The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-02-14

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JET BOMBER CRASHES - A
Navy jet attack bomber crashed
into wooded area five miles north
of Edenton late last Thursday; the
pilot bailed out and landed with
out injury.
RACING CRASH-One man was
killed and another seriously injured
in an automobile crash few hours
after the start of the Portugal
auto race last week.
NEW YORK BANK ROBBED -
A goateed Negro gunman used a
woman and two children as his
shield last week in the $14,614
stickup of a Bronx bank.
SHERIFF KILLS PRISONER =
A Marion policeman shot to death
a prisoner who repeatedly stabbed
the officer in the chest as the two
were en- route to the town jail in
a patrol wagon last week.
DEVELOPS CkACK-The Middle
East News Agency reports the
Kaaba, hottest of Mecca's shrines,
has developed wall and roof cracks
and King Saud himself is direct
ing repair work.
SENTRY SLAIN-A Marine SEN
try was accidentally slain by an
other sentry at the Naval Auxil-
larry Air Station at Edenton last
Wednesday.
ON THE E-Officials at
Mercy Hospital in Stanwood, Iowa,
last week said delivery expenses
were on the house for girl born
to Mrs. John Balls; the new arriv-
al, a girl, made 16 children for
Mrs. Balls, giving her eight boys
and eight girls.
TED WILLIAMS SIGNS = Ted
Williams, who will be 40 in Au-
gust, last week signed what I'M
doubtedly is baseball's best paying
contract; estimates of his 1858
salary with the Boston Red Sox
range to $135,0O0.
"a LITTLE SHAKY"-That's how
Governor Hodges termed the
States revenue pictures last week
as result of a january report on
tax collections which showed the
first decline in General Fund rev.
enues during this fiscal year.
EUROPEAN SPORTS TRAGEDY
= Twenty-one persons killed
when British airliner crashed and
burned in attempting to take off
in snowstorm at Munich, Ger
many, last Thursday, included
seven members of Britain's champ
ion soccer team, which was return
ing home from Yugoslavia.
CANCER GRANT-Dr. Paul Tai
1alay, "a, German born scientist in
the University of Chicago has been
given a grant of $587,344 by the
American Cancer Society for fur
Their pursuit of cancer research in
which it is proposed to spend 80
million dollars. The doctor is said
to spend 70 hours a week in his
laboratory.
NORTHERN LIGHTS-The finest
display of Aurora Borealis in
many years was witnessed Monday
night for about three hours; the
last display was seen three
months ago. The lights are electri-
cal discharges in the ionosphere
some Sc to 80 miles above earth.
Old people used to say it was the
reflection of the sun shining on
or behind the polar ice-cap.
CRAZY JOCKEY-Melvin West,
the cracked disc jockey, who took
off for Bermuda Jan. 18th on his
second attempt to reach it from
Morehead City has been given up
for lost. He got encouragement
from a restaurant man as a pub
licity stunt, deserted his wife and
two children to seek vain glory in
an 18-ft. boat.
544 PUPILS EXPELLED - New
York City's schools last Friday
expelled 544 pupils both boys and
girls as chronic troublemakers;
the largest exodus was from
Brooklyn, area of many of the re-
cent school rapes, Standings, and
disorders that spurred the new
disciplinary measures.
SLOW DOWN - Ten-year-old
Eddie Hodges, Mississippi folk
singer who is in hit Broadway
musical called "Music Man," has
been told to slow down, that he's