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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, 1960-03-11
MORE TELEPHONES FOR
ROSE BAY. SCRANTON

Telephone Company construction
forces have begun work on a prof.
ect which will provide service to
some 81 applicants near Rose Bay,
Sladesville and Beulah commune
ties, according to X. C. Wilkinson,
manager of Carolina Telephone and
Telegraph Company in Belhaven,
who stated that the project will in
volve an estimated expenditure of
$32,9S4.
Accomplishment of this project
will involve placing 1913 miles of
buried and eight miles Of aerial
wire.
This is one Of many such rural
projects being undertaken by the
Telephone Company to provide
service to the rural areas in It's
41-county operating territory.
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LOST COLONY. TO
SURVIVE. MUST
GET MORE CASH
Show Has Best Prospects During
A Year Of Celebrations
In Dare County

The Lost Colony's need for fl
nancial help is going to be before
the public this season for what 1T
is hoped will be the last time so far
as large local contributions are eX-
pected. The show has additions to
its Board of Directors, is headed
by Mrs. o. Max Gardner, and spirit
and enthusiasm is being put into
plans for this, its goth season.
A succession of events and con-
ditions has resulted in deficits over
several seasons; last year it was
apparent that to get the show on
the road, $4,000 would be needed,
a campaign was started toward
raising this sum and generous
response followed. However con-
ditions resulted in the campaign
winding up with less than two
thirds of the sum needed, and the
necessary repairs to the old prop
erty could not be made.
Some $4,000 the show had Dor
rowed years before is still unpaid,
and liberal contributions from other
sources have been promised toward
wiring out this debt. But the fact
remains that the money to be
raised this year to repair the prop
erty and finance the promotion OF
the show must come largely from
local interests. Distant friends of
the show who have been called on
more for their crops, but they want
to nay less for fertilizer, machinery
and labor, and their wives want
TO pay less when they go to the
stores to buy.
They want less waste in the
courthouse, but they want to get
more jobs for relatives and friends
who are not needed. They demand
more efficiency while refusing to
believe it could be gotten by elimi-
mating some on the payroll to give
the real workers room to work.
They want taxes distributed
fair and square, which means put
it all on the corporations, refus-
ing 10 believe the corporations will
pass it back to them in increased
prices. They want balanced bud
get without cutting out anything
they want or witout firing any OF
their friends.
They want businesslike admin
sszakion of government, but are
willing to put dead-heads, incom-
pebents and panhandlers on the
public payroll to do this efficient
work.
Now we have four candidates
who consider themselves smart
often, and who have given literally,
EXPECT the citizens and business
interests of the area, who benefit
heavily from the business the show
brings, should carry this financial
burden.
There isn't a business Of any
worth in this area which wouldn't
be 500 the worse off in any year
the show might not be produced
Il would take only $50 contribu-
tons Of 500 each 10 raise the
$4,000. It would be good invest
maent indeed, for this year with
See LOST COLONY, Page Sin
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FRONTIER PARADISE
WAS LAND OF BOTH
WONDER AND FEAR
Amazing Story of Beach Land in
Dare, Ancien+ly Populated
by Britons

This is an amazing story. Recent
", while running through the early
Ifiles of The Coastland Times, we
ran across an article concerning
that ancient settlement long since
abandoned in the midst of the Dare
mainland wilderness, and known as
Beech Land. We think it is worth
investigation further in the light
of more recent discoveries during
exploration of owners of this vast
property. Tradition gives it an at
mosphere of wonder and fear. Ira
dition has long held it to be the
final refuge and home of the Lost
Colony when they fled from their
settlement in fear of the Spaniards.
Although many other citizens
have told us about this region, the
story we reprint here from the files
of "a years ago, was based on in
formation furnished by the late
Murray D. Sawyer of East Lake,
long a prominent community leader,
member for years of the Board of
Commissioners and Of the Board
of Education of Dare County, who
died in 1887. Here is the story as
Mr.. Sawyer gave it. Quote:
An amazing tract of land in Dare
County up Milltail Greek, ten miles
from Alligator River and five
miles from Buffalo City, has a
unique history unknown to the
people of this county today. The
story of Beech Land, sounds almost
incredible, yet the statements Of re-
liable people, and the vestiges of
the civilization that existed in this
great frontier region bears out the
history that has been handed down.
Known by reason of the great
beech trees that surrounded this
wild and fertile region, whose
astounding history chronicles a
strange and tragic story that rivals
the tales of the most woody pio-
neer, this Beech Land stands de-
serted, its once magnificent farms,
grown up in tall timber, it's old
homes crumbled to dust and the
tall grave markers of its ceme-
teries hidden by heavy brush.
Many Killed By Plague.
Its 5000 acres of highly fertile
land once held a happy and pros
porous population of $50 people
who lived at home and had suf-
ficiency of all material things. In
the midst of their prosperity, they
We're striker down by mysterious
plague, and only a few families
were able to depart. These went
west, and north, and continued to
prosper.
The settlement of Beech Land
had been deserted entirely by the
time of the Civil War. A man
named John Smith who used to-
live in the East Lake region would
recount his boyhood recollections
of Beech Land. II is said that the
people We're SO happy and prosper
GUS they forgot God. They refused
to listen to the preaching and
pleadings of q preacher who lived
in their community. He told them
they should humble themselves in
the midst Of their prosperity. He
o.. pApADTQN U,~> Sir
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CENSUS BUREAU SURVEY

