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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-02-25
sTuMPY POINT NEWS

Mr.. and Mrs. John Hooper, Mr..
and Mrs. Edgar Hooper and chill
dren, Edgar Powers, John Robert
and Catherine Anne of Buxton
spent the week end here with Mrs.
Francis Hooper.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Splitter and
children, Steve and Linda and Gil
bert Splitter of Elizabeth City
spent the week end here with Mr..
and Mrs. Carson Meekins.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Hooper and
twin grandsons Tim and Tom
Hooper, Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Jones
and son Bill of Elizabeth City
visited Mrs. Fannie Meekins and
Mr.. and Mrs. Calvin Hooper. ,
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Midgette
and children Janice and C. c. of
Waves, Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence
Hayes of Norfolk visited Mrs.
Lennon Hooper Sunday.
Mrs. Geraldine Stephenson and
daughter Cecilia have returned
from Aulander where they spent
a week with their mother and
grandmother, Mrs. Summers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thurston Midgette
and son Randy spent the week end
here with Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Mid
gette.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dewey Wise have
returned from Arlington, Va. Sat
urday. They visited their son Com
mander X. w. Wise, who is pa
tient in Bethesda Hospital in
Maryland while away.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mack Brinn OF
Lancaster, Penn. are spending
some time here with Mr.. and Mrs.
Neal Payne. Mr.. Brinn is recup-
Grating from a recent operation
for dislocated disc.
Mr.. and Mrs. Melton Hooper,
Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Monette and
boys spent the week end in Nor
folk with Mr.. and Mrs. Sam
Boomer and Mr.. and Mrs. Tom
Hooper.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Burgess and
Carville Wise visited their uncle
Claude Wise in Manteo Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Beaman Hooper,
Jasper Hooper and girls spent the
week end in Norfolk and attended
the funeral of ]. L. Wood Sunday.
Garland Meekins spent Friday
night at Avon on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Calvin Watson of
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-02-25
By BILL WHITLEY

SURPLUS. Senator w. Kerr
Scott joined a movement this
week to channel millions of dol
lars worth of surplus government
property to schools and hospitals
in North Carolina.
A squabble has turned up in
Washington about how the gov
eminent should handle a large
part of it's surplus property,
equipment and supplies.
WAR. In the immediate years
after World War II, billions of
dollars worth of surplus war ma
terials and supplies were disposed
of by the old War Assets Admin
istration. The lush share of it
went to firms and individuals
who brought it for song and sold
it at fabulous profits.
In 1949 Congress passed a law
that required government agen-
cies to give educational and public
health institutions first crack at
property and equipment that had
been declared surplus. Upon re-
quest, the Federal government
would make outright gifts to fill
approved needs. The schools,
health offices and hospitals would
have to pay only the charges for
handling and shipping, which
amounted to a mere fraction of
the market value.
NORTH CAROLINA. Under
the program, North Carolina
schools and hospitals have re-
ceived real estate, equipment and
supplies vailed at over SO million
dollars. They received typewriters,
paper, desks, chairs, tables, filing
cabinets, all sorts of laboratory
equipment and many other items
that were declared surplus by the
Federal government.
BOOST. Added together, it was
a big shot in the arm for schools
and hospitals that were in bad
need of equipment at time when
they were watching budgets.
However, under directive is
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-02-25
EAST LAKE PERSONALS

Sheriff Frank Cahoon of Mar
teo was a visitor here Wednesday.
Mrs. Annie Twiford is visiting
her son, Allison Twiford, in
Elizabeth City.
Mesdames Mariah MCGOWAN,
Ethel Twiford, Bette Berry,
Lavenia Smith and Nina Bas-
night spent Wednesday in Column
bia.
Mrs. Mary Ambrose and Mrs.
Joe Spruill were in Manteo We'd
nesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bonnie Hewitt and
children of Elizabeth City were
visitors here during the week end.
Mrs. Polly Ambrose, Mrs.
Dorothy Twiford and Mrs. Iva
Bell were visitors in Columbia
Wednesday.
Mrs. Delany Twiddy was in
Manteo on business Saturday.
Henry Ambrose was a visitor
in Creswell, Plymouth and Eden
ton last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bruce Greet mo-
tored to Columbia Saturday.
Aubrey Basnight left Sunday to
spend some time in Norfolk with
relatives.
Mrs. Mildred Twiddy visited
her daughter, Mrs. Melvin Am
brose, at the Columbia hospital
Monday.
Dick Twiford of Manteo spent
Monday here.
Misses Annie Ambrose and
Blanch Copeland were in Creswell
Wednesday.
Richard Ambrose of Creswell
spent the week end here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Basnight and
Susan were in Columbia Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin Ambrose
announced the birth of son at
the Columbia hospital, Monday
February 21.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-02-25


