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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-05-17
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BERMUDAS AND A COAT,
AWFUL
IGoldsboro News-Argus'

lGOluSDofo NeWS-ArguS
Bill Jackson passed the word
along to me. He was bewailing the
mere male who wears Bermuda
shorts to cool his legs and at the
same time wears a shirt with the
collar buttoned up, tie pressed
in place like a moose, and encases
his body with coat.
l had no idea there was such a
strangely dressed creature in exist
ence. made inquiry among the
younger staff members and
found that what Bill said was true.
/ found out that the first known
instance Of use of coat, tie and
choke-necked shirt in Goldsboro
came three years ago when a
young swain decked himself out in
this regalia, and went dating.
Bermuda shorts by themselves
are wearing enough on those
around. They are as unsightly as
Scottish kits. The average mans
knees and legs are offensive to
behold. They are knobby, gnarled,
lack form, and are much more
beautiful when covered.
If there is any excuse for Ber-
muda shorts for males, it is to
give GOODNESS. But the sensible way
to be comfortable is to wear an
open-collared, short-sleeved shirt,
leave off the tie and the coat.
Here is hoping a band OF hungry
mosquitoes seize upon the next
Bermuda short clad individual in
tie and coat.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-05-17

dogs eye.
We expect His Honor is right.
Yes, sir, we've heard it said white
likker would do that.
Heard it said too that it can
make you smack your mother-in-
law, and want to fight buzzsaw,
and stand up to a rattlesnake and
tell him, Strike, durn you, l never
been better prepared"
We've been told that corn
squeezin's will make you high as a
Georgia pine, and cockeyed as a
hootin' owl, and frisky as a he
horse on the way to a county fair.
It's been told in front of us that
still drippin's will tangle your feet,
and make you walk slaunchways,
and hmber your legs like a dish
rag.
They tell us it will part your
hair, and jar the filings out of
your teeth, and knock you flat on
your backside.
Yeah. It's said to be fact that
.sugarhead will hang you over low
err than a snakes bellybutton, or
give you the shakes like a kooch
dancer at the second show, or leave
your mouth as dry as cotton worth
Is cents a pound.
Judge Burgwyn knows that old
corn whiskey. Right there in big
court he sure called its name and
pointed to its pew.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-05-17
We ARE NOT BORN FOR OURSELVES ALONE.

(From the writings of Albert Pike)
The soul grows truly the oak AS the tree takes
the carbon of the air. the dew the RAIN the light and the
food that earth supplies to its roots and by its myster
chemistry transmits them into sap and fibre, into wood
and leaf flower and fruit and color and perfume the
soul ibibes knowledge and by divine achemi changes
what into its substance and grows from with
in ouwardy with inherent force and power like those
that lie hidden in the grain of wheat
1--WE are not born for ourselves alone and country
claims her share and friends their share of AS all
that the earth produces is created for the of
created for the sake Of men, that they may mutually
do good to another.
LET be just also in Judging of other mems motives
We know but little Of the real merits dement's of
We rarely say with certainty that thu
guilty than that or even that this man Is very
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-05-17
MANTEO PERSONALS