Special questions ON consumer
educational attainment,
literacy, and family characteristics
will be asked in the u. S. Census
Bureaus Current Population Sur
vey in March, according TO Director
Joseph r. Norwood Of the Bureaus
regional field office at Charlotte.
Information win be collected To-
calIy by Mrs. Virginia I. Davis.
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WOODSON BRADFORD FEAR
ING, Jr., %, the son of w. B.
Fearing of Manteo in February
successfully completed his exam
nation before the N. C. Pharma-
cy Board and is now established
in the family storen associated
with his cousin, M. X. Fearing,
Jr. He is the third Dare Countian
to become a pharmacist. Mrs.
Sibyl Austin Shake of Hatteras
who now lives in CHAPEL Hill, is
the one woman member from
Dare in this profession. Mr..
Fearing got his BIS degree in
pharmacy from the University of
North Carolina in June.
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JAMBOREE TO MEET AT
MACS HEAD SUNDAY PM.

A general meeting Of commit.
tee members and others interested
in staging the Pirates Jambofee
will be held at The Carolinian
Sunday afternoon, at 2 o'clock.
This viii be an important meet.
ing 70 plan the Jamborce slated
during the last week end Of April.
Evening star., 1960-09-02
Mrs. Sweet, so,
Wife of Chief
Of ICA Office

Mrs. Thomas L. Sweet. 60, OF
5616 Wood way, Sumner, Md,
died Wednesday at Georg e
Washington University Hos
pital of a circulatory ailment.
Her husband is chief of the In
ternational Cooperation Ad-
miniStration'S Com m o dit y
Trade Division, Office of Supply
Services.
Mrs. weet was active in
volunteer work for the Grey
Ladies at the Bethesda Naval
Medical Center from 1943 to
1949.
Born in Glasgow, Scotland,
Mrs. Sweet moved to Provi-
dence r. l., with her family in
1909. She was the former Mar
garet Young. She had been n
Washington area resident II
years.
Mrs. Sweet leaves her hus-
band, of the home address; two
sons, william L. Sweet II, of
10207 Green Forest drive, Silver
Spring. and James Y. Sweet, of
6208 Wedgewood road, Bethes-
da; two sisters, Mrs. Harold
Eaton, of Ridge Manor. Fla,
and Mrs. Bernard Meeker, of
Albuquerque. N. Mex, and four
grandchildren.
Services and burial will take
place tomorrow in Providence.
Evening star., 1960-09-02
John WeIbourn,
SO, Retired
Missionary

LEESBURG, VA, Sept. 2
(SpeciaD The Rev. John Ar
instead Welbourn, IS, a retired
Espiscopal missionary, died
Wednesday night at Loudoun
County Hospital. He had been
in poor health for some time.
Born in Baltimore, he was
the son of the late John E. and
Lucy Armistead Welbourn. He
was educated at Johns Hopkins
University. and was graduated
from Virginia Theological Sem
mary in Alexandria in 1899.
Mr.. Welbourn was a member
of the Loudoun County Mini
sterial Association and St
James EspiScopal Church in
Leesburg.
He leaves his wife, Margaret
Fishburne Welbourn, a daugh-
ter, Mrs. Alfred B. Seccombe OF
Webster Grove, Mo, a son, John
Armistead Welbourn. jr., of
West Palm Beach, Fla. a bro
ther, Hambleton Welbourn oi
Catonsville. Md, and nj n e
grandchildren.
Services will be held tomor-
row at st. James Episcopal
Church. with burial in Lees
burg Union Cemetery. The
family reqVests that no flowers
be sent.
Evening star., 1960-09-02
DR.. Timothy Murphy, "a,
In Census Bureau 46 Years

