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The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1958-08-14
WOMEN'S COMMITTEE MEETS

The Noble County Farm Bu-
reau Women's committee met
Wednesday at the home of Mrs.
Erval Stevens, Harriettsville,
Guests were Mrs. Andrew Crum,
Mrs. Donald Leonard, Mrs. Iva
Wickham, Mrs. Grace Radcliff,
Mrs. Mary Iams, Susanne Miller
and the hostess. Refreshments
were served.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1958-08-14
ATLAS AT LIBRARY

The Noble county library has
received a Rand -McNally road at
las, according to the librarian,
Miss Hortense Gibson.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1958-08-14
WANTED TO BUY

WANTED-USED electric water
pump. Write box SO, Cumber
land, Ohio. 7pd.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1958-08-14

Miracle Reunion
The annual Miracle reunion
Will be held Sunday, Aug. II,
at the Homecoming grounds at
Stafford. A basket dinner will
be served at noon and all rel
atives and friends are invited.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1958-08-14
Family
Reunions
Still Reunion

The annual Still reunion will
be held at the Noble county fair
grounds on Sunday, August II.
All members are asked to be
present
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1958-08-14

Pictured above is Betty June
Leasure, six-month-ol daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Leasure,
of Stafford.
Grandparents are Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Leasure, of Summerfield
route, and Mr.. and Mrs. A. R.
Stewart, of Caldwell route.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1958-08-14
Ahny
Ruthda4

Wednesday, August IL
Mary Louise Moore.
Saturday, August 16
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-01
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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-08-01
TWO NEW FERRY BOATS
NOW BEING CONVERTED
National Park Service Obtains Two
Vessels For Ferry Service at Cape
liatteras National Seashore

Superintendent Gibbs Cape Hat
teras National Seashore, said to-
day that two Leu vessels were
received from the Navy for ferry
service. These vessels will be turn
ed over to the North Carolina
Highway Commission. The Navy
Department advised that these
vessels were built at a cost of
approximately $350,O0O each. The
vessels are in excellent condition
and We're in service at the time of
transfer. These two vessels make
up a total of six that have now
been turned over to the North
Carolina State Highway Commits
sion by the National Park Service
for use at Oregon and Hatteras
Inlets.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-08-01
MANTEO FAMILY
LONG IN LOST
COLONY ROLES
Hunt Thomas. Two. May Be
Fourth Generation Member
To Join Dramas Cast
BY JOHN PALMER

Could be there is fourth gen.
GRAFTON company member in the
fairly immediate offing for 'The
Lost Colony"
Tradition, at least, if it takes a
part in the destiny of youthful
Hunt Thomas, might well instill in
him love for the theatre in gem
eral, and for the dramatization Of
Sir Walter Raleigh's Inflated coll
onization attempt in particular.
For Hunts parents, Harry and
Marjalene Thomas have been
identified, singly and jointly, with
"The Lost Colony virtually since
it's inception in 1887. What is
more, his maternal great grand
mother and his grandmother help
ed launch the production. follow
ing Pulitzer prizewinner Paul
Green's completion of the script.
A year later, in 1888, Marjalene
Midget, now his mother and a
native Of Manteo, joined the cast
as flower girl.
But that first inauspicious mart
stirred an enduring interest, one
that has brought her back to the
See THOMASES, Page Twelve
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-08-01
TAX RATE STATIC
SINCE 1855 AT
KILL DEVIL HILLS
Town Officials Get No Pay For
Service; Rate Stays at 25f

There is one town in North Car
DINA where the tax rate has never
increased. This is the town of Kill
Devil Hills in Dare county where
the tax rate set on July % in a
special meeting of the town board
remains at 25 cents on the $500.
The rate in its neighboring town
of Manteo is nearly four times as
great.
Mayor Thos. Chears says one
reason the rate is kept down is
that the town officials receive no
pay. Gratuitous services are rem
dered by the Mayor, the town
Board, the members of the Zonine
Board and of the Fire Department,
Kill Devil Hills has no bonded in.
debtedness and operates on the pay
as you go plan. It anticipates nc
bonds in the foreseeable future.
This despite the Governors recent
warning that North Carolinians
should prepare themselves to pay
more taxes next year.
Due to the recent county revalua-
tion of property, the taxable prop,
erty in the town has increased from
So, 620, 493 in 1867 to $4,825, cas- in
1853. The town, under its new bud
See TAKES, Page Six
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-08-01
UNCLE DOCK FROM DUCK WRITES:
Everything Moves Toward More Burdens And
Worse Problems For the Man Who Pays Off

