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The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1955-10-28
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THE u. N. VOICE
BY BORIS SINCLAIR

Saul Carson, JTA correspondent at the
United Nations, has now performed a great
service for the UN :. He has written and
produced at the UN headquarters CO.
operation with the UN Department of Infor-
mation-an album Of monograph records
giving the actual voices of practically all the
important people in the world who spoke
from the UN platform He has thus not
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1955-10-28
The
Jewish
Quiz
Box

BY Rabbi Samuel J. Fox
Copyright. 1855, Jewish Telegraphic
Agency. Incl
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1955-10-28

QUESTION: Why does 4radi-
fion prohibit the marriage of two
brothers or two sisters on the
same day?
The Nome nugget., 1955-12-09
Army Secty. Brucker Out of Patience With Slowness To Provide Winter
 Housing For Troops Guarding Korea

WESTERN FRONT, Korea, R) LUIS. Army Secretary Wilbur M. Brucker said today it is "deplor- able" that numerous American soldiers guarding the Korean arm istice zone are still housed in tents.
 Brucker said funds had been appropriated to provide semi ' permanent, solid buildings but somebody has been too compla- cent along the line and I'm going to find out what the trouble is"
 Brucker made the statement on a flying inspection of 24th Infan- try Division units dug in along some 21 miles of the front across Korea.
 "The housing program is not moving fast as it should and I'm just out of patience," Brucker told reporters after looking at some of the tents in which troops are spending sub-freezing nights.
 Something is going to budge. We've got to have housing for these fellows"
 Gen. I. D. White, 9th Army commander who accompanied Brucker, previously said he hoped to have the approximately 35,O00 Americans in the field out of tents by the time severe winter starts in mid-December.
 However, Maj. Gen. S.B. Mason, commander of the 24th Division, estimated it would take until the end of January to complete build ing 90 per cent of the needed quonset huts and an additional month to get all soldiers out of tents.
The Nome nugget., 1955-12-09
New President of NAM Says US. Has Gone
 "OverbOard on Security"

NEW YORK, R-The man who will head the National Assn. of Manufacturer in 1856 declared the US. "has gone completely overheard on security"
 Everything has to be secured jobs, wages, hours" said c. G. Parker, NAM president-designate, in an address prepared for deliv- cry at the association's annual convention.
 Parker called on the 5000 in dustrial leaders attending the con- vention to set an example for the country by insisting their com munities refuse to accept federal government help wherever pos sible.
 "We have no right to criticize the farmer or the laborer for his reliance on government unless we stop doing it ourselves" he said.
 Let us stop relying on the great white father, who has mo- thing to give us except what he took away from us in the first place."
 Parker declared that fin the Al years from 1913 to 1854 our taxes were multiplied 45 times - from two billion dollars a year to more than 90 billions. Even more im- portantly, Uncle Sam's bite of this total widened from B per cent in 1913 to 75 per cent last year."
The Nome nugget., 1955-12-09
Huge Shelter
 Proposed For British Columbia

VANCOUVER, B. C., lR - The Vancouver Sun says in a dispatch from Victoria that huge alum mum smelter, rivalling the Alum mum Co. of Canada plant at Kiti- mat, lis in the cards for New Westminster or Squamish."
 The Sun says Continental Can Go. of New York, major packer of the proposed $5O0,OOO,OOO power dam on the Fraser river, has pro, posed the smelter be built in con- junction with the dam.
 Negotiations are in the early stages" added the Sum- ''but fig ures mentioned in government circles for plant investment is in the neighborhood of $2OO,0OO, O,0O0."
 The proposed dam would be To- cated at Moran, B. C., 120 miles northeast of here It would be 720 feet high, to produce 3,600,000 horsepower.
 Fisheries interests claim hydro electric development would ruin the nulti-million dollar salmon run of the Fraser river.
 A report published here says it would cost more than $500 million to attempt to save the salmon fish cries if a proposed series of power dams were built in the Fraser Thompson river system.
 And even with this tremen- dous expenditure, says the re- port, "only a fraction of the sal mon run could be saved -"
The Nome nugget., 1955-12-09
TOMORROW IS
 THE BIG NIGHT

Saturday is the big night! The filth annual Pioneer Roof Garden will be held in the high school gymnasium with entertainment, fun and refreshments for the entire family.
 Frank Morris, general chairman of the Roof Garden, announced to- day that the TV show will begin promptly at o'clock, and that the doors will open at ? o'clock with both east and west entrances used.
 Following the first TV show ever staged in Nome, free refresh ments of ice cream for the chil- dren and coffee and doughnuts will be served. There will be the traditional Fish Pond for young anglers as we'll as games for the adults. The Pioneer Women have again baked delicious prospector' cakes which conceal gold nuggets for a lucky finder. The one-half pound of gold nuggets, the grand prize for the Roof Garden, will be awarded at midnight.
The Nome nugget., 1955-12-09
WHO HOOKED THE HOOKS?

