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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1959-01-16
GOVERNOR HODGES
AT HATTERAS HAS
PART IN ORGANIZING
Hafteras Blue Marlin Club Organ
lied For Activities of Top
Notch Sportsmen This Year

Organization of Hatteras
Blue Marlin Club with a men,
bership to include some of the ma
tion's wealthiest sportsmen, plus
the further development of bill
fishing off the Outer Banks, is ex-
pected to result from a meeting
held in Hatteras Monday night,
Arrangements for the meeting
were made by Governor Luther H.
Hodges through his Dare contacts
and Charles johnson of Palm
Beach and Biltmore, one of the
nations outstanding sportsfisher-
men and also owner of more
Chevrolet agencies in southeastern
United States than any other per-
son.
Governor Hodges, Earl Phillips
of High Point, big game fishing
member of his N. C. Ports Au-
thority, Woodrow Price of the
News and Observer, Mr.. johnson
and Bounce Anderson of West
Palm Beach, Hal Wilson, secre-
tary-treasurer of the recently or
ganized N. C. Blue Marlin Asso-
citation, Bill Wilkins of Norfolk
and Stanley Wahab of Ocracoke
were the off-islanders present at
the meeting.
Some 25 or more Hatteras citi-
zens representing the sportsish-
ing vacation and business interests
of the island were present at the
meeting held at the Blue Marlin
docks following dinner at which
the visitors were guests of local
residents in Thurmond Balances
Channel Bass Restaurant.
The visitors indicated that many
private fishing boats would be bas-
ing at Hatteras during the blue
marlin season this year and they
wondered what the reaction would
be if efforts We're made to intro
duce new methods of fishing, and
if improvements void be made in
QUILTING local charter cruisers for
better or more suitable facilities
than most of the craft have at
present. The reaction was that To-
cal operators were always ready
to improve their facilities.
Following the departure of Gov
! ernor Hodges shortly before noon
on Tuesday, Johnson, Phillips and
Anderson looked over various
places of accommodation, with
thoughts of having suitable hous-
ing for big game fishermen they
claim will be coming to Hatteras
and also place suitable for es-
tablishing blouse facilities
where the big game anglers could
meet socially following a day in
the Gulf Stream.
Anderson, who produced the
Cape Hatteras National Seashore
travel film and rents home at
Hatteras where he has spent the
past two summers, will be key
man in the club set-up planned.
See MARLIN CLUB, Page Eight
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1959-01-16
JANUARY is BUSY
TIME FOR WOMAN'S
CLUB IN MANTEO
Mrs. Everett Outlines Activities
That Face Organization
This Year

January is a very important and
active month with the Manteo
Woman's Club. The annual bust
ness meeting is held to complete
all business of the club, the cleo
ton of officers is held and Dele
gates and aiternates to the State
Convention at Pinehurst in May
are elected, according to Mrs. Sa-
rah Everett, the president.
Most important of all is the year.
ly reports of the activities carried
on during the year. The following
Chairmen are quite busy with re-
ports on their respective depart
ments. Mrs. NJ. X. Fearing, Jr. of
the Ways and Means Department
and Member-at-Large; Mrs. Rennie
Williamson as Chairman of the
Scholarship Fund; Mrs. w. J. An
drews as Recording Secretary,
Membership Committee and Roa-
noke Island Cook Book Project;
Mrs. Linwood Cuthrell as Vice
President, Chairman of the Year
Book Committee, Welfare Depart
ment, Golden Age Party Chairman
and Vogue Sewing Contest; Mrs.
Gordon Kellogg as chairman of
the American Home and Art De-
partment; Mrs. Woody Fearing as
chairman of the Education Depart
ment; Mrs. Louise Meekins, Chair
man Of the Music Department; Mrs
w. H. Fry, Chairman of Public At
fairs Department; Mrs. Jack Tillett
chairman of the International Re-
lations Department; Mrs. Gus
Etheridge, chairman of the Litera-
ture Department; Mrs. A. F.
Fields, Chairman of Club Awards;
Mrs. r. v. Owens, Chairman OF
The Scrapbook Project; Mrs. w. H.
McCown as Corresponding Secre-
tary and chairman of the Birthday
Remembrance Project; Mrs. w. W.
Harvey as club Treasurer and
Help-A-Home Chairman; Mrs.
Ralph Implicit as Children's
Clothing Closet and Home Society
Project and Mrs. Leighton Gibbs
Chairman of The Samarcand PROF
tct.
All projects are worthwhile and
follow through with the club
theme-"Club Work-It's Oppor-
tunities and Responsibilities to the
Community THUS giving the de-
serving dedication in the Year
See WOMEN, Page Eight
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1959-01-16
BLUE MARLIN DUEL
AT HATTERAS WITH
PUERTO RICANS