for every year for a long time.
can't get it out of my head that
our office holders should be look
ing for ways to save us some
money, instead of ways to put on
more employees and spend more all
the time.
And here's another thing that
doesn't appeal to me. The Cover
nor says maybe we should have
twice as many senators--100, one
for every county, and then turn
around and give more representa-
tives to the big counties, so about
six or seven counties would be in
complete control of the state. Now
if there ever was a case where
the poor gets taken from them
seven what they have" this looks
like it to me.
The heart and soul of North
Carolina is its small and poor
counties where people are closer
together. You don't find the heart
and conscience of the state in the
big industrial centers with its gil
gantic power of capital, and its
ruthless domineering by labor
racketeers of all sorts. It would
be a sad day indeed for North
Carolina when we put our state
into the complete control of such
influences. Right now, a refugee
driven out of Germany, enabled
to make millions in North Caro-
lima, is begging to go to Congress
and brags about spending $4,000
in the primary to buy his way in.
If he admits spending $4,000, how
much you reckon he actually did
snend. / don't want our state rep
resented by no such foreigners as
this guy, and no other country in
the world would let men like this
think about il.
Well, Mr.. Editor, all the fools
and rascals are not in county Of.
See DOCK. Page Six
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-08-01
MAN WITH OAR
AND BIRTHDAY
OF COAST GUARD
Unique Observance Planned at
Hat+eras Inlet Ferry Next
Monday

After decade of not seeing a
man with an oar in his hand nor
any note taken of the traditional
observance of the U. S. Coast
Guards birthday, Hatteras Island
will see something of both next
Monday afternoon in the ferry slip
at Hatteras Inlet when competing
teams from the stations that make
up Cape Hatteras Group will dip
their oars and flex their inherited
rowing muscles.
The notion began to simmer
three weeks ago when Group Com
imande1 Melvin Midget went over
to the National Park Service Mu-
scum and saw there his great
grandfather's own account of one
of the great feats of Craftsmanship
in the long history of this island.
He is descendant of the re-
doubtable Capt. Benjamin Daley
who led his crew to the rescue of
the Ephraim Williams-and the
first Congressional Medal for Life
saving ever awarded.
With all sorts of modern CAD
gets to facilitate rescue of dis
tressed seamen the oar has reced-
ed into the background in these
latter years but mention a, rowing
race and the pulse of the Islanders
begins to beat a little faster and
by the time of the race at 2 o'clock
Monday afternoon it is not unlike
ly that the Islands population will
be assembled. At the first an
nouncement of the race the instant
response of Eph and Cedric Mid
gett was "Well, We'll just shut
up this store for once and CO."
The response lis typical.
Group Commander Midget has
just recently assumed command of
the group. He was born in Buxton
but most of his life has been spent
off the Island, largely in command
of stations or Groups of stations
on Long Island, and in New Jer-
sey. Crews on short notice have
begun their training, and compe-
tition for place is keen. The race
will be rowed in skiffs, there be-
See MIDGETT, Page Seven
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-08-01

ROBERT H. ATKINSON, for
eight years, superintendent of
Fort McHenry National Monu-
ment,, Baltimore, Md, has been
promoted to superintendent Of the
Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt
National Historic Site and Wander
bilt Mansion National Historical
Site, Hyde Park, N. Y, the Ma
tional Park Service reports. He
will succeed James B. Myers,
whose appointment as superinten-
dent of Gettysburg National Mill
tary Park, Pennsylvania, was an
nounced recently.
A native of Fremont, N. c., At
kinson started working for the
National Park Service in 1910 as a
guard at Wright Brothers Nation
al Memorial, Kill Devil Hill. In
1871, he was appointed superin-
tendent of the then newly desig-
mated Fort Raleigh National His
toric Site, also in North Carolina.
He served as principal of the
Manteo High School, and later as
Dare County School Superinten-
dent. He has an A. B. degree from
Guilford College. During World
War ii he served with the U. S.
Coast Guard. His wife is the for
mer Roxie Etheridge of Manteo.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-08-01

