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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-01-20

and in time the community too
often dwindled to nothing.
I, There is much more to the at
tempted saving of few dollars
as in this case, than appears on the
surface. The loss is far greater
than the saving effected. There is
nothing gained in efficiency, for
efficiency gained at the expense
of human misery and uncertainty,
or by the tearing down of property
values and economic income that
goes along with a stable and thriv-
ing community can never post up
except in the red.
Some of these old Coast Guard
stations have done far more than
can ever be evaluated to help the
entire service, through quite an
other activity. Countless strangers
have been impressed by the work
they can do, by the kindness, the
helpfulness and hospitality of their
crews. Some of the people thus i'm
pressed have been men with ire
mendous influence in official cir
cles, whose good will for the Coast
Guard has paid off in increased
appropriations in times of great
need and national efforts for econ
omy. Such appropriations have
greatly aided in the development
of the entire service in all it's
branches.
1t seems important that any
service should kept it's best foot
forward in these times. In period
of great national unrest no effort
should be spared to continue to
maintain those things which give
so much service to those who most
need it. Such service is rendered
by the Life Boat Stations of the
Coast Guard. Long may their
flag wave.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-01-20
FOOD MIXTURE
is AVAILABLE FREE

More than 1000 ten-pound bags
of wildlife food seeds are available
to landowners who wish to improve
their lands for rabbits, quail, and
turkeys, according to an announce
ment from Raleigh. Bob Hazel,
farm game specialist with the
North Carolina Wildlife Resources
Commission, stated that the bags
of annual seeds would be sent to
landowners without charge as long
as the supply lasts. For most of
the State the mixture consists OF
2 pounds of combine milo, pounds
of millet, 2 pounds of cow peas,
2h pounds of soybeans and Ia
pounds of annual lespedeza. For
the mountain counties, half the
bag consists of the above mixture,
and the other half is buckwheat,
with a quarter-pound of sunflower
seed added.
The mixture has been developed
by farm game experts to provide
a quick means of establishing food
patches for wildlife. The Wildlife
Commissions long range program
for habitat improvement is based
on the planting of perennial plants
such as shrub lespedeza and multi
flora rose. Present planting stocks
of these perennials do not bear
until the second year, although
new strains are being developed
that will bear seed the first year,
Hazel said. He stated that the an
nual seed mixture would provide
excellent food for part of the win
ter months of the first year while
the perennials are reaching ma
turity.
Hazel pointed out that the an
nual seed mixture will plant two
eight-acre plots. He said that it
would be more desirable for the
game to plant two small patches
rather than one large one. The
patches should be located near
good cover, and will require one
bag of 6-8-6 or 4-6-4 fertilizer.
Applications for the free bags of
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-01-20
MAINS HARBOR BRIDE-ELECT
FETED AT SHOWER SAT.

Manns Harbor-Bride elect, Miss
Wanda Burrus was entertained at
a shower Saturday evening at the
home of Mrs. Pearl Daniels, assist
ed by Mrs. Donald Green and Miss
Inez Gibbs. Rooms in the home
were attractively decorated with
native greenery. The dining room
table was covered with a hand
made crocheted cover conferred
with a beautiful floral arrange
ment and greenery. Green and
white brick ice cream, nuts and
minis were served. Around 80
guests showered the honoree with
gifts which were presented to her
through a treasure hunt through
out the hoae. Games and contests
were enjoyed, winners presenting
the prizes to the honoree.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-01-20

seed mixture can be obtained from
the district wildlife biologists,
county agents, Soil Conservation
Service agents, and from the coun-
ty wildlife protectors. Planting in
structions come with the bags of
seed.
March is the deadline for ap-
plications for shrub lespedeza, he
said. The entire crop of multiflora
rose seedlings, totaling almost a
million plants, has been applied
for, but there are approximately
million shrub lespedeza seed
lings still available. Well over a
million lespedeza plants have al
ready been distributed this winter
from the Commissions wildlife
foods nursery at Chapel Hill.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-01-20
CRANBERRY CRUNCH
PUDDING

