FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1958
GLIMPSES
OF
TH E PAS T
By CAROLYN LLOYD
Just once a year it would be
nice to be sixteen, or seventeen, or
eighteen again and turn back the
clock for a week—the week pre
ceding the Junior-Senior Banquet.
The night itself wouldn’t be
enough, for the anticipation of the
event is half the fun. It it were
possible, I would choose to be
either a Junior or one of the wait
resses and entertainers chosen
from the Sopohmore Class, for it
is always more exciting to be get
ting ready for the banquet than
just sitting and waiting for the
big night to arrive. During that
week parents and teachers are easy
to outtalk when it comes to get
ting the family car or easing off
on homework. There’s the excite
ment of putting up the decorations
and seeing the theme come to life,
and the thrill of planning the dress
and wondering what kind of cor
sage would be just right.
When at last the big night
comes, no society fashion show
ever displayed more beautifully
gowned models. The little girl who
has been running around all day
in blue jeans with her hair done
up on bobby pins becomes as
glamorous as Cinderella at the
bait Her coach and four may
have been a pick-up truck, but she
will not have to watch the clock
for midnight, for the evening is
hers. For this night, rules about
hours have been suspended, and
the world is hers.
At home, some mothers are
collapsed after finally getting
daughters dressed, finding the lost
evening bag, pinning on the cor
sage, and generally riding the
whiriwind. Some are in the ban
quet kitchen up to the elbows in
chicken slaad, but all are sharing
the vicarious happiness. Fathers
are pretending indifference while
secretly feeling a glow of pride
in the son or daughter who sud
denly looks like a perfect starnger.
* They may have pretended disgust
at so much fuss and expense and
made loud comments about a
tough time they had as boys; but,
in truth, they, tod. would like to
be young just long enough to take
their best girls to the banquet.
Hie boys themselves may have
done a little complaining about the
necessity of wearing ties and
coats for a few hours but only
because they thought the com
plaints established their masculine
contempt for such fancy doings
and let the girls know that a big
sacrifice was being made for their
sake. That done, they were free
to admire themselves in white
jacket and bouttoniere.
It does seem, though ,that the
girls have an edge on the boys
when it comes to formal affairs.
Just when a dress becomes a
“gown" is a fine distinction that
escapes me; but this I do know—
an evening gown has more magic
powers than Houdini and all the
other magicians. Only a girl could
know, though she couldn’t really
explain, how a swirl of tulle or
lace around her ankles can trans
form her into a princess. Suddenly
she feels like Cleopatra, Madam
Dußarry and all the other femme
fatales rolled into one. Ten years
later she may be a settled house
wife who does well to get a new
sport dress once a year, but there
is the memory of that beautiful
dress and her night of glory and
she can look forward with pleasure
to being one of the mothers in the
kitchen when her daughter
emerges as a butterfly.
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HATTERAS PERSONALS
Home with their families for the
Jamboree festivities were: Mr. and
Mrs. John Midgett, Mr. and Mrs.
Jarvis Midgett, Mr. and Mrs. Dal
ton Burrus, Mr. and Mrs. Lacy
Austin, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Sty
ron, Mrs. Flora Spencer; Mesdames
Dan Meadows, Grace Peele, Pearl
Lewis; Misses Mitzi Oden, Sarah
Burrus, Gwenaie Burrus, Phyliss
Austin, Augustus Austin.
Mrs. Jack Hamer of Norfolk
spent the week end here with Mr.
and Mrs. Ulysses Peele.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hollis and
Carla went to Norfolk Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Daniels
and family spent the week end in
Portsmouth.
Daniel Ballance of Elizabeth
City visited here last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Lathan Austin
and family of Charleston, S. C. are
visiting here with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Luther Austin.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Midgett
and family of Norfolk were home
last week . .
Bill Buchannan of Norfolk spent
the week end here with Mrs. Bill
Buchannan.