A "blue water duel" with giant
marlin as the objective will be
one of the big events destined
to bring additional big-game fish
ing fame to waters off Cape Hat
teras this year. 1t will be a chal-
lenge match between Puerto Rico's
fishing team of San Juan's Club
Nautico and similar group of
anglers from the Billfish Club of
Hatteras.
r DR.. J. c. Over0ey, president of
the club and a Norfolk dentist
who in recent years has done much
to promote local game fishing,
said the challenge fishing match
had been set for che first or second
week of June, and it will be in
addition to proposed information
al blue marlin tournament also
planned for Hatteras this year.
Following the Hatteras fishing
match, the two teams would meet
again during late August or early
September in Puerto Rican wat
ers, and the idea behind it all
according to Esteban A. Bird, vice
commodore of Club Nautico and
captain of the Puerto Rican team
that will come to Hatteras, is to
determine ,'once and for all the
question of which area has the
most blue marlin-and catches the
most"
Last year 70 blue marlin We're
caught by anglers off Hatteras
and Oregon Inlet. Senior Bird
claims that as many as nine blue
have been taken in one day of
Puerto Rico, not counting the
present 780 pound world record
for 80 pound test line.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1959-01-16
MRS. FEARING HEADS
EASTER SEAL CAMPAIGN

The Dare County Chapter, head
ed by Mrs. w. B. Fearing of Man
teo, as chairman, is now complet-
ing plans for it's part in the 1859
campaign.
Mrs. Fearing said that the group
is hoping to extend the local serv-
ices now being rendered by the
chapter. A recent informal survey
disclosed many local physically
handicapped persons who need the
type of assistance made available
by the State society and local af-
filiates.
The Dare County campaign will
formally get underway on Febru-
airy 81, the same date as elsewhere
in North Carolina.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1959-01-16
UNCLE DOCK FROM DUCK WRITES:
Rat Race VS.. Sanity. Decency and Morality
Is Issue of Folks Against the People"

the gravy jobs paid by the taxpay-
ers? Why just look who they hand
them out to. Do they always go to
someone who has no other income,
or to somebody who is already
drawing down big pay from Uncle
Sam. Do you ever stop to think
that the taxpayers are putting up
this money also.
1t looks to me like this war of a
few folks fighting all the people
is going to last long time, and
if we people don't put more pep
into defending ourselves, we can
expect it to be lot worse before
gets any better.
We have been encouraged for SO
long time to try to get some
thing for nothing until it has be-
come second nature to many peo-
pie. Instead of working for the
good of the majority it has devel-
oped into a rat-race against sani-
ty, decency, morality and common
sense. We no longer think first
about what is good for our COM
munity, but how much we can get
out of the people for it. We don't
think what is of profit in the finer
sense, but first of the fast buck.
We want the fleeting glory, full
some flattery, foolish praise appar-
emily to be plastered with mayon-
naisse from the pature instead of
the solid satisfaction that should
come to hearts secure in the
knowledge of honest achievement.
If it's going to be war of some
folks against us people, and we
have to be in it whether we like
it or not, let's wade in and do our
part to make it a real war. The
sooner We get on the offensive, the
more chance we will have of win
ming it. Well never win it if we
are content to stay on the defen-
sive.
Yours for more backbone and less
bull.
UNCLE DOCK FROM DUCK
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1959-01-16
CIVIL TERM OF COURT IN
DARE LASTED DAY AND HALF

