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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-12-14
BETTER PHONE
SERVICE FOR
OUTER BANKS

Modern telephone service for
residents of the Seven Villages Of
Hatteras Island, with local service
by dial exchange and long dis
lance over trunk lines connecting
with the exchange at Manteo,
seems now assured during the
New Year as result of several
weeks negotiation an correspon-
dence between residents of the Is
land and L. S. Blades, Jr., presi-
dent of the Norfolk & Carolina
Telephone & Telegraph Co.
These m o dernized facilities
would replace the worlds worst"
party line arrangement that has
served as the only connection Of
the Island with the outer world
for about rs years. There are 10
telephones on the overloaded line
and because every installation is in
a place of business normally clos
ed at night, the Island is without
service of any sort about IL hours
in each day.
Telephone subscribers" or peg
pie with pay-telephones in their
places of business had drawn up
a protest of service to the State
Utilities Commission early in Sc
TENDER when Mr.. Blades was q
weekend guest of friends on the
Island. The matter was discussed
tentatively with him at that time
and within the week a tentative
survey of the possibilities Of utili-
cation of modernized equipment
was undertaken.
AS result of the survey, under
taken in Avon by CWO George
Harrison Meekins, in Buxton by
Mrs. Maude M. White and in Hat
teras by M. L. Burrus, it was de-
termined that a minimum of 227
residence and business telephones
would be taken, provided serv-
ice comparable to that furnished
local subscribers in Manteo was
given. The matter was laid before
Mr.. Blades, and the formal com
plain to the Utilities Commissi,1
held in allegiance pending his con-
sideration of the project.
1t was pointed out to telephone
officials that a survey undertaken
at the same time indicated that
the people of the Island were even
now paying, in long distance
charges, sum very nearly equiv
alent to the prospective income
from residential telephones This
was ascertained by checking the
monthly aggregate RENTED by
subscribers" who repay them
selves by opening the coin boxes
on the telephones and taking what
ever they contain.
Mr.. Blades showed every will
lingness to consider the proposal
and asked that his company be Civ
en- time to explore the possibili-
lies, Cne proDaDle costs, and the
likelihood that necessary equip
ment could be had in the present
state of world markets for crit
cal materials. This week Mr..
Blades wrote Ben Dixon MacNeilI.
who has conducted the Island end
of the correspondence and co-oc-
dinated the informal surveys:
"For your personal information
We are beginning to see light as
to the possibility of placing an
exchange on the Cape at a much
earlier date than we had original
ly anticipated. The fact that we
have been unable to get down there
again, as we had planned, does hot
indicate that the problem has been
dormant" Continuing, the letter
promises definite action by or early
after the New Year. The telephone
exchange here would serve about
$500 people, or about half the
population of Dare County.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-12-14
CHRISTMAS PROGRAM
AT MANTEO METHODIST

The Choir of Mt. Olivet Metho-
dist Church, Manteo, will present
its annual Christmas program at
4:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon,
December 18th in the church audi
forum. The public is cordially in
vited.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-12-14
WARM WEATHER RUNS
RATTLESNAKE OUT

Freak winter weather, with the
temperature around 80 last Fri
day, felt good to a number of peo-
pie, but it also brought out some
thing unusual for December. J. C.
Groce of the North End of Roa-
noke Island reports killing a rat
tlesnake near his home last Satur-
day, Dec. 8. The snake had 6
rattles.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-12-14
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Evening star., 1951-03-18
This Week
THE SUNDAY MAGAZINE

WILLIAM l. NICHOLS, Editor
Editorial offices: go Lexington
ApensIe, Nesc York II, Nes0 York
sTALiNs NINE HEADACHES. ............... J
by LsIond Sfews
HOW TO STAY A BAcHEL OR. ............. ~
BY Lloyd RosenflsId
THE HILDREN's HOUR. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. -
BY Adaio Rogers 81. Johns
ESCAPE THROUGH TIE BLIZZARD. ......... 10
byWAilam Br0ndon
MA WAS A FLAPPER ................... 20
by Louis Berg
WALLYS WAGON. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. 20
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BY Lynne Svse
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Evening star., 1951-03-18
DZnkMn;Ec

