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Evening star., 1954-05-09

neSseS on the two sides will take
fiat, opposing stands. Since only
one Army principal and no Nc
Carthy principal has given gen.
eral testimony, Senator Jackson's
project is barely under way.
All persons in the controversy
might agree, however, with Sena-
tor McClellan's appraisal of the
accomplishments of one recent
session: "About all we can say Is
that we have one more days work
behind instead of ahead of U.s."
Evening star., 1954-05-09
The Summary

So the summary to date reads
something like this: The Army has
produced less than half it's case.
The Mccarthy side has not started.
The real fireworks lie in the future.
What has been blocking prog
ress? A long list of side issues
which have taken up hours of tes-
timony, but which have advanced
the hearings not at all. They have
been issues such as these, which
were explored at length last week:
. Can the hearings be speeded
up? All persons concerned talked
expansively on this subject, but
subcommittee members found that
no testimony could arbitrarily be
ruled out without offending some
one. The whole, long furrow, as
Army Counsel Joseph N. Welch
put it, would have to be plowed.
. Were there Communists or Com
munist sympathizers at Fort Mon
mouth, and did the Army know
about them-and fail to act?
This had nothing to do with the
immediate issue, the Army
claimed, but the Senator insisted
he should present a pattern of
Red-coddling that would explain
the Army's actions.
. Was a 1851 ''letter" purporting
to be from FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoo
yer to an Army Intelligence gen.
eral exposing security risks at Fort
Monmouth fraud or the real Nc
Coy? This threatened to be one
of the hottest side issues yet. Did
it compromise Army security? Did
it prove Mr.. Stevens lax on secu-
rity? Were any laws violated? 1t
might take days for these questions
to be answered in full.
The 'PurIoined Letter
AS the week ended some ques-
tons about the letter" were an
swered. 1t was not a copy of a
Hoover letter, as Senator McCar-
thy first said it was, but a fairly
accurate condensation of an FBI
report, with some interpretations
added by persons unknown. And,
in the opinion of the Attorney
General, revelation of the contents
of the document could compromise
national security apparently sew
eral copies were in public circula-
tion). The committee sent tran
scripts of its hearings to the JUS
tice Department on the suggestion
of Senator John L. Mcclellan,
Democrat, of Arkansas that the
letter episode might indicate a
crime had been committed.
After IL days, what actually had
been accomplished? If the Army
and Mccarthy statements of
charges are to be used as a stand
ard, then only a fraction of the
long, hard furrow had been plowed.
So far there apparently. have
been no directly contradictory
statements made by witnesses un-
der oath. But a case of perjury
still Is a possibility. Senator Jack
son is trying to learn whether wit
Evening star., 1954-05-09
Dulles Strategy

The core of Secretary Dulles
policy to contain communism in
Southeast Asia remains the same:
To get united action" under way
on the ground in Indo-China be-
fore a new French cabinet-or an
intimidated Baniel cabinet-gives
away too much to the Reds in
return for cease-tire or armistice.
Mr.. Dulles came home last
Tuesday from Geneva to face wide
spread criticism. He was accused
of permitting public display of
Evening star., 1954-05-09
Review of the Week:
Fall Of Fortress Spreads Gloom

expansion in Southeast Asia. The
Geneva talks on Indo- China,
which started yesterday, and the
end of the rainy season late next
September. may bring that fateful
decision within the next six
months.
Evening star., 1954-05-09

Namese show the same courage as
Gen. de CaStrieS and his men,
however, the Reds will pay dearly
for whatever political gains they
make. De CaStries' last words be-
fore his radio went dead were:
"We will not surrender i.
ViUe la France"
Evening star., 1954-05-09
Geneva

