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THE COASTLAND TIMES
Published Continuously at Manteo, N. C., Since July 4, 1935
The Weekly Journal of the Walter Raleigh Coast land of North Carolina.
Foremost Region of Recreation and Sport. Healthful Living and
Historical Interest On The . Atlantic Seaboard
Entered As Second Class Matter At The Postofiice At Manteo, N. C.
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PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY TIMES PRINTING CO., INC., AT
505 LODGE STREET, MANTEO, NORTH CAROLINA
VICTOR MEEKINS, Editor
CATHERINE D. MEEKINS, Secretary-Treasurer
VoL XXII Manteo, N. C., Friday, January 11, 1957 No. 28
RASCALITY OF RAILROAD AND TRUCK LINES.
The customers of railroad and truck lines are being lit
erally robbed out of unreasonable huge sums annually if we
judge by the kind of treatment we customers who support
them in Eastern North Carolina get.
We may say at the outset that for many years we have
felt partial to the railroads, because we learned they gave
us better service at more reasonable rates, with less damage
to our shipments. Moreover, we have met a number of rail
road people, and developed friendships with them before
the advent of the truck lines, and we found many fine people
among them.
Truck lines being fly-by-night outfits in so many cases,
it is not readily one meets one of their executives, and it is
so seldom that we get good treatment from them, that we
grow to doubt if people who operate the truck lines in our
part of the country have any sense of human principles.
We have yet to find a truck line that has been willing
to give a square deal when it comes to making good on our
property destroyed in transit. We are now beginning to
doubt the railroads.
They, too, make it hard for their customer to get a
square deal.
There is a gp-oup in Ralqigh which is supposed to pro
tect the public interest, but we don’t find it that way.
In fact we have been always prejudiced against people
who won’t give others a square deal. We are one-cheek peo
ple. It’s a lot of baloney about turning the other cheek.
They’ll sure slap you in it, if you’re sap enough when you
do, and then throw a hefty foot in your rear end, which
they ought to do.
TIME TO HOWL
Dan Throop Smith, top assistant to Treasury Secretary
Humphrey on tax matters is on record before a House Ways
and Means subcommittee to the effect that the Treasury is
opposed to any reduction in individual income taxes, cor
porate taxes-or excise taxes.
“An important House Democrat” is quoted by The Wall
Street Journal as saying: “We’ll probably be somewhat more
liberal than the Treasury would like in giving tax relief next
session, but I don’t see any big tax cuts before 1958, if then.”
But we have yet to hear any Washington spokesman
say, “We can’t cut taxes now, for Heaven’s sake. England
is in a jam again and we’ve got to bail her out, which will
take somethpig over a billion dollars.” That, however, is
what they reklly mean—as demonstrated by the launching
of the 95-day Treasury Bills Tax Anticipation Series of one
■ billion dollars to help finance the Mother Country.
Meanwhile, the Government that is thus frantically
borrowing money continues to subsidize our non-taxpaying
mutual and cooperative corporations by the same amount—
one billion dollars!
If the Congressmen whose hearts are bleeding for sub
stantial tax relief would simply decide that the cooperatives
and mutual companies and credit unions should pay their
taxes on the same basis as any other business organizations,
there would be enough money in Uncle’s till to take care of
England and reduce individual taxes for the people of the
US, too.
Rep Mills’ House subcommittee, which has now finished
hearings on tax reform, has heard this suggestion of course
m its investigation of tax “loopholes.” But the matter of
taxing the favored co-ops and mutuals will not, we hear, be
mentioned among the 20 or more “unintended tax advan
tages” to be plugged by the new bill. Such a proposal would
be too controversial. It is to be pushed off till 1958—0 r later
Much later—along with tax relief—unless those who do
pay start howling.
| OTHER EDITORS )
MAY BE HOT RACE BREWING?
(Washington Daily News)
It is a long time until 1960, and
a lot of water can go over the
dam in the next four years.
Rumors have been current that
a hot political race is brewing for
1960 in North Carolina between
Kerr Scott and Luther Hodges for
the senate seat now being held by
Senator Scott.
Mr. Hodges has had nothing to
say about such a race, but Mr.