Mrs. Fred Basnight left Sunday
for weeks visit in Baltimore,
Md.
Home for Mothers Day week
end were Wade Nixon, Jerry Ca
hoon, Davis Balance, Bobby
Owens, Tommy O'Neal and, Jack
Tillett of East Carolina College,
Greenville; Edna Bruce Dowdy of
WCUNC, Greensboro; and Mary
Blanche Meekins of Peace College,,
Raleigh.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. G. Kellogg and
children, Betty and Jack, spent
last week end in Ocracoke.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. C. Hassell of
Suffolk, Va, visited Mr.. Hassells
mother, Mrs. Lille Hassell, last
week end.
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Kellogg,
ST., of Sunbury, were guests last
week end of Mrs. Juanita Parker.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Harris had
as their week end guests Mr.. Har-
ris' mother, Mrs. Ora Harris of
Elizabeth City; also his son,
Charles Harris; and his son-in-law
and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Alton
Dunbar, of Elizabeth City.
Miss Evelyn Dowdy and julie
Burrus on Wednesday attended a
camera and cosmetic sales clinic in
Virginia Beach.
Mrs. J. R. Duvall and Mrs. Amy
Jordan and children, Grandis and
Sandy, of Norfolk, Va, this week
visited Mrs. Julia Haywood and
Mrs. Annie Twiford.
Theodore S. Meekins, Jr.. is criti-
cally i'll in the Albemarle Hospital,
Elizabeth City. Mrs. Meekins and
other members of his family have
been called to his bedside.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilton F. Greet of
Norfolk and family were guests of
Mrs. Mae Harrell last week end.
Mrs. Petite Greet and Carson
Harrell, who have been visiting in
Elizabeth City, returned home with
Mrs. Mae Harrell, Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer r. Midget
had as their guests last week end
Mrs. Midgette's sister, Mrs. B. B.
Shankle, and Mr.. Shankle, of Fay
etteville. They were accompanied
home by Mrs. Shankle's mother.
Mrs. F. F. TASTY, who win visit
them.
Mrs. L. S. Patterson entertained
at a Mothers Day dinner Sunday
at the Hotel Patterson, Mays
Head. Her guests included Rev.
and Mrs. L. A. Aitken and chill
dren. Mrs. L. R. O'Neal, all of
Manteo; and Bobby Twiford of
Norfolk, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Celdon Francis and
daughter, Miss Media Francis,
spent last week end in Salemburg,
where they attended the Mothers
Dav program put on at Edwards
Military Institute, where their son
and brother, Leonard Francis, is a
student.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Gibbs of
Wendell spent Mothers Day with
their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Des-
mond Rogers Of Manteo and Mr..
and Mrs. Herman Gibbs of Manns
Harbor.
Mrs. Ella Wescott returned Fri
day from the Marine Hospital,
Norfolk, where she had been a
patient for four weeks.
Mrs. Raymond Wescott and son,
Stewart, Mrs. John Wescott and
Mrs. Lucetta Willis left Tuesday
for MianB Fla. They will be ac-
companied back to Manteo by Mrs.
Raymond Wescott's mother, Mrs.
49,
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-05-17
MACS HEAD PERSONALS

Mr.. and Mrs. P. j. M. Bayne
have as their guests their daugh-
ter, Mrs. Pat Dunnagan, Mr.. Dun
nagan and their two children,
Kathy and Richard, of Alexandria,
Va.
Mrs. Julian Oneto has been
patient in the Albemarle Hospital,
Elizabeth City, this week.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-05-17

good very wicked Often the basest behind
them excellent regulations There scarcely of who
has not at time in his life been the edge of the
commission of crime Every of look back and
shudderin the time when feet stood upon the slip
perry that overhung the abyss of guilt; and when
temptation had been little urgent little longer
continued penury had pressed little harder, little
wine had further disturbed intellect dethroned
our judgment and aroused passions feet would
have slipped and should have fallen to rise again
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-05-17
WHAT EDUCATION MEANS.

Education does not teaching people what they do
not know It teaching them to behave they do
behave 1t is not teaching the youth the shapes the letters
and then leaving them to turn their arithmetic roguery
and their literature to lust the contrary train
them into the perfect exercise and ngy continuance
their bodies and souls It is painful continual and difficult
work to be done by kindness by watching by warning by
precept, and by praise, but, above all, by example.
- John Ruskin
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-05-17

DEAD OF GAS-Five textile
workers died when they descended
into a gas filled pit in Opelika, Ala.
FOREST FIRES+Near Plym-
outh, Mass. 10000 acres of forest
were burned and damage of ST.
100000 done.
EARTHQUAKE IN N. C.-From
Chapel Hill it is reported that a
light earthquake shock was record
ed and was felt in Hickory, N. c..
and vicinity.
MINER RESCUED - A coal
miner in Redwood, w. Va. was
rescued uninjured on Mothers Day
after spending three days and
nights entombed without food or
water in a cold, lightless hole.
RACING TRAGEDY-Two driv-
ers and at least eight spectators
were killed during an Italian road
race when one Of the powerful cars
blew tire and crashed into a
crowd.
AGED MAN ROBBED-Alexan-
der Miller, 76, was robbed of
$4,000, his life savings, which his
late wife had stored away IN their
home. The robbers tied him up,
threatened torture, and tore up his
house until they found the money.
CHILDREN BURN-In STRAIT
ford, Conn. seven small children
burned to death in clearinghouse
fire, when left alone while their
mother had gone shopping !.
Three children died of suffocation
in blazing home in Philadelphia.
HELICOPTER FALLS = One
soldier was killed and another was
seriously injured near Williams
burg, Va, when a rotor blade
snapped off helicopter in flight
and the craft plummeted to the
James River.
DIRT ON BECK-Dirt contin-
ues to pile upon Dave Beck, head
of the Teamster Union as a Senate
investigation continues. 1t turns up
now he and his family made a
profit of $18O,0OO selling toy
trucks and other merchandise to
the Union.
DOGS TORTURED - Police in
Lynn, Mass, are searching for the
person responsible for torturing
three dogs. Two of the dogs were
thrown into a vat of hot tar, and
the other had his face burned and
his whiskers singed.
TEXAS FLOODS Three died,
damage was five millions when a
ten-foot wall of water broke a
levee and flooded Lampasas in
central Texas Monday. Some 25
persons have died in Texas floods
This year.
CLOSE GALA 67-year-old
native of Germany, now resi-
dent of Old Bethpage, L. l., was
rescued from his sinking sloop 500
miles out in the Atlantic by Lii
berian ship only five minutes be-
fore the 32-foot sloop sank.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-05-17

