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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-11-05
ocRAcoKE PERSONALS

OCIdCOhG Civic OluD Will nOIu
its November meeting on Monday
night at the school library.
Because of a death in the COM
munity the November meeting of
the Woman's Society for Christian
Service was postponed one week,
to Monday afternoon, November 8.
On Tuesday night the Martha Wa
5 hab Circle will meet. The Sophia
Williams Circle met last Tuesday
night at the home of Mrs. Elsie
Tolson.
Word was brought back from
the Methodist conference in Ra-
leigh by Ocracoke's delegate, I. W..
Howard, that the new pastor of
Methodist Church here will be
Rev. w. R. Hale. Mr.. and Mrs.
Hale are expected some time late
this week.
Mrs. Doris Balance and daugh-
ter, Brenda, have returned from
Hatteras.
Mrs. Eta Scarborough is spend
ing several days in Beaufort.
Friends of Mrs. Thad Gaskins
will regret to learn that she has
been i'll and is leaving later this
week for medical advice in Beau
fort.
Lafayette Howard visited his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. T. w. How
ard, last week end.
Mrs. Fletcher Hoggard, Jr. and
daughter have returned from a
months visit at Virginia Beach
with Mr.. and Mrs. Fletcher Hog
gard, Sr.
Calvin ONeal, Jr. left Monday
to report for service in the u. S.
Army.
Maurice Balance left Monday
for Elizabeth City for reenlist-
ment in the Army.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Tolson Wis
tied Mrs. Dezzie Bragg in Manteo
recently.
Sullivan Garrish was taken by
helicopter last week to the Marine
Hospital in Norfolk.
Hiatus O'Neal has recently
heard from his sister, Mrs. Calude
Dudley of Washington, N. c., that
his nephew, Darrell B. Dudley, is
now aboard the USS Salem, which
took part in the NATO training
exercise KEYSTONE. In addition
to the U. S., Greece, Turkey, and
Italy participated in the operation.
Darrell was a frequent visitor at
Ocracoke before he joined the
Navy. From all reports he is evil
IDENTIFY doing a good deal of travel
ing around.
We wish to correct an error
made in last weeks personals. Mr.
and Mrs. Lawrence Balance have
named their infant son Kenneth
Carroll Balance, not Kenneth Har-
old. as reported.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Willis and
family arrived at Ocracoke on
Monday, bringing with them
from Norfolk, Mr. and Mrs. Rob-
ert Lee Garrish, grandson of the
late Mrs. Mollie Gaskins.
Mrs. Roy Council has moved
to Norfolk, where her husband
IS employed. AS soon as Mr.. and
Mrs. Council are settled there,
her mother, Mrs. Lena Bragg
will join them for the winter
months.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter C. ONeal
continue to have outstandingly
good luck with surf-casting. On
Monday, October 25, tn e y
brought in A drum, weight two
to forty-two and a half pounds,
and their luck has continued
equally good since then.
Mrs. R. S. Wahab has returned
from a visit with her father in
Belhaven.
Several fishermen are staying
with Mr.. and Mrs. T. w. Howard,
among them DR.. William Chaffin
of Washington, D. c., Mr.. and
Mrs. Richard Fisher of Ocean
City, Maryland, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Hugh Edwards of Atlanta,
Georgia. All have had good luck
surf-casting. Also with Mrs.
Howard last week end were Mr..
and Mrs. Hale Chamberlain and
Mrs. Bertha Jean Lance of Bre-
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-11-05
REV. MEEKINs RETURNS

Columbia. The Rev. Earl
Meekins who has been minister
of Tyrrell County Methodist
Charge for the past four years
has been returned by tn e
Methodist Conference held this
week in Raleigh.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-11-05
News of Columbia & Tyrrell Co.
For Subscriptions Mrs. Blanche W. Cohoon Call Her.
Phone 3171 Columbia, N. C. She will
Columbia and Tyrrel County
COLUMBIA PERSONALS

