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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-03-23
U. S. 2e4-THE TOURIST ROUTE
(From the Washington Daily News)

(FrOm the Washington Daily News)
Stretching through Beaufort Hyde and the Dare Coun-
ty mainland Highway u S. 264 which is undergoing
major improvement In addition to carrying heavy load of
freight traffic in and out of Hyde County, the route carries
heavy stream of tourist through historic and scenic
coastal North Carolina And when present improvements
completed with bridge link Croatan Sound
greater flow of visitors be expected to travel this
route to and from the seashore.
From Washington Highway 264 passes through the
fatlands of Eastern Beaufort the Pgo port of Behaven
shrimp and fishing center of Engelhard in the North
leo and thence through the swamps bogs of the
Dare mainland with their scenic fishing villages addi-
ton to the excellent hotel and tourist accommodations
there fine facilities at Belhaven Maamuskeet and En-
gelhard.
Side trips possible through historic old Bath on
NC 81 and the colorfu Alligator River country the
Mattamuskeet causeway.
Improved Route 264 will be thoroughfare along the
seashor The increased traffic that it through the
region will bring added dollars to the along way
with added sales and service dollars.
Too frequently people neglect to tell the world
about their assets In the of those along Highway 264
the citizens especially the towns and business should Join
in promoting it tourist highway to the seashore Dol
lars spent at filling station Pantego Belhaven
seafood house at Rose Bay money in the
pockets of people and thus richer region here
Pamlco section.
Beaufort County is about to have second great and
heavily Travelled tourist highway and Hyde County
proved one Let's tell the world about and bring
travellers way
the Carolina seashore and the historic Outer Banks
wonderland by the sea.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-03-23
OTHER EDITORS
MORE THAN JUST A ROAD

(Caretret County -Times)
There's more involved in build
ing 1O.6 miles of highway on
Ocracoke Island than just building
a road.
On this road, which Governor
Hodges assures will be built re-
CARELESS of cost, hinges the fate,
perhaps, of the All-Seashore High
way.
If this 10-mile stretch holds up
under pounding of wind and wave,
the coast will have q strong argu-
ment in favor of a highway all
along the coast. If this 10Amile
stretch is subject to continual
washouts, the All-Seashore High
way. may continue to be just a
dream.
Although no word has been men
toned about the Ocracoke Road
being a "test stretch" factors
point to that fact.
Four hundred sixty thousand
dollars is a lot of money to put
into 10 miles of highway on a
sandspit between two large bodies
of water, and it is imperative that
the best engineering brains and
the best bodybuilding skill and
materials be invested.
No mountain was too high nor
too rugged to stop the Blue Ridge
Parkway. But the mountain was
there to be measured. Man could
look at it and say, "Here it is.
This is what is stopping US, and
he was fired with ambition to
conquer the mountain.
Can an engineer be inspired
equally by something that he
can't sea tide that comes and
varies with the seasons, sands that
shift from month to month, and
winds that are more capricious
than a flirting woman?
That is the challenge on the
outer banks. No ordinary engineer
will be able to meet that challenge.
No money must be skimped IN
laying a highway that can be the
"open sesame" to coastal Caro-
lima"
1t is important that the All-Sea-
shore Highway Association and
others interested in coastal well
fare watch carefully the "10-mile
test stretch" So-called economic
ing and shortcuts in getting the
road laid have no place there. Be
cause of it's remoteness, such
shortcuts may be attempted, in
spite of Governor Hodges firm
support of the highway.
The Ocracoke Road could well
be the telling factor between d
stifled coast or breathing, living
land.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-03-23
LAKE LANDING PERSONALS

w. w. Watson, S. M. Fisher and
H. G. Creole attended cattle sale
at Rich Square.
Mrs. Linwood Cuthrell is a pa.
tient in Pungo Hospital.
DR.. and Mrs. T. A. Mann visited
in Raleigh.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. ]. Mann and
baby of Winterville spent the
week end with Mr.. and Mrs. N. l.
Mann.
Mrs. L. J. Weston is home after
the winter with her children al
Chapel Hill, Raleigh and Washing
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otis Sadler anG
daughters of Swan Quarter visited
Mr.. and Mrs. Willie R. Gibbs Sun
day.
Mrs. Will Marshall and Mrs
Malcolm Gibbs and children were
shoppers in Belhaven Tuesday.
Mrs. Rosa Mooney, Ella Mae
Mooney, Christine Marshall, Mrs
Gladys Marshall and Mrs. Eva
Midyette were visitors in Wash
ington Friday.
Katie Pugh was guest of Mary
Dudley Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rafael Farrow
and son and Mrs. Evone Gibbs
were shoppers in Washington.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-03-23
f1i;S
GaH3sllTa
OUR EDITORIAL OPINION
REACHES HIS HEART

