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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-10-15

achieve the very desirable neu-
trail background that may be i'm
possible otherwise. When you
look at subject from a straight
forward point of view and find
that the background is Cutlery,
try a high or low angle. It is
amazing what one or the other
may be able to do to improve the
situation.
In outdoor shots, the ants eye
view can give you nice sky
background, while the birds eye
view can provide the plainness of
grassy lawn or the stones of
terrace to help your subject stand
out. Indoors, the upward view
gives a wall and ceiling back
ground which may be desirable,
and the downward look through
the viewfnder gives the neutral
background of floor or carpet to
your picture.
Don't do all your shooting at
your eye level-try seeing how
your picture would come out at
the level of other eyes.
John Van Guilder
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-10-15

sembly at any given time,
whether the county alone COM
poses a senatorial district or
whether it is combined with
other counties in such a district.
In making appointments ac-
cording to existing statutes, the
governors appointee to fill
vacancy can hold office under
the appointment only until the
next regular election. At this
next regular election, any person
seeking. the office in question
must run for election for the per-
iod of time between the election
and the end of the term to which
the person vacating the office
was originally elected, and must
also run for a regular term to
commence at the end of that
short term.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-10-15
EXPLANATION GIVEN OF
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS

Raleigh = North Carolinians
will vote on November 2 on five
proposed amendments to the
State Constitution.
The first one would authorize
the General Assembly to provide
for recalling retired supreme
court justices to fill temporary
vacancies caused by illness or
other emergencies
The second would authorize
the General Assembly to create
Board of Paroles and confer
upon it the authority to grant,
revoke and terminate paroles
which is now exercised by the
Governor.
The third would limit to one,
the number of State Senators
from any one county.
The fourth would reduce from
four months to 80 days, the time
a voter must reside in precinct
before becoming eligible to vote.
The fifth would permit the
Governor, in filling vacancy in
the executive or judicial depart
ments, to appoint a person to
serve the balance of the unex-
pired term if that term is to
expire on the first day of Janu-
ary after the next general cleo
ton.
Under existing statutes re-
tired supreme court justices
b ecome emergency superior
court justices and may be called
on to hold terms of superior
court. There is no existing
authority to recall them for duty
on the supreme court.
The amendment creating
parole board would terminate
the Governors power of grant
ing, terminating and revoklng
paroles after July /, 1855.
Under present laws, it is per-
missible for one county to have
two or more senators. The effect
of the proposed amendment
would be to prevent any one
county from having more than
one senator in the General As
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-10-15
FISH JUMPS IN BOAT

Mrs. Travis Flowers and Vic
tor Jennette went fishing one
evening recently. After catching
three fish apiece they were COM
ing home and had to come up a
canal, an outlet from the high
way when four and one half
pound mullet jumped in the boat
striking Mrs. Flowers on the
shoulder.
She was very excited fearing
the fish would jump out and
called to Victor to catch it. He
released the handle of the motor
and pronto, the boat nosed into
the bank, but the fish was saved.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-10-15
FISHING PIERS
BIG BUSINESS
IN CAROLINA
Million Dollars Invested In
Same; Six Added This
Year

