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state oIIlceS ana ali Ine SCaCe
leaders has been referral Of the
legislation to committees other
than the friendly Labor Com
mittee headed by Mr.. Siciles.
Tabor leaders also have been
dispieased by what they cali the
hostile attitude" Of the SEN
ate Judicial Proceedings Com
mittee, which has before It
legislation aimed at tightening
Unemployment insurance laws.
The, labor people claim the
legislation actually Is q pro-
gram of management which
was promoted by the Baltimore
Association Of Commerce.
With q national administra-
ton program now aimed at
helping the working man, there
is an apparent unawareness of
labor problems in Maryland"
said Mr.. Strong.
He said that Gov. Tawes and
other Democratic candidates
for top offices in 1858 agreed
generally to the labor program
during q conference with us,
and we gave them our whole
hearted support"
1--WE are going to be shop
ping around in 1852" he said.
While labor in Maryland is
not the political force it is in
some other States, there are
considerable numbers Of organ
lied workers in the western
part Of the State and in the
Baltimore area.
Negroes, too, are becoming
more insistent on civil rights
legislation. Nearly one-third
of the population Of the Balti-
more City Democratic strong
hold is Negro, and the Negro
vote showed up significantly
there in the Kennedy victory
in Maryland.
Accommodations Bill
Some labor legislation, like
the proposal for q fair employ
ment practices law. overlaps
into the civil rights field.
But the major effort in civil
rights this year is aimed at
ending discrimination in Mary
land hotels and restaurants. |
Negroes and many whites
jammed the House Of Delegates
Chamber at q committee hear
ing last week to press for leg
iSlation which would make it
a crime for operators Of places
Of public accommodations to
refuse service to Negroes or
other minority groups.
Significantly, about so per
cent Of the Democratic pre-
cinct chairmen in Montgomery
County signed q petition sup
porting the public accommoda-
tionS bill.
Gov. Tawes declined to COM
ment yesterday on the public |
accommodations bilf but 1t Ii
apparent that he has not given
it any support. He said he did |
not want TO comment on bills
which are before 0 committee |
Of the Legislature.
However, the Governor did |
give the green light to two
other bills considered Of q more
minor nature by civil rights
proponents. Those bills sailed
through House committees and
one has been enacted by the
House. "These would bar pri-
vate contractors on State jobs
from discriminating against
in hiring and establish
a firm policy against discrim-
nation in direct State hiring. !
Reapportionment probably
has caused more comment
around the Statehouse than
anything but taxes. Those
fayoring a reapportionment Of
seats In the General Assembly
have made 1t clear the issue
will be taken to the polls in
1862 If something isn't done.
It appears that the Governor
Is becoming more aware Of the
political implications Of the re-
pportionment issue and may
throw more weight behind it
than he has in the past. But
1t will take q lot Of pushing to
get a bill through the rurally
controlled Legislature. |
Evening star., 1961-02-05
MARYLAND BRIEFS
State toGet
$12 Million
For. Roods

President Kennedy'S move to
stimulate the economy by re-
leasing Federal highway funds
two months ahead Of schedule
will add $12,775.000 to Mary
lands Golfers Immediately.
The $274 million released by
President Kennedy normally
would have been withheld un-
til after1April l.. In effect, the
States cAn now spend - soon
as theA wish al the Federal
highway aid allotted them for
ths 1854 fiscal year.
Res motion Accepted
BAITI1EoRE. Feb. { fAp)-
Tbs feeignaticn Of DR.. Caroline
e. Ehandler as chief Of the
mental health program in the
State Department Of Health,
effective March /, has been
aceeptea the department. direc-
tor III. Perry r. Prather.
she Sid her resignation was
the Tssust OF policy disputes on
how mental health programs
Nnnld be developed.
G0Fsy Moore Numed
BALTIMORE. Feb. 4 (AP).-
Mra Louise Harris Morfit left
the bulk Of an estate estimated
at .$2oO. 900 to her three chill
dren, including television star
Garry Moore.
: !. The win, filed for probate
here yesterday. named as prtn-
eipaI . beneficiaries DR.. Il.
Mason Morfit, Denver: Mrs.
Louise n. Bredehorn. Chicago,
and =. Garrison Morfit
Moore9. Rye, N. Y.
Mrs. Morfit died January "a
st Denver:
syr u
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DR1EgFs AND cURrAlNs-THf HIGHT COAL STORES
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CHANNEL BASS HAVEN'T
APPEARED AT HATTERAS

