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THE COASTLAND TIMES
Published Continuously at Manteo, N. C., Since July 4, 1935
Fhe Weekly Journal of the Walter Raleigh Coastland of North Carolina,
Foremost Region of Recreation and Sport, Healthful Living and
Historical Interest Cn The Atlantic Seaboard.
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VICTOR MEEKINS, Editor
CATHERINE D. MEEKINS Secretary-Treasurer
Vol. XVII Manteo, N. Friday, February 13, 1953 No. 33
AGRICULTURAL POWER.
Few realize how deeply the roots of agriculture are
embedded in our life. George Washington was acclaimed the
“first farmer of the land.” Thomas Jefferson devoted much
of his time to agricultural experiments, studying seeds, soils,
fertilization and crop rotation, and was among the first to
use contour plowing. That great early American statesman
Daniel Webster operated a model farm at Marshfield, Mas
sachusetts. Andrew Jacskon, seventh president of the U. S.
was a plantation owner and took great pride in the fact
that the reaping machine was invented during his adminis
tration. And Lincoln, as every school child knows, experi
enced in full measure hard work on the land. He signed the
Homestead Law of 1862, that gave thousands of American
families the chance to settle on public domain land.
With this background and our great industrial develop
ment it is small wonder that with only seven per cent of the
world’s people and six per cent of its land, America is able
to produce much more food per capita than other parts of
the world. American industrial devolpment has meant high
production per farm worker through the use of modern farm
equipment. In fact the history of farm mechanization is the
history of America’s brilliant victory over famine. If farm
ers everywhere could be blessed with the knowledge, the
freedom and the machines so typical of America, the hunger
and famine which have stalked mankind since time began
would be only a hazy memory.
Our forefathers who loved the soil were wiser than
they knew when they founded a system of government that
inspired in the breast of the individual the will to attempt
to achieve the impossible.
END THE DOUBLE TALK.
Since the people voted for fundamental changes in the
federal government, there should also be some changes in
the words and phrases used to discuss public issues. In an
excellent editorial on the subject the Saturday Evening Post
has pointed out that “Every public question is ticketed so
that the attitude of anybody who raises his voice about
anything can be written off immediately as ‘reactionary,’
‘progressive’ or ‘liberal’ . . . For example, why is it ‘reac
tionary’ to favor a free market, and ‘progressive’ to plump
for price control ? What is ‘liberal’ about a bureaucratic op
eration of the electric power companies, as opposed to the
‘Tory’ theory that private companies have done pretty well
in that field.”
It would be a healthy thing for the country if people
would take time to look beneath the labels of the “liberals”
who so blithely minimize achievements of private citizens
while always finding some excuse for extending the author
ity of government over our lives and afflicting us with ever
heavier taxation. As the Post so amptly asks, what is liberal
about price control, under which every merchant in the
country, big and little, lives with a constant threat of pen
alties—even jail—if he deviates from incomprehensible
rules drawn up by political appointees wholly inexperienced
in the business of retailing ? It is indeed a warped conception
of liberalism which can accept with equanimity such intru
sion of government into the basic rights of American citi
zens.
YOU CAN’T EAT TAXES, BUT—
You can’t eat taxes.
You can’t wear taxes.
But you must pay more for taxes than you do for food
and clothing combined!
In 1951, total federal, state and local taxes, direct and
hidden, came to $84,600,000,000. In the same year total food
and clothing purchases added upto $81,000,000,000.
We have reached the point where the tax burden is the
largest single item of expense to millions of American fam
ilies. Many of us haven’t yet realized this for the reason that
a substantial part of all taxes are paid indirectly—that is,
they are part of the price we pay for an automobile or a
loaf of bread or a pair of shoes or a ticket to a show. But
we pay the full bill just the same—whether the money is
handed over directly to some tax-collecting agency, or
whether it is concealed in the cost of goods and services.
It is generally believed that the danger point to a na
tion’s strength and vigor is reached when taxes account for
2, per cent of the national income. Our taxes have left that
figure far behind—about 33 per cent of the national income
goes for taxes. And no one should be foolish enough to still
believe that we can pay the tax bill by soaking the rich. If
we took 100 per cent of the incomes of the rich it would
pay the cost of government for only a few weeks out of
the year.
You—the average man and ‘woman —pay the tax bill.
You will be the gainers if and when the cost of government
is cut.
