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paying job so that the children's
security would be assured.
Mr.. Stick inquired how the De-
Febios' present home in the Paul
CAMEL Coast Guard Station. near
Duck. faiiel to meet that stand
ard, except for the fact that it is
not in community. County At
torney Martin Kellogg interjected
the remark that Mr.. Stick. being
an intelligent man, knew very
well' in what resrect it was mad
eQuate. To which Mr.. Stick re-
piled, Il do not. l just can't under
stand it,
The DeFebios wished to be re-
stored their children at once. Mrs.
DeFebio said that she would give
the names of five persons in Wash
ington, D. c., who would vouch for
their providing a proper home for
their children. if the judge would
telephone the parties at once. The
judge refused. saying that he
would write to them. if they de-
sired; though he held that the
proper home must be established
before the parents could expect
the return of their children.
There was considerable acri-
mony in succeeding remarks ex-
changed between persons on both
sides of the matter. Presently,
Judge Meekins declared the meet
ing to be at an end. Before he did
so, his decision was commented
upon by all concerned in terms
less productive of light than heat.
ShOw-C Cause Hearing )
The judge opened proceedings
on the case, remanded to his court
by Superior Court Judge Stevens,
by declaring its purpose to be. to
give the DeFebios an opportunity
to show cause why the judgment
assigning the children as wards Of
the state should not be upheld.
New testimony was presented
by David Stick. He said he had
, not attended the first hearing be-
cause he did not know it was be-
ing held. Much of the testimony
given at that time, as he had seen
1t reported in the press, was d.
rectly contrary to his own Obser-
walton, he declared. It was not
true. for instance. that Mr.. DeFebiO
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OTHER EDITORS
WE ARE AN OCCUPIED
COUNTRY
IN. Y. Christian Journal)

Our big government is liberal in
spending money on propaganda in
favor of itself. Something over So
million a week is a modest esti-
mate of the cost of publicity men,
printing and mailing of handouts
and holding Of propaganda meet
ings. At least eighteen pages of
The New York Times would be
required each day to print ma
terial received from Federal agen-
cies.
Public meetings are held in va
rious parts of the country to which
marketing administration officials.
agriculture personnel and other
Federal bureaucrats are invited.
Eight dollars per day for living
expenses, plus 5 cents a mile for
travel is allowed to thousands of
bureaucrats who are assembled in
these propaganda conclaves.
For the last five years, an an
nual meeting has been held under
the joint sponsorship of the De-
partment Of Justice and the Ma
tional Education Association. Elab-
orately printed brochures for free
distribution announce this and 9TH
err similar conferences"
These assemblies are used to
promote state medicine, Federal
aid to education, farm subsidies
and other socializing programs of
the Federal government. Many of
our citizens vigorously opposed to
these measures are nevertheless
compelled to finance propaganda in
favor of them.
We have been occupied by field
army of more than two million
Federal employees strategically
deployed throughout the AZ states.
This formidable force, equal to 140
divisions has been CHARTERED among
US to socialize our country over the
protests of millions of people who
resent these costly bureaucrats
and the socialism which they seek
to fasten upon US.
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swered.
Judge Meelins then asked Mr..
Stick if he would swear to the
truth of his testimony, which bad
been given informally. Mr.. Stick
swore that all he had said was the
truth, and offered to repeat the
testimony under oath to avoid
what he called "technicalities
such as have appeared in this
case"
The children, who were in Man.
teo for the day, were not brought
to the hearing ON last Friday. Aft
er it was over, they were returned
TO boarding home in Perquimans
County, where they have been
since the latter part of May.
After the hearing, Mrs. DeFebio
said it was her intention to return
to Washington. Her husband said
he would go to the. Paul CAMEL
Coast Guard Station.
Phone Call Tuesday
On Tuesday afternoon C. S.
Meekins received call at his of
fice in the courthouse from a Wash
lngton, d. G., lawyer representing
the DeFebios. The lawyer wanted
to know what would be required
by Judge Meekins if the DeFebios
wished to return to Washington
with their children. The Judge told
the attorney that as soon as the
District of Columbia welfare de-
partment certified to the Dare We'll
fare department that the. DeFebios
had established a satisfactory
home, the children would be sent
to them.
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EASY COME, EASY GO
IN. Y. World Telegram)