Delegates for Tyrrell County
who attended the meeting of the
Southern Albemarle Association
at Belhaven on October 26 were:
Mrs. j. w. Hamilton, Mrs. E. J.
Brickhouse, Mrs. Effie A. Brick
house, T. S. Spruill, Mr.. and Mrs.
Vim. ChaS. Cohoon, Mr. and Mrs.
Julian H. Swain, Paul Liverman,
D. NJ. Sawyer, H. T. Davenport,
F. E. Cohoon, r. L. Mitchell, Mr..
and Mrs. James Davenport, L. L.
Combs, Mrs. w. A. Basnight, w.
]. White and c. w. Tatem.
Mrs. Alva Alexander and Mrs.
Vernon Alexander visited their
and brother, Alva Alexander,
who is i'll at Duke Hospital, on
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Spencer
and daughter of Norfolk visited
Mr.. Spencer's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. F. Spencer, Thursday.
Miss Edna Mccoy, nurse at
Columbia Hospital, left Friday
for vacation in Raleigh and Dur
ham.
c. H. Leary underwent an
operation at DePaul Hospital,
Norfolk, on Saturday. His wife
and daughter, Miss Cavell Leary,
and son Raymond Leary spent
Thursday and Saturday with
him.
Mrs. S. S. Woodley arrived
home Friday after visiting Mr..
and Mrs. James Kitchener at
Concord.
| Bill Williams of U N. c. was
home for the week end.
/ Rudy Alexander is visiting his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Alexander.
Sheriff and Mrs. C. E. Morris
attended the exercises at Pante-
go on Friday, when the family of
Allen Swindell was presented
with a plaque, denoting them as
the Master Farm Family of the
year in N. c." This honor is con-
ferred each year by the Progress
sive Farmer Magazine, accord
ing to Sheriff Morris.
Mrs. Annie Mae Combs, Mrs.
SADIE Reynolds, ALBERT Brick
house and Joseph Maitland
spent Friday in Norfolk visiting
Lee I. Combs, who is i'll at De
Paul Hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Davenport
and sons Haywood and Bertram,
and Mrs. Margaret Chesson spent
Sunday at Long Acre, Beaufort
County.
William Leary of Plymouth
was here Saturday.
Harold Spencer, who has been
discharged from De Paul Hospi-
tai, is recuperating at the home
of his aunt, Mrs. Ruby Worrell,
of Norfolk. Mrs. Spencer, who
has been with him, returned
home Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Roughton
and son, Tyson, of Elizabeth
City spent Saturday here.
An entry in the pumpkin con-
test at the H. w. McClees Store
by Hodges Davenport, weighs
1872 lbs.
Borden McClees who was i'll
for three weeks is again able to
be out.
Mrs, Floyd Rhodes of East
Carolina College, spent the week
end with Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Rhodes.
Miss Pat Everton of E. c. c.,
Greenville, spent the week end
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
R. M. Everton.
Floyd Rhodes of the U. S. Ar
my. who has been stationed at
Camp Gordon, Ga, has been
transferred to Fort Meade, Md,
where he has been assigned to
attend studies on radio and sig
nal corps procedure.
Kings and queens crowned at
the Halloween party at the Co
lumbia school Monday night
were: high school, Kenneth
Walker king, and Miss Marietta
Swain queen; elementary school,
Darrell Cohoon and Miss Rather
inc Howett.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-11-05
BIRTHS

Columbia.-Mr. and Mrs. Ros-
sic L. Sawyer announce the birth
of son on October 10Th at the
Columbia Hospital.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-11-05
WINS STATE FAIR PRIZE

Columbia.-Mrs. C. L. Swain
of Route /, Columbia, received
second place prize at the State
Fair for pepper relish exhibit.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-11-05

Northern lights glowed s.
wildly on the night of January
Is, 1888, that newspaper offices
all over western Europe were
flooded with calls of where's
the fire."
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-11-05

