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Evening star., 1958-03-12
|AU Five's Task
Appears Tough
In nTournament

EVANSVILLE. Ind. Mar. IL
(SpeciaD American Univer-
Sity's basketball team is faced
with a giant-killing task as the
NCAA small-college tourna-
ment enters its final rounds
here tonight.
The Eagles, now among the
eight survivors Of 80 original
entrants, meet Evansville, the
Mideast regional champion,
in tonight's second game at
l0:30. If successful. tomorrow
they must face the winner Of
the earlier game between
Wheaton and Chapman Of
California. expected to be
Wheaton, the defending cham
pion and favorite.
This afternoons opening
program matches St. Michael's
Of Vermont against Grambling
of Louisiana. and Southwest
Missouri State against South
Dakota.
All of the teams have some
thing to recommend them in
this tournament. having adj
vanced by first winning their
conference titles and then TAX
ing playoffs.
American is the Mason-Dixon
Conference and East Regional
winner, with a 22-5 season rec
ord and a string Of II straight.
It's stars are Willie Jones,
owner of the season scoring
record at AU, and Frank Weiss,
the all-tin1e career scoring
leader at AU.
Wheaton has the longest
streak of the tourney. 81, with
a 26-l record this season.
South Dakota is next with II
straight and a 1875 season.
Other records are TIA for st.
Michaels., 27-3 for Grabbing,
22-l for Southwest Missouri,
22-4 for Chapman and 2l-3 for
Evansville. In all, the eight
teams have won 126 games and
lost 26.
Evening star., 1958-03-12
WeightIifting Finals
AT MARYLAND Tonioht

The University Of Maryland'S
intramural weightlifting tour
nament will be concluded to-
night with the finals at the
Student Activities Building
starting at $50 o'clock.
Bob Hoffman, coach Of the
1856 United States Olympic
weightlifting team, will be on
hand with five Olympic cham
pions to give demonstrations.
Admission is free.
Evening star., 1958-03-12
|Ce|tics Bump
|Knicks Again
BY the Associated Press

Even William Penn, atop
Philadelphia's City Hall, seems
to be smiling today.
The Philadelphia Warriors
Of the National Basketball
Association finally clinched a
playoff berth after soaring the
daylights out of their followers
by losing five of their last seven
games.
The Warriors knocked over
the St. Louis HAWKS, the West
ern Division champions, 1866
l0l, only a few hours after the
Eastern champions, Boston
Celtics, eliminated the New
York Knicks, 126-119, for the
third straight year.
The Warriors never had to
worry against the Hawks as
Woody Sauldsberry and Neil
Johnston combined for 81
points to lead the Philadel-
phians. Bob Petit of the
Hawks topped the l.700 points
mark for the third straight
year, winding up the regular
season with 1,718 points.
The Warriors will play Syra-
cuse in a best-of-three series to
determine the opponent for
Boston. The winner will play
the Western Division playoff
victor.
Bob Cousy put on a one man
show with % points and 10
assists to help the Celts. The
Knicks. who haven't won a
game in Boston all season,
were paced by Richie Guerin
with 81 points and Ken Sears
with %. Bill Russell also had
% for Boston.
Evening star., 1958-03-12
PRESIDENTS

Continued From Page C-l
in the final period to put the
game away.
Washington missed its stellar
goalie, Nick Pidsodny, out with
a knee injury received last Sun
day against Charlotte. Nick
hopes to make it tonight, but
if he doesn't his place will be
taken by Ivan Walmsley Of the
Philadelphia Ramblers, who
played last night.
.. CHARLOTTE, N. c., Mar. II
Up. - Charlotte Goalie Les
Binkley shut out the New Hav-
en- Blades. 80. last night in a
first-round game of the EHL
championship playoffs.
A crowd of 3,0l6 saw the
Clippers, regular season champs
score two quick goals in the
first period. add another in the
second and stand of a deter
mined New Haven rally in the
flnal period.
Evening star., 1958-03-12

