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

death of Andrew Schnack, Treas
urer of the Central Illinois Synod
brought about the discovery of a
shortage of 100000 in church
funds held in bank.
HAD THREE WIVES-Mrs.
Vera Black of Utah, where some
people still believe in polygamy
was arrested and seven of her
eight children were taken from
her. She was one of three wives Of
Leonard Black who has "a children.
AFTER 80 YEARS-Mrs. Lizzie
Rambeaut of Wake County seeks
a divorce after 80 years, charging
her husband mistreats her, beats
her. starves her and their three
children.
$4,000 ACRES OF SPUDS-It
is estimated that Irish potato acre
age in N. C. this year will be the
same as last year $4,000. This is a
drop of about z per cent under the
national average. Twelve states
produce these potatoes.
THREE KILLED-Three young
men in early 20's, two of them
brothers were killed in Johnston
County while travelling at high
speed Sunday morning at 1920 a.
m. Funerals for all three at once
were held at Pine Level Baptist
Church.
THREE BURN TO DEATH-In
Elizabethtown, a 61-year-old man,
left with his two infant grandchil-
dren, while the mother was off
visiting, burned to death along
with the children Sunday after
noon.
SLAIN BY GUN-Ralph Reed
of Princess Anne Co., Va, propped
up his loaded gun while he cut
some wood and his small boys
played nearby. The gun fell down,
shot Randolph, age ten, in the back
and killed him.
ROBBING THE POOR-Two
North Carolina men were arrested
for breaking into the poor box of
a Suffolk church. 1t had no money
in it at the time. They are Edgar
Morgan, 49 of Roanoke Rapids,
and Hosey Harrington, 81, Of Tar
BIG SHIP JOB-The Newport
News Shipyard expects to get a
seventeen and half million dollar
conversion job on the liner Mont
Grey, bought from the Government
by the Matson line, for about two
and half million. The ship will
go into the Pacific trade.
BROOKLYN CHRISTIANS = A
row in a Presbyterian church in
Brooklyn has developed to the
point where on Sunday two min
listers occupied the pulpit at the
same time, and each conducted
his own service, preaching differ
ent sermons. The row has been
going on for seven years.
BIG BLOW TO FLORIDA-Be-.
side playing havoc with tourist
business, the recent cold wave
damaged vegetable crops in Flor
ida an estimated $25 million. In
the cold wave Jehovah's witnesses
baptized a flock of AZ converts. In
three counties, near Miami, farm
losses totalled $50 millions.
MISSIONARIES KILLED-Five
American missionaries in the South
American jungle of Ecuador were
found where they had been killed
by savage Indians whom they had
gone to Christianize. Across the
world in North Jordan, rioters
burned down part of a Baptist
Mission and looted other property.
NEW TRIAL-Richard Kluck-
holm, the 81 year old Chicago Uni
versity graduate who was pointing
a pistol out his hotel window in
Raleigh last spring, and killed a
woman crossing the street, was
convicted of manslaughter, but will
get new trial, because the trial
judge erred in his manner of
charging the jury.
Twenty-nine students Of East
Carolina College, Greenville, have
been chosen for membership in the
Sigma Rho Phi Fraternity on the
campus. Founded during the 1854
So term at the college, the fratern-
ity is both a social and service or
ganization. In this group are
Robert Owens and Carlisle Davis
of Manteo.
AIRPLANE PILOTS DIE
Shortly after he got his plane to
the ground at Roanoke, Va, Lacy
l.. Sutton. &c. Piedmont .Airlines