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GUM NECK PERSONALS

Mr.. and Mrs. Worth Smell and
Kay were in Durham Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. R. Fulcher 81
Washington visited Mr.. and Mrs
Durwood Cooper.
Matte Cahoon, Franklin and
Clarence Meckins were in Raleigh
Saturday.
Mrs. Herman Cahoon and son
Mike were in Elizabeth City Wed.
nesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Liverman OF
Plymouth spent the week end with
Mr.. and Mrs. w. C. Liverman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marion Cooper
spent the week end in Elizabeth
City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roger Sawyer
U.S.A.F. are visiting his grand
mother, Mrs. Sade Sawyer on thei,
return from England before re,
porting to California.
Gilbert Owens has returned from
Florida.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Armstrong oi
Elizabeth City were here Sunday
Mrs. Lennie Dorwart visited Mrs
L "A. Smithson.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. A. Smithson &C.
companied Mrs. T. j. Cooper anC
daughter, Eunice of East Lake
home Monday.
Mrs. Sally Everton is a Colum
bia HOSPITAL patient.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cliff Workman ano
visited in Norfolk.
Visitors from Norfolk were Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Cahoon with hel
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ashby Jones
Mr.. and Mrs. T. NJ. Jones with
Mrs. Bette Williams and Mrs. Mar
Jones, Mr.. and Mrs. Cannie Phelps
Mrs. Jay Crosswfite, Mrs. Al viii
liams with their mother, Mrs. Sally
Everton, Mr.. and Mrs. Rufus Saw
yer, Mrs. Sade Sawyer, Mr.. anC
Mrs. Bill Baker with Mr.. and Mrs
Len Jones, Horace Barefield witt
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Short!
Barefield, Mrs. Lois Cullipher witt
her mother, Mrs. Jack wilkins, Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Swain with Mr.. ant
Mrs. C. l.. Parrisfer, Bobby Smitl
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Willie Smith and Mark and Jacl
Combs with Mrs. Mark Combs.
Mrs. Mart Jones of Norfolk i!
visiting her daughters, Mrs. O. B
Cahoon and Mrs. Lee Parrisher.
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FIRE INJURIES WOMAN
AND DAMAGES PROPERTY

COLUMBIA.-The Fire depart
ment on Monday extinguished g
blaze in the upstairs apartment OF
Mrs. Alice Rhodes in the McClees
store building Thursday night
which did severe damage, and
caused Mrs. Rhodes to be hospital
lied.
Furniture in the room was
ruined, including a 9x12 rug burn
ed to a crisp, and foam rubber
chair that had melted.
The store below was subjected tc
much water damage. Only smoke
damage was done the other upstairs
apartment occupied by Mr.. and
Mrs. Irwin Swain, who spent the
rest of the night with Mr.. and Mrs
Brannan Swain.
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GUM NECK GIRLS WINNER
IN MUFFIN CONTEST

COLUMBIA. - The three first
place winners in the recently held
Enriched Corn Meal Muffin con.
test in the Home Economics Room
of Columbia High School were all
from Gum Neck community.
Laura White, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Hiram T. White took tor
honors, and will submit her record
and muffins in the district con-
test and the State Fair exhibit.
Patricia Basnight, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Walter Basn;ght, placed
second and Gwen Armstrong,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. T. E.
Armstrong, third.
These girls reported making muf-
fins using enriched corn meal a
total of sixty times for their fami-
lies. Fifty-two others have re-
ceived enriched corn meal informa-
ton from these girls. Others par
ticipating were Sharon Gibbs,
Faith Hudson, Helen Mae Cuthrell
and Lila Gay Turner.
Judges for the contest were Mrs.
R. L. Spruill and Mrs. c. w. Spruill.
Others attending were Jeanette
Smith, Alice White, Mrs. w. w.
Hudson, Mrs. Theodore Gibbs, Mrs.
Walter Basnight, Mrs. T. E. Ann
strong, Mrs. Ben F. Turner, Mrs.
H. 7. White and Mrs. Elsie B.
Edwards, Assistant H. Ec. Agent.
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AIRPORT
Continued from Page One)

