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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-08-29
COASTLAND NEWSPAPERS TO GIVE
Sis IN AWARDS TO WRITER'S OF
LETTERS ABOUT OUR SERVICE MEN

for us here at home.
2. The physical, mental, or
moral gains being rendered to
the individual giving the serv-
ice and by reason of this
service.
3. The sense of value, the adj
vantages or deficiencies of the
homeland so far away, as it
appears to the serviceman
viewing it from afar. Is the old
home being better appreciated
by reason of separation? What
are the advantages of the ma
tive community that makes it
so much worth while?
4. 1t must contain a recital
of interesting things about the
country he is in, the customs
and habits of the people, and
some of the serviceman's ex-
periences in strange land. It
must tell who the man is, his
homeplace and imm e d ia tie
relatives.
We believe that a series of let.
tiers of this type will render rea
service of more than casual in
terest to our readers.
All letters comp citing fol-
prizes must be accompanied by ;
disable photograph of the service
man.
We welcome all other contri
buttons, although they are not a
long as those specified above. W.
also welcome news about al
servicemen. We reserve the RICH
to publish all letters, whetheI
prize winners or not, and w,
promise to do our best to return
all photographs desired to b,
returned.
For further details, address tn,
Editor of this newspaper.
THE COASTLAND TIMES,
Manteo
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-08-29
LOST COLONY CHORUS
IN CONCERT SUNDAY
Mixed Program In ManteO School
Auditorium at Four O'Clock

The Lost Colony Chorus, which
is a part of the Roanoke Island
School of Fine Arts, will be pre-
scented in an interesting program
of sacred and secular numbers
including a number of spirituals,
ION Sunday afternoon, August 81,
at four o'clock in the Manteo
School auditorium. The public is
invited to attend. A nominal adj
mission will be charged, proceeds
to go to the fund for Music in
Veterans Hospitals.
The chorus, which consists of
members of the Lost Colony choir
and others enrolled in the Roanoke
Island School of Fine Arts, will
be conducted by Ralph Burrier, di-
rector of music for the Lost Col
ony. Accompanies will be Franz
Engle, James Hart and Helen Reit-
meyer.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-08-29
Single Copy 7e
NEW DOCTOR AND
TECHNICIAN PLAN
MANTEO OFFICES
Goldsboro Physician Will
Head Medical Center in
Pearce Building Near
Town About Octo-
Der

DR.. Clyde B. Brown, for the
past Is years on the medical staff
of the State Hospital at Goldsboro,
with his technical assistant, Phil
lip Smith, also with the same hos
pital for four years, were in Man
teo this week making arrange
ments for the opening of offices
for general medical practice about
October l, in Manteo. They have
rented the homes of Mrs. Marga-
ret Hoyle, and Mrs. Augusta Pen
nystone, where they will reside.
DR.. Brown, who was accompan-
led by his wife, is native of
Potecasi, Northampton County. He
is member of Sudan Shrine Tenn
pie of New Bern. Prior to his entry
into medical school, he was en-
ployed with the British American
Tobacco Co. and worked for them
in their New York offices, in New
Foundland, China, and Costa RIGA.
He attended Trinity College and
the Medical College of South Car
DINA at Charleston. He is a men,
Der of the American Medical AS
ISOLATION and the N. C. Medical
Association. The Browns have two
children.
Mr.. Smith, before taking his
technical schooling, served for
three years as a pharmacists mate
in the Navy. He is a native of
Rockingham. They have three
children.
They plan to set up a complete
office with much equipment, hav-
ing leased the Pearce house one
miles south of Manteo. Their de-
cision to located in Manteo is
largely due to the joint efforts dur
ing the past year of committee
from the several civic clubs on
Roanoke Island, Rotary, Lions,
Ruritan.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-08-29
WOODROW PRICE NAMED ON
SEASHORE COMMISSION

Woodrow Price of Raleigh, top
reporter on the News & Observer,
and summer resident of Ocracoke
Island, has been named by Cover
nor Scott to fill the unexpired term
on the Cape Hatteras Seashore
Commission vacated last week by
Major ]. L. Murphy of Kill Devil
Hills.
Mr.. Price, an Elizabeth City ma
tive, formerly lived in Manteo as
newspaperman. He is an ardent
hunter and fisherman and spends
great deal of time in coastal
areas, writing a column for his
paper each week. He plans to build
a summer home at Ocracoke, or
a lot he owns near the hotel.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-08-29
Our Subscribers Will Be Given
A Chance to Win a Prize as
Well as To Render
Great Community
Service

