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SHOALLY INLET SITUATION
RESULTS IN LOW WATER RUN
. OF 14 MILES TAKING 3 HOURS
Experimental Course Staked Out by Engineer
Monday Tried Tuesday; Short Run Continues
When Tidal Conditions Permit; Relief Meas-
ures May Be In Sight.
Ferry boats plying Oregon In
let’s shoally waters tried a new
run Tuesday morning, following
several days of badly disrupts
.service. Several hard northwester!'
winds have recently built tin
shoals, blocking the regular chan
nd. Tuesday’s experimental run
which has since been accomplishe
several times, took better tliar
three hours, and it is the observa
tion of some that this type o r
crossing offers little reward fo
weary travelers.
The long run of some 14 miler
taking so much longer crossing
time, actually results in little; sav
ing of time, bedause the trip i
made only at low water, the mos'
difficult period lasting only three
or four hours. A normal run acres
this inlet between lower Nag
Head and the northen tip of Hat
teras Island takes 20 minutes.
District Highway Enginee
George Mack of Elizabeth Citj
said, “I wouldn’t recommend it a
a regular thing, but we will con
tinue to use the new route wher
we are forced to by low water.”.
Mack staked out the new course
Monday. It runs from the Bodie
Island landing out Old House chan
nel to the new Davis Channel in
Pamlico Sound and then back to
the south landing on Hatteras Is
land a distance of about 14 miles”
Mack said. The regular crossing
is two or tiro and a half miles.
The ferries have been plagued
by sand washed into their regular
crossing by recent northeast
storms nnd by the fact that tides
have been running tower than nor
mal recently. There hra tanno
regular way on or' off Hatteras
to the north for nearly two weeks.
Tuesday the boats ran of sche
dule until 9:40 a.m. and resumed
the short route about 1 p.m. In
the meantime, one boat with 12
vehicles aboard successfully ran
Mack’s longer route.
“She bumped bottom two or
three times,” Mack said, “and if
the tides get any lower we’ll have
to abandon the long route, too.”
Wednesday regular schedules
were maintained until 9:30 and re
maned in the afternoon.
A survey team has been on the
i scene this week studying the sit
uation, and highway officials have
been considering dredging the
shoally areas, but no definite
course has been announced.
WILDFOWL ATTRACT MANY
BIRDWATCHERS TO CAPE
HATTERAS SEASHORE AREA
Wildfowl and shore birds have
been one of the biggest attractions
for tourists visiting Cape Hatteras
National Seashore recently. Easiest
to reach area where the fowl may
be seen without difficulty is Bodie
Island in lower Nags Head.
Barest and most unusual wild
fowl at present are some 5,000 or
more Greater America Snow Geese.
These fowl which spend the winters
at Pea Island National Wildlife
Refuge or in the Bodie Island flats
have started their northward mi
gratory flights- much later this
years than usual. ■••••••■ 1
Noticeable too in the National
Seadhore region at this season are
the purple grackle, redwing- black
bird, various species of hawk, owls
and heron. Many of these birds re
main here the year . around, but
meat are migratory and will be
leaving soon.
HOME COMING EVENT TO
I BE DISCUSSED MONDAY
A mammoth homecoming cele
bration planned for Dan and ad- 1
joining counties during the sum
mer of 1960 will be discussed at
a meeting in the Community Build
ing Monday evening, Feb. 29, at ’
1-M.
The homecoming event, if pres
ent pSans develop, would include
Hyde, Tyrrell, and Currituck and
Culminate in Dare. It would be held
during The Lost Colony season.
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MACNEILL IS STILL 1
1 IN V. A. HOSPITAL
Ben Dixon MecNrill io still eon- i
fined to the Veterans Administra- <
tun Hospital at Keoougttan, Va. 1
Derftey Bagley of Moyock, Close 1
friend of the Capa Hatteras author 1
stated this week that he visited
MmBMU on Saturday. Visiting!’
a MadNriH at the time writ another|i
mMd friend, Rear Admiral Peter V.li
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THE COASTLAND TIMES
WITH WHICH IS COMBINED THE PILOT AND HERALD OF BELHAVEN AND SWAN QUARTER
PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA
REMARKABLE LADY OF
HATTERAS DIBS AT 94
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MRS. SALLIE ANN AUSTIN, 94,
a native of Hatteras, remained
active until shortly before her
death Sunday morning at the home
of -her daughter, Mrs. Woodard
Peele of Wanchese, with whom she
had resided for two years. She had
been ill only a few weeks. Mrs.
