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The Nome nugget., 1959-05-15
House Converts Ike
 Requested Carrier Funds, To Building Up Manpower

WASHINGTON, tR - President Eisenhower's request for 26O mil lion dollars to build new super aircraft carrier reportedly has been turned down by House Ap- propriations subcommittee
 Instead, the 17-man group has decided, the money should be spent to beef up antisubmarine and missile programs and to main tain stronger Reserve and Ma tional Guard forces.
 The subcommittee has agreed to almost the exact amount asked by the President - $4G,8O0,O0O - in new appropriations for the De- fense Department for the year starting July l.
 The effect of the subcommittee's action as explained by members would be to provide small reduc- tions in the size of the active armed forces and to prevent planned cuts in the strength of the National Guard and the Re serve units.
 The defense budget as tentative ly approved provides funds for three more missile-toting Polaris submarines. Some committee members favored increasing this number.
The Nome nugget., 1959-05-15
Black Brant Species Declining, Reports Govt.

PORTLAND, R - The Depart ment of Interior yesterday said the black brant, a species of ma rine goose, has declined appre- ciably. Severe hunting restric- tions may be imposed, the depart ment said.
 The department said it's survey showed that the numbers of black brant declined 45 per cent in a period when most ducks and geese in the Pacific flyway increased 10 per cent.
 Part of the reason for the de- cline, the department said, was poor nesting conditions in deltas of the Yukon and Kuskokwim Rivers in Western Alaska. The birds also nest in eastern Siberia.
 In the 1958-59 waterfowl sea- son, the hunting period was re- duced Is days. But even that failed to check the decline and the department said it may be forced to impose more severe hunting restrictions.
The Nome nugget., 1959-05-15
ASTRONOMY NOTES
 By OLAF HALVERSON

Towards the close of the 18th century, the German astronomer Bode invited his colleagues to share in search for planet be- tween the orbits of Mars and Ju- piter. He pointed out that a series of numbers, which later was called Bode's law, represented the rela- tive distances of the planets re- markedly well, with a single ex- ception. No planet had been found corresponding to the number 2.8.
 While the search was being or ganized, the missing planet was discovered by accident by Piazzi in Sicily, on the first of January, 1901. Its motion from night to night among the stars he was ob- serving declared that it was not one of them. The mean distance of the new planet, which Piazzi named Ceres, proved to be almost exactly 2.8 times the earth's dis tanee from the sun. Three other asteroids, Pallas, Juno and Vesta, were discovered during the fol- lowing few years.
The Nome nugget., 1959-05-15
SET BASEBALL BACK
 TO PLAY OF 100 YEARS AGO

DETROIT, R - This is the centennial of college baseball, and Wednesday Michigan and the Uni versity of Detroit set the game back 100 years.
 It was a conventional 6-3 game until the eighth inning, with De- troit leading. Then Michigan erupted for 21 runs in the final two innings, and won 24-10.
 The zany game bore consider able resemblance to the first col lege game between Amherst and Williams in 1859. Amherst won, 73-32.
The Nome nugget., 1959-05-15
GABBY

GABBY =.
 OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, UP - Jim Craft of Oklahoma City admits he is "a real talker'' - but it would take "quite a few first class takers" to run up the tele- phone bill he received - $9,999,- 91O.51 for the month of April. The Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. assured him there had been an error and a new bill would be issued
The Nome nugget., 1959-05-15
WEDNESDAY BASEBALL
 American League

Chicago 4, Boston Q.
 National League Milwaukee 3, St. Louis 2. Pittsburgh 6, Los Angeles 4. San Francisco 6, Philadelphia O.. Chicago 10, Cincinnati 0.
 Pacific Coast League Vancouver 6, Seattle l. Spokane ', Portland 0. Phoenix 12, San Diego 2. Salt Lake City ', Sacramento 0.
Evening star., 1959-06-18

STORE HOURS: Mondays, 1910 to 9;
Tuesdays. Wednesdays and Saturdays, 70 to 6;
Thursdays and Fridays, 10 to g. Free Porkinq
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-26
Burton Amazed

