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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-11-07
DEFEATS STEVENSON.

Not alone can it be said that Eisenhower defeated Ste
venson in the big landslide of Tuesday is rather likely
that Stevenson who made mighty good appearance Tor
himself would have had President Truman stayed nome
and not gone transforming all the country laundering
way about and bringing undue attention upon the mis-
takes of his administration. .
For anyone played the jackass in National poll
tics President Truman Instead OF letting stevenson
go forth under fresh banner of his own ne puphc
demanded that Stevenson Trumans record Instead
of keeping mouth shut he directed bitter campaign
against Richard Nxons campaign expense fund.- which was
especially when it known that the practice In one
form or another is general rather than exception even
among administration officials.
Another big mistake the Presidents inflated ego
assuming that the huge popular vote he carried four years
ago was all his own and would follow along with him this
time What accurate that the vote four years ago
was vote for the Democratic party rather what the
electorate hoped the party would do for the people the
next four years.
did to make monkey of himself to shout that Esen
hover was unfit incompetent incapable for the president
He forgot it generally known he Truman himself had
endeavored to get Eisenhower to be the Democratic cand
date earlier this year.
Along with the great storm throughout the Nation,
that foowe din the wake of Tumans bargng about the
country many members of the Congress also lost their
shirts the backwash of the sentiment that rolled for
General Eisenhower.
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8ELHAVEN PERSONALS

Mrs. J. W. Bell, Mrs. Sarah
Latham, Mrs. Frank Bishop, and
Miss Mary Elizabeth Bell spent
Thursday afternoon in Williams
ton.
Miss Sarah Mae Green and
Mrs. Roscoe Latham of New
Bern were week end guests of
Mrs. Sarah Latham.
w. w. Bullock spent the past
week in Raleigh on business.
Mrs. Guy Swindell joined her
daughter, Mrs. A. H. Etheridge,
and Mr.. Etheridge and her son
and daughter-in-law, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Allen, all of Manteo,
for a week end trip to Peters
burg and Richmond, Virginia.
Miss Ruby Lee Paul, of Wash
ington spent the week end in
Belhaven with her parents.
Miss Geraldine Swindell of
East Carolina College, spent the
weekend at her home in Bella
ven.
Miss Mary Bullock, Miss Ger
trude Tomson, and Miss Grisselle
Tomson, of Norfolk, were week
end guests of Miss Bullock's par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. o. Bullock.
Mrs. Leslie Jones, of Norfolk,
spent the past week end with
Miss Emma Dean Calfee, of the
Roanoke Rapids school faculty,
spent the weekend at her home
her sister, Mrs. Clifton Creole.
in Belhaven.
Mis- Peggy Ann O'Neal, who
is a student at the University of
spent the week end at her home
North Carolina, spent the past
weekend with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Prentiss O'Neal.
Ed Grady and Mr.. John Cor
bett of Wilson were the weekend
guests of Misses Celia Griffin and
Eloise Mckinney.
Mrs. Ernest Swindell has re-
turned home after spending some
time with his daughter, Mrs.
Alice Collins in Nashville, N. c.
Mrs. w. P. O'Neal and son,
Bud, and Misses Yettie and Bit
sy Bullock and frankie Keaton,
attended the Circus in Rocky
Mount Monday.
Miss Peggy O'Neal, student at
the University of North Caro-
lima, visited her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. W. P. O'Neal over the week
end.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur D. Anti
of Lower Salem, Ohio, have re-
turned home after spending some
time with Mrs. Antils parents,
Mr.. and RMS. Walter Russ.
Miss Emma Dean Calfee,
teacher at Roanoke Rapids, was
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Ihome for the week end.

home for the week end.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. H. Bishop and
children visited their grandma
ther, Mrs. Ludie Jennette in
Elizabeth City. Mrs. Jennette re-
turned home with them.
East Carolina students home
for the week end were Gearlding
Swindell, John Costulis, and
Grover Caravan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Mann and
Mrs. M. M. Sawyer of Manns
Harbor, visited Mrs. c. F. Swim
dell on Sunday. c. F. Swindell
was home for the weekend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gus Etheridge and
John Allen of Manteo spent the
week end with Mrs. Guy Swindell
Jack Leigh and family attended
the circus in Rocky Mount Mon
day.
Pat Dawson, Belhaven girl now
at ECC, Greenville, has been nam
ell by the colleges 88. Beaufort
County students as their vice-pres-
ident. Jack Cutler of Bath is the
president. Miss Dawson is the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Paul
Dawson.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-11-07
THE LAW AND
CUTTING OFF NOSES
wallace Enterprise)

