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Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1955-04-22

Pay Range Number 20
Operating engineers, Glass A
Pay Range Number II
Operating engineers, Glass B
Pay Range Number 16
Distribution Foreman
Pay Range Number IT
Skilled Labor (hourly rated)
Pay Range Number 10
Semi-skilled labor (hourly rated)
Pay Range Number 6
Unskilled labor (hourly rated)
Pay Range Number 5
Clerk -typist (hourly rated)
Pay Range Number 5
The Superintendent of the Water
works shall give bond to amount of
100000.
Section 16. (Sewage Treatment
Department.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-10-21
TO A "SMART ALECK" DRIVER.

This letter about 49, who forced off the road
cutting sharply passing hill yesterday afternoon
Dear Son: You may think you good driver, and
perhaps you But I'd Like to keep In mind that most OF
your "skillfu" driving is due to other motorists.
Anybody whip along the road fast and as care
lessy you going There's no trick to thatthe new
loaded with power and pickup-too much I'm
afraid
Gust remember that it was my alertness that pre-
vented accident the HILL not yours And the driver
who approaching also had to brake suddenly and
swerve in order to your life and his.
1T is your courage and dexterty that has kept you
alive long this but the prudence and poleness of
other motorists You have been trading good will and
sense of self-preservation.
II wish it possible to point out to you that your
kind of driving nothing but bad mannerst not heroic
adventurous manly.
Suppose you down crowded street. pushing peo-
pie out of your way knocking packages out of ladies' hands
and kicking children into the gutter What would be
heroic manly about that?
Nothing of Then why do you suppose that
having 5000 pounds of steel under makee it better?
There's nothing be proud of in driving fasany fool
do that It's form of cowardce to threaten other drivers
not courage.
Suppose you beat at the getaway up hill q?
What does that prove Nothing except that the you
bought faster You didn't make it. it's commercial prod
duct Anybody buy like it-and anybody can drive
with maniacal disregard for safety.
so don't take any pride in your deadly accomplish
ment real is considerate and polte-and takes
chances only when counts when his conscience
the from the boyfor the have to save the bows
from the consequences of their foolish BRAY
ado"
The above written by Sydney
Harris and first appeared the Daily
is worth reprinting for both young and old.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-10-21
SOMERSET VAUGHAN SAID 1T
CHAPEL Hill Weekly

have never had much patience
with the writer's who claim from
the reader an effort to understand
their meaning. You have only to
go to the great philosophers to see
that it is possible to expess with
lucidity the most subtle reflec-
tions. You may find it difficult
to understand the thought of
Hume, and if you have no philo-
sophical training its implications
will doubtless escape you; but no
one with any education at all can
fail to understand exactly what
the meaning of each sentence is.
Few people have written English
with more grace than Berkeley.
There are two sorts of obscurity
that you find in writer's. One is due
to negligence and the other to will
fulness. People often write OBJ
scurely because they have never
taken the trouble to learn to write
clearly. This sort of obscurity you
will find too often in modern philo-
sophers, in men of science, and
even in literary critics. Here it is
indeed strange. You would have
thought that men who passed their
lives in the study of the great
masters of literature would, be
sufficiently sensitive to the beauty
of language to write if not beauti-
fully at least with perspicuity. Yet
you will find in their works SEN
tence after sentence that you must
read twice to discover the sense.
Often you can only guess at it, for
the writers have evidently not
said what they intended.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-10-21
MORE POWER FOR WHAT?

At the closing session of its annual meeting the Amer
Automobile Association called manufacturers for
curb and speed and to devote thought and
emphasis protecting the driver against his mistakes
One of the common of these mistakes is using
the power under odern cars hood produce 80 mile
anhour speeds where go would amply travel needs
and approach, at least the dictates of safety.
American car builders showing increasing
of the implications of highway accident statistics And
they should be given due recognition for improvements
brakng in windshield vision in body strength more
recent innovations of flexible steering Wheels safety door
laches and for the cushioned instrument panels and
seat belts Though only Optional at modest extra cost
But at the time the automotve industry persists
in basng much of its sales appeal power speed
mobile men will tell earnestly that the continual
engine intended to achieve greater economy and
safetyto get you out of tight spot going up hill But
the industry insure that drivers will this great power
only for such purposes?
What do phrases in advertising copy" such these
mean to the average purchaser "Sets the pace in
power rocket" "fredome" "power-flte," new siz-
zer hottest thing in this year. instant surging
passing power take any in it's class the
in flying mile rum?
Probably not the most conservative of us would care
to drive today of those old of tender memories
But the appeals which they sold-"dependable"
ges you there, brings you back'-sound pretty good
against the voice of the morning newscaster reporting the
toll of long week nd holiday Christian Science Monitor
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-10-21
OTHER EDITORS
FRED P. LATHAM

