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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-02-17

E. H. Will, President of the
Virginia Electric and Power Com
pany announced three executive
appointments this week.
On March 1, 1856, G. Fred Cook,
Jr., now Manager of the Ports
mouth area will become Director
of Public Relations.
A. H. Hermann, presently Di-
rector of Public Relations with 46
years service with the Company,
is eligible for retirement, but will
remain as Consultant in the De-
partment.
P. W. Smith has been appointed
Manager at Portsmouth, Va. re-
placing G. Fred Cook, Jr.
w. R. Black has been appointed
Director, Agricultural Sales, sue
ceeding P. w. Smith.
Cook has had more than %
years with Vepco in positions of
increasing responsibility. His ex-
perience has been varied and he
will bring to his position vast
amount of information about
Vepco which should prove useful
in the performances of his new
duties. *,
He joined Vepco in 1927 and
after five years in Richmond spent
in Illuminating Engineering, Sales
and Transportation activities, he
was subsequently, Sales Manager
in fredericksburg, Suffolk and
Portsmouth, Va. He was Man
ager in Virginia Beach from 1914
81 and then returned to Richmond
where he was Director Of Resi-
Dental Sales and then Director OF
the Employee Information Pro-
gram. During the past 21s years
he has been Manager in Ports
mouth.
Born in Lloyds, Va, his high
school days were spent in Luray
Va. He was graduated from tn,
University of Richmond in 1926
with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Cook has been active in the bust
ness and civic life of Portsmouth
He was a Rotarian, Mason, mem
Der of the Churchland Baptist
Church, the Elizabeth Manor Col
and Country Club, and Cavaliel
Yacht and Country Club. He hold.
directorships in numerous organi
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OTHER EDITORS
FARMERS SHOULD GET OFF
THE GRAVY TRAIN

(Fort Launderdale, Fla. News)
The other day we ran across an
item which is illustrative of the
idiotic thinking behind the federal
governments approach to our
farm problem.
This item dealt with neat
little arrangement whereby farm
ers in the corn belt discovered
last fall they could not only eat
their cake but could have it too.
Ordinarily a good many farmers
in the corn belt devote a portion
of their own corn crop each, year
to feeding their own hogs, chick
ems, cattle and other livestock.
They have followed this practice
for years simply because it has
usually been a lot cheaper for
them to raise their own feed than
to go out and purchase it on the
open market.
But last fall some ingenious
farmer suddenly found out that he
was a chump for using his own
corn crop to feed his livestock. He
knew that by taking out govern
ment. loan on his crop he could
obtain approximately $1.58 per
bushel from the federal govern
ment for his crop and furthermore,
if he didn't care to repay this loan
the government would merely take
over his crop and add it to it's I'M
counted millions of other bushels
stacked away as surplus.
This bright farmer also knew
that there was plenty of corn
available on the open market at
price of about $1.15 per bushel.
This corn came from farmers who
had exceeded their acreage allot-
ments and whose corn crops, there
fore, weren't eligible for price
supports.
So what did this ingenious
farmer do. No more, probably,
than any one of US would have
done under the same circum-
stances. Instead of saving part of
his corn crop to feed to- his live
stock he went out and procured
government loan on every bushel
at $1.58 per bushel, and then he
turned around and bought what he
needed for feed purposes on the
open market at $1.15 per bushel.
The difference between $1.58 and
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you need is small screw driver
and wise. Secure the bottle in the
wise, and work the screw-drivel
point around the cap, turning il
slightly in prying-off motion
After five or ten minutes, the cap
should come off.
(By the way, while you have
the tools out, you may as vel
open the vanilla bottle, tool
With the cap off, the rest is
easy. Stick the handle of a fork uu
into the bottle, through the mar.
row neck, turn the bottle upside
down, and oops, get the mop.
But, like 1 was saying, about
the time that we have mastered
this bottle container, progress has
come along, and presented us with
the plastic bottle container. This il
SO simple that it is not even fun
You merely mash the side of tho
bottle in, and the catsup comes out
a neat little hole, and, as you re.
lease the pressure, the suction
pulls back into the bottle all the
drippings.
That's progress.
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cations including the Portsmouth
Industrial Foundation, Community
Chest, Red Cross, Y.M.C.A. and
the Portsmouth T. B. Association.
P. W. Smith, native of
Gloucester County, has been with
the Company since April 1885.
After serving in Norfolk, he later
held such positions as Sales Super
visor in Suffolk, South Boston and
Alexandria, Manager in Crewe,
Va, Director of Residential Sales
and Director of the Employee In
formation Program of the Com
pany, in Richmond, where he has
recently been Director, Agricul-
tural Sales.
Smith was graduated in 1882
from Virginia Polytechnic Institute
with a B. S. degree in ,Agricul-
tural Engineering.
He is member of Ginter Park
Methodist Church where he is a
teacher in the Sunday School,
member of the Mems Club and a
past Cub Master, as we'll as hav-
ing served on Boards of Stewards
in several churches.
Active in civic affairs, he parti-
cipates in the work of the Com
munity Chest, Red Cross and Boy
Scouts.
Smith is also an Executive
Member of the Virginia Farm
Identification Council and Chair
man gof the State Inter-Industry
Farm Electric Utilization Com
mittee.
/ w. R. Black, a graduate Of
Virginia Polytechnic Institute in
1943 with degree in Agricul-
tural Engineering, joined Vepco in
june 1916. He has served as Esti-
mating Engineer in Williamsburg,
Rural Representative and Agricul-
tural Engineer in Richmond before
assuming his recent duties as
Senior Agricultural Engineer.
| He is member of the American
Legion and served in the Trans.
portation Corps of the United
states Army. He is outstanding
In civic work in his community
Program Chairman in the loca
Ruritan Club, and member anc
Treasurer of Providence Metho-
dist Church.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-02-17
STATES MEANEsT WOMAN.

