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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-03-09
ROANOKE ISLAND /
|GARDEN CLUB MET |
I'M WANCHESE HOME

The Roanoke Island Garden
Club meeting on March LIST at the
home of Mrs. j. w. Davis at Wan
cheese with Mrs. Royden Tillett,
Mrs. Pete Daniels and Mrs. Arnold
Daniels as joint hostess had a very
special program presented by
Roger E. Bell. He projected colored
slides of scenery and wild plant
and animal life gathered recently
in connection with his studies at
the Southern University of Illinois
toward his Masters Degree in
plant and animal conservation.
The pictures were made largely in
northern and western U. S. A. and
southern Canada and were explain
ed with informal lecture as shown.
In the business of the evening
sincere recognition was made OF
the excellent program given in
February at the home of Mrs.
Lena Pearsal with Mrs. Lyna Har-
bour and Mrs. Guy Lennon as joint
hostesses. Mrs. M. R. Frasier, re-
Gently of Norfolk and new men,
Der of the club talked instructively
on flower arrangements for
churches. Mrs. Leo Midget, like
wise on the program, contributed
generously to the same subject.
The nominating committee with
Mrs. Irene Basnight as spokesman
presented slate Of officers to be
elected for service during the
coming two years. They were Mrs.
Leo Midget, for president, Mrs.
James C.. Bardin for vice presiden
and Mrs. A. @. Bell for secretary
treasurer. The officers presented
were elected unanimously.
Mrs. Thomas Chears came as a
visitor of the club and as a pros
pective new member.
Approval of the club was given
to the program committees plan
to present a program on March
18th at the Community Building
for all local people interested in
plant and wildlife conservation.
During the social hour for the
occasion the hostesses served deli
cious refreshments carrying out
shamrock colors and decorations.
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SWAN QUARTER PERSONALS

Mr.. and Mrs. Rufus Darden an,
Mrs. Clyde Smith of Como wer
week end guests of Mrs. w. H
Langston.
Mr.. and Mrs. Blount Creole ant
Mrs. Cecil Sadler visited Nat Gre
die in Wilson Friday.
Rev. and Mrs. Jesse Parks of
Willow Springs visited her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. E. Spencer.
Mrs. E. E. Crabtree, who was a
patient at Tayloe Hospital in
Washington, returned home Fri
day.
Mrs. H. E. Griffin, Mrs. w. H.
Langston, D. L. Berry ond Rev
A. H. Stone attended the district
conference of the Elizabeth City
district of the Methodist Church
in Belhaven Tuesday.
Mrs. John Madison Berry and
daughter of Portsmouth visited
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Lee, during the week end.
George T. Burrus of Jersey
City, N. J. has been visiting his
brother, Capt. Bob Burrus, who
recently returned home FROM
Watts Hospital in Durham.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Mckinney,
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Caravan Of
Engelhard visited Mr.. and Mrs.
Emmitt Caravan. =
Mrs. Leland Caravan, Mrs. B.
w. Williams, Mrs. w. H. Langston,
Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Williams, Mrs.
Kathleen Gurganus and son, and
Mrs. Branch Spencer, were Wash
ington visitors Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rouse Lupton and
Mrs. Nat Creole visited DR.. and
Mrs. Rhodes Lupton in Belhaven
during the week end.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. M. Berry were
Washington visitors Monday.
Mrs. Earl Basnight, who has
been a patient at Pungo Hospital
in Belhaven, has returned home.
Mrs. Malcolm Cuthrell visited
Belhaven Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. w, Shelton,
John and Mary Jane Shelton of
Camden were visitors here Satur-
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THREE COUNTIES
FORM ARTIFICIAL
BREEDING ASSN.

