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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-09-09
ARTISTS PARTY HONORS
MRS. JOSEPH p KNAPP

William Vandeveer Kughler, the
distinguished artist, now painting
murals at Roanoke Gardens, the
home of the Albert @. Bells, was
host at a midnight buffet supper
honoring Mrs. Joseph P. Knapp
last Friday night. The occasion
marked the unwilling, so to speak,,
of the first in series of murals
designed to adorn the walls of the
auditorium of the Knapp Memorial,
Building to house the Institute of
Government Building at the Uni
versity of North Carolina. Among
the distinguished guests present
were Mrs. Knapp, widow of the
late philanthropist, and her sis
ter, DR.. Elise Rutledge of McComb,
Mississippi.
Also present were local resi-
dents and members of The Lost
Colony cast who have been mod
els for Mr.. Kughler as he placed
on canvas, painted personages de-
picting English-speaking Ameri-
cas- beginning in the New World
of the Sixteenth Century.
The idea for the paintings,
which in mural form will cover
some 1900 feet or more of the
Knapp Memorial Building at the
University in Chapel Hill, was con-
ceived by Mrs. Knapp. In collabor-
alton during the present phase of
the work has been Albert @. Bell,
British-born resident of Roanoke
Island, who with Mrs. Bell, owns
Roanoke Gardens, and Dudley
Bagley of Currituck, in whose
family cemetery at Moyock is bur-
led the late Mr.. Knapp. Mr.. Bag
ley is a member of the board of
directors of the Knapp Founda-
ton. Mr.. Bell, through his undis-
puted knowledge of Elizabethan
England, has acted as a research
er for the distinguished artist on
the first mural.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-09-09

Mrs. Ida Kemp Walker, in Column
bias Sunday. 4
Mrs, Elaine Ballard of Hender-
son is visiting Mrs. Kathleen
Gurganus..
Rev. and Mrs. A. H. Stone,
Susan and Mary Stone, have re-
turned home after visiting in
Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin.
Mrs. VIC. Joyner and sen,
visited her parents in Seven
Springs during the week end.
Mr.aand Mrs. Percy Harris and
children of South Norfolk visited
their parents during Labr- Day
holidays.
Mr.. and. Mrs. John Madison
Berry and daughter of Portsmouth
visited Mr.. and Mrs. John Lee.
Miss Della Harris visited Mr..
and Mrs. E. D. Creole in Green
ville.. ~-sn.'-
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-09-09
POWER
CONTINUED from Page One)

tors to rotate some whose terms
have expired and to name a new
set of officers. Mr.. Turner has had
the job two years and Harrison
Meekins has been secretary-treas-
urer two years. They will very
likely be reelected if they ever
get a membership meeting to-
gether, but mostly Oden and
Turner wanted the members to
know that at last the company is
making its living.
Herbert Oden, who learned about
electricity from Tom Eaton when
he built a village plant down at
Hatteras years ago, has been
superintendent of the plant since
it went into production seven
years ago last June. The company
is ten years old, having been or
ganized in 1915 and plans made
for the erection of plant here
that would serve the six villages
of the Island above Hatteras.
Afterward the company bought
the Eaton interests at Hatteras
and extended it's lines to include
that village, completely replacing
the transmission lines. About the
same time the U. S. Coast Guard
established it's Long Range Navi-
cation station on the Cape, and
that became and continues the
largest single user of current on
the Island. Presently the genera
tors are supplying power and
light for the U. S. Naval Facility,
both at the Seabee living site and
at the building site just north of
the Lighthouse.
But it is in the domestic use of
current that the company has
made progress that is reflected in
the newly booked and banked
earnings. There are now $40 con-
nected customers as against about
$50 when the generation and dis
tribution of power began in June;
1948. More and more people are
using electricity for all sorts of
domestic purposes, cooking, wash
ing, refrigeration. The extension
Of tourist facilities On the Island
has also brought about extended
power consumption.
President Turner, reading Oden's
report which has not been made to
the members yet, says that the
most valuable asset the company
has is Oden himself. The mainte-
nance of lines on the Island,
reaching from Chicamacomico to
Hatteras, most of it in an exposed
situation, has been remarkable
and the interruption of power
flow throughout the system has
been low beyond any expectation.
Briefing the general managers
report, Oden states that not only
is there cash in the bank, with all
current obligations in full and on
time, but the company has plant
now valued at $431, 214.17 and that
unless calamity befalls the plant,
built with borrowed money, will be
paid for in due course-and with
some accumulated earnings that
may, from time to time, result in
reduced charges for power.
Ben Dixon MacNeill
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-09-09
SEASHORE
Continued from Page One)