At cost of some S400 day
and using about one and half
days of time, the special term OF
Superior Court held in Dare Coun-
ty this week knocked off, Tuesday
afternoon after settling few civil
actions and granting a divorce
Judge Malcolm Paul of Washing
ton presided, holding court in
Monday forenoon and all day Tues
day.
The total immediate cost for
Jurors and stenographer came to
$616.O5 which is not quite half
what the usual terms of court
cost, the county commissioners
this time having the foresight in
drawing the jurors, to weed out
the cripples and to draw less than
the usual number who have been
coming to court to pile up need
less cost to the county.
Two judgments were granted on
Monday, both against Elmer Mid
gett, one-time plumber in Manteo.
R. S. Wahab of Ocracoke got a
judgement for $770, and L. D.
Harrington for $612.74. Of 16
cases, II were continued for vari-
Gus reasons. Judgments were tax
en- in two of them by the plaintiffs.
Ernest Scarborouh, negro, was
granted divorce from Charlotte
Scarborough.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1959-01-16
J. IRVING STOWE. FAMED
BOATBUlLDER. DIES WED.

John Irving Stowe, 80, a famed
boatbuilder of the outer banks,
and retired fisherman, died at his
home at Hatteras at 10 pm. We'd
nesday after an illness of four
years. He was the son of the late
Ira Midget Stowe and Mile Mid
gett Stowe, and the husband of
Mrs. Jeanette Stowe. He was a
member of the Methodist Church.
He is survived by the following
children: Mrs. Eta Peele of Man
teo, Mrs. Catherine. s. Robertson
of WILLIAMSON, Mrs. Agnes Scar
borough of Avon, Mrs. Mabel
Mead and Walter B. Stowe both
of Norfolk; Preston and Harvey
Stowe both of Hatteras, and by
10 grandchildren, and IA great
grandchildren.
Funeral services were indefinite
at this writing.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1959-01-16
MEETINGS TO PEP
UP INTEREST IN
PIRATE FESTIVAL
Sunday The 18th in Buxton School;
First Plans Launched
Sunday

Planning for the 1859 Dare
Coast Pirates Jamboree began Sun
day when some 80 persons from
the beaches and Roanoke Island
met at Beacon Motor Lodge, Mays
Head. The three day vacation sea-
son springboard event will be held
for it's fifth year on April 24-26.
A similar meeting for Hatteras
Island communities which will help
promote the Jamboree this year
will be at 100 o'clock pm. Jan. 10,
at the school house in Buxton,
Lawrence L. Swain, chairman says.
Arrangements for this meeting are
being made by Bill Dillon, Halter
as Island chairman of the Jamboree
last year, Wheeler Balance, vice
president of Dare County Tourist
Bureau, Scotty Gibson, who has
been active in the island phases of
the annual Jamborees each year
and others.
At the Mays Head meeting Sun
day new officers and steering COM
mittee members were elected.
Ralph Swain of Manteo was elect
ed secretary-treasurer succeeding
Mrs. Margaret Davis. George
Croker, Orville Baum and Tom
Briggs, are the steering committee
for the beaches, Woody Fearing,
Francis Meekins and Johnny Long,
for Roanoke Island and Horace
Hooper and Jaccie Burrus from the
mainland. steering committee
members on Hatteras Island will be
eietced Sunday at Buxton.
Message to Rotary
Lawrence Swain, overall chair
man of the forthcoming Dare
Coast Pirates Jamboree, urged
Rotarians to participate in the
event when it is presented on
April 24-26.
He discussed the Importance of
all males growing boards, "be-
cause boards are one of the pri-
mary trademarks of the Jamboree
each year." He outlined how the
vacation season was once only a
three months deal for Dare, but
See JAMBOREE, Page Eight
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1959-01-16