Engelhard were here Monday on
business
Carol Payne spent several days
here with parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
C. E. Payne. Mr.. Payne has fin
ished his 8 years in the Air Force
and is returning to Rochester, N.
Y. for employment.
Geo. Wise and Milton Hooper
spent Sunday in Norfolk. Mrs.
Wise returned home with them
after a northern trip as far as
Kingston, N. Y.
Sammy Meekins and Boyd
Cahoon, U. S. N, spent the week
end here.
Leland Wise returned from Nor
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-02-25
WASHINGTON REPORT

sued about a year ago, the De-
partment of Defense drastically
cut the flow of surplus equipment
going to schools and hospitals. 1t
starting selling surpluses on a bid
basis, cutting the legs from under
needy institutions.
Under a recent bill introduced
in the Senate, the Defense De-
partment would be required to
offer all surplus material to the
Department of Health, Education
and Welfare for distribution to
schools and hospitals before open
sales are held. In short, it would
mean that the former surplus pro-
gram would be put back into
operation.
SCOTT. Senator Scott, in an
nouncing his support of the meas
ure, said it was of vital concern
to every health and education in
stitution in North Carolina.
"There is a tremendous need fol
the surplus equipment the schools
and hospitals have been getting in
the past" he said. "In July and
August alone last year, North
Carolina schools and hospitals re-
quested equipment and supplies
totaling almost 100000. There is
no reason at all why schools and
hospitals shouldn't get the first
opportunity to obtain equipment
once it has been declared surplus
and of no further value to the
Federal government"
Scott said he had received
"quite a number of letters" from
school and health officials in the
State supporting the surplus dis
posal program.
Senator Mcclellan, Chairman OF
the Government Operations Com
mittee, introduced the bill. This
committee, of which Senator Err
win is a member, will hold hear
ings on the bill.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-02-25

folk Marine Hospital Friday much
improved.
Mr.. and Mrs. Talmadge Best
and Susie spent Sunday in Wash
ington, N. c.
Mrs. Gay Best is out again after
a recent illness
The friends of Marvin Hooper,
who has been very i'll in Norfolk
General Hospital will be glad to
know he is improving and able to
leave the hospital and go to II
home of his daughter for a whiy
Five mounds of coal are re-.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-02-25

WINTER FERRY SCHEDULES
effective October I. 1954-Moy 81, 1851
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-02-25

The smog which covered Lon
don in December, 1852, was
blamed for 1000 deaths.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-02-25

Five pounds of coal are re-
quired to make an Army rifle.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-02-25
Your best
cancer insurance..

LIFETIME" POLICY. :.
See your doctor euery gear
for a thorough check-up, no
matter how well you feel.
DAY-TO-DAY" POLICY
See your doctor immedi-
ately at the first sign of any
one of the seven danger sig
mails that may mean cancer
(D Any sore that does not
heal (2) A lump or thicken-
ing in the breast or else
where (S) Unusual bleeding
or discharge (4 Any change
in a wart or mole % Per-
sistent indigestion or diff
Guilty in swallowing Co Per-
sistent hoarseness or cough
(7) Any change in normal
bowel habits.
Many cancers can be cured,
but only if properly treated
before they have begun to
spread or "colonize" in other
parts of the body.
For any information about
cancer just call the Amer
lean Cancer Society or write
to Cancer" in care Of your
local Post Office.
Smyrna times., 1955-04-07

