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THE COASTLAND TIMES
Published Continuously at' Manteo, N. C., Since July 4, 1935
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CATHERINE D. MEEKINS, Secretary-Treasurer
Vol. XXI Manteo, N. C M Friday, March 30, 1956 No. 39
MORE POWER TO HOME INDUSTRY.
A noteworthy addition and improvement to Manteo’s
commercial facilities is now being completed by the Roanoke
Laundry and Dry Cleaners, a long established business on
the main drag in town. This facility, added to the present
large plant, provides the area with equipment that easily
outranks anything found elsewhere in towns of similar size
in the state.
Doing all the work themselves, Lawrence Swain, and
his son-in-law Thomas Jordan have erected a substantial
brick building connected with the old plant. Mr. Jordan is
a skillful professional bricklayer and mechanic, and Mr.
Swain has more than ordinary skill with mechanical tools.
The two men have done all the work of erecting the build
ing, installed the intricate system of steam and electric con
ductors, and in this building have installed many units of
the most modern type of machinery for the cleaning, dyeing
and pressing of clothing. One doesn’t have to know too
much about machinery and building to estimate that this
achievement would cost the average person who has to de
pend on contractors, from $30,000 to $40,000. Undoubtedly
it cost these men who did their own work, much less money.
By the way, it may be mentioned that the former floor
space utilized by this growing concern will hereafter be
devoted to the laundry end of the business.
In the achievement of Mr. Swain and Mr. Jordan may
be found a lesson for those who may be willing to put in
about 18 hours a day over a long period of time in order to
create something worthwhile, with promise for the future.
It is only a trend of human nature to wish for things, and to
dream that sometime in the indefinite future we will do this
or that, if we get the money, or the time, or if things break
our way. But buckling down to the task of hard work for
long hours, in addition to njany other demands on one’s
time calls for something out of the ordinary. It is deserving
of public consideration whenever manifested. It indicates
that the owners have a great faith in the community, and
the growth that will support the larger enterprise they are
establishing. It deserves especial encouragement on the part
of all people who have pride in their community, in that
local interests have shown here the courage and vision to
do something at home for community upbuilding and ad
vancement: It is worthy of emulation in many other indus
tries.
Os course this instance is mentioned as an unusual ex
ample of what can be done at home, to point a lesson. It is
not the first time such achievements have been done. There
are many other advancements in our area accomplished
mostly by hard work, and riding to modest success on a
limited investment. And all such businesses, created by home
people here at home, deserve far more consideration than
businesses away from home. When we send our money and
our business away for services available here at home, we
commit an offense against the community. We block the
progress that builds for taxes at home to benefit us all. We
deny to our homefolks just so much opportunity for em
ployment. We remove the greatest possible sourpe of en
couragement needed by our homefolks to develop incentive
to invest and work for building up things here at home.
Whenever we can get to the point where we give
wholehearted support to home things here at home first;
whenever we can see that every dollar spent here at home
puts money in the pockets of many, whenever we can think
of the public interest first, and of self last, we do not need
to worry about investments to build up our locality. We do
not need to sit around and wish for outside investors to
come in and put up money to build business to give em
ployment to people who now go away from home to work.
There is sufficient money here at home to do all we need
to do. But we will never get "the full benefit of it until we
encourage our own folks to put their full faith, their hopes
and their labor into the enterprises sought. Faith in our
own community is the only essential we need to engender
vision and courage and determination in our own people.
Good luck to the larger enterprise which inspired our sub
ject. Long may it prosper.
SLADESVILLE PERSONALS
Mr. and Mrs. John Credle, Mer
vis Credle, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar
O’Neal visited Mr. and Mrs. S. 0.
Jones.
Mrs. A. R. Baum, Mrs| Beatrice
Earley of Norfolk were guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar O’Neal.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Credle of
Greenville visited Mr. and Mrs.
Gratz Credle.
Miss Kathryn Credle spent the
week end with parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Eugene Credle.
Preston Jones of Chocowinity
visited Miss Texes Sears this
week end.
Miss Louise Credle and Dot, of
Norfolk visited Mr. and Mrs. Har
vey Credle.
There will be a sunrise service
in Sladesville Epworth Methodist
Church Sunday morning, April 1,
at six o’clock.
Mr. and Mjjs. Joe Drake, Mr.
and Mrs. Ray Spencer and Glenn
were Washington visitors Satur
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Baum of
Swan Quarter visited Mrs. E. S'.
