VOLUME XVII NO. 24
TOURIST BUREAU
IN DARE MAKES
PLANS FOR 1953
Directors Meet in Manteo
Wednesday to Develop
$14,000 Budget
Directors of the Dare County
Tourist Bureau meeting here on
Wednesday discussed promotion
al plans which are expected to
bring record breaking throngs of
vacationists, sportsmen and vis
itors to the region during' the
~ coming year. Presided over by
Lawrence L. Swain, chairman, a
feature of the meeting was an
nouncement that only a few hun
dred dollars were needed to com
plete the $14,000 budget under
which the Bureau will operate
during its second year of opera
tion.
Treasurer W. H. McCown ex
plained that while the budget
had not yet been reached, that
several individuals and firms
which invested in the promotion
al program last year had not yet
been contacted and that it was
quite likely that the budget’s
goal would be reached before the
Spring meeting of the Bureau.
New Folder Planned
Bids for printing 75,000 new
Dare County folders were stud
ied by the directors and it was
decided that in view of the fact
that a Wilmington, N. C. firm
had agreed to do the job at a
lower cost than firms in New
Bern, Winston-Salem, Raleigh,
Chapel Hill, and Manteo, that the
Bureau Manager should complete
negotiations for the printing job
with the Wilmington Firm.
A proof drawing of the new
folder’s cover was displayed to
A the directors. Cover pictures se
lected for the new folder will
place emphasis on the Wright
Brothers National Monument at
Kill Devil Hills in recognition
of Golden Aniversary of Avia
tion year, far-famed Cape Hat
teras region which is becoming a
national tourist mecca since the
completion of the new Outer
Banks paved highway, sports
fishing and the beaches always
a major attraction, and The Lost
Cqlony at Fort Raleigh.
“Last year only 30,000 folders
were printed and we soon learn
ed that the demand was greater
than our supply. Even with an
additional 10,000 folders pur
chased by the Lost Colony, the
supply was not enough,” Chair
man Swain pointed out on be
half of the manager.
“This year the folders will be
printed and placed at strategic
locations on major highways
leading from Florida with the
thought in view of attracting
northbound tourists % from the
south,” said Tourist Bureau man
ager Aycock Brown, “And we al
so plan to have enough folders
to keep information booths and
bureaus in Washington, New
York and other major cities, as
well as the major highways’ in
formation headquarters in the
north, supplied with Dare Coun
ty information.’
Financial Status
The Directors agreed that the
See BUREAU, Page Eight
COAST GUARD NAMES
READINESS CHIEF
NORFOLK.—Capt. Hollis M.
Warner, USCG, has been“assigned
chief of the Readiness Section,
Fifth Coast Guard District, Rear
Adm. Russell E. Wood, USCG, dis
trict commander, announced.
K Captain Warner, who will have
offices in the New Post Office
Building, Norfolk, comes from the
Ninth Coasts Guard District of
fice, Cleveland, Ohio, where he was
chief of the Personnel Division.
A native of East Penfield, N.
Y., he entered the Coast Guard
Academy, New London, Conn., at
thasage of 19.,While there he wag
aptwr£»in basketball, football and
tennis.
Following graduation in 1932 as
an ensign, his first assignment
was aboard the Coast cutter Modoc
at Wilmington, N. C. He has also
served on the Great Lakes,, St.
Petersburg, Fla., and Portland,
Me., and then as executive officer
of the 327-foot cutter Taney at
Honolulu. He has held many other
posts of responsibility.
Command of the 255-foot cutter
Klamath was given Captain War
v ner in 1946. With Seattle her
home port, the cutter carried out
weather patrol duties in the pa
cific.
He remained aboard the Klamath
until 1948, when he was made chief
of the personnel Division at the
Ninth Disctrict office.
The captain and his wife, the
former Hannah J. Kendall of Lake
wood, Ohio, have a son, Michael
Kendall, 11. They will make their
home in Norfolk,
THE COASTLAND TIMES
PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA
COHOON CONTINUES AS
BRIDGE GROUP PRES’T
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FLOYD E. COHOON of Colum
bia was reelected president of
the Alligator-Croatan Bridge As
sociation at a meeting attended
by about 40 at River Forest Man
or, Belhaven on Friday last. A
joint committee with the South
ern Albemarle Association seeks
to get bridges built over the wa
ters above named. The group
ate a buffet luncheon prepared
by the hotel. Other officers re
elected were Mrs. Mae Carawan
Secretary; Julian Swain, Treas
urer; and County Vice Presi
dents as follows: Tyrrell: Har
ry P. Swain; Beaufort, Mrs.
