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The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1960-07-08

REV. LOUIS d. HAYMAN of
Southport who will be in Dare
County during the week of July
18th, during which time he will
preside at the big annual reunion
of the Hayman Clan. 1t will be held
at Manns Harbor on Wednesday,
July goth. These meetings, previ-
ously held for several years at
Manns Harbor, Manteo, Wanchese
and Kitty Hawk, where many kins-
folk of this large family live, are
happy occasions, with good food,
and often during the time, a SER
mon by Rev. Mr.. Haynan, who
is native of Dare County.
Mr.. Hayman, the current presi-
dent of the clan has already had
conferences with Mrs. Ira Spencer,
vice-president. Mrs. Oma Pearl
Daniels, Treasurer; Miss Inez
Gibbs, Secretary all of MAINS Har-
Dor; with Avery Tillett and Mrs.
Oma Pearl Tillett of Kitty Hawk;
]. w. Davis and Mrs. Ethel Til
lett of Wanchese, all area officers
pledged to make the Forthcoming
meeting memorable one.
The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1960-07-08
BELHAVEN'S FOURTH
OF JULY DRAWS A
MULTITUDE OF 5000
Bath Beauty Wins Contest, Fire
works Blow Up Prematurely; But
Event Was Great One

A dark-eyed beauty from neigh
boring Bath won the contest fol
Independence, and most of the fire.
works planned for the finale blew
up prematurely, with some slight
ir!"ries to persons, but Beinaven's
4th of July Celebration went of
even better than a long series OF
successful events held annually al
this time for many years.
An estimated 5000 people at
tended the celebration, which meant
the population doubled for the day
and the usual fish fry followed the
mile-long parade which lasted ar
hour. Many original and gaily dec,
GRATED floats took part. Main street
was lined with sightseecs to watch
the parade which got underway al
$3.50 am, followed at 1880 by q
water festival.
At noon Miss Mavis Sullivan
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. j. j. Sulli.
van of Bath was voted Miss In.
dependence Day. She was picked
as queen of the Beaufort County
May Day tournament. Runners-ul
were Betty June Griffin, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. James Griffin, and
Ann Sadler, daughter of Mr.. anG
Mrs. Dock Sadler, all of Belhaven
Marilyn Russ, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Ed Russ Of Belhaven was
chosen Little Miss independence
Day for 1860, in the Teen-age
beauty contest.
A concert was held at the COM
munity center insthe afternoon by
the Washington High School band
The Belhaven School Band also took
part in the festival. Ball games
were held in the afternoon.
When the fireworks display be-
gan at 8 PM, the program shifted
unexpected, and after firing the
first rocket, the rest went off pre-
maturely, making a spectacular eff
feet. The fireworks were from the
deck of a boat, and Millar Flowers
holding a torch, said it burned toe
fast and ignited the remainder Of
two boxes. The firemen had to jump
overheard; Flowers got burns on
the hand, another fl .eman slight
facial burns, and one lost his
glasses when he jumped.
But there was no tragedy like
that in Pamlico River when Ed
Chauncey got fatal burns late Mon
day night, and two others of q
See FOURTH, Page Six
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FINEST CROPS IN MEMORY
in PROSPECT THIS FALL
SAY EAST HYDE FARMERS
Many Changes in Agricultural Methods With
Advent of New Vegetable Crops. Tomatoes.
Cucumbers. Squash Celery and Sweet Corn
Prove Successful For Quick Money and Less
Capital Outlay.

