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JARVIS
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has considered himself engaged in
the task of fixing his future since
194S.
Mr., Jarvis is a big handler OF
oysters through the season. His
|seafood products running close to
IA million dollars annually are mar
keted about so per cent in this
state he, says, and he expects to
put out most of his new products
in North Carolina. These include
Chief Engelhard Brand canned
goods. A new brand may be
"Grandma's Old Fashioned Clam
Chowder." He is now handling more
seafood products now than all the
rest of northeastern North Caro-
lima. Undoubtedly, he has the lar
gest plant and the largest payroll.
Harry Jarvis came from st.
Clair's Creek in Beaufort County.
From 1888 to 1915 he was various
ly engaged in operating barber
shop in Belhaven and in buying
fur in the surrounding country
side. He married the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Tolan in Bel
haven. He is something of philos-
opher, and much of an optimist.
He says the world is wide open for
those who are willing to work. "All
you got to do is put your foot in
the door, and don't let 'em close
it down when business is to be
had," he says. He believes the new
tinfoil container which he invented,
will appeal to the housewife in the
markets, and lead to the success
of his plan to buy at least half the
seafood products of the state next
year.
Mr.. Jarvis thinks the greatest
times the seafood industry will
have in this state will be in the
next five or ten years. He says he
is getting ready for it, and to make
the most of it before he is 65. He
isn't going to let things worry
him." he says, remembering some
of the admonitions of his old
granddaddy about working and
saving. He said fishermen would
be in good shape today if they
hadn't thrown down their nets,
leaving them to rot while spending
all their money riding around in
automobiles. "It's not what they
didn't make that's busted fisher
men," he says, shut what so many
of them threw away. including the
time they wasted, which might
paid off had they been fishing in
stead of riding around and raising
cain"
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VISITORS NUMBER
IA MILLIONS TO
SEASHORE. AREA
Bx AYCOCK BROWN

Approximately one and one
quarter million persons have visit
ed Cape Hatteras National Sea-
shore Recreational Area during the
past four years according to fig
ures released by National Park
Service officials here today.
"This total included 34S,335 per-
sons counted as visitors to the area
in 1885," said Robert F. Gibbs,
superintendent of the National
Seashore He pointed out that the
1858 total was IA percent in
crease over the total visitation for
the calendar year 1857.
OF the 1868 total 346,7 700 persons
travelled to the area by private mo-
tor vehicles. There were $50 visi-
tors aboard buses, 113 aboard air
planes and 631 who went to the
National Seashoer via boat.
The Cape Hatteras National
Seashore, first publicly owned
oceanside recereational area of the
National Park service was auth
orized by an act of Congress in
1887. 1t was not established how
ever, until 1853. The area begin
ming in lower Mays Head, extends
southwark along the Outer Banks
to Ocracoke Inlet, a distance of
approximately 20 miles. All of the
land area in this region, excepting
the immediate environs of the
eight villages. is included in the
National Seashore.
During the current Mission &C
program of the National Park
Service many hundreds of thou
sands of dollars are being spent in
development of the recreational
area and also on other National
Park Service units of the Dare
Coast.
Kill Devil Hills
Calendar year reports reflect
that while the National Seashore
had an increase in visitation during
1858 over previous years, de-
crease of 26.4 percent was noted in
visitors at Wright Brothers Ma
tional Memorial at Kill Devil Hills
where 241 ,123 persons were count
ed last year as compared to 327,-
$50 in 1857. Attendance at the
Memorial in December 1858 was
only 3,640 as compared with
1871 for December 1854 de-
crease of ia" said Memorial
Superintendent Horace A. Dough.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1959-01-09
SCRANTON PERSONALS