Scott Topping; Martin, Herbert
L. Swain; Washington, R. F.
Lowry; Hyde, Russell Swindell;
Dare, Lawrence Swain. Jack
Booker of Plymouth, Publicity
Directors; Dr. W. T. Ralph of
Belhaven, liaison officer. Coun
ty Directors are: Tyrrell, Lewis
Combs and Charles Cahoon;
Washington, W. J. Wollard and
Bruce Bateman; Martin, John
Edwards and Hugh Horton;
Beaufort, John Winfield and A.
D. Swindell; Hyde, Leon Bal
lan.ce and P. D. Midgett; Dare
Clyde Biggs and T. Q, Suttop.
STATE’S SEAFOOD
CROPISVALUED
AT $16,000,000
Conservation Department Re
ports Gains In All
Branches of In
dustry
Raleigh.—The combined value
of fin fish and shellfish taken
from North Carolina waters dur
ing the two-year period ending
last June 30 has been placed at
more than $16,000,000, according
to a report received by George
IR. Ross, director of the State De
partment of Conservation and
Development.
C. D. Kirkpatrick of Morehead
City, State fisheries commission
er and head of the department’s
division of commercial fisheries,
submitted the report. He set the
valuation of all catches at $16,-
367*632.
The catch of food for the bi
ennium was 41, 715,000 pounds,
with a value of $4,020,150 to the
catchers Kirkpatrick said. Catch
es of spotted and gray trout and
flounders showed a decrease of
about 50 per cent from the pre-
I ceding biennium, but the take of
shad and pompano was about
double. He put the valuation of
the menhaden catch for the peri
od at $7,000,000.
Weather conditions during the
See SEAFOOD, Page Eight
CHRISTMAS, ’52
Hear our little Christmas verse:
Mankind doesn’t want the hearse.
Mankind wishes wars to cease,
Wants the whole world ruled by peace.
I
Hear the songs from Heaven above
That sing a whole wide world of love,
That sing a brotherhood of friends
That class and race and creed transcends
And over every clime ascends
Welding all the earth in one
Happy, tribe beneath the sun..
I
Hear our fated Christmas song:
Right inequity and wrong.
Build equal good for every man
According to the heavenly plan.
We can reach the happy frame
By loving man and self the same.
Hear our little Christmas verse..
In joy its bright refrain rehearse.
If ever you would Heaven find,
Under love unite mankind.
VERNON. WARD
"Breeiy Banks" ,
Ranaomvillt, N. C.
MAN HUNT ENDS
WITH CAPTURE
OF 3 CONVICTS
Caught Cooking Breakfast in
Beach Cottage in Dar©
County Sqnday
A man hunt for three escaped
convicts from Currituck County
prison camp at Maple, which
lasted several days came to an
end Monday when Highway pa
trolmen and other officers cap
tured the men while cooking
breakfast in one of the cottages
on Southern Shores, Dare Coun
ty. .
Melbert Rice of Asheville, Billy
Gene Tetterton of Martin Coun
ty, and Warren Haislip of Marion
Kansas were three who for eight
days led officers a merry chase.
Apparently they came to the
beach at the outset, for it was
soon reported that beach cottages
were being broken into. The of
ficers continued a search of the
cottages and found that more
than 50 had been entered.
B. U. Evans of Grandy, Super
intendent of the Camp, Lonnie
Dail, Leo Needham, and numer
ous patrolmen and county offi
cers of Currituck and Dare join
ed in the eight-day search.
The men apparently had little
trouble in finding good on the
beaches. Most cottage owners
leave their cottages equipped for
use the year around, and not a
few of them leave food in readi
ness for frequent week-end vis
its.
FORMER OFFICIAL OF
DARE COUNTY DIES
John A. Meekins of Rodanthe,
Retired Coasts Guardsman ;
Was County Commis
sioner 12 years
In the passing of John Alexan
der Meekins of Rodanthe, the out
er Banks lost one of its best known
citizens. The member of a promi
nent family of his section, Mr.
