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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-11
Admiral Robert Pirie
Is Welcomed Aboard

The new Deputy Chief of
Naval Operations for Air,
Vice Admiral Robert B. Pirie,
was welcomed aboard" at a
gala reception last night.
There were dozens of hosts
including his personal staff
and personnel of the division
making up his Office, at the
reception in the Crystal Room
of the Naval Gun Factory's
Oficers Club.
Sharing honors with the
admiral whose achievements
during World War II in the
Pacific earned him a long list
of decorations, medals and
citations, was Mrs. Pirie.
The honor guests (she in
a blue lace gown with white
orchids, received just inside
the entrance with Rear Ad-
miral F. N. Kivette, assist
ant chief. and Mrs. Kivette,
and Capt. Charles Landing,
aide to Admiral Pirie, and
Mrs. Landing.
Spring flowers decorated
the two buffets for the party
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-11
Readers
CLEARING
House
Detroit Move


Mrs A. H. o., Siluer Spring
To Mrs. F. G.. L., Oron Hill
Two years ago we returned
to this area after living in
the Detroit area for several
years. Since Detroit is so
large and industrial, we found
living conditions in the sub
urbs more practical for a
family with children.
I suggest you try the Lake
Shore Village terrace apart
mentS in st. Clair Shores, a
suburban community reached
by driving out Jefferson ave-
nue. and continuing on. Lake
Shore drive past Crosse
Point.
1t is located right on Lake
st. Clair and residents are
given cards to a private
beach and picnic area.
Apartments are two and
three bedrooms, with base
ments and all major appli-
ances furnished. Rents COM
pare to this area.
Bus transportation is ex-
cellent-schools and churches
are all convenient and Crosse
Point with its lovely shops
is only a mile or two away.
We noticed that the cost
of living-gasoline, groceries,
dry cleaning, utilities, etc,
was slightly higher than in
this area.
Summers are about the
same as this area with quite
a bit of humidity. However,
the winters are very cold
with great deal of snow
and your family may enjoy
ice skating on Lake st. Clair
or in the man-made Kinks in
the park.
Detroit has an unusual zoo
and many points of interest
for you and your children.
Don't forget to take the chill
dren to the Children's Zoo
located on Belle Isle. Good
luck on your move.
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and a Navy string orchestra
played for the Z to 9 pm.
event.
Among the more than 200
attending were: Rear Ad-
miral and Mrs. William E.
Center, and Rear Admiral
and Mrs. Kleber S. Master
son.
Also on the service party
circuit yesterday was a
coffee" fete given by Mrs.
William H. Spicer for wives
Of the garrison officers of
Fort Myer. where her hus-
band is the commanding
officer.
The party was the last in
a series Mrs. Spicer has
given every Tuesday for the
wives and yesterdays in
cluded wives of officers of
the famed Bird Infantry
Regiment.
Mrs. James Richardson,
wife of Col. Richardson and
Mrs. Mark Brennan, wife of
Col. Brennan, assisted the
hostess.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-11

Don't just drift" away from
them in preoccupation with
every immediacy.
If you discussed current
affairs together when you
we're dating. do so now.
Don't close into a shell.
each content to read the
newspaper in silence.
If you used to enjoy dane
ing, dinner out, a play or
night club, go on making
dates" with each other for
such things now.
Consciously enter into each
others interests. Nothing is
more chilling to a man who
comes home from the Office
full of his successes or sup
posed successes of the day
than to have his wife greet
his words with no comment
or a perfunctory response.
And it's hard on a wife
to sense boredom on the part
of her husband as she's re-
counting her new plans for
the women's club lecture
series or her experiences
fortunate or unfortunate
at the bridge table.
Even if you're not inter-
ested, act interested and
you'll shortly become inter-
eSted..
Deliberately cultivate in
terestS that are new to both
of you and that you can
enter together-for example.
a record collection, study of
art, gardening, a community
concern, some new sport, a
world problem, child guild
ance, politics-anything!
Scarcely a day goes by
that I don't receive a letter
of complaint from some wife:
Before we married, my hus-
band wanted me to go out
with him all the time. Now
he'll never take me any
where"
Perhaps she is insisting
that he go with her only to
places that interest her but
don't interest him - she
should use more imagination.
Too often a husband settles
down contentedly in his
home like a barnacle, forget
full of the fact that his wife
is still a human being with a
desire to live a normal life.
He should budget some of
his time for companionship
with her, just a faithfully as
he budgets his income to pay
his taxes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-11
YOUR FAMILY AND YOU
Successful Marriage
Calls for Hard Work

