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The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1960-01-22
SWAN QUARTER PERSONALS

Mr.. and Mrs. Garland Bland, the
new minister of Swan Quarter
Christian Church, and Mrs. Daven-
port of Creswell were dinner
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. james
Gibbs, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. I. Cochran, Mr..
and Mrs. Ray Cahoon, C. j. Cahoon,
Mrs. Lewis Cahoon, Miss Emily
Lou Caaoon, Rev. and Mrs. Macon
Spencer, Miss Judy Spencer, Mrs.
Grady Creole, Mrs. Alvah O'Neal,
Mrs. Carl Cahoon, Charlene Ca
hoon, were Washington visitors.
Mrs L. R. Pinkham of Wash
linton visited her sister, Mrs. Lewis
Cahoon and family recently.
Among those out of town visi-
tors attending the funeral of Lewis
B. Cahoon Tuesday were: Mr.. and
Mrs. Otis Caravan, Jr., of Balti-
more, Mrs. Stacy Cox of Tarboro,
Mrs. Robert Gregory of Ports
mouth, Va, Mr.. and Mrs. A. O..
Mason of Bounts Greek, Mr.. and
Mrs. Jones Spencer, Miss Elizabeth
Spencer, Mrs. Nathan Spencer of
Creswell. Mr.. and Mrs. Allen Saw
yer of Shawboro, Mrs. Annie Will
loughby, Cecilia Willoughby of
Creswell, Mr.. and Mrs. j. M. Wor-
rell, Misses Amelia and Betsy Lee
Worrell, Mr.. and Mrs. L. R. Pink
ham, Albert Pinklrain of Washing
ton, N. c., Joshua Gibbs, Ben Har-
ris of Portsmouth, Va, Mrs. Kath-
leen C. Whitley, Mrs. Sally Whit
ley Of Pantego.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. C. Tunnel at
tended the furniture market in
High Point.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. E. Spencer and
Miss Mildred Spencer visited Mrs.
Una Jones in Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cleatls Caravan
of Washington were Rose Bay Wis
itors Saturday.
Mrs. Carroll Gibbs visited Mr..
and Mrs. Willie Cahoon in Eliza
beth City.
Mrs. Andy Hardie has returned
to Staten Island, N. Y, after Wis.,
iting her father, ]. M. Jennette.
Mr.. and. Mrs. Seth Creole, Pete,
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul O'Neal visited
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawson Cahoon.
Mrs. J. C. Williams, Jr., who
has been visiting her daughter,
Mrs. Ira Williams and Mr.. Viii
hams in Lincoln, Neb., has return
ed home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alvah O'Neal and
David visited Mr.. and Mrs. Roy
Waters at Pinetown.
Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Sewell Wis
tied Mr.. and Mrs. Willie Mayo in
Creswell.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emmett Caravan
visited Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn Cara
wan in Castor, N. C.
Bonnie Smith has returned to
his home in Arkansas.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Harris have
returned home after visiting in Ra-
leigh.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tommie Bishop of
Apex visited Mr.. and Mrs. Lem
mie Cahoon and the Tim Smiths.
Rev. and Mrs. George Harris of
Engelhard were dinner guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. H. Swindell Sun
day.
Milan O'Neal of Wilson visited
Mr.. and Mrs. John Lupton Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jeff Creole of
Sladesville visited Miss Aleph and
The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1960-01-22
sLADEsvILLE PERSONALS

Mr.. and Mrs. Romeo Gasparrina
Of Ludlow, Mass, are visiting Mr..
and Mrs. Joe v. Williams, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. w. Jennette and other
relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gus Blake visited
here Thursday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. A Flowers WIS.,
tied Mrs. Troy Sawyer in Belhaven
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. A. Flowers and
Mrs. Ethel Gibbs were in Swan
Quarter Monday.
= Mrs. w. o. Howerin and J. r
The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1960-01-22

Ralph Green motored to Silver
Spring, Md, to visit Mrs. Frank
Billeci.
Milton Pittman is home on leave.
His mother, Mrs. Earl Pittman is
i'll at her home here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Victor Jennette of
Grifton visited B. C. Jennette last
week end.
Evening star., 1960-08-10
'Inhumonity to Man.

