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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-04-29
ERNST HEADS GROUP
TO FIGHT WOODS FIRES

North Cardinals wood using in
dustries Friday launched study
to tighten. the States forest fire
detection and prevention pro-
grams.
M. C. Gibson of Elizabethtown,
chairman of the North Carolina
Forest Industries Committee,
named a subcommittee to study
the problem and recommend a
course of action.
Officials of State agencies, in
Guiding State Forester Fred H.
Claridge, met with the industry
group in an all-day session. The
largest forest fire in the States
history, which recently burned
over 100000 acres in Tyrrell,
Hyde and Beaufort counties and
caused damages running into mil
lions, spurred the action to i'm
prove fire prevention activities.
Gibson named William Ernst of
Manteo, representing the West
Virginia Pulp & Paper Co., to
head the study group. Other mem
bers are: Jim Latty, BoltonA
Riegel Woodlands Corp; Carl
Blades, Charlotte, Duke Power
Co.; Harold Blanchard, Whiteville,
Sledge Lumber Co.; and John Fur
ney, New Bern, Bate Lumber Co.
Ernst said the subcommittee
will meet within two weeks to
consider suggestions made Friday.
These included. Closer coordina-
ton Of all agencies within the
Conservation and Development
Department in fire detection and
reporting; authority for game
wardens to investigate forest
fires as part of their regular
duties; creation of an emergency
fund of about 100000 for use by
the Forestry Division during per-
iods Of high fire danger; and the
advisability of assessing all wood
lands an addition per acre tax to
pay for better fire prevention pro-
grams.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-04-29
SHIPPERS SEEK
DEEPENING OF
COASTAL CANAL
Present Io-Foot Depth Cuts Load
Capacities Of Baroes. Tugs

Deepening of the 750-mile In
tracoastal Waterway from Nor
folk to Jacksonville, Fla, is being
proposed by inland water shippers
and oil, paper and pulpwood in
terests along the South Atlantic
Coast, Chauncey G. Williams, Jr.,
vice resident of C. G. Willis, Inc,
said in Norfolk.
Willis and L. G. Hogshire,
president of Norfolk-Baltimore
and Carolina Lines, attended a
meeting in Savannah, Ca, at
which an organized effort to pro-
mote the project was born.
Willis said the South Atlantic
States Inland Waterway Improve
ment Association was organized
with the primary aim of getting
the waterway deepened from 10
to IL feet from here to Jackson
vile.
They will propose the project
which they expect to cost
around $1,42O,0OO-to the Chief
of the Army Engineers and ap-
pear before congressional appro-
priations committees in support
of funds for the undertaking.
Engineers Interested
Willis said that in preliminary
conferences the engineers ex-
pressed interest in the project.
Until about five years ago the
waterway had depth of IL feet.
AS it gradually filled in, however,
the maintenance depth was raised
to 10 feet.
Willis said that inland water
carriers who went into operation
at the end of World War II did
so with equipment designed for
the 12-foot depth. AS result of
the 10-foot depth which exists
now, the barges and tugs are
forced to operate at below their
maximum load capacity.
Some Florida concerns reported
that the depth in their areas at
times forces them to operate at
80 per cent below their load
capacity in order to be assured
of uninterrupted navigation.
Willis said the present depth
has resulted in frequent delays in
shipping. Hepointed out that while
the depth theoretically is kept at
10 feet, at times vessels hit
places where there is only nine
feet of water.
Continuing Delays
The areas subsequently will be
dredged but it may take as long
as 60 days, resulting in continu-
ing delays to the carriers.
Because of the shallow sections,
Willis said, a new barge recently
put in service by his company
operates at 800 tons under the
maximum capacity.
Greatly interested in the prof.
ect are operators of commercial
barges, and paper and pulpwood
interests located along the coast.
Companies supplying fuel oil to
pulpwood mills and power plants
along the route also are among
strong proponents.
Willis said that another strong
See SHIPPERS, Page Five
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-04-29
MRS. SADIE TILLETT PERRY
OF KILL DEVIL HILLS DIES