A three-county artificial breed
ing association for dairy cattle was
formed on Friday night of last
week at meeting in the Belhavcn
school. An attendance of approx
mately % dairy farmers and inter
ested persons from the three coun-
ties, Beaufort, Hyde and Washing
ton, was reported.
T. c. Blalock, dairy specialist
from N. C. State College, was
present to assist in the organiza-
ton of the association. A board
of directors, composed of two
members from each county, was
elected as follows: Beaufort, Carl
Windley and Alfonzo Andreoli;
Hyde, Walter Lee Gibbs and Cecil
Silverthorne; and Washington
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@ L Il M P S E S
7 He P A S 7
By CAROLYN LLOYD

If you happen to be one of the
legion of those who have been rel-
egated to the ranks of the old and
decrepit by the callous remark of
some brash youth, cheer up. That
age is relative thing was illus
trated recently by the remark of
a young gentleman of ten to his
mother. 1t seems that social
event had brought on the urge to
learn to dance (they start young
these days., and he was discussing
the question with his mother. The
mother suggested that his sister
in-law, aged twenty, might be per-
suaded to teach him the terpsi-
chorean art. "Aw", was his re-
action, "she probably can't do
nothin' but waltz. l want to learn
to rock and roll"
The occasion that aroused the
desire to dance was a birthday
party. Several mothers report hav-
ing had considerable difficulty in
persuading their young sons that
suits, not dungarees, were sthe
proper attire for the evening.
There was something reminiscent
of the immortal Penrod in the
boys attitude, each being sure that
he would be the only one in Sun
day clothes" and that he would
consequently be branded a sissy, or
at least suffer the terrible agony
of the one who was different from
his crowd. Booth Tarkington's
Penrod became enraged at being
called a "little gentleman, but
golden-haired Marjorie Jones could
tame him with smile. There must
have been a number of "Marjories"
at that party, for afterwards the
mothers heard no more complaints
about dressing up.
From all reports, the party was
a huge success, with dancing rat
ing second to eating as the main
attraction. The only drawback, ac-
cording to one guest, was that
only one boy and one girl could
really dance, and they refused to
waste their talents on the others.
Rather, the boy refused to let the
girl waste hers; consequently, the
awkward boys danced with other
awkward boys, and the girls philo-
sophically accepted the situation
and danced together.
Every generation seems to go
through the same stage, when the
sexes can't resist the urge to get
together socially but feel that the
thing to do, once together, is to
pretend complete lack of interest
in each other. Pretended or real,
the indifference extends even to
adult parties. At almost any
gathering the men can be found
huddled in the kitchen, while the
women sit in the living room try
ing to make sprightly talk and
wondering why they bothered to
wear their best finery. 1t is pos
sible, though, that this young
crowd, in getting such an early
start in social life, may break the
pattern. A prediction as to how
soon the boys will stop pulling the
girls chairs out from under them
and start pulling them out for
them would be risky; but the urge
to learn to dance at the age of
ten does seem promising.
Teenagers, beware. The young,
young set is on its way up; and,
as far as they are concerned, you
are already just about ready for
Social Security. AS for the poor,
faded bellies of twenty-ah, well,
youth is fleeing. Waltz, anyone :?
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day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rhonda Kicks of
Pantego visited Mrs. w. H. Lang
ston and the M. H. Swindells dur
ing the week end.
Mrs. Pratt Williamson and Mrs
Leon Harris were visitors in
Greenville Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otis Harris, Shir-
ley and Jeffrey of Norfolk visited
Mr., and Mrs. Sam Williams dur.
ing last week.
Mrs. Billy Spencer and Miss Ra'
chel O'Neal visited Belhaven Wed
nesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willie E. Cahoor
and children of Elizabeth City Wis
tied their home here during the
week end.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pratt Williamson
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Boomer, Mrs
Miss Hattie Benson was a Wash
ington visitor Monday.
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EPISCOPAL AUXILIARY
MEETS AT SWAN QUARTER

The Woman's Auxiliary of Cal
vary Episcopal Church of Swan
Quarter held it's regular meeting
at the home of Mrs. E. E. Crabtree
in Swan Quarter Friday night.
Matters of routine nature were
discussed and disposed of.
Attending were Mrs. Thomas
Cahoon, Mrs. B. w Williams, Mrs
Wahab Cahoon, the Rev. Eric Col
lie, and Mrs. Crabtree.
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PRIZE WON BY A DESIGN
OF JAMES HAROLD LUPTON

James Harold Lupton, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Lupton of
Belhaven, recently won prize of
500 for a design entered in a
contest held by the architectural
firm by which he is employed in
Philadelphia. The firm, which de-
signs bank buildings exclusively,
offered prizes for the best design
of bank fixtures, and Mr.. Lupton's
design won second place.
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FRIDAY. MARCH 8, 1856