which did no material damage in
the Dare Coast region in August,
but hit hard, the thickly populated
late summer and autumn vaca-
tioning regions of Pennsylvania,
New Jersey and New York and
New England, from which much
of the Autumn Outer Banks va
cationists come, the visitation
count in the National Seashore
area, is likely to be not as great
as originally estimated. The Tour
list Bureau estimates, however,
that at least $4,000 persons will
have entered the National Sea-
shore by the end of the travel
year, an increase three times
greater than the estimated travel
last year.
August Increase at KDH
To date this year, that is,
through August 123,654 persons
had visited the Wright Memorial
Monument area at Kill Devil Hills.
In July this year the manual count,
by an inexperienced employee Of
the National Monument area only
25,466 persons entered the area.
In August, automatic counters re-
Elected that 81, persons had Wis
tied the site of the first flight.
Superintendent Horace Dough in
charge of the Wright National
Monument believes the 1866 count
will equal 1854.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-09-09
SWAN QUARTER PERSONALS

Mr.. and Mrs. E. F. Murrow,
Misses Kay and Joan Simpson,
have returned to Robersonville
after spending their summer in
Swan Quarter.
Mrs. o. L. Williams visited in
Greenville Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. C. Cahoon and
children of Washington, D. c.,
visited her mother, Mrs. Nat
Creole during Labor Day.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Hayes
have returned to Kinston after be-
ing at their home here several
weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Williams of
Portsmouth visited Mr.. and Mrs.
S. o. Jones during the week end.
Miss Jean Woodley attended
the funeral of her grandmother,
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-09-09
LET'S HAVE NEWS WHEN IRIS NEWS.

We mention it occasionally but we still continue get
pictures and long ups weddings some of them clip
ped from other papers, which have happened weeks
sometimes month and longer before they
to ?
costs several dollars for engraving and several
dollars to set the type consequently it unustifed
expense to expect OF newspaperto item
kind which interested person has long learned
about.
The home paper likes to print items about homefolks
In fact the only paper that gives whoop home
folks 1t looks like homefoks would be sufficiently interest
ed TO see the home paper got the news if not first then
not later than other papers. sa "
Our charge for printing reasonably long account of
wedding that is more than two weeks DID, including
column cut of the bride is ST. cash with order have had
people who got quotation andproised pay hav
ing gotten their article in print ignored the statement Can
you beat it? N
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-09-09
WAVES PERSONALS

Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Newcomb and
children and Mr.. and Mrs. Bob
Riddick of Norfolk visited Mr.. and
Mrs. w. w. Edwards.
Dorothy Midget of Windsor
spent the week end end with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. N. H. Mid
gett.
Mrs. Salina Midget and Shirley
visited S/Sgt. and Mrs. Calvin S.
Midget of Savannah, Ga.
Mr.. and Mrs. Butcher Scar
borough and son have returned to
Elizabeth City after visiting Mrs.
Rowena O'Neal.
Mrs. CASTOR Midget and son
visited her mother, Mrs. Calvin
Midget Saturday.
Mrs. R. N. dudley of St.
Petersburg, Fla. visited Mr.. and
Mrs. D. A, Midget.
Leland Midget of Elizabeth
City spent the week end with Mr..
and Mrs. D. B. Midget.
Tazwell O'Neal of Norfolk is
spending his leave with his family.
Mrs. Luther Gray of Salvo visit
ed her daughter, Mrs. Calvin Mid
gett. ,
Maj. and Mrs. B. W. Williams
and children and Mr.. and Mrs.
James Maddrey of Norfolk spent
the week end with Mr.. and Mrs.
D. A. Midget.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dick Darden of
Norfolk spent the week end with
Misses Annie and Mordecia Mid
gett, who accompanied them back
to Norfolk Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carlee Lowry and
family of Lumberton are spend
ing the winter at the Aston Mid
gett cottage. Mr.. Lowry is mem
Der of the school faculty at the
Cape Hatteras school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leon Davenport
and daughter Bessie of Creswell
spent the week end with Mr.. and
Mrs. Elroy Midget and family.
Mrs. Salina Midget and Shirley,
Mrs. Castor Midget and son, Gas,
Jr., and S/Sgt. and Mrs. Calvin
F. Midget and son, Stephie OF
Savannah, Ca, visited Mrs. Luther
Gray and Mrs. W. E. Whidbee and
family of Salvo Saturday.
Alvey Midget has returned to
Norfolk.
Asa Gray Jr. and Rudy spent
the week end in Norfolk with Mr..
and Mrs. Raymond Smith and
visited Mrs. Gray, who was a pa
tent in De Paul Hospital.
Mrs. Mollie Midget and Luke
Midget of Norfolk have returned
home after visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
D. A. Midget.
S/Sgt. and Mrs. Calvin F. Mid
gett and son of Savannah, Ga,
have been visiting Mrs. Calvin
Midget.
Mrs. Coulter Tillett and children
of Virginia Beach have returned
home after visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
Dorland Midget.
Lance Midget of Loran C. G..
Station spent his liberty with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil Mid
gett.
Shirley Midget has returned to
Norfolk after visiting her mother,
Mrs. Salina Midget.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-09-09
FIT. RALEIGH ATTENDANCE
DROPS DURING AUGUST