No matter whose the lips that would speak, they must
BE free and ungagged Let believe that the whole truth
IAN never do harm to the whole virtue remember that
order to get the whole Of truth you allow every man
light wrong freely to utter his conscience and protect
aim in doing. - Wendell Phillips
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-05-17
HAVE YOU TRIED THIS?

fellow has to be something of contortonis to get
by these days. observes industrial leader First of all
he has to have his the ball. his back the
his to the ground Then he is expected put his shoulder
to the Wheel his to the gndstone keep level head
and both feet the ground and at the time look for
the silver lining with his head in the Clouds Some trick
ne can do it. But don't blame for Minnesota
Mason.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-05-17
WARD
Continued from Page one)

a part OF which is now nearing
completion at the inlet, is one in
which both Mr.. Ward and his IA
Their have spent much time and eff
fort. Mr.. Ward attends the Wash
ington meeting at his own expense.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-05-17

CRITTCIZES GENERALS
Speaking in Baltimore, Md, last
week, British Field Marshal Wis
count Montgomery said he would
have fired both General Lee and
General Meade if the Civil War
commanders had been under his
command at Gettysburg.
REAPED PROFITS - Senate
rackets probers have produced ev-
idence during hearings in Wash
ington that Transfers President
Dave Beck reaped profit from a.
benefit fund set up for the widow
of his best friend.
FIGHTS JUVENILE CRIME
Robert S. Wahab, Jr., county pros
ecutor at Princess Anne, Va, and
son of R. S. Wahab of Ocracoke,
is staging crusade against juye-
nile delinquency devoting much
time to speeches to school, church,
and civic groups.
HOSPITAL ENDANGERED -
A woods fire at Plymouth, Mass,
swept to within few hundred
yards of the towns only hospital
before it was brought under con-
troll by mass effort by some 5000
firemen and volunteers, including
volunteers from the nearby county
Jail.
RUNAWAY PROP-On a rou-
tine flight over the San Francisco
Bay area at 10000 feet, a giant
Navy four-engine turboprop seq
plane developed a runaway pro-
peller and plunged into the bay in
only 80 seconds. The 16-man crew
was rescued, but big hole was
ripped in the bottom of the two
million dollar craft by the impact
on a mudflat.
NEW MRS. AMERICA - Mrs.
Linwood Findley of Arlington, Va,
has been chosen at Fort Lauder
dale, Fla, from among AZ con-
testants as Mrs. America of 1867.
Mrs. Findley, the mother of four
children, represented the District
of Columbia in the week-long com
petition.
LOSES LIFE, LOIN CLOTH
During an opening dress rehearsal
of the jamestown Festival play,
"The Founders" an incident oc-
Cured that was certainly not in
the script. An Indian chief, who
had just been stabbed and killed.
was being dragged from the stage
by other members of the cast when
his loin cloth became united and
slid off.
FARM BUDGET CUT - The
House Appropriations Committee
has cut 272 million dollars of. the
Agriculture Departments budget
and has called for can entirely
new legislative approach" to farm
problems, saying. Conditions in
American agriculture at the pres.
ent time are not good" The com
mittee recommended gradual
elimination" of the acreage re
serve part of the soil bank pro-
gram.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-05-17

]. E. Patrick, who has been spend
ing the winter in Miami with a son
Ben Patrick. .a,
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-05-17
WHAT LIQUOR WILL DO
Stanford Herald)

Stanford Herald)
White lightnin', Judge w. H. S.
Burgwyn noted t'other day in
Guilford County Superior Court,
can make a rabbit spit in a bull
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-05-17

