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PAGE TWO GLIMPSES OF THE PAST By CAROLYN LLOYD In spite of all the talk about what an easy life the modern woman leads, she has a pretty hard time. She may escape some of the physical strain that was grand ma’s lot, but the mental strain is terrific. Just about the time today’s woman gets her mind made up about something, along comes some high pressure salesman try ing to change it. Changing her mind has long been considered a woman’s privilege, but when it has to be done too often, it can be very wearing on the nerves. It’s all very confusing. Every medium of communication joins in telling Miss or Mrs. 1956 that she must remain youthful and glamorous at all costs. She must be slender, her hair and teeth must gleam, her complexion glow, and her hands be as soft as a baby’s to get a hus band, keep a husband, or succeed as a career girl. There just dosen’t seem to be any place in the mod ern world for a gal who would like to relax and be her natural, sloppy self. Consequently, a girl goes out and buys herself a supply of highly-touted cosmetics and watches her diet. Then what ? Some beautiful creature appears on the t.v. screen and tells her that she is using the wrong things —only “ ” can do the job. Or a girl starts on the latest diet recommended by a magazine as be ing the safest and surest way to a chorus girl figure. Several weeks later she reads a warning that the diet can result in serious dam age to the system. Just one example: recently, as I sat reading, the voice of one of t.v.’s top glamor girls penetrated I to my mind with the statement | that a certain make-up base would make one’s skin “glow with loveli ness.’’ “Ah,” I thought, “I’d better listen to the trade name I, too, would like to glow with loveli ness." It turned out to be some thing I had been using for the past three years. How come, I wonder, that I haven’t been “glow ing”. It’s enough to destroy one’s faith in human nature. 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Meekins, who were married Octo ber 21 in Florence, Ala., were guests of honor Thursday evening, October 25, at a reception given by the bridegroom’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. V. Meekins, at their home near Manteo. A color scheme of pink and green was carried out in the din ing room. The table was centered with an arrangement of pink san sanquas and fern; and pink and white cakes, salted nuts and mints were served. Mrs. Aycock Brown presided at the punch bowl and Mrs. A. Q. Bell at the guest reg ister. Others assisting in enter taining were Mrs. Wayland Fry and Mrs. W. S. Meekins. Approximately 50 people called during the evening. metics and they were much the same. Face powder was either white or a violent shade of pink, and rouge was just plain red, and that was all there was to it In my mind’s eye I can see on my mother’s dresser an oval shaped powder box, lavender in color, fill ed with white powder and bearing the trade name, “Azurea". It was “The" face powder of the day. An other small box contained very red rouge, and that completed her make-up supplies. Both items served amply for a small girl to make up her face with and mess up the dresser and floor when her mother was out. Perhaps women didn’t look as sleek and well-kept in those days; on the other hand, they might not have had as many wrinkles to cover up. It’s difficult to keep an unfurrowed brow when every day you have to make such momentous decisions as to what beauty aids are right for you, or what tooth paste will both prevent decay and make you kissable. It is terrible to know that you might miss the great love of your life or lose an important job just because you chose a hand lotion that left your hands rough and red. Modern women deserve sympathy and understanding—and a rest from commercials. A parting thought—Today at the N.C.E.A. meeting in Greenville the president asked all who had taught for fifty years or more to stand. One, a man, stood. The president should have known bet ter than that; what woman was going to advertise to an auditor ium full of people that she had taught fifty years. AGED FISHERMAN IN SWANSBORO IS ACTIVE ALTHO 75 Howard Lewis is Farmer Too; Grows Watermelons and is Teller of Tales By WADE LUCAS Swansboro. The commercial fishermen with whom he pulls a strong tug on a gill net, or who can mend a net with the best in the business, do not regard him as a man who is 75 years of age. The man in question is Howard Lewis and he does not