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, R- Somebody broke into the E. H. Peckinpaugh Co. fishing equip ment store Monday and stole 20,- GOO fish hooks. A few dozen live minnoWs also were taken.
The coastland times., 1955-01-28
THE BOOKER T. WASHINGTON MEMORIAL

Instead of winding up majestic tribute to great
man. project for memorial to Booker Washington has
wound up $4,000 in debt and the property contemplated
for the memorial to be sold to the debt according
news report from Rockymount, Va The items fails
to say the founder Sidney Phillips was black or white
but it looks the project poorly managed was
lacking in public confidence 1t have been like many
other such project overtffed and overloaded with dead
wood but it absurd that so worthy idea
should have ended so gnomniously.
But notable thing about it. the lack of interest
among the people of his which met the proposal
The Government mnted five million Booker T. Washington
memorial half dollars, to be sold dollar each which
would have raised two and half million dollars 1t
hoped to sell them to Negroes but Phillips said less than
cent of them bought by the nations Is million
negroes
Emphasizing the view of lack of pride in Negroes
great leaders of their Phillips said Every program
have attempted has been supported almost entirely by white
with little patronage by negroes and almost with
out exercise OF interest and influence the part
negro leaders.
Whatever has been accomplished may be attributed
large to the friendly attitude of white citizens
he said
This is food for thought for negro leaders when
templatng they do the other hand what has been
done for them the the banks and business
houses to uplift their race.
memorial to Washington deserved better than it got
The coastland times., 1955-01-28
MORTON
CONTINUED from Page One)

christened by hurricane the very
day it was completed. But it stood
the test well.
That fate intends keeping the
Mortons away from Florida and
in North Carolina became more
apparent than ever last January.
They were flying to the Florida
keys for a fishing trip when an
engine failure forced Morton into
an emergency landing on the edge
of a swamp at Chinquapin, n. c.
After repairs, he took off from
U. S. Highway Al, two-lans road
which runs through the swamp.
Both members of the family like
all the many kinds of fishing
available to them at Nags Head,
from fresh water bass to Gulf
Stream and back again to surf
casting in their front yard"
And for every fish they catch,
one would judge, they win some
new convert to the wonders of
Nags Head. A special-selling
point With Morton t. his friends
with airp'anes is thai Mal.teo has
an excellent airport-whtch makes
New York mighty close even
while II SEEMS far, far away.
-Om
The coastland times., 1955-01-28
By JOHN GOULD
ichon Falls Maine

A pathetic dispatch came out of
Washington the other day. Seems
the rural mail carriers have to be
contortionists to put mail in the
roadsides boxes. They are think
ing of doing something about it.
This is a movement to which
shall not lend my support.
Some years back we had an RF
D carrier here on Route / who was
fine contortionist. He could get
letters out of the box, make
change for stamps, stick in the
arrivals, and hoist the tin flag
all in one willowy operation. 1t
would throw your neck out of joint
just to see him do it, but he did
it neatly at every box.
Now, at that time our box was
attached to an ancient nackmatack
post which had first been put up
when Teddy Roosevelt instituted
the rural free delivery. Naturally
the box was set to accommodate
appointed rounds made from a
buggy. Horses were driven from
the right-hand side of the seat,
and a buggy seat was high-slung
compared with present-day auto
mobile thwarts. The Postal Regu-
lations carefully defined the re-
quirements, and if you didn't COM
ply the carrier could refuse to
leave your mail. AS a matter of
fact, some of the carriers iii re-
fuse from time to time, and event
ually the rural mail box fell into
a standard pattern.
The whole point is that a mail
box perfectly positioned for a
buggy seat is no good for an auto
mobile, particularly the American
kind that has a left-hand drive.
When times changed and country
roads got generally decent, and
drivers of mail routes got mech
anized, the regulations naturally
became, shall we say, obsolete,
And that was about the time ero-
sion, frost, highway snowplow
blades, and other contributing
factors ruined my old post and l
had to set new one.
So a brilliant idea came to me.
Why not set the box so the poor
carrier could get at it? Why not
adjust to the machine age? 1t
would be very easy. | would set
the post fifteen feet due east, at
the left-hand edge of my drive
way, so the mailman could swing
in off the road, do his putting and
taking through his left-hand win
dow, dealing with a box adjusted
to his make of automobile.
And when he was through he
could back out into the road and
be off. If he should swap models,
could lift or lower the box to suit.
His shoulder joint would stay in
place, his spine would stop work
ing like an accordion, and l would
have made a notable contribution.
l spoke to him about it, asking
if he didn't think this was a fine
idea.
Do you think he cheered me as
a great thinker? He did not. He
gave me a cold stare, and said |
The coastland times., 1955-01-28
BELHAVEN PERSONALS