Cranberry Crunch Pudding
will win a place right beside
your favorite recipes for peach
or apple crisp"
Make this hot dessert using
either canned or fresh cram
berries and your favorite cook"
ing apples. The crust of this
pudding has a surprise" ingredi-
ent that gives an extra zippy
taste-sharp Chedcar cheese.
Add a final flavor note by
serving dairy sour cream with
Cranberry Crunch Pudding.
This dessert has yet another
reason for becoming one of your
best-liked. It's easy to make
when you use enriched self
rising flour. Baking powder and
salt are already added to the
flour in correct amounts, saw
ing you time when measuring.
Use enriched self-rising flour
whenever you make quick
breads, and see how it speeds up
your baking.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-01-20
MAINS HARBoR PERSONALS

Mr.. and Mrs. Reuben Payne and
children of Manteo spent Sunday
with Mrs. Payne's sister and
brother-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. R. L.
Craddock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam O'Neal and
son of New Holland were guests
of relatives here during the week
end.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Twiford Jr.,
and daughters of Norfolk were
week end guests of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Preston Twiford.
Wilton Craddock of Chowan Col
lege, Murfreesboro, spent the week
end with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
H. R. Craddock.
Mrs. ]. H. Batten has returned
home after spending several weeks
with her daughters Mrs. Bill Gibbs
and Mrs. Edward Jordan of Nor
folk.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Green of
Elizabeth City were here for the
week end with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Calvin Beasley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Greet and
children of Manteo spent Sunday
with relatives here, Mrs. Creef's
mother, Mrs. VIM. White, accom-
panied them home.
Miss Wanda Burras of Meredith
College, spent the week end with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. F.
Burrus.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-01-20

The last minute rush produces
not only long lines at Internal
Revenue Service Offices. but also
many careless mistakes by tax
payers.
Most OF the errors are very SIM
pie. For example. about one million
returns are filed every year with
signatures missing. (This includes
joint returns with only one sigma
ture and Individual returns with-no
signature at all.)
Little slips In arithmetic last year
resulted in overpGyn1ents by tax
payers Of $4,000, 900. Taxpayers got
back these overpayments eventually.
after the government discovered the
mistakes. but the taxpayer cannot
rely on the government to save him
from all his errors.
The mistakes Of arithmetic fdb0r-
ing the Taxpayer were even larger
perhaps not entirely by coincidence.
AHreturns are checked. and when
an 'underpayment is discovered the
government not only collects the
difference. but also charges interest.
Opportunities Overlooked
Apart from obvious mistakes,
many taxHayers overlook opportuni-
ties to claim exemptions and deduc-
tions. and other ways to reduce
their tax
In order to help you avoid such
pitfalls, this newspaper is publish
- .s<.<a
with the hep Of the national and
state orrs tions Of certified pub
lie accog 5. These articles - IL
you saTe l and use them along
with al instructions that
csc r tax forms = may
s
- is to- consider
! file at all. and
Cs a ra1uin to file.
rs you are
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-01-20

not required to file a return IL your
gross income In 1855 was less than
$500. or II you are 65 or older and
had less than $1,000 gross income.
But II you had income from self
employment OF $500 or more, the
return must be filed for social
security tax purposes.
Don't forget that tax on salary or
wages may have been withheld dur.
ing the year by your employer. even
IL your. income was less than $500.
and the only way to get It back 10
TO file-'a tax return.
Advantage 0f Joint Resurns
"a common mistake is the III (.
of'a separate return by q wife WHO
had q small income. II the wife files
q separate return. she IL not per-
mitted to file another return jointly
with her husband. nor 10 her hus-
band allowed 10 claim an exemption
for the wife on his separate return.
Most married couples will save
money. by filing joint return, IS
this splits" their income to put
them in the same bracket as though
each of them had received half the
total income.
There are unusual cases, however.
such as those involving capital losses.
in which. separate returns might
result in saving. II this Is a
possibility, il is best to figure both
jointly and separately before decid-
ing which way to file.
The instructions that come with
your tax forms give further insor-
nation. Help is also available from
the Internal Revenue Service. which
urges you to consult a properly
qualified advisor il you need outside
assistance.
r@t nr''-'e: Save rIoney with
'
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-01-20
KNOT HOLE" DRIVING
USUALLY PROVES COSTLY

