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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-09-17
HUT FOR BOY
SCOUTS TO BE
BUILT IN DARE
Manteo Rotarians Sponsoring
Movement

Manteo Rotarians at their reg
ular weekly meeting this week
announced plans for sponsoring
a movement to build a hut for
Boy Scouts in the Roanoke Is
land and Mays Head area. A fund
raising drive, spearheaded by
members of the Rotary Club, is
scheduled to start this week end
and the present goal will be
$4,000.
The Hut which will be a COM
pletely equipped meeting place
and club room with recreational
facilities would be located near
Manteo on properties already
earmarked, but not yet pur-
chased, for the project. A prelim-
mary discussion of building the
Hut was held last spring and at
that time arrangements were
made with owners Of suitable
properties for its location. The
owners agreed to hold the prop
erty until the busy summer sea-
son was over and a serious drive
for funds could be made for its
purchase and likewise the
amount necessary for erecting a
suitable building.
The Rotary Club Boy Scout
Building committee is composed
of Ralph Swain, chairman, Cor
don Kellogg and E. E. Meekins.
1t was at this committees sug-
gestion tn at subcommittee
were appointed during the cur
rent weekly meeting to begin the
drive for funds. The sub-commit-
tees follow: w. R. Pearce, Martin
Kellogg, L. L. Swain Waterfront
in Manteo west to Church Street;
Bob Smith, Johnny Long, L. L.
Highway; w. H. McCown, Char
Swain, Church Street west to
les Marshall and Archie Burrus,-
Highway from Midway Service
Station to North End ard Air
port section; Aycock Brown
chairman of publicity and COM
mittee of one to contact subscri-
bers in Community and Health
Buildings; Charles MARSHALL to
contact Park Service Personnel
for funds or pledges; Chauncey
Meekins, Ralph Swain and Ro-
land Sawyer-Midway Service
station to and including Wan
cheese; Allyn Hanks, Able Will
liams, Dick Gray, Dick Jordan
Mays Head beach area.
E. E. Meekins will be treas
urer for the funds, on behalf of
the Rotary Club, or the agency
in whose name the project will
be owned when completed.
There was some discussion
about the ownership of the prop
critics and it was decided that a
special board, composed of men,
bers who have deep interest in
the youth of the area, would be
named Trustees for the Building.
Legal slants on this were provi-
ded by Rotarian Martin Kellogg.
In addition to the fund raising
drive to be conducted immed-
lately by the Rotary committees,
the Boy Scouts themselves will
also enlist their services in the
drive by making house to house
canvasses. Other civic or religi-
Gus organizations in the area will
also be invited to lend their fl
nancial support.
Theodore Noe is scoutmaster of
the Manteo Boy Scouts. Under
his leadership considerable in
terest in scouting has been Great
ed in the Roanoke Island and
Mays Head area. The local troop
is affiliated with the Tidewater
Council of the Boy Scouts OF
America.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-09-17
SPECIAL MEETING SEPT. 2s

Mrs. Louise Eggleston of Nor
folk is to be the speaker at "a
Day Apart" on Sept. % at 10 am.
The meeting is to be at the
Mount Olivet Methodist Church,
Manteo, and all denominations
and those interested are invited
to come. A drink will be pro-
vided but those who come are
asked to bring sandwich or
light lunch.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-09-17
PLANS BEING FORMED
FOR FLIGHT OBSERVANCE

Kill Devil Hills. Ralph
Whitener of the Air Force Asso-
citation has advised members of
the Kill Devil Hills Memorial
Society here that the 51st Ami
versary Celebration Of the
Wright Brothers famous flights
of December II, 1908, would be
a token event this year in COM
parison with the Golden Ami
versary event last year. Whitener
is cooperating with the local
agency in forming plans for the
event.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-09-17
CROATAN SOUND BRIDGE TO
CAUSE LARGE EXPENDITURES
ON NEARBY ROAD PROJECTS

Tremendous Outlays Will Be Required to I'm
prove Accessory Roads Bringing the Bridge
Traffic; U. S. 264 Through Hyde County and
Belhaven Area to Demand Large Widening
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-17
St32 Million In Federal
Aid for School Lunches