Mr.. and Mrs. Dewey Patrick and
daughter, of Florida, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ellison Harris of Norfolk. Mr.. and
Mrs. James Balance of Newport
News recently visited their aunt,
Mrs. j. B. Bridgman.
Mrs. Ivey Hawkins of New
Bern visited Mrs. Ludie Brinn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Bell had as
their Sunday guests the Ralph
Caravans.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl GIBBS and chill
dren, Carlos, Johnnie and Diane,
have returned to Florida after Wis
iting Mr.. and Mrs. Carlos Gibbs.
Mrs. Blanch Dunbar is visiting
her niece, Mrs. Lillian Clayton in
Pioneer.
The Leonard Alcox family has
returned to Hampton after visiting
here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Caravan
and little Joy of Plymouth were
Saturday night guests of the Ralph
Caravan family.
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LOST COLONY
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of $4,000 to take care of these I'M
paid bills"
"If the $4,000 is allotted by the
State much of the current indebt-
edness can be paid"
"Preopening expenses that must
be met before the box office opens,
expenses to take care of rehearsal
salaries, repairs and other monthly
expenses will amount to approx
mately $15,00O," Jordan stated and
added, "This amount must be
raised in order for the Lost Colony
to open in 1882"
1.-TWO questions of great impor-
lance must be answered at the
meeting on January 49," the gen.
eral manager added. "First, do the
business operators of Dare county
feel that The Lost Colony is i'm
portant enough as tourist at
traction to justify an outright in
vestment to insure continuance of
the show? Secondly, how can this
preopening expense money be
made available by March 1, so that
plans and operations for the prepa-
ration of the 1859 season can be
carried out"
While business interests of Dare
County have never contributed fl
nancially to the show, the Board
of County COMMISSIONERS at one
time donated $4,000 to it, it being
used to pay for the land on which
The Elizabethan Garden is now To-
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Gated.
According to figures from the
state auditors reports for the past
Is years, almost $1,000,000 zap
proximately 100000, has been
paid in salaries to personnel re-
quired to produce the show,
much of which has been spent in
Dare County where it was earned.
During the same period (13 years.
approximately $250,O00 has been
spent with local merchants and va
cation operators in Dare for sup
plies required to produce the show.
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MANTEo PERSONALS

of Norfolk visited Mrs. Munn's
mother and sister, Mrs. Caroline
Midget and Mrs. Lucetta Willis,
during the holidays.
Mrs. John Wescott spent part
of the holiday season in Elizabeth
City with her daughter, Mrs. Da-
vid Hill.
Mrs. Leonard ]. Staab and sons,
Mike and Dick, have returned to
their home in Cleveland, Ohio, at
ter visiting Mrs. Staab's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon Davis. Dur
ing the holidays Mr.. and Mrs. Da-
Wis also had as guests Mr.. and
Mrs. r. J. Meikle and daughter,
Miss Lynn Meikle, of Roanoke
Rapids.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry B. Parker
and children have returned to
Elizabeth City after spending the
holidays with Mrs. Parker's par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Greet.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. w. Johnson OF
Portsmouth, Va, visited in Manteo
Saturday and Sunday.
Davis Balance, U. S. NJ. c., OF
Paris Island. S. C. visited his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. R. o. Balance
during the holidays.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Dough and
children, Barbara, Bobby and Re-
becca of Raleigh, spent the holidays
with Mrs. Dough's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. J. A. Krider. Rebecca re-
manned to visit her grandparents
and Susan Krider returned to Ra-
leigh to visit the Doughs.
Dennis Evans, who underwent
surgery in Goldsboro hospital
recently, has returned to his home
near Manteo. Mrs. Evans visited
her parents, Col. and Mrs. John D.
Langston in Goldsboro, while her
husband was in the hospital.
Mrs. o. ]. Jones has been visit
ing her foster daughter, Mrs. Betty
Hawkins, and her family in Greens
boro.
Sgt. and Mrs. Norman Gray and
children, Norman, Jr., and Gary. OF
Washington, D. c., recently visited
Mrs. Gray's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Jack Shannon in Manteo; and Mr..
Gray's father, w. B. Gray, and
Mrs. Gray, in Wanchese.
Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin Basnight
and family of Lakehurst, N. j.,
visited Mr.. Basnight's mother,
Mrs. Annie Basnight, in Manteo;
and Mrs. Basnight's mother in
Hatteras during the holidays.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roland Meekins
had as their guests du"'"@ the
holidays Miss Kay Cox, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. S. Harden, Jr., Mr.. and
Mrs. Ward, Mr.. and Mrs. E. J.
Lowe and Mr.. and Mrs. A. S.
Harden, ST., all of Norfolk; Miss
Judy Cox, Mrs. Frances Taylor,
Debbie Taylor, and Dickie' White
head of North Attention, Va;
Sherwood Thompson of Oceana,
Va; and Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard
Evans of Portsmouth, Va.
Mrs. E. F. Sellers and son,
Steve, of Jacksonville, Fla, are Wis
iting Mrs. Sellers parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Orlando Burrus. They will be
joined later by Mr.. Sellers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cary Williams and
son, Gregory, left Sunday fol-
Greenville, S. c., after visiting
Mrs. Williams sister, Mrs. Deltor
Dowdy, for a week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Danny Mann OF
Raleigh visited Mr.. Mann's par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Mann.
ST., during the holidays. They also
visited Mrs. Mann's father, a pa
tient in New Bern hospital.
Mrs. Gladys Brantley has re-
turned from New Orleans, La,
where she spent several weeks
with her sons, Norman and Claude
Brantley.
Fred Etheridge is home from
Brunswick, Ga, where he has been
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COUNTY
Continued from Page One)

