davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-03-28
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE COUNTY BOARD.

Certain members of the Dare County Board OF Com
issoners have told privately that the things printed abou
That appears be their only defense masmuch as VIVA
has been printed them has been taken from the court
copies certain records can submit to the pubic the de
cision as to who has made the false statements .
We will give the commissioners opportunity to JUST
fv their actions and challenge them here and now
COME forward with explanations for the following items
we further challenge them to give this ntormaon 10 TN
public by April 49, before is too late for other canddat
to file in the primary:
We challenge YOU to why went ahead
with large expenditure of the peoples money for bum court
Jail job after the people had voted overwhelming
against in election costing some $4,000
you explain to the people, when the law requires an
nual aus of county affairs that these aud be published
why you the law? Why have you dsgarded TINS
law for eight
Since the audit of two years ago showed running in the
red on the general than $4,000 challenge you to
publish an up audit by competent CPA showing
that 100000 in the red and pledge your
word the deficit will not exceed the CPA report
public why after you continue TO spend
public money without legal authority Tell the public why II you
do Clerk to the Board to exert more weight than the
Board $4,000 to run the office than
it takes in. -,
Will YOU publish so all county may before April 15h
list of all the valuations put by Jersey firm to whom
Won are giving Will you explain to the public why you
didn't think anybody County competent to value the
property county which they ve and why you preferred
to this money away from home?
positive pledge to the taxpayers OF Dare county
there will not increase in taxes again this year.
We don't consider this hard job for competent Off
Gals who honestly wish fairly discharge the duties they
to return YOU to office and you believe your record is ood
do you think it unfair for the people to ask Tor TINS or
nation
lied on You might as well admit the figures published
connection with your record from your courthouse
we won't call the peoples any longer and they nave peer
approved whether not they had been approved
by the people most of whom had any information OF
them before you had acted on them
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-03-28
JAMBOREE
Continued from Page Onel

The scene of activities will move
to the Dare Beaches on Saturday,
April &c, where the pirate battle
and landing will be one of the
main spectacles, with several addi-
tional program phases eliminating
with the Grand Pirates Ball in the
Casino during the evening.
Stanford White of Manns Har-
Dor, in charge of the Jamboree
religious services scheduled for
Sunday morning, April 81, has re-
ported that this phase would go
off as planned, either as an open
air service on the mainland shore
of Croatan Sound or in Mt. Car
mel Methodist Church at Manns
Harbor.
During the afternoon of April
81, boat races in Manteo harbor
sponsored by the Dare Power Boat
Association will mark the finale
of the fourth annual Pirates jam
boree-and likewise serve as a
preliminary to the big Pirates
Jamboree-sponsored APBA-sanc-
toned power boat races here or
May 24-25.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-03-28
CRIMES
Continued from Page One)


was drunk and disorderly on
Thursday night, which was known
to officers.
Jerry Daniels, had been arrested
for careless and reckless driving
on Feb. IS, sent word to the Clerk
of the Court he would come in
sometime and tend to it, but he
hadn't attended to it" before
Tuesdays court. Three days after
his assault on the Houston boy,
he wrecked his car on a straight
way, while en- route toward Man.
teo late Saturday night when the
car went across on the left hand
side of the road, tore down pine
trees and went into the canal some
where between the Drafty Tavern
and the Bridge turn corner. He
was taken home wet, but uninjured
by Highway Patrolman Fields, but
there were no charges of reckless
driving.
Courts and officers in Dare
County appear to favor Ward. 1t
would have been little trouble to
pick him up last week. It's his
usual game to run away, and he
laughs at the officials, on having
always got out easy. When sober
he is inoffensive, but when. drunk
he is a complete fool, jumping on
inoffensive people, starting fights
and creating disorder. When his
cases have come up, it has been
his custom to be away off to sea,
or other unknown place. By letting
the cases drag along, and after
witnesses are unavailable, he has
always gotten off lightly. 1t seems
strange to most people that Off
GERS and judges should cater to a
useless character of this stripe who
uses his home vacations to be
offensive to his old neighbors, and
never pays even a poll tax in the
county.
OLner Eases
Walter Dempsey Perry of Kill
Devil Hills pleaded guilty to driv-
ing with an expired operators Ii
cense and was fined $25 and costs.
Barry Kenneth Peele of Norfolk,
who pleaded guilty to driving on
the wrong side of the highway, not
in passing, was fined SIS and costs.
The remaining cases Tuesday
were submissions as follows:
Willie Julian Austin, Avon, fail
ing to stop at stop sign, SIS fine
and costs.
William Lamar Gray, Stumpy
Point, operating a motor vehicle
with improper equipment lights
and exhaust), SIS fine and costs.
Ernest Scarborough, Manteo,
drunk on streets of Manteo, $25
fine and costs.
Albert Jerry Daniels, careless
and reckless driving, $25 fine and
costs, on Feb. 18th.
James Clyde Massey, Monroe,
driving without an operators Ii
cense, $25 fine and costs.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-03-28
FLU
CONTINUED from Page One)


