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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-11-02
w. BEN HODGES. SO, or
ENGELHARD SUccuMBS

Funeral services for w. Ben
Hodges, S3-year-old Engelhard
farmer who died Monday in Park
View Hospital in Rocky Mount,
were held from the Middletown
Christian Church Tuesday after
noon, conducted by the Rev. A.
w. Huffman; burial followed in
the Amith Cemetery at Lake
Landing.
Mr.. Hodges was the son Of the
late Ben and Lizzie Sewell Hodges
of Engelhard. He was member
of the Christian Church.
Surviving are one son, Lloyd
Hodges of Engelhard, and one
granddaughter.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-11-02

won in the past, and she is now
emerging into a new life of pros
perity. Railroads are being built
Tor being prepared to be built),
manufacturing enterprises are be-
ginning to center there, telephone
lines are being built in the county,
and her commerce is increasing.
We wish her God speed. Let's give
her a helping hand and encourage
the good work that is going on.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-11-02
PTA AT ENGELHARD TO
STAGE FALL FESTIVAL

The Parent Teacher Association
of East Hyde High School in
Engelhard has announced plans
for Fall Festival to be held Fri
day, November 2, at the school
gymnasium and auditorium.
In the afternoon, there will be
cake walks, fishing pond, dart
game, apple bobbing, tot contest,
popularity contest, costume par
ade, and food booths. The eve
ning's program will begin with a
talent and fashion show, and will
be climaxed with dance in the
gymnasium with music by Bob
Jones.
The public is invited to attend
and to support the PTA.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-11-02

The early inhabitants of North
Carolina were divided into differ
ents classes; the educated set, who
were generally allied to families
of rank in England; the set who
had managed by shrewdness, thrift
and superior intelligence to become
rich, and from whom the Lords
Proprietors usually selected their
deputies; and the freemen, who
were the ordinary and uninstructed
enigrants. In England, they would
have belonged to the peasantry or
agricultural laborers. Among this
class was another set, whose
crimes had reduced them to tenn
poEary slavery.
These were the transplanted
/. cCnvists who had been brought in
and sold to the planters under tenn
poxary bondage. Their condition
was worse than any other of the
white people in the colony, but
they were a great deal better off
$hsn the poor people of London
were. They were bound out for a
certain term of years, at the ex-
piration of which they became full
citizens.
The earliest record I have found
of representatives of Hyde in any
Assembly is of the delegates sent
10 the general meeting of dele
gates at New Bern on August 25,
1774. Hyde County sent Samuel
Smith and Rotheas Latham. To
the meeting at Hillsboro on the
18th of August, ITS, she sent
Joseph Hancock and John Jordan.
To the Congress at Halifax, April
4, I776, she sent Rotheas Latham
and Joseph Hancock, John Jordan
and Benjamen Parmele. This body
placed the estate in military organ
ization and appointed as officers
for Hyde County, Rotheas Latham,
colonel; Benjamin Parmele, lieu
tenant colonel; William Russell,
major; Thomas Jones, second ma
.ior. Her delegates at the Congress
at Halifax, the 18th of November,
1776, (which formed the Constitu-
tiOn) were Joseph Hancock, John
Jordan, Benjamin Parmele, Will
liam Russell, and Abraham Jones.
The inhabitants of Hyde lived
far apart and there was only occa-
Sional intercourse between them.
For many years the General Court
and Assembly had no fixed place
for session and the meetings were
oft times at the private residences
of one of the Counselors. There
was no mail service and all COM
muncations except by personal in
tercourse had to be by private
messenger. There was sad want
of intercourse.
This difficulty was felt a great
deal by the upper class, but more
s0 by the servants and laborers.
No white bondsman could leave
his masters land but under such
restrictions as amounted to virtual
prohibitions, and hired laborer
could not come and go as he
pleased, Sunday was the day of
rest and freedom, but not even
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-11-02