Dear Mr.. Editor:
/ take my pen in hand to write
you again, as the saying goes. l
am disturbed nightly these days.
/ can't understand why it is,
when people get to handling other
peoples business and spending
other peoples money, they can be
so reckless as most of our office
holders seem to be these days.
Maybe l am wrong in my idea
that these people are what we are
told, "public servants" 1t is more
like we are their servants. had
thought for years that when we
employ man his first concern
was to look out for our interests.
But on the other hand, some
thing seems to set them afire the
other way. We may excuse some
of course on the ground that so
many of our office holders never
could make living, until they
managed to get on the public pay
roll. Some of them got there
through the influence of relatives
who in this manner avoided hav-
ing to support them. Others got
there by appealing directly to the
sympathy of the people, and let
me say Mr.. Editor, that is nearest
no excuse imaginable, electing
somebody who amt fit, to an of
flee at the expense of the people,
just because Of feeling sorry for
him.
AS we have now seen, it is the
mostly costly help in the world,
when we turn over large affairs,
to a man who isn't smart enough
to make nearly so much on the
outside as the taxpayers give him.
1t goes all the way to the top.
Just q day or two ago, the Gov
ernor says, look out for more tax
les next year. Well that Is just
what we have been looking out
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-08-01
DARE COUNTY NOT
CONCERNED WITH
ITS CIVIL DEFENSE
Little Interest Manifested Wed
nesday Night at Meeting
in Courthouse

Few people attended, barely a
dozen, in the Dare County court
house Wednesday night to hear
Civil Defense discussed by Off
cials from Raleigh. Col. John A.
Crawford, Chief Planning Staff
Officer, N. C. Civil Defense and
F. M. Culvern, Assistant, appeared
N Manteo after having visited
Hyde, Tyrrell, Chowan and other
counties in the Northeast.
Plans for operating effectively
were discussed, and Col. Crawford
outlined various divisions of duties
in event of enemy attack.
Sheriff Frank Cahoon opened
the meeting. County Commission
ers Hallett Perry and Lawrence
Swain attended.
Sometime ago the County Boarc
paid expenses of Major J. L. Muir
ply to Raleigh to attend a civil
defense meeting. Major Murphy
returned and advised an appro.
priation of $4,000 to organize
Dare County. This recommends
ton was overlooked in making W
the new budget.
Col. Crawford explains that un
der existing custom, the counties
See DEFENSE, Page Six
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-08-01
BEACH TRIPS AND
HISTORICAL TALKS
AT NATIONAL SEASHORE

In improving their service to the
public the National Park Service
has started conducted trips on the
beaches at Coquina Beach and
Cape Hatteras. Both places are
part Of Cape Hatteras National
Seashore.
The trips at Coquina Beach start
from the shade structure each day
of the week at $50 am. and 400
pm. Local school teachers serving
as park ranger naturalists con-
Quoting these trips are: Cliff Wag-
staff and Grady Gaskill of Wan
cheese and Bill Wilkerson Of Kitty
Hawk. They conduct interested
park visitors on a walk along the
beach, during which they explain
the Importance of the barrier dune,
talk about life in the sea and on
the beach, and point out historical
features. Their manner is informal,
and visitors are invited to ask
questions and give any additional
information they may have.
Changes in hours and days for
these trips may be necessary from
time to time.
Two conducted activities are Of
fered at Cape Hatteras. Beach
trips similar to those at Coquina
Beach are conducted by park
ranger naturalist at $3.50 am. on
Sunday, Wednesday, and Thursday,
and at 900 pm. on Friday and
Saturday, and the starting point
is the Museum of the Sea near
Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. Tommy
Lewis of N. C. State College, RAJ
leigh, is in charge of these trips.
At $3.50 am. on Monday, Tuesday,
Friday and Saturday Park Histo-
rian Norman Delaney of Duke I'm
iversity gathers interested visitors
on the porch at the Museum of the
Sea to talk with them informally
about the history of the Outer
Banks. All of these activities are
being well attended, and it is ex-
pected even greater interest will
be shown in them as they become
better known to the visiting public.
Local residents are invited to par
ticipate in these tours with WISH
tors from more distant places.
Another activity receiving bet
! ter attendance as it becomes bet
ter known is the 20 minute record
ed program illustrated with 140
colored slides of the National Sea-
shore which is presented daily at
10, III, 1, 2, and 5 o'clock at the
Bodie Island Visitor Center q mile
See TRIPS. Page Six
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-08-01
PAYMENTS FOR
TAX APPRAISAL
JOB SUSPENDED
Commissioners Stop Payments to
New Jersey Firm Until
Further Notice

