The coastland times., 1958-03-14

LOST ARM = Herman Starboard,
"a, lost his right arm in a wreck
Sunday near Moyock.
AGED 109-That's Mrs. Rodia
Adkins of Lynchburg, Va, the
youngest daughter in family of
ten. She is still able to talk of her
recollections of the Civil War.
UNHAPPY" BURNS CHURCH
AN 11-year-old London boy says
he set fire to a church because
God made him unhappy; the blaze
caused more than $500 damage.
LIFE SENTENCES-Joe Helly of
New York and Robert Grunly Of
Mass, got life Imprisonment in
court in Wilmington, N. C. for the
rape of the young wife of serv-
iceman stationed overseas.
FORECAST FOR 8500-Man 65
centuries from now may have a
hairless head, spindly legs and no
toes; University of Southern
California biology professor terms
these evolutionary possibilities"
HEARST'S CASTLE-After May,
the fabulous estate of the late
publisher w. R. Hearst at San
Simeon, Calf. will be opened to
the public. 1t has been donated to
the state for tourist attraction.
NEGRO NOT WANTED-Do tell:
In the tolerant" north, the home
of a negro doctor who bought a
house in an all-white section in
Brooklyn, N. Y, was sprayed with
gasoline and set on fire.
U. S. JET SHOT DOWN--Comnu-
mist antiaircraft guns shot down a
u. S. Sabre Jet near the Korean
neutral zone last Thursday, and its
pilot was last seen parachuting
into Red-controlled territory.
$3.50 MILLIONS-This sum is the
estimated amount spent annually
by Is northeastern N. C. Counties
with Norfolk merchants, who get
so per cent of their out of town
trade from North Carolina. an ad-
vertising agency reported in Nor
folk this week.
MOSQUITOS-An expert in Nor
folk says mosquitoes will never be
wiped out in the salt tidelands.
Fogging he said is not practicable
and only helps the mosquitoes to
develop a tolerance for DDT.
LEFT 3/4 MILLION-R. Shelton
White, a Perquimans County ma
tive, and Raleigh builder who died
at SO, left an estate valued at
$774,645. Provided in his will that
presents should be given at Christ
mastime to all needy persons in
his native county.
FORTUNE FOR NURSE. E.
Sexton 80, bachelor inmate of
nursing home in Texas, left his SIS
million fortune to Mrs. Agnes
Kirk, 40, nurse of another rest
home in which Mr.. Sexton had for
merly lived for about two years.
BUFFALO LoOSE-A herd of
eight buffalo belonging to a ranch
er at Pinion, Colo, took off for un-
known parts when a gate was left
ipen February % and have evaded
all efforts of searchers to locate
them for over two weeks.
DISAPPOINTED With STRAIGHT
AS = A 10-year-old Connecticut
fifth-grade pupil, Richard Allen,
dissatisfied with his report card,
ran away from home last week;
he was found and returned home
by his father, who explained that
the boy had been aiming for A
plus but had gotten exclusively
AS.
DRUNK DRIVER EXECUTED -
In the remote Soviet Republic of
Kazakhstan, drunken driver was
executed by firing squad because
he ran into crowd of pedestrians,
killing one and injuring several;
the Attorney General of Kazakh-
stan termed drunken driving the
No. / traffic problem of the re-
public.
EXPLORER III DID NOT Or
BIT-This most advanced u. S.
Satellite probably burned to dust
in plunge toward earth shortly,
after it was launched Wednesday
of last week, scientists have decid-
ed; the last stage rocket failed
to ignite, preventing the satellite
from going into orbit.
HIJAcKING STORY TOLD ~
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