The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-02-14

MOON ROCKET-Congress was
told last week that it may be time
in about a year to try to fire a
rocket to the moon.
$4,000 FIRE - A three-story
building at Church and Freemason
in Norfolk was ruined by fire, lost
upwards of $4,000.
STOLE % CARS-Two 16 year
old Norfolk boys confessed to %
thefts of cars. They lived near
Wards Corner.
JOBLESS-Over a million were
added to therolls of unemployed in
the Nation in January, bringing
the total to "A million, govern
ment report says.
STAYS CHILD-After Turing a z
year old girl to a roof, with lolli-
pop, Francis Medaille, Is, choked
Kathleen Hegemann, and threw
her off the roof to her death. This
in the Bronx, New York.
PERISH IN FIRE-Mrs. Mary
Brooks, and an eight-year-old
daughter persisted in flames which
destroyed their home in Raleigh,
early Sunday morning.
NEGRO PRESIDENT-Rev. Gard
ner Taylor, SO, negro, has been
elected president of a group of
ministers, mostly white,-the New
York City Protestant Council. He
calls this step symbolic of the
essential unity of all Christians.
VIRGINIA TIGHTENS-Drunken
drivers in Virginia will not only be
fined 500 on the first offense,
but it is mandatory they spend ten
days in Jail, according to law
passed this week in the Senate.
DEATHS FROM AIRPLANE =
Seven top British athletes were
killed in a plane crash in Germany
when Fl persons persisted. The
twin-engined British plane at
tempted to take off in snow
storm. ..
MUST PAY - Former Congress
man ]. Walter Lambeth, whose
wealth is estimated more than one
and half million, was ordered in
court in Lexington to pay his wife
81, 400 month and $19,431 to
cover immediate expenses.
STOPS BULLET =
after a bullet fired point blank
at robbery suspect imbedded it.
self in cross hanging from his
neck, the 17-year-old Los Angeles
boy told reporters: "I'm gonna
reform"
DANGEROUS BIRDS-Lt. Jack
Morr almost lost his life, but did
lose million dollar Navy plane
last week near Edenton when a
flock of birds crammed into the
air intake of his engine. He was
en- route from Florida to Oceana,
Va. The plane crashed near high
way. The pilot bailed out.
FRENCH BOMBING-The French
lost their temper and bombed a
Tunisian border village killing IS
and wounding "a near the Algerian
frontier. Much concern is felt that
this action will result in Commu-
mist gains.
ADMITS FIVE SLAYINGS-Vir-
ginia state police say that 25-year-
old jeremiah McCray, an itinerant
Negro taking a lie detector test
for a Virginia Staying, calmly re-
lated last Friday the details of
four other killings, which have
been verified by law officers in
Ohio, Georgia and Alabama; he
told officers: Everybody I ever
robbed l killed"
JAP WAR BRIDE DEAD-Some
soldiers got lonely far from
home; forgot their racial pride and
their finer instincts, married with
the enemy and began mongrelizing
the race. Last week a war bride,
who came home with a soldier,
appears to have committed suicide.
The body of the 32-yr.-old Jap wife
of Johnnie Thomasson was found.
BODY IN TRUNK-The body of a
19-yr.-old negro woman of Akron,
o. was found stuffed in the trunk
of an automobile in Warwick, Va.
after 48 days. VIM. Carson. 25,
Akron negro says he strangled her
because she changed her mind
about running away with him. Car
son was married to another wom-