Members of Congress are per-
mitted to make changes in their
speeches before they are put in
to the Congressional Record.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-11-05

Although there are no fish in
Great Salt Lake, its waters do
contain small brine shrimp.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-11-05
Sunshine Sue,
star of wRVA's "Old
Dominion Barn Dance" says:

"Ycv know, friends,
Just couldn't set a good table
without Koro
Evening star., 1954-01-10

is book so beautiful in bind
ing. layout Of pages. typog-
raphy and decorations that it
has never been excelled,
technically, even by the best
modern printers. It was once
sold for 5000: now it is
worth about a half million.
Most old Bibles are not valu-
able. however. You can buy
a 3O0-year-old Bible for less
than you would pay for a
brand-new gift Bible in a
Washington bookstore. That
is because so many Bibles
Evening star., 1954-01-10

have been printed-and few
are ever lost or destroyed. So
a Bible must have some out
standing characteristic to be
worth much on the rare-book
market.
Frederick r. Goff, head VI
the Rare Books Division, tells
visitors that book values often
seem to defy any test of logic.
There is saying in the rare
book world that only one
thing Is sure: Any book
printed before 1900 is worth
at least IS.
Evening star., 1954-01-10

contains the first illustrated
English book and the second
edition Of the first book to
be printed in English, printed
in the l48OE.
All CaxtonS are valuable,
incidentally. The Library
has 18.
And the Library, of course.
has the one most valuable
printed book in existence: A
perfect copy on vellum of the
first Gutenberg Bible, printed
probably in l455. It is the
first book ever printed. and it
Evening star., 1954-10-24

built across Ohio and Indiana to
Chicago.
OF course. the above trips, besides
gas, oil and wear and tear, may
cost you $40 or $40 in tolls.
Whot's Superhiehwoy?
These roads are called by q
variety of names: Expressway, free
way, thruway and parkway. And
all Of them are popularity referred
to as Supefhighways. But this latter
word is not in the lexicon of the
Bureau Of Public Roads. Asked for
his own definition, Mr.. Royal said:
"A superhighway is any darn thing
the local people think is pretty fine"
Here are some more precise defini-
tions:
Expressway: A divided arterial
highway for through traffic with a
full or partial control Of access and
generally without cross traffic. (Most
new 4-lane divided highways fall
into this category.)
Freeway: An expressway with full
control of accesS-no cross traffic or
traffic lights. Example: The new
Baltimore Washington road.)
Thruway: An expressway. Name
coined for New York highway.
Parkway: An arterial highway for
nom commercial traffic with full or
partial control Of access and usual
ly, located within park or a ribbon
of parklike development. CThe Fed
eral section Of the Baltimore road.
south Of TT. Meade.)
Evening star., 1954-10-24
Mexico Eases Lot Of Foreign Investors