she isn't completely insane then Mrs. Duke H. Hot
te who lives Charlotte has earned the title of the
meanest woman in North Carolina She is charged with the
death of three and half year old girl the youngest of six
children of her husband The details of the crime horr
BILE The child died with commissions Christmas eve as
the result OF brutal treatment by her sepmother
now held in Jail in default of $500 bond She is charged
with beating the childs head against bath tub with
spreading human excrement her face with pouring hot
boiling water her. ropng her to bed and stung paper
in her mouth.
1t must have been desperate wdower with these six
tte cnlden who out of his loneliness and despair
10 W1fe this monstrous He must live now agony
when ne the death of his baby and
inflicted by this fendish wife who promised to love
and honor him.
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DUNGO
- OSTSCRIPTS
By vANN LATHAM

Progress is progressing too fast
for me.
Take, for example, the situation
of the catsup dispenser.
Now, for just centuries, catsup
has been sold to the user in fair
ly-tall, narrow-necked bottle. Most
brands were put up in containers
so similar that catsup could be
identified almost without reading
the label.
For centuries, people had trou-
bic getting, the catsup out of the
bottle. However, the master race
had solved that little problem:
I'll tell you how.
The bottles came with two type
caps, one a pressed on type, the
other screw on. Each one re-
CURES a different approach. The
tools required are even different.
All that is needed for the screw
on cap is pair of pliers, small
pipe wrench, and a large towel to
wrap the mess up in so that the
glass will not get all over the
house. First, apply liberal quaint
ties of liquid wrench to the cap,
secure the pipe wrench to the bot
tie, wrap around the towel, and
place the pliers on the cap.
By turning the pliers in one d.
rection and the wrench in the 9TH
er, something should happen, and
usually will. Careful that the
hand is not cut.)
The press-on cap is easier. All
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-02-17
MIDDLETOWN CHRISTIAN
CHURCH BARBECUE SAT-.

A call has gone out to all men
in Hyde, young and old, to men
to bring their best girl to Middle
ton Recreation building Saturday
February 10 to the barbecue sup
per for the benefit of the Middle
ton Christian Church. The dinner
is barbue and trimmings. Mrs.
Warren Harris says the serving
will begin at 4:30 pm. The CYF
group will have hot dogs ready
for those who prefer them.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-02-17
SWAN QUARTER PERSONALS