Austin was the daughter of Simon
and Louisa Austin Bailey and wife
of the late James Austin. She is
pictured above displaying a 51b
rockfish, the result of a fishing trip
with Capt. Jesse Etheridge several
years ago at the age of 88.
Besides her daughter, Mrs. Aus
tin is survived by a son, James
Austin of Hatteras, 28 grandchil
dren, 46 great-grandchildren and
a grdait-great-granchild.
Funeral services were held Mon
day at 3 p.m. in Wanchese Assem
bly of God Church, the Rev. Mrs.
Arvilla Barnett, pastor of Frisco
Assembly of God conducting, as
sisted by Rev. Carroll Daniels of
Wanchese. The body was taken to
the chuch at 2 p.m. from Twiford’s
Funeral Home. 1
The casket plall was made of
white mums, white glads and fem.
“Far Above the Starry Skies”
was sung by Mr. and Mrs. J. D.
Barnett: “Precious Memories” and
“Where We’ll Never Grow Old”
were sung by the church choir, ac
companied at the piano by Mrs.
Roscoe Gallop. “The Last Mile, of
the Way" was sung at the grave.
Pallbearers were Roscoe Gallop,
Paul Daniels, Willie Daniels,
George Daniels, Bart Garrison and
Earl Tillett.
Burial followed in the Cudworth
Cemetery in Wanchese.
LOST TRAWLER TURNS
UP OFF OREGON INLET
WITH ITS CREW SAFE
The trawler Dolphin of Atlantic
which had been reported missing
after the two men aboard had been
in contact with a Liberian freighter
named Iscojem off Cape Hatteras,
and then disappeared, turned up
safely under her own power off
the Oregon Inlet bar Saturday
morning.
Aborad the leaking craft were
Capt Freddy Smith, owner and
skipper of the Dolphin and his
mate William Rose of Harkers Is
land. After losing contact with the
Iscojem on Thursday Smith set a
northwest couree hoping to make
Oregon Inlet despite the fact that
the vessel was talcing on water and
the pumps were not working, They
sailed for 23% hours on the north
west course and first landfall was
Currituck Beach wtae they recog
nized the lighthouse late Friday
night Turning south they were oft
Oregon Inlet a few hours later
where at down Saturday the
out on duty at the Coast Guard
station righted the vessel. A life
boat from the station escorted the
Dolphin into port \
On Friday an all out search by
write? (STctepe HatteikrStta
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FAR SOUTH HAS
PROBLEMS LIKE
OUR COASTLAND
Manteo Travelers Learn About
Mosquitoes, History and
Fishing
By VICTOR MEEKINS
NEW ORLEANS. Feb. 16.
While driving into this city across
numerous bridges from the north,
one of which is 24 miles long across
Lake Ponchartrain, and through the
many miles of swamps and salt
marshes, I began to wonder if
mosquitos aren't a problem here
also. I made some inquiry, and was
told they are mighty bad indeed.
I asked, “what do you do about
them ?”
The answer I got was “we can’t
do much of anything but pray for
a good wind. Some spraying and
fogging is done, but that isn’t
always good, not for long anyway.
More has been accomplished
through drainage, and an effort to
drip oil in the breeding places. I
was told that a campaign in the
legislature had not succeeded in
getting an effective mosquito pro
gram established.
If we have problems in our
Coastland, they are nothing to
what must have been in this part
of the country. It is all low coun
try. It is largely salt marsh, sub
ject also to inundation from the
mighty Mississippi freshets.
We took quarter at the Roose
velt Hotel, where from a room
high-up, we can see across the
city. This, indeed is a fascinating
town, but the much touted French
quarter’s entertainment is a lot of
hokum out for the hide of the tour
ists. The buildings are interesting.
We found a good case with bum
coffee but friendly people, and it
is amazing how many folks you
find on these travels who either
come from N. C. or know a lot
about it.