ed DR.. Garland Wampler of Bux-
ton, who agreed to make a trip to
Ocracoke Sunday. He and Mrs.
Wampler, who is nurse, arrived
here on the $3.50 Hatteras Inlet
ferry and spent the whole day Wis
iting the sick. returning to BuX-
ton on the A pm. ferry.
School reopened on Monday,
with better attendance than on Fri
day, the absences being for the
most part in the lower elementary
grades, but sickness continued and
new cases were reported to Miss
Bragg almost hourly. Fortunately,
she herself, though not yet able to
leave home, is somewhat better and
can give medical advice over the
telephone and see that medicine is
distributed.
A year ago, with no telephone
available except the U. S. Coast
Guards, this could not have been
accomplished, and Ocracokers are
indeed appreciative and thankful
for their phone service. Also a
year ago, before the new road was
constructed from Hatteras Inlet
southwark to the village, it would
have been necessary to fly doc
tor in. AS it was, DR.. and Mrs.
Wampler made the trip in their
own car.
Ocracokers have more than once
expressed the hope that the time
might come when doctor, possibly
one ready for partial retirement,
would choose to make his home
here. Meanwhile, it is comforting
to know that the officials of our
State Health Department are ready
and willing to give their assistance
when emergency demands, and
that the U. S. Coast Guard is
"Semper Paratus" always pre-
pared) to help in times of emer-
gency. A new factor of dependa-
bility is also found in the local
Civic Club, willing whenever posi-
BILE, to work out ways and means
for the good of the island.
DIR. Norton also acted promptly
in having a further study made of
the epidemic" on Ocracoke Island
and Monday afternoon DR.. w. p.
Glezen, was flown in by helicopter
from Raleigh. DR.. Glezen is field
epidemiologist out of the U. S..
Public Health Service in Atlanta,
Ga, who has been stationed in
Raleigh this winter with the N. c..
State Board of Health. He visited
the homes on the island where
there was sickness Tuesday morn
ing, and expressed the tentative
diagnosis that Ocracoke was late
in getting what the mainland had
already experienced, an epidemic
of some kind of influenza.
DR.. Glezen visited Ocracoke
School and suggested that parents
would act wisely in keeping their
children home from school if they
were sick, but that otherwise
those over the illness and those
who had escaped it should continue
their school work. All except three
of the high school students are
back at work; absences in the ele-
mentary school continue high in
number. DR.. Glezen plans to re?
main at Ocracoke until Friday of
this week. He is staying at the
local Coast Guard station.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-03-28


ermen to one boatload Of seed
oysters per day. This new policy
has already proven to be a wise
one as fishermen now find they
have more time to get better grade
oysters and less trash than they
did when they were allowed to
catch and unload as many boat
loads day as they could during
the planting season.
DIR. Chestnut substantiates this
statement. "The seed oysters we
are getting this year appear to be
much better quality than those we
have been able to get to a certain
degree in other years." he added.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-03-28
NEWS AMONG THE COLORED

