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VOLUME XXIII NO. 3» HEARING, CONTROL OF HURRICANES IS SCHEDULED MAY 2 To Be Held at Washington Fol lowing Plans Made at Eden ton Last Week Fifty representatives of counties and towns in the Albemarle and Pamlico Sound areas were advised at a meeting held in Edenton March 20, to submit recommenda tions for hurricane prevention projects to the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers at a hearing in Wash ington, N. C. on May 2. The meet ing, called by Lawrence Swain, Dare County Commissioner, in co operation With the Army Engineer Corps and the North Carolina Hur ricane Rehabilitation Program, heard explanations of Congression al Public Bill 71 which authorizes federal aid for hurricane preven tion measures. Chairman Swain reviewed the severe damage recent hurricanes have caused in northeastern Caro lina coastal areas and stated that the Washington hearing would pro vide an opportunity to request fed eral preventive projects. Col. Row land of the Army Engineer Corps outlined steps to be taken in mak ing hurricane damage surveys and discussed items to be included in the report. The data included should refer only to damage re sulting from flooding by hurricane tides. Col. Rowland stated that other damage such as soil erosion and beach erosion resulting from normal rains and winds should not be included as Bill 71 does not cover this problem. The reports will be coordinated by the Army Engineer Corps after the hearing and will be submitted to congressional committees for consideration and action. Col. Harry E. Brown, Director of the State Hurricane Rehabilitation Program, exhibited samples of re ports to guide officials in their See CONTROL, Page Eight MANTEO RESIDENTS TO VISIT EUROPE Mrs. M. K. Fearing and Party To Tour Several Coontrtei; Mrs. Nancy Midgett Wih Visit Relatives in England Among those planning to visit in Europe next month are Mrs. M. K Fearing, her daughter, Mrs. W. J. Andrews of Manteo, and her son, Bradford Fearing, of Miami, Fla.; and Airs. Nancy Midgett of Manteo. Mrs. Midgett, who is a native of England, will sail on Monday, March 31, from New York on the Empress of England. She will land in Liverpool and from there will go to visit her sister, Miss Grace Crighton, and her fiiece and nephew, Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Staker, in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire; a niece and nephew, Dr. and Mi’s. Hugh Gompertz, in Tenterden, Kent; her brother and sister-in law, Mr. and Mrs. K. J. Crighton of Worthing, Sussex, and another brother and isister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Crighton in Ewell, Sur rey. She will also visit friends in London and Liverpool, England; and in Glasgow, England. She will return to the United States on May 20, returning on the Queen Alary. Mrs. Fearing and Mrs. Andrews will leave on Wednesday, April 2, for New York, where Mr. Fearing will join them. They will leave New York on April 5 by Pan- American Airlines, putting down in London. After visiting London, they plan to visit Vienna,,Aust ria; Zurich, Switzerland; Rome, Italy; and Paris, France. They will be abroad for at least two weeks, perhaps longer. Mrs. Andrews’ daughter, Grizelle, will stay with Mr. and Mrs. M. K. Fearing, Jr., while her mother is away. FUNERAL OF MRS LENNON CONDUCTED FRIDAY, MAR. 21 Funeral services for Mrs. Gladys Wescott Lennon, who died March 19th in a Durham hospital were conducted Friday afternoon at 3 o’clock in the Manteo Baptist Church by the Rev. W. E. Choler ton, pastor. “Oh Love That Would Not Let Me Go” and “My Faith Looks Up To Thee” were sung by the church choir. Mrs. W. R. Pierce accom panied at the organ. The casket was covered with a pall made of pink carnations and fern. An exceptionally large array of flowers and large attendance at tested the popularity of the de ceased. Active pallbearers were Earl Green, Woody Fearing, M. L. Dan iels, Jr., Billy Tarkington, Dorian Quidley and Sam Midgett. Burial followed in the Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Honorary pall bearers were: Edward Wescott, Archie Burrus, R. D. Sawyer, R. O. Ballance, Charles R. Evans, and Roy Wes-| eott THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA FACTUAL ACCOUNT OF FLU EPIDEMIC ON OCRACOKE ISLE Roads and Airplanes Play A Pari This Time in Rendering Aid to Sick Community Ocracoke, March 25.