The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1960-02-26
PLENTY OF ACTIVITY q
ON OCRACOKE ISLAND;
MANY BUSINESS CHANGES

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P.T.A. at its February meeting,
with about $500 in it's treasury,
voted to spend Approximately 5000
on several up-to-date maps, equip
ping the school where necessary
from the primary room through
the high school rooms. 1t was re-
ported also that approximately
500 had been spent on folding
tables. The group voted to purchase
sets of plastic birds which the ele-
mentary grades will use this Spring
in their Nature Study units. The
children will put the birds together
and paint them. At the March
meeting P.T.A. will have its an
nual Pot-Luck Supper, which is al
ways enjoyed especially by the
gentlemen members of the P.T.A.
Next Tuesday, March 1st, Circle
1 of the Wonlan's Society for
Christian Service of the Methodist
Church will meet in the Church
Recreation Hall. Hostesses are
Mrs. Mabel Gaskill, Mrs. Rebecca
Spencer, Miss Leila Howard, and
Mrs. Bertha O'Neal. Circle No. 2
will meet on March 18th.
This week Thursday and Friday
afternoons, Linda Teeter and Mar
garet Spencer will collect for the
Heart Fund. Mrs. Jack Willis is in
charge of the local drive.
On Saturday night, a postponed
V a lie n tines entertainment and
dance, sponsored by the Juniors OF
the High School, brought in a total
of $65. Object of the evenings
program, which was highlighted
by two short plays starring men,
bers of the junior class, was to
raise money for the junior-senior
banquet which will come later this
spring, honoring the graduating
class.
Friend here have been glad to
learn that Jesse Garrish, who has
been hospitalized in Richmond,
Virginia, is getting on nicely. Mrs.
Garrish and their son, Danny, have
been visiting at the homes of Mr..
and Mrs. J. R. Peyton and Mr.. and
Mrs. Norton Hamilton while in
Richmond.
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Williams
of Norfolk We're here this past
week end, visiting her mother, Mrs.
Elnora Balance. Also here from
Norfolk were Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Wilder and Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond
Beasley and granddaughter, Ellie
Brigham, all visiting Mrs. Eleanor
Burrus and other relatives. Miss
Carolyn Gar1ish, in nurses train
ing at Norfolk General Hospital,
was also home, visiting her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Gar
IRISH.
Lawrence Balance and Theodore
Mutro arrived home on Sunday for
a visit with their families. Johnny
Midget and Willard Williams were
here this past week end.
Magnus Hoye, REA Engineer for
the N. C. District, spent several
days lat the local REA plant, in
fact he found himself marooned
at Ocracoke due to recent stormy
weather which kept the ferries
from making their usual runs.
George Fogleman of Middletown,
Connecticut, spent several days at
Wahab Village Hotel recently. He
was en- route from Florida to Con-
necticut, and having experienced
cold weather in Florida, had de-
cided to rest up at Ocracoke en-
route North. Mr.. Fogelman has
fished for many years on the Outer
Banks of North Carolina.
Miss Leita Mae Willis of Atlantic
visited Mr.. and Mrs. Herman
Spencer last week end.
| Mrs. Caddie Overton returned to
her home in Norfolk after visit
with her mother, Mrs. Name Ho-
ward, and her sister, Mrs. Will
liam Garrish, and daughter Mrs.
Danny Garrish.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Austin OF
Hatteras visited her mother, Mrs
Sabra Howard, this past week
end.
E. S. Tolson has moved his cleo
trical appliance shop from the
Willis Store to the C. D. Scar
borough Store. Mr.. Scarborough
has sold out his business and plans
to visit his sons, Allen Scarborough
and family in Woodbury., N. j., and
Jack Scarborough and family in
New London, Connecticut, for an in
definite length of time. The Tolson
appliance shop handles TV sets,
radios, electric stoves, and all
other types of electrical appliance
and equipment, and also sport fish
ing equipment. In the new quar-
tiers Mr.. Tolson will have consider
! ably more space.
i Mrs. Helen Robinson "a native of
Ocracoke who has resided in Balti-
more, Maryland, for several years
has chosen for the name of the
,tnew 6-unit motel which she is hay