The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-02-07

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LESS WAR DANGER"-Soviet
Ambassador Jacob Malik said last
week he believes the dangers of 6
nuclear war are ga little less" thar
a year ago.
SIX MILLION DOLLAR ESTATE
Robert R. Young, the railroad
magnate who killed himself last
month, left an estate valued in ex-
cess of six million dollars to his
widow, Anita O'Keefe Young.
EIGHT DIE IN FIRE-Eight per.
sons, including two small children
persisted Sunday in a flash fire
near Guy, Ark, which destroyed a
small frame dwelling used as
temporary living quarters.
DEBTS INCREASE-Consumer's
installment debt increased by 531
million dollars in December and
was at record total of $34, 127, :
100000 at the end of the year, ac-
cording to the Federal Reserve
Board.
BRAZILIAN CRASH KILLS g.
A Brazilian airliner burst into
flames and crashed on takeoff at
Rio de Janeiro Saturday night,
killing five of the 81 persons
aboard and injuring another %
persons.
LOST LICENSES-The Motor We
hicles Department said 30,444
motorists lost their driving privil-
eyes during 1957-11,9O6 for
drunk driving and 1884 for
speeding offenses requiring a man.
datory license suspension.
PLUNGES TO DEATH-Dr. Peter
Ilkow, 29-year-old Duke University
instructor in German who was
prosecuted with his parents and
informed by the Nazi Gestapo at
the age of 16, plunged to his death
last Friday from a fourth floor
window at Duke University.
FIREBUG CONFESSES = A full
confession Saturday by Richard T.
Satterwhite, 81, of Mccain, a Uni-
versity of North Carolina medical
student, solved Chapel Hills three
week old "firebug" mystery, which
involved a dozen fires caused by
incendiary means.
COUNTY OF THE YEAR-Hen-
derson County has been announced
as the winner of a $1,000 cash
award as the states 1857 "County
of the Year in Rural Progress"
area awards of $500 each went to
Alexander, Montgomery, Person
and Pasquotank counties.
"HoT WIRE USED ON IN
VENTOR-Dr. Lee De Forest, "a
year-old Father of Radio" upder-
went removal of a bladder tumor
in Santa Monica, Calf, last week
by means of electro-dessication,
commonly spoken of as a hot wire;
this method of surgery was invent
ed in 1907 by DR.. De Forest.
KILLED BY MISTAKE = Mrs.
Jewell English, "a, was shot to
death while officers attempted to
arrest Carl Burton who with Will
liam Little kidnapped Missouri
state trooper. Burton got away,
Little killed himself, and officers
bullets killed the young woman al
Paducah, KY.
FIVE DIE IN CRASH = The
wreckage of a twin-engine private
plane and the bodies of it's five
passengers were found Thurday
of last week on a bleak mountain
top at the West Virginia.Virginis
border; the plane, on an ambulance
flight from st. Petersburg, Fla, t.
Charleston, w. Va, had been miss
ing two days.
FOLLOWED INSTRUCTIONS =
A store manager in Stourbridge
England, saw to it that sign il
his store was taken down after ;
woman customer followed its in
structions; Miss Elizabeth Poul
ton, So, told the court that whel
she visited the American-syle self
service grocery for the first tim
she was delighted to find a sigl
saying "please take one" beside
pile of wire baskets.
| STRONG SToMACH-Found il
the stomach of a COW which die
on Shelby farm located near
mill dump were: three razo
blades, four nails one to five inche
long, 14-inch chain from poke
watch, a clothes pin spring, tw