Raleigh.-"Every winter knot
hole driving is an important con-
tributing factor in hundreds of
accidents" says Highway Patrol
Major D. T. Lambert. He defines
"Knothole Driving" as "the unskill-
ed art of trying to drive with a
windshield laden with ice, sleet or
heavy frost to such an extent that
the drivers vision is restricted to
a clear patch of glass the size of
his fist"
"This is just one of the several
features of winter driving" says
Lambert, shat help make Deem
Der costly month for traffic acct
dents. One hundred lives We're lost
in traffic mishaps during the
month of December last year. The
danger of impaired visibility must
not be underestimate.
"You have to see danger to
avoid it," Lambert went on. "a
dirty, icy or fog-covered windshield
together with the unavoidable
hazards of earlier darkness and
falling rain or snow make winter
driving doubly hazardous"
He pointed out, too, that proper
maintenance of car heater, defrost-
err, windshield wipers and head
lights will do much toward cancell-
ing out some of the dangers of
driving during inclement weather.
"The Christmas-New Year holi-
day season is the most hazardous
single period of the year traffic
wise," the major said. "There were
IL persons killed on Christmas
Day alone"
Year after year the accident toll
hits its peak in December, he said.
"The holiday season comedies with
many of the winter traffic hazards
I've outlined.
Family get-togethers impel peo-
pie to drive long distances regard
less of weather. Shopping draws
more people onto the streets. And,
of course, there is more drinking
than at any other time of the year.
at is season of gaiety, to be
sure, but gaiety to be enjoyed only
if you resolve to protect yourself
from accident. Lambert concluded.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-01-20
CRANBERRY CRUNCH
PUDDING

!. ~
I can whole cranberry saueeS
Il pound)
2 cups thinly sliced apples
2 tablespoons melted butter i
or margarine
IL cups sifted enriched self-rising
flour
n cup sugar
/ teaspoon cinnamon
n cup butter or margarine
II cup grated sharp Cheddar cheese
l egg, beaten
Mix cranberry sauce and apples
and arrange in bottom of 9-inch
round pan. Drizzle with melted
butter or margarine. Mix flour
sugar and cinnamon. Cut or rub
in butter or margarine until
mixture is crumbly. Stir in
cheese. Add egg and stir to blend
well. Spread over fruit. Bake
in moderate oven (375 Deg. F.)
IS to 40 minutes. Serve warm
with dairy sour cream or hard
sauce. Makes 6 to 8 servings.
sFresh cranberries may be used. Pick
over and wash ia cups cranberries.
Arrange in bottom of pan with apples.
Sprinkle with u cup sugar and drizzle
with butter or margarine as directed.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-01-20
-lNCOME TAX FACTS No. -
How to Save ON Your Income Tax

fThis a articles federal income
filing articles Information provided
American Institute of the North CGrolnG
Society OF Certified Pnbnc Accountability
16 q 10
making
Aprl16 the deadline
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1956-10-18
Optimist Notes -
Joe Allbriiton
Displaying New,
Lightweight Saw

The MCCULLOUGH D-44 chain
saw-a new, lightweight, direct
drive power saw for farm and
forest use-is now available at
Allbritton Chain Saw Supply Co.,
according to Joe Allbritton.
The D-44 is manufactured by
McCulloch Motors Corporation,
worlds largest builder of chain
saws.
"The D-44 is the most powerful
Of all lightweight direct-drive
chain saws" according to Fred
Breer, McCulloch sales vice pres
ident. Because of its performance
and perfect balance, the D-44 can
be operated for many hours with
minimum fatigue.
in fact" he said, we call the
D-44, the saw with the light
touch because it feeds itself right
into the tree An operator need
only guide his D-44-thesaw does
most Of the work. And his D-44 is
so superbly balanced, that he can
completely control its action from
the pistol grip handle,
In addition, the D-44 has the
Gghtest ready-to-cut weight of
any high performance direct
drive saw.
Other D-44 features-many OF
them exclusive to McCulloch
products = include quick, easy
starting with rewind built-ir
starter, keyboard controls, chrome
plated wrap-around handlebars
full-power operation in all posi-
tons, automatic clutch, double
capacity air filter, high-speec
chain, and a special alloy bar witt
fortified, wear-resistant tip.
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1956-10-18
Hourguttes And Nixon ---....-
Or Phone Project
"AIice" In AIusko

