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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-02-21

resulted from exposure and acct
dents that followed the low temp
eratures, including lives lost in
burning buildings.
1t appears now that most all
nets and stakes of fishermen, al
ready set or in process of being
set for the spring season, will have
been swept away by ice. A torrent
of fresh water pouring down the
sounds will be expected to delay
the replacement of such nets, and
in many cases fishermen will have
insufficient gear to make fresh
start this year.
Many people were caught by
surprise when it began showing
last week end and then rapidly
turning to colder weather, which
resulted in the freezing over of
bays, sounds and rivers in short
time Kitty Hawk Bay, Colington
Creek, Manteo Bay, and places of
like size were soon followed by
Roanoke, Croatan and Currituck
Sounds becoming a solid sheet of
ice.
Ferries were frozen solid in their
slips and couldn't make their runs.
Oil supplies began running low on
Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands and
the situation began to look grim.
Finally on Wednesday afternoon
ferry trip was made, and oil went
across.
There have been a lot of changes
in 40 years. Now we are living
under government by crisis, but
in 1918 we We're in the midst of
World War / which was going to
make the world safe from war
forever. In those days most of the
people of the coastland kept warm
by firewood. Out of the Trent
woods came most of the fuel that
warmed the people of Hatteras Is
land. In subsequent years as wood
grew scarce and people less in
clined toward manual labor, coal
began to grow in favor. Finally
now, most everyone depends on oil,
few on bottled gas and they are
more at the mercy of outside
forces and economic conditions
than ever before.
Forty years ago, the men of the
household got up what wood was
burned for cooking and heating.
People went to the store about
once week, and what with their
salt meat and fish, and various
vegetables, from a family garden,
they seldom felt the pinch Of any
See FREEZE, Page Four
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-02-21
MRS. CLARA M. CRAY OF
STUMPY POINT SUCCUMBS

Mrs. Clara Mae Midget Gray
widow of the late Seymore Gray
died Thursday morning at he,
home at Stumpy Point after ar
illness of five days. Mrs. Gray, who
was So, was born at Rodanthe
daughter of the late brenda S. and
Joseph Midget. She was a mem
Der of the Stumpy Point Method,
list Church. Funeral services will
be held from the chapel of Twi-
ford's Funeral Home in Manteo al
IL am. Saturday, with the Rev
George M. Kelley, pastor of the
Stumpy Point Methodist Church.
officiating.
Mrs. Gray is survived by two
sons, A. Peston Gray of Stumpy
Point and Ronald G. Gray of Nor
folk; three brothers, Levene w,
Midget of Rodanthe, Andrew Mid
gett of Morehead City, and Joseph
Midget of Manteo; seven sisters,
Mrs. Rowena O'Neal, Mrs. C. A.
Midget and Mrs. Darland Midget
of Waves, Mrs. E. R. Midget of
Rodanthe, Mrs. Robert Baum of
Norfolk, and Mrs. Minnie Midget
and Mrs. Frances Midget Gray of
Manteo.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-02-21
ROANOKE ISLAND NATIVE
DIES THURSDAY IN NORFOLK

Mrs. Minnie McInnis Twiford
died at her home in Norfolk Thurs
day morning following a long ill.,
ness. Funeral arrangements were
incomplete at press time.
Mrs. Twiford was a native Of
Roanoke Island, the daughter 81
the late Mr.. and Mrs. Charles r.
Meekins. She is survived BY her
husband, Eugene M. Twiford of
Norfolk; two daughters, Mrs. Tnez
Jenkins Of Norfolk; Mrs. Hazel
Lewis Of Cincinnati, Ohio: three
grandchildren and several great
grandchildren; two brothers, WI
liam 5. Meekins and Roland 8.
MeekinsS Of Manteo; two sisters.
Mrs. c. G. Jones and Mrs. GLADYS
Brantley Of Manteo.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-02-21
COASTLAND'S BIGGEST FREEZE
SINCE WINTER OF 1918 BRINGS
SURPRISES AND NEW EXPENSES
Maybe Not So Heavy a Freeze But VIII Prove
Many Times More Expensive Than 3o-Day
Siege During World War l. More Discomfort
Among People Now Accustomed to Easier
Living; Setback for Fishermen.