In honor of the birthday of Miss
Fran Alexander, the Dare County
Home Agent, surprise party was
given by her colored friends, in the
dining hall at Roanoke High School
Monday, March "a, and for the
All Clubs in and around Manteo
During the evening pictures
We're taken of Miss Alexander. Re-
freshments of punch and cookies
were served. Present were J. l.
Rea, Farm Agent, ]. A. Dempsey
Principal, Mrs. Lille Boone, Mrs
E. A. Bethea and all of the Roa.
noke School All Club members.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-03-28

ROBERT A. JOHNSON, steward
first class, USN, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Silas Johnson, ST., of SAG
Griffin ST., N. w., Atlanta, Ca,
and husband of the former Miss
Matte Jones of Manteo, re-enlist-
ed March z, for six years.
He is serving in the Administra-
tive Department Of the Atlantic
Reserve Fleet at Green Cove
Springs, Fla.
Before entering the Navy in
March, 1914, he attended Chamblee
High School, and was employed By
Lawson General Hospital.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-03-28
DANCES
Continued from Page One)

had not been completed.
There will be television and/or
radio appearances in Richmond
Norfolk, Washington, Greenville
and probably other cities as jam
boree time approaches.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-03-28
COURT
Continued from Page 0ne)

factors also considered by the COM
missions included the cost of such
special session not having been
included when the county budget
was drawn up, and the week in
question also being the last week
of the fishing season, with the
fishermen having had very poor
season to date.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-03-28
a WASTE OF MONEY AND A WASTE OF WORDS.

The State Highway Commission wastes a lot of money
for paper printing and postage sending out words Now they
have booklet with forward by Governor Hodges try
ing to explain all the procedure in taking and paying for
right way 1t the highway commission would wake
up and learn their fooshness sometimes But they never
learn anything and don't forget any of their old customs
This book says:
Ae careful appraisal of property damage has been
made reviewed Highway RghtoWay Engineer calls on
discuss the amount of the appas
ed damage arrange for cash settlement
Rght-of-Way Engineer of the State Highway Commits
the Commissions most important employees In reality
he representative all the people of Noreh Carolina
IF there any rot balderdash, and bosh then
this it. More often the Hghwayman Che call himself
Engneer bolts in unexpected thrusts out blank al
ready filed out with the figure he has made his mind to
There isn't any attempt at discussion The R/W engi-
neer too often takes the disease that afcts many
Highway Engineers Too many of them think they know
everything they will not give courteous hearing to the
citizens they supposed they saturated with
the idea of eminent domain whereby the hghwaymen take
first what thew without regard to the rights of Others
and hear questions and objections later they never
them. ft
give and directs the PROPERTY to sgn here Some
property paid twice much as others for the
same value Politics practced by courthouse inmates
plays part sometimes.
Herb ShrinerN reveals how his spinster aunt back in
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-03-28
WATCH YOUR LABEL
DON'T LET YOUR
SUBSCRIPTION EXPIRE

Increasing costs Of possoae and pub
lection REQUIRES ihoi all subscriptions 10
this newspaper not puid In odvoncs be
discontinued. Waich The address which
comes on your Paper OF It's Wrqppeg.
scripticu prcmpfly 10 avoid havine fhe
popaF cut off,
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-03-28

Herb ShrnerN reveals how his spinster aunt back in
indiana finally found herself husband She saw this fellow
on Wanted poster" Herb explains and offered $lOU
more for him than the government did
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-03-28

STRANGE CASE-Chicago police
seeking an aged man who disap
peared three years ago, Saturday
found his skeleton on couch in {
Uttered apartment shared by ;
woman recluse.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-03-28

IN THE FAMILY = Tomrnie
Temple and family of Newland,
near Elizabeth City, have been
named the "Pasquotank Farm
Family of the Year." this honor
was won in 1866 by Tommie's
brother, Bailey Temple, and family.
Both men are sons of Johnnie
Temple of Newland.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-03-28

ORBIT FOR UP TO 80 YEARS
That's the preliminary prediction
for the Vanguard l space satellite
given by DR.. Paul Herget, a con-
sultant to the Navy project, who
has also predicted the Army's Ex-
plorer l will be up about five to
ten years.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-03-28