T system employed by Delaware
head coach Dave Nelson.
During spring practice, catuzzi
has been coached by Harold Ray
mond, former Michigan football
player who is now the Delaware
backield coach, and Don Miller,
Little America quarterback who
finished his fourth season with the
Hen eleven last fall after start
ing every game for Delaware
since 1851.
At the conclusion of spring foot
ball practice, Catuzzi plans to
play freshman baseball. AS a high
school athlete he played three
years of baseball and two of bas-
ketball. A physical education maj
or at Delaware, Catuzzi plans to
work in the physical therapy field
after graduation.
Smyrna times., 1955-04-07

cur on the blossoms; however. in
fection can occur later, with the
advent of rain or high humidity,
on the leaves and twigs.
The only fungicide available for
control until the past three years
was Bordeaux mixture (2-6-100).
However, this caused severe rus
setting Of the fruit. In 1852, zineb
(2-100) was found to give con-
troll. At the same time it was
found that the antibiotic strepto-
mycin also gave effective control.
Neither of these materials injured
the fruit although streptomycin
caused temporary chlorosis of
the foliage. Research in other
states since 1852 has shown strep-
tomycin to be more effective than
zineb in control. Thus, at the mo-
ment, two materials are available
as sprays for control.
Zineb (2-100), sold under the
trade-names Dithane z-78 and
Parzate, is recommended under
those conditions where fire blight
is not apt to be a serious prob
lem or has not been problem in
years past. 1t should be applied
at the full pink stage go percent
bloom), at full bloom 600 per-
cent bloom), and again at the
petal fall stage (when most of the
petals have fallen). In addition
to its control of fire blight, It win
also control scab, apple cedar
rust, and the blossom-end rot dis
eases.
Streptomycin should be used
when weather conditions, warm
and wet are favorable for serious
blight development in orchards
where the disease has been
problem in the past. Several
brands are available to growers
Agrimycin, Tgristrep, and Streep-
tomycin nitrate. Each should be
used at a rate to equal go parts
per million of streptomycin.
Smyrna times., 1955-04-07

lComplete instructions are given
on the containers). Start the FIRST
application in time to complete it
by the full pink stage go per-
cent bloom), and repeat applica-
tions at to 5 day intervals until
the petals have fallen. Strepto-
mycin is most effective when used
alone; however, it can be used in
combination with all common fun
gicides and insecticides except
BHC, Chlordane, Glydin, and Lin
dane. 1t will not control scab,
cedar apple rust, and blossom-end
rot diseases.
Under orchard conditions, the
use of streptomycin is expensive,
100 gallons of spray at so parts
per million costing approximately
$500. Thus, its use is only rec
commended under conditions when
fire blight is apt to be serious.
Otherwise, use zineb.
Besides spraying, sanitation
should be practiced for control.
Destroy all old apple and pear
trees that are no longer in pro-
duction, and prune out hold-over
cankers and all blighted wood in
bearing trees of susceptible va
rieties. This, coupled with spray
ing, would afford commercial con-
troll of the fire blight disease.
Smyrna times., 1955-04-07
lib COURSES
AT UNIVERSITY
continued from Page one


the summer program. will be held
on June 20, 1885.
This year the regular session,
June 21 through July 20, will be
followed by post-session courses in
specialized areas of study includ-
ing chemical engineering, chemis-
try, and education, which will be-
gin on August 1 and continue
through August 10.
One of the highlights of the
1855 session is the opportunity to
concentrate on the history, cul-
ture, and geography of the Far
East. First held last year, this
program has been enlarged and
improved because of the increas-
ing Importance of that part of the
world. Participating in the pro-
gram will be two outstanding Wis
iting scholars, DR.. Frederick Hung
and DIR. Hyman Kublin. A grant
from the Japan Society has made
the expansion of this important
program possible and summer fell
lowships are available for those
interested in this area of study.
The extent of course offerings
for the university's summer ses-
sion are: art, 1; biological sci
ences, 5; chemical engineering, 10;
chemistry, Is; dramatic arts and
speech, 2; economics and business
administration, 8; education, %;
English, 6; geography and geolo-
gy, 6; history, z; home economics,
2; horticulture, 2; mathematics,
6; mechanics, 8; music, 8; philos-
ophy, 2; physics, 3; political sci
ence, 2; psychology, 8; social sci
ence, 1; and sociology, 8.
The summer session at the Uni
versity of Delaware is planned
especially for four groups: teach
ers in Delaware schools, teachers
in schools outside the State of
Delaware, students in good stand
ing in the University, and stu
dents from other institutions.
Other students who can profit
from courses and conferences also
are invited to participate.
Information on admission, liv-
ing accommodations, course loads,
special teacher programs, confer
ences, recreation and other details
of both graduate and undergrad
uate study are found in the bulle-
tins which may be secured by
writing to the University of Del
aware, Newark.
Smyrna times., 1955-04-07
FIRE BLIGHT DISEASE
OF APPLES
by DR.. John w. Heuberger
Extension Plant Pathologist
University of Delaware

