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Evening star., 1960-10-30
BY EVELYN M. DENT
Contributing Writer

Contributing writer
The British First Sea Lord.
Admiral Sir Caspar John,
G. C. B., who is also Chief
Of the Naval Staff. arrived
yesterday with his aide, Capt.
IA. r. Troup. D. s. c., Naval
Assistant to the First Sea
Lord.
The visitors are here at the
invitation of the Chief Of
Naval Operations, Admiral
Arleigh A. Burke, and will
divide their 10 day stay be-
tween Admiral'S House and
the home Of the British
Naval Attache and Lady
ThiStleton-Smith.
This afternoon the visitors
are being entertained in the
handsome Round Room Of
the new British Embassy
Annex by Admiral Sir Geof-
frey and Lady Thistleton-
Smith. The party is being
given to introduce members
of the British naval staff and
their wives to the First Sea
Lord.
Sir Caspar and Capt.
Troup are to be the house,
guests Of Admiral and Mrs.
Burke. They go to Admiral
House tomorrow to stay until
Wednesday.
Burkes' Dinner
Admiral and Mrs. Burke
have invitations out for 9
black tie dinner Tuesday in
honor Of the visitors.
Admiral Sir Caspar John
and Capt. Troup will make
their formal calls tomorrow
at the Pentagon, at the Bu-
reau of Naval Personnel and
on the Commandant of the
Marine Corps, Gen. David
M. Shoup.
On Wednesday the visitors
will go to the United States
Naval Air Station at Boston
where they will be enter
tanned aboard the USS
Charles r. Adams, q guided
missile destroyer. In the
afternoon they are to visit
Quonset Point, r. l.. and the
Naval War College, Newport.
After a tour Of the naval
base and the Naval War Col
lege, they will be the guests Of
honor at q dinner given by
the President of the Naval
War College and Mrs. Ber-
nard L. Austin.
Thursday the distinguished
sightseerS will go to the sub
marine base at New London,
Conn.,, to inspect the under
water sound laboratory. In
the evening the Deputy Com
mander Submarine Force
Atlantic and Mrs. Elton w.
Grenfell will give a recep-
ton in honor Of the First
Sea Lord and Capt. Troup.
Later they are to go aboard
the USS Skipjack for dinner.
Friday, they will return to
New London to 60 aboard the
USS Patrick Henry and then
on to Philadelphia. Return
ing to Washington on Satur-
day, Admiral Sir Caspar John
will be the houSegueSt Of Ad-
miral Sir Geoffrey and Lady
ThiStleton-Smith.
Monday, November 7, the
party is to go to the Patux-
ent River Naval Command
and then to Norfolk, where
they will be the guests of
Supreme Allied Commander
Atlantic, Admiral Robert L.
DenniSon. The next day they
will inspect the USS For
restal and in the evening
have an informal dinner with
their host and Mrs. Denni-
son at MoSsuri House.
Retirement Plans
On Wednesday. November
8, the visitors will call on
Rear Admiral John F. David
son, Superintendent, Naval
Academy, and be the lunch
con guests Of Admiral and
Mrs. Davidson. The party will
Evening star., 1960-10-30

In eUery phase Of fashion, there is one
name that emergeS as the leader E. . one
name that shines brightly among the
rest as the undisputed master of its craft.
Ritter is such a name in furs
renowned for nrGgnificence and quality
E. symbOlizing unparalleled artistry
of design tUOrn by royalty and
celebrities the world Oper. View these
bredth.taking turs at Erlebacher
the most fabulous collection
eUer seen in Washington.
ERLEBAcHER 1888 Connecticut Ave.
Fur products labeled to show
country OF origin OF imported fuTS
The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1960-01-01
BELHAVEN MASONS
INSTALL OFFICERS
TUESDAY NIGHT
Some Of lis Officers Travel Is
Miles to Attend Meetings of
This Progressive Lodge