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(CNS)-
The states and U. S. territories will
share SGT million for school lunch
programs. USDA has already allo-
Gated the money. States must match
each federal dollar with $3.50, unless
their per capita income is below the
u. s. average. In that case, their
matching funds range downward.
USDA will also spend SIS million for
food and $50 million for milk to be
sent around to schools di ectly. Last
year 10 million school children in
$4,000 schools benefited
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-17

CHICAGO-PAD-The United
States Savings and Loan League, an
organization rarely, if ever, in line
with liberal or labor viewpoint, has
now Joined the ''gloom and doom
club. 1t just doesn't see prosperity
breaking out all over.
Actually, the Leagues committee
on economic trends and policies does
not forecast severe depression the
rest Of this year either. Neither do
most Of those accused of doom and
gloom"
What the league does see is mod
erately downward drift-or at best,
a sidewise slide-the remainder of
1854.
after weighing carefully all of
the considerations involved" the
leagues midyear report said, "your
has come to two conclu-
sions; first, that the adjustment has
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-17
kOk-C0M MUNIST
CONDEMNS
united FRUIT

BRUSSELS, Belgium GLNS)-
A contribution of $1,000 to help the
$4,000 employees of United Fruit Co.
on strike since early May in Honduras
was made by the international Con-
federation of Free Trade Unions.
ICFTU's headquarters, in announc-
ing the gift, condemned the company's
imperialistic policies in Sentral Amer
lean countries and its unwillingness
to compromise in the dispute with its
workers.
While stating that Communist in
fluence in the strike had been negible,
ICFTU pointed out that lack of legis-
lation to protect Honduran workers
and the absence of workers organi-
cations were inducements for radical
activity in the labor field. The AFL,
Clio, United Mine Workers and vir-
tually all the worlds non-Communist
labor organizations are ICFTU affil-
ates.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-17

1t is this equation-this balance of
abilities-that makes it ridiculous
for Senate Majority Leader Bill Know
land to shout for Mr.. Eisenhower to
use the excuse of the stricken Navy
patrol plane as a reason for breaking
diplomatic relations with the Soviet
Union.
Knowland has bad nerves. He does
MT know how to wage a cold war If
the Soviets, claiming that our plane
had invaded" Soviet aid, don't want
to take the grave step of breaking
diplomatic relations with us, why
should he insist on taking the initiative
in obliging them?
Half of mankind, and Knowland
has as we'll face it, is uncommitted as
between the West and East A sub
stantial part of Asian opinion is con-
WINGED, through Communist propa-
ganda, that Americans waged germ
warfare" in Korea. The propaganda
is lie, but the conviction remains.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-17
Fucts on the Cold War

tinues, and the United States is likely
sometimes to be the victim.
The Russians, after all, have no
heavy aircraft carriers nor nearby
land bases from which to launch ''rou-
tine" patrol flights along the Ameri-
can Pacific mainland But across the
Pacific they have control of the vast
Asian Continent
Second, the Russians almost I'M
doubtedly are making routine" pa
troll flights over Alaska and Canada
from land bases across the Bering
Straits.
There have been reports of ''vapor
streaks' from high-flying jets, un-
accounted for by any American war
plane, deep into Alaska.
If our routine" patrol flights are
using the latest science of aerial pho
Biography to map the terrain of our
potential enemy in Asia, it is equally
probable that enemy planes are photo
graphing and mapping the terrain of
northwestern North America.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-17
BY WILLARD SHELTON
In LABOR'S DAILY

The Russians are shooting down our
planes and we are shooting down So
viet-furnished Chinese planes all the
way from the top of the Sea Of Japan
southwark along the Asiatic coast. A
few principles may be laid down COW
ering this kind of war-without-war
First, we may expect more ''inci-
dents" comparable to those of last
week end when an American plane
on a routine" patrol flight north
ward was shot down by Soviet jets.
Our Defense Department says the
American patrol plane on it's ''rou-
tine" flight was "A miles off the coast
more than three times the 12-mile
limit which the Russians claim as ter
ritorial waters The Soviets say the
plane had Invaded" Soviet air.
Still, the incidents" are likely to
continue so long as the cold war con-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-17

