The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-03-28


ROBBERIES-A cool bandit walk
ed into a bank in Charlottesville
Va. and got away with $4,000.
THEY WENT TOGETHER-For-
ty-six young Japanese couples COM
mitted suicide in the first two
months of this year, with parental
opposition to marriage listed as
the reason in most cases.
WAR GAMES ACCIDENT-Sgt.
Claud Bryson Lipscomb of Gaines
vile, Ga, was killed in parachute
drop Saturday when he landed in
bay off Onslow Beach near Camp
Lejeune and drowned.
STRANGE CASE-Chicago police,
seeking an aged man who disap-
peared three years ago, Saturday
found his skeleton on couch in a
Uttered apartment shared by a
woman recluse.
CANCER DAMAGE - Mrs. Vic
toria Lartigue of Louisiana is SUI
ing for 100000 from R. ]. Reyn-
Odds and Liggett & Myers tobacco
companies, alleging that her hus-
band, Frank, died of lung cancer
after chain smoking for 40 years.
PARIS SLUMS CLEARED - The
demolition of 20 Stun tenements
in Paris was accomplished by the
buildings being burned by the fire
department, which asked for the
job in order to test some of its
fire-fighting equipment.
BLIND CANDIDATE-Alonzo G..
Squires, blind man of Durham
County has created a sensation by
running for Sheriff. Well, what's
so odd about that, when already
quite a number of sheriffs and
other police officers in this state
are apparently blind? Squires
seems an appropriate candidate.
PRESLEY'S INCOME CUT-El-
Wis Presley, Americas rock m
roll idol, went on the Army payroll
this week at $78 month, much in
contrast to his gross take last year
of nearly a million; Presley's in
duction was at quite cost to the
government too, since a large por-
ton of his income went to income
taxes.
PILOT ELECTS SAFELY-Lt. Ii.
g. E. L. Woodruff, an Oceana-
based jet pilot, elected to safety
minutes before his Grammar F11F
jet fighter crashed in open country
near Barco Monday Another
Navy jet pilot attached to the
supercar.rier Forrestal has been
missing since the carrier lost con-
tact with him about $3.50 Saturday
night while operating off the
North Carolina coast.
BURNS OWN HOME-At Sails.
bury, 17-year-old boy has admit
ted burning down his home because
his parents scolded him for staying
out late; the youth, Charles Nan.
ME, Jr., has been charged with
arson in the destruction of the
five-room frame home.
OFFICER SHOOTS MAN-James
Rhodes, 81, Negro, of Cove City
was reported in fair condition in a
New Bern hospital after he was
shot in the stomach by a highway
patrolman; Rhodes is said to have
assaulted the patrolman with the
latter's blackjack when stopped
after a 100-m.p.h. chase through
two counties.
BOXING UNDERWORLD LINK
New York District Attorney
Frank s. Hogan has ordered {
grand jury hearing in Manhattan
criminal court April z in what
ring circles say is a new attemp
to establish underworld links will
the sport of boxing; Hogan is tht
man who broke 1857 basketball
scandals.
NAACP LOSING MEMBERS =
The National Assn. for the Ad
vancement of Colored People los
about $4,000 members last year, i
was stated last week in Memphis
Tenn, by NAACP Executive Sec
rotary Roy Wilkins; part Of thu
membership loss was in Alabama
where the NAACP has been barred
from operation by injunction.
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