A unique feature of Belhaven
Masonic Lodge No. 500 is that some
of its newly installed officers will
travel Is miles or more to attend
lodge meetings and to fill the
chairs they have been honored
with occupying since Tuesday night
of this week when these men We're
installed.
Horace Elliott, the new master of
ten Lodge lives at Hunters Bridge,
FELTON, Allen the Senior Warden
at Pungo; Clyde Sutton, the Junior
Warden lives at Rodmans Quarter.
Other officers are Charles Midget,
Treasurer and Archie Thomas,
Secretary, both of Belhaven; Demp-
sey Allen of Pungo, Senior Deacon;
d. S. Tetterton of Yeatesville,
Junior Deacon; Edible Gaylord of
Terra Celia and Jack Alligood of
Belhaven, Stewards.
The lodge, which was chartered
81 years ago, has 1873 members. 1t
lost several members last year by
death. Within the past few years
it has erected a new hall, and is
now engaged in project to COM
plete the interior.
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-Glosav Photo. WashInsi

-Gloeav Photo, Washington.
EMMA NEAL MORRISON of Kill
Devil Hills, Laurinburg and Wash
ington, D. c., is a dynamic ex-
ponent of the old adage that "if
you want a job done, get a busy
person to do it." Mrs. o. Max
Gardner we'll knows this truth,
and she has chosen Mrs. Morrison
for her right-hand helper in the
new effort to energize the Lost
Colony. They have long been per-
sonal friends, for Mrs. Gardner be-
gan her public career as Secretary
to Governor Gardner 1933-40. The
multitude of things Mrs. Morrison
can manage is amazing. At pres
emf she is President of the North
Carolina Society in Washington, d.
c., where a year ago she staged
big reception and dinner honor
ing North Cardinals latest success
full actor, Andy Griffith. A SINH
lar event later this year honored
Governor Hodges, and another for
Mrs. Gardner. She is Vice-chairman
of the Historic Bath Commission
in N. c.; national trustee for the
Harry S. Truman Memorial Lib
rary since it's foundation in 1858;
member of the Board of Directors
of the r. l. Historical Association;
a life member of the Woman's
Natnl Democratic Club of Wash
ington, D. c.; the YWCA of D. c.;
the Davis Memorial Goodwill
Guild of D. c.; and the n. c. So
ciety for the Preservation Of
Antiquities.
She has previously served as
president the Woman's National
Democratic Club, in Washington,
195O-52; on the Board of Governors
of the D. C. Girl Scouts of Ameri-
ca; trustee of Davis Memorial
Goodwin Industries 1885; CO.
chairman Stevenson-K e f 1--WE l
Campaign Dinner Oct. 1856 at the
Statler Hotel, Washington, D. c.;
representative of the Mothers
Committee National Cathedral
School for Girls, 1957-59; staff
Secretary Commission consolida
ton of the University of Nortl
See MRS. MORRISON, Page -Four
The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1960-01-01
BELHAVEN POSTOFFICE
LEASE IS CONTINUED

The Post Office Department has
exercised the option effective Dec.
Is, to renew the lease on the pres
ent post office quarters at Bel
haven, North Carolina, for a
period of five years, it has been
announced by Postmaster General
Summerfield, through the office Of
w. L. Crawford, Regional Oper-
ations Director in Atlanta.
The Post Office located on the
east side of Pamlico Street between
Riverside Avenue and Main Street
and contains 2,17O square feet OF
interior space.
There are 1911 postal projects in
North Carolina now receiving at
tention either from the Postal In
spector-in- Charge or the Regional
Real Estate Manager or are await
ing departmental action.
1t was explained that this does
not mean 1911 new buildings, since
many of the projects call for en-
largements, remodeling, lease re-
newals, driveway paving, and the
installation of new equipment. All
of these improvements are in line
with the Postmaster Generals
modernization program.
The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1960-01-01
ELLISON RETURNS
AFTER COMPLETING
CHORE IN KOREA
Belhaven Man Studies Request
For Loans for Industries
Allied With Seafood