More than a year Of painStaking
inquiry has brought from committee
of distinguished international lawyers
a damning indictment of Communist
Chinese inhumanity in occupied Tibet.
It is Sordidly cruel story, told before
in bits and pieces, and now assembled
in a 340-page report issued by the Inter-
national Commission of JuriStS, nom
governmental organization having
consultative relationship with the United
Nations Economic and Social Council.
Chairman of the eleven member paneb
on Tibet is PurShottam Trikamdas, SEN
ior advocate at the Supreme Court of
India and a former legal secretary to
Mahatma Gandhi. Other nearby South
Asian states represented on the commit
tee are Burma, Thailand, Malaga and
Ceylon.
The committees story, based not
only on interviews with hundreds of
Tibetan escapes and testimony of ref
ugee Tibetan officials but also upon
extracts from Red Chinese publications,
makes mass murder seem the least of
the crimes Sterilization of adults in
whole communities, the systematic "con-
f1scation" and deportation to China of
tens of thousands of children, tortures
of almost unbelievably fiendish design
and the meanest sort of degradation of
the Buddhist lamas (the spiritual lead
erS of Tibet) accent the shocking ac-
count. AS in preliminary report re-
leased by Chairman Trikamdas in the
late spring, the committee concluded
that the evidence before it establishes
"a prima facie case of the crime Of geno-
eide (the mass determination Of peo-
ple) by the Chinese Government"
There may be little hope that the
publicizing of this monStrous crime, or
its possible condemnation by formal res
olution of the United Nations (Which
outlawed genocide as crime in con-
vention of 1948), will have great effect
on the evil men in Peiping. Still, the
fact that five South Asian nations are
represented on the committee suggests
that Red China's neighborS, first of all,
are being made aware of the lack Of all
human respect and decency in the lead
ership of Asiatic communism. Among
those so informed there should be no
illusions that pleasant and peaceful CO.
existence depends simply upon their toll
erance and good will toward Peiping.
Evening star., 1960-08-10
In Trouble Enouqh

A spokesman for the State Depart
ment, for reasons which are far from
clear, has charged that the Soviet press
Is trying to 'inflame public opinion in
advance of the trial Of Francis Powers"
This same spokesman added: II doubt
that these somewhat hysterical efforts
will have much effect outside the closed
societies of the Communist bloc"
Francis Gary Powers, pilot of the
U-2 plane which went down some 300
miles inside Russia on May l, is Sched-
uled to be brought to trial in Moscow
next week on charge of espionage.
There is no doubt that he was engaged
in an espionage mission and it quite
probably is true that he has confessed,
as the Russians claim. To be sure, 1t is
also true that the Russians have refused
to permit our embassy people to see
Powers, that he has been denied Ameri-
can counsel, and that his parents, al
though they apparently will be permitted
to attend the trial, will not be allowed
to visit their son in advance. If the
situation were reversed, the case would
be handled differently in the United
States. Even so, we do not see why the
State Department should be indicting
the Russians for "hysterical efforts" to
infame public opinion in advance Of
the trial.
In this instance, as far as the Powers
case is concerned, there is no reason why
the Russians should try to inf1ame public
opinion in advance of the trial. They
have ample proof of the unfortunate
pilots guilt, and, of course, they may
put on big propaganda show at the
trial. Meanwhile, however, our officials
should refrain from anything, including
loose accusations, which might make it
tougher for Francis Powers when he is
brought before the Soviet tribunal. He
is in trouble enough as it is.
Evening star., 1960-08-10
Cuba and the OAS