CLOSE GALA 67-year-old
native of Germany, now a resi-
dent of Old Bethpage, L. l., was
rescued from his sinking sloop 500
miles out in the Atlantic by Lii
berian ship only five minutes be-
fore the 32-foot sloop sank.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-05-17

DIRT ON BECK-Dirt contin-
ues to pile upon Dave Beck, head
of the Teamster Union as Senate
investigation continues. 1t turns up
now he and his family made a
profit of $4,000 selling toy
trucks and other merchandise to
the Union. ''S
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-05-17

HELICOPTER FALLS = One
soldier was killed and another was
seriously injured near Williams
burg, Va, when a rotor blade
snapped off helicopter in flight
and the craft plummeted to the
James River.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-05-17

DOGS TORTURED - Police il
Lynn, Mass, are searching for the
person responsible for torturinf
three dogs. Two of the dogs were
thrown into vat of hot tar, ant
the other had his face burned ane
his whiskers singed.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-05-17

CHILDREN BURN-In STRAIT
ford, Conn. seven small children
burned to death in clearinghouse
fire, when left alone while their
mother had gone shopping
Three children died of suffocatioi.
in a blazing home in Philadelphia.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-05-17

RACING TRAGEDY-Two driv-
ers and at least eight spectators
were killed during an Italian road
race when one of the powerful cars
blew tire and crashed into a
crowd.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-05-17

AGED MAN ROBBED-Alexan-
der Miller, 76, was robbed of
$4,000, his life savings, which his
late wife had stored away IN their
home. The robbers tied him up,
threatened torture, and tore up his
house until they found the money.
The Nome nugget., 1957-10-11
New Policy of Interior Dept. To Save Wildlife

WASHINGTON, R,-The Inter for Department yesterday an- nounced a proposed new policy on restricting oil and gas leases on federal wildlife lands.
 The proposed new regulations would forbid leasing on wildlife refuge lands which are under complete jurisdiction of the Fish and Wildlife Service, except where the government has deter mined the lands are being drained of oil and gas by nearby wells.
 The proposals would apply in the US. and Alaska to wi1dlife refuges, game ranges, Alaska wildlife areas, and federal-state cooperative lands.
 The proposals are the result of months of study in the wake of criticism by conservationists that wildlife refuges were being ruined or endangered by oil and gas op- erations and leasing proposals.
 The regulations were last amended in December 1855, by former Secretary Mckay. Those regulations created a storm of
The Nome nugget., 1957-10-11
45 Crew Saved
 From Freighter On Pacific Reef

HONOLULU, R-Au 45 crew men of the stricken Seattle-bound tanker Mission San Miguel were safely rescued by Navy LIST, the 14th Naval District reported yesterday.
 The tanker went aground Tues day night on Marc Reef, wave swept area of rock and shoals some 12 miles long and five miles wide. The reef is 745 miles north west of Honolulu.
 The San Miguel's last hours were best chronicled in terse mes sages sent by her radio operator before he went over the side with the rest of the crew.
 4:43 pm. Conditions critical Sea water entering engine room. Pumps running under water and have 12 degree list to port. LST- 664 standing by:
 o:I4 Must secure power plant. Crew will remain aboard to await salvage tug.
 6:22 Skipper says prefers to take all men off before nightfall. Conditions becoming more criti- cal, not better. Captain says en- zine room becoming flooded.
 6:45 Abandoning ship.
 The San Miguel, 5,7OO-ton vessel under charter to the US. Navy, was enroute from Guam to Seattle in water ballast.
 The LIST, after taking the men aboard, stood by to await sal wage vessel
The Nome nugget., 1957-10-11
ASTRONOMY NOTES By OLAF HENDERSON

Our natural satellite, the moon, has a diameter of 2,163 miles or approximately one-fourth that of the earth. If the earth and moon could be seen from Venus or Mars they would look like two close stars.
 Both Jupiter and Saturn have moons larger than ours, but Jupi- ter is 1000 times larger than the earth and Saturn ranks next to Jupiter. The moons of Mars are exceedingly small, and Mercury and Venus have none at all.
 The moon of the earth travels around at a distance of only 240,- 020 miles. The moon is so close to us that at favorable times it passes through the earth's shad- ow. The earth's gravitational at traction of the moon has been so great that it has stopped the axia1 rotation of the moon, while in re- turn our satellite pulls to hard on the earth that it moves the great body of the ocean in it's tidal ac- tiOn.
The Nome nugget., 1957-10-11
Orson Welles and Russian Satellite Scare Radio Listeners