Saturday was an important day
in Hyde County in one locality for
it wound up a three weeks cucum-
Der season in which about 20 farm
ers in the Lake Landing area in
Hyde County participated, when
more than $4,000 came into the
hands of these growers. At the
same time, some of these growers
were also marketing tomatoes and
butternut and acorn squash.
Only few years ago, such crops
as these were not grown in Hyde
County, for the one summer crop
had long been the lowly Irish po-
tato. Now about 300 acres is all that
is planted in spuds-only half the
former acreage. The season is late
this year, the yield is about 125
bags to the acre; the price about
$3.50 per bag. 1t will be two weeks
before Hyde's Irish potato season
is in full swing, and despite all the
hard work and costly fertilizer,
total gross income in money will be
an estimated 800, or less than
the lesser acreage in cucrMnbers
bring.
But these are not the only new
crops, for Florida concern, A.
Duda and Sons who came up last
year and rented the Pat Simmons
farm near Fairfield has planted
100 acres in celery, and $50 acres
in sweet corn. These are supposedly
expensive crops to grow, and the
operators have offered no reports
on them, but a fair yield on 100
acres of celery is estimated by some
farmers at $4,000 or 500 crates to
the acre, with prices ranging from
$3.50 to So a crate. A fair yield on
$50 acres of sweet corn would be
$50 crates to the acre at perhaps
$1.75 per crate, and this would run
up to more than $4,000. Add this to
SIS, 000-total 100000.
1t takes a lot of money to set up
a plant for proper cultivation of
celery, and very few people are go
ing into it. The important thing
right now is determining just how
good the soil and climate Of Hyde
County is for such crops. If every
thing turns out like people are now
believing will happen, farming will
soon be completely revolutionized
in Hyde County,-fewer acres will
be needed to produce more money.
Getting back to the cucumber
season which closed Saturday, it is
no news in Hyde County that at
tention began to turn toward these
new crops when Leon Balance came
home from college a dozen years
or so ago. Balance loves Hyde
County and couldn't bear to go
away to seek his fortune, but
thought his new college education
in agriculture challenged him to
come home and turn what had long
See CROPS, Page Six
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GETS OVER
HALF MILLION FOR
BODIE Id. LANDS
Litigation Ended Giving Elizabeth
City Attorney $233 per Acre
for Beach

After a legal battle extending
over eight years, the Government
last week paid $554,244 to w. A
Worth of Elizabeth City for the
2,400 acres of beach and marsh.
land, known as the Bodie Island
Club property, now a part of the
Cape Hatteras National Seashore
The amount awarded represents
about 1882 per acre. Mr.. Worth
bought the property Is years ago
for $4,000 and he told the court
he had spent $4,000 on it for i'm
provements.
Funds for buying the land were
donated largely by the Avalon and
Old Dominion Foundations, and the
State of North Carolina which made
the grants of funds for National
Seashore. In June 1862, the Gov
eminent took over the land and
Offered $185,0O0 as a fair price, MIR.
Worth, an able attorney himself,
employed other able counsel, and
fought a strenuous battle for a
higher price.
Finally, price was named by a
board of three referees, but the
Government, with less counsel, and
case not very strong, objected,
but vas repeatedly turned down in
the courts.
Nearly three miles of shoreline,
on both ocean, and on Roanoke
Sound skirts the tract of land which
was for many years the property
Of the Bodie Island shooting club.
The late D. L. Lindquist of New
York was the principal owner, and
following his death in 1945, it was
sold to Mr.. Worth.
The actual award for the land
was $484,00 the difference of over
$4,000 being for interests and
other expenses. The $4,000 should
cover original investment and all
improvements, leaving a gain Of
$4S4,000.
The old clubhouse has been re-
moved up the beach, and is now
owned by John Gaskill of Wan
cheese. The Bodie Island Lighthouse
reservation is located in the north
ern part of the porperty.
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BELHAvEN POSTOFFICE
GETS NEW EQUIPMENT

The interior of the Belhaven Post
Office has been completely reno
vated; all equipment has been re-
placed with new, and is rear
ranged. The new boxes are at
tractive and are equipped with pre-
cision combinations, quite different
from the old ones.
Postmaster, e. Russell Johnston
says he is both proud and appreci-
zsiveof the complete NEW face that
tn epost office has received; and
he hopes the public will enjoy us
ing it.
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KITTY HAWK FIRST
WITH NEW P.O. IN
COASTLAND AREA
Manteo Couple Successful Bid
ders; New Quarters Projected
For Manfeo Too