See NEWS. Page Five
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-03-28

NAACP LOSING MEMBERS So
The National Assn. for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People lost
about $4,000 members last year, it
was stated last week in Memphis,
Tenn, by NAACP Executive Sec
rotary Roy Wilkins; part of the
membership loss was in Alabama,
where the NAACP has been barred
from operation by injunction.
TRUMAN, BENNY TEAM UP
Violinist Jack Benny and master
of ceremonies Harry s. Truman
resulted in a sell-out for last Sat
urday nights concert at Kansas
City, bringing in enough money to
wipe out the Kansas City Philhar-
monte Orchestra's deficit. At re-
hearsal, Truman commented, refer
ring to Benny: "He's just a frus-
trated violin player and I'm just
frustrated piano player"
DIRTY HOSPITALS-The infant
mortality rate in hospitals would
be much less If hospitals were
cleaner, says DR.. Alex Langmuir
a U. S. Public Health officer who
called out Friday for return tc
rigid standard of cleanliness in
hospitals In Houston, Tex. IL
infants have died this year in the
city-county hospital, and over hall
the employees are said to be har.
broing the disease.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-03-28

STORM FATALITIES ~ During
the snow storm and blizzard which
swept over the eastern part of the
Nation last week, an estimated as
people died. Worst spots were
from Maryland to New England,
snow piled as high as three feet,
and great suffering ensued, the re-
suit of interrupted electric service.
In Morgantown, Pa. one man died
when 300 persons were stranded
36 hours without heat and light.
See NEWS, Page Five
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-03-28

WAR GAMES ACADEMIES.
Claud Bryson Lipscomb of Gaines
vile, Ga, was killed in a parachute
drop Saturday when he landed in
bay off Onslow Beach near Camp
Lejeune and drowned.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-03-28

HIGH COSTS-It's not high liv-
ing, but high cost of living these
days, the cost having risen to an
all time high in February, Govt.
reports say.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-03-28

SUFFICIENT WITNESSES FOR
PROSECUTION - Lawrence A.
Bower of Detroit, who had collect
ed rs traffic tickets since 1862,
asked for a trial on each charge;
then when he showed up in court
and found 45 policemen on hand
to testify against him he changed
his mind and pleaded guilty.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-03-28
RoBBERIES-A cool bandit walk
ed into bank in Charlottesville,
Va. and got away with $4,000.

THEY WENT TOGETHER-For-
ty-six young Japanese couples COM
mitted suicide in the first two
months of this year, with parental
opposition to marriage listed as
the reason in most cases.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-03-28

sand which is liable to shift with
changes in currents or by wave
action and thus cause oysters to
smother. Hence, beds are thor
oughly tested before seed oysters
are planted in them.
This is what happened to a great
extent during the hurricanes OF
1854 and 1866. In many areas oys-
ter mortality was greater than SO
percent. In some cases, DR.. Chest
nut found the mortality 100 per-
cent.
The State secures it's seed oys.
tiers from commercial fishermen
who dredge them at river mouths
and wherever else they are known
to produce Jumps. 1t is highly well
come income for hundreds of fish
ermen who, for the most part
have experienced poor seasons due
to the weather and other factors
The fishermen in this area gel
25 cents per bushel tub for catch.
ing and planting the oysters under
the direction of DR.. Chestnut anc
G. G. Holland, State fisheries com
missioner, and his aides. A boat
load Of seed oysters contains any
where from 200 to $50 bushels.
To assure a better quality Of
oyster for transplanting, HOLLAND
this year has restricted the fish
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-31

ALL 3 STORES OPEN LATE TONIGHT
Washington til pm, Silver Spring and PARKngon til $50 pm.
Tuesday hours: Washington 93O O. Slrer Spring and
PARKngton, 10 to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-04
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