ing to conversation recently
with Mrs. Byrd.
A large organization is being
developed to arrange the program
and carry it out successfully. Rep.
resented will be men from the Air
Force, the Coast Guard, Navy, and
National Park Service, as well as
State and County Agencies.
Participating in the organization
of this celebration during the past
several months have been Jim Nor
ton, Vice President of The Ameri-
can Weekly of New York; Keith
Saunders, Travel Editor of Avi-
ations Publications, Washington, d.
c., Harold MalSepeace, Secretary to
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TIMES
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publicising the need for things tc
bring more income to our area
and two years later, we witnessed
the opening of the Lost Colony in
July 1887, resulting from the united
effort of many people. Because of
this great drama, presented here in
our coaStland, we received attention
through favorable publicity, such
as never before had favored us. The
Lost Colony created the need for
tourist accommodations which have
been provided at a cost of millions
in this area. More than any other
one thing, it is responsible for the
development of our great beach
resorts, and which brought about
the great overflow southwark to
Hatteras and Ocracoke.
Better channels and harbors are
one of the most essential needs of
our people. We gave wide publicity
to many such projects: Hatteras,
Oregon Inlet, Wanchese, Mantco,
Stumpy Point, etc. Publicity has
kept some of these projects alive
when defeat was threatened. 1t has
paid off in community service.
We have supported better schools,
and we have never opposed any is
sue, regardless of what it might
cost, that would better the lot of
our children. We believe we owe
much to our forefathers, who have
through great toll left so much
for US, and that our duty is to
leave more than we enjoyed to
those who follow after.
In all road programs we have
taken the position that roads should
be built first where there are none,
on the basis of need by most people,
and the potential for development
of various resources out of which
will come increased income for our
people.
We have fought always for eco
omy and efficiency in County and
State Government, believing that
putting dishonest or incompetent
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RETIRED SEAFARING
MAN SEEKS PLACE
ON COUNTY BOARD
Thomas Jefferson Harris Of Kitty
Hawk Had Interesting Coast
Guard Career

After two years in quiet retire.
ment in the community of Kitty
Hawk, Thos. ]. (Jepp) Harris is
finding new adventures and many
old friends aiding his bid for Coun-
ty Commissioner, as he travels over
Dare County. Widely known and
highly regarded during his % years
service in the Coast Guard, he finds
old comrades all along, rising up
to encourage him.
When Harris retired in 1858, he
was officer in charge of Kill Devil
Hills Coast Guard station. During
the war years, and while in charge
at Oregon Inlet station, had life
of adventure in rendering aid to
submarine victims off our coast.
Perhaps the first of these was the
S. S. Malay, shelled off Oregon
Inlet in 1941. The ship sighted a
sub, and radioed position, only to
have a shell tear through its side,
making a hole big enough for life
boat to enter. Chief Harris and his
crew set out for the vessel, some
Ia miles away, brought in two in
jured seamen, and two dead bodies.
Oddly enough, the ship was able
to continue to Norfolk for repairs.
But on the same day, four other
ships were torpedoed in the same
area, and several rescue trips were
made in the 36-foot lifeboat to the
inside shipping lane where the YES
sells were sunk. Harris highly
praises this crew who served with
him at Oregon Inlet, calling them
among the best.
Harris, who had served in war
maneuvers off Porto Rico in 1910
and during a previous year, is
known as an able boatman, and
had been sent to Oregon Inlet for
this reason, it being one of the most
important stations of the Coast
Guard during the war. Every night
in those days, our people along the
Coast would be awakended by the
heavy explosions that took costly
toll in death and destruction during
this early period of the war.
One of the toughest trips of
Harris career was during a storm
while he was Oregon Inlet. With
Sheldon O'Neal and Herbert Mid
gett, and two other seamen, he went
to sea to aid a trawler in distress
as miles away. Their little 36-foot
boat battled it's way up the coast
to Currituck Beach while the storm
increased in intensity ,and head
quarters radioed him to seek shelter
at his own discretion. There was
nowhere to go for shelter, being
halfway between Hampton Roads
and Oregon Inlet. The seas had
grown to a depth of 70 feet from
trough to crest. Their boat, de-
signed to right itself in less than
half a minute, had tough going.
The men in the boat lived in a
cabin with doors sealed water
tight; the helmsman had to be
strapped to the wheel, the men
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PAGE FIVE

