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THE COASTLAND TIMES
Published Continuously st Manteo, M Gr, Aulv 4, 1935
Fhe Weekly Journal of the Walter Raleigh Coastland of North Carolina,
Foremost Region of Recreation and Sport, Healthful Living and
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CATHERINE D. MEEKINS Secretary-Treasurer
VoL XVII Manteo, N. C., Friday, April 18, 1952 No. 43
THE NEED FOR BRIDGES
The need for a bridge over Coatan Sound is growing
more acute every month. In fact there has been no period
during the past 18 years the bridge hasn’t been needed. The
inconvenience to which our people are subjected, the cost
to them because of a circumscribed commercial and indus
trial life, the loss to the state in development that would
have transpired, has already cost North Carolina several
times an investment in bridges over both Croatan Sound and
Alligator River.
Moreover, the State Highway Commission is pursuing
the stubborn and blind policy of spending enough each year
on the maintenance of an inadequate ferry system to more
than amortize the cost to North Carolina of construction
of the bridges. And it must be remembered that ten years
ago, the bridges might have been built for half today’s costs.
Where is the business sense of a body of men who will
persist in continuing a system of this kind? Where is the
moral sense of any group of men who will permit the con
tinued penalizing of a great part of North Carolina?
The need for both bridges, tftit particularly the need for
one bridge is so apparent, that we wonder what ails any
man who aspires for office, who hasn’t sufficient sense of
right and justice to stand up on his two feet and declare he
will at least do everything possible to at least bridge Croa
tan Sound?
IMPORTANCE OF WIDENING U. S. 264.
Too much cannot be said about the need for effort to
get U. S. 264 widened, particularly from Swan Quarter west,
where traffic grows heavier and dangers increase. On this
narrow road, built for the traffic of a quarter century ago,
serious and fatal wrecks are a week occurence and some
times more often. The loss of life, the personal injury,
the damage of property, because of the failure of the State
to recognize its duty it needless. There should be more
effort on the part of the citizens whose economic life is
bounded by the limitations of this road, and these include
in particular the people of Belhaven, Pantego, Washington
ana Swan Quarter. The continued present condition of this
road is costly in the extreme to these communities. It is
summed up by the observation of a filling station operator
on this road, who said of a recent wreck which resulted
in the loss of thousands of dollars, that the state of North
Carolina is alone to blame for the circumstances and should
pay for the damage. But part of the blame must fall upon
the people who need to raise a more vigorous outcry and
demand that the proper officials awaken and take action
to correct this danger. U. S. 264 should be widened and
straightened.
LET US HAVE SOME FESTIVALS TOO.
There comes to the editor’s desk elaborate publicity
about Virginia’s Shenandoah Apple Blossom festival at
Winchester May 1 and 2. There wil be quite a ceremony, a
queen will be crowned, and more than 100,000 persons are
expected to visit the beautiful valley.
Now that reminds us that here in the Walter Raleigh
Coastland of North Carolina are lots of opportunities for
festivals. In Kitty Hawk, Roanoke Island and Cape Hat
teras the dogwoods are spectacular enough to put on a
mighty big event. What would be more appropriate than a
Corn festival in Hyde County, the land of tall corn; or the
Tulip Festival in Beaufort County?
A little investment in the promotion of festivals would
mean a great deal in dollars and cents profits from the
tourist business. In the final analysis, the profit motive
prompts all these festivals. Why should we let other sec
tions have all of them?
WHAT MADE AMERICA STRONG?
All Americans agree that the United States is the
world’s strongest nation—and that our economic might is
the main bulwark of the Free World in the fight against
communist aggression.
Many Americans, however, have no clear idea of what
made America strong. Some accept the theory that we are
powerful merely because our land is rich in natural resourc
es. This belief obscures the fundamental truth that Ameri
cans built a strong, productive country because they were
free to utilize those resources under a private enterprise
system that was not hamstrung by bureaucratic restrictions
on energy and ambition.