COVER. The barelegged young lady who
appears to be doing one-hand pole vault
from mountain peak is jeanne Hewson, 20,
of Hampstead Province of Quebec, Canada.
She's been skiing since she was four Last
spring, while her team was winning the 1850
Ladies International Invitation Meet be-
tween Canada and the United States, Miss
Hewson broke the record for the downhill
race at Mt. Baldy, Canada.
The picture was taken at Victoria Glacier,
near famous Lake Louise in Alberta, Canada
FOREARMED. Some of our lady readers,
after reading How To Stay Bachelor" page
12), may want ammunition for counterattack
We suggest this anonymous quotation:
"A bachelor is souvenir of some woman
who found better one at the last minute"
WHODUNITS. Two minor mysteries have
been plaguing us, and we d like to solve them
before spring sets in.
The first involves postcard which arrived
last week. Correctly addressed to us, it was
mailed from Olmsted Falls, Ohio, last Octo-
Der 3, took rather circuitous route through
Senegal, French West Africa. Senegal is
roughly $3.50 miles from New York by the
shortest safe navigable route. Our almost
shattered faith in the power of the penny is
restored at the expense of our peace of mind.
The second mystery also involves post
card - this time from reader who complains
that he recently sent us 20 cents for two photo
graph reprints. received no acknowledgment.
Il write plain enough" he says. "and always
put my address on cards and letters" We're
sorry, MA. We're out of the reprints, and
we'd like to return your money. But neither
your original request nor your postcard car
ried return address. - THE EDITORS
Evening star., 1951-03-18

the father, and shall continue to be, of the
assertion of the right to live in freedom. 1t is
the idea behind our invention and our imagi-
nation, behind the doing of things that have
built America cities, homes, schools, manu-
featuring plants and farms.
1t has lighted the streets of cities. 1t has
warmed homes, erected charitable institutions,
filled our churches our schools and our
colleges.
1t is the eternal longing for something
better, physically, mentally and spiritually.
Even now when days are dark with ominous
shadows we must not lose hope - but push
on and fulfill our destiny
Evening star., 1951-03-18

dad tOtH be the day tor every man when he
becomes absolutely content wtth the life that he
is living, with the thoughts that he is thinking,
with the deeds that he is doing when there is not
fo1e0er beating at the doors Of his soul some
great desire To- do something larger, which he
knows that he vas meant and made to do, because
he is still, tn spite of all, the child Of GOd."
PHILLIPS BROOKS
TNIs thought of great preacher is con-
l. tinuing explanation of the ambition and
the inspiration, which has created, and is con-
tinuing to create, Americas greatness. 1t was
Evening star., 1951-10-14

TINE McGinty Smith election campaign was
heated but no one ever really knew who
won. Just as the last vote was cast, the hghts
went out, well-timed riot began. and in the
confusion somebody stole the ballot box.
When order was restored, there was another
box in its place. 1t, too, was stuffed with
votes. When counted, they gave unanl-
nous victory to Smith. Poor McGmty was
somewhat surprised at not receiving even
single tally. He surely thought ne remen-
bered voting for himself.
OF course the names of the candidates were
not Smith and McGinty. This was not the
Evening star., 1951-10-14

has never figured out why popular voting IN
private organizations is so often accompa-
MED by ballot-box shenanigans. In his time,
however, in supervising hundreds of elections
all over the nation, for unions. universities,
stockholders, educational groups and veter-
ans organizations, he has seen some astound-
ing distortions of democratic principle.
The Teushess job
PROBABLY the most ticklish election that the
Association regularly supervises is the BIZ
annual, long distance balloting for officers of
the stormy National Maritime Union. Fifty
four thousand members vote in % polling
places throughout the country. The ballot is
long and complicated. involving the selection
of more than 100 different officers. Some take
as long as three months to be marked and re-
turned. Mail goes directly to the HBA and is
kept in the vaults of the Amalgamated Bank
of New York. Fifty-five specialists meet daily
to do the tallying. When they go home at
night the votes are locked up. Then private
protective company mounts guard.
The police have little to do, because once it
Evening star., 1951-10-14

