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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-12
MIDTOWN NEW YORK
A Caribbean Los Veuos
BY ROBERT SYLVESTER

HAVANA.-On the outskirts
of Havana the old Casino
Nacional, where the wheels once
spun and the girly revues ca
vorted, is shattered and weed
grown. The lovely white marble
fountain with the lightfooted
nudes pulling each other around
the rim has been moved else
where. The abandoned casino is
a strange anachronism, however.
since there is fantastic gambling
in this city now. BY next season
it will be the Eastern equivalent
of Las Vegas and, since all these
tourist spots are busy building
summer trade, by next summer
the city may be taking customers
away from Grace Kelly's hus-
band.
A year ago the government
here. which had always more or
less insisted that Cubans control
Cuban gambling, opened the
doors to Wilbur Clark, Lefty
Clark and other veteran Ameri-
can gaming operators. The gov
eminent made one fast rule
you can have a gambling casino
only if you build hotel which
costs 81 million or more. This
rule keeps out the sawdust joints
and it has also given impetus to
one of the most fantastic mod
ern building booms ever.
y X X
BY next December Harry and
Ben Smith, Toronto hotel men,
will have the impressive new
Havana Riviera Hotel open and
its wheels spinning. This is an
angled, overpowering structure
on the Malecon, a drive which
runs right smack along the
ocean. Conrad Hilton's new
hotel and casino will also be
ready. Three others are planned.
In the Hotel Nacional. for a
generation the top tourist rem
devious here. Wilbur Clark S
casino is in its second year and
Sam Tucker. who runs it, said
today nobody connected with it
has any worries. It's there to
stay. In the past two or three
days that I've watched it, the
action seems to be more than
sufficient. 1t could be an estab-
lished spot in Las Vegas except
for the fact that it has only two
dice tables and more wheels than
usual.
These are the last of the
roulette players. the Cubans. "
said Tucker. Not many of them
know how to shoot craps. They
play the wheel and play cards.
Only Americans hit the dice
tables. Because of the big
roulette play, all the casinos here
have more European at
mOSphere, Women are great
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-12

LILY WOOD (NANAl -
A French newspaper reports
Grace Kelly is expecting another
baby. This figures. Grace has
said she wants six children.
Marilyn Monroe said the same
thing. I hope they both get half
a dozen of one and six of the
other.
Andy Ono Time For Ser
geants'O Griffith, is top man for
"Onionhead. Warmers own the
movie rights to the best seller
:. A top movie actress in the
East is having her actor husband
in Hollywood Swallowed by de-
tectives.
Zsa Zsa GabOr's press agents
are working on a puff-to-puff
basis. No publicity today. they
don't get paid today I have a
bunch they will soon fire her.
And I've Just found out
how staunch Democrat Dore
Schary learned he had been fired
from Metro. His first intima-
ton was when he found an Ike
Dick sticker on his studio car.
Sophie Tucker explained in
London why her three early
marriages Topped. "Once you
become the family breadwinner,
it's for all time. Once woman
has bought her own mink. she's
cut herself of from the little
woman role" The prettiest
Miss Sweden Of them all. Ingrid
Goude, can be viewed currently
in THE Tattered Dress" with
jeff Chandler and Jeanne Grain.
She's the dreamiest blue-eyed
blond. Now, If she can only act!
The Hollywood wolves will
have a hard time reaching
luscious Sophia Loren. Her heart
belongs to her discoverer, Carlo
POnti. Looking at her statuesque
beauty now. it's impossible to
believe that in her childhood her
nickname was Little Stick"
But like most girls who made
good via sex appeal and cheese
cake. Sophia wants the future
accent to be on her acting
ability
Tallulah Bankhead calling.
with a hacking cough, DAZZLING"
and no plans for the stage, just
television and six weeks at the
London Cafe de Paris starting
May 81. Tallulah made her first
success in London. and I proph-
esq they'll have to call out the
army and the navy to control
her fans.
Kay Kendall will finish LES
Girls in time to spend her April
81 birthday in New York with
REX Harrison. Kay mas just Deen
notified that she has been
named woman of the year by
the Cooks and Bottlewashers
Association of Great Britain.
! asked maestro Andre Previn
about his romance with diminu-
tive singer Peggy King. "She has
almost year to wait for her
divorce to be final" said Andre.
And my wife hasn't signed our
settlement yet. But Peggy and
! have dates when we are not
working and we'll see how things
are when we are both free"
Pat Boone, who earns a mil
lion year, bought his first
custom made suit from Sy De-
wore who dresses Bing Crosby.
Jerry Lewis and Tony Curtis
1T cost me $3.50" Pat told me,
adding, 1T will take me long
time 10 get used TO paying $3.50
FIR . suit"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-12

