an active worker and officer in
the Dare County Tourist Bureau
and in various travel councils and
other associations concerned with
tourist travel and hotel operation
The group while at Nags Head
were guests of Ray Adams at the
Whales Head Club, Corolla on
Saturday, the object of a jeep
junket for some so people who at
tended with their wives.
The coastland times., 1957-05-31
COAST INVADED BY
WHITE MARLIN AND
OTHER BIG FISH
Good Catches Reported on
Mainland. in Colinefon Waters
and From Piers Too.

First white marlin of the 1857
season to be landed off the Dare
Coast was boated Wednesday. by
Ray Williams of Richmond, while
skipping bait from Capt. Billy
Baum's cruiser "Kay" near the
western edge of the Gulf Stream
off Oregon Inlet. The marlin meas
ured seven feet. five inches from
tip to tip and scaled at go pounds
1t was caught on 81 pound test
Dacron, loaded on go Penn Sen
ator. Squid was used for bait
Prospects look good for white mar
lin fishing. Last year about 100 OF
these billfish were taken by anglers
off Oregon Inlet. and several were
also caught off Hatteras.
On May %, DIR. ]. c. Overbey
Norfolk dentist who has caught
more blue marlin off Hatteras than
any other person, boated a 3S1
FOUNDER, the second taken off Hat
teras this year. This, according to
Capt. Ernal Foster, operator of the
docks where DIR. Overbey moors his
cruiser Snapper II, was the 11th
blue marlin DIR. Overbey has land
ed since he began exploiting the
Gulf Stream off Hatteras for big
game fish about five years ago.
His big fish Of Saturday meas
ured 10 feet and 91s inches from
tip to tip. and 53 inches around
its girth. He brought the giant
marlin to gaff with a 1910 Ocean
City reel loaded with SO thread
line. His skipped bait which at
tracted the big fish was strip of
dolphin.
It was the second blue marlin
DR.. 0verbey has taken since young
Bernie Foster. age 16, and son Of
Capt. and Mrs. Hallas Foster Of
Hatteras, has been skipper and
guide aboard the Snapper II. Ber-
See FISH, Page Five
The coastland times., 1957-05-31
COASTLAND MOURNS DEATH
OF MRS. BERNIE GRIGGS

Mrs. Bernie Hampton Griggs,
72, wife of Russell A. Griggs and
daughter Of the late Nathaniel
Franklin Pierce and Mrs. Sarah
Virginia Walker Hampton, ma
tive of Currituck County and
resident of Kill Devil Hills for the
past "a years, died at the Abe
marie Hospital of Elizabeth City,
Sunday at 4:35 pm. She was a
member of st. Andrews by the
Sea Episcopal Church, Nags Head.
Mrs. Griggs owned and operated
the Croatan Hotel at Kill Devil
Hills until about two years ago
and prior to that the Griggs Hunt
ing Lodge, Waterlily. Surviving
besides her husband is one foster
daughter, Miss jeanette Gray of
Kill Devil Hills. Funeral services
were held at st. Andrews by the
Sea Episcopal Churcs, Nags Head,
Tuesday at 2:30 PM, conducted
by the Rev. r. w. Turner, pastor,
assisted by former pastor, Rev.
A. C. d. Noe of Rest Haven near
Bath. Burial was at Church's Is
land. Pallbearers were w. E.
Griffin, Norman Balance, r. P.
Midget, Joseph Alexander Ross,
Thomas Briggs, and Judge Cbes-
ter Morris.
The coastland times., 1957-05-31
BIDS TOTAL NEAR
$I05, 900 FOR DARE
I, DRAINAGE REPAIRS
Work. Involving Restoration Of As
Miles of Drainage bitches.
To Start by July-.Ist

Low bids were opened Tuesday
totaling $104,787 for five projects
involving the restoration of a total
of As miles of drainage bitches in
Dare County, according to a re-
port from the Corps of Engineers
office in Wilmington. A spokes-
man for the Corps of Engineers
said Wednesday that work on the
projects is expected to get under
way not later than July ist; the
successful bidders are expected to
be notified within Is days to pro-
ceed, after which they will have
up to Is days to get started. The
work, which will be supervised
by the Corps of Engineers for the
Federal Civil Defense Administra-
ton, is scheduled to be completed
within six months.
Bids on the projects were sub
mitted by 20 contractors, with the
lowest bids being as follows:
Manteo area, L. w. Howard of
Newport, $14,094; Wanchese area,
L. w. Howard of Newport, $780,
139; Waves to Hatteras, Ray
Lewis of Manteo, $20,282; Kitty
Hawk area, Eastern Clearing and
Grading Co. of Norfolk, $31,S7O;
Stumpy Point, Nags Head, and
Collngton. T. ]. Crooks and E. W.
Tate of Coinjock, $1S,400.
These are projects that were
worked up a year ago to be paid
for from disaster relief funds re-
sulting from the storms of the fal
of 1865.
The coastland times., 1957-05-31
LONG RANGE MASTER PLAN
FOR FEDERAL HURRICANE
PROJECTS is CALLED FOR
Corps Of Engineers Holds Hearing in Manteo
Tuesday Support Of Governor Hodges Assur-
ed for Permanent Projects Instead Of Piece
Meal Temporary Relief Measures Undertaken
in the Past.