With big building squirt in
1854, the fishing pier business
moved into the million dollar
class in North Carolina rapidly
growing tourist industry.
Six new ocean piers were put
into operation this year, to bring
the total to 13-ranging along
the States S30-mile coast from
Fort Fisher to Kitty Hawk-a
survey by the State Advertising
Division of the Department of
Conservation and Development
revealed.
The piers are busy from April
into November, offering a var
iety of game fish. When the fish
are running, hundreds of pounds
are pulled in by anglers who
have the privilege of fishing
from dawn until dusk for ST or
SO cents, depending upon length
and location of the pier.
Heaviest concentration of piers
is in Southeastern North Caro-
lima. There are seven on the
beaches of New Hanover County
alone. All present piers have
sturdy wooden pilings, but the
first steel fishing pier for this
State is under construction at
Surf City. Specifications call for
use of $50 tons of steel in build
ing a 1,100-foot pier at cost of
100000.
The trend is toward longer and
bigger piers, and two are over
LOO feet long: Jennette's Pier at
Mays Head, which was lengthen-
ed in 1854, now claims 1,156 feet,
the Triples at Atlantic Beach,
built lin 1852, CLAIMS 1850 feet.
With tackle, bait and snack shops,
rest rooms, and in some cases
restaurant and sleeping accom-
mediation, the piers represent in
vestments up to $4,000. Over
all value of the IS ocean piers
in operation in 1854, plus four
salt water sound piers, and seven
ocean and sound piers planned
for near future construction
easily exceeds a million dollars.
Nearly three-quarters of this
boom is bracketed in the last
three years, although fishing
piers now in operation along the
North Carolina coast date back
to 1923 when the pier at Kure
Beach now operated by Bill
Robertson was built. Next pier of
record was the Luna Pier at
Wrightsville Beach, which bears
a 1887 date. In 1889 the original
Jennette Pier was built at Mays
Head, and the Fort Fisher Pier
was built at the tip of the PENN
sula on which there are now five
piers ranging northward to Caro-
lima Beach.
The six piers put into opera
ton in 1854 are at Kitty Hawk.
Surf City, New Topsail Beach,
Wrightsville Beach, and two at
Wilmington Beach.
Pier fishing fare varies with
latitude, but generally mullet
{whiting) and channel bass can
be counted on to open the season
in April May sees a continuation
Of whiting and the appearance of
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-10-15

O'Neal and Mrs. H. D. Epting
visited Mrs. Annie Swindel and
Mrs. Frank Fortescue Thursday.
Lee w. Swindell was home for
the week end.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Spencer
were dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Edgar O'Neal Sunday.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-10-15

Berlin became the capital of
Germany in 1871.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09
Air Force Generals Probing
Conduct Of Captured Flyers

generals-as he did the U. N.
political committee last October
of "inhuman tactics" used by
the Reds to wear down their cap
tives.
The Air Force said the board
will consult other civilian au-
thorities in the medical and legal
fields Ito insure a rounded UNI
Outstanding of all aspects of the
cases under study.
Won't Be Called.
None of the men involved will
come before the board in person,
an Air Force spokesman said. No
further announcements are to
be made while the board is sit
ting 1t has not been given a
time limit to complete it's work
The Army and Marine Corps
have taken steps in two instances
to investigate conduct of re-
turned prisoners of war in
| Korea.
The Marine Corps set up a
board of inquiry January % to
determine whether Col. Frank H
Schwable of Arlington should be
punished for having confessed
falsely to Communist captors
that the United States waged
germ warfare in Korea.
In the case of Corpl. Edward
S. Dickinson of Crackers Neck,
Va, the Army is making a pre-
trial investigation to determine
whether he must face a court
martial. He has been accused of
dealing Illegally with the Reds
in Korea in order to get better
treatment as a prisoner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09
5 U. 5. Flyers Parachute
To Safety in PORTUGAL
By the Assoeioted Press

MADRID. Spain. Feb. g.
Five American airmen who
bailed out Of a crippled C-119
Flying Boxcar just after mid
night were found early today
near Caceres, in southwest Spain.
Two of the men were reported
slightly injured.
The crew members were iden-
titled as LIST 1t. T. G.. johnson,
%, pilot; I'd 1t. John Matthesen,
co-pilot; Capt. William Adams,
81. navigator; S Sergt. Charles
John Sink, %. radio operator,
and S(Sergt. M. w. Strang, 80,
engineer. Home towns were I'M
available and reports from Ca
ceres did not identify the two
injured men.
The big transport was at
tached to the 3l7th Troop Car
rier Wing at Neuburg Air Base,
near Munich, Germany. It was
en- route to the United States
via the Azores for a routine fac
tory inspection when it devel-
oped engine trouble.
The pilot was unable to make
it to Madrid. The transport
crashed and burned shortly aft
er the men parachuted.
A United States Air Force
spokesman at the Rhein Main
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09
TYdings Represents
Watch Tariff Foes
BY the Assoeiafed Press