to date has been beating Old
Pueblo, also billed as wonder
horse in California until re-
Gently. AS q 2-year-old. Silky
won only one stakes, the Gold
en- Gate Futurity. and there
was nothing behind him who
looks like they will be around
at Louisville in May.
AS far as the colts liking to
linger far back and then make
one tremendous express train
run, it's not as unusual as some
folks seem to think.
Stymie often used to get lost
in the early stages and then
cut loose. Whirlaway, Triple
Crown winner of 1912, was q
terrific stretch runner. Ponder
Calumet's Derby winner in
1949, was 14th and last at the
half-mile marker and still won
by three lengths.
More recently, Needles, the
1856 Derby and Belmont Stakes
victor. also saved himself fol
his one blasting charge.
y 4 y
1t was rather disturbing to
learn that Phil Klipstein and
Tom Ross. who own Silky Sui
livan. were quoted on the West
Coast that if their colt goes to
the Derby, he would be shipped
right back to California and
skip the PreakneSs and Bel
mont Stakes.
Perhaps they'll change their
plans, especially if Silky Sui
Ivan lives UP to the hopes OF
his many well-wishers in the
Derby.
It's a great thing for racing
to have a horse catch on with
the man in the street like Silky.
A few years back, Native
Dancer did a tremendous job in
advancing the cause of racing
with his thrilling efforts on
television.
Silky looks like a suitable re-
placement for the famous gray
horse in the public relations
department. Here's hoping he
keeps step with The Dancer
! in the racing department.
Evening star., 1958-03-12
|CIextonHeuds
Army Navy

Vice Admiral E. w. Clexton
was elected president of the
Army-Navy Country Club last
night. succeeding Mai. Gen
David Tully.
Other officers named were
Maj. Gen. Arno H. Luehman
vice president; Mai. Gen. K. r
Barney, chairman of the Board
of Governors; Mai. E. T. o.
Donnell. secretary; Comdr. F
A. Baldwin, treasurer. and Rear
Admiral j. S. Phillips. chair
man of Golf and Grounds Com
mittee.
Evening star., 1958-03-12
AT THE RACES
With JOE KELLY

No matter how you look at it,
the 2-to-1 odds they're quoting
in the Aqua Caliente future
book on Silky Sullivan to win
the Kentucky Derby are simply
amazing. 1t has to be senti-
mental money.
The oft quoted Shakespearean
line Whats in a name?" is
being refuted by this cleverly
tagged 3-year-old colt who is
fast becoming q household
word.
Oddly. people who never read
the sports page. least the rae
ing news, are asking about
Silky Sullivan. One more vic
tory and he may be nominated
for Vice President.
This is no knock against the
fine name of Sullivan. 1t would
be unthinkable coming from
this department. especially
with st. Patrick's Day right
around the corner.
But Silky is no 2-to-1 choice
to win the Derby. Not with the
likes of Tim Tam, Jewels Re-
ward, Nadir, Misty Flight and
Jester around to run against
him.
Evidently, Trainer Reggie
Cornell. who conditions Silky
Sullivan. has not been swept up
by the wave of enthusiasm
which followed his colts tri-
umph in Saturdays Santa
Anita Derby.
He has changed his mind
about shipping his colt East for
the Florida Derby March 90,
and this probably is a smart
move. Cornell said his massive
colt is still a green runner and
he is not going to rush him
along. FITTING Silky against
the best 3-year-olds in the East
after a cross-country trip would
be asking a lot of the colt.
+ +
Silky Sullivan's racing record
so far is not in keeping with the
great globs Of publicity which
have been circulated about his
crowd-pleasing come-from-be-
hind style.
His greatest accomplishment
Evening star., 1958-03-12
SantaAnitaBets
Over s. Million
On Final Gard

