The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-07-20

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that in a few cities only to tenn
porary advertised specials designed
to attract customers, and these
followed no general pattern.
Directors of the National Fed
Grafton of Business and Profession
al Women, meeting last week in
Chicago, went on record as favor
ing a draft of women.
East Carolina College in Green
vile has received approval from
the United States Office of Educa-
ton to build home management
house to be used by the home eco
Monies department and an addi-
ton to Ragsdale Hall, dormitory on
the east campus. Construction is
expected to begin within a few
weeks.
The Navy's new 6O,O00-ton
atomic bomber carrier will be con-
structed by the Newport News
Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co.,
Senator Harry Byrd and Congress
man E. j. Robson, Jr., announced
jointly last week.
The Sixth annual Brevard Music
Festival, the South's foremost
music event of the summer season,
will present an array of top-f1ight
talent in a program opening Au-
gust z and continuing through Au-
gust 10. Concert programming, an
oTatorio, lecture, and folk music
= new feature - make up the
Festival program.
North Carolina ownership of life
insurance has increased by $2,789,-
GOO, 900 since 1880, the greatest 20
year growth in the history of the
state, in spite of the slowing UP
during the early '30s, the Institute
of Life Insurance Reports. This is
gain of 211 per cent.
Full-blooded Cherokee Indians
are available this summer to guide
tourists over the Qualla Reserva-
ton in the Great Smoky Noun
tains of North Carolina. The
guides are well versed in tribal
history and Indian lore, and may
be obtained at the Information
Center at the entrance to "Unto
These Hills" Cherokee drama pre-
scented during the summer season.
During June, GAG persons in
North Carolina lost their driving
licenses for drunken driving, the
Motor Vehicle Department an
nounces. This was a decrease of
113 over the 759 persons convicted
Of drunken driving during June of
1850.
William w. Peek, the Madison
County School Superintendent, who
tried to solicit funds from school
teachers to help pay expenses of
the county's representative in the
General Assembly, DIR. w. A.
/ Sans, will retain his job after all.
A month ago, the members of the
county board of education request
ed the State Board of Education
not to confirm Peek. But the coun-
ty board has had a change of mind
! and asked the State Board to con-
firm the superintendent. The State
Board did SO, in the words of the
presiding officer, with a great
deal of reluctance"
Drys carried the election in
Morganton last week to determine
whether the sale of beer should be
made legal. The vote-for beer,
500; against beer, LIB.
Judge Henry l.. Stevens has or
dered the transfer of the Ray
Clifton rape case from Washington
county to the September term of
Beaufort county court. He acted
after the regular jury panel and
two special venires had been ex-
hausted with only 10 jurors seated
when the case came to trial in
Plymouth.
The Federal Security Admins
tration announces a grant of $24,-
899 to Duke University for i'm.
rrovement of instruction in cancer
diagnosis and treatment.
A 100000 junior-senior high
school in Edenton is nearing COM
pletion and is expected to be ready
for use in September. Built en-
tirely with local bond funds, the
school has 10 classrooms, labora-
tories, homemaking department
and cafeteria.
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