“DEAR MAMA MIA”
Every television addict is familiar with the weekly
show “Life with Luigi” starring J. Carroll Naish. In one epi
sode Luigi, the Italian immigrant lad who now runs an an
tique shop in his adopted country, reached the conclusion
that he should buy “a little piece of America” in the form
of a share of common stock. His description of the purchase
in a mythical letter to his mother is a gem of homely eco
nomics, telling in a few simple words about all there is to
tell of the principle of American corporate enterprise.
“Dear Mama Mia,” says Luigi, “I’m got twenty dol
lars free and clear, tax free. And I’m going to use this mon
ey to buy a little piece of America. I’m going to invest in
the stock market. In case you don’t know what means the
stock market . . . I’ll explains “It’s like you and everybody
in the village own the same chicken. You can’t eat it—you
just own it.
“Now if the chicken lays an egg, that’s a small divi
dend. If it lays six eggs, that’s a big dividend. If it don’t lay
any eggs at all, you better take a good look at the chicken
. . . maybe it’s a rooster.”
There are millions of “Luigies” in this country. They
count on the chicken continuing to lay eggs. If it doesn’t—
well, pretty soon there is no chicken. And that is the way it
is with industries that keep this country going. They either
earn some dividends for Luigi and his thrifty brethren who
have invested hard earned savings in them or pretty soon
there will be no production—and no sources of tax revenue.
This is why the soap boxers who decry profits and the
profit motive, whether they realize it or not, are calling for
an end to the entire American system of enterprise and rep
government.
FOR COURTESY
GO TO THE BARN
Go to the barn to find good man
ners,
It is the shortest way, these days
When men are all so busy living,
To learn the bronze and gentle
ways
Horses eat with a decorum,
They make no move of awkward
ness,
Their velvet muscles move like
music,
They eat their hay with a caresp.
There is no sound but has its
meaning,
And most of the barn sounds are
low,
Even the youngest, hungriest calf
Goes to his supper grave and slow.
Cows have a dignity, a deport
ment;
They make you sure, they wish
you well,
Watch their eyes grow large and
tender
When you come, and you can tell.
Quiet, quiet all around you,
Though hunger is here, every
where,
Tenderer than the hay’s fragrance,
Gentleness fills all the air.
I have been called a barn poet,
And I am proud to be,
For courtesy and gentle behavior
Have always been good poems
to me.
—ROBERT P. TRISTAM COFFIN
VALENTINE'S DAY
O, human love! thou spirit given,
On Earth, of all we hope in
Heaven!
—Poe
If the motives of human affec
tion are right, the affections are
enduring and achieving.
—Mary Baker Eddy
My bounty is as boundless as
the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give
to thee
The more I have, for both are
infinite.
—Shakespeare
I love thee, as the good love
heaven. —Longfellow.
If thou must love me, let it be
for nought
Except for love’s sake only.
—Elizabeth B. Browning
My heart shall o’ertake you
Wherever you are.
—Clinton Scollard
STUMPY POINT NEWS
Mrs. Edith Payne and daugh
ter Dail were in Durham last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Dvyight Hooper
and daughter Betty Jo of Norfolk
spent the week end with Mr. and
Mrs. R. D. Wise.
Mrs. Wilma Midgett and son
John Calvin returned to their home
Friday night after spending sever
al days in Norfolk.
Elbert Hooper and daughter,
Myrna Loy of Norfolk spent the
week end here.
Janice M. Butler of E.C.C. spent
the week end here with her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Meekins.
Mrs. Josie Hooper and children,
Stanley and Tony, have returned
home after spending several days
in Norfolk.
Mrs. Sarah Snow and Mrs. Dia
tha Swain of Elizabeth City spent
the week end with Mr. and Mrs.
George Payne.
Lonnie Hooper of Elizabeth
City spent the week end with his
mother, Mrs. Frances Hooper.
Major Hooper of E.C.C. spent
the week end with his mother,
Mrs. Florine Hooper.
Elizabeth Tolson and Boyd Jen
nette of Norfolk spent the week
end with Mr. and Mrs. Riley
Payne.
Mrs. U. G. Wise has returned
home after spending a few days
in Elizabeth City with her son, O.
L. Wise.
Mrs. Geo. M. Wise spent the
week end in Norfolk and was ac
companied home Monday by her
sister, Mrs. Bertie Wise, who will
spend a few days with her.
Mrs. Melba Hooper was in Man
teo on business Monday.
Billy Hooper of A.C.C. spent
the week end with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Hooper.