indicated by the wife who
asserted, Henry and I have
exactly the same tastes in
everything-but it took him
10 years to learn that!"
Bishop James Pike declares
that every mutual interest
in a marriage is like another
hawser thrown from ship to
dock to hold the two fast"
and he suggests these lines
of action:
Keep up the interests which
first brought you together.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-11
BY DR.. PAUL POPENOE
National Newspaper Syndicate

Almost anyone can get
married. But is your partner
glad that you are married?
The letters I receive and
the divorce statistics indicate
that the answer to this ques-
ton isn't always yes.
I have pointed out many
times that successful mar
riage depends largely on
community of interests; and
/ hope it's not often the kind
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Say what you please about the rougher life of the old
days. Granddad didn't have the problem of trying to give to
many Much we'd like to give to anything and
everything that around find impossible; nearly
impossible to give just little to everyone We've just
about stopped the wastefu practice of giving flowers to
fade the graves of friends and prefer to give
the departed
Granddad didn't have much money, and he didn't need
much for contributions He had small local tax to pay
and that's all he paid in the form of taxes Usually he
tbued something to the church and Clipped in when
neighbor lost everything in fire. out of work long
time because of sickness He really knew anything
about having to donate.
Nowadays have the Red Cross, the Blue Cross the
White Cross and the double We have donate to the
Polio fund the Cancer fund.- the T. B. fund the t. fund.-
the muscular dysrophy fund.- the Salvation Army and
dozen churches whose solicitors travel far in day. while
Grandpa anyone except those from his own
neighborhood church.
There is nothing that makes fellow feel better than
to be able to respond literally to many of these worthy
appeals And nothing is embarrassing than to have to
turn down for plain lack of cash.
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JAMBOREE
Continued from Page One)

Naval Facility personnel at Bux-
ton. During this event best cos
TUNED pirates will be selected to
compete on the following night at
Mays Head in the king-queen clas-
sic of the Jolly Rogers Ball.
In Manteo at the school gymna-
SUM pirate teen-agers in costume
will dance on Friday night to the
tunes of Francis Meekins and his
Buccaneer Combo. During this
April II dance a new pirate prince
and princess will be selected to
succeed frankie White and Diane
Tillett who won that royal honor
last year.
The Jolly Roger Ball at The
Casino will feature the selection
of the new king and queen of the
1853 Jamboree. Those selected will
be officially crowned by Governor
Luther Hodges during the Coquina
Beach phase of the National Sea-
shore dedication on Thursday
afternoon, April "a. The king and
queen selected must be residents
of Dare County, however during
the jolly Rogers Ball there will be
prizes for nonresident runner-ups
for the royal titles.
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THE OFFICE OF CORONER.

Most people nowadays do NOT attach sufficient Importance
to the office of Coroner 1t is constitutional office occupied
in N c. for term of four years competent
der public service
Despite its Importance, it has to be viewed
political plum usually handed to not of particular
consequence politically in the community, of Civ
ing out little In counties the Coroner gets fee
everme he considers it necessary to enegze himself suf
fceny to make report In few counties salary paid
Dare for instance hands out pension of $40 per month for
this job
The office of has degenerated in this country
In the larger counties and cities has Importance and
ders service One also knows how much service fails
to render For instance is supposed to investigate
deaths whose origins unknown, obscure under
pcous circumstances The failure of the to act in
of these often enables crime remain undis-
covered and criminals to go free
The office of Coroner should be held only by phys
cian main trained in the study of the human body to
be of value whatever Only doctor may do the job prop
ery In the smaller counties there have been long periods
when doctor available for the job Too often
filed by person with limited ability to merely draw
the pay
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@ [ / M p S E S
TIL E P A S 7
BY CAROLYN LLOYD

