The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-04-13

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New industrial plants and ex-
pansions representing an invest
ment of more than SIS, 000, 900
were announced for the North and
South Carolina area served by
Carolina Power & Light Company,
in the first quarter of 1861, ac-
cording to report released by
Paul Lyman, of the Company's in
dustrial sales department.
Major crimes reported in Nor
folk during 1850 totaled 1862 and
thefts involved $1,217,118.28, the
Norfolk Police Division reported
last week. Arrests reached 3d.
948.
The July issue of House Beau
tiful magazine will feature a
story about "The Lost Colony"
the Paul Green play presented
each summer in the Waterfront
Theatre on Roanoke Island.
William B. Rodman, Beaufort
County Representative in the
State House of Representatives,
is member of the House Calen-
dar Committee under the chair
manship of Rep. Worthington of
Pitt. The committee took over the
work of the regular House COM
mittees Monday in the attempt to
speed up House activities and Sc
cure adjournment at the end of
this week.
State Highway Commission
Auditor Sam Smith is now serving
in his 31st consecutive year as the
commissions chief fiscal officer.
The Trustees of the University
of North Carolina have adopted
the following resolution to clarity
the University's policy on admis-
sions as a result of the long con-
troversy over the admission of
Negro students: "In all cases of
application for admission by mem
bers of racial groups, other than
the white race, to the professional
or graduate schools when such
schools are not provided by and
in the State of North Carolina for
such racial groups, the applica-
tons will be processed without re-
gard to color or race, as required
by authoritative judicial interpre-
tation of the Constitution Of the
United States, which is the SUI
preme law of our state as well as
the nation, and the applicant ac-
cepted or rejected in accordance
with the approved rules and STAN
cards of admission for the partic-
ular school,"
Cash farm receipts from the
sale of turkeys in North Carolina
increased from $2,845, 900 in 1919
to $3,4O4,OO in 195O-an increase
of 1875 percent. The increase in
cash receipts from the sale of
turkeys was due primarily to an
increase in the number sold since
the price per pound in 1850 was
only 1T cents higher than 1919.
The GAIL Farm Products" index
of prices received by North Car
DINA farmers at local markets in
creased / point during the month
ended March Is. The March Is
"All Farm Products" index at 315
compares with 314 in mid-Febru-
airy, 225 on March Is, 1850 and
243 on March Is, 1949. The Janu-
airy Is, 1851 "All Farm Products
index was 308.
The one survivor of the -four
founders of the tuberculosis
Christmas Seal, Leigh Mitchell
Hodges, will be the featured
speaker at the closing session OF
the North Carolina tuberculosis
Associations Annual Meeting to
be held in Greensboro April 17-18
A total of 81 pedestrians were
killed on North Carolina streets
and highways during February
an increase of 81 per cent over
the IS killed in February of last
year. Twenty-Five persons were
killed when their vehicles ran off
the road, AZ per cent increase
over the same month last year
Two persons died when their We
hicles overturned in the roadway.
The Dingell Federal Aid to
State Fisheries Act became effec-
tive July l., 1850, at which time
the 10 per cent tax on sport-fish-