Postmaster General Arthur E.
Summerfield has announced a con-
tract has been signed for the con-
struction and lease to the Post Of
flee Department of new Post Of
flee Building in Kitty Hawk. The
successful bidders are Mr.. and Mrs.
M. K. Fearing, Jr, of Manteo.
Ground breaking and construction
of the new post office is expected
to begin Immediately, with COM
pletion due December 1, 1860. The
lease will run for ten years with
two Swear renewal options.
This new post office will be To-
Gated on the east side of Main
Street. 1t will provide 1889 square
feet of interior space, an outside
loading platform, and ample space
for parking and truck maneuvering.
Specifications call for new modern
lighting and equipment, including
a low, open patron-service counter.
Manteo is on the list to get a
new postoffice building which will
provide not only sufficient working
space, but parking room calculated
to serve the areas needs for the
next 20 years.
Postmaster General Summerfield
stated, "this is another important
step in the Post Office Depart
ment's determination Program au-
thorized in the last session of the
Congress to improve postal services
for the public by providing new
buildings and equipment, designed
See POSTOFFICE. Page Six
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DARE COAST SEES
BIGGEST CROWDS
WEEK END OF 4TH
Hundreds Of Visitors Unable to
Find Room Sunday; Ha+teras
Island Filled

The July 18th week end proved tn;
largest in the history of Oar;
County. Rooms were all filled OIL
the beaches and on Hatteras Islant
on Saturday and on Sunday ia
cilities in Roanoke Island anc
Manns Harbor overlooked, ever
private homes opened to help the
hapless visitors.
Dozens of people were turned of
Sunday night, as many came long
distances to spend the 4th in Dare
County. Arriving at the Fort Ra-
leigh hotel in Manteo was one
couple who had driven all the way
from Baltimore, arriving about 8
PM, after having sought lodgings
everywhere along the beach on the
way in. Another couple came in
about the same time, after having
left Morehead City, crossing three
ferries by way of Hatteras and
Ocracoke
By Saturday night it was re-
ported that some visitors had
failed to find rooms on Hatteras
Island and had come back to Mays
Head looking for places to sleep.
The National Park Service camping
areas at Cape Hatteras We're filled
beyond normal capacity and like
wise at Oregon Inlet, where hun
dreds were tented on grounds norm
ally equipped for dozens.
The thousands of extra visitors
through the week end depleted the
pantry stocks of hotels and res
taurants, and dining facilities were
greatly handicapped for lack of
bread. Calls were made on all local
stores for bread, but they had been
cleaned up by the demands of
campers wo do their own cooking.
Frantic calls were made to bakers
serving the area to bring in more
bread.
Fortunately for Dare County, due
to the increased number of high
way patrolmen in the area assign
ed to the Lost Colony crowds, there
was a minimum of traffic mishaps,
and no fatalities. Normally, one
might have expected many injuries.
The new bypass now operating be-
tween Kitty Hawk and Mays Head
and the park service road on Bodie
Island beach have eased up the
traffic situation. Formerly, many
accidents occurred on the compare
lively narrow Nags Head road
where . s5-mile limit is in effect.
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BOARDING HOME PATIENT
WAS 100 THURSDAY

Miss Martha White, a Windsor
native, who has lived two years at
the Boarding Home of Mrs. Sue
Wescott in Manteo was 100 years
old Thursday, and she was given
q party by Mrs. Wescott, this in
cluded several visitors among the
younger girls Of Manteo who have
become attached to the lady. Miss
White has been bed-ridden a long
time. She is devoted to q rag doll
which a former patient gave her.
and is not happy unless she has
the doll IN her arms. She has been
III for IL years.
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BROTHERS ARGUMENT ENDS
WITH ONE GETTING SHOT