Scott has taken cognizance of the
possibility in recent weeks. He
makes no bones about saying “I’m
a candidate now and I’ll be one in
1960” whenever he makes a speech
to his fellow North Carolinians.
No one can judge at this time
how such a race will actually stack
up four years hence. But we can
look a bit at how it stands now.
And if such a race were held to
day, it would pit about the two
beat vote-getters in our state
against each other. In other words,
right now the race shapes up as
a humdinger.
In 1960 such a race depends upon
several factors. The health of the
two men then will be important
Perhaps the most important politi
cal factor involves the record each
will make for the next four years.
Mr. Hodges as governor, and Mr.
Scott as senator both will write a
record which will be scrutinized
closely as primary time nears in
May, 1960. And on the records of
each might well depend each’s
chances in such a contest.
There are very many people in
our state who have been strong
supporters of each man. How they
will line up for such a race is
important
If they run against each other in
1960, we can almost predict at
this time that a heavy vote will
be recorded in North Carolina.
There will be few Democrats who
will be indifferent
The next four years will defi_
nitely tell the story. And each has
a big job to do now.
EPIPHANY
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modern motels in those places.
The following former residents
of the community who are now liv
ing at other places spent “Old
Christmas” here with parents and
relatives: Mr. and Mrs. Charles A.
Roadcap and children Anita Dale,
Kathy Elizabeth and David
Charles of Norfolk, Mr. and Mrs.
John E. Herbert, Jr. and children,
Mary Ann and Elizabeth Rose
from Portsmouth, Va.; Mr. and
Mrs. W. Arval O’Neal of Norfolk,
Va., Lieut. Ellery C. Midgett,
U.S.N. of Baltimore, Miss Elvaria
Payne and Mrs. Dameron M. Payne
of Wanchese; Mr. and Mrs. C. P.
Midgett, First Colony Inn, Nags
Head; Mr. and Mrs. Bertrand Eas
on, Jr. and daughter Serena of
Norfolk; Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Pat
rick and daughter Judy; Mr. and
Mrs. Fred O’Neal and children,
Ronnie, Brenda Gary and Dalton
of Norfolk; Mr. and Mrs. Donald
Willis and daughter and Mrs.
Blanche Willis of Beaufort, Mr.
and Mrs. Walter R. Stowe and
children, Walter 8., Jr. and Deanna
of Norfolk, Va., Mr. and Mrs. Ker
mit Scarborough of Portsmouth;
David B. Midgett, Jr., U.S.C.G.,
Portsmouth; L. B. Midgett, Jr.,
U.S.C.G. and Miss Barbara Ann
Midgett of Norfolk; and Ben F.
Etheridge of Elizabeth City.
Keep America Green
USB YOUR ASHTRAY
THE AMERICAN WAY
The Big Shrinkage
PARK SERVICE
(Continued from Fage One)
the surface, and planting of vari
ous species of grasses to the ex
tent of more than 140 million
square feet for-the same purpose.
It is perhaps best remembered be
cause of its results in the vicinity
of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse,
spectacular results which have per
mitted reactivation of that historic
structure in the function for which
it was built, as an important aid
to navigation. |
A special 4100,000 allotment of
Federal construction funds to the,
National Park Service, together
with cooperative activity by State
agencies, has permitted initiation
of the current program of erosion
control and fixation. The continu
ing program, changing from con
struction to maintenance as time
goes on, will eventually be accom
plished almost entirely with main
tenance funds.
Another item in the contem
plated construction program which
will greatly facilitate protection
of all the natural resources of the
area is the provision of some meas
ure of employee housing within its
confines. The round-the-clock avail
ability of personnel' thus assured
will expedite -detection and sup
pression of fires, and will other
wise augment the protective pro
gram which the area deserves.
2. Meals, Lodging Accommodations,
and Concessions
All of the developments at Cape
Hatteras, whether presently under
construction or contemplated by
1966, are for the sole purpose of
providing whatever is necessary to
permit visitors to best enjoy, now
and in th6 years to come, the
scenic, cultural, and recreational
resources of the area. The MIS
SION 66 program for Cape Hat
teras, while completely aware of
the needs of its visitors for food
and for lodging, does not include
plans for governmental provision
of meals or overnight accommoda
tions for these visitors. The policy
of the National Park Service, as
clearly enunciated by the Direc
tor, is to continue to look to com
munities adjoining and outside the
seashore recreational area to pro
vide overnight accommodations,
meals, boating, fishing, and other
facilities that visitors may require.
