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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-21

fine job he had at radio station
VOL. Over a score Of disc
jockeys have applied for his job
there since his resignation 4S
hours ago!
P. S.-The applications were
in vain-WOL smartly filled the
spot with another Milton
WMAL's Milton @. Ford. Milt
was happy at WMAL but says
the VOL offer, which included
a four-hour stretch on the air,
was just too good to turn down.
Richard agreed. More later.)
Wise Decision: The producer
overruled Hal March-Randolph
Churchill f1unked and won't be
back on 1.-THE $4,000 Question"
next Tuesday.
Quickies:
The Walt Disney "Cat Family"
show Wednesday-especially the
first 20 minutes or so-was SIM
ply delightful. The new
Mickey Mouse Club" shows, in
cidentally. begin October on
WMAL-7.
A New York column team, con-
tinuing their tempest in a tea
pot" about rugged audience APP
plause meters. state emphatical-
ly that at least two TV engineers
know first hand" that the vol
ume has often been controlled to
make sure a certain contestant
wins or loses" But it's hard
ly worth their jobs to make the
facts known"
Reports that the NBC 90-min-
ute specs" and especially Steve
Aliens Tonight" show are in
jeopardy seem bit premature.
|. What's forgotten is that
some of ex-chairman Pat Weav-
er's ideas have also been en-
braced by the opposition.
"YOur Hit Parade" begins its
Washington run this evening
tWRC-4) via kinescope. !.
The show, formerly seen on
Saturdays, exchanges places with
Studio 81.
Station ,WRC-4 shows the
second part of Since You Went
Away" on Safeway Theater to-
morrow night (WRC-4). !,
The station failed to inform
the newspapers in advance that
only part one would be shown
last week. S. The lone SWITCH
board operator at NBC clicked
80 phone calls that night!
MAILBAG:: Viewer asks:
why not have the champions
in the game Of bridge play a
match before a TV audience?
With the advent Of the split
screen, it seems to me that four
bridge hands could be shown in
each of the four corners of the
screen. :"
A bridge series iods tried on a
local basis and ezcited some in
terest and consB1ent-though not
the roar OF approval that mould
perk up the ears OF most spon-
Sors. There's only one trouble
with bridge as a feature of a
luGriety shout mould haze to
haze some added dramatic udlue
that Mould get across to those
tDho don't know the game. For
the t0orld championship - or
american as. Russian teams. etc. J
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-21

nell 90 ~ OF them Tor the sea-
son plus five Shower of
Stars" programs and guest
shotsl
The opening Shower" show
NOV. H. by the way, will CO.
star Nan Fabray.
\
Pearl Bucks first TV script
Everything is a FIRST" these
days. is "The Big Wave" and
the happy news yesterday was
that Hume CrOnyn will play
the lead. 1t will be presented
Sunday, Sept. 30, on the AIcOa
Hour (WRC-4).
+ 4 4 4
Don't you adore" the way
Hollywood actresses reveal" K
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-21
TODAYS TV
HIGHLIGHTS

1880, WMAL (D-Rin Tin Tin;
"Sorrowful Joe" is the linked
new trooper at Fort Apache.
1880, WTOP t9)-My Friend
Flicka: Ken is proud of his
mothers courage when she
captures a horse thief who
invades the MacLaughlir
home.
$500, WTTG (5) - Baseball:
Washington at Baltimore.
$780, WMAL (D-Crossroads
dig or Die, Brother Hyde
stars Hugh Marlowe. A prairie
minister cures a sick child
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-21
7 eIevision Tomorrow-soturdoy September q, 1855

Wc Variety TAsaer Cartoon
a.
Warner Bros Fashion Show Trading Football
6
Serial Of
81 Album; ais DOut Chatter Basalk washington
o.
Basket $780, Mighty
$780, The
Pick Temples Hunters;
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-21
ION THE AIR
Jack Benny Won't
Miss Any 'DeodIines'
BY BERNIE HARRISON
Weekend Wash:


