The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-02-22
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SAVINGS There's an eco
nomic hawkshaw in the Motor We
hicles Department, and I'm here
to tell you who it is. But first the
facts, Ma'am.
You probably never knew it but
thousands of Tar Heel motorists,
in the process of buying new IL
cense plates, actually got two DIFF
ferent kinds, one measurably light
er than the other, depending as we
shall see, on the method OF distrl-
button.
This curiosity has resulted in
right smart of saving for the
tax-paying public at large.
The specially manufactured
plates are reduced in metallic cal
cries, lighter that is, so as to
bring down their mailing expense.
Over-the-counter buyers are hand
ed their tags of course. But to mail
them would cost % cents. The
lightweights, therefore, were re-
served for the mail order list, and
can be sent long distances for only
eight cents, which figures out to
a plain savings of Is cents and
which ought to come as a relief to
those of us who foot the bills.
This nimble bit of thrift with the
taxpayers dough was instituted
by Joe w. Garrett, the depart
ment's second-in-command and
guardian of the agency's funds.
SUDDEN THAWT >. Too many
Tar Heel drivers aren't content to
enter the Pearly Gates normally.
They got to crash in!
FAVORITES What like
best about some Tar Heel news
papers and newspapermen:
The impressive use of photo
graphs in the fascinating Sunday
feature section of the Durham
Herald.
Always the flavorous common
tary of Louis Graves in the Chapel
Hill Weekly.
The two and three line squibs of
Billy Arthur in goodness knows
how many papers.
The. sprightly anecdotes in
Brady's Barney, sired weekly by
a Brady called ]. P. in the Frank
lin Press.
The clinically clean appearance
of the Smithfield Herald.
The mammoth editions of the
Stanly News and Press, and the
suspicion that no stone goes I'M
turned in chronicling strictly local
happenings.
The solemnity Lynn Nisbet packs
into his afternoon political column,
important matters of gov
seem even more import
ant.
Recently appointed Editor Her
bert O'Keef's rehabilitation of the
Raleigh Times.
The scholarly paragraphs of Roy
Parker, Jr. in the Northampton
County News and Phillips Russell
in the Chapel Hill News Leader.
The many papers Journal
Patriot, Wallace Enterprise, Har-
nett County News that run a stand
ing traffic safety slogan on page
one.
The full page of letters-to-the-
editor in the Sunday Citizen Times
(Asheville).
The unexcelled editorials of C.
G. Simmons in the Grifton Times.
Miss Beatrice Cobb's perpetually
interesting reviews of Tar Heel
folklore in the Morganton News
Herald.
The sure-footed literary quality
of Burke Davis writing in the
Daily News.
The picturesque title of the
Gold Leaf Farmer published in
Wendell.
Ditto the Messenger and Intelli-
gencer of Wadesboro.
The remarkable career of Editor
j. w. NOEL, Roxboro Courier
Times, who is 90-plus and still 60
ing strong.
The intensely personal journal
ism of Victor Meekins in the
Coastland Times, Manteo.
The pure craftsmanship of Jay
Jenkins, apparent daily in the
Charlotte Observer.
Lady editors like Ivie Lane
Wilder (Spring Hope Enterprise)
and Ruth Feeling (Carteret News
Times).
The extra-easy-ta-read pagse af
the Roanoke News, Zebulon Record,
Pinehurst Outlook, Elkin Tribune.
The uniqueness of the Tryon
Daily Bulletin.
And the consistently good col
umns of Hubert Breeze, Richmond
County Journal; George Beasley,
Jr, Monroe Journal; Clarence
Griffin, Forest City Courier; Empie
Hall, Dunn Dispatch; Bill Rutledge,
Yadkin Ripple; Ed Bufflap, Cho-
wan Herald; and Gordon Green
wood, Black Mountain News.