Our readers want to know
about the men of our coastland
who are serving their country in
Korea or in Europe. This news
paper is going to make it pos
sible to get more articles about
these boys who are away from
home. Readers of this newspap-
er who live in Dare, Hyde, Tyr
rell, or eastern Beaufort, will be
given a chance to win the $115
in prizes to be paid out as fol-
lows: For the best letter of about
500 words or more, $50; second
best, $25; third best $40; and for
fourth prize, three cash prizes of
S. each. For the fifth prize, there
will be six $3.50 annual subscrip-
tons, whereby six people will get
free years reading of this, their
home newspaper.
The letters or articles must be
written by service man himself,
who is serving in Europe, or Asia,
or adjacent country; or by some
member of his family or friends
residing in the above named
counties and which friends or
relative is a regular subscriber
of this newspaper.
Our purpose in seeking these
letters or articles is not merely
to get pointless letter with the
bare fact that this or that person
is in service. Our purpose is to
show one or more of the follow
ing phases:
l. The ideals for which this
service is being rendered our
Nation, and the causes which
are being defended and the
rights that are being protected
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-08-29
PARK SERVICE FILES
PETITION FOR LANDS
Ehringhaus Firm of Raleigh
Awarded Contract to Search
Titles of Hatteras Island
Lands

At the request of the National
Park Service of the Department
of the Interior, the U. S. Attorney
General has filed in Federal Court
petition for the condemnation
of lands on Hatteras Island to be
included in the proposed Cape
Hatteras National Seashore Rec
rsational Area. The lands in ques-
ton include substantially all the
acreage that the National Park
Service anticipates acquiring from
private ownership on Hatteras Is
land. Not included in the condem-
nation order are the villages of
Rodanthe, Waves, Salvo, Avon,
Buxton, Frisco and Hatteras. The
National Park Service announced
that substantial areas around
these villages were also omitted
in order that expansion of the
villages could take place. 1t was
stated that condemnation action is
necessary to clear title to some
of the land and should speed up
the process of acquisition and pre-
vent land speculation in the ac-
QUESTION area.
The Land Acquisition Office at
Manteo is making appraisals and
securing title data on the prop
critics included in the condemna-
ton order as we'll as the lands to
be acquired for the Seashore on
Bodie and Ocracoke Islands. In this
connection it has been announced
that the law firm of Ehringhaus
and Ehringhaus of Raleigh has
been awarded the contract for pre-
pairing title abstracts.
Despite the filing of the condem-
nation suit, direct purchase of the
lands in the condemnation area
is still possible in those cases
where the owner can convey a
clear title and mutually accept
able sales price can be agreed
upon. A. C. Stratton, Project Man
ager for the Land Acquisition Of
fee has stated that the National
Park Service definitely intends, if
possible, to acquire every single
tract by means of friendly nego-
tiation, rather than by use of court
procedures, except where there is
some cloud upon the land title
which the Court must clear.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-08-29
AGED WANCHESE WOMAN
DIES WEDNESDAY NIGHT

Mrs. Rebecca Meekins Payne,
II, native of Rodanthe, and widow
of the late Joseph Farrow Payne
for many years resident of Wan
cheese, died at the home of a niece
Mrs. Folger Payne of Wanchese
Wednesday night at 900. She
was the daughter of the late J.. X
and Celia Meekins of Rodanthe
and was a member of the FAN
Haven Methodist Church, Rodan.
the
Funeral services will be conduct.
ed Saturday afternoon by Rev. d
B. Lawrence, pastor of the Assem-,
bly, of God Church, at 2:30 O'Clock
and burial will be in the Garrison
Cemetery.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-08-29
DARE SCHOOLS OPEN
WEDNESDAY, NEXT WEEK