HATTERAS - Channel bass
which usually begin TO show up in
commercial nets of Pamlico Sound
fisherman here with the first seige
of warm weather in March, are
slow to show this year.
To date there have been no re-
ports of channel bass being caught
in pound nets.
BY mid March last year channel
bass had entered the sounds here,
but it was not until Saturday
April 2, that the first was taken
with rod and reel.
Although the surf has beer
fished by local anglers during re-
cent warm weather, no catches
have been reported, Of any kind oi
fish to date with rod and reel.
Commercial fisherman have beer
having fair luck with catches Of
shad, and other varieties reported.
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SIX TEEN AGERS
TO CHICAGO. FOR
YOUTH-POWER MEET
Manfeo Girl With Party Repre-
sentine North Carolina All
Boys and Girls

Six teenagers from North Caro-,
lima are attending Nationa
Youthpower Congress in Chicago
this week. According to Commissio.
ner of Agriculture, L. Y. Ballen.
tine. "The major emphasis of the
Congress will be placed on raising
the nutritional standards of Amer.
ica's teenage people,"
The six delegates include: Cole
Porter of Wilmington, Rodney Ho.
well of Deep Gap, Rusty Taylor Of
Greensboro, Miss Freda Britt OF
Murfreesboro, Miss Nancy Coles
Basnight of Manteo and Dairy
Princess Dianne Monroe of Rock.
ingham.
These youths represent both rur.
al and urban areas of the State anG
were selected on the basis of theil
outstanding records of leadership
and interest in nutritional problems
and in improving diets Of young
people.
Each of the delegates receive
this expense free trip to the three.
day Congress in Chicago. Sponsors
for the delegates include: The
North Carolina Bakers Council
The North Carolina Dairy Pro.
ducts Association, The Farmers Co
operative Exchange, The North
North Carolina Chain Store Coun-
cil and The North Carolina Food
Dealers Association.
"This meeting will provide an in
misunderstanding ground on the
Importance of eating a balanced
diet" declared B. C. Mangum,
President of N. C. Farm Bureau
Federation, the Coordinating or
ganization for the program in this
Dramatic national concern
about teenage eating habits, deve-
lop cooperation Of youth serving
groups in improving the nutri-
tional patterns of youth and in
crease understanding of the farm
to-table story are the three overall
detectives of the Congress.
See TEEN-AGERS, Page Eight
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MRS. LENA JOHNSON DIES
IN NORFOLK AT AGE OF 81

After more than five years i'll
ness in a Norfolk HOSPITAL Ms.
Lena W. Johnson, whose daughter
married R. Stanley Wahab of Ocra-
coke was, the mother of his three
children, and died many years ago,
passed away Saturday in Leigh
Memorial Hospital. She was a ma
tive of Surry County and had Lived
most of her life in Norfolk. She
was a church leader, a member of
Epworth Church. The funeral was
conducted Monday and burial was
in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
Surviving are one granddaugh-
ter, Miss Lillian E. Wahab of
Norfolk; two grandsons, Judge
Robert S. Wahab Jr. of Birdneck
Point, Virginia Beach, and Will
son H. Wahab of Princess Anne
County; two great grandsons,
Robert S. Wahab III and Wilson
R. Wahab of Virginia Beach.
and one stepdaughter, Mrs. Her.
bert NJ. Schachte of Asheville, N.
c., and st. Petersburg, Fla.
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FRESH WATER FISHING
IN MAINLAND LAKES

MAINS HARBOR - Summary
weather of late has started fresh
water fishing in waters of East and
South Lake near Manns Harbor,
according to w. s. White, merchant
and motel operator here.
"They are catching large mouth
bass and crappies (speckled perch)
with live bait in both lakes" he
said.
Anglers are also catching striped
bass in the lakes, some going to
four and six pounds, according 10
Whites report.
"The st,ipers are being caught
with Pet spoons, trolled in the wake
of inboard and cupboard powered
boats" said White.
In addition to the good fishing
accompanying the recent warm
weather in the lakes, one angler
caught four largemouths flycasting
in the roadside canal adjacent to
and at the Intersections Of u. s.
Highways 81 and 264.
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End BLUE MARLIN
TOURNAMENT AT
HATTERAS JUNE I7-22