Jim interviewed Shirley
Booth and Helen Hayes for
his school newspaper. Helen
Hayes, he recalls, was in
Time Remembered" at the
National. "She introduced me
to Richard Burton. She
called him Dickie. I told Mr..
Burton I'd seen him in
THE Robe" seven times. He
seemed amazed.
"You must have liked that
movie" he said to me.
Then Jim got a super"
in the opera Aida Il carried
a big stick with a Ratchet
on it in a mob scene) and
found out why a lot of actors
have those little teeny
holes" in their faces.
MY face broke out after
just a few hours of grease
paint" he said. But I didn't
mind. I wanted to super in
Carmen, but I had to usher
instead"
Ushering also started Jim
on his hobby of collecting
theater posters. He got the
idea from a fellow usher. but
Jim added something-he
got the cast to autograph
them.
Tallulah Bankhead wrote
a big sprawling Bless You,
Tallulah Bankhead" when
Jim handed her the poster of
the play Cray october" in
1858. Since then Jim has
gotten 10 more. Two of them
are 5 feet by 31a'. They are
the posters from Red Head"
and the BolShoi Ballet.
81 didn't get too many
autographs from the Rus
slams because they didn't I'M
derstand what I said, and
because the poster was so
big. There were so many
people around Galena
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-26
By Fiji GoRSKA

Jim McCawley has literally
ushered himself into a life
in the theater.
When he's not seating peo-
nile he's adding to his COL
lection of theater posters,
getting autographs OF actors
writing plays, reading plays,
studying stage lighting
watching plays or working as
a super" Can extra in crowd
scenes.
The Arlington teen-ager
started ushering last sum-
mer at the National Theater.
He then added the Shurbert
Theater, Constitution Hall,
Arena Stage and Carter Bar
ron Ampitheater aisles to his
walking list.
IF the shows no good, we
ushers go crazy" says the IT.
year-old Gonzaga student.
1--WE try to go to sleep"
But with good shows, jim
finds he watches so intently
that he memories the actors
lines.
g. saw Ralph Bellamy in
Sunrise at Campobello' IL
times. I liked it the first five
or six. then it got a little Dor
ing. I could start and go
right through the lines, sort
of an unofficial understudy
for everybody.
"Mr. Bellamy forgot his
lines one night" Jim says.
The actor said I often re-
member something tn a t
Woodrow Wilson said Then
he couldn't remember Will
sons quote, so instead he
said, but it completely es-
capes me now
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-26
Gonzooo Youth Goes From Theoter Aises to Footghts

Then I looked up and thou
sands of kids were running
down the aisle at me. An
other usher and I had to
stand on the steps and keep
everybody off the stage while
Ricky was performing. got
Ricky's autographed picture
for doing a favor for a man
in Ricky's show. A girl in
the audience offered me $40
for it. No, 1 didn't take. it.
I gave it to my 13-year-old
cousin, instead"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-26
Jim Remembers

II remembered the line,
though" explains Jim, 1T
should have been. 1T is only
once in a generation that a
people can be lifted above
material things. That is
why a conservative govern
ment is in the saddle for
two-thirds of the time"
Ushering at the Carter
Barron during the Ricky
Nelson show was 1.-The Wild
est" as Jim describes 1t.
1T was a riot every night.
1 went down front to tell the
kids to get off their knees
and stop taking pictures.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-26
Acts Too

Even at school, Jim's in
theatres. He wrote and
acted in a play at Gonzaga
called Korean Christmas"
and now he's finished an
5000 word comedy he hopes
to direct during his senior
year. He'll also be stage
manager at Gonzaga when
he returns in the fall.
When he's not writing
plays, Jim is reading plays.
I've read practically every
thing Eugene O'Neill wrote"
he says. Most of my read
ing is done on the bus. when
I'm enroute to the theater."
Jim used to be a movie
fan. His first job, in fact,
was working III a drive-in
movie. But now I find my
self comparing the script of
a movie to a script of a
Broadway play. 1 say to my
self, suppose this were a play,
how long would it last in New
York? Most the time I get
a short answer"
Jim uses the money he
makes ushering to buy pho
nograph records of must
cal comedy shows. just an
other way of taking the
theater home with him.
Il just like everything about
the theater," says Jim. He
proves it.
When he has a night off he
gets a date and guess where
he takes the girl?
To the theater, of course.
even though he's seen the
show several times as a
usher. Il like the theater as
a patron, too" Jim says.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-26