Fisher Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. E. S. Fisher returned home
Wednesday after visiting several
days in Washington.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred O’Neal and
Mildred of Pantego spent the week
end with parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Carlos Williams. They visited Mr.
and Mrs. Johnnie Cahoon at Lake
landing Sunday afternoon.
Miss Julia Ficher has returned
home from the hospital and is get
ting on nicely.
Mr. and Mrs. John Blake of
Norfolk visited Mrs. Dorcas Blake
and B. O. Jennette.
Victor Jennette and his friends
of Chocowinity visited the Asalea
festival at Wilmington.
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Blake of
Norfolk and U. S. Navy are visit
ing his mother, Mrs. Dorcas Blake.
Ralph Green was in Washington
Tuesday and Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Smith and
Douglas of Fort Eustis, Va., spent
the week end here with her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Sawyer.
Fenner Allen of Greenville was
here Saturday.
Statz Cullifer of Belhaven was
a business visitor here Saturday.
John Blake of Portsmouth visit
ed his family and mother, Mrs.
Dorcas Blake, this week end.
Sammy Cuthrell left Friday for
Wilson to enter the Sanatorium
for treatment.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Credle of
Greenville visited Mr. and Mrs.
Gratz Credle.
Ralph Green and Kenneth Gray
were in Washington and Pungo
Monday.
Mrs. Griff Gray, who spent the
week end with her son and family
returned to her home Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Wayne
Smithwick of Ponzer visited her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jay Cara
wan.
Robert Deal of the U. S. Army
visited Miss Leah Wayne Williams.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilber Williams
of Portsmouth spent the week end
here. Mrs. Dallas Williams, who
has been visiting them, returned
to her home.
Miss Leah Wayne Williams
spent the week end with her aunt,
Mrs. Fred Smithwick.
Mrs. Luther Spencer of Norfolk,
Mrs. Ruben Paul of Pike Road,
visited Mrs. W. H. Berry.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Howard of
Swan Quarter visited Mrs. Sophia
Warner Sunday.
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RED HERRING
i (U. S. Press Association)
The care-free British tour of
, jolly-boy Georgi Malenkov, the de
, posed successor to the mantle of
Stalin who is now in charge of
proletarian kilowatts, appears to
have gone sour. The high-voltage
1 smile has been turned off and his
' unaccountable gloom perceptibly
I thickened with the arrival in
[ England of the USSR’s chief killer,
, head of the secret police and suc
cessor to the lately done-in Lav
renti P. Beria.
While «the British received their
' latest visitor coldly, and without
the ceremony accorded the chubby
power-house pundit, it is under
standable that the latter may be
even more disturbed by the ma
-1 cabre presence. And, as of this
, writing, it is an open question
whether the official throat-slitter
is in not-so-merry England to pro
’ tect Comrade Malenkov (possibly
against any idea of seeking
asylum) or to arrange for the se
curity of Comrades Khrushchev
' and Bulganin on their forthcoming
* visit.
Whatever goes on with Britain’s
present guests fits in somehow
with the latest Soviet ferment, the
repudiation of the demi-god Stalin
by his former lieutenahts. This
latest Kremlin coup was planned
it would seem, to confound the
free nations with Russia’s qew
morality and to enable the Com
mies, pinkos and fellow-travellers
the world over to make common
cause with the socialists who, in
most countries, are slightly less
suspect. That this breath-taking
switch may backfire, is a good
possibility. That it can be consum
mated without some further purg
ing contradicts the Soviet pattern.
Certainly the challenge to “the
present surviving Communist hier
archy”, delivered in the Senate by
California’s Senator William F.
Knowland, has the endorsement of
all those whom these leaders would
impress:
“These men,” he said, “were the
partners in crime of Stalin in the
mass murders, slave labor camps,
and destruction of sovereign na
tions. They were accomplices in
the crimes. They share the loot.
“Now they want to cast off the
evil acts, but not the benefits de
rived. They want to get a cloak of
respectability before going to Lon
don and calling on the Queen.
“I would be more impressed if
the Kremlin would free the mil
lions in the slave labor camps of
Siberia; if they would agree to
restore independence to Latvia,
Lithuania and Estonia; if they
would agree to free elections in
Eastern Germany and would free
their hold on Czechoslovakia, Po
land, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria
and Albania.
“It is my belief that the Voice
of America, Radio Free Europe
and other agencies should chal
lenge the Kremlin’s rulers to per
form deeds repudiating acts of
Stalin, rather than use mere words
of repudiation. The dead can- not
be brought back to life, but the
enslaved can be freed. The sov
ereignties of captive nations can
be restored. This would be the acid
test as to whether there has been
a basic change in Soviet policy.”
