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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, 1961-02-17
COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
FOR COASTAL LEGISLATORS

Leading in appoin ments on Sen
ate Comittees in the Legislature is
Senator Lindsay C. Warren, who
most people concede will be the
most influential member of the leg
islature this year. Mr.. Warren dec
lined any Chairmanships, but was
named Vice Chairman of the Con-
stitutional and Congressional Dis
trict committee, and was placed on
the following other committees;
Conservation and Development Ju-
dietary, Courts and Judicial Dis
tricts, election laws, representative
appropriations university trustees
Judiciary, No. II, University Trust
eeS.
Senator P. d. Midget, being a
freshman Senator, did not get q
craftsmanship, but was named Vice
Chairman of the Committee for
Mental. institutions, which is ex-
pected to be one of the busiest at
this session. He was also named a
member of many others, including
the following: Senate Finance
Banking, Public Health, Education
Interstate and Federal Relations
Wiidlife, Public Health, Public Ui-
lities, and Education.
This is on the basis of incom-
plete reports, and is subject to cor
rection Committee assignments Civ
en- representation from coastal
counties include Fearing of Dare
appropriations, Phelps of Washing
ton, Finance, Sermons of Beaufort
appropriations, Cohoon of Tyrrell
House Finance, Lupton of Hyde, Fl
nance and Appropriations, and SEN
ator Winslow of Hartford is chair
man Of Employment security beside
being a member of several com.
n,ittees. -
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THE WILD BLUE
AN ENTERTAINING
AIR POWER BOOK
Recent Book Carries Selections
From Ayeoek Brown. OrvilIe
Wright. Billy Mitchell

The Wild Blue, the story of
American Airpower, from the
dunes of Kill Devil Hills to Cape
Canaveral is a compendium of
many articles from distinguished
people, including Orville Wright,
General Billy Mitchell, General
James Doolittle and some two doz-
en- other notabes. 1t was recently
published by G. P. Putnams sons
and edited by John F. Loosbrock
and Richard NJ. Skinner and is call
ed the best from Air Force Maya
zine.
The book carries an article by
Aycock Brown entitled The Wind
at Kill Devil Hills, and is introdu-
ced by the following comment:
"Few people still living know
more about the events of December
II, 1903, at Kill Devil Hill than
Aycock Brown, who has lived for
many years in nearby Manteo, N.
C. and who not only has an init
mate knowledge of the area but
also was we'll acquainted with the
witnesses to the Wrights' exploits
at Kitty Hawk. Mr.. Brown now is
Manager of the Dare County Tour
list Bureau and is a free-lance
writer" Mr.. Browns story follows.
The Wind at Kill Devil Hills
The large dune of yellow sand
or a peninsula of yellow sand SEEM
ed destined for permanent obscure
ty. 1t was named Kill Devil Hill
according to legend, after brand
of rum so potent it could "lill the
devil". Here even the seagulls We're
at the mercy of a devil-killing
wind.
In 1900 two brothers from Day.
ton, Ohio, needed just such a wind,
needed it to translate into actuality
their dream of flight in man-car-
rying power-driven machine. With
the air currents in their homemade
wind tunnel they had tested more
than 200 types of wing surfaces.
Now they were ready for the test
of the machine itself.
This would require a wind they
could depend on, and the Wright
brothers sought the advice of the
lUS Weather Bureau. They were
directed to a barren little finger
of land off the eastern tip of North
Carolina, where, so the Bureau re-
ported, the north wind was strong
and steady.
Orville and Wilbur Wright went
first to Kitty Hawk, midway out
on the wind swept peninsula. Here,
in October 1900, they set up a camp
and began to experiment with a
machine which they flew as kite.
The next year the Wrights moved
their camp to that flat, sandy field
near the big dune known as Kill
Devil Hill, five miles south of Kitty
Hawk. Here for two years they
tested and studied their theories of
flight by launching gliders from
the slopes of the hill. Next came
the biplane with its pusher-type
propellers and little gasoline en-
CINE. To test it they erected sixty
foot monorail track up the side of
Kill Devil, $50 feet Of track laid on
.. a nine-degree slope. After tossing
a coin to see who would take the
, controls, the Wright brothers began
their test. Then, on the morning Of
December II, 1908, in the face OF
E that cold flashing wind off the At
lantic, the Wrights made history :
> and Kill Devil Hill became the
birthplace of mans conquest OF
. the air.
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FORMER DARE WOMAN
INJURED IN COLLISION