This policy was outlined in
“Some Questions and Answers” as
issued in 1952 with respect to the
seashore area. The document
states on page 11 that “the Na
> tional Park Service does not plan
to construct hotels, tourist courts,
restaurants, gasoline service sta
tions and other commercial estab
-1 lishments within the area, so long
as the local people will furnish
1 these facilities in the villages to
• serve those who visit the Area.
1 Here, then, is a fertile opportunity
■ for the initiation of private enter
prises in the villages. Employment
■ will be increased thereby.”
I Even in the case of specific
p needs within the seashore area for
i special services in locations away
I from communities or which the
• communities can not be expected
■ to furnish, facilities will be built
1 and operated by private capital
l under supervised concession con
■ tracts. Facilities of this type in
; elude the existing boat service and
, supply concession located near
, Oregon Inlet, and a proposal for
i fishing pier operation on the ocean
. front of Hatteras Island. Contracts
such as these involve the use of
private funds for construction of
facilities such as marianes, docks,
and piers. They do not cover or
include the provision of overnight
accommodations.
3. Public Use and
Recreational Facilities
The law which authorized estab
lishment of the Cape Hatteras
National Seashore Recreational
Area charges the National Park
Service with the responsibility for
developing portions of the area for
certain forms of recreational acti
THE COASTLAND TIMES, MANTEO, N. C.
vity. This was pointed out in
“Questions and Answers” as fol
lows:
Question:
What recreational facilities will
be provided?
Answer:
Certain portions of the area,
deemed to be especially adapt
able for recreational uses, par
ticularly swimming, boating,
sailing, fishing, and other rec
reational activities of, similar
nature, {will be developed for
such uses as needed, as soon as
funds are made available by the
Congress.
To carry out this provision of
the law, the following develop
ments either are under construc
tion or are proposed for installa
tion as circumstances permit.
(a) Swimming. The new Coquina
Beach public swimming area on
Bodie Island is very nearly com
pleted. Bathers will find here a
modern beach structure, with
shade shelters, rest rooms, and
self-service dressing enclosures.
Similar facilities are contemplated
for later development* in locations
conveniently adjacent to communi
ties on Hatteras and Ocracoke Is
lands. Locations and capacities
have not yet been definitely deter
mined; they must be based upon
needs which appear in the normal
course of operations.
(b) Picnicking. It is proposed to
provide facilities for picnicking on
each of the three major islands in
which the area lies. Accessibility
from roads and availability of pot
able water and provision of com
fort stations will have a consider
able influence upon the choice of
exact locations for these facilities.
Moreover, they must be so located
that permanent damage to the
natural resources is not occasioned
through human over-use and con
sequent wear and tear.
(c) Camping. The proposal is to
provide improved facilities for
family camping near Oregon Inlet
and at Cape Point on Hatteras Is
land, and perhaps in other selected
locations. Here again, the avail
ability of potable water and access
to comfort stations will be im
portant considerations in the loca
tion of camp grounds. Casual
camping in locations not specifi
cally designated for the activity
will not be permitted, for sanitary
reasons and because of the likeli
hood of damage to natural condi
tions which would be involved.
(d) Fishing. There will be
plenty of opportunity for shore
fishing, as there always has been.
From Cape Point, a favorite spot
for surf casting, it is but a short
walk to comfort stations and park
ing area. Parking areas along the
road from Oregon Inlet to the
Cape will permit easy access to
the ocean beach in other locations.
If justified by public demand, con
struction of not more than four
ocean fishing piers near existing
communities will be authorized.
Facilities of such a nature would
be financed and maintained by pri
vate capital under National Park
Service concession contracts, as
previously noted.