Mr. and Mrs. Beverly O’Neal of
Norfolk spent the week' end here
with Mr. and Mrs. Johnny O’Neal.
Gamiel Ballance of the Coast
Guard is home after spending a
year of duty in Alaska.
Joe Sewell motored to Norfolk
Monday.
KITTY HAWK PERSONALS
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Beacham
and Mr. and Mrs. Will Perry mo
tored to Flatty Creek Baptist
Church over the week end. The
•regular monthly meetings at
Primitive Baptist Church this week
were held with Elder George Tre
vathian presiding.
Little Matilda Lizabeth Baum,
daughter l of Mr., and Mrs. Orville
Baum, will celebrate her first
birthday at home on Friday, May
2nd.
Mrs. Lee Perry and mother, Mrs.
Alien Hayman to Baltimore this
week to visit Mrs. Perry’s son,
Bobby Sullivan, U.S.C.G. Mrs.
Perry will drive Bobby’s car back
home n’Jjile his ship is en route
to Wilmington, N. C.
Mrs. Hettie Baum is home after
a short illness in Elizabeth City
hospital.
Mrs. Sallie M. White and son,
im, are spending a week with their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Marvin
Midgett.
Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Perry of
Norfolk spent a few days at their
Bay Side cottage here.
Worth Midgett, U.S.C.G., sta
tioned on weather cutter out of
New York, is home on leave.
Jack Finn, U.S.C.G., Elizabeth
City is home with his family.
Mrs. Viola R. Outlaw and chil
dren of Norfolk visited Mr. and
Mrs. Herman Rogers.
Miss Tanya Dawn Tillett, grad
uate nurse of Duke University,
Durham, after a visit home, has
returned to her work.
Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Beasley,
Churches Island, are spending
some time with Mrs. S. B. Beasley
at the beach.
Henry Baum and sister Mary
have moved home after working in
Norfolk.
Mrs. Will Tillett visited her hus
band, in the hospital at Wilson.
Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Midgett
children, and G. B. Midgett motor
ed to Wilson over the week end.
THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE
FOR
NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING
MOTOR MAIDS
Easy On The Gas --
Ahead On Safety
By Jeanne Smith, Dodge Safety Consultant
TEENAGERS ARE DISCOVERING that careful driving really
pays off!
Through competition in high school safety-economy runs, partici
pants find that taking it easy on the gas puts them ahead in
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Miss Smith
safety and
also stretches
the weekly
allowance.
Patterned
after the na
tional econ
omy run, the
high school
driving tests
gratify teen
agers’ desire
for competi-
tion and teach them that high
speeds, “jack rabbit” starts,
sharp turns and sudden stops
will sharply reduce gas mileage.
Officials who sponsor the jun
ior i-uns believe that, although
most teenagers possess mechan
ical ability and are skilful driv
ers, some lack the proper mental
attitude for safe driving.
Through these high school con
tests, held throughout the coun
try, they hope to persuade young
motorists that safe driving is as
socially acceptable as making the
football team or the honor roll.
In the runs, usually limited
to about 35 participants, abili
ty to drive both safely and
MOTOR MAIDS
Safety Quiz
On Major
Road Risks
By Jeanne Smith,
Dodge Safety Consultant
HERE’S A QUIZ that demands
a perfect score!
The questions concern how to
handle emergencies on the high-
!
Miss Smith
wa y. Not
knowing the
answer to even
one of these
questions could
result in a
serious acci
dent. Each
year thousands
of motorists
are involved in
unnecessary
accidents, ac-
cording to the National Safety
Council, because they lidn’t know
how to solve driving emergencies.
So if you don’t score 100 per
cent on this quiz, better learn the
answers to those you missed. You
will be thankful that you did!
QUESTIONS
What would you do if the
following situations occurred
while driving at a fairly high
rate of speed on the highway?
1. You hit a curve and fear
you’ll lose control of the car.
2. A tire blows out.
3. Your right front tire drops
off the pavement.