It's the biggest freeze in 40
years, but not near so rough. 1t
just seems much worse for today's
people used to so many Injuries,
and who are not conditioned for
such abrupt changes in tempera-
ture. That's the opinion of old
timers who compare this weeks
rugged. weather with that of the
freeze which lasted for nearly 80
days in the winter of 1917-18.
Temperatures this week are re-
ported as down to ten degrees in
the N. c. Coastland, but nothing to
compare with the cold suffered in
states farther inland. In the north
western states temperatures have
been reported as low as 81 degrees
below. Hundreds of deaths have
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-02-21

that it's the tail that don't hang
either way that tells a pig amt
no good. With the spring pri-
maries not too far off, it's a pity
some of these public office hold
ers amt got tails SOS we could
separate the left-tailers and the
right-tailers from the straight
tailers.
l see by the paper yesterday
where a woman writer says Clip
stick has done more for the mo-
rale of American women than
anything else. 1t uplifts the soul
and sustains the spirit"
That, Mister Editor, is what /
would call taking nothing and
trying to make poetry out of it.
If lipstick ''uplifts the SOUL"
then / reckon finger wave and
shampoo would be about equal to
one good reincalnation.
also see by the papers where
a scientist predicts that dresses
will all be made from glass in
another 10 year. There was a
time when I'd have got all excit-
ed over that news, but that was
before wimmen got to wearing
nothing at all. Glass or no glass,
it wouldn't make much differ
ence now.
Well, / come into town last
Saturday to do some shopping
around and went in a cafe and
got me a oyster stew. / would
like fer you, Mister Editor, to git
in touch with the Health Depart
ment or the Bureau of Standards
& Measurements and ask them
how many oyster stews a cafe
is allowed to flavor with one
oyster. | think maybe / got me
a case against that cafe.
Yours truly
Uncle Will.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-02-21
WESTMINSTER CHOIR VOICES
EXPECTED TO RETURN
TO 1853 LOST COLONY

North Carolina singers featured
in The Lost Colony Chorus for the
past two seasons will be replaced
this year by voices of Westminster
Choir College, Princeton, N. j., I'M
der the direction of Gilbert PRO
vano, it was announced today by
the dramas general manager Dick
Jordan.
"Voices of Westminster Choir
College and directors built up pres
tige and national recognition musi-
cally, for The Lost Colony, during
its first Is seasons" said Jordan,
who returned from New York a
few days ago after completing ne
gotiations for bringing the highly
trained student and graduate sing
ers to Roanoke Island for the
shows 18th season beginning on
June % this year.
.Hedley Yost or Fred Haley, both
former organists of The Lost Col
,ony, will return to the drama to
play accompaniment to the West
minister singers of the plays Choir
us, it was stated.
Plrovano, a graduate of West
minister Choir College and later
a student at the Curtis Institute of
Music, Philadelphia, will not be
new in the field of outdoor drama
musical directing. For four years
he was in charge of music and
organist with "Unto These Hills"
the Cherokee drama and for two
years directed the choir and was
composer of music with Wilderness
Road, Berea College, Kentucky,
before beginning work on his doc
torate at Columbia University.
During tour of duty with the
U. S. Navy in 1946-67 he was or
ganist and director of the famous
Bluejackets Choir at Great Lakes
Naval Training Station in Illinois.
His most recent position when not
with dramas or studying, We're
minister of music at the First Com
munity Church 1885, Dallas,
Texas, and at the First Presbyter-
in Church, Jamaica, L. l., N. Y.
Jordan said.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-02-21
GASOLINE FIRE INJURIES
TWO NEAR KITTY HAWK
Andrew TiIleii and William SwindeIl Get
Cuts and Burns Wednesday;
Truck A Total Loss

The sudden explosion and fire
resulting from dripping of gasoline
from the fuel tank of the truck
driven by William Swindell and
Andrew Tillett of Manteo resulted
in painful injuries for both men,
and in the total loss by fire of
the truck, which was owned by
Andmar Appliance Co.
About 4:05 pm. while they were
returning to Manteo, and near the
intersection of 158 and the old
Duck road, flames suddenly sprang
up around them. The two men
jumped out, and Mr.. Tillett suf-
fered injuries to an ankle which
prevents walking, and a cash on
the head about three inches long.
Mr.. Swindell suffered severe
burns.
The men were treated by DIR. w.
w. Harvey and not hospitalized.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-02-21

