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coLlNoToN PERSONALS

Miss Ida Mae Simpson of Nor
folk spent Christmas week visit
ing with her aunt and uncle, Mr..
and Mrs. Sam Liverman.
Ralph Beasley, Allen Beasley
and LeSalle Midgette returned
home December 26th from sea
voyage to the Netherlands, courte-
sy of the Merchant Marine. The
young men are respectively the
sons of Mr.. and Mrs. James Beas-
ley, Mr.. and Mrs. Weightman
Beasley and brother of Mrs. Pearl
Camel.
Barry Midgette, four year old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Barney Mid
gette is in the Albemarle Hospital,
Elizabeth City, recovering from a
ruptured appendix. We wish him
speedy recovery.
Saturday December goth, the
Coli g+nn Community Club held
its Holiday Square Dance in the
Colington school building. Mr.. and
Mrs. James Beasley, Jr., lent their
radio-phonograph to provide music
until the Currituck Ramblers ar
rived. Mr.. David Stick, Mr.. Sam
Liverman and one Of the Ramblers
trimmings was served. I
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MRS. MATTE MIDGET
OF WANCHESE NOW 81

The children of Mrs. Matte j.
Midget honored her on her
eighty-first birthday at open house
the evening of December 90 at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. M.
Pete Daniels of Wanchese.
A holiday theme using red can
dies, holly, pine and magnolia
leaves was carried out in the dec
orations. A two TERED birthday
cake fianked by white candles CEN
tered the dining room table.
Spiced tea, pound cake, and
minis were served to around
eighty of her friends and relatives
who called during the evening.
The following Of her children
were present: Mrs. ]. w. Davis,
Mrs. w. L. Daniels, and Mrs. M.
Pete Daniels of Wanchese, P. D.
Midget of Engelhard and A. Par
ker Midget of Elizabeth City.
Another son, ]. Barker Midget
of Hillsboro was unable to attend.
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purposes are exempt if they are
not held for purposes of sale or
rental.
(e) Real estate belonging to In
dams who are not citizens of the
United States is exempt, provided
the Indians have not purchased the
property.
8. What personal property is ex-
empt from county and city taxes?
AS with real estate, the exempt
ion of personal property is based
either on ownership or on the use
Of the property; sometimes it is
based either on ownership or on
the use Of the property; sometimes
it is based on both ownership and
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less he is completely familiar with
the property concerned. Only the
following taxpayers are permitted
to list through an agent:
Corporations, partnerships, bus
mess firms, unincorporated associ-
atoms, females, non-residents of
the township, persons physically
unable to attend and file a list
for themselves.
Here are a few simple rules
about who must list property. They
should be consulted by all taxpay-
ers before listing:
(a) Title to land passes when
the deed is delivered. The person
having the deed is the owner and
must list the land.
(b) Putting a mortgage or deed
of trust on land or personal prop
erty does not change ownership.
The owner must still list it for
taxes.
(c) Real estate owned by two
or more persons as tenants-in-
common can be listed to the whole
group of owners as one tract, or
each owners interest may be list
ed separately. This is left up to
the owners.
ID Real estate and personal
property owned by corporations,
partnerships, etc., is listed in the
business firm name and should be
listed by an officer of the firm.
Real estate held by one person
for his life only must be listed by
the life tenant and in the life ten
ants name.
(f) When one person owns land
and another owns buildings or tim
Der on the land, the owner of each
interest may list his interest sep
arately. If the persons concerned
have a contractual agreement
about who is to list the property
for taxation the tax supervisor will
permit them to follow their agree
ment.
(g) If tangible personal proper
erty has been purchased under a
contract or conditional bill of sale
which provides that the seller
keeps title until the purchase price
is paid, the purchaser must list
the property in his own name if
he has possession of the property
or the right to use it. Otherwise
the seller must list such property.
(h) Real estate acquired under
the will of deceased person or by
inheritance from person who died
without a will must, as a general
lule, be listed by the new owner
in his own name. However, if the
real estate is still under the actual
control of an executor who has
power under the will to sell the
property, it should be listed by the
executor in his own name as exc
cutor.