kELOWNA, B. C., R-OrSon WelleS and the Russian satellite proved too much for some radio listeners Wednesday night
 Radio station CKOV here de- voted brief newscast to the days reports on Russia's Sputnik, now spinning around the earth.
 Then, without an introduction or advance warning, the station put on a recording of Welles' fa- nous "War of the Worlds'' broadcast in 1888.
 Twenty years ago thousands of radio listeners were frightened by the make-believe report that men from Mars had invaded the earth.
 Wednesday night 60 phone calls came in within a few minutes from anxious folk who thought Sputnik had landed hostile Rus sians in North America.
The Nome nugget., 1957-10-11

criticism altho Interior officials contended that the 1855 rules gave the Fish and Wilddlife Ser vice, for the first time, veto power over any federal leases.
The Nome nugget., 1957-10-11

SUBSCRIBE FOR THE NUGGET
The Nome nugget., 1957-08-23
Fire Losses in Alaska's Forests,
 Wildlife Ranges, Nesting Grounds
 Are Highest in Recorded History

WASHINGTON R-Fire losses in Alaska's forest lands, wildlife ranges and migratory waterfowl nesting grounds this summer 'are the worst since records began in 1940, Bureau of Land Manage ment director Edward Woozley said yesterday.
 Reporting on the 1857 fire sea- son, Woozley said more than a million dollars has been spent fighting fires so far this season. He declared mans carelessness causes eight out of 10 fires in Alaska"
 Woozley said a 5O-year record drought in the territory allowed fires to spread rapidly and burn as deep as eight feet into the muskeg.
 As many as 700 men have been on the fire lines at one time
 ELM fire control experts said W1tll O lllO1lCll Ol tl1C CU11 GllI III O season to go, losses have equaled the 1940 record of Az million acres. Alaska has 290 million acres of public domain.
 This is the way Woozley report ed the situation:
 'The largest fire burning today covers 1,600,000 acres of the Ka- teel River drainage in western Alaska. Several fires 100000 to 600,000 acres in size are located in the Kuskowim and Yukon Riv- CT valleys about 300 to 400 miles west of Anchorage and Fairbanks
 'It's a grim picture of desolate blackened wastes, thousands of acres of caribou and reindeer range destroyed and waterfowl nests turned to ashes in some areas. It may take 50 years or more before the rangelands re-
The Nome nugget., 1957-08-23

cover their pre-fire forage values, especially for caribou.
 Valuable forest lands have also been lost. Actual determina- tlon of acreage burned and losses suffered will not be made until later this fall.
 "Alaska's worst fire season was ushered in the first week of June with heavy lightning storms nov ing up the KuskokWim and Yukon River valleys from the Boring Sea.
 Coupled with the driest sea- son on record, these fires rapidly spread thru the tinder-dry forest, grasslands, and muskeg to be- come roaring infernos of flame, smoke, and destruction. Billowing clouds of smoke rose thousands of feet into the air and blanketed the western half of Alaska with a pail of smoke. Prevailing south westerly winds by mid-July had carried the smoke blanket over all of interior Alaska, reducing visibility to oue-half mile or less and ceilings of 300 feet or less"
The Nome nugget., 1957-08-23
Lowell Thomas IT. In Fairbanks Making One-Hour TV Production

FAIRBANKS, R-A IA man New York film crew headed by Lowell Thomas Jr. is completing here a one-hour television pro- duction dealing with mans con- quest of the arctic.
 Thomas said the film will be released in December as part of the TV series High Adventure. ;
 The producers father will come to Fairbanks next week to be filmed" to the backgrounds. The senior Thomas is host and narra- tor for the series.
The Nome nugget., 1957-08-23
We'll Baby Clinic
 On Monday Next Week

Mrs. Nels Swanberg, Public Health Nurse, requests all those with appointments for the Well Baby Clinic for next Tuesday come instead on Monday at the same time for next week only.
The Nome nugget., 1957-08-23

MT. Rider: Some of you pedes- trians walk as if you owned the streets"
 MT. Strider: "Yes, and some of you motorists drive around as if you owned your cars"
The Nome nugget., 1957-08-23

Right now is sGving weather at your Plymouth dealers! Plymouth sales are storming ahead at record rate :. snowballing to an all-time high. Your dealer is in a position to give you an avalanche of savings on the new Plymouth of your choice. The more Plymouths he sells, the more cash you can save.