HATTERAS - Second annual
Hatteras International Blue Mar.
lin Tournament will be held here
June II through June %. with foul
days of tournament fishing, it was
announced today by Willis Slane
Jr., of High Point, N. c., president
of the Hatteras Marlin Club.
"There will be both team and
individual competition" said Slane
who indicated the pattern of the
event would be the same as last
year.
No announcement was made re-
lative to the name of person who
will direct the tournament or serve
on the various committees that are
associated with an international
tournament.
Last year 10 blue marlin were
boated by anglers of the teams
competing in the event. A partici-
pant at the first annual tourney in
1860 was Governor Luther H. Hold
ges of North Carolina who is now
U. S. Secretary of Commerce in
the President John F. Kennedy cab
met.
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NEGRO GIVEN SIX MONTHS
FOR BEATING UP ANOTHER

Russell Lee Blount of Engelhard,
who beat up and stomped John
Coolidge Mann at Louvada's place
near Manteo on February 10th, was
heard by Judge Baum in Recorders
court Tuesday, who accepted a plea
of assault. Mann had a medical
and hospital bill in the Elizabeth
City Hospital Of $l21.08. The court
ordered Blount to pay this off at
the rate of $40 a month, and fined
Blount $40 and costs on condition
of a six months suspended SEN
tence.
For speeding and improper pas
sing, Adrian o. Haynie of Buxton
paid 500 and costs. For reckless
and careless driving, Calvin H.
Saunders of Wanchese paid $25
and costs.
/ A. F. Capps of Newport News
and George C. Gray AIR. Of Avsn,
each paid 500 and costs for driv-
ing while intoxicated. For operat-
ing commercial fishing equipment
without license, Calvin Payne Of
Stumpy Point paid court costs, for
the same offense Victor Daniels Jr.
of Wanchese was fined $40. For
possessing unculled oysters, Lind
say Tate and Curnie Hopkins, both
of Belhaven We're each fined $40
and costs.
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The best way to save money is tt
keep it at home. We spend billions
abroad for little cars, sewing ma.
chimes, typewriters, cosmetics, ant
God knows what else, while ir
America we can't sell the cars that
are made, and our people are laiG
off from work. The labor unior
racketeers have got so much power
and so little sense, that they call
strike after strike in hoping of re-
heving the employment situation
which only makes matters worse
for in time they will drive our man.
ufacturers out of business, and fin
ally the communists will take over.
Ours may be an age Of progress,
education and enlightment, but it is
surley not an "age of reason" We
have too few leaders who have any
commonsense by which to lead an
age of reason. Nearly everyone
who gets an office goes hog-wild in
hope of becoming a political dicta-
tor, always seeking to unload on
the taxpayers, more deadbeats and
freeloaders with their hand always
out. Unfortunately, these free-load-
ers vote, and what makes it hard
on the taxpayers.
Mr.. Editor, / wonder if anyone
can be elected to office these dys
who will give the taxpayers any
consideration?
Yours for Commonsense,
UNCLE DOCK FROM DUCK
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ROLAND S. MEEKlNls, 70.
DIES OF STROKE THURS

Roland Sullivan Meekins, who
was stricken on Wednesday, his
10th birthday, died at 5 am. Thurs
day morning in a Norfolk hospital.
He had been in failing health for
several years. He was native Of
Roanoke Island, son of the late
Charles P. and Winnie Meekins and
the husband of Mrs. Ella Lowe
MeekiIs. His surviving relatives
are brother, VIM. S. Meekins, two
sisters, Mrs. Gladys Brantley and
Mrs. Ruth Jones all of Manteo, and
step-daughter, Mrs. Frances Cox
of Virginia Beach, and Three step
grandchildren.
He was a member of the Masonic
Lodge. member of Manteo Bap-
list Church, and was veteran of
World War I. He was a retired
carpenter, having worked with the
Norfolk Naval Shipyard for many
years, and had returned to Roam
oke Island IL years ago, to be near
his people, and had built a new
home where he resided.
On the morning he was stricken,
he received several remembrances
for his birthday, and was conscious
all morning. He was taken by Twi-
ford's ambulance to Norfolk Cen
eral Hospital Wednesday afternoon
where his step-grand-daughter,
Miss Kay Cox is nurse.
Funeral services will be conduct
ed at 2 pm. Saturday at the Man
teo Baptist church. Burial will be
with Masonic services in the Meek
ms Cemetary on Roanoke Island.
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SALE OF EASTER
SEALS TO BEGIN
IN DARE COUNTY
Mrs. Hughes TiIIett. Jr.. Of Wan
cheese. Heads 1851 Campaign
to Aid Crippled Children