The Dare County Commissioners
this week ordered that no pay
ments be made to the New Jersey
firm on the contract for apprais-
ing the property in Dare County
this year. Their action followed a
request from w. H. McCown, at
torney for the Dare County Tax
payers Association which is OPP
posing the valuation on the ground
that the job is inequitable, bur-
densome to the people and in short,
outrageous.
The order of the Board failed to
get entered on the minutes, but c.
S. Meekins, County Accountant,
said he got instruction verbally to
not pay anything further on the
S11,500 alleged to be due under
contract until further notice.
Previously, the firm, by apply
ing to the officials, had collected
S10,508 for their work, most of it
without having rendered any prog
ress reports to the Board.
When some of the results of
the appraisal had been made pub
lie, popular opinion became wide
spread that the job was ridiculous
ly incompetent. The principals in
the firm, Associated Surveys of
Passaic, N. J. did not come to
Dare County to do the work, but
sent various employees who made a
poor impression on those who met
them.
When the county board sent no.
tees of the results of the valua-
tions these men had arrived at, a
storm of protest arose.
Largely, due to this situation.
the Board which was responsible
was voted out in the May primary.
The Board has discovered for it
self, as indicated by its action that
there is doubt that further money
under the contract has been earn
ed. 1t is apparent that the public
doesn't think so, and opinion gem
orally is that the entire appraisal
should have been discarded.
1t is also apparent that the coun-
ty has been put to many, thousands
of dollars in needless expense, and
much further expense will be re-
quired before an equitable apprais-
al can be arrived at.
However, this is nothing new
in small counties, where county
boards without asking questions,
often buy anything that is offered
them. No investigation was made,
See PAYMENTS, Page Six
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-08-01
MANY PEOPLE OF
DARE COUNTY 80
YEARS OLD PLUS
Special Invitation Extended All
Oefogenarians on July 81

KITTY HAWK, July 80 - On
Thursday this week, when state Of
ficials and friends of the Coast
land assemble at Fort Raleigh to
celebrate the 80th birthday of R.
Bruce Etheridge, this community
If Kitty Hawk expects to have
more delegates of the age of 80 or
over, than any other community in
Dare County.
In this neighborhood are eight
remarkably active people, 80 years
Old or over who are planning to at
tend this celebration honoring
Dare County's representive in the
Legislature, former state official,
banker, and holder of many ccun-
ty offices.
Ceremonies attended by most of
the State officials and many legis-
iators will be held at II am. fol-
lowed by a picnic dinner, with
Congressman Herbert Bonner mas
ter of ceremonies, and Edwin Gill
and Lindsay Warren speakers.
Arrangements have been made
to take all of Kitty Hawks octoge-
narians to Fort Raleigh Thursday
morning. The list is headed by
Capt. w. A. Perry, who is past So
yet is an active fisherman and
boatman. The others are Mrs. Ma,
ry F. Best, Mrs. Mary E. Midget
Mrs. Hildegrade Perry, Mrs. Mary
Love Perry, Geo. w. O'Neal, w. l
Dowdy and Mrs. Doll Beacham.
Mays Head has only one resident
See OLD TIMERS, Page Twelve
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-08-01
CONGRESSIONAL PARTY
ON RODANTHE WEEK END

Guests of Herbert C. Bonner,
Congressman spending the week
end at Rodanthe at Mirlo Beach
Lodge, and fishing at Oregon In
let with Charlie Perry of Kitty
Hawk are Congressman Hugh
Alexander of North Carolina;
Congressman Thor Tollefson Of
Oregon; Noah Crimson, Ira Ewers
and Tom Bartle Of Washington,
ID. G. They arrived at the Manteo
Airport Thursday morning.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-08-01
STATE TO BUILD A NEW
BRIDGE COSTING $l59.7I9

A contract has been let by the
State Highway Commission for a
new bridge on Roanoke Sound, east
Of the long bridge, to cost $780,
719. The project is part Of the
super-highway being constructed
between Wkalebone and Kitty
Hawk. The contractor is Kitchin
Construction Co. of Kinston.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-08-01
DARE COUNTY MEN ATTEND
FIREMEN'S CONVENTION

