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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-03-12
MANTEO PERSONALS

Mr.. and Mrs. Steve Basnight
and Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Burrus
left Saturday for a motor trip to
Florida.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Seawell of
Winston-Salem have been the re-
cent guests of Mrs. Seawell's sis
ter, Mrs. Rennie Williamson.
Mrs. John Wescott, Mrs. Ray
mond Wescott, Mrs. Lloyd Yves
colt and Mrs. Paul Midget spent
Tuesday in Norfolk.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Adams and
children of Portsmouth, Va,
spent last week end at their
home near Manteo.
Mrs. j. M. Taylor and children,
Kay, Judy and Deborah, of Vir-
ginia Beach, visited Mrs. Taylor's
mother, Mrs. R. S. Meekins, and
Mr.. Meekins Sunday.
Carson w. Davis, who is a pa
tient in a Wilson hospital, is re-
ported to be improving satisfac-
torily.
Miss Vivian House is on her
spring buying trip and will
attend the Doll Fair in New York
and the Gift Show in Philadel-
phia. While in Philadelphia she
will be the guest of Mrs. Henry
Miller for a week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nevada Primer of
Cincinnati, Ohio, have been
visiting relatives in Manteo and
East Lake. Last week they were
the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. r. D.
Sawyer in Manteo, Mr.. Primer
being Mrs. Sawyer's brother.
R. B. Etheridge spent several
days in Raleigh this week. Mrs.
Etheridge accompanied him as
far as South Mills, where she
visited for several days.
Mrs. David Pearsall visited her
sister, Mrs. Henry Johnson, in
Raleigh this week.
Mrs. Joe Seymore of Camden
is visiting her mother, Mrs. lvey
Evans, and Mr.. Evans.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-03-12
DARE PAYS AGED
MORE THAN ANY
OTHER COUNTY
Old Age Assistance Checks
Above AIlotments Made
BY Richer Counties

The biggest checks for old age
assistance in North Carolina are
not paid by the big rich counties
of Mecklenburg, Guilford, Dur
ham or Forsyth, but come from
the welfare department of Dare
County, the average being $36.17,
and the highest of the 100 coun-
ties of North Carolina. Figures
are from the University News
Letter.
While not the highest in the
state, other aid to needy checks
are among the highest. It's
average payment for dependent
child is $1922 or $500 per fam
lily. Average payment to the
blind is $42.15; aid to disabled,
1921, and genreal assistance
check 1888.
Payments for old age assist
ance, and rank by counties in the
Walter Raleigh Coastland Coun-
r.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-03-12

The average payment in N. c.
is $29.93. Dare falls behind its
neighbor counties in some pay
ments for other purposes. Aver
age per child paid in each coun-
ty is as follows: Dare $19.22; Ty-
rrell 1888; Hyde $17.05; Cur
rituck $500; Beaufort SLAB;
Martin $10.83; Camden $18.46;
Washington $13.74.
Hyde leads in the average
check for aid to disabled with
$37.08; Tyrrell 1859; Currituck
$32.63; Dare 1921; Washington
$32.55; Beaufort $30.68; Martin
$1,000.
A strong contrast is observed
in payments from the General
assistance fund all of which
comes direct from local tax
payers. The monthly average
follows: Pamlico $40; Hyde
$3.50; Martin $21.67; Tyrrell
$21.10; Camden $1491; Beaufort
$3.50; Currituck 1885 and Wash
ington $667.
1t is generally known that in
many agricultural counties, the
county boards are driven by pub
lie opinion to make the general
assistance checks very low for
fbp raoc0y1 hot m any uyhifpc and
particularly negroes, appeal for
this aid for their dependent rela-
tives, and then go and live on it
themselves, and refuse to work.
Of course it is a starvation exist
ence, but it is surprising the num-
Der of people who chose it in
stead of any work at all, and the
taxpaying people get plenty sore
at contributing to the support of
this class of parasites.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-03-12
TILLETT
CONTINUED from Page One)

and rescue duty officer in the
Fifth Coast Guard District office,
Norfolk, and early in 1949 was
assigned commanding officer OF
the harbor tug Apalachee at
Baltimore.
He left the Apalachee in the
Summer of 1851 and was made
executive officer o the Ports
mouth-based buoy tender Mistle-
toe. Tillett was given his Norfolk
Port Security Unit assignment in
March 1852.
He has two children; Barbara
j., 16, and Richard, IL. Both
attend school in Deep Creek.
Chief Boatswain Tillett's wife
died two years ago.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-03-12
HOLD 'EM TO THE LINE!