The Council of the Organization of
American States has done good days
work in voting 20 to l, with Cuba alone
dissenting, to study the threat of sub
version within the Western Hemisphere.
In keeping with this decision, the
foreign ministers of the 81 Americas will
convene next week in San Jose, Costa
Rica. There they will follow an agenda
made up of four items, all bearing, in
one way or another, on the freedom and
peace of every nation belonging to the
OAS.
The agenda, in effect, calls upon the
foreign ministers to do the following:
QD To act on measures designed to
promote economic progress throughout
the hemisphere. (2) To strive for an
abatement of existing international
tensions in the Caribbean" particularly
as between Venezuela and the Domini-
can Republic, wholly apart from the
Havana Washington crisis. (3) To give
serious study to threats of extra
continental intervention" And az to
strengthen cooperation within the OAS
to defend democratic American institu-
tionS against the subversive activities of
any organization, government or their
agents"
All this speaks pretty much for it
self, and items three and four seem
especially significant as evidence of
hemisphere concern over Kremlin-
directed Communist efforts to infiltrate
and subvert our inter-American system.
What also speaks for itself, of course,
Is the fact that Fidel Castro's "revolu
tionary' Havana regime is on record as
having voted against every one Of these
points approved by the 20 other Amer
tcas as the agenda for next weeks OAS
meeting. Few things could better sup
port our own Governments charge that
that regime is now in open league with
the Soviet Union and Communist
China"
Moreover by the same token, the
negative Cuban vote in the OAS lends
extra force to Secretary of State Herter's
hope--as expressed at his news confer
ence yeSterday-that the Americas as a
whole will achieve at the impending get
together in San Jose a genuinely united
front. That is to say, united front
against the Red menace, and against
those sinister forces in Havana that have
made that menace possible.
Mr.. Herter has suggested that the
Cuban people, recoiling from the ex-
tremism of the Castro dictatorship, may
"take care of the situation themselves" "
Meanwhile, however, the OAS-which
has been a remarkably effective peace
maker in the past-must be relied upon
to prevent blow-up
Evening star., 1960-08-10
Man With Plan

The Star carried an edi-
torial on the proposed Federal
City Center. stating that the
project depended on the sue
cess in lining up a large
number Of commercial leaSers
for space. 1t occurred to me
that, since this is the Capital,
and that yearly 1t is mum
dated with tourists who may
never get a chance to go
abroad, a section of the Cen
ter could be used for branch
stores, or shops and restau-
rants and sidewalk cafes of
foreign countries.
I can visualize the Pennsyl-
vania avenue front lined with
restaurants on the second
floor, with picture windows,
sidewalk cafes below them
and, in each section leased to
a foreign industry. a replica
Of a famous shop Of that
country. This arrangement
would not only give great
pleasure to our tourists. but
be splendid advertisement for
the countries represented. OF
course, all the other proposed
activities in the Center. bus
terminal, theaters and the
like would. along with the
above idea, create a small per-
manent worlds fair.
Godfrey Galwey.
Evening star., 1960-08-10

part of our long presidential
tradition. There is. speaking
historically, nothing odd
about 1t. whatever. 1t only
looks odd now because this
particular President has been
for the most part so unpo-
litical, so un-Republican, too.
Thus the effect on the har-
ried Democrats is painful.
e Imagine a group of boys
playing in the street before
a mansion whose kindly
owner has always welcomed
them with a pat on the head,
rather than chasing them off
down the block. But this
kindly old gentleman darts
out Of the house one morn
ing and begins to beat them
over the head with his walk
ing stick.
1t is not that the ordinary
rules of the game have been
changed; it is simply that the
old gentleman suddenly de-
cides to put the rules in
force.
Problem for Kennedy Team
Senators Kennedy and
johnson, as the dominant
figures of the Congress, have
awakened, therefore, to an
acute problem. They feel they
must retort to the President,
as already they have been
doing. But the more they
retort to him, the more they
will stir him up. And the
more they stir him up, the
more he will infallibly help
Mr.. Nixon. So, the sooner
they can adjourn this Con-
gress. and thus cease having
to confront Mr.. Eisenhower
daily down the length of
Pennsylvania avenue, the
better off they may be.
For the fundamental truth
is this: No significant politi-
clan in either party doubts
that President Eisenhower
still has a great and possibly
a matchless influence with
the public. The Democrats
have got to get around him
to get at Mr.. Nixon. And it
looks increasingly plain that
he isn't going to let them do
that if he can help it.
And no one outside the
presidential Office, right or
wrong. can out-argue the man
in the presidential office if
he really puts his heart into
his voice. For no place in the
world is equipped with a
megaphone of the volume
and grandeur of that at
tached to the White House.
Evening star., 1960-08-10
Policy of No Policy

