The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-04-04

leans in 1857 smoked 400 billion
cigarettes, an alI-time record, and
also paid record amount of fed
eral, state and city taxes on Gig
arettes totaling $2,295, 100000.
ADMITS STARTING FIRES-InI
Miami, Fla, Billy Watkins Moody,
q, has admitted starting a string
of fires in churches, military
camps, and a hotel; one of the
blazes killed an Army private.
TWO PLANES COLLIDE-Two
big military planes crashed in the
air north of Bridgeport, Tex, last
Thursday; first reports placed the
death toll at least IL, possibly IA,
all military personnel.
SHOOT FOR THE MOON" =
Orders for the United States to
send rocket scouts, unnamed
space vehicles, to take close look
at the moon were issued last
Thursday by President Eisen-
hover and Secretary of Defense
Neil McElroy.
LOLLIPOP BAN--Norwalk, Conn.,,
union BARRIERS have voted against
handing out lollipops to youngsters
who behave themselves while in
the barber chair, and now any
member who rewards a well-be-
haved tot with a lollipop will face
union action.
BRITTLE BONES-Four-year-old
Duane Robinson of Hagerstown,
Nd, last week suffered his Sind
bone fracture since birth; the lad,
a victim of the bone disease osteo-
myelitis, was in the hospital total
of 38 weeks last year.
FOUR SKIERS RESCUED-Four
marooned college skiers were
snatched from a windswept rocky
ledge high on the slopes of a
mountain in CALIFORNIA; Yosemite
National Park Monday by an Army
helicopter and flown to hospital;
one bordered on pneumonia, but
the other three appeared to be only
weak after their four-day ordeal
in a swirling snowstorm.
RUSSIANS GRANT REQUEST
Radio Moscow, which in January
offered in a propaganda broadcast
beamed to American short wave
listeners to ''play music at your
request" has notified Milwaukee
ham that on April 10 they win
play his request, "The Star
Spangled Banner"
TRAFFIC FATALITIES - Three
Warwick, Va, women were killed
in head-on collision on the James
River Bridge Approach Tuesday.
Another New York woman return
ing from a Florida vacation was
killed at Suffolk when her hus-
bands station wagon collided with
a truck trailer.
FINED FOR OVERLOADING-In
Norfolk traffic court, traffic
officer testified that Mrs.
Ethel T. Myers was carry
ing "a passengers in a station
wagon she was operating March 6;
she was hauling children to Sun
day School kindergarten.
SCHEDULES FOULED UP-The
late arrival of warm weather has
been felt especially in Whining
ton, N. c., and Washington, D. c.;
last week Wilmington held it's an
nual Azalea Festival, minus azalea
blossoms, and Washington it's
Cherry Blossom Festival, minus
cherry blossoms.
VANDALISM COST HIGH-Nor-
folk school authorities say they
have come to live with constant
acts of vandalism such as a recent
case in which door windows were
smashed out, desks were ransack-
ed, curtains ripped, and other dam
age done; $500 has been included
in the 1868 school budget to cover
the cost of replacing broken win
dow glass alone.
MORE SUBS REPORTED-A con-
firmation that there has been an
increase in Russian submarine
activity in recent months in the
Atlantic and along the East Coast
"where a fellow might make some
observations" was made last week
by Adm. Jerauld Wright, Atlantic
Fleet and NATO Atlantic COM
mander.
HE WON OUT - Ten-year-old
Claude keenan, of Cincinnati
meant il, when he told his mother
he didn't want his tonsils taken
out; at the hospital he wrestled
free from four nurses and a sur
geon as an ether cone was being