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spent at City, with par
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by a years ago
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with the folks
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parents something which
extremely grateful and fortunate.
parent preparing
world would that parent to try interest the
child reading books not bostered
recognize small
inspiration knowledge
reading nothing developed by civilization
place development the
gave credit limited reading
the Pickering candle light of his cabin the light of
fireplace his to the Presidency
these place stress knowing prominent
they had contact
leading of the times would
they could intimate with
the greatest and women who have lived
acquaintance, gained the pages a lasting
inspiration which
circumstances Often these contacts
furnishes
spark great
ment
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children acquainted with reading books
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they probably inspired usey productive
pursuits-Cecl Newman
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through Babylon Egypt Asyia
Carthage Rome
perish
patterns
vision destruction
behold
Sing praises forges own"Ch-
cage fender.
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Copyright, 1860, Robert G..
Spivack).
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Doctors eat slowly you'll particularly
true a member Of a large family
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1960-05-12

Ky) College. During 1924-25 he
taught English and French at the
Blue Ridge School for Boys Hen
Jacksonville, N. c. -rs~a.,,
For a brief period in 1923 he
served on the staff of the Char
lotte (N.C) Observer, and in 1924
he travelled to Chicago for a re-
porting job on the old Post. In
1925 he was a free-lance writer
in Chicago; then he. returned to
Charlotte for position on the
News staff in 1926 and 1927. In
the latter year he travelled in Eu-
rope, then edited a weekly news
paper, the Cleveland Free Press
in Shelby, N. c., in 1928 He was
listed as free-lance writer from
1929 to 1887, contributing to the
American Mercury when it was
edited by II. l.. Mencken. He
served as associate editor of the
Charlotte News from 1887 to 1941.
During World War I he was un-
able to enlist in the Navy but
got into civilian work at an Army
cantonment by Judging" on his
age. Summer employment as
youth included working on his
grandfather's farm, driving
truck to haul lumber and brick
and working in a hosiery mill
headed by his father twelve
hours a night in the latter.
Collection of books and phono-
graph records "a good deal faster
than l can Afford was one of his
obsessions, with the accent always
on the classics. He read "heavy
old books almost exclusively" and
thought 'Beethoven's c Minor
Symphony is still the greatest
music ever written" The only
sport he ever liked was golf and
the happiest time he spent was
while riding a bicycle across Eu-
rope, with hikes in the Pyrenees,
the Swiss Alps and along the
Riviera.
Cash termed himself shy fell
low, yet he liked to talk better
than anything else, he said, and
drank beer with old friends until
the late hours
He stated that his family and
Continued on Page -
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East Side