—Last week Ocracokers found their little vil lage suffering from a real epidem ic of what seemed to be influenza. It began with a few taken ill on Monday and by Friday one or two, or sometimes all, in a family were sick in bed, and school attendance had dropped to about forty per cent present. Conditions were made worse by the fact that the island has no doctor and the registered nurse, Miss Kathleen Bragg, by week’s end was sick, «qd Mrs. Eliz abeth G. Howard, also trained in nursing, was also sick. Both the postmistress, Mrs. R. W. Howard, and her assistant, Miss Leia How ard, were ill at home, and the load of mail had to be taken care of for two days entirely by Mrs. Wallace Spencer, who works in the postof fice from time to time. Attendance at the Methodist re vival services gradually decreased as the sickness spread, and on Fri day night Rev. W. W. Clarke, the pastor, was ill, but the visiting preacher,. Rev. Alvis Daniel, got through the last of his excellent sermons. He himself, however, was suffering from the malady when he boarded the mailboat for his home in Carteret County on Saturday morning. Because of the intensity of the epidemic, T. Harvey Wahab, pres ident of the local Civic Club, and other members of the club, decided that something had to be done to bring in professional help. Medi cine was also running low. On Sat urday afternoon, they contacted Dr. J. W. R. Norton of the State Health Department at his home in Raleigh. He had several sugges tions which were immediately put into effect. Telephoning Miss Bragg, he ascertained what was needed in the way of medicines and had an order placed with Bell’s Drugstore in Beaufort. Contacting Harvey Wahab again, he urged him to ask the U. S. Coast Guard for %he use of a helicopter. This request was granted, and late Sat urday afternoon Elizabeth City Base sent a helicopter to Beaufort to pick up and bring medicine to Ocracoke. Dr. Norton also contact- See FLU, Page Four ROBERT LEE MIDGETT OF MANTEO SEEKS OFFICE OF REGISTER OF DEEDS A Dare County boy who has spent much of life in the Maritime Service said this week that he wants to stay home all the time now, and live with his wife and three kids. Robert Lee Midgett, bom at Manns Harbor, and the son of Mrs. Minnie M. and the late Pelig S. Midgett, a lighthouse keeper until his death in service, in 1933, is the man who wants to be Register of Deeds. Robert Mid gett is a nephew of Capt. Levene Midgett of Rodanthe. Mr. Midgett is a graduate of Manteo high school, and of the Maritime Officers school at New London, Conn., where he was awarded rank of ensign, and serv ed on ships through World War 11, in both the Atlantic and Pacific war zones, winning campaign bars from the Mediterranean and Mid dle East, and Pacific and Atlantic theatres. He has been back home for about five years, engaging in the building trades. He says that he wishes to re main home the rest of his days, that he is interested in rendering some service to the people of Dare County too. Also he says if the people honor him with the office, he will be glad to assist in saving money for the county and believes he could run the office on a much smaller amount than is now spent for it. He plans to . visit all the people of the county between now and the primary he says, and will explain his views with the people. One of the strong views he has expressed is that the offices of the people should not be looked upon as be longing to any one person for life. The present incumbent has held it for 32 years. ' - TO SUBSCRIBERS We 4oo‘t wont you to min • •Ingin copy of this paper. Dee” wait to bo notified of the expira tion of year •übMription. Advent ing postal cost* ora molting thii prohibit hr*. * Please watch the mailing addrara on your paper, or on the wrapper It is In. This «lraw« the day and Kindly send In your sobsar{tlM remittance ton days before expira tion date. Sebscription rales ora at top of pogo 4. THE COASTLAND TIMES Manteo, N. C. I ' C. WALLACE TATEM, TYRRELL CO. CIVIC LEADER, SUCCUMBS 'J**'" _ ilm C. Wallace Tatum, 82, Tyrrell County civic leader, died Monday morning at Columbia. He had served for several terms as Tyrrell County representative in the North Carolina General As sembly. His first service was from 1926 to 1937. He served again in the 1948 session. Mr. Tatum was a member of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church. He is survived by three daugh ters, Mrs. P. M. Arps of Plym outh, Mrs. Alpheus Dissosway of Columbia, and Mrs. Raymond S. Leary of Columbia; one grand daughter and three great-grand children. Funeral services were conducted at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church Tuesday at 3 p.m. by the Rev. H. A. Mackie. Burial followed in Oak wood Cemetery. JAPANESE PROFESSOR TO ADRRESS YOUTH RALLY ' Group From Manteo Methodist Church to Present Skit at Plymouth Also on March 