One of the most interesting
slants on world affairs, is that
while citizens of coastal North
Carolina are pleading for someone
to build plants to process seafood
products and create employment
for our people, our government
calls into service citizen Of our
own locality, William Ellison of
Belhaven, to go to Korea on the
bottomside of the world, to investi.
gate requests that we build a null.
titude of such plants for the Ko.
reanS.
Mr.. Ellison, a well-known marine
biologist got back home on Deem
Der 10Th at the conclusion of five
and half months on this chore
for Uncle Sam. Oddly enough, he
left Toxic on the 18th, spent two
days in Washington en- route and
vet got home on the 10Th. The diff
ference comes from the day gained
in flying eastward across the Inter-
national date line.
Mr.. Ellison went to spend two
months and it took more than five
before he got through. The Ko-
reans want Uncle Sam to lend
them, through the International
Cooperative Association more than
a million and quarter dollars to
build seven projects. These pro-
jects include freezer plants, fish
meal factories, plant for baling
seaweed, for the extraction of agar
from seaweed and which is used
in medicines, etc.
Mr.. Ellison found that some OF
these requested projects offered
little in the way of sound basis
for making the loan.
1t will be remembered he re-
turned last year after long stay
on the Island of Formosa on
mission of the Z. S. Government.
The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1960-01-01
MRS. TOPPING CALLSI
SOUTH ALBEMARLEI
PLANNING MEETING
New President To Have Officers
at Her Home Near Panteqo
on January 18th.

An early start on a program for
the Southern Albemarle Region
is being palnned by Mrs. Scott
Topping, new president of the six
county Association, and a meeting
and luncheon has been called by
her, at her home near Pantego at
10 am. on Wednesday, January
18th. The meeting is expected to
last four hours and luncheon will
be served the visitors by Mrs.
Topping.
To this meeting all officers of
the Association, the Legislative
Representatives of the six counties
and some others are being invited
to set up working committees for
the coming year. Besides Mrs. Top
ping, there will be the secretary,
Mrs. John Winfield of Yeatesville,
M. A. Matthews, treasurer, and
the following County Vice-Presi-
dents. Sam T. Moore of Beaufort;
w. w. Edwards of Dare; VIM. l.
Cochran of Hyde; Robert H. Cowen
of Martin; VIM. Chas. Cohoon of
Tyrrell; and James H. Ward of
Washington.
Others who will attend the meet
ing are Senators Ebert Peele and
Lindsay Warren; Representatives,
Wayland Sermons of Beaufort,
Dick O'Neal of Hyde, DR.. J. NJ.
Phelps of Washington, r. Bruce
Etheridge of Dare, and B. F. Ever
EFT of Martin.
Also several past presidents of
the Association including DR.. w.
r. Ralph of Belhaven, P. D. Mid
gett of Engelhard, Melvin Daniels
of Wanchese, w. J. White of Tyr
rell, Leon Balance of Engelhard,
A. Corey of GAINESVILLE, Victor
Meekins and L. L. Swain of Manteo,
and w. w. Watson of Hyde.
Mrs. Topping is assembling a
list of recommendations to sub
nit to the committee to aid in
shaping a program for the year.
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SCHEME TO MOVE
KITTY HAWK P.O.
FINDS RESENTMENT
Citizens Sign Petitions Favoring
Keeping Postoffice in VII
laee Location

Strong opposition has arisen in
Kitty Hawk community against a
scheme that has been engineered
by a handful of residents on the
oceanside to take the postoffice
which serves the community away
from it, and relocate it on the
beach. What some citizens believe,
is that it began out of the desire
of beach property owner to get
rental of a business place he owns.
Petitions have been circulated
with about 100 per cent of the
citizens of the year round COM
munity of Kitty Hawk as signers,
it is reported, and these petitions
will be forwarded in protest, to
the officials concerned. i
Recently, a survey indicated that
the community needed a larger
building, and Postoffice Depart
ment representatives gave notice
they would consider rental of such
building, if erected by private in
terests, and a location, at or near
the present postoffice which has
stood for many years in what is
considered by the Citizens very
satisfactory site was approved.
1t was then that the time was
considered ripe by the newcomers
on the beach, to move the whole
thing out of the village.
Kitty Hawk citizens say they
cannot understand this attitude,
when the greater number of pa
irons of the postoffice live in Kitty
Hawk village the year round. Only
during the summer months are
there any large number of resi-
dents of the beach community, and
rural free delivery service has been
provided for them, and this service
is maintained daily through the
year. Kitty Hawk community's citi-
zens say this proposed move would
work a great hardship on them
and deprive them of the last locaI
community service, one in which
they have taken great pride. Las
year they gave up their school
which was moved some distance
from the community, for what some
people consider was in the interest
See SCHEME, Page Four
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PLANS TO BE MAPPED NEXT
THURSDAY in MANTEO FOR
10Th LOST COLONY SEASON
Mrs. 0. Max Gardner. Chairman Has Called A
Meeting at 10 AM. January in the Commu-
nifty Building to Decide on Plans For Getting
Show Started; Large Attendance Of New
Board Expected.