The United Nations could well
be proud of its huge building in
New York, put up largely at the
expense of the American taxpayer.
But apparently it isn't suitable
for all the interesting meetings and
high-flown sessions the UN under
takes. At any rate, the Economic
and Social Council has just voted
itself another splendid seven
weeks trip, this time to Geneva,
Switzerland.
This busy little council, which
only a couple of months ago few
$50 people to Santiago, Chile, for
months meeting, dearly loves to
travel. And New York's weather
can be trying both in summer and
winter. But in our winter time it's
warm in Chile and in summer of
course it's cool in Switzerland.
When a question of where to
hold the next picnic came up, the
Philippines delegate proposed that
the meeting be in New York-to
save money, the man said. How
quaint! 1t was rejected, naturally,
by 10-to-4 vote.
Altogether, the United States
Is Cue to contribute S12O,000,OOO to
the UN this year-on top of the
nearly half billion we've Clipped in
since it started in 1916. Have fun,
kids.
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POUNDS AND SENSE.

SAT- WATER SPORTSMAN published
Twenty-Five billion pounds of food cannot be ignored
world that is constantly seeking supplies to feed
hungry millions. Sport fishermen rarely consider fish from
the commercial vIewpo1nt-that is in pounds which
sold at definite subut they would do well to consider
that figure of 22,OOOOO0OOO
Dr. R. V. Truitt director of the Chesapeake Biological
Laboratory Department of Research Education Solo
mons MARYLAND mentioned that Startling total as the
of food taken each year the waters of the
woodland he did not include any minor species Pound
for pound" he remarked at seminar held for biologists
at the laboratory this would equal the weight of $780,
100000 brong size chickens ~..xsFthe equivalent of
herd of steers some 100000 in number"
United States and Alaska produce about 4400OO 900
pounds of that total This means that fish and shelsh
coming in at the amazing rate of about 40 pounds
borders That represents lot of fish, lot of money and
lot of work The work is done almost exclusively by the
For years have emphasized the fact that commercial
fishermen not all devils with horns They are for the
most part decent people making their living from the
They supplying food to millions and will continue to
supply this food to the best of their ability Sportsmen who
condemn all commercial fishing and fishermen would do well
remember that 100000 pounds of food cannot
be shrugged off as though it We're nothing
There is little question that of the commercial
fishermen have been foolish about conservation of the
natural of the There is little doubt either
that some sport fishermen 50 called have been equally
with the commercial men, they have raved and ranted
without reason facts their SIDE Half truths down
right msstaterens of fact and historical reporting have
done much to widen the breach between the commercial and
sport groups
We do say and have said that the commercial
fishermen always right Frequently they wrong
In every however these have been sincere in
their beliefs Reasonable discussion often the
beliefs and reasonable discussion often will show the sports
that they themselves they think
Before any sportsmens group starts sounding off against
the commercial groups you will do both sportsmen and
fisheries general favor if you remind them that 40
second Of the day the year around in country
alone That big and important business which the country
know full well but both businesses should work towards
the common goa-better fishing. e
who gives his children habits Of industry provides
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MANTEo PERSONALS

Mr.. and Mrs. F. C. Husband an
nounce the birth of q son, weigh
ing six pounds, two ounces, at FIVE
O'Clock w e esday afternoon,
July II, at Dr. Wright's Hospital
in harrisburg.
Word has reached Manteo of the
birth of son to Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Hostvedt of Philadelphia,
Pa. The baby was born in Temple
University Hospital Philadelphia,
on June 20, and is named Donald
Left. The baby is the grandson
of Mr.. and Mrs. L. E. Hostvedt of
Manteo.
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THREE MORE DARE YOUTHS
ENLIST IN COAST GUARD