University of Delaware
The first blight disease of ap-
Piles is serious during those years
when weather preceding and dur
ing bloom is warm (65 degrees F,
and higher and rainfall, or hui
midity, is high. Under these con-
ditions, the disease can cause con-
siderable damage on such variet-
les as Starr, Transparent, Lodi,
Jonathan, York, and Rome.
The bacteria which cause the
disease over-winter in cankers on
twigs and limbs. Sap pressure
within the trees force the bacteria
out of the cankers, about the time
of blossoming of the trees, and
they collect in milky-looking
drops. They are then spread by
rains and insects to the blossoms,
and later to the leaves and twigs
If rainfall, or humidity, is low
during bloom, no blight will oc-
Smyrna times., 1955-04-07
FOOTBALL AT
DELAWARE
Continued from Page One

the first team All-Passaic Valley
Conference and first team ALL
State. Under his leadership the
East Rutherford High School team
twice finished second in the Pas
sale Valley Conference.
Accustomed to the splitIT and
straight-T formations in high
school, Catuzzi experienced little
difficulty in adjusting to the wing
Smyrna times., 1955-04-07
Exchange Assembly

On Tuesday, April 19, Harring-
ton High School will present an
assembly program at Smyrna
High School. The program will
begin at 1:30 pm. This is part
of the exchange assembly pro-
gram arranged by the Kent Coun-
ty Student Council. Last month
the Drama Club of Smyrna High
School presented a one-act play,
1.-THE Valiant, at Harrington
High School.
Smyrna times., 1955-04-07
Junior High School Party

The annual Spring party for
General Organization members and
their guests will be held in the
gymnasium of the school on We'd
nesday evening, April 20. The
party is for members who are in
the seventh and eighth grade
homerooms and their guests. The
GO. officers, Ronald Stevens, Di-
ane Davis and Kendall Hudson;
the Leaders Corps; and the fac
ulty advisers, Miss Reed, Mr..
Horney, and Mrs. Vansant; are
helping with arrangements. The
homeroom officers in grades and
8 have met and made plans for
an enjoyable evening of games,
dances, and refreshments.
Smyrna times., 1955-04-07
SCHOOL
REPORTER
%
y
Easter Vacation

The annual spring vacation in
all schools of the Smyrna Special
School District will begin today,
April Z, at 1880 pm. and con-
tinue until $50 am, Monday,
April Is.
Smyrna times., 1955-04-07
Baseball

With two pre-vacation games
under their belts, the players and
coaches Of the Smyrna High
School baseball team are now
ready for the remaining twelve
games on the schedule. On Tues
day, April 10, the team will travel
to Middletown to oppose the
forces of John Bushman, Middle
town High School coach. On
Thursday, April 81, the team will
travel to Wilmington to oppose
Brown Vocational High School.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-04-01
Turning Improvement Into Real Progress

believe that productivity has reached the point at
wheh many industries can afford the higher hourly
rates and the shorter workweek
The problem is that the research directors know
that many families would prefer higher earnings
rather than shorter workweek. But, they also
know that the shorter workWeek was one of the
major factors that helped to reduce unemployment
in the mid-1930s They believe that movement to
shorten the regular workWeek, lengthen vaca-
tons, without reducing take-home pay, is one way
to help avoid another depression
AS matter of fact good many union research
people are convinced that the shorter workweek is
of the few ways to spread the benefits of ncreas
productivity that has any possibility of succeed
ing in time to head off unemployment for hundreds
of thousands more families.
Labor hires research experts to help devise meth
DDS of meeting problems Seems to that their con-
illusions are worth talking about even though they
may not be popular with everyone. - From THE
MACHINIST.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-04-01

