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PAGE FOUR THE COASTLAND TIMES Published Continuously at Manteo, N. C- Since July 4, 1935 THE WEEKLY JOURNAL OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA. FOREMOST REGION OF RECREATION AND SPORT. HEALTH FUL LIVING AND HISTORICAL INTEREST ON THE ATLANTIC SEaBOARD Entered as Second Class Matter at the Postoffice in Menteo. N. C. Subscription Retes: Yeerly $3.00; Sis Months, $1.75; 3 Months, SI.OO PUBDSHRD EVERY FRIDAY BY TIMES PRINTING CO.. INC. AT SOS BODGE STREET. MANTEO. NORTH CAROLINA VICTOR MEEKINS Editor CATHERINE D. MEEKINS Secretary-Treasurer FRANCIS W. MEEKINS . Advertising Manager VOL XXIII MANTEO. N. C.. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22. 1957 NO. 21 WE LOSE A GOOD FRIEND AND NEIGHBOR. In our book, Addison D. Swindell was both a gentleman and a Christian. He lived a life of honesty, courtesy, consid eration, industry and sobriety. He had reared a family in his principles, giving them the full measure of a father’s care and love. He had pursued a vigorous and rigorous life of industry and self-denial that those he loved might not be denied the best of anything they ought to have. Long after he had reared his family in the way they should go and in the sunset years df his life he married again and found true comfort and companionship during his last dozen years. Hyde County has contributed to Dare through the years many fine residents. A. D. Swindell, who died Thurs day night at his residence near Manteo was one of the best of them. He was 87 years old, and he was inspiration to other people, for he never surrendered his regular occupa tion until about two years ago, when driven to do so by the inroads of age. At the age of 85 he was going strong at his life-long occupation of builder and mover of houses. We think our part of the world has been a better place because of the service and inspiration that has come from the life of this man, who although frail of stature, was great in his achievements, his outlook on life and his service to his fellowmen. A Farm-City Week Editorial FARMERS SUSTAIN AMERICA’S GREATNESS By WILLIAM D. POE, Editor, The Progressive Farmer “Farmers are inefficient. They’ve made food prices outrage ously high at the same time they’ve piled up big surpluses. My family, my business, and I myself would be a lot better off if there weren’t so many farmers living on Govern ment handouts!” We were shocked to hear a city businessman make the above state ment recently. But on second thought, it doesn’t seem strange that he did. Farmers and farm or ganizations—indeed, farm maga zines themselves —have failed to keep people in town informed about the problems farmers are facing and the job they are doing. And the Secretary of Agriculture, who might be expected to serve as an effective spokesman for farmers, seems to be determined to use the vast publicity powers of his office to discredit them. In order to provide for a clearer understanding between townspeo ple and farmers, Nov. 22-28 has been proclaimed as “Farm-City Week” by President Eisenhower. Annual observance of this event was inaugurated by Congress in 1956, following a long agitation by The Progressive Farmer supported by other agricultural groups. To city folks you know who may be as misinformed about farmers as the businessman we quoted, here are eight facts you can pass on to stimulate the spirit of under standing to which Farm-City Week is dedicated: 1. America’s farmers have in creased their efficiency faster than any other group—ln 1900, one farmer could feed only himself and seven other people ... In 1930, a farmer could feed only himself and 10 others . . . Today a farmer can feed himself and 21 others. No other' industry in America can show such a fantastic increase in efficiency as this. And it is only because of agriculture’s phenome nal increase in efficiency that mil lions of workers could be released from the fields to go into factories and produce the automobiles, bath tubs, television sets, and all the countless other goods that have made America’s living standard the envy of the world. 