In a row early Saturday night
Willie McCleese, a Manteo negro
was shot twice in the shoulder
and Sheriff Frank Cahoon issued
a warrant against Jerry Bell Nc
Cheese, brother of Willie, charging
him with the shooting, but no ar.
rest had been made at noon Thurs,
day, although McCleese is said to
be living near Manteo. Willie Nc
Cheese bled profusely, and was
taken to the Elizabeth City hos,
pital by Twiford's ambulance short
ly after the shooting, but was
patched up and brought back the
same night.
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BLUES ARE PLENTIFUL

Bluefishing was not too good dur
ing the last half Of June but early
in July they became plentiful again
at Oregon and at Hatteras Inlets.
The blues Of July have been small
but plentiful.
Most of those taken have av-
eraged less than one pound. ave
call them panfish," said Capt. Jesse
Etheridge Of Wanchese who OPP
crates out Of Oregon Inlet.
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WILBUR A. BALLENGER, JR.,
native of Columbia, S. c., is the new
pastor of the First Christian
Church of Belhaven. He studied at
Atlantic Christian College in Will
son and Texas Christian University
in Fort Worth, Texas, in addition
to pastorates held while studying
in Texas, he has served the Mount
Olive Christian Church, and more
recently the Wheat Swamp Chris
tan Church near LAGRANGE in
North Carolina. He is married to
the former Peggy Lillian Martin
of Greenville and they have three
children.
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MAsoNs FISH FRY

Manteo Masonic Lodge will hold
another in its series of fish frys
at the new lodge site on the high
way through Manteo Saturday from
8 to $3.50 pm. Proceeds will be used
toward the new building; the pub
lie Is invited.
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JOE F. PEEK, a native of. Knox
vile, Tennessee. Graduate of Car
son Newman College, Jefferson
City, Tenn, with a B. A. Degree
Now student at Southeastern
B ptist Theological Seminary
Wake Forest, N. C.
He formerly pastored at North
Hills Baptist Church, Knoxville
Tenn. Is married to the former
Betty Jean Cooper of Sumter, S
c. One child, a son, John. Pastor
at Belhaven since September, 1859
Evening star., 1960-06-12
BY the Associated Press

Broad cutbacks in the size and
type of United States forces in
Japan since the end Of the Ko-
rean War have trimmed Ameri-
can military manpower there
to about $4,000. These forces
are located primarily at about
a half dozen major bases.
This presumably is the ap-
proximate strength which the
United States Government be-
lieves is required for helping
Japan defend herself, although
some further reduction in ia
cilitieS is in prospect.
This program, in general,
would be covered under the
terms of the new United States
japanese security treaty which
is awaiting ratification.
Leftist opposition to the
treaty was behind the mob
demonstration against White
House Press Secretary James
c. Hagerty and the prospect of
a similar demonstration when
President Eisenhower visits
Tokyo this week.
In recent years relations be-
tween United States forces ard
the Japanese people have been
generally good. Pentagon Off
cials said yesterday they do not
know of any change in this
situation in recent weeks.
There have been no reports
to the State Department, off,
cials there said, of any demon
strationS against American in
dividuals other than a few Off
cialS, such as Mr.. Hagerty and
Ambassador Douglas MacAr-
thur II.
Officials said that as far as
they know here there are no
unusual difficulties whatever
for American tourists travelling
in Japan.
The highly organized demon
strations have been aimed pri-
marily at the new United
States-Japanese treaty, the
Kishi government and the Eli
senhower trip. officials here
said there seems to be little or
no popular anger against the
United States.
During the Korean war, large
United States ground, air and
Evening star., 1960-06-12
THE SUNDAY STAR AT
Washington, D. c. &t
June II, 1860

units keeping only a relatively
small service force.
The Air Force uses four or
five major bases, including
three large ones in the Tokyo
area-Tachikawa, johnson and
AtSugi. Marine aviation oper-
ates chiefly out of a base in
KyuShu.
The U. S. Navy maintains
two major bases, at Yokosuka,
IN the general Tokyo area, and
at Sasebo. The Yokosuka base
has huge drydocks capable of
handling the largest warships
afloat. They were built by the
Japanese prior to World War II.
The United States has re-
turned scores of military in
stallations to japanese control.
In 1859, more than so facilities
were turned back to the Jap
aneSe. Among these were "a
radar sites which the Japanese
now operate.
Evening star., 1960-06-12
Cutbocks Keep Down
U.S.. roops in japan