The storms of August which af-
fected ally vacation business and
visitations in Dare County also
lowered attendance at Fort Ra-
leigh National Historical Site, it
was learned here today. A report
of the National Park Service of
ficials reflected that in August
1866 there were 21,932 persons Wis
iting Fort Raleigh which compar-
ed to 1882 during August 1854,
which marked the first full month
in which the admission charge of
20 cents had been effective at the
site.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-09-09
POLIO
Continued from Page One)

statement issued by the National
Foundation which showed that the
1866 March of Dimes for the coun-
try fell short by approximately
$12,000,000 of meeting polio needs
of this year. Through the call for
SURPRISES to 1871 chapters which
are in the black, it is expected
some $10,000,000 will be made
available for 1,274 other chapters
that are now in the red because Of
heavy inroads to help polio pa
tients.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-09-09

Sellers Market is when q lot of people with ready
cash want to buy something that is in short supply
toned That's when the businessman sit back and take
it and watch the money roll The storekeeper does
mt have to the packages if he doesn't feel like
give lolypop to housewife for her child display his
goods neatly advertise The business coming him
anyway ~ 4s..
Buyers Market when there are lot of places trying
to sell something and only limited number of people
interested in buying That's when the businessman has
up the packages real NICE and smile at everybody who
through the door He has to display his merchandise
and he has to dig down into his pockento his savings
if necessary borrow the buldng-n order to-
advertise what he's trying to SELL
Here in Dare we're in the middle of BUYERS Market
that has resulted from many hurricanes
bugs too many other things attract the tourists
want down here. We sit chairs if like and
fingers and hope that next year will be better
We do that but we'd better we'd better do
caught in Buyers Market We'd better dig pockets
bank accounts borrow necessary and ad
vertlse what we're selling in Dare County.
Several years ago Dare County businessman made
the statement that he against advertising because
came down here to go into business
petition with him. .FeEar.a
Maybe sounds like good at first glance But the
problem is that businesses going up all the time
even ii more people don't down.
Each year since the War there has been increase of
at least fifteen percent and much fifty percent the
number of tourist facilities in Dare County
This quite simply that each year order for
all business establishments to just break with the
cedng have to get at least fifteen percent as
much as fifty percent people down here About the only
way to do that to flood the newspapers and and
radio elevision with pictures about Dare
County the Dare County Tourist has been doing
for the past four years.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-09-09
SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS NOTE

Principal R. H. Stone of the
Manteo school requests that any
one in the Manteo area qualified
to do substitute teaching get in
touch with him as soon as possible.
Evening star., 1955-02-06
JobPromotions Add $500, 900
TOD. G. Salary Budget Needs

After that, he declared, there
should be a Substantial" drop
in reallocations as the District
catches up with the job of check
ing. If the checks continue on a
regular basis, he said, the Dis
trict should have about as many
reallocations annually as do the
Federal agencies.
Congress Curbed Increases.
At one time. District officials
say, Congress kept a tight curb
on yearly increases for realloca-
tions. For several years. until the
budget of 1916, that limit was
set at $35. 900 a year.
Also until establishment of the
new Personnel Office. proposed
reallocations had to be approved
by the Budget Officer-whose
job it is to deal with the problem
of balancing income and outgo-
as we'll as BY the District Com
missioners.
A third requirement was that
each reallocation be approved by
the Civil Service Commission, but
the Commission some time ago
gave up such control, except over
super" grades. 1t now does only
a post audit" periodically to see
how the District and the Federal
agencies are handling realloca-
tionS.
Evening star., 1955-02-06
Continued From First Page.)