29th ’ The annual Youth Rally of the ■ Elizabeth City District of the Methodist Church will be held at the Plymouth Church Saturday, 1 March 29 at 10 a.m., Dr. Junichi ’ Nakamura of Japan, featured speaker. The program will consist • of an original skit by the MYF of ’ Manteo. Fellowship singing, MYF ■ in Action, election of district offi cers and message by Dr. Naka mura. All young people ages 12-23 are urged to attend. Younger boys and girls from the children’s divi- • sion are not eligible to attend. Each MYFer is requested to bring i a lunch, an offering and a smile. ! The meeting will close with 12:00 • o’clock lunch. ! Junichi Nakamura, Japanese I student at Duke University, is reg , istrar and professor of English at ■ Kobe Jogakuin College, a well ' known school for women in Japan. • Mr. Nakamura lived in Hiroshima > and graduated from Hiroshima » University of Arts and Sciences. ■ He has made an important contri -1 bution to Christian education and is one of the few members in Ja ’ pan of the Laymen’s Movement for > a Christian World. He served as ’ interpreter for J. C. Penney, vice i president of the movement and for . American novelist, William Faulk , ner, when they visited Japan. Thjp ; is Mr. Nakamura’s third visit to ! the United States for graduate • work at Duke University. • • PREDICTS BIG BLUEFISH RUN ON COAST THIS YEAR > Good news for fishermen on the 1 Dare Coast comes this week in a ! prediction that bluefish, both large and small, will be back along the > Atlantic and Gulf coasts this sea ! son, according to Hal Lyman, pub- • lisher of Salt Water Sportsman 1 magazine published at Boston. ' “All good ethings must come to an end,” Lyman said, “but the ! superlative bluefishing of the past ! couple of years from Cape Cod I southwards definitely will not • come to an end in 1958. There 1 should be a good supply of fish in ’ the one pound to three pound classes as well as many monsters • of 15 pounds and better. “Without question, there will be . a good many racers—lean, mean fish wasted by disease or parasites —among the large specimens,” he continued. "However, reports from far south waters and indications from offshore show that the blue fish definitely have, not vanished as they did in the 193 Q’s after peak fishing. “While on the prediction job, I might add that biologists have been ahead of me in foretelling a heavy run of small striped bass north of Chesapeake Bay'—and all I can do is climb on the fishwagon with them,” Lyman added. “Early season catches show that the biolo gists are right.’*" MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY. MARCH 28. 1958 TRIFLING PENALTIES FOR SERIOUS CRIMES IN DARE CO. COURT Offenders May Easily Feel Little Restraint After Getting Off lightly, or Entirely Hearings Tuesday afternoon be fore Judge W. F. Baum in Dare County Recorder’s Court resulted in two cases being sent up to the May term of Superior Court for a trial by jury. Donald P. Thompson, a felon confined to the Currituck Prison, camp, was bound over on a charge of escaping from the custody of a prison guard on last November 27. Pending the trial, Thompson re mains in the custody of prison camp officials. The other case bound over was a charge against Lillie Parker, Manteo Negro woman, of entering the cottage of Mrs. Lyma P. Davis of Nags Head on March 15 and stealing sllO from Mrs. Davis’s pocketbook; the defendant in this instance posted a S3OO bond for her appearance in Superior Court- Judge Baum dismissed another case after hearing the evidence, in which Mrs. Davis had charged Lil lie Parker' with stealing $l5O on March 14, ttjie day before the sllO was taken. On Tuesday’s court docket also was a case in which Jerry Daniels and Norman Ward, both of Man teo, were charged by Marvin Houston with assaulting Jerry Houston, 16-year-old son of Mar vin Houston, with a deadly weapon, to wit, a shoe. Daniels appeared in court and pleaded guilty to as saulting the Houston boy with his fists; this lesser plea was accepted by the court, and he was fined $lO and costs of court. Ward, how ever, has not been located by offi cers since the affray on Wednes day evening of last week, when he joined Daniels in fighting the boy and beat him with a shoe. Both Daniels and Ward had previous court records; Daniel’s previous cases in the local court some four times, had been motor vehicle vio lation only, but Ward’s court rec ord shows since 1946, in five motor vehicle violations, plus charges of being drunk and disorderly, cursing and abusing an officer, assaulting an officer, and engaging in an affray. Ward has also had pending in the Superior Court since May, 1955, a