To the Editor:
It was indeed a rare privilege,
to have had the opportunity of
reading the Editorial" entitled:
"OUR BRIGHT YOUNG FOLKS
LEAVE US" which appeared in
the March 16 issue of The Coast
land Times.
Never before, in my opinion,
was an EDITORIAL" better written,
or more appropo; am / partial to
make such a statement? If so, it
could be because am one of the
many spoken of-and concerned in
what has been so aptly depicted
by an understanding Editor.
Permit me please, to quote a
part of one paragraph from the
Editorial, that we, away from
our homeland, are forever con-
scious of: "They are never COM
pletely happy while far away;
they are always longing to re-
turn"
How really true; regardless of
what we, that are away, gain; it is
what we actually miss, that costs
us most; kindness, the things
that happen inside each separate
man, or the individual, or person
to-person relationship. Those are
the most important necessary
things in life.
Your newspaper, Mr.. Editor,
though a material thing, has by
YOU, been given a heart. The
folks" of the Walter Raleigh
Coastland have medium to be
proud of.
Please accept my sincere thanks
and appreciation.
Gratefully yours
C. S. BRAGG
Tuesday, March 20.
Phila., Pa.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-03-23
WATCH OUT FOR
COD RACKET
(Hertford County Herald)

Watch out for the COD racket,
Postmaster General Arthur E.
Summerfield warns the public.
This is the racket in which swind-
lers send COD parcels to persons
who have not ordered them, ex-
pecting the gullible ones to retain
the unordered merchandise when it
turns up in their mail boxes.
Now this method of high-pres-
sure direct-mail selling has taken
new, vicious and ghoulish turn.
The unordered parcels are being
addressed especially to recently
deceased persons.
The COD articles-often mex
pensive Bibles, religious articles
and the like are sent at exorbitant
prices, because the operators of
this racket know the bereaved
families usually accept them, be-
lieving they were ordered by the
deceased.
"The operators of this ghoulish
racket scan obituary notices, pub
locations containing death notices
and the like to find the names and
addresses of deceased persons, +"
Mr.. Summerfield explained. "They
then mail the item COD for a big
price"
The increase in the operation of
this particular racket has been in
dicated in recent reports by postal
inspectors, Mr.. Summerfield said,
He urged citizens to report any
information on the racket that
may come to their attention to
their postmasters.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-03-23

favor we now curry. What of Will
lie Loman in Arthur Miller's
Death of a Salesman-will he be
banished from the boards because
his play says uncomplimentary
things about businessmen?
A classic is classic. 1t endures
because it says something pro-
foundry true and touches the
hearts and minds of men. Little
Black Sambo is joyful tale, first
spun in India, about a warm-heart-
ed little boy who saved himself
from the tiger by his wits. He is
lovable character.
Won't somebody stand up in his
defense
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-03-23
IN DEFENSE OF sAMBo
Greensboro Daily News


By way of the Milwaukee
Journal we learn that Little
Black Sambo, that delightful clas-
sic of childhood, has been banned
by the Toronto public schools. The
reason: Protests by Negro groups
who say it causes them anguish
and holds them up to ridicule.
Now what is the ultimate end
of such censorship?
The end, we think, would be
elimination of about 80 or 80 per
cent of our lierature, child and
adult. Fagin, in Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist, is an obnoxious
character, but shall we also ban
him because he brings anguish to
Jews? Shall we abolish the Prus-
sian general from the pages Of
books because he pains the Ger
mans? What about Tambourlaine,
The Great, does he mock some
of the Oriental peoples whose
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-03-23