then could the people gather to-
gether at the places of worship,
for there were no such places for
many years. The English hunter
and the wild Indians were the only
ones that did much visiting, and
they probably saw more of the
inhabitants than any one else in
the province.
Occasionally the rich and upper
class could come together and have
/ a great feast. Everything would be
very elegant and in great abund-
ance, and it would be almost the
same in every respect as if it were
in England, even to the servants
and the livery.
The costumes of the rich folks
were the same as those in England
under Queen Anne and George /,
reign. The common people lived in
comfort and were generally clad
by the industry of the women Of
the province, for they made first
the cloth and then the garments
from cotton, wool and flax.
The buildings were being i'm
proved on all the time, until once
in a while a house built entirely
of brick could be found, and nearly
all of the houses had brick CHM
neys. When the people first emil
grated to America, the houses were
nothing but little log huts.
The amusements of the people
were dancing, wrestling, foot races,
cudgel playing, nine pins, shovel
boards, quoits, cock fighting, and
frequently taverns. They also had
two sports which were almost un-
known to the humble England,
fishing and hunting.
The women and children were
great help to the early settlers.
They could handle a canoe well,
and the wives were always ready
to help their husbands in any SER
vile way. The girls were taught to
sew, spin and attend to the house
hold affairs and dairy. The chill
dren of both sexes were very
quick at learning. There were few,
if any, good-for-nothing ones
amongst them, and instead of
wasting what the industry of their
parents had left them, they i'm
proved and added more to it. They
were married when quite young.
The natural division of Hyde
County does not present sublime
picture. 1t is a low, flat country
with two rivers, that of the
Pungo on the west, once known as
Matchepungo, and the Alligator
River on the north. On the south
is the Pamlico Sound lin Indian
Language called Pample-Cough)
and extending also around to the
east, and making into the land
from the sound are occasional
creeks and bays, the chief ones
being Swan Quarter Bay and
Ewasocking Bay.
In the interior are two lakes,
small one called New Lake in the
Northwestern part of the county,
and in the central part of the
eastern part is Mattamuskeet
Lake, the largest in North Caro-
lima. This lake is fifteen miles
long and seven miles wide. 1t was
once a vast juniper swamp, the
bottom of which buried beneath
the black mud is a net work,
overlaid thickly with juniper logs,
stumps and roots. In extreme
droughts when the water is dried
up in many places by evaporation,
these logs, stumps and roots dry
out, and when the rainy season
comes on they break from their
hiding places and are washed
ashore. This process has been 60
ing on for centuries and still the
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-11-02

Melt butter in saucepan, add
mushrooms and cook until soft but
not Drowned. Stir in -four, salt,
pepper, and nutmeg. Add broth
and cream all at once, stirring
constantly until smooth. Cook until
"'"l5ened, stirring occasionally.
Il in chicken.
K rice lightly into q buttered
ring mold. Let stand in q
.:..n place about s minutes.
sen sides with knife. Unmold
10 warm platter.
Fill center Of rice ring with
creamed chicken. Sprinkle with
paprika. Yields six servings.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-11-02
THINNING PINE TREES
CAN MAKE THEM GROW

If you want your pine trees to
produce the most income, you may
want to thin your stand now. R.
S. Douglass, Extension forestry
specialist at North Carolina State
College, says pine trees generally
need thinning when they are 10 to
IL years old. So, if your wood
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-11-02
CHICKEN SUPREME
IN A RICE RING

X cup butter or margarine
Y pound fresh mushroom
sliced
a cup -four
l teaspoon salt
y teaspoon pepper
dash nutmeg
2 cups chicken broth
Y cup cream
2 cups diced cooked chicken
4 cups hot cooked rice
Il teaspoon paprika
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A suggested menu to serve with
Chicken Supreme in a Rice Ring
is golden squash, nodded lime and
carrot salad, hard rolls and berry
cobbler.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-08