Mrs. Sadie Tillett Perry, 40, a
native of Dare County, a resident
of Norfolk for % years and a
resident of Kill Devil Hills, for
the last three years, died Satur-
dav at 9:45 a. m. at the home of
her son-in-law and daughter, Mr..
and Mrs. Alton C. Smith, 220O
Arlington Avenue, Norfolk, after
an illness of nine months.
She was member of the Meth
odist Church. Her parents were
the late Isaac Eurby Tillett and
Mrs. Maggie Saunders Tillett.
Surviving are her husband,
Caldwell A. Perry; one daughter,
Mrs. Smith, o. -orfolk; four sis
tiers. Mrs. Els B. Beacham, of
Arlington, Mrs. Lizzie Harris, Of
Kitty Hawk, Mrs. Virginia Aus
tin, of Corolla, and Mrs. Aurelia
Tarantola, of Blueridge Summit,
Pa; three brothers, Herman Til
lett, of Kitty Hawk; Boone Til
lett, of Indiana, and John Tillett,
of New York, and four grand
children.
Funeral services were conduct
ed at the Derry-Twiford Funeral
Home Monday by the Rev. ]. w.
Reynolds. pastor of the Campo
stella Methodist Church. By
= in the family cemetery
- Devil Hills.
eral selected hymns were
- ID during the services by Mrs.
~yn Whitehurst at the console
Of the organ.
The casxet was covered with a
pail Of salmon and peach, gladioli,
pink carnations and fern.
Pallbearers were, Vernon Lew
ark, Stanley Lewark, Radford Til
lett, Chester Rogers, James Bed
sole and Calvin Wicker.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-04-29
BLACKBOARD BEACH PARTY
FRIDAY RAIN OR SHINE

The Blackboard party and dance,
scheduled for Friday evening at
the Wilbur Wright Hotel, Kill
Devil Hills, will be held rain or
shine, according to announcement
by the management. The party
will be held on the beach if the
weather is good, inside the hotel
if the weather is bad. The party
will feature shrimp feast and
entertainment; also prizes for the
best costumes. Ski Pisecki's band
will furnish music for the dance.
A nominal admission will be
charged.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-04-29
FRIDAY, THE DAY TO USHER
in PIRATES JAMBOREE WITH
COLOR, LIGHT, LIFE ON COAST

Begins at Cape Hatteras Lighthouse and After
Full Day Of Sport. Shifts TO Mays Head Kitty
Hawk -Manteo Area. Alive With Boy Scouts.
Beach Bueges and Beauty Contests Religion
and Repentance Available Sunday.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-04-29
WANCHESE NATIVE
NEW TUG SKIPPER;
BEGAN CAREER AT I3
P. [. Cudwor+h, 30. p noted
With Norfolk Firm; e. d.
son Of Capt. Lou
BY EUGENE PRICE

Capt. Perrin L. Cudworth, who
only recently turned 80 years old,
is one of the youngest tugboat
shippers on the Atlantic Coast.
But that won't come as surprise
to the folks who knew him back
in Wanchese, on Roanoke Island.
They remember Cudworth as a
determined (some of them will say
he was outright cocky) youngster
of Is who left home with the an
nouncement that he was ready for
a man-sized job on a tugboat.
Tuesday this week the Curtis
Bay Towing Company of Virginia
announced that Cudworth had
been made captain of the pride of
the company's 14-tug fleet-the
new Cavalier. This boat is los
feet long and has : 1900 horse
power. She was built in Louisiana
at a cost of 100000. Cudworth,
in spite of his comparative youth
fulness, has been skippering tugs
for the company for four years.
Listed Among Finest
He is regarded as one of the
finest tug captains in Hampton
Roads. Among the first to tell
you that will be his father, Capt.
G. D. Cudworth, who has been
skippering tugs for 35 years and
who also commands a Curtis Bay
tug.
Perrin is one of two sons who
have followed the elder Cudworth
in the tugboat business. The
other, G. D., Jr., was master of
the Curtis Bay tug Hawk until
a recent illness.
The Cudworths have been men
of the sea as long as the people
around Wanchese can remember.
The late Llewellyn Cudworth,
grandfather of the two young
Cudtis Bay shippers, was himself,
master of a sailing vessel, as well
as freighter captain between
Wanchese and Elizabeth City for
v years.
. 1t. Perrin Cudworth has been
n of the tugs petrol and
It during the past four years.
there's Just something about
tugs like" he commented.
"There ways something differ
ent to do. Few jobs are exactly
alike"
Cudworth came on tug as a
deckhand, and has worked his
way to the top. Not all his service,
however, has been on harbor craft.
During World War II, he served
on a merchant marine ship.
His ship was bombed at Anzio.
Cudworth was II then, and an
able-bodied seaman. The bomb
twisted the bow of the ship, and
it was days before she could get
out of the area.
Cudworth returned to Norfolk
and to the tugs when the war was
over, and except for brief per-
iod with a tug company in New
York, has been here ever since.
Among the young captains
three children is a two-year-old
boy.
Is he also going to be tugboat
man?
The folks around Wanchese will
tell you that he probably will.
After all--he's a Cudworth.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-04-29