FOUR KILLED-Three women
and man were killed in an auto
mobile mishap at Warrenton, Va.
FIRE IN JAPAN-In Noshiro
City, Japan, 750 homes were de-
stroyed by fire. Battling the blaze
were 800 soldiers.
KILLS INTRUDER-Julius d.
Selby So, in Norfolk shot and kill
ed William bucket, 80, another
Negro who broke into his room.
MILLIONS FOR PORK-The
Senate has voted an additional $50
millions to buy pork, for the re-
lief of farmers.
MILLIONS-The late Herman
Cone of Greensboro's estate has
been appraised at more than seven
and half million dollars.
NEW BU1LDING1A State Of
flee building in Raleigh is to be
erected on the site of the Old
Soldiers Home. The cost $685.
600.
HIGH BULL-An Elizabeth
town cattle breeder has brought
half interest in Texas bull valued
at $4,000. The bull is a polled
Hereford.
SCHOOL VOTE = Sampson
County will vote in April on
one and a quarter million dollar
bond issue principally to build
Negro schools.
EARTHQUAKES-In Lebanon,
100 people were killed and hun
dreds injured by earthquakes.
There were four violent shocks,
the first in 100 years.
BOY SHOOTS MAN-David
Eatman, 81, in Wayne County, was
shot by a 15-year old boy, because
Eatman who was drinking, abused
the boys younger brother.
FRED ALLEN DIES-The 81
year-old humorist, who was born
John Florence Sullivan in Massa-
chusetts died while strolling on the
street in New York.
TORNADO IN WAKE-A tor
nado whipped through Garner in
Wake County Sunday, demolishing
houses and stripping fields and
fences. Storms are found every
where.
CANCER HOPE-Half of the
cases of cancer may be cured, ac-
cording to report by the U. S.
Surgeon General, Leonard Scheele.
Cure has increased in ten years
from Is to so per cent.
MORE BLIZZARD - Another
blizzard swept through the north
east early this week, piling up the
worst snowfall in New York in
many years and jamming traffic.
1t struck a 14-state area and
caused 100 deaths.
CUBAN PLOT-In Cuba 20 CT
villains and former Army officials
were arrested following discovery
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-03-23

of plot to overthrow the Govern,
ment. Former Col. Oscar Diaz is
sought as the head Of the con-
spiracy.
RUSSIA SETTLES-The u. S.
Government has received $724,947,
half the cost charged by this Gov
eminent for a plane shot down by
the Russians in June of last year.
This is the first time Russia has
paid anything for damage it has
has done.
TRUMAN WEDDING - Miss
Margaret Truman has named April
81 as the date of her wedding to
E. c. Daniel Jr., son of Zebulon,
N. C. druggist. Mr.. Daniel is
nephew of Mrs. Dan Berry of Swan
Quarter, in Hyde County.
PUBLISHER DIES-John A.
Park, 20, widely known newspaper
publisher of Raleigh, who publish
ed the Raleigh Times for 45 years
died last week after long illness.
He had previously sold The Times
to the News and Observer.
LIFE TERM-Otis Clapp, 43,
was sentenced to life in prison for
the Staying of his sister-in-law,
Mrs. Lena Huffines, 33 in Ala
nance County last year. The
trouble started when Clapp went
to the home to visit his estranged
wife.
FOUR DIE-Four died as the
result of an automobile accident
near Kings Mountain. Charles
Anderson 81, his wife 80, his
granddaughter %, and Garrett
Jordan, as, in another car died.
Two others were seriously injured.
observation-disclosures for the
south to "repent it's sinful practice
of segregation" some 400 white
and negro ministers in the north
have volunteered to go to Mont
gomery, Ala. to fill the pulpits of
Negro preachers who are prose-
cuted for leadership in the boycott
of the bus lines.
ALGERIAN BATTLE-The re-
volt in Algeria cos, LOT lives, slain
by surprise attack by French
Nationalist forces who, ambushed
a big rebel detachment.
BLIZZARD-Many ships were
battered or wrecked and three peo-
pie killed during last weeks biz
bard which lashed the Northeast
ern Seaboard. Many windows were
broken and other damage done as
far south as Norfolk, and high
tides prevailed Friday night.
CLERKS OFFICE SHORT-A
shortage of nearly $4,000 over a
period of five years has been re-
vealed by auditors in the office
of the Clerk of Superior Court of
Randolph County. The Clerks own
statement showed the audit, hint
ing that employees of the office
may be responsible.
COLLISION INQUIRY = Con-
Quoting an inquiry for the Coast
Guard on the collision of two ships
See NEWS, Page Eight
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-03-23

work for a living, can't dance,
don't want to be president and are
mostly to blame for all your
troubles, but brother, you and the
world would be in a helluva mess
without them.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-03-23