In Washington the units are not
so strictly bossed as the big
timers organized for crime under
chieftain and lieutenant.
Real tough" is the description
hung on the New York and Chi
cago gangs. Members are prod
ucts of the slums. regimented in
nationality groups. They have
dropped out of school early to
pursue careers of organized
crime. They have weapons and
know how to use them.
Candidates for the big-city
gangs often are required to COM
nit crime to gain member
ship. The gang is a definite
means to an end. and the end
is crime.
"ShOw-Off" HOuSebreakings
Some Washington gangs have
reached the organized crime
stage lone gang of eight North
west whites went on a $4,000
HOUSEKEEPING spree) but the
juvenile authorities feel much OF
the crime is motivated as much
by bravado and a desire to show
of. as for profit.
Washington leaders have been
known to go soft" under pres
Sure-to break down and run
when the heat is on.
A Southeast drugstore owner
knows their kind. He remon-
strated with two teen-agers who
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Gang Of Nine Boys Held.
In D. c. Housebreokinos

picked up later. Detective Otis
Troupe of the Youth Aid Divi-
sion said the boys mother had
agreed to turn him in when he
returned from a day of caddying
The boys range in age from
ID to Is. All are colored. Detec-
tive Troupe said all but two of
them told him they had been in
trouble before and one said ne
was on probation to the Juvenile
Court Some of them told him
they were members of the No. S
Police Boys Club. but he said this
had not been verified.
Wire Cutters Used
Most of the housebreakinss.
Detective Troupe said, occurred
from IL pm. to 1870 am. In one
case. gang member came
equipped with pair of wire cut
tiers to enter by cutting the
screen. In other cases, they
forced screens or doors and once
entered through a skylight.
All the boys were lodged at
the Receiving Home pending
Juvenile Court action and COM
lpletion of the police investiga-
ton. Three were later released to
their parents.
Credit for breaking up the
gang was given to Precinct De-
tective Bernard j. Panetta, De-
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The future? You get different
answers from different experts:
These gangs are q cauldron
that could boil over any min
ute," say the peSsimists.
It's not as bad as New York
or Chicago" respond the more
hopeful.
Optimism stems from compar-
ison with the big city gangs.
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police said the boys have adj
mitted were at lunch stand in
the unit block of N street Sc. on
June 81, where they took nine
cartons of cigarettes and meat
cuts valued at $25 the Brandy
wine Frozen Novelty DISTRIBUTE
ing Co. in the unit block of I
street Sc. where $50 was taken
on May 81. and the Van Ness
School at Fourth and M streets
Sc, where an electric fan,
photograph, baseball equipment,
an electric heater and a suitcase
were stolen on June 81.
Detectives explained that not
all the boys we're on each burg
larry. Usually. police said. the
boys operated in threes or tours.
Questioning of the first three
boys implicated others who i'm
plicated still others in the various
cases. Police said they believed
it would be several days before
the maze of cases was straight
ened out.
Police were also on the lookout
last night for a gang Of seven
Northwest boys and girls. rang
4ng in age from S to IL years,
who snatched a purse in the
1900 block Of @ street last night.
Mrs. Beulah L. Ramsey Of 1928
Sixteenth street told police mem
bers of the gang. all colored.
came up behind her and knocked
her purse to the ground. She
said there were four boys and
three girls in the group. She
guessed the age Of the youngest
at 5 wears.
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group will ask installation of a
recorder in every commercial
aircraft, a device already on the
market at about $4,000. 1t main
tains a tape recording showing
speed, altitude, changes, compass
heading and G gravity force.
If those planes in Grand Can
yon had had them. there'd be nc
question what happened" Mr.
Karant declared. The recorder
is waterproof. fire-proof anG
can take force of 100 Gs, he
said.
He agreed that modernization
of air traffic control systems are
imperative. but still blamed the
majority of near-misses on care
leSSneSs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-08