Willard Tydings, former Dem
ocratic Senator from Maryland
will represent the American
Watch Association in opposing
before the Federal Tariff Com
mission a petition from three
United States watchmakers to
increase the tariff on watches OF
II jewels or less.
The hearings open tomorrow
The petition came from Elgin
Hamiltan and Waltham watch
companies.
The American Watch Associa-
ton, Mr.. Tyding told q news con-
ference yesterday. is made up OF
about 60 companies which i'm
port. assemble or manufacture
jeweled watches. Mr.. TydingS
said the three companies which
petitioned the tariff commission
to recommend a higher duty on
watches of II jewels or less hold
a complete monopoly" in the
United States in the sale of
watches with more than II
jewels.
The companies banded to-
gether in the American Watch
Association, on the other hand,
Mr.. Tydings said. put together
watch movements of II jewels or
less and dominate this field.
Mr.. Tydings declared that the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09
Family Dog Attacks BoY,2;
Wounds Take 81 Stitches

A 2-year-old boy had 50
stitches taken in his face and
ears last night after a Chow dog.
a family pet for only three days.
attacked him.
Montgomery County police said
the dog knocked down Craig Dill
lard of 11727 Viers Mill road,
Wheaton. after his mother. Mrs.
Ann billiard. handed the child a
meat sandwich about $50 pm.
Mrs. billiard told police her son
tried to shove the dog away, but
was bitten on the face, ears and
stomach. The dog recently had
been given rabies vaccination,
police said.
Craig was treated by a neigh
borhood doctor and taken to
Children's Hospital in Wash
ingtOn,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09
Five Help Boby's Birth

ROCHESTER. MINI. (R.-In
this world medical center, a Gig
arctic salesman, cab driver and
three policemen teamed to de-
liver a girl, born to Mrs. James
Reiland, 26, in the Reiland home.
Mrs. IRELAND phoned her brother
in-law, the cigarette salesman.
His cab driver summoned the
three policemen and all were on
hand for the birth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09
Briton Serving Here
Among 7 Missing in
Alaska Air Crash
BY the As.oeioted Press

ANCHORAGE, Alaska. Feb. 8.
Six airmen who were cata-
pulled into the air last Friday
when an Air Force Cat dis
integrated" in flight told last
night what it is like to be ma
rooned on the snowy wastes of
Alaska.
They were among Is men on
the plane. Searchers have found
the bodies of three men. Seven
were still missing and hopes
they would be found alive were
very dim.
Among the missing were 1t.
Col. w. R. West Watson of the
British joint military services
mission on the United States
Army staff at Washington. D. c..
and Capt. James Hill of the
Army field forces at Fort Ben
ming. Ga.
cit. Col. West Watson, 80.
has been stationed here for
about two years. A medical
officer with the British Royal
Medical Corps. he was serving
as a liaiSon officer with the
Army Surgeon Generals Office.
CThe British officer and his
wife live at 5430 Seventeenth
street north, Arlington. They
have two children.
according to his office here,
Col. WeSt-Watson was taking
part in a cold-weather exercise
with the United States Army.)
A ground party which battled
deep snow Is miles to the scene
Of the crash from the little
town of Curry. IS miles north
west of here. last night reported
it had found three bodies.
The six rescued men talked
freely with newSmen at nearby
Elmendorf Air Force Base. They
were hospitalized at the 5005th
Air Force Hospital at Elmendorf
after being flown to safety.
None of them could explain
the accident, which happened on
a fight from Elmendorf to Laid
Air Force Base. 275 miles to the
northeast.
But to all six, the first indi-
cation of trouble was a terrific
down draft that tossed the
plane like it was a feather. Two
said they heard an explosion
afterward.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09
BY the Associated Pres.