Washington Daily News)
The death of Fred P. Latham is
not only loss to his native Beau
fort county, but it is loss to
North Carolina as well.
A pioneer farmer, active COM
munity leader, and a political
prophet over a period of many
years, Mr.. Latham had carved a
place of love and affection in the
hearts of all who knew him.
At 83 years of age he has left
us. In leaving he has given US a
rich heritage as his monument. He
pioneered many developments for
our state as a member of the De-
partment of Conservation and De-
velopment. He has done much to
improve the growing of corn on
our farms. He was the prime
mover behind the Pungo District
Hospital.
When we add up all that he has
done and think of all that he has
meant to US here at home, we
begin then to realize our loss. He
loved the Pamlico area as few men
love it. He knew it as few men
have known it. He appreciated it
with his mind and his heart.
Our state and our country are
better places to live today because
Mr.. Latham lived here. An humble
man with a deep devotion to duty,
Mr.. Latham lived a full and active
life. Those who love him so much
can know that the loss is not theirs
alone. We've all lost in his death,
but we've all gained because of
his life so we'll lived. y
Service to his fellowman was his
goal. And he reaped the rewards
of success and enjoyed that feel
ing of happiness in surprising his
goal. He was that type of man.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-10-21

|up down by the railroad tracks.
We suppose she has the normal
human urges. Capt. Peter may be
in love with her or he may have
other motives for all anyone
knows. It's little lift in the
social world" to get entangled
with royal family but so far
as we can see, none of them are
any happier than other folks. We
can't think of a more lonely or
useless figure than the once king
Of England who threw away the
throne out of weakness and in
fatuation for an adventures; who
thought he couldn't get along
without her, and abandoned his
responsibilities and his country in
time of peril.
A Mississippi born Negro, Cleo
Blackburn is acclaimed in the
Christian Herald for his achieve
ments in behalf of his race. He
worked his way through college
and several degrees, having been
one of IL children, ten of whom
his school-teacher mother sent to
college. He has done a great work
for his race in Indianapolis, in
general uplift, the establishment
of slum clearance projects and a
settlement house where Negroes
are taught useful and helpful
things. Interests in his city have
backed him with hundreds of
thousands of dollars to spend. He
speaks commonsense, when he says
of the inspiration he got from
Booker T. Washington: 81 learned
from him that the way for our
people to win respect, was not to
demand but to command it; that
they could have the good life only
by earning it." His guiding maxim
is Bible verse given him by his
mother when he went away to coli
lege: "In all thy ways acknowl-
edge Him, and He shall direct thy
paths"
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-10-21

We don't scratch the surface yet,
on deriving our full due, of tourist
dollars from possible sport fisher
men. We have made some long
strides toward publicizing and adj
vertising our area. But look at
this: the Chesapeake Bay Fishing
Fair Association goes at it in a
big way. 1t has been operating
some 20 years and has distributed
one and a half million pieces Of
literature, bringing into the Bay
country nearly 100000 of new
business on a total expenditure of
$4,000, none of it being paid to
any of the officials for salary or
expenses.
A 61-year-old jobless painter,
who had been living on relief, died
in squalor in Richmond, and was
found to have some $4,000.
Archie Wells had no known rela-
tives, he liev din filth and rags;
he cared nothing for the nicer
thing of life, and he was willing
to crib on other working people
when he had plenty to last him out.
It takes all kind they say, to make
this world.
Another great storm sweeps
over the Atlantic and takes great
toll in New England and Canada.
Thirty are reported dead, and
great flood and damage in Con-
necticut. Other places suffer equal
or worse disasters than North
Carolina. But all this news goes
to show that we are more fortu-
nate than many other places, which
being so far away are often con-
sidered safer than our own fair
land. Fortunately, we haven't had
loss of life to add to our burdens.
The social world is in a Other
Ii OLn oCClIl W SIClH USCduSO OIiS
Capt. Peter Townsend and a gal
who happened to be born in a
royal family are doing a little
counting. If she pants or signs, it
makes a two column headline. If
they go off together for a week
end, it calls for sensational head
lines. 1t seems that the world
would be too busy with important
things than to dig for thrills in
the mere fact that female child,
known as princess Margaret has
an urge to follow around after
this dashing older captain who
has had previous experience with
women. Just because the Princess
happened to be born in a royal
family makes her no different
physically from the gal who grows
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-10-21