Representative Henry S. Reuss of
Wisconsin is urging that the House Com
nittee on Government Operations under
take "a comprehensive study of Govern
ment practices and policies relating to
decentralization" If such a study were
undertaken, the result probably would
be repetition of findings by Frederick
l.. Scott of the Legislative Reference
Service, who looked into the matter at
the request of Mr.. ReusS. The substance
of what he found was that mo univer-
sally understood and accepted program
Cor policy of administrative decentral-
ization is being followed or is in exist
ence"
But in the absence of policy on
decentralization, Mr.. Scott did find the
existence of certain criteria which deter
mine the need for decentralization. He
describes them as follows. decen-
tralization has taken place whenever the
circumstances indicated that it would
lead to better, more efficient, and more
economical administration without i'm
pairment of services, or that services
would be improved. There is considerable
unanimity among the departments and
agencies on this point"
And, come to think Of it, it would be
difficult to find wiser policy than that
to govern decentralization. We would
therefore favor adopting as policy the
policy of having no policy other than the
policy of being guided by common sense
in lieu Of being ridden by policy.
Evening star., 1960-08-10

which essentially circles the
world.
Some day a war may be
fought on the bottom of the
Sea-a region now less known
than the face of the moon.
The situation. says a re-
port of the National Acad-
emy of Sciences on the trends
OF oceanographic research for
the next decade, can be COM
pared to "the early stages of
Indian warfare in the North
American forests. The Indi-
ans had a distinct advantage
over the white men simply
because they knew more
about this forest. Our sub
marine officers should seek
to know their much vaster
forests equally we'll"
Some of the problems of
the floor of the North At
lantic alone are stressed, es-
pecially the nature of the
mid-Atlantic Ridge, a noun
tain system which, with its
rough foot hills, covers more
than a third of this sea
bottom.
Does this look like the
Rocky Mountains" asks the
Academy's Committee on
Oceanography headed by DR..
Maurice Ewing of Columbia
University. "Or is the topog-
raphy very different because
the crust of the earth beneath
the sea may never have been
eroded? How thick are the
soft sediments on the sleeper
slopes? We have only rather
vague and conflicting infor-
nation. Few of the basic
measurements have been
made that might enable us
to answer these questions.
More knowledge Needed
mot only can the sub
marine navigator of the
future make good use of
charts of such fixed figures
as bottom topography, but he
will need to know much more
than is known today about
the changes in velocity with
depth of near-surface cur
rents. =
"One way to control the
seas is to occupy them in all
three dimensions with a large
number of small units placed
in the most favorable loca-
tions for concealment, and
the ability to detect and de-
stroy the enemy. A shift of
emphasis is indicated to ex-
plot the possibilities of con-
cealment and protection af-
forded by the depths of the
ocean,"
Evening star., 1960-08-10
Advice to Congress

May I offer this timely ad-
vice to Congress on how to
help the aged:
l. Devalue life insurance
benefits by initiating cur
rency.
2. Cut interest rates on
invested savings.
3. Increase taxes.
4. Build more kennels
where self-respecting, but
frugal conservatives" may
integrate happily with care
free but improvident lib
erals"
S. Open more entertain
ment centers where those who
wish to enjoy their Golden
Years may be slugged on their
way out.
s. Provide free medicines
for all over IS, including
over sized doses Of sleeping
pills.
7. Issue free passes to the
Congressional gas chambers.
Senile Dementia.
Evening star., 1960-08-10
Poorly Lighted Area

Your efforts might secure
prompt attention to the street
lighting system in the l400
block Ogden street NV.
Saturday night around elev-
en-, a woman was struck on
the head, and six stitches
were required to close the
wound. Her purse was stolen,
in which was about $50 and
valuable papers. Brighter and
more lighting, and trimming
the trees so that the light
will illuminate the pavement
will help a woman feel more
secure while walking on the
streets in this area.
NJ. Vessels.
Evening star., 1960-08-10
Equoi Retirement