WALLACE H. McCOWN is to be
the speaker in Manteo, Saturday
morning at 1890 on the Achieve
ment Day program on the All
groups of Dare County. Mr.. Nc
Gown, who is Dare County attor-
ney, is well-known as civic and
church leader, and as good
speaker.
The program will be held in the
Manteo High School auditorium.
The purpose of the All Achieve
ment Day is to recognize the All
county winners in different prof.
ects throughout the year. These
project winners will receive gold
filled medals for outstanding work
in their selected projects.
Alters will have a big part in
the program. Nancy Coles Bas-
night, President of the All County
Council, will act as Master of Ger
emonies. Other Alters to have a
part in the program are Susan Bas-
night, Jan Oneto, Charlotte Perry,
Carol Hooper, Nancy Pearl Mid
gett, Charles Perry, Caryn Gray,
Johnny Hooper, Michael Parker,
Mary Charles White, Della Bas-
night, Nancy Lynn Midget, Mar
vim Sparrow, Mary Elizabeth Earle,
Mary Rogers and Carol Harris.
Presentation of awards will be by
Mrs. Fran A. Cullus and J. L. Rea,
Jr., the Dare County Home and
Farm Agents.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1959-01-16
EARL DEAN. NENSPAPERMAN.
DIES IN MANTEO MONDAY

Earl Dean, AZ, well-known
newspaperman, historian and low
er of historical things in the
Coastland, died at 5 o'clock at his
home in Manteo Monday morning
after an illness of six months. He
was a native of Elizabeth City,
the son of the late Charles A. and
Catherine Greenleaf Dean, and
had made his home in Manteo for
the past six years. He is survived
by his wife, Mary Hayman Dean
of Manteo.
He is survived by two brothers,
Joe H. Dean of st. Petersburg,
Fla. and C. A. Dean of Smithville,
Ga.
Returning home from a news
paper assignment near Cape Cod
last summer, he was stricken with
an illness which proved to be
from throat cancer, and he. was
treated in Duke Hospital for sew
eral months. After an operation,
which left him speeches., he
came home at Thanksgiving time
with hopes of recovery of speech
through therapy courses. He had
expected to resume his newspaper
writing this summer, and had ac-
cepted several assignments for
this and other Coastland news
papers. He was an authority on
coastland history and his collec-
ton on seashore events and his
tory constitute exceptional memoir
abilia of shipwreck and human in
terest uneH:elled in this state.
Some months ago, Mr.. Dean con-
tributed this material to the Ii
brary of the University of North
Carolina.
Funeral services were conducted
Thursday at 2 pm. at Mt. Olivet
Methodist Church by the pastor,
Rev. L. A. Aitken, Rev. George f.
Hill of Elizabeth City, retired rec
tor of Christ Episcopal Church of
which the deceased was a MEM
Der. A solo: Sunrise Tomorrow,
was sung by John H. Long. The
hymn, Abide with Me, by the
choir, with Mrs. Rennie William
son at the organ. Pallbearers were
M. K. Fearing, Jr., ]. o. Basnight,
John Liveslv. Frank Cahoon, c. S.
Meelins and Victor Meelxins. Bur-
ial was in the Manteo cemetery.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1959-01-16