Our diplomacy in Europe has just
taken a horrible blow in the refusal
CT the French to ratify the European
Defense Community.
Is this the moment for us to take the
serious step of admitting that we have
weak nerves and don't know what to
do except "break" automatically with
the Kremlin?
The only effect would be to per-
suade the neutralists of Asia, and our
best friends in Europe and Latin Amer
lea, that we had given up hope of
peaceful solution of world problems
and were preparing to wage hydrogen
war.
The hard fact is that if we want to
maintain the Pacific as an American
lake, abutting a hostile mainland,
there will be incidents" such as shoot
ing down of planes.
Is Knowland incapable of recogniz-
ing this fact? Mr. Eisenhower, the bet
ter for America, recognizes it.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-17
AFL-CIO Newspaper Union
Is Formed

SAN ANTONIO, Texas.-An ALL
CIO council of newspaper unions was
formed here with a leader of the
Freshmen as president and a News
paper Guild officer as secretary.
Other trades participating are Typo
graphical, Photo-Engravers, Stero-
typers and Mailers. Each local will
be represented by delegates at
monthly meetings.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-17

The restrictions stuck in the bill were
so bad that even Republican Sen. Irv-
ing Ives IN. W said it sounds the
death knell of federal public housing
> incidentally, $50 Republican
members of the House of Represent
atives voted to turn down the Presi-
dents request for a four-year pro-
gram and only 48 supported it."
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-17
Manitoba Coop Refunds
S143,000 In Cash

WINNIPEG, Man.-Manitoba Co
operative Wholesale here is making
its largest cash refund to local co-ops
in its 26-year history-$143,308. The
money represents a portion of re-
funds the coop earned in 1947-48 by
trading with the provincial coop.
Forty co-ops are each getting $1,000
or more.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-17

House, and the President was OPP
posed to the Kennedy amendment
Its the old story. There is a lot
of difference between a politician
promise and his performance.
I'm Secretary of Labor Mitchell's
prepared script offered each COP
congressman he says in part: All you
have to do is look at President Eisen-
hower's program, which is directed
toward the Improvement of the work
ing conditions, the health and the
earnings of the wage earners of the
United States to prove that the Ell
senhower Administration is more
friendly and has more to offer to the
working men and women than any
administration in recent years.
unfortunately, these words just
don't square with the record. Even
though Eisenhower has sometimes
given lip service to labor's needs, he
has failed to fight for these pro-
grams.
But we know that Eisenhower can
fight like Gagged tiger for the things
he wants. Unfortunately, the record |
shows he wants to fight that hard
only for reactionary programs which
benefit the special interest Hobbies
which supported him in 1862.
Look at the bitter battle he waged
n foroa tbr0,1nb crao;oI TO-, looobo1o. !
or wealthy stockholders
Look at the administration stub
'orn Senate fight to force the Atomic
energy Commission, against its own
lesires, to give away IVA power
lights to a private utility combine
t an extra cost to the taxpayers of !
2 million dollars.
Look at the kind of pressure the
administration used to force through
'wer farm price supports, thus re-
1cing farm income.
why didn't he have his congress
onal lieutenants fight as hard to !
Ike what he called union busting l
rovisions out of Hartley? Why
id he back down on the 10 amend 2
ents he promised former Secretary !
Labor Martin Durkin last year? g
Thy did his officials recommend this Z
ear that Congress permit the states D
} outlaw the right to strike and n
cket?
why didn't he put up the same 7
md of fight for his housing bill? s.
asst year when Congress retroactive il
cut back units already contracted d
'r, Eisenhower called it perfectly
compromise. This year n
ongress voted to allow only $4,000 a
ore units. That doesn't even make d
p for the retroactive cut last year. g
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-17