is known that the Honest Ballot Association
is on the job shenanigans cease.
1t wasn't always the case. Abrams remem-
bers one tense contest to elect the chairman
of dignifed research foundation. Both can
didates had to be forcibly restrained from
putting their heads inside the voting booths
and shouting instructions. Another time,
when he was present only as an observer. ne
was surprised to see the seuetary-treasrer
of the outfit, up for reelection, busily count
ing the votes.
Racket Busters. Too
DESPITE these discouraging demonstrations,
it is the firm belief of the Honest Ballot Asso-
citation that the average voter has an enor-
nous respect for the symbol of the ballot
box Ignorance, rather than duplicity, is at
the bottom of most of his mistakes. 1t was
on this premise that the Association was
founded in 1912 by group of civic-minded
attorneys Among them was William M.
Chadbourne, who still heads the organiza-
ton today.
In 1887 the Association was given one
of its biggest jobs That year, New York's
present governor, Thomas E. Dewey, was
special prosecutor, making reputation as
racket buster. When in the course of his I'M
vestigations he jailed number of union lead
ers who had mixed too freely with the under
world, the unions were thrown into turmoil.
The honest members found their voices,
the minority racketeers fought to retain
control. Dewey turned the whole matter
over to the Honest Ballot Association.
Some of those boys tried everything the
major political parties had dreamed up IN
hundred years." said Abrams. But after new
elections supervised by the HBA, the tainted
unions emerged thoroughly scrubbed.
The Association still charges the traditional
40 cents head to conduct an election. To-
day, even with large staff of volunteer work.
ers, the fee barely meets costs, but the HBA
is determined that the price of honesty is one
thing that won't 60 up.
No RecounAs
Few disputes ever arise over the totals, and
recounts are seldom requested. On one occa-
sion, where candidate was defeated by eight
votes for an Office he had carried by nearly
1900 for four successive years, the loser re-
jected the offer to add it UP again.
''If you fellows say it's eight, it's eight"
he said.
Occasionally poor loser hauls the HBA
into court There, the Association has never
failed to win out. Defense is usually carried
on by Monroe Percy Bloch. tax attorney
who has donated his legal talent to the Asso-
ciation for more than 20 years.
''In the old days. Bloch recalls, the
machines strong-arm men used to get US
Continued on page I9
Evening star., 1951-10-14

smoke-filled caucus of political machine.
nor the steam-rollered convention of some
racketeer-infested union. 1t was, instead, the
annual gathering of a fraternal order of busi-
nessmen, national in scope and unassailable
in dignity. Yet they lent themselves to
this bald faced electoral fraud with all
the unconcern of the professional ward
heeler who goes out on election day to
vote twice in every precinct.
George ]. Abrams, the tubby and 'bespec-
tacled chief investigator for the Honest Ballot
Association, non-proft organization dedi-
Gated to the task of insuring clean elections.
Evening star., 1951-10-14
THE VOTERS PRIVATE EYE

The Honest Ballot Association will guarantee an
honest election for any outfit - club, union or
business group And some of the shenanigans it
runs across would startle an Old-time ward heeler
by Jhan and June Robbins
Draring BY Carl Rose
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-20
.Savitt, Trabert Upset
In Sydney Net Tourney
BY the Assoeioted Press

SYDNEY. Australia, Nov. 90
Vic Seixas Of Philadelphia and
Ted Schroeder Of La Crescenta,
Calf. advanced to the semifinals
of the New South Wales Tennis
tournament today, but two of
Uncle Sans other Davis Cup stars
Dick Savitt of Orange, N. j., and
Tony Trabert Of Cincinnati-were
knocked out. victims OF surprising
upsets.
SeiXas, playing like poised pro-
fessional, eliminated Trabert, 60,
6-3. rs. Savitt was sent to the
sidelines by Mervya Rose. Aussie
Davis Cup player, who won, 3-6.
6-l, Is. IS, Ga.
Schroeder. once Americas big
Davis Cup gun. took another step
forward on the comeback trail by
upsetting Ken McGregor of Aus
tralia. ST. as. 60, 6-3, IS,
with a rousing comeback.
Frank Sedgman completed the
round of four by easily whipping
Sweden's Lennart Bergelin, 6-1,
81, 60.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-20
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Nov. 20.-Nate
Cartmell. who started coaching
track back in 1910, has seen plenty
of runners come and 60. but he
thinks Army's Dick Shea is about
as close to being perfect" as they
come.
THAT boy is terrific" the So
year-old Army coach said yester-
day after Shea had won his third
straight IC-4A cross-country
championship. HE is almost the
perfect runner now-fine form
timing and plenty of strength.
But he wasn't always like that
He's an EXCL, a complete product
of the Army who never ran before
reaching the academy. He has
been improving slowly each year
and now he's at his peak. He
should make the Olympic team
easily and do very well in the dis
lance races.
I'm fact, I'd love to see a rea,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-20
Race Movies Ordered
For Chicago Tracks
BY the Associated Pres,