Labor's research directors, who are paid to
help working people keep track of trends and gauge
the future had meeting the other day. The big
item in their thinking these days is unemployment
present and future.
Out of the maze of statistics that they pore over
at their desks have two worrysome figures:
five per cent rise in industrial production
the past year.
four per cent drop in the number of jobs in
manufacturing industries over the period.
In other words, industry is now turning out five
per cent more production with four per cent fewer
employees than it did year ago.
EMPLOYEES MUST BENEFIT
In the long rum of course, the research people
think this chronological progress will be a great
blessing 1t will only be blessing, however, If the
people benefit from it. And, when technical i'm
provement means only unemployment for more peo-
pie, nobody benefits. It's no progress at all.
Obviously as productivity continues to increase,
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-04-01

except those necessary in perform
ance of work.
A CSC official said the low age re-
striction was justified from 2 points
of view: Where the job is hazardous
or requires special physical strength
or condition, such as various types of
police work, guard duty, aerial work,
and the like. Where the job is con-
sidered to be trainee-type POSITION
in which the person hired is supposed
to work up through the service as
career employee.
Many other posts, records show, are
restricted to those under 50, inclad-
ing so-called "GS-5 professional posi-
tions," the "aides" who draw lower
pay, "field assistant trainees" and
entering jobs in the category of
guards, inspectors and other police
type work.
The 62-year limit still applies to
craft positions, such as machinists,
blacksmith, boilermaker, carpenter,
electrician, Iaborer, mason, painter,
pIasterer, plumber, truck driver,
welder, sheet metal worker and
many others.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-04-01
NO INCREASE IN WEALTH

What's happening is not an in
crease in the total national wealth,
but a redistribution of that wealth
even while the nations people as a
whole grow poorer.
THE NEW REPUBLIC said that
the economic policy of this admins
tration is to revert, as far as possible,
to the inequality of income that pre-
vailed before 1929.
The only beneficiaries of that poll
cy are those who so assiduously crowd
the Presidents cabinet and high adj
ministrative posts, the locker-rooms
of his golf clubs, and his stag dinners.
The propagandists are persua-
sive. Another example of their
work is the continued competency
of the dministration-and the
people-at continued high unem-
ployment.
In January, 1855, the administra-
tion acknowledged that 3,347,000
people are out of work-or one per-
son out of 20 in the "labor force
But, added Commerce Secretary
Weeks complacently, 100000 more
are at work than year ago.
He didn't bother to tell us that
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-04-01
|Whof Defense for TE1Is Or1e Z -

national income of 1858 was $2,281
per person-in 1854 this had declined
to $2,198. The actual decline was
bigger because the 1854 dollar was
worth slightly less.
This is still almost unimaginable
luxury compared to the living stand
ards of almost any other nation-but
the unacceptable fact is, the average
American is growing poorer rather
than richer.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-04-01

ne present national admInlStra-
ton will surely go down in history as
the only one that ever had nerve
enough to brag of an increase in the
nations personal income, that was
wholly due to an increase in the num-
Der of people out of work.
The u. S. Commerce Department
recently said that 1854 u. S. personal
income was up $500 millions over
1858, hitherto considered the ma
TONS boom year. The totals: $286.5
billions in 1854, against $286.1 bill
lions in 1868.
Headline writer's promptly hailed
1854 as the biggest boom year yet.
IN SMALL PRINT
But the figures in small print
show that unemployment insurance
benefits alone, to people out of
work who can't find work, were a
billion dollars bigger in 1854 than
in 1853. Thus this remarkable burst
of prosperity was more than
wholly due to increased joblessness.
The year 1854 actually was re-
markable for its big cuts in the in
come of its actual producers, those
who Go the nations work and grow
its food; and the big increase in the
incomes of owners of stocks, bonds
and mortgages.
All wages and salaries were S2.4
billions less than in 1868. Those of
production labor alone-as distin-
guished from distributive, service,
and government workers-were off
SIS billions.
Dividends, and other personal in
come achieved without labor, went
up SIS billions. Transfer payments"
which include pensions, social Sc
curity and unemployment insurance
went up about the same.
Farmers income dropped off
from $16.1 billions to $15.8 bill
loins, and many farmers will won
der how Commerce Secretary
Weeks figure-sharks arrived at
total of only $500 millions loss in
farm income, between the two
years.
Another remarkable fact about
these t1gureS is That tine naIlOn
press accepted them as the admins
tration intended that the press should
-as evidence of a remarkable come
back in late 1854, and as a sign that
the 1854 recession wasn't so bad
after ALL
A COOPERATIVE PRESS
When the press is so cooperative,
is it any wonder that some administra-
ton press agents get away with MUIR
numbering the truth, that is?
By now, government handouts are
almost wholly in the hands of those
who instinctively subordinate the
facts to making the administration
look good, and keeping their jobs.
There are liars, damned liars,
and administration statisticians and
press agents." remarked veteran
of the Washington scene.
''In the hands of administration ex-
perts, almost any fact can be twisted