Linwood Mobiles and Sid Hassell.
The board of directors will meet
this Friday night to set up plans
for the associations operation.
It is possible that the association
will have two persons to attend an
artificial dissemination course at
State College March 1924 to OBJ
tain the necessary training to be-
come a technician.
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the United States We must
have a determined point of view
in the South which will awaken
the rest of the nation to the dan
gers inherent in what seems to
be the Supreme Courts attitude
that all ultimate power lies in that
Court"
The Governor in announcing his
candidacy, before a hometown au-
dience in Leaksville, stated on
February 4, 1856: 'Those of you
in my home community know me
well enough to realize that usual
ly say what l believe and think,
but l like to be informed before
l speak out. My position on the
Supreme Court decision and segre-
CATION has been stated on many
occasions, but the problem is so
varied and difficult and so many
ideas and opinions have been ex-
pressed that an anxious public can
easily get confused.
"Let me again make my position
clear.
81 do not agree with the Su-
preme Court decision and think
it usurped the rights of the States
and the Congress in its decision.
81 do not favor mixing the
races in the schools, and l believe
the vast majority of white and
colored citizens feel the same as
l do.
"My plan of voluntary choice of
separate schools is still working
and can continue to work.
"The Advis sorry Commission,
which l appointed, has recommend
ed-and l approve-the policy
which declares that no child shall
be forced to attend a school of
mixed races against the wishes of
his parents or himself.
eff incidents arise which chal-
lenge this policy, we propose to
have legislation which will provide,
tuition grants or transfers along
the general lines of the Virginia
proposal.
"At a latter date, l shall present
to our citizens, and the same mat
ter will be presented to our Legis-
lature, the full details of a pro-
gram embodying the basic prin-
! ciples which l have just mention
ed"
Also, in connection with the seq
regation problem, the Governor
stated that Thomas ]. Pearsall,
Chairman of the Advisory Com
miteee on Education, had advised
him that he is giving the major
portion of his time to the full Re-
port by the Committee to be SUBJ
mitted to the people of the State.
However, Mr.. Pearsall plans to
contact legislators and others
throughout the State for advice
and counsel before his Committee
puts the Report in final shape.
The Governor stated that it was
his hope that the Report would
include specific recommendations
for the accomplishment of the al
ready declared purpose of the
Committee and the Governor to
continue the education of our chill
dren, but, at the same time, insure
that no child in North Carolina
will have to attend a school in
which the races are mixed.
The Governor added that if such
recommendations are made, they
doubtless require an extraordinary
session of the General Assembly
to deal with the problem sometime
during next summer.
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euLRocK PERSONALS

Roscoe Mason was home for the
week end from Norfolk to visit
his wife.
Mrs. Addie Gibbs and Mather
Gibbs spent the week end with Mr..
and Mrs. Wildon Gibbs at Middle
town.
Dinner guests Saturday night of
Mr.. and Mrs. Linwood Gibbs were
Lloyd Peal and Albert Keeter of
Edenton, and Mr.. and Mrs. Roscoe
Mason, on Sunday night Mr.. and
Mrs. Sam Cuthrell, Rita and Di
ane of Lake Landing. Others Wis
iting them last week end were
Sanford Long, Glenn Balance, Mr..
and Mrs. Ozrow Gibbs of Middle
town, Mac Caravan of Engelhard
and Tom Haskins of Edenton.
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batting the possibility that 1t
could make Speaker Sam Ray
burn, or his successor If the
House goes Republican, Presi-
dent for o day.
The debate also brought out
that there have been four other
occasions In American history
when q presidential term began
on Sunday. These were:
Woodrow wilson's secon d
term, in 1917; Rutherford B.
Hayes, in 1877: Zachary Taylor.
in 1s49. and James Monroe's sec
ond term. 1921.
Took Oath Privately
In 1917 Congress fixed March
S for the ceremonies. but Mr..
Wilson also went to the Capitol
Sunday morning to be sworn in
privately before q few friends.
Senator Green. Democrat of
Rhode Island. chairman Of the
Rules Committee, told the Sen
ate that Mr.. Hayes took the oath
privately on Saturday. March 3.
and again Monday: that Mr..
Taylor did not take the oath
until Monday, March 5. He said
President Monroe also took the
oath on Monday, March 5.
Senator Green said that In
1849 when President Taylor
waited until Monday to be sworn
in it gave rise to a claim that
Senator David r. Atchison Of
Missouri, who was president pro
tempore of the Senate at the
time, had become president for
one day.
"In my humble opinion" said
Senator Green, ''if the Presi-
dent-elect does not take the
oath until noon on Monday in
1857, then the Speaker of
the House will actually be the
President from noon on January
20 until noon the following day.
''Of course. I have no objec-
ton to having the hon. Sam
Rayburn occupy the White
House and only regret that his
term under those circumstances
would be so short-lived. To
those who are opposed to Sam
Rayburn's elevation to this high
Office, I can only say they wiz
have to use irresistible persua-
sion on the next President-elect
to make him take his oath at
noon on Sunday"
Senator Green wanted the
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Senate to insert the word pub
lie" in the resolution to make
lit clear that Congress is arrang-
ling only for the outdoor cere-
monies on Monday and empha-
size the law Of succession Is not
affected. But the parliamenta-
rian ruled that no further
amendment could be made. since
the resolution has passed both
houses.
Senator Green then accepted
the House date of January 81.
expressing the belief that debate
i'm the Senate would make the
Intention clear.
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Grace Boptist Church
TO Show Gruhum Film