naval forces were based in
Japan, in support of and in con-
nection with prosecution of that
fighting. They were there under
the terms of the original treaty
made with Japan as a defeated
and occupied nation at the END
of World War II.
OF the present approximate
total of $4,000. the greater part
is Air Force. There are some
Navy, Marine and Army per-
sonnel.
Four Bases Used
The Marine Corps operates
small units of fighter planes
and helicopters, in addition
to having Marine units de-
tailed to guard duty. The army
has withdrawn all combat
Evening star., 1960-06-12

has been greatly expanded as
the result of the international
experience"
Mr.. Hagerty doesn't deny he
has taken an active part in
administration policy decisions
even to giving cabinet members
advice, but he, argues that he
has not attempted to assume
a presidential role in making
decisions.
Mr.. Hagerty became skilled
in governmental press relation!
as aide to Gov. Thomas E
Dewey of New York.
But Albany was a snap com.
pared with Washington. There
are many more reporters ir
Washington and more danger
of misunderstanding, misin.
depreciation or worse.
Mr.. Hagerty has made mis-.
takes, but he doesn't hide them
Must Admit Mistakes
you have to make mis-
takes" he says, "and you
make them. and I admit them
If you don't admit them, YOU
blow your top and you're going
to make more mistakes"
Mr.. Hagerty has blown his
top often enough, thanks to
a trigger-quick Irish temper
Probably his biggest explosion
followed Art Buchwald's New
York Herald Tribune column
parodying one of Mr.. Hagerty's S
briefing sessions with reporters
One innovation made during
this administration brought tel
eviSion into White House press
conferences.
Says Mr.. Hagerty, "I had to
face TV as Steve Early (F. D.
RS press secretary had TO
face radio. We both had to
contend with objections from
newspaper reporters"
Mr.. Hagerty's greatest re-
gret is failure to pay enough
attention to foreign languages
in school. He can speak a lit
tie French and Spanish and
can read French fairly we'll,
but his opposite numbers in
other countries not only are
fluent in French and several
other European tongues, but, in
Mr.. Hagerty's own words,
speak English as well as do. "
AS a man who knows news
men, Mr.. Hagerty finds Amer
leans the best-trained report
ers in the world by far, with
the advantage of not working
for Government or opposition
papers.
Mr.. Hagerty's prescription
for a successful correspondent
these days includes familiarity
with people around the White
House, ability to keep quiet
about the source Of a story, a
knowledge of economics, more
than a layman's knowledge of
science and a language other
than English.
Evening star., 1960-06-12

I eral-like prescription for hi
successor: An iron constitution
and rubber nerves. Mr.. Hag.
erty himself has been troubled
by ulcers, but has managed tt
overcome this problem.
You can't let the job bother
you after you leave the Office
That's what I try to tell othel
people.
You are going to school al
the time. I've learned more
about the world since Septem.
ber than I knew before"
On each of Mr.. Eisenhower
world trips, Mr.. Hagerty has
gone out as advance man, COW
ering the full route, making
arrangements and then return
ing to Washington, only tt
make the trip a second time
with the presidential party
Mr.. Hagerty's 140.000-mile los
since last September includes
the West European venture, the
big Europe-Asia swing. which
included India and Pakistan;
the February March South
American visit, the summit
meeting in Paris and the flight
to the Far East.
Sensitive Phase of Job
On these many international
travels Mr.. Hagerty has worked
with Government officials from
a host of other countries, many
of whom had served as press
attaches in Washington. And
here the Presidents man Fri
day encountered a vastly sensi-
tive phase of his job.
your main concern is speak
ing for your country overseas,
he said. You have to know what
you're saying. My viewpoint