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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-05-17

bowline down over the side and
hauled them on board, the second
mate first, then the man. The Sec
ond mate was put in the galley
for safety.
Child Swept From Mothers Arms
"About this time the seas DASH
ed in at the cabin and the vessel
commenced to break up aft. The
captains wife and three children
were then taken to the forecastle,
but the water coming in there,
they were moved farther forward
to the windlass-room. After this
the vessels decks commenced to
break up and the ice to come out.
All hands then took refuge on the
topgallant forecastle. The second
mate was dashed in the fore-rig-
ging. The mate took one child out
on the bosprit, and Mrs. Hunter
was lashed to the bits with the
youngest child, eighteen months
old, in her arms. The other child
was put in charge of the steward.
Pretty soon sea washed over the
forecastle and swept the child
from the steward down to leeward
under the jib shets. The captain
went after it and succeeded in
getting hold of it, but another sea
came and washed it away from
him overheard. The same sea took
the boy from its mothers arms
and washed it overheard, and both
children were lost.
"In trying to save his child the
captain was badly hurt, being
dashed against the capstan and
cat-head by the seas. Soon after
another. sea was shipped, which
washed the captain off the star
board bow overheard. AS the cur
rent swept him around the bow.
he caught hold of the bobstays
and climbed up on them. After
resting there while, he crawled
over the port bow and seated him
self alongside his wife, who was
then lashed in the port fore-rig-
ging with the steward and second
mate. The captain and the rest
Of the survivors took refuge on the
bowsprit and jib-boom.
The Life Savers Appear
"By this time the life-saving
men from Station 10 had appeared
upon the scene. and commenced
operations. The wreck had been
discovered by Benjamin O'Neal,
substitute for the No. one surf
man who was home sick. He was
on the northern patrol from three
am. to sunrise. 1t was about four
am; the weather was misty and
thick, and as soon as he made out
that a vessel was ashore he burn
ed his red light and started for
the station, which he reached
about daybreak, and Immediately
called the keeper. The crew were
aroused, and while two of them
went after their horses, the rest,
including Stanley Midget, volun-
teer who had been hauling wood
to the station, started with the
mortar-cart, containing the beach
apparatus. The south patrolman
had not yet returned. They sue
ceeded in getting the mortar-cart
some distance, when the force of
the. gale compelled them to stop.
"The two men with their horses
then Joined them, and they again
started up the beach in the face
of the gale. When about a half
mile on their way they were join
ed by the south patrol, who hitched
on his horse, making in all force
of eight men and three horses
hauling the mortar-cart. They ar
rived at the scene of the wreck
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-05-17

survivors. The mate of the vessel,
after the seaman was drowned,
tied a cork fender to himself, and
with a piece of shot-line around
the line which was still fast be-
tween the vessel and the shore,
attempted to make his way to the
beach. Before any assistance could
be rendered to him from the shore,
he disappeared under the water
and was seen no more.
An All Day Battle
when the keeper of No. 10
arrived at the wreck, being the
senior in command, he started the
entire crews of Nos. II and 18 to
bring the surf-boat from the lat
ter station. It was now probably
nearly three in the afternoon. An
extra shot-line having been
brought in the meantime, the
keeper of No. 10 determined to
make an attempt to send cork
jackets off to the wreck, it being
impossible that the survivors
could be taken off before dark.
He fired one shot, which fell short,
and then, cutting the shot-Iine off
at the shore end, fired another
which also fell short, although he
testified that one of the men on
the beach said he saw a man on
the wreck throw the blight of the
line overheard from the end of
the jib-boom, where it had lodged.
This was probably a mistake, as
no one on the vessel knew of the
circumstance.
about shutdown Captain Hunter
fell off the bowsprit, apparently
unable to maintain his position
i any longer, and drifted to leeward
with one arm through a life-pre-
server. He never reached the land.
Just before dark the keeper of
No. II and the men who had gone
for the boat returned without it
i having been unable to haul it up
the beach. They decided to return
across the inlet to their station
in order to get something to eat
and to resume their patrol of the
beach for the night.
This they accomplished after a
severe struggle, the men having
to wade with their boat across
the shoals whenever they could
obtain a foothold. The keeper of
No. 10 also returned to his sta
ton, leaving two or three men
from No. 10 on the beach to keep
watch. About seven PM, the wind
having moderated a little, the
keeper of No. 1S having rested
and partly recovered from his
sickness, started with four of his
men and four horses to haul the
surfboat up to the wreck. They
succeeded in getting her up there
in about three hours from the time
of starting. They remained on the
beach all night, keeping up a fire
and making several futile attempts
to launch the boat.
at was not until the next morn
ing that they were enabled to get
the boat clear of the beach. They
succeeded in getting under the
bow of the wreck, but could not
hold on and were obliged to come
ashore again. The sea was still
very rough and the boat was con-
stantly shipping water. They then
waited until about eight am,
when the tide having fallen and
the sea moderated a little, they
made another attempt to launch,
which was successful. They made
fast to the vessel under sthe bow,
and sending two men on board,
lowered the survivors into the
boat, and watching their chance,
all hands were landed safely on
the beach.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-05-17
Gallant Deeds Of By-Gone
Years in The Walter
Raleigh coasfland.

