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PAGE FOUR THE COASTLAND TIMES Published Continuously at Manteo, N. C., Since July 4, 1935 TUB 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 Postolfice in Manteo, N. C. Subscription Rates: Yearly $3.00; Six Months. $1.75; 3 Months, SI.OO PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY TIMES PRINTING CO.. INC. AT 505 LODGE STREET. MANTEO. NORTH CAROIJNA VICTOR MEEKINS - CATHERINE D. MEEKINS SECRETARY-TREASURER FRANCIS W. MEEKINS. . .. Advertising Manager VOL XXIII MANTEO. N. C.. FRIDAY. MARCH 21. 1958 NO. 38 SOME THINGS ARE HARD TO UNDERSTAND. In the Great Smoky Mountains of Western North Caro? lina, the Federal Government, perhaps with some state aid, has built a mighty highway or two which brings into the region millions of tourists from all over the Nation, and a golden tide of dollars for nearby business. The National Park Service which administers these highways proposes now to put a toll on them, using the argument that those who use them most should share in the cost and upkeep, thereby easing the burden on the taxpayers. If there are go ing to be tolls anywhere, there is merit in their argument, but we in principle are opposed to tolls on our highways, believing that we pay sufficiently in the gasoline and tag taxes. But what puzzles us mostly in this connection, is that the Governor and the political big shots of North Carolina have screamed to high-heaven that tolls on these roads are outrageous and a crime against the people. They have all hot-footed it to Washington to protest to the Federal agen cies, and they are seeking means to circumvent such pro posed tolls. Yet for some years now, this same Governor, and some of the politicians who object to tolls in Western North Carolina, have vigorously advocated tolls for us peo ple down here in Eastern North Carolina, We are not occas ional tourists from afar, who come once a year on a scenic holiday. We live here the year-round, and have to depend every day on our roads jn the struggle to make a living. “Outrageous,” they say about tolls in the west, but it’s all right to make people pay to cross Alligator River, Oregon Inlet, or any other waterway in our part of the country where bridges are deemed to be an economic necessity of the people. This attitude is hard to understand, other than that so many of us have been long content to be suckers and believe anything some folks tell us. THE VALUE OF SMALL HARBORS. Every now and then some unexpected circumstances point up sharply, sometimes critically, the importance of our small harbors in the North Carolina Coastland. Many times have we thought that heavy emphasis seems always to be put upon the value of our larger ports, but to our mind the thing can go too far, and while we expand all resources in the development of some super-port many smaller ones upon which so many people depend are allowed to die. Take for instance the recent freezing weather when boat transportation was tied up and could not enter Hatter as Harbor, the only oil port serving seven villages with some 2,000 people and important Navy and Coast Guard installa tions. Freezing temperatures stepped up the consumption of fuel oil, in this day when the majority of homes are oil heated. The island’s bulk supplies of oil were exhausted and a crises was being faced. Truck transports are not allowed on the state ferries. Fortunately oil got there in time by an exception being made to allow one transport to go over. Had Hatteras harbor been adequate in depth, permit ting ingress of larger tankers, the island could maintain much larger bulk stations for oil. Likewise the growing fleet of trawlers which now must harvest our ocean waters, since fishing has declined so much in inland waters, could find easy access, storage and markets when needed. Truly, we must not lose sight of the great economic value of our small ports. In a number of them, properly look ed after, will be found a mighty source of strength and pow er for progress, development and better living. ANOTHER REASON WHY POSTAL DEFICIT NOT LOGICAL. The postal deficit will continue to run into many hun dreds of millions of dollars a year unless positive corrective steps are taken. Two solutions are commonly proposed. One is for increase in letter postage. The other is a revolution in the mechanics and techniques of mail and package hand ling, through automation. This has been done in some Euro pean countries, with notable success in improving service and reducing costs. It may well be that the final solution will require both these steps—more automation and higher rates. But it is an unfortunate fact that practically all of the attention seems to be given to the mail