The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-09

Rep. Burl Hardison of Craven
introduced a bill in the General
Assembly last week which would
legalize slot machines FUSED for
amusement purposes only" The
bill would place a license tax of
500 on operators of such coin
operated machines and a tax of
$40 on each machine. The legis-
lator estimated this would raise
$250,000 year for the state. Rep.
Harrison wishes to legalize the
hundreds of pin ball machines now
in operation in the state, though
they are banned by law.
The television industry is re-
ported to be in the paradoxical
position of having an oversupply
of sets on hand while facing pro-
duction cutbacks and shortages
later this year. The showdown of
public buying follows couple of
booms-one a wave of scarce buy
ing last fall in anticipation of
shortages growing out of defense
demands and the other rush to
beat $3.50 tax on sets proposed
by the administration as part of
its tax program. The tax proposal,
by the way, still has not been act
ed on by Congress.
A Duke University expert has
come up with a "new twist" that
may sound familiar to many. In
stead of viewing newly arrived
junior through the glass window
of the hospital nursery, the proud
papa of tomorrow may get an ear
lier turn at changing diapers than
he gets now. The Duke pediatri-
clan, DIR. Angus Mcbride, advo-
Gates keeping the newborn infant
in the mothers hospital room ra-
Their than the nursery. He said
this has proved advantageous at
Duke Hospital "for infants, par
ents, grandparents, pediatricians
and hospital administrators"
The Virginia Electric and Pow
er Company's 1851 construction
budget of $42,563, 100 is the larg-
est in the history of the company,
according to Jack G. Holtzclaw,
Vepco president. Transmission
lines between the Chesterfield
power station and Suffolk and be-
tween Chesterfield and Postum
Point stations and Ahoskie and
Plymouth, account for 100000
Of the budget.
North Carolina State Colleges
famed basketball team and its
coach, Everett Case, is featured
in the March 10 issue of The Sat
urday Evening Post. Accompanied
by two illustrations, the article is
entitled Basketball Bug Bites
Dixie" The magazine went on
sale at the nations News stands
on Wednesday, March z. The
story, written by Sports Editor
Harry T. Paxton of The Post, will
trace N. C. States rise to national
fame on the cage courts. Attend
ance at the Wolfpack games dur
ing the 1949-50 season, Editor
Paxton explains in his article,
was the biggest in the United
States.
Repeal of the temporary rule
permitting the use of 200 pound
dredges by oyster-men with DOW
err driven boats was announced
last week by George R. Ross, Di-
rector of the Department of Con-
servation and Development. Mr..
Ross said that the Board had vot-
ed to return to the original rule
permitting power boats to use one
dredge in clustering not in excess
of 100 pounds, with each sail boat
permitted to have two such
dredges.
North Carolina families receiv-
ed $23, $4,000 in life insurance
death benefit payments during
1850, compared with $23, 238, 600
in the previous year and $13, 468,-
600 in 1941, the last pre-war year,
the Institute of Life Insurance re-
ports. "The death benefit pay
ments in this state last year were
made under 24,351 policies, COM
pared with 26,354 policies in the
previous year and 1880 policies
in 1941," the Institute reported
"Of the aggregate 1850 payments
in the state, SIS, 699, 900 was under
5,805 ordinary policies; $3,439, OOO
was under 1,949 group life insur-
ance policies; and $4,217, 900 was
under 1887 industrial insurance
policies.
The State Eugenics Board sci