The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-01-05

More meat but at higher prices
was served up on the national
platter in 1850. The experts cal
culate the same trends for 1861.
They reason that consumer in
comes are on the rise. If shortages
of durable goods increase, even a
larger proportion of the expand
ing income will go into competi-
ton for meat, thus forcing prices
higher. And though greater meat
supplies appear to be in the off
ing, military needs may reduce
the civilian supply below the lev
ell available this year, already
squeezed by population increase
of some 100000 in the last 10
years.
Close to 100000 has been
brought into Pasquotank county
from the sale of fall cabbage,
county agent Swindell Lowery es-
Inmates. A total of 1850 tons
of Pasquotank cabbage has been
sold this fall. At an average of
$40 ton, that would be $702,-
400, and Lowery believes the av-
erage price was somewhere be-
tween $35 and $40 per ton.
Colonel Harold E. Watson, head
of the Air Forces project Sau-
Ger" unit, says there are positiv-
ely no flying saucers, either our
own or hostile-but it costs tax
payers plenty to expose this great
American hoax. Writing in the
January issue of Cosmopolitan
Magazine, reporter Bob Considine
quotes Watson as saying, II wish
we did have a form Of propulsion
capable of doing all the things
people attribute to saucers. It
would have come in handy in Ko-
rea."
According to Considine, the Air
Force blames most of the daily
saucer reports on weather bal
looms, flares, meteorites, halluci-
nations, pilot fatigue, power of
suggestion, and the reflection of
objects in aircraft windows ard
windshields.
Approximately $50 Army Re-
serve officers in North Carolina
can expect a call to duty soon.
A Third Army spokesman in At
lanta said last weekend that the
NC. Military District will be ask
ed to nominate 1872 Re.servists for
duty. This figure is more than
will actually be called to duty as
some will be deferred from SER
vice. The Reservists called will all
be captains and lieutenants and
will be ordered to active duty for
81 months. They win have 80 days
to report unless they volunteer to
report sooner.
Rep. John E. Rankin, D., Miss,
will seek action on legislation to
give Korean War veterans all The
beneficits of the CT "Bill of
Rights" except unemployment in
surance. Rankin's bill would al
low all men who saw at least 80
days service since June 81, 1850,
the day American forces were
committed in Korea, up to four
years of free schooling and gov
ernment-backed loans on homes,
farms and businesses.
A House architect bowed to
history-and an onslaught by vet
eran Tar Heel Representative
Robert L. Doughton-and agreed
to restore North Carolina to its
rightful place in the original IS
states, so far as those new decor
atoms in the House chamber are
concerned. When Farmer Bob"
returned, to Washington from
Sparta, N. c., last Wednesday, he
heard that the architects some
how had put up IL stars instead
of 10 in a mantle back of the
speakers chair. (These stars, it
was said, represented the II
states that had ratified the Con-
stitution at the time George
Washington was sworn in as first
President on April 80, 1889, and
North Carolina and Rhode Island
therefore, were not included
Doughton finally got David Lynn,
architect of the Capitol, on the
telephone. He let it be known in
terse, Doughtonian language that
this. slight to the fair name Of
North Carolina did not sit vel
with him or with the people back
home. He cited a few facts of ele-
mentary history about the i
stripes in the American flag, anC
the 10 stars and 10 stripes and Il
arrows in the Great Seal of thu
U.S.-all symbolic of the 10 orig
inal states, including North Car
| olina LYNN made some explana.