PATLA, Mexico. Here, in a corner
of the rugged mountains which mark
the perimeter of Mexico's central
plateau, President Adolfo Ruiz Cor
tines last week dedicated a new
hydroelectric power plant.
It is not a tremendous plant as
those things go. Patla adds only
81 per cent to this country's in
stalled electric capacity.
Yet its opening Is significant to
the Mexican people, to the Americans
and other foreigners who operate
branch plants in this country. and
to the United States taxpayer.
Indicative of the foreign interest
in the Patla event was the guest
list for the dedication. It included
former United States Treasury Sec
retary John w. Snyder, Arthur
Dean, Korean peace negotiator, and
former Belgian Foreign Minister
Paul van Iceland. Former Ameri-
can Ambassador William H. Draper
is the chairman Of the Canadian
Power Co., which built the plant.
World Bank Loon
Patla was built with part Of $26
million lent to the Mexican Light
g. Power Co. (Mexlight) In 1850 by
the World Bank. whose chief and
indispensable stock in trade Is the
credit Of the American people.
The Patla plant will help Mexlight
meet the power needs of Mexico City
the country's capital and chief
industrial area.
There is impressive evidence in
Mexico City Of Mexico's remarkable
recent strides toward industrializa-
ton. The area Is dotted with fac
tories and stores bearing such names
as General Motors, Ford, Monsanto,
Goodyear, Colgate-Palmoli Sears
Roebuck, GE, Reynolds, Celanese,
y. 8. Rubber-all customers Of Mex
light.
Patla power also is now working
In the shafts and ore plants OF the
fabulous Real del Monte silver mine
In Pachuca. This mine has con-
tributed to Mexico's wealth and
Spain's since early. colonial times.
Patla power Is also helping Pemex,
the Mexican governments oil COM
pai1y. produce and distribute oil and
natural gas. It is running streetcars
in the capital and elsewhere and Is
lighting streets, stores. offices and
homes.
From the power standpoint bur-
geoning Mexico is like an insect
shedding It's successive skins. Power
expansion Is an almost sisyphean
task, however. because the birth rate
Ii uncontrolled. At the same time
modern heath and sanitation ID
working 10 iengthsn Life. Thus
Evening star., 1954-10-24

On the other hand, the Democrats
say that whatever economic i'm
provement has taken place since last
winter has been due to seasonal fac
ACKNOWLEDGMENT nearly always
drops in good weather for example.
Evening star., 1954-10-24
New Baltimore Rood Is Free But Most Charge Tolls

horizon is the rash of new State
built toll roads. The law does not
allow the Federal Government to
contribute funds to the building of
toll roads or even for roads which
lead only to toll roads, but the amaz-
ing success of the New Jersey turn
pike has given other States the
courage to go ahead with their own
projects.
Progress Report
according to survey completed
this past week by the Bureau of
Roads, there are now 783 miles of
toll roads in operation in the United
States which were built at a cost of
$731 million. BY 1857 there will be
1878 more miles of toll roads costing
just under So billion.
In addition to the above, 1914
miles have been authorized in 10
States, but still need financing.
And 677 miles Of toll roads in q
half dozen other States have been
proposed.
A grand total would be 6,952 miles
at cost close to $8.8 billion. or
roughly $1,250,000 a mile.
In the near future it should
be possible to drive onto chain
of these new highways beginning
at Boston and go at high speed
almost all the way to st. Paul.
Or, start In New York on the
Thruway. drive to Buffalo and con-
meet with the new roads being
Evening star., 1954-10-24

congestion one day may be solved.
First, the Eisenhower administra-
tion apparently is going to push hard
to increase Federal aid to the States.
The penny -pinching 83d Congress
increased authorizations for State
aid by $500 million in fiscal '56 and
ST for total two-year outlay of
SITS billion. This total would be
spent when matched by State funds.
The 1954-5 Federal expenditure was
$1.15 billion.
And Gen. Eisenhower personally
has advocated $50 billion. Nation
wide road-building program.
No Assurance
But lest too much significance be
read into the above, r. E. Royal,
chief of the research reports branch
Of the Bureau Of Roads, made this
observation:
while the Federal aid program
has greatly increased, it provides no
assurance Of adequate highways in
itself within the next Is to 20 years."
Mr.. Royal. who has been with the
Bureau for Al years, pointed out that
the Federal expenditure on highway
construction still only amounts to SO
per cent of the Nations total.
He made it clear that although
road building was being carried on
now at rate never before equalled
in this country, 1t was still far short
Of what has to be done to meet
present and future demand.
The second hopeful sign on the
Evening star., 1954-10-24