With American aircraft carriers
still cooling their keels in the
Tonkin Gulf, and with the Chinese
equipped Wet Mini administering
the coup de grace at Dien Bien
Phu, the Indo-C China situation
occupied most of the delegates
time at the Geneva Conference on
Far Eastern affairs.
Enough procedural difficulties
were overcome so that formal
Indo-China talks among the three
Communist representatives and six
Western delegates could start yes
terday Britain and the, Soviet
Union were named to alternate in
the chair, thus keeping a modicum
of peace with the United States
contingent which refuses to par
ticipate in a session presided over
by China,'s Chou En-lai.
Red China did manage to slip
one thing past American repre-
sentatives, however Chou signed
the invitation to the Wet Mini,
thus making China an inviting
power instead of an invited one.
The United States was quietly out
ragged, but did not try to block
opening of the discussions on
Indo-China.
BidouIt's Bid
Foreign Minister Georges Bidault
kicked off for France with a new
sounding plan to end the fighting.
Speaking for the French but not
for the Wet Namese, he presented
a draft resolution calling for an
internationally supervised cease
fire in Wet Nam to be followed by
free elections. Unexpectedly, he
opposed all types of partition. The
Wet Mimi Reds also should leave
Cambodia and Laos, M. Bidault
added.
The key to his proposals lies in
his definition of the internation-
ally supervised cease-f1re. France
asks for disarmament of all irregu-
lars and grouping of the regular
units in assembly zones.
All Wet Mini regular units, of
course, are outside the strategic
Tonkin Delta and South Wet Nam.
Most of them are placed in North
Wet Nam'S mountains and jungles
at the edge of the wedge shaped
delta. Other regulars are in Gen.
tral Wet Nam. Presumably France
would not allow Gen. Vo Nguyen
Clap to set up assembly zones for
his troops inside the delta.
With recent experience showing
that cease-fires have way of
becoming de tacto peaces, the
Communists probably will not be
very eager to go along.
AS for the irregular units which
the French propose to disarm,
these are the Wet Mimi guerrillas
who have been raising cain in the
delta. This part-time fighting
force is expected to pour it on now
in an effort to bring -sitters
into the Red camp in the wake of
the psychologically devastating
Red victory at Dien Bien Phu.
There are an estimated 10000
irregulars in the delta.
Needless to say, international
commissions supervising disarma-
ment would have a job on their
hands. The nine Geneva con-
ferees were asked to guarantee the
Bidault plan.
After the French speech, the Wet
Minis Acting Foreign Minister,
Pham Van Dong, demanded that
the phony entities of Pathet Lao
(Red Laos) and Khmer (Red
Cambodia) be invited to Geneva.
Hope was fading, meanwhile,
that any solution of the Korean
unification problem would be found
at Geneva.
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Fans Take Heat Off Family.
Here How Rooms Can Be Kept Cool
BY IRA MILLER
Farm Electrifcation Bureau

In a vague sort of way most of us
know why we feel cooler when the
air rushes in through the open win
dows of our moving automobile on a
hot day. The outside temperature
remains the same, but the breeze
makes US feel cooler. Why? Simply
because the moving air increased the
rate of evaporation of moisture from
our skin. An electric fan in the home
acts the same way as the air rushing
in the cars windows.
A fan of the right size, and prop
erly located, maintains constant
circulation of air throughout an en-
tire room. Fans circulate a given
number of cubic feet If air per min
ute (CFM), and this data appears
on their respective nameplates. So
to get the right size Of fan or fans
you need you should know the cubic
feet of air in the room to be cooled,
and the rate at which you want the
air circulated. The cubic feet of
room is determined by multiplying
the length of the room X the width
the height. The rate of circulation
required depends on the climate in
which you live. If you reside in hot
climates you'll want to circulate the
air at least once per minute. In more
moderate climates, a 2 or minute
air circulation cycle may be ade-
Quate.
Day and night cooling operations
vary. On hot days, close the windows
and doors, and draw the shades to
keep the cooler air indoors. Then
turn on the type Of fan you have
according to Figures !, 2 or 3. For
night cooling, warmer inside air
must be exhausted and cooler out
door air drawn in. The inlet for
cooler air should be or times that
of the outlet for warmer inside air.
The outlet should be liz times the
diameter of the fan blades. Figures
4, and 6 show how night cooling
can be accomplished satisfactorily.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-08-13
CAREER BROUGHT
MANY MEDALS,
PEACEFUL LIFE
Linwood CutreII of Lake
Landing is Back to Farm
and Happiness