Mrs. Elizabeth Knight had as
week end guests her daughter,
Miss Dorothy Knight, and Miss
Joyce Veasey, of Raleigh.
Richard Lucas, of Havelock
spent the past week end with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. R. w.
Lucas.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Jones, of
Charlotte, were week end guests
of his father, M. M. Jones.
Bobby Jones, of Charlotte, spent
the week end with his grand
mother, Mrs. o. F. Walker.
Miss Peggy Mills, of Raleigh,
spent the week end with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. R. w. Mills.
Mrs. c. L. McHarney has re-
turned from Newport News,
where she spent this month visit
ing her daughters, Mrs. w. O..
Muir, Mrs. Craig Fury, and Mrs.
Mack Harris. Mr.. and Mrs. Harris
accompanied her home and re-
mained for the week end.
Mrs. T. A. Rydingsvard and
daughter, Alice, of Norfolk, were
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Heber Will
kinson for the week end.
Miss Mary Bullock, of Norfolk,
spent the past week end with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. o. Bull
lock.
William Hackett left on We'd
nesday for Ft. Worth, Texas,
where he will attend the South
western Hereford Show. Mr..
Hackett expects to be away for
two weeks.
Miss Gussie Winstead, of Hen
derson,, spent the week end with
her sister, Mrs. Lucy Smith, and
attended funeral services for her
great-nephew, Raymond Wharton,
in Winsteadville, on Sunday.
The coastland times., 1955-01-28
CHURCH
CONTINUED from Page One)

vestrymen. The S. S. Superinten-
dent is w. P. Gray and other Off
GERS of the Sunday School are
John Earle, Jr., secretary-treas-
urer and Mrs. John Earle, Mrs.
Robert Smith and Miss Sarah
Halliburton, teachers. John Earle
is teacher of Mems Bible Class.
Named in honor of Andrew,
one of Christ's disciples whose oc-
cupation was that of fisherman,
before be became a fisher Of men
for Christianity, the Church is the
first organized group of Episco-
palians in the history of an area
where on August 18, 1887, Vir-
ginia Dare, first child of English
parentage born in the New World,
was baptised in the Anglican faith
from which the Episcopal Church
of America was created following
the Revolutionary War. The
Church here has been summer
meeting place for Episcopalians
since the mission was established
by DR.. Drane, who spent his vaca-
tions on the beach here where the
family still own a summer cottage.
The Diocese and Vestry have
approved the extension of Rev. Mr..
Noe as rector from three months
as originally planned to six
months or early summer. He had
been retired when he came here
to serve as temporary rector.
The Rev. Mr.. Noe is a member
of the Noe family of Beaufort
from which four brothers became,
Episcopal rectors. He has long
been interested in the Church and
also in civic ahd historical sub
jects. He is president of Bath Inc,
which this year will promote the
celebration of Baths (oldest in
corporated town in the State)
sesqui-bicentenial or 250th birth
day of it's founding in 1705, as
municipality.
The coastland times., 1955-01-28
MTDOEII
Continued from Page SiX)

Napier of the Baptist Church.
Burial was in the Mt. Olivet
Cemetery.
Funeral services for Mr.. Willis,
were conducted Monday afternoon
at l o'clock in the Buxton Method
ist Church by the Rev. + NJ. Por-
ter, pastor OF the Tyrer Methodist
Church, Rev. Dan Meadows, pas
tor of 'ke Buxton Methodist
Church, Rev. A. w. Pr 20, pastor
of the Wanchcse Assembly of God
Church ana the Rev. Lester Jar
rett, pastor OF the Avon Assembly
of God Church. Members If the
Choir sang "City -Four Square"
"Face to FACE" and Looking This
Way" Mrs. Loura Willis sang
"Roodnieht and Goodmorning.
They ware accompanie On the
piano by Mrs. Pearl Midget.
The easket was covered with a
pail of fed .Ld white carnations.
Ire i9ilcw:rg members of the u.
S. Coast Guard served as pail
bearers, Curtis E. Scarborough,
Ronald B Austin, John II. O'Neal,
Leon T. Woodard, Joseph ]. Phil
DIN anil Eliely c. Midget. Burial
followed in the Dudley Cemetery,
Buxton.
The coastland times., 1955-01-28
THERE is NO SUBSTITUTE
FOR
NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING

departed for other fields.
The folks of this community famous for grabbing
sucker bait held out to them and against their best interest
few weeks ago, hlblly program brought to Man
teo at possibly the worst time of the year. for the benefit
of civic club The performers departed with the cash. and
the club instead of getting nice addition to its treasury
went some 500 in the hole.
few years ago patriotic and fraternal organization
IN this community got off the wrong track with
the crummies carnvas in existence which, while not only
begin disgrace to the community yielded the sponsors
almost nothing
The thing never learn is that good cause will
sell Itself without having to bring in imported filth give
shot In the Each time it is tried the
OF and our dollars for good purpose They
better kept at home But the American people truly like
be humbugged
The coastland times., 1955-01-28
WILLIS
Continued from Page One)

line. His service soon became rec
ognized for good, and officials
high up in Washington passed the
word to give Mr.. Willis preferred
attention, but he never could get
an appointment as official chap
lain in the Coast Guard, a place
which he greatly desired.
On August 10, 1902 Mr.. Willis
married Miss Annie Barnes of
Bath, N. c., and to them were born
four children. He said it was a
happy marriage, which terminated
in her death July IL, 1882. A little
more than two years later, he met
widow, a Mrs. Shedd from Au-
gusta, Ga. down in Florida, and
married her, and she followed him
around the circuit for a time, but
this union split up after COM
paratively short time.
Back in the COS when Mr.. Willis
began preaching at the stations,
filling his appointments by horse
back, or beach cart, he was young
and got a thrill out of it which
led him to extend his circuit as far
as the stations might be found. He
was filled with a great zeal for
his work, and while he found him
self among old acquaintance and
friends eager to welcome him in
his native North Carolina. he
found different atmosphere
when he reached New Jersey, New
York, and the colder New England
coast, colder in more ways than
one. For there would be found men
of widely different faiths, indif-
ferent to a strange preacher from
faraway North Carolina. But he
let nothing discourage him, and
he preached to Catholics, Luther
ans and Unitarians up north one
week, and to Pentecostal, Method
list, Baptist, etc down south the
next week.
Handicapped greatly by partial
paralysis all his life, Mr.. Willis
never learned to drive car, He
never grew discouraged and one
reason for the splendid reception
he got at the stations was the ad-
miration of the men for his brave
effort to keep going under diff
Guilty. In a single year, in l935-36
he visited all the stations of the
entire Atlantic and on all the
Great Lakes, preaching at some
of them several times.
For more than so years he fol-
lowed his career. He was ordained
a Methodist but he preached to
widely diversified groups. In all
the SO years he kept their love and
respect, which would indicate that
he was more than uncommon
man. He preached to men who had
lived a life of ordered religious
devotion as well as to men with a
minimum of religious zeal. A ca
reer of this kind indicates the need
for a man of broad common sense,
a man of the world, of unsual abil-
ity, a capacity for deep thinking,
remarkable individual charm
and personality, if he should con-
tinue to succeed. And so the Rev
erend George Willis, at the end of
his so years when infirmities
forced his retirement, held the af-
fection of his homefolks and his
visits to them was anticipated as
happily as when he put into his
ministry the vim and enthusiasm
of youth.
The coastland times., 1955-01-28
DARE COUNTY ExcELs IN cULLIBILITY

Dare county, while exceeding in good folks also excels
in guliblity The latest Wednesday of this week
when 200 people stood around in the wind hour
listen to alleged human fly recount the perils and
pains he had endured during his ong career of climbing
up brick walls The wall he going to climb for the bene
fit of "The March of Dimes the Fort Raleigh Hotel
owbu three story structure He then proceeded climb
up from window to window which any schooboy in Manteo
do without risk and perhaps few girls do we'll
He allowed to take the collection which yielded bet
ter than $5 two thirds of which he stuck his pocket
The coastland times., 1955-01-28
RURAL MAIL AND REGULATIONS
A DISPATCH FROM THE FARM