Mrs. o. Max Gardner of Shelby,
the newly elected chairman of the
Roanoke Island Historical Associ-
ation will come to Manteo for a
meeting of the Board, to formulate
plains for the goth season of the
Lost Colony scheduled to run
Through the months of July and
August 1860. The meeting will be
held in the community building, be-
ginning at 10 AM. Thursday, Jan.
10.
New Directors of the Associ-
alton will give their time and eX-
penses to come from Washington,
ID. c., Raleigh and other distant
places in order to assist in the
task which is shaping up with en-
thusiam under the leadership of the
new chairman. Mrs. Gardner, the
wife of the late Governor, is dis
tinguished North Carolinian in her
own right, and has given literally
of her abilities, time and money
fer the promotion of many good
causes In turn, in recognition of
her lifetime of service, she was
the honor guest of an elaborate
turnout in Washington in Novem-
ber, held by the North Carolina
Society, which numbers some 500
citizens of the State who, by rea-
son Of their occupations, sojourn
in the Nations capital.
Among the new directors who
plan to be in Manteo next Thurs
day are J. Melville Broughton, Jr.,
Of Raleigh, chairman of the State
Highway Commission; Mrs. Fred
w. Morrison of Washington, d. c.,
William B. Aycock, Chancellor of
the University of North Carolina;
Paul Green, author of the Lost
Colony and many other outdoor
dramas, plays and movie scripts;
and others. Other members of the
new Board, elected Dec. 2, and not
named above are: C. Alden Baker
and Albert w. Gard of Elizabeth
See PLANS, Page Four
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THE STEEL DELAY
ADDS DANGER AND
FIVE PERSONS DIE
Detour on currituek Bridge Due
to Steel Strike. Brings Fa-
talifies to Ten

Five persons died Christmas
morning in Dare County when a
car driven by Milton L. Gibbs, Al,
went through the rail of detour
on the Currituck Sound bridge in
Dare County early Christmas morn
ing. The detour has been kept for
an unduly long time, due to in
ability to get steel for a job of
installing wider draws-span, and
it would have been finished long
ago, but for bull-headed David
McDonald's steel strike.
Gibbs and his party of five,
whose address are all listed as 29O
New York Avenue, 16, N. Y. were
bound for Washington, N. c., to
visit his mother.
He got on the wrong road and
went to Mays Head, having come
through the same dangerous detour
where his party met death shortly
afterward.
Not knowing he could continue
on across Croatan Sound, and ap-
apparently not having been told, he
retraced his route, and shortly af-
ter sunrise Christmas MORNING was
approaching the detour and appar-
emily too fast. His 1858 Buick
skidded as he attempted to turn left
through the detour bridge, and
went overheard. He swan to a low
part of the construction job, got
on the bridge and hitch-hiked to
the nearest phone.
The five dead are two aunts of
Gibbs, his mothers sisters, Fannie
P. Pilowden, S5 and Halle Mae
Peartree, 45; James Smith Is, and
his wife Waller Eugene Smith, 81,
Gerald Williams, eight, the son of
Mrs. Pilowden.
Highway Patrolman Arthur
Fields spent the day at the bridge
while search was made for the
bodies by Coast Guardsmen. Four
of the bodies were found Christ
mas and the fifth on the 26th.
These five deaths raised the num-
Der of auto fatalities in Dare to
ten during the year. Erwin Farrow
died near Oregon Inlet July 4, and
four died in a collision near Stumpy
Point early in December.
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MIGHT HAVE ROPED DEER
SWIMMING IN RIVER

A deer, fleeing from hunters in
Pungo River Christmas eve might
have been caught with a rope by
Mrs. w. T. Ralph, of Belhaven,
who with her brother Thomas Wa
hab went in his boat down the river
to get a Christmas tree. But the
deer had no horns, and they let /,
go its way. The trip yielded a very
fine tire however, to grace the
Ralph home this season.
The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1960-01-01
MANTEO MASONS INSTALL
NEW OFFICERS MONDAY
3. A. Evans Heads Lodge Which Now
Has lie Members and Is Build
ing New Hall

