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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-23
$5,OOO,OOO FROM WHERE
I'm the Zebulon Record

This is a proposal facing the
Legislature to appropriate $5,-
100000 to pave city streets. The
funds will come from present
highway money and no additional
tax will be levied. This is stupid.
We are just now getting our pub
lie highways in halfway decent
condition, and every cent the state
receive from gasoline and license
taxes is needed for public high
way construction and mainten-
ance.
Municipalities have a point
when they say that lots of coun-
try automobiles and trucks use
city streets without helping pay
construction and maintenance
costs; and that many city vehic-
les pay plenty of tax money on
gasoline but use highways very
little.
We believe, however, that addi-
tional services cost additional mo-
ney, and so additional taxes
should be levied for them to keep
from slashing into funds needed
elsewhere.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-23
OTHER EDITORS
TOLLS, TOLLS, TOLLS
(The News and observer)

North Carolina proudly freed it
self of all toll roads.
Now not only are toll roads,
great and small proposed. It is
also proposed that toll road cor
porations be freed of any regu-
lation of their tolls by the State
Utilities Commission which fixes
the rates allowed other companies
providing transportation facilities.
Furthermore, it is proposed that
such corporations be permitted to
build bridges across any body Of
water. That could mean that if
any company beat the State to the
building of a bridge, the toll brid-
ge would be entrenched in the
right to collect any toll it wished
for a long, long time since dupli-
cation by the State would be re-
garded as unnecessary in COM
parison with other pressing pro-
jects.
The more that is said about toll
roads, toll turnpikes, toll rates
and the whole toll business, the
clearer it is that the State should
not turn its back upon it's estab>
lished policy of free roads for
free people.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-23
GIVE US SOME ROUND STEAK
(The Sanford Herald)

The American workers wages
would be reduced by approximate
ely 80 per cent if America were
transformed overnight into a Rus
sian-dominated economy, accord
ing to Ralph Wright, assistant
secretary of labor of the United
States.
This means, in our way of figur-
ing, that the American worker
would have to give up four out of
five dollars to qualify for the low
living standard of the Russian
worker.
The Russian worker must toll
four and half hours for a pound
of beef, while it takes the Ameri-
can worker only 80 minutes. The
American worker earns a dozen
eggs in 81 minutes; it takes the
Russian worker two and a half
hours, says the department of lab
or.
These figures are probably ac-
curate. If so, we pity, in a way,
the Russian worker. However, in
our own case, we haven't been eat
ing around that spot on the COW
where the round steak is produced,
in long time with the price Of
steak what it is today.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-23
DON'T FORGET YOUR FRIEND.

The annual appeal of the Red Cross ends March 81
Everyone here wishes the campaign well and trusts that
the patrons will remember the extent of the
counys obligation to it for priceless services in the past
Remembering gratefully Dare County should contribute
generously to the Red Cross drive for funds
But let not lose sight are meant by the Red
Cross patrons They ourselves Countys apprecia
ton for the help has had from the Red Cross must be
expressed in terms of contributions from peope-or
shall be guilty of forgetting of the best friends the
Dare communities has had and forgetting it in
time of need.
No who has lived long in Dare County can fail
to be of the tremendous good that the
Cross has done here in bad" times, when have
suffered calamity from the violence of the elements When
these things happened the Red Cross did forget did
not hesitate to aid moved at once and with
tremendous effectiveness relieved suffering and sped reha
Utilization of many Dare county people caught in calamity
The Red Cross has, thus made many friends here; it
has kept them because the people of Dare know that the
organization stands ready to return and help again
disaster should strike yet another time
In emergencies know who will help US. Which
of will not help in however small way vglant
friend the Red Cross?
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-23
STATE PAYS IT'S WORKERS
$500 TO $4,000 UP