Jack Benny thinking about cutting down on his TV
work this but wife Mary argued him It, Jack
told the APPS Bob Thomas She pointed that would
having the headlines If did just few this year. each
one would important that would worry about
making them successes"
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-02-03

make salable many half-baked
theories of smart alexis, brain
trusters, and impractical dreamers
and experimenters. There are too
many poor relations of politicians
to be tackled on to the public pay
rolls, and in the final analysis too
many ward heelers or what have
you, who have to be paid off.
When all these lifters and chiselers
get through licking our Federal
educational candy bars, there isn't
too much of value to comfort the
kids of the taxpayers.
In schools as in everything else.
we starve in a land of plenty
where exists a surplus of many
things. For many years our people
went hog-wild on borrowing money
to erect buildings to give every
cross roads in the land a brick
and stone palace for parents to
brag about. Everybody's commu-
nifty had to keep up with its neigh
boring community. Good roads
came and some communities with
more power, wealth and political
influence saw whereby they might
build a still larger school, and
gobble up many nearby neighbors
into a single consolidated unit,
served by many buses. This made
possible bigger business courses,
bigger home economics labora-
tories, bigger basketball teams,
less time in the class room and
more time running about the coun-
try. 1t lifted burdens from the
business of classroom teaching,
and brought in problems of trans
portation, social behavior, etc.
People neither adapted nor quail
fled for office work, girls whose
mothers should have taught them
at home to cook, boys who no
longer had classes in manual
training at the woodpile, were en-
couraged to learn all this from
school and too often from teachers
with little learning and no expert
ence.
Back in the little communities,
which were nursing the many
wounds resulting from the fights
over consolidation, there was in
addition to heartache, the long
lingering headache and the back
ache of the financial burden left
upon them in paying taxes for
abandoned buildings, once their
short-lived joy and pride. These
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-02-03

lister or the rental allowance expend-
ed BY him Tor this purpose.
The 0ficial tax instructions con.
tain Q list Of the types OF income
which should or should not be
included In your tax return II 10
important TO check this carefully.
Psises and AwAfde
There 10 M Interesting rule on
prizes they are only taxable 70
you worked for them. Even the
slightest action on your part to
earn the prize - such as appearing
on o QuiS program or writing Q
slogan makes Il taxable income.
But prises awarded for scientific.
literary or other achievements with
out any action by you 70 bring
about your selection would BE-
regarded as gifts TO you rather than
taxable income.
Some income. such az limited
amounts Of sick pay" and the first
$50 Of certain dividends. must be
explained In the tax return but are
not taxed.
The instructions that come with
your tax forms give further in.
formation. Help IL also available
from the Internal Revenue Service.
which urges you to consult prop,
erly qualified advisor IL you need
outside assistance.
Next article: Exemptions Cut
Your Tax Bill.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-02-03
THE PACKAGE DOESN'T
MAKE THE PRODUCT

"Stone walls do not q prison
make, nor iron bars a cage" said
Richard Lovelace 800 years ago,
and for many decades countless
people have perhaps found comfort
in the poem that contains these
lines. 1t means that the burdens
of the situation may be resolved
by the condition of a mind which
finds something of value in every
human experience.
The cost of doing business and
many other of the burdens of life
come from the state of mind Of
people who cannot content them
selves with any part of the philo-
sophy of these lines. There are
men who cannot run an office I'M
less they have a palatial waiting
room, $500 desk and platinum
blond stenographer, to start with.
They just don't seem to be able
to get into high gear the great
brain they think they have, but
which perhaps compares more rea-
sonably in size with a hickory nut
hopping around in hogshead.
There are people who cannot
content themselves with the bust
ness of setting up housekeeping
and making a home, unless the
house is first built, completely fin
ished and furnished with every
modern gadget and two car ga
rage and television antenna atop
the chimney, even though the pay
ments on all of it take sufficient
of the weekly income to deny the
denizens chance to live life. Too
often the burden of trying to live
under such handicaps melts into
misery or. is dislodged by constant
rows and unloaded in the divorce
courts.
Getting along in life is for the
most part a state of mind and
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-02-03