One of the most serious prob
lens that faces Hyde County is
how to keep its most intelligent
and capable young men and wo-
men at home. Lack of opportun-
tiles at home have driven many
ambitious young people away.
When young Hyde County man
stays at home and achieves sue
cess, how he does so is of vital
Importance to his county. Lin
wood Cutrell is a man who after
serving meritoriously in two
wars has returned to successful
life in Lake Landing.
Linwood Cutrell, of Lake
Landing, second child and only
son of G. c. Cutrell of Middle
town, has received citations for
outstanding service in two wars.
During the Second World War
Mr.. Cutrell spent five years with
the Armored Field Artillery in
the European theater, rising to
the rank of captain. Joining the
end Armored Field Artillery
Battalion in Africa, Mr.. Cutrell
fought and led in that group all
through the war to Berlin. His
group landed in Normandy in
the days Immediately following
D-Day and were in the thick of
the fight across France, Belgium,
Holland and Germany.
For meritorious service in the
wears between June 1914 and
May 1945 in France and Belgium
Mr.. Cutrell received the award
of the Bronze Star Medal. His
unit was twice cited for out
standing service, once receiving
the Tourragere Medal from the
Belgium government for the lib
Grafton of Belgian towns and
again a presidential citation for
''heroism and outstanding per-
Torrance of duty against an
enemy.
Leaving active service in Feb
ruary 1916, Mr.. Cutrell remained
in the reserves and was called
again to serve II months in
Korea. For six months of front
line, meritorious service In
Korea he received a Commenda-
ton Ribbon with Metal Pendant.
Again his company, the, 92nd
Armored Artillery, was cited for
outstanding service. Mr.. Cutrell
received his permanent disc
barge in January 1852.
Graduating from Lake Land
ing High School, before the wal
Mr.. Cutrell worked for the Vir-
GINA Engineering Company il
Atlanta, Ga. At that time he tool
correspondence courses n
have enabled him since Korea tt
set up a successful contracting
business in Hyde County.
In 1945 he married Edna Dill.
lard who had been for three
years a Yeoman 1st Glass in the
United States Waves working II
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drum, its covering long disap-
peared with the ravages of age.
The drum is around two feet in
diameter. Looking at its brown
and aged exterior one can pic
ture only with difficulty its II
year old owner summoning the
gray troops to role call in the
early dawn.
Since the recent death of her
husband, James Tillman Cara
wan,, Mrs. Caravan, generally
known as Effie, has continued to
live with her son, David Cara
wan, on the Oyster Creek farm
that she inherited from her par
ents and that has been in her
family for generations.
My fathers farm was across
the road yonder," she points out.
This is called the Jarvis Place.
Years ago it belonged to the Jar
Wis family. My. great grand
father, Alfred Jarvis, lived on it
in the early 1905. He left it to
his only daughter, Clara, who
married a Midget.
'The house is old too, the
framework about 200 years old.
1t used to sit back almost to the
woods before it was moved out.
The framework isn't put together
with nails. It's pegged and each
hand hewn timber is made to fit
in the next. This house has stood
for 200 years and it'll be
standing VIII en- I'm gone.
They don't build houses that way
any more, all solid cypress that
the insects never touch. Today
they're put together with nails
Nails" she repeats scornfully
land they don't stand up nc
time. They don't put six inch
beams and eight inch stills in new
houses like there are in this one
When they remodeled the
place they wanted to change the
windows but would't let'em
This is an old fashioned house
and the old fashioned window:
belong in it. No, 1 wouldn't LEI
'em put any other kind of win
dows," and she points to the ole
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One day a week, Friday or Sat-
urday, they did all their scrub
bling. They didn't have carpets
and they used sand on the floor.
There's plenty of sand in the
creeks around. When they scrub
bed the floors they'd change the
sand. The furniture wasn't paint
ed in them days and it would
get a weekly scrubbing too an
clothes and children got theE:
weekly change and bath on the
same day. Sure it wasn't very
clean to take only one bath
week but there was work, weav-
ing and knitting, to be done. Be-
sides they didn't have enough
clothes to change every day."
Mrs. Caravans oldest and
most imperishable relic is an In
dian tommyhawk head that her
husband found Is years ago
while digging a ditch in the field
behind their home. The gray
stone is smooth and polished and
the grooves where thongs tied it
to a handle are family visible.
$50 few people today know
anything about the past" Mrs.
Caravan regrets. MANY things
and old ways and old people
have been forgotten. kinda feel
that l have a trust must keep
alive by remembering these
stories and these people"
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ter l like to have enough fire so
l can keep the doors open.
'The women worked as hard
as the men. Harder maybe.
They'd laugh if they could see
what folks today call work
Those women did the carding
and spinning and weaving. They
made all the clothing their fam
lilies wore and knitted the socks.
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CIVIL WAR RELICS SHOWN
Mrs. j. T. Caravan of Oyster Creek Has Revolver Used
by Soldier in War Between the States