Officials of the U. S. Corps of
Engineers, holding a public hear
ing in Manteo Tuesday morning on
the effects of hurricanes on the
North Carolina coast from Hatteras
to the Virginia line, heard a pro-
posal by the Dare County Storm
Rehabilitation Committee that a
long-range master program be set
up for the repair of damage from
past hurricanes and the prevention
of damage from future hurricanes.
While it was recognized that such
program would be more costly
than any one session of Congress
could support, it was advocated
that, if such a long-range plan
were drawn up, the necessary prof.
ects, on a permanent basis, could
be carried out over a period of.
years as funds became available
and would eliminate much waste
caused by the piece-meal tempo.
rary relief measures undertaken in
the past without any thought to-
ward permanent projects.
The hearing was held in the
Manteo Community Building under
the supervision of Col. H. C. Row
land, Jr., district engineer. of Will
mington. Approximately so per-
sons were present; attendance was
greatly reduced by a session Of
Dare Superior Court being held.
Based on this and similar hearings
in other areas, the federal govern
ment is expected to decide whether
or not to conduct detailed study
of the actual projects needed for
hurricane relief.
Information regarding effects of
hurricanes on the area since the
time of the first settlement Of
America was presented bv the
Dare County Storm Rehabilitation
Committee, led by chairman David
Stick of Kill Devil Hills. Other
members of the committee who
were heard were: Lawrence Swain,
member of the board of commits
sioners, who toll of the effective
ness of hurricane measures in the
past; Robert Gum, district sani-
tartan, who explained how the huc-
ricanes create a menace to health
in two ways-.by the contamina-
tion of water supplies and by the
creation of breeding grounds for
mosquitoes; Mrs. Lucille Winslow,
vice-chairman of the committee
and president Of the North Caro-
lima Hotel Association, who re-
ported on the effect Of hurricanes
upon the travel industry along the
Dare beaches; R. E. Jordan, man.
ager of The Lost Colony, who gave
figures showing how hurricane
scares hurt attendance to the pag-
See HEARING, Page Five
The coastland times., 1957-05-31
ROBBERY CHARGE
CONSUMES z DAYS
SUPERIOR COURT
Marvin Daniels. Taxi Driver Al.
legged Robbed and Beaten by
D. A. Rogers Jr.

The trial of D. A. Rogers Jr. of
Manteo on a charge of having as
saulted and robbed Marvin DAN
iels, a taxi-driver in Manteo of
close to $1,000 on the night of
October goth 1856, has consumed
two days of Dare County Court,
and had not been concluded short
ly before we went to press on
Thursday afternoon.
Rogers, who assists his father
in the operation of a service sta
ton, is 20 years old. Daniels al
leges that Rogers followed him in
to the fish market in which he is
interested and uses for an office,
on the Manteo waterfront, and at
tackled him with a flashlight, beat
ing him unconscious and taking
his bill fold. Evidence brought out
court record against Rogers, ir
which he had been charged with
various misdemeanors.
Attorneys brought out the fact
that Daniels is a convicted boot
logger, and that he admitted or
the stand having sold liquor, even
to Rogers. He is man of slight
stature, having been crippled with
rheumatism for many years, can
not walk upright and said he was
no match for Rogers.
In his denial, Rogers said he
was in the picture show at the
time Of the alleged assault; anc
introduced George Creef to testify
to having seen him enter the show
He presented Mrs. Lucetta Willis
John E. Ferebee of Manteo a:
character witnesses.
Attorneys speeches took up al
of Thursday morning, and Judge
Parker concluded summing up tht
case about one pm.
Rogers was represented by For
rest Dunstan of Elizabeth City
and Wallace McCown of Manteo
Divorce Granted
Earlier in the week a divorc'
was granted to Betty Ann O'Nea
of Salvo from Dalton O'Neal, for
merly of Rodanthe. The coupl
have two children in the custod!
of the mother.
The coastland times., 1957-05-31