CHICAGO, Nov. 2O.-The Illinois
Racing Board will require all Chi
cago tracks to take complete
movies of all races next season
to aid stewards in detecting fouls
or poor riding.
The board issued the order yes
terday and said five cameras will
be used at various points at the
tracks. Films will be ready for
viewing 2 minutes after the finish
of a race.
The board also allotted dates
for the 1852 season, awarding the
controversial Labor Day date,
sought by both Washington Park
and Hawthorne, to Washington
Park.
Lincoln Fields will conduct its
1852 meeting at its home plant
at Crete, III. Lincoln Fields had
been holding its meetings at va
riouS other city tracks since 1912
because its own plant was in need
of extensive repairs and materials
were lacking.
The dates allotted for the 163-
day season:
Sportsmans Park (13 days)-April 20
May 10.
Lincoln Fields go days-May ~
June IA
Arlington Park (36 days)-June 49,
July %
September l.
Hawthorne (35 days)-september g.
October II.
13-November l.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-20
Mccoy, Morgan Head
Mat Show at Turner'S

The accent is expected to be or
roughness tomorrow night when
Bibber Mccoy and Big Ben Nor
gan renew hostilities in the fea-
ture wrestling attraction at Turn
er'S Arena.
Last week, the two bruising
grapplers, roughed up the arena
as we'll as themselves. two refer
ees. one inside the ring and one
on the outside to protect the furn-
iture. who have been assigned
tomorrow.
In other bouts, Carol Cook and
Lilly Bitter will meet in a wom-
ems match, Leon Jonathan takes
on Frank Marconi, the Zebra Kid
clashes with Tony Cosenza and
Matte Brown squares of with
Tony Martinelli.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-20
'RooseveIt|s Season q Success
Even If Eastern Wins Title
By Bill Fuchs

Roosevelt doesn't have to beat
Eastern tomorrow night for its
season to be success.
Although Coach Lou Chacos
would like them to take the Dis
Itrict public high football title at
Griffith Stadium, his Rough Rid
Iers already have given him
seasons full of sparkling per-
Iformances.
You know, it's quite lot to
TASK high school boys to learn
new formation. new positions and
play good football at the same
time" Chacos says. But they've
done it."
Not normally a pessimist. Cha
COS isn't expecting any miracles
tomorrow night.
There have been times this
season when things looked dark
he says, but l think our chances
against Eastern are darker than
at any other time. I'm~afraid the
difference is too much. After all,
a team that has been beaten only
once in II games well :"
ChacoS took over Roosevelt at
the start of this season and dug
in to change it from a chronic
loser to a title contender. To do
this he switched from the single
wing formation to the T and
changed the positions of several
players.
Chacos moved Alva Griffin from
fullback to tackle; Larry Smith
from guard to center; Stan Gar
.f1nkle from end to halfback; Bill
Smith from halfback to fullback,
and Larry Nardinocchi from de-
'fenSive halfback to offensive half
back.
The changes hurt us at first"
Chacos says. we were very poor
extensively. But the boys had to
work in and they finally learned it. "
ChacoS doesn't have too much
depth nor a heavy line. but he
has speed and aggressiveness and
spirit. For ends he has Jack Pitt,
Duke Pantos, Bob Blair, Pat Cha
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-20
Army Shea 7 okes ThndIC-4A
Title, Reops Cooch's Praise

