The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-11-22

Negro children, ranging in age
from 8 months to 2 years, died
Tuesday when trapped by flames
in flat near downtown Detroit.
MINERS RESCUED - Two
coal miners were rescued Monday
at Kassel, Germany, after being
trapped for five days in tunnel
100 feet underground by a roclxfall.
RAISE TAXES-Former Presi-
dent Harry Truman said last week
that the only way to overtake the
Russians in their scientific-military
drive is to raise taxes.
KING, N. c., BANK ROBBED
"A young gunman Monday walked
into bank at King, N. G., forced
the cashier to strip at pistol point
and escaped with between $1,000
and $4,000.
EXECUTION SET FRIDAY -
Ross McAfee, 39-year-old Negro,
is scheduled to be executed in Ra-
leigh Friday for first degree bur-
glary, unless Governor Hodges in
tervenes.
TORNADO KILLS FIVE-Five
persons were killed Sunday when
tornadoes sprayed Mississippi and
Alabama, striking more than 10
communities, as well as hitting one
town in Texas.
So MILLION DRIVE - Queens
College in Charlotte has launched
into its second century by begin
ming a development campaign for
a minimum of two million dollars,
in order to meet the educational
needs of the rapidly-expanding
student population.
NEGRO VOTE GOAL-A South
wide drive to register three mil
lion Negro voters in II Southern
states by 1860 has been announced
by the National Assn. for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People.
SURPLUS ISLAND-The fed
eral government has declared as
Surplus to the needs of the gov
eminent" the 271s acre Ellis Is
land in New York harbor, which
was closed as an immigration sta
ton in 1854.
RARE MONEY STOLEN - A
Chicago dealer in rare coins and
stamps has reported the robbery
of curios worth more than $50, 700
from his store; the loot included
rare u. S. and foreign coins
weighing more than 800 pounds.
CANCER VIRUS ISOLATED
A report from Rio de JaneirO says
that a Brazilian scientist has
isolated a virus causing cancer;
officials emphasized, however, that
no claim is being made for dis
covery of cancer cure.
BIG FLIGHT ENDS - Six huge
B-52 jet bombers zoomed to a pre-
dawn landing at Plattsburg IN.
" Air Force Base Sunday to COM
plete a 10,600-mile nonstop round
trip flight from the United States
to Buenos Aires; the bombers were
refueled en- route by jet tankers.
SCHOOL DEDICATION - At
the dedication of a spanking new
$4,000 building at the Flat Rock
Elementary School Monday, memo
rails were also dedicated to the
schoolteacher and student who died
in the blaze which swept the school
last winter.
TWO CHILDREN DIE IN FIRE
Two small Negro children suffo-
Gated in a fire at their grand
mothers home near Jacksonville,
N. c., Tuesday afternoon when
their mother left them alone and
went to a store 100 yards away.
PRINCES BIRTHDAY - Eng
lands Prince Charles celebrated his
ninth birthday last Thursday quiet
lily at an exclusive boarding school;
it was the first birthday the young
heir to the throne had spent away
from home.
PLANE VICTIMS FOUND -
Wreckage and number Of bodies,
including one still strapped in a
seat and two wearing lifebelts,
were found last Thursday about
$50 miles northeast of Honolulu
by planes searching for a Pan
American Stratocruiser with "A
persons aboard which vanished
November 8 on a routine flight
from San Francisco to Honolulu.
| PATROLMEN'S KILLER IDEN-
TITLED The FBI last week
launched an about search for
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