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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-12-06
SHORTER WORK WEEK2

Deep down inside him, every (were not
about every woman) lazy and shftess We don't want
worfor works sake We haven't been out of the trees
long enough.
But the hard fact is longer get banana or
merely reaching for it. We have to work to eat
it has become the custom to clothes and
live houses and give kids better start than had
it has also become the custom to work What is called am
hilton" liking for money things social standing
leadership among fellows that is stronger than
dislike of work.
Thus when labor leaders raise the issue of shorter
work week, they playing with human dynamite And
when they explain as Walter Reuther has, that they
seeking merely fewer hours of work but still fatter
pay envelope the lure is atomic!
Less work at higher pay means less goods-at tremen
dousy higher cost And know from sad experience
goods scarce the competition is not to find buyers
find things prices go through the roof
If you think have imitation now just hold your hat!
John L. Lewis who has always been tough, bitter
barred fighter for his and who has got
ten his boys the highest in Labor has told them
fatty IF want to stop eating so much and loaf more
we get you the sixhour day.
We've been thinking days pretty long too. 1t
would like semretirement for editor to go to the
40hour week. But just don't know how we'd buy the
fsh-hooks we'd need for all that leisure.
And even if this crss-torn nation didn't go to you
wondering how long the rank and file of could physically
survive idle time Some would have to work 40 hours
morust to the rest from the accidental shoot
ings drownngs highway mayhem and assorted mmolaton
associated with modern recreation!
It is tribute to sorey-temped human judgment-and
mercy too-that recent Gallup poll has shown that peo
pie Tin all categoes) opposed to the shorter week Even
manual workers voted only 80 percent in favor So percent
against, six percent having no opinion
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WRlGHTs
Continued from Page One)

is doing. The two sides are appar-
emily equal in aerial equipment,
and it seems to me that unless
present conditions can be changed,
the war will continue for years.
he concluded.
During World War II, though
Orville Wright was then an Old
man living in retirement, he was
said to have expressed similar
sentiments although he, like good
many others, had finally come to
the conclusion that victory for the
United States and its allies over
the Axis powers would have to
come through airpower. But he was
still saddened by the great destruc-
tive use to which his invention, the
flying machine, had, by necessity,
been put to use.
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WE WONDER WHY THEY AREN'T WILLING.

We wonder why the Dare County commissioners have
refused for the past eight years carry out the law which
and public about the condition of their affairs each
year. 1t surely not be from any desire to money
if may Judge from the reckless wastefu and sometimes
foolish in which they scatter the peoples money
around by the tens of thousands.
In few weeks will try to give you more complete
picture of what they plan to spend your money Tor TINS
year. item by ITEM showing who gets the big salaries ETC.
meantime, printing here verbatim, copy OF
the law which they flagrantly ignore:
SESSION LAWS 1947
CHAPTER 252
AN ACT AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE BOARD OF
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF DARE COUNTY TO REQUIRE
AUDTTS OF ALL PUBLIC RECORDS OF THE COUNTY AND TO
POSTA COPY THEREOF AND THE MINUTES AT THE COURT
HOUSE DOOR.
The General Assembly of Carolina Do Enact:
SECTION of of County
orzed and directed to employ certified public
with make complete audit of
the register Deeds sheriff, Clerk of the
Superior superintendent of public instruction. and and all
offices departments of the county for the fiscal
audit shall during the month of July 47
been completed the board of county commission
considers advisable audit to be made for the
fiscal years 1945-46 o 194445 BOTH
SECTION The Board of County of Dare County
directed annual audit to be made the
public the county
year. beginning with July l. 1947 and annually
thereafter such audit shall be made by certified public account
official with the of such
audit authorized Section shall be posted the
the courthouse door and subject to public inspection
thereof shall be printed having
general circulation in Dare County
The Board Of County Commissioners and the County
shall certified the
meeting held by such boards the bulletin board
courthouse door within five days of such meetings.
SECTION All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this
hereby repealed.
SECTION s. This act and
after its ratification.
In the General Assembly times, ratified this
7h day o March 1947.
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CHRISTMAS LUNCHEON
FOR MAElTEO HID CLUB
Plans Made FOR 1858 and Committees
Named: Recipes Given and
Gifts Exchanged