charge of “Neglecting and refusing to support and maintain an illegiti mate male child.” In a case in which Marvin Hous ton of Manteo was charged in a counter-warrant sworn out by Jerry Daniels with assaulting Dan iels with his fists, Houston plead ed guilty and was fined $lO and costs. In other words, in the view’ of the Dare County judge, it is equal ly serious when a grown man knocks another grown-man down, or when a man 35 years old, and another 21 years old gang up on a teen-ager 16 years old. In this case, officers apparently made no effort to locate Ward, and despite any claims to the contrary, he was in town and about it, all day the next day, and into the night. He came into the Times office and See CRIMES, Page Four UNCLE TOM FROM TRENT WRITES: DEAR MISTER EDITOR: The fellers up at the country store Saturday night was dis cussing this Acting President ar rangement between Ike and Nix on in case of a emergency. Ed Doolittle was agin it, al allowed as how it would set a trend to have two politicians fer ever job. I admit that having ’em line up single at the public trough is bad enough, and when they start lining up double it’ll git as expensive as lend-lease to Russia during the war. But if the trend didn’t git out of hand, it might be a good thing. We could have, fer in stant, a Guvernor and a Acting Guvemor. You take the Guver nor, he ain’t got time to attend all the Sunday school picnics and political rallies in the state and git any work done. He can’t open new highways, dedicate new buildings, crown the Onion Queen and the Potato Queen, and at the same time be handling the legislature, making official ap pointments, dodging all the is sues, and doing the things a good Guvernor is supposed to be do ing. If might be good fer the coun try if we had Farmers and Act ing Farmers. The Farmers could git the crops laid by and the Act ing Farmers would all go to Washington and tell Congress how to run the farms. That way we could git some real farming done at home and still have time to read all the farm bulletins FOUR DANCES ARE IN PRE-JAMBOREE PLANS ANNOUNCED Bearded Men's Banquet and Ra dio-TV Appearances Are Among Other Things Four dances—two on Hatteras Island, one in Manteo and another at Nags Head—a bearded men’s banquet and numerous caravans and radio or TV appearances are include in pre-Pirate Jamboree events, it was announced here to day by Alvah H. Ward, Jr., chair man of the vacation-launching fes tival beginning April 24 and con tinuing for four days. At the Hatteras Community Building this Saturday night, there will be a dance to help raise funds for the expenses involved in that island’s phase of the Pirates Jam boree on Friday, April 24. Music will be furnished by a band made up of members of the U. S. Naval Facility at Buxton. Tuesday, April 8, is the date set for the annual bearded men’s ban quet, a festive occasion which features good food and fellowship and brings together all those who have been growing beards, some since January 1, as a sort of trademark of the Pirates Jam boree.. The banquet this year, ac cording to Pirate King Pat Bayne, will be in the form of a buffet dinner at Journey’s End Restau rant at Kitty Haw’k at 6:30 o’clock. Bayne stated this W’eek that more persons were growing beards for the event this year than ever be fore; special forms for the con test are available. Bearded men who have not forwarded their en try forms for the beard contest should send same to Bayne at Nags Head. Two dances, with live music, are scheduled for Friday night, April 11. At the Hatteras Com munity Building, a Buccaneer Cos tume Ball will be held for the purpose of choosing contestants for the Jolly Roger Ball on Nags Head the following evening (April 12) at Nags Head. On Friday night, April 11, at the Manteo Gymnasium there will be a Pirate Costumed Prince- Princess dance for teen-agers at which junior royalty, the new prince and princess to succeed Frankie White and Diane Tillett, will be selected. The annual Jolly Roger Ball, biggest and most colorful of the pre-Jamboree events, will be held in Ras Westcott’s Nags Head Casino on Saturday night, April 12. At this costume dance, the new Dare Coast Pirates Jamboree king and queen will be selected to succeed King Pat Bayne and Queen Virginia Swain. Competing for the ' royal titles will be the winners of the costume contest at the Hat ; teras Buccaneer Ball on April 11. Right on up to the opening of the fourth annual Jamboree, there will be numerous caravans of cos i turned pirates from the Dare Coast 1 visiting North Carolina and Vir ginia cities. It is planned to have i costumed pirates in the annual Azalea