There will never be a better time
to call this collossal bluff.
THE PRELIMINARIES
(U. S. Press Association)
We are being told that Senator
Kefauver has won primaries be
fore, and are assured by Governor
Stevenson that he has just begun
to fight. But the jolts sustained by
the Democratic party in these
early popularity contests are
shaking some more names out of'
THE COASTLAND TIMES, MANTEO, N. C.
the ’56 campaign hat.
There’s Senator Stuart Syming
ton, the Missourian who first held
the office of Secretary of the Air
Force, and who, it is generally
agreed would make a hard-hitting
campaign. There’s New Mexico’s
Senator Clinton P. Anderson, for
mer Secretary of Agriculture, re
garded as equally acceptable to
north and south. There’s Mic'-J
--gan’s Governor G. Mennen Wil
liams, the Walter Reuther front
man. And we suppose Governor
Averill Harriman is still around,
but he seems to have quit warm
ing up.
But, having mentioned these pos
sibilities, it should be remembered
that the Party’s strong man—
whose appeal is not only nation
wide but extends to a large seg
ment of Republicans as well—is
Governor Frank J. Lausche, of
Ohio. While he is presently con
tending with George Bender for
his seat in the Senate, there is no
reason to believe the Governor
wouldn’t prefer the swivel chair
in the White House.
UN SECRETARY-GENERAL
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD is off to
the Near East as the result of a
US resolution urging action in the
Israeli-Arab crisis by the Securitv
Council—rather than waiting until
September for the General Assem
bly to open up shop. Mr. Hammar
skjold is directed to report back
to the Council within a month on
compliance with the armistice
agreements “to assist the Council
in considering what further action
may be required.”
The report that President Eisen
hower will ask Congress for stand
by authority to use American mili
tary forces in the area fits with
the London report that Britain is
prepared for military action in 24
hours. Under our agreement with
Britain and France, the Congress
can hardly withhold its sanction.
But, if UN peace efforts fail, Con
gress should at least protect our
forces from further frustration un
der UN command.
ON THE BANKS,
LEGEND COMES EASY
(Charlotte Observer)
No one really has seen North
Carolina until he has seen Hat
teras, its turbulent cape, its tall
lighthouse and its native stock
living in picturesque and wind
burned isolation.
Nor has he really known North
Carolina until he has heard the
lore and legend of the Banks, tha*
fragile reef of sand that juts out
into the Atlantic to separate sound
from sea.
Here lives, in quaint villages, a
little tribe of fishermen, Coast
Guardsmen, weather observers and
(increasingly of late) the caterers
to the growing herds of tourists.
The sea dominates all. Its smell
and its sound are forever in the
air. It is at most times a comfort
and at all times a source of liveli
hood, but when the hurricanes and
the “nor’easters” roll, it is a men
ace, a menace, however, more re
spected than feared.
It is no strange thing that leg
end should pile up in a place
where, in the old days of sailing.
20 miles of shallow quicksand be
came known as the Atlantic’s
graveyard.
One such legend popped into the
news a few days ago. It was the
legend of “Old Quawk’s Day,” p
day that, in the tradition of the
islanders, means sudden squalls
and dangerous waters.
And, if you are a wise seafarer,
an extra helping of caution.
The Bankers were not surprised,
we are told, when the Weather
Bureau hoisted small craft warn
ings along the cape on such a day
last week. They had remembered
the 18th Century story of the
blasphemous sailor who cursed
MIDDLETOWN PERSONALS
Mrs. Preston Gibbs of Washing
ton is here.
Mrs. Dennis Selby, Mrs. R. B.
Burrud, Jr. and R. 8., 11l were
the Saturday dinner guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Hugh McKinney and Mr.
and Mrs. Edward Carawan.
Mrs. Lillie Cox is visiting in
Orlando, Fla. with Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Osbron.
Everett McKinney of Norfolk
visited his sister, Mrs. Ella Saw
yer.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Carawan
were the Sunday guests of Mr.
and Mrs'. Emmitt Carawan.
Mr. and Mrs. Flave Gibbs and
little daughter of Portsmouth vis
ited Mr. and Mrs. Palmer Swin
dell, the week end.
Hugh Gibbs, Mr. and Mrs.
George Cahoon and family of
Portsmouth, Va. visited Mrs. Ella
Gibbs and Mr. and Mrs. - Malcolm
Gibbs.
Miss Julia Cox visited Miss
Mattie Berry.
God on this day and then drowned
when a quick-rising storm over
took his fishing boat.