The new Billy Graham film
battle-ground Europe" will be
shown at 8 pm. tomorrow in
Grace Baptist Church, Ninth
street and South Carolina ave-
nue. Sc. The picture shows
scenes of many mass meetings
conducted by Billy Graham last
year in Europe.
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President to 7 axe Oath
Publicly Mondoy, Jan. p

Congress record today favoring public Inaugural
ceremony Monday though the winner Of the
November presidential election probably win take the oath OF office
privately Sunday January 90.
The Senate last night House amendment chang
ceremony Sunday Monday after de-
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Chance for School Aid

A majority of the House Rules
Committee has done its part to see that
legislation providing Federal aid for
school construction has a chance for
congressional approval in this session. BY
a vote of 8 to 3, the committee has given
clearance for consideration on the House
floor of bill that would authorize four
year program of Federal grants to States,
on matching basis. In principle, the
legislation has bipartisan support, al
though its details are in dispute and
controversy over the whole subject has
been intensified by introduction of the
acknowledged issue.
The bill will go to the floor under an
open rule, permitting unlimited amend
ments, and it is this circumstance that
poses the next serious threat to passage
of effective legislation. At one extreme,
Representative Powell, New York DEM
ocrat, has indicated he will offer an
amendment prohibiting Federal grants to
school districts not proceeding with in
tegration. Even if approved by the House,
a bill containing such a provision almost
surely would be blocked-perhapS by
f1libuSter-in the Senate. At the other
extreme, opponents of the measure are
reported considering amendments tend
ing to protect the anti-integration po-
sition-which would similarly jeopardize
chances Of final enactment.
1t would be most unfortunate if
either of these extreme points of view
should prevail. The Nations need for
enlarged school facilities is an obvious
nnn If iS enuallv nIaar that tho nond will
not be fully met without Federal assist
ance. The Rules Committee has given
Congress its first chance for floor debate
on the problem 1t would be gratifying if
the House took this opportunity to send
an acceptable and workable bill to the
Senate.
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Case for Full Payment

1tpShould not be necessary to submit
additional data to justify appropriation
by Congress Of the authorized $23 million
Federal payment toward District ex-
penses. Congress itself evidenced its be-
lief that the increased Government share
was just and fair when it raised the
authorization from $40 million-and 81
simultaneously imposed heavy new tax
burdens on District residents.
But if there still fingers any doubt in
the mind Of any legislator as to the Fed
eral obligation, the testimony submitted
by District officials before the Rabaut
subcommittee of the House Appropria-
lions Committee should be of interest.
Commissioner Karrick and other wit
nesSeS pointed out some new as we'll as
old facts on the subject.
For example, it was testified that
recent studies have disclosed that If the
Federal Government paid the District the
equivalent of State and local taxes paid
by private corporation of comparable
payroll, the Federal obligation would
amount to more than twice the $23 mil
lion authorized. And if the tax-free land
occupied by Federal departments and
agencies were taxable at local rates, the
District would collect more than $40 mil
lion in real estate taxes. The Subcom-
n1lttee also was reminded of the large
number of tax-exempt diplomatic, pa
tr1otic and other properties in Washing
ton; of esthetic restrictions on building
height and land use that limit tax reve-
nues, and of tax avoidance by many Gov
eminent employees who maintain legal
residence elsewhere.
Against this background of tax ex-
ernption and tax lodging in Washington,
the Federal Government should have no
hesitation in contributing its full share
to the cost of running the Nations
Capital
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A Touch of Nostalgia