Mrs. Earl r. Meekins of Bur-
lington, formerly of Stumpy Point
and Manteo, is in Alamance Cen
eral Hospital, Burlington, having
suffered numerous injuries in a
head-on collision between her au-
tomobile and another Monday,
while she was enroute from Bur
lington to her home in the Friend
ship community.
Mrs. Meelins sustained . brok-
en- nose, fractured ribs, q knee In
jury, q broken heel and other in
juries. Her daughter, Mrs. Burwell
Evans Of Manteo, Is In Burlington
with her.
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PAST NOBLE GRAND CLUB
REBEKAHS HOLD MEETING

The past noble grand club Of
Manteo Rebekah Lodge met Tues
day, Feb. 7th with Mrs. Hilda
Francis, with IS enjoying an ex-
cellent meeting. Officers installed
for the year were Mrs. Hilda
Francis, President; Mrs. Aida
Francis, yice-president; Mrs. Kath-
ryn, Kennedy, Secretary Treasurer.
Mrs. Lois Midget will be host ia
the next meeting TO be held March
2eth.
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BUXTON MAN TO ROADS
FOR OLD CASE IN 1885
Sentence Reduced. following Appear
snee in Court For Violating
Judgment

Harry Leighton Austin was not
'entenced for the three charges
brought against him in Recorders
court this week, but will have to
'erve two months of a suspended
entence hanging over him since
September 1858. This sentence was
COR six months, following other APP
pearances in court, on having been
'ound guilty of inflicting serious
INJURIES during an assault on a wo-
nan; of doing malicious damage to
'eal property, and for killing a use
cul ANIMAL dog.
When he appeared in court this
week, he was found guilty of dis.
playing tax-paid whiskey at tht
choolhouse, of resisting arrest anc
ssaulting an officer. But a long
letter from County Commissioner
George Fuller, elaborated on the
fine qualities of the defendant, ane
the bad breaks that life had giver
him. Appeal to the court by letter:
also came from C. P. Gray and Da
vid Raynor, pastor of the Assembly
If God church, while a more moder
ate letter from Edgar o. Hooper
said Austin was good worker but
bad when intoxicated.
Judge Baum reduced his previou:
suspended sentence of six months
to three months, which means, with
one-third off for good behavior, on
ly 60 days need be served.
Paul B. Bertrand of Buxton, wal
See COURT, Page Six
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EASTERN STAR MEMBERS TO
FEED MASONS AND WINES

The Ladies Of the Eastern Star
Chapter No. 70 of Roanoke Island,
are planning a dinner, Saturday
evening of this week at the Dare
County Shrine Club, the guests to
be the members Of the Manteo and
Wanchese Masonic Lodges, and
wives of members. These dinners
are given annually by the Eastern
Star members.
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State Highway Commission has promised bridge,
and where extensive surveying has been done by the Com
missions engineers Along the south side of the inlet
the channel IA feet deep which dredged by
Army Engineers last year bringing deep water into Roanoke
Island ports making available safe harbors for fishermen.
The Inlet mile wide although looks much smaller
lin the picture.
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This picture of Oregon Inlet furnished by Steve
Wall in connection with his article beach erosion In the
right foreground is the lower end of Bod Island the
north shore of the Inlet Looking the Inlet
the north end of Pea Island which the south shore of the
Inlet continuous strip of land extending to Haeras Inlet
is this Inlet somewhat wider than appears in the picture
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,EV. CALEB w. GOODWIN has
'ecently brought his family to Roa-
Joke Island and lives at Sunnyside.
lie is pastor of the Roanoke Island
Baptist church. Previously he serv-
d churches in Currituck County
md Gates County. He and Mrs.
Goodwin are natives of Durham
County. They have a son and three
daughters ranging in age from one
md half years to Is years.
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MRS BEATRICE JOYCE GILBERT ANDERSON, 49, wife wm j.
Anderson Kitty Hawk business who disappeared New Years
and for whom carried widespread search
way Florida couple married in Flor
da after short acquaintance in December 1852 During the Christ
mas holidays, Mr.. Anderson took a trip to Florida.
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OCEAN RELENTLESSLY EATS
AWAY N. G. BARRIER REEF