Festival at Wilmington this week although due to inclem- I ent weather plans for going there See DANCES, Page Four they send out from Washington. In fact, it might be good to have a Editor and a Acting Edi tor on newspapers. The Editor could have time fer deep think ing on his editorials and the Act ing Editor could git the paper out. I don’t mean nothing per sonal about your editorials, Mis ter Editor. You got a mighty fine paper, in fact on a cold morning I can git a fire started with it just as good as if it was the New York Times. I see in the papers where Sen ator Byrd of Virginia has figger ed out where Guvernment work ers use 17 days all told ever year going after a cup of coffee. There’s two ways of looking at that thing. Some of them folks in Washington has to go git a cup of cqffee ever hour or two to keep awake. If they was to go to sleep and fall off their chair and git hurt it would be hard on the taxpayer. When they got through collecting from the Guv ernment for disability insurance, sick leave, and one thing and another, it would cost a heap more than 17 days off the job. Well, Mister Editor, I’ve got to knock off now and write my Congressman. One reason I write to him so often is because it’s about the only place left where a feller can write without send ing, a bottle top or a “fascimile thereof” of somepun. • Yours truly, Uncle Tom, PARK SERVICE GIVES PLANS FOR APRIL 24 PROGRAM TO LAUNCH PIRATES JAMBOREE Dedication of First National Seashore Recrea tional Area To Begin at Cape Hatteras Light house at I 1:30 a.m., with Main Program To Be in the Afternoon at Coquina Beach; Many Dig nitaries To Attend. Dedication ceremonies of the < Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreational Area will begin at Cape Hatteras Lighthouse on Thursday, April 24, at 11:30 a.m., and conclude at Coquina Beach north of Oregon Inlet during the ! afternoon, it was announced today 1 by Superindent Robert Gibbs, in 1 charge of the National Park Serv- ’ ice’s first, and only, oceanside rec- ' reational area. The Coquina Beach ! phase of the ceremonies will begin at 2:30 p.m., and coronation of the new 1958 pirate king and queen ' on the stage there will mark the 1 finale. Governor Luther H. Hodges of North Carolina and members of his ; council of state, North Carolina ! congressional leaders, Conrad Wirth, direction of the National Park Service; high officials of the Department of Interior, and mem- ' bers of the Mellon family, whose Mellon Foundation Grants, match ed by North Carolina funds, result ed in monies for land acquisition of the project; are on the list of dignitaries to be in attendance. A special guest of honor will be Lind- ' say Warren of Washington, N. C., whose congressional bill created the National Seashore, and recog nition will be paid to the Henry Phipps family and others who had made lands available for public use as a park on Hatteras Island. During the preliminaries of the National Seashore dedicatory cere monies at Hatteras, a plaque will be unveiled to the Phipps family,' and a colorful phase of the Co quina Beach event during the afternoon will be the mixing of water from Old Faithful Geyser in Yellowstone National Park and water of the Atlantic’s surf adja cent to the Cape Hatteras recrea tional area—the water to be pour ed on the sands. The National Seashore dedica tion will be the launching phase of the fourth annual Dare Coast Pi rates Jamboree, now a nationally publicized festival marking the beginning of the vacation season in the Outer Banks region of North Carolina. Costumed “pi rates” will also be featured throughout the ceremonies. On Thursday evening at 7:30 o’clock in the auditorium of Man teo School there will be a special world premiere of the National Seashore’s new travel movie film ed by Bounce Anderson. Herb Iver son, NPS chief of information, will have charge of presenting the movie. Following the movie premiere, there will be a Royal Coronation Ball at the Nags Head Casino hon oring the newly-crowned king and queen of the 1958 Pirates Jam boree. Eliminated from the Casino dances this year will be the injec tion of any breaks or speaking pro grams as in the past. On Friday, April 25, all phases of the Jamboree will be held on Hatteras Island where Chairman Bill Dillon of Buxton, in charge of arrangements here, has lined up a full day of interesting activities featuring as usual the world’s big gest free salt water fish fry. See JAMBOREE, Page Fourt wanchesFruritans back YOUNG LADS IN BASEBALL A proposal that the Wanchese Ruritan Club urge the telephone company to establish a dial system exchange in Manteo, and that the club