was meddling in something beyond
my capacity. The position of an
RID box, he said, was established
in the Postal Regulations.
l tried to reason with him, as
one unconnected with government
regulations will often do. No good.
So l put the new post exactly
where the old one was, and bolted
the box in position so it complied
with all rules made and provided,
and it is just exactly where it
should be if a mailman should
come riding up some day behind
plodding bay and in surrey.
The Umpteenth Assistant Post
master General could only applaud
such a precise fit. After that my
mailman continued to dislocate
himself every morning (except
holidays and Sundays), and after
few years he retired. He was
succeeded by another contortion-
list, and he in turn by Bud, our
present carrier.
l was talking to Bud about this
quite a while ago, and Bud was
more amenable. He felt maybe the
rules should be changed, but he
agreed it was not up to him and
me to change them. However, he
indicated that if l wanted to shift
the post so he could get at the
n1ailbox lefthandedly, it would be
all right with him. He wouldn't
lodge a complaint, or refuse to de-
liver my mail. might have made
the change after that, but when
l heard that Washington is pom
dering the thing l thought I'd
wait and see how they decide. 1t
would be just my luck to shift the
post for Bud, and then have Wash
ington overrule me.
Meantime, 1 think there is a
problem in this thing all the same.
Since automobiles have left-hand
drives, and traffic in this country
flows to the right, it is impossible
from a safety standpoint TO have
mailboxes on the left of the roads.
And if you reflect on the style of
modern automobiles and trucks,
you will see that operating out of
window is something of a trick,
regardless of how the mailbox is
hung, or even how it is designed.
If we could devise a method cf
filling mailboxes out of ieft-hand
windows, the job would still call
for some special agility.
1t might be smart to design a
special vehicle for rural letter
carriers. 1t could be high, like a
buggy, with a right-hand or CEN
ter drive (such as already are on
the road in some sections of the
country, and fitted inside with
stanchions and bins. The dash
board could have a letter case,
and a drawer for stamps, money
order blanks, and twine. If a SYM
pathetic motor-vehicle manufact-
urer put his mind to this, he
would probably sell one to every
postman now serving the great
rural areas of the country.
And they wouldn't have to
change Teddy Roosevelt's old rule,
and my mailbox could stay where
it is.
The coastland times., 1955-01-28
HIGHWAY
Continued from Page One)

important job of secretary-trcas-
urer was Joe Dubois of Sea Level
who has spearheaded the activities
of the organization since it was
founded last year.
Wahab, Ocracoke Island busi-
nessman, painted deplorable pic
ture of conditions as they exist in
his area today. Said Wahab: "The
people on the mainland have not
manifested any interest in the peo-
pie of Ocracoke Island. Hyde
County is the only county l know
Of having 20 miles of ocean front
property upon which it does not
spend one single penny. Hyde,s
mainland is predominantly an ag-
ricultural area. We in Ocracoke de-
pend upon tourist trade and fish
ing. If any one can give me one
reason why we should remain at
tached to Hyde, I'll give him ~
reasons why we shouldn't. We were
in Carteret County until 1o45,
when the State General Assembly
saw fit to give US to Hyde"
at is necessary for me to pass
through three county seats IN or
der to get to my own, Swan Quar-
ter" Wahab continued. Il must
pass from Ocracoke, through Beau
fort. New Bern, and Washington,
and still l am not there" Why are
they, (the State), spending twice
as much to build bridge across
Croatan Sound when the traffic
across that area is less than half
the traffic crossing Oregon Inlet,
an inlet that could be bridged at
less than half the cost Of bridging
the Croatan. It's just as feasible
and possible to bridge Oregon II
let and pave 16 miles Of roads
across Ocracoke Island today, as
it was to build the highway along
the Banks from Nags Head ID Hat
teras, few years ago.
Wahab read letter from an un-
identified editor of a prominent
out-of-state publication in which
the editor stated he personally had
been responsible for thousands CT
dollars flowing into North Caro-
lima by advising hundreds OF fel-
low-anglers and hunters to try
their luck in the Ocracoke area.
The editor also stated he had sent
letter to Governor Hodges, and
urged friends to do likewise, asking
the Governor to please make some
effort to obtain road from Ocra-
coke to Hatteras Inlet. The editor
further stated, according 10 Wahab,
that he had contacted mutual
friend, Frank V. DUPONT, commits
sioner of public highways of the
United States, asking him to sup
port such road, and to urge Gov
ernor Hodges to do likewise.
81 believe by contracting promi-
nent out-of-state acquaintance
who visit our coastal area, and
asking them to help in our fight
for the road by contracting our
State Highway representatives, we
can, with the support of our up-
state friends, make this road a
reality" Wahab concluded.