Mrs. George T. Davis, Mrs. Le-
land Caravan, Miss Aleph Cason
and George Cason were Belhaven
visitors Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon Rankin,
Dianne, Harvey and Gloria Jean
left Friday for Statesville where
Mr.. Rankin is Farmers Home Ad-
ministration supervisor.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. X. Mann, Kyle
and Spencer have returned home
after attending the funeral of Mr..
Mann's mother, Mrs. G. A. Mann,
at Swannanoa, with burial in the
Black Mountain cemetery on Fri
day, February 10.
Mrs. R. G. Baum of Roper was
at her home here during the week
end.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leland Caravan
visited in Washington Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. B. Hart of
Rocky Mount were at their home
here Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Williams and
Mrs j. P. Cross of Portsmouth Wis
tied Mr.. and Mrs. S. O. Jones dur
ing the week end.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bonner Lee have
moved to Plymouth.
R. G. Baum was in Durham
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. L. Williams left
Sunday for a visit with Mr.. and
Mrs. Woody Williams in Chapel
/ Hill.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Ackline and
Mr.. and Mrs. Gene Piver of Wash
ington visited Mr.. and Mrs. John
Jarvis last Sunday.
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so smart, in fact, that he was
trying something never tried be-
fore. He was teaching the dog to
play poker, and the animal was
learning the game quicker than
the average human.
But one day one of his close
friends. met him and asked about
the poker playing dog. The trainer
looked crestfallen. Said he had to
give up trying to make an expert
poker player out of the animal.
His friend was curious, and wanted
to know why.
an tell you," said the dog
trainer. 81 couldn't break him of a
very bad habit. Every time he got
a good hand, he wagged his tail"
= The Wright Line.
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MARRIED II YEARS.

It's mighty long time fast as it flies NOWADAYS
that Abner and Rebecca Braude Philadelphia have lived
IN double harness. Il years this week goes to show
that people can live together and make go of it, if thew
are so minded The Braudes say their happy married for
never never try to be boss their advice to other
pies An important thing the of their marriage
ney say that they have been separated for more
than day two The couple came from Germany 60
ago. They have five successful children
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-02-17

employer (elther SICK Dement'S or
regular pay) or his insurance COM
pany, these payments, within limits,
are free of tax.
There are two limitations:
First, the maximum amount is
800 per week. plus any amounts
which came. from your own contri.
buttons to the plan.
Second, unless the absence was
for sickness during which you were
hospitalized at least one day, or for
an injury, the payments are not tax
free until after the first calendar
days of absence.
II these payments are included in
the wages shown on your withhold
ing slips, you should subtract the
proper amount from your income in
the place provided on the first page
Of the tax return (Form 1040).
Attach an explanation as described
in the instructions. You are entitled
to exclude this amount even IL you
do not itemize your deductions.
Apart from sick pay. you may
have received payments covering
medical expenses for yourself and
your dependents. Don't include
these in your income. but don't
deduct the medical expenses covered
by these payments either.
Medical Deductions
II you itemize your deductions,
you may be able to save tax money
by listing medical and dental ex.
penses you paid for yourself and
your dependents.
This year you list your medical
and dental expenses on a separate
sheet. rather than on the form
itself. Space is provided on the
form for figuring the amount that
Is allowable as a deduction.
You are allowed a deduction for
your medical expenses beyond $50
OF your adjusted gross income. If
you (or your husband or wife) were
65 or over at the end of the year,
the go rule does not apply to your
own medical expenses. 1t does apply
to any medical expenses you pay for
your dependents.
Your deduction is limited to
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-02-17
NO PLACE Is SAFE.

Calamities and CO. and they respectors of
persons You can't away from nature at and if
to land free of the kind of disasters that plague
here, we may find elsewhere. Much ado been
made about storms the Carolina coast but
nothing to with what has occurred Pennsylvania
Connecticut California and several other This weeks
news tells of icy rivers and heavy floods making up
worst winter in many years in Europe which has claimed
struck the United States In all coastand there
has been loss of fe yet flash flood Arkansas this
week claimed the life of woman.
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The Double-Cross

