The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-02-21

SCHOOL BURNED-A Valentines
Day fire that destroyed Central
High School for Negroes at Hills
boro is expected to give about 1000
Orange County school pupils at
least a weeks enforced holiday.
COLLEGE FUNDS-The Virginia
House Appropriations Committee
last Friday voted ALLEGATION of
$3.50, $50 in new money for the Col
lege of William and Mary in Nor
folk; the funds had been requested
to keep the colleges four-year
courses on an accredited basis.
DEMAND FOR POLIO SHOTS
A sharp pickup in the demand for
polio vaccine during the past
month has been reported by DR.. j.
w. R. Norton, State health officer.
DR.. Norton also pointed out that in
1857 the greatest number of para
| lytic polio cases occurred in chill
dren up to five years of age.
STUDENTS SUSPENDED - Six
teen students at Grainer High
School in Kinston were suspended
from school and three basketball
1 players were suspended from the
team as result of a fracas with
New Bern High School students
February II following a basketball
game.
READY FOR WAR - President
Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia has
declared, ave are ready to make
war for Bizerte." Although he is
determined $4,000 French troops
stationed in Tunisia must go, he
suggested the big French naval
base at Bizerte might still be used
by the North Atlantic Treaty
powers.
DROPS DEAD-After being con-
victed of selling untaxed liquor,
Lawrence Cole, So, World War
II bomber pilot, told the judge,
because of the state of my health,
a Jail sentence would mean my
DEATH" The defendant then drop
ped dead of heart seizure when
the judge imposed a suspended
two-year Jail sentence and $500
fine.
lDIES BEFORE RESCUE-Despite
desperate efforts to reach him, IA
year-old Donald Burns of Cotton,
Calf, died on an icy mountain
= ledge near San Bernardino last
Thursday; young Burns slipped
while hiking and fell from a foot
path onto a ledge 800 to 400 feet
down the mountain.
DRIVES ITSELF - The General
Motors Corp. last week demon
strated the first full-size car which
will guide itself down a highway;
GIN researchers emphasized, how
ever, that the automatic guidance
system is just "the first building
block" toward completely automa-
tic driving.
mo PUBLIC NUISANCE" = A
Johnston County Superior Court
jury last Friday decided that Percy
Flowers country store near Clay
ton, which the prosecution had
maintained was used for the un-
lawful sale of whiskey, is not
public nuisance and so must not
remain padlocked; the store was
padlocked in raid last July 6.
| MISSILE SUBMARINES = The
Navy started its ballistic missile
submarine program rolling last
week with announcement that con-
struction of two Polaris boats will
begin in Connecticut and third in
California; the first Polaris ship
will cost about Sill million.
WANTS FULL PROTECTION -
Ku Klux Khan leader James Cole
has said the Khan will hold no
more meetings in this state until
he received promises from police
of full protection for xxx rallies.
: AS of last Friday, the Khan in
North Carolina is operating COM
pletely underground, he said.
SURPLUS FOOD DISTRIBUTION
Another North Carolina county,
Johnston County, has been approx
ed for the distribution of surplus
food supplies for needy families;
600 families there are said to be
in need because of unemployment
, in some farm-related business and
: a drop in farm income. Distribu-
tion of surplus food to about $50
families in Beaufort County began
last month.
GIRLS RESCUED-Three teen
J age girls, Shirley Parnell, IA, Jan