Meekins had retired houorahly aft
er 30 years service in the Coast
Guard. He had served in numerous
public capacities, his local school
board, and for 12 years he was
I a member of the Dare County
Board of Commissioners. He was
a man devoted to his family.
Since his retirement from the
Coast Guard some 15 years ago, he
devoted most of his time to public
affairs, and began to enjoy some
of the life that was denied him
while he was bound to the service.
He had made trips to New Eng
land, to the West Coast and to
Florida, and many other sections
of the country.
Mr. Meekins, was 76. He died
Saturday afternoon at 4:40 o’clock
at the family residence in Rodan
the, following an illness of three
months. He was the son of the
late, Luke and Emily Douglas
Meekins, a member of the Fair
Haven Methodist Church, Wan
chese Red Men; American Legion
Post at Manteo.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Emma D. Meekins of Rodanthe.
One daughter, Mrs. Rae M. Greg
ory of Rodanthe, one son, Lt. Alton
W. Meekins of Edgartown, Mass.
Three sisters, Mrs.' Mollie Midgett,
Mrs. Margaret Midgett and Mrs.
Viola Midgett all of Rodanthe,
Three brothers, Theodore S. Meek
ins of Manteo, J. Frank Meekins
and Ara E. Meekins both of Ro
danthe. Four grandchildren. -
Funeral servicqp were conduct
ed Monday afternoon at 2:30 o’-
clock in the Fair Haven Methodist
Church, Rev. P. M. Porter, pastor,
officiating. Burial followed in the
See OFFICIAL, Page Eight
MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1952
DISTINGUSHED EDUCAT’R
IS VISITING IN MANTEO
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DR. WILLIAM C. ETHERIDGE,
a distinguished son of Roanoke
Island who is head of the Agrono
my Department of the University
of Missouri, is in Manteo for a
few days visiting his brother, Ned
Etheridge, and his sister, Mrs. J.
D. O’Neal. With him are their
brother, H. N. Etheridge, Lt.
USCG Retired of Virginia Beach.
Dr. Etheridge, who is the son of
the late D. W. Etheridge of Man
teo, strangely enough, coming
from a land of fishermen, majored
in agriculture. After a season of
shad fishing at Duck Island, he
saved money to enter State Col
lege, Raleigh, and followed in a
career of agricultural research and
teaching that has made him nation
ally famous. He is the author of
many text books on agriculture
and agronomy. He was for several
years at Cornell University, New
York, before going to Columbia,
Missouri.
SCOTT’S SECOND
VISIT TO HYDE
IN TWO WEEKS
Speaking at Sladessvitle Fri
day; to Hunt With Stotes
bury at New Holland
Governor W. Kerr Scott’s
visit to Hyde County Thursday
to speak at the Road Celebration
at Sladesville was his second
visit in about two weeks. He is
planning some goose shooting as,
the guest of Bennett Stotesbury
of New Holland today.
Two weeks ago, he hunted
with County Judge Joe Simmons
at Fairfield. He was accompani
ed by Ben Roney, his Secretary
and Harry Wescoitt of the State
Utilities Commission. The day
before, he had spoken at Cur
rituck and had hunted with
Wescott and his brother G. T.
in Dare. ,
Yesterday he was introduced'
by County Representative Rus
ssell Swindell. The Ruritan Club
sponsored this celebration
which concluded with a bar
becue dinner, about six p. m.
The Plymouth High School band
will play. Highway Chairman'
Henry Jordan, and other high
way officials attended with Her
bert Bonner, Carl Goerch and
other notables.
MRS. EVANS CHAfRMAN
CRUSADE FOR FREEDOM
December 8-15 has been desig
nated as “Crusade for Freedom
Week” in North Carolina. The
state chairman of this campaign,
Dr. Gordon Gray, President of the
Greater University of Caro
lina, has appointed Mrs. Mary L.
Evans, Superintendent of Dare
County Schools, as chairman of the
Dare County campaign.
Besides the financing and pro
motion of the powerful radio pro
grams to people behind the Iron
Curtain, the Crusade for Freedom
has shown its effectiveness in
many other ways. Last year the
Crusade for Freedom launched the
faihous “Winds of Freedom” bal
loons which dropped millions sos
leaflets with messages of friend
ship on Poland and Czechoslovakia.