MON AGUE RHINESTONE,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. M. L. Penny
stone of Manteo, is a student at
Oak Ridge Military Institute,> and
was recently home for a visit
with his parents. Young Penny
stone, who is is a high school
Junior, is playing on the college
baseball team, and is having many
trips with the team on it's spring
schedule. He is a grandson of the
late Capt. and Mrs. E. H. Peele
of Manteo, his mother being
Augusta Peele before her mar
riage to Mr.. Pennystone.
Evening star., 1955-07-10

first anniversary of liberation,
Mr.. Castillo Armas outlined
plans to improve farm conditions
and to re-settle peasants on
productive lands. AS a gesture,
the President presented land
deeds to 1,041 small farmers. He
promised that others will follow,
The Arbenz COVER n m e n
cleaned out the national treasury
when it fed to exile. AS a result,
Mr.. Castillo Armas and his col
leagues had to start from scratch
to get operating funds,
Taxes are imposed on coffee
exports. corporations, real estate.
commercial transactions, inheri-
Itances and liquor. But there are
many untapped sources. A study
lis being conducted to determine
what additional taxes should be
Imposed to make the govern
|ment solvent.
u. s. Cash Aids Guatemala
Aid received from the United
States has been indispensable.
The President reported last Sum-
day that Guatemala so far has
received $40 million in American
funds, and that more will be
forthcoming. This will include
So million for further construc-
ton on the Inter-American
Highway.
Road building is unusually i'm
portant at this time. It provides
employment, opens remote areas
to markets and will lure tourists.
President Castillo Armas ap-
pears to have the Communist
element under control. 1t can
not organize as political party.
but the small Red group has
freedom of expression and as
sembly. The Guatemalan army
Evening star., 1955-07-10
Guatemala Makes Gains
Toward Democratic Rule

lvice-presidency as well as presi.
dency, and fixed terms Of Office
/ The constitution will be de-
bated for several months in the
temporary assembly and may
well pe revised there. At the mo-
ment, however, informed sources
are inclined to believe it will be
adopted very much as proposed
The big question is whether
Guatemala is really capable OF
operating a democratic govern
ment. Observers are asking: Dc
the people have enough disci-
Ipline to accept this change. or
will they revert to the traditional
Latin American method-revo-
Ilution-to switch administra-
tionS?
Col. Castillo Armas seems con-
fident Guatamala will accept the
new system if the people can be
shown the advantages. Accord
Iingly. he is accelerating his
program to improve farm condi-
tions. the general economy.
Education and relations with the
Catholic Church.
Suffered Some Bad Breaks
But the President needs q few
good breaks. Unfortunately, he
|got some bad ones during the
last year: a big drop in coffee
prices, a prolonged drought and
Ia serious shortage Of corn. the
basic staple commodity Of the
country.
In his speech on July 3. the
Evening star., 1955-07-10
Woman Wins Long Fight
To Leove CzechosIovokio

LONDON, July 8 GA
plucky Englishwoman who re-
fused to bend under Communist
pressure today won q seyen-year
fight to leave Czechoslovakia and
come home with her three chill
dren.
The Prague government gave
up trying to hold Mrs. Phyllis
Sispera, a pretty 32-year-old
matron, who is a Czech citizen
by marriage. The Czechs told
British Ambassador George C.
Pelham: "She is free to CO."
The Czechs also agreed to
grant exit visas to her British
born children: Martin. 13: Clar-
ence. IL. and Jennifer. 10.
Mrs. Sispera won freedom after
Britain fired OF to Prague this
week two angry protests warning
that the widely publicized case
Evening star., 1955-07-10
|CutA-Secrecy,
Anderson Says
BY the Associated Press

Senator Anderson. Democrat
of New Mexico, proposed yester-
day that the United States lift
all remaining secrecy restric-
tions surrounding its program
for peaceful atomic power re-
actors.
The Senator. chairman Of the
Senate-House Atomic Energy
Committee, predicted this coun-
try may take that step after an
international atoms for peace
conference in Geneva August
800.
The United States already has
signed special agreements with
26 friendly nations to provide
them with small atomic reactors
and the uranium fuel to make
them work. In addition, more
than 100 students from dozens
of foreign countries already are
in this country studying reactor
operations and uses Of atomic
iSotopes.
But Senator Anderson said he
stilr thinks there is way too
much secrecy" He added, in a
CHS radio interview: IT believe
firmly the whole reactor tech
nology ought to be declassified
entirely"
The Senator blamed Atomic
Energy Commission officials for
alleged excessive secrecy. He said
complete release Of atomic re-
actor information would turn
the American ingenuity loose"
in this field.
He said he agreed with Gordon
Dean, former commission chair
man who in a June 19 speech in
New York called on the Govern
ment to "declassify with one
bold stroke" all atomic power re-
actor technology.
Evening star., 1955-07-10
BY JOHN v. HORNER
Star stan Correspondent