wheel players. Also. we insist
upon people dressing up"
A local group has bought the
old Havana Madrid Jai Alai
fronton. will toss out the pelo-
tares. and change it into a big
downtown casino. The Tropi-
cana. the Monmartre. Sans Souci
and other big. outdoor night
clubs echo to the whir of the
wheel. Like Las Vegas and
Miami, the clubs are in a
scramble for name talent to
draw the customers. Havana is
already a major stop of the star
circuit.
In winter. about half the play
is Cuban. Now, just of season.
the local trade is about 80 per
cent. sometimes think that
not even the Chinese or the
Greeks are as confirmed gamblers
as the Cubans. They'll bet on
anything. The amount of local
and purely neighborhood action
is fantastic.
The government lotteries are
pulled weekly and monthly and
yearly and on special holidays.
In any neighborhood YOU can
play the Chinese ball" twice a
day and maybe win at 100 to l..
There's a numbers runner enter
ing or leaving any saloon every
few minutes. The gambling on
baseball is completely hySterical.
Ditto Jai Alai. One bookmaker
here takes bets on yacht races,
of all things. For a while. re-
Gently, sharp gent stood on a
midtown corner and ran some
sort of a pool on the license
num- ers Of buses passing
through the square.
Aside from gambling hells,
everywhere you look some enor-
nous apartment house or Office
building is rearing into the trop-
ical sky. All of these are so
modern they make the Lever
Bros. building look old-fash-
Toned. Between the city and the
airport the new sports stadium
is almost completed. 1t looks
exactly like the designs for the
stadium the Dodgers want in
Brooklyn. It's round and SO far
has cost 100000 which maybe
will give Walter O'Malley little
pause
Perhaps the most interesting
speculation concerns what the
open gambling here will do to
Florida. Most of Florida is only
As minutes away. This isn't a
discouraging distance for a guy
with the gambling itch and for
years Florida has catered to guys
with the gambling itch.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-12
MissiIeContro|
Seen Chief Issue
AT Army Trial
BY OMER ANDERSON

NoLtH AlueIlCau newspaper Alllance
BONN. April l2.-The Army'sI
top missilemen in europe are pre-
pared to offer dramatic evidence
in the defense of Col. John c.
Nickerson. who faces court
martial for leaking security in
formation in support of the
Army's guided missile program.
Army commanders in Europe,
giving Col. Nickerson outspoken
support. are spelling out why the
Army urgently needs" control
of intermediate-range ballistic
missiles and how soldiers can
shoot the big rockets with the
precision of artillery.
Col. Nickerson is to be court
martialed May IS at Redstone
Arsenal, Ala, on charges he
leaked classified information
lcountering Pentagon plans to
trim the Army's part in the
missile program.
The Real Issue
At issue, however, is whether
the Army or Air Force should
control the 1,500-mile Jupiter"
and other intermediate-range
missiles under development.
To the Army leaders on the
continent, the most basic issue is
whether the Army is to be given
the power to defend Europe
against attack from the east. A
top Army missile expert here dis
closed that much Of the Army's
hopes for smashing a massive
Soviet land offensive before 1t
could gather momentum rest on
the assumption the Army soon
will have intermediate-range
ballistic missiles under its opera
tional control in Europe.
Our tactical missiles like the
Honest John and Corporal are
very fine weapons, he ex-
planned. but their range is
too short. The place to hit the
enemy is in his staging areas
far behind the lines. Nuclear
warfare, as too many people
are forgetting in this contro-
versy. is warfare of depth. In
the missile age. 1900 miles is
hardly more than an enemy's
rear areas"
Overly Optimistic
Some army commanders In
Europe believe that Gen. Lauris
Norstad. the SHAPE command
er and an airman, is overly OPP
timistic IN his recent public
statements that the ITS Soviet
divisions plus the satellite forces
could be checked by 30 nuclear-
armed NATO divisions.
The remark most frequently
recalled today by these skeptics
is that attributed to Soviet
Marshal Grigori Zhukov in an
early postwar chat with Presi-
dent Eisenhower. AS Mr.. Eisen-
hover reported. Marshal Zhu-
kov gave me a matter-of fact
statement of his practice OF
Clearing enemy minefields).
which was:
There are two kinds Of
mines; one is the personnel
mine and the other is the We
hicular mine When We come
to mine field our infantry at
tacks exactly as if it were not
there.
The losses we get from per-
sonnet mines We consider only
equal to those we would have
gotten from machine guns and
artillery if the Germans had
chosen to defend that particular
area with strong bodies of troops
instead of with mine fields ~
Present Basic Missile
The Army's present basic mis-
siles are the Honest John. with
a range of roughly Is miles. and
the COrpOral a oiiided yoiceila
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-12
7sszEE NE|CHb0RH0O6< sMekala ~
Films of More Than Routine Merit