An Alcohol Education Workshop will be held City
odist Church. Elizabeth City, with Dr. Carade
OF the Methodist Board of Temperance Washington
principal speaker This is the Institutes
the nine districts of the North Carolina
of March
Chaplain Paul Wesley Atken of Duke Hospital Kelley
ute will also the program the eastern
of the
Dr. Hooten has recently returned
the International Committee Prevention of Alcoholism after
comforting with leading statesmen educators public relations
Gals and holding meetings temperance.
Following pastorae Texas Oklahoma held
number of Conference as
leader in Methodsm.
The youths will be featured in the workshops
meeting with the people, while Chaplain Aen will
he counseng period with the adults
the adults and youth during the first the
AS Chaplain of Kelley Institute Greensboro Hospital
Durham Mr. Aken has worked
He community ambassador Oo Norway during
of 1919 He member the American Associa
on and the N c. Methodist persons are
invited to attend.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-02-21
WANCHESE BOYS
TAKEN FROM ICE
BY HELICOPTER

Four adventuresome Wanchese
lads, off in a boat near Wanchese
wharf were rescued by Coast
Guard helicopter from Elizabeth
City Tuesday afternoon.
Bobby Scarborough, Victor Dan
iels, Jr., Wayne johnson and Ros-
coe Beasley were out in a small
boat looking around and their boat
got shut off in an air hole.
Richard Gray, Wanchsee mer-
chant observed their plight and
called the Coast Guard. Beyond
reach of a boat, helicopter got
to them and brought them ashore,
late in the afternoon.
The boys were somewhat the
worse for wear from their expos
ure to icy winds, but it is believed
will recover without serious injury.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-02-21
DEAR MISTER EDITOR:

The fellers up at Mack's store
Saturday night was wondering if
Sputnik will have any effect on
the weather. Ed allowed as how
Congress was liable, to take over
the weather if we git too many
of them things flying around.
think Eds wrong, and I'll
tell you why.
If our Congressman was to
take over the rain, fer instant,
we'd have to file a 10-page appli-
cation to git heavy dew, and
fer a real gulley washer we'd
have to git the political endorse
ment of the county chairman. BY
the time the Rain Committee got
through with the red tape and
was about ready to send us
sprinkle, it would be too late fer
this years crops. And if one of
them Senate investigating COM
mittees discovered that some
member of the Rain Committee
had broke bread with Jim Hoffa,
they'd hold up the application
until we might never git any
more rain. 1t wouldn't work,
Mister Editor.
Moving over from Congress-
men to hogs, the fellers got to
talking about this years hog
killing crop. They got to arguing
over the way a pigs tail curls.
Ed sticks to the old claim that
you can tell pig by the way
his tail hangs. If it hangs to the
left the pig amt no good. / amt
never watched it real close but
seems like q pig always does
better if his tails hangs clock
wise, like Ed says. But some of
the fellers argued that it don't
make much difference SO long
as it hangs one side or the other.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-02-21
SUNDAY IN DARE
IS CHANGED FROM NEXT
SUNDAY TO MARCH End

A one-week postponement of
Dare County's Heart Sunday col
lection of funds for the fight
against heart diseases has been
announced by Woody Fearing of
Manteo, county Heart Fund chair
man. Mr.. Fearing reported that
the past weeks weather conditions
resulting in hating of the Oregon
Inlet ferry had made it impossible
for him to contact all the volun-
teers who will carry on the door
to-door canvass. In view of this,
it has been decided that within
Dare County March 2 will be des-
ignated as Heart Sunday instead
Of this coming Sunday, February
%, as previously planned.
The Heart Sunday collections
will be made in other areas of the
nation as planned next Sunday,
with more than a million volun-
teers in thousands of communities
making door-to-door visits in all
residential areas.
Each of the Heart Sunday volun-
teers will visit several homes,
mostly in his or her immediate
neighborhood. Each will be iden-
titled by circular lapel badge
and will carry official printed en-
velopes in which contributors may
seal their checks, bills or coins.
The amount of the contribution
need not be revealed. Where the
volunteer finds no one at home, he
or she will leave a pre-addressed
envelope in which contribution
may be readily mailed to Heart
Fund headquarters.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-02-21
FOX HUNT
ENDED IN RAINSTORM

The annual Valentine Season
Fox Hunt at Mays Head on the
past week end started in a biz
card and ended three days later
in a pre-freeze rainstorm. AS re-
suit only two brushes were actu-
ally accounted for during the three
days of hunting, two in the lower
Mays Head region and one in Mays
Head Woods. The event this year
attracted more than 100 hunters
and spectators and $50 or more
hounds and included social events
each evening.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-02-21
SENTIMENT GROWS IN FAVOR
OF RETAINING CHARTER IN
TOWN OF KILL DEVIL HILLS
Permanent Residents Conclude It is Poor Busi-
ness to Throw Away the Nine Dollars They are
Getting For Everyone They Pay, just to Please
A Handful of Outsiders Who Move in To Tear
Down What They Can't Run AS They Please.

