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Milford chronicle., 1957-08-02
Wilmington Stores
Dollar Day Aug. 7

Wilmington s-offering
the highest quality merchandise at
record low prices-will celebrate
the 80th semi-annual Dollar Day.
sponsored by the Retail Merchants
Section of the Delaware State
Chamber of Commerce, on Wednes-
day, August 7th.
Samuel H. Morrison is Chairman
of the 11-member Cooperative Sales
and Advertising Committee which
is planning for this gala parade of
bargains in every line of merchan-
Ieontinued on page ninel
Milford chronicle., 1957-08-02

especially Tor the SeSQul-Centen-S
nial and located near the center
of the Milton business section, in
which will be 'incarcerated" those
Milton adult males who have failed
to grow q beard for the occasion
aRd who have failed to get per
NIT TO go beardless. Indications
are that comparatively few Mil
tonians will be confined" as lux
uriant grOwths of all hues and
shapes already adoFn the faces of
many of the towns males.
In addition to Governor ]. Caleb
Boggs and other state officials, the
mayors Of at least thirteen COM
munities, including those from
other Millions" in Ontario, Can
ada; North Carolina and New
continued on page twelve)
Milford chronicle., 1957-08-02
Pamphlet Issued On
Fort Delaware
Was Prepared By w. Emerson
Wilson OF Morning News STAFF

The Institute of Delaware His
tory and Culture has announced
the publication of Fort Della
ware" by w. Emerson Wilson, the
fourth pamphlet in a series being
prepared under the editorial di-
rection of University of Delaware
Professors A. r. Dunlap, chair
man. George H. Henry, and H. Clay
Reed.
In Fort Delaware, Mr.. Wilson.
city editor of the Wilmington
Morning News" and chairman of
the board of the Fort Delaware So
ciety, tells of the Importance of the
fort during the Civil War when, as
prison for Confederate soldiers.
it was known as "The Anderson
Vile of the North" Practically all
the prisoners captured at the Battle
of Gettysburg were confined in
Fort Delaware or in the wooden
barracks surrounding the fort on
Pea Patch Island. More than H.
Continued on page elevenl
Milford chronicle., 1957-08-02
Bather browns At
Bethany Beach
Heart Attack Is Blamed IA Tragedy
Last Friday

A 46-year-Old mining engineer
from Montreal, Canada, was drown
ed while swimming with his wife
in the Atlantic Ocean off Bethany
Beach last Friday morning.
NIIe was Omar Clarke Wilson who
has been vacationing at Bethany
Beach for several days with his
wife, Mrs. Lilly Wilson, and two
small children.
DR.. S. S. BjOrnsOn, state medical
examiner who is investigating the
death with state police detectives
at Georgetown, said Wilson may
have suffered a heart attack but
apparently died by drowning.
Detectives said Wilson and his
wife were swimming in deep water
about HAS a. m. when he sudden
ly disappeared beneath the surface.
His wife and other bathers who saw
him disappear started to shout for
help.
CONTINUED on page three)
Milford chronicle., 1957-08-02
Beebe Hospital To
Delay Fund Drive
Sussex Institution VIII Launch
Drive Next Spring

The Beebe Hospital administra-
ton has decided to use now its
Ford grant funds for the most ur-
gent improvements to the hospital
plant at Lewes, and postpone until
next spring its proposed half-mil-
lion dollar campaign for overall
additions, scheduled to start Aug.
1 of this year.
This decision was announced re-
Gently by Raymond A. Baldwin.
business administrator. He says
the board of directors and advisory
board have decided to take the ad-
vice of the Embarrassing cOunselors,
Warren E. Tucker Associates of
New York, not to start the big
drive so late in the season, as they
recommended at a joint meeting
of the two hospital boards last Sat
uTday.
But we will go ahead now with
necessary alterations and additions
to the original wing, The Shaw
continued on page ive)
Milford chronicle., 1957-08-02