enc in Dare County. In resigning
as chairman of the Beach Erosion
Committee, Mr.. Stick nominated
George Croker of Mays Head,
who was appointed chairman of
this committee.
The committee on the Oregon
Inlet bridge project reported that
an appointment will be sought in
February to discuss this situation
with Highway officials.
George Fuller reported that in
his opinion sum not to exceed
$40 should be spent to complete
the canal project at Buxton, in
order to get sufficient dirt to make
a roadway or parking place for
cars of those intending to use the
canal. The Board approved spend
ing not more than this sum to
effect complete satisfaction.
This canal was built last year
by predecessor Board after N.
F. Jennette of Buxton had decided
strip of land for the purpose,
but which was not wide enough
nearer the road to give the county
driveway leading along the ca
nal About the only value most
people of the community see in
the project is that it might enable
Mr.. Jennette to sell his adjoining
land to some advantage, provided
the canal is ever made deeper
than the two feet now reported.
Actually, the Board of Commits
sioners gave the man contract
to build the canal for $1,285 with
out specifying how deep it should
be dug. He had only to dig it a
mere six inches deep, or two inch
es, for that matter.
Oregon Inlet Channel
Early prospect for relief from
shoal water in the Oregon Inlet
channel does not appear in sight,
according to letter sent this
week to Victor Meekins, Chairman
of the County Board, by Col. H.
C. Rowland, Jr., District Engineer.
Col. Rowland says:
Dear Mr.. Meekins:
reference is made to an in
formal discussion of dredging a
temporary channel across the
high shoal in the channel crossing
Oregon Inlet between Bodie Is
land and Pea Island, between our
Mr.. Gardner and members of your
Board of County Commissioners,
including Mr.. David Stick and
other interested parties on IL De-
cember 1858.
SIN response to a wire / had
sent to the Chief of Engineers
requesting authority to negotiate
for contract to dredge a 150-
foot wide channel, 12-feet deep,
across the high shoal, l was adj
vised by telephone today that no
maintenance funds We're available
in the Office, Chief of Engineers,
for this work.
81 was also advised that a re-
view of all maintenance funds for
all projects in the South Atlantic
Division is now being conducted
to determine if any funds can be
made available to accomplish this
work.
eff funds can be made avail
able, the work will be advertised
and accomplished in the most ex-
peditious manner possible.
81 will advise you as soon as it
is known whether or not funds are
available for this work.
"For your information, I have
informed Congressman Herbert c.
Bonner of this situation.
Sincerely yours,
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MRS. HOOPER IN HOSPITAL

Mrs. L. w. Hooper of Manns
Harbor is a patient in Norfolk
General Hospital, Norfolk, Va,
where she underwent surgery
this week. Her condition is said to
be satisfactory.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1959-01-09
BIRTHS

Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Dorian
Dudley of Manteo a son, Charlie
Dorian, Jr., on December 20 in the
Wright clinic at harrisburg; weight
six pounds, seven ounces.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1959-01-09
STRANDED IN CUBA

Mr.. and Mrs. Emmett Winslow
are vacationing in Havana, Cuba,
and are stranded at the Havana
Hilton there by the rebellion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-01
On Pricing Goods
Out of World Mart