tective Harris L. Faircloth and
Probationary Detective Ancil
Dolinger of the Fifth Precinct.
The three detectives, on Fri
day night. noticed three of the
boys bending copper pipe in the
rear of the unit block of M
street Sc. They learned from
the boys that the pipe had been
stolen from the John G.. Web
Ster Co. in the 1900 block OF
First street Sc.
Sold Loot as Junk
Detectives said members of the
gang had entered the company
property on three successive
nights last week. They said the
boys took copper poles, broke
them up and sold them as junk
Two sales brought them about
$40. the detectives reported.
According to the detectives,
seven boys admitted entering the
Capital Egg Products Co. at 901
First street Sc. on May 80. After
trying and failing to break into
a safe, one of the boys tossed
an egg and an egg battle ensued
They broke about three dozen
eggs before leaving the place in
shambles.
Detective Troupe said some Of
boys also admitted entering the
Myers and Shulman Meat Co.,
in the unit block of street Sc.
on May 26 where they collected
less than 81. He said the boys
were questioned about two pre-
vious housebreakings at the meat
company but denied them.
Other housebreakings which
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entered his place, cursing ano
squirting water guns at GUS
toners. They invited the man.
ager outside" but moved fast
when police were called.
Garry Vicious Arms
District gang members will arm
themselves with homemade
olack-jacks, knives, or even rifles
and there will be much noise
about impending inter-gang war
fare. Vigilant police have been
able to outgueSs them many
times, arriving at the battle
field" ahead of the gangs.
On other occasions, the gang
fights lust haven't materialized
obviously because the members
were talking big.
For awhile. one group de-
manded candidates to fight a
member to gain admittance
This practice was abandoned as
the gang grew. The price OF
membership in some clans is
nothing more than costly
Jacket. with the gangs name
across the back.
These are some items on the
credit" side of Washington
gangs-but only when their ma
chinations are compared with the
more vicious big-city boys. On
the debit side. police have docu-
mented brutalities and crimes
disturbing to all thoughtful citi-
zens. These will be outlined
later in this series.
Protection is Excuse
Some gang members. both
White and colored, make racial
integration an excuse to organize
for protection : One such
group significantly is named the
Mau MauS.
The name of Horace RodWell
has a unique spot in the history
of District teen-age crime-so
far Horace. l6, was one of
four boys who gathered recently
for a song-fest Someone asked
for a cigarette, starting an argu-
ment which led to a fight.
Another 16-year-old hit Horace
over the head with a table leg.
A few days later Horace was
dead
Police say there are thousands
Of potential Horace Rodwells,
kids from 9 TO 20 years old,
caught in a maelstrom of or
ganized lawlessneSs that is the
social problem of our time.
Tomorrow: Who are the
teen-age gang members?)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-08