Miller said that a cOlOrful pro-
gram spotlighting the Masonic or
der in their bright costumes will
be planned by Leo S. Jester, chair
man cf the arrangements commit
tee and Past Grand Tall of Brandy
wine Forest No. 20 of Wilmington,
in cooperation with General Man
ager S. Rudy Brittingham and Rae
ing Secretary Jim Lynch. Grand
Tall Chandler Logan of Brandy
wine Forest will be host for one
night.
Featured harness event of the
evening will be the $4,000 Phila-
deIphia Pace, for which a select
field of % sidewheelers has been
Pacing stars scheduled
to compete include the speedy
Continued on page tenl
Milford chronicle., 1957-08-02

the Agricultural Extension service
of the University Is helping to
bring the latest information to the
attention of farmers.
Below is the schedule for the
two-day program:
ZOO a. m. e. ID. T.. August Sth:
Leave Agricultural Hall, University
of Delaware, Newark.
1000 a. m. f. II. T.: Arrive
Si,ssaTiiG Farm, LiGcroft, New Jersey,
Curtis Hobson. Manager: Maurice
POllak, Owner. The Marlu Farm
herd was founded in 1871. Since
then il has grown to over $50 head
of registered Jersey cattle of
which 125 are of milking age. The
premium milk from the herd is
distributed by Shore Diaries of
continued on page nine)
Milford chronicle., 1957-08-02
Desegregation Hearing
Is Set For August z
Preliminary Session In U. 5. Court
Is ScSGjiUised

Next Tuesday has been set by
Chief Judge Paul Leahy of the u.
S. District Court for a preliminary
hearing on motions submitted by
six lower Delaware school boards
in relation to his July 15 order set
ting forth the courts requirements
for action toward desegregatjon in
public schools.
At noon on Tuesday attorneys
representing each of the school
districts which have filed motions
regarding the judges court order of
July Is will be assembled in fed
eral court to discuss any points
which may not appear clearly to
them in the court order. The ses-
sions will be a preliminary to a
later formal presentation of argu-
ment on three motions and will not
continued on page seVen)
Milford chronicle., 1957-08-02
Floyd E. Williams Is
Promoted BY Libby's
Former HOustOnian Is Gent. Sup't.
OF Eastern Division

Libby, McNeill & Libby announ-
ced the appointment of Floyd E.
Williams as general superinten
dent of the company's Eastern di-
vision. Guy A. Graham was named
assistant general superintendent
IF the Eastern division.
Williams will be in charge of all
operations at 19 Libby plants in
the Midwest and Eastern United
States. He Joined the company IN
1884 and had been engaged in vari-
GUS production capacities at plants
in Delaware, Illinois and Minneso-
ia. Mr.. Williams. at one time, was
assistant to the plant superinten-
dent at Houston, Del, and he, with
Mrs Williams, were active in all
community affairs. Mrs. Williams
was active in the church choir.
Graham has been with the COM
pany since 1947, serving in the
Seattle salmon division and in. the
Eastern division.
Milford chronicle., 1957-08-02
Rehoboth Church Is
Planning Expansion
EpwOrth MethOdlsts Plans To Meet
DVercrOWded Existing Condition

The Official Board of the Ep-
worth Methodist Church, Rehoboth
Beach, voted unanimously at its
meeting on Wednesday. July gath,
to embark upon an expansion pro-
gram which will meet the over
crowded situation which now exists
The motion that launched this
expansion program was made by
MIR. ]. Arthur Downing, one of the
Oldest members Of the Church.
A committee to study the exact
needs of the Church was appointed
by the pastor, Rev. Ira Eugene
Doyle. They are: Mr.. d. Franklin
CULLEN, Lay member to Annual
Conference, Mr.. Arthur Sipple,
President of Board of Trustees,
Miss Lois Savage, Chairman of
Commission on Education, DR..
Richard Steele, Church School
Superintendent, Mr.. Claude Hud-
son, Church Lay Leader. Mrs. Ruth
Continued on page ten)
Milford chronicle., 1957-08-02
Stock Car Racing At
Harrington On August 3
Annual Benefit Program Sponsored BY The Harr
ingtOn Volunteer Fire Company; Saturday
August 10th Has Been Set For Rain Date

The Harrington Volunteer Fire Company has everything
readiness
Fairgrounds
25ap
Milford chronicle., 1957-08-02
Milton Residents Ready
For Sesqui- Centennial

Residents head Of the Broadki in
234 will the biggest
Their
bedecked ready their Sesqui-Centennal
will
Milford chronicle., 1957-08-02
Dairy Tour Is Scheduled
For Thurs. Fri, Aug. g. 9

County daymen invited to join with the New Castle
10 William H. Henderson
which all interested daymen the
Of
Milford chronicle., 1957-08-02
Toll Cedars Night, Aug. Z
At BrGndytUine RaceaUuy

members of II Forests Of
the third Tall
We'd
Miller announced last night
scheduled
during the igh pari mutue meeting opens Monday
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-27
AS. Johnson Scoops The
Air Conditioning Industry