DR.. Samuel N. Cramer, curator
of the Tablet Collection of the
University of Pennsylvania mus
cum, recently discovered that the
history of written laws extends
back to $500 B. (Which is at
least century earlier than here
tofore believed. DR.. Cramer made
his discovery by translating clay
tablet, found in Istanbul.
DR.. Cramer's discovery is the
fourth time since the turn of the
century that scholars have turned
back the beginning of the history
of written law. The interesting
part of the discovery is that it
establishes the fact there were
written laws 1,700 years before
the time of Christ, violators of
which were fined certain fixed
sums of money.
The translation of three of the
laws showed these fines:
1. eff a man with an in
strument his foot has cut off, ten
shekels, he shall pay"
2. eff a man to man with a
weapon his honey of -. severed
one silver nina (6O shekels), he
shall pay"
8. eff a man to a man with a
geshpu instrument the nose has
cut off, two-thirds of silver nina,
he shall pay"
Laws have greatly advanced
since that day and tend to bring
punishment in line with the nature
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ondary-road program in addition
to their normal work and re-
sponsibilities.
Some of them died under the
overload.
In addition to the paving and
maintenance, the Highway De
partment made other record
breaking achievements between
Jan. /, 1896 and Sept. 80, 1852.
1t built 4,096 new bridges and
installed Z, 865 new culverts of
36-inch pipe or larger. Thousands
of smaller culverts were install
lied. It stabilized 13,902.81 miles
of country roads for all-weather
use by applying courses of stone,
gravel, sand and clay. This fig
ure does not include 5000 miles
or more of roads stabilized early
in the program and later hard
surfaced.
Throughout the gigantic pro-
gram the Highway Commission
has worked as a team under the
leadership of Chairman Jordan.
The commissioners and their di-
visions are: First Division, Henry
G. Shelton of Speed; Second, w.
Guy Hargett, Richlands; Third,
A. Wilbur Clark, Fayetteville;
Fourth, DR.. R. E. carp, Selma;
Fifth, James A. Barnwell, Bur-
lington; Sixth, George S. Coble,
Lexington; Seventh, M. Otis
Poole, Candor; Eighth, Paul T.
Taylor, Winston-Salem; Ninth,
Joseph Graham, Iron Station;
and Tenth, L. Dale Thrash, Ashe-
vile.
Until early this year, the COM
missioner in the Eighth was
Mark Goforth of Lenoir, who re-
signed and was succeeded by
Commissioner Taylor.
On the financial side, the State
has spent 283,151,916 on road
and bridge construction since
January of 1949. Additional mil
lions have been spent on main
tenanct.
Up to last Sept. 80, a total of
$168, 721 500 had been spent on
secondary roads from the $780,
900, 900 bond issue. Much of the
remainder had been allocated to
specific projects to be completed
as weather and tome permit.
Money spent on primary-high-
wya construction and improve
ment totaled $81,705 LOT.
The other money spent on the
road. program came from the
county-road betterment fund and
other established funds set up in
the highway budget and derived
from the regular highway reve-
nues.
The cost of paving primary
highways now ranges from. $780,
600 to $4,000 mile for a single
lane, and the cost of paving a
secondary highway runs from
So, 900 to $4,000 a mile. The fig
ures do not include the costs OF
right-of-way, grading, bridges OF
any items other than paving. The
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-11-07
OTHER EDITORS
OUR PRESENT PROSPERITY
ISN'T DUE TO ANY MAGIC
(The Asheville Times)

