The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-11-15

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UNDERDOG BEATS STATE
N. c. State College, previously UNI
defeated this season, suffered an
unexpected TO defeat Saturday at
the hands of William and Mary,
which had been a 19-point under
dog; thus ended States hopes of
its first undefeated football team
since 1910.
TRAFFIC TICKET MTXUP =
When a woman telephoned the
North Little Rock, Ark, police
station and asked to speak to De-
tective Muffler, whose name ap-
peared on a traffic ticket she had
received, it turned out she had got
ten the ticket for defective muf-
fler.
TAVERN PROPRIETOR SHOT
An Asheville woman watching her
husband being beaten in an sun
equal' fight, in darkened tavern
grabbed a pistol and fired into a
group of struggling, cursing men
early Sunday and killed the pro-
prietor.
TWO DIE IN WRECK - Two
young men were killed Saturday
night when their car failed to make
curve near Smithfield and hit a
large tree; the victims were Gar
land Eugene jackson, %, of Route
A, Dunn, and Hubert Franklin
Ryan, 80, of Route /, Four Oaks.
SLABS BROTHER - William
Saunders, 43, of Greensboro, was
stabbed to death Saturday night,
and police are holding his brother,
]. B. Saunders, 38, for the killing;
the two brothers, both sheet metal
workers, had long had grudge
between themselves.
NET CATCHES MEN - The
Marine Corps at Camp Lejeune is
testing a net that catches men in
stead of fish; the new air-rescue
device is dropped from helicop-
ter and can scoop up an uncon-
scious man from the water.
SIX DIE IN CRASH-An auto
mobile carrying three couples be-
lieved returning from a dance at
Lake Charles, La, Sunday collided
headon with another auto, killing
six persons and seriously injuring
two others.
YOUTH HELD-A 13-year-old
boy from Athens, Ga, was held in
Newton Saturday after he wrecked
a stolen car.
SEVEN DROwN-Seven Ne
groes drowned Sunday when an
automobile crashed through a
bridge railing and fell into creek
at Lafayette, La.
$4,000 FOR MOON TRIP
STORY-A London newspaper has
offered a cash prize of $4,000
to the first man who gets to the
moon and returns to tell the tale.
MUTTNICK POISONED - The
Communists announced Monday
that Laika, the little white
dog which became the first
living being to enter inter-
planetary space, had been de-
liberately poisoned with the last
of her food aboard the Sputnik II
in order to keep her from suffer
ing a slow agony.
YEGGS IMPRISON JANITOR
Two young yeggs imprisoned the
janitor of Norfolk's CRANKY High
School in three-by-five-foot COM
partment for five hours Sunday
morning while they tried without
success to open the school safe.
DRIVER SUFFoCATES-Bris-
stol, Va, police say that 46-year-
old Robert ]. Thompson apparently
died Of suffocation when his car
backed into an embankment, clog
ging the cars exhaust pipe and
filling the vehicle with carbon mo-
noxide gas.
,POSSUM HUNTER KILLED
James c. Ramsey, 17-year-old
honor high school student, died
Sunday of injuries received when a
tree fell on him during an oppos-
sum hunt in New Kent County, Va,
Saturday while hunting with a
Methodist Youth Fellowship group.
BRIDGE COLLAPSES - A
heavily-traveled bridge near tho
business district of Springfield,
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