artist TO do the Sermon the Mount we'll received at the
time ,
The years went by and the rumbles came Some blunt ana
uoy some ddainu others in the nature of sneer Finally
there was action The mural must out and some advocated
its destruction Then my friend stepped to head committee
that must decide its fate. :,
So they are shipping Christ to Columbus and maybe He viii
be more effective there than at Canon City At least for the NOM
emf He seems TO be welcome Canon City today there is sUen
silence People do not feel good about the turn Of events but even
as with me- they prefer let the issues sleep hoping that now the
canvas is gone that the trouble within themselves will 90 away
Maybe but doubt though am no better than the most
bitter critic because do nothing positive toward better under
standing
understand that this event mild thing the passing pa
rade but though lacking violence and not the same plane
with killing river bank still smacks OF the same tear
encsted eqomania and makes hope of progress maddenng
illustration don't know that this recital help anything at all but
Ithouqht you might be interested in this odd episode.
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eler, a reporter, an editor, a free
lance writer and an author. His
life's story is one of movement
which seemed TO belle some of
his own estimates of himself.
His family left South Carolina
and most of his growing up"
years were spent in the village
of Boiling Springs, just across
the line in Cleveland County,
North Carolina. He learned to
read al the age of five, was i'm
mediately captivated by books,
and recalled being absorbed in
literature at the age of six as his
mother called him ito bring i'm
stove wood"
after that I read everything |
could get my hands on" he wrote
"Alger, Henty, Wayne Reid,
Clark, Russell. Scott, Dickens.
Hugo. Milton, Bunyan with
impartiality. AT fourteen | dis
covered the girls and so aban-
doned the Harvard Classics some
where i'm the middle, spent the
next fifteen years contemplating
them--the girls. not the classics
-, often painfully"
AT college, Cash said he read
sporadically, edited the college
paper, won a short story prize.
but mainly sat on the benches
under the magnolias and thought
about the girls"
His efforts at college football,
he wrote, failed ANONYMOUSLY"
the college newspaper always
came out late and sometimes not
at all, and he was always in hot
water with the authorities" at the
college.
He paints a picture of incon-
sistency in scholarship, but new
ertheless his cherished reading
list covers virtually the whole
range of the classics. In 1918-19
he attended Wofford College at
Spartanburg, S. c., and received
his ALB. degree from Wake For
est College in 1922. After attend
ing the Law School at Wake For
est during the 1929 terms, he
accepted a post as English in
structor in 1923 at Georgetown
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cutoff because we know nothing
to take its place. Are we so sure
of this? If we have to spend sixty
billions a year on an arms pro-
gram to keep our economy afloat,
we can spend at least that much
on things we really need, some
of which might even brighten up
this planet for most of the people
who live on it.
Let us announce to the world
that as soon as the United Ma
tons is fully capable of taking
over the international security
function we are prepared to en-
bark on ten-year program seek
ing the following detectives:
/. The manufacture of 100000
900 prefabricated three room
homes, for shipment to and as
sembly in those countries, prin-
cipally in Asia and Africa, in
which homelessness is a major
problem.
2. Our willingness to undertake
the construction of community
development projects for relocat-
ing the major refugee groups IN
the world, be they Arab, Pakis-
TAM, Indian, or whatever, SO long
as the necessary land is contri-
buted by the respective govern
mentS.
3. Our readiness to undertake
large-scale hydro electric power
projects, irrigation projects, road
building projects, health-center
and hospital-building projects In
other countries on the basis of
long-term credits.
4. Our immediate readiness to
use our agriculture SURPRISES to
help meet the stark fact of hum
ger that now affects at least one
third of the worlds peoples.
So far as the United States it
self is concerned, we can launch
a program to build at least $4,000
new elementary and secondary
schools; to build at least 500 new
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button to society.
1t is with mixed emotions that
| find the most n-Christian like
attitudes towards people of diff
ferent race are to be found most
frequently among my friends and
acquaintance who attend church
regularly and consider themselves
good Christians. This partly ex-
plains my refusal to embrace a
faith which so obviously fails to
accomplish it's purpose, even
though it isn't easy to walk alone
with nothing more powerful than
oneself and ones ideals to rely
upon in time of trouble. My
Christian fellow citizens are for
tunate to have a God who allows
them to draw upon His strength,
yet demands so little in return.
I make time to read your edl-
torials, which I always enjoy,
even when I can't find time to
read your entire paper. AS | at
tend night school classes and
study a great deal, I find it nee
essary to relax with a history,
biography or equally enjoyable
material during my limited lei
sure for reading. Your paper is
too thought provoking to be con-
ducive to restful pleasure.
Name Withheld by Request
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teachers colleges; to provide new
equipment or facilities for 1,5OO
colleges and universities; to build
at least 10000 miles of much
needed new Federal highways;
to enlarge the plants and faclll-
ties of $4,000 hospitals; to carry
out an INSTRUMENTATION pro-
gram to get rid of poisons result
ing from industrial gases, auto
mobile fumes, and radioactive
fallout; and to restore the eroded
or eroding lands of the Midwest
and West.
Such a program would easily
take up the slack left by a sub
stantial reduction in manufac-
ture of weapons of mass destruc-
ton.
1t will be argued, of course,
that the country couldn't possibly
afford to spend so much. The
answer is that we are already
spending that much. Then 1T will
be argued that where our secu-
rity is concerned there is no
choice. The answer is that our
security depends even more on
creating the conditions of sta
bility and progress in the world
than on turning out weapons OF
absolute destruction.
In any case, the problem lies
not in any laws of economic de-
terminism, but in our values, our
purposes, and our desire to come
fully alive.
(The Saturday Review
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Book Review 90.

