The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-01-31

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SLEEPS IS YEARS-Paul ySowa,
10, in Chicago, holds the record.
/ Normal in all respects save his
brain is asleep.
| COUPLE BURNED-Dr. Benjamin
Camp So and his wife were APP
parently burned to death in their
home in Atlanta after having been
beaten and robbed. Murder was
suspected.
AMBASSADOR ASKS SWAP -
Soviet Ambassador Georgi Zaru-
bin has repeatedly proposed that
the U. S. Congress exchange dele
cations with Russia's Supreme
Soviet.
KLANSMEN SENT TO JAIL -
Four Klu Klux Klansmen were
sentenced to prison last week in
Greenville, S. c., for their part in
the beating of a Negro deacon who
offered aid to destitute white
family.
HONEST ABOUT IT-Gastonia
Police Sgt. ]. E. Mosteller charged
himself with running a stop sign
after his patrol car hit another
vehicle on the way home from a
Boy Scout safety lecture.
TWO-YEAR-OLD CRUSHED =
David Stewart, 2, of Fuquay
Springs was killed last week when
he was run over by truck loaded
with cement blocks and driven by
his 17-year-old brother.
ASSASSINATION PLOT FAILS
An unsuccessful conspiracy to
seize the government of Bolivia
through the assassination of Presi-
dent Herman Siles was reported
last week from Las Paz.
YOUNG A SUICIDE-Robert r.
Young, 60, who had been famed for
his big coups in railroad financing,
shot himself to death Saturday in
Miami. He was president of the
New York Central with assets of
more than 21a billion dollars. But
the road owed more than one and
a quarter billion dollars.
NEGLECTED, HE DIED-Ray-
mond Johnson had a heart attack
at Ripley, w. Va. In vain he tried
to get someone to stop and help
him, as he leaned on the side Of
his car. Finally a cab driver stop
ped but it was too late when they
got the man to the hospital.
EMBEZZLER-Leonard Hart, 80,
who admitted he stole ST. 900 from
Denver bank, got 10 months in
prison, which made him somewhat
better off than a $4,000 a year
executive. Claimed he used the
money setting cocktails up for
friends.
BONUSES FOR BASTARDY-A
cut in appropriation for Welfare
work in South Norfolk has been
made in the sum of 80 per cent in
aid to dependent children. The
Mayor reported that one-third of
the children for whom this aid is
intended are illegitimate, about 90
of the 22O children being in this
class.
YOUNG AT 70-Two women who
have continued remarkably active
despite advancing age are Mrs.
Verde Scott, rs, of Midland,
Texas, and Mrs. Minnie Bean, 20,
of Norfolk; both are active handy
women around the house and. in
addition, Mrs. Scott does roof re-
pairs, electrical work, and is
licensed plumber.
SEAFARING SLUMP-There has
been a considerable decline in ship
ping out of the port of Norfolk.
Two years ago, seamen were happy
in the big pay they were getting
for trips across" Now, port
agents for the seamen's union and
shipyard workers are complaining.
Last month 2,4Q4 men received
union employment benefits, more
than four times as many as in the
month of July.
/ CRASHES, STILL SETS REC
0RD-A Navy Tradewind flying
boat, crippled by the loss of two
counter-rotating propellers thrown
by one of the jet turbine engines
$50 miles from San Francisco on
a flight from Hawaii, piled up on
a rocky breakwater in landing at
Alameda Naval Air Station last
Friday; despite the mishap, the
plane set a Hawaii-to-mainland
record for propeller-driven planes
of 5 hours, 81 minutes, or 81 min