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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, 1960-08-12
MISS LILLE MAE HAssElL

COLUMBIA. - Miss Lille Mae
Hassell is, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Fentress Ray Hassell died
Friday morning in ambulance en-
route to Norfolk General Hospi-
tai for diagnosis.
The Columbia Hospital released
that the cause of death undeter-
mined, and that the body was be-
ing sent to Memorial Hospital at
Chapel Hill for a comprehensive
Post Mortem examination.
She was a native of Tyrrell
County; member of the Columbia
Baptist Church and a rising 10th
grade student of Columbia High
School.
Surviving besides her parents
are one brother, Ray of the home
two sisters, Mrs. Gladys Harrison
of Plymouth and Miss Louise Has
sell of Raleigh; three grandpar-
ents, Mrs. Melissa Hassell and
Mr.. and Mrs. Percy Davenport al
of Columbia.
Funeral services We're held
Sunday at the Columbia Baptist
Church conducted by the Rev. Dor
Wagner, a former pastor. Buria
was in the Sound Side Missionary
Baptist Church Cemetery.
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MRS. VERIFY HOSTESS TO
COLUMBIA BRIDGE PARTY

COLUMBIA. - A Unreliable
bridge party honoring Mrs. H. E.
Wade, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
r. K. VERIFY of Signal Mountain,
Tenn. was given by Mrs. T. K.
Herby, Jr. at her home on Bridge
Street, Thursday night.
High score prize was won by
Miss Gail Cohoon; deuce prize by
Mrs. W. E. Bateman and conso-
ated by Miss Lynda Knight. The
ponoree was presented with a
biece Of lingerie.
The home was decorated with
Srrangements of summer flowers,
Nth matching tallies and favors.
Brownie ice cream sandwiches,
uts, mints and iced drinks were
erved.
Playing were Mrs. w. E. Bate
han, Mrs. Sterling Alexander,
Irs. R. s. Leary, Mrs. H. =.
Wade. Mrs. Cecil Lilley, Miss Gail
Cohoon, Mrs. C. Earl Cohoon,
Iiss Shirley Bumgardner, Mrs.
larry McClees, Mrs. Larry Jones,
fiss Lynda knight and the host
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however. Acres and acres of winter
cover crops are grown each year
additional open ditch drainage has
been dug, additional vegetative
rotational cover is used, and crop
rotation practices are followed.
The fourth crop year since the
completion of the Fort Landing
Group Drainage Project is now
with us and we still wonder about
the success of the project. Even
now, no one knows the whole
story. But ask the farmers who
spent SO much of their time,
money, and efforts in its making
and you get but one answer. How
much in terms of dollars and cents
they can not tell you, but there
is no hesitation when they reply
SUCCESSFUL.
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KILKENNY HID WOMEN
TOUR ROANOKE ISLAND

COLUMBIA. - The Kilkenny
HID, Club Women observing Rec
reation month made a tour to
Roanoke Island with their fani-
lies on August 4th.
Starting with a picnic supper
at East Lake Road Side Park,
where baskets laden with fried
chicken, ham, potato salad, devil
ed eggs, cakes, pies were spread.
From there the group attended
"The Lost Colony" pageant.
Participating were: Mrs. Irene
Brickhouse, Wanda Brickhouse,
Mrs. Ethel Blake, Helen Cuthrell,
Mr.. and Mrs. hilbert Dodge, Mrs.
Claude Gibbs, Mr.. and Mrs. Theo-
dore Gibbs, Sharon Gibbs, jeff
Gibbs, Mr.. and Mrs. Chestley
Hudson, Mr.. and Mrs. William D..
Hudson, Faith and Roger Hud-
SON.
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|TYRRELL FARMERS
OVERCOME DAMAGE
FROM HURRICANES
Drainage and Tide Gates Installed
In Fort Landing Area; Crops
Flourishing