Lumberton. - Raymond Wescott
from Manteo fire department and
William =. Twiford from Eth Dew
II Hills fire department are attend
ing the list annual State Fire
mems convention here. More than
l,2oo are expected 10 attend.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-08-01
REV. ]. C. BROOKS TO PREACH
MANTEO BAPTIST CHURCH

The Rev. J. C. Brooks of Hamil-
ton, pastor of the Hamilton Bap-
fist Church, will take the morning
and evening services at the Man.
teo Baptist church Sunday, Aug
ust 8, in the absence of the Rev
W. E. Cholerton.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-08-01

Two old Hunt Thomas his parents
Mrs Harry Thomas and his grandmother Mrs. Hazel Twyne
enta fourth generation member of The Colony great
grandmother Mrs Dora Lee Willis
tuning and wardrobe section the dama his grandmother
member IL played the role Margaret
and his mother Maane Midget Thomas started in the
drama flower girl and became the
to be member of the Lost Colony today
Joyce Archard of the principal
husband former USNR Thomas in charge of the
lighting of The Lost Colony.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-15

FLAMENCO. sristss gives aaIJanou dance lesson
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-15

PARIS
Whether the world is ready for it or not.
another Mile. Bardot is here.
This one. however, is different. She is not
Sultry. She keeps her skirt down over her knees.
And she never poses for lie PiH-Hp."
Despite this extraordinary restraint, MIanou
Bardot, or Mimi as we like to call her, has been
signed to appear in four French films and, one
can predict, is destined for career leading to
that fabulous goal, re Hollywood contract"
You might call MINIS rise Cinderella story
- except that none of Cinderella's sisters looked
like Brigitte. All through her teens Mimi suf-
fered from little-sister complex. Friends
introduced her as 'Brigitte's sister," Gilded
youths sought dates with Mini in the hope of
meeting the fabulous BIB" Movie producers
offered her bit parts so they could use her name.
This may explain why Mimi, far from trying
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-15

to look like Brigitte. went to the opposite
extreme - straight brown hair, little or no
makeup, subdued dress.
Al Is, fed up with hearing ''Bngitte's sister,
muttered every time she entered room, she
fed Paris for London, where the press promptly
welcomed her as "Brigitte's sister"
Returning to Paris, discouraged, she resolved
to get job and became saIesgirI in smart
Faubourg. St. Honore shop.
Then funny thing happened Mini found
that she didn't mind being the sister Of B B., now
that she had career Of her own. Psychologists
might say she had found her identity.
Meantime BIB. 49, Confined on page IS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-15
Look-Another Bardof!

Brgittes little sister isn't fabulous, spectacular
sutry She's merely charming pensive and captivating
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-27

Foeapssmes: Snow IS q highly uninformatiw
material Il melts, shifts and caves in. Nonethe-
less, tracks have been seen time and time again,
many Of them by British and Indian BIOLOGISTS
in upland Sikkim expressly to hunt the Yeti. All
Of the tracks suggested something very like q
naked human foot. They had well-defned heels,
toes rather than claws and stride consistently
two feet. three inches long. They didn't seem
to be human prints but certainly fitted no
known animal Of the area.
Seaap, In small Buddhist temple in the Nepali
vIlaee Of Thyangboche IS q piece Of cured skin
with which the lamas refuse to part. They have,
however. shown il to scientists, who agree that
il could be 300 years old and IS unlike anything
they have ever seen. Although Il fits like scalp
and IS worn on the head in religious ceremonies,
the skin has possibly been shaped from the
crest Of a thickset beast.
ssslr: One day several years ago received an
astonishing piece Of mail. In q letter from an
Indian friend was a strand OF hair that he knew
positively had been plucked from the scalp Of
the Yeti. Il was coarse and stiff and closely
resembled the hair that comes from a mummy.
Thorough laboratory tests revealed that II was
like no other hair We have ever encountered.
Discoveries must be explained. not dis
missed. As .zoolosist, therefore. l must ask
myself: What about the footprints? What about
the scalp? What about the hair?
Surely il is not impossible that in more than
10000 square miles Of barren land never prop
eriy explored by man there is something that
man has never seen before. I feel that something
does exist. ! am entitled. therefore, to specu-
late about what it IS.
4 man Carleton Coon, a noted professor Of
anthropoloey at the University Of Pennsylvania,
mas speculated at - Continued on next page