or the equivalent In higher I'm.
port duties, one or the other"
That British turbines can be
offered at so much less than
American ones Is largely q matter
Of labor costs. Turbines can't be
nass-produced. And now that
Britain's and Europe's capacity
has caught up with demand we
are feeling their competition not
only here. but in third markets.
Statistical confirmation Of the
Presidents fears is hard to pro-
duce. For one thing, the large
size Of our exports is cited as
evidence that we are still doing
pretty well. In 1858 our nom
military exports totaled $l6.3 bill
lion. In normal" (pre-Suez)
1866 we exported $17.3 billion.
AS last year was partly q recession
year, these figures don't look bad.
Our exports to industrial
countries Of the free world dur
ing the first half of 1858 were at
an annual rate per cent greater
in value than in all of 1856,
whereas the corresponding ex-
ports of Europe and Japan were
8 per cent greater. Trade experts
do not regard this as indicating
a significant loss of position by
the United States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-01
Government Programs Are Geored to Help OIdsters
Enjoy Happy, Solvent and Useful Lives

haoiiitate rental housing for the
aged. Public housing projects give
priority to the aged.
Employment aids through an
educational campaign. directed bv
the Labor Department.
Efforts to inject social instru-
ments into a traditionally family
relationship. Sponsors are the first
to admit that loneliness can't be
legislated away. But legislation
and social action must clear the
way for elderly Americans to find
friendship and understanding.
Senator Mcnamara, Democrat
OF Michigan, will handle the new
Hood OF legislation to aid oldsters
as chairman of the recently
formed Subcommittee on the
Aging.
Already at work is a Federal
Council on the Aging, formed in
1856 by Representatives from Is
Federal departments. 1t operates
in conjunction with the Coun-
Gil OF State Governments in a kind
OF Federal-State committee to CO.
ordinate public and private eff
forts.
Employment practices are in
veStigated constantly by the Labor
Department. Health, Education
and Welfare has experts at work
on protecting the health and rails
ing the incomes Of elder citizens.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-01

marriage or leaving home from is
to 20 years before the parents
most productive years have passed.
Where has this way Of life left
the aging?
1t has left one-third Of the
men and two-thirds of the women
over 65 with incomes of less than
$1,000 a year. Nearly three-quar-
tiers Of these elders are alone
either single. widowers or divorced.
They get little sympathy or
cash. Without money, loneliness
and insecurity overcome many.
Mental deterioration threatens
those without a backlog or a useful
role In society. One patient out of
every three in our mental hospi-
tails is over so. So while about 10
per cent Of the total population
is over IS, more than Is per cent
of our mental patients are over
SIS. One authoritative estimate is
that within another 10 years, so
per cent of our mental hospital
inmates will be senile and arterio-
sclerotic patients.
Many Of the strong minded,
independent oldsters are relegated
to cheap rooming houses or sub
standard apartments. Decent
nursing homes are hard to find.
Homes for the aged are in sad
condition.
Understandably, the aged have
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-01

forms. There's a legislative move
to raise the $1.200-a-year limit on
income for social security recipi-
ents. Bills have been proposed in
Congress to tie medical insurance
to social security payments.
A less radical measure would
establish a presidential commits
sion to explore private and public
health insurance programs, to find
defects and recommend improve
ments.
Private groups, such as Forty
Plus" clubs and the American So
ciety for the Aged. organized by
Mary Pickford. work to keep elders
on the job. and contented after
they must leave.
A three-pronged Federal pro-
gram already under way is under
constant scrutiny. 1t provides
generally for:
Medical research by granting
Halliburton funds to match local
money spent on institutions for
the chemically i'll. Also proposed
has been legislation to let small
insurance companies pool their
risks to develop new types Of pro-
lection for the aged.
Housing help by letting friends
relatives and employing COM
panies co-sign mortgages for per-
sons over so. Nonprofit organiza-
tons can get Federal loans to re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-01

group included so many poor
health risks.
Little progress has been made
during the last five years in pro-
viding health insurance at costs
poor families can afford. But
there has been notable progress
in enlarging types and duration
Of benefits and most recently in
providing for health needs of the
aged.
! IN earlier years the companies
. exercised freely their right to
cancel or to refuse renewal of
policies when the insured showed
declining health or reached the
higher age brackets. Now So
called non-cancellable insurance
can be bought from many repu-
table companies. Although some
of these policies can be terminated
by the company at age IS, others
at rs, still others at IS, an in
creaSing number of companies
offer guaranteed for life insur-
ance.
The most striking experiment in
insuring the elderly is the "65-
plus plan. This was launched in
Iowa in 1857 by the Continental
Casualty Co. and is being extended
to other States including the Dis
trict of Columbia. The policy is
sold without restriction as to age
and without medical examination.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-01
His Attitude on Criticism