Now that the Democratic
platform has been made all
, inclusive to cover everything
from billions for foreign aid
to a more abundant life for
the thousands of new immi-
grants to be brought to our
shores. perhaps Messrs. Ken
nedy and johnson will give
some thought during this
final session of the Senate to
the elimination of an injus-
tice inflicted on the military
retirees (enlisted and Off
cers). Such action on their
part would greatly enhance
the morale Of the Armed
Forces.
H. R. 1873. now in the
Senate. having passed the
House without dissent, is not
designed to increase benefits
for this group but to restore
the century-old formula for
computing military retired
pay, which was arbitrarily
changed in 1858. Despite
widespread approval Of this
measure by national organi-
cations, State legislatures and
the press of the country, a
Democratic-d dominated Sem
ate Armed Forces Subcom-
mittee has sat on this bill for
three months. apparently
without taking any action
whatsoever. This is one thing
they can't blame on the Re-
publicans, as the administra-
ton has strongly urged its
passage several times and just
recently a leading Republican
Senator made an eloquent
plea for its enactment.
This seth Congress has
passed a liberalized retire
ment law for themselves.
given the civil servants a nice
raise; plans to improve social
security. up retirement rates
for the Foreign Service. and
to increase benefits for 9TH
ers. Are only the military re-
tirees once again to be the
step-children of the Nation?
There should be no need to
elaborate on the services
these men have rendered their
country and. how unlike any
other group of Government
retirees, they are not free
Evening star., 1960-08-10
Plot 7hickens on Adoms-Morqon Project

area. You can deliver a lot
of votes with 100000. Equal
weight ought not to be given
to the voice Of shadowy Or
ganizations that were put to-
gether with this money to
vote ia" on this scheme and
the voice of older organiza-
tions and independent or
ganizations.
There are only two sub
jects of dispute. One is the
proposed conversion Of the
south side of Lanier place
to a commercial parking lot
This is a typical example Of
private interests trying to use
urban renewal powers for
their own purposes. They are,
of course, entitled to try, but
other people are entitled to
resist their showing" us
with persuasion. The other
subject of dispute is the in
clusion of the Kalorama tri-
angle under urban renewal.
Not by any stretch Of statis-
tics or the imagination can
the triangle, by itself, be
considered qualified under
the rules for urban renewal
treatment. 1t can be included
only by "gerrymandering,"
that is, by including enough
slums elsewhere to drag
down the average for the
whole area far enough. Some
of us who live in the triangle
are fascinated to observe
people who do not live in the
triangle manifesting so much
passion about its being in
cluded under urban renewal.
There is something more
here than meets the eye. The
kindest supposition. though
not the only possible one, is
perhaps that there is jeal-
ousy Of the extraordinary
progress made by the tri-
angle in restoring its struc-
lures and raising its general
social tone-all without Gov
ernment aid. Is it a crime to
show up the professional
planners and welfare work.
ers and demonstrate that the
American people sometimes
still have a capability for
looking after themselves?
Dallas Irvine.
Representative Of the Ka-
lorama Citizens Associa- =
tion on the Community
Planning Committee.
Evening star., 1960-08-10
Fourscore and Six

Americas senior statesman, Herbert
Clark Hoover, marks another birthday
anniversary today-hiS 86th. He does
so with the secure knowledge that he
holds the respect and admiration not
only of millions of his fellow citizens
but of countless others in foreign coun-
tries where his compassion for distress
has been translated into humanitarian
Service.
On many birthdays past, there have
been reviews of Mr.. Hoover's diStin-
guiShed career-as an international
mining engineer, director of Belgian
relief and United States Food Admin
istrator in World War by appointment
of Democratic President Woodrow Will
son, Secretary of Commerce in two Re
publican cabinets, 31st President, and
added chapters of public service under
later Democratic and Republican ad-
ministrations. But if these are cited
to show what Mr.. Hoover has achieved
or given he has placed the record IN
a different perSpective-a perspective OF
personal humility and of honor toward
his country-in a single, simple state
ment: There is no place on the whole
earth except here in America where all
the sons of man could have this chance
in life"
In many ways, these later years are
dealing kindly with Mr.. Hoover. In turn,
Mr.. Hoover himself somehow casts a
younger image" before the public than
he did in earlier years. Leaving the
White House in early 1888, at the depth
of a great economic depression and
under bitter fire from partisan critics,
he lived busily but quietly apart from
governmental activities during the
Franklin Roosevelt regime. Both Presi-
dents Truman and Eisenhower have
called upon him in the years since, how
ever, and with every action and appear
ance his standing in the public esteem
has risen to new heights. Never f1ercely