handsome abandoned schools, use
full for only a short time, often
have been sold for a fraction of
their original cost. In some in
stances they stand neglected, and
as monuments to the folly of folk
who could see no further ahead
than to believe that good school
is measured by the amount of
money poured into brick and stone
to house the pupils.
One sad thing about the Ameri-
can people is they never learn a
lesson too well, neither in school
nor out. They still think as de-
voutly as ever that spending a
big lot of borrowed money to build
huge house is answer to every
school problem. They get in a
huddle and deplore the deficiencies
of our schools time after time, but
ever they come up with one ans
wer: We've got to bond our
property and put up another build
ing. We've got to pay high taxes
for 80 years more"
And like the little neighborhoods
that build big structures only to
shortly lose them, we continue
with this folly, right now in the
face of the cruelty that has come
from a Supreme court decision.
We had. scrimped and saved and
struggled to erect adequate facili-
ties for our children, and in addi-
ton pushed by the militant and
more progressive among US, we
had set ourselves up to the double
task of providing the same and
equal facilities for the children of
negroes not able to provide them
for their own. We were complet-
ing this job with great speed and
sacrifice.
And now in the face of situa-
ton which offers little likelihood
that we will ever escape the de-
cree which demands the mixing of
races; with untold and immeasur-
able situations critically ahead of
US throughout this sunny south
land we continue with the ephem-
eral hope before us that we can
forever solve problems by borrow
ing money and building more
houses. We rush in where wise
men fear to tread and pile up debts
for unborn children to pay, to
build great structures that in
many instances, and most of a
certainty in some communities will
be abandoned to the neglect and
negligence, the ingratitude and in
sensibility of benefits that have
been vouchsafed by those who
yield to the leadership and vile
inspiration of alien hordes fast
worming their way into control of
our country.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-02-03
AVON PERSONALS

Mr.. and Mrs. Bonnie Williams
have returned to Neptune, N. j.,
after visiting Mrs. Lottie Williams.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Gray and
children visited Mr.. and Mrs. c..
G. Gray and Mr.. and Mrs. Luther
Hooper.
Tom Meekins is visiting his SON
in-law and daughter, DR.. and Mrs.
L. Sigsbee Miller, in Elizabeth
City.
Mr.. ond Mrs. Charles Williams
and children Charles, Jr., and
Michael visited in Chapel Hill.
Rev. and Mrs. Aaron Tyson had
as visitors last week end Mrs.
Tyson's mother, Mrs. Mark S.
Edwards, a sister, brother and
cousin of Goldsboro. Their son,
Billy Ray, accompanied them back
home.
Mrs. Ralph Scarborough, who
has been a patient in the Abe
marie Hospital, has returned home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Erwin Gray and
children, Erwin, Jr., Judy, Wayne
and Larry, were home for the
week end.
Rev. and Mrs. Alvin Price and
Johnnie Miller were here Sunday.
Mrs. David Russell and son
visited Mr.. and Mrs. G. H.
Meekins.
Obey Hooper spent the week end
here.
Carson Hooper visited here last
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-02-03
EAST LAKE PERSONALS

A. R. Basnight of Norfolk is
visiting here.
Stafford Hopkins of Columbia
was here Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Lassiter, Mr..
and Mrs. Dewey Whitehurst and
Beverly of Edenton were recent
visitors here.
Mr.. and Mrs Allison Twiford
and boys of Elizabeth City were
Sunday visitors here.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. F. Smith, A. r.
Basnight, Mrs. Nina Basnight and
Susan motored to Columbia and
Engelhard Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dick Twiford and
daughter of Manteo were here
Sunday.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-02-03
MIDGETT-WILLIAMS

The marriage of Miss Vicki
Mae Williams, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Vetter Williams of Buxton, to
James Graves Midget, Jr., son of
Mr.. and Mrs. James Graves Mid
gett of Salvo, took place Monday
afternoon, January 9, in Elizabeth
City. Leo p. Lewis performed the
ceremony.
After a wedding trip to Will
mington, N. G., the couple is re-
siding at Buxton.
Mr.. Midget is stationed at Hat
teras Inlet Life Boat Station, Hat
teras.
\. .,..a, Shower For Bride
Mrs. Midget, Jr., was honored
January 10 at the home of her
parents. Mrs. John Williams led
the group in games and contests
Prizes were won by Mrs. p. l.
Farrow and Mrs. Ed Dudley and
presented to the bride, with large
assortment she had previously re.
ceived. Sefreshments of cake, ice
cream and drinks were served.
Guests were Misses Norma Gray,
Jazania Herbert, Janet Midget
Martha Midget, Mrs. Holland
Brothers, Mrs. Rose Farrow, Mrs
Betty Dudley, Mrs. Retta Dudley,
Mrs. Beth Dudley, Mrs. Faye Jen-
nette, Mrs. Eula Dudley, Mrs,
Minnie Williams, Mrs. John Will
liams, Mrs. Sara Williams.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-02-03