4. Your headlights go out.
5. The hood flies up, shutting
off your vision.
ANSWERS TO SAFETY QUIZ
1. Avoid jerking the wheel in
the opposite direction or slam
ming on the brakes while your
wheels are turned. If you must
apply brakes, straighten your 1
wheels an instant, brake briefly,
then let up on the brakes and
turn the steering wheel to keep!
on the road.
2. Unless there are other cars
or objects directly in your path,
don’t touch the brakes. The best
way to regain control is to grip
the steering wheel tightly and
let the engine slow you down.
If it’s a rear tire that blows,
steer to keep it straight—but be
careful not to oversteer.
3. Continue straight ahead and
slow down gradually. Keep a
light touch on the gas pedal to
maintain control and let the car
roll evenly until stopped.
4. Switch to your low beams,
spot light, fog lights or parking
lights. If you have no lights at
all, hold the wheel steadily,
slow down and stop. To avoid
such emergencies, have your
car’s wiring system checked
frequently.
5. Try to peer under the hood
or lean out the window to see
ahead until you can steer safely
off the road.
WANTED: SMART, CAPABLE
PERSONNEL FOR WORK
ON NEWSPAPERS
We are interested in employ
ing one or two persons for long
time jobs if qualified, or who
can soon learn the weekly
newspaper business. Education
and experience should have fit
ted them for the business of
writing news, selling advertis
ing and printing, and doing
various kinds of office work.
Send full details to
TIMES PRINTING CO., lac.
Manteo, N. C.
THE COASTLAND TIMES, MANTEO, N. C.
economically is measured over
a 100-mile route. Each driver
is accompanied by an adult ob
server who checks to see that
all traffic and safety laws are
obeyed. For each infraction, the
driver is penalized one-tenth
of a gallon of gasoline. Viola
tions may easily cost the driver
a victory.
The three driver? in each con-
I test who use the smallest amount
of gas are awarded trophies at
t the high school assembly.
At a competition in Evanston,
’ 111., safety leaders from all over
the country watched 27 Evanston
• Township High School students
■ compete.
1 The participants averaged 19
miles to the gallon, and one of
• the two girls entered in .the
1 Evanston contest emerged as
• winner, with an average of
- 20.65 miles a gallon.
Proof of the program’s accept
! ance is plentiful. Police officials,
• educators and safety experts
: have praised the runs.
As one youthful contestant
put it, “The safety-economy
run taught me that it’s sensi
ble and thrifty to drive safely.”
SWAN QUARTER PERSONALS
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Andrews
of Tallahassee, Fla., visited Mr.
and Mrs. C. B. Jennette.
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Stewart of
Columbia, S. C., visited Mr. and
A|rs. Bryce Credle.
Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Cuthrell,
Mrs. Nathan Cutrell, Mrs. Evelyn
Swindell, Miss Joy Swindell, Mrs.
Hoover Cuthrell visited in Wash
ington.
Mrs. Rouse Lupton and Mrs. Nat
Credle visited Mrs. George Clark
in Belhaven.
Mrs. Edna Cuthrell has returned
home from Tayloe Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Carawan
of Pantego visited Mrs. Mary
Spencer and Miss Melissa Carawan.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Carawan,
Mrs. James Hodges and Betsey
visited Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Cox in
Bath.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Powers, Mr.
and Mrs. Warren Powers, Mr. and
Mrs. Wayne Powers, Mr. and Mrs.
Wilson Davis, Mrs. John Dunn, Mr.
and Mrs. Barnhill Ballance, Mr.
and Mrs. Sylvester Wright and
Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Ballance of
Norfolk were here Saturday for
the funeral of Mrs. Cora Ballance.
R. G. Baum visited in Roper.
Miss Cecilia. Jennette of Peace
College, Raleigh, visited Mr. and
Mrs. C. B. Jennette.
Mr. and Mrs. Alton Sawyer vis
ited in Washington.