ANASTASIA-Ingrd Bergman, Helen Hayes and Yul Bryn-
In the legend Of the heress to the Cars fortune
version Ferbers novel;
worthy by Director George Stevens pictorial genius.
MEN IN WARRObert Ryan and Aldo Ray in authentic
and highly dramatic story Of combat in Korea
"MOBY DICK"-Herman Mevies classic made into
genuine movie classic by Director John Huston.
SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME"-Paul Newman in the
frank account Of Rocky Grazianos rise from the
ITO CATCH THIEF"-GFace Kelly Cary Grant on the
Riviera, immersed in Alfred Hitchcock suspense.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-12-27
SILVER WEDDING FOR MR..
AND MRS. r. H. ATKINSON

Mr.. and Mrs. Robert H. Atkin-
son celebrated their twenty-fifth
wedding anniversary Saturday eve
ming, December 81, at the home of
Mrs. Atkinson's mother, Mrs. I.
D. Etheridge, near Manteo. Guests
were greeted by Mrs. Atkinson's
sisters, Misses Natalie and Annie
Etheridge. Mr.. and Mrs. Atkinson
and Mrs. Etheridge were in the
receiving line.
At the dining table, which was
conferred with a four-tiered white
and silver wedding cake topped
with miniature bride and bride
groom, Mrs. Leon Midgette pre-
sided at the punch bowl and cake
was served by Mrs. E. R. Lamn Of
Elizabeth City, sister of Mr.. At
kinson, and Mrs. H. A. Glynn.
Sailed nuts and minis completed
the refreshments. Mrs. A. II.
Etheridge was at the guest regis
ter.
A color scheme of silver, white
and pink was carried out in the
cake, punch, arrangements of ca
mellias and other flowers.
Mrs. Atkinson is the former
Roxie Etheridge of Manteo. Mr.
Atkinson is superintendent Of Fort
McHenry National Monument, Bal
timore, Nd, where they make their
home.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-12-27
New Atomic Ghost Town
Odd Shapes Rise
In Nevada Desert

The Nevada desert. site or
many an abandoned settlement,
has sired 10th century ''ghost
town."
No one lives there. And yet it
is town Of the present and fu-
ture-complete with modern UNI
derground parking garages with
out cars. huge doors leading to
nowhere, and futuristic domes
emerging from q landscape al
most as barren as the moon.
This is Survival Town" - q
community dedicated to its own
destruction as a test site for
atom blast effects on various
shelter-type structures.
Constructed by the Federal
Civil Defense Administration in
cooperation with the Atomic En-
ergy Commission and other pri-
vate and public agencies, Sur
vival Town includes under
ground home shelters and large
urban shelters, new dome-type
shelters being considered be-
cause they are easily built and
cost relatively little. q small.
blast.resistant school building.
vario Is types Of doors and valves
to close shelter openings against
q nuclear blast wave, and even
q complete bank vault.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-12-27
ENeELHARD PERSONALS

Mrs. Jabin Berry and Miss Dor
india Berry visited Mr.. Berry, a pa
tient in the Veterans hospital in
Portsmouth.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. M. Soden of
Rocky Mount spent Sunday with
relatives here and were dinner
guests of Mr.. and Mrn. B. B. Full
ford.
William Thompson visited David
Hewitt in GAINESVILLE on Saturday.
David returned home with him for
a visit.
Clyde Dough, Mrs. Sybil Ether
idge and Mrs. Mary Gibbs of Man
teo were Engelhard visitors Sun
day.
Eddie Raymond, now stationed
at Fort Story, spent the week end
with Mrs. Raymond, who is making
their home now with Mrs. Ray
mond's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. b
B. Fulford.
Mrs. S. s. Marshall, Mrs. Royden
Neal, Patty and Pete Neal spent
Friday in Washington.
Rev. and Mrs. d. H. McCoullough
land two children of Grifton visited
friends here Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Buck Hardee and
little daughter of Wilmington are
here with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. l. B. Watson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edison Williams
and children, Mr.. and Mrs. Chester
Williams and children spent Sun
day with Mr.. and Mrs. Rufus VII
liams.
Mrs. Otis Cox, Mr.. and Mrs. Ear
Berry and children, Martha anS
Barbara and Ben Boomer were i
Manteo Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. James Midyetti
spent Saturday in Washington.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-12-27