This city apparently is the big
gest in the south. It’s as big as
the three larger cities of Florida
combined, and much larger than
Atlanta. New Orleans proper has
more than 600JMMJ people, j&n<J
goodness knows how many live in
tile outlying suburbs. The weather
See FAR SOUTH, Page Five
HURRICANES SOON
FORGOTTEN IF THEY
ARE BIG ENOUGH
Prosperity Appears Prevalent In
Town Audry Destroyed in
1957
By VICTOR MEEKINS
CAMERON, La., Feb. 20.—One
who visits this town which was
devastated by Hurricane Audrey a
little over two years ago finds scant
evidence of the catastrophe which
wiped out over 500 lives. Apparent
ly we think more about it on the
N. C. coast, than is manifest here.
The leading case operator here
manifests a most friendly spirit and
is doing a flourishing business in
a new establishment of which any
one might be proud. He lost a
comparatively new place during
Audrey, and barely saved his life
by getting in the attic of an old
store across the street while the
tide covered the town by some ten
feet.
One reaches Cameron by a long
road built seme 50 miles over
marshes from adjoining Calcasieu
Parish. Os Cameron Parish’s 7,000
people, about 3,000 are living in
the county seat. The courthouse
was the only important building
saved. The case operator thinks
•ver 500 people were lost; that
many being accounted for, but un
doubtedly there • were numerous
tourists, and many more migrant
workers in the area when the hur
ricane came. Only about 300 bodies
were recovered. J
In this low country, many people
are interred in vaults above
ground. Many of the vault® were
swept tong distances away by the
tide. Some <rf these old vaults were
never found. I could still see from
the road, scattered across the
marshes countless refrigerators,
kitchen ranges, washing machines
etc., where they tad been swept
by the storm. The buildings that
contained them were demolished in
this fury. There are numerous
trash piles left over from this
storm. There are many homesites
which have never been rebuilt, per
haps because the entire family was
wiped out It U said the entire
family of the only doctor in the
area perished while he was on call
•way from home.
To have ranched Cameron during
that disaster would have been as
difficult M driving to Ocracoke
with the whole Os Hatteras Island
MMit feet under water. At least
99 per cent of the structures muri
have been domoliebed. One area
larger and mush more populous
than the whole of Dare County wool
devastated. I tri ratfanated teat be-*
•ta CAMEBON, Page Fira
MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1960
DIST. ENGINEER TO VISIT
DARE CO. NEXT WEEK
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. COL. R. P. DAVIDSON who re
l cently succeeded Col. Henry C.
> Rowland as district engineer at
I Wilmington in charge of N. C.
s waterways projects, is to visit Man
i teo Wednesday afternoon, March
-2, on his first-official visit. He ex
pects to confer with interested
r county officials and the mayors of
> the towns of Manteo and Kill Devil
t Hills concerning Waterway projects
- in the county. He will be accom-
- panied by several members of the
s staff of the Wilmington office.
Col. Davidson succeeded Col.
- Henry C. Rowland, Jr., who filled
i the District Engineer post since
8 August 1956, and retired in August,
f Col. Davidson was born in De
i troit, Alabama, March 6, 1911 and
f was commissioned as a Reserve
■ Officer in the Corps of Engineers
• in 1937 after attending the Uni
i versity of Alabama. He entered on
t active duty in 1941 and served in
1 the Southwest Pacific during the
■ second world war.
t After World War 11, Colonel
Davidson through 1948 was at The
’ Engineer School, as Chief, Opera
’ See DAVIDSON, Page Four
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: RED CROSS DRIVE
' IN HYDE SLATED
TO BEGIN MARCH I
Hyde County Red Cross fund
drivetwill begin March 1, Leon G.
Ballance, chapter chairman an
nounced today. Mr. Ballance says
that the many services performed
| by Red Cross make it imperative
that Hyde meet its quota so these
! services may be retained and per
-1 formed by the chapter. Each year
Hyde chapter assists servicemen
and their families making con
tacts and securing information
that may be made and secured only
* by the Red Cross.
’ Another service is assistance in
1 time of disaster. Everyone remem
bers the storms of 1955, after
1 which tire Red Cross spent more
’ than $17,000 in the county for food,
! clothing, furniture, and shelter.