state to introduce unemployment in
surance prior to World War II. How
ever, by steady weakening of the fed
eral law the states have been left tic
go their own separate ways on how
much, how long and under what cir
cumstances unemployment insurance
will be paid. Consequently, the aver
age payment is less than $25 per
week and for only % weeks maximum.
80 the President on Jan. % made
the very commendable recommends
ton that:
WROTE TO GOVERNORS
- All the states raise the po-
tential duration of unemployment
benefits to &c weeks :. raise these
dollar maximums so that the pay
ments to the great majority of the
beneficiaries may equal at least half
their regular earnings
Secretary of Labor Jim Mitchell
wrote letter to each governor on
Feb. Is at the suggestion of the
President repeating the Presidents
Of course, nobody bothered
to tell the American people that only
Ia of the state legislatures would |
this year Furthermore, und- |
II the present states rights law,
here was nothing the President could
10 to force any state to improve its
insurance.
$50, Sen. John Kennedy CD of
Massachusetts, and Rep. Anne For
nd Cd of Rhode Island introduced
ills in both houses requiring the
tates to raise their standards to the
xact amount requested by the Presi-
ent.
"But, Rep. Daniel Reed Urn. ",
lairman of the committee handling g
lie bill, told the House: /
1.-The administration definitely OPP q
oses the pending proposal to reach
is objective by imposing federal 5
andards on the states. t
Consequently, the bill was defeat +
in the House on July 8, with 173 q
epublicans voting against the bill 4
Id only IT for it. Q
"a few days later on July Is the
enate turned down Senator Ken ,
edy's amendment, SIS to 80. On the
epublican side AZ senators voted +
yainst the measure and only three :,
n it. =
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-17
LLPE Notes Anti-Labor Aspects
Of Eisenhower's Program


o it il
for a
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is a
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-17
SMITHS ANNOUNCEMENT

after the voting was over, Senate
Labor Committee Chairman Alex
ander Smith (R) from New Jersey
announced:
Il have checked with the White
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-17
LEAGUE PREDICTS BUSINESS TREND
TO CONTINUE OFF

not vet run its course and that some
further adjustments are probable;
second. that severe, cumulative type
of recession does not appear to be
probable"
This is what the league sees;
1--WE therefore predict sidewlse
to moderate downtrend drift in the
general level of business activity dur
ing the remainder of the year.
The leagues forecasts in the past
have been uncannily accurate. This
report was cautiously worded.
If the forecast is borne out 1t
means that the level of unemployment
in this country of at least 3.5 million,
will not be eased but should increase,
and the shorter workweek and smaller
paycheck may be around for while.
Here are some of the reasons given
by the league for its prediction;
1.-The warehouses are still stocked
with goods The inventory decline
has been small.
BUSINESS SPENDING
2-Surveys indicate that plans for
business spending on new plants and
equipment will not pick up.
3-Consumer purchases of non
durable goods and services are not
likely to pick up to any degree.
4-There is little reason for the
expected marked rise" in spending
on housing although the Housing Act
Of 1854 will help some.
5-Barring a major international
development, there seems little chance
Of a substantial pickup in government
spending.
The league cautioned;
every few recessionary movements
ave proceeded uninterruptedly; near
V all have been characterized by brief
lpturns which raised false hopes.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-09-17

Says McDevitt: eve hate to con.
tradict Secretary Mitchell because
he is fine man and an excellent Sec
rotary of Labor. In fact, if Eisen-
hover would only take Secretary
Mitchells advice, we would have little
complaint with this administration. F"
Unfortunately, says the LLPE di-
rector, the President is not prolabor.
THE record shows that he consistent
ly turned his back on Mitchells ad-
vice.
McDevitt presented the record to
back up his claim:
THE first example was minimum
wages. In Nov Is of last year Secre-
tary Mitchell told a labor audience
in Cleveland:
1 consider our minimum wage sta
tute can be a great bulwark against
substandards of living. 1t is badly in
need of snoring up.
eve are working hard to find
ways and means to bring about an
increase in the present 75-cents-an-
level in keeping with present-day
levels
MITCHELL STANDS ALONE
Did President Eisenhower back
Mitchell up? No. Two months later
in his economic report delivered on
Jan. %, the President flatly opposed
4Lo
wage. Then he devoted two pages of
the report to questioning the very
principle of any minimum wage. He
said:
"a minimum that would benefit the
wage Garner materially may put a :
heavy burden on the small farmer {
Or small business operator, not only
Of higher prices for what he-like the
wage earner-buys, but c
also of the higher wages he must pay Il
f he hires assistance"
THAT is the same old argument p
used against any effort to raise Il
wages whether by law or by unions. 81
He said nothing about the effect of
unfair low wage competition on de- e.
cent employers. He said nothing about r
the effect of grinding poverty on a
people forced to work for less than
IS cents an hour. At the end of his G
report the President announced that :.
the only solution is in improvements p
in efficiency of worker and employer :
Unemployment insurance is an :
other case where the administration
ran out on promise under heavy ,
fire. Unemployment insurance is a
perfect example Of how States rights L
wrecks sound legislation. Under a a
tax forgiveness plan the Federal Gov a
eminent succeeded in getting every
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-03