Mr. and Mrs. Simpson of Stokes
dale spent the week end here and
attended funeral services for Al
bert Best Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Payne and
children of Norfolk and Mr. and
Mrs. W. A. Best, Jr., were called
home last week by the illness and
death of W. A. Best.
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Best visited
her father, Mr. Credle, at his home
near Swan Quarter Sunday .
Roger Best of Edenton was call
ed home last Tuesday by the ill
ness and death of his grandfather,
W. A. Best.
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mits to install septic tank sewage
disposal systems. This will avoid
the inconvenience and expenses of
uncovering such systems for in
spection.
Permits may be secured from
the health department sanitarian
or the health department at Man
teo, Phone 91,
THE COASTLAND TIMES, MANTEO, N. C.
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AVON PERSONALS
Study Course Concluded
The Mary Circle of the Wo
man’s Society of Christian Serv
ice of Avon met at the home of
Mrs. Venice Williams Sunday
night for the final session of the
study course “Toward Understand
ing the Bible”. The session opened
with the group singing
Like a Shepherd Lead Us”; fol
lowed by presentation of the study
by Mrs. Enna Scarborough and
benediction by Mrs. Lucy Miller.
Personals
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Pritchard
and Reginald Meekins of Elizabeth
City and Moody' Meekins of Bal
timore are here visiting their par
ents.
Mrs. Kate Scarborough is spend
ing some time in Norfolk.
Mrs. Collins Gray and son, Col
ins, Jr., are in Portsmouth visit
ing Mrs. Gray’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Watson Gray.
Mrs. Daily Hooper and daugh
ter Imogene and Mrs. Isaac
Hooper of Elizabeth City have re
turned home after visiting Mr. and
Mrs. Ebbie Hooper.
Mrs. Charlie Gray and son, Char
lie, Jr., are visiting Mr. and Mrs.
Jarvis Gray in Nrfolk.
Dameron and Ottis Meekins of
Norfolk are here visiting their par
ents.
Sumner Scarborough of Norfolk
is spending some time with his
family here.
Rev. P. M. Porter attended the
district conference in Elizabeth
City.
Ben Price of Elizabeth City Air
Base spent the week end with his
family.
MANNS HARBOR NEWS
Mr., and Mrs. Marvin Rabon and
Mrs. Bessie Cahoon from Colum
bia spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. G. C. Gard.
Mr. and Mrs. George Midgett
and children spent the week end
with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Johnson.
Geraldine Johnson was here this
week end.
Mrs. Lula Burrus was in Man
teo Saturday.
Mrs. Nina Roe and son Richard
motored to Elizabeth City Satur
day. x
Rev .and Mrs. Enoch Nelson and
daughter Sheran from Wheatley,
Ontario, Canada, and Mr. and Mrs.
T. G. Griner from Norfolk spent
the week end with Mr. and Mrs.
Thelbert Tillett.
Mrs. Pearl Daniels, C. L. Mid
gett and Elroy Gard went to Nor
folk shopping this week.
Alvah Gard went to Elizabeth
City Thursday on business.
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Payne and
Shelby Twiford from Stumpy Point
were here visiting Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Twiford, Jr.,
and daughter, Donna, of Norfolk,
visited Mr. and Mrs. Preston Twi
ford and Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Twi
ford of Mashoes.
Mr. and Mrs. Ira Spenecr, Jr.,
and children of Norfolk were the
week end guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Ira Spencer.
Moncie Lee Daniels, 111, of N. C.
State College, Raleigh, spent the
week end here with his mother,
Mrs. A. L. Ward.
Bobbie Burrus spent Wednesday
in Raleigh at the limb clinic
where he was fitted for an artifi
cial leg. He was accompanied by
Jaccie Burrus and Thelbert Tillett.
Friends of Mrs. Huff Mann will
be interested to know that her con
dition is much improved. Mrs.
Mann has been very ill with the
influents.
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin White and
children of Norfolk visited here
last week end. They were accom
panied home Sunday by Jennings
Twiford.
IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE
1953 EASTER SEAL CHILD
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ROY EDWARD PINER, JR., of
Wilmington, who has been select
ed as North Carolina’s 1953 Eas
ter Seal Child. He will symbolize
all of the state’s crippled children
during the annual sale of Easter
Seals from March 5-April 5.
MANNS
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He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl
D. Mann of Manns Harbor.
His brother Carl J. liked Army
life, so Earl Ray Mann enlisted
August 3, 1951 and took training
at Lackland Air Force Base in San
Antonio, Texas. He was transfer
red to Fort Bragg for eight weeks
in the third army cook school, went
to Hamilton Field, Calif, and then
to Point Arena, Calif. He went
to baking school in Santa Maria,
Calif., and then volunteered for
overseas duty as a cook. His rating
is A-lc.