how one may adjust himself to
conditions. One person with small
opportunities and limited capital
may struggle day and night with
a two-bit pop-shop and build it
into rousing business by the
time he reaches middle age and
is worn down to a FRAGILE and
tries to capture some of the joys
he has missed by retiring to
warmer climates and endeavoring
to relax.
Another man, left a fortune and
going business ample for all needs
may try to live too lavishly, waste
time needed by the business and
lose all in a short time, and be
doomed to slavery in his old age,
or as is nowadays the custom,
wind up in penury dependant upon
public welfare.
And now for another thought.
The complaint throughout the land
these days is that we don't have
enough school buildings to take
care of our children, from families
which constantly grow smaller
each decade as compared with %,
so or 75 years ago. A nation
which spends millions for every
thing else, we are told, won't or
can't furnish adequate educational
facilities for a people which places
dwindling accent on the solidity of
the home and the family tie. We
are told that our children are
crowded into inadequate quarters,
at time when families are small
er and smaller in size. We are led
to believe there isn't enough money
to pay the bills, or enough money
is not put up. We are constantly
reminded that we don't pay teach
ers enough money, but we see
little emphasis placed upon in
sisting that teachers and teaching
DE improved IN quallty or quantity.
We are in a dilemma, and turn
instantly in these days to the Fed
eral government, as has become
our custom in all things, and de-
mand Federal aid for schools. We
forget that when the Federal Gov
eminent takes our tax money, and
then starts to dole it out to us,
we don't get near as much back
as we paid in. There are too many
middlemen, as they say in trade.
There are the politicians, the
boards and bureaus, the education
al laboratories which waste money
vainly trying to leaven up and
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-02-03

week end.
Mrs. U. w. Hooper has returned
home from the Norfolk General
Hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glib Gray, Jr., and
son Osborne visited Mr.. and Mrs.
Alton Williams at New Bern last
week end.
Rev. and Mrs. Lester Jarrett
and children visited here last week.
Ban Price has returned from
Duke Hospital.
Mrs. Ronald Austin and baby
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-02-03

pc reported on your TAX toEm.
For example you may have
received "dividends'' on an iinsur-
ance policy. Don't list them - divi.
bends. because they are considered
merely q refund OF part OF the
premium you paid.
Don't include Social Security
benefits, Railroad Retirement Act
benefits. or payments received undSt
Workmen's Compensation laws.
Don't list gifts you received.
although the giver may have 20 pay
q gift tax. However. tips and other
compensation for services must be
reported.
Do not report inheritances and
requests. The estate may be taxed
but not the recipient.
Personal Damages Not Taxed
Damages received for personal
injuries are not considered taxable
income, whether awarded by q court
or settled out of court.
When listing your income you can
also forget about government bene.
fits to veterans and their families.
except non-disability retirement pay
and the interest on terminal leave
bonds.
The interest on state and mum.
cipal bonds is also tax exempt.
Although compensation for serv-
ices Is generally tNxable, whether
paid in money or otherwise. the law
specifically exempts the rental value
Of a parsonage furnished to q min
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-02-03

Grow basil in pot. on your
kitchen window. Keep the soil
moist and pinch off the small
leaves so the herb will spread"
Basil is, of course, a must for
tomato sauce; it is also delectable
in green salads and in vegetable
soups. If you use it in the soup,
mince it and add it at the moment
before serving.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-02-03
-lNcOME TAX FACTS No.
Don't Pay Tax on Wrong Income

(This Of Of articles tar
Hing articles based nfOTmdion provided By the
Tnstitxte Accountants North Carolina
eSociety Of Certified Pabic Accountability
may listing part Of tax
Actually according TO the Internal Revenue Service this
where max Of
Not money may during
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-02-03

visited Mr.. and Mrs. Willard
Gray, Jr.
The Sidney herald., 1956-05-10
Trash Pickup
Slated Sunday;
Picnic Following