ciates in foreign-exchange value, AZ
has happened in 1891, 1898, 1948
and again in 1854. the number Of
pesos which the utility needs to
meet its dollar expenses increases.
Since the peso devaluation Of last
April, dollar expenses of the for
eign-owned electric enterprises here
are A per cent higher than previ-
ously.
Squeeze Play
After the devaluation, moreover.
Mexican workers were granted ad-
ditional wage increases and local
suppliers raised their prices. All
this has put squeeze on Mexlight.
on the American and foreign power
companies, many Mexican subsid-
iaries, on the Canadian-owned elec-
trio company in Monterrey and on
American companies serving Mexi-
can cities near our southern border.
This is squeeze actually well
coined by minority Of Mexican
government officials of the more
radical school. which would like to
see the foreign owners forced out.
Thus far. only one major conn
pany has received a rate increase
since the 1854 devaluation. A 21.2
per cent increase was granted to
Mexlight, which has voted both
local earnings and borrowed money
to new plant and equipment.
Block Encouraged
The rate increase is regarded by
Eugene Black and Robert T.. Gar
ner Of the World Bank as evidence
that President Ruiz Confines and
Finance Minister Antonio Carrillo
Flores realize Mexico must al-
low "take-home pay" for the In
yestor II private capital Is to con-
tinue to play its role In the
desperately needed expansion Of
Mexico's power.
Further World Bank and Export
Import Bank money for Mexican
development will be needed, In any
case, % the years pass.
But all the power development
envisioned cannot be financed by
such official dollars. II no other
foreign investors are found, Mexi-
can development will be retarded.
Only by a more liberal treatment
than has heretofore been accorded
foreign utilities can enough private
capital be induced to resume its
original role.
While 1t is still too early to Judge
whether more liberal treatment will
be accorded the power industry as
q whole. the Mexican government
has taken an important first step
toward improving the climate for
foreign investment south Of.sshe
bordeE.
Evening star., 1954-10-24
American boys to 1ndo-china to die9

American boys to Indo- China to die?
Democrats: Secretary Dulles
stuck with the European Defense
Community plan too long and in
sisted on it so hard he antagonized
our friends.
Republicans: Is the opposition
objecting because Mr.. Dulles sup
ported the Democrats own EDO
program too solidly? Besides, why
didn't the Democrats propose an
alternative?
Defense
Democrats: The Republicans have
imperiled the Nations security by
Gripping its defense establishment
in order to save money.
Republicans: Do Democrats OBJ
ject to saving money? And which
Democrat challenges the Judgment
OF Gen. Eisenhower that our military
strength is now adequate?
Il
Trode
Democrats: Why don't the Repub-
licans vote for President Eisen-
hower's liberal trade policies, lower
ing our tariff barriers and untan-
Cling our customs regulations?
Republicans: Foreign competition
would cause more unemployment.
Is this what the Democrats want?
Republicans: Why do the Demo-
Gratis insist on 'liberalizing" our
trade policies and yet profess to be
so concerned with unemployment?
Democrats: Our position is the
same as President Eisenhower's.
And so 1t goes. Although America
is the leader Of the free world, her
people will not have much of an
opportunity at this election to ex-
press themselves on the foreign poll
cies the Republicans are pursuing.
OF course, that is not as bad as
it sounds. For saying that both
parties follow similar foreign poll
cies means that most Of the people
are satisfied with the policies which
the Democrats instituted and the
Republicans are now carrying on.
Evening star., 1954-10-24
By Earl n. Voss


farm problem and unemployment
are much more on the mind Of
the average voter. War Is just about
the only thing In foreign affairs
that can capture the interest Of
John @. Citizen. And there are no
wars-at least no hot ones.
Second, Republican and Demo-
cratic foreign policies are basically
the same. Democrats have not
been able to criticize Republicans
without criticizing themselves.
The result is a stalemate. Each
side might be able to make a point
here and there. But for every
point there is a counterpoint at
least equally useful to the oppose
ton.
Here are some examples Of point
and counterpoint that have con-
vinced both major political parties
that the 1854 campaign is virtually
standoff as far as substantive
foreign policy issues 60.
War and Peace
Republicans: We kept the coun-
try out Of war in Indo- China.
Democrats: Nonsense. You just
doomed IL million persons in North
Wet Nam to slavery behind the
Iron Curtain. w az-.u s.sse+ III
IT Il 4 -
Democrats: Contrary to their
1852 liberation" policy. the Repub-
licans are actually soft on COM
munism. as proved by their deliver
ance Of IL million free souls into
Red bondage.
Republicans: Were the Democrats
ready to vote for war, for sending
Evening star., 1954-10-24
Why the Soft-PedoI on Foreign Policy?