Ulanova 1 couldn't get close
to her." Jim explains.
The teen-ager also had
language difficulties with the
Africans in "BalletS Afri-
cains," but they made some
sort of markings on the
poster. And he missed getting
the autograph of interna-
tional concert comedienpe
Anna Russell because he had
to leave her show at ConSti-
tuition Hall early to get home
to do his homework.
Homework, however, seems
to be about the only thing
that keeps Jim out of the
theater.
The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1959-11-27
FREE
WHEELING

IN FUN-If humor's not your
dish skip to the end of the col
umn. For the rest of us, here's
Free Wheeling's infrequently is
sued survey of anecdotes funny
mildly, hilariously or barely. You
judge.
A dude wrangler, two weeks
away from Manhattan, sauntered
into a Texas department store.
"Let me see what you have in
saddles" he said Importantly,
with or without a horn," the
clerk inquired. "Well," he said
after moments consideration
"there doesn't seem to be much
traffic out this way. Give me one
without"
One of our state troopers, a
U. S. Navy vet, relates this one;
The boys on the ship knew some
thing big was up when the skip
per began a series of intricate
maneuvers obviously designed to
catch the admiral's eye. Sure
enough, after an hour of incredi-
BILE lodging and lacking, the adj
miral opened up with signal
"Stand by to pick up a VIP," the
flagship ordered. A launch pres
emily pulled alongside our de-
stroyer and the "Old Man" went
down to greet a well known
globe-trotting congressman, ready
to be impressed. The captain es-
corted his visitor to the bridge
and resumed maneuvers, this time
with dashing seamanship seldom
seen in those waters. With an oc-
casional sideglance at the promi'
nent lawmaker, the skipper
"wrung out" the ship. Soon a
blinker from the flagship slut
tered out another message. "Get
that message" the captain or
dered, confident it was some sort
of commentator. "Now read il
aloud" he went on. The signalman
Strengthened his back, took a
deep breath, and read: "You stu
pid clown. You almost rammed
us!" Without a moments hesita'
ton the captain responded, Every
we'll. Have that message decided
at once and brought back to the
bridge"
William Parham, chief of oul
personnel division is musician
He used to direct the Wake For
est Band and remembers thi:
story from his college days:
An unemployed trombone player
was belaboring his instrument
, late one evening in the boarding
house where he lived. His choru:
of sour notes soon became unen
durable to the other tenants
The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1959-11-27
CHEROKEE INDIANS
BUILD A PRIMITIVE
FAMILY HOT HOUSE
Interesting Stories Continue 10
Come From Mountain Dre-
ma Area