This year, millions of “Freedom
grams” will be sent to people be
hind the Iron Curtain. In the lan
guages of the people to whom the
“Freedom-grams” are dropped,
will be this message:
“Do you listen to Radio Free
Europe? I hope you do, for I am
one of millions of American citi
zens who has voluntarily contrib
uted' to build these stations, which
bring truth to you who are de
prived of it
In America millions regularly
pray for an understanding be
tween our peoples. Please add your
prayers to ours. Surely our com
mon faith in God is the place where
hope for freedom begins.”
The Dare County campaign got
underway on -Thursday of this
See CRUSADE, Page Eight
ROTARIANS HEAR
NEIGHBOR SPEAK
ABOUT OYSTERS
P. D. Midgett of Engelhard
Guest Speaker at Pantego
Tuesday Night
P. D. Midgett of Engelhard was
guest speaker Tuesday night be
fore the Rotary Club at Pantego.
Although from a neighboring dis
trict, he was introduced by Dr. W.
T. Ralph, program chairman, as a
man Rotarians everywhere should
welcome in the role of District
Governor.
Mr. Midgett was not appearing
in his capacity as a candidate for
the Governorship of the 289th Dis
trict, for which so many of his
friends are advocating him. He
came to talk about the oyster in
dustry and its importance to all
the people of this whole area. Mr.
Midgett served as chairman of a
special committee under Governor
Cherry which made a survey 1 of
all phases of the industry.
He outlined the progress of the
oyster industry in N. C. for the
past 50 years, from a time when
Maryland and Virginia buyers de
pleted our oyster grounds, and
thrilled local oystermen with a
new prosperity which no one
then believed was frittering a
way the birthright of our people.
He cited the gains that have
been made in the industry in
South Carolina during the past
ten years which resulted from
protective measures. '
Referring to*the report made by
the committee he headed, Mr. Mid
gett mentioned that some phases
of it had been enacted in the law
of the state, and observed there are
other things yet to be done before
the industry can be brought into
it 3 own. He paid tribute to fea
tures of the law which were insist
ed upon by Elijah Edwards of Bel
haven, who was a member of the
committee headed by Mr. Midgett.
-h ew_ talks made recently before
this club have excited more inter
est or inspired more questions,
since oystering is a vital industry
in the community of Belhaven, and
of Hyde County.
News of Columbia & Tyrrell Co.
For Subscriptions, see Mrs. Blanche W. Cohoon, or Call Her,
Phone 317-1, Columbia, N. C. She will welcome news of
Columbia and Tyrrell County
CHRISTMAS ACTIVITIES
UNDERWAY IN COLUMBIA
Columbia.—Strands o£ multi
colored lights and Spanish moss
have been stretched across the
business section of the town, the
shop windows hre beautifully dec
orated, to usher in the gala Christ
mas season.
Preparations and practice for
the Columbia High School basket
ball club is underway.
The High School Glee Club is
very busy these days preparing
for appearances in five programs:
The Columbia Christian Church at
11 o’clock, Dec. 14; the P.T.A. at
7:30 in the school auditorium Dec.
19; Chapel. Programs at School,
10:30 a.m. Dec. 19; and for the
Outdoor Christmas Pageant on
Sunday, Dec. 21 at 5:45 p.m. to be
held at the intersection of Main
and Broad Streets. The eighth
grade glee club will assist the
high school glee club in the outdoor
pageant.
The Beta- Club' of. the Columbia
School met at the School in the
Home Economics Dept. Tuesday,
Dec. 9 at 7:30. Miss Katie Swain
was elected secretary. The Presi
dent, James Henry Reynolds, an
nounced that the Beta Club Con
vention: would meet in Asheville
next Spring, that funds were
needed to meet expenses to the
convention, and would like ideas
to raise the necessary money. The
plans adopted were: a basketball
game between the Beta Club vs.
the town team. Other plans dis
cussed were a Valentine party, box
picnic dinner, and a basketball
game with the teachers of Colum
bia High School. The hostess, Miss
Gay Spencer, served ice cream and
cake. The next meeting Will be
Jan. 14 at 7:30 p.m. at the home
of Miss Peggy Griffin.