give additional backing to the community’s youthful baseball team in the sum of about SIOO were principal matters before the club Friday night at its usual monthly dinner meeting. The ladies served a fine shad dinner with lemon meringue pie. Proposal for the dial phone sys tem was presented by Melvin R. Daniels as a request from Gordon Kellogg of Manteo. Mr. Daniels also reported that the State High way people had improved the road to the community garbage dump, and had also acted favorably on other highway subjects of interest to the community. President C. D. Wagstaff called attention of the club to the value of the boy’s baseball team, which the club has been helping liberally in prior years. The team will heed about SIOO this season for replace ment of equipment, etc. Club mem bers expressed interest in continu ing the aid, and committee was appointed to work on the matter. Some 15 members attended. ■ Single Copy 7# SPECIAL CIVIL TERM OF SUPERIOR COURT DURING APRIL IS POSTPONED A request for postponement of a special term of Date County Su perior Court slated to be held here the week of April 21 was made this week by the County Board of Commissioners. According to a spokesman for the commissioners, the postponement was asked solely because of objection to the dates chosen by the State’s Chief Jus tice for the special session. Judge Chester Morris, the dis trict’s resident judge, when hold ing a regular tenn of court here in January recommended a special two-week civil term be held in March to try a number of cases, some of which had been on the docket for better than 30 years. The Chief Justice instead sched uled a one-week term to convene on April 21 and assigned Judge George M. Fountain of Tarboro to preside. The commissioners met Wednes day afternoon and drew the jury for the special term next month, but at the same time notified the Chief Justice of their dissatisfac tion with the dates chosen for the special session and asked for a postponement. Judicial officials in Raleigh granted the postponement, but no new date could be agreed upon. Reasons given for dissatisfac tion with dates chosen for the spe cial session centered mainly around conflict with the annual Dare Coast Pirates Jamboree to be held April 24, 25, 26, and 27. It was pointed out that many law yers, prospective jurors and par ties to the court suits would be greatly inconvenienced by the court session and the jamboree be ing held at the same time. Other See COURT, Page Four ROLLINSON CHANNEL JOB INCLUDED IN REQUEST OF BONNER TO COMMITTEE The deepening of Rollinson Channel into Hatteras Harbor has been included in a request of Con gressman Herbert Bonner to the Appropriations Committee, since the present Administration has not approved funds for the work, al though Mr. Bonner first began work on the project in 1955. Mr. Bonner then introduced a resolution calling for a survey and report on the existing project to bringing it up to a 10-ft. depth, and in 1956 he introduced an addi tional resolution to bring it up to a 12-foot, the authorized depth of the Inland Waterway. This present administration has had a policy of opposing any new starts (that is the term they use with reference to public works); therefore, the Congressman has been unable to get any funds in the appropriations bill to take care of the expense of the survey and report by the Dis trict Engineer. There is some hope that this policy will be broken with respect to 1958-59 budget. So Mr. Bonner has again asked the Chairman of the Appropriations Committee for a hearing before the Committee to ask for funds to be placed in the bill. He has many complaints about shallow water in these and other waterways, from navigators using them and thinks the public should be able to get full value from their use. CURRITUCK SOUND BRIDGE TO GET NEW DRAW SPAN Word comes from Raleigh that the Wright Memorial Bridge is to be provided with a new drawspan. The present draw span is too nar row for the new bridge, and is the only part remaining of the old bridge which was built first in 1927 by, private capital. The drawspan is manually operated, and difficult to open. After the state bought the bridge, it rebuilt the entire structure piecemeal, without inter rupting its use, other than delay ing traffic for a few minutes at a time. Apparently the pilings of the bridge used by the state about 15 1 years ago are of inferior grade, . and have been weakened by borers, since a large number of them were broken off by the ice in the recent i freeze, and the bridge was closed ■ for several days while repairs were made.
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