NNOlAtlAluC0 1AOAA + AoO o6S'
equivalent jobs is just matter
of basic fairness"
The idea is set out in the re-
organization order establishirs
the Personnel Office. 1t is or
dered to- develop and admin
lister a Observation-Disclosures
program to assure that the prin-
ciple of equal pay for substan-
TALLY equal work is followed and
that individual positions are so
grouped and identified that the
resulting system can be used in
all phases of personnel admin
istration."
Only Two Reversals.
Personnel Officer Henry F
Hubbard declared yesterday that
II think every case (of realoca-
tom deserves it,"
The District, he said, has had
only two reversals in rechecks by
the csc. In those cases. Mr.
Hubbard declared. the CSC gave
a higher grade than the District
had.
He said about half of the
Districts 10000 employees are
covered by the grade system
Mr.. Hubbard added that his
Office will complete its first check
of these employees about the mid
die of this year.
Evening star., 1955-02-06
Two Bandits Seize S13O
From Owner Of Market

Two men took $3.50 from
southwest grocer at gun point
last night.
Samuel Leventhal. proprietor
of Leventhal's Market, 100 Sixth
street, told police one man en-
tered his store about 8 pm. and
ordered a package of cigarettes.
A second man carrying a gun
followed him in and said, Give
me the money from the cash
register" When Mr.. Leventhal
obeyed, the men demanded his
wallet. They got $50 from the
register. $50 in the wallet.
The bandits worked so quickly
that a clerk. William Grub, 18,
who was in the back of the store,
did not know his employer had
been robbed. Police broadcast a
lookout for two colored men.
Evening star., 1955-02-06
Mrs. Smith Invites
President to Maine
By the Associated Press

Senator Margaret Chase Smith,
Republican, of Maine yesterday
invited President Eisenhower to
try summer vacation in Maine
this year and compare it's cli-
mate, fishing and golfing with
that of Colorado.
She made public a letter to
the President. saying he could
vacation in Maine any time dur
ing the summer season. She
offered the President and Mrs,
Eisenhower such use of my
small home in Skowhegan as
would meet your wishes and con-
venience."
Evening star., 1955-02-06
Pdriis

Continued From First PageO
of the Independent Republicans
opposed Mendes France this
morning, while the Socialists
supported him. The 73 MRP
votes comprised the largest single
opposition bloc. except for the
Communists, who threw SO votes
against him.
Recent constitutional amend
ments will make Mr.. Coty's job
of finding a successful candidate
easier in one respect, more diff
cult in another. The next candi-
date will need only majority Of
the votes cast-instead Of the
absolute majority of the assem-
bly's entire membership-to be
installed as premier.
Must Pick Cabinet.
But the candidate now must
also present his cabinet choices
when he goes to ask for the as
sembly's initial approval. This
means a nominee must accom-
plish the horSe-trading on cabi-
net posts before he goes to the
assembly and this may put him
at the mercy of disappointed
office-seekerS.
One other new factor in the
situation is that the next premier
will have a chance to dissolve
the assembly and call new cleo
tionS if he is overthroWn within
the next year and a half. This
is because of a constitutional
provision allowing this step if two
governments are overthroWn
within an 18-month period.
The political leaders who
figured prominently in early
speculation included Rene
Mayer. Robert Schuman, An
tome Pinay, and Pierre Pflimlin.
All except the latter are former
premiers, and all of them favor
Evening star., 1955-02-06
Courts
Continued From First Page.)

Continued From First Pageo
and Mr.. Heating is also a
member.
Mr.. Reed noted that oppo-
nents of the proposal for an
address by the Chief ustice had
said it would interfere with the
separation of powers of the three
branches of Government. He
said there was no foundation for
such fears because the ConSti-
tuition provides for an interrela-
ton between the three branches.
Cites Examples.
He cited these examples of the
interrelationship:
Congress determines the juris-
diction of the inferior courts.
The Chief ustice presides over
the Senate in case of impeach-
ment of the President.
Congress makes appropriations
for the judicial branch, desig-
mates the number of judges con-
stituting the courts, fixes the
salaries of judges, designateS the
places in which courts are held.
decides the rules of procedures
in the Federal courts.
Congress has the power to
impeach judges for misconduct:
may alter. change or create ju-
dicial districts and circuits.
The President nominates
judges and the Senate has the
power to approve or disapprove
the nominations.
The judicial branch passes on
the constitutionality of laws
passed by Congress in cases
reaching the courts.
The judicial branch also rules
on whether the President has
exceeded his constitutional
powers.
The President has the power
to recommend legislation to the
Congress and to veto legislation
passed by Congress.
Mr.. Reed said the very fact
that both the Senate and House
have judiciary committees shows
the relationship between Con-
gresS and the courts.
Evening star., 1955-02-06
Briggs Becomes Admiral,
Moves 10 Staff College