CUBAN PLOT-In Cuba 20 ci-
villains and former Army officials
were arrested following discovery
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-03-23

COLLISION INQUIRY = Con-
Quoting an inquiry for the Coast
Guard on the collision of two ships
See NEWS, Page Eight
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-03-23

MORE BLIZZARD - Another
blizzard swept through the north
east early this week, piling up the
worst snowfall in New York in
many years and jamming traffic.
1t struck a 14-state area and
caused 100 deaths.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-03-23

LIFE TERM-Otis Clapp, %,
was sentenced to life in prison for
the Staying of his sister-in-law,
Mrs. Lena Huffines, 33 in Ala
nance County last year. The
trouble started when Clapp went
to the home to visit his estranged
wife.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-03-23

PUBLISHER DIES|ohn A.
Park, 70, widely known newspaper
publisher of Raleigh, who publish
ed the Raleigh Times for As years
died last week after long illness.
He had previously sold The Times
to the News and Observer.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-03-23

FOUR DIE-Four died as the
result of an automobile accident
near Kings Mountain. Charles
Anderson 81, his wife 80, his
granddaughter %, and Garrett
Jordan, as, in another car died.
Two others were seriously injured.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-02-01
ECONOMY GROWTH

New York. Jan. 3O-Thc pres
gut shortage Of engineers and
scientists in the United States is
due primarily to the unprcccd-
cntcd growth Of our economy
rather than the threats imposed
by Russian advances in technol-
o-y. Roger NJ. Blough. chairman
Of the board of United States
Steel Corporation, said today.
In an address to the Winter
General Meeting Of the Ameri-
can Institute Of Electrical En-
pineers, Mr.. Blough warned that
this country should not, how
ever. underestimate the Soviet
advance in science and technol-
Cpy, nor discount the potential
for harm from the use of engin-
Cering and scientific skill that
lacks the checkrein of political
restraint and high human stand
ards.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-02-01
THEY COULDN'T SECOND GUESS GOD

was raised IN small railroad town in the central
part Of North Carolina. There joke among us
youngsters that school principals and preachers
and went with greater regularity than the Southern
Railroad trains.
As look back the situation, realize the trouble
was not with the principals preachers but with the
people. hey We're set in their and ideas
proved invitation to be railroaded out of town.
VI nat amaZeS me is that there only handful
of people who nStgated the fireworks The ma ority
followed like blind possums.
AS for the school business. | never cared much one
way the other 1t the church affairs that caused
the most grief. Some of the hometowners felt that
God called preachers to do their work and they
couldn't SecOnd-guesSing God by asking for resig-
nations.
One preacher felt the same way. When handful
nation, ne preached his final The People
In Spencer Who Will Go To He'll"
The church packed. Anxious people sat in
silence. The few who had caused the trouble looked
tired and strained. Each felt it just matter of
time before the fiery little preacher began to read,
anne for name. list of the doomed.
/. WAS 4 fine sermon aimed at sinners and asking
them to repent NJ mentioned.
honestly believe il profitable sermon.
Those who had misplaced their sense of Christianity
found and don't believe there has been another
forced resignation from u preacher since that time.
Presumably, they realized they weren't supposed
. IT,. and second -UySS Gods work
My memories Of church fights make me appreciate
churches be found in any small town in North Caro-
ma and there is strength in the church members
pride. he religious scene isn't married by fights and
uuGylcurrentS to create disturbance.
lis small wonder that I'm more interested in
living in Tabor City than in my hometown.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-02-01
Editorials . .
OUT OF THE DOLDRUMS

Last years officers and directors
of the Tabor City Merchants Associa-
ton did a good job. They took over
the organization after it had founder
ed along for quite a spell and sue
ceeded in getting its debts paid,
employing full time secretary and
taking Il part in the promotional life
of the community.
This resurrection from inactivity is
notew orthy and it makes it pleasure
to congratulate the members of the
organization for having reelected the
entire slate OF 1855 officers. This is
year of decision for local economy
and the merchants association can
play a big part in the success of our
future.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-02-01
CHURCH PROGRESS