Remember! vornodo is the st the
original in its field !. ;. and the most copied
It's been tested and proven, again and again,
in Washington weather by hundreds Of
satisfied users. Vornodo is BIGGEST in
Soles-BIGGEST in Demand BIGGEST in
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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-07-05
4-YEAR-OLD GIRL
KILLED WALKING
AT MACS HEAD

Debbie Brock, four year old
Elizabeth City girl who lives on
Harrington Road, was fatally in
jured Tuesday night about 9
o'clock at Mays Head when struck
by 1949 Oldsmobile, driven by
Robert Bruce Best, II, of Kitty
Hawk. Best who was southbound,
struck the child while she was
walking on the road.
Best was released by patrolnan
w. E. Brown, and allowed to go
to his home at Kitty Hawk pend
ing complete investigation Of the
circumstances.
The child, taken to Elizabeth
City hospital in am ambulance,
died on arrival at the hospital.
The mishap occurred so feet
south of the Mays Head Beach
Club.
The little girl was the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. G. X. Brock and
the granddaughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. K. Leary of Camden,
formerly of Mays Head.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-07-05
BIDS OPENED FOR NEW
MANTEO HIGH SCHOOL
Contracts Held Up Because Electrical
and Plumbing Bids Exceeded esfi-
mates; To Be Re-Adverfised

The letting of contracts for con-
struction of the new Manteo High
School was delayed Tuesday after
noon when the Dare County Board
of Education found that low bids
for both the electrical and plumb
ing work exceeded the estimated
amounts.
Rejecting all bids for the cleo
trical and plumbing work, the
board decided to revise the speci-
fications and to advertise for new
bids on these two phases to be
opened on July %. In the mean
time, the board is holding in abey-
ance bids for the general contract
for the building.
At Tuesdays meeting, the board
also approved contracts for two
new teachers for the coming
school year: Mrs. Hilda Balance
at the Cape Hatteras elementary
school and William w. Harrington
at the Manteo elementary school.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-07-05
MRS. MARIA nj. LEWARK
DIES IN NORFOLK SUNDAY

Mrs. Maria Midget Lewark, 76,
died Sunday morning at IL o'clock
in a Norfolk hospital after a
short illness.
She was native of Rodanthe
but had been living in Manteo
for the past So years. She was
the daughter Of the late Bannis-
ter and Sobrina Midget and the
wife Of William v. Lewark. She
was a member Of the Mt. Olivet
Methodist Church.
eBsides her husband she is sur
vived by two sons, William D..
Lewark and Rondal O. Lewark Of
Manteo; three sisters, Mrs. Oren-
da Simpson, Mrs. Colinda Bar
nett and Mrs. Nettie Midget of
Manteo; one brother, Etheridge
Midget of Freeport, Long Island,
NJ. Y; and six grandchildren.
Funeral services were conduct
ed Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock
| in the chapel Of the Twiford Fu-
neral Home in Manteo BY the Rev.
Louis A. Aitken, pastor Of Mt.
Olivet Methodist Church.
Burial followed in the Mt. Oil
vet Cemetery.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-07-05
BIDS ON NEW ROAD
IN DARE EXCEED
STATE ESTIMATES
Highway Commission Last Thurs.
day WithhoIds Approval of
Bids for Relocation Of
u. S. 1853

Approval was withheld by the
outgoing State Highway Commits
sion Thursday of last week on the
low bids opened two days earlier
Tor the project to relocate High
way L S. 1853 on Dare County's
beaches. Further consideration of
the bids was ordered because the
total of the low bids exceeded by
$247, 627.77 the amount set aside
for the work.
Chief Engineer w. H. Rogers
Jr. said it was possible that the
additional funds needed might be
obtained from those allocated for
primary roads. The problem was
left for the new highway com
mission taking office July 1.
The project calls for the grad
ing and paving from a point Ia
miles east of Currituck Sound
Bridge for a distance of 1873 miles
south to Whalebone, for which F.
D. Cline Paving Company of Ra-
leigh bid $888,777.77. For moving
the buildings, Crouch Brothers Of
Mooresville bid $62,65O.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-07-05
TWO FOREST FIRES
BURN 10000 ACRES
DURING PAST WEEK