A board Of five Air Force gen.
erals is investigating the cases
Of more than so airmen whose
conduct while Red prisoners in
Korea has been questioned.
The board is under orders
either to clear these men, or to
recommend their future status
with the Air Force and possible
action. if justified by prior acts. :"
Each is being handled separately.
An Air Force spokesman said
prior acts" would be those re-
garded as detrimental to the
United States or to fellow POWs.
Among the cases under study
are airmen who confessed to par
ticipation in germ warfare. OF
the 220 men listed by the Air
Force as known prisoners of the
Communists, 80 were reported to
have made such confessions.
To Consider OrdeaIs.
An official announcement last
night said the generals-whose
names were withheld-will take
into consideration the suffering
these men may have undergone.
Also to be weighed: Response
bilities Of military men in war"
The board already has heard
DR.. Charles w. Mayo. an emf
nent physician and United States
alternate representative in the
United Nations Political Com
mittee. DR.. Mayo told the gen.
erals Of Communist methods of
dealing with prisoners.
Presumably. DR.. Mayo told the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09
Prince Georges Bill
Would Cut Inventory
Tax on Merchants
By Gene Goodwin
Stor StoH Correspondent

ANNAPOLIS, Feb. "a bill
to give Prince Georges County
merchants the same inventory
tax advantage enjoyed in most
other Maryland counties was to
be introduced in the State Leg
islature today.
The bills Prince Georges
County sponsors - Delegates
Perry o. Wilkinson. Democrat,
and j. Frank Lillard, jr., Re-
publican-Said it would bring a
40 per cent reduction in the 2
per cent tax merchants of their
county now pay each year on
their inventory stocks.
Meanwhile, Senator Anders r.
Lofstrand. Republican, of Mont
gomery County, last night in
troduced a bill to require an
nual inspection of all Maryland
motor vehicles. It also would re-
Quire school buses to have an
extra inspection in August, just
before schools open.
Delegate Kathryn Lawlor, Re-
publican, of Montgomery, pro-
posed a bill in the House at the
same time that would increase
the minimum age for chauffeur's
licenses from 16 to Is. Her bill is
aimed particularly at teen-agers
who are hired during their sum-
mer vacations to drive day camp
buses.
The House overrode Gov. Nc
Keldin'S veto of bill to exempt
insecticides and fungicides from
the State sales tax. The Senate
already had rejected the veto
last week. That means that, as
of June l, Maryland farmers can
stop paying the 2 per cent levy
on insect sprays.
The House also overrode the
Governors veto of two capital
improvement projects-$25O, 900
for a new dormitory at Western
Maryland College and $250,000
for a new gym at Washington
College.
The Senate already had over
ridden the veto on those two
items.
The Senate, meanwhile, Joined
the House in overriding the veto
on bill to ban drifting gill nets
in the Patuxent River south of
the Patuxent River Bridge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09

For example, large portion of the funds
needed to build housing developments and
rental dwellings has come from the life in
surance companies.
And as more and more people have moved
to the suburbs and bought homes of their
own, the life insurance companies have in
vested an increasing amount of their policy
holders funds in home mortgages.
In addition, these funds have helped
finance the building of many Of the shops,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09
Detroit Is Called
Distress Area; Will
Get Contract Priority
BY the Associated Press

Detroit, the Nations autoH1o-
tive capital. has been declared a
distressed area with 'substan-
tial" unemployment. This en-
titles it to preference in obtain
ing Government contracts.
The Labor Department an
nounced last night it has added
the city to list of 20 other
major cities and 81 smaller COM
munities with more than 6 per
cent Of their labor forces out OF
work.
The departments Bureau OF
Employment Security acted on
the basis of special study by
the Michigan Employment Sc
curity Commission which report
ed lot 900 jobless in the Detroit
area in mid-January. This is
IL per cent OF the civilian labor
force there.
$4,000 Cut in 30 Days.
The Michigan commission re-
ported that $4,000 automotive
workers had been released in the
past 80 days.
Walter Reuther, CLIO and
United Auto Workers president
had asked for the survey after
Detroit was left off the Labor
Departments most recent list
Of distressed areas, although il
reported unemployment at So
per cent.
Commissioner Robert c. Good
win of the Bureau OF Employ
ment Security explained to a
congressional committee last Fri.
day that the group ,IV-dis-
treSSed area-rating was with
held from Detroit because many
workers there were laid of tenn
porarily with instructions to re-
port for work within 80 days
Get Contract Priority.
Group Nv listing entities De-
troit companies to special con.
sideration in award of Govern
ment contracts. In the event OF
a tie bid. company in a dis
tressed area automatically gets
preference over a company In
a non-distreSsed area.
The Michigan study predicted
an upturn in Detroit employment
by mid-May in line with antici-
pated increased auto sales.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09
Fire Kills Two Sets
Of Twins and Brother