For Over 100 Years. Despoled Coastand Has Been
Winds and Tides; Mans Depredations Have Been
PosferifX Also
Evening star., 1961-08-08

in the internal affairs Of ma
tons all over the world.
They tried to strangle the
Cuban revolution" he said.
Mr.. Khrushchev asserted Mr.
Adenauer's Interpretation oi
self determination was to swal-
low East Germany.
How can one reach an agree
ment on reunification If the
West German government turns
a deaf ear to the very idea OF
talks with the government OF
the (East) German democratic
republic?" he asked.
Mr.. Khrushchev's speech
caused an immediate response
among the Russian people, the
Soviet news agency Tass re-
ported.
Tass said factory workers at
plants across the country held
meetings to acclaim the gov
ernment's policy. Workers at
defense plants in Moscow, Len
ingrad, Kiev, Sverdlovsk, Novo-
Sibirsk and elsewhere asked to
be switched from seven-hour to
eight-hour shifts to increase
the nations defense capacity,
the report said.
Evening star., 1961-08-08
3 Indictments
Charge Murders

Three indictments-two for
first-degree murder and one for
ond-degree - were handed
down by a District grand jury
yesterday.
Named as defendants in the
first-degree m urder indict-
mentS are James L. Jones, %,
Of the 500 block of K street
NE, charged with the fatal
stabbing of Herbert Mosley, 20,
of GOT Sixth street NE, and
Nathaniel H. Jones, 81, of the
500 block of e street NE,
charged with the shooting OF
James L. Stroman, az, Of 1015
Florida avenue NE.
Raymond Williams, "a, OF
the 600 block of Ninth street
NE. was indicted on a second
degree murder charge in the
Staying of William Henson, So
of 214 North Wayne street, Ar
lington, with a brick.
Evening star., 1961-08-08
White Golf Clubs
Bar Negro Judge
From Tournament

DENVER, Aug. 8 (AP).-
Denver Municipal Judge James
C. Flanagan, a Negro, was
barred yesterday from playing
in the Colorado amateur golf
tournament at Cherry Hills
Country Club.
Judge Flanagan had regis
tered for the tournament by
telephone and had been given
a morning tee-off time.
When he arrived at the
starters table. he was refused
permission to play by Mrs. N.
C. Morris and wilford Woody.
Mrs. Morris is the wife Of the
treasurer Of the sponsoring
Colorado Golf Association, and
MIR. Woody is executive secre-
tary.
They cited a CGA rule that
only members of association
affiliated golf clubs were eli
gible for the tournament.
Mr.. Flanagan said he belongs
to the East Denver Golf Club,
a Negro group which plays at
various municipal courses. The
club has applied unsuccessfully
for membership in the Colorado
Golf Association.
No other Negroes are playing
in the tournament.
Evening star., 1961-08-08
HorneWants
To Hide Hand

LONDON, Aug. 8 (AP).-
Much of Western Europe gave
a cool reception today to Soviet
Premier Khrushchev's sugges-
ton for East-West talks on
Berlin.
In the first official British
comment Foreign Secretary
lEOrd Home said r. ~It rs quite
clear that Mr.. Khrushchev is
playing a game Of political pok-
er and we cannot and ought
not to disclose our hand"
Lord Home discussed the
Khrushchev speech in Paris
where, he attended the Western
foreign ministers meeting.
Should reason not prevail
IN this matter II Germany and
Berlin we come close to a very
dangerous situation and posi-
bly, war;" Lord Home told re-
porters.
Lord Home said Mr., Khru-
Shchev's invitation to new
talks must be studied care
fully but "if from the start
there is no real hope Of get
ting an agreement, then in this
case negotiations are worse
than no negotiations at ALL"
United States Secretary of
State Rusk was noncommital.
but Mr.. Khrushchev's speech
probably as under discussion
as he met with the permanent
council of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization.
/. Most British aewSpapers
agreedt with MIR. EKhrushchev
THAT itswas time for East West
Headers to sitA down at a table
and negotiate the pressing
issues of Berlin and Germany.
But in France and West Ger
many, there was caution and
some suspicion Of the Khru2
|shchev motives. Some nswsnae
pers and politicians felt thas
the Soviet Premier had not
changed the crisis climate.
Evening star., 1961-08-08
Population Hub
',0f u. IS. Placed
Near Shuttuc, frf.
RY the Associated press