''It amt the antique that I
value, says Mrs. j, T. Caravan
of Oyster Creek as she displays
in turn each of her collectors
items. ''ItS the one who gave it"
''Now this revolver" she
points to an antique gun hanging
over the door. MY father gave
that to my son, David, on his
birthday a long time ago. One of
these antique buyers came to see
it and he asked me to sell it to
him. l didn't ask him how much
he offered for tit weren't for
sale for any price. My father got
that from soldier in the Civil
War"
''My fathers name was Robert
W. Harris, they called him
'Robby', and he lived across the
road yonder. He wasn't old
enough to fight in the war, only
II, but he was a drummer boy.
When the war was over he want
ed one of the guns that a soldier
had used so he traded shot gun
to Ben Williamson of Juniper
Bay for this revolver If it could
only talk" she handles it low
ingly, what tales it would tell"
Mrs. Caravan doesn't know
where Williamson and her father
were during the war. She can
only be sure that Williamson was
foot soldier and that the revol-
yer emptied its powder and shot
at the Yankees in the days be-
( tween 1860 and 1864.
The weapon is heavy, As cal
iber revolver that was loaded in
the old fashioned way. One I'M
familiar with old guns can only
say that it looks extremely I'M
calmly and hard to load and
shoot. 1t bears a patent dated
1851 and one expects that it was
cast in some northern factory
before it found its way into the
hands of the Hyde County Rebel.
"And here's the drum that my
father used to sound taps and
reveille during the war;" she dis
! plays the cylindrical body of a
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windows with their many small
panes> of ripply glass distorting
the image beyond.
On the back porch Mrs. Cara
wan shows the visitor an old
chair that has been serving her
family for 140 years. A paper of
butter bean hulls on the floor
beside it testifies that the chair
is still in use.
It was a weathered ladder
backed chair with a rush seat. 1t
was a twin chair, Mrs. Caravan
explains, with an identical one
attached. She doesn't know what
became of the twin. 1t probably
was broken and detached years
ago, she thinks.
"My grandfather, Ezekial Har-
ris made it by and.Some woman
made that seat from corn husks."
She laughs at the visitors in
credulous look. Eyes, that's the
same corn husk seat that was put
there 140 years ago. Corn shucks
weren't fragile in those days.
They don't grow that kind of
corn today. 1t was planted by
hand. The grains were so large
that they couldn't be used in a
modern corn planter"
From the bottom of an old
trunk, Mrs. Caravan pulls out a
box that contains a special treas
ure to show her visitor. 1t is a
small thinly worn gold ear ring.
1T belonged" she says reverent-
ly, ''to my great grandfather on
my mothers side who lived right
here on this farm. His name, you
remember, was Alfred Jarvis.
Yes" she answers a surprised
look, "men folks in those days
pierced their ears and wore rings
the same as women"
''My great grandfather wore
these ear rings as long as he
lived. He and his wife both died
of measles when my grandmoth-
er was four" Mrs. Caravan re-
peats the story she had been told.
"On his deathbed, my great
grandfather took the rings from
his ears and had put them in the
ears of his four year old daugh-
ter, Clara. Mrs. Caravan has
fond memories of this child who
became Clara Midget and her
grandmother. The old lady lived
to be SO years old and was the
source of many of Mrs. Cara
vans stories of bygone years.
$50 years ago." Mrs. Caravan
says, my grandmother gave the
ear rings to me. was proud of
them and treasured them but
they were old and fragile. One
day, somehow, the catch on one
gave out and l lost it. 1t was one
of the hardest things l have ever
had to do to tell my grandmother
l had lost the ear ring that be-
longed to her father. She under
stood, that I couldn't help it.
That's all right" she said, "they
were so old, just keep the other
one to remember me by
"And l have kept it. I took il
to a jeWeler once who wanted to
buy it from me. They aren't
made any more he told me. This
ear ring is more precious to me
than any amount of money
Mrs. Caravan says.
She has no idea of the age of a
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the Navy Intelligence Bureau.