In the remembrance of things past,
one can recall few experiences finer or
more rewarding than riding a bicycle.
Whether long or short, the trips were
nearly always pleasurable, and sometimes
Good for the health, too. Good for the
legs, and for the stomach and back
muscles, and for the lungs inhaling and
eXhaling the fresh air. And most of the
time it all seemed rather effortless be-
cause it was usually pure Joy to the
young boy or the young girl growing up.
So anybody who remembers this ex-
perience-and who doesn't among the
aging?-must cheer on DR.. Paul Dudley
White, the famous heart specialist, in his
campaign to persuade the President and
Americans in general to get themselves
bicycles and go pedaling their way to
happiness and toned-up bodies. The
exercise, day in and day out, would surely
be good for all of us, from Mr.. Eisenhower
on down. Alas. though, the traffic! The
man who used to ride bike-back in
those dear dead days when automobiles
were either noneXiStent or relatively
SCdTCe-lS AFRAID 10 40 LIle same Jnlng
now More than that, he hesitates to let
his children do it, or he denies it to them
entirely. And who can blame him? Look
at Connecticut avenue, for instance.
Look at the two-way torrent of rushing
cars on practically all the streets Of all
our cities today. Certainly nothing could
seem more uninviting, or more forbidding,
to the art and pleasures Of cycling.
Here we have another bleak example
of how progress has exacted, and con-
tinues to exact, heavy toll from all of
us. Maybe it is worth what it costs.
Maybe 1t is better to have it than to have
the sort of thing that DR.. White espouses.
But then again, when one thinks Of how
nice it would be to go riding bike once
more as regular everyday practice and
when he weighs this thought against the
monStrosity of modern traffic, the past
looks much better in many ways than the
present. Or is this just the tired old
nostalgia view of the one-time youngster
who is now much too grownup and I'M
adjustable to appreciate the true wonders
Of our new dayt
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Merited RECOGNITION

In passing bill to establish here the
National Library of Medicine, the Senate
has given due recognition to the need for
preserving and expanding "the largest
and most important medical library in
the world" The quoted description was
applied to the Armed Forces Medical
Library by the Hoover Commission. The
Senate bill-and similar measure under
consideration on the House side-would
remove the library from the Defense De-
partment, which has neglected it, and
set it up in a fine new home as part of
the Department of Health, Education and
Welfare.
The Defense Department was given
authority several years ago to plan new
building for the inadequately housed
military medical files and books, but the
planning never took place-presumabl
because Of preoccupation with more
pressing defense needs. The library's
future was so bleak that preparations
were mace recently to tran(fer some of
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High Cost of Delay

The cost of delay in buying rights of
way for the George Washington Memorial
Parkway is pointedly illustrated by what
has happened to land values in part of
Fairfax County to be bisected by the
parkway Five years ago strip of land
needed for extension of the road toward
Great Falls was appraised at 100000. On
the basis of that estimate the Federal
Government, the State of Virginia and
Fairfax County agreed to chip in their
shares of 100000 right-of-way fund.
The General Assembly and Fairfax
County appropriated $4,000 each, as
promised, but Congress failed to appro-
pirate the 100000 needed by the National
Capital Planning Commission to uphold
its end of the bargain. When the Central
Intelligence Agency decided to build
at Langley, however, Congress finally
granted the money required to extend
the parkway.
But in the meantime real estate
values in that section Of the county have
been going up steadily. More recently,
the rise has been sharp, attributable
directly to the CHA plans for little Pen
tagon" in the area to be served by the
parkway. After. the congressional grant
for the parkway became available, the
Planning Commission had the proposed
right of way reappraiSed The land now
will cost an estimated $45O,OO0, or more
than twice the appraisal of five years ago.
This means that State and county govern
ments also will have to double their con-
tributions. This postponement of appro-
priating for parkway long planned and
partly completed presumably was done
for economy reasons BUTT has turned
out to be costly kind of economy for
all partners in the undertaking.