emile cross-country race between
Shea and Fred Wilt. They both
have terrific stamina. I think
Shea might take him"
The 24-year-old Shea hasn't
lost a cross-country race this year.
In the IC-4A event he took over
at the mile mark and just kept
going, crossing the finish in
24:55.1, some 220 yards ahead of
Ray Osterhout of Syracuse
Charles Capozzoli of Georgetown
was third, Lamont Smith of Penn
State fourth and Bill Irland OF
Syracuse fifth.
Penn State, with 81 points, Wor
the meet, nosing out Army by one
point. Syracuse was third with 9,
points, while Michigan State wa!
fourth with 146 and Manhattan
fifth with 161.
Yale won the freshman race
with II points. Bob Stevens oil
the Ellis led the pack home ir
| 1908 for the 8 miles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-20
Stanford Coach Picks
His Team 10 Defeat
California Saturday
BY the Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 90
Peerless (and fearless football
picker, Chuck Taylor of Stanford
is going for the jackpot Saturday
He predicts his unbeaten Rose
Bowl bound Indians will whip
California in their seasonal windup
at Palo Alto.
If Stanford comes through 1t
will make the 31-year-old rookie
coach q prophet for the 10th
straight time. He's called 'em
right since his then lightly re-
garded Indians came from behind
to beat Oregon 27-20 in their first
game this season.
A win over California also will
serve to write another unblemished
chapter into Stanford's football
history. The last one was in 1910
when Clark Shaughnessy intro
duced the T-formation to the
West Coast.
Last years California team was
the defending champion, a GER
tain Rose Bowl nominee and a
strong favorite. Stanford out
played California and the Bears
were lucky to get off with TT
tie.
This Saturday Stanford will
line up as the favorite. Taylor
appraises California as the
toughest team we have faced
this season" 1t has scored an
average of 80 points against nine
opponents and is the outstanding
rushing team in the conference.
Taylor refused to discuss the
Rose Bowl, except to say he was
not sending any scouts to watch
the possible Big Ten nominees,
Illinois. Purdue and Wisconsin.
Lynn CPapLy) Waldorf. Cali
fornia's bulky mentor, expressed
the opinion that stanford Is as
strong a team as we will have
faced in my five years out here,
including our three Rose Bowl
opponents.
1T looks ba'- but California
will show up for the game"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-20
Illinois in Good Shape
For Saturday Game
With Northwestern
BY the Associated Press

CHICAGO. Nov. 20.-Illinois will
be in much better shape physically
and mentally for Northwestern
Saturday than it was a year ago
when the Wildcats pulled a stun
ming AT upset.
That's the word of Doug Mills,
Illinois athletic director who ad-
dressed the Chicago Quarterback
Club yesterday. While Mills was
putting across this observation,
Ray Eliot, Illini coach, was saying
the same thing at Champaign.
This unanimity Of opinions is
step toward dispelling that old
bugaboo of a jinx that has
dangled over Illinois.
Wildcats Won Last Four.
Eliot never has defeated a
Northwestern team coached by
Bob VoigtS, losing to the Wildcats
in 1947, 1913, 1949 and 1850.
Last years defeat was the cost
lest of the BUNCH since it kept
Illinois from the Big Ten title and
Rose Bowl trip and dumped it into
fourth place in the final standings.
Mills and Eliot point out that
in 1850 Linebacker Chuck Boerio,
Halfbacks Herb Neathery and
Paul Douglass and Guard Don
key defensive men
were handicapped by injuries suf-
fered IN the preceding game with
Ohio State, which the Illini won.
After upSetting the Buckeyes, the
Illlni also had a wave of over
This all dovetailed into a situa-
ton ripe for an upset-and it
happened. Eliot and Mills are
being extremely wary that it
doesn't happen again.
Can Clinch Loop Title.
The setting Saturday. as far as
the Rose Bowl and title are con-
cerned, is about the same. Illinois
needs to defeat, or tie, North
western to clinch the honors. A
loss would be just as disastrous as
a year ago and would open the
door for Wisconsin or Purdue.
Illinois figures to be at near
top strength this time and Ger
tainly harbors no illusions of over
confidence after struggling to a
Scoreless tie with Ohio State.
Northwestern, whose 60 win
over Michigan has pitched the
Wildcats high, has lost the serv-
ices Of Wally Jones. speedy right
half He is shelved with a torn
knee cartilage.