The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-16

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pleaded guilty to manslaughter
and received sentence of from
IA to .1S years. Bowser shot and
killed William D. Bowser two
days before Christmas.
Elizabeth City State Teachers
College celebrated the 60th ami
versary of its founding on Sum
day. Pres. F. L. Atkins of Win
ston-Salem Teachers College de-
livered the main address.
North Carolina firms are get
ting a shart of the nations de-
tense contracts. The Federal Re-
serve Bank of Richmond says in
dustries in North and South Car
DINA, Virginia, West Virginia,
Maryland and the District of Co
lumbia received upwards of $1O8,-
100000 in defense contracts since
last summer. The lions share
went to textile mills.
A power pool to which the mu-
inequalities of Washington, Kin
ston, Farmville and Greenville
would contribute was under dis
cussion last week. Representatives
from each city agreed that such a
power pool would enable all the
four cities to furnish power cheap
er to it's users. No definite ac-
ton was taken by the group which
gathered to talk over the plan,
since it was convened to discuss
the problems involved and the
feasibility of such proposal.
The newest weapon in the fight
against cancer-a radioactive can
Ger bomb-will be installed in the
War Memorial Children's Hospital
in London, England, about June
1. Described as the worlds first,
the "bomb," a cobalt 60-beam
therapy unit, comes from Cana
da's Chalk River atomic energy
plant.
The last confederate veteran in
North Carolina died recently at
the age of 100, just few weeks
before the seth anniversary of
that day in April when Lee rode
to a farmhouse near Appomatox
to surrender to Grant. With this
last man, Samuel E. Bennett of
the mountain village of Relief, al
most the last human tie between
this time and that war disappears.
The War of the Sixties becomes
war in history like the War of
Roses or the siege of Troy and as
dramatic in the human story as
any of them.
A group of Georgia convicts de-
signed and built a million-dollar
home, one of the best of its kind,
but none of them ever wants to
live in it. Rock Quarry Prison at
Buford, Georgia, was constructed
to house 1926 of the states most
hardened and incorrigible crimi-
nails. Everything from the archi-
tect's drawing to the last intricate
lock and listening device was the
work of skilled prisoners. The job
was done in nine months.
Americans hold about 60,225,-
100000 telephone conversations a
year, some of them necessary.
Since Alexander Graham Bell in
vented the instrument, Americans
have spent more than $50,000,-
100000 talking to each other over
the phone.
The State final America Legion
High School Oratorical contest
will be held at the Legion Hut in
Albemarle, N. c., Friday, March
16 at TOO pm, it is announced
by H. L. Swain of Williamson,
Department chairman, for the Lee
gion Oratorical Committee. The
North Carolina winner will re-
ceive 500 U. S. Savings Bond,
an expense-paid trip to the Re-
gional contest in Greensboro on
April IL, leading to a shot at the
national title and a $4,000 college
scholarship.
North Carolina highway patrol
men travelled approximately 113
miles per day per patrolman dur
ing the month of January, the
Motor Vehicles Department re-
ported today. Each patrolman
spent approximately 10 hours per
day on duty. The total number of
hours on duty numbered 1877, 1894
while the total number of miles
travelled amounted to 1,484,636.
World War II veterans now in
active military service, attending