The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1961-03-03

GeorSe, OH the WnlLe House SCa11.
Ward, while watching the inau-
guration on television, saw George
helping the celebrities into their
cars. He called Annie in from the
kitchen.
THAT'S my boyr' she yelled.
"Lordy. that's my boy"
Ward told friends that he had
her sit right down and watch the
Inauguration, the dinner go hang,
and that he enjoyed watching her
more than he did the Inauguration
itself.
When the new Presidents father
was shown on the screen, Annie's
comment was: "Mr. Ward, I know
he is as proud of his son as / am
of NINE"
But as Don observed later, Ger
tainly no prouder.
Gov. Sanford VS.. Old Number One
It wasn't Gov. Terry Sanford's
fault that he and the first lady
were an hour late for the Press
Institutes five o'clock reception at
Carolina Inn, Chapel Hill, a recent
Thursday afternoon.
His Excellency was all set to be
on time-but Old Number One
wasn't budging from the Mansion.
The chauffeur and other amateur
mechanics like Gov. Sanford and
Graham Jones, his assistant, pulled
this and pushed that.
Nothing doing.
Just the water pump, said the
mechanic who was called in to get
the big black job cadillacking.
Work began on it-while the clock
licked merrily away.
Meantime, back at the ranch, the
receiving line began forming as
furtive eyes frowned toward the
door. The crowds started winding
through the grinding, all smiles
now, for some wag had started the
ridiculous joke that "Old Number
One won't start-that's the reason
Gov. Terry is late"
Fact of the matter, was it would
not and didn't. The Governor,
known as a man who likes to get
moving, told his assistants to get
a car-any car. They got Ford
young and supple and ittle-and
under leaden skies and through
the woods to Chapel Hill they went.
And somebody who saw the party
disembark at Carolina Inn from the
chauffeur driven flivver said Gov.
Terry Sanford and Mrs. Sanford
looked no less fine and regal alight
ing from the Ford than they would
have climbing from the big black
depths of Old Number One.
Hodges Rank in Cabinet Noted
RALEIGH-With native SON in
the Presidents cabinet, North Car
DINA is about as close in rank to
the top position as she has been
since Andrew johnson was elected
Vice President nearly 100 years
ago.
But even with Luther Hodges as
Secretary of Commerce, most of.
the cabinet would have to fall away
by death or resignation before he
could succeed to the Presidency.
The rank of Cabinet position in
Presidential succession is based en-
tirely upon the date that position
was created. Thus it is that Com
merce, which was not established
until February ID, 1903, ranks be-
low those of State, Treasury, De-
Tense Originally War and Navy,
Attorney General, Postmaster Gen.
eral, Interior, and Agriculture.
If the President, the Vice Presi-
dent, the Speaker of the House, and
the cabinet members in higher, or
earlier, rank were killed in a plane
crash, by bomb, or other castastro-
phe, then Luther Hodges would be-
come President. Americana Encyc-
lopedia places him eleventh in line;
the second being the Vice Presi-
dent; the third, the Speaker of the
House, the fourth, Secretary of
State, etc.
He ranks above the Departments
of Labor, which at one time was
part of Commerce, and Welfare,
established only few years ago.
Old Raleigh Centers
Are Losing Shows
The State Fair Arena and the
Reynolds Coliseum at State
College are gradually replacing
mailer and older entertainment
centers in Raleigh. Memorial Audi
forum and Hotel Sir Walter are
the losers.
The Arena on February 24-28
will have the interstate Southeast
|ern Flower and Garden Show--and
the following week, Ringing Bros
Barnum Bailey Circus. Reynolds
Coliseum, for the first time in his
tory, will have the Jefferson-Jack-
son Day Dinner, around April I.