the illusions and pomposity of its
time.
Cash, contemplating his native
area with rare perspicacity, laid
bare the greatness and anguish,
the decisions and realities, OF the
World War III South. His text
rolls with a unique and exquisite
fluency.
In any library catalog the re-
searcher will find only one vol
ume listed under the name of this
author. Who was this w. j. Cash,
whose book is being republished
twenty years after it was written
and who is being quoted by emf
nent historians?
Why did his productivity en- d
abruptly in 1941 with the publ
cation of this one, vibrant testi-
monial which the Atlantic Month
ly called "a literary and moral
miracle?"
Cash's biography is story of
brilliance, of depression, and fin
ally, of tragedy. His life ended in
suicide on July 2, 194l, six
months after the first edition of
The Mind of the South came off
the presses. The forty-year-old
author received a Guggenheim
Fellowship in March, to write a
novel with a Mexican setting, and
ended his life in Mexico City.
He was born on May 2, 1901,
at Gaffney, where the last ram
parts of the Blue Ridge dip down
into South Carolina, and not far
from the Catawba River country
of which Thomas Wolfe wrote
with affection. In fact, Cash's ca
reer spanned almost exactly the
same period of time as Wolfe's.
The best available insight into
the nature of w. J. Cash is fur
nished by the short autobiogra-
phical sketches he wrote for his
publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, in
April, 1886, and April, 1910.
Knopf provides mimeographed
forms on green paper for use by
authors in setting down few
pertinent facts about themselves.
In 1886, the form did not prove
large enough for Cash. He seemed
compelled to tell about his inner
most thoughts, his habits and his
philosophical ideas. The sketch
spilled over and covered the back
of the form as we'll as the ruled
section on the front.
One fact seems obvious - that
Cash had every earmark of the
romanticist he described in his
book as being typical of the
South. But this quality was I'M
dershot with something elsa
high voltage curiosity-a search
ing after something which led
him to many excursions Of the
mind and to travels in France,
England, Germany, Italy and
Switzerland.
Into eighteen years, from 1923
to 1941, he packed an exceptional
number of activities. During that
period he was a student, teach
err of languages, a foreign trav-
teacher'S COLLEGES. fO provide new
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Letters

NV wi
utter nonsense, thus establishing
precedent for future mental
procedure.
Being precocious and not very
obedient child, / like and visited
many Negro families during that
time and was always warmly well
coined. Shortly after we moved
into our new home, my grand
father sold his property in that
district and severed my only con-
tact with colored people. Not I'M
til I was grown and fortunate
enough to form friendships with
two Negro college girls did |
again meet colored people so
cially.
Later on, when the often re-
peated, Negroes are all right in
their place, doctrine became part
of my education both in and away
from home, my early association
with colored people, plus an in
curing mind, enabled me to pain
lessly conclude that Negroes
place should be no different than
my own.
Time gradually tempered my
vehement arguments over racial
problems into reflective discus
sions. Later on, with the disillu-
sionment of learning that while
compassionate and intelligent
people do not erect color bar
riers. no amount OF discussion
can change the opinion of those
lacking either of these two at
tributes, l tried to avoid race as
a topic of conversation.
We, here in California, are apt
to feel superior and SNUG when
we hear of Little Rock Incl
dents in the South but we also
have our incidents and some of
our hotels, motels and restau
rants refuse to admit Negroes.
Now that the white population is
alarmed over the amazing prog
ress made by the Negro race de-
spite severe handicaps, at almost
any gathering one hears the in
evitable question, "How would
YOU like to have them living next
door to your" If this doesn't
evoke response it is invariably
followed by, "Your property will
drop in value" l don't claim that
California hasn't its share of peo-
pie without prejudice but they
aren't to be found among those
whom T meet. Even the most toll
Grant. who assert they are will
inc to work, eat and share public
places with Negroes, add, 'But 1
don't feel have to associate with
them socially and / certainly don't
want them for neighbors. The
consensus of opinion can still be
expressed by that detestable
phrase. They are all right in
their place. Unfortunately, l be-
Gin to sense a growing determin-
alton to keep them there.
Although / still feel it is a sac
red obligation to stand up and
be counted, / confess / am weary
with fitting at windmills. If my
husband and I have been success
FIJI in transplanting our ideals
into the heart and mind of our
dauehter and if she can do the
same with her children, perhaps
that will be our greatest contrl-
The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1960-08-05
FOUR-YEAR-OLD CHILD
BROWNS ON ROANOKE Id