Mrs. Hughes Tillett, Jr. of Wan.
, CHEESE, will lead the Dare County
Society for Crippled Children and
Adults, in it's 1861 fight against
Gripping. Mrs. Tillett was announ-
ced last month as chairmas of the
Easter Seal Campaign in Dare
County with Mrs. Thomas Biges az
Secretary Treasurer. They will Gi-
rect volunteers in an all out effort
to finance the fight on conditions
that cripple children and adults in
Dare County.
The Campaign, marking 40 years
of Service to the crippled by the
Easter Seal organization, is schedu-
led March 2-April 2. Seals will go
through the mail to approximately
500 homes in this county. Everyone
is urged to use these seals to help
fight crippling in the community.
Many other homes will be called
upon for donations by volunteers
who will take part in oily day.
sale March 25.
Easter Seals in 1860 brought aid
to number of children and adults
of all ages and races, and with all
kinds of crippling conditions, in
Guiding birth defects, strokes,
speech disorders, or any crippling
condition caused by accident OF
disease.
Volunteers are needed to offer
their services in the 1861 Easter
Seal Campaign to raise funds for
these services. Mrs. Tillett invites
clubs, youth organizations and any
interested groups and persons to
join in making the campaign for
crippled children and adults a sue
cess by donations or volunteering
services. If anyone knows of a
crippled child or adult, regardless
of race or religion, who needs help,
please contact your local society
by calling during the hours of nine
to five, the numbers A or 116, OF
at night 190-w3, or by writing
Mrs. Nllett or Mrs. Biggs at Wan
cheese.
Remember! Your dollars through
Easter Seals give care and hope to
crippled children and adults.
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UNCLE DOCK FROM DUCK SAYS:
Jobs for Americans Play Out While We Go
Nuts to Give Everything Away to Heather
Dear Mr.. Editor:

Dear Mr.. Editor:
have read so much about unem
ployment in this country that it i
getting me down. 1t seems to be VIZ
'hould have been given the facts 8
little earlier. l can't understand
why most of our news in the papers
and on TV is concerned witt
examining negroes in with the
whites in our Southern Schools, and
in listening to the demands of self.
appointed kings of savage lands
who tell us what we've got to do
And strange to say, we really take
them seriously.
If we had left the savages alone
they would have eaten each other
up by now and there would be nc
problem. Suppose Russia had taken
them over; they're one morsel not
even the Russians could digest, and
had Russia attempted to feed them,
she would have gone broke by now.
Mr.. Editor, it seems ridiculous to
me, that we should attach so much
importance to these savages who,
after we have fed them, and endea-
vored to provide them independence
and safety, that our whole country
has to spend half its energies in
conference in the United Nations,
begging them to accept our way Of
life. There are two dozen of these
black savage nations and among
them all no two can agree on any
thing.
Every day on the Tv we learn
of our unemployed is greater than
ever, and we learn that integra-
ton continues to be problem in
some parts of the south, but moth
ing is said about the same situa-
tion in the north. It seems rather
odd, that those people who refuse
the negro equal rights in the North
are so intent on forcing them down
the throats of southern people.
/ recently read some figures on
the amount of money we spend
buying foreign made junk under
the delusion we are saving money
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KEEcH LOW BIDDER ON
CAPE HATTERAS JOB