"Be the girl of his Easter
Dreams" the ad read. In this years
styles and at current prices, she is
just as apt to be his Easter night
mare.
How did all this preoccupation
with clothes become part of Eas-
ter, wonder. Surely those woman
who stood amazed before the
empty tomb on that first Easter
morning were not concerned with
hats. Lest l begin to sound too
noble, let me confess that one of
my besetting sins is the love of
clothes. AS a child, l thought an
Easter dress of great Importance,
even if l did have to wear the
same leghorn hat, retrimmed, year
after year. Nevertheless, was not
allowed to think that the day was
arranged for the prime purpose of
allowing me to exhibit my new
clothes. The forty days of Lent
were a period in which l was
taught self-denial and self disci-
pline, not easy lessons for child,
but fruitful ones once they were
accepted. On Easter morning, my
mite box was heavy with pennies
and nickels that ordinarily would
have been spent for candy or
drinks; and as l placed it on the
collection plate, l knew that it rep
resented something more than the
actual money inside. There were
always some little friends who
scoffed at the idea of Lenten disci-
pline and tried to play the part of
Satan, but it came to be matter
of pride to say, Get thee behind
me-" Wouldn't it be wonderful if it
were that easy for an adult, once
he comes to realize that the child
hood discipline was the preliminary
training for much harder sort of
self-denial. 1t was much easier for
child to give up candy than it
is for an adult to conquer pride,
envy, selfishness, and other sins of
the soul-even for forty days. One
of my pupils once asked what a
mite box is for, and another inno-
Gently answered that he thought it
was a box in which one put money
to pay for his sins. Would that it
were that easy.
There is a story about two So
phisticated young things who,
dressed to the teeth, arrived at a
city church one Easter morning to
find all seats taken. One said to
the other, at does look like all
these people who come every Sun
day could stay home one day and
leave room for u.s."
Chances are that there will be
plenty of room for us all this Eas-
ter morning; and it won't matter
whether we are wearing old cloth
es or new when we hear the joyful
words, Christ is risen"
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COLONY
Continued from Page One)

tions who wished to try out they
would be given every consideration.
Last year for the first time, some
important local roles were filled by
residents of Manns Harbor; the
bridge across Croatan Sound made
it possible for these actors to live
at home and take part in the show.
Principal Roles
Cora Mae Basnight of Manteo is
the only local person named so far
to a principal role in the show
this year. She will again play the
part of Agona.
eve are hoping that a native
of Manteo or this general area will
qualify for the part of Chief Man.
teo, role played in former sea-
sons by Woody Fearing" said
Jordan.
Off-island principals scheduled
for parts in the show this year
include the following: Oliver Link
as John Borden; Lois Zierk Gar
rem, Eleanor Dare; Mary Long,
Queen Elizabeth; Charles Worrel,
Governor White; John Whitley, Sir
Walter Raleigh; James Sechrest,
Father Martin; George Perry,
Ananias Dare; Gerd Young, Dame
Coleman; Richard Newdick, Mas
ter of Queens Ceremonies; Earl
Rankin, historian; and Walter
Stroud as Uppowoc.
Bill White of Chapel Hill will
be stage manager during the 1858
season, and Elizabeth WEIGH will
return as assistant stage manager.
Gilbert Pirovano, director OF
music during the dramas 18th sea-
son, will complete auditioning OF
students and graduate students of
Westminster Choir College, Prince
ton, N. j., during the current
month. The Lost Colony Chorus
this year will feature voices of
Westminster singers.
Rehearsals for the 1858 season
will begin on Monday, June 8, it
was stated. There will be perform
ances nightly, except Mondays,
from June % through Labor Day
Eve, August 81.
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SUNRISE SERVICE