HUNT
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with national circulation.
Additional hunters and more
hounds are expected before the
hunt ends if weather becomes
more favorable. Most of the hunt
ers are stopping at motor courts
on the beach or at Catco Lodge,
Kitty Hawk. Social headquarters
for the hunt is the Carolinian’s
Pine Room which was opened
during the three-day event.
Among the Tuaregs, a tribe of
the Sahara Desert, upper-class
men go veiled day and night but
the women are not veiled.
Fowl Worth ss*a Pound
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Fowl at $5.33 a pound, eggs at 35 cents each. Those are prices Carl
Lowrance, of Joplin, Mo., gets from the 30,000 quail on his farm.
When Lowrance took up quail-raising two years ago, experts said
he couldn’t raise commercial-size flocks; brooder losses from disease
would run at least 20 per cent. They did until Lowrance cut this to 3.5
per cent by adding the wonder drug aureomycin to the chicks’ drinkingl
vyater. Now he finds it impossible to fill all s he gets.
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I COLINGTON PERSONALS
Mrs. Mary F. Haywood and
grandchildren, Lois and Cecil Mid
gett, of Corolla visited the form
er’s daughter, Mrs. Jep Gaimel,
over the week end. They were ac
companied home by Zelda Gaimel,
who will visit her grandmother.
When Eunice Midgette, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Barney Midgette,
had to be out of school Wednesday
because of influenza, that was the
first day she has missed being at
her desk since she started to
school. She is now in the fourth
grade. Carol and Eddie Midgette
also were ill and out of school.
Their mother took them to Jarvis
burg Tuesday to consult a doctor.
Mr. and Mrs. Durward Carraway
and children of Cherry Point visit
ed her mother, Mrs. Lewis Meekins,
over the week end. They were ac
companied home by their son, Jun
ior, who had been visiting his
grandmother. Pamela Carraway
remained for a longer visit.
Wilbur Rogers of Norfolk, Va.,
was here Monday and Tuesday. He
spent most of the time working on
the house he is building.
Mrs. Henry Haywood has re
turned from Norfolk, Va., where
she underwent treatment for a
nasal condition.
Mrs. Sarah Hill of Colington
spent a few days last week with
her granddaughter, Mrs. Ralph
Johnson, and her grandson, Byron
E. McPhee, at Nags Head.
Allen Beasley was a week end
visitor in Portsmouth, Va.
ROTARY QUARTET DELIGHTS
DISTRICT CONVENTION
The Manteo Rotary Quartet,
composed of Lawrence Swain,
Ralph Swain, John H. Long, and
Dick Jordan, drew round after
round of applause last Monday
night when they sang several nov
elty numbers at the district Ro
tary convention in Elizabeth City.
Dick Jordan, who directs the group,
doubled as accompanist and as
pinch-hitter for Julian Oneto, ten
or, who was ill.
Among Manteo Rotarians and
their Rotary Anne’s attending the
Monday night banquet were Mr.
and Mrs. E. E. Meekins, Mr. and
Mrs. W. R. Pearce, Mr. and Mrs.
R. D. Sawyer, Mr. and Mrs. John
H. Long, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Swain, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence
Swain, Dr. W. W. Johnston, C. S.
Meekins, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Mc-
Cown, Mr. and Mrs .Dick Jordan,
and Mr. and Mrs. D. V. Meekins.
IMPORTANT TO GIVE THE
RIGHT DRIVING SIGNALS
Raleigh, Feb. s.—The North
Carolina Motor Carriers Associa
tion launched its February Cour
tesy and Safety campaign today
with an appeal to motorists to
know and use proper signals for
turning and stopping.
Driving Signals, the campaign
title, is the February theme be
cause increased stopping distances
on slick surfaces and reduced vis
ibility make quick stops for an un
expected maneuver by another ve
hicle either impossible or very
dangerous, said M. Webster Hen
ry, NCMCA President.
“Give the other fellow a chance,”
he asked. “It’s hard enough to see
well in winter time without en
countering somebody who, never
lets you know what he is going to
do next. He swerves or stops wher
ever he happens to be, without
signalling or even moving into a
safe position.”
The truckling official explained
that on making turns, plenty of
time should be taken to move into
the lane nearest the right or left
direction of turn, and begin signal
ling well before the turn. Gradual
movement prevents collisions with
other vehicles.