James Wesley Chapman, age A.
was found in pond drowned, Sat-
urday before noon, when his par
ents were on a driftwood hunt on
the northwest shore of Roanoke Is
land north of the Croatan Sound
Bridge. The parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Paul T. Smith of Reidsville, were
mentioning in the area. The little
boy had been playing on the sandy
beach, and while Mrs. Smith was
wading with a younger child, the
little boy strayed away and fell
into the deep pond which had beer
done. Each parent thought the
child with the other. When they
reached the place where had beer
left, they found his tracks leading
into the pond.
The child's body was recovered
from the pond, and taken to Twi.
ford's Funeral Home in Manteo.
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DOLPHIN FISHING WAS
NEVER BETTER OFF COAST

Dolphin fishing, the best bet for
offshore anglers who troll the wes-
tern edge of the Gulf Stream has
never been better than during the
past several days.
Charter boats based at Oregon
and Hatteras Inlets have caught
thousands of the fast and color
full fishes during the past two
weeks and the only letup was for
one or two days when Brenda made
the seas too choppy for offshore
navigation.
In addition to dolphin, white and
blue marlin fishing is also up to
par for this season of the year off
Oregon Inlet and excellent catches
of bonita, wahoo and other warm
water species are being made daily
at the edge Of the STREAM" off
Oregon Inlet.
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TOWERS, IQoREPLACE OUR
PICTURESQUE LIGHTSHIPS
Two in N. CT Diamond Shoals and
Cape Lookout On List; Yesterday
Was c. 9. Anniversary

Thursday, August 4th, was the
10th birthday of the Coast Guard,
and with it came news of a revolu-
tionary step, to begin next year.
the adjustment of its picturesque
and useful lightships, two of which
are on the N. C. coast-The Dia-
mond Shoals Light vessel of Cape
Hatteras, and the Cape Fear
Lightship. Some 70 years ago, at
tempts were made to build light
towers to be inhabited by keepers,
on Diamond Shoals, but these at
tempts failed. 1t is now proposed
to erect a steel tower of nine legs.
imbetlded in the sand, and with
a fixed platform at the top.
The red-painted vessels will be
no more. First to go, next year,
will be Buzzard's Bay ship, off
Cape Cod, and Benton Reef ship
off Rhode Island. Only two of "a
ships will be kept; both off the
Northwest Coast of Washington.
where the water is $50 to 200 feet
deep.
Saving of two-thirds operating
costs is one reason. The towers
60 feet above the water will have
greater visibility. They can be con-
trolled from shore by radio. Only
a few of them will be manned.
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MANTEO SCOUTS RETURN
FROM A GLORIOUS TRIP

Three Dare County boys returned
Sunday and are home with never
to be forgotten trip in their memo
ry; week at the International
Jamboree in Colorado Springs, on
the 50th Boy Scout anniversary.
For a year, the boys had been saw
ing their money for the trip, and
some of them came home, few
dollars unspent.
John Gibbs, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert F. Gibbs; Timothy Gaylord,
son of Mrs. Beulah Gaylord, the
Dare Home agent of Manteo, and
Walter Gray, Jr., son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Gray of Mays Head
made the trip. They now have
many remarkable "reminiscences to
tell their friends about.
Some $4,000 scouts from many
countries of the world attended
this unprecendent event, almost
doubling the population of Colora.
do Springs. About 1000 scouts as
sisted a corp of some 60 news
papermen in covering the event foi
their hometown newspapers. Foi
seven days, the scouts issued theii
own tabloid newspaper with &c..
600 copies daily. The scouts attend.
ing from Elizabeth City exhibited
a display they made, protrayine
the Lost Colony.
! The long journey was made b.
train from Norfolk, carrying 165
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WORK SHOP ON FORESTY
HELD FOR TEACHERS