G) Personal property acquired
under the will of deceased person
or by descent from a person who
died without a will must, as a gen.
eral rule, be listed by the new
owner in his own name. However,
If such personal property is still
under the control of an executor
or administrator, it should be list
ed by the executor or administrator
in his own name as executor or
administrator.
G) Real estate and personal
legally held by a guard
ian or trustee for the benefit of
some person must be listed by the
guardian or trustee in his own
name as guardian or trustee.
z. How should the property
owner prepare for listing his prop
efty?
There is one important thing
every property-owner should do
before he appears before his town.
ship list taker: He should make a
list Of every piece of land he owns
Ia the township and 4 list AZ every
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use. 1t is essential in every case
to meet the exact words of the
exemption statute before exempt
ion can be granted. For this rea-
son it is imncrsiole to state the ex-
smptio1 law IT trief terms capable
o. covering all ca-es, and the tax
T. yer should consult the local tax
officials if he has qrpstions about
any possible exempt, ]. As a gen.
eral rule, however, the following
summary will be helpful to the
individual taxpayer:
(a) The furniture, furnishings,
and other personal property owned
and held by the following associ-
atoms, institutions, and organiza-
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TAXES
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grown: (See also the answer to
question 81.
(e) Music machines, drink dis
pensers and other items of person
al property which may be used by
the public generally or which are
used to sell merchandise to the
public, and which are placed on
locations outside of the county of
the owners residence, are taxable
in the county in which they are ac-
tually located.
4. Where is serviceman's prop
erty taxed?
A serviceman's real estate is
taxable where the land is located.
A serviceman's personal property
is taxable at his residence. The
fact that he is stationed at some
military camp or base does not, by
itself, have the effect of changing
the place of his residence. Thus,
if a resident of County A is sent
to camp in California, County A
is still entitled to tax all of this
individuals personal property, ev-
en- that which he has taken to
California with him. If a resident
of California is sent to a camp in
North Carolina County A, the
North Carolina county in which he
is stationed is not entitled to tax
the Californian's personal proper
ty unless (a) the soldier actually
changes his residence to that coun-
ty intentional or (b) unless he
sets up some business off the post.
In this second situation, personal
property of the Californian used in
connection with that business is
taxable by the county in which the
business is located, regardless of
whether the soldiers residence is
there or elsewhere.
5. How does the county obtain a
list of property subject to its tax?
North Carolina law requires
each property-owner to appear be-
fore the county tax officials every
January and give them an accu-
rate list of everything he owns.
The county designated some resi-
dent of each township to serve as
list taker' for the property in that
township. This list taker advertis-
es in advance the times at which
he will be at certain stated places
in his township for the purpose of
interviewing property-owners a
bout their taxable property. 1t is
the property-owners responsibility
to appear before his township list
taker sometime during the month
of January each year for this
purpose.
If the property owner fails to
appear, or if he fails to disclose
full information, the tax lister and
the county tax supervisor have
ample authority to visit the prop
erty or subpoena witnesses and
records pertinent to the discovery
of such property, and they are
empowered to list it to its owner
and impose severe penalties for
the owners failure to comply with
the law.
6. Who is required to appear
before the list taker and turn in
the list of property owned?
The person who owns the prop
erty on January / is supposed to
appear before the list taker and
give the necessary information.
This means that if person owns
land in three different townships
he should appear before the list
taker in each of those townships
for the purposes Of listing with
each the property within the par
ticular township. Under certain
conditions the property-owner may
have an agent list the property for
aim. In such a case, however, the
agent cannot make the listing nm
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WAVES PERSONALS


Mr.. and Mrs. d. A. Midget
and Mr.. and Mrs. James Maddrey
of Broad Creek Village visited
Mrs. Lucretia Midget during the
Christmas holidays.
Irene Midget of Norfolk spent
a few days with her mother, An
ME Midget. She had as her guest
Dick Darden of Norfolk.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernol Foster and
Ernie of Hatteras have returned
home after spending some time
with Mr.. and Mrs. C. A. Midget.
Mrs. C. A. Morgan of Avon
spent the Christmas holidays with
her sister, Mrs. Cecil Midget.