“Turn signals may be given by
hand or by the use of approved
electrical or mechanical signals,”
he said. “Ample time should be
allowed for signalling. The profes
sional truck driver begins his sig
nalling well before the point of
maneuver,” he concluded.
ANGLERS,
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eously in Hatteras and Oregon in
lets and in the surf between Kitty
Hawk and Hatteras each year.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1953
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ALLIED
SARAH F. HALLIBURTON
SLIGHT ERROR
Your old beachcomber has
been at it again and having fun,
too, in spite of the tolerant
am usem en t her enthusiasm
evokes in more experienced
shell collectors. For instance,
what looked to the rank amateur
like the rare shell of some crea
ture, maybe a little turtle, turn
ed out to be the skull of a bird.
Oh, well, everybody gets a little
confused now and then.
LUCKY!
A second Florida cask shell, a
delicate, graceful spiral, was a
nice find, especially when an
old timer at shell collecting said
it was rare enough to be worthy
of anybody’s collection.
SCOTCH BONNET
Picked up at Hatteras is a
shell less than two inches long,
but thick and heavy. We are told
it is a Scotch Bonnet, though it
doesn’t look much like a bonnet
and is too generous with mater
ial to be Scotch. The shell, of the
spiral type, is a milky dark ivory
color, with thick ridges and a
heavy rim around the opening.
SEAT FOR BOATRIDE
Those small shells that provide
a little seat in one end and which
people call boat shells, slipper
shells, canoe shells and several
other names are even more fas
inating since Mrs. Nellie Myrtle
Pridgen showed me three attach
ed tightly to a broken conch. It
seems they fasten themselves to
such lodgings and take on the
shape of the surface they have
adopted. The creature appears to
live in the shelter of the little
shelf, with a sort of skin thrown
up over the shelf, which hold the
creature firmly in place.
BLOB
That was interesting, but the
live creature that uses a lady's
ear shell for its habitation was
disappointing. It’s just a big blob
of white substance that looks
like fat, but when it is pulled
out of the shell it retains the
shape of the coil in which it has
lived.
HINT TO COLLECTORS
v Incidentally, a kindly instruct
or said that real collectors don’t
wash, scrape and scour to re
move every tiny sign of the crea
ture which lived in the shell. For
some reason, they like that proof
that the shell was “alive” when
it was found.
FATAL
Even the dogs in Dare county
are politically minded, but not
many, fortunately, take elections
as hard as a dog which belonged
to Mrs. Mattie Richley in Kitty
Hawk. Os course, he was old and
hadn’t been well in a long time,
but the facts remains that when
the announcement came, election
night, that Eisenhower was run
ning far ahead, the dog lay down
and died.
SURPRISE
When Mr. and Mrs. Hunting
ton Cairns of Washington, D. C.,
came down to spend a few days
at their cottage in Southern
Shores, recently, they brought
their cat, Elpis, with them. Now
the original Elpis was the wife
of Boethius, who was a Christ
tian martyr. This Elpis, however,
surprised her humans and turned
out to be a tomcat, but still keeps
his feminine name.
WONDERING
The new administration, has
some new beach cottage opera
tors as confused as some of the
employees in Washington, D. C.
What with all this talk of reduc
ing federal payrolls, Washington
workers don’t know whose neck
will get the axe next and they
are a little hesitant about mak
ing vacation plans. At least that’s
the view of that cottage owner,
who wonders if all his Washing
ton, Arlington and Alexandria
customers will be back this sum
mer.
NEWS IN MANTEO
Among the Colored,
A musical program will be giv
en at Free Grace Disciple Church
Feb. 15, the third Sunday night at
7:30 p.m. Eleven soloist parts will
be sung. The public is cordially
invited.
Elwood Wise spent the week end
with his parent, Mrs. Edno Wise.
Frank Collins spent the week
edn with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Marshall Collins.
John H. Moore spent the week
end with hisparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Sam Moore. <■
The building club met at Mrs.
Ida M. Golden’s Monday night.
Rev. J. E. Gordon, pastor ofl
A.M.E. Zion Church, was in Man
teo 12 o’clock Sunday for the regu
lar morning worship.
Miss Mattie Simmons, Mrs.
Mary H. Whidbee, Mrs. Mary S,
Daniels, were guests of Chief and
\Mr». L. C. Gray Friday night. The
even in* Wttg g rea tly enjoyed.