CHEROKEE, N. C.-The ancient
Cherokee Indians built family hot
houses for use in cold weather, and
the tribal priests constructed
special buildings of the same type
for the practice of primitive medi-
cine.
The family hot house, replica
of which can be visited at Ocona-
luftee Indian Village here, had the
floor dug out to about II inches
below ground level. The walls and
roofs were built of posts strong
enough to support a seven-inch
covering of dirt.
The result looks very much like
World War II air raid shelter.
Inside the Indians built fire
place and put benches around the
walls. The benches were wide
enough to be used as beds, anC
were covered with skins and wover
mats.
In cold weather, a fire was KEEP
burning to preheat the hot houst
for the night. When bedtime came
the fire was banked with ashes
since there was no roof opening
for the smoke to escape. But by
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Blasting through a passage of
the washington Post March," he
heard family a timid knock at
his door. There stood a mild
hammered little man, hat in hand,
who inquired of the perspiring
musician, pardon me sir, but do
YOU know there's a little old lady
sick upstairs 'Hmmm," unused
the artist, "don't believe do. Can
you hum little of it?"
When Billy Arthur, the Chapel
Hill raconteur and former news
paper publisher, was living in
jacksonville, Marine M.P.'s would
park the paddy wagon next to
his newspaper office. Frequently,
the Leatherneck cops would
broadcast cable One, this is Able
Two. Please call the office
Billy says he always tensed on
such occasions halfway anticipat-
ing the reply, "Sorry, l amt
able!"
No action at a funeral? Well
one Raleigh newspaper l see
handles its death and funeral no.
tees like this: "Mr. Blank Flu
neralized Monday"
The first suicide squadron, OF
Kamikaze Corps, organized by the
Japanese was being briefed by
their colonel. "You will die glo.
riously for the Emperor" he de-
clared. american ships will be
powerless against our fury" His
voice rose as he went on. "And
you, 1t. Yamamoto, have been Sc
lected to lead the mission. You
will take off with a thousand
pound bomb, seek out Admiral
Halsey's flagship, and dive your
airplane straight into her smoke
stack-for the greater glory Of
Japan! Banzai! Now are there any
questions?"
1t. Yamamoto lifted an inquir.
ing hand.
ayes, 1t. Yamamoto, what is
it?"
"Have you lost your mind?"
In France last year, an Ameri'
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nightfall, the hot house was plenty
hot without fire, and the Indians
didn't need either clothing or
covers.
The family hot house was located
in front of the regular Indian
dwelling.
Medicine men and priests had
their own kind of hot houses. In
these, they treated river rocks in
the fire, raked them out on to the
floor and steamed the patients by
pouring medicinal juices over the
hot stones.
The juice was usually prescrip-
ton of wild parsnip roots soaked
in water-or, sometimes, it was
made from persimmon, mulberry
cherry or poplar trees.
Occasionally, Indians were given
sweat baths without medicine
just water on hot rocks. Baths like
that were followed by the heated
Cherokee making a dash to the
river and jumping into the cold
water. Cherokee villages were usu-
ally located close to a stream.
When the Cherokees got small
pox from the white man, the medi-
cine men used such methods in ar
effort to cure their patients. Many
died from the rigorous treatment
as well as from the disease.
Hot houses were also used as
Meeting places by the Cherokees
During such pre-heated discus.
sions, priests discussed and recited
the ancient, sacred myths.
Only Indians trained in the lore
or young students of the rite, were
allowed to participate.
Visitors to Oconaluftee Indian
Village can also see early Cherokee
homes and the Council House
These places are furnished with
authentic items used by the early
Cherokee, and the visitor can watch
modern Indians, in the dress Of
their forefathers, making beautiful
items from native materials.
The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1959-11-27

can tourist was taking tea in the
sun on a patio adjacent to a ru-
raj road. In the distance, another
American, outfitted in hiking
gear, trudged along the road. As
he neared the cafe one of those
small French cars shot around a
bend in the road and bore down
on the unaware pedestrian. He
was knocked into a roadside ditch,
fortunately unframed, but out
ragged. The proprietor ran to the
fellows assistance, gesturing
madly and crying, "Parlez vous
Francois" repeatedly. The strang-
er, furious, arose and shouted,
"Heck no it was a Chevrolet
coupe!"
Lay out $4,000 for a new car
nowadays and 1892 of it goes for
taxes-or about "a cents of each
dollar spent.
The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1959-11-27
INCOME TAX AID

COLUMBIA.-Dr. w. L. Turner,
head of the management staff of
N. C. State College, and authori-
ty on income tax ond social Sc
curity problems will conduct a
special Income Tax school at the
auditorium of the Agriculture
building, Dec. 9, beginning at
2:30 pm. under joint sponsorship
of Home Demonstration and Farm
Agent departments, primarily take
up farm income tax problems
However business persons who
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HOW FALLOUT shelters would protect occu-
pants after nuclear attack is shown in this
drawing of a modern American home. Fall
out-mostly tiny particles of matter charged
with radioactivity-is carried downwind from
nuclear blast and settles the roof and grounds.
From these fallOut particles, radiation rays
(arrOw-like igures) shoot out which can pene-
trate most substances. Enough rays can cause
radiation sickness to people without their
realizing it, since radiation cannot be detected
The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1959-11-27
TWO TRIED IN TYRRELL