The next instance of loss of
life within the range of station
operations took place from the
schooner Thomas J. Lancaster, a
month after the disaster to the
Nellie. The following account of
the disaster is from the report of
the investigating officer, Lieut..
Frank H. Newcomb, of the Rev.
enue Marine, assistant inspector,
Sixth Life-Saving District.
''The schooner Thomas j. Lam
caster, of Philadelphia, Pennsyl-
vania, George L. Hunter, master,
six hundred and fifty-three tons
left Boston, Massachusetts, on
Thursday, September %, 1881,
bound to Savannah, Georgia, with
a cargo of a little over one thou
sand tons of ice. The vessel was
valued at $4,000 and the cargo
$1,000, a total loss. Her crew con-
sisted of the captain, two mates,
steward, and five seamen, and the
captains wife and three children
were passengers; thirteen all told.
At midnight on the 4th of Octo-
Der the vessel was about eight
miles off Bodies Island light,
coast of North Carolina. The wind
was light from the Northwest, and
the sea smooth. The mate took
charge of the. watch at midnight,
and was steering south by west,
according to the testimony of the
man at the wheel, when the YES
sci grounded.
Between three and four in the
morning a heavy squall struck
the vessel from the north-north-
east, and while the crew were en-
gaded in taking in sail she strapd-
ed, with her head to the westward,
pointing inshore. The point of dis
aster was about three and half
miles off Life-Saving Station No.
10, Sixth District, North Carolina,
and just north of the Loggerhead
Inlet, which was closed up.
"As the sea was making rapidly
and breaking over the rail, and
the vessel commenced to pound
heavily, the large boat was launch
ed over, the side of the vessel to
leeward, with the intention Of TAX
ing to it at daylight and trying
to land. 1t was not then known
whether the schooner had stranded
ON the main beach or on some
outlying shoal.
"The second mate and three men
got into the boat to keep it from
being smashed against the side of
the vessel. The rest of the crew
were engaged in collecting clothes
and supplies to put in the boat.
Soon after the boat was launched
a red light was seen inshore, which
afterward proved to be the Coston
light of the patrolman from Sta
ton Is, who first discovered the
wreck. The boat, which was hang
ing by a new three or three and
a hah inch line from the vessel
was shipping water constantly,
and one man was at work bailing
it out with a bucket to keep it
free.
"About half an hour after the
boat was launched sea swept
the boat away, parting the painter
and drowning two of the men
while the second mate and other
man succeeded in holding on to a
rope fast to the vessel which led
to the stern of the boat. The Sec
ond mates leg was broken, it is
supposed by getting turn of the
rope around it and he was support
ed in the water alongside the YES
sci until two of the crew, who
heard them calling for help, let
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-05-17