2. Farmers have been penalized for their increased efficiency—Un like manufacturers and laboring groups, which have profited from their increased efficiency, farmers have been penalized for theirs. In 1947, when America’s gross na tional product (total value of everything produced) was $232 bil lion, farmers received gross in come of $34 billion—ls% of the total. Last year, America’s gross national product was $415 billion, but farmers got only $34 billion of it—B% of the total ... In 1947, farmers’ net income of sl7 billion was 9% of the nation’s total na tional income. Last year, farmers’ sl3 billion net income was only 4% of the national income . . . Persons in nonfarm work and serv ices last year averaged earning $2,018 each, as compared with only $902 for farmers. 8. Farmers are customers for both consumption goods and pro duction goods—The farmer is America’s No. 1 customer for goods made by American industry and labor. That’s because he’s a “double-barreled customer.” Where as the average city man buys only consumer goods—food, clothing, re frigerators, and other such items —the farmer buys both consumer goods and production goods. Last year, the nation’s 5,311,000 farm families spent more money for family living alone that the total retail sales of New York and Chi cago. Farmers also spent $24 bil lion for supplies, equipment, pnd other costs of operation . . . Aver age investment per farm worker is $20,149, compared with $7,866 per ; manufacturing worker. There is | mote mechanical horsepower on i America’s farms than in all its factories combined. The prices which farmers pay for production goods have risen 30% in the last 10 years. But prices farmers re ceive for what they produce are no higher than in 1946. 4. Farmers are producing cheap food for which city folks are pay ing high prices—Last year the average American ' family spent $1,500 for food. Os that amount, only S6OO or about 40%, went to farmers. Nearly two-thirds of the $1,500, or S9OO, went to middlemen between the farmer and consumer. ' Since 1947, the annual amount spent on food has increased S3OO | per family, but the farmers’ share in 1956 was actually $9 less than ' it was in 1947. The increase went to processors and middlemen. Farmers are being attacked unjust ly for high food prices, for which city food processors and middle men are clearly responsible. 5. Farmers have subsidized cities rather than being subsidized them selves—So-called “subsidies" paid farmers have amounted to far less than “tax writeoffs” granted in dustry, “depletion allowances” giv en oil producers, and minimum wage benefits provided laborers ... In fact, farmers have actually subsidized our cities. Our rural communities have educated boys and girls at high cost and then shipped them off to the cities to become taxpayers. Farmers have nurtured and sustained our nation’s population growth from 77 million in 1900, of whom 38% lived on the farm, to 171 million today, of whom only 13% live on the faim. The productive power of our na tion’s farms has been magnificent, not only in turning out cotton and cattle and wheat. The priceless product of our farms has been the ’ boys and girls who live and work I in our cities today. 6. Farmers are -a barrier to pos sible excesses of “Big Business” 1 or “Big Labor”—A farmer is a ■ “three-armed man.” He •'combines ’ in himself the functions of 1) cap ' ital, 2) management, and 3) labor. 1 He understands the problems of' 1 the city investor, businessman and ’ laborer. The farmer is ready to ' deal with each of these groups and pay it a fair price for services ren ’ dered. He is a loyal customer when : properly treated. But farmers will ' not long tolerate injustice. In the > past, they have used the weapon 1 of cooperation to combat usurious ’ credit terms and high prices for 1 inferior equipment, supplies, and ‘ services. And “part-time farmers,” particularly the countless thou r sands of them in the South today, • pose the strongest obstacle to spread of corrupt unionism. When • farmers work in a factory, they r believe in giving a full day’s work for a day’s pay. “Part-time farm r ers” are setting production records - in industry which are making the ’ nation’s rural areas—particularly r those in Dixie —the best paying r outlet for the growth of the na r tion’s manufacturing plants. 7. Farmers are the most effec r tive foes of communism—Russia ■ has had some success in conunu i nizing its industries. But it has r met with miserable failure in its t efforts to collectivize its farms., t This is true not only in Russia, it-' r self, but also in its satellite na- l tions. And it is the inability of BIRTHS Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Willie Wil lis of Wanchese a daughter, Janice Noel, on November 15 in Memorial Clinic, Manteo. Weight seven pounds, 4% ounces. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Midgett of Manteo a son, Charles, Jr., weight seven pounds, three ounces, on November 16 in Memo rial Clinic, Manteo. Born to Mr. and Mrs. James M. Williams, Jr., a daughter, Susanna Lynn, weight five pounds, 5% ounces, on November 8 in Memor ial Clinic, Manteo. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Isaac P. Davis, Jr., of Murfreesboro, a daughter, weight eight pounds, five ounces, on November 16 in Roa noke-Chowan Hospital, Ahoskie. Mrs. Davis is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Midgett of Man teo. Mr. Davis is the son of Mr. and Mrs. I. P. Davis of Murfrees boro, formerly of Manteo. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Alton Dunbar of Elizabeth City a daugh-i ter, Shirley Gwen, weight seven pounds, 814 ounces, on November 14 in the Albemarle Hospital. Mrs. Dunbar is the daughter of Walter Harris of Manteo. MEYKAR (Continued from Page One) investigator at night for a law enforcement organization. He was a cowboy in Montana for one win ter. He worked for Ford Motor Company in Detroit, while attend ing the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. The Great Depression of 1929-30 found him a doorman in a night club in St. Paul; he read much about the South in the library and in January of 1935 he made a trip by a cattle train and a local bus to New Orleans. There he became the last of the fencing masters of that illustrious and enchanting city; he was nat uralized a citizen of the State of Louisiana and therefore a citizen of the United States. His love for adventure led him to explore the possibilities of shark fishing in the Gulf of Mexico, in a rickety open motorboat; thus he acquired the love for the pine forests and the sand dunes and the endless wind swept and sunbleached beaches which eventually brought him to Roanoke Island. In World War II Industry With the commencement of World War 11, he was again active in the engineering field; this time, with the progress of the industry, his employment became secure. He was employed by several major companies as an electro-mechani cal engineer, in product design and automation .He is now a reg istered Professional Engineer in the State of New York, employed as equipment development engi neer in the semi-conductor depart ment of the Westinghouse Electric Corp, at Youngwood, Pa., member of ASME, ASTE, NSPE and other technical organizations, holder of several patents and author of sev eral technical reports. He is a di rector of the Russian Student Fund, Ing., an organization which directs a large revolving fund do nated by the several great Ameri can industrialists for the purpose of educating the worthy Russian refugees and preparing their for life in America; the J. P. Morgan and Co. bank on Wall Street plays a prominent part in this fund. Mr. Meykar is a member of lodge No. 47, F.M. & A.M. at Utica, N. Y. Elisa Meykar is a daughter of a New York patent attorney, Isaac Burneston Owens, a scion of an old family in southern Maryland. When her father died, she was education by her relatives in Maryland and she numbers among st her “kissing cousins” many prominent people in Baltimore and in Worthington Valley near that city. The Owens Yacht Com pany of Baltimore is, in fact, own ed by her real cousins. She was raised by her aunt whose son, Major-General Robert B. Luckey, U.S.M.C., is now commandant of the Marine Corps Training Depot at Parris Island, South Carolina. Like her husband, she attends the Episcopal Church worship events. Mr. and Mrs. Meykar are very active socially in Greensburg, in the Greensburg Art Club and the Greensburg Civic Theater, as well as in many other worthy under takinks. They are members of the Russia to force food production as it forces industrial production that is proving to be communism’s “Achilles heel.” Some people fear that communism will eventually dominate America through attack from within. As long as we have as many solvent farmers as we have today, that threat is doomed. 8. Farmers provide America with a reservoir of spiritual strength— “ Small landowners,” said Thomas Jefferson, “are the most precious portion of the state. They are the most vigorous, the most independ ent, the most virtuous . . . Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God. Our Gov ernment will remain yirtous as long as our people are chiefly agri cultural.” In an America that is becoming brittle with the twin diseases of urbanization and industrialization, it is vital that our rural heritage be sustained to give our nation the stamina, strength, and tran quility that it can gain from no other source. Our farmers not only i feed the, stomach of America. They also nurture its heart, its con science, and it. faith. THE COASTLAJSTD TIMES, MANTEO, N. C. C OF C (Continued from Page One) Graves, J. W. Smith and Mrs. Violet Kellam. Community planning Pat Bayne, Orville Baum, George Sides, W. H. McCown, Dave Mizell and H. C. Lawrence. Ways and Means—Miss Sarah F. Halliburton, Mrs. T. H. Briggs, ■ Mrs. C. A. York, Mrs. Wink Davis, James Scarborough and George Crocker. The membership committee is to be appointed later. Besides stand ing committees, T. H. Briggs, Mrs. Emmett Winslow and George Crocker were named on a commit tee to visit other Chambers of Commerce in order to get sugges tions for more effective operation of the local group. SCHOOL (Continued from Page One) project. Mr. Cameron explained that the county board could use i the state funds only on projects ’ approved by the State Board of Education, and it was also pointed out that the improvement of the Manteo High School would be of advantage to the Kitty Hawk high school pupils now going to Manteo. The Kitty Hawk patrons who voiced their views on the matter were Pennell A. Tillett, Jack Twi ford, and W. H. Smith. Board Chairman Ellis A. Gray presided over the meeting, which was also attended by board mem bers R. O. Ballance, Mrs. Helen Briggs, W. Lloyd Scarborough, and Leland G. Wise. BAP. YOUNG PEOPLE STUDY SERIES OF BOOKS ON AFRICA The children and young people of the missionary societies of Man 'teo Baptist Church held study courses this week. The books used were the graded series on Africa. Each day the children had interest ing stories, illustrated with many interesting pictures and a film. Supper was served and the tables were appropriately decorated in palm trees, African huts and ani mals. Monday, Nov. 18, the Sun beams with their counsellors, Mrs. J. Ward and Mrs. W. H. Jones, studied the book “The Lost Mon key,” which was taught by Mrs. M. L. Jackson. Tuesday, Nov. 19, the Y.W.A.’s with their counsellor, Mrs. J. Til lett, studied the book "Something New” which was taught by Mrs. W. E. Cholerton. Wednesday, Nov. 20, the G. A.’s with their counsellors, Mrs. D. Quidley, and Mrs. Robert Shannon, and the R. A.’sw ith their counsel lors, Bill Love and Ralph Umph lette, studied the book “Tales from Ice.” This book was taught by Mrs. W. E. Cholerton. A few weeks ago, the women studied the book “Continent in Commotion.” This book was taught jointly by Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Cholerton. Many; African curios were shown and personal experi ences told. Roanoke Island Historical Associa tion, of course. During their last visit on the island during the Labor Day week end, Mr. Meykar took dzens of the Lost Colony postcards and Dare County Tourist Bureau pamphlets with him, as is his habit, to dis tribute to the people with whom he comes in contact during the winter. It is his practice, he tells, to leave these pamphlets on the desks of his fellow employees or on the cafeteria tables as soon as the snow begins to fall and peo ple’s thoughts turn to the sunnier shores. Choses Swamp Land Four years ago Mr. Meykar met the late Theo. S. Meekins and bought from him the old Wescott swamp, a tract of land of some extent on the west side of the highway, about a mile south of Manteo. The tract is primarily a drainage basin for that area of the island and contains some wooded land and a lot of wet marsh. The woods were badly damaged by the high salt water after the hurri canes of 1965. But the Meykars are enthralled with the prospects of what they can do with their land when they are ready to settle on Roanoke Island. Mr. Meykar wants to employ the principles of land rehabilitation which are used in Holland; he is designing dikes, with windmills to pump out the rain water. He is dreaming of deep fresh water lakes, pumped out in the middle of his swamp, which will serve to raise the level of the other portions of his dream estate. After his life in Louisiana, the local mosquitoes hold no fear for him; but he feels that the proper drainage, ventilation and exposure of land to the sun will do a lot to eradicate these pests. He