There appears to be something
of a majority now in favor of re-
tanning the town charter at Kill
Devil Hills, but it can be a hard
fight to keep it, is the opinion of
several citizens of the town this
week.
While it is not a certainty how
the election will turn on March Is,
it shews something of the wind,
when some voters once Indifferent,
and some who were against the
town, now express themselves as
having changed their mind, and
expect to vote for the town to re-
tain its charter after March Is.
One thing having weight in the
issue is the hard campaign being
waged by a few citizens who have
moved in from neighboring COM
munities, apparently for the single
purpose of voting against the
town, and then moving out at once
afterward, as was done before.
eff these are the kind of people
we have to listen to, we prefer to
be against them," one citizen said.
"They have no interest in our well
fare and they either want to save
town taxes OF be allowed to clutter
up real estate they own in any
way that will make them a profit,
regardless of how much they tear
down neighboring values.
"It's been mighty hard on some
of them shivering stubbolnly
through this cold spell, merely to
carry a point" he said.
The things which helped to pre-
cipitate the issue in Kill Devil Hills
when the first election was held
some two years, was first, the ne
gIect of the citizens to come for
ward with level headed leadership
from their own ranks; and next,
the overbearing attitude sometimes
taken officially toward some citi-
zens and the things that appeared
to be grave problems to them.
As result, real estate men and
others who wished to cash in on
property without being subject to
restrictions on type and character
of usuage, developed a lot of senti-
ment against the municipality.
Sober reflection however, has
changed the view of some people
who had been influenced by real
estate men and other property
owners whose primary object has
been profit.
Seldom if ever, has there been
an instance where the people got
so much for so little.
To begin with, more than 80
per cent of the taxes paid into the
town treasury is paid by non-resi-
dent cottage or other property
owners, who use their property
only small part of the year, and
when they are there, they spend
a great deal of money in the COM
munity.
Most of them have expressed
themselves as glad to pay the tax
es if only for the sense of security
upon having some sort of police
and fire protection which the
municipality now provides.
See ELECTION, Page Four
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-02-21
$500 FIRE ON PREMISES
OF FLETCHER'S STORE

Damage estimated at $400 was
done the store Of A. w. Fletcher
at Kitty Hawk by fire which
broke out in the pump house where
a light bulb had been burning to
prevent freezing. This was the
years first fire in the Kitty Hawk
area. The Kill Devil Hills Fire
Department rendered aid at 5.45
when notified Thursday morning.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-02-21
BENEFIT CARD PARTY BY
WOMAN'S CLUB FEBRUARY q

A card party will be given on
Saturday evening, February %, in
the Carolinian Hotel, Mays Head,
by the Manteo Woman's Club, pro-
ceeds to go towards the clubs
scholarship fund. The scholarship
is given each year to member of
the Manteo high school graduating
class, and has been increased from
500 to $3.50.
The party will start at $3.50, and
the public is invited to attend.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-02-21
FISH ARE FROZEN ALONG
DARE COASTS SHORE

Frozen fish during the current
big freeze of 1868 are being re-
ported from several shore points
in Dare. Some are completely life
less, while others stunned by the
cold waters and icy conditions are
apparently in the last stages of
life before freezing.
Commercial fishing is at stand
still due to the great fields of ice
that have formed on the sounds of
northeastern Carolina. \
Capt. Tom Basnight, local fish
cries patrolman, stated that ice
conditions would undoubtedly bring
about great losses to fishermen
through the loss Of nets.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-02-21
BULLETIN

Traffic was halted Thursday
at 3 pm. across the Wright
Memorial Bridge over Currituck
Sound as result of pressing
ice flOes. A section of the
bridge near tie west shore was
reported to have sunk about
three feet, and State Highway
officials closed the bridge to
highway traffic until an exami-
nation could be made to deter
mine the extent of the damages.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-02-21
DARE co. SCHOOLS TO BE
CLOSED REST OF THE WEEK

Due to break-downs, freezing of
water mains, and inadequacy of
heating plants to supply sufficient
warmth, the schools of Dare Coun-
ty with one exception will remain
closed all the week.
The Negro school near Manteo
has been operating all the week;
the Cape Hatteras school might
have operated save for bus trouble
and lack Of gasoline.
All schools are expected to open
Monday.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-02-21