DISCUSSION GROUP MEETS
Columbia.—The American Her
itage Discussion Group met Thurs
day in the Tyrrell County Library
Building, with 20 members pres
ent. Two new members were add
ed to the list, Mrs. Julian H. Swain
and Mrs. W. V. Reynolds. The dis
cussions are'entered in with much
enthusiasm, and much is being
learned through the exchange of
ideas about the book “This Amer
ican People” by Gerald W. John
son, which is the guide literature
now being üßed.
EXCITING AIRCRAFT FLIGHTS
TO THRILL SPECTATORS AT
KILL DEVIL HILLS DEC. 17
Sonic Boom to Highlight Wright Brothers Ob
servance; Barbecued Chicken to Feature
Luncheon at First Colony Inn
HARRY MOORE TO VISIT
DARE NEXT WEEK
Norfolk Reporter who “Scooped”
World on First Flight ; Will
Attend celebration
December 17
Kill Devil Hills.—The man who
“scooped” the world on the story
of the Wright Brothers’ first flight
December 17, 1903, will be a guest
of honor at the 49th anniversary
■of aviation’s birth here, on Wed
nesday, December 17, it was an
nounced today by Miles L. Clark,
chairman of Kill Devil Hills Mem
orial Society, sponsors of the an
nual flight celebrations.
Harry Moore, a 21-year-old re
porter for the Virginian Pidot in
1903 was the first newspaperman
to learn of the Wrights’ flights,
but he found few newspapers will
ling to print his unbelievable
“scoop.” An exception was his
hometown newspaper in Norfolk
which gave the story a streamer
across the top of Page 1.
Until this day, Harry Moore has
not given many details about how
he learned of the famous brothers’’
successful flight in their plane,
which took off for four flights on
a brisk December day 49 years
ago—flights which lasted from 12
to 59 seconds.
On December 3, 1928, the As
sociated Press, reporting an in
terview Moore had with Orville
Wright carried the following ex
cerpts:
“Moore talked- with Orville
Wright when he arrived in Norfolk
late last night and obtained the
details which were lacking in the
story of reporting the first'flight.
See MOORE, Page Eight
CIVIL CASES BEING
TRIED IN TYRRELL
Columbia. A special term of
Superior Court for civil action is
being held in Tyrrell County this
week, presided over by Judge W.
H. S. Burgwyn.
The Civil cases on the court cal
endar are: Lem Ainsley vs. K. T.
Davenport; S. M. Combs et als.
vs. Albemarle Lumber Co.; Oressa
Hill vs. William Hill; Mary Hill
vs. Roger Hill; Monzora Lewis
Hardy vs. Herman Hardy; C. C.
Duvall vs. Albemarle Lumber Co.,
C. C. Duvall et als. vs. Albemarle
Lumber Co.; J. T. Ambrose vs.
Albemarle Lumber Co. .
TYRRELL MEN INDUCTED
Columbia. —The following men
left Tyrrell County for induction
last week: Thomas Julian Spencer,
Woodrow Roosevelt Wilson, Ar
thur Etheridge Phelps, Franklin
D. Smith, Judson Douglas Bowser,
Colored, Albert Williams, Jr., col
ored, according to Mrs. Mittie Lee
Hamilton, secretary to the Tyrrell
County Selective Service Board.
She also stated there would be no
calls in January.
“LITTLE WOMEN” PRESENTED
BY COLUMBIA JUNIORS
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Columbia. The Play “Little
Women” taken from the book by
Louisa May Alcott, was presented
Friday night, Dec. 5 in the Colum
bia High School auditorium by the
Junior Class, with Miss Stella Mat
thews directing.
Characters were: Miss Flo Dav
enport as “Joe,” Clair E. Morris,
Jr., as “Laurie”, Peggy Griffin as
“Marmie”, Barbara Ann Davis as
“Meg”, Gay Spencer as “Amy”,
Mary Meekins as “Beth”, Marie
Spencer as ,F Aunt March”, Jack
Combs as “Mr. Brooks”, Roger
Armstrong as “Mr. Lawrence”, J.
Henry Reynolds as “Prof. Bhaer”
and Vadfs Brickhouse as “Hannah
the maid.