Burwell A. Evans, Dare hard
ware merchant was installed as
Master of Manteo Masonic Lodge
No. 6S2 Monday night. The lodge,
which meets on the End and 4th
Monday nights has 118 members.
It began operating IL years ago,
and is now engaged in building
a new hall.
The other officers installed
Monday are Senior Warden, d. F.
Thyme; Junior Warden, George
M. Powell; Treasurer Edwin r.
Midget; Secretary Erwin G.
Hines. Senior Deacon Rudolph
Peele; Junior Deacon, Ephey
Priest; Tyler James ID. Groce;
Stewards, William H. Jones and
Ralph Humphlett. Hubert Guthrie,
Chaplain.
The meeting place is the town
hall.
The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1960-01-01
OLD CHRISTMAS TO BE
OBSERVED JANUARY z
Interesting Annual Event at Rodanthe
Planned Saturday Night; Once
Widely Observed on the Coast
BY AYCOCK BROWN

Observation-Disclosures a Gus
tom that was started long before
the oldest resident of this Outer
Banks community can remember,
Old Christmas, once the tradition
al Christmas of the Outer Banks
region of North Carolina, will be
observed here again on January
5, just as it has been celebrated
since-some say 1852.
The formal celebration will be
held Saturday night, January End
at the Rodanthe Community build
ing, which is to enable those
working away from home to en-
joy the event.
1t was in 1852 that Great Bri-
tain and her English speaking
colonies changed from Old Style
to New Style calendars insofar as
keeping record from day to day
was concerned. To make the
changeover from the calendars it
was necessary to drop or literally
lose, II days. Eleven days from
January Is then fell on January 5.
The English, especially those
which had been transplanted to
18th Century colonies thought
there was something sacriligious
about changing the date of
Christmas. They adhered to the
old custom of celebrating on the
date that would have been De-
cember 18th according to the Old
Style or Caesarian Calendar.
That placed their date of Christ
mas on the New Style calendar II
days later or on January 5.
Anyway, it's the date Rodanthi-
ans celebrate their Old Christmas
today, and Rodanthe is the only
See EVENT, Page Four
The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1960-01-01
VARIETY OF BIG
NEWS IN COASTAL
REGION IN 1859.
Liberty Ship Stranded and Saved:
Many Killed on Roads:
Bridges Soon; New Bank

A million dollar Liberty Ship
drifted ashore and was later SAL
vaged near Avon and on Deem
Der %, Christmas morning, five
Brooklyn Negroes lost their lives
when the auto in which they were
passengers crashed through the
rail of detour at the draw
bridge of Wright Memorial Bridge
spanning Currituck Sound.
Those were big news stories on
the Dare Coast in 1859, and even
bigger stories for persons who are
interested in fishing, was that
anglers tok more blue marlin off
this coast than any in other To-
cality in the world.
Important in the news for the
region in 1859 was the announce
ment by the State Highway Com
mission that contract for a bridge
across Alligator River would be
let early in 1860, and a bridge
across Oregon Inlet to be let lat
err in 1860.
Announcement is also made
that beginning in March 1860, the
Taylor Brothers of Sea Level will
establish car ferry service be-
tween Ocracoke Island and the
mainland of Carteret County, thus
eliminating Outer Banks dead end
highways.
In the latter part of the year
a new bank was being sought in
Dare County and it's promoters
promise resources of a half
million dollars.
During 1859 also was complete
ed the new National Park Service
Highway between Whale bone
Junction and Oregon Inlet and
new State Highway GUS. No.
1881 between Kitty Hawk and
lower Mays Head. The latter
cost almost 81 million.
Other big news in the making
along the Dare Coast during 1863
was the beginning of millions Of
dollars worth of channel dredging
in the Manteo. Wanchese and Or
egon Inlet sectors; Mission Sc
projects of the National Park
Service which when complete
ed early next year will represent
half million dollars in improve
mentss to entrance highways and
a new administration building
visitors center at Wright Memo
rial Monument at Kill Devil Hills,
and many more thousands invest
ed in the Mission 66 improvements
of National Seashore projects be-
tween Mays Head and Ocracoke.
During 1869 another million or 50
dollars was spent on improve
ments of vacation facilities here
on the Dare coast-new rooms in
hotels and motels, swimming
pools, restaurants and recreational
attractions.