Dear Mr.. Editor:
It's beginning to look like this
rat race we are in has about mar
rowed down to an issue of "The
Folks Against the People" We are
having to fight each other all the
time instead of fighting together
for something worth while. And it's
going to be worse and worse.
1t is somewhat amusing to see
Mr.. Ed Sillivan flying to Cuba to
glorify himself by talking to the
bandit Castro and trying to make
it appear this Castro is saint and
liberator, at the same time when
Castro's crowd are shooting their
fellow Cubans in the back by the
thousands. What difference does it
make who is in power in Cuba;
they are all of the same stamp. We
went down there and licked the
Spaniards, gave 'em their freedom,
and paid Spain for taking it away
from them and paid Spaih's ex-
penses for fighting us. We made
the Cubans free of Spain, and all
they've done is fight among them
selves the past 60 years.
Now Mr.. Editor, we are doing
the same things here in the United
States. We haven't had time to get
around to much shooting, but we
are doing just as bad, and maybe
worse than if we had been Staying
some of the dead-heads and get
ting them out of the way. It's a
steady war all the time, the one
crowd who won't work, with the
help of the politicians, living off
all of us who do work, and driving
US to death supporting a wasteful
government that is giving our
country away to heather foreign
ers.
We also see our schools dis
rupted, and our children being de-
MED an education because a group
Of judges decided to make laws and
force millions of our people to go
against nature and commonsense.
This has come about because of the
craze of some of our politicians for
votes. This craze for votes has led
them into allowing labor racketeers
who gain control of large segments
If our country. Overnight they
can paralyze our ECONOMY, and
send the cost of living skyrocket-
ing beyond the ability of our poor
people to pay. Nobody ever thinks
about the people. It's always case
of few folks with the power they
have wheedled out of the govern
ment, making war against the ma
jority of the people.
No, my friends, we do not have
majority rule in this country. We
have minority rule. A few of the
folks divide up the gravy. Does the
welfare money go to those who
need it. or to the ones who stand
in with the politicians? If you can
be kin to an office-holder. you can
get more consideration. Who gets
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-08
Sorority Women
Plan Luncheon

Greek" men from
Northern Virginia will gather
to welcome spring at the
annual Spring Luncheon
and Fashion Show of the
Panhellenic Association of
Northern Virginia. on March
81, at 1890 pm, at the
Court House Country Club.
Spring flowers will be used
in the decorations and spring
clothes will be featured as
Jelleff's presents the fashion
show, "Bonjour Printemps,"
with Sue Boteler as COM
mentator.
Honored guests will be Mrs.
Harold Hitz Burton, Sigma
Kappa, and Miss Chloe Gif-
ford, Alpha Delta ri, ma
tional president of the Gen.
eral Federation of Women's
Clubs. The luncheon will
benefit the associations
scholarship fund.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-08
Spring Dance
Planned by
Doctors Wives

superstitions Of Friday the
18th will be Offset by "the
luck Of the Irish" at the
spring dinner dance Of the
Navy Doctors Wives Club.
The Officers Club at the Ma
tional Naval Medical Center
will be the scene Of the Fri
day party with It's st. Pat
rick's theme.
Dick Stratton will furnish
music for dancing and the
special thrill of the evening
will be the drawing for the
Navy blue and gold Friend
ship Quilt which has been
embroidered with the names
OF subscribers-all of them
wives Of Navy doctors.
Committee members in
charge of arrangements, and
their husbands, who will be
present include Capt. and
: Mrs. Paul F. Dickens. Capt.
and Mrs. Ralph d. Ross,
Capt. and Mrs. Harry j. Al
Wis. Capt. and Mrs. James A.
Crimson. and the president Of
the club and her husband,
Capt. and Mrs. Evan Stone.
At this family affair" no
introductions viii be neces-
sary and there will be no
receiving line. Among the
more than 800 expected. Rear
Admiral and Mrs. Bartholo-
new w. Hogan will be the
ranking couple attending.
Also there will be the Com
handing Officer of the Ma
tional Naval Medical Center
and Mrs. Thomas F. Cooper.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-08

engaged. ! am continuing in
my capacity as nurse in the
ONCE. Is 1t permissible that
! address him as John" now
that we are engaged2 Or
should I continue to address
him formally?
Miss q. v. M.
Answer - BY all means,
when on duty. address your
fiance as DIR. Jones' or
DR." II would be extremely
poor taste to do otherwise.
REGISTERED United States Patent once
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-08