Capt. Harold M. Briggs.
USN, chief of staff and aide
to Vice Admiral F. G. Fahrion,
commander Amphibious Force,
Atlantic, recently was promoted
to rear admiral and assigned as
deputy commandant, Navy, at
the Armed Forces Staff College
in Norfolk.
A 1927 graduate of the Naval
Academy, Admiral Briggs also is
a graduate of the Naval Post
graduate School and attended
the Harvard University Graduate
School of Business.
Admiral Briggs, who lives with
his wife, Helen, and a 4-year-old
daughter at 3944 Garrison street
NV, once was a White House
aide to President Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
Evening star., 1955-02-06

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Choose from the largest IinoIeum
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Evening star., 1955-02-06
AFl and Clio Chiefs
Facing Crucial Talks
In Miami on Merger
By the A..oeiotsd Press

MIAMI BEACH. Feb. 5.-AFL
and CIO officials are about to
enter a crucial stage in negotia-
tions aimed at merging their
union groups into single pow
erful labor federation.
CIO President Walter Reuther
is to lead a group of his union
chiefs down to this winter resort
where AFL President George
Meany and top AFL officials have
been holding strategy sessions.
Mr. Meany and Mr.. Reuther,
in the two years since they be-
came the major leaders of or
ganized labor, have made steady
progress toward their announced
goal of combining their fedora
tions into a single 15-million-
member union organization.
$3.50 Chance Seen.
However, the unity talks have
reached the stage at which all
prior merger efforts fioundered
and the guessing is still $3.50
whether any merger will be ac-
complished.
Three-man subcommittee rep
resenting the AFL and CIO will
go into a huddle at the Roney
Plaza Hotel here Tuesday to try
| to hammer out a written merger
agreement. This will be subject
| to review by two 10-man COM
mittees at another meeting
Wednesday. Any pact would
have to be ratified later at the
AFL and CIO conventions.
Standing in the way of achiev-
| ing the merger are the jeal-
ousies and rivalries between
various labor leaders and then
unions for prestige and worker
organizing rights.
However, Mr.. Meany and Mr.
Reuther say they plan to bring
| all AFL and CIO unions under
the same tent on a status quo
basis and let them fight out any
differences once the merger
takes place. 1t has been 20 years
since the CIO was formed by g
group of unions splintering away
from the AFL.
| Meany Reported as Head.
Mr.. Meany is expected tt
emerge as head of the combined
setup, with Mr.. Reuther bowine
out and sticking to his other joi
as president of the million-mem.
ber Auto Workers Union, posi-.
bly, with added political respon.
sibility as an aide to Mr.. Meany
Once the merger is completed
Mr.. Meany and Mr.. Reuther plar
to invite the big Independent
railroad unions and John L
Lewis United Mine Workers Un'
ion to join up, too.
The AFL Executive Council
which has been holding midwin-
ter sessions here all week and viii
convene again Monday, released
a statement today warmly in
dorsing President Eisenhower!
foreign policy and his handling
of the Formosan problem.
The council warned "against
any attempt, under cover of pur'
suing the armistice pattern Sc
in Korea and Indo-China," Il
extend American recognition tt
Communist China or to "smuggl'
the Russian Imposed terror re-
gime into the United Nations"
Mr.. Meany told reporters tha
while the AFL differs with Pres
ident Eisenhower on most do
mestic issues it generally firml!
supports his foreign policy views
Evening star., 1955-02-06
Iron Worker Kills Self
After Head Operations

Nelson C. Roscorla. 35, an iron
worker who recently underwent
a series of operations for a head
injury, died last night of what
police said was a self-inflicted
bullet wound in the head. The
shooting took place in his apart
ment at 318 North Royal street,
Alexandria.
His body was discovered by
his wife, Lena, who told police
he had been respondent over his
illness,
Evening star., 1955-02-06
Reds Find Dinosour Bones

LONDON. Feb. s P).--A Soviet
expedition is reported by the
Moscow Radio to have discovered
whole graveyards of dinosaurs,
stretching for dozens of miles.
in the Cobb desert Of Central
Asia.