(e) Boating and Sailing. Char
ter-boat service to the visiting
sport fisherman, and sale of gaso
line, oil, and supplies to those who
come in their own craft, will con
tinue to be a function of those
who reside in the communities, as
heretofore. The National Park
Service has no legal jurisdiction
whatever over activities of this or
any other nature within the com
munities which are not included in
the Seashore Recreational Area. It
does exercise control over the
Oregon Inlet concession operation,
which is within the Area and con
siderably removed from any com
munity. It is expected that those
who bring their own small craft
to the area by trailer for day-use
in protected waters of the Sound
will find opportunity for launching
and servicing in the villages and
at the Oregon Inlet concession
operation.
(f) Hunting. No provision of
special facilities for hunters is
presently contemplated. Under the
terms of authorizing legislation, as
amended June 29, 1940, hunting is
permitted only in certain portions
of the Seashore Recreational Area
and under certain rules and regu
lations. Where hunting is permit
ted, it is subject to such regula
tions and to the laws of the State
of North Carolina.
4. Educational and Interpretive
Facilities
Within its own confines, the
Cape Hatteras National Seashore
Recreational Area preserves im
portant scenic and wilderness as
pects, displays unique wildlife and
vegetation, interprets geological
lessons in the ever-shifting dunes,
and reminds of the sagas of storms
and sea. To enable the visitor to
better understand and more thor
oughly enjoy all these manifes
tations of history and natural his
tory, development and operation of
various facilities is contemplated
in the MISSION 66 program for
Cape Hatteras.
(a) Visitor Center. The com
bined visitor center and headquar
ters administrative building, ac
cording to tentative plans, will be
located on lower Bodie Island.
Here the newcomer will first find
authoritative information concern
ing the area and what it has to
offer, and can determine how best
to apportion his time to visit and
study particularly those phases in
which he is especially interested.
He will be advised by uniformed
personnel, steeped and trained in
the phenomena which are so well
exemplified, and will learn from
them the background story of the
area.
(b) Museums. The museum pro
gram has been well started with
interesting exhibits of lighthouse
history centering about the far
famed Cape Hatteras Light, but
including as well consideration of
similar structures within the area.
Exhibit rooms, minor museums in
fact, are planned for inclusion in
the main visitor center on Bodie
Island and in a possible supple
mentary visitor center to serve
those who visit Ocracoke Island.
Present museum displays will be
improved and additional comfort
stations and drinking fountains
will be made available in connec
tion with them.
(c) Overlook Stations. It is
planned that, at points strategical
ly located, elevated scenic observa
tion facilities will be installed,
from which may be obtained full
panoramas of the land and sea.
Perhaps one of these will be an
integral part of the visitor center
building, from which some inkling
of the scope of the seashore may
be gathered. This will be of par
ticular value to those who may
have first been attracted to the
area only by the desire to visit
and use the Coquina Beach de
velopment. Another possibility is
a location near the westerly end
of Ocracoke Island. Still others
will perhaps permit close-up views
of the migratory waterfowl, pro
tected within the sanctuary of the
Pea Island Refuge.
(d) Interpretive Devices.
Throughout the area, liberal use
will be made of directional and in
terpretive signs, not only in the
museums, but in conjunction with
self-guiding trails from parking
areas to points of visitor interest,
and in convenient locations at the
parking areas. These will be sup
plemented by and correlated with
the use of informative leaflets
dealing with the various phases
which are to be interpreted. In
side, in the visitor centers and ex
hibit rooms, audio-visual equip
ment will be utilized as an added
facility to assist in making it pos
for the visitor to understand
clearly the whole story of the Na
tional Seashore Recreational Area
and what it preserves and per
petuates.
Summary
The primary objective of the
National Park Service at the Cape
Hatteras National Seashore Rec
reational Area is to preserve, pro-
and interpret the natural
scenic and wilderness character of
the area and its historical and geo
logical associations.
In planning for recreational
activities within the area, care will
be exercised to see that provisions
for such activities are adequate
for the expected public use, but
that they do not harm or destroy
any part of the natural values.
The National Park Service will
leave to the communities adjoin
ing and outside the area, so far
as possible, opportunity to provide
meals and other commer
cial services which may be desired
by those who visit the area.