On September 8, 1852, at nine
o'clock in the school auditorium,
the Manteo High School will Of
f1cially begin its 1928 school
year. There will be a short pro-
gram. All friends of the school
are cordially invited to attend.
The principal, A. o. Ayres, will
observe the following hours in
the school building for the two
weeks prior to the opening of
school: 900 to 1900 and 100 to
$3.50, Monday through Friday. He
will be glad to confer with par
ents and students who wish to
see him.
On Saturday, August 80, the
Senior Class is requested to call
at the school building from 800
to 1900 for the purpose of regis
tration for the coming year. On
Monday, September 1, the 10th
and 18th grades are requested to
register. The principal and the
high school teachers will confer
with the students, consult their
past records, and make recon-
mendations for the courses to be
taken during the coming year.
Students having credit for 4 units
of work are classified as sopho-
mores; those with z units as
juniors; and those with II units
as seniors. This system of CLASH
fication is a new ruling of the
Board of Education.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-08-29

All interesting letter from &
soldier at home has been received
by the editor, and reminds us
that we would like to see more
letters from our service men
Friends of Pfc. julie Burrus, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Orlando Burrus
of Manteo. Will be interested in
reading what he has to say. Pfc.
Burrus has been Is months in
Germany. His letter, dated Aug
ust II, reached us five days later,
coming by air mail. Now let's
read what he says about the
rough is months he has been
undergoing training;
The story is this: During the
first IL months I spent nine in the
field, training to face any problem
l would run up against in war.
l think I can say no training in
the way CT warfare has been
overlooked.
I arrived in Germany June rs
CT last year where 1 went Ct
rectly to Mannheim and spent
ten days in a teri. We were
moved by truck t. Mintz and
stayed in a tent for two months.
From Mintz I walked some 20
miles in three days. This brought
me to Baumholder where we
spent ten nlcre days in tents.
Well, ;if,er more than two
months OF moving from place to
place, taking and digging a fox
hole in every hill, we moved to
Wildfeckcn. This spot was my
home for ten months Very strict
and rigid training was carried on
there.
My company was given a bed
and roof over their heads here,
but they were only occupied
about four days of ten. This vas
to take a bath, get a haircut Or
wash few clothes.
In and around Wildfecken I
have trained and slept in waist
deep snow, and spent the bigger
part of last winter showed in
and rluch to my sorrow I have
seen drifts of snow 1912 feet
deep.
After receiving the name of
Gypsy, our regiment moved to
Glenhausen, which was our orig
inal destination IA months ago.
This, I think, completes my
roaming in Germany.
But life in Germany hasn't
been all work. At least once
month special arrangements are
made for trips to France, Italy,
Switzerland, Holland and various
other places of interest. Unfor-
tunately I have only seen France
Switzerland, and the U. S. Zone
of Germany. I had intended see
ing England and the Riviera but
my time has run short.
In Switzerland I learned to- ice
skate and saw the Swiss Alps. In.
France I visited Paris and it's
historical background. Next to
See LIFE, Page Eight
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-08-29
VACATIONS NOW
GROW POPULAR IN
DARE IN AUTUMN
BY AYcocK BROWN

There was a time when Labor
Day marked the end of vacation
time at coastal resorts, but today
with the once three months sea-
son greatly increased the end OF
summer means the beginning of
an autumn vacation period which
will extend through October and
into November here on the coast
of Dare County.
Hotels and other vacation ia
cilities which in the old days
closed for the season on Labor
Day, will remain open until o.
tober and many will be open for
the reception of guests through
out the winter as they, or many
of the hotels and motor courts,
now re m ain open the year
around.
Autumn brings a different type
of vacationist to the Dare coast.
There are fewer children and
students than in the summer, but
the months of September and
October bring in older persons
coming to relax, or sportsmen
who come to match their skill
against the game fishes which are
available in coastal waters of
Dare.
This year, too, emphasis is be-
ing placed on the coastal color
parade" which many persons
think outclass the color of the
mountains. Here in coastal forests
the leaves of hardwoods will
merge with the evergreen pibes
in coastal forests. Autumn, too,
presents a more colorful array of
maritime color, the various hues
of ocean and sound waters, the
bluer sky and more clouds pro-
viding backdrops for colorful and
ever changing marsh1ands, sand
dunes, and miles of glistening
ocean beaches and the surf.
Biggest of the new Dare coast
attractions for tourists this year
will be Hatteras Island and its
seven fascinating villages. This
year for the first time it is pos
sible to drive over a new paved
road from Mays Head southwark
through the island villages to the
town of Hatteras. It is one of the
most unusual oceanside drives in
the world.
Fort Raleigh National Historic
site on Roanoke Island and the
Wright Brothers National Monu-
ment on Kill Devil Hills, both
units of the National Park Serv-
ice, will be open for the recep-
ton of tourists and vacationists
throughout the autumn and win
ter, and already this year attend
ance at the two historic shrines
have broken all previous records.
Vacation travel to the Dare
coast beaches b I'VE en- Kitty
Hawk and Hatteras this year has
shown an increase of approx
mately 35 per cent over last year,
according to L. L. Swain, chair
man of the board of directors of
Dare County Tourist Bureau.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-08-29
CANCER CLINIC