The Manteo Home Demonstra-
ton Club observed its annual
Christmas luncheon meeting at the
home of Mrs. Raymond Wescott
Monday, December 2. Each mem
Der brought a contribution to the
meal and an exchange gift. Deli
cious assortments of foods were
tasted and recipes given for sew
eral of the preparations. In the
absence of Mrs. Lena Pearsall,
president, the meeting was presid-
ed over by Mrs. Wescott. Attention
was called to the news of DR.. Jane
McKimmon's recent death and her
life in Home Demonstration work
reviewed briefly by Mrs. Virginia
Patrick. Plans We're discussed and
decided upon for the club during
1868. Project leaders named were:
home Identification and gardening,
Mrs. Fred Basnight; foods, Mrs.
Raymond Wescott; food conserva-
ton, Mrs. Leo Midget; house fur
mshings and management, Mrs.
Lena Pearsall, family life an mn
sic, Mrs. Virginia Patrick, arts and
crafts, Mrs. Hubert Guthrie; Com
munity service, Mrs. Dan Cannady;
health and safety, Mrs. John Wes-
colt; recreation, Mrs. S. L. Bar
nett; and loan fund, Mrs. T. D.
Etheridge.
In addition to those named, the
following attended: Mrs. Pattie
Smith, Mrs. Earl Dean, Mrs.
Charles Olson, Mrs. S. A. Stowe,
Mrs. Carl Daniels, Mrs. Tracy
Ward, Mrs. Salina Midget and
Miss Fran Alexander, home agent.
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INSURANCE
Continued from Page One)

dents or two property damage ac-
cidents resulting in a payment or
judgment within the experience
period will be placed in Class B
and will be subject to a 1919 in
crease in rates. A Glass C group
embracing those insureds with sew
eral accidents and not included in
Class A or Glass B, will be SUBJ
ject to 2016 increase in rates,
The Commissioner explained
that the program as approved had
resulted from public hearing and
a thorough study of plans pro-
posed by the North Carolina Auto
mobile Rate Administrative Office.
The Rate Administrative Office,
which represents automobile insur-
ance companies doing business in
the State, had originally proposed
a plan which would have imposed
insurance surcharges on all insured
drivers involved in accidents, re-
CARELESS of fault. The Commission
er expressed the belief that it was
the intent of the 1857 General
Assembly to create a higher rate
for drivers who were responsible
for automobile insurance losses,
without penalizing those drivers
who were innocent victims in auto
mobile accidents. Accordingly, the
Commissioner stated, 1.-THE Plan
which am approving is designed
to achieve the legislative purpose
as / understand and interpret it.
l sincerely hope that the Plan will
serve as an incentive to all citizens
of the State to operate their motor
vehicles in such a careful manner
as will promote safety on the
because experience has
shown that, by the prevention and
elimination of accidents, insurance
costs can be reduced"
In commenting on the reason for
ordering the Plan effective on Jam
uary 1, 1868, the Commissioner
stated that this was done to COIN
eide with the effective date of the
Motor Vehicle Financial RESPONSE
bility Act of 1867. This Act, which
is commonly referred to by the
public as the Compulsory Automo-
bile Liability Insurance Act, re-
quires that individual motor vehicle
owners show proof of financial re-
sponsibility at the time of pur-
chasing 1858 license plates. Proof
of financial responsibility may be
shown by posting a cash bond in
the amount of $1,000, by posting
a surety bond in the amount of
$4,000, or by presenting a Form
FS-1 certificate issued by an in
surance company licensed to do
business in the State and showing
an automobile liability insurance
policy in force. The Commissioner
emphasized that license plates
could not be purchased with
out a proper showing of financial
responsibility and urged all motor
vehicle owners to make their ar
engagements to give evidence of fl
nancial responsibility before apply
ing for motor vehicle license plates.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-12-06
TURKEY DINNER FOR CUBS

Ocracoke. - Members of Ocra-
coke Cub Scout Troop 290, enjoyed
festive occasion at their meeting
Friday night, November 90. A big
turkey was served to them with
their parents also enjoying the oc-
casion. Cub Master, Murray Spen-
Ger, Assistant, Benjamin L. O'Neal,
Rev. w. w. Clarke, Bill Askren,
and Lewis Tolleson, Den Chief,
were present, and two prospective
Cub Scouts, Thomas Midget and
John Wynn. After finishing off the
turkey dinner, the boys enjoyed
movies shown by Bill Askren.
Cubs present were William N.
Spencer, Douglas O'Neal, Lee Gar
IRISH, Raymond Styron, Anthony
Mutro, Laurie Fulcher, Gerald
Midget, Perry Wahab, Joe Gas
kill and Robert Melba. Others in
Guided Mrs. Murray Spencer, Mrs.
Benjamin L. O'Neal, Mr.. and Mrs.
Norman Garrish, Mr.. and Mrs.
Irwin Styron, Mr.. and Mrs. Theo-
dore Mutro, Mrs. Lillian Fulcher,
Mrs. Bette Midget, Mrs. Archie
Wahab, and Mrs. Mary Styron.
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A HEALTHY SHOCK.