To charge any responsible
American political leader with Ell
Their seeking or welcoming war as
means of maintaining prosperity is
to strike pretty low. Whatever our
differences, no man of human
sensibilities wants to see fat pay
checks purchased at the price of
young mems lives.
Attacks on the Truman Admins
tration that carry to this extreme
ought to be ended forthwith. We
have already had far too much
of this sort of thing.
Yet it is not unfair to point out
that our greatest wave of prosperi-
ty-the boom that began in 1889
40 and is still going-has for the
most part been an accompaniment
of war or the upsurge of civilian
output in its immediate aftermath.
The Administration is fond of
barking back to the Great Depres-
sion, and of claiming credit for cur
ing it. Yet, it is a provable fact
that the Democratic Party did not
solve the basic element of the de-
observation-disclosures. In 1889,
just before Worll War II began,
the United States still had g.
100000 people without jobs.
Historians generally sympathe-
tic to the aims and accomplish
ments of the Roosevelt era con-
cede this freely. In the more prac-
teal sense, the depression was
cured not by remedial New Deal
but by war.
The real essence of the New
Deal was a series of social re-
forms designed to protect farmers,
workers, home owners and others
from the devastating effects of
But in constructing
this protective framework, the men
of the New Deal never found the
formula for stimulating the econ
Ohy W 4uI1 pIOuuCIAOu'
Since war descended in late 1889,
we have never been beyond its
shadow. The flush of early post
war times reflected pent-up buying
power held back by war. Here and
there signs developed of real tap
ering off, but before any conclu-
sive evidence could be had the Ko-
rean war sent US off on another
big upsurge.
Today the entire economy is on
vastly greater scale than in 1889.
All kinds of legal safeguards exist
to shore up sagging income, as for
example farm price supports. Pos
sibly there are now elements at
work which can keep the economy
on a reasonably self-sustaining ba-
sis without the stimulus of war
or its preparations.
All anyone can fairly say about
this important question is that we
do not have the answer. The idea
has never been tested, and it can
not be until we are free of war and
major defense activity that is close
to it. In the meantime, the Demo-
cratic Party cannot fairly acclaim
that it has some magic formula
to assure prosperity. There is no
magic in this boom of ours.-The
Asheville Times.
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of the crime. No longer does it
cost only ten shekels if one cuts
off a foot. Nor is the severing of
another's nose taken quite so
lightly. And, judging from the
number of laws dealing with ampu-
tation, it seems that the Sumerians
who lived in what is now Southern
Iraq, had a bit of trouble with
knife welding, and that civiliza-
ton is advancing despite what
some people say.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-11-07
THE RADIO RELIGION

Now whether folks are Methodists
Or Baptists, it's the same:
Or whether they profess to faiths
Of any other name
If they elect to stay at home,
To churches never go,
Whatever be the creed they own
They've snapped for-Radio.
It's nice to loll in easy chairs
In comfort when it rains
And listen in to cheerful songs
And distant organ strains
And not be worried by the fact
The passing plate is due
To pause a second at your place
For "sustenance" from YOU
This Radio Religion may
For shut-ins do heap
But for those well enough to go
There's little good to reap;
But whether folks are Methodists,
Or Baptists, here there,
No church on earth can be replaced
BY "service"-on the air!
William Ludlov
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EISENHOWER AND THE END OF AN ERA.
Norfolk Virginian-P ilot)

The extent of General Esenhower's victory in Tues
days voting striking in comparison with everything
else recorned in the results that this decision must be
derstood primarily his triumph and only secondary the
triumph of the Republican party.
The margin in the popular vote and the broad sweep
of the electoral vote much positive and impress
than the showing of Republican candidates for House
or Senate The control of the House goes almost invariably
with party of incoming President and apparently
will do this time but by small margin The control of
the Senate where only third of the seats were at stake
quickly responsive to public opinion There has clear
ly been revolution in this respect
Vice President carried 80 States and the Democrats
States ten results would be much like those of the 1910
votes the 1914 election, when Roosevelt beat Dewey by
1872 to 99-both of which properly regarded en-
phatic and indeed overwhelming victories
s r. ] Ia. n0w snse
carrying are in one Of the @ a re
the country at large
s4d this is nss S
leads Republican Senators and fought for their life
a aPe R trsed his
party and dragged Republicans along with him. many
These facts Of importance They important in
an votes for a1 I M
s the Stevenson sH
chains We're Repbcan
e eS at es
Es0 TO e
of breaking the grip with which the Truman held
year they liked the character personality record promise
This appraisal victory
Republican National Convention
nominated him. powerful practical argument made his behalf then
aspants would have difficulty The
ment correct.
known every American begin
had critics
ed respect adaptabity carried hmwith difficulties
field of activity, and of
could could
election and he did such style and with such
th fRs for eG1
sef-in a position Of great power and prestige
of
began Franklin Roosevelt the
with the defeat of Truman that
confidence of the country but of its
foreign affairs American policy understood
General Eisenhower Much the domestic the
New part the American universal DEAL
rooted
accomplishments.
regime deservedly, for other including
exhaustion and moral depletion, which the fruits OF
power saaon deterioraed leadership There will be change
plenty record elsewhere this today but
appears the accomplishments which, what
party power negrad into American life
Eisenhower the leader the
derecons wasage the compacency the the
the disregard of elementary economics the parsanhp
organized minorea the weaknesses which
characterized the Truman administration.
loser election not Governor Stevenson figure
fine talents and spirit who has place in American life
strange himself capable
decisions but who has proved himself nd
fixed essential American standardSMr Truman
the Of this General Eisenhower deserves
era that can promise terrible strain He
mansand the nation
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cost of paving varies according
to types, terrain and other fac
tors. In mountainous areas, for
instance, road-building is neces-
sarily slower and costlier..
Evening star., 1952-07-05

