The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-12-27


RACERS LOSE CARS - Two
young Charlotte men convicted of
prearranged racing on the city's
Main Street had their cars confis-
Gated last week.
HEAVY STORM DAMAGE -
Tornadoes brought death and de-
struction to Arkansas Thursday of |
last week in the wake of violent
winds that despoiled parts of Illi-
nois and Missouri the day before. |
INDUSTRIALIST WEBS AT "a
Cyrus Eaton, a tycoon in steel,
iron ore, coal and railroads who
this week celebrated his 74th
birthday, was wed in Ohio last
Friday to a 35-year-old socialite
divorcee, Mrs. Anne Kinder Jones.
PAROLED SLAYER HELD
AGAIN-Catawba County officers
have picked up Revis Huss, 49,
year-old parolee convicted of the
1916 Staying of his wife, for in
vestigation into the carbon monox-
ide death last week of his preg-
nant fiancee.
CHILD CRITICALLY BURNED
-Four-year-old Priscilla Fraley
was hospitalized in a critical con-
dition in Asheville last week with
third degree burns over most of
her body; she told police that her
grandmother ignited her dress.
MARINE DIES IN WRECK
One Camp Lejeune Marine was
killed and two were injured slight
ly when their car left highway
near Troy, Pa, and crashed
through eight wooden guard posts.
TO GIVE UP FARM - A g.
year-old Negro woman has told the
U. S. District Court in Richmond,
Va, that she will give up without
compensation her 50-acre farm
near a dam in southern Virginia
rather than accept a government
offer of $4,000 for the property.
MORE FOR SCIENCE-Accord-
ing to Finance Minister Arseny
Zverev, the U. S. S. R. will spend
the equivalent of about Az billion
dollars in 1858 on scientific re-
search, an increase of 450 million
over 1857. Il
TWO DIE IN FIRE-A Raleigh
couple burned to death Saturday
when swift-moving early morn
ing fire destroyed their home, but
two guests in the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. T. NJ. Sadler were able to
escape from the burning house.
YOUTH HELD IN KILLING
A 40-year-old man was slashed to
death Saturday in Sampson Coun-
ty, and his roommate, Bobby Jelni-
gan, IL, was arrested in connec-
ton with the death; both men
were said to have been drinking.
ROAD BUILDING RECORD Il
North Cardinals bodybuilding pro-
gram during 1857 was the biggest
in history, and it will be even
bigger in 1858 with more emphasis
on the interstate system.
WEDDING is CLIMAX-A TO-
nance born of strolls together was
climaxed Saturday by a wedding
at the Methodist Retirement Home
at Durham, when Miss Vallie Mae
West, SO, of Raleigh became the
bride of James B. McKeithan of
Gibson, an S7-year-old widower.
CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY II
Oscar High, retired Whiteville
businessman, celebrated his Seth
birthday last week by purchasing |
himself a new automobile; he
drives several thousand miles per
year, most of it between White
willie and winter home in Florida |
and summer cottage at Holden
Beach.
$4,000 BONUS-Sa Safe Mill in
Rockingham, employing LOO per-
sons, which announced it would be
closed before Christmas, has re-
vealed that $4,000 bonus would
be paid the employees during the
week ending aJnuary IL.
WOMAN RUN OVER AND
KILLED-A motorist from Que
bee, Canada, was absolved of blame
last week at Micro when a So