The next cancer clinic will be
held in Elizabeth City, Friday,
Sept. 9Th at 2 pm. at the health
department, according to Mrs. w.
A. Hoggard, Jr., Pasquotank
County Commander the American
Cancer Society.
Evening star., 1952-02-06
Russian Device Reported Able
To Burrow Like Mole by Rudur

BERLIN, Feb. 6 (NANA-Kem-
news "A radar-controlled under
ground rocket-Shaped mechanical
mole" which can bore it's way
into the ground at great speed,
and could be used in war to plant
explosive charges under an ene-
nly's positions, has been perfect
ed by a Russian scientist, accord
ing to a Moscow report from the
East Berlin newspaper Nacht-Ex-
press.
The mole" has a crew of two.
Describing a trial rum" the re-
port said the machine had a
''cigar-shaped point which is a
gigantic and powerful drill. At
the other end are curious winches
which resemble the gills of fish
1.-THE designer entered the huge
machine to reach the drivers seat
through a hatch at the side
Shortly after the first roar of the
engine, the whole vast rocket
shaped device turned, bored its
way rapidly into the side Of the
mountain, and vanished in few
seconds"
According to the Berlin news
paper, the machine solves the
problem Of disposing Of the earth
by fiattening it into the side OF
Evening star., 1952-02-06
Expectunt Father Falls
From Hospital Window
By the Associofed Press

SPRINGFIELD, Mo-, Feb. g.
An expectant father fell out of a
second-floor hospital window yes
terday only a few minutes before
his wife gave birth to a baby girl.
Mother and child, hospital at
tendants said, were doing fine,
but the father-27-year-old Bill
Brown-was a patient in the same
hospital with a back injury. His
condition was described as fair.
Hospital officials said Mr.. Brown
had apparently dozed OF while
sitting on a window sill in the
waiting room.
Evening star., 1952-02-06
Or. Kennedy Named
Fairfax Health Officer

DR.. Harold Kennedy. health
officer for Martinsville, Va, today
was named as new health officer
of Fairfax County, succeeding DR.
Fred Heath. who has been ap-
pointed assistant health director
for Washington.
A native of Ireland who has
served in England, Germany anc
Canada, DR.. Kennedy was recon-.
mended for the post by the Vir.
|ginia Health Department and the
appointment was to be confirmed
today by the county supervisors
Dr.. Kennedy has been MartinSvillt
health officer since July, 1850.
Evening star., 1952-02-06

the tunnel wall as it moves rapidly
forward.
A reserve supply of oxygen Is
kept in case the machine breaks
down while under the surface OF
the earth.
Russian scientists working on
the machine claim to have
evolved a new science-"terro-
dynamics"-as a result of study
ing the action of moles on an x
ray screen. The mole action
was translated into mechanical
form, the report said.
1t is said to be used at present
for driving underground tunnels
for pipelines, railways and the
shafts for, municipal central-heat.
ing systems in Moscow. Batteries
provide the power.
Evening star., 1952-02-06
Fletcher Announces