the Navy Intelligence Bureau.
In the years between Army
service Mr.. Cutrell was an in
structor in the Veterans Farmers
Training Program in Hyde
County. At this time he was in
strumental in bringing a Ger
man Farm Exchange Student to
this country to live in his home
for year.
The Cutrells have two little
girls, Suzy Jane, three. and Lynn
Adams, Is months. Their new
home in Lake Landing is a tri-
butte to Mr.. Cutrell's building
skill.
When asked why he returned
to Hyde County to live when Sc
many other young men have
chosen to leave he replied, lone
should live where he is happiest
Here is where we want to be-"
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china spitoon that her grand
mother bought at vendue many
years ago. She estimates that it
may be $50 years old. 1t is han
dleless and bears no dates. Mrs.
Caravan likes to speculate on its
age and where it may have come
| from.
A Bible that was published in
1919 sends Mrs. Caravan off on
long chain of memories. The
Bible came to her from her
fathers mother, Polly Anna Har-
ris. Mrs. Harris bought it before
the Civil War at a public auction.
Previously it had belonged to a
family named Hudson. One won
ders what sort of circumstances
would require a family to sell
its Bible.
Written on the fly pages of the
small remarkably we'll preser-
we'd book are records of births
and deaths and marriages of
people who have vanished into
the obscurity of the past. The
ink, inscribed there long before
the Civil War, is brown with age
but the old fashioned script is
legible and beautiful.
Religion meant something in
those days." says Mrs. Caravan
as she CAREFUL handles the sym
Dol of her grandmother's devo-
ton. "They not only protested
it, they lived it. I've heard my
grandmother tell of walking
eight miles in 1856 to attend
preaching, carrying her baby in
her arms, Is there anyone who
would do that today? and she
didn't do it for what folks would
say either"
II had a cousin once, she con-
tinues, "who walked in 1876 from
over here in Oyster Creek IS
miles to Fairfield to attend
meeting of the Baptist Kekukee
Association. In those days reli-
.gion was a reality" Mrs. Cara
wan repeats.
Land sakes, folks today just
don't know how easy they live.
Why they don't know anything
about work! Farmers, riding
around on tractors! Why, ! tell
'em if it were to come to working
like our grandparents did nobody
could do it. Things had to be
done right in them days too, on
farm. The teams weren't suf-.
fered to 60 too near those ditch
banks ! can tell you"
Mrs. Caravan has lived on a
farm all her life. 81 began going
to the fields when / was FOUR"
she tells. II can remember rid
ing on my fathers shoulders. /
can see myself now in the cot
ton field at picking time. We
didn't use a bag to put the cot
ton in then. We put a big basket
in the row between the plants.
1t was fun, when I was four, to
throw the cotton in the baskets.
AS l grew older it got to where
it wasn't so much fun anymore.
"But I like outdoor work. In
the house I feel as though l am
in Jail. It's because I have always
worked outside while my sisters
did the house work. Even in win
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SPENCER-AUSTIN

Miss Susan Spencer, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Spencer of
Ocracoke, and Clifton E. Austin,
son of Mrs. Clifton Austin of Hat
teras, were married last week in
Elizabeth City.
Evening star., 1954-08-19
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