$1.15 pr bushel is exactly 43 cents
per bushel which the farmer hap
PLY pocketed as his own profit
on the transaction.
Who paid the farmer this prof
it? You and / and all the other
taxpayers in this nation who are
supposed to believe this kind of
nonsense is a logical answer to
our farm problem.
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maximum amount for the year, as
explained in the instructions. Medi.
cines and drugs may be included in
your medical expenses only to the
extent they exceed 10 of your gross
income.
Among the items to include in
your list of medical expenses are
fees of doctors. dentists, hospitals
and nurses. List premiums for Blue
Cross and other health, accident or
disqualification insurance. but re-
member you cannot deduct medical
expenses paid or reimbursed by
insurance.
Widows and Widowers
There are several provisions Of
special interest to widows and
widowers:
l. You may file a joint return
with a husband or wife who
died during the tax year II no
separate return is filed.
2. II you have not remarked and
have in your household q de-
pendent child or stepchild, you
are entitled for the next two
years to use the same tax COM
putation (with income-split.
tingl as you would have been
entitled to on a joint return.
3. When life insurance proceeds
are taken as an annuity or in
installments, widows and wild
overs are allowed $1,000 per
year Of tax-free payments in
addition to the principal.
4. You may be entitled to retire
ment income credit IL your
deceased husband or wife would
have qualified.
5. You may be entitled to a deduc-
ton for child care expenses. :
The instructions that come with
your tax forms give further infor-
nation. Help is also available from
the Internal Revenue Service, which
urges you to consult a properly
qualified advisor II you need outside
assistance.
Next article: Deductions Reduce
Your Income Tax.
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.INCOME TAX FACTS No. 5-------
Tax Benefits Ease Pain of Sickness

(ThiS of series of articles federal income
fling The articles information provided
Institute of Accountants the North Carolina
Society OF Certified Public Acconntdnts)
Nobody likes to be sick But there sickness family
during 1885, have compensation tax-wse
First there the question Of sick
injury sickness
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DOGS WILL BE DOGS