For example, a tiny oil business, christened The Texas
Company, was launched half a century ago by a handful of
employes and 113 stockholders. If this young company had
been caught up in the governmental interference that har
asses all business today, would it now be a world-wide en
terprise with millions of customers, 40,000 employes and
more than 113,000 stockholders—or would the infant com
pany have strangled in its crib on a mass of red tape thrown
at it by the bureaucrats ?
The answer is obvious. Because Texaco’s founders, like
all American businessmen in the past, were free to spend
their time developing the business—instead of battling gov
ernment restrictions—they were able to transform rich na
tural resources into products that are vital to the nation in
both peace and war. Today, the Americ petroleum indus
try produces 51 per cent of the world’s oft—oil that helps
strengthen America but could not fuel a single car, battle
ship, or defense plant if men were not free to take it out of
the ground, and refine and market it.
All of us must learn that free enterprise made our
country strong and use this knowledge in the domestic
battle against creeping socialism. If we do not win this fight
at home, our resources, productivity, and strength will,
under encroaching bureaucracy, degenerate into stagna
tion and poverty here—and the Free World’s defenses
against tyranny and enslavement will be fatally weakened.
In the confusion, she murmered, “I know I had two
when I came in.”
“I shouldn’t be offering you wine, should I? You are the
head of the Temperance League, aren’t you ?” remarked the
hostess to her male guest.
“Oh, no. I am the head of the Anti-Vice League ?”
Well, I knew there was something I shouldn’t offer
you.”
BUXTON PERSONALS
S.F.C. Roy Fulcher, U. S. Army,
has returned to Ft. Benning, Ga.,
after spending Easter with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Ful
cher. They also had their son, Corp.
Walton Fulcher, of Indian Town,
Gay, Penn., home for a day.
Mr. and Mrs. John Whidbee of
Norfolk spent Easter with Mr. and
Mrs. N. F. Jennette. They were
accompanied home by Mrs. Muriel
Fulcher, who will receive treatment
at the Marine Hospital.
Mrs. Utah Jennette of Virginia
Beach and Mrs. Wallace Jennette
of Raleigh spent the week end
here.
Wallace Gray, Curtis Gray and
Ranny Jennette spent Easter with
their parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. P.
Gray and Mr. and Mrs. U. B. Jen
nette.
Mr. and Mrs. Urias Williams and
daughter Barbara of Morehead
City and Mr. and Mrs. Will Payne
of Coinjock, spent Easter with
Mrs. Santie Williams.
Mr. and Mrs. Thurston Gaskill
have returned to their home in
Ocracoke after spending the week
end with Mrs. Cora Lee Casey.
Loran Midgett has returned
home from the Marine Hospital in
Norfolk after ten days treatment.
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Austin
spent Easter in Dunn, N. C., with
their sister and brother-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. A. Sterling.
Mr .and Mrs. J. S. Turner have
returned home from their two
weeks vacation with their son, J.
S. Turner, Sr., and family in Balti
more.
Mrs. Pearl Midgett left Monday
with Roy Fulcher for Atlanta, Ga.,
to spend her vacation with her son,
Chesley Midgett.
Mrs. Belton Rallinson spent
Easter in Wilson with her hus
band.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Fulcher of
Wheleyville, Va., spent several
days here last week with Mrs. Fan
nie Fulcher.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Wahab of
Ocracoke spent Wednesday with
Mr .and Mrs. L. D. Midgett.
An Easter egg hunt was given
Friday on the school grounds by
parents and teachers for the grade
children. Games were played and
refreshments were served.
Mrs. Loretta O’Neal has return
ed home from Norfolk where she
visited her aunt, Mrs. Rosa Good
win.
C. P. Midgett, Loran Midgett,
and Mrs. Linda Midgett made a
trip to Norfolk to visit Edmond
Midgett in the Marine Hospital.
Mr .and Mrs. Preston Quidley
went to Norfolk Friday to visit his
brother John, who is a patient in
the Marine Hospital.