categories—first, second and third class. Little attention is being given to the fourth class cat egory, which is parcel post. This is simply not logical, and for two reasons. One, parcel post does not pay its own way, and so makes a sub stantial contribution to the postoffice’s taxpayer-borne an nual deficits. Second, parcel post is not a basic postoffice function. It does not contribute to public entertainment, ed ucation or enlightenment, as does the carrying of mail, newspapers and magazines. It is, instead, a purelv commer cial function, operating in direct competition with private, taxpaying carriers of packages and freight. Long before parcel post was heard of these carriers did the job in efficient fashion. If parcel post was abolished tomorrow they’d pick up the load. So, in considering postal reforms, every activity of the department should be considered and evaluated—parcel post included. UNSIGNED LETTERS. We have many times pointed out that we will not ac cept letters for publication unless they are signed, not nec essarily that the name be published, but we require evidence of good faith and some degree of courage. This week we get one complaining about the dock charges at Oregon Inlet, the prices of gas, etc. We do not give consideration to anony mous letters. If a person believes something is wrong, he ought to have the grit to speak out in meeting or quit com plaining. Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another, it is for the sovereignty of self-gdveming people, and her example, her assistance, her encouragement, has thrilled two continents jn this western' world with all those fine impulses which have built up human liberty on both sides of the water. She stands, therefore, as an example of independence, as an example of free institu tions, ana as an example of disinterested international action in the main tenets of justice.—Woodrow Wilson. If you would make a man happy, do not add to his pos sessions but subtract from the sum of his desires.—Seneca. Bin®! MORE ABOUT UNSIGHTLY CONDITION OF COURTHOUSE To The Editor: I am in agreement with much that you have said in past few issues of Coastland Times with re gard to the “Courthouse”. Since seeing more examples of worth lessness let me suggest that a few statements about the cleanliness of the county buildings be noted by the taxpaying citizens. With a full time, well paid janitor why isn’t the outer hallway and stairway to court room swept more than just Tuesday mornings when the crowd is expected ? People visiting the other offices during the week must walk over the trash left by the “court-regulars”. One morning a group of ladies of the entire county met in the community for a demonstration by a Home Economist from Raleigh. Stray coke bottles, over-filled ash trays, numerous chewing-gum pa pers, etc., littered the floor and tables. Can the county janitor not go in after the District Social Se curity public and put the place in order? Surely, we were told the cleaning was done Tuesday morn ing by the colored girl who comes weekly. Once a' week is by no means enough for a building used by the littering public. Please give thought to this issue and include it in your future papers. A MANTEO CITIZEN March 13. 1958 Manteo, N. C. It seems incredible that those who have jobs in the courthouse at high pay for so little work, would have tolerated the litter and trash about them every day, and a shame on the officials that such conditions brought out the women of the community in an attempt to get it cleaned up. But then the excuse of some courthouse em ployes is “It’s no use to clean up; it will get in the same shape right away.” WHEN FUR PRICES RISE, A FORTUNE IN MUSKRATS FOR HATTERAS ISLAND Ephraim O’Neal, a well known Hatteras fisherman is much in trigued with a report on the num ber of Nutria or Russian rats re ported on Hatteras Island, and which heretofore have been considered of little value. He says quotations have come this week showing these furs quot ed at sls to $35 each. Now he says is the time to make money. “It being estimated are 10,000 to 12,000 of these animals loose on the island, and take an average price of S2O per fur, 10,- 000 of them would bring in $200,- 000,” he says. “Looks like we will do well to keep the little devils for future income.” Mr. O’Neal is much concerned about the probability of calling striped bass game fish, which might prove a great injustice, since there are so few records of any of them responding to the lure of surfcasters. It was reported last week that a Norfolk man had caught two of them at Kill Devil Hills. “The only other time I recall any of them caught ■on the hook was the report of Raymond Bas nett of Buxton that he had landed