Americans have lived like children in Paradise for
long time They been surrounded by the good life
Still satisfied they have besieged government in massive
pressure groups for special benefits and privileges Initiation
has been destroying the only for material
value we have-the dollar In Federal military
thory being used the opposition of state and local
agencies to enforce federal court orders by sheer might
people, by their abuses and lack of restraint threat
ening this republic
They needed healthy shock and they have it in the
Russian Moon which circed the earth at $4,000 miles
hour.
Senator Bridges in commenting the Russian rocket
achievement apty calls for IAN immediate revision Of Ma
tional psychology
"The time has clearly to be less concerned with
the depth of the pile Of the broadoom rug the height
Of the tail fin the and to be prepared to shed
blood sweat and tears this country and the free world
to survive"
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how he would have Jared if we
had been the judge with a
chuckle, toe.
NOTES Glad we are not on
the committee deciding Atlantic
Conference team for the Orange
Bowl Governors office gal
Evelyn Dupree to Jim O'Neill of
State College staff engage
ment, that is (. They are sched-
uled to start running ads next
week for a new Ports director!!
=. At least one restaurant near
the State Capitol has decided to
expand it's space now that the
cafeteria in Highway Building has
been closed -.
-. One of the most sought-after
speakers here is SBI Director Wal
ter Anderson. Our choice as speak
ers among department heads in
Raleigh: Edwin Gill and L. Y. Bal
lentine +. Alvin Wingfield, who
ran-or walked-for the u. s. Sem
ate in the Scott-Lennon settoo, is
operating an office machines bust
ness here $50.
y /. They say around here that
Patrolman killer Frank E. Wetzel
is extremely lucky he was not
caught in North Carolina :. You
should be able to hold rather large
conventions in new facilities I'M
derway at Morehead City I. by
spring s. At least one large mo-
tel in Raleigh vicinity is said to
be in serious financial difficulties
And a new dealer Of new
car has called it quits (. already
in Charlotte sold Is -. but
the deals were so terrific he made
no money, he said -.
=. Big crowd expected here
Dec. 2 for cleanup meeting being
pushed by Governors friends {.
with tea at the Mansion later /.
Although Orange Bowl is dropping
Atlantic Coast Conference champ
after this season, we hear the in
come from tv games will more
than make up for the financial
loss to the schools involved.
-. The Governor, like thousands
Of other Tarheels, will spend the
Thanksgiving week end hunting
49,. not for industries =. but for
geese and duck down around Pam
leo Sound
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SHIP HITS ICEBERG - The
l,100-ton British polar research
ship Shackleton rammed an ice
berg in predawn darkness near the,
South Orkney Islands last Satur-
day; with temporary patches in
her torn hull, she lmped slowly
through rough seas to South
Georgia in the South Atlantic.
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1OSth BIRTHDAY - Mrs. Will
liam Mile of Hollywood, Fla, last
Friday observed her 1Osth birth
day.
BOY -Nine-year-old
Johnny Selender of Albemarle was
drowned Friday afternoon when he
fell from the dam into the old
Albemarle City lake.
SURGERY ORDEAL-A British
fisherman says Soviet soldiers held
guns on him while woman doc
tor sewed up his arm after he
slashed it on a vessel off Russia's
arctic coast.
MILITARY CONVERTS - Mil
itary chaplains have brought 5,597
new members into the Methodist
Church in the last two years,
report of the church's commission
on chaplains shows.
HUNG HIMSELF-A 2S-year-
old Wilson Negro, Vance James,
was found hanging in his Jail cell
Saturday night short time after
he had been informed that his wife,
whose throat he had cut earlier,
had died.
GOES OUT OF MIND-A 49,
year-old Navy chief petty officer,
wanted for killing one man and
wounding two others was shot to
death Sunday at Sanford, Fla,
after he opened fire on a sheriff's
posse.
LAUNCHING SITES - The Air
Force has announced it has order
ed the construction of four launch
ing sites for its Bomarc long
range interceptor missile at cost
of 46 million million dollars; the
sites are in Maine, New Jersey,
Massachusetts, and New York.
MISSIONARY KILLED IN
CRASH-The Rev. John Samuel
Oliver, Sd, a Southern Baptist mis-
sionary in Brazil, was killed Sat-
urday in the crash of his light
plane at Teresina, Brazil; he was
native of Moore County, N. C.
REACTOR FIRED UP-Scien-
lists Monday fired up the huge
atomic furnace at the nations
first full-scale civilian nuclear
power station at Shippingport, Pa;
the action came Is years to the
day since man achieved chain
reaction in the worlds pioneer re-
actor.
NAVY INTEGR RATION
PRAISED - An American Civil
Liberties Union survey released
Sunday found practically no dis
elimination against the Negro on
U. S. Navy ships and bases; how
ever, the survey said the Navy
still has no Negro command Off
Ger.
REWARD MONEY - Authori-
ties have declined to Identify the
anonymous informer who set off
the chain of events leading to the
arrest of Charles Jackson, the An
gier bank robber; the tipster
stands to collect reward of $4,000
for his help in identifying the gun
man.
OLDER MEN PREFERRED =
The doctor who took care of the
Is Americans who wintered at the
South Pole says the older men
often were more capable of doing
ha~d work under adverse circum-
stances and also We're better able
to maintain the pace; the polar
group was about evenly divided
into those under and those over 80.
ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT
An attempt Saturday. night to as
sassinate Indonesia's President
Sukarno with hand grenades re-
suited in 10 deaths and injury to
1877 persons in the crowd around
the president, who himself escaped
unhurt as his bodyguards threw
him to the ground and covered his
body.
FOOTBALL CHAMPIONS -
Elizabeth City High Schools Yell
low Jackets won the state champ
ionship in Glass IA football last
Friday by a score of 1915; this
made the third time the school
has won the state championship
title since football was added to-
ske ntL1of:n ,%..<< <...., -. =. Az
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PUFFY-CHEEKED-Mrs. How
ard Dean Jones of near Cherry
vile had a puffy-cheeked house
hold and more than the usual
amount of homework this week
when her husband and their four
sons, ages 10, 8, 6 and 8, all had
the mumps-and on both Sides,
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-12-06