Got amy trash around the yard,
in the attic. down in the basement,
OF in the garese7 What q silly Ques~
ton. Everybodyis got 1t so clean 1t
up and pile 1t near the back alley.
Trucks viii be around Sunday after
noon starting at $50.
The Sidney Junior Chamber OF
Commerce wants 30 make our town
the clesnest in Eastern Montana but
only with the help of all residents
can this be made possible.
Trucks are being furnished by
farmers of the area. local merchants,
and the city. Jaycees VIII be doing
the work SO keep them busy with
trash. trash and more trash.
Following the pickup. Sunday, a
Jaycee family Paint-up, Cleanup,
F1x-up picnic viii be held at Rich
land Park starting at 4:S0. All Jaycees
up truck drivers. fireanen and
painters n their families are invited
10 this get together. 1t Will be pot
luck with ice cream and pop furnish
Come out and relax after two
weeks of hard donated labor.
The Sidney herald., 1956-05-10
SIDNEY EASTERN STARS
GUESTS OF PLENTYWOOD
CHAPTER FRIDAY NIGHT

"A Large delegation sidney
3ourneyed 10 Piesnrywood last Friday
where they attended a meeting OF the
Eastern Star Chapter to see the Nc
Coy Ritual OF the OES put ON by
Mizpah Chapter Nc. i of Moosejaw.
Saskatchewan
Several cars made the trip from
Sidney. Those who went early TO at
tend the 6 O'Clock banquet were MIR.
and MIS-. Jesse Baxter. Mrs. Earl
Hawley. MRS. Howard Sissel, Mrs.
Bailey Fisher and Mrs. Leslie Nevins.
Others vino went later in the eve
ming for the r1tuahstic work were
Mr.. n Mrs. Nord Lund. Howard
SGsSel. Mrs. Donald Baker, Mrs. Walt
er Dasinger. Mis-. Bud Simard. Miss
Leioetter. Mrs. Mansel Woods, Mrs.
Otis Peterson Mrs. Bernice Rudd
and Miss Clara Soiberg. There were
twenty-five chapters represented from
Eastern Montana. and also several
from western North Dakota and
Canada. There were five grand rep
reSentatives. eleven present matrons,
seven present patrons, and many past
matrons and past patrons included
among the over 400 Eastern Stars in
attendance
The Mccoy Ritual was beautifully
presented with officers dressed in
styles of he early seventh century.
Following the meeting a social time
was enjoyed and a lovely lunch was
by the members of the hos
chapter.
The Sidney herald., 1956-05-10
ONGREGATIONALTSTS
WILL HOLD MEET
AT GREAT FALLS

The 72nd annual meeting of the
Montana Congregational Conferences
Will be held in the First Congrega-
nonal church in Great Falls, May
The guest leaders viii be DIR. Fred
er1ck H. Thompson. Portland, Maine.
representing the American Board of
Foreign Missions; DR.. Nels F Nord-
from of Princeton, Ill, associate
superintendent of Congregational con-
ference of Illinois: and Adolph o.
Snxrud of Seattle. Wn.. lay leader in
me University Congregational church
n washington conference.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Putnam. Mrs.
Norman Shotnakoff. and Rev. and
Mrs. Bernard McLain are the dele
gates from Peoples congregational
church.
The Sidney herald., 1956-05-10
John M. Lexcen
Gives Loyalty
Day Broadcast

The Lower Yellowstone VFW
auxiliary sponsored a Loyalty
Day broadcast over KICK on
May l as part of the nationwide
observance of Loyalty Day. John
M. Lexcen of Sidney was the
speaker.
Mr.. Lexcen stressed that the
fighting of Communism is of the
utmost importance to parents of
today. He said that the public
should take note of the COM
mencement of the second five
year plan being inaugurated this
year to stamp out Communism
in the United States.
Primarily, MI. Lexcen said, it
involved the relationship of all
parents to our children and
neighbors. Our first and a small
requirement is that we instruct
our children in their civic rights
and duties. If this is properly
done we ear avoid a petition of
some of the heart breaking events
of the past, as the children of to-
day will be the ones to run the
government of the future. So
to make absolutely certain that
there will never be any revival
of the Communist May Day cell
we must strive to dry
UP the reservoir of potential re-
cruits of Communists of the fu-
ture.
"We therefore urge you," Mr..
.excen said, "to sincerely work
patriotism in young children,
to advise and teach them di-
of Americanism and by
your example make your chill
lren, your neighbors and your
more loyal to the United
States"
Arrangements for the broad
:ast were made by Mrs. HUI Nc
Morris, Americansm chairman of
he V. F. w. Auxiliary, who ex-
pressed thanks to Mr.. Lexcen for
MS radio broadcast and to Ra-
lilo Station KICK for their time
and helm.