four of them. Since our commer cial fishing crews have made as much as SIO,OOO from catches of these fish along the ocean side in a season from November to April, it is more important to let home folks have them in order to make a living. Regarding the Russian rats, Mr. O’Neal recalls his brother Amos shipped away the fur from one some years ago, and couldn’t get anything for it. But now quotations are rumored around Hatteras run ning up to $35 each. MANTEO PERSONALS Mrs. Nannie Midgett is a patient in Norfolk" General Hospital, Nor folk, Va. Q. A. Rogers, Jr., is a patient in the Marine Hospital, Norfolk, wl-.ere he underwent surgery Thursday. Mrs. Julia C. Gray of Manteo and Nags Head is attending the National Doll Fair in New York, N. Y. Larry Holmes visited his moth er, Mrs. Robert Guynn, Sunday in the Marine Hospital, Norfolk. He was accompanied by his uncle, Car son Crees, and Mrs. Crees, who also visited Mrs. Guynn. Mrs. Caddie Crees returned home Sunday after a two-weeks visit in Elizabeth City with her' daughter, Mrs. E. R. Holmes. Mrs. Holmes and Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Holmes, also of Elizabeth City, spent Sunday with Mrs. Mae Har rell. Also visiting Mrs. Harrell was her brother, Wilton Crees, of Nor folk. Mrs. Ray Jones went Thursday to Greenville to be with her grand son, Ray Jones 111, of Sanford, who is ill at the home of his ma ternal grandparents, Dr. and Mrs. Carl Adams. When the little boy recovers, he will accompany Mrs. Jones to Manteo for a visit of several weeks. THE COASTLAND TIMES, MANTEO, N. C. BIDS INVITED TO BUILD BREAKWATER HATTERAS HARBOR Wilmington.—Plans are taking shape here to build a protective fender system, through the rock breakwater at Hatteras. An announcement by the Corps of Engineers District Engineer, Col. H. C. Rowland, Jr., said an invitation for bids is scheduled to be issued March 20 with the open ing of bids to follow on April 16. Based on this schedule, construc tion will begin within 30 days of the opening and completed in 90 days. Plans call for a pile and timber fender on each side of the entrance channel through the breakwater to act as a protective buffer for boats. When the breakwater was com pleted two years ago a single pil ing on each side of the entrance was provided as a marker. Subse quently, it was noted that boats might be driven onto the rocks in rough weather with resulting dam age and possible loss of life. The fenders are a means of removing this hazard to safe navigation. Meanwhile, Colonel Rowland said the opening of bids for grass ing the dike in the Tadmorc sec tion in Pasquotank County has been changed from March 20 to March 25. WANCHESE PERSONALS Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Gaskill are visiting their daughter and son-in law, Mr. and Mrs. Elton White in Norfolk. Mrs. Malcolm Daniels, Mrs. Ina Wescott.’Mrs. Robert Daniels, Mrs. Gladys Daniels, Mrs. David Gas kins and Mrs. Laura Paul were in Elizabeth "'City Monday. Mr. and Mrs. William Forbes and son Irving of Norfolk, Mrs. Edith Bateman, Mrs. Bessie Spen cer and daughter, Velma Oliver, Mrs. Pauline Hollis and daughter, Flora Ann, all of Columbia were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Theof Wescott. Mrs. Willie Etheridge Jr. and daughter, Susan, Mrs. Ada Mc- Dannell, Mrs. Charles Wescott and daughter Myrtle Gale, were in Norfolk Friday. Mr. dnd Mrs. Clinton Murray of Portsmouth were week end guests of Mrs. Murray’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Daniels. Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Crees and children of Norfolk were week end guests of Mrs. Creef’s mother, Mrs. Lucy Midgett. ■ Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Daniels Jr. and children of Elizabeth City spent the week end with Mr. Dan iels’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Daniels, Sr. Mrs. Betty Gaskill, who has been ill for some time, is at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Des mond Rogers, in Manteo. BUXTON PERSONALS Born to Mr. and Mrs. David Barnett, March 12, a son, David Thomas, weighing 7% lbs., in Leigh Hospital, Norfolk. Mrs. Bar nett is the former Irene Gaskins of Hatteras. Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Welch of Boydton, Va., were week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Jones. Also Shirley, Katrine, Otis, Jr., and Wayne Willis were guests of the Jones. They have just moved from New Orleans, La. to Norfolk, Va. with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Otis L. Willis. This is the first time Shirley and Katrine have been hpme in five years. Mrs. Otis Willis is a patient in the Public Health Hospital, Nor folk. Mrs. Martha Barnett is an out patient at the Public Health Hos pital, Norfolk, and is living with her daughter, Mrs. Iris Anderson, 8240 Simons Drive. Mrs. Barnett is much improved. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Can non a son, Christopher Edward, in Washington, D. C. Mrs. Cannon is the former Connie Rhoden. Mr. and Mrs. W. Browning left Sunday for Winston-Salem, return ing Thursday. Mr. Browning is with the Western Electric at the Naval Facility, Buxton. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Braddock and children of Orlando, Fla. and Mrs. Juanita Chambles and chil dren of Lake Wales, Fla., were down to visit their brother, Rev. J. C. Braddock during his illness. Mr. Braddock’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Braddock, returned home with them. ' Victor Rollinson, Barry Peele, and Shelton Williams were down over the week end visiting their folks. Mrs. Margie Stubee entertained at a coffee hour Monday afternoon at her home. Her guests were Mrs. Cynthia Witczak, Mrs. Helen Wharten, Mrs. Barbara Eisenbeis, Mrs. Mary Stamey, Mrs. Mary Ann Wampler, Mrs. Paul Johnson, Mrs. Paula Fulcher. The Ladies, Auxiliary of the Cape Hatteras Health Center met at the hospital Thursday afternoon. The meeting was held to help mend garments needed for the hospital. Mrs. Paula Fulcher, Mrs. Leola Rollinson and Mrs. Mary Anne Wampler were present. The Aux iliary is paying off the flooring bill on the annex. And chairmen of the villages are asked to be at the April' meeting for a business session. • MUSINGS ON LIFE AT CAPE HATTERAS BY MacNEILL Not one of them, nor all of them huffing and puffing together, could do anything about it and I have no wish to incite them to even try to do anything about it but it would, insofar as us Hat teras Islanders are concerned, add a little sense to their hourly ponti fications about the weather if they would just occasionally mention the fact that this winter our Gulf Stream has mighty near froze. It has been the coldest of record. There was an appalling morning not long ago when they reported casually the fact that the air temp erature—not the water tempera ture at Diamond Shoals made Cape Hatteras the coldest place in North Carolina by two degrees. Even Mt. Mitchell was warmer than it was reported to be here, where we usually in winter man age be at least nine degrees warm er than anywhere else and, in sum mer, cooler by about the same mar gin. (It may be deduced that, in my old age, I have succumbed to the radio. I confess it with appropriate shame. I had little to do with it. A lady with the best of intentions sent me an electric blanket for Christmas. Not wishing to be cre mated in my bed, I declined it and the lady’s messenger took it back and traded it in for a small radio, and I have discovered with dismay that every cross-roads now has its broadcasting station and every sta tion has its weather expert. (These experts—there is one some 70 miles due west of here who speaks in perfect Charleston ese and manages to be very cute besides—prattle learnedly about fronts and pressures and counter clocltwise rotations and almost in variably manage to be as wrong as possible . . . Eight of the nine I listened to this morning promised me a bright, sunny day. The sun draped itself with a cloud about an hour ago and looks now like it will spend the whole day pouting behind it.) Not one of the authorities com peting for my attention this morning mentioned the water temperature down yonder at the Point of the Cape, or under the keel of the Lightship 14 miles southeast of this house. (Norfolk’s WTAR has the soundest of these weather people but that station is rarely heard here for technical and uncontrollable reasons. He always mentions the water temperature here and at Chesapeake and so do the Norfolk newspapers but that is about all.) Comparative water temperatures began to concern me a decade ago when I set out to explore the phe nomena that make up this enchant ed country. Ordinarily and on the average over the years there is a difference of 22 degrees between here and Chesapeake Lightship 140 miles north of here and with the help of one of our ablest surf casters, using a photographic ther mometer, I have noted a difference of 19 degrees on the north and south side of the Point itself. Something has been happening to our ocean this winter. Among other things, it contains codfish, itinerants from Cape Cod and the Grand Banks. It is the first time that has happened in 37 years, ac cording to my senior counsellors around here, Martin Tolson and the redoubtable Nace Jennette . . . My point is, if I have one, that the meteorologists and the ocean ographers ought to get together and see if they can figure out what is going on. Even the youngest of my