GUATEMALA CITY.-A year
after its liberation from pro-
Communist rule, Guatemala is
still striving to establish q stable
democratic-type Of government.
Though considerable progress
has been made in the IL months
since the revolution, much re-
mains to be done to strengthen
the security Of this small Central
American republic so vital to
hemisphere solidarity.
No one knows this better than
Col. Carlos Castillo Armas. who
led the successful revolt Of June.
1854, against the Red dominated
government of Jacobo Arbenz.
Col. Castillo Armas later assumed
the presidency.
Western diplomats are reason
ably optimistic about the chances
that Castillo Armas will hold the
country together, but they admit
privately that he faces serious
political obstacles.
President Is Popular
Although he enjoys enormous
personal popularity with the
masses, Col. Castillo Armas Is
under constant heavy pressure
from the articulate leaders both
on the left and on the right.
For the left-wingers. his center
of-the-road policies are TOO
strong: for the arch conserva-
tives, they are too weak.
It has been necessary since ne
came to power to compromise
on most important issues and
that irritates the extremists. just
as middle-road programs IN the
United States annoy both lib
erals and conservatives.
Col. Castillo Armas won his
revolution last year with an in
credibly small force Of $50 men
equipped with pistols and side
arms and three old airplanes.
His secret weapon was a clan
destine radio system which
falsely reported that he COM
manded 5000 troops en- route
from Honduras to seize this cap
ital city.
700 Aides Deserted Arbenz
The Guatemalan army, under
the technical control of then
President Arbenz, included 1000
men. But the army was not
sympathetic to the chief and was
predominantly anti Communist.
When TOO officials walked out
on Aroenz, the jig was up.
BY q series Of agreements
and deals, Col. Castillo Armas
eventually took sole possession of
the presidency. He has been
running the government more
or less by decree. In this he
has been assisted by a cabinet
above average in loyalty, and a
temporary unicameral assembly.
At the moment, the President
is trying to establish a per-
manent constitutional govern
ment. A 17-member committee
in the legislature has just filed
the draft Of a constitution. It
provides for the essential ele-
ments Of a democracy, including
orderly election procedures, a
Evening star., 1955-07-10

always a potential trouble
maker for a government-seems
loyal to the administration, ct
least for the present.
If, with American help, Cas-
tillo Armas shows tangible prog
ress on his farm and economic
programs within the next few
months. he stands an excellent
chance of making democracy
stick In Guatemala.
Evening star., 1955-07-10

was poisoning relations between
the two countries.
Heroine's Welcome Ready
Britain is now getting ready
to give Mrs. Sispera 9 heroine's
welcome. The story of how,
under Red threats. she "held out
for freedom" has been splashed
over London front pages.
Mrs. Sispera VIM leave behind
her former husband and the
father of the three children. He
lis Jaroslav Sispera who is i'm
prisoned In a Czech jail on
treason charges. The Reds were
reported to have compelled her
to divorce him last year.
In a final effort to persuade
Mrs. Sispera to stay on In Czech
oslovakia. secret police picked
her up early Tesday morning at
her Prague apartment and drove
her to a surprise meeting with
bner husband.
Police told her If she agreed to
stay Jaroslay would be released,
given a mining job and the whole
family. would have "a nice villa"
to live in. Then her former
husband was brought in. Mrs.
Sispera later gave British dip
lomats this account Of their con-
versation:
Jaroslav:: 'Phyllis-I am sorry
for all this unhappiness. Can't
we be reunited, happy with our
Ichildren?"
She replied: '"I would never
prevent you from seeing the chill
dren II I went to England, but I
regard our marriage as ended. I
have made up my mind to take
the children to England"
Gruelling Questioning
The police subjected her to q
grueling Interrogation in efforts
to make her change her mind.
She was returned to her apart
ment at 4 am. Thursday.
Mrs. Sispera met her former
husband during World War II
when he was serving in Britain
with the Royal Air Force. After
the war they went to Czecho-
|slovakia with their three chill
Idren. They tried to escape when
the Reds took power. but were
caught.
|. Sispera was imprisoned on
treason charges and Mrs. Sis
|pera was released in 1948 after
10 months in Jail. Since then,
she has been trying to leave
Czechoslovakia. She has resisted
suggestions that she could 60
home alone If she left her chill
'dren behind.
Evening star., 1955-07-10
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Evening star., 1955-07-27