ARCADIA. Calf. Mar. 70
(R.-A money pinch may be
on, but there was no sign Of
it at Santa Anita as it closed
out another lush season yester-
day.
A crowd of $4,000 saw Mrs.
Ethel Jacobs Promised Land.
winner Of five consecutive
Eastern stakes, but a failure
here, redeem himself by cap
turing the $1l6.l00 San Juan
Capistrano Handicap alta mile
and three quarters on the
grass. He ran the marathon
in 1852. beating out Tall Chief
II in a thrilling stretch duel.
The racing fans poured
$3.226,713 through the pari-
mutuel machines yesterday,
bringing the betting handle for
the 55-day meeting to $115,-
876,938, compared with $780,
232,254 last year. The daily
average this season was $2,106,-
$50 and $2,004,223 last. Total
attendance this season was
1,525,l17; last season 1,478, ,602.
This seasons daily average was
27,729. last seasons 26,884.
Best Season Since '46
So. though unemployment
figures are up. so is attendance
and betting on the bangtails.
Financially, it was Santa Anita's
best season since the post war
boom crowds of 1916.
The crowd got a sickenine
thrill in the fourth race yester-
day as Willie Shoemaker, three
time national riding champion
and the perennial leader at
Santa Anita, was bolted of his
mount. Naboo.
The horse lugged out sharply
on the first turn. Shoemaker
was bumped by two other horses
as he was going down. and one
jumped over him during the
speed jam. Miraculously, Willie
suffered no serious injury. He
was conscious and joked with
photographers as he was taken
by ambulance to the track hos
pital. then removed to Arcadia
Methodist Hospital. where he
spent the night. He was to be
discharged today. 1t was a
narrow squeak, and Willie could
have lost his life in exactly the
same spot on the track where
the great George Woolf was
killed in a fall in 1916.
Interesting Meeting
Aside from its financial sue
cess. Santa Anita had an ex-
ceptionally interesting meeting
from a racing standpoint. It
had two of the Nations top
horses. Round Table, the money
winning champion of 1857 who
picked up $244.130 here and
now seems a cinch to catch the
all-time champion, Nashua, in
the millionaire class. Then, OF
course, there was Silky Sullivan.
Silky, who captured the i'm
agination of sports lovers all
over the Nation with his thun-
dering dasheS through the
stretch. kept getting better and
better until he simply ran over
his rivals in winning the Santa
Anita Derby. He is the Vests
big hope for the Kentucky
Derby, May 3. against two East
ern threats, Tim Tam and
Jewels Reward.
Silky's owners. Phil Klipstein
and Tom Ross, have decided
definitely to skip Florida rae
ing. They will start Silky in
the Oakland Mile at Golden
Gate Fields April 10 and he
then will fly directly to Church
i'll Downs for the Derby.
Evening star., 1958-03-12
Rose Park Scratched

LONDON, Mar. IL (P).-Rose
Park was scratched today from
the 18th running of the Grand
National Steeplechase. The
race will be held March 30 at
Aintree. No reason was given
for the withdrawal.
Evening star., 1958-03-12
PRO BASKETBALL

New YORK at Boston
Philadelphia at Syracuse
Cincinnati at Minneapolis
Boston, i26. New York. ii9.
ToMORROw'S SCHEDULE
No games scheduled
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-01-17
BASKETBALL GAMES IN
MANTEO IN THE PAST WEEK

Results of the basketball games
in Manteo during the past week
are as follows:
The Manteo girls gave the Sum
bury girls their first defeat of
the year last Friday night at the
Manteo gym. Carol Perry led the
way, with IL points for Manteo,
followed by Sandra Dowdy with IL.
Final score was Manteo 81, Sun
bury, "a.
The Manteo boys also upset the
Sunbury boys and gave them their
first defeat of the year 34-3O.
Hughes Tillett led the way for
Manteo with IL points.
On Saturday, the Buxton J.V.
team trounced the Manteo team
1912 at the Manteo gym. Miles
Davis was high scorer for Man
teo. Two Buxton boys shared scor-
ing honors with Is points each.
Tuesday night of this week, the
Manteo girls had no trouble de-
feating the Griggs girls 1929 at
the Griggs floor. Helen Baum led
the Redskins with 81 points.
The Manteo boys, however, suf-
fered their second defeat of the
year as they lost to the Griggs
boys 25-37. Lawrence Swain, Hor-
ace Hooper, and Jeffrey Midget
each had 6 points for ~Manteo.
Friday of this week, the varsity
teams travel to Creswell. The J.V.
team will go to Moyock for a re-
turn game. The only game next
week is Friday night at Weeks
Vile
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-01-17
NEW ABC BOARD HEAD
WELL KNOWN IN COASTLAND

The recent appointment of 1t
Bill Hunt of the Highway Patrol
to the Craftsmanship of the State
A.B.C. Board is of interest on Roa-
noke Island and other communities
in the coastland area, for 1t. Hunt
is well and favorably known as
result of his long service, both at
Roanoke Island and Elizabeth City.
1t. Hunt served a long time in
charge of the Elizabeth City office
of the State Highway Patrol prior
to his transfer to the Asheville
district. For several seasons, he
served with the highway patrol
unit in charge of Lost Colony traf-
fic at Waterside Theatre in the
summer. His friends here are much
pleased with the recognition that
has been given him by Governor
Hodges, who has stated he wished
a man of ability, character and
courage at the head of the Abe.
Board, about which so much con-
fusion and controversy has ragged
as a result of liquor scandals that
have arisen as a result of the
free liquor donated to members of
the legislature.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-01-17
M.Y.F. CLUB
Continued from Page One)