Alvey Midget of Norfolk spent
Christmas with his mother, Mrs.
Lucretia Midget.
Edna, Eleene and Wanda Mid
gett of Wanchese visited Mr.. and
Mrs. Clarence Midget.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. r. Scarborough
visited Mr.. Scarborough's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Butcher Scarborough,
at Avon.
Mrs. Ersie Midget of Hatteras
spent Wednesday night with her
sisters, Misses Mordecia and An
ME Midget.
Mr.. and Mrs. Aston Midget and
D. B. Midget were visitors in
Manteo last week.
Mrs. Calvin Midget and daugh-
ter, Shirley have returned to Man
teo after spending few days
with Mr.. and Mrs. Elroy Midget
and Mrs. Luther Gray of Salvo.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dorland Midget
spent Christmas at Virginia Beach
with their daughter, Mrs. Coulter
Tillett.
Mr.. and Mrs. Palmer Midget
and children of Neptune Beach,
Fla, visited Mrs. Lucretia Midget
during the holidays.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bonnie Etheridge
of Elizabeth City and granddaugh-
ter Priscilla spent a few days
with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil Midget
spent the weekend at Avon with
w. B. Miller and Mrs. Retta Nor
gan. .
Aston Midget has returned to
Norfolk after spending a few days
with his family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tazewell O'Neal
of Southport are visiting Mrs. Ro-
wena O'Neal.
Dorothy Midget has returned
to Windsor after spending the
holidays with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. N. H. Midget.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Edwards
and children of Broad Creek Viii
lage spent a few days with Mrs.
Lucretia Midget.
E. j. Midget of Wanchese spent
Sunday and Monday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Elroy Midget.
Clarence Midget spent Christ
mas with his family. His wife ac-
companied him to Norfolk.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Austin
and children of Hatteras spent the
weekend with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Asa Gray, Jr., and
Rudy have returned home from
Norfolk after visiting Mrs. Ray
mond Smith.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-01-04
Crime in America
By ESTES KEFAUvER
United States Senator
Thirteen of Series
Philadelphia: Police Tactics
In the City Of BrotherIy Love

In Philadelphia Of the nations largest most efficiently
organized numbers rackets through p
gambler police eup that makes it impossible for any IN
truder to edge his way in from the outside"
paralyng attitude of apathy seems to hang like an ether
mist over department One judge who alphabetically
sucesor sitter action against the numbers racket
told the Senate Crime Committee frankly that the Dig Try
just didn't seem to get caught :,
Evidence indicated that Philadelphia organized by the
into various geographical territories each with
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-27
K Ely B 90 K S

round the poets work. The critic
compares Wordsworth's religious
and philosophical outlook to that
found in the writings of the jew
ish fathers. Il is concise and dlrecl
in its approach, and raises inter.
esting questions. Was Wordsworth
a truly Christian writer? How far
did he accept the beliefs of his
time? The critic sees him as an
individual with his own religion.
The poet denies struggle and pas
sion, and teaches the value Of
quiet contemplation and action
which brings the soul nearer to the
source of Good. Mr.. thrilling re,
stores Wordsworth TO a place Of
honour from which he has slipped
these past years. His criticism is
q fitting tribute on the occasion
of the poets centenary.
A short review by Dudley Fits
Of the "Medea" of Euripides, a.
dapted by letters is another
thought provoking critique. The
work proves the perennial interest
Of the theme. Mr.. Fits complains
that the play is too sacrosanct by
tradition TO be subjected TO such
daring modification. In this he Is
somewhat too hard. "Medea" has
been tempered with so oftenl The
new version may not have much
affinity with the Greek original.
But did Comedies or Anouilh's?
They are all portraits of the same
woman. yet each Is coloFed by her
creators thought.
Medea's tragedy lies In the sui
fering that turns her 10 steel. La
there be naught Of softness now. -
Eurpides had her say. In Corn
Giles version. her pride sustains
her when asked what remains Of
her past glory and Joy she answers.
myself, that is enough. AnOuilh's
Medea has her origin In the Greek.