neighbors over at the Coast Guard station, who report on the water four times a day know that it is not going to be any warmer until the Gulf Stream resumes its normal color and temperature. We have here now the most mod em and the most elaborately equipped Weather Station on the eastern seaboard and it is ably staffed. They are not allowed to forecast the weather, to be sure. That is done by electronic ma chines in Washington. They send up balloons twice a day that some times reach altitudes of 100,000 feet and send down strange data. , But these people are never allowed to know what the water tempera ture is 15 miles away from them. They have a wind-measuring de vice now right out on the Point of the Cape but it will, or at least has not, yet recorded such winds as are encountered by balloons 20 miles above it. Up there the wind sometimes reaches 285 mph, which ought to astonish the cross-roads I experts back inland. Us Islanders have regained ac cess to our Cape where the Na tional Park Service has had con tractors at work on -a $175,000 nroject expanding the parking lot, building a new one nearer the Lighthouse, and paving the roads in a 100-acre camping area. The road to the Point has been blocked off since December but it has not inconvenienced many of us on ac- count of there just being no weath er to invite anybody dow’n there. When the Gulf Stream gets over its distemper, visitors will discover with satisfaction that under the quiet driving of new Superinten ent Robert Gibbs, not only at the Cape itself, but at intervals west and north of it, additional ramps LE> 1— ~ •-..rT' ■ ffnr M FLOODS—Waters in Bennettsville, S. C. after a dam had crumbled drove 300 people from their homes. TRAIN WRECK—A train in Ore gon jumped the rails at 60 mph, but despite some broken bone's, none of the 197 persons aboard were killed. “END OF THE ROPE”—Jermiah McCray,' confessed killer of five persons in four states, was sen tenced to death in the electric chair last week at Boling Green, Ky., for the rape-slaying of a widow on February 2. $105,000 DAMAGES—Mrs. Stella Craven, 41, compromised her dam age suit for injuries in a traffic mishap against the Berkley Feed Co. of Norfolk for $105,000. The courts had previously awarded her $150,000. UP TEN YEARS—That’s a pre diction on the Navy satellite fired Monday from Florida. It travels at 18,000 miles per hour. It’s said to be the third satellite in the air, counting Russia’s first one which weighs a ton. GREAT JUDGE DIES Judge John J. Parker, 72 chief judge of the U. S. Circuit court of appeals, a famed North Carolinian, and great authority on constitutional law died of a heart attack in Wash ington. He lived in Charlotte. CHILDISH CURIOSITY—The cur iosity of children living nearby, re sulted in the arrest of' four men who were operating a whiskey still in a high-class rented home in Princess Anne Co., Va. Dead fish ■were found in a nearby lake, result of refuse from the still. KL A N-INDIAN TROUBLE James W. Cole, grand wizard of the North Carolina Ku Klux Klan, was convicted last Thursday of in citing a riot among Lumbee In dians last January 18. DIVORCES WIFE—The Shah of Persia has divorced his wife, Queen Soraya, because she did not give him a son. She will keep the title of princess, a lot of money and millions in jewels he had given her. TRAWLER CATCHES—Some 13,- 000 boxes of fish, mostly croakers were taken by trawlers last week off the N. C. Coast. Prices dropped considerably, and the deluge caused a 5(1 drop in shad prices. SECOND LIFE TERM Frank Edward Wetzel, already under a life sentence for killing one North Carolina highway patrolman, was convicted at Sanford last Thursday night of murdering another state trooper; the jury recommended mercy, meaning another automatic life sentence. have been installed to give easier and more convenient access to the beach. Also in the works and slated for completion before summer, two miles of paving to connect the Coast Guard station. and this hill with the paved highway at the Lighthouse. Slowly, but with new surety, this man, Gibbs is getting ■ things done.