Congressman c, B. Deane reports that he has intro
duced bill in Congress ito make it unlawful for per-
to avoid responsibility of supporting wife and children
by fleeing another state country says the Laurnburg
N c. Exchange. The bill would impose penalty in such
of five thousand dollars fine and up five years i'm
prisonment or both
APPLY, think Mr.. Deane says: It inequitable
that the government should violation of the laws
of the United States for the family to be stolen and
transported in interstate while the family bread
winner through the u and foreign countries
permitting his wife and children to suffer- without contra
vening the federal law
1t that Congressman Deane is striking here at
the of of the most serious domestic problems of
time Much of the work of the local courts of the well
fare and relief agencies and other charitable organizations
taken with of distress occasoned by erng hus
bands and fathers who derect in their duties and
sponsibties in supporting their families And they should
not be permitted to shk such responsibility by simply 60
ing away another state which quite practice
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-03-12
RUSSIA is NO HEAVEN TO REDS

federal judge in Detroit tempered judgement with
irony when he allowed he would be glad to arrange it,
that convicted Communists could go Russia lieu
serving the prison terms he had melted them Any
time within sixty days said the judge he could fix they
could leave the country and would be perfectly agreeable
for them to do So
But instead of accepting the offer, the Commies said
they'd fight back None wanted to go to Russia AS
of fact the last thing Communist in this country wants
to to Russia Here he has free range go and
and take advantage of every device of freedom of
stituton and the great American tradition giving the
accused the benefit of the doubt until he is definitely
roioht Nv proven TO De which
Exchange.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-03-12

who is a registered nurse from
New York and Baltimore, helps
her with the management of the
home. Her home is licensed to
care for seven patients, which
range in age from II to 90. Two
patients are completely bedridden,
but the rest are able to manage
for themselves somewhat.
81 guess my biggest job is try
ing to satisfy the public" Mrs.
Midget said. Its hard to please
everybody at once"
She reads from the Bible and
has prayer for an hour every
night for the group of seven. Her
patients can visit their homes
whenever they want to.
81 once hired a trained nurse
to come and help me run the
home" Mrs. Midget said, "but
she wanted to treat them like
they do in a big institution-let
them take care of themselves. So
/ told her / wouldn't need her
ANYMORE. Every time one of Mrs.
Midgett's patients has birthday,
she always throws birthday
party, and number of relatives
and friends drop by for the
occasion.
The Beacon nursing home is
very clean throughout. The pa
tients there have neat rooms, and
there is plenty of closet space
for clothes, and a large linen
closet. All of the mattresses have
plastic covers on them, and they
are washed periodically. She has
a washhouse and storeroom in
the back yard, with a freezer
locker crammed full of food for
the many mouths she is respon-
sible for feeding properly. On the
back porch two love birds fly in
and out of their cage, and travel
around the screened-in porch
singing their songs and Tapping
their colorful wings.
The living room is provided
with a new television set. The
old folks have the roam of the
house.
Need for More Homes
Mrs. Goldie Meekins, super
tendent of Dare County Welfare,
says there is a need for more
homes of this type in the county.
At present, however, no Dare
County citizen is located in a
home outside of the county. Some
individuals are in homes which
aren't licensed ( a home need be
licensed only if it cares for more
than one welfare case).
There is a woman in Manteo
who has made an application for
her home to be licensed" Mrs.
Meekins said, land I feel sure
that she will get it. She has a
particular warmth about her
which old people can readily
identify themselves with, and
because of this they will respond
very well to treatment. I believe
this woman is particularly suited
to care for old people," she went
on.
"The Manteo Negro population
needs a licensed home" Mrs.
Meekins said. However, the
colored people here have Gull
ture all their own, in that they
are able to take care of their
own people"
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-03-12
so SECONDS OF
WISDOM
BY Fred Dodge
BY Fred Dodge
TEXT: THE use of money is
all the advantage there
is in having IL"