Two forest fires, which have
burned more than 10000 acres of
woodland in Tyrrell and Hyde
counties, were reported under con-
troll Wednesday.
According to reports of the
state foresters, the flames subsid-
ed Tuesday in Hyde County in
the area around Pungo Lake,
where swampy woodland has been
burning since late last week. The
fire in Tyrrell County, which
started when flaming Air Force
jet crashed there Saturday, also
was reported under control.
The firefighters had been ham
pered by very dry conditions and
heavy winds. However, the winds
shifted Monday. Total damage will
not be known for several days.
Prisoners and volunteers have
been used at both fire sites. In adj
dition crews and tractors from the
North Carolina Pulp Co. and the
West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co,
have been used in battling the
Tyrrell fire. The land that burned
in Tyrrell is owned mostly by the
Kent Lumber Co., but West Vir-
ginia owns much valuable wood
land in that area.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-07-05
SAILOR STATIONED
AT BUXTON KILLED
IN WRECK THURSDAY

Dare County's seventh highway
fatality this year, the second this
week occurred at 1:15 am. Thurs
day morning on the Mays Head
Oregon Inlet highway near the
Oregon Inlet ferry dock. James
Lee Stuart, 10, stationed at the
Naval base at Buxton, was killed
instantly when his speeding car
went out of control and overturn-
ed.
According to Patro man o. L.
McCullen, the Investigating off
Ger, Stuart was driving 1852
Ford south at an indicated speed
of 80 to 100 miles per hour when
he entered q curve and lest con-
troll of the car, which then swcrv-
ed back and forth across the road
for a distance of 1900 feet before
overtuning in the sand Stuart
died instantly of a crushed head,
and the car was described as a
total loss; u passenga- in the car,
another sailor stationed at Buxton,
escaped without injury however
According to the patrolman,
some whiskey and also empty beer
cans were found in the car.
The car belonged to Stuart's
mother, who lives in Muskegon,
Michigan. The victims father is
reported to have been killed in the
Korean conflict.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-07-05
SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS
TO BE HELD AT MANTEO
JULY 2 TO AUGUST l6

The Roanoke Island School of
Fine Arts, sponsored by the Roa-
noke Island Historical Association,
is scheduled to be held this year
from July 9th through August
18th. Registration for the school
is to be held this Saturday, july
6, between 10 am. and 1890 pm.
at the Community Building in
Manteo.
The school is sponsored each
summer by the association in con-
nection with the annual presenta-
ton of the historical drama The
Lost Colony, with the purpose of
providing instruction in the thea
tire arts, supplementing the train
ing of the company of The Lost
Colony, and training residents of
Dare County for future partici-
patton in this drama of their
county's history.
The faculty is made up of men,
bers of the staff and company of
The Lost Colony. The list of in
structors and the classes they will
teach is as follows: DIR. Elwood
Keister, Voice Glass; Miss Nancy
Francis, Children's Chorus; Miss
Ellen Walter, Advanced Dance
Technique and Beginners Dance
Technique; Miss Kathleen Hart
sock, Dance for Children; William
II. Long, Stagecraft or Piaywrit-
ing; Mrs. Irene Rains, Costume
Execution; DR.. Elizabeth WEIGH,
Voice and Diction; and Mrs. Mary
Long, Makeup for the Stage.
Classes are open to any member
of the company Of The Lost Col
ony and to any permanent or tenn
porary resident Of Dare County,
There is no tuition fee, and at
tendance is voluntary, but be-
cause each class has certain OBJ
| jectives to attain and serious
See FINE ARTS, Page Five
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-07-05
DARE TEACHER ALLOTMENT
FOR COMING YEAR GIVEN

The allotment of teachers for
the 1957-58 school year fer Dare
County's schools by the State
Board of Education was announc-
ed this week by Mrs. Mary L.
Evans, county superintendent.
This allotment is slightly revised
from the tentative allotment made
earlier by the state.
Several changes in schools are
to be made as result of the
states allotment, which is as fol-
lows: Manteo, 10 elementary and
z high school, Manns Harbor,s l
elementary; Kitty Hawk, a elc-
mentary; Wanchese, A elementary;
Stumpy Point, l elementary; Cape
Hatteras, 5 elementary, 4 high
school; and Roanoke, 2 elemen-
tary, / high school.
Manns Harbor lost one teacher
this year, resulting in the fourth
grade being assigned to the Man
teo school and thus leaving only
grades one through three al
Manns Harbor. Because of crowd
ed conditions at Manteo, the state
agreed to assign a teacher to
Stumpy Point again for one more
year only. This years allotment
also results in the loss Of one
teacher at Kitty Hawk.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-07-05