workers are heavily organized
and swing much more weight
on Capitol Hill than the lightly
organized classified employees.
Congress would not even con-
slider giving classified employees
a raise until 1t had voted postal
workers . pay boost.
CAPITOL ROUNDUP - The
Ordnance Missile Laboratories,
Redstone Arsenal. Huntsville,
Ala. has job openings for adj
ministrative officers. grades II
and IL. and methods examiners,
grades Z to IL. Write to Kermit
w. Day. chief Of the administra-
ton and management office. !.
Harry Falk, who has headed the
congressional printing division
Of the Government Printing Of
flee, has resigned. Incident
ally, Public Printer Raymond
Blattenberger has paid tribute
to GPO employees, for their ex-
cellent job in the printing of
the daily Congressional Record
during the last few weeks, when
the late sessions of Congress
have posed a terrific printing
problem. Despite the lengthy
congressional sessions and the
large volumes necessitated by
this. each days edition of the
Congressional Record has come
out on time and without error.
-. Dan Throop Smith and Ken
meth w. Gemmill, assistants to
Secretary of Treasury Hum
phrey, have been given the
exceptional civilian service
award by Mr.. Humphrey for
their work in helping draft the
tax revision bill. Seldom has
SUCH al Outstanding Jon been
done by anybody in any organi-
zation," Secretary Humphrey
declared. Recent award WIN
ners for outstanding efficiency
suggestions in the contest con-
Quoted by the Good Government
Institute are Josephine M.
Nance, selective service; Capt.
John H. Wollnough, Air Force:
Miss Artie H. Cooper, Veterans
Administration; Mrs. Audrey M.
Sandsbury, Public Housing Ad-
ministration, and Harold E.
Fischer. Civil Service Commits
sion. The winners received free
trips to New York City and
Miami Beach.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-03
Morse Reveals Bit Of History
On Eisenhower Views on Korea

formation. A few days before
his Minneapolis speech, the Ore
gon Independent said, the "Re-
publican candidate" (Gen. Ell
senhower) spoke in Detroit and
"castigated the State Depart
ment at some length for taking
American troops out of South
Korea"
Senator Morse said he dis
cQssed this with former Presi-
dent Truman and obtained his
permission to use a lnemoran-
dunn showing that Gen. Eisen-
hover "strenuously urged the re-
moval of American troops from
Korea for strategic reasons"
BY Mr.. Truman's actions, as
commander in chief, Senator
Morse said the document was
declassif1ed.
Senator Knowland replied that
the Oregon Senator was giving
us some most interesting his
tory" He added that he was
deeply shocked that the former
President abused the power OF
his office by making top-secret
information available for a politi-
cal speech.
Newspaper files show that
President Truman made public
the data on the night of Novem-
Der 2, from his home in Kansas
City where he had gone, to vote
after the campaign windup.
The President said he had de-
termined that the material
which heretofore has been
classified as top secret should be
declassified," in order to give
the public the truth.
A month earlier, in a speech
at Oakland, Calf, the President
had asserted that Gen. Eisen-
hover had participated in the
decision to get the $4,000 Amer
lean troops out of South Korea
because their presence was Of
no strategic value.
White House Press Secretary
James c. Hagerty was asked to-
day what he thought about the
letter incident. ana said only:
II refer you to Mr.. Morse and
Mr.. Truman"