thinks that if there werfe more clear fresh water ponds on the island, there will be mor migrant wildfowl; the fish will eat the mosquito larvae; and dragon flies, who are the nat ural enemy of mosquitoes and flies, will be encouraged to breed. To Orest and Elisa Meykar, our Roanoke Island is a place of prom ise, an island of refuge, a haven of rest; a challenge to create, to express themselves, to live and to grow. Perhaps someday we shall see a tree lined alley running westward from the highway to the Croatan Sound whre their home will stand on the tip of the sand point. Then we will know that we all are al ways welcome there. * HATTERAS PERSONALS Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Brown re turned home last week from Washington, D. C. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Buchanan, Miss Fern Ballance and Roy Gray spent last week in South Carolina visiting Mr. Buchanan’s mother. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Burrus of Norfolk visited Mr. and Mrs. Luther Burrus. Mr. and Mrs. pamon Gray Sr. visited their son, Ray Dale Gray, in Manteo. Mrs. Jennie Austin, after living at Great Bridge, is with relatives here. < Mr. and Mrs. Luther Austin, Mh and Mrs. Stockton Midgette and sons attended the ice show in Nor folk over the week end. Mrs. Ed Johnson and daughter Jackie visited Mrs. Johnson’s mother, who has been ill. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Oden visited in Elizabeth City and in Ports mouth, Va. with their daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs. Steve Eure. Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Austin were in Wanchese over the week end. Mrs. Lawrence Austin is visit ing her daughter, Mrs. Kermit Bal lance and son, Lawrence Lee, in Norfolk. Mr. and Mrs. Elsworth Schinke and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Buchanan, Mr. and Mrs. Hal Gray, Mr. and Mrs. Miller Gray attended the ice show in Norfolk. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Quidley, Mrs. Joy Quidley and daughter, Marlene, Mrs. Wheeler Ballance and son. Bill visited Deryl Quid ley in Washington. Bill Buchanan and Ernest Lee Styron of the Coast Guard, are transferred to Norfolk. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Ballance vis ited in Norfolk and were accom panied home by Miss Hedy Breck buche of Bergdorf Bern Switzer land, Mrs. Polly Smith of New Bern, Mrs. Waltraud Gilbert of Sackengen Rhein, Germany. Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Brown and Mr. and Mrs. Nacie Austin visited Manteo. Births Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Lee Styron have a son, born Nov. sth at Albe marle Hospital in Elizabeth City; Ernest Lee, weight 6% lbs. A ham supper and bazaar will be held at the Community Build ing, Hatteras, Nov. 23rd, begin ning at 10 o’clock a.m. MRS. FRAISER SPEAKER FOR ROANOKE ID. GARDEN CLUB The Roanoke Island Garden Club, meeting at the home of Mrs. A. C. Thompson for its November pro gram heard reports of the visit of Miss Louise Ballard, of Lake Junaluska, president of the North Carolina Garden Club, and Miss Ray Ballard, secretary of the State Club. The reports stated that the Elizabethan Garden was visited and its immediate needs anaylzed. Also that this group met in an interview with A. Q. Bell at Roa noke Island Gardens concerning the approaching plans for further planting and for the installation of a water system. Plans were made for the local club to go to the Elizabethan Gar den on Saturday, November 23, and clean up broken tree limbs and other trash accumulated in the garden area. The program feature of the day was a talk by Mrs. M. R. Fraiser of “The Sportsman”, Nags Head, on flower arrangements of native plants, but gave informative com ments on Oriental influence in flower arrangements in general. The ancient theory of Japanese symbolic arrangements was ex plained and illustrated. Mrs. Frai ser suggested constant practice in flower arrangements for all sea sons, told of various means of dry ing flowers, of ways of cutting and preserving fresh flowers. She also made helpful suggestions for working toward the spring flower show, and spoke freely from per sonal experience through her years of active service in her gar den club in Norfolk, Va. During the social hour, Mrs. Thompson with her joint hostesses, Mrs. Fred Basnight and Mrs. Isa belle Warren served refreshments. DARE HOME DEMONSTRATION WOMEN MAKE TRAYS