ended its fiscal year owing money
that it could not pay with the ex-
ception of it's bonded Indebtedness.
The above deficit was contemplate
ed in the budget and has been
contemplated in every budget
made since 1850, I know for sure.
Part of this deficit in the amount
of more than $28, 100000 was car
ried over from years prior to 1850
and for that reason can be charg-
ed as part of the responsibility
of the Board of County Commits
sioners of which you were mem
Der. Our bookkeeping system is
being gradually revised so that
this deficit will not continue to
grow at the expense of other funds
of the county.
Very sincerely,
LAWRENCE L. SWAIN
County Commissioner.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-10-21

SaWmlllS invaded the woodlands
and desecrated the countryside.
The tall trees that l loved were
cut down and hauled away to the
mill. Game trails that l loved were
gone forever and the appearance
of the whole land was changed to
make way for progress.
One of the saddest sights pos
sible is piece of cut-over wood
land with its rotting tree tops and
deep-rutted paths marking it from
end to end. Without really know
ing why, / regretted the passing
of the big trees and deep wood
lands that l knew in my early
youth.
AS I>have often written, life has
way of moving on and we who
refuse to move with it are the ones
who suffer most. And tender
hearted people are made to bear
the burdens of the busy and heed
less world. Thus, when 1 grieved
for my virgin woodlands that
were never really mine, l grieved
alone.
And l grew up and became in
volved in the whirlpool of life and
existence and such things as ma
ture and it's beauty were pushed
far into the background of my
mind.
Years rolled by and the things
of my youth took on added luster
with time, and so in later years
I returned for a while to the
things that l loved as boy.
In the fall after l returned, l
tramped over the woodlands and
countryside of my youth. No
longer were the woods criss-cross-
ed with the tracks of log carts, but
no longer did the tall trees grow
there, for they had been cut away.
Nature in its own way was trying
to cover up the inroads made by
man. Small trees and underground
covered everything.
Once on a beautiful fall day
when the leaves We're a riot of
color, 1 took my old gun and on
the pretext of hunting, fled to the
very same spots that had known
and loved as a boy, but had not
seen IN many years. Tracings of
the old log roads were still there,
but l remembered only the long
yellow bark pines of earlier years,
while now sweet gum saplings
grew in profusion. interviewer like
devils net were thousands of
cat-claw briars that made passage
almost impossible.
l fought my way through the
dense growth until l came out into
an open field and sat down to rest.
With the sun almost gone, l
thought of all these things and l
likened the dense growth to the
lives of men. When you are young,
life seems so simple and every
thing is clear-cut and precise. But
as time goes on, life becomes COM
pick and is often cluttered up
with unnecessary things. And only
when we stop to rest at the end
of the struggle are we able to see
the forest for the trees.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-10-21
MANTEO REBEK ABS

The regular meeting of Manteo
Rebekah Lodge No. 81 was held
Monday, October II with Mrs.
Salina Midgette, vice grand, pre-
siding in the absence of Mrs. Tracy
Ward, Noble Grand.
Proceeding the business meeting;
delicious turkey supper, with al
the trimmings, was served by the
members of the losing contest side.
Most all members were dressed in
Halloween costumes.
The next meeting will be in
honor of the Past Noble Grand.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-10-21
cHIcAMAcoMIco's GREAT RECORD.