planes have = to periodically
identity themselves.
If they don't. the word goes
out.
Condition yellow :. scram-
bleI"
A grab for Q crash helmet. q
survival suit and . parachute
follows.
Five minutes later, Sabrejet
pilots Of the 5lst Fighter Inter
ceptor Wing are atrborne and
en- route to meet the unidentified
pip" which showed up on the
air defense radar screen.
Despite the emphasis on air
here, Okinawa-once called "the
junkyard of the Paciflc"-wears
several other faces, too.
For the men who serve here,
life can get boring. The men
with families find the living
conditions much better. For the
bachelors 1t is not very exciting
duty.
The glittering night life af-
forded GIs In Tokyo is non
existent here. There are few
outside recreational diversions.
The post exchanges are about
the best stocked In the Far East
Name it and the PXs have ii
from toothpaste to tape record
Evening star., 1955-07-27
|Okinowo Plain forget
In Any Asion Conflict

a better soldier II he has his
family with him and his morale
is good" says Maj. Gen. James
Moore, the Army's deputy gov
|ernor for the Ryukyus COM
|mand.
Americans here have good rea-
son to feel safe.
Day and night. the roar Of
the swift. all-weather F86 Sabre
Jets rumble across the Ryukyuan
skies, guarding the approaches
to this strategic outpost.
On the ground at Naha, the
|Okinawa Air Defense Command
keeps a close eye to the west
Radar stations are tactically
|set throughout this archipelago
which stretches from the south
Iern reaches Of Japan to the
waters above the Nationalist
stronghold on Formosa.
No aircraft can enter the belt
surrounding Okinawa without
filing a flight schedule in ad-
vance Of its approach. AL
Evening star., 1955-07-27
By MURRAY FROAlSON


Associated Press Foreisn Correspondent
KADENA AIR FORCE BASE.
Okinawa, July ~ R-Ask the
name of the most likely-and
most vulnerable-target for the
Communists in any all out war
lin, Asia and the answer prob
ably viii be Okinawa.
Only $50 air miles east of
Shanghai, it's the nearest United
states base to Communist Chi
mas industrial complexes spread
along the central mainland coast.
This is one reason Okinawa
has been developed as the for
ward base for the Strategic Air
commands big B-36 supernomb-
ers and BAT jet medium
bomberS.
, It also is home base for two
ljet wings of the 5th Air Force
and the central link In q huge
air defense radar network arch
ling across the Pacific.
An Air Force Show
The Army governs the island.
but militarily speaking. it's an
Air Force show.
It's proximity to China prob
ably serves as the best existent
deterrent today to the Peiping
regime and any wsrlike ideas it
might otherwise entertain. Con-
versely, the Communists by overt
aggression could use Okinawa as
a base from which to launch at
tacks on United States bases
guarding the western approaches
Of the United Stataes.
The Army keeps a regimental
combat team on the island.
There are also two anti-aircraft
battalions and a regiment of
Marines which just moved here
from Japan.
The Army could also use Oki-
nawa to stage troops for move
lment elsewhere. Just 10 years
ago, the island was wrenched
from Japanese forces. There
were seven United States divi-
lsions punched on the island dur
ng the savage battle, and the
Army says 1t could certainly
handle that many troops again,
If necessary.
Few on Isle Worry
How do Americans on Oki-
lnawa feel, being 30 close to the
front lines?
They're not worried.
IF they bomb us here. they're
going to have to bomb us In
Chicago, Detroit or Los Agneles,
too," says Master Serg. William
Macmillan, who few in B26s in
Ithe Korean War.
;, His Is the stock answer on
Okinawa when airmen and SOL
ldiers are asked about the safety
|of their more than 5000 depend
lent wives and children who live
here.
Some Air Force officers agree
that the large number Of nom
military people could play havoc
lin an emergency. The first SO
Ito u hours would be the crucial
ones, and there would be little
time to think Of the families
then. The general feeling Is that
morale Is an overriding factor in
considering the problem.
I'VE feel aman is going to be
Evening star., 1955-07-27

Iers. II the stores don't have It,
they'll get it.
The Pxs have to supply these
goods an the other vital neces-
Evening star., 1955-07-27

stiles. Servicemen and their
families could not possibly afford
to live on the high priced yen
economy In Okinawan villages.
Evening star., 1955-07-27
first quality
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Thick tuft, solid or contrasting
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Numbered, rsody to use. Many
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