The following members of the Wanchese Home Demonstration Club: Mrs. Spencer Daniels, Mrs. J. T. Daniels, Mrs. Harry Baum, Mrs. Chesley Midgett, Jr., Mrs. Ernest Walker, Mrs. R. E. John* son, Mrs. R. H. Vanderslice, Mrs. Erbe Gallop, Mrs. Early Gallop, Mrs. Willie Etheridge, Jr., Mrs. V. G. Williams and Mrs. Virginia Davis, and Mrs. Alivia Stowe of the Manteo Home Demonstration Club, enthusiastically participated in a Workshop meeting at the home of Mrs. Virginia Davis Thursday the 14th. The project for this meeting, hand etching alumi* num trays, was begun at nine a.m. under the direction and supervision of the home agent, Miss Fran Alexander, who had received her instruction at Craft School In Manteo last August. This busy group reluctantly took time out for lunch. Keeping places at the work tables, each enjoyed a bowl of delicious chili prepared by Mrs. Johnson, and cake baked by Mrs. Spencer Daniels. During the afternoon, each completed l the painting of trays. r.:v> As a twenty-four hour period is required before the etching process, the trays were not com- N jr s 'Morld " -1 ...tL-T;.', 115 YEARS OLD— Walter Williams, older of the two sur viving veterans of the Civil War, observed his 115th birthday re cently in Houston, Texas. DRIVING BOAT DRUNK James Await, 31, a Long Beach, Calif., salesman, has been convicted of drunken driving—in a motor boat. . . FOUND HANGED—An airman from Seymour Johnson Air Force Base was found hanged Monday afternoon at the Goldsboro Police Department’s firing range. SPY SENTENCED TO 30 YEARS —■ Russian Col. Rudolph I. ibel was last week sentenced to 30 years in prison as a spy; he could have gotten a death penalty.' HUNTING FATALITY Wil liam Jackson Botts, 18-year-old Greensboro school senior, accident ally shot and killed himself last week while squirrel-hunting in a creek bottom near his home. WRECK KILLS TWO— Two Coast Guardsmen were killed and two others seriously injured Fri day morning when their car miss ed a curve on fog-bound US 17, 10 miles north of New Bern. GROOM RULED INSANE - William T. Williams, 25, of Detroit married two women in one after noon on July 18; he was declared insane Tuesday by a Recorders Court sanity commission. SUPERSONIC SABRES The first F-100 “Super Sabre" jet fighter planes arrived at Golds boro’s Seymour Force Base last Friday to begin a switch over to supersonic aircraft. —_JP* ” JET KILLS FIVE A U. S. Air Force FIOO jet fighter crashed last week on a Dutch army bar racks at Bussum, 15 miles south east of Amsterdam, killing 5 per sons and injuring 15; the American pilot bailed out safely. SCHOOL BUSES COLLIDE Twenty-five Negro students were hurt, none seriously, when two school buses collided near Coinjock Tuesday afternoon; both adult drivers also received minor in juries. $500,000 GEM ROBBERY A lone bandit fired tear gas into the face of a New York gyin iqerdiqnt Tuesday in Detroit and escaped with a satchel which the merchant said contained cut and polished diamonds worth $500,000 wholesale pleted until Monday the 18th at the home of Mrs. Davis. Great ex citement, mixed with surprise and satisfaction in accomplishment, was lived by each one. “My hus band will never believe I made this from just a flat circle of alum inum,” and similar exclamations were heard as the ladies departed, with their most attractive trays. TYRRELL BOY WINNER IN CORN PRODUCTION RACE Johnnie White, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. T. White of Columbia Route 3, won first place in Tyrrell County 4-H corn production with a yield of 122-1 bushels per acre. He was presented a $25 Govern ment bond by M. A. Matthews, East Carolina Bank, at the Tyrrell County 4-H Achievement program November 14, 7:30 p.m. in the Co lumbia High School auditorium. To produce this outstanding yield Johnnie planted his Pioneer 309A variety on April 16 and spaced his corn 12” in the drill on 3% foot rows. At planting time 700 pounds of 5-10-10 fertilizer were used. For side dressing Am monium Nitrate was used. A close second was the 121.9 bushel yield of Edward Davis, Jr., of Columbia Route 3. Edward’s corn was also Pioneer 309A variety and was on 40” rows planted 13” inches in drill. As second place winner he received $lO, given by Columbia Supply Co. Johnnie and Edward also were presented certificates as members in the North Carolina 100 bushel com dub. Lawrence Swain had the third highest yield among the nineteen contestants of 91.3 