He was, as Hatteras tells it, a
ship-wrecked Caribe halfbreed
whose name was more than a
match for the local tongue. They
called him “Old Quawk,” for the
night heron of the marshes.
No one can say now whether
the story is fact or fancy Or a
mixture of the two.
The cosmopolities of the inland
cities are likely to say “hogwash”
to the salty tales of the Banks.
But those who have been there and
sampled the atmosphere are not
so sure.
Possible, they say. Highly pos
sible .
A LOOK BACKWARD
(Elizabeth City Independent-Star)
History is always interesting
. . . and sometimes it makes sad
reading.
Take, for instance, the history
of the individual income tax. In
1929, the tax on a $2,0Q0 income
was $2, and for a married person
with two children and a SIO,OOO
income it was a mere S4O.
Now the tax begins at 20 per
cent on the lowest taxable income
levels. From there it goes swiftly
up the ladder, reaching 91 per
cent at the top.
It’s no wonder that people still
talk, wistfully and nostalgically, of
the good old days. Who dares to
predict what taxes will be 25
years from now, with government
functions being expanded like the
proverbial green bay tree?
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NED'S 4HORLD
SWEDISH VISITOR—Vice-Ad
miral Stig H. Erickson, chief of
the Royal Navy of Sweden will
visit Norfolk in April on a two
day tour of Naval installations.
STEALS $85,000 —A lone bandit
robbed the International Bank at
Tampa, Fla. of $85,000 and got
away.
BILLIONS WASTED?—House
investigators have charged in a
report of some 400 pages that the
defense department has wasted bil
lions by shoddy buying practices
for the armed forces of the U. S.
BACK INTEGRATION—Ohio’s
Attorney General reports that
Communists are working in his
state to enlist youth in support
of a drive to force integragtion
in the south.
SCOUT HONORED Frank
Boyce, 13 year old son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. V. Boyce of Elizabeth
City has won the “Boy of the Year
Award” among 450,00 boy scouts,
and was thus honored for the sec
ond time in’ a year.
NEGRO DOCTORS—Negro doc
tors in Wilmington have filed suit
in Federal Court seeking their
“legal rights to have staff privil
eges at the James Walker Hos
pital.”
MONEY TO CHURCH—Mrs.
Lizzie Wall who died this month
in Lynchburg left the bulk of her
$428,000 estate to various Catholic
churches, hospitals, schools.
DEADLY FEMALES—Five 15-
year old girls were sentenced in
Akron, Ohio to one to 20 years in
prison for the slaying of the ma
tron of a detention home from
which they attempted to escape.
TEACHER RAISE SOUGHT—
North Carolina teachers in session
in Asheville voted to ask for a
pay raise, which specifies a mini
mum salary schedule of $3,000 to
$4,500 for teachers with Grade A
certificates.
ON THE GOVERNMENT—Four
per cent of the entire population
FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1956
of the U. S. is Government em
ployed, the Census bureau reports.
This number 2,278,000 Federal em
ployes; 1,250,000 employes of State
Governments and 3,252,000 local
government employes.
THREE POWER CONFER
ENCE President Eisenhower,
President Adolfo Cortines of Mexi
co apd Prime Minister St. Laurent
of Canada are enjoying a confer
ence this week in White Sulphur
Springs, Va., where their talks will
symbolize unity between the three
countries.
HOUSES BY GOSH!—A sub
committee of the House of Con
gress has proposed a measure
whereby the Government would
build 50,000 low-rent houses a year
for three years. It also recommends
10,000 low rent units a year for
three years for persons over 65
years of age.
PRIEST FREE—Rev. Harold
Rigney, the Catholic Priest who
was jailed for four • years by
Chinese ‘ communists is now back
home in Chicago. He got out of
jail six months ago, rested up and
flew to Rome to see the Pope.
“Pray for the Chinese,” he says.
PASSPORT FRAUD—Wonder
how many undesirable aliens get
into this country through fraud?
A House committee says there is
a vast passport racket by Hong
Kong brokers which causes illegal
entry of thousands of Chinese in
this country annually. They pay
SSOO down and another $2,500 on
arrival in the United States.
CAR STEALING CRAZE A
car-stealing craze has broken out
in South Norfolk in the past sev
eral months, the offenders mostly
juveniles. This week five youths
were picked up in Florida after
abandoning a stolen car. There
have been 17 car thefts involving
juveniles 12 to 18 years of age.
In South Norfolk too, the “Cat
Man” is still prowling around,
looting homes and keeping women
terrorized.
MORE EMPLOYMENT—A gain
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