The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1961-01-27
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CLIP OAR D
BY
EULA N. GREENWOOD
Raleigh Correspondent
Home In The Hills

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full share-prefer sand and sun tt
mountain greenerv, owning or rent.
ing cottages at Morehead City OF
Wrightsville, some of them HE tt
the hills come summertime.
In this group in the future may be
Mr.. and Ms. L. Y. Ballentine
whose official address is listed a.
Varina, but who also live lot OF
the top floor of the Hotel Sit
Walter here.
Known to their wide circle Of
friends and close acquaintance
as Bess and Stag, Mrs. Ballentine
runs the NC. Automobile Dealers
Association, whose beautiful offices
are on the ground floor of the Sill
Walter, and Mr.. Ballentine is Com.
missioner of Agriculture. He is also
a working farmer, operating a
dairy which provides Raleigh with
much of it's milk.
They are building a home in the
Boone area, certainly one OF
the real garden spots of North Car
olina-particularly from April to
October.
To use an old agricultural cliche
they make a peach Of a pair-and
we daresay the people of Watauga
will love very much their new
neighbors from Wake.
Our Own First Lady
Nice is Mrs. Jackie Kennedy
Young and handsome are President
John and Governor Terry. Let us
not, though, pay so much atten-
ton to these othes that we overlook
Mrs. Terry Sanford, our own First
Lady.
Bet you didn't know she is a ma
tive of Kentucky, grew up on a
farm out from Hopkinsville, lost
her parents while still in her teens
and then went to live with an aunt
in Howell, KY.
Her name before marriage was
Margaret Rose Knight. Her par
ents were John Richard Knight and
Elizabeth Ford Knight. She was a
coed majoring in English at UNC
when she and her future husband
met.
On July 4. 1912, they were mar
ried-and he left a draft-exempt
FBI job four weeks later to enlist
in the Army. She taught school fol-
a while in Chatham County.
Mrs. Sanford's first two years of
college work came at Christian
College in Columbia, Missouri
When young SANFORD returned to
Chapel Hill after the war to COM
plete work on his law degree, his
young wife served as assistant to
the Dean of Women at UNC.
More Than Organizations
To our desk has come the new
and beautiful edition of "North
Carolina Organizations" compiled
by the N. C. Council of Women's
Organizations of Chapel Hill.
Well edited by Mrs. w. S. Cara
wan of Columbia, N. c., the book
is we'll laid out and full of helpful
information.
Although not nearly as thick and
cumbersome-and lacking all the
facts-the book reminds us of the
old "North Carolina Almanac
put out by Mrs. J. B. Ehringhaus
now living in Edenton, and Mrs
Carl Goerch in the early SOS. By
the way, wonder what ever happen
ed to the "Almanac"-haven't seer
one in many years.
Now if you would like a copy OF
North Carolina Organizations
it's undermined, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
POB 1882, Chapel Hill, for infor-
nation on how to secure it.
Mansion Children
While it has been many years
since we have had children in the
Governors Mansion as young as
Betsy (11) and Terry(s) Sanfords
all of our Governors of the past
45 years-with the exception Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Gregg Cherry-have
had offspring springing there.
Superior Court Judge Bill Bick.
EFT was gay blade around the
Mansion in 1921. The Ehring.
haus administration saw three
children at the Mansion and two
of them, Matilda and Haughton
were-or are-twins. The Brough.
tons had four children; Melville
and Robert, Raleigh attorneys
Woodson, in the investment bust
ness in N. Y, and Alice, who alst
lives in New York. The Max Gard
neHs had three sons tearing
about the Mansion in the late 20's
Hector Mclean, banker and for
mer mayor of Lumberton, was &
kid of five in the Mansion. HI
was the youngest.
To this good day, the old wall!
of the Mansion have not echoed
to the midnight colic-cry of {
gubernatorial newborn babe.
State Competition
When the State finally decided
recently to add Legislative bills tt
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