look too kindly upon those who say too loudly that he is “an old man.” As years go, though, Howard Lewis is getting along, but to watch him work as a commercial fisherman in efforts being made to catch the elusive mullet, spots, bluefish, and mackerel in the At lantic Ocean one would never, never think this big man has hit the 75 mark in age. Lewis lived some ten miles or so north of here on the banks of Bogue Sound. He is a combina tion fisherman and watermelon grower. He also grows some corn and potatoes. But for more than 50 years he has been a commercial fisherman and it is his treat love. That is what he told Hubert P. Williams, a Raleigh developer, and this writer when they became acquaint ed with Lewis as he worked with other commercial fishermen on Atlantic Beach. “Commercial fishing sure has changed in the more than 50 years I have tinkered around with it,” Lewis said. “We just don’t catch as many fish as we used to and the reason is that there are just too derned many people fishing.” No Pessimist Howard Lewis, though, is no pessimist. In fact, one might well call him an optimist despite the fact he, like other commercial fishermen, is inclined to grumble when the mullet, spots and other fish elude the net set for them. “I’m not complaining too much,” Lewis added. “The Lord has been good to me. He has helped me get along. My health is pretty good and I can still work with the rest.” And he can, too. Hubert Wil liams marveled time and again as he watched Lewis wade out into the Atlantic Ocean and pull just as strongly and as steadily as fish ermen 25 and 30 years his junior. “A most remarkable man,” Wil liams said. Like many other commercial fishermen—and there are some 25,000 or more of them and their families living along the North Carolina coast who depend wholly or in part on commercial fishing for their livelihood—Lewis is anxious to see plans developed for processing and packaging more of the State’s seafood products. He says he likes ■what the De partment of Conservation and De velopment is trying to do in get ting some person or persons to set up a central processing plant to process and package seafood products so they can be spread out over a period of months in stead of having to be sold mostly on what is known as “the daily fresh market." Lewis believes there is a future in smoked mullets. He and Wil liams talked over this and agreed that such a business is practical. Others are of like mind, too. Teller of Tales The tales that Lewis can and will tell about commercial' fishing along North Carolina’s extensive coast line are legion. Just get him started. He is hard to stop. Lewis is a member of a crew of commercial fishermen. Most of them fish commercially during the fishing season. In other months they farm and do whatever work they can get. Commercial fishermen, Lewis says, know they are in what he calls “an up and down—mostly down—kind of- business.” Ke means there are days when no fish to amount to anything are eaught He is currently a member of a crew working for Gordon C. Willis, a Morehead City fish dealer. Prices Fluctuate Willis, like other dealers, pays the best prices he can. But it is a matter of simple economics that, with limited storage facilities, large catches of mullets, spots, and other fish result in price drops. Like, for example, the other day when a crew hauled in some 40,- 000 pounds of mullet and spots in a single haul. However, up at Atlantic, east ern terminus of transcontinental Highway 70, Clayton Fulcher, a fish dealer, is seeking to do some thing about providing more stoi age for handling of huge catches of fish. Fulcher, one of the go-getters in efforts being made to bolster the State's commercial fishing in dustry, is now building a cold storage plant capable of storing up to 750,000 pounds of fish or other seafood taken from North Carolina waters, as of now having to be disposed of rather fast be cause <rf the lack of cold storage facilities. THE COASTLAND TIMES, MANTEO, N. C. the suapshot guid What more could one want in a picture for the family album. “A boy and his dog”—how many times have you read this phrase or seen it pictured in books and magazines? The idea behind it is so universally appealing that it has been used in advertising cam paigns for products as diversified as life insurance and linoleum. In our every-day picture taking, too, children and pets are among the most popular subjects there are. Someone recently pointed out that more cameras are aimed at kids, canines and cats