Dare county has long been known
as the Coast Guards best recruit
ing ground. The Dare Selective
Board this week released the
names of the three newest Dare
county Coast Guardsmen. All en-
listed at Norfolk within the last
few weeks for regular three-year
bitches of service. They are: Lind
say Carol Midget, 10, of Manteo,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Dan C. Mid
gett; Marvin Lee Midget, Jr., 10,
of Kitty Hawk; Fulton Whidbee,
l8, of Manteo, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles H. Whidbee.
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MANTEO
Continued from Page One)

! A brother, the late U. w. Tark-
! ington, founded grocery business
in Belhaven which is still thriv-
ing.
A member of the Baptist Church
all his life, he has belonged to the
Manteo Baptist congregation since
the year before its church was
built, when the Baptists held
their meetings in the courthouse.
When young Tark came TO Man
teo to work, he came by water.
Everyone did in those days. long
before the Roanoke Sound bridge
was built. In 1898 Manteo num-
bered about ESQ persons, and Mr..
+ Harrington remembers that it was
settled down near the waterfront
naturally, for the wharf was
then the towns only highway to
the outside world. You could
throw stone from the wharf and
i hit the houses on the edge CT
town." he declares. But, small
Though the town was, it was &
/ trading center; and his employers,
, Griffin & Smith, had plenty of
local competition. Other merchants
that he recalls are Evans &
Forbes Grocery, John W. Evans
j (dry goods and grocery, Griffin
| & Samples Co. general merchan-
dise), Evans e Mann general
lstore) and Gallops General Store.
lark" worked for Griffin and
Smith for one year. and then for
r. E. Evans and Evans & Meekina
: (the firms later name) for seven
years. In 1903, he opened a drug
store with Dr. Fearing and ran it
for a year and half. After that
the newly formed general store en-,
terprise of Baum & Harrington
came into being. The partners
built two-story brick building
on the site now occupied by the
Manteo Cleaners. Long after they
closed up shop, the building was
destroyed in the great waterfront
fire of a decade ago. For II years,
beginning in 1902. Mr.. Harrington
was the agent for the Standard
Oil Co. here.
| Tarkington's Grocery has been
giving service to the people of
Manteo at its present location for
3S years. Mr.. Harrington opened
the store under that name in 1913.
Just a few days over 80 years
ago. on June 2S, 1921, L. d. Tark-
ington and the former Miss Clara
White of Belhaven were married.
The pair built up their markedly
successful grocery business over
the years by working long hours
to give their customers the best
possible goods and service. For
years they ran the store without
so much as part-time clerk to
help them. The short, but not easy,
formula which explains their bust
ness success is work, service and
more hard work.
/ The Tarkingtons have one child,
william White Harrington, who
twas born and reared in Manteo
land now assists in the operation
lof the store. besides running a
Isuccessful tourist court on the
Mays Head beach.
| What Stores Then Sold
The phrase general merchan.
disc" was a good deal broader in
| the nineties and the first years of
this century than it is now. Merch-
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PHONY LANGUAGE.
(Laurinburg Exchanged

When business economists talk about profit gross
sales of per cent ten per cent any other figure
they using phony language and it doesn't
thing unless other factors such invested capital operating
COSTS inventories, and depreciation brought into the
picture gross sales profit of ten per cent might be too
little too much depending entirely what it costs to
do business Or in some businesses gross profit of twenty
per cent thirty per cent might not be enough.
What part of the sales dollar is profit is of interest
the public only relates to cost of goods And to the
and operators of business it has value except
it relates to net profits Actual profits Actual profits
the returns that the of business get from their
investment and their work regardless of the rate of profit
that counts
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-07-13
CPL. WILLIAM BELL
HOME FROM KOREA