AS have several times before mentioned it, viii
again call attention the Importance of retaining in
ice the shore stations of the Coast Guard The tendency
has through past 20 years dispense with these
stations Only very few of them left in service 1t is like
doing away with the policeman fire department because
weeks eapse without call for service But when the neec
does come, it will be acute need.
record remember has been chalked up by the sta
ton at Rodanthe, known Chicamacomco According
Earl Deans researches between the years 1874 and 1925
total of 4O7 persons rescued from sinking ships at this
station The lives of only 81 were lost there during
40 years of operation.
We believe this is record not beaten at any station
In fact records show that not Haeras Ocracoke mol
Mays Head the deadly for woodeI
ships in the old days The most shpwrecks well as the
most rescues were near Rodanthe.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-10-21
HE CHEATED HIMSELF.

striking story is told of rich who wanted to
help poor carpenter and his family. ~
He hired the carpenter to build house hillside
and then went long journey The carpenter said
to himself: My boss is away and shoddy mater
ias and neglect the supporting work that does show
The house will be weak but nobody will it." So he
built ramshackle house.
When the rich back the carpenter said:
Here is your house Thank you said the rich man. here
issthe deed and key. I'm giving it to you'
And the carpenter grieved that he had robbed himself
of good house.
We reap what We have to live in the house of
life we build we do shoddy work If soldier on the
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-10-21
A HARD JOB TO SEE
FOREST FOR THE TREES
(By CARLTON NORRIS
Editor, Gates County Index


There is an old saying to the
effect that history repeats itself.
This is certainly true with nature
as we'll as humans. l learned this
Notwithstanding fact a number of
years ago right after World War
II.
When the world was created, the
Great Architect made the wood
lands and countryside as beautiful
as it could be. AS l remember the
woodlands of my youth, the trees
were tall and straight. Hunting
and tramping the woods was the
main form of recreation that l
knew as a boy, and thus grew
to love the outdoors and learned
many things about nature and
wildlife that has remained clear
and shining even to this day.
After a time, grew up and
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-10-21

boss we pinch ourselves shrvel up and lose ability
discern between right and wrong We have live in such
house without character. We had to live with ourselves
is tremendous fact that each of building today
the house must live in tomorrow We can build place
or howell mansion or Jail pgpen but must live
in it. - 0. p News
The Wrangell sentinel., 1955-09-16
WILSON'S RETURN WITH HAWAIIAN SUN-TAN

MT. and Mrs. Art Nelson return ed home this week from Honolulu with a Hawaiian sun-tan. They spent nearly ten days at Honolulu where they were registered at the Moana Hotel situated on tn "beacb at Waikiki" Swimming, out-rigger boat riding and surf board riding were enjoyed by the NeIsons as al- so were bus tours to points of in- terest.
 They report seeing the Rev. and Mrs. Hugh Hall, of Wrangeu. there. The Halls left here the first Of the month to attend the Episcol pal general assembly meetings due to conclude this week. The Nelsons said the Halls plan to leave for the mainland tomorrow.
 MT. and Mrs. Nelson left here on Sept. via Ellis Air Line and ar rived in Honolulu on Tuesday. after a 1O-hour ocean flight via Pan American. Weather in the islands during their stay was a balmy 72
The Wrangell sentinel., 1955-09-16
TREND TOWARD LARGER MOTORS IN OUTBOARDS

Forthcoming new-model out boards will reflect the increasing trend toward larger motors and an emphasis on color and styling in the marine field, Buness Bros. said this week.
 AS an example, Maurice Buness quoted information from the fac tory that Johnson Motors 1856 out board line would include nine mod els in six sizes ranging from three to 30 horsepower, and would be Tn two-tone combination of holiday bronze" and white.
 With the increase in family- type boating in recent years" he said, "there has been an emphasis on larger, roomier boats and heav- fer loads. The 30-horsepower motor. which replaces the '25', has been developed to provide more carrying
The Wrangell sentinel., 1955-09-16

capacity in cruisers and runabouts and for water skiing"
 Outboards now are built to meet every individual or family need from the small-water fisherman up, he commented. She 1856 Johnson line includes motors of 3, 5 F, ' F, 10, 15 and 3O-horsepower, with the 15 and 30 available both in cleo tric starting and pull-cord models. Most of the new motors, he was in- formed, already are in production.
 Ready about late autumn will be fancy version of the 30-horse- power motor called the "Javelin," with polished steel trim and con- cealed controls.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1955-09-16
ELM MEN IN TOWN ON SURVEY WORK