' That amount is approximately 20
' times this year’s quota. One very
important service is the blood prog
-1 ram, which requires funds as well
' as blood. In order to keep this part
1 of the Red Cross program it is
> necessary to raise sufficient funds
' and do a better job of collecting
* blood than in* the past several
: visits.
1 Heading the drive this year is
Mrs. Elizabeth Jones of Fairfield,
* who has already lined up leaders
' in the several communities. It is
1 her hope that the drive can be com
-1 pleted during the first two weeks
1 in March. The citizens of Hyde
1 County are urged to give generous
’ ly to this very important cause.
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STATE ENTOMOLOGIST
TO CONDUCT MEETING
SWAN QUARTER TODAY
Farmers are realizing that the
costs of producing a crop in in
creasing each year and realize that
the only way to make a profit is
to produce more per acre. There
i are several things that must be
done in getting maximum yields
and one of these is controlling soil
borne insects. Last year, many
farmers got very low yields of
corn due to these insects while
others got good yields by spraying
with an insecticide.
A meeting will be held Friday,
February 26, at 2:00 o’clock in the
Swan Quarter Agricultural Build
ing by Dr. Walter Kulash, State
College Entomologist, who will
bring us up to date on the insecti
cides used in the control of bill
bugs, wire worms, chinck bugs, cut
worms and grape colapsis. Also a
brief discussion of the leaf maize
minor or blade worm will be made.
Hyde is considered fortunate in
getting Dr. Kuiaah to hold this
meeting since he has done a lot of
research work in the county, cm
cdhtral of soil bone insects; he u
known by most of our formers
and is recognised M a leading au-
SEEKING FUNDS
FOR HEART DRIVE
IN DARE SUNDAY
Business Firms To Be Canvassed
on Saturday in Man
teo
The Dare County Heart Fund
drive will reach its peak next Sun
day when Heart Sunday volunteers
conduct a door-to-door collection in
communities throughout the coun
ty. The local canvass will be one
of more than 10,000 being conduct
ed from coast to coast.
In Dare County, the Heart Sun
day collection will begin at 2 p.m.
and continue through 4 p.m. Each
.volunteer will call at the homes of
neighbors, presenting an official
Heart Fund contribution envelope
for the donor’s convenience. After
bills, coins or check have been in
serted, the envelope may be sealed
before being returned to the volun
teer.
Volunters will leave special
mail-in envelopes for families that
are away from home during col
lection hours.
Funds collected in the Sunday
vass will be added to those col
lected in the Dare Heart Associ
ation’s month-long drive. The Heart
Fund goal here this year is SBO9.
Last year’s Heart Fund collection
totaled $673.78.
Funds reported on hand are
$41.00, the result of “balloon sale”
conducted by 4-H members Satur
day the 14th; Manteo Elementary
School $43.75, and Manteo High
School, $15.60. Indications are that
some S7OO is needed to reach the
county’s goal.
“Heart Sunday gives us an op
portunity to fulfill our individual
responsibility for fighting the
cardiovascular diseases, the na-
See HEART, Page Eight
SOUTHERN ALBEMARLE
INDUSTRIAL COMMITTEE
TO MEET IN BELHAVEN
A meeting of the industrial com
mittee of Southern Albemarle As
sociation has been set for 10:30
sum. on March 2 at River Forest
Manor in Bethaven.
Committee chairman W. M.
Darden of Plymouth urges attend
ance by all committee members and
other interested citizens. Darden
stated “We hope to organize the
committee with the idea of doing
some real work for the benefit of
the area involved.”
OYSTER PLANTING THE
SUBJECT AT SATURDAY
HEARING IN HYDE CO.
The Commissioner of Commercial
Fisheries, C. G. Holland, will con
duct a hearing at the Hyde County
Court House, Swan Quarter, Sat
, urday, February 27 at 2 p.m., in
regard to oyster planting in Hyde
County. All oystermen are re
quested to attend, and express
themselves on the subject of seed
oysters.
DRINKWATER PRESENTS
MEDAL TO DESCENDANTS
Several months ago A. W.
Drinkwater bought a batch of an
tiques at Nags Head. In the lot
he discovered a large silver U. S.