in one day than at the Grand Canyon in a whole year. It’s interesting to note that both youngsters and their favorite ani mals actually have a great deal in common as subjects. Both of them —whether pictured together or separately—provide plenty of ac tion, can be alternately angelic and aggravating, demand consid erable patience on the part of the snapshooter, and view the world from a much lower eye-level than we adults do. It is by capitalizing on these special characteristics that the picture-taker can succeed in get- NEW STORAGE PLANT FOR FISH AT ATLANTIC WITH 750,000 LB. CAPACITY Atlantic, N. C., —Clayton Ful cher of Atlantic, one of the largest seafood dealers on the North Carolina coast, is seeking to rem edy to some extent “the daily fresh market” situation which has plagued the commercial fishing business in this State for so long a time. Here at Atlantic, near the east ern terminus of transcontinental Highway 70 and familiarly known to many as “the jumping off place” on North Carolina’s coast, Fulcher is constructing a cold storage facility that will have a capacity of storing and freezing up ’to 750,000 pounds of seafood. Fulcher, who ships seafood products throughout this and sev eral other states, hopes his cold storage facility will enable him to spread out seasonal catches of seafood over a much longer period and thus enable him to supply the market at times when fish, shrimp, oysters, clams, and other seafood are in short supply. Ce.-il Morris of Atlantic, chair man of the commercial fisheries committee of the State Board of Conservation and Development, is giving Fulcher every encourage ment in the latter’s efforts to keep as much seafood off the market at one time as possible and thus make in a real sense a better economic situation for the dealers as well as the commercial fisher men. In this connection, Governor Hodges has said on numerous occasions that the commercial fishing industry can be helped materially by better processing and attractive packaging of sea food products taken from State waters. ENGELHARD PERSONALS Mr .and Mrs. Ernest Lee and daughter Jeanette of Merry Hill spent the week end with friends here. George Burrus of New Jersey is here. Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Spencer and children, R. S. and Mary Lee were in Norfolk Friday. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Etheridge spent Monday at Nags Head. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Gibbs were Washington visitors the past week. Mr. and Mrs. Royden Neal spent Tuesday in Belhaven. Miss Alice Fay Etheridge of E.C.C., Greenville, spent the week end with her parents. Carroll Hodges, Sherwood Selby and Royden Neal attended a din ner meeting in Elizabeth City giv en by the McPherson Co. last week. Max Hodges, Jr. of E.C.C., Greenville, spent the week end at home. Mrs. Rebecca Spotanski; Miss Mary Ann Marshall and R.- S. Spencer, Jr. attended a meeting in Chapel Hill on Sunday. * A Boy and His Dog ting really superior snapshots. Shooting kids and their pets is by no means “kid stuff”—but the re sults are rewarding and make whatever efforts involved thor oughly worth the little extra time it takes to achieve just the effect you want. In many cases, some perfect shots of children and pets we’ve seen wouldn’t have been possible at all unless the picture-taker had come down to their level. Inhibi tion thrown to the winds—and armed with a few appropriate props like lollipops, balls and bis cuits—the snapshooter should be prepared to caper about, laugh and play with his young subjects. Lively is the word for any child and his pet. So your camera must be ready to catch them “in action” —at precisely the moment when the small youngster and kitten together discover the pleasant warmth of an electric blanket, or the tiny pup takes to gnawing on the child’s bunny-eared slipper. To tell your story, don’t rely on one shot only—make a series of them. —John Van Guilder CAROLINA MUSEUM TO SHOW REMBRANDT EXHIBIT North Carolina’s recently opened Museum of Art at Raleigh will add new glitter to its $2,000,000 state-owned collection of Old Mas ters by observing the 350th anniversary of Rembrandt’s birth with an exhibit entitled “Rem brandt and his Pupils”. The Rembrandt exhibit, con sisting of some 20 paintings by the great Dutch master and 40 others by his teachers and pupils, will open November 16 and remain on display through December 31. It will occupy the third floor of the Museum building near Capitol Square, and be hung in