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

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Milk production on North Caro-
lima farms during 1850 totalled
1868 million pounds, 1.6 percent
above the previous years record
high of 1,642 million pounds and
almost Is percent over the 1882
48 average.
Despite poor season and fewer
colonies of bees, North Cardinals
honey production in 1850 totaled
2,775, 900 pounds, and topped the
1919 figure by 10 percent.
On March 80 the Congressional
Small Business Committees nine
member bus-committee will hold
a hearing in Raleigh. Complaints
have been pouring into Washing
ton that, while small businesses
are having their raw materials
shut off, they are unable to Sc
cure defense contracts and are be-
ing forced out of business. The
subcommittee business is to in
vestigate the truth or faIsity of
these complaints.
The tenth annual Business Ed
ucation Conference led by DIR. DID.
Lessenberry, University of Pitts
burgh, and DR.. Parker Lilies, Sup
ervisor of Business Education, At
lanta, Ga, will convene Saturday,
March II, on the Woman's College
campus in Greensboro.
Chowan county commissioners
decided last week to discontinue
the malaria control program for
1951-52. The project was consid-
cred at length, and when learning
that not single malaria case was
reported in the county last year,
the commissioners agreed to drop
the program, at least for one year.
The question of compensation
for firemen who attend fires out
side the city limits of Edenton
came up at the meeting of the
Chowan County Commissioners
last week. The Mayor and Fire
Chief asked the Board for immed-
late financial assistance when the
Edenton fire truck and firemen an
swer a call in the rural section.
The commissioners agreed that
the fire department should be paid
for making rural calls, but said
that the payment should come
from those who were given assis-
lance.
The army advised Rep. F. En-
tel Carlyle last week that sur
veys for possible military install
lations have been made near
Southport, N. c., but that this had
been done for preliminary plan
ming only.
Although many major problems
remain unsettled, there was talk
of final adjournment around the
General Assembly last week and
this is the 18th week of the As
sembly's deliberations. Leaders of
both houses indicated they were
setting their sights for adjourn
ment for somewhere in the neigh
borhood of April or 10.
A North Carolina infantry COM
mander, Brig. Gen. Robert F. Sink
of Lexington, has been awarded
the Aid Medal in Korea. Gen. Sink
is assistant commander of the 7th
Division.
One of Elizabeth City's young
emergency firemen under the Civ
il Defense Prgram suffered severe
injuries last Thursday night when
the hose he and other members of
his group were working with got
away from him and the nozzle
slapped him in the face. Richard
Poulos, 17-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. N. H. Poulos is in the Able
marie Hospital with multiple
fracture of the jaw, several teeth
knocked out, a broken nose and
multiple decorations, contusions
and abrasions. In the same drill
Ivan Day Meekins, another young
fireman, received cash requiring
two stitches on the side of his
right foot. Two more lads receiv-
ed minor injuries.
A report prepared by the N. C..
Committee to Study Nursing and
Nursing Education says that
North Carolina is desperately in
need of hundreds of more nurses
than are now available. A mini
! mum of 1912 more nurses are
needed to meet the state medical
and health needs now, including
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