You may have wondered how
many state employees were MAX
ing as much, or more, or less than
you do. That may not have been
the reason that motivated State
Senator R. E. Little of Arson
County to ask the state personnel
department for statistics on the
pay of state employees but any
how, he asked the department for
the figures. This is what he
learned:
Fourteen officials are drawing
more than $10,O56 year, and Is
are getting between $9,12O.01 and
$1O,O56. ...s
On the other end of the horn,
2,816 are getting $1,000 or less,
but many in this group are insti-
tutional employees who receive
some perquisites such .as room
and board.
Then, 272 receive $1,5OO.01 to
1854; BAG are paid $1,584.O1 to
$1,656; 301 get $1,656.01 to 81, 1928;
348 get $1,728.O1 to $1,000; 264
get $1,800.01 to $1,872; 1877 get
$1,s72.01 to S1,944; ZIG get ST.
944.01 to $2,016.
And 81 are paid $2,016.O1 to
$2.076; 497 get $2,076.01 to ST.
100; 3O5 get $2,16O.O1 to S2,244;
184 get $2,244.O1 to $2,328; 300
get $2,328.01 to $2,40O; 220 get
$2,40O.O1 to $2,5O8; 235 get ST.
508.01 to $1,000; 113 get $2,604.01
to 1864; ITO get $2,664.01 to ST.
700; 1874 get $2,7O0.O1 to $2,796.
And 261 get $2,796.O1 to 1882;
Bis get $2,892.O1 to $4,000; ia
get $3,000.O1 to $3,084; 1S9 get
$3,084.01 to $3,192; 219 get 49,
192.01 to $1,000; 1873 get So, 3OO.O1
to $3,3S4; 80 get $3,384.O1 to 49,
4O8; 1856 get $3,408.01 to $3,516:
1873 get $3,516.01 to $4,000; Ala
get $3,6O0.O1 to $3,984; 425 get
$3,984.O1 to $4,344.
And 1888 are paid $4,344O1 to
| $4,000; 234 get $4,8OO.01 to $5,232;
232 get $5,232.01 to $5,664; 1O8
get $5,664.01 to $685.; 1926 get
$5,952.O1 to $6,936; 1873 get &c.
9S6.01 to $1,000; and 70 get 49,
O64.01 to 1920.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-23
EDUCATION HAMSTRUNG?
(Carteret County News-Times)

In a very short while lawmakers
at Raleigh will study the report
on appropriations for the various
state departments for the next BIZ
ennium-and then will attempt to
fit those into the amount of in
come the state contemplates over
the next two years. In that whole
budget, nothing will be as import
ant as the appropriations for the
State Board of Education.
On the last day of February
leaders of the joint appropriations
committee went on record favor
ing sufficient appropriations to
maintain the present pupil-teach-
er ratio in North Carolina, to keep
the school bus transportation sys-
tenn in operation, and to pay teach
ers a salary schedule of $4,000 to
$500.
Present appropriations allow no
provision for funds to enforce
school attendance laws, to provide
CLERICAL assistance to schools, or
expansion of vocational opportuni-
ties. While $4,000 to $500 sal
airy schedule would pay teachers
the same number of dollars they
are now receiving, these dollars
will buy considerably less than
they did last summer. This salary
schedule is not only insufficient to
attract and hold the kind of teach
ers North Carolina wants, but it
tends to nullify all the state
gained when during the last two
years increasing numbers of col
lege freshmen chose teaching as
career because it was begin
ming, at last, to be recognized as
a valuable, essential career worthy
of increased remuneration.
Our education problems are far
from over, either on the state or
national level. AS a matter of fact,
they have just begun. United
States population has almost
has almost doubled since 1900.
Careful estimates, based upon
census bureau figures, indicate
that the schools must take care of
nearly eight million more pupils
in 1959-60 than are enrolled at
the present time. The school year.
fortunately, is longer than it used
to be, and more children, realizing
the value of education, are going
to school longer.
This is no time for the state
Legislature or the governing body
in any municipality or county to
think that the school problem is
licked and that we can coast
leisurely along during the next
decade.
Public education is the keystone
of democracy. For that reason,
efforts to increase appropriations
for schools must be constant and
must be made to bear fruit.
In the final analysis, free educa-
ton = the American way, is the
only weapon that will conquer all
isms.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-23
CALLOUS AND CYNICAL
1.-THE Laurinburg Exchange)