STARTING ON JUNE 16 and
continuing throughout the sum-
mer, Rev. Homer McNeely, Jr.,
will be in charge of new Meth
odist church which will provide
Sunday school at 1000 o'clock and
a worship service at HOO o'clock
each Sunday morning. This new
church is sponsored by the Board
of Missions and Church Extension
of the North Carolina Conference
of the Methodist Church and will
meet for the summer in the Nags
Head roller-skating rink owned by
CASTOR Mann.
Mr.. McNeely is a graduate of
Duke University and is in his secA
ond year at Gambler School of
Theology, Emory University,
Georgia. His home was originally
in Winston-Salem. Mrs. McNeely
is junior at Emory University
and the daughter of Rev. Earl
Meekins, minister in the North
Carolina Conference of the Meth
odist Church. Mr.. McNeely will
also conduct survey to deter
mine the need for more perma-
nent Methodist Church in the
beach-resort area for Methodists
who visit the Dare Beaches dur
ing the summer.
The North Carolina Conference
of the Methodist Church invites
all who vacation in the Nags Head
area to participate in this new
church,
The coastland times., 1957-05-31
STRANGE CASE OF NAN I'M
BLACK BUICK AT BUXTON

The man in black Buick at
Buxton has been quite a mystery
Tuesday morning he drove up to
H. ]. Gray's store in Buxton,
bought a dollars worth of gas
and said he thought that would
take him as far as st. Louis.
At 5 pm. in the afternoon, the
car was found abandoned on the
highway near the C. D. Burrus
garage. No one appeared in it OF
about it.
Investigation disclosed that the
car was registered in the name OF
Marvin Kreutzer of Owensville
Mo.
Mahoney Dudley of Buxton re-
ported that he saw the man in
the nearby woods about 5 pm
Tuesday, spoke to him, and that
he merely grunted in reply.
A search was conducted We'd
nesday and Thursday by Park
Service and Navy personnel.
Two men from Cape Hatteras
Coast Guard station joined the
search. The station reported at 2
pm. Thursday the man had not
been found. At the same, time,
Kenneth Kreutzer, son, appear
ed in Manteo, with a Navy buddy
from Norfolk, named Ronald
Knoll, en- route to Buxton to aid
in the search for his father.
He said his father and mother
came from Ohio Monday for a
visit to the sons family in Nor
folk, and shortly after arriving,
left the house with the announced
intention of going to garage to
get the car brakes fixed, and that
he did not return, and they did
not know his whereabouts until
notified by Sheriff Cahoon OF
Manteo, which revealed some fast
and diligent work in getting in
formation from Missouri had been
done by officers. Mr.. Kreutzer
said his father had been suffer-
ing from kidney ailment and
other disorders, bordering on am
nesia.
The coastland times., 1957-05-31
GOVERNOR ALLOTS $4,000
MORE FOR OCRACOKE ROAD

Governor Luther Hodges an
nounced in Raleigh that he had
"good news" for isolated Ocracoke
Island. He has allocated an addi-
tional $4,000 in highway funds
for road work on the island.
The Governor also said the In
terror Department has notified
him that it has located metal
strips used for emergency landing
fields in sufficient quantities to
lay temporary road on Ocracoke
from ferry landing on the north
end Of the island to the point
where paved road across the
island win terminate.
The coastland times., 1957-05-31
sEAwELL FUNERAL SAT.

Funeral services for Martin Sea-
we'll who was killed instantly in
an automobile wreck in Monterey,
California, will be conducted Sat-
urday morning, June l, in Win
ston-Salem, the home of his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd M. Sea-
well.
Mrs. Rennie Williamson, young
Seawell's aunt, left Manteo Thurs
day for Norfolk, where she Joined
her sister-in-law, Mrs. Cecil Grif-
fin, and others for the trip to
Winston Salem.
The coastland times., 1957-05-31
DR.. NILE r. HUNT
ADDRESSES SENIORS
OF MANTEO HIGH
Diplomas Awarded rs Graduates
In Commencement Exer-
cises tuesday night