EFFECTS reinforcement clearly
wall panels tested under high during the atomic
Nevada. The eighinch brick
forced, while the other
reinforced with quarech steel rods survived the
atomic blast intact 26 s{oet wndowiess brick structure.
adaptable school utility shelter undamaged
though
house normally built Lab
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-12-27

Negroes dating" their children.
Other sections apparently do not
know where to draw the line; the
South does, and draws it before
the situation becomes dangerous.
All Southerners draw the line at
exactly the same place; it is a
subject on which they are unani-
nous. 1t is the only safe stand,
and the only one that will work.
This phase of coping with the
problem-knowing just how far
in go. in personal associations is
where Southerners have the adj
vantage over white people in other
parts of the country. The techni-
que of living side by side but sep
arately, of mutually respecting
each others right to a place in the
sun without becoming intimate, is
something that has developed log
ically as a result of nearly $3.50
years of close association.
Many of my friends in the North
who are loudest in their denuncia-
tions of the South admit that they
have never been south Of, the
Mason-Dixon line. People who are
closest to any problem know more
about it than anyone else; ant
since it is the Southerners ant
their children who will live with
it, they should be permitted K
work out the Indignation problem
among themselves.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-12-27

right. Give them equal facilities
and the situation will largely take
care of itself.
In general, Negroes are no more
anxious to mix with us socially
than we are to mix with them.
Basically, they want four things:
equal pay for equal work, decent
housing conditions, education for
their children, and some kind of
financial security for their old
age. They have a right to these
things, and are getting them in
creasingly. In the last analysis,
these are primarily what every
one else wants, too.
New Orleans has no coming re-
strictions against Negroes; they
are free to live wherever they can
buy or rent. They are all over
the city, within few blocks OF
the best residential sections and
educational institutions. On the
other hand, there are many new
housing projects exclusively FOL
them, and some of the newest anc
most modern public schools are IL
neighborhoods that are solidl.
Negro.
1t is true that we have Negro
slums in the South---both urbar
and rural; we also have whit,
slums. There are slums for peopl,
of both races in other. parts o.
the United States. Unfortunately
we shall probably continue to hav,
them-we cannot force people t
rise above their level.
| Children are naturally demo
cratic, and if they go to schoo
together, eat lunch together, be
long to the same clubs and pla!
on the same teams, it is Difficult
| for them to understand why the.
shouldn't also go to parties to
gether. Herein is the point Of
which white parents, both Nortl
and South, agree--they don't wan
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-12-27
South Has Both Desire And Ability
To Cope With Its Race Problem
By Robin Block in the Christian Science Monitor

AS a comparative newcomer to
the Deep South, ! am continually
impressed with the desire and
ability of the Southern people to
cope with the race problem. This
problem is not new; it has existed
in various phases since 1919. The
South has adjusted itself to past
changes and is making an honest
effort to adapt itself to present
developments and provide for the
future.
During the past three years, !
have talked with many Negroes
in New Orleans and other parts
of the South regarding their views
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-12-27

on integrated schools. Most have
been willing to express themselves.
Of the Negroes l questioned about
so per cent thought their children
were happier by themselves, and
40 per cent thought it didn't mat
ter. At no time did l talk with
a Negro who insisted upon mix
ing with white people for arbitrary
reasons.
Regardless of whether they pre-
fer separate schools or think it
doesn't matter, Negroes agree on
one point: they insist that their
schools be as good as ours. To
this, they have an unquestionable
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-12-27

1856 Ford Customline 4-doOr
R&H, V8
1856 Customline 2-dOOr, R&H
Old. VS
1865 Chevrolet Bel-Air, 4-door,
R&H Power Glide
1855 Ford, 2.doOr 6
1855 Plymouth, 4-door, R&H
1854 Chevrolet, 2-door, R&H
1854 Ford Custom vs., R&H
1854 Ford 6, 2-dOor
1858 Chevrolet 21O-4-doOr
1853 Dodge V8, 4-dOor, Old.
1858 Ford, 4-doOr, VS.
1853 Studebaker Champion, 2
door, o. d. Extra Clean
1852 Willis, 2-dOor Extra Clean
1852 Chevrolet, 2-door, R&H
1852 Chevrolet 2-door
1850 Studebaker, 4-dOor
Champion
1919 Chevrolet, 4-dOOr, New
Motor $195.OO
194S Chrysler, 4-door, loaded, q
good car $245.O0
1916 Chevrolet Coupe $500
TRUCKS
1856 Ford K-Ton Pickup VS
1886 Chevrplet VI ton Pickup
1855 Ford ". ton Pickup
1854 Dodge h-ton Pickup
1854 Chevrolet h-ton Pickup
1855 Ford ESQ, with Body
X X X
r. d. SAWYER
MOTOR COMPANY
Your FORD Dealer
Phone 116 Manteo
N. c. License No. 1869
Statesmen:
Julian Snow, PowelIs Point
Arnold Tolson, ManteO
Bill Rogers. Kitty Hawk
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-12-27
g L ] M P S E S
TIL E PA ST
BY CAROLYN LLOYD