Investigations into organized
crime, gambling and racketeering,
the RFC, the college basketball
scandals, and other evidences of
relaxed moral fabric, are indica-
tive of a callous and cynical at
titude toward honesty and inte-
gritty. 1t does seem that we have
placed such a high value on money
and the things that money will
buy that oftentimes we would
cheerfully barter away all STAN
dards of morality and decency for
some quick and easy money.
This condition, which many
have noted and have commented
upon, seems to stem from two
causes. One of them is the degree
to which we measure everything
in terms of money, and the fetish
that we have made of material
wealth as a measure Of success.
Much of our education has been
directed, largely, if not solely, to-
ward the goal Of preparing the
individual to earn money. And if,
with education or without it, he
succeeds in getting a lot of money
he has arrived" in the language
Of the street and the temples of
money.
Another thing that will bear in
vestigation is the decline Of moral
instruction for the youth Of the
land. Many believe that the home,
the church and the school, are not
LONG as good job as they ought
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-23
SERVICES LAST SUNDAY
FOR MRS. A. p. WILLIAMS

Funeral services were held at
the Avon Methodist Church last
Sunday at l pm. for Mrs. Minerva
Gray Williams, IS, lifetime resi-
dent of Avon who died last Friday
morning in Manteo after an ill
ness of two months. The Rev.
P. M. Porter, pastor of st. Johns
Methodist Church of which Mrs.
Williams was member, conduct
ed the services. Burial was at
Avon.
Mrs. Williams was the daughter
of the late Tilman and Lucinda
Gray.
She is survived by her husband,
Andrew Peel Williams of Avon;
two sons, Alton T. Williams of
Avon and Herscal P. williams of
Norfolk; four daughters. Mrs.
r. J. Scarborough, Mrs. M. C.
Austin and Mrs. C. E. O'Neal of
Manteo and Mrs. G. F. Williams
OF Avon. One sister is living Mrs.
John Farrow of Avon. There are
10 grandchildren and two great
grandchildren.
A quartet consisting Of the
granddaughters, Jean Williams
Gray, Maxine Scarborough, Rose
Austin and Betty Ann Williams,
sang when Get To The End of
The Way" and members of the
Church Choir sang "Abide with
Me-" "The Home Over There and
Sweet By and By" accompanied
by Mrs. Mable Meekins at the
piano.
Pallbearers were Dallas Miller,
Bloucher Scarborough, Sumner
Scarborough, Jarvis Cray, Charles
Williams and Moody Meekins.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-23
A CONVERSION OF IMPORTANCE.

AS the apparent results of their efforts to
influence opinion favoraby for the deepening Oregon
Inlet, Alvah Ward Ben Dixon MacNei and the others
who giving their energies to the completion of the prof.
ect must have read with satisfaction the News Observer
March Is Mr. MacNs pamphlet it is clear has been
read by at least skeptc and convinced hn1-more
power to the pamphlet!
Here is what the News & Observer had to say
OREGON INLET q
The Dare County people, who the de-
veopmen Of Oregon Inlet Of
wide region have with the
deepening of the inlet first defense
Dare County its conditions in
document which is termed brief but exciting convincing
reading matter too Called Torpedo Junction. exciting
points to the strategic Importance
the days OF the prvateer the time
Appended it of the Atlantic with
markers to show the casualties
of the Cape from Sir Richard in 1885 to the
ships torpedoed by the Germans Including
Monitor these ships make distinguished graveyard of the
They also provide warning what happen
Inc case for Oregon Inlet both entry
OF refuge and from which out as
wildly stated by Ben Dixon MacNe only plausible but onvinc
ing Equally convincing is the peaceful
terms clear is made for deepening inlet for the
effective abundant plan sense Deepening
Ogon Inlet would not be Dare County boondogge national
bargain
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-23

in teaching youth the right princi-
pies of conduct, and by example
holding up to them the high STAN
dards of moral integrity and hon.
esty that ought to prevail in an
honorable society.
Is it any wonder then that co.,
lege ball players throw" games,
and that politicians and business
men stoop to sordid and question
able practices to make money? Or
that the true functions of col
lege or a university have been
subordinated to the pagan wor-
ship of big super colossal athle-
tics?
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-23

record the program in two parts.
Music to be used for the broad
cast, sung by the Manteo Metho-
dist Choir, was recorded in Man
teo on Thursday evening The
message of the Rev. j. H. Overton,
Jr., of the Manteo Methodist
church, viii be recorded at the
sunrise service in Wanchese on
Sunday.
Islanders and Others who will
wish to hear the national broad
cast of the Easter Sunday SER
vice Of the Roanoke Island church,
es are advised that radio station
WGAl in Elizabeth City Is the
Liberty Network station serving
this area.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-23
ISLAND EASTER SERVICES
TO BE BROADCAST SUNDAY