All Tabor City churches have truly
been living that old hymn Onward
Christian Soldiers"
The physical structures of all these
churches are either new, remodeled
or improved in recent years and it
speaks we'll for Tabor City.
But perhaps of even more import
ance, is the constant effort of minis
tiers and many laymen to get more
people to church and church activi-
ties. In the city limits alone more than
1000 people make their homes. Yet
less than half attend church services.
vices.
Realizing the need for greater
church attendance, many persons have
been invited and urged to take little
greater part in the Lords Day in re-
cent weeks. And it has brought some
new faces to church too.
Many rural churches have been
buster than those in town. Most of
them have physical plants that are a
credit to their community. Many have
rather large enrollments. But it does
not take a statistician to figure out
how many people leave church activi-
ties and attendance to some one else.
Wouldn't it be a great compliment
to our community to say we have the
largest percentage of church workers
nation? We are far from it, but like
every other project, it is not i'm
possible.
Go to church Sunday. Nothing but
good can come of it.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-02-01
LOOKING FOR 100

A Horny County rural merchant
who is already SO years old says he
is looking for a one and two oughts".
Guess about everyone hopes for that
but few escape disease and automo-
bile accidents long enough to bring
the goal into sight.
At SO and looking for 100, not
90 much life is left even if you sue
coed. But it might do us all good to
make believe we were SO years old
and with an expectation of only about
730 days.
We bet every day would be a good
one, rain or shine, sleet or snow. And
it would be such fine age. for re-
vival services. They say there are no
atheists in fox holes. We got a feeling
that there wouldn't be many at the
age of SO, either in or out of foXhole.
Most of us keep putting off until
later date that Christian life We
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-02-01

Columbia Records have
new long-pIay record titled:
"Howls, BoncrS and Shockers
from Art Linklettcr's House
Party Kid Interviews in
which the kids talk as follows:
y slX-year-old girl says she's
q collector. having collected
100 boys and shes now ready
to Try FOR 200. a young boy
surrounded by girls said one
thing was worrying him-he
forgot MS belt. When asked
how TO fix a fried chicken. a
small participant lmalc spec
!oSD suggested: Kill H." An
other tiny miss said she want
cd more than anything else a
diamond girdlc. When asked
what he would first say If he
ever met President EiScnhow-
or. q tivc-ycar-old boy rcpli-
ed: "How's your wife? One
lad explained that matrimony
means mattress but another
little fellow insisted that mat
rimony means a sacrifice Of
animals. The clincher was a
tiny tots poem: "Ioey Gooey
was worm, and a good little
worm was he, one day upon a
railroad track a train he did
not see. Ooey! Gooeyw
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-02-01

kind. Be to his faults a little
blind Following GUY re-
cent heat, l can we'll UNDER
stand why they call Ii the
mean summer temperature"
Nice part about our employ
ecS is that they're always nur-
rying back from coffee breaks
so they won't be late for quit
ting time The business
man had received a letter. pGr-
Sumably meant for another OK
ecutive of the same name. II
replied: Dear Madame: am
not the man you thought was.
Even my wife tells m, that"
In his Hometown Flavor
column, Kcrwin Hoover quotes
Glib Wclch: when | was a
little boy, | was too fat to run
and too timid to fight. so I
found out that none but the
sadistic would hit a guy who
was smiling. SO | cultivated a
smile that l faced the world
with, and to my surprise. even
yet, most Of the world smiles
back"
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-02-01
A HEARING AID PROVED PROFITABLE

Proof that folks can't resist the temptation to buy
things when they think the dealer is losing money is
thus illustrated:
merchant in large North Carolina city required
his statesmen to hearing aids.
A customer asked the salesman "how much when
he pointed out the outstanding features of fancy
freezer.
price.
Rock bottom price is $3.50" said the boss in a
soft tone.
"He said $3.50 was the best price" related the
salesman who had perfect hearing.
The customer heard the boss when he said $3.50
and it looked like real bargain. He paid cash and
cautiously placed the receipt in his pocket.
1t open and shut case of two parties taking
after.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-02-01

Walter Mendenhall, Van
Mugs publisher, tells about the
teacher who promised she
would never punish a young
student for something h @
hadn't done. That's swell. :"
bcamed the youngster. Il
haven't done my arithmetic"
a gasoline station offers:
Your tank full free if you
guess how much it takes"
only one autoist has guessed
correctly in two years. costing
the owner only $500. an be-
tween" boasts the operator.
Everybody makes a guess and
fills up SO that's how a
woman catches a husband. She
sees a man hanging on to a
branch. sh" kicks the tree hard.
holds out her apron. and lets
him drop in LadiC.. Paste
fhls reminder on your vanity
mirror: BE 20 lis virtues very