COLUMBIA.-The results of the
1866 hurricanes can still be seen
in the Fort Landing Community
of Tyrrell County. Not as might be
expected but in fields of high yield
ing corn, green soybeans and just
"a few weeks back in luxuriant
growing Irish Potatoes. This
change from the bleak outlook in
1866 has not been accidental but
according to a careful plan carried
out by w. A. Hollis, H. w. Davis,
w. A. Howett, T. d. Brickhouse,
H. E. Davis, Floyd Hollis, w. o.
Howett; r. NJ. Cohoon, B. D. SUIT
ton, H. L. Davis, Melvin Pledger,
and ]. B. Bryant; all farmers of
the Fort Landing Community, D.
E. Steagall ASC office manager
says.
Immediately after the hurricanes
these farmers decided that some
thing must be done to help solve
their soil and water problems.
Through the formation of a pool
ing agreement they received ACP
assistance through the ASC Office
to help with open ditch drainage
and tide gates. The Soil Conser-
walton Service furnished technical
assistance and the Extension Serv-
ice the latest research and eco
nomic information available.
Early in 1857 the Fort Landing
Community could see their hours
of planning, their dollars, and their
cooperative work gelled into a
workable project. This original
project was drainage system con-
sisting Of bikes, tide gates, and
pumps.
Two So inch propeller pumps
with a combined capacity OF a.
600 gallons minute were installed
Three AZ inch and three "a inch
automatic water control gates were
installed to prevent the influx OF
tide water and to provide extra
drainage during excessive rains.
Four miles of bikes were built
high enough to withstand the hur-
ricane waters of 1866, highest ever
reported in the community.
Eight miles of secondary mains
or laterais bring water from the
farmland to the two main canals
40 feet wide which carry water to
the pumping station. Outlet bitches
were dug to provide sufficient flow
to the water control gates from
the fields and from the gate to
open water outside the dixie.
Conservation work has not
stopped on these farms since COM
pletion of this original project,
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'TYRRELL COUNTY CARRIERS
GET SAFE DRIVING AWARDS

COLUMBIA. Safe Driving
awards in private ceremony at the
Columbia Post Office recently
were presented to each of the Ru-
raj Mail Carriers by the local
N. c. Highway Patrolman, ]. H.
Withers.
The awards-pins showing the
number of years of perfect safety
record while on duty in mail serv-
ice, furnished by the Postmaster
were presented to C. Slade Spruill
for Route Ones years; William
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w. Fleming for Route Two - 5
years, and Edward H. Morris for
Route Three - a years.
The requirements necessary for
the awards informs the postmas-
ter, Mrs. Effie A. Brickhouse
are: "There must be no involve
ment of their vehicle while on du-
ty in any form of accident, re-
CARELESS of where the fault lie"
MRS. Brickhouse commended
each carrier for their faithfulness
to duty and expressed apprecia-
ton to each for the fine manner
they had served their routes and
the record Of safety achieved.
Evening star., 1960-07-25
Fiscal Acumen

Presumably Democratic Presidential
nominee John F. Kennedy SubScribes
wholeheartedly to the party platform
including its program of fiscal reSpon-
sibility." And if its augmentation
balanced budget, no tax increases, re-
duction of the natiopal debt, etc.-poses
a difficult task, there may be encourage
ment in the evidence that the young New
EnglOnder Is not slow about money
matters.
After days of generous hospitality
and thoughtful though costly arrange
ments for the convenience of the dele
gates who trooped out to Los Angeles to
nominate their man, the Kennedy or
ganization set about recouping some of
its "pin money" investment. AS souvenirs,
perhaps some day to be produced as proof
of allegiance to the right candidate, the
Kennedy-fo President buttons were
marked up from "free" to 25 cents. Two
items, paper hat and a PT-boat tie
clasp, were quoted at 81.
There are those who will take
scoff1ng attitude, but it may be we'll to.
remember that the smallest start toward
pay-as-you-go system could lead to
better tomorrow in Government fiscal
affairs.
Evening star., 1960-07-25
ThonkIess, but

Martin F. ODonoghue deserves
vote of thanks for what he has tried to
do as chairman of the board of monitors
of the Teamsters Union. Ever since
Federal District Judge Let's appointed
him to the board in May of 1858, he has
labored hard in an effort to eliminate
corruption from the unions operations
To that end, pressing charges of miscon-
duct, he has done his best to bring about
the custer of James R. Hoffa as the
organizations president.
In recent weeks, however, Mr..
ODonoghue has been diSheartened by
court action that has gone against his
anti-Hoffa reform movement. Further
than that, with TeamSter lawyers threat
Evening star., 1960-07-25

determined by the require
ments of the individual stu
alton and is held to as short
a period as possible. In the
case of a child being con-
sidered for adoption, it can
range anywhere from one
month to several years. The
child is retained in tempor-
ary foster care until the
natural parents have time
to reach a decision, until
we have obtained legal clear
ance, and until we are Ger
tain that the child's develop
ment indicates that he can
use adoption placement.
Again, you say that the
welfare board has a rule
against foster parents adop-
ting a child. This clearly is
not so, for several sets of fos-
ter parents. with our full
approval. have adopted fos-
ter children placed by us in
their homes. Our policy man
ual reads:
Some requests may come
from boarding parents who
have had the child in care.
1t may be that the depart
Evening star., 1960-07-25
Admonishinq Mr.. k.