Corporal William C. Bell of Pun
go was one of the Sc Tarheels who
arrived in Seattle port of debarka-
ton last Friday aboard the Navy
transport Marine Lynx. The ship
carried 2,439 troops brought home
from the fighting in Korea under
the Armed Forces rotation plan.
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ants IN the years around 1900 were
expected to stock everything their
customers needed; anything re-
quired in hurry had to be "in the
store" or there was no chance of
getting it for long time The
Harrington store sold dry goods,
shoes, hardware, crockery, fishing
supplies, anchors and chains, all
sorts of building supple Sin
short, everything island living
created a demand for Nothing
was packaged or canned; every
thing sold had to be weighed and
wrapped.
Land transportation was afford
ed in various ways: on foot, on
horseback, by horse and buggy or
steer cart. Horses and steers
doubled as pillow animals, too; for,
as Tark remembers, there was a
lot of farming here in the days
before the automobile. In fact, he
says, there was as much cleared
land then as now; many of the
fields titled then are, in fact, now
,overgrown.
The automobile and Roanoke
Sound bridge put a stop to farm
ing here, he says. LAS soon as the
automobile came along and people
could drive off the island, farming
stopped" The extensive hog-raising
that used to be an important part
of the islands economy also ended.
If the auto ended farming, Mr..
Harrington is at least partly to
blame: for he and w. F. Baum
brought the second car to the is
land, Ford touring car, about
1912. The first, also Ford, was
owned by Lennon Daniels of Wan
cheese.
60 Years of Growth
THE progress of business in
Manteo has been that of gradual
but steady growth for the last 60
years." Mr.. Harrington declares.
The period of the most rapid
growth has been in the last is
years, or since The Lost Colony
drama was established here. The
great days of the county's fishing,
which he places between 1895 and
1885, are past; but the develop
ment of the county's historical
shrines as tourist Meccas and the
opening up of Mays Head beach
by the building of Currituck Sound
bridge have more than Offset the
decline of the fishing industry as
a source of wealth to the county,
in his opinion.
Much of the progress of Manteo
itself came about during the ad-
ministrations of Mayor L. d. Tark-
ington. Great improvements in
public utilities and fire fighting
equipment came about in that
time. The water works, the sewer
system and the fire department
building were all achievements of
his administration.
A Touch of Sadness
Mr.. Harrington confesses to a
certain feeling of loneliness nova
days because almost all of the peo-
pie with whom he was engaged in
business and with whom he dealt
as an official and businessman are
gone from the scene. He finds it
not easy to stop being interested
in the welfare of the community
to which he has given a lifetime
of service and hard work; it is
disturbing to think of community
affairs when those with whom he
has labored are gone, and the
young men of the community are
all comparative strangers with lit
tie interest in the way such prob
lens have been dealt with sue
CcccfI,1l1, in THO poct
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ENCELHARD PERSONALS