Foreign policy Is playing curious
background role In the current Con-
gressional campaigns. It is almost
as If both Republicans and Demo-
Gratis were honoring their resolve to
end political squabbles at the waters
edge.
Republicans aren't Growing about
what they have accomplished, and
Democrats aren't screaming about
G. o. p. blunders.
When Vice President Nixon claims
credit for bringing peace to the
world he says it almost under his
breath. And the best the Democrats
can do is wag their heads about
conflicting voices among Republi-
can Party spokeSmen and lack of
bipartiSanShip.
AS for what the Republicans actu-
ally have done in Europe, the Middle
East, Asia or Latin America in the
past 81 months. the Democrats have
hardly harsh word. In such cir
cumStanceS, 1t Is stranger still that
the Republicans are not shouting
their lungs out about their accom-
plishments.
Nor is there more than a ripple
about future foreign policy. One of
the most important issues that will
face the next Congress will be Amer
ican trade policy. Yet campaign
promises on this issue are few and
far between.
@ It is too much to expect that
either party would hold its fire simply
for fear Of the effect this would
have on our national prestige, or on
current negotiations abroad. Why,
then, this kid-glove approach?
There are perhaps two principal
reasons.
First, domestic issues like the
Evening star., 1954-10-24
BY L. Edgar Prina

Opening Of the new million
dollar-a-mile" parkway linking
Washington to Baltimore this week
end serves to spotlight the feverish
planning In Government and out
for an early and adequate road
building program which will meet
the almost-insatiable demands of
Americas motorized public.
After o recent survey, made at the
request Of Congress, the American
Association Of State Highway OH
cials estimated that it would take a
staggering SOL billion in the next
10 years to build and improve a
sufflcient number of roads and
streets to meet the anticipated
demands Of 1874. This latest esti-
mate Is more than double President
Eisenhower's $50 billion program.
The $101 billion would be used
for the national system Of interstate
highways, the trunk-line network of
the United States as finally worked
out by State and Federal officials
In August, 1947. It handles about
80 per cent Of the Nations highway
trafiic and Is composed of 1881
miles Of rural and $3.50 miles of
urban roads. Another 1900 miles
has been reserved for additions to
the system.
Whers to Get Funds2
Where Is the money to come
from? That Is the big question.
There 10 no argument about the
urgent need Of new and improved
roads. And no one has suggested
that thsre would be q lack Of man
power or materials to accomplish
y major undertaking.
Two groups presently are looking
into the entire matter. with en-
phasis on financing. One Is q COM
mittee Of the Conference OF Cover
nors. The other is q special COM
mission. headed by Gen. Lucius d.
Clay. which was appointed by Pres
ident Eisenhower.
Findings and recommendations by
the two independent study groups
are to be made to the White House
Ia coming weeks % that the Pres
idsnt may include q road-building
proposal In his State of -the- Union
message 10 the 84th Congress In
January.
Highway Corporation
Several suggestions on ways to pay
for the program have come forth.
One is for the Federal Government
10 assume the entire responsibility
for the interstate highway system
and set up . corporation which
would sell long-term bonds to pri-
vate investors.
Under present laws. the Federal
contribution to the States for road
construction is limited to SO per cent,
although In the last session Of Con-
gress payments UP to so per cent
are allowed for interstate highways.
And the contribution may exceed so
per cent o bid under certain condi-
tions In the public lands States Of
the West.
Two developments recently have
helped raise hopes slightly that the
etsrri0c problem Of roads and tram