COLUMBIA.-In Recorders
Court Tyrrell County Monday,
John Garner Woodley for allow
ing an unlicensed driver to operate
his car, was fined $25 and costs.
Arthur Doll for trespassing on
Columbia School property, 80 days,
suspended upon payment of costs
and two years probation, and to
stay away from Columbia High
School for two years.
The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1959-11-27
WINS PRIZE FOR DRAWING

Mary Claire Dowdy, nine-year-
old student in the third grade in
Manteo, recently won a prize in a
drawing contest sponsored by a
program on television channel 3
from Norfolk. She was awarded
a Magic Wood set. Mary Claire
is the youngest daughter of MIR.
and Mrs. T. G. Dowdy. of Man
teo.
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have small problems, may get
questions answered at this time,
informs Mrs. Ann E. Davenport,
and that all who are interested
would be welcomed to attend.
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by the senses. But the materials of fallout
shelter are dense enough to absorb most radia-
ton and prevent it from reaching the occupants.
The Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization has
declared December as National Civil Defense
be saved after a nuclear attack by such rela-
lively simple precautions. booklet on build
ing fallOut shelters is available through civil
defense Offices, or from Box Shelter, OCDM,
Battle Creek, Michigan.
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1959-08-13

themselves are doing the real
service to Communism, which
battens on confusion, false
charges, and the blind defense of
racial injustices in our country"
Where inequities exist in our
country, it is, indeed, not the
Communist Manifesto but the
American Constitution that fos-
tiers unrest and makes citizens
work for change. The Mccarthy
cry of Communist" in a time of
transition is appealing for two
reasons: it is simple and it is emo
tional. 1t reduces a complex sit
uation, with many ramifications
and subtleties and need for sober
logic, to one single outside cause,
and stirs a rope-and-fagot reflex.
Most citizens along with the
us. Senate, finally came to their
senses about the sickness of Nc
Carthyism. Slowly, as Southern
ers themselves work to replace
emotional resistance and bigotry
with reason and respect for the
law of the land, McCarthyism
can be uprooted under the mag
nolias.
THE PROGRESSIvEl
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1959-08-13
World Of Nature
Public Responsibility

Public responsibility for con-
trolling stream floods is of two
types. One is through govern
ment agencies and consists of
building great reservoirs along
streams, dredging and widening
stream channels and building
levees. These types of projects
give temporary relief only. They
require constant attention and
the initial cost and upkeep is
very great.
All reservoirs, even at the head
waters Of streams, are doomed
to fill up with silt and debris
carried into them, especially dur
ing flood periods. Most of the
reservoirs in this country today
will be of little value in fifty
years from now.
The people generally have
responsibility to refrain from
setting fires along highways or
other places where wild fire can
get to fields and forests. The
barring of forest floors to the min
eral soil is a Grim against the
soil and the people it should sup
port We can support improved
legislation for forest fires and
flood control. We can continue
to educate ourselves and others
in this important phase of con-
serving our natural resources and
preventing stream floods.
Let us work to the end that
stream floods which do millions
of dollars worth of damage an
nually and frequently take the
lives of animals and man, be
brought under control.
Minor or Trace Elements In Soils
Few, if any cultivated soils are
in perfect. balance for the crops
they produce. Most soils are short
in three elements to produce the
normal quantity of grain, forage
vegetables, fruit, fiber or other
crops expected under the other
wise favorable conditions. The
elements nitrogen, PHOSPHORUS
and potassium are the nutrients
commonly in short supply. Most
all commercial fertilizers contain
all three.
But plants do not live by these
elements alone. There are sew
eral that are necessary to produce
either the quantity or the quail
ity, or both, that the grower ex-
poets.