But she is his own creation an
emotional cruel. trapped little ami.
NAL who fights back in panic be.
cause there Is no retreat. II is de-
sire which holds her. love Of
daughter which she bears In an
guish. letters has only followed h
the footsteps Of his predecessors.
Mr.. Fits reproaeh Is that he lacks
the genius which makes such tam
pering'' permissible.
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q few head and making a few
dollars until about two years
ago. Then a two-bit deputy sher-
m accused me of stealing a bull
Id bought. / found out later he
was a horse thief himself who
had a way of acquiring ownership
OF stock of men he'd arrested By
then 1t was too late"
KILLED him, eh?"
Il had to-"
Austin sat listening intentlv.
MS coffee forgotten.
SO you had to go On the
Il had to clear out, if that's
what you mean" Montana an
swered. Il drifted over east
around Billings and went to work
again, being pretty careful about
not giving my name out. The men
at one of the outfits got to cali
ing me Montana. It didn't mean
anything until a gent named Joe
BoStock went on a drunk in town
one night and hit the prod. had
to down him and light out again
l swung west. figgering on a try
at the mines for change. but
Mother got sick and I had 10 90
back to Kansas City. That was
last spring. There was a cattle
buyer there IN town with a big
shipment of part Mexican stuff
he'd picked up along the line. I'd.
sold him a few head and he'd
looked up Mother when he was in
town. Got to dropping by every
time he was in to see how she
was getting along. His names
Harry Thatcher"
Thatcher?" Jim Thornton ex.
claimed. you mean you know
old Thatch?"
Pretty well.
why" Montana,s father said.
smiling, @old Thatch and I were
IN the war together. Lordy. how
long ago that seems now!S
mot so long but that he stin
recognized you when he ran into
you IN Cheyenne Montana add
ed shortly. so he told us who
you were and last fall headed
down this way. Mother was dead.
and there was no longer a prom
ise to be kept"
He paused and the elder Thorn
lon BOXED BOXED puzzled. What prom
mot to kin yos - sons - -
was alive"
eDe Be esneinseD
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Chapter 20

OndptGT ~
I'M THORNTON, alias King
- Ransom, leaned back in his
chair, studying the face of the
younger man who was his son.
Memory was flooding his mind,
carrying him back to a small
house near the railroad yards in
Kansas City. Some things a man
never forgets, and though this
man with the close cropped hair
had been married again since then
and come far he was seeing again
In his mind a patient wife and a
very small son. He was also seeing
a few cattle from the surrounding
Kansas plains. where few hardy
pioneers, risking a wipe-out at the
hands of plains Indians, brought
IN some head of stock to sell to
the packers.
Something about those people
and the cattle had fired Jim
Thornton's imagination, he now
recalled.
There had been weeks, there
In Kansas City, when he had felt
the call and couldn't find the
courage to heed it. When it came
he slipped quietly out, just as he
had done from the Army, and
headed west. He went, salving
his conscience by telling himself
over and over that as soon as he
made his pile" he would send
for them. He had been equally
quick to learn that a man didn't
learn the cattle business pretty
quickly, but he became an owner
by saving his monthly wages.
There was much wild stuff
mavericks, they were called,
after a Texan who hadn't be-
ieved in branding stock and thus
was considered owner of every
unbranded critter in his part of
the country-to be roped and
worked on with a running iron.
Land was cheap and grass was
plentiful. Thornton had pros
pered. A gambling house in
Cheyenne had helped lot, and
it was there, rapidly growing to
afHuence, he had married the
Eastern woman.
With that marriage he put his
past behind him. AT times there |
rose up picture of the wife and |
child he had deserted, but time |
was obliterating this. sending it |
farther into the background the |
higher he climbed. By the time
~
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BY A. de T. CINCRAS

drama in Uncle Toms Cabin, the
book was shooting at something
fundamentally wrong and so is
this book.