The sunrise service of the Roa-
noke Island churches on Easter
morning, being held this year at
the Wanchese Methodist Church,
will be recorded and re-broadcast
later in the morning on Easter
Sunday by the coast-to-coast net
work Of the Liberty Broadcasting
system.
Liberty network engineers win
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-23

A bill passed by the House was
killed in the State Senate Judiciary
Committee recently. The bill
would have validated all wills re-
corded without formal order of
probate or registration; it was in
trouced in the House by Rep. R.
Bruce Etheridge of Dare county.
Senator Pou Bailey of Wake ques-
toned the effect the bill might
have on a civil action which he
said may be brewing in connection
with some 800 acres of land in
Dare. Bailey told the committee
the bill seemed aimed at contro-
versy over land in East Lake
Township; an action, Bailey said
he had heard, is pending based on
an improperly probated will. His
argument that the question was
one for settlement by the courts,
not the legislature, was agreed
With by the rest of the committee
members, and the bill was report
ed unfavorably.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-23

Plans were set to take the fight
against legalized gambling in
North Carolina to the General As
sembly. 1t was planned to have
large delegations from each coun-
ty in the Albemarle attend the
public hearing before the House
Committee on Propositions and
Grievances Tue d a y afternoon.
Spokesman for these delegations
were expected to urge support of
the Dalrymple and Burfoot bills,
which would make pari-mutel bet
ting unlawful. The Burfoot bill
would also outlaw bingo, making
it unlawful for any person, firm
or corporation to operate or play
or participate in the playing of
the game commonly known as
bingo if the winner is offered or
is given or receives any money,
prize or other award of anything
of value for playing or participat-
ing in or winning such, game"
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-23

Uncle Sam is stepping up pro-
duction of the B-36, worlds big
gest bomber. At Fl. Worth about
$4,000 people are working in the
worlds largest integrated air
craft factory, but they are all
mighty silent about the strength
of the intercontinental bomber
fleet they are building. The plant
probably has made at least ITO
of the giant atomic bombers.
That many were ordered by 1949.
No numbers have been revealed
on two additional orders, one
placed since the Korean war be-
gan. One-third more men were
hired last year to speed produc-
ton.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-23

A pushbutton microscope to
speed cancer research has been
perfected at Duke University. 1t
makes it possible to look at 1000
cancer material slides day; the
former limit per day was about
1000. For the new instrument the
slides are stacked like playing
cards at one side. A push of the
button and the instrument does
everything except the looking. The
device was made by George New
ton and DIR. D. G. Sharpe.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-23

Hundreds of profit schools train
ing veterans under the CT bill will
be required to meet Federal mini
mum standards by March 81 in
order to continue their veterans
training programs, Veterans Ad-
ministration Regional Manager
]. D. DeRamus said today. Public
Law 610, the act establishing the
standards, requires certain profit
schools to meet a set of eight cri-
terra in order to train CT Bill stu
dents. Schools affected are those
which have, during any period,
fewer than 20 students or one
fourth of the enrolment (Which
ever is larger) paying their own
way. State agencies that approve
schools for CT Bill training cur
rently are investig ating the
schools, to determine which ones
meet the standards.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-23

The massed azaleas Of South
eastern North Carolina are build
ing up their show for Whining
tons Azalea Festival on March 90
April i. Already, red and white
dwarf varieties are in bloom, and
during festival time the multitude
of crimson, magenta, purple, pink,
lavender, and countless other
blooms are scheduled to reach
their peak.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-23

In Roanoke Rapids last Satur-
in jail charged with driving while
day Leonard Kennedy, 20, landed
drunk, having no operators Ii
cense, and with driving into three
cars-which were parked in front
of the police station.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-23

Kay Finch of Rocky Mount High
School was, awarded a silver cup
for winning the statewide ora
torical contest sponsored by the
American Legion. Finals were in
Albemarle last Friday night.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-23