Ike and Secretary Dulles confer with Soviet Ambassador
Menshikov summit conference Ike: "Menshy you push
and I'll pul-and together we may get Mr. Dulles to the
summit"
Republicans say business may improve The Eisenhower
cabinet rejoicing at report that already things have
from worse to bad.
Dr. Won Braun we'll fire satellite with monkey
in it. First monkey you want to into Space?" Second
monkey: Nav. It's dogs nfe-what there is of it."
Secretary Benson says his farm program will help Re-
pubicans in the campaign Any Republican running for
retirement will have it made. taA3
Spring is almost here Judging by the the average
suburbane spends preparing his yard he think
grow money. -ti. .t.c.a
Democrats the FEC is disgrace. In the days when
they used to it, fellow had to be licensed to pedde
influence. .tts.,af ,.s - ts-,4.-.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-04

guerrilla warfare to co-ordi-
mated operations of groups
armed with infantry support
weapons.
In the last eight days more
than six pitched battles have
been fought. In these largest
engagements Of the war the
French have at times reported
losing about half as many men
as the rebels. In past years
they reported skirmish losses
only one-fifth or one-tenth as
heavy as the rebels.
This new situation means q
serious strain for France.
Previously the French Army
had its hands full with an
estimated 2O,O00-man mobile
force Of rebols who mostly
lacked modern equipment. Any
Tightening Of rebel organization
and improvement Of equipment
Is bound to make matters
worse for the French.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-04
French Troops Face
Severe Test in AIqerio

ALGIERS, Mar. A (P.-Em-
battled French troops now face
their most severe challenge in
rebellion-torn Algeria.
Moslem nationalist waging
"a fierce 40-month-old war
against the French have begun
their long-heralded Spring Of
fensive."
For the first time since the
rebellion began November /.
1854, the French are facing
strong. disciplined rebel units,
armed with modern equipment
in fair quantities and trained
for their tasks.
In place Of the primitive
shotguns and hunting weapons
of the early days, the 100000
man French Army in Algeria
meets modern machine guns,
mortars and antitank weapons.
French military authorities
admit that the rebel algerian
liberation army" has begun to
teorganize from hit-and-run
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-04

A quarter of a century has
elapsed since the Nation ex-
perienced a "bank holiday"
that closed all banks for a
week beginning March 6,
1888. It signalized the start
of the "New Deal'-a reform
era that continued for many
years.
To this day, the leadership
of the late President. Frank
lin D. Roosevelt in that crisis
is often extolled, especially
the reassuring words Of his
inaugural address: '"rhe only
thing we have to fear is fear
ITSELF"
Little was said then, how
ever, and little has been said
since about how the bank
crisis could have been avoided.
Nor was it learned until many
years later that the Ameri-
can banks on the whole were
really solvent. Only about %
per. cent we're forced into
liquidation, and even these
paid out IS cents on the de-
positor's dollar. Persons with
less than SIS, 900 on deposit in
these banks actually got 80
cents on the dollar.
The bank holiday" should
never have occurred, and it
would not have been neces-
sary if there had been real
leadership on the part Of
Mr.. Roosevelt in the period
between the election in No
vember and his Inauguration
in March. Herbert Hoover.
who was the outgoing PreSi-
dent, pleaded in vain with the
President-elect to cooperate
in working out a formula for
the transition period that
would have established conf
dence in the financial institu-
tons Of the country.
But Mr.. Roosevelt, who
was poorly advised. was told
by his political friends that,
if he sat down with the In
cunbent President, there.
would be a certain political
responsibility attached to his
record for the events of that
period and that he had better
wait until Inauguration day
before assuming any respon-
Sibility. Although Mr.. Roose-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-04
AU Park Group
Endorses HuWorth
As School Head

DR.. Ellis Haworth. mentioned
as a local candidate to I'LL the
post of District superintendent
Of schools. has received the in
dersoment of his own citizens
association.
The American University
Park Citizens Association last
night unanimously Endorsed
him as its candidate to replace
Dr.. Hobart Corning. re.
The association joined sew
eral other associations in the
recommendation of DR.. Ha-
worth, who applied for the
position last summer. He has
been professor of science at
District Teachers College %
years.
The association also adopted
a resolution asking that John j.
Nolen, jr.. recently ousted plan
ming director of the District
Planning Commission, be re-
tanned in the commission.
The association met in the
Westmoreland Conversational
Church. Westmoreland circle
NV. Wilbur D. Thomas, pre-
sided.