Industrial News Review
Jack Dionne, Texas editor and
lecturer, tells about a professional
dog trainer who confided to his
friends that he had a new dog that
was amazingly intelligent. He was
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of the American mind, when her
bust spilled out of her corsage, due
to the heavy weight which broke
a shoulder strap when she leaned
over balcony rail in New York.
WORST COLD WAvE-Coldest
weather in memory of living peo-
fp1e in Europe has killed some 800;
people. Wolves have attacked peo-
pie; American planes having been
flying food to their relief. Snow
has extended even to the Libyan
desert in North Africa.
TWINS HELD FOR Staying
Thomas and Joseph Williams, Ia,
twin brothers of Wheeling, w. Va.
are held for the Staying of David
Powell, a nine-year-old cub scout.
THREE KILLED - George
Coates, wife, and eight-year-old
daughter died when their car col
lided with a C&O train near War
wick, Va.
LONG BRIDGE-Building of a
series of bridges and tunnels
across lower Chesapeake Bay to
connect the Eastern shore of Vir-
ginia with the mainland is the goal
of a group of Virginians. The
project would be more than 16
miles long.
STOLE NEARLY THREE MIL
LION-The charitable and reli-
gious old maid, who was discovered
to be short in the funds she
handled for Commonwealth Build
ing & Loan Association in Ports
mouth, Va. shortly before Christ
mas, caused. the company to go
into a receivership. Miss Minnie
c. Mangus, 81, is now thought to
have made away with about
$2,800,000. The company's assets
have been taken over by another
firm in Norfolk. Her defalcatien
is many times larger than the
highest embezzlement hitherto re-
corded.
NATION OF WEAKLING@Dr.
w. C. Martin, a New York physi-
clan said America will become a
nation of invalids, weak in body
and mind unless its people change
their eating habits. Speaking be-
fore a food convention in Indiana,
DR.. Martin said nearly Sc million
people in the U. S. are chronically
ill, and suggested as contributing
factors eating too much fat and
sugar, malnutrition from foods
contaminated by insecticides, and
grown in insufficient soils by
chemical fertilizers.
SUPER SPEEDER-Herbert E.
Dawes, II of Morganton, N. C.
who said he had been trying to
better his uncle's record of 20
miles per hour around a curve,
after drinking about a case of
beer, demolished his car, but
escaped without injury.
COULDN'T WAIT-Harry Ben
jamin, %, Minnesota soldier went
to Korea, was captured. He left
behind an 18 year old wife. Twenty
one months later she gave birth
to child. Home after two anil
a half years of captivity he got
a divorce from his wife on
grounds of adultery.
MURDERS LOVER-Mrs. Joy
Milton, %, shot and killed her
lover and set fire to his bed be-
cause he was jealous. He was Wal
ter Siebert, SO, prominent st.
Louis Republican leader and Off
cial. In st. Louis also, Henry Sic
kus, II, a policeman killed him
self after killing his wife, son and
daughter-in-law.
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SUGAR EATERS-It is now
figured that the per capita con-
sumption of sugar in the u. s. is
nearly two pounds per week.
KILLS SELF. Foster Barnes,
81, director of choral music at
Duke University killed 'himselfsby
hanging in his home.
STAYS HIS FAMILY-Romeo
Drapeau in Waterloo, Quebec, kill
ed his wife and four children and
confessed to his priest.
EX-COPS CONVICTED = Two
ex-Negro cops of Clinton, were
sentenced to prison for having &C
cepted brides as hush money in
illegal liquor transactions.
HEAVY WOMAN-It took 90
firemen, policeman and ambulance
drivers to get Mrs. Willie Mae
Thomas, 80 of Detroit from her
home to the hospital. She weighs
500 pounds.
HOT SCOURGE-Eruption of a
volcano in Java, has driven some
10000 people from their homes.
They fled before the hot ashes
running down upon them from the
mountain.
WATERS INCOME-In Fed
eral court in New York, testimony
showed the income of Hans Paul,
headwaiter of the Waldorf Astoria
Hotel was as much as $122,767 in
three years. He was found guilty
of income tax evasion.
KILLS SELF-Despondent over
separation from his wife and child,
Sgt. James L. Farmer Jr., %, a
New Yorker, and member of the
Marine corp for six years, shot
and killed himself in a Whining
ton, N. c. hotel
NON-SUPPORT CONDEMNED
by the growing custom
in North Carolina of putting bas-
tards as well as other children on
the public payroll, an Iredell Coun-
ty grand jury will seek legislation
requiring parents to support their
bastard children.
FEDERAL MONEY-East Caro-
lima College in Greenville has been
approved for a Federal loan of
$1,425,O0 for construction of a
dormitory for men to house sig
new students. Look out now for
required mixture of races.
WELFARE IN JAIL-In Ra-
leigh Claudius Powell, IS, doing
time in Jail is drawing his welfare
pay of $500 a year, although he
spent 173 days in jail last year.
He was convicted nine times in
1866.
SPILLED HER BUST-Marilyn
Monroe got herself on the front
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SPILLED HER BUST-Marilyn
Monroe got herself on the front
page, which shows the condition
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HEAVY WOMAN-It took %
firemen, policeman and ambulance
drivers to get Mrs. Willie Mae
Thomas, 80 of Detroit from her
home to the hospital. She weighs
500 pounds.
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HOT SCOURGE- Eruption of a
volcano in Java, has driven some
10000 people from their homes.
They fled before the hot ashes
running down upon them from the
mountain.
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EX-COPS CONVICTED = Two
ex-Negro cops of Clinton, were
sentenced to prison for having &C
copied brides as hush money in
illegal liquor transactions.
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WATERS INCOME-In Fed
eral court in New York, testimony
showed the income of Hans Paul,
headwaiter of the Waldorf Astoria
Hotel was as much as $122,767 in
three years. He was found guilty
of income tax evasion.
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Next article: Deductions Reduce
Yoar Income Tax.
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FEDERAL MONEY-East Caro-
lima College in Greenville has been
approved for a Federal loan of
$1,425,O0O for construction of a
dormitory for men to house SIP
new students. Look out now for
required mixture of races.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-16
.Kickback Case
Accountant Hit

NEW YORK, May Is Dr.
Several witnesses have testified
they had to pay back taxes to
the Government after account
ant Joseph Ford prepared re-
turns for them.
Mr.. Ford is the chief Govern
ment witness in the income tax
evasion trial of Mrs. Hattie Free
ma nDodson, secretary to Repre-
sentative Adam Clayton Powell.
Democrat of Ne wYork.
The series of witnesses who
testified in Federal Court yes
Iterady said they were not prose-
cuted, however. for the returns
prepared by Mr.. Ford.
Earlier in the trial, Mr.. Ford
testified that when he was pre-
pairing Mrs. Dodson's 1916 in
come tax return, she told him
her congressional salary "be-
longed to the Congressman.
The Government called that q
kickback.
But the Negro lawmaker took
the stand I'd deny he had ever
received penny from Mrs. Dod-
son.
Mr.. Powell said Mr.. Ford ran
a "tax mill" with Offices at the
Harlem church where Mr.. Powell
is pastor.