men in office is the greatest crime
against our people, and our COM
ing generations. We don't think it
fair to pass on to unborn children
debts for money we have wasted.
We don't believe people mind pay
ing, taxes if they know they will
get their moneys worth in re-
turn. We have fought people who
fight against the betteiment Of
our county.
We pay no mind to the childish
criticism of those who howl about
the manner or fashion by which we
fight graft, inefficiency and corrup-
ton. The newspaper has one re-
sponsibility only, and that is to-
tell the truth, and it doesn't matter.
whether it's on the front page, the
back page or who writes it. Tha
criticism of how it's said or done is
merely a smoke screen brought up
to get peoples minds off the track.
When you see a snake, the only
thing to do is strike it; it doesn't
matter whether with a hoe or "a
club; no one considers it proper Tn
fan it with a leaf and scare it
away.
When you are fighting graft and
corruption in government, it is
foolish indeed to fight defensive
war, or merely one of g1umbling-
Only an offensive war is of value.
The forces and people who are be-
ing fought never consider whether
any of their methods are fair o.:
foul. Special interests always seek
control of your public affairs, the
handling of your taxes in order to
favor their friends, fill their pock
cts, and strut around with some
sort of title as if this entitled
them to be above other people.
One has to be rough, or use any
method that is lawful, when it is
necessary to oppose people who
stop at nothing; who whisper
around in the dark, hold secret
meetings and plot by any sort of
scheme to gain their ends. Such
people never allow conscience to
enter into the methods they use.
They spend money, mostly contri-
buttons from others, the public
money if they can; they make
damaging statements, even to the
extent of farbicating complete lies
circulated too late to refute, in
order to carry their points. Yet
these are the people who are first
to howl, and to cry 'unfair" when
a newspaper exposes their schemes.
A newspaper would be foolish in
deed to waver in its stand against
graft and corruption and allow
those who are guilty to dictate its
policy. Mealy-mouthed people who
don't want the public to know their
true nature, talk much about the
responsibility of an editor, or a.
newspapers duty to be "fair". The
newspapers duty is to serve the
people and not Especial interests"
1t is not fair if it represents the
wrong side. 1t is not living up to
its purpose when it has no back
bone. Newspapers or people can
not be honest without backbone.
They cannot long continue in bust
ness, and they cannot serve, and
they don't deserve to live, when they
cease to be guided by dedicated
purpose, and honest effort. 1t must
pursue it's course like the moon
across the skies TO shed benefits on
people as a whole, and sail steadily
along like the moon ever remember
ing that all the nightly yapping OF
all the fices in Christendom has
never swayed the moon off its
course.
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CENSUS
CONTINUED from Page One)

765 lost 715. Forty years ago Hyde
had over 5000.
Washington County now with
13,201 lost only one person. Cam
den with $3.50 gained $50. Curri-
tuck County now has 6,543, having
gained 342.
Losses ranging from one tc
942, Chowan, occurred in eight Of
the ID counties.
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EPISCOPAL CHURCHWOMEN

COLUMBIA.-The st. Andrews
Episcopal Church Women met Mon
day with Mrs. l.. P. Scott.
Mrs. H. C, Davenport and Mrs
Sam S. Woodley gave reports OF
the Convocation of Edenton.
Mothers were notified to send ap.
plications for midget camp al
Camp Leach, Immediately. "Prayel
for Episcopal Churchwomen" was
given by Mrs. C. Earl Cohoon. Mrs
Rodney Cooper, President, wei
coined a former member, Mrs
Marget Burke of Aver, Mass. At
tending were: Miss Eva Bateman
Mrs. C. Earl Cohoon, Mrs. Sam S
Woodley, Mrs. James Howerton
Mrs. T. w. Armstrong, Mrs. Rod
ney Cooper, Mrs. H. c. Davenport
Mrs. Alice Combs, and the guest
Mrs. Burke
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TWO TYRRELL CASES

COLUMBIA. - In Tyrrell Re-
corders Court Monday: Robert Cur
tis Owens, for reckless driving and
no operators license, fined $50
and costs. James Herman Jordan
no operators license and no horn,
80 days. suspended on payment of
80 and costs.
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Governor Hodges, Aycock Brown,
Tourist Bureau Manager, and a
committee from the Dare County
Board consisting of Victor Meek
ins, George R. Fuller, Jr., and
Woodrow w. Edwards.
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Charlie w. Spruill. The Kilkenny
Club served iced drinks to the Ii
attending.
Evening star., 1960-12-18
Rural Chamber Music