1t can be made by the admins
trative agencies"
The home builders, who were
Continued on Page B-4, Col. g.
Evening star., 1952-07-05
BY Robert J. Lewis
RAnI Esfnaa Editor nf The Sfnr


In spite Of contrasting re-
ports and considerable continu-
ing confusion, Regulation K
mortgage finance controls will
remain In effect for at least
another three months, maybe
four, and perhaps even longer.
Reports were current over
last week end that the controls
governing down payments on
new homes were scheduled to
be lifted July owing to inclu-
sion in the Defense Production
Act Of q means Of modifying
the regulation.
However. the facts were
somewhat garbled in transit
and not until q partial clarif1-
cation was issued last Monday
by the Housing and Home
Finance Agency and the Fed
eral Reserve Board was the
matter Strengthened out for the
record in some respects.
The Qualification didn't cover
all the ground, and didn't re-
ceive wide publicity. according
to housing agency officials. and
many persons in and out Of the
building industry still have the
impression that no mortgage
credit controls are in effect
today.
Clarification still is awaited
as to exactly how the proce-
dures provided for in the bill
to allow lifting Of Regulation K
win operate. That the clarifica-
ton is needed is apparently the
fault Of the bill and not Of any
agency involved.
The bill provides. briefly, that
II the number Of homes started
during any three consecutive
months Is at an annual rate Of
under 1900, 900 units. then the
President shall initiate q period
Of credit control relaxation.
At the moment. housing ON
cials said, production Of homes
is at the rate of one million
homes a year. Even if this rela-
lively high rate continues for
Evening star., 1952-07-05

understood. This compromise
provided for the contingent
lifting Of the controls In case
the number of homes put under
construction dropped below an
annual rate Of 100000.
Organized home builders
since then have made no secret
of their bitter disappointment
that Congress didn't abolish the
down-payment controls COM
pletely.
Among other things, they said
this week:
Possibly the worst legislative
fiasco in housing in many years
has thrown the home building
industry. the Government agen-
cies involved, and the home
buying public into almost COM
plete confusion.
Buyers. lenders and builders
were told by wire services on
Sunday that the Regulation K
Evening star., 1952-07-05
Cash. Down Terms Hitched to Home Building Rat

three months, the law provides
that Regulation x shall be
lifted by the President.
The date when such relaxa-
ton will take place-if it does
take place-depends on whether
June / or July / is used as the
date from which to compute
the period, officials said.
Since the relaxation is to be-
gin q full month after COM
pletion Of the three-month
period, the first possible date
when q relaxation Of Regula-
ton x could be effective under
the bill would be October /.
That would be the date in case
June / was used as the date
from which the three-month
period is computed.
# July / Is determined by
the President to be the proper
date from which to compute
the three-month period, then
Evening star., 1952-07-05

November l would be the first
possible effective date of any
Regulation K relaxation.
Builders have wanted COM
plete Regulation K removal,
and were instrumental, appar-
emily. in having Congress modi-
fy still further. through the De-
fense Production Act. a recent
relaxation of the mortgage
credit regulation announced
jointly by the Housing and
Home Finance Agency and the
Federal Reserve Board.
The two agencies changes
In the regulation lowered down.
payment terms only slightly.
Then the movement developed
to have Congress throw the
regulation out altogether.
But q last-minute compromise
that saved controls was ef-
fected in the early morning
hours of last Saturday, it is
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Continued on Page B-4. Col. -
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Electrical Workers
Apartment Building
Is Fully Occupied