Warner T. May of the Ketchi- kan office of the Bureau of Land Management and L. T. Main of the Anchorage office, were in Wran-- gell yesterday in connection with survey work out the highway.
 Main, who has been working with May in the Southeast, went on to Juneau last night, while May stayed over for additional work here.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1955-09-16
PUBLIC AUCTION
 1P. M. III SEPT. A AT JACOB (JACK) JOSEPH PROPERTY, CHURCH ST. Dave Remmerden Auctionear
Dave Remmerden, Auctioneer

45 Colt revolver, misc. dishes, g. burner oil stove mise. household articles, jacket, misc. tools, tent, set block and falls rope, gas camp stove, buck saw, wheel barrow and misc. garden tools, meat saws, oil drums, etc.
 Administrator reserves the right to reject any or all bids.
 TOM CHARLTON
 Administrator of the
 Estate of Jacob (Jack) Joseph First publication Sept. 16, 1855 Last publication Sept. 23, 1855
The Wrangell sentinel., 1955-09-16

FOR SALE - New Schwinn De- luxe boys bicycle, still crated. This
 was third prize on the Fourth of July and is being sold for out-of- town winner. First $75 takes it. See Lew Williams, Jr., Bicycle at Clty Motor Service. 42-tfc
The Wrangell sentinel., 1955-09-16

to 50 degrees. Upon their return they spent day in Seattle visit Ing relatives and flew to Ketchi- Kan and home Wednesday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-16
Lutheran Groups
Meet on Mercer

CHICAGO. Dec. is R.--Dele-
gates Of the United Lutheran
Church in America and the Au-
gustana Lutheran Church meet
today to draft an invitation to
the II other Lutheran denomi-
nations in the United States to
discuss with them the possibility
of organic union.
The Augustana Lutheran
Church representatives are men,
beers Of the denominations COM
mission on economical relations,
Their leader Is DR.. Oscar A. Ben
son of Minneapolis. president OF
the church.
DR.. Franklin Clark Fry. presi-
dent Of the United Lutheran
Church in America, heads Its
eight delegates. All are men,
bers of the church's commission
on relations to American Luz
theran church bodies.
The two churches meeting
today have a combined member
ship of nearly 2,750, 900. The
largest Of all Lutheran bodies is
the United Lutheran Church in
America. The Augustana Luz
theran church is the fifth larg-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-16

applied TO youthful offenders
Such sentences, he commended
would handicap the efforts to re.
Ihabilitate youth.
Judges here yesterday differed
with testimony earlier by Mar
cotics Commissioner Harry j
Anslinger that narcotics cases
would decrease IL the Boggs Law
were put into effect. They in.
sisted they do use the Boggs act
The Washington Criminal JUS
tice Association. which yesterday
came out with q recommends.
ton for stringent" sentences. /;
preparing q comprehensive study
|of enforcement of the Boggs law
here for presentation to the SUBJ
committee soon.
While there is q tendency to-
ward longer sentences. Mrs. Sally
M. 0rrison. the association
secretary, said both minimum
and maximum sentences here
sometimes do not meet the pro-
yisos Of the Boggs act.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-16

WINS SERVICE AWARD
George c. Daily. service
foreman of the Chesapeake
and Potomac Telephone
Co. of Virginia, yesterday
received a two-diamond
service emblem at q lunch
con celebrating his compile
ton OF 40 years service
with the company. MIR.
Daily. who lives at $50
North Jefferson street. Ar
lington, Va, was State COM
mander OF the Veterans Of
Foreign Wars last year. He
Is married and has a son,
John w. Daily, an employe
of the Washington Office Of
the telephone company.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-16

has meant that some 950,00t
veterans have committed them.
selves to pay as much as $55l
million more In increased inter.
est costs than II the rate hac
been 4 per cent, but said tina,
without 1t few loans-or houses
have been available Il
veterans.
Hits $1,000 In Month
VA statistics showed that un.
der the old maximum limit of
per cent the number of appli.
cations for home loan guarant,
reached $4,000 in only one month
between April. 1851 and April
1854. The full effect of the A..
per cent maximum limit was moi
reflected until early 1854.
Oficials noted that the CT
loan interest rate Of as per cent
had been at least one half Of
per cent lower during the pc
Rod since may 1853 than the
cost Of other forms Of mortgage
financing generally available te
veterans.