Bringing to the 1857 graduating
class of Manteo High School a
five-point program for future liv-
ing, DR.. Nile F. Hunt, co-ordinator
of teacher education for the N. C.
Department Of Public Instruction,
held the attention of young and
old alike.
DR.. Hunt outlined his sugges-
tions to the Seniors as follows:
(1), vision and purpose; (2), abiI-
ity and willingness to think; (3)
ability and willingness to work;
(4), cultivate the art of being
gruntled; (5l, the touch of the
masters hand is important.
Celebrating on his third point,
DIR. Hunt emphasized the fact that
there is no future in any job
that, rather, the future lies in the
person filling the job. He urged
that each person make dead GER
tain he or she is underpaid, as no
one can veer advance or be pro-
NOTED in his or her job when al
ready receiving what one is worth
In expanding his fourth point
DR.. Hunt explained that the
little-used term of "gruntled'
means the art of being pleased
with things as they come-not
ccmnlacent. hut accapting cheer.
fully the tasks set before one.
In making his final point, he
emphasized that one must give his
best effort to whatever is under.
taken, otherwise he will never
have the "touch of the masters
hand"; that only through expert
ence and hard work the masters
torch is acquired.
The following 26 Seniors were
awarded their high school diplo
mas by PRINCIPAL W. H. Bunch
Mabel Basnight, Linda Berry
;, Caleb Brickhouse, Allen Dough
Ann Dowdy, Robert Duvall, Will
liam Glynn, Barbara Haywood
Randie Houston, Mary Jolliff
Molly Knight, Sidney Mann, Near
Meekins, Jr., Rae Meekins, Fleet
wood Mitchell, Harry Niser, Mar
tina Rogers, Byron Sawyer, Jeal
Sears, Roger Shannon, Viole
Spruill, Coy Tillett, Jr., Jill Til
lett, Merlee Tillett, Jean Toms ant
Brantley Twiford.
Rex. G. w. Burch pronounce'
the invocation. The salutator.
address was given by Martha RAJ
Rogers, the valedictory by Mabe
Jean Basnight. The speaker wa
introduced by Mrs. Mary L. Evans
superintendent of Dare Count!
schools. Miss Holland Westcot
was accompanist, playing process
sional and recessional and tw'
songs that were sung by the audi
ence.
Senior Glass Night took plac'
Monday night in the school audi
torium, and on Sunday evening
Rev. w. E. Cholerton delivered
the baccaluareate sermon. Assist
ing ministers were Rev. A. l.. &
Stephenson, Rev. C. l.. Warrel
and Rev. G. w. Burch. John H
Long sang "The Lords Prayer
! as a solo. Miss Holland Westcot
was accompanist. i,
]. On Wednesday evening preced
ing the finals Miss Westcott pre-
sented her piano pupils in recital
The coastland times., 1957-05-31

is preparing her career for medical
missionary work with the Morav-
ian Church.
Mr.. Aitken said that in an effort
to further a better understanding
between the nations of the world,
the members and friends of Mt.
Olivet Church are invited to at
tend.
Smyrna times., 1957-11-07
DCIA SCHEDULES CROPS
SHOW, SHORT COURSE,
BANQUETS

A crops show, crops and soils
short course, and awards and
service club banquets have been
scheduled November % and 26
at Capital Grange Hall, Dover, by
the Delaware Crop Improvement
Association, William H. Mitchell,
association secretary, announced
this week.
The DCIA program comes dur
ing the third annual United States
and Canadian Farm-Ciay Week
observance, Nov. % to %.
Mitchell, a University of Della
ware extension agronomist, said
the shows highlight will be ex-
hibits of Delaware-produced corn,
soybeans, small grains, hay and
silage. A premium list is to be
distributed before the show by
county agricultural agents and
vocational agriculture teachers,
the announcement noted. Visitors
will be invited to view exhibits
after judging Nov. 25. That even
ing a service club banquet spon-
sored by the Dover Kiwanis in
cooperation with the DCIA will
take place at the grange hall.
For the first time, state All
Club members will be invited to
enter a crops seed judging con-
test during the show. Any 4-H'er
interested in judging may parti-
cipate. Seeds will include wheat,
oats, barley, soybeans, and red
clover. Previously, the All con-
test was held during Farm and
Home Week at the school of agri-
culture in Newark.
Growing of the Delaware corn
and soybean kings, and naming
of honor roll members in the
Greener Pastures Program at the
annual crop awards banquet the
evening of Nov. 26 will end the
two-day session. A special fea-
ture of the DCIA program aganl
this year will be the short course
that day, when specialists will
speak on farm topics.
Committee chairmen appointed
by DCIA president Olin Gooden
FELTON,, are Donald Clark, Ches-
wold awards banquet; James
Dickinson, Townsend, crops anC
soils short course; Cashar Evans
Selbyville, crop show; and Good
en-, service club banquet.
Smyrna times., 1957-11-07

Combination doors installed
side by side enclose N. F. Schu-
makers porch in MaplewOod,
N. ]. The stock doors of ponde-
rosa pine serve as walls for the
porch with screens in place in
summer and glass windows" in
winter. The novel, inexpensive
arrangement makes the porch
livable on all but the cOl6eSt
days. At right is interior view.
doors of ponderosa pine be-
cause the wood is easy to work
with, has been chemically treat
ed to resist weather, and could
be painted on the outside to
match the exterior of the house,
and stained inside for soft, natu-
raj wood tones.
After the doors were in place,
Schumacher put down a new
floor, and finished the wall COM
mon to the house with knotty
pine plywood. Striated plywood
squares were used for new
ceiling.