The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-01-03

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GUARDS FIRED ~ Two prison
guards were fired for "custodial
last week after six
white felons escaped from the
Franklin County prison camp near
Bum on Christmas night.
LEFT H0MELESS--More than
1900 Chinese refugees were left
homeless early Sunday when fire
swept squatter huts in Kowloon,
destroying $50 huts; two persons
were reported missing.
LITTLE GIRL RESCUED = A
volunteer searcher Sunday found
3-year-old Shirley Ann Ramsburg,
missing for more than 48 hours in
the rugged Blue Ridge mountains
near Charles Town, w. Va.
CHRISTMAS SPIRIT-A Kings
Mountain man who got the Christ
mas spirit last week paid off two
debts, in the amounts of $7.30 and
SIS, which he incurred 26 years
ago.
DIXIE CLASSIC CHAMPS -
The University of North Carolina
handed N. C. State 1890 defeat
Saturday night for the champion
ship of the annual Dixie Classic
basketball tournament in Raleigh.
NEW CD APPOINTMENT -
Max ]. Silvers of Raleigh has ac-
cepted appointment to direct the
state Radio Amateur Civil Emer-
gency Service according to an
nouncement by State Civil Defense
Chief Edward F. Griffin.
TRAINMAN KILLED-Edward
Allen Darlington, a 65-year-old car
inspector for the Atlantic and East
Carolina Railroad was instantly
killed last Thursday night when he
was run over by a shifting. train
within the New Bern city limits.
DRAFT DELAY GRANTED -
The Memphis, Tenn, draft board
voted unanimously last Friday to
grant a 60-day draft delay for
singer Elvis Presley, giving him
time to complete a new film for
Paramount Studio.
TWO JETS CRASH-Two II. S.
Navy jet planse crashed into the
Pacific Ocean 200 miles southeast
of Yokohama, Japan, Sunday; both
pilots parachuted before the planes
crashed, but early reports said only
one pilot was rescued.
FINAL RACE FATAL-Italy's
world-famed Ezio Selva, driving in
what he had announced would be
his last race, was killed Sunday
when his powerboat flipped at 100
miles an hour in the Orange Bowl
Regatta at Miami Beach, Fla.
FORCED LANDING--A British
Overseas Always Corp. airliner,
bound from New York to Nassau
in the Bahamas with 20 passengers
and 2 crewmen aboard, made
safe forced landing at the Cherry
Point Marine Air Base Sunday
after developing propeller trouble.
THREE MARINES KILLED -
Three Marines were killed and
three others injured Christmas day
when the car in which thee were
returning to Camp Lejeune from
holiday leaves skidded on a rain
slick highway and crashed into a
tree.
AWOKE IN HOSPITALr-Wea-
yer Wikle, 80, of Franklin, walking
along the highway. with two
friends, suddenly slumped to the
ground unconscious, and he awoke
in a hospital with broken
shoulder; his companions said he
was struck by an empty beer bottle
tossed from a passing automobile.
$74 BILLION-From Washing
ton comes word that President
Eisenhower is expected to send
Congress shortly a budget APP
"a billion dollars, high
est in peacetime and comparable
to the peak spending of the Korean
War.
ONLY ONE IN N. Gin all
North Carolina, there is only one
individual with an income in excess
of million dollars a year, accord
ing to the annual report of the
Internal Revenue Service for 1864;
the largest group of the states
taxpayers are in the "$l, 900 and
under $4,000" bracket.