DR.. Timothy F. Murphy, "a
a former chief statistician with
the Bureau of the Census, died
Monday at the Resmor Sani-
tarium, Bethesda, of a heart
attack.
During his 46 years of service
with the Census Bureau, DR.
Murphy rose to become chief
statistician, first of the Vita
statistics division and then the
division Of information, publ
cations and records. He super
vised the microfilming of the
bureaus vital statistics records
DR.. Murphy also served as an
expert member of the Interna-
tional Commission for the Re
vision of List of Causes OF
Death, in Paris in 1880 and
1881. and as a member of the
National Conference on No
menclature of Disease.
A native of Lewiston. Me, he
was graduated in 1893 from
Bowdoin College, where he was
a member of the football and
track teams. He also coached
football there while attending
Maine Medical School. He re-
ceived his medical degree from
Evening star., 1960-09-02
Angel Ramos, So,
PubIisher-Owner
OF Ell Mundo

HARRISON. N. Y, Sept. 2
(AP).-Angel Ramos, So, pub
Usher of the influential Ell
Mundo newspaper of Puerto
Rico, died last night of a heart
attack at his summer home
here.
Mr.. Ramos, a native of Ma
natl, Puerto Rico, started on
the newspaper he later was to
own as boy doing menial jobs.
He later rose to be business
manager and, with a partner,
bought the paper in 1945. The
partner later retired and Mr..
Ramos became sole owner.
He also owned a television
station, Telemundo, and a radio
station. WKAQ, both in San
Juan.
Mr.. Ramos was a co-founder
of the Inter American Press
Association and long had been
interested in journalism in the
western hemisphere. For the
past two years he had been
working to combine all his
business enterprises in an $18-
million Office building in San
Juan. The building has just
been started.
Evening star., 1960-09-02

George Washington University
practiced privately for a year,
then Joined the Bureau Of the
Census in 1901.
DR.. Murphy was a member OF
the District Medical Society
a fellow of the American Col
lege of Surgeons and a former
member of the National Safety
Council. He also was a member
of the American Statistical
Association, the University Club
and Zeta Psi fraternity.
In 1910 he married the
former Julia Randall, of Wash
ington, who died in 1914. He
formerly lived at 1878 Colum-
bia road, NV.
DIR. Murphy leaves a son,
Elliot, who is with the Inter-
national Cooperation Admins
tration in San Jose. Costa Rica.
He also leaves five grand
daughters.
The Rosary will be recited to-
day at 8 pm. at the Shrine
of the Sacred Heart, Sixteenth
street and Park road NV,
where a mass will be said to-
morY " at 9 am. Burial will be
in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Evening star., 1960-09-02
Miss Ellen 6. Metzeer, 81,
Retired Loudoun Teacher

Leesburg High School where
she taught Latin and mathe-
matics. Prior to this she taught
~ years in other parts of the
country. mostly at Texas High
School in Paris, Tex. She also
taught three years in Tennes-
see and a term in Roanoke, Va.
She retired in 1880.
Miss .Metzger was a former
member of the Leesburg Garden
Club. and a member of Lees
burg Presbyterian Church.
She leaves a niece, Miss
Mary Metzger of Leesburg, and
a nephew, w. Baylor Metzger
Of Waterford, Va.
Funearl services will be held
at 2 pm. tEST) tomorrow at
the Leesbufg Presbyterian
Church with burial in Leesburg
Union Cemetery.
Evening star., 1960-09-02
William Oates, SO, Music
Tutor, ought Meyer Davis

Mr.. Oates played with his
own orchestras at local social
and organization functions for
many years. He also played
frequently for the blind and
handicapped in the area.
A past president of the CO.
lumbia Heights Citizens Asso-
citation, he was also an associate
member of the Friday Morning
Music Club.
Mr.. Oates wife, Rebecca, died
in 1851. They had been married
so years. He leaves four neices
and a nephew
Services will be at the Hines
Funeral Home, 2901 Fourteenth
street NV, tomorrow at $50
am, followed by a mass at the
Shrine of the Sacred Heart,
Sixteenth street and Park road
NV, at 10 am. Burial will be
in Columbia Gardens Cemetery,
Arlington.
Evening star., 1960-09-02
Obituaries
Anurtltttu