life-saving men then walked the
shore end of the shot-line to wind
ward and bent on single part of
whip, but the men on the wreck
were unable to haul that off. The
hawser was bent on with the same
result.
"Then the tailblock and double
whip were again bent on and
walked to windward repeatedly,
and Stacked away to enable the
men on the wreck to haul them off
a little at time; but after get
ting the whip off nearly half way
the sailors, evidently tired out,
stopped hauling, and made the
shot-line fast. The life-saving men
from No. Is, upon their arrival,
were nearly worn out with their
extraordinary exertions in hauling
the mortar-cart under so many diff
ficulties, which added to the labor
performed in their attempts to
open communication with the
wreck by means of the beach appa-
ratus, and the fact that they had
had nothing to eat since the day
before, making it almost incred-
ible that they were able to do
anything at all.
"There is no doubt that their
1anure, through no fault Of their
own, to work the apparatus sue
cessfully and take the survivors
off the wreck promptly had de-
pressing effect upon them, as they
had gone there in the belief that
all hands would be rescued from
the wreck in a short time. The
keeper of No. II was suffering
from the effects of severe at
tack of fever; and this crew, also,
had had nothing to eat since the
day before. Notwithstanding all
this, the two keepers, seeing that
nothing more could be done with
the beach apparatus, decided to
send to No. Is for the surfboat,
hoping that the wind and sea
might moderate so that the sur
vivors could be rescued before
dark. Under the circumstances, it
is evident that this was the only
course to pursue. Accordingly,
three of the crew of No. 10 with
two horses, were started down the
beach to the station after the
surf-boat.
They Go For The Boat
son the way down they met one
of the suIfmen returning with a
shot-line that he had been sent
after when the second shot had
parted the line. They took him,
with his horse, back to the sta
ton, and hitched on to the boat
carriage, but were unable to haul
it up the beach with their three
horses. Soon after the men had
left for the surf-boat a seaman,
John Lilley, jumped overheard and
swan for the shore. He was met
in the breakers by the keeper of
No. 10 and some of his men and
landed safely. The keeper of No.
10 testified that the current was
running so strong that it would
sweep him off his feet when
waist-deep in the water. After
this another seaman jumped off
the wreck and tried to swim
ashore, but was drowned in the
attempt. The keeper of No. IS,
who had tried to reach him, upon
coming out of the water stagger-
ing and fell on the beach, COM
pletely exhausted and was taken
with a severe chill. He was put
into his cart with the man who
had been saved, and taken to the
station.
"On the way down he met the
keeper of Station No. 10 coming
up on his horse, and requested him
to Go all he could to rescue the
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1957-06-15
Daily Vacation Bible
School at Mt.
Olivette B. Church

June IT, at 900 am. will mark
the beginning of the Daily Vaca-
ton Bible School at The Mt. Oil
vette Baptist Church, 1850 NV 1st
Court. Glasses will meet daily
Monday through Friday from 900
am. to HOO am. June II through
June %, 1857.
The schedule of program will be
be as follows: 5000 am. to 9:15
am. Worship; Oils to 1000, Bible
study; 1000 to HOO activity pc
riod. During the Bible study pc
riod the following themes will be
u-ed in each department; Nurse
ry-Learning of Gods Love And
Care, Beginners-Helping In Gods
World; Primary-Meeting Bible
Friends; Juniors-Livings For Je-
sus Every Day; Intermediate-Dis-
covering What God Is Like. Dur
ing the activity period children
will engage in the following &C
tivities according to age, interest,
and ability: sewing painting,
music, metal craft, clay, modelling,
carpentry, handy craft.
The Bible School staff will con-
sist- of Mrs. Ethel Linda Louis,
Mrs. Robertha Danes, Mrs. Tillie
Duncumb, Mrs. Rose Potter, Miss
Carrie Lee johnson, Miss Valen-
cia Sands, Miss Johnnie Mae
Perry, Mr.. Andrew Basden and
Mis- Carolyn Potter. The Bible
School is under the direction of
Mrs. l c. Mickens who is also
Supt. of the Sunday School. Miss
Carolyn Potter who is assistant
Pianist for the Sunday School,
will be in charge of the music.
The Bible School Commence
ment will he Thursday evening
June q, at 7:00) o'clock. Im1nedi-
ately following the closing ses-
sion on Friday, June % at 1900
the group will go to Virginia
Beach for their annual outing
All children of the community are
most cordially invited to partici-
pate in This very worth while
activity. Acceptable ages 3 to Is.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1957-06-15
ACE Holds Elections