Rep. E. R. Johnson of Currituck
has introduced measure in the
house which, perhaps, may throw
sidelight on the recent publicity
given Currituck and it's dog track.
The bill would raise from IL to 10
cents per 500 valuation the tax
Currituck county may levy for
support of its Jail.
Twenty scholarships to the 1851
Yale University Summer School of
Alcohol Studies are now available
to North Carolina teachers, health
educators, public health officials,
social workers, ministers, person.
mel workers, law enforcement-cor-
rection officials, and Salvation
Army workers. Sponsored by the
state A lie III Ollie Rehabilitation
Program, the special educational
grants include tuition, room and
board, and partial travel expenses.
Once called zone of the most UNI
usual courses in the history Of
American education" by a national
news m G a zine, the Summer
School of Alcohol Studies runs
from July through August 8 and
presents a broad orientation on
Alcohol and the many problems
related to its use in society.
The Small Business Committee
of the U. S. House of Representa-
tives has scheduled hearing for
this area on Friday, March 80, on
Problems Of Small Business Re-
lated to the National Emergency"
George r. Ross, Director Of the
State Department of Conservation
and Development, announced. Pur-
pose Of the hearing is to obtain
first-hand information on material
shortages, government procure
ment, price controls and rationing,
difficulties in obtaining financial
assistance, and other small bust
ness problems connected with the
defense effort.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-23

A resolution condemning organ
lied gambling in any form in
North Carolina was passed by the
members of the Coinjock Baptist
Church last week. All other
churches in Currituck county and
North Carolina were invited to
join in a crusade with the Coin
jock Baptists. The resolution was
drawn up by a committee COM
posed of E. R. Woodland, county
attorney; Mrs. Iva E. Hampton,
Mrs. Chester Morris, Gather W.
Bright. Mrs. Alethia Spry and
Mary E. Kinsey.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-23

The Edenton Colonials will re-
place Hopewell as a member Of
the Class d Virginia Baseball
League this season. Intercity rival
ry between the Colonials and Eliz-
abeth City, also Virginia League
member, is expected to boom the
gatekeepers' business whenever
the two Carolina teams clash.
Everybody in the courtroom had
to keep his mind on the trial every
moment last Monday in Williams
ton: a man named Raymond Will
liams was charged with assaulting
another gentleman named Ray
mond Williams. No matter what
the confusion of the superior
court jury, it is reliably reported
that Raymond Williams ~ is con-
tent with its judgment and (2)
that Raymond Williams thinks the
jury made a terrible mistake.
Motor vehicle registration in
North Carolina passed the million
mark on March IL, two months
earlier than last year, the Depart
ment of Motor Vehicles has re-
ported, as it totaled up figures re-
ceived from the 70 branch offices
throughout the State.
Evening star., 1951-01-31

A distinctive gift for some dis
eliminating person. Gracefully
designed in luxurious sterling
silver.
Evening star., 1951-01-30
Five-Day Police Week
Won't Start THURSDAY

The Commissioners today turned
down Police Supt. Robert j. Bar
rett's proposal that the f1ve-day
week for policemen go in effect
Thursday.
They decided to wait until Con-
gress has acted on legislation
which would provide overtime pay
for men who work on their days
off.
District Auditor A. r. Pilkerton
pointed out that, while establish
ment of the five-day week is dis
cretionary with the Commission
ers, failure to put it in effect was
due to an understanding the city
had with the House Appropria-
tions Committee not to order it
until 200 of the 300 additional au-
thorized policemen had been OBJ
tanned.
Maj. Barrett also had asked
that policemen be granted COM
pensatory time off, but Mr.. Pill
kerton said he already had rec
commended against that last No
vember and the Commissioners
had approved his recommended
ton.
Mr.. Pilkerton said also the po-
lice chiefs proposal to base the
start of a f1ve-day week on the
sufficiency of volunteers to fill
existing vacancies was not author
lied under existing law.
Evening star., 1951-01-30
u. ). Income Exceeds
Outlay for 7 Months
BY The Associated Press

The Governments income
topped its spending by $7,113,4e9
for the period from last july
through January 26. That covers
nearly seven full months of this
fiscal year.
This surplus" despite costs Of
the fighting in Korea, was dis
closed today in a Treasury report.
BY comparison, the Government
was $3,131.551.428 in the hole on
its fiscal years operations at this
time last year.
This years surplus promises to
be as short-lived as it is unusual.
The chief reason for it is heavy
receipts from quarterly income tax
payments that were due Janu-
airy Is.
With revenue receipts dropping
to slower pace and with spend
ing picking up steadily, the Gov
ernment expects to slip $2.7 bill
lion into the hole by the end Of
this fiscal year June 80.