MRS. ENOCH S. SIMMONS
A former resident of Hyde
County, Mrs. Enoch S. Simmons,
80, of Spencer died in Rowan
Memorial Hospital in Salisbury
December 12; funeral services were
conducted at Salisbury December
14, and burial was in Rowan Me
morial Park. She had been in de
clining health for several years and
seriously ill for two weeks. 'J'he
former Eugenia Chamblee, she was
born in Zebulon and was educated
in the Wake County Schools. She
lived at Fairfield from 1901 to
1920. Her husband, Enoch S. Sim
mons, died in 1917. She leaves one
son, Roy Simmons of Spence'*; i\>o
daughters, Mrs. Mayme Atwell of
M Lrittg.
18 RAPISTS—In Milwaukee, 18
negroes are charged with raping
a 19-year-old white girl, and is the
fourth rape case in a short time.
s7ll MILLIONS—Navy expend
itures in the Norfolk area in 1956
totalled s7ll millions but the sum
was $46 millions less than was
spent in the area in 1955.
LESS WORK FOR WORKERS
—Senator Purtell of Conn., has in
troduced a bill to shbrten the work
week for Federal employees to. 35
hours. Not many have been ac
cused of overwork, as it is.
COSTLY COURT—It cost more
than $32,000 to hold the court trials
for John Gilbert Graham, the
young man who planted a bomb
which killed his mother and 44
airplane passengers in Colorado
last year. He is sentenced to death.
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GAS PRICES ADVANCE As
we predicted some weeks ago,
when they started giving American
gasoline to Europeans, the price
is going up to the American con
sumer. Again we pay for their
ways. Three big oil companies
boosted prices one cent a gallon in
Texas last week. We' never see
prices go down later.
KILLS BABY—Mrs. Margie Ar
nold, 26, of Martinsville, Va.,
mother of five, and' expecting an
other, beat her 13 month old
daughter to death because she re
fused to take her bottle. In South
Norfolk, a six-year-old boy was
strangled accidentally while try
ing to hang up his coat in a closet
. . . Bodies of a young ministerial
student and his sister who were
drowned on a lake near Roanoke
Rapids nine days ago, were recov
ered.
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A VISITOR OF YEARS AGO
ENJOYS HATTERAS FILM
To the Editor:
Here is one for the book, “The
Man Who Went to Hatteras and
Never Saw It,” can no longer say
that. He was there last week.
Vicariously yes—but none the
less realistically,—he saw the
Cape Hatteras area, in technicolor,
from a first row seat in the Rialto
Theatre.
A closeup of the Lighthouse, ma
jestic and beautiful, bathed in sun
light. Other views, shipwrecks,
pull in of the nets, some baby,
sharks, washed up on the beach, I
and some shooting by two men
with the aid of decoys. Also a
closeup of a man, whittling out
wooden decoys, and an -open air
square dance by some very healthy
looking- young people. Four musi
cians, with the leader keeping time
on his triangular piece of metal.
Finally a view of one end of the
ferry boat at Oregon Inlet. It was
fascinating.
The fact that there isn't any
thing more impressive than the
flight of time, is brought to mind
here. On Dec. Ist, in 1937, at 4
a.m., eight persons left in an auto
from Manteo, stopped in N. J. and
on to New York at night.
It seems like several years ago,
but my files indicate it was much
longer ago than that. Almost to
the day, twefity years, and this
past week my return trip via mo
tion pictures. : ■ v
Sincerelv,
BERT COWELL t-
Harrison, N. J.
January 5, 1957 rt’.ii
To the Editor: ,
Our former president, Theodore
Roosevelt once said, “The people
of the United States abhor a vac
uum.” He was referring to world
situations which tended to make
slaves of humanity by taking
away from them their rights to
worship as they pleased, to speak
as they pleased, and to work as
they pleased.
Today we speak of the “vacuum”
of Communism, of the “vacuum”
of the Far East crisis, and other
situations which tend to threaten
our Democratic way of life. Our
citizens and leaders do everything
possible to make our country pre
pared to ward off any threat which
might develop against it. The pub
lic is constantly reminded of hap
penings here anfl abroad by news
paper headlines, radio, and tele
vision.
What about the "vacuum” of the
slaughter on our streets and high
ways by the automobile? Exten
sive studies by experts show that
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Salisbury and Mrs. Eloise Dym
koskt of Bridgeport, Conn.; one
sister, Mrs. T. J. Rosemond of
Spencer; three grandchildren; and
three great-grandchildren.