Lewis, both amateur musicians. Mr.. and Mrs.
Stanley Brown donated the use of the draw
ing room of their LOudoun County Va) home,
"Rockland," and the musicians contributed
their services.
Edwin Grzesnikowski, first viOlinist and
director of the quartet, and Edward kapu-
sciarz second violinist. are members of an
Air Force orchestra stationed at Boiling Air
Force Base; Paul De Bourg, cello, is member
of the Marine Corps orchestra in Washington,
and Miss Jean Winslow, viola, joined the group
when she came here from Florida. They expect
to give additional concerts in the country this
winter. jim BIRCHFIELD
Evening star., 1960-12-18

THE soft afternoon light f1ltering into the
drawing room the magic strains Of
Beethoven played by the Loudoun String
Quartet chamber music as it was written to
be heard. -.
In an experiment in bringing chamber
music to the country the quartet traced in
series of three concerts the development Of
the string quartet from Boccherini, Haydn and
Mozart on to Beethoven Schubert and Brahms
and then to the romanticism of Borodin De-
busy and Villa-LoboS.
The concerts, held for the benefit of the
Loudoun Country Day School building fund,
were arranged by Huntington Harris and Paul
Evening star., 1960-12-18

Deeper-penetrating than messy
sprays that can be blocked by con-
gestec nasal passages. NAsALAIRE's
amazingly effective gas vaPor action
penetrates entire congested area to
unlock clogged sinus cavities, give
quick relief from throbbing pres
sure pain.
Evening star., 1960-12-18

80 times faster than decOngeStant
tablets that must dissolve in your
stomach before they start to work.
NASALAIRE acts instantly. directly to
shrink swollen nasal tissues. Let's
you breathe free and easy, fast! No
unpleasant side effects. No PrescriP-
tion needed.
Evening star., 1960-12-18

NaSaIaire's new formula decOnges-
tant (cycIopentyl aminOPFOpane)
acts instantly in those areas where
it does the most good. You &c; faster,
more effective relief than you ever
dreamed possible before!
Evening star., 1960-05-24
Midas Spy Satellite
Launched at ConoveroI

the 100000 pounds of thrust
generated by the Atlas booster.
Because a low orbit of about
10000 miles was sought the
vehicle arched quickly toward
the southeast.
Word on whether the satellite
achieved orbit was expected
later.
The Air Force, which con-
Quoted the launching, empha-
sized that this is only a test
vehicle-a forerunner of a Sc
ries Of satellites planned to
spin about the earth on a con-
stant patrol for enemy missile
activity. They will carry infra-
red sensing devices to spot the
heat trail of a hostile rocket
as it is fired.
The alarm would be flashed
Immediately to the United
States, which then would have
about 80 minutes to brace for
nuclear bombardment, to send
retaliatory planes and rockets
on the way, and to get as many
people as possible into shelters.
Evening star., 1960-05-24

CAPE CANAvERAL, Fla,
May "a (AP).-The United
States today rocketed an ex-
perimental Midas "spy-in-the-
sky" satellite toward an orbit
around the earth. Midas mis-
sion is to provide almost in
slant warning of a ballistic
attack.
The launching, coinciding
with the United Nations spy
plane debate. underscored a
United States desire to develop
measures to protect the free
world from surprise aggres-
sion.
A powerful Atlas Agena
rocket boosted the 5.000-pound
satellite aloft at 1877 pm. The
entire Agena second stage, %
feet long and 5 feet in diam
eter, was intended to 60 into
orbit in a nose-down position.
The instruments are located
in the nose.
The 88-foot rocket climbed
smoothly into q clear sky on
Evening star., 1960-05-24
APOSTLE OF ovERsTATEMENT
Gromyko's S Diotribe
Skips FoIksy Fables