Ohio, Navy man stationed at the
new Naval target facility at
Stumpy Point, and others of the
Navy personnel have enthusiastic
ally helped to make the center a
success. The church's recreation
committee, Wilma Midget, Alva
Wise, and Edith Best, was author
lied on November 3rd to establish
the center. Use of the store build
ing in which the center is located
has been donated free of charge
by the owner, Mrs. D. L. Meekins,
and the necessary furniture was
obtained mostly through donations.
The M.Y.F., whose officers are
Valerie Allen, president; Estelle
Knight, treasurer; and Oracle
Best, secretary, currently have
taken upon themselves the project
of buying an electric organ for
the church; part of the cost of the
organ is expected to be taken
care of by the youth center's pro-
ceeds, and the M.Y.F. has under
way a campaign to raise the bal
ance of the cost through contri-
buttons and other projects.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-01-17
i DARE COAST PIRATES
JANABOREE DEFINITELY
SET FOR APRIL 24-27

Definite dates for the Dare
! Coast Pirates Jamboree this year
! will be April 24-27 says Alvah H
Ward Jr., chairman of the steer
ing committee of the Spring vaca-
ton seasons launching event.
sour Dare coast vacation season
actually starts in early Spring
when the first channel bass begin
taking lures at Oregon Inlet and
cut bait in the surf along the
Outer Banks and especially on
Hatteras Island" said Ward.
"That is usually during the last
week in March or the first week
in April"
"We allow two or three weeks
then before staging our official
launching event for the vacation
season, and that is the last week
end in April. The last week end
in April, Thursday through Sun
day. this year will be on April
"a, %, &c and 9th" he added.
Preparations for this fourth an
annual Dare Coast Pirates JAM
boree are underway. One of the
most noticeable preparations"
during January is the appearance
of bearded men. From Kitty Hawk
to Hatteras and from Mays Head
to Roanoke Island and the. Dare
mainland, many men have already
started good crops of chin and
face whiskers. Within another
month the men and women will
make their appearance in pirate
costumes. That is one of the ideas
for the boards, because the men,
or many of them try to grow
whiskers which would equal those
worn by early 18th century pirates
such as Edward Teach, once the
scourge of the North Carolina
coast who was better known as
Blackboard the Pirate"
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-01-17
ANDY GRIFFITH TO BE
ON TELEVISION SHOWS

Andy and Barbara Griffith, who
have been spending a vacation at
their Roanoke Island home, left
this week for New York City.
There Andy will be featured in
at least three television shows dur
ing the coming weeks.
On Sunday, January 10, he will
be guest star with Dinah Shore on
her popular Chevroletzsponsored
show.
Griffith will be the star in a
television production, "Never Know
the End" on the US. Steel Hour,
January 20. "This will be sort
of murder mystery but nobody gets
murdered" he said.
Sometime in February with Kay
Starr, he will appear on the "Club
Oasis" show.
After that, the Griffiths plan
another visit to their home on
Roanoke Island, after which he
may return to Hollywood to do an
other picture. He recently complet-
ed in Hollywood his newest film
"Onionhead."
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-01-17
DEWEY WELLS JOINS LAW
FIRM Leroy AND GOODWIN

A new face among the lawyers
of the local bar is Dewey w. Wells,
who became associated with the
long established Elizabeth City
law firm of Leroy and Goodwin,
on January 1. This firm composed
of J. Henry Leroy and J. C. Good
win enjoys much practice in Dare
County. Young Mr.. Wells, native
of Henderson, was admitted to the
bar in 1854, is married and has
two children. He graduated first in
his class at Wake Forest in 1854
with degree of LIB. He has served
in many important positions, and
for two and a half years preceding
has been with large Rocky Mount
bank, his duties being largely legal
and having to do with wills, trusts
and estates.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-01-17
CONCERT TO BE GIVEN
IN MANTEO JANUARY q

A rare treat for music lovers
is in store for Manteo concert
goers on January 81 when Mr.. and
Mrs. Arvids Snornieks of New
Bern will be presented by the Roa-
noke Island Music Club. Mr..
Snornieks is a singer and Mrs
Snornieks is a pianist. They are
natives of Latvia, and gave many
concerts in Germany before COM
ing to America to live. At present
they are making their home in
New Bern and teach music in New
Bern and Cherry Point. Mrs. Snor-
hicks is the recently elected Junior
Counselor of the North Carolina
Federation of Music Clubs. Fur
Their details will appear in next
weeks TIMES.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-01-17