The latest issue of Kommunist,
leading theoretical journal of the Soviet
Communist Party, contains an article
that warns international communism
against Understanding the power of
the free world. In addition, by implica-
ton, it warns against recklessness in the
field of foreign policy lest such reckless
ness lead to nuclear war that would
be vastly destructive for everybody, in
Guiding Red totalitarianS not least of all.
These interesting and perhaps sig
nif1cant party-line observations are be-
lieved to have been written primarily
for the edification Of the Chinese Com
munists, who sometimes appear to be
the most bellicose of all the comrades.
Yet, considering the course of Soviet
foreign policy in recent months, espe-
cially since Nikita KhruShchev's torpe-
doing Of the May summit conference in
Paris, KommuniSt'S warnings which
are altogether Sound-Seem to be ad-
dressed to the men of the Kremlin Just
as much as to anybody else.
Certainly, as chief of the Soviet
Communist Party, Premier KhruShchev
must read KommuniSt and indorSe it's
point of view. Why then has he lately
been acting as he has-in relation to
Cuba, the Congo and other places and
matters-to bring about a great and
dangerous increase in international ten
sion, particularly between his country
and ours? Possibly Kommunist's ad-
monitions indicate that he is having
some sober second thoughts. If so, he
ought to begin pulling in his horns, and
the sooner the better.
Evening star., 1960-07-25

ening to sue him, he has been worn
down, according to his friends, by har-
assments and feeling of Illustration. So
it is not surprising that he has submitted
his resignation to Judge Let's. After all,
his monitoring job, which has interfered
with his own private law practice, has
been taxing and thankleSS one, and he
can hardly be blamed for wanting to be
relieved of it,
Yet corruption in the TeamSterS
Union continues to be fact, and the
national interest requires cleanup ac-
ton of the type that Mr.. ODonoghue
has sought. True, as indicated by his
resignation, the task is exceedingly
difficult, but it nonetheless needs to be
carried out, and there is good reason
therefore to welcome the report that
Senator Mcclellan plans to revive his
investigation of Mr.. Hoffa in the weeks
Immediately ahead.
Evening star., 1960-07-25
Doom's Timetable

Humanity being as eccentric as it
is (perhapS bleSsedly SOY, one can always
find individuals and groups convinced
that the world is coming to an end at
a certain hour on certain day, without
fail.
An Italian pediatrician and his
small band of followers are the latest
to have made news along this line. How
ever, although they do not doubt the
basic soundness of their expectations,
they feel bit sheepish at the moment.
This is so because they have been proved
wrong-after having fled to a mountain
top to escape the anticipated flood-in
predicting that the earth, as of last
July IA, would roll off it's axis and be
inundated in way that would obliter-
ate virtually all life on all our contin-
entS, Every age, it would seem, is given
its share of such worry-wart people, and
their behavior has been we'll summed up
in the following excerpt from a Dooms-
day poem written in 1862:
Some hide themselves IN caUes and delue
In places underground;
Some rGShly leap into the deep,
To escape By being droDn'd:
Some to the rocks 70 SenSeleSS blockSU
And tDooded mountains ru1
That there they might this fearful sight
And dreaded Presence Shun
Certainly, as these lines suggest,
such conduct is quite silly and futile.
For mankind'S doom, even though it
turks around the corner at all times,
is ineScapable, and is definitely not a
thing whose date can be predicted. In
deed, the timing of it is one of the most
unfathomable secrets of existence-a
secret essential, in its own way, to the
maintenance of the sweet and some
times bitter mystery of life. Mere NOR
tails are therefore foolish and preSump-
tuouS when they undertake to make
forecasts about, it. Sooner or later, of
course, it will come as a thief in the
night, but nobody can know just when.
Meanwhile, in terms of the every
day problems of living, most of us have
SO many things to worry about that it
seems absurd to worry at the same time
about how and on what date the world
will end. Enough is enough in the field
of human anxiety and fretfulneSS.
Evening star., 1960-07-25