White Alice--eode name for a
vital communications network
whose snow-covered tentacles
will stretch throughout Alaska
has made her debut.
The first full news account of
this Bell System defense activity
in Alaska, long yelled by secrecy,
was released earlier this month
by Western Electric, prime con-
tractor for the project.
The story belongs to the men
who ar emaking it: representa-
tives of nearly every Bell operat-
ing company and their w. E. col
leagues who are joining skills in
this important undertaking. Once
again, it is a story of telephone
men against the elements: snow
sub-zero temperatures, cutting
Continued OF Page A
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1956-10-18
Optinnist Notes =
Club @ Ks Chairman To Purchase
Site For Optimist Park Project

Having postponed its meeting
for October 4, the Petal Optimist
Club held its regular monthly
business meeting last Thursday
night, October II at the P ct a |
Community Center here.
Upon hearing a report on the
Park Project by committee chair
man Burrell c. Young, the club
voted to make the purchase of
the land from o. r. Mozingo. The
site is located on the old Richton
Road about one-half mile from
downtown Petal 1t consists of APP
proximately fifteen acres. Final
negotiations are underway at the
present time.
In addition to the park COM
mittee report, the club heard
Mack Craig, chairman of the
Boys Work Committee and Mack
Warren, chairman of the Junior
Optimist Club, report on the work
underway presently toward the
organization of the Junior Club.
r. B. Nelson, Attendance Com
mittee chairman, gave a report,
and urged members to attend OPP
timist meetings regularly.
John D. McElhaney, chairman
of the Membership Committee,
reported to the club, and spoke on
the club urging everyone to vote
IN the forthcoming elections. He
pointed out that voting was a
privilege, and everyone, no mat
ter what their convictions, should
be urged to vote.
In the absence of the clubs
treasurer, Jack Burt, Ulmer Byrd
gave a financial report for tn
month.
At the meeting last week, Art
Miciello was named as chairman
of the publicity committee.
The next meeting is tonight at
1880 in the Community Center
h DR. O. N. Ashcraft, club presi-
dent, presided at the meeting last
! week.
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1956-10-18

Conference Set
For November s

Plans were made last week for
an educational conference for
public information on the scien-
tific purpose for fluoridating city
water supplies.
De of the most pressig health
problems today is curbing dental
decay. Only one child in eeight
has sound teeth. This yeear school
medical examinations of children
reveal that dental decay is the
leading physical defect.
Continued on Page y
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1956-10-18

Before attempting TO write this paragraph spent
couple of days trying TO figure how TO do without
il sounding like sales pitch l did figure out:
therefore this is sales pitch of SORT Having reprinted
several editorials. than in order fur
nish them TO persons wanting additional copies have
been trying TO decide how best handle the situation
with the thought of costs and in mind In
talking with Easion King about it. decided finally
put them into booklet. possibly "a 80 pages. and
thereby having them all together for wanting
blow fifty cents such thing Eason going print
il for just when don't know. but before long
hope The reprints in the booklet will be those for
which have had the most requests possibly dozen
The booklet will sell for fifty postpaid. If
interested in getting please write and let
me know Please do not send any money tHeavens What
saYingD When the booklet is ready it will be
TO you. along with bill Of the latter you.
without any hesitation. Kindly understand that make
promise what the booklet will be worth. do
know what it will sell for however.
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1956-10-18