Lifesaving medal that had been
awarded a C. C. Williamson of the
Wilmington area 56 years ago.
How the medal happened to be
in the antiques was unknown to
Drinkwater but he figured that it
was an object which members of
the Williamson family would treas
ure as a keepsake. He set about
byway of the press, radio and
television to find the original
owner or a descendant of the owner.
This he did a few weeks ago but
he wanted to make sure the per
son who tay claim to the medal was
a bonafide descendant
He verified that Mrs. Martin
Brunjes of Wilmington who had
written him about the medal was
a neice of C. C. Williamson. Hugh
Morton of Wilmington, a member
of Lost Colony Board of Directors,
helped him verify the facts.
So this week by registered mail,
Drinkwater sent the medal to Mrs.
Brunjes, 56 years after it had been
awarded her Uucle who had as
sisted in saving the life of a drown
ing man named Moore of Wilming
ton from the Wrightsville surf in
1904.
ADJUSTMENT URGED OF
HYDE COTTON ACREAGE
The week of February 29-March
4 has been set aside for high
lighting the release of unused cot
ton allotments to the local ASC
county committee. The law pro
vides that beginning with 1960,
cotton. Harmers must either plant,
release, or lose part of their al
lotment. •
Several Hyde fanners have not
planted cotton for several years.
Under the taw existing at that
time, their allotment could net be .
SPIRITS HIGH AS DRIVE
FOR MEMBERSHIPS BEGINS
1960 CAMPAIGN ON SUNDAY
Mrs. Burwell Evans of Manteo Leading Island's
Drive for Support of Roanoke Island Histori
cal Association in I 960; Precedes Statewide
Campaign Getting Underway Soon; Sixty-
Two Memberships Assured Sunday.
MT. OLIVET CHURCH PLANS
MARCH REVIVAL SERVICES
REV. ORION N. HUTCHINSON,
of First Methodist Church, Thomas
ville, N. C., who will be the speaker
at Mt. Olivet Methodist Church,
! Manteo, for revival services March
! 7-11. Rev. Hutchinson is a graduate
of Duke Divinity School and form
erly served as Associate Minister
of First Methodist Church, Char
lotte, N. C. He is recognized as
one of the leading young ministers
I of North Carolina.
The Mount Olivet church will
- participate in the Conference-wide
■ evangelistic program during March
) and April. The churches in the
t Elizabeth City. and Wil
mington districts will have their
. revivals during March. The Mt
- Olivet revival is planned for March
I 4-11 and speaker for services on
i March 4,5, and 6 proceeding Rev.
s Hutchinson’s appearance will be
; Roy L. Turnage. director of field
■ work for the Town and Country
Commission, N. C. Conference. Mr.
Turnage is a layman and service
will be led by laymen of Mt.
Olivet
HYDE FARMS REPAY
DOUBLE THE MONEY
BORROWED IN 1959
Report of Farmers Home Admin
istration Indicates Loans In
creasing In Size, Though
Hyde County families borrowed
more than $78,650 in funds from
the Farmers Home Administration
during last year, according to a
report by Daniel B. Willis, the
agency’s county supervisor. During
this period the borrowers returned
more than $164,300 in repayments.
Loans made by the Farmers
Home Administration are in
creasing in size, according to Mr.
Willis. For example, three years
ago Farmers Home Administration
operating loans in the county av
eraged $2619 While this year the
same type loan averages $3287 per
borrower.
Hyde County FHA borrowers
during 1959 used a little more than
$66,000 for operating loans to pay
for feed, seed, fertilizer, tractor
fuel, other items and to get ready
for 1960 planting. More than 15%
of operating loans was borrowed
for livestock and machinery needed
to put their farming programs on '
a sounder basis.
In addition to money borrowed
for farm operating expenses, Hyde
County families borrowed more
than $49,800 for real estate in
vesstments. Some borrowers used
real estate loans to improve farms, '•
enlarge farms of inadequate size or
refinance debts.
