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PAGE SIX UTILITIES . . . When the Gov ernor of North Carolina makes a statement about ones of his depart ments—whether in praise or criti cism—he shakes it to its founda tions. Last week the members of the State Utilities Commission and *taff—were all shook up. This time St wasn’t caused by utilities fusses. Luther Hodges had intimated the commission has a lot of idle time on its hands, had said rather blunt ly that a three-member body could serve the public as well as a five imember ditto. Vor a long time we had the im pression that this particular branch of State government was overworked. In fact, we know of three men who resigned, voluntar ily, from work with the State Util ities Commission' because of the heavy work schedule. One of them described it as a “rat race.” But Governor Hodges says otherwise — and it must be so. FAIR . . . Until Kerr Scott be came Governor, we had only three members of the commission. He jgot the number increased to five. That was less than ten years ago. It may be that the amount of work has decreased. But, be that as it may, old-timers around here say the Utilities Commission has been played with by Governors, set up, tom down, name changed, ami what-have you, more than any oth er State department. So, ail in all, it seems on:y fair •for Governor Hodges to have a go .ut it. Incidentally, of the three new members appointed by Governor Scott —Josh James, Harry West <cott, and Ed McMahan, only West cott remains, and Miss Myrtha Fleming. Scott’s long-time secre- For your Paint and Supplies Always Stop at FEARINGS. INC. WHY? We offer a complete line GRAVEYARD OF THE ATLANTIC By DAVID STICK Factual Accounts of Numerous Shipwrecks Along the Outer Banks $5.00 at Your Bookseller or from the Dare Press, Kitty Hawk, N. C. Don’t Miss Getting A Copy of The OLD SEA CAPTAIN and THE DRUMMER Here is a spicy booklet of dialogue between two coastland characters. They deal with many subjects in their salty, racy conversations Ask for it at fl per copy at the local dealers on the Coast. If they are out of it, get it postpaid. Mail your dol lar to THE OLD SEA CAPTAIN P. O. Box 428 MANTEO, N. C CITY MARKET MANTEO, N. C. R. L. SWAIN DULANEY FROZEN PEAS and FRENCH FRIES 14 BUSH-Large Limas, Black Eye Peas, Navy Beans, Great North, and June Peas-per mn .10 DOG FOOD 3 for .25 ROSE FARM SHOE PEG CORN .10 SWIFTS PREMIUM FRANKS pkg. .40 LUTER’ HAMS, small lb. .61 # PLUS 30 EXTRA FAMILY STAMPS WITH EVERY $5.00 OR MORE PURCHASED. PRICES EFFECTIVE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, FEB. 28 AND MARCH I - ‘ ' tary who became clerk to the Com mission, was long ago replaced. In fact and in truth, there is nev er a dull day in the State Utilities Commission —or that is, the Cor poration Commission . . . Un|til the name was changed in 1933. TOGETHER . . . Early last fall there was some talk to the effect that three State organizations the N. C. Quality Restaurant As sociation, the N. C. Hotel Associa tion, and the N. C. Motel Associa tion—would soon join hands so as to operate more numerically and more economically. Last week it became apparent that at least two-thirds of the dis tance had been traveled. All new N. C. Hotel Association cards were signed “M. M. Melvin, Secretary.” He is also secretary of the N. C. Quality Restaurant As sociation and for many years be fore going with the restaurants an official with the State Board of Health. WAGES ... .At one time, the hotel people tried to maintain an office with a full-time, paid exec utive in Raleigh—but there was not enough support . . . and insuf ficient interest unless or until a legislative matter like a minimum wage law came alone. Had it not been for the work of the N. C. Hotel Association in the 1957 Legislature, we would likely have a State minimum wage law today. Melvin, with good legal help from Melville Broughton—and J. C. B. Ehringhaus if he is retained in the new setup—should give the hotels new strength. Also in the picture will be Ace Publicist C. A. Upchurch, Jr. NEED . . . Frankly, we can’t’ see the hotels and motels going to bed together though stranger things have happened in organiza tional bedtime stories. Mrs. Maude Morrow heads up the Motel Asso ciation, with John Larkinds as ad visor and father confessor. Infor mation we get is that the motels do not give their organization the support it deserves. In a state going after the tour ist dollar you need stronger sun port than have any of these or-. ganizations—and less griping and growling from members. THE SPOILER ... Due to the tremendous importance of Forsyth County’s vote in the Fifth Con gressional District, Winston-Sa lem’s studious Winfield Blackwell had been given a 50-50 