galleries destined to hold a $1,000,000 Kress gift collection later on. North Carolina’s special Rem brandt exhibit, valued at over two and one-half million dollars, will be the fourth exhibit of its type assembled in the United States during the past 25 years. Like two of the previous exhibits in this country, it has been assembled by Dr. William R. Valentiner, direc tor of the North Carolina Museum of Art. Dr. Valentiner, who came to Raleigh from Los Angeles, is an internationally known author ity on Rembrandt and his school of painting. The 20 original Rembrandts which will be seen at Raleigh No vember 16 through December 31 have been loaned by major mu seums and collectors. Among them are “Finding of Mosdfe”, Philadel phia Museum of Art; “Marten Looten”, Los Angeles County Museum; “Pieta”, Ringling Muse um of Art, Sarasota, Fla.; “Titus” from the Wadsworth Athen eum, Hartford, Conn.; “Christ and the Woman Taken in Adult ery”, Minneapolis Institute of Arts; and “Old Man With the Red Cap", Baltimore Museum of Art. In the North Carolina Museum of Art’s permanent collection, pur chased with State funds, is Rem brandt’s “Feast of Esther”. EAST LAKE PERSONALS Mrs. Lee Ambrose, Mrs. Emmett Smith and Emmett, Jr., were in Columbia Tuesday. Miss Mary Earle of Manteo was the guest of Susan Basnight for the week end. Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Ambrose of Norfolk visited here recently. Capt Ben Etheridge and Joe Everton are spending some time here. Ben Cain was here Sunday. Roy Basnight and R. F. Smith motored to Gum Neck Sunday. Mrs. Ed Hooper was here for the regular appointment at the Holiness Chureh Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Ambrose and Dolphas Ambrose and Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Ambrose were here Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse E. Twiddy df Elizabeth City visited Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Twiddy Sunday. NOVEMBER IS NAMED PREVENTION MONTH BY GOV. HODGES Forest Fires Subject of Campaign in State; Big Loss Cited. Raleigh, Oct. 27.—1 n an effort to call attention to North Caro lina’s 35-million-dollar annual loss to forest fires, Governor Luther H. Hodges today proclaimed No vember as “Forest Fire Prevention Month in North Carolina”. Purpose of the observance, the Governor explained in a statement, is to make every Tar Heel aware that “our per capita income and our standard of living are suffer ing because of unnecessary forest fires.” The statement also pointed to the Governor’s Conference on Forest Fire Prevention to be held in the N. C. State Fair Arena on November 14 for the purpose of planning “unfiied action against this economic loss.” A prgoram of exhibits, demonstrations, enter tainment as well as short talks by a number of well known Tar Heels is being planned for the one-day meeting. The Governor’s proclamation is as follows: “As a means of calling attention to the 35 million dollar loss which North Carolina suffers annually because of forest fires, the month of Novmeber wlil be observed throughout the State as Forest Fire Prevention Month. Purpose of this observance is to make every citizen aware that our per capita income and our stand ard of living are suffering be cause of unnecessary forest fires”, the proclamation continues. “Highlighting the November ob servance will be the Governor’s Conference on Forest Fire Pre vention, to be held on November 14 at the North Carolina State Fair Arena in Raleigh. During the conference thousands of our citi zens from business, industry, agri culture, forestry and government will get together to shape a course of unified action against this economic loss. “In recognition of the necessity of removing this obstacle from North Carolina’s path to progress, I hereby designate the month of November, 1956, as FOREST FIRE PREVENTION MONTH IN NORTH CAROLINA and urge all of our citizens to do everything possible to prevent the destruction by fire of our farm woodlands and Ralph & Johnnie’s Roller Rink Nags Head, N. C. WINTER HOURS FRI. SAT. SUN. 7-1 L PM Deposits macle by mail vk are given our prompt, careful attention. wk First & Citizens National Bank ELIZABETH CITY. N. C. Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2,1956 forests,” the proclamation con cludes. GRAVEYARD OF THE ATLANTIC By DAVID STICK Factual Accounts of Numerous Shipwrecks Along the Outer Banks 15.00 at Your Bookseller, or from the Dare Press, Kitty Hawk, N. 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