The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-02-28

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NEAR RECoRD-HAUL Three
Spanish seamen were arrested in
Norfolk Tuesday and charged with
smuggling. marijuana as federal
agents seized a package of 31a
pounds of the forbidden weed.
HUNDRED PERSONS RESCUED
Springfield, M s., firemen
Tuesday removed more than
hundred persons over the depart
ment's ladders from the upper
three floors of a burning five-story
building.
SELDOM HAPPENS - Grady c..
Huneycutt, Albemarle auto me-
:hanic, lost a billfold containing
81 1924 along much-traveled
street, only to have it returned the
next day by w. P. Ivey, Albemarle
florist.
THREE HELICOPTERS CRASH
Six crewmen were killed in the
collision of three big Army hell
copters near Red Bluff, Calf, last
Saturday, the helicopters crashed
into hill when they encountered
a. sudden fog.
FEDERAL PAY RAISES = Bills
giving pay raises averaging Is
per cent for postal workers and II
per cent for Civil Service workers
and would add 963 million dollars
year to federal payroll costs
have been approved by House
committee.
TO GET DEEPER IN DEBT-The
Senate Finance Committee last
week approved the full five bill
lion dollar boost in the debt cell
ing, from 275 to 28O billion dol
lars, as asked by President Eisen-
hover, effective until June 80,
1859.
BURN MATCHES FOR FUEL u
Crewmen of the 2,873-ton British
freignter S. S. Peterland chopped
up seven wooden hatch covers to
fuel the ship for day and half
before a tug took the oil-dry ship
in tow off the Virginia coast last
week.
AUTO FUMES FATAL = Four
young Wilkes-Barre, Pa, young
men were killed early Sunday by
carbon monoxide fumes as they sat
in their car in a rural area waiting
for help to fix a flat tire; the
fumes leaked from defective
manifold and were drawn back up
into the car by the heater fan.
RAPE IN CHICAGO-Five Negro
boys, ages Is to 18, have been
charged by Cook County, ILL.,,
grand jury with slashing and rap
ing a 13-year-old white Girl
Scout; the attack occurred Febru-
airy a as the girl ran an errand a
block from her home in a racially
mixed neighborhood.
RATE HIKE VOTED-Increased
postal rates approved last Thurs
day by the Senate Post Office
Committee would set rates at five
cents for letters mailed out of
town and eight cents an ounce for
airmail, and increase second-class
rates 80 per GENT and third-class
rates 60 per cent.
STRANGE DEATH - Officials
were Investigating the possibility
of murder in the case of a 17-yeaf-
old boy, Richard ]. Belongia, of
West De Pere, Wis, who was
found lying on the kitchen floor of
his home with a plastic bag tied
tightly over his head having suf-
located him.
FIRE KILLS ONE, INJURIES A.
Van Johnson Zachery, eight-month-
old Negro, was suffocated and
Mrs. Jerry Zachery and three chill
dren, ages 2, 3, and 6, were hos
pitahzed last Friday as a result
of a fire that swept through a
two-story farm dwelling near
Elizabeth City.
CEMENT MIXER ACCIDENT -
One man was killed and another
badly injured at Clearwater, Fla,
when a cement mixing machine
they had climbed inside to clean
Started up and the mixing blades
began chopping the two; it took a
crew of workmen IS minutes to
cut the mixer apart with torches
SO the men could be removed.
FLOWERS CONVICTED - john
ston County alleged bootleg liquor