Slavery, whether Il be practised
through sharecropping or owning
slaves, against white man or Negro
man or Jew, whether it exists in
Soviet Russia or in Nazi concen-
tration camps, is wrong. Decent
men and women everywhere want
to put a stop to disease spots In
our civilization. If Mr.. Conrad's
book helps to lessen any economic
slavery now existing anywhere in
this country or in any other. as
well as being an interesting work
from a literary viewpoint, he has
made two contributions with his
new novel.
fTHE KENYON CRITICS, studies
in modern literature from the
Kenyon Review. Edited by John
Grove Ransom. World Publishing
Co., 342 pp.) Quest Review by
A. Watney, English Journalistic
The writing in this collection Is
of high quality and the contents
sufficiently varied to please the
most readers.
One of the outstanding essays Is
Philip Blair Rice's exposition Of
the existentialist philosophy of
Jean-Paul Sartre. From the
French writer's obscurity Mr..
Rice has had to untangle Sartre's
conception of man and the duality
which exists between the ''eire-
poursoi" and the "etre pour autri. I"
He has succeeded in giving the
reader fairly concise explanation
of existentialist thought, although
like the original Sartrian books, he
sometimes lacks lucidity. He has
gathered Sartre's ideas mainly
from ''L'Etre ct lie Meant" and La
Nauseev. These two books do con-
tain Sartre's theory of existence.
Yet it is in his plays and in the
works Of his followers that the real
Sartre and the essential meaning
Of his philosophy are more easily
understood by the average indivi-
dual. In the OTestes of Les Mou-
ches". the Garcin of ''Huis Clos"
and the main characters Of "Morts
Sans Sculpture" the Sartrian in
dividual Is seen moving about In
his n1ilieu.
Another interesting piece Is
Adrienne Monnier's analysis Of
James Joyee's Ulysses. II Is
hard TO be objective about this
book. II must in itself provoke some
emotion admiration. enthusiasm,
disgust. Miss Monnier has eudea
Voared to place Il in its rightful
/ category. not as success Dc
scandaie". but as a panoramic
novel which touches all levels and
shades from the sublime TO The
obscene. revelation Of humanity
as IL is. rather than as we woult
like 70 see it. Joyce has dissolved
anr rosy hare and forced as b
see beth the good and the bad II
mankind. Miss Monnier does no
minimize the difficulties Of inter
preaing and reading Joyce, bu
she does give the reader . key q
understanding him, The key b.
must use himself
/ Lionel TrilliEg's essay ca Words
worth II valuable cont button 4
the mass IL literature written .
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|IAlV)T BY WILLIAM HoPsoN
BY WILLIAM HOpSON

Belle was ready for school the
big ranch he had dreamed of was
a reality and King Ransom" was
on his way.
By the time the stage line had
to be abandoned the Kings wife
began taking Belle back East for
schooling. At first the trips were
OF two or three months dura-
ton. They gradually heightened
into nine months. Only during the
summers did Ramson'S wife re-
turn with Belle to the ranch. And
as these trips heightened King
Ransom, accompanying them East
sometimes, began to make friends.
They came to the ranch, parties
of them, and always there were
IN the parties young women who
were taken by the owners power
among the ranchers, his reputa-
ton as dangerous man, his bluff
manners -. and his money.
RamSon'S wife did not know at
first about these eScapadeS, nor
did Belle, then almost fifteen. The
year she reached that age King
RamSon'S wife could stand it no
longer. She went East to stay for
good; and because she didn't be-
heve in divorce there was no di-
vorce. Belle, electing to remain
with her father, had grown to
Womanhood. She was now due at
the ranch with Helen Forrest.
Tell me about. your mother"
he finally said.
MONTANA stirred his coffee.
w There's little to tell, and
that part is past history. She
end"
"And your" the man revealed
as Jim Thornton asked.
I stuck around until was
sixteen, working on farms, in the
stockyards, and so on. Got itchy
feet and went out to Montana for
a stretch of ranch work. ] wanted
her to come out but she didn't
care to move. So sent her
to live on out of my
wages and a fair hand at bunk
house poker"
TRY to branch out for your
self?" Thornton asked interest
edly.
Il gave it try" Montana said:
ne didn't know why he was talk
ing to this man he had hated al
his life, but Ransom" seemed toll
have way of drawing a man
put Il began buying and sellingl