Leroy Abbott and his grand
mother left Monday for Norfolk
to visit relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Hooper and
son spent Easter in Raleigh with
Mr. and Mrs. Powers.
An Easter Sunrise Service was
held at the Assembly of God
church Sunday by the pastor, R, L.
Rayle, and a program at 11 o’clock
at the Methodist church.
Edmond Midgett, U. S. C.G., un
derwent an appendictomy Monday
night at the Cape Hatteras Health
Center and was taken by sea plane
to the Marine Hospital Thursday
for further treatment.
Mr .and Mrs. Joe Barnett and
granddaughter, Joan Wingate, Mr.
and Mrs. Randolph Barnett, Mr.
and Mrs. Tom Evans and children
and Walter Barnett of Norfolk
spent Easter here.
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airpilot friends will be asked to
fly to Manteo for the occasion. Al
so government officials with whom
he was identified in his work.
Mrs. Driskill, who made her
home in Phoebus, Va., after his
death, died several months ago.
His father, M. F. Driskill, lives in
Knoxville, Tenn.
MEETING
(Continued from Page One)
home economics department of
East Carolina College, was speak
er, her topic being Family Rela
tions. Music was rendered by club
choruses from Chown, Perquimans
and Pasquotank counties.
DUCK PERSONALS
Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Jordan, Mr.
and Mrs. Irving Coronet and son,
of Norfolk, were week end guests
of Mrs. Coronet’s and Mrs. Jor
dan’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. D.
Tate.
Ronnie Beals of Portlock spent
the Easter holidays with his
grandmother, Mrs. Carrie Beals.
Mrs. Flora Smith and daughters
Nancy and Judy, and Mrs. Alpeen
Scarborough, Bently King, Carrie
Whitson and son Elmo, were in
Manteo Thursday.
Mrs. Maggie Twiford spent the
week end with her daugher, Mrs.
Edward Rogers of Norfolk.
Mrs. Carrie Whitson, local Red
Cross representative for Duck, col
lected a total of $17.00.
Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Rogers visit
ed Mr. Roger’s sister, Mrs. Jen
nie Waterfield of Aydlett Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Beals and
children spent Friday with Mr.
Beals’ mother, Mrs. Carrie Beals.
Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Tillett and
daughter Ola, of Wanchese visited
Mrs. Tillett’s sister, Mrs. S. B.
Whitson and family Sunday.
THE COASTLAND TIMES, MANTEO, N. C.
Many Lives Being Saved by Cancer
Detection Centers in This State
By ROBERT W. MADRY
Many lives are being saved by
the cancer detection center pro
gram in North Carolina, but re
ports show that more universal use
of the clinics would result in a
drastic reduction of the annual
death toll from this dread disease.
Cancer strikes one person in five,
one in every two familiees. In 1950
there were 3,163 deaths from can
cer in North Carolina.
Although the clinics are playing
an increasingly important part in
reducing deaths, too many people
in this state are dying of cancer
unnecessarily.
Figures show consistently that
three to four per cent of all per
sons coming to detection and diag
nostic centers in the state are
found to have cancer.
Such is the report of Mrs.
George E. Marshall of Mount Airy,
State Commander and executive
vice-president of the North Caro
lina Division of the American
Cancer Society, which throughout
the month of April is conducting
its annual campaign for funds for
its three-point, program—direct
service, research, and professional
education.
More and more people are going
to the clinics at the time they sus
pect symptoms or even before.
Encouraging Report
In 1948, for instance, only 43.9
percent of the cases of cancer dis
covered at the New Hanover De
tection-Diagnostic Center, Wil
mington, were found to be early.
In 1949, the early cancers totalled
67 per cent; 1950, 76 per cent; by
1951, 89 per cent of the cancers
detected were in the early stage.
These facts are highly encourag
ing because in a high percentage
of cases early cancers can be ?ured
through surgery, ralium or X-ray,
Mrs. Marshall points out.