Mrs. Calvin Watson, Mrs. Mad
galine Marshall. Misses Camille
Clerk and June Long of BCC
Greenville spent the weekend at
their respective homes.
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Municipal office employees in
Roanoke Rapids went on -five-day
week on an experimental basis
Monday. The County Board of
Commissioners okayed a request
for the experiment from the city
clerk at its July meeting.
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had not tried to get work; De-
Febio had applied to him for
work, and for leads for other jobs !;
in one case, he said, he had ac-
companied DeFebio to apply for q
job, which was refused him. Stick
said he disagreed with testimony
which had indicated the children
were improperly clothed and fed.
ION no occasion that / can re.
member" he said, "have the chill
dren seemed to be inadequately
clothed" He added that he and his
wife had probably seen tho De-
Febios on more occasions than
most other persons who had been
witnesses in the case.
The DeFebio home had all the
basic necessities, Stick said; and
in some respects somewhat more
than mere necessities. They kept
ample supplies of good food at
their home, he asserted.
Mrs. Stick and he had discussed
the problem of the childrens at.
tending school with the DeFebios.
They had completely disagreed
with them in their attitude. Yet,
Stick declared, Mr.. DeFebio had
paid his debt to the state for fail
ure to send his children to school
by submitting to the sentence pro-
nounced upon his being found
guilty of that charge: thus it
ought to have no bearing On the
case being heard by Judge Meek.
ms.
Brief Investigation
Mr.. Stick said it was his under
standing. confirmed by Mrs. Meek
ms in discussion with him at an.
other time, that the Welfare De-
partment's total investigation OF
the DeFebios' home LIE had been
a one-half hour interview conduct.
ed by Mrs. Meekins at the Coast
Guard house. Such brief inter
view, Stick said, Cannot possibly
be the grounds for taking the
children away from their parents
for their lifetime
Mrs. MeeKlns said DeFebio had
refused to discuss the matter with
her on a second visit.
Mr.. DeFebio said that they had
been handicapped at the Or or
hearing by not having the chi.
dren present to say whether they
were or were not underfed and
poorly clothed. He thought the
conduct of the children ought 10
determine the courts Judgment
because Reflections of the parents
show in the children"
Mrs. DeFebio declined to testify
Questions
Mr.. Kellogg asked that. Mrs.
Meekins be sworn for. the purpose
of answering questions. "Have
you made any arrangements for
the care of the children?" he
asked her.
Il have" the Welfare Dept. head
replied. "The state of North Caro-,
lima is responsible for the chill.
dren. None of the cost of their
care is to be borne by Dare coun.
tyr
Mr.. Kellogg then asked whether
in her opinion, Mrs. Meekins felt
that there had been anything since
May %, the date of the judgment
to justify altering the judgment
now. mo-" Mrs. Meekins an
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A portrait of Brig. General Sam
uel T. Ansell was presented to the
Currituck County Commissioners
last week by James A. Taylor of
Maple. The portrait of the Curri-
tuck native who has distinguished
himself in the United States Army
and as lawyer now hangs on the
walls of the Currituck courthouse
along with that of Governor Thorn
as Jarvis.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-07-13

Nearly 800 migrant Negro farm
workers, most of whom are from
Florida, are now in Pamlico coun-
ty helping with the Irish potato
harvest.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-07-13

The first mine sweeper to visit
New Bern since World War II is
now undergoing general overhaul
ing and repairs at the Barbour
Boat Works there. The USS Cour-
Ian, mine sweeper No. A, is ex-
pected to be in the port for the
next 10 or<12 weeks. 1t represents
the first official government con-
tract awarded the New Bern ship
yards since the outbreak of the
Korean war.
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The number of telephones in use
in the Beaufort Morehead City
New Bern area has doubled since
1915, it is reported.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-07-13

The Pamlico- Beaufort Electric
Membership Corporation is now
completing a new 1000 volt sub
station which will more than
double its practical storage capa-
city. The corporation serves Pam
leo and parts of Beaufort and
Craven counties.
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citation has announced denial of a
request to pay 10 per cent of the
proceeds from the Cherokee Indian
drama, "Unto These Hills" for d.
rect Indian relief.
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The week-long Tooth birthday
celebration of High Point will be
climaxed on Friday with a speech
by 1t. Gen. Robert M. Eichelberg-
err.
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who gives his children habits industry provides
for them better than by giving them fortune Whatey
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For the last five years between
85 and 80 per cent of school bus
drivers in North Carolina have
been teen-agers. And, in the opin-
ion of school authorities, teen-agers
are better bus drivers than adults,
for the youths have set a better
safety record than adult drivers,
according to C. c. Brown, director
Of school bus transportation for
the Dept. of Public Instruction.
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The Cherokee Historical Asso-
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Figures just compiled and re-
leased by the Department of Motor
Vehicles show that IS persons were
killed and 1877 persons were in
jured in highway accidents during
May. Fatalities for that month
were the second highest for the
year. The highest death toll was
in January when 81 persons were
killed.
The total number of highway ia
talities recorded for the first five
months of 1851 is 3S4 and may be
expected to pass 1000 if the pres
ent trend continues.
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Dry weather conditions a few
weeks ago delayed harvesting of
the states cantaloup crop for a
time, but the crop is in good con-
dition; and marketing of cantaloups
is expected to be at its peak by Sat-
urday of this week.