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. Give
children, including two sets of
twins. died yesterday when fire
destroyed their three room
shack here.
Police said they were Jessie
Lee and Tommy Lee Farrell. al
most 2; Brendy and Bruce Far
rell. seven months, and Albert
Farrell. jr., 3. They are colored.
Officers said the mother. Jessie
Lee Farrell. %, was en- route to
a grocery when the fire broke
mt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09
Property Assessments Plan
FoIters in State Assembly

ANNAPOLIS, Feb. ga pro-
posal to lift property assessments
with the inducement of more
State aid for schools faltered in
the General Assembly last night.
Senate Majority Leader Gold
stein. commenting that small
counties probably wouldn't sup
port the idea. suggested the plan
be referred to State commissions
for study.
If two bills outlining the pro-
posal emerge from the rules COM
'mittee. Senator GoldStein'S fl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09
America IS going suburban..

In our IL largest metropolitan areas, 1870
of their growth between 1910 and 1850
was in the suburbsl
In this shift to the suburbs, there's been
a growing need for more homes for
more apartment dwellings :. for more
branch stores and shops.
Life insurance funds are playing a major
role IN this changing picture by financing
much of this building activity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09

stores and small factories you see sprouting
up in the suburbs.
Of course, the main reason people buy life
insurance is for the protection and security
of their families But until the funds paid in
are returned as benefits, they are used as
investment money to help the community
and the country as whole. And at the same
time the interest they earn helps keep down
the cost of life insurance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09

nance committee will get first
crack at them.
Senator GoldStein said the bills
should be screened at least by
an education commission headed
by Harry j. Green and another
group studying State borrowing
policies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09

John j. DAILY. former feature
writer for The Star. will be guest
speaker at 1890 pm. luncheon
meeting Of the District Society,
Sons Of the American Revolu-
ton. tomorrow in Hammel's
Restaurant. 416 Tenth street
NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09

Base at Frankfurt, Germany,
said the home base of the crew.
men and their Inflated plane
was Sewart Air Base, Smyrna,
Tenn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09

success Of the petition before the
tariff commission might mean
the virtual elimination of the
present market in America for
watches Of II jewels or less.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09
Man Wears Doc Collar

Ell DORADO, Ark. (P).-
Police here booked a man for
drunkenness after they found
him wearing a dog collar, COM
plete with name and address.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-09

Institute Of Life Insurance
Central Source of Information about Life Insurance
Ass MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK ~, NY.
Evening star., 1954-06-06
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Perle Off to Newport This Month"; Europe Later in Summer
Former BrozIion Ambassador Moreiro Soes Morres

you," she whipped into the
stunned gent, about an alle-
CATION that I look like a square
faced old man with a large
mustache. But I do think that
in these days of doctored
photographs, you owe me an
apology for cropping 10 years
out of my life. I, SIR" she
wound up with a flourish. am
TO-"
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt,
jr., the blond, slim, goodlook-
ing wife of the famous-named
candidate for the governorship
of New York, has something
on her mind. One OF $50
Senator's and Representatives
wives invited to tea at the
White House recently, she
looked around at the stiff
1ormallty OF tne rooms, Lne
crowd Of women who were
mostly strangers to Mrs. Ell
senhower, the long buffet
table laden with the identical
type cookies and punch offered
at every reception. afternoon
and evening, when food is in
cluded. Then she suddenly ex-
claimed:
This is the last house I
want to live I'M"
What about your husbands
ambitions?" she was asked,
the questioner explaining that
the term ambition" was used
in the admirable sense Of de-
string to get ahead and not in
a derogatory sense.
"It's not he so much as
others who keep pushing him."
replied the very attractive
Mrs. F. D. R., jr.