TEXT: THE use of money is
all the advantage there
is in having IT,"
- Franklin
The lamenting relatives
gathered in the attorneys ORE
to hear the reading of the Last
Will and Testament of the de-
ceased. There was an air Of ex-
pectancy over the group. Each
leaned forward to hear every
word that the attorney would
read. He opened the document,
cleared his throat and began,
Being of sound mind and
body, / spent every cent of my
fortune before my death -"
The possession of money re-
lieves a fear of the future. It is
our best assurance of material
welfare when our earning days
are over. However, possession Of
money merely for the sake of
having it, is folly. The well
known phrase, "You can't take it
with YOU, has meaning that we
all admit. Yet many of us, espe-
cially as we grow older, try to
gather more and more worldly
possessions around us. Money is
good to have, if we remember
that the use of it is all the adj
vantage there is in having it.
That other things are more en-
during, is pointed out in this
comment on John Wesley in the
Wall Street Journal some years
ago, Good old John Wesley died
penniless. He left only a few sill
yer spoons, plus the Methodist
Church"
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-03-12
SWAN QUARTER TO BE HOST
TO DISTRICT REBEKAEiS

Swan Quarter Rebekahs will
be host to the semi-annual dis
trict meeting Saturday, March Is.
State officers will be present and
all Rebekahs in the district are
invited to attend.
The Swan Quarter lodge, with
Mrs. Dell Berry as Noble Grand,
will serve dinner to the visiting
chapters, Elizabeth City, Manteo,
and Tyner.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-03-12
MAINS HARBoR NEWS

Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Midget
spent the week end in Currituck,
the guests of Mrs. Midgett's
brother, Joe Twiddy and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Johnson
spent the week end in Norfolk
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. George
Midget and family, and Mrs.
Geraldine Kirkland, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Frederic johnson and fam
lily.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stewart Jones
had as their guests during the
week end Mrs. Francis Jones of
Baltimore, Md, and Mr.. Jones
sister, Mrs. Bob Wescott of Man
teo.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lynwood Lowe
and Mr.. and Mrs. William Bun
yam of Elizabeth City spent Sun
day with Mr.. and Mrs. Hooker
Greet.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Spencer, Jr.,
and children, Buddy, Joyce and
I. D., of Norfolk spent several
days this week visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. Ira Spencer, Sr., and Mr..
and Mrs. Wallace Taylor.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Mann were
in Plymouth Sunday.
Willard Sutton, USCG, Nor
folk, visited his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. T. o. Sutton during the
week end.
Raymond Davis, who has been
spending some time in Elizabeth
City during the illness of w. o.
Barnett, returned to his home
here this week end, and reports
that Mr.. Barnett is improving
nicely.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Evans and
son, Steve, of Norfolk were
guests during the week end of
Mrs. Evans parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. F. M. Sawyer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marvin Bratten
and son of Elizabeth City, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley Bratten of
Norfolk spent the week end with
their mother, Mrs. Reba Ambrose
and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jimmie Davis of
Wanchese were visiting friends
and attended church here Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sherwood Jones
of Manteo were guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Hooker Greet Saturday, this
being Mr.. Creefs birthday. Mrs.
Jones brought along delicious
birthday cake which was served
with the dinner.
Wallace Taylor and Herman
Gibbs were in Norfolk Saturday,
where Mr.. Gibbs received medi-
cal attention.
Mr.. and Mrs. Woodson Midget
of Duck were guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charlie Midget during the
week end.
c. B. Midget spent the week
end in Elizabeth City with his
daughter and son-in-law, Mr..
and Mrs. Eddie Burgess. He was
accompanied by his granddaugh-
ter, Levonia Burgess, who spent
last week here with her aunt,
Mrs. F. M. Sawyer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin White and
children of Norfolk visited Mr..
Whites mother, Mrs. w. M.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-03-12
KITTY HAWK REVIVAL