contrary, there has been con-
siderable criticism regarding
the costs.
The Cunningham bill
merely provides that a letter
bearing a first class, Accent
postage stamp will be trans
ported by surface and a letter
bearing a 7-cent, air mail
stamp will be transported by
air. AS the House initiates
revenue producing legiSla-
tion, including postage rates,
it was necessary that the
House clarity its intention
regarding first class and air
mail service. The House has
spoken decisively, and it is
confidently expected that the
Post Office Department will
abandon the flying expert
ment which has caused such
cratic postal service.
Wallace J. Legge,
Industrial Secretary,
National Postal
Transport Association.
Evening star., 1960-07-25

ment will have selected the
boarding home with the pos
sibility of eventual adoption
in mind. In cases where this
is not true, the request must
be carefully evaluated in or
der to separate it from an
impulsive attempt to avoid
the pain of separation from
a child. In such instance, the
boarding parents will need
help in giving the child up
and understanding their mo-
tivation.
"The guiding principle is
the departments RESPONSE
bility to provide for each
child the best plan for his
permanent security with all
of the considerations that
this involves"
I hope that you will publish
this letter and thus render a
public service in helping to
clarity a misunderstanding
of public welfare policy to
which your editorial contri-
buted.
William E, ROyer,
Montgomery County We'll
fare Board.
Evening star., 1960-07-25
Hoosier Platform

1t is always refreshing when some
body openly violates the old political
adage that mo one ever runs for the
vice presidency" There are many, of
course, who do run covertly Earlier this
month, for example, Los Angeles was
well stocked with available but reticent
DemocratS-many of whom did not give
up hope until Lyndon Johnson was las
seed for the honor. During the COM
ing few days Chicago will be similarly
blessed.
On the record at the moment, how
ever, is one who dares do otherwise
than maintain modest silence. Philip
Willkie, son of the 1910 Republican
presidential nominee, the late Wendell
Willkie, has formally declared his can
didacy. He comes by this quality of
forthrightness honestly, for his father
was never one to hide the Willkie polit-
ical light under buShel. Furthermore,
the youthful Mr.. Willkie, a lawyer,
banker and part-time politician, has a
platform. He proposes that steps be
taken ito teach all children to read by
the phonetic method, to write and speak
good grammatical English and speak
and understand foreign language, be-
ginning in the primary grades"
Politics being what it is, Mr.. Will
kie's candidacy probably will not even
reach the convention floor If that is
its fate, we hope he has better luck in
his race for the Office of Indiana State
superintendent Of Public Instruction
for which he already has been nomi-
nated-and that he will have opportu-
nifty to apply his program there. The
Hoosier State children, and American
children anywhere, would be the better
for it.
Evening star., 1960-07-25
Presidents Golf

I am disgusted at the low
blows which Democrats are
aiming at President Eisen-
hover. They try to make
us believe that he spends all
his time playing golf. They
do not accuse him of drink
ing bourbon, of playing
poker for high stakes, or of
spending thousands of dollars
each week end entertaining
his cronieS on a Government
owned yacht. President Eli
senhower's sin is far more
serious. He seeks relief from
the intolerable pressure of his
Office by exercise in the air
and sunshine. So each game
of golf is made a Federal
case. President Eisenhower
deserves better from America
GIldU SUCH treatment.
Alice D. Nelson.
y + y
The Central Intelligence
Agency recently disclosed
some remarkable test photo
graphs. Taken 100 miles
north Of Boston, they were so
accurate that tennis balls on
the Navy court at Norfolk,
Va, were easily distinguish
able"
Now when Jim Haggerty
wants to be real helpful he
can go up at Andrews Field
and keep track of the golf
balls at Gettysburg.
Paul McIlVaine.
Evening star., 1960-07-25
Qualification of Public Welfare Policy

On July 6, The Star carried
an editorial entitled Wood
en-Headed Rule" I do not
wish to comment on the
adoption placement which
occasioned your editorial. At
ter all, the Court has made
a decision with the complete
facts before it, mot reluc-
family" as your editorial said,
but with the very definite
opinion that the child is
we'll placed and with the firm
and definite opinion that the
best interest and welfare of
the child is that he remain
where he is.
Your editorial spoke more
to the rules of the welfare
department than it did to
the decision. I think it is
unfortunate that your paper
is rnisinformed about our
rules and criticized them
without taking the trouble
to learn Of our basic policy
Your editorial says "Ordi-
narily the child would have
been in the Crump home for
six months" Actually the
length of temporary care is
Evening star., 1960-07-25
River Bend Dam