TWO OHIO NATIVES met and exchanged greetings bakstage
special prevew Colony
day evening of last week Ohio Governor William ONei
shown with Ray Smith of Cleveland Ohio who year
Tom Harris in the historical
In addition Governor ONe other
special guests of Governor Carolina
Stephen R. McNcho Colorado c. Lovees of
Iowa. George Docking of Kansas, ore L. Minnesota
zimmerman Jr OF South Carolina William Stratton
Illinois, Hugo Aronson Washington John E. Davis of North Da
kota Joe Foss of South Dakota and Clyde Utah
Brown photol
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-07-05

ROBERT S. SMITH, Dare County
farm agent since July 1915, re-
signed this week for health rea-
sons. He plans to remain in Man
teo where he has a home, along
with his wife and two young sons,
Spencer and Paul. His successor
has not been named.
Born and reared in Pitt County,
Mr.. Smith graduated at State Col
lege and went to Warren County
Jan l, 1910 as assistant county
agent. He remained there until he
came to Dare County.
One of Mr.. Smiths projects has
benefited the entire state. When
the Navy abandoned its facility on
Roanoke Island, he enlisted the in
terest of Manteo newspaperman,
Victor Meekins, with the result
that the Roanoke Island All Camp
was established in 1916. An aver
age of 5000 All Club boys and
See SMITH, Page Five
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-07-05

THE REV. GEORGE E. STOKES,
Jr., a native of Norfolk but cur
rently rector of st. Paul's Episco-
pal Church at Clinton, will be
guest minister at the second in a
series of Sunday morning worship
services at The Lost Colony's Wat
erside Theatre near Manteo next
Sunday morning.
The Lost Colony Chorus under
direction of DR.. Elwood Keister,
with George E. Perry at the or
gan, will provide the music and
anthem for the services.
After graduating from Maury
High School, Norfolk, and Lees
McRae College in Banner Elk, the
Rev. Mr.. Stokes received his ABB
degree from the University Of the
South, Sewanee, Tenn, where he
made Phi Beta Kappa in 1947, was
member of The Order of the
Gownsmen and also a member of
Alpha Tau Omega fraternity
there. He received his Bachelor of
Divinity degree from the Virginia
Theological Seminary in Alexan-
dlia, Va, June 1850.
Prior to his call to the Clinton
Parish, he served as minister of
Haymarket Parish in the Diocese
of Virginia, where he served as
president of the Prince William
County Council of Churches and
was secretary of the Valley Con-
See SERVICES, Page Five
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-07-05
MANTEO LINESMAN HURT
IN ACCIDENT FRIDAY

Raymond Wescott of Manteo,
linesman now for Virginia Elec-
trio and Power Company, suffered
a fall from pole on which he
was working directly behind Fear
ing's Cafe in Manteo Friday morn
ing at 9.20 am. His fall was brok-
en- somewhat by a guy wire on
which ne fell but which caught
him in The middle of his back.
Preliminary examination by DR..
w. w. Harvey did not disclose
any broken bones, but he was
transferred to Albemarle Hospital
in Elizabeth City for further ex-
animation and treatment.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-07-05
THREE-POUND POMPANO
CAUGHT NEAR HATTERAS

Pompano have been more nu-
merous in the surf on the southern
end of Hatteras Island this year
than ever before. That has been
especially true for anglers who
go after them with rod and reel.
Several Of these fish, claimed by
most persons who have eaten
them as the best of anything that
swims in the ocean, have been
landed with rod and reel. They
weigh up to three pounds each.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-07-05
BIG SUNFlSH LANDED BY
CANNADY IS RELEASED

Capt. Buddy Cannady, skipper
of the cruiser Wahoo, lassoed an
ocean sunfish estimated to weigh
more than 500 pounds Monday,
and lowed it to Oregon Inlet. Aft
er many had seen the fish, he
towed it back to the Inlet and re-
leased it while it was still alive.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-07-05

THROWING THE SWITCH to officially Manteos
chmaxed brief ceremony Monday evening in which Virginia
Electric and Power Company to the town modern
date street light system consisting of twelve lights
rysx $500 lumen lights Mayor Martin Kellogg pulling
the ribbon place the lights operation H. Goodmon Vepcos
Carolina division vice-presdent, looks on.
The town has granted Vepco franchise and has
entered into 3year for street
This connection with Roanoke Utilities
electric system to Vepco which completed Monday
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-07-05

HEARTY WELCOME is extended North Governor
Luther H. Hodges left and Mrs Hodges Rankin Governor
White the Lost Colony their
by plane Thursday morning of Hodges came
Manteo from the National Governors Conference in williamsburg
and OF other states his
Dare Thursday Friday days Sightseeing fishing and
rest and relaxation (Aycock Brown photol