days that you voters in the towns
and on the farms pack altogether
too much political punch.
They claim that come Novem-
Der your single ballot may be
worth 10 votes cast in metropoli-
tan centers' for a u. S., Congress-
manor even hundreds cast for a
state legislator They charge it's
unfair, even a sWindle, and they
demand reapportionment Almost
everywhere today the big city vot-
er is out to white your political
power.
Well, just how much political
punch do you pack?
Town Journal finds it's decisive.
With the help of Sales Manage
ment, Inc, a national research
group, we've just measured your
power in all 435 Congressional
districts of the 43 states. We want
ed to know how many people live
in and around communities of
$4,000 population or less-using
the best 1856 estimates.
Working from the Census and
Sales Management data, Town
Journal is the first to bring you
these facts. The figures proved
this
You people in these Country
side towns and on farms hold a
clear voting majority in AZ states.
Only in six states-California,
Connecticut, Illinois, Massachu-
sets, New York and Rhode Is
land-do big city voters dominate
elections. This m n S that,
through their sheer weight of
numbers, towns of under $4,000
and rural areas roundabout con-
troll "a of the SO seats in the Sen
ate at Washington. That's 87%o.
The same voters dominate 275
of the 435 Congressional districts
$50 of the U. S. House of Rep
resentativeS.
And that's only part of your
Congressional weight
Nearly all of the powerful chair
men of the committees on Capitol
Hill hail from the town and farm
area. You influence the men with
the most influence. Why? These
chairmen get their posts through
seniority-and Countryside voters
seem inclined to re-elect over and
over You elected IS of the 10
Senate committee chair1nen and
Is of the 20 House committee
chairmen.
Nor is this all your political
punch You can claim 61% of all
state lawmakers this year.
Town Journals survey shows
that of 7,506 state Legislators. S.
1853 come from places of 25,00C
population or less. In SO states
these men have a clear majority
of both houses. They also control
Nebraska's one-house legislature
and split in seven other states
That leaves only three states
New York, Illinois and Massa-
chusetts) where big-city voters
control both houses.
No wonder the big city folks
are after your scalps.
If you live in Nevada with g
, population of only $4,000. you
can vote for two Senators, as dc
the people of New York who
number 10000 The Constitu-
ton gave you this right to help
keep the Federal Union in bal
ance.
And if you live in the cotton
county around Bryan, Tex, fo1
example, your vote for a Con-
| gresham is worth more than four
ballots cast in booming Houston
(which has grow $50 in the last
six years..
This matter of determining the
makeup of the House of Repre-
sentatives is up to the state leg
islatures. After each 10-year Cen
sus, Congress adjusts the number
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1956-10-18

Those Yankee editors invited into beloved state
by the Gestapo Commission aren't behaving like they
ought to- by goly One day last week five of them broke
loose in Columbus and down in the niger quarters
to talk with niggers who live there If person wants
branwashing they will have to hold STILL For
like that rooted for the Dodgers too Never yet been
a Yankee Southerners could trust
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1956-10-18


Editor,
Petal Paper
/ am a retired minister in
straitened circumstances and am
now well advanced in my Goth
year as a denison of this mundane
sphere.
| am not what some of your
fellow Mississippians would call
niger lover, nor am l a mig
ger hater. have had some expe-
rience with Negroes, chiefly in
the line of education, and some
observation of the same on the
plane of labor
If a niger" is a man, | es-
TEEN him as such. If he is so far
from being man as to be worthy
of classification as dog, he
stands no higher than a white
dog
In other words, "A mans a man
for a that and a that"
Some of my friends judge the
races unequally. They insist on
classifying the colored citizen as
a whole on the basis of the lowest
specimens and the white on the
basis of the finest
All | ask for my friend, the
Negro, is that he be judged as a
man, regardless of the color of
his hide My judgment of the col
ored (Negro) race, as a whole, is
best expressed in a letter of Louis
AgassiZ TO Charles Sumner-Mr.
AgasSiZ was one of the strongest
men of science in this country
and, being a native of Switzer-
land, would be free from any
American prejudice. You will find
it on page 81 of Vol. vi, of james
Ford Rhodes History of the Unit
ed States.
| am all out for the Negro on
the same basis that / am all out
for the white. I ask one question
and but one: Is he a man?
AT the present moment | have
under observation two groupeS;
one of SWedes, the other of Ne
groes. Geographically, they ar e
thirty miles apart. Financially
they arrived on the level of an
absence of coin. The Swedes took
possession of an island in the Co
lumbia river which was literally
a watery desert. They redeemed
it from the brush and the over
flow of the river They diked it,
transformed the swamps into
flowery fields and, step by step,
season by season, carried on the
work of redemption till now they
have the finest public buildings
in the county. They asked for no
help. They hit the ball.
The other group have but re-
Gently arrived. 1t is yet to be
seen what they will do. There is
no color bar here. The colored
man is received on the same level
as any one. They moved into
Longview, seeking out the poor
est sections, and then instead of
doing something to better the sit
uation, they call for help. If they
fail, it will not be because of col
or; though they may make that
their excuse for failure.
Well, Brother, carry on for a
better day. We shall need all the
help you can give us.
Sincerely yours,
w. w. HEAD.