At the last meeting of the
Northern Virginia Regional
Planning and Economic de-
velopment Commission on
June %, D. v. C. Birrell of
the Army Corps of Engineers
revived the issue of a dam
at River Bend on the Poto-
mac River. I say revived be-
cause on February 20, Gen.
Thomas LipScomb, the Corps
North Atlantic Division Engi-
neer, disclosed that the Corps
is devising an alternate
plan under which the River
Bend, s e n a n d o a h, and
South Branch sites could all
be eliminated in favor of a
greater number of headwater
impoundments." Gen. Lips
comb added that I'VE are not
irrevocably sold on River
Bend: it depends on what the
people want"
Mr.. Birrell's insistence on
reserving the site of the pos
sible River Bend dam from
the part of the river-routed
Chantilly sewer line could
mean that word has gone
down the line in the Corps
to renew its promotion for
the River Bend dam. The
people, I am sure, have had
enough of this on-again, off
again, gone-again stand on
the development of the Poto-
mac River Basin.
I would recommend to the
Corps the 3-year study of
the Coordinating Committee
on the Potomac River Valley,
which was recently approved
by the influential Committee
of 100 of the Federal City.
This study, which did not
cost the taxpayers a cent,
pointed out that the water
supply for Washington to the
year 1000 could be provided
by a pollution-free Potomac.
If our vaunted science and
technology cannot make the
Potomac a source of clean
water in the next 40 years,
then a few headwater dams
could be phased in to do the
job and stabilize the river
flow at the same time. There
is no need for a dam at River
Bend, now or in the future.
The Coordinating Comit-
tee also believes S that the
Government should establish
a pilot plant project to dis
till sewage eff1uent before it
is dumped into our water
courses. The Interior Depart
ment now is distilling sea
water, and we are confident
that this chronological break
through can be accomplished.
Once that is achieved, the
spectre of water famine will
be eliminated forever, for
the Nations Capital and for
many cities and towns
throughout the country.
Ira N. GabrielSOn,
Chairman, Co-ordinating
Committee on the Poto-
mac River Valley.
Evening star., 1960-07-25

much lower thermometer
readings the year around.
We can count on 4 to 6
degrees difference, Winter
and Summer. During the cold
months it doesn't make much
difference, one way or an
other, but when sultry Sum-
mer weather is over the land
a few degrees make a vast
difference, indeed.
y
Hence it comes about that
the story about blankets is
not all story.
Some of it is blankets.
1t is not generally realized,
perhaps that there is an even
greater susceptibility to cold
in sleeping on the part of
many persons than in the
everyday up-and-mov
life.
The inertness of sleep per-
mits the exposed skin sur
faces to cool off rapidly. 1t
seems that some natures
stand this better than others.
Those who are tender in
this respect invariably pull up
covers under the half wake
full impression that they are
freezing to death. as they say.
Actually it is merely a sur
face impression. Those who
sleep in what used to be
called "the raw" or totally
without clothing, know some
thing Of the cooling effect,
even on a hot night.
Evening star., 1960-07-25
Flying Experiment.

Since approval OF H. r.
1885 by the House, there has
been considerable editorial
comment on mail transporta-
ton. H. R. 1885, introduced
by Representative Glenn
Cunningham, Nebraska, is to
clarity congressional intent
regarding the postal services
to which the patron is en-
titled when he purchases a
Accent, first class postage
stamp or a 7-cent, air mail
stamp.
Prior to 1858, there was
no question regarding the
type of service a first class
stamp purchased. In 1858,
the Post Office Department
began an experiment in fly
ing first class mail between
certain cities of the United
States. AS the experiment
continued and expanded, the
pattern of postal service be-
came confused; mail matter
was carried at 2 different
rates of postage in the same
aircraft at 2 different rates
of pay for the airline, and
certain sections of the coun-
try received preferred service
at ordinary rates.
The problem was finally
brought to the courts, and
the decision was that the
Postmaster General did have
authority to conduct the ex-
pertinent in view of the lack
of clarity of congressional
intent.
Congress has never author
lied the experiment; on the