not, Of course, wish to indorse
the position of Russia, which
maintains it is in a state OF
shock from having discovered
the United States keeps spies
No sophisticated diplomat could
subscribe to that. 1t is rather
as if the grandmother in Little
Red Riding Hood" had risen up
to scream a denunciation OF
the woodsman for carrying an
ak to fell helpless little trees.
Small Nations Hopes
On the other hand, small ma.
tions, with their shaky sover-
eighty, are not strong for over.
flights, either. At least they
wish that if the United States
must fly spies, they wouldn't
get caught. Or, at a minimum,
If they do get caught, that we
would wiggle out more nimbly
But none of them is about
to say so at the risk of offend
ing the United States, which
despite current Soviet attempts
to belittle it, still seems like a
mighty large country to them,
Iii any case, when the dip
lomats stop being diplomatic
around here, they tell you that
Russia's Foreign Minister An
drei Y. Gromyko couldn't get q
resolution for Mothers Day
through the Security Council.
This did not, of course, pre-
vent Mr.. Gromyko from trying
For one hour in the blue-and-
gold room he held forth about
the "perfidy," "treachery," "es-
pionage," sabotage" and
See COUNCIL, Page AS
Evening star., 1960-05-24
Democrats Fill
Party Posts

NEW YORK, May "a (AP).
Gov. Leroy F. Collins of
Florida was selected perma-
nent chairman of the forth
coming Democratic presidential
convention and Senator Church
OF Idaho was chosen keynoter
at a meeting of the convention
Arrangements Committee to-
day.
Gov. Collins is regarded as
a moderate among Southern
Democrats on the subject of
civil rights. His selection might
be intended to placate other
Southerners on that thorny
issue.
Senator Church, IS, entered
the Senate in 1856 and has
worked closely with Senate
Democratic Leader Johnson.
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distinguished Americans whose
biographies show that heavy
responsibilities in childhood
lead to responsibility. as an
adult?
A lot Of gulf, said the pro-
fessor, who added:
"The truth of the matter,
probably, is that for each such
person there is at least
another who was discouraged.
held back or even broken by
too much responsibility too
early. But these men do not
write autobiographies, nor are
accounts of their lives re-
corded except, perhaps, in the
police courts or mental institu-
! tions. - ~.
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Professor Says Chores
Don't Help Every Child

PHILADELPHIA, May "a
(APl-Prof. Dale B. Harris of
Pennsylvania State University
took a verbal swipe today at a
cherished American tradition.
He told the National Congress
Of Parents and Teachers there
is absolutely no relation be-
tween the number and kind of
chores a child is assigned. and
the sense of responsibility he
shows later as an adult.
Indeed" he said, from some
of our data there is a sugges-
tion that too many urgent and
serious duties, assumed too
early, can have an adverse ef-
feet on children"
But what about the many
Evening star., 1960-05-24
By MARY McGRORY
Star Stan Writer

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y,
May 24.-Deliberations of the
Security Council of the United
Nations are being held in a
blue-and-gold room that is DOM
mated by an ambiguous mural.
The message of the mural
is obscure. It depicts various
mysterious festivals, door-open-
ings and striking of of chains
and in one corner what looks
like a thriving print-shop. At
the bottom, however, there ap-
pears to be a sword thrust
through a molten typewriter
surely not a happy symbol for
an assemblage that deals al
most entirely in words.
In the present moment the
Security Councils mission is as
murky as the art work. About
all it can do is take the place
of the teapot in the family
quarrel. Just as contending
parties in the home who are
officially not speaking can
address each other through the
teapot without losing face, so
the Security Council is acting
a sounding board for the United
States and the Soviet Union,
who are taking up the quarrel
that was left smoldering at the
summit.
Not Anxious to Meet
The small nations, who are
supposed to decide the matter
are not any more anxious than
usual to take sides. They do
Evening star., 1960-05-24

in office. He said the commit
tee merely wants to find out
exactly what happened and to
review the policies which in
fluenced the events"
The first session will be at
1890 am. Friday with testi-
mony from Secretary of State
Herter. Subsequent witnesses
will include Allen Dulles, di-
rector of the Central Intelli-
gence Agency; a spokesman for
the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration and De-
fense Secretary Gates.
Stevenson Ruled Out
Asked about Republican sug-
gestionS that the committee
also call Adlai E. Stevenson and
Robert Boulay, correspondent
for a French newspaper which
printed a controversial inter-
view with Mr.. Stevenson, Sem
ator Fulbright said there was
See CONGRESS- Page At