The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-04-04

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HANDY DIES-W. C. Handy, "a,
composer of the immortal "St.
Louis Blues" died last Friday at
New York; he had been blind and
confined to a wheelchair for sew
eral years.
MADE OF STERN STUFF-After
the rear wheel of a five-ton trac-
tor driven by his father ran over
Dennis Michael Decker, z, of Joliet,
ILL.,, the boy told doctors that he
felt "pretty good;" fortunately, the
ground was soft from spring rains.
COUPLE DIE TOGETHER - A
Wilmington couple, John Bert
Stevens, SO, and Mrs. Maude Mabel
Stevens, SO, each died of sudden
heart attacks at approximately
0:45 pm. saturday.
WHOLE TOWN CELEBRATED
At Ceres, Calf, last Friday,
there was big celebration of the
80th wedding anniversary of Will
liam and Emma Cook. Mr.. Cook
will be 100 years old on April IL,
and the wife 81 on October %.
NEW SUBMARINE RECORD =
The atomic submarine Skate dock
ed at New London, Conn.,, Satur-
day after setting a new record
from England to America, 2,975
miles, in seven days, all under
water.
BOY is PRAISED = Fourteen
year-old J. H. Ingram was highly
praised by ]. E. Hampton, 52-year-
old truck driver who was rescued
from his overturned truck by In
gram just 80 seconds before the
truck burst into flames.
299-YEAR SENTENCE-A Chi
cago criminal jury last Friday
night handed down a staggering
299-year prison sentence to baby
photographer who stabbed a 16-
year-old mother to death.
IIFE INTppIcoNNEENIT rLo+
was the sentence given last Friday
at Kinston to Pfc. Edward A. Kelt-
ner of Ashley, Ohio, a 22-year-old
Camp Lejeune Marine convicted of
raping Miss Shelby Waters, 18, of
Kinston last November.
DIES AT 168-At Monteria, Cor
doba, Colombia, death this week
took "the oldest man in the
world" Javier Pereira, Colon
bian Indian who calculated his age
at 1853, backed up by New York
physicians who said two years ago
he could be over $50 years old.
DISREGARDED INSTRUCTIONS
One or both of the two Air Force
planes that collided and disinte-
grated in the air last Thursday
near Bridgeport, Texas, killing 10
servicemen, disregarded assigned
attitudes, the CAA reports, appar-
emily seeking greater visibility by
dipping below an overcast.
LOOKING FOR HER BALL =
Three-year-old Leeta Young of
Dallas, Texas, was rescued by fire
men and neighbors after being
firmly stuck about four feet from
the top of the chimney of her
home; she had followed her "ldtty
cat" up ladder to the roof of the
house and then had dropped her
ball down the chimney and gone
after it.
DOCTORS TO GET RADIOS =
About rs Robson County doctors,
all staff members of Robson
County Memorial Hospital, are to
get two-way radios installed in
their cars to connect them with
both the hospital and the local
sheriff's office; this is the first
time in history such a blanket IL
cense has been issued by FEC.
AIRPLANE TRAGEDYS - Two
Bennettsville, s. c., businessmen
died when their private plane
crashed on Sugar Loaf Mountain
in western North Carolina late
Friday. Saturday morning an Air
Force pilot died in the flaming
crash of his jet trainer as he at
tempted desperate emergency
landing at the fogged-in Charlotte
Municipal Airport; the trainer
plowed into and burned an eight
room frame dwelling but all nine
occupants escaped safely.
TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS - Five
persons were killed, two others
critically injured in a head-on coll
lision at the crest of hill near
Martinsville. Va. early Saturday.