Keech Construction Co. of Pine
town was the lower bidder Tuesday
in the sum of $117,825.50 on the
expansion of camp ground facilities
of the National Park Service at
Cape Hatteras. The project includ-
es a mile of road, some 1000 feet
of walkways to the ocean, and pre-
paration of sites for an additional
100 campers, including parking
areas, for so cars. Other bidders
were Stetson and Daniels of Wan
CHEESE at $118,317 and Dickerson
Co. of Monroe at $l2s,9S0. This is
the second large job on which the
Keech Co. has been low bidder for
the Cape Hatteras National sea-
shore.
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CHARLES BRIGGS IS ON
LOCATION IN PHILIPPINES

Charles Briggs, frmerly of Kill
Devil Hills, and now of North Hol-
iywood, California, left California
ON March A for the Philippines,
where he is on location with the
filming Of "The Marauders", which
will star Jeff Chandler, and in
which Charles will play the comedy
lead, according 10 word received by
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
III Briggs Of Kill Devil Hills. He
expects to be in the Philippines for
two months.
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GRIGGS COUPLE
LIKE BOTH FISH
AND WILDFOWL
Mrs. Walton Griees Gets Big Kick
Out of Visiting with Leeis-
ator Husband in RALEIGH
By JOAN BROCK.
n The News and Ohserverl

\Ah AhO 4NCWo anu VhSSIVeI)
The seaside huntress in the
Sir Walter Cabinet, Mrs. Walton
S. Griggs of Point Harbor, says
she was drought up with a 80
80 rifle in one hand and a AZ
automatic in the other."'
Haiing from a heroic Coast
Guard family with a long history
of life saving-sparked by a col.
lection of Life Saving Medals
Ruth Midget Griggs learned tc
shoot gun when she was IL. "But
I've never saved life," she smiles.
The wife of the second-term
House Representative from Curri-
tuck County lived on Hatteras
Island until she was in the third
grade. Then she moved to Florida,
where her Daddy, Jarvis Midget,
operated a Coast Guard Station.
"But home is home," says the
brown haired, blue-eyed sport. $50
/ returned to North Carolina every
chance got" And when she mar.
ried the Representative, they de.
cided to settle on the coast al
Point Harbor, his boyhood home.
Former Nurse
Formerly a surgical operating
nurse, Ruth Griggs gave up the
white uniform when Margie IN
and Molly (16) came along. Fol
13 years now, she and her hus
band have managed a restaurant
on Currituck Sound.
The huntress who loves to "shoot
clean, cook and eat wild fowl" aim
only at geese and ducks. II coult
never kill a deer" she confesses
''They are too beautiful" She add
that her husband shares her senti
ment.
The captor of numerous swim
ming awards in her younger day;
admits, 81 should have been born
a duck" Reared among sounds, la
goons and seas, she loves to gt
barefooted in the sand and takes Il
the surf and salty air with the
gratitude of a gull. And though
she's "never caught anything big
favorite pastime is founder fish
ing.
"The prettiest sight in the worlC
is to watch the birds glide in tt
meet the decoys," signs the hearty
huntress, who often bags the daily
limit of three ducks and two geese
From November into January Of
each year, she keeps one eye on thu
soup and the other on the sky. Ane
when the birds start coming in
she sheds her apron, grabs a gun
and heads for the marshes.
Nothing that her husbands faith.
er was zone of the greatest shot.
in the county," she tells of the days
before limits We're set) when hi
brought down as many as 5O(
ducks a day.
Another tale she tells is of thu
September day in 1859 when she
learned the true value of the Coas
Guard "first hand" When the fal
! See GRIGGSES, Page Eight
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DANCE AT ENGELHARD FOR
BENEFIT MARCH OF DIMES

A dance for the benefit of the
March of Dimes, will be held at the
Poparena at Engelhard, with Bob
Jones Orchestra, admission $3.50
per couple at the door, Saturday
night, March 18th, from 8 to IL p.
M, according to announcement by
Roy L. Lowe, Chairman for the
Hyde County March Of Dimes.
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MARSHALL T. SMITH JR., whose
parents live in Manteo, having fin
ished his Coast Guard boot training
at Cape May N. ]. Has been assign
ed to the Duluth Life Boat Station
in Minnesota. He is a grandson of
Mrs. Pattie Smith and the late Her
man Smith of Manteo, his grand
father having been one of the most
popular Coast Guard officers in the
District, who retired from Bodie
Island station, prior to World Wal
II.