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From: The Virginian Pilot
Date: 20050507
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Byline: SHIRLEY MOZINGO

It was the year that Teflon, Xerox photocopy and the ballpoint pen were invented. The cost of a first-class stamp was three cents, "The Life of Emile Zola" won an Academy Award for Best Picture and Orson Welles broadcast "War of the Worlds," inciting nationwide panic as Americans fled from imaginary aliens.

It was 1938 and Hatteras, N.C., was spared from a category-three hurricane that roared from the West Indies past the island and into New England carrying wind gusts up to 186 miles per hour.

Island resident Stockton Midgett Sr. and his two ...

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