Y
CHURCHILL'S BIRTHDAY -
Sir Winston Churchill, the famed
British Fighter" celebrated his
83rd birthday last Saturday.
!, WIN AWARDS - Three North
Carolinians Sunday night won $500
scholarships for All work during
the national congress of the farm
youth organization in Chicago.
BLOCK OF TICKETS - EIvis
Presley bought 1,400 tickets Sat
urday to a charity football game,
then gave away everyone of, them
to the students of his old high
school in Memphis.
MISSILES FOR ALLIES -
Aiming allied forces in Europe
with intermediate Range Ballistic
Missiles is estimated to cost the
United States $50 million dollars
initially in increased foreign aid
next year.
Y-CHEEKED-Mrs. How
ard Dean Jones of near Cherry
vile had a puffy-cheeked house
hold and more than the usual
amount of homework this week
when her husband and their four
sons, ages 10, 8, 6 and 8, all had
the mumps-and on both sides.
DOPE RING BROKEN-Three
alleged members of an Eastern
Carolina dope ring operating in
Washington, N. c., as "pushers"
were arrested last week after
six-month investigation by Fed
eral, State, and local officers.
ATOMIC PLANS CONFUSED"
Rep. Carl T. Durham, N. C.
Democrat, said Sunday the U. S.
atomic power program is made
quate and confused, and he called
on the Atomic Energy Commission
for a reappraisal of its aims.
PREDICT SPACE TRAVEL -
A Soviet engineer writing in the
newspaper Soviet Aviation has
suggested that it should become
possible for the Soviet Union to
launch m AIMED interplanetary
space ships ain the next few
years."
RETIRED PASTOR KILLED
A retired Baptist minister, the
Rev. Tom E. Walters, &c, of Ridge
crest, died last Friday when two
leashed cocker spaniels, appar-
emily panicked by an automobile
horn, pulled him into the path of
a car.
SHIP HITS ICEBERG - The
l,100-ton British polar research
ship Shackleton rammed an ice
berg in predawn darkness near the,
South Orkney Islands last Satur-
day; with temporary patches in
her torn hull, she limped slowly
through rough seas to South
Georgia in the South Atlantic.
FIREBUG SUSPECTED - Au-
thorities in Arson County began
hunting for possible firebug Sat
urday night after the sixth fire
in the last three weeks in the
Wadesboro area destroyed the
seed mill of the Southern Cotton
Oil Co.
ANTIMISSILE MISSILE - The
Air Force chief of staff, Gen.
Thomas D. White, confirmed hast
Friday that it is at work on an
antimissile missile called the Wiz
ard; it is described as a defense
against enemy missiles fired from
other continents.
EIGHT DIE IN FIRE - Eight
children died in fire at Sherb-
hooke, Que, Sunday when fire
swept through their home while
their mother was on her way to
church with her oldest son; the
father was at home when the fire
broke out and in attempting to
rescue his children received third
degree burns.
WITHOUT FEE, NO FIRE
FIGHTING = A large rooming
house located just outside the city
limits at Franklinton was COM
pletly destroyed by fire Wednes-
day night while firemen looked on,
prevented by a city ordinance from
fighting the blaze because the own
er had not paid a $40 fire protec-
ton fee.
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ANTIMISSTLE MISSILE - The
Air Force chief of staff, Gen.
Thomas D. White, confirmed hast
Friday that it is at work on an
antimissile missile called the wiz
ard; it is described as defense
against enemy missiles fired from
other continents.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-12-06