chance of ousting Ralph Scott from his re cently won seat in the House of Representatives. For many years Forsyth has hungered for a place in Congress, but the closest they have been able to come was a kind of dog-fall with Elkin when the late Thur mond Chatham made the grade. Perhaps Blackwell was the man. But no less than the mayor of Winston-Salem himself, the Hon. Marshall Kurfees, has , seen to it that Scott goes back to Washing ton. This has been accomplished by the simple expedient of making himself a candidate for the posi tion. Those in the know around the Fifth District say that popu lous Forsyth will split its vote be tween Blackwell and Kurfees and thus enable Scott’s re-election without difficulty. TWO MORE OUT ... To the growing list of legislators decid ing they want to see Raleigh only from afar next year add the names of: Tom White of Kinston and Cal vin Graves of Winston-Salem. Their announcements last week came as a sharp surprise. White was supposed .to be in a three-cornered race with Carl Venters of Jacksonville and Addi son Hewlett of Wilmington for WAIT OUT THE WW! , =- fr yy & $ ' “ yVottr START AM \ ' •“,*/ %|l "'S OUTOOOR FIRE »\ •' "x'vVdtv ON A WINPY PAV. BjjJhJjtut WAIT TILL LATER - Speaker of the House in 1959. His sudden decision not to re turn to the Legislature is expected to throw enough votes to Hewlett to assure him the Speakership place. However, the word we is that White took no sides when he pulled out of the race for Speak er. As for Graves, he was in line for position in the 1959 State Sen ate second only to that of Lieuten ant Governor, the presiding offi cer. From one of the outstanding leg alistic families of Northwestern North Carolina, Calvin Graves had made a lot of friends among leg islators and officials of State Gov ernment. He will be missed. If Archie Davis, chairman of the board of Wachovia Bank & Trust Co., comes to Raleigh to succeed Graves—and he has already an nounced he’s going to try to—it will follow a Forsyth pattern for the State Senate. Senators from there in the past 25 years have included Bob Hanes of Wachovia; Gordon Gray of Reynolds and Wa chovia, etc.; Irving Carlyle, attor ney for Wachovia. Senator Davis will be a closer cooperator with Governor Hodges than was Senator Graves, you can bet on that. At 47, he has had a let of experience and should make an excellent senator. NOTES ... If you had read about it a vear ago, you would have laughed, but now you won’t: experimental work is underway on an electronic device to resist or cancel the earth’s gravity—and a national magazine lists the Uni versity of North Carolina) presum ably State College unit) as one of a half-dozen outstanding schools in the nation working on the proj ect. . . until recently it was thought there was no way to cancel it out . . . this force . . . And our graneviue reports err that Navy people know that the Wilmington “earthquakes” were actually nuclear depth charges be ing tested by the Navy many miles off the coast of North Carolina . . . THE COASTLAND TIMES, MANTEO, N. C. ROANOKE ISLAND CLUB AND LODGE MEETINGS ■ MASONS: Manteo Lodge, Sec ond and Fourth Monday Evenings, in Manteo Town Hall. Wanchese Lodge, First and Third Thursdays, Wanchese Lodge Hall. EASTERN STAR, Second and Fourth Thursday evenings in Wan chese Lodge Hall. ODDFELLOWS, Each Tuesday evening in Manteo Town Hall. REBEKAHS. First and Third Monday evenings, Manteo Town Hall. MANTEO ROTARY, each Mon day evening, and MANTEO LIONS, First and Third Tuesday? in Community Building. WANCHESE RURITAN, third Fridays, Wanchese schoolhouse. DEGREE OF POCAHONTAS; Second and Fourth Fridays. 7:30 p.m., Wanchese Masonic Hall. AMERICAN LEGION, FL Ra leigh Post No. 26, 2nd Thursday, 7:30 p.m., Community Bldg., Man teo. ROANOKE ISLAND GARDEN CLUB meets at 2:30 in the after noon, first Thursday of each month, in the homes of members. MANTEO WOMAN’S CLUB, second Tuesday each month. Homes of members, 8 p.m. DARE CO. SHRINE CLUB, first Monday each month, 8:00 p.m., clubhouse, Nags Head. STUMPY POINT PERSONALS Mr. and Mrs. Frank Spitzer, Steve and Carol of Camden; Mrs. Rosser Nixon and son, Wade of Manteo visited here Sunday. Pat Twiford returned to Green ville Tuesday after visiting her parents, Mrs. Glenn Twiford and Mrs. _L. D. Hooper accompanied her to Greenville. Ralph O’Neal and son Wayne were in Elizabeth City Sunday. M. V. Hooper visited in Norfolk. Mrs. Fannie Meekins is home after an extended visit with her daughter in Elizabeth City, Mrs. Roy Hooper. Mrs. Glenn Twiford, Mrs. C. E. Payne and Mrs. Sam Nixon were in Manteo Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Midgett of Norfolk visited Mr. and Mrs. Les lie Wise over the week end. Mrs. Midgette was organist Sunday at the Methodist Church where the M.Y.F. has placed an electric or gan. Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Hooper visit °d their sons, McCoy and Ivey in Norfolk and Billy in South Mills. Mark Best, small son of Mr. and Mrs. Tal Best, returned Tuesday from Pungo District Hospital where he had been a patient sev eral days suffering from tonsilitis. Mrs. Francis Hooper spent Mon day and Tuesday in Pungo Disrtict Hospital for observation and X-ray. Elmer Dean Best of Detroit, is visiting his father, Guy Best. Mrs. Cora Twiford remains seriously ill at her home here. EAST LAKE PERSONALS Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Gallop, Mrs. Mollie Gallop, Mrs. Richard West, Mrs. John D. Royals and Mrs. Robert Baum of Norfolk; Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Shannon and Mr. and Mrs. Aldridge Shannon were here Sunday. Mrs. Sylvester Twiford and Henry Ambrose were in Durham Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Crees and daughter of Norfolk spent the week end here. Aubrey Basnight has returned after spending two weeks in Eliza beth City. OCRACOKE COUPLE OBSERVE 50H> WEDDING ANNIVERSARY Ocracoke.—Mr. and Mrs. Stacy W. Howard celebrated their 60th Wedding Anniversary on February 12th. Their three daughters, Mrs. Lois Ann Wahab, Mils. Etta Mae Garrish, and their children, and Miss Lela Howard, enjoyed an an niversary dinner with them and they received many gifts and mes sages of good wishes. Mrs. Blanche Jolliff of Buxton could not be here. Before her marriage in 1908, Mrs. Howard was Elizabeth Bal lanee. They were married in the old Methodist Episcopal Church by Rev. Ambrose Burgess, now de ceased. Mrs. Elsie Tolson was or ganist and played the wedding march. Her attendants were Mrs. Etta B. Scarborough, Miss Martha O’Neal, Mrs. Preston Garrish, Mrs. Meta Jackson, Mrs. Brittie Wil liams, all'living here at Ocracoke, and Mrs. Sue O’Neal, Mrs. Sophia Williams, and Miss Maude Fulcher, now deceased. His attendants were Capt. I. F. O’Neal, of Ocracoke, Lawrence Howard, a brother, now of Reading, Pa., and Harold How ard of Norfolk, Va., and Warren Scarborough, George W. Jackson, Arthur O’Neal, Ivy O’Neal, and Jacob Williams, all deceased. For many years Capt. Stacy Howard worked in ports in the North. Sometimes Mrs. Howard lived there, but for the most part she and the children stayed here at Ocracoke. In addi tion to the three daughters there was a son, Kenneth, deceased. The family has lived for a long time in a beautiful old island home on what is known as the “Village Street.” After Capt. Stacy return ed from the North, he did com mercial fishing and acted as guide for sportsmen, fishing and hunting, and he has done guiding for the past few years bringing in good catches in the “Blanche”. One catch made by Ernest Jordan of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, won a Field & Stream prize about two years ago. HOLD YOUR I §ll I Pan use a bion touch ok open L FLAME TO THAN FROZEN PIPES. USE p HOT NAT EH OH HOUSEHOLD ELECTRIC ts IRON-OH CALL A PLUMBER. 6 YEARS OLD Glenmore KENTUCKY E^'IISTRAIGHT ' BOURBOnHB6 PROOF - mm --i-' - -—’ Glcnmore «• ••• are v HWTUCKV STHAIOHT BOUWON V*I HKBT dMugtiificent &&wo>b JU RUNMOftC DItTIUMHI COMPANY GLEN MORE DISTILLERIES COMPANY. LOUISVILLE. KENTUCKY RODANTHE PERSONALS Mr. and Mrs. Levene W. Midgett, Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Midgett, Miss Mildred M. Midgett, Mr. and Mrs. Julian L. Gray, Mr. and Mrs. John E. Herbert, Sr., Mrs. Lurania Mid gett, Mrs. Fred O’Neal, Mrs. R. B. Payne and Mrs. Clarence Midgett Jr. attended funeral services of Mrs. Clara M. Gray in Manteo Sat urday. D. B. Midgette, Jr., U.S.C.G., is here with his mother. Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Midgett left Monday for Draper, Del. after visiting Mrs. Lillian Midgett and Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Payne. Mr. and Mrs. Fred O’Neal were in,Manteo Tuesday. Mrs. Elizabeth P. Gray is visit ing Mrs. Lurania Midgett. Herbert K. Midgett, Jr. visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert K. Midgett, Sr., after a trip to the South Pole. On Feb 7, 1800, the USS Essex, while en route to Batavia to escort a convoy of merchantmen to the United Sftates, became the first, American ship of war to cross the equator. SEABOARD FISH CO. Wholesale Commission Dealers in All Kinds of FISH SHRIMP CRABS CLAMS. ETC. ROCK FLOUNDERS A SPECIALTY Section V WHOLESALE FISH MARKET BALTIMORE 2. MD. Consignments Solicited Daily Returns PHONE LOMBARD 3-1812 Home Phone, Collingswood, N. J. 5-1292 Highest Market Prices PROMPT RETURNS FOR ALL NORTH CAROLINA SEAFOOD HUFF FISH CO. WHOLESALE DEALERS 14-15-16 DOCK ST. 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