Approximately so teachers of
agriculture attended the work shop
on Forestry July % and 10th, held
at Plymouth as guest of the Weyer-
haesur Company, North Carolina
Pulpwood subsidiary.
The Agriculture teachers attend
ing the work shop from Beaufort
and Hyde counties were o. ]. Gay
lord, Bath; J. L. Patrick, Choco-
winity; J. NJ. Worrell, Washington;
F. G. Lewis, Aurora; Charles Rear
don, Panteo; Robert Smith, Swan
Quarter; F. D. Rivenbark of Co.
lumbia; and P. T. Long, Engel-
hard.
The work shop was formally
opened by remarks from E. K.
Pittman, Conservation Forester,
who introduced X. S. Trowbridge,
Manager wood and land depart
ment, who welcomed the group.
The first part of the work shop
was discussion of forest manage
ment practices with detailed in
struction on planting pine seed
lings, culling hardwoods and fire
control by Harold Nelson.
Charles Garner gave instruction
on mechanical hard wood control
soil preparation.
E. K. Ach gave some interest
ing facts relative to wood procur-
ment as related to the manufac-
ture of paper.
E. X. Pittman discussed pulp
wood thinning, followed by slide
presentation-"Care Of The Forest
Helps Paper Have It's Day" given
by George Dainty, Area Forester,
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STRIPED BASS IN
BIG SCHOOL AT
MAINS HARBOR

Most excited marina operator
along the Dare Coast this week
was Carl Mann, operator of MAINS
Marina at the west approach to the
William B. Umstead Memorial
Bridge which connects this Dare
mainland community with Roam
oke Island.
On Monday afternoon he excited
ly notified newsmen that great
school of striped bass had come
into the harbor on which his ma
rina is located. The harbor was
created when soil was dredged to
create the causeway approaching
the west end of the bridge.
ssThey are catching striped bass
averaging Is inches in length
(Which is not large for a striped
bass) within casting distance of
my marina's back-door," he re-
ported.
Even if that may have been
slightly exaggerated, it was fact
that striped bass were being caught
by anglers trolling in the little
harbor using bucktail lures.
Best catch of the deluge of
stripers was made by 7. L. Kelly
OF MAINS Harbor who caught 81
in less than an hour and q by
Brantley Twiford of Stumpy Point
who also caught them "as fast as
he conld null them in"
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Southern Pulp Wood Conservation
Association.
The teachers in Williamson,
were guests for dinner of the Com
pany at the Town and Country
Restaurant, where they heard an
address by Joe c. Brown, mill
Manager.
!. A. C. Billiard, State Supervisor
of Vocational Agriculture was pre-
sent for the work shop, and made
a few remarks to the group.
T. B. Elliott, District Supervisor,
expressed appreciation on behalf
of the group for the fine hospitali-
bility shown.
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sTUMPY POINT PERSONALS

Larry D. Brinn. BM2/c of the
U.S.C.G.C. Cherokee formerly of
this place was seriously injured in
an attempt to rescue the five
members of the salvage vessel
Big Wig engaged in hosting mar
BILE from an ancient wreck, near
False Cape, Va. He sustained a
broken arm, neck, lung, and wind
pipe injuries. His grandparents
are Mr.. and Mrs. Neal Paine, and
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Mack
Brinn of Portsmouth, Va. His wife
is the former Lila Sue Owens of
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To help show off the promotiona
Manager j. b Dorton has used during the Goth
the DRAMA underway Watersde Theatre Maneo
beauties of the posed backsage picture
Sound They Miss Jane Rush, Lexington c. student Win
thrp College, Rock HILL charge of properties who doubles
colonst The Colony
c, graduate student in drama the University North Carolina
who cast Devonshe Mmad and Indian dancer
The paysuts they designed
costumer Mrs Irene Rains Of Chapel Hill with
brochures of the play of which
distributed throughout the nation this
hold aloft covered with dozens sponges with
Lost Colony Tonight imprinted of which
placed bathrooms of moes, hotels cottages
uted generally tourists the
Promoona ideas such those helped push attendance
Of the drama well ahead of last during of
erations this with still another nightly
Mondays scheduled for Colony before the
(196O) finale September (Aycock Phoo)