Others built or modernized farm :
houses and essential farm build- '
Ings, carried out better soil con- 1
servation practices, improved per
manent pastures and provided bet- 1
ter drainage systems. ,
Loans are available for farm .
operating adjustmeints land fan
provements, purchases and enlarge- j
ments, dwellings, and other essen
tial farm buildings, roil and wa- ■
ter conservation, and watershed .
loans, Mr. Willis said. 1
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ST. ANDREWS SPONSORS <
PANCAKE SUPPER TUESDAY <
]
There is going to baa Pancake i
Supper on Shrove Tueaday March) 1
Ist at the Carolinian Hotel, Nsgs
Head, 5:30 to 8 pjn. under ttah
auspices of St. Andrews By fee h
Sea, Na<s Head. Public is invited. 1
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MAIL SHOULD BE
ADDRESSED TO BOX 428
MANTEO, N. C.
NOT TO INDIVIDUALS
Single Copy
Under leadership of Mrs. Bur
well Evans of Manteo, the 1960
Lost Colony membership drive of
Roanoke Island Historical Associ
ation got off to a good start Sun
day afternoon.
Thirty or more Dare residents,
most of them from Roanoke Is
land, heard Mrs. Evans tell of the
advantages to be derived in giving
financial support towards promot
ing the drama that has played such
an important role in the develop
ment of the Dare Coast-Outer
Banks as one of the world’s most
unusual vacation and tourist at
tractions. Those present at the
meeting showed interest by taking
a total of 62 memberships and
agreeing to give their assistance
in the membership drive now un
derway.
The meeting Sunday was the be
ginning of a state wide member
ship drive started last week by
Mrs. Emmett Winslow at a kick
off luncheon on Nags Head. "Be
fore we go to other sections asking
people to help The Lost Colony by
taking memberships, we must first
show our local interest,” she said.
That is why the membership
drive under the direction of Mrs.
Evans is now being intensified
locally. In addition to those present
at the meeting Sunday agreeing
to serve as workers, representa
tives in the various civic clubs have
also been appointed to assist in the
drive. Mrs. J. L. Murphy assumed
the responsibility of supervising
the membership drive on the Dare
Beaches and later efforts will be
made to secure on Hat
• leras Island.
“We in Dare County have a
great historical heritage,” said
Mrs. Evfans as she opened the meet
ing. “We can nroudly point to a
long list of 'firsts’ starting with
the first English colonization at
tempts here in 1585.”
“The United States Government
has recognized Dare by establishing
Fort Raleigh National Historic
Site, the Wright Brothers National
Memorial and the first National
Seashore Recreational Area.”
“Included in the National Park
Service Mission 66 project is a
budget of $400,000 to stabilize the
shore line in the vicinity of Fort
Raleigh, to build a new visitors
center and a new access road. We
should be gitateful for past accom
plishments and future plans of the
National Park Service,” she said.
“Our historical background also
includes the first major victory by
Union forces during the Civil War,
See DRIVE, Page Eight
FURTHER REPORT OF
RED CROSS ACTIVITIES;
SUPPORT INCREASING
Dare County Red Cross Chair
man Ralph Davis has tendered the
following report on visit to Man
teo by Red Cross Representative
Glenn F. Brosier, Elizabeth City,
on Tuesday, and his expected re
turn to the County for other meet
ings and activities Friday.
“Mr. Brosier, who is rendering
assistance to our Red Cross prog
ram in its various phases in Derd
County, was in Manteo on Tues
day,” Mr. Davis said, “at which
time plans were discussed con
cerning our 1960 program and
activities.” The scheduled trip south
of Oregon Inlet was postponed un
til Friday, due to the difficult
ferry situation.
Mr. Brosier reviewed progress
being made with the blood prog
ram subject with Floyd B. Tay
lor, blood program chairman for
Dare. Mr. Davis indicated that Mr.
Brosier is well pleased with support
for the program which is result
ing from the response of organized
groups thus far contacted by Mr.
Taylor.
In word received from Taylor,
the newspaper learned that the
"paper stage of the Wood program”
is nearing completion. “Within two
weeks now,” Taylor said, “I hope to
have all the required supporting
data in the form needed by the
Red Cross for their final review.
Their review and processing may
take up to six weeks. If the “paper
is not oomnletf* nr innHA.
quote we could be delayed consid
erably in being accepted into the
Red Cross Blood Program. It is
not something we can wish our way
into,” he pointed out.