Mrs. Jodie Williams was in Bel
haven Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Spencer and
Miss Mildred Spencer were in
Washington Saturday.
Mrs. Annie Silverthorne of
Scranton visited Mr. and Mrs. Sid
ney Credle.
Mrs. Luke Sawyer and Dewey,
Mrs. Paul O'Neal and J. P. were
Washington visitors.
Miss Mary Swindell and Mrs.
Una Jones of Washington visited
the J. E. Spencers Sunday.
Miss Lona Bonner, Mrs. Claude
Bonner, Mrs. Earl Harris, Mrs. C.
J. Cahoon and Mrs. T. C. Tunnell
were in Belhaven Saturday.
Mrs. Dewey Brown and Mrs.
Homer McKinney of Reidsville
were week end guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Tommie Gaylord.
Rev. and Mrs. Rowell Lane and
James Lane of Wake Forest visited
Seagrams
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MANTEO GIRL IS WED
TO ELIZABETH CITY MAN
A wedding of interest to many
people in Dare County took place
at seven o’clock in the evening on
Thursday, April 17, when Miss
Annie Laurie Kee of Manteo be
came the bride of Richard Dale
Collier of Elizabeth City in City
Road Methodist Church, Elizabeth
City. Rev. Gilbert V. Crutchfield
officiated.
The bride wore a street length
sheath dress of light blue lace
with white accessories and carried
a white satin prayer book topped
with a purple-throated white or
chid. Her matron of honor and only
attendant, Mrs. Ray Piasecki of
Elizabeth City, wore a street
length dress of pale green silk
with yellow accessories and a
shoulder corsage of yellow and
brown baby orchids.
Harry Wayne Collier served as
his brother’s best man.
Mrs. Collier is the daughter of
Mrs. W. M. Jolliff of Manteo and
Samuel Kee of Greenville, and a
granddaughter of Mrs. W. G.
Etheridge and the late Capt.
Etheridge of Manteo. She is a
graduate of Meredith College, Ra
leigh, and is a member of the
Camden school faculty.
Mr. Collier, who is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Collier of
Elizabeth City, attended Chowan
College and Wake Forest College
and plans to continue his studies
for a career in law. At present he
is associated in business with his
father. He. and Mrs. Collier are
living in Elizabeth City.
Among those attending the wed
ding were Mr. and Mrs. Samuel
Kee of Greenville; Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Davis and Ralph Davis Jr.,
of Manteo.
MRS. CHLOE F. HOPPER DIES
Mrs. Chloe Florence Jarvis
Hopper, wife of Russell M. Hopper
of Lomita, Calif, died Sunday
morning, April 20th. She was a
resident of Kitty Hawk for many
years, and had lived in California
for over 20 years. She is sur
vived by two daughters, Mrs. Wil
son J. Haskett of Wood Bridge,
Va., and Mrs. Thelma Raley of Im
perial Beach, Calif.; a grand-son,
Winkie Raley, and a great-great
grandson, Larry Anderson, and
several nieces and nephews. She
was buried in California.
CARROLL HODGES IS NOW
ENGELHARD MAIL CARRIER
The newly appointed RFD mail
carrier out of Engelhard post of
fice is Carroll Hodges of Engelhard
who succeeds Ella Mae Mooney,
first woman mail earner in Hyde
County who has been serving un
der a temporary appointment. Mr.
Hodges goes on duty Saturday of
this week.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Harry Swindell.
Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Jones of
Ponzer visited Mr. and Mrs. James
Gibbs.
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Spruill Jr.,
Dickie and A. L. 11l of Columbia
visited Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Cuth
rell.
Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Cahoon and
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Cahoori'*visited
Mrs. Abram Cahoon at the Fowle
Hospital in Washington.
Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Berry are in
■ Raleigh this week while Mr. Berry
'attends a meeting of the Funeral
, Directors.
Mrs. Bob O’Neal and Walter
Gaskill of Manteo were Swan
Quarter visitors Monday.