Mocely E. Doles of the Doug
las Elementary School faculty
became the president of the Dade
County Elementary Teachers, As
ISOLATION for Childhood Education
Chapter on lat Thursday during
that Departments meeting. Mr..
Doles, former End vice president
of the chapter, became LIST vice
president upon the resignation of
Mr.. Nelson Adams. The 344 ACE
members balloted for the follow
ing 1957-59 officers: Mrs. Loretta
Peck (Holmes), 1st vice presi-
dent; Mrs. Zelma D. Black (Be-
thune), corresponding secretary;
Mrs. Leonora B. Smith (Poinci-
ana Park recording secretary;
Mrs. Johnny Cherry (Holmes)
financial secretary; Mrs. Lee Eta
Thomas (Phvllis Wheatlev). Trea-
surer; George Home Thompson
(Rainbow Park Parliamentarian;
and Mrs. Helena T. Holton (Car-
very publications chairman.
A short program was arranged
during which reports were given
by the chapter delegates to the
Florida State Teachers Associa-
ton and to the Study Conference
of the Association for Childhood
Education, International held dur
ing Easter week in Los Angeles.
Mrs. Earline Gillette reported on
the FSTA meeting. The Element
airy teachers met at Liberty City
Elementary School.
Service certificates were pre-
sented to all past officers and
others who had rendered special
service to the organization by the
retiring president, Mrs. Clarice
Reeves Titles. Election returns
were given at the second session
Of the Fellowship Day program.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1957-06-15
American Council
Acts On
Federal Aid

At a special meeting Of its
Board of Directors, the American
Council on Human Rights (ACiR)
today reaffirmed its position that
no Federal-aid-to-S C h o Icon
struction should 60 to school dis
trcits that refuse to assign school
children without regard for race.
Led by its president, DR.. Nancy
Bulloc McGhee, Professor at
Hampton University, Virginia, the
ACHR representative from ten
different cities and as many states
also took the position that Fed
eral funds should be specially ap-
propriated to those school dis
tricts, such as Arlington and
Charlottesville, in Virginia. which
seek to integrate and are thereby
threatened with loss of state aid.
In addition, the ACHR Board, in
Guiding national presidents OF five
Greek-letter fraternities and So
rorities with more than fifty
thousand members, resolved that
Federal aid should also be made
available to school districts which
seek to integrate and find an add
ed financial burden placed on
them as a result.
The Council, according to it its
director, John T. Blue, Jr., for the
first time took a further position
on Federal aid:
That both Legislative and Exc
cutive Department Of the Unit
ed States Government shall inn
mediately take steps to Withhold
any Federal funds now appropri-
ated in accordance with existing
legislation to a school district or
other educational in titution or
agency which refuses to assign
children or admit students to
schools without regard for race.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1957-06-15
ALPHA'S 43rd
CONFAB TO BE
HELD IN LOS
ANGELES
AUGUST 21st-24tb

The most fabulous of all Alpha
Conventions will be held in Los
Angeles, California Auguct 2lst-
oath with headquarters in the
Hotel Statler.
Many items of business will be
on the agenda-The implement OF
the Manifesto, The election OF new
General OfficerA The considera-
tion of reports from Officers and
Committees and the participation
in several workshops.
The Convention will not be all
busine IS for in addition to beach
parties there will be open house
night, formal theatre party,
Coronation Ball, and formal ban
quet and dance.
The Public Meeting speaker ha
not been announced as yet, how
ever, the meeting will be held on
the Campus of beautiful Southern
California.
More than a thoucand Alphas,
their families and friends are ex-
pected.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1957-06-15
Minister Who Killed
Wife Dies i'm Jail

CHESTER, Ill.-(ANP)-A "a
-year-old minicter, convicted and
sentenced to life in prison for the
fatal shooting of his wife, was
found dead IN his cell at Menard
Prison here lat week, the victim
of a chronic diabetic attack.
The man, v. c. Lewis, former
minister in Mound City, Ill, died
of what was described by doctors
as a chronic diabetic condition.
He WA sentenced to the life
prison term last March 10 after
admitting that he shot to death
his invalid wife. After the shoot
ing, Lewis is reported to have
preached a cermon to a congre-
cation that heard him say 1t was
hi last sermon. A few days fol-
lowing, he was arrested.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1957-06-15
Between The Lines !.
TRIAL BY JURY