pFcKELBAUM. ANNIE. There viii b,
memory OF ANNIE DECKELBAuN
on sunday, September 4, 1860. ai
i2 noon, at the Beth Sholom Gene
Very. Friends and relatives invited
-ROBERT AND SAM DEcKELBAgM
HOExTER. NATALIE. There viii b.
an unveiling OF 2 monument to "
w. II the St 1t: tSus hATAsat TAosItsT aosd sd
mother OF David and Marilyn Hoex-
Ter, on Sunday. September T., 1850
Hebrew Cemetery, Sgd and M SITS
.s.e. Relatives and friends invited.
fCars leaving $3.50 Chillum place
ne. at 1915 pm. =
MoDER, IDA. There will be an un-
yelling OF monument 70 the mem
ory Of IDA MoDER. beloved wife
o. Isidore Moder and mother Soi
I5n RfI5nepS epS.yta add M.morisl sSn cs%stsrs. Fails
Church, Va, on Sunday, septemher
and friends are invited.
THE MoDER FAMILY. 4
PARSONS, HARRY. There win be an
unveilinR. Of q memorial In memory
81 the beloved husband ot RntIn IiIE
PsT:SRs .SS asy0tsS devoted tsnsG som of % Mrs
isaac Parons Of Miami. Fla. on
Sunday. september {, 1850, ct
mortal Garden, Falls, Church. Va.
Relatives and friends inytted: n
Evening star., 1960-09-02
Col. Charles DenhoIm, ~;
Retired Dental Surgeon

Col. Charles j. Denholm. 72,
q retired Army dental surgeon,
died yesterday at Walter Reed
Army Hospital where he had
been confined for two months
with a heart ailment. He lived
at 2480 Sixteenth street NV.
A native Of Petrolia. Pa. he
graduated from high school
there and received his doc
torate in dental surgery from
the University Of Pittsburgh.
Col. Denholm began his 30
year Army career when the
United States entered World
War 1 in 1917. He served in
France and Germany until
1921.
After his return to this coun-
try, he served in a succession
Of posts, including two tours
at the Army War College here.
During World War II, Col.
Denholm was dental surgeon
at Camp Forrest. Tenn, and
at Camp Van Dorm. Miss.
Later he was assistant dental
surgeon of the Army Service
Forces Regional Hospital at
Fort Mcclellan, Ala.
Since Col. .Denholm's retire.
ment in 1947 the family has
maintained homes here and in
Florida.
Besides his wife, Edna, Of the
home address, he leaves a son,
Col. Charles Joseph Denholm,
Evening star., 1960-09-02

William j. Oates, 88. a Wash
ington music teacher for 81
years. died yesterday at the Ayr
Hill Nursing Home, Vienna, Va.
He had been in failing health
for two years.
Mr.. Oates, who taught piano,
violin and cello. formerly lived
at 1415 Monroe street NV.
His former pupils include
Meyer Davis, the society dance
band leader. Mr.. Davis never
forgot the man who first taught
him music. When in town. he
often called his former teacher
to let him know how things
were going, according to men,
bers of Mr.. Oates family.
A native of Baltimore, Mr.
Oates received his music train
ing at the Baltimore School for
the Blind. He suffered from
defective eyesight.
When he was IL, he sang for
President Grover Cleveland al
the White House.
Evening star., 1960-09-02

LEESBURG, Va, Sept. /
(SpeciaD Miss Ellen G. Metz
ger, 90, retired Loudoun County
school teacher, died yesterday
at her home in Lesburg Of
pneumonia.
Born in Leesburg, she was the
last member OF the family of
the late George Thomas and
Maria Hall Metzger. Her sister.
Miss Maria Hall Metzger, died
10 days ago.
Miss MetZger was educated at
Peace College, Raleigh, N. c.,
and did graduate work at the
University of Virginia and Co.
lumbia University in New York.
She taught school in Loudoun
County for 25 years, five of
these at a one-room school
near Leesburg and 20 years at
Evening star., 1960-09-02
Mario Rive, 4o,
Italian Comedion

VERONA. Italy. Sept. 2 (AP)
Mario Riva, 40, roly poly
comedian who was master of
ceremonies of Italy's most pop
ular television show, died last
night. He fell on a flight OF
stairs leading off a theater
stage IL days ago.
Mr.. Riva was a favorite OF
millions of Italians and the
daily worsening of his condition
dominated newspaper front
pages since the accident
A former vaudeville ho0fer
Mr.. Riva became master OF
ceremonies of III Musichiere,' ?
a musical quiz show on the
Italian state radio network. He
broke several ribs in his fall
Later the internal injuries be-
came infected and he devel-
oped pneumonia.
Evening star., 1960-09-02
Mrs. Appleton Lawrence, II
Singer and Navy EmpIoye

she continued to work for the
Navy in the clerical informa-
ton office Of the Navy Bureau
of Supplies and Accounts
Mrs. Lawrence lived at 1914
Meadow lane. Chevy Chase
She retired in 1949.
Mrs. Lawrence leaves her
husband of the home address;
a daughter, Mrs. E. Roy Berg
holz of Yorktown Village, Md.
a sister, Mrs. william John
Leitch of Huntingtown. Md; a
brother, Francis v. Cotton, of
1920 Chevy Chase drive, Chevy
Chase, Md, and two grandchil-
dren.
Friends may call at the Rob-
ert A. Pumphrey Funeral Home,
1857 Wisconsin avenue. Be-
thesda. Funeral services will
be held at 2 pm. tomorrow in
All Saints Church, Sunderland,
Calvert County. Md.
Evening star., 1960-09-02