The country's population
center has been officially To-
Gated in a field on the farm
of Fred Kleiboeker about q
mile south-southwest of Shat.
tue, Ill, a small rural COM
munity.
The point was located by the
Coast and Geodetic Survey
using calculations made on
last years national head count
The Kleiboeker farm is about
I61a miles northwest Of Cen
tralia. Ill.
The Census Bureau defines
the population center as that
point upon which the United
States could balance, If it were
a rigid plain, without weight
and the population were dis
tributed thereon with each
individual being assumed to
have equal weight"
Evening star., 1961-08-08
Stors, Music Lovers
BemoonO Opero Closing

ested in keeping the Met open
as anyone else"
Robert Merrill, who was to
have starred in a new produc-
tion of Verdi's "Un Ballo in
Maschera" this season, said
in Rome the cancellation is
"a disgrace not only for the
American people. but, for the
entire musical and arts world"
Believe me" he added, sits
not a financial loss. It's d tre-
mendous spiritual loss. Now
that the Met is closed and the
season is up, I'll try to sing
with La Scala tin Milan) next
season"
Telegram to Kennedy
Mezzo Soprano Rise stevens
sent a telegram to President
Kennedy, saying:
This is an irreparable blow
to the cultural prestige of our
country. For years we have
Striyen for a cultural exchange
with other nations, and the
gradual progress in the past
has been encouraging. We can
hardly hope for additional
progress in this direction If
the symbol of one of our most
important cultural institutions
becomes a thing of the past"
Miss Stevens expressed a be.
lief both the Met and the un-
ion would welcome the in
Eterest Of the White House."
Evening star., 1961-08-08
ROUND VS.. SQUARE TABLE
HASSLE IN OFFING AGAIN

BY the of one word, round" Soviet Premier
khrushchev has opened discussion of participants in
the next set Of negotiations Berlin.
In his televsed speech yesterday, Mr. Khrlshchev
told the Big Three Western powers, Let us honestly
meet at round table conference; let not create
war psychosis."
Before the 1859 East-west Foreign Ministers Con-
ference, there was almost comical dispute about
whether the conference table should be or square
The West favored square table because it would
permit the seating Of only the United States Britain
France and Russia.
The West had agreed that West Germany and the
unrecognized Communist regime of East Germany
should be represented in the conference room But
Russia insisted on round table at which both the
west ana East German foreign ministers would be seated
They finally compromised on round table with
the East and West German delegations rectangular
tables nearby
Evening star., 1961-08-08
Appeals Filed.
ForChaIlceries

Moves to establish embassy
Echanceries in the District will
tbe presented to the Board of
Ezoning Adjustment next week,
along with appeals efor a new
housing development and for a
Harvard University center.
Three property owners have
edaappeals with the board for
permission to sell or lease their
properties as embassies:
The owner of 7119 Sixteenth
street NV. will ask the board
to allow the Republic of Upper
Volta to establish a chancery
at that address. The Republic
of Panama is scheduled to ask
permission to establish its
chancery at Woodland drive
and Twenty ninth street NV.
The owner of property at 3421
Massachusetts avenue NV. will
make an appeal on behalf of
the Republic of the Sudan to
establish a chancery at that
address.
At the August 16 meeting,
the board also will hear an
appeal Of the trustees for Har-
ward University to establish the
Center for Hellenic Studies at
3100 Whitehaven street NV,
part Of the Dumbaxton Oaks
property. The university hopes
to establish the center with a
grant from the Old Dominion
Foundation.
The board also will hear the
request of the National Capital
Housing Authority to allow the
erection of groups of apartment
buildings in Southeast. The
NCHA wants permission to
erect the buildings and a COM
munity center in an area
bounded by Anger, Langston,
Reynolds and Bruce places.
Evening star., 1961-08-08
CONFERENCE
Lotin Aid Features
| LoW-Interest Looms