MISSILES FOR ALLIES -
Aiming allied forces in Europe
with intermediate Range Ballistic
Missiles is estimated to cost the
United States $50 million dollars
initially in increased foreign aid
next year.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-12-06

FIREBUG SUSPECTED = Au-
thorities in Arson County began
hunting for a possible firebug Sat
urday night after the sixth fire
in the last three weeks in the
Wadesboro area destroyed the
seed mill of the Southern Cotton
Oil Co.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-12-06

RETIRED PASTOR KILLED
A retired Baptist minister, the
Rev. Tom E. Walters, &C, of Ridge.
crest, died last Friday when two
leashed cocker spaniels, appar-
emily panicked by an automobile
horn, pulled him into the path of
a car.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-12-06

DOPE RING BROKEN-Three
alleged members of an Eastern
Carolina dope ring operating in
Washington, N. c., as "pushers"
were arrested last week after a
six-month investigation by Fed
eral, State, and local officers.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-12-06

REWARD MONEY - Authori-
ties have declined to identify the
anonymous informer who set off
the chain of events leading to the
arrest of Charles Jackson, the An
gier bank robber; the tipster
stands to collect a reward of $4,000
for his help in identifying the gun
man.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-12-06
RALEIGH
ROUNDUP
ny KIDD BREWER

TO RALEIGH j. Although the
decision has not yet been an
nounced, the N. C. Farm Bureau
Federation has definitely decided
to move its offices from Green's
boro to Raleigh some time soon
after the first of the year.
At least two other organizations
are considering moving their head
quarters to the State Capital.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-12-06
AUTO MANUFACTURES

Chevrolet has produced 1,319,4Sl
cars this year; Ford, 1857;
Plymouth, 5000; Buick, S5S,851;
Oldsmobile, 34S,0S4; Pontiac, 301,-
S48; Dodge, 271,510; Mercury,
253,O37; Cadillac, 1S7,024; Rambler,
92,627 Chrysler, 109,947; DeSoto,
111,414; Studebaker, 62,605; Lin
:oln, 33,093; Imperial, 35,202; Ed
sci, 1891; Packard, 4,819; Nash,
1861; Hudson, 1,345.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-12-06

PREDICT SPACE TRAVEL -
A Soviet engineer writing in the
newspaper Soviet Aviation has
suggested that it should become
possible for the Soviet Union to
launch m AIMED interplanetary
space ships "in the next few
years."
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-12-06

1OSth BIRTHDAY - Mrs. Will
liam Mile of Hollywood, Fla, last
Friday observed her 1Osth birth
day.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-12-06

REACToR FIRED UP-Scien-
lists Monday fired up the huge
atomic furnace at the nations
first full-scale civilian nuclear
power station at Shippingport, Pa;
the action came Is years to the
day since man achieved chain
reaction in the worlds pioneer re-
actor.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-12-06
NAVY INTEGRATION
DDATCEn A. A,.o,,:o,,. MIL

Liberties Union survey released
Sunday found practically no dis
elimination against the Negro on
U. S. Navy ships and bases; how
ever, the survey said the Navy
still has no Negro command Off
Ger.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-12-06

EIGHT DIE IN FIRE = Eight
children died in fire at Sherb-
hooke, Que, Sunday when fire
swept through their home while
their mother was on her way to
church with her oldest son; the
father was at home when the fire
broke out and in attempting to
rescue his children received third
degree burns.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-12-06

MILITARY CONVERTS = Mil
itary chaplains have brought 5,597
new members into the Methodist
Church in the last two years, a
report of the church's commission
on chaplains shows.