Revival services at Kitty Hawk
Methodist Church will begin
Monday, March Is, and continue
through Friday, March 10, with
Rev. D. ]. Reid, pastor of City
Road Methodist Church, Eliza
beth City, as visiting minister.
Services will be held each
evening at 7:30 and the public
is invited to attend.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-03-12

White and family during the
week end.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-03-12

Keep your coat collars and hats
spotless by brushing them before
and after every wearing. You
will keep white powder lines
from setting in the garments.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-03-12
BIRTHS

Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Mike
Setter of Baltimore, a daughter,
February Is. Mrs. Sieter is the
former Rosalee Gray, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Percy Gray of
Stumpy Point.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1954-03-01
Thoughts on Life
Your Real Worth
By DR.. JOHN W. HOLLAND

WHENEVER YOU TURN on your
radio to enjoy this greatest miracle
of human ingenuity, there is one
name that stands for the final de-
velopment of radio The name is
Steinmetz. Physically, he was
small man, whose vital health was
always on the weak side. He walked
with stoop to his shoulders. His
eyes had a way of looking through
things and people to find the truth
in them.
Once, he heard of boy in Chicago
who had made radio set in a cigar
box that had an unusual range of
receptivity. He took the train to
Chicago, looked up the boy and
studied his invention. When an idea
came to him, he was all alive with
curiosity to find out if it would
work. His name became name to
conjure with among workers in
eleetronics.
But SteinmetZ was more than a
man of science. He was a prophet
of the SOUL He said that if mankind
advanced farther than at present,
the next forward move, if any,
would not be in the realm of the ma
terial, but in the psychical, the fur
Their discovery of the forces in the
soul of man.
Curse or Blessing
It seems to me that we have taxed
our brains about to the limit and
our nerves to the breaking point.
We need a forward march" in our
morals and ethics if civilization is
to bless and not curse the world.
If all we can do with our super
explosives is to hold over the heads
of other nations the fear of being
blasted into smithereens. If some
semi-maniac, power-crazed dictator
can ride roughshod over the world,
he is not much ahead of the charg-
ing animals in the jungle.
1t is the quarrel which goddess die
tator minds have always had with
the Spirit of Jesus Christ that causes
many of our troubles. To a dictator,
either in industry or in a state, an
individual person is merely a cog
in material wheel, with no free
dom but to vote to remain a cog.
Jesus had no such ghoulish and
devilish ideas. He said: What shall
it profit man if he shall gain the
whole world and lose his own soul?'
Christ is our One Hope, as He de-
clares the worth of One Personal
ity. One day, He halted a funeral
procession to restore life to one boy.
The life of this lad who had died
was worth more than the world at
that moment.
Individual Worth
We are likely to forget while play
ing with our million dollar tools of
destruction that the lives we could
destroy with them could never move
mankind an inch nearer to God and
Honor. We forget that this fact OF
Individual worth, with social con-
science to rule oneself, sprang from
the Gospel of Christ. The next cen
fury will belong either to Christ OF
chaos. If we try to live by the ham.
mer we will ourselves die at las
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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-07-22

To the farmer, the motor We
hicle has brought more centraliz-
ed educational facilities, lower
transportation costs on his pro
duce, quicker medical attention,
more social intercourse, and
greater ease in obtaining his sup
plies. To the city dweller, it has
brought a new means of leisure
utilization, freedom from mass
transportation herding, and p
method of periodic escape from
urban surroundings. 1t has hast
ened suburban development and
is beginning to cause disintegra.
ton of congested business dis
trictS.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-07-22