that half Of the So billion going
to Latin America during the
first year might come from
private. West European and
japanese sources. The re-
naming 81 billion was men,
toned in President Kennedy's
letter read to delegates at the
opening Of the conference on
Saturday.
Yesterday Mr.. Dillon told IA
principal coffee producers in
Latin America-led by Brazil
and Colombia - the United
States will help police strict
quotas Though import controls,
providing they take measures
to control overproduction.
'Mr. Dillon's speech offers
great hope for Latin Amer
ica." was the reaction of Her
nando Agudelo, Colombian
Minister of Finance, to that
announcement.
Several parts Of the speech
were conveniently ignored or
opposed outright by some dele
gates. For instance, reaction
was considerably more discreet
about Mr.. Dillon's call for an
end to military expenditures
which are needless or lux
urious."
Few ministers here can af:
ford to be so blunt about an
entrenched military hierarchy
as was Mr.. Dillon when he said:
"As ministers of finance or
economy, we need to encourage
those responsible for our COM
mon defense to engage in the
critical review required to avoid
imbalances between military
and other expenditures"
Privately, American sources
point out that a majority OF
Latin American countries spend
more than 80 per cent of their
budget on pampering their
military. while only eight spend
more on education than on de-
tense.
A controversy also is antici-
pated over Mr.. Dillon's propos-
al for a steering committee of
Independent experts to review
national development plans and
help allocate American and
other money to Latin America.
Opposition Hint
Earlier in the day Roberto
Alemann, Argentine Minister
Of Economics, limited at his
opposition and that Of other
governments to this proposal
when he said national au-
tonomy" must be preserved in
all programming in the Alliance
for Progress.
Mr.. Dillon noted in his
speech that details of a steering
committee can be worked out in
working committees here.
Sources close to the delegation
confirm that the United States
position is still fluid" on this
item, and compromises unof-
fensive to touchy Latin Amer
ican nationalism are being
secuted.
Evening star., 1961-08-08

receives" he said. "We have
asked our attorneys to study
the Federal directives," he said.
1--WE have asked our attorneys
to study the entire matter and
attempt to bring order out of
chaos"
At New Orleans, the Orleans
Parish County School Board
said four more schools were
eligible for desegregation this
fall. Board President Louis
Riecke, ST., listed them as
Judah Benjamin, Lusher, Me-
Donogh No. II, and Andrew
Wilson. He said fewer than 10
pupils were eligible for trans
fers.
William Franz and McDonogh
No. 19 were integrated by Fed
eral court order last year but
for much of the year only three
Negro children attended classes
at McDonogh. =:
Negroes at Lunch Counters /,
In another New Orleans de-
velopment, Norma Wagner. a
33-year-old blind woman from
Rochester, N. Y, and two
young Negroes ate at lunch
counters in the main railroad
terminal without incident.
Federal Judge Richard T.
Rives set September Is as the
date for. hearings in Jackson,
Miss, on Temporary and per-
manent injunctions that would
stop police from arresting g
Freedom Riders on. breach Of
the peace charges. -
Fines of $40 each were hand
ed out in city court in Nash
vile, Tenn, against % Negro,
demonstrators who refused to
leave the lobby of police head
quarters. .. .
Evening star., 1961-08-08
Officers Service
Bill Advances
By the Associated Press


The House voted yesterday
to require graduates of service
academies to spend at least
five years on active duty after
graduation.
1t passed and sent to the
Senate by voice vote a bill in
creasing the active service re-
quirement, which now varies
from three to four years.
Another bill sent to the SEN
ate by voice vote would allow
qualified members of the armed
services to accept scholarships
and fellowships from nongov-
ernment sources.
Evening star., 1961-08-08

Education's problem was a bit
different.
The issue revolved around
the request of Sandra K. Mel
kid, a 17-year-old white girl,
to be transferred from a school
scheduled to be integrated Au-
gust 80 to one which will re-
main segregated at least an
other year.
Reversed by State Board
The Atlanta boards denial
of her request was reversed
yesterday by the State Board
Of Education in a decision
based on the factor Of race
alone. It was the first case Of
its kind to reach the State
board.
One board member said he
would not force any white
child to go to an integrated
school," while another declared
he was mot going to be a party
to helping the Federal court
enforce its edicts along this
line"
However, a third board mem
Der warned that the decision
might result in all white pupils
transferring from the desegre-
gated school and could lead to
further Federal court action.
/ United States District Court
BARRED the Atlanta board from
recognizing the race factor in
carrying out a court-ordered
pupil placement plan. The board
approved the transfer of 10
Negroes, denied the applica-
ltions of 122 others.
"In A Quandary
"The state boards decision
not only caught us by surprise
but leaves us in a quandary, E"
said L. J. O'Callaghan, presi-
dent of the Atlanta board.
I'VE find ourselves again in
the middle with a conflict be-
tween State and Federal di-