LIBERALIZATION of the Negro limit
ed citizenship, the Negro will be
free, if not until they are dead,
even as the Negroes were freed
from slavery in spite of the thous-
ands slain upon hundred battle
fields to keep them slaves, God and
Time and Right are on the side
OF all oppres ed groups. Trial by
prejdiced jury!
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1957-06-15

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Smyrna times., 1957-10-10
CROP SALE BOOSTS
DELAWARE FARM INCOME

Delaware's gross cash farm in
come rose from 101 million dol
lars in 1855 to nearly 113 million
dollars in 1856, according to a re-
port made recently by DR.. Will
liam Z. Mcdaniel, chairman of
the department of agricultural
economics at the University of
Delaware.
DR.. Mcdaniel said the II mil
lion dollar increase was chiefly
from the sale of crops. Two-thirds
of the advance came from the
sale of corn, soybeans and pota-
toes. The increase in livestock and
livestock product sales was less
than one million dollars.
Gross cash farm receipts in
1856 were the largest since 1851,
when Delaware farmers had re-
ceipts of 116 million dollars.
The net farm income of 81 mil
lion dollars in 1856 exceeded the
1865 net income by seven million
dollars. This was two million dol
lars greater than the net farm in
come i'll 1851, the econimist said.
Comparing past average net
farm income figures, DR.. McDan-
iel noted: $4,761 in 1856; S3,577
in 1855; $2,46O in 1854 S3,493 in
1858; S9,453 in 1852; SS,617 in
1851; and $9,92O in 1850.
Net farm income figures for
1857 are not yet available, he
said, but cash receipts from farm
marketings for the first seven
months of the year were 81 mil
lion dollars. DR.. Mcdaniel COM
pared this to 81 million dollars
for the same time in 1856.
Effects of this SUNNI er S
drought will lower receipts con-
siderably during remaining
months Of 1857, he pointed out.
Smyrna times., 1957-10-10
Agricultural School Invites Open
House Visitors

High school students and their
parents we're invited this week to
tour the school of agriculture
during The University of Della
ware open house October 15.
Dean George NJ. Worrilow, of
the agriculture school, said: I'VE
hope this visit will help you learn
more about the many attractive
careers that are open to young
men and women agricultural col
lege graduates"
Visitors will see students work
ing in laboratories and hearing
lectures, scientists conducting ex-
periments, tour greenhouses and
the experimental farm.
For inspection in Agricultural
Hall, there will be: Soil testing
laboratory, live and mounted in
sects, poultry disease laboratory,
bacterial and fungal cultures caus-
ing plant diseases, agricultural
chemistry laboratory, an ultra
eentrifuge, ra dio broadcasting
studio, apple bud sports, agricul-
tural engineering research and
teaching laboratories, weed identi-
fcation, tractor-operated soil core
sampler, soil experiment equip
ment, and new potato varieties.
On the greenhouse tour: Radio
active isotopes laboratory, biolog-
ical assays for herbicide residues
in soils, breeding tomatoes, holly
nutrition, mist equipment for
plant propagation, gibberilic acid
on geraniums, bud formation on
asparagus, blossom end rot in to-
matoes and tydroponic methods
of culture, and methods of plant
propagation.
At the o. A. Newton poultry
building: An incubator for hatch
ing eggs, air conditioned egg stor-
age room, poultry processing lab
oratory, classrooms and teaching
laboratories, houses for laying
hens, and batteries of experiment
al chicks.
On the university farm: Dairy
cattle, fruit-packing shed, apple
grading, dairy barns, hay drying
equipment, bulk milk handling
equipment, poultry houses and
fiocks, weather station, expert
mental plots of small grain, orch
ards, pastures, and a glass-lined
silo.
From $50 am. to IL noon, and
1:30 to 5 pm, buses will leave
from the parking lot east of Wolf
Hall on the upper university cam
pus. Tour groups will be guided
by agricultural college students.