the Aircraft Owners and Pilots
Association. a 55,000-membel
organization with headquarters
in Bethesda. Md, that legal ac-
ton was once considered.
Have Own Proposals
Mr.. Karant, a 2.OOO-hour pilot,
said yesterday that when the
time comes well have a few
recommendations of our own. u
The density zone trial vir-
tually squeezed the small plane
operator out of the area under
the two-way radio regulation
alone. AS an example, a plane
without radio, flying from Falls
Church airport to Annapolis,
would have to detour we'll to the
north or south of the Washing
ton area to get there.
One airport, Washington Vir-
ginia, was we'll inside the zone
until it was given an easement
to permit operations. A plane
would not have been able to
move without permission of the
Washington control tower.
Mr.. Karant is vociferous in his
fight TOR the private flyer and
fires sharp barbs at the CONNER
cial airlines.
The only thing the density
zone experiment proved to us
was what we have contended all
along-that some pilots are fly
ing carelessly. exceeding the
speed limits set in an effort to
get in here and get the number
one landing position"
AS a matter of fact, the Civil
Aeronautics Administration in
February cautioned pilots to
slow down before entering the
Washington area.
Mr.. Karant asserted that the
test showed almost without
question that the vast majority
Of all trouble in the air space is
being caused by the professional
pilot"
An airiines pilot and a air
safety council chairman. in reply
to the criticism. declared that
lit is recognized fact that
there are deficiencies in the air
control system just as there are
deficiencies in the highway sys-
TEN.
But that doesn't mean that
air transportation is unsafe.
professional pilots. perhaps
even more than any other group,
continually strive for perfection
in air safety. The millions of
passengers who have safely flown
billions of miles prove that air
travel is safe"
Denies Space Problem
He denies there is an air space
problem 1T is vast wilderness
up there compared to what il
will be. +"
He and the AOPA are advo.
eating a central control over 8
possible 25-mile radius, with re.
NOTED radar antennae and fixec
radio receivers and transmitter'
at the outer edges of the zone
One of his primary complaints
over the density zone operation
is the inadequacy of the radal
system.
The Association will also cal
for installation of height -findine
radar "a proposal that viii
gladden. the heart of any all
controller.
AS mandatory" the KsranI
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Airline Pilots Report
Near Collisions Here
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the Civil Aeronautics Board has
been distributing official near
miss report blanks under a new
ly-instituted reporting, program
but the return thus far is frag-
mentary.
The Co-ordinating Committee
says several pilots reported the
occurrence Of a near-miss during
operation of the Washington
trial.
This" the report declares,
came with no. surprise. for il
was not expected that rules which
did not provide for positive sep
aration of traffic by air traffic
control could eliminate the total
near-miss problem.
1t urged that the Civil Aero
nautics Administration continue
its efforts to improve the air
traffic control system in such a
manner that positive control OF
all air traffic, regardless Of
weather. might become practi-
cal possibility" In the meantime,
the report seeks such action as
might be necessary with the least
possible delay to alleviate both
air traffic control and aircraft
operators problems which be-
came apparent during the Wash
ington trial"
Apparently the committee S
definition Of positive control
called for more extensive use OF
radar than that now in use.
The report fully recognized
the problems confronting the air
controller with existing equip
ment.
The Committee admitted that
considerable controversy con-
corning the definition of near
miss developed. but 1T was never
possible to arrive at any defini-
ton
Most pilots consider a near
niss an incident which requires
evasive action by one or both
aircraft involved. All of them
admit that if you're close enough
to read the NC number on the
tail of another aircraft you're
too close
Recommendations approved BY
the committee would. in effect
make the high density zone al
air regulation all over the coun-
try. 1t proposed designation Of
areas of high density traffic anc
the size and conflguration Of
such areas, probably larger thar
the Washington experiment En-
largement would give air con.
trollers more time and space fol
aircraft separation.
Impose Speed Limit
1t would impose a speed limit
require that all aircraft oper
ating within the zone have two
way radio even under visua
flight rules and would establish
a minimum visibility or weather
condition for visual fligh
whether with or without ali
traffic control clearance within
the designated area.
The proposals were essential,
the same as the temporary reg
ulations under the density zon,
plan.
Principal proponents OF tn,
zone concept were the CONNER
cial airlines and the military.
1t was so strongly opposed o,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-08
Laundry Betruys Reds

SINGAPORE. July : pa
British army patrol in Johore
state killed five Communist
rebels who gave away their po-
sition by hanging out their wash
ing to dry. One British soldier
died in the jungle fight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-08

A gang of nine Southeast boys
with a 14-year-oid leader. yes
terday admitted eight house
breakings since May and
was expected to be linked with
others, police reported last night
A tenth boy. named by some
of the group, was expected to be
Kodiak mirror., 1956-05-05
Eleven Year Old Gets His Bear

Eleven year old Keith Chisolm of Las Cruces, New Mexico will have a lot to tell his playmates when he gets back to his home town, as result of his short visit to Kodiak.
 While they were probably warm ing up on the sand lot for some early baseball, or knuckling down to fast round of marbles, he was trekking through the hills at Olga Bay looking for a Kodiak bear. Upon sighting one, he deliberately took aim by resting his rifle on a snowshoe, eased the trigger and brought down the big ten foot
Kodiak mirror., 1956-05-05

There is lot of interesting things to be done and in counting noses the director stated there will be many more "behind-the-scenes" people needed. The doors are al- ways open to anyone interested in learning the technical jobs of light ing, stage decoration, make up, wardrobe and many other interest ing things, according to directors of the club. If you are interested in any of these, feel free to call Vern McCorkle at 637 or the Lake Louise Little Theatre as 9-936, :" they stated. ts .
 Production date is set for May 31, June 2 and 3. The Friday night performance, originally scheduled, has been changed.