MARY MEEKINS OF COLUMBIA
WINS SPEAKING CONTEST
Columbia. The Contest “I
Speak for Democracy”, which is
being sponsored by the Jaycees,
was won in Tyrrell by Miss Mary
Meekins, of Columbia High School,
with Miss Manie Alice Sykes of
Tyrrell Training School winning
second place. A recording has been
made of these winning speeches
See COLUMBIA, Pfcge Eight-
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By AYCOCK BROWN
A sensational triple “sonic
boom” by three U. S. Air Force
F-86 Sabre Jets will dramatize 49
years of aviation progress on t
Wednesday, December 17, at the
annual observance of the
Wright Brothers first flight
of the Wright Brothers first flight
at Kill Devil Hills, near Kitty
Hawk ,it was announced yester
day by Miles L. Clark, chairman
of the board of directors of Kill
Devil Hills Memorial Society.
The observance is being spon
sored jointly by the Air Force As
sociation and the Society in tribute
to the world-famous brothers and
their contribution to aviation. Cer
emonies will begin at the base of
Wright Brothers National Monu
ment atop Kill Devil Hills at 10:30
o’clock and conclude with a lunch
eon, limited to 150 persons in the
dining room of First Colony Inn
on Nags Head, where one of the
previous December 17th luncheans
was presented several years ago.
Melvin R. Daniels, chairman of
the Luncheon committee, stated to
day that arrangements had been
made to have a hot barbecued
chicken plate luncheon. He praised
Capt. and Mrs .Cornelius P. Mid
gett, owners of the popular Nags
Head hostelry, for their interest
and cooperation in allowing the use
of their dining room for the lunch
eon when only a few days ago it
seemed improbable that arrange
ments could be made elsewhere and
thus keep within the luncheon bud
get. Daniels urged all persons hav
ing luncheon reservation tickets
and others planning to attend to
make arrangements immediately
with Treasurer C. S. Meekins for
their tickets which cost $2.50 each.
A. W. Drinkwater will head recep
tion committee at the luncheon.
Great Aerial Display i
The “sonic boom” is an atmos
pheric phenomenon which occurs'
when a plane reaches the speed of
sound, and gets its name from the
two deafening reports heard when
the plane passes the speed of
sound and when it drops below it.
The three F-86’s will dive at the
Wright Memorial Monument atop
Kill Devil Hill from 40,000 feet
and crash through the sonic bar
rier at around 20,000 feet. The
point at which the “bombss” can
be heard on the ground is control
led by the pilot aiming the plane
with his gun sight.
The day-long observance will be
gin at 10:30 a. m. with a memorial
ceremony at the monument.'
Wreaths will be placed in memory
of the two fliers while 13 planes
fly a “lost buddy” formation over
head. One of the wreaths be
flown from Dayton, Ohio, birth
place of the fliers. A letter from
the Mayor of Dayton will accom
pany the wreath.
More than 40 Air Force, Army,
and Coast Guard planes will parti
cipate in the aerial demonstration
depicting progress made in avi
ation development. Many of the
types of planes now fighting in
Korea will take part in the dem
onstration.
Miles L. Clark, Board Chairman
of the Society, and Arthur F. Kel
ly, President of the Association,
will head a group of distinguished
aviation leaders and pioneers who
will assemble at the monument to
pay their respects to the Wright
Brothers. Kelly will read a procla
mation by James H. Doolittle,
See FLIGHTS, Page Eight
CAROLINA MAN HEADS
FOREST INDUSTRIES
WASHINGTON, D. C. (Special)
—A North Carolina man, William
S. Edmunds, of Lake Waccamaw,
has been named to head the indus
try division of American Forest
Products Industries, Inc. Mr. Ed
munds’ appointment was announc
i ed early this month by AFPI’s
: managing director, C. A. Gillett.
Prior to joining American For
• est Products Industries for a spec
ial field assignment in South Car
i olina last January, Mr. Edmunds
served as executive director of the
North Carolina Forestry Associa
■ tion for a period of four years. In
that capacity he organized and
served as director of the industry-
I encouraged Keep North Carolina
i Green campaign in forest fire pre
, vention education. He also admin
r istered the Tree Farm programs
. in that state,
f Mr. Edmunds has had wide ex
( perience in forestry and public re
» lations fields and during World
9 War It served as a captain in ther
U. S. Air Force.