There will be joint Easter Sun
rise Service at 5:15 am. near
Mother Vineyard on Roanoke Is
land directly in front of the Bruce
Etheridge home overlooking the
Roanoke Sound.
This service is to be sponsored
jointly by the Manteo Baptist
Church, the Manteo Methodist
Church and st. Andrews Episcopal
Church, The ministers of the three
congregations will participate.
The intention of this service is
that Of giving a corporate, visible
and tangible witness to the COM
mon belief in the Resurrection of
Jesus Christ from the dead, to the
greater glory of God.
This service is not intended as
a substitute for the regular serv-
ices of worship and the ministers
hope that many persons will feel
moved to join in this corporate act
of praise and thanksgiving.
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SMITH
Continued from Page One)

brose, Lee Ambrose, Frank Ca
boon and Victor Meekins.
Mr.. Smith had been a lifelong
resident of East Lake, where he
spent his life in numbering, fishing
and farming. He was a veteran of
overseas service in World War /.
He returned from the Army and
married Miss Emily Shannon, then
teaching school at East Lake, who
later served as postmaster of Buff
falo City until the office was dis
continued, and who is now the East
Lake postmaster. He was a mem
Der Of the East Lake Methodist
Church.
He was an exceptionally good
citizen, honest, upright, honorable,
and fortnight in all his relations
with his fellowmen. He bore an
unblemished record as a citizen,
neighbor, husband and father, and
all the years had stood out
among his neighbors because of
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FLU
Continued from Page One)

Jake is behind the wheel of his
truck. Capt. Van Henry O'Neal and
First Mate, Powers Garrish, who
missed the weekly trip to Wash
ington during the epidemic, are
setting the sails bright and early
tomorrow morning for quick trip
up and back between now and Fri
day. Mrs. Mary Eliza Parsons, who
was taken by helicopter last week
to Morehead City Hospital is re-
ported recovering from her attack
of pneumonia.
The extent and magnitude of the
publicity which the island received
at the hands of the Associated
Press astonised many here and
caused great concern among those
who read such exaggerated head
lines as 1900 Suffer from Flu on
Doctorless Island" or Hundreds
Stricken by Flu on Ocracoke Is
land" etc, ETC., headlines which
carried the story far and wide
throughout the nation. Relatives
and friends wrote or telephoned
from as far west as California.
Some people who weren't sick at
all got "Get-Well" cards on the
assumption that everyone here was
sick. The American Red Cross
Headquarters in Atlanta 'phoned to
Nurse Bragg Offering to send
nurses and medicine. Individual
nurses wrote offering their serv-
ices. Some persons even sent sug-
gestions for cures. If only some
doctor, seeking a good place for
retirement and practice, would
take heed of the widespread pub
licity, then it will not have been in
vain.
Ocracokers were amused at
some of the mis-statements in
newspaper stories and broadcasts.
Ocracoke is NOT in Dare County;
it's in Hyde County; Ocracoke is
NOT a two-hour boat trip from
Hatteras. 1t may have been that
in the days of Blackboard the Pr
rate who was killed off Ocracoke
in 1718, but with free state-oper-
ated ferry across Hatteras Inlet,
and a new state highway down the
length of the island to the village,
Ocracoke is only 80 minutes by
ferry and another 80 minutes by
road from the so-called "city" of
Hatteras. And incidentally, Nurse
Bragg is NOT a "Mrs." (and does
MT want to be); she is Miss Kath-
leen Bragg.
Due appreciation and thanks has
been expressed by the local Civic
Clubs, who instituted the call for
help, to DR.. Norton and DR.. Glezen
Of the State Board of Health, to
the U. S. Coast Guard, and to our
neighboring physician, DR.. Gar
land Wampler for their coopera-
ton and assistance.
So, alls well that ends we'll, and
the people of Ocracoke are wen
again.
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RESIDENT
a -
Continued from Page One)