Washington's most recently
completely big luxury apartment
building is owned by an AFL union
insurance company. Apartments
were occupied as they were COM
pleted. When the last of the 556
apartments was finished, the
building reached 100 percent oc-
cupancy.
The building IS known as 1900
Massachusetts, avenue NV. 1t
occupies the site Of the former
Louise Home. Massachusetts, ave-
nue., between Fifteenth and Six
teenth street NV. Legal owner
lis 1900 Massachusetts, Avenue. Inc.
Stock Of that corporation is wholly
owned by the Electrical Workers
Benefit Association. to which $780,
900 members of the International
brotherhood of Electrical Workers
belong.
Dan w. Tracy. former Assist
ant Secretary of Commerce and
Continued on Page B-4. Col. 1)
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had been lifted. However, the
joint statement Of HHFA and
the Federal Reserve Board Is
sued Monday has corrected this
Evening star., 1952-07-05

misconception. but clarif1cation
Of many important questions as
to procedure under the new law
cannot be made until o study Of
Evening star., 1952-05-07
Why Grow Old?
Claudia Knows How!

in reconditioning If 1t is done
slowly and carefully and regu-
larly.
This is the waist simmer
Claudia Pima took after her baby
arrived. Sit on the floor with
your legs resting on the floor and
separated at about a 45-degree
angle. Your back should be
straight and your hands on the
floor behind you. Without NOV
ing or bending the legs, bring
the right arm over and touch the
outside Of the left foot with your
right hand. Return to position.
After a few times, using the right
arm. bring the left arm over and
touch the outside of the right
foot. Return to position. Miss
Pima did this 20 times, alter
mating left and right. twice daily,
with beautiful results.
Claudia also feels that, since
a certain amount of house work
Is the lot Of most women, it is
wise to make a beneficial exercise
out Of it. Whenever she bends
over during these activities she
keeps her knees straight and
bends from the waist, pulling the
abdominal muscles in.
When she must get something
OH OF a high shelf she does it
aid Of stepladder If pos
Sible.
Evening star., 1952-05-07
Graduates Mass
Set Saturday i.

The District Chapter of the In
ternational Federation of Catholic
Alumnae will participate in the
I.F.C.A.'s national observance OF
Mary's Day on Saturday with at
tendance at the annual Gradu-
ates' Mass at 10 am. in the Shrine
of the Immaculate Conception at
Catholic University.
Special guests will be the gradu-
ating classes of the 16 local Cath
olic colleges, academies and high
schools.
The Right Rev. Patrick j.
O'Connor. director of the National
Shrine of the Immaculate Con-
ception. will celebrate the mass
and deliver the sermon at the
Mary Memorial Altar.
The concluding ceremony will
be a procession Of the choir and
alumnae and guests to Memorial
Hall for further services. The pro-
cession will be led by DR.. Bernice
Wall Mcguire, governor of the
alumnae group.
Music will be furnished by the
choir of the Immaculate Concep-
ton Academy.
A post-Communion breakfast
will be served at Avignone Freres
at 1880 am.
Evening star., 1952-05-07
Problems TODAY
Mere Thought Of Future Husband,
Sign OF Recovery From Heortbreok

than your heart. Probably you
never will entirely forget him, but
as time goes on his image will be-
come DINNER and DINNER until
one day you'll actually have to
make an effort to remember what
he looked like.
Don't try to put yourself in the
place of a tragic, f1ctional heroine
whose heart was broken to bits by
a reckless lover. Modern maidens
are made of Sterner stuff. Dwell
ing on dark events of the past will
only delay the period of recovery.
The heartache attending a
broken romance is one of the most
f1eeting. though acute. pains. Be
ing able, at this heartrending
point, to see a man in your future
at all, proves that your recovery is
already well under way.
Evening star., 1952-05-07
By Josephine Lowmon

In her private life, Claudia
Pima. the soprano daughter OF
Ezio PIMA, is the wife Of a young
minister and the mother of a 21a-
year-old son and q very young
daughter. Now, not quite six
weeks after welcoming this new
member Of the family, Claudia
is planning to return to her pro-
feSsional life as a concert singer
and supper-club chanteuse.
Were you to see Miss Pima in
the charming evening gowns she
wears as a singer you would never
guess that she is a new mother,
While she is not normally a per-
son who has to fight the battle
of the bulge. with an up-to-date,
modern attitude, she felt that it
would be wise to take a few waist
slimming and abdominal-fiatten-
ing exercises as soon as her doc
tor gave his consent.
Here are two Of the ones she
did. Stand with your back to-
ward the wall, head, neck, shoul-
ders, arms and hands fat against
it. and feet about Is inches away
from it. Slowly pull the abdomen
in and f1atten the hips against
the wall, keeping the knees stiff.
Relax and repeat. This is not a
strenuous exercise but is powerful