Mrs. Katie Ballance, Mrs.
George Ben Williams, Rosemary
Williams and Archie Baum were
Washington visitors.
Miss Rosetta Spencer of Wash
ington and Mrs. Jimmie Briley of
Greenville visited Mr. and Mrs.
Branch Spencer.
Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Murrow of
Robersonville visited here on the
week end.
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TO
EARTH
By
CARLTON
MORRIS
Editor, The Index
Gatesville, N. C.
OUR LAUGHTER HAS MANY
AND VARIOUS FACES
DAUGHTER is one of the
greatest outlets of emotion that
is bestowed upon the human race.
We laugh when the going is good
and we smile when we are sad.
There are thousands of faces for
our laughter for we never stop
smiling and laughing from morn
ing till night, year in and year
out.
WE LAUGH at our own antics
and we laugh at our neighbors
and the only thing that can still
our laughter is to see ouselves
as others see. us. But we can never
do that for like the blind men we
see the elephant from many and
various directions and never’ do
two of us view the world through
the same glasses.
OLD JOHN was a fit subject
for our laughter for he was a lone
ly old man almost stone deaf.
Sometimes he did odd jobs around
town. He mowed the yards and
raked the leaves and hoed the
gar-dens and lived in a little shack
where he could mutter and
grumble and would bother no one.
When he could get enough money
togther he walked five or six
miles to a bootlegger and got a
shot of raw corn likker. Then John
felt as big as the biggest and how
we did laugh at his antics when
he had a shot or two under his
old skin.
ON OCCASION he would get all
of his money in a lump and then
he would really get loaded or per
haps some of the boys would give
him a dram or two, then he would
blunder down the street headed
for his little home where he could
be alone to enjoy the blank sleep
of alcohol. When we folks around
town saw old John staggering
homeward on rubbery legs, we'
would laugh and laugh.
“THERE GOES old John,” we I
would laugh, “and he’s really load
ed.”
ONCE IN a while old John
would walk out in front of a car
or truck but we were all careful
to avoid running him down. Not
a one of us would harm him for
anything in the world. No sir, we
just laughed and laughed.
THE OTHER day old John bor
rowed a bicycle and rode five or
six miles to a bootlegger. He made
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I out pretty good too considering
|he is not accustomed to riding a
I bike. He made out pretty good
on the way there but on the way
back he didn’t do so good. Either
the bike dumped him or a car
came along with a driver that
didn’t know old John was pretty
near stone deaf and hit him. No
one is sure just what happened,
but he was dumped on the pave
ment and hurt right bad.
PRETTY SOON the word got
out around town that old John
had been dumped from a bicycle
and everyone laughed and laughed.
Some laughed until they almost
cried about old John failing from
that bicycle.
THEY TOOK him to the hospi
tal and he began to act real bad.
He got out his old pocket knife
and tried to fight off everyone.
Some said he must have got a
load of fighting likker while others
thought he was just mean. Some
thought he had some broken ribs
and maybe a concussion from his
fall from the bicycle. But it was
right funny, him trying to fight
off the doctors and nurses who
were trying to help him.
AFTER a while he got so bad
they sent him to Dix Hill to see if
the folks at the asylum could do
anything with him.
EVERYONE AROUND town
felt sorry for old John for his lik
ker and chewing tobacco and
pocket knife were taken away
from him and that was just about
all he had left .Everyone knows
that the folks at Dix Hill will not
allow corn likker in that place even
if a man had the money to buy it
and old John has no money.
THINGS ARE kind of quiet
since they sent old John away and
there isn’t too much to laugh
about, what with a lot of bad
weather hindering crop planting
and talk of a depression just
around the corner, but sometimes
we speak about old John and laugh
and laugh.
Profitable corn production is
highly dependent upon proper
fertilization.
CRANK’S
SHOE SHOP
502 E. Colonial Ave.
Elizabeth City, N. C.
SHOE REPAIRING
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