and long, rough winter have
combined to prevent Mrs. Midgette
from getting her usual outdoor
exercise, and she is anxious for
warmer weather so that she can
get outside the house and enjoy
the sunshine and the flowers. And
when she is able to get out, don't
be surprised to see her down on
her knees wedding out some of
the many flowers identifying the
yard. Both she and her daughter,
Mrs. Lucetta Willis, with whom
Mrs. Midgette makes her home
now, are flower lovers and have a
closed-in front porch on their home
that affords protection in the win
ter for many plants of various
types.
L. B. Midgette, her father, was
the keeper of the Little Kennekeet
Lifeboat Station, and she grew up
with ten brothers and sister on
Hatteras Island at what is now
Salvo. When she was child, the
school term only lasted one-and-a-
half months in the summertime,
and so her reading and writing
ability were gained at an early
age through considerable effort on
her part. The preachers always
used to stay at their home, she
says, and at an age when most
children are just beginning to read
and write she was able to tell
them what scripture they had used
as the text for their sermons.
When she was married to Ebe-
nezer Midget in 1884, he had al
ready built their house, and they
had it ready to move into. This
house in which they lived for II
years is still. standing at Waves
and is occupied by Littleton Gray,
a beloved citizen of the community
of Waves.
In 1901 when she and her hus-
band moved to Manteo, there were
only about 20 families living in
what presently comprises the town.
Mr.. Midgette, she also relates, ran
the first mail from Roanoke Is
land to Currituck in a sloop. She
has been an active member of the
Missionary Society (now the Wom-
ans Society of Christian Service)
of Mt. Olivet Methodist Church
ever since she moved to town in
1901. One of the many items which
she can tell you concerning the
church's history is about its origi-
nal building being remodeled in
1907 and 1908, taking on the shape
which is still retained today by
the church proper.
Mrs. Midgette and her husband
enjoyed 81 years of married life
together before his death in 1941.
OF the seven children born to them,
two died at an early age, leaving
one son and four daughters who
attained adulthood. The son, Julian
L. Midgette, was their first child;
he grew up to be an outstanding
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Methodist preacher and had
preached in almost every county
in North Carolina before he died
in 1885 at the age of so. Mrs. Mid
gette lost two daughters, Miss Jen-
eta Midgette and Mrs. Mary (R.
b. Lennon, within three months
during an influenza epidemic the
winter of 1917-1918. The two
daughters surviving are Mrs. Della
Robert L. Mum of Bayside, Va,
and Mrs. Willis of Manteo. Also
surviving are one grandson, and
four great-grandchildren. = Pratt
Williamson, Jr.
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SYMPATHY EXTENDED.
Williamson Enterprise

(Willamston EnterpriSe)
With little exception the South sympathzes with
New York in its task of handling tragic school problem
Most of those who have commented the upheava did not
suggest that federal troops be sent in with fixed bayonets
and loaded machine guns
Some of the recorded comment offered without hate
malice follows:
Senator Herman E. Talmadge of Georgia. "The people
of Georgia are deeply sympathetic with the citizens of
Brooklyn It has been suggested that the President of
the United States send federal troops to Brooklyn in
the that he did force social order
upon the public schools of Little Rock Ark The people of
Georgia reject such interference in purely
local affairs as a solution to any problem
Governor Orva Faubus of Arkansas: 1.-THE people are
not being told tenth of the trouble about racial prob
lens going outside the South"
The Alabama Journal" of Montgomery: 1T is such
people as these, who having made of their
schools have the nerve to tell how to run ours"
The Jackson, Miss. Daily News obviously the civil
rights of the teachers ard the students well being
hagrantly violated"
The Charleston, S. c.. News and Courier: "As the
metropolitan centers receive of Negro migrants
who consider themselves free of Southern requirements for
good behavior thy viii encounter and troubles"
Men occasionally stumble the truth. but most of
them pick themselves up and hurry off nothing had
happened. Winston Churchill
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-04-04
SOME QUALIFICATIONS TO BE HOPED FOR
IN THOSE WHO SEEK PUBLIC OFFICE

We need men who will place principle above policy;
who have of fairness and honesty decency and
dignity, and of competence We need men who are
not laughing stocks at home and abroad because of big
mouth and false of sweled up Importance We need
who honest and fair in their relations with their
fellows who attempt straddle every ISSUE while
secretly they think, being all things to all men, We
need who will put their time on the work which they
hind the door politics concerning everything in which they
have right to meddle
damage courthouse His fellow officials often judged
by his ignorance and connivn He intelligent people
depart disgust and to be prone to dscredt the whole
people The counts good and credit damaged and
he be got of office before the untold harm he
has done has both directly and indirectly proved costly to
every citizen Unfortunately people often slow in waking
up to the damage that has been done by selfish and nor
ant in charge of the peoples affairs.
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these virtues. He was therefore
held in highest esteem by all who
knew him, and his passing is a
severe loss to his community.
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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.
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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.