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 11,1957
ROAST PORK—In Smithfield,
Va. 10,000 pounds of hog meat
went up in smoke, and this includ
ed 1,000 shoulders and sides, when
P. D. Gwaltney’s 50-yr.-old smoke
house burned.
FISHING PIERS COSTLY A
low bid to erect a fishing pier at
Ocean View, Va. was submitted
last week by R. T. Burney of Wil
mington. The 1,000-ft. pier is to
cost $109,157.
GIRLS SWIPE CAR—Five teen
age girls, in age from 13 to 17
were charged with swiping a car
and playing hookey fronv- the
Great Bridge, Va. school, and driv
ing the car to N. C.
“STOLE A WOMAN”—Actress
Marie McDonald claimed she. was
kidnapped when found in a deseit
150 miles away from her Califor
nia home. She was wearing pajam
as, robe and slippers, had two
cracked teeth.
BUS MISHAP —Seven died, and
many were injured during collis
ion of a Greyhound with a tractor
trailer loaded with pipe at Lexing
ton, Va. . . Three were killed in a
dynamite blast at a powder fac
tory in Pa. . .' . One died in an
Airliner crash near Tulsa, Okla.
Pilot of a jet plane was kllled'near
Fredericksburg, Va.
RAPE AND MURDER—A ne
gro in Sikeston, Mo. is charged
with raping an 18-year-old white
school girl, and killing her boy
friend ... In Calif. Roger Brown,
14, a baby sitter, confessed to stab
bing Rose Ann White to death.
She eight ... A gunman in Conn,
held up and killed a man and wife
in a shoe store.
the automobile is costing the
American people more lives than
World War I, World War 11, and
the recent Korean War combined.
Not near enough is being said or
done about this appalling situa
tion. In North Carolina alone, the
automobile is killing people at the
rate of a thousand or more each
year; it is crippling people at the
rate of fifteen thousand or more
and destroyingi property above-the
million dollar point each year.
The automobile is the deadliest
weapon that modem science has
ever produced when it is in the
hands of a negligent, in-attentive,
and egotistic driver.
The citizens of this community
can help prevent these accidents by
observing laws against speeding,
drunken driving, running through
stop signs, and failing to yield the
right-of-way belonging to another.
Each of us can avoid traffic acci
dents by slowing down on curves:
by not following too closely, by
exercising extreme caution at rail
roads, and by always giving proper
turn signals.
Driving is a very complicated
business, so let us as citizens of
our community resolve to make the
New Year a happier one by being
better drivers.
J. G. TERRY
P. O. Box 441
Plymouth, N. C.
January 2,1957.
BELHAVEN PERSONALS
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Dr. and Mrs. William Miller of
Haddon Heights, New Jersey, were
week end guests of Mr. and Mrs.
William Phelps. Mrs. Miller is the
former Helen Steam.
Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Bullock have
returned to their home on East
Main Street after spending the
past six weeks in Norfolk. Their
daughter, Miss Mary Bullock,
brought them home and returned
to Norfolk on Sunday. She was ac
companied by Mrs. T. A. Rydings
vard and her daughter. Lynn, who.
visited the Heber Wilkinsons.
Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Clark and
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Coltrane and
children of Williamston were Sun
day guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. L.
Johnston.
Mr. and Mrs. Sammie Wilkinson
and son of Raleigh were week end
guests of his mother, Mrs. R. Y.
Wilkinson.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Chapin of
Clinton spent last Monday and
Tuesday here.
Mr. and Mrs. W. P. O’Neal went
to Fork Union, Virginia, last week
to take their son, “Bud,” who is a
student at the military academy
there.
George Riddick Jr. left on
Sunday for Albuquerque, New
Mexico, where he will attend a
special U. S. Navy school for sev
eral weeks.
Miss Betsy Howard has return
ed to Ft. Jackson, S. C., after visit
ing her brother and sister-in-law.
Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Howard.
Mr. and Mrs. William Steele
and son of Durham were week end
guests of her parents, Mr; and
Mrs. Andrew Hedges.