such as steel, rubber, plate glass,
nickel, and lead, and is RESPONSE
bic for the tremendous expansion
of the oil industry which produc-
eS more than two billion barrels
of crude petroleum year.
The motor vehicle produces
more than four billion dollars in
taxes year, a large proportion
of which goes toward road-build-
ing. 1t has worked against sec.
tionalism and provincialism and
has been a major factor in inte-
grating the nation. 1t has created
major social problem by caus-
ing 10000 deaths and more than
100000 injuries yearly.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-07-22

automobive freight annually and
has given them a flexible instru-
ment for delivery to and from the
stations.
The automobile industry gives
direct and semi-direct employ
ment to some 100000 workers
in approximately $4,000 business
es. Wage payments to workers in
automobile factories and auto
body and parts factories alone
totaled $2,5O0,O0O,O00 in 1850. 1t
is the principal consumer of
many important commodities
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-07-22
Brief History of
The Automobile
Continued from BID

NSOIltiilO'Cu llOlll D-IJ
brought about the construction of
approximately 100000 miles of
surfaced streets and highways.
The motor vehicle has robbed the
railroads of much of their pas
senger traffic and some of their
freight, but it has provided them
with nearly 100000 carloads of
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-07-22
FORD OLDEST SURVIVOR

The Ford is not only the oldest
product of the Ford Company but
also the Oldest of the cars found
on the road today. 1t was made
for retail sale in 1896. Lincoln APP
peared in 1920 and the Mercury
in 1929
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-07-22

Practically every prosperous
family owns a motor car; a start
lingly large percentage of the
poorest families own them. Like
the bath tub, the telephone and
the radio, it has become an es-
sential element in the American
way of living.
Seward seaport record., 1954-12-10

program to be carried on by the Boy Scouts were also reported on by Stan Neigeman. A sales yard is being lined up and the Scouts will solicit local househol d 8 about two weeks before Christmas to see what size tree they desire. Charges will be soc per foot, with a minimum of $2.00 per tree.
 Those attending the Scouters meeting included Dr. J. B. Deisher, Todd Purcell, Field Representative from Headquarters in Anchorage and R. J. Fyles, Don Krull, Don Lee, Dick Cox, Jim Aylen and R. D. Muller, who are the Scoutmast- CT, Assistant Scoutmaster and Committeeman for Troop 63O. Also Stan Neigeman, Robert Freeman, Ray Seferovich, l.. Whitmore, and Don DahFberg who are in order named Assistant Scoutmaster and Committeeman of Troop 627. Fr. Russell Clapp, representing Troop 327 and the Explorers, was also present.
Seward seaport record., 1954-12-10

IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA THIRD DIVISION, SEWARD PRE- In the Matter of the Estate of ) GEORGE W. WIEGAND.
 Deceased. No. 615
 Notice of Hearing of Final Account, Report and Petition for Distribution
 and Discharge
 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Louis F. Wiegand, administrator of the estate of GEORGE w. WIEGAND. deceased, has this day filed in the Court his Final Account and Report and Petition for Final Distribution and Discharge in the above. entitled es- tate. and that the Court has designat- 1855. at the hour of o'clock in the afternoon of said day. as the time, and the office of the United States Commissioner, Ex-officio Probate Judge, of the Seward Precinct, Third Division. Territory of Alaska. at ,se- and where said Report, Account and Petition will be heard; and all per sons interested in said estate are here by required to file their objections, to the said report, account and petition if any they have. in writing. on or before the said day. in the. court, and to appear at the time and place afore- said and- present their objections; and at thet said hearing. the Court will determine what persons are to take the estate under tfe intestate laws of the Territory.
 DATED at Seward. Alaska, this Sth day of December. 1854.
 STANLEY A. HALL
 Probate Judge Dec. 10, r. 24, 31. 1854.
Seward seaport record., 1954-12-10

New two bedroom Home. 6 Unit Apartment, fully furnish ed. Low down payment. Two Garages, fully equipped, Bedroom Quonset on 2 corner lots, close in, nicely furnished. terms.
 Thirty-five foot trailer.
 JOHN P. SMITH Real Estate and Insurance
 Phone Main 2S3