Please let me remind you that
the Music Leader Training School
will be held February a, Hartford
at 1000 am. in the Agricultural
Building.
This year DIR. Hoffman and the
Music Committee are planning to
have a study and learn to direct
all the songs in the Home Demon
,nstration year, and will teach
those present to lead the National
tIome Demonstration Club song.
Third, they will learn a lovely
Easter song. In the afternoon they
will review leading, directing group
singing, and continue the study of
music reading.
AS many as possible of the
Home Demonstration and All Club
leaders should attend.
Late in January training will be
given leaders on pastry, when no
tees will be sent. The leaders will
rive this demonstration in their
Clubs in February's meetings.
february 1926: Re-upholstery
Workshop. March 10: Demonstra-
ion on how to dry flowers.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-01-17
MANTEo PERSONALS

Mrs. H. c. Smith is patient I'm
the Marine Hspital, Norfolk, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Balance,
Jr., of Greenville, spent last week
end with Mr.. Balances parents.
Martha Lee and Bobby Turner
have returned home from visit
with their grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Smithwick, in Louis
burg. Their father, the Rev. Rob-
ert w. Turner, who had been at
tending church meeting in Kin
ston, accompanied them home.
Mrs. R. S. Smith was guest
speaker on Ceramics Tuesday
afternoon at the meeting of the
Plymouth Garden Club in Plym-
outh.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-01-17
VINEYARD
Continued from Page One)

of lots are still available except
along the waterfront.
In addition to the Lemons
brothers, Guy H., DR.. W. E., and
R. B., and sister, Mrs. Isabelle
Warren, other stockholders in
Mother Vineyard, Inc, include r
Bruce Etheridge and G. T. West.
colt.
Many people might be interested
in the history of the Mother Vine
yard plantation In the 1905 ii
was owned by squire Isaac Chaun-
cey Meekins who was born on
the plantation his mother, Esther
Mann Meekins, established when
her father, Edward Mann gave
her a present of 100 acres
on the west side of Roanoke Is
land, when she married Daniel
Meekins who had come up from
Chicimacomico banks where his ia
Their, Roger Meekins, lived and
owned all of what is now Pea Is
land game refuge, and on down
near the village of Avon, accord
ing to old records in the Currituck
County courthouse.
The Mother Vineyard plantation
got its name about 1912 when
Jerome Griffin, now of Norfolk,
Va, gave the name during the
time he was trying to promote it
as real estate development. From
this old plantation, founded by
Joseph and Abraham Baum in the
early 1905, many seedlings had
been taken to found other nearby
vineyards. Contrary to popular be-
lief in some quarters, it was never
the parent Scuppernong in N. C.
for the land abounded with these
grapes when the first colonists
arrived in 1884.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-01-17
THE ROBINS HAVE COME

Manns Harbor.-Those "first
robin" which make headlines in
some sections of the country are
already here on the Dare County
mainland, and have been here for
the past several weeks.
In the pine forests and pocosins
of West Virginia Pulp and Paper
Company's North Carolina Wood
lands, division, robins find winter
foods plentiful.
There was a time when arrival
of the robins meant food for the
residents of many communities and
they were killed by the thousands
each year to be made into robin
pies, but the birds are protected by
Federal laws and which are en-
forced.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-01-17
GOING-AWAY PARTY FOR
THE BRANTLEY BROWNS

Mr.. and Mrs. Brantley Brown
were guests of honor Saturday eve
ming at going-away party given
for them by members of the Saint
Andrew's-by-the-Sea Episcopal
Church, at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. r. s. Smith in Manteo. Mrs.
Aycock Brown poured coffee,
which was served with cookies to
the approximately 80 guests who
called during the evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Brown and their
three children, Annette, Charles
and Margaret, left Monday for
their new home in Whiteville.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-01-17
w. R. SPENCER ELECTED
PRESIDENT OCRACOKE
BURIAL ASSOCIATION

Ocracoke, Jan. Z. = Ocracoke
Burial Association held it's annual
business meeting on Jan. 9th. w.
R. Spencer was elected president
for 1858, E. S. Tolson, vice presi-
dent, and Joyce Midget, secretary
and treasurer. On the Board of
Directors in addition to the Off
GERS named are Owen Gaskill, Som
mers Spencer and Danny Garrish.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-01-17
CHAS. M. SCARBOROUGH. 50.
DIES ON OCRACOKE ISLAND

Charles NJ. Scarborough, age SO,
died at his home at Ocracoke Is
land on January 14th; services
were conducted on Wednesday aft
ernoon, January 18th, at the Ocra-
coke Methodist Church with Rev.
W. W. Clarke officiating. Surviv-
ing are three sons, Alton of Ped
ricktown, N. j., Ernest of Audu-
bon, N. j., and Charles Thomas of
New Orleans, Alton Scarborough
and Ernest Scarborough were
summoned during their ia
theirs critical illness and arrived
home the afternoon of his death.