Public criticism Of the Acc in
the past has been partly justified,
says Mr.. McCone.
There has been criticism be-
cause actions by the Acc have
taken too long. Some of this has
been due to uncertainties as to
policy detectives and some due
to uncertainties about the relative
responsibilities Of the commission
and Of the joint Senate House
Atomic Committee.
Some Of the delay has been
due to the fact that development
had to await basic scientific ad-
vances-and that has not been
clearly understood by the public"
The originally quiet-spoken Nc
Cone adds with vigor: But there's
one thing on which there has
been no criticism-apd that's the
nuclear weapons field.
las q Nation we've wrung our
hands over lack Of planes, lack
OF missiles and even, in the case
OF the Korean War. lack Of con-
ventional ammunition. But never
has there been q time when we
were worried about a lack of
nuclear weapons capability."
The So year old chairman.
whose rimless glasses give him a
scholarly look. has built ships,
machinery. oil reflneries and
power plants. AS an undergrad
uate at the University of Califor-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-01
Rising American Costs

In short, while Mr.. Eisenhower
is right in holding that rising
costs tend to handicap our COM
petitive ability in world markets.
the condition does not yet appear
to be one justifying any alarm.
Rising American costs often have
their counterpart in rising foreign
costs of production, the above.
cited index numbers suggest.
. The appearance of imported
goods in our markets is not solely
to be explained by low foreign
wages. Foreign cost advantages,
moreover. are in part offset by
United States import duties and
other trade restrictions.
The world has incurred q big
Indebtedness to the United States
for goods we have sent abroad in
past years as loans and invest
ments. By shipping goods here
foreigners earn the means to
repay us. Well be seeing more
foreign goods.
Every Export-Import Bank or
Wall Street loan today made
abroad will mean competition"
with our businesses sometime In
the future.
But that will be some future
Presidents worry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-01

fetal with absolute power over
the entire effort"
In August. 1885," he says, II
pointed out to my boss (then Air
Force Secretary Thomas X. Fin
letter., and 1t eventually got up to
President Truman. that while we
were then spending 500 million
year on missiles, we should spend
81 billion q year or more.
81 also said we should have q
project like the Manhattan prof.
ect that produced the atomic
bomb, with all the services work.
ing on missiles under a directo-
rate. and with the primary re-
sponsibility in the hands Of an in
dividual-a car type thing, IL
you will"
The idea was accepted in modi-
ned form. he says. with X. T. KEEL
Ter as co-ordinator. He did a SUI
perb job. but he could have done
q better job II he had actually
controlled the whole project, {"
says McCone.
Mr.. McCone. who repeatedly
was an unofiicial adviser to Pres
ident Eisenhower on missiles be-
fore he took the Acc job, says he
thinks the missiles program is
progressing very well. II think we
are going to see spectacular prog
resin fact. we're seeing it right
now"
He adds, II think we have to
do enough to be sure that any
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-01
Costs Rise Abroad. Too

1t is to be gathered from the
Presidents quoted remarks that
prices of our exports have been
rising more than those Of our
competitors. A Government COM
parison Of domestic wholesale
price indexes in 1858 and the
greater part of 1858 Tin most
cases 10-ll months) shows that
British costs rose more than ours,
although German and Italian
costs rose less. The five-year In
creases are:
Britain Is per cent.
United States 8 per cent.
Germany 6 per cent.
Italy / per cent.
Prior to the franc deyaluation
in December. French costs had
risen 20 per cent.
Over the long run, implementa-
ton of the European common
market should result in still lower
European costs and hence in
greater competition between Eu-
ropean and United States indus
tries.
Not to be overlooked in this
picture is the role of United
States, industrial investment
abroad. Some of the competition
we have been experiencing of late
is competition from oversee sub
salaries and affiliates Of American
firms. The English Fords to be
seen on Washington's streets are
an example. There are many
others which are not so obvious.
Some office-machine makers. for
instance, bring in parts from
their European plants.
encouragement of foreign in
vestment by Americans has been
an active program Of the United
States Government since World
War II. We have invested billions
directly in factories, mines and
the like; and indirectly in for.
eign bonds and stocks. Such in
vestments for the most part have
their physical counterpart in our
merchandise exports. So does our
large foreign aid.
In 1858 private new investments
by Americans abroad totaled $2.7
billion, Government grants ana
loans another $2.6 billion, private
gifts $500 million. One way to
compete in business is to give or
lend your customer the necessary
cash.