JAMES E. BYRD, seaman appren-
tice, son of Mr.. and Mrs. H. H.
Byrd of ITO Colonial Way, New
Bern, has been sent to the U. S.
Naval Receiving Station at Nor
folk, Va, for assignment. His wife,
Mrs. James E. Byrd, is the former
Cecilia Sue Etheridge of Manteo.
The Norfolk Naval Receiving
Station, commanded by Capt. E.
B. Pugsley, USN, processes APP
proximately 5000 men a month on
their way to and from Naval acti-
vities all over the world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-01-16
Neurology Group
Gets Fellowship

A $4,000 anonymous fellow
ship for research has been
granted TO the National Neu-
Biological Research Foundation.
The grant. announced yes
terday. win cover work by a
scientist yet to be selected In
the field Of diseses Of the
central nervous system and re-
lated disorders.
The scientific committee Of
the foundation. with head
quarters at Sass N street NV.
viii soon choose the researcher
and supervise his work. This
grant Is the first full five-year
fellowship the recently or
ganized foundation has re-
ceiFed.
OF the 500 various clinical
entities. the most common In
clude Parkinson's syndrome.
multiple sclerosis. cerebral pal
sy. epilepsy. muscular dys-
trophy and amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis.
Members Of the scientific
committee from this area In
clude DR.. Seymour s. Kety.
scientific director Of the Ma
tional Institute Of Neurological
Diseases and Blindness In
Bethesda. and DR.. A. Earl
Walker. professor Of neurology
cal surgery. Johns Hopkins
Medical School. Baltimore.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-01-16

Der Of the councils executive
and community relations COM
mittees: Tifereth Israel Con-
gregation. Nathan Silberbere.
member Of the councils COM
relations committee,
and Washington Highlands
Jewish Center. Isaac Franck,
executive director OF the cnrrcii.
All Of these services win be
held tomorrow night.
Cantor Nathaniel Schulz O.
New York City will chant the
liturgy and bless the new month
OF Shvat during o:45 am. sery-
ice Saturday Of Beth Sholom
Congregation. Thirteenth street
and Eastern avenue NV.
pie Israel. Samuel Jacobs, men,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-01-16

mer or winter. they're refreshing. Get your copy
of the beautifully illustrated COOLING DISHES
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MARRIAGE
LICENSE
APPLICATIONS

Under D. c. Ian couples
must apply for q marriage
license on one dGy. matt three
fHH days and receips the
license on the nth day. Sur
days and holidays are counted
the same a. other days.
George Noaks. 81, IS. Is n street nv
&c sn l, Naomi Kemp. Il. 5s
Raymond Major. 81. Washington, and
Edith Burgess. 20. si9 Il street. n e
Squire Douglaa Mason. ~, and shirley
Mae Reynolds. 10. both Of i4I7 Bel
mont street NV.
Henry Andrew silva. -. and Celeste
Dorsey; q. both Of 343s Holmsad
Frank Raymond Colman. 81, ana IDA
more.
while White. jr.. IS. Alsxandria, Va,
and odean Davis. Il. 1911 Third
James Elishe whlttles.y. So. a7Oo
S:ss:s9E';:: ESiiss:. 3. l1 ~ K Aiis:H;
Claude Alexander. ~, ais Princess
street. Aiexandria, Va, and Lille
Bell Mcbride. 81. Asia Texas avenue
sc.
Nathaniel Kendriek. as, and Ola Mae
Bishop. 30, both Of 1866 Harvard
street NV.
Howard Edward Robertson. 20. Names
sas. Va. and Geraldine Trent. 10.
Vienna. Va.
Philip Roger Conner, ir.. 2S. 3036 18th
street NV, and Diane Saunders
soweli 90. Hyattsvilie. Nd.
Perfeeto Della Psna saieedo, IS. Silver
sprine. Nd. and Marjorie orndorf'
10, Seattle. Wash.
ROY Millington. IS. 1918 Massaehus-
sets avenue Sc. and Beulah Hunter.
~, 17i4 Lyman place ne.
John Robert Conrad. ~. and Mary
Eyeiyn Wilson. IS, both Of Hillside,
John. James PerikIes. 81, Mt. Rainier.
Nd. and Marguerite Theresa Pref
takes. %. zoos 9th street NV.
toseph Enrico salvatore. 81, walter
Reed Army Medical Center. and
Julianne Collins. 10, Cleveland.