The Division of Cancer Con
trol, State Board of Health, re
ports that a total of 1,043 cancer
cases have been detected during
the four-year period of the clinic’s
operation, 1948-51.
Last year nearly 10,000 persons
were examined in the free detec
tion and diagnostic centers in the
State. A break-down by counties
of those attending shows that 99
out of 100 counties were represent
ed by from one to 639 persons.
County with the largest represen
tation was Buncombe, with 639;
followed by Guilford, 577; New
Hanover, 548; Nash, 477; Colum
bus, 499; Durham, 441; and Wake,
424.
Location of Clinics
Our nearest diagnostic center is
Rocky Mount. Our nearest detec
tion center, Elizabeth City, the
first Friday each month.
At the detection centers, usually
held in the morning, men over 40,
women over 35, and people believ
ed to possess suspicious symptoms,
are given a preliminary examina
tion of the five spots where can
cer is most frequently found; en
tire skin surface, breasts, oral
cavity, genital organs and rectum.
Preceding this examination by a
doctor, clerks and aides register
the patients and take complete
medical histories on them.
Any patient found to have a sus
picious lesion is referred to the
diagnostic center, held in the af
ternoon. Here a group of special
ists sees the person. If special ex
amination is indicated, or labora
tory tests seem advisable, the team
of specialists handles this. When
laboratory reports are in, the doc
tors confer and make their diag
nosis of the case.
Referred to Private Physician
No treatment is given. The
Diagnostic Center report is refer
red to the patient’s private physi
cian.
All the diagnostic centers are a
combination of detection and diag
nostic work. The detection centers
do only the preliminary or screen
ing. Thus a patient going through
the detection center at Elizabeth
City is referred back to his private
physician or he may go on to
Rocky Mount to the detection
diagnostic center for the final
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diagnosis.
The clinics are operated through
the Division of Cancer Control in
the State Board of Health. They
are manned by doctors of the coun
ty medical societies; receptionists,
aides, and so on, are volunteers of
the county units of the American
Cancer Society, North Carolina Di
vision. The educational program,
through which the public is ad
vised about the clinic opportuni
ties, is conducted by the Cancer
Society.
The first cancer clinic to open
was in New Hanover county, April
27, 1948.
The goal originally set for the
program was to establish at least
20 centers throughout the state—
-10 detection-diagnostic centers in
cities where specialists and facili
ties were available and 10. detection
centers in smaller communities.
The aim is to have the centers so
located that no citizen would have
to travel more than 50 miles for
examination.
Cancer centers are established
only on invitation of the local
county medical society. Lay citi
zens may express their desire for
a clinic to the medical society.
Staffs of the centers are all elect
ed by the local society. The local
clinic director must be a diplomate
of his speciality board. Local medi-
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aion of Cancer Control work out
plans for the local clinic.
What The Doctors Say
The cancer detection center pro
gram is, of course, endorsed by
the Medical Society of the State
and is backed up by the Cancer
Committee of the State Medical
Society.
The clinic program, however,
has not alway had easy going.
Whenever they have fully under
stood it, have had opportunity to
see it operate, or have worked in
it, individual doctors have been
convinced of its value.
Doctors who work in the clinics,
some of whom had to be “convert
ed” from their original negative
stand on them, are enthusiastic in
their endorsements.
Inasmuch as the patients re
ceive, through the, diagnostic cen
ters, the benefit of opinion from a
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group of specialists, a very high
type of expert service is rendered
the patients.
Many attending the clinics have
previously had no family doctor
and have not been receiving regu
lar physical check-ups. The clinics
help to educate these persons to
the need for selecting their own
doctor and going to him regularly.
Centers are open to all citizens
of all races in the cancer age brac
kets and others who might have
cancer symptoms. Many are en
couraged to come through educa
tional efforts of local societies or
through the recommendations of
doctors. Many local Cancer Society
units help to arrange transporta
tion for patients. Often clubs come
in a group for examination.
Some of the volunteer workers
in the clinics have been working
since the very beginning of the
program in 1948.