—Ben Dixon Mac Neill. i MISS HILDA RAKES TAKES TECHNICIAN JOB IN MANTEO Miss Hilda Rakes, a native of Durham has recently taken up work as a technician at the Fear ing Memorial Clinic in Manteo, as sisting Dr. W. W. Harvey Jr. Mrs. Alvah Ward Jr. will remain as part time technician. Miss Rakes, who is living at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Wescott, is an old friend of Mrs. Wescott. Prior to coming to Manteo she was a public health nurse with the City of Richmond. She is a graduate of Watts "Hospital, Durham, and a former supervisor of nurses at Watts Hospital. She took hei graduate wrok at Chapel Hill and Duke Hospital. BIRTHS Born to Mr. and Mrs. Rupert P. Perry of Manteo a daughter, Pamela Dawn, on March 12 in the Albemarle Hospital, Elizabeth City; weight five pounds 7% ounces. Mrs. Perry is the former Ruby Irene Sawyer. CENSUS BUREAU SEEKS FACTS ON CONSUMER INCOME Special questions on consumer income, migration apd family characteristics will be asked in. the U. S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey in March, ac cording to Supervisor Joseph R. Norwood of the Bureau’s regional office at Charlotte, N. C. which will participate in the survey. The special questions will be in addi tion to the regular employment and unemployment inquiries asked each month in the Current Population Survey. FRIDAY, MARCH 21. 1958 ACTRESS PAYS OFF—Gail Rus sell, movie actress, paid a $420 fine for drunk driving in Califor nia. UNCLE SAM’S HELP—In North Carolina there are 29,664 employes on the Federal pay roll, drawing an annual wage totaling over 122 million dollars. 50-HOUR WALK—An underwater walk across the bed of the English Channel from France to Britain, a distance of over 21 miles, is planned next August by diver Vic tor Van Lent, 35 years old. OIL FIELD CAPTURED The Indonesian government last week announced the retaking of the oil field near Pakanbaru in rebellious Central Sumatra and said the American oil company, Caltex, was free to resume operations. NEED 3 RICH BACHELORS Lord Mayor James Carroll of Dub lin, Ireland, flew to New York last week with his three daughters Lillian, 26, Doris, 23, and Colette, 18—for the St Patrick’s Day cele bration and to look for three rich eligible bachelors. DRIVING INSTRUCTOR, TOO— In Indianapolis, Wesley J. Murphy, 30, charged with reckless driving, was ordered last Thursday to at tend two city traffic school ses sions after he was caught speed ing; he is a traffic safety instruc tor at an Indianapolis high school. GUNFIRE PERILS PLANES Pilots of two Pan American World Airways planes reported last Thursday they had to fly off their courses to avoid antiaircraft fire from four Navy vessels, which were being manned by reservists conducting gunnery practice. VIOLENCE—Robert Blue, 15-yr.- old New York boy slashed a house wife to death with a knife while he was delivering religious publi cations in New York. He tried to rob her because he wanted new clothes . . . While cruising in a small aluminum motor boat in Lake Lure, N. C. three South Caro lina men were drowned . . . Six were killed when Bobby Glenn O’Neal, 17, tried to pass a car carrying 12 negroes in Wake Co., N. C. O’Neal was one of the vic tims ... A family of five was killed by a train which struck their car in Galesburg, 111. . . . Bobby Halloway, 21, negro airman at Goldsboro was held for the hit-run killing of Mrs. Corrine Stallings, 67, a practical nurse . . . Two young men died and two young women- were injured in a head-on collision near Kington . . . Russell Musick, 33, was found stabbed to death in his home in Norfolk Co., Va. LUNG CANCER KILLS 1,632 IN FOUR YEARS IN NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh, March 20.—Cancer of the lung is no.w the greatest can cer-killer of North Carolina men, according to a five-year survey released by Dr. Donald Koonce of Wilmington, president of the North Carolina Division of the American Cancer Society. The survey, showing 1,632 deaths from lung cancer, was made for the Society by the Department of Vital Statistics of the N. C. State Board of Health, and cover ed the years, 1952-1956, a period which also saw the lung cancer toll mount rapidly throughout the na tion, Dr. Koonce explained. Deaths from all types of cancer reached 18,678. In figures for both sexes, cancer of the stomach was high on the list of victims, claiming 1,628 lives. Leading causes of cancer deaths among men, according to the sur vey: Lung, Male organs, stomach, intestines, pancreas. Among wom en, the primary cancer-killers are: Breast, cervix and other female or gans, intestines, stomach, pancreas. Five hundred North Carolina children under 15 years of age were victims of cancer during the survey period. “Cancer now kills more children than any other disease,” Dr. Koonce observed. He noted that leukemia was the most frequent cause of cancer death in children, with malignancies of the brain a second. Dr. Koonce referred to the 507 deaths from cancer of the skin as “a sad commentary on our alert ness. Cancer of the skin can be easily cured in 95 per cent of the cases.” The figures showed that the highest percentage of fatal cancers occur in the 45 to 85 years age group, with the most critical years being 55 to 75. However, there were 2,000 deaths under 40 years of age.
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