Mrs. Appleton Lawrence. II,
at one time a professional
singer, and an employe Of the
Navy for 80 years, died Wednes-
day of a cerebral hemorrhage
in Suburban Hospital.
Mrs. Lawrence, the former
Marjorie Helen Cotton, was
born in Baltimore in 1889. She
studied music at the Peabody
Institute there and was a pro-
fessional singer before World
War I. Under her professional
name, Marjorie Helen Bowie,
she sang at the Cafe Republic
in Washington at the site now
occupied by the Washington
Hotel. She also sang in New
York with the John Philip Sousa
Band. .
Mrs. Lawrence enlisted in the
Navy as yoemanette first
class in 1917. After the war,
Evening star., 1960-09-02
Dr.. Townsend , q, Dies;
Crusader for Pensions

LOS ANGELES. Sept. 2 (AP)
DIR. Francis E. Townsend,
pioneer pension promoter for
older citizens. is dead at 90.
The tireless leader Of old
age clubs which once claimed
80 million members succumbed
last night in st. vincent's Hos
pital. Doctors said death was
caused by pneumonia and COM
plications due to his advanced
age.
Only last month the spright-
ly physician left his organiza-
tion's Washington Cd. CO.
headquarters for another tour
of Townsend clubs, still cam
paigning for a Federal pro-
gram which he said would pro-
vide dignifled and adequate
security for the elderly.
This was the battle he waged
INCREASINGLY for nearly three
decades. And to the end he
believed that, sooner or later,
Congress would heed his plea.
Principles Unchanged
Over the years his plan took
various forms. but basically its
principles remained unchanged.
Most recently he advocated a
to 2 per cent tax on gross
personal incomes. OF his pro-
gram in general he said:
'It's the same one we've had
in Congress for the past 20
years without being able to get
it out of the Ways and Means
Committee"
When the pension group was
organized in 1898 DR.. Townsend
advocated a 2 per cent tax on
all business transactions to
finance 5000 monthly pensions
for each person who retired at
so. At various times he
changed the total amount
sought and the means of pro-
ducing it.
A key point Of the plan re-
quired the pension recipient to
spend the 5000 within the
month.
His political encounters fre-
quently were stormy. In 1887
he was sentenced to 80 days in
Jail for contempt because he re-
fused to answer question asked
by a congressional inestigating
committee. President Franklin
D. Roosevelt granted him what
Evening star., 1960-09-02
Dovid GottIieb. 80.
Officer With u. S.
Foreign Service

=
. David r. Gottlieb, 80, q
Foreign Service officer. died
last night in Bethesda Naval
Hospital after a brief illness.
Mr.. Gottlieb last served as
vice counsel to the Federation
of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. He
previously held the posts of
second secretary and vice coun-
sci in Ethiopia.
A native of New York, Mr..
Gottlieb was graduated magma
cum laude with a bachelor OF
arts degree in international re-
lations from Yale. In 1851 he
earned his masters degree in
political science at Princeton.
He was a member of Phi Beta
Kappa.
Mr.. Gottlieb's first post at
the State Department was in
telligence research analyst in
the branch covering the Near
East, Southern Asia and Africa,
He remained there until 1855
when he assumed the Ethiopian
post.
While working in Washing
ton, Mr.. Gottlieb took up
studies in Near Eastern and
diplomatic history at George
Washington University. He also
had attended the School of
Advanced International Studies
at Johns Hopkins University.
He leaves his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Israel D. Gottlieb, of
New York City; sister. Mrs.
lamar Aiello. Of New York, and
a brother, DR.. Fred Gottlieb, of
Brookline, Mass.
Burial will be held in New
York.
Evening star., 1960-09-02
Mike Robinson,
120 Years Old

PETERSBURG, Va, Sept. 2
(AP) Mike Robinson, a Negro
believed to have been 120 years
old. died Wednesday in the
Petersburg city home.
He was born in Dinwiddie
County but had lived in Peters,
burg more than SO years. He
had been in the city home the
last five or six years and was
able to move about his room
and sit up in a chair until
about three weeks ago.