A florists truck drew up before
the house, and smiling blonde
tried to assume a nonchalent air
as she accepted the square box
delivered at the door. There is
nothing unusual in the scene ex-
cept that this blonde was only ten,
and the little wrist corsage in the
box was more to her than rope
of real pearls will ever be. The
scene was repeated again and
again at various residences in Bel
haven on that happy afternoon, the
only variation being in the ages
of the ladies favored. A few were
older than ten and several We're
only five, but no debutante will
ever be more thrilled than were
even the youngest of these.
The occasion for the flowers was
party given that evening by
Mrs. Norma Armstrong for her
dancing pupils. Each pupil was
allowed to invite guest, and, from
all accounts, there was much I'M
dercover work going on to get the
desired partners signed up. At the
appointed hour, the gentlemen,
very correctly dressed, called for
their ladies'. 1t was true that the
carriage awaiting without was
driven by mother or father, but
the chauffeurs were not allowed to
do more than drive their charges
to the door of the Community
Building, so that wasn't SO bad,
though many a young man of six
felt certain that he could have
handled the situation alone.
Parents and other spectators
were not allowed inside when the
party got underway wise deci-
sion, for there is nothing like a
beaming mother on the sidelines
to freeze a young socialite into
tongue-tied helplessness. There
was, however, a good deal of peep
ing through the windows; and they
say that it was sight to behold.
There on the dance floor-really
dancing, too-were boys and girls
whose idea of good time usually
consists of hair-pulling, chasing,
name-calling, and dirt throwing,
behaving like seasoned debs and
men-about town. They probably
wouldn't be able to stand the strain
more than once a year, but it
seems like good training. Starting
early, they just may be able to
approach social occasion by the
time they are sixteen without be-
having like martyrs being thrown
to the lions.
Someone has said that good
manners are an outward sign OF
an inward grace, but even inward
grace sometimes needs help in re-
vealing itself. Little boys and
girls who learn to recognize early
that gracious behavior makes life
more pleasant for everyone will be
happier for the lesson.
There is only one thing about
this business of giving corsage:
so early in life that may give
pause for thought. If little CIR
begins receiving flowers at the age
J of five, there is bare possibility
that by the time she is eighteen
the corsage will have to hold dia
mond in the center to give her ;
thrill. The boys will just have tc
| take their chances on that.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-12-27

Raleigh.-Traffic accidents in
North Carolina last year killed
11O8 persons, a five per cent de-
crease over the year prvious. The
states mileage death rate (fatali-
ties per one-hundred million We
hicle miles) was sc, the lowest
ever reported IN North Carolina.
The nations traffic fatalities rose
from $4,000 in 1875 to over 40,-
900 last year.
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1957-09-14
ST. PAUL HOLDS
HOMECOMING
SERVICE SUNDAY

The Rev. DeFriest Whyte,
pastor of the Lexington
Greater Parish of Lexington,
will be the guest speaker for
the st. Paul Methodist
Church Homecoming Sunday
morning, September Is.
Dinner will be served i'm
mediately after the morning
services. Free transportation
will be furnished all disabled
members.
A symposium will be con-
Quoted from 400 to 500 in
the afternoon. Prof. l.. A.
Sydnor will serve as modera-
tor. The will will be, What
the organization can do to
help the church" The pub
lie is cordially invited to at
tend all of the services. Rev.
T. b. Travis is pastor. Mrs.
Virginia Waddell is chairman
of. the committee. Clarence
Williams is co-chairman.
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1957-09-14

Sciences Biology Survey,
Physical Science Su + v ey
Chemistry, Basic Mathemat..
les, Calculus or Analytical
Geometry, Shop Arithmetic
The Division of Socia |
Studies: Introduction to Field
of Social Work, Community
Relations, Beginning and Adj
vanced courses in Group Be-
havior, Leadership Training
and Christian Education.
The Division of Vocational
Education: Bricklaying, Lea
thercraft, Furniture Repair,
Mechanical Drawing and Blue
print, Electricity, Auto Me-
chanics. Advanced courses
may be offered in any of
these.