bushels per acre and was awarded a prize of $5 by Owens Supply Co. Other outstanding yields consi dering the unfavorab'e weather during the growing was 88.6 bushel yield by Larry Cooper and 88.4 bushel yield by Allan Basnight. Harold Norman had a yield of 74.5 bushels; Larry Gene Comstock 74.2 bushels; Brian Hopkins 71.8 bushels; and Eddie Phelps 70 7 bushels. Other 4-H boys taking part in the contest were Mack Clough, Gene Woodard, Warren Woodard, Harry Lee Spruill, Wayne Cahoon, Cary Cohoon, Pat ’ Brickhouse, Pat Roughton, Ray Davis and David Cooper- FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1957 FOUR MILLION DOLLAR BUDGET—A $4,150,000 budget recommendation for 1959 was put before the Baptist State Conven tion meeting in Raleigh Tuesday. SIX KILLED IN FIRE Six Negro children, ranging' in age from 3 months to 7 years, died Tuesday when trapped by flames in a flat near downtown Detroit. MINERS RESCUED Two coal miners were rescued Monday at Kassel, Germany, after being trapped for five days in a tunnel 130 feet underground by a rockfall. RAISE TAXES—Former Presi dent Harry Truman said last week that the only way to overtake the Russians in their scientific-military drive is to raise taxes. KING, N. C., BANK ROBBED —A young gunman Monday walked into a bank at King, N. Q., forced the cashier to strip at pistol point and escaped with between $2,000 and $3,000. EXECUTION SET FRIDAY Ross McAfee, 39-year-old Negro, is scheduled to be executed in Ra leigh Friday for first degree bur glary, unless Governor Hodges in tervenes. TORNADO KILLS FlVE—Five persons were killed Sunday when tornadoes sprayed Mississippi and Alabama, striking more than 10 communities, as well as hitting one town in Texas. $2 MILLION DRIVE Queens College in Charlotte has launched into its second century by begin ning a development campaign for a minimum of two million dollars, in order to meet the educational .needs of the rapidly-expanding student population. NEGRO VOTE GOAL—A South wide drive to register three mil lion Negro voters in 11 Southern states by 1960 has been announced by the National Assn, for the Ad vancement of Colored People. SURPLUS ISLAND—The fed eral government has declared as “surplus to the needs of the gov ernment” the 27%-acre Ellis Is land in New York harbor, which was closed as an immigration sta tion in 1954. RARE MONEY STOLEN A Chicago dealer in rare coins and stamps has reported the robbery of curios worth more than $30,000 from his store; the loot included fare U. S. and foreign coins weighing more than 800 pounds. CANCER VIRUS ISOLATED— A report from Rio de Janeiro says that a Brazilian scientist has isolated a virus causing cancer; officials emphasized, however, that no claim is being made for dis covery of a cancer cure. BIG FLIGHT ENDS Six huge B-52 jet bombers zoomed to a pre dawn landing at Plattsburg ■ (N. Y.) Air Force Base Sunday to com plete a 10,600-mile nonstop round trip flight from the United States to Buenos Aires; the bombers were refueled en route by jet tankers. SCHOOL DEDICATION At the dedication of a spanking new $140,000 building at the Flat Rock Elementary School Monday, memo rials were also dedicated to the schoolteacher and student who died in the blaze wheih swept the school last winter. TWO CHILDREN DIE IN FIRE —Two small Negro children suffo cated in a fire at their grand mother’s home near Jacksonville, N. C., Tuesday afternoon when their mother left them alone and went to a store 100 yards away. PRINCE’S BIRTHDAY Eng land’s Prince Charles celebrated his ninth birthday last Thursday quiet ly at an exclusive boarding school; it was the first birthday the young heir to the throne had spent away from home. PLANE VICTIMS FOUND Wreckage and a number of bodies, including one still strapped in a - and two wearing lifebelts, were found last Thursday about 850 miles northeast of Honolulu by planes searching for a Pan American Stratocruiser with 44 persorts aboard which vanished i November 8 on a routine flight from San Francisco to Honolulu. PATROLMEN’S KILLER IDEN TIFIED The FBI last week launched an all-out search for , Frank Edward Wetzel, 86-year -1 o’d ex-convict who escaped from a New York mental hospital last month, believed to be the man who shot and killed two North Carolina highway patrolmen November 5; Wetzel was believed headed for I Mississippi to free his brother I from a death cell.
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