from . foreign country has
ever been settled.
Mr.. l. C. d.
Answcr-Yes. It was de-
cided Q few years ago that
the Chief Justice outranks
an ambassador Of q foreign
power. A minister Of a for
eign power. however, out
ranks the Associate Justices
Of the Supreme Court. BY the
way. it Is "The Chief Justice
Of the United States" not
THE Chief Justice Of the
Supreme Court" The Asso-
ciate Justices are "of the
Supreme Court"-but not the
Chief Justice.
Question: wish TO send
Q telegram Of congratulation
to o friend Of mine who is
TO be a bride in the near
future. When do I send 1t
and how do ! address 1t?
Miss M. X.
Answer - The telegram
should be sent the day of
the wedding. II sent before
the time the ceremony is to
take place, it should be adj
dressed to the bride in her
maiden name; II after the
nuptials. use her married
name. Do not congratulate
the bride. but offer good
wishes for her future happi-
ness. Only the bridegroom is
congratulated.
\ 4
Question: have been en-
ployed as a nurse in a doc
tors office for several years.
We recently have become
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-08
MODERN
MANNERS
Good Taste Is Often Ignored
By Those Who Attend Movies
BY CAROLYN HAcNER SHAW

The other evening I at
tended q movie with Mrs.
inexperienced. The feature
picture had already begun
and we were forced to stand
in the back Of the theater for
quite some time.
Mrs. inexperienced kept UP
a steady stream Of CONVERSE
ton about nothing in par
ticular. completely oblivious
Of the fact that others who
were waiting for seats were
trying to see. and listen. to
the show. I tried several
times to stem the flow of con-
versation, but Mrs. In
experienced went blithely on.
Every time several people
would come up the aisle to
make their departure, she
would start pushing and
showing those waiting ahead
Of her. announcing in loud
tones to the usher that she
wanted two seats. BY the
time we were seated my face
was red with embarrassment
and I'm sure all those with
whom we had rubbed elbows
were glad to get rid Of us!
Once seated, Mrs. mex
perienced continued to babble
on.
Keep Quiet
After receiving several looks
that spoke louder than words
from those seated near us, a
brave woman in front turned
and quietly said. "Will you
please keep quiet? We came
to hear the show. even If you
didn't" Perhaps you might
say that this wasn't par
ticularly polite. but frankly
Mrs. inexperienced got Just
what she deserved in this
instance.
Mrs. Inexperienced wasn't
alone in her thoughtless &C.
tons! On all sides I observed
attractions of good taste and
lack Of consideration for
others. Why the application
Of the bare rudiments of good
manners should be so fla
gravity ignored by so many
people when they attend a
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movie has long been q mys-
terry to me.
People who are guilty Of
any Of the following actions
can rest assured that they
all come under the heading
Of extremely bad manners:
The person who fights his
way down the aisle to get q
seat. and then spotting an
other seat in the same row..
stands UP and waves, beckons
and Kisses to his friend at
the back Of the house, COM
pletely blocking the view Of
all those unfortunate enough
to be seated behind him.
No Clinches
The amorous couple who
go into a clinch. Not only do
they shut of the screen from
those behind them. but they
are displaying the worst pos
sible taste and affronting
common decency by their
public love-making.
The women who refuses to
remove her hat. even when
asked to do so. This is an
objectionable exa mple Of
thoughtlessness.
Those who rustic programs,
rattle candy Of peanut wrap
pers. and above all talk or
Whisper while the show Is 60
ing on. should. in my opinion.
be forcibly elected If neces-
Sary!
The urge to infringe upon
the rights Of others seems to
be evident in the great ma
Jority Of m OWE goers.
Whether or not YOU give
into this urge Is something to
think about
Questions, Answers
QuestiOn-Out Of curiosity
and interest in how the other
half of the world lives, /
would like to know If 1t is
true that the old dispute
about whether the Chief
Justice Of the Supreme Court
outranked an ambassador