State Senator John Raymond
Fletcher of Prince Georges last
night filed for the Republican
nomination to Congress from the
Fifth District after a meeting of
District q. o. P. leaders in Annap-
oils failed to agree on any single
candidate.
Another new candidate for the
Republican congressional nomi-
nation is William Henry Evans, jr.,
81, of Edgewater,. Md, ex-naval
lieutenant who was discharged last
year for writing a public letter
criticizing the conduct of the Ko-
rean war. The two new candidates
brought to a dozen the number oi
|G. o. p. congressional aspirants
who have either filed or announced
flor the May 5 primary.
Evening star., 1952-02-06

lployed in the Detroit area. Like SC
many of the others, Sam. being
young and with little seniority at
the plant, was just getting started
well when the layof came.
"They told him." she said, "they
lust didn't have enough stuff to
make enough cars to keep every
body on. We bought so many
things we needed for the kids and
ourselves, and we haven't finished
lpaying for any of it."
The "kidS" are boy, 312, and a
Igirl, 2. whose shyness at the start
lot the interview wore of rapidly
las Mrs. Sam told her story.
Her husband, q. had served the
Navy in the Pacific during the war
HE was from Illinois; she a native
of the area in which they live,
They met and were married after
Ehe got q job in an automobile
plant.
Sans last job was on a Chrysler
assembly, line, and he had worked
there three years when laid Oh
two months ago. His take home
pay al the last was $55 a week. It
had been more earlier, before he
was bumped down" to make way
for workers of more seniority.
Sam and the Mrs, meanwhile
had taken on some obligations
aside from the two kids, between
marriage and layoff. They had
bought a small, nondescript home
in a nondescript CT development
for which they are paying $51 a
month. They bought furniture
and other things for which they
are still paying. They are paying
$50: a month on a small 1851 car
Mrs. Sam said her husband needs
it In his work. And from where
he lives, he certainly needs it Il
ever he is going to find work.
"I don't know how many places
Sam has been looking for a job, u
said his wife. "He has been to a
half dozen the last two days-the
gas company, the telephone COM
pany, the tank arsenal. It's dis
couraging. because so many won't
even take applications"
$31 Jobless Compensation.
The family is getting by on $31
a week unemployment compensa-
ton, and it has IL more weeks to
run. After that. what happens?
Mrs. Sam didn't know. She did
.}Epw their $4Db vira bonds ha6
dwindled to less than $40 and
that Sans father, 70. had met
the last car payment. something
he can't do next month.
Fl have keptaur with the bills
fAirly wellf she said. But now
we are right edown to the last
thing" H.
There is hardship in Detroit, in
Flint and other centers because
the materials that normally make
automobiles have been diverted to
military production. And the
orders for defense goods have not
come in SUFFICIENT quantities to
Evening star., 1952-02-06
'2Agrieu|ture0 Officials
Fired for Inefficiency
And Accepting Gifts
By james E. Roper

Secretary OF Agriculture Bran
nan today fired two Agriculture
Department officials in Dallas
Tex, for inefhciency and accept
ing gratuities from firms doing
business with the Government.
The men are Latham White
chief Of the Agriculture Depart
ment's Production and Marketing
Administration Commodity Office
and his deputy. Harry Solomon.
Both were suspended December
% pending a review of their cases
and a personal ruling by Secretary
Brannan. He found today that
Mr.. White and Mr.. Solomon had
not answered the charges ade-
quately and should be dropped
permanently from the payroll.
The Production Ind Marketing
Administration handles the Stor-
age of commodities which the
Government buys to support farm
prices. Most of the shortages that
have been found in Federal grain
stocks during a current series of
investigations were in the area
administered by the Dallas Office
of PIMA.
Secretary Brannan has said the
complaints against Mr.. Solomon
and Mr.. White were primarily in
efficiency. The gratuities they
received were generally of small
value and included a Bible given
to Mr.. White.
Mr.. White also received two
cases of shrimp, a hat, a leather
belt and advertising trinkets the
department said, and Mr.. Solomon
received several trinkets as well
as two weekend outings at the
expense of grain companies.
Perhaps the most serious charge
of inehciency against them was
that they failed to require private
warehouses that stored Govern
ment wheat and grain sorghums to
deliver the grain promptly when
the Government called for de.
livery.
A House Appropriations suhconl.
mittee which investigated the af-
fair complained that this practice
allowed warehousemer who hac
sold the Government grain to buy
similar grain back and deliver il
to the Government without pen
ality. The subcommittee said some
of the delays in delivery were al
long as six months.
Mr.. White and Mr.. Solomon also
were accused of failing to have
proper personnel strength in theil
Office. failure to process warehouse
receipts properly and failure to
buy rice when the Government or
dered it.