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PROGRESS CONTINUES ON
PIER AT KILL DEVIL HILLS
Construction work on the new
ocean fishing’ pier at Kill Devil
Hills continues to go forward de
t>pite many unfavorable working
days recently. About 500 of the
750 foot pier has been completed.
Owned by the Avalon Pier Cor
poration and located at Avalon
.1 leach the pier should become a
favorite spot for anglers. It is
being built at an excellent loca
tion for good fishing, extending
over the bar and near an old sub
merged shippwreck.
When completed for the 1960 va
cation season the new pier will have
cost about $150,000 and will have
ta restaurant and tackle shop at the
shore end in addition to the long
deck over waiter. When completed
the number of ocean piers in the
Dare Beaches area will be increased
to four. Already there is a pier at
Kitty Hawk and two in the Nags
Head sector.
There is a possibility of two ad
ditional ocean piers being con
structed later this year on the
Dare Coast, one south of Whale
bone Junction in lower Nags Head
and one at Rodanthe near Chicama
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COLINGTON PERSONALS
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Bateman,
Mrs. J. B. Jackson and children of
Norfolk visited Mr. and Mrs. Ray
mond Perry.
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Parker, and
son, Reid visited Mr. and Mrs.
James Beasley and Mr. and Mrs.
Ronald Parker.
Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Heath and
son, Joey are in Norfolk with rela
tives. Mr. Heath is stationed at
Pope Air Force Base in N. C.
Miss Eunice Midgette spent a
week with Mr. and Mrs. Larry
Parker.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Meekins,
their daughter, Myrtle Dough and
grandchildren spent Sunday in
New Bern with Mr. and Mrs.
Meekins daughter, Mrs. Durwood
Carraway.
Miss Lois Midgette of Norfolk
was here Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Rogers of
Virginia Beach were here Satur
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Pemell Perry and
daughter, Sharon visited here and
in Kitty Hawk over the week end.
Bryan Meekins of the Air Force,
stationed in Goldsboro visited his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Orlando
Meekins.
Marvin Toler of Rodanthe vis
ited his mother, Mrs. Robanna
Toler, and grandfather John Hawk
ins Meekins.
Mrs. Gene Daniels of Wanchese
is staying with mother and fa
ther, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hay
wood while her husband is on a
voyage to Spain.
Miss Rae Meekins is in Georgia
with her sister, Mrs. Linwood
Beasley.
Vernon Perry Has received his
release after four years in the
Air Force and is back home to
resume civilian life.
A miscellaneous shower was
given Friday night in Manteo in
honor of Mrs. Sam Liverman, Jr.,
by her sister, Mrs. Judy Johnson
of Manteo and Ruby Basnight of
Colington. The honoree is the
former Virginia Etheridge, of Man
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WHY DO WE KEEP UP THIS i
STUPID APOLOGIZING? <
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This column is lifted from the ‘
Greenville, (S. C.) News.
In our not so humble opinion, '
Caryl Chessman, the California
rapist and sex criminal convicted
in several other cases, should have '
been gassed, hanged electrocuted
or subjected to the firing squad ,
long ago for he has been sentenced ,
and his state allows the death pen- ;
alty.'
For a dozen years he has been (
in and out of the courts, both state i,
and federal, with a series of delay- ;
ing legal maneuvers and has';
escaped the fate that a judge and •
jury long ago decreed for him be
cause of his heinous sins against .
society and because of what he j
did to a series of much more
worthy persons who seem to have ,
been forgotten.
Just a day or two ago this crea
ture won another reprieve from his
just deserts when someone in the
State Department of the United
States notified the Governor of '
California that his execution might
have unfortunate repercussions
abroad. It could be, this officer
said, that the people of the Latin :
American countries President Eis- ;
enhower plans to visit during the
next few weeks might demonstrate
against him.
What has happened to the United
States that it has become afraid
to follow its own folkways and to
enforce its laws because of what
the peoples of other lands might
say or do ? Shall our Congress be
frustrated and our courts reversed <
because of a mob of Hottentots who
might stage a demonstration? Are
we so weak that we cannot pro
tect our President wherever he
goes, be it Moscow or the capital '
of Uruguay ?
If things have gotten that bad,
we will gladly volunteer to lead ,
a couple of platoons of Marines
and paratroopers to go along on
the trip and fend off the rocks
and the rotten eggs. And maybe
help to install a few more friendly
goverments in the process.
America is a glass house; that
we have long known. We do not
deny that what the rest of the
world thinks of the democracy
that we preach and have tried so
hard to export depends largely on
how we practice it.
But how stunid can we get when
it comes to telling the rest of the
world the truth about how we
practice it? How long will we con
tinue to play into the hands of
Red propagandists?
The facts of the Chessman case
have long been known. They have
not changed. If he had been exe
cuted on schedule, in accordance
with the law as defined by the
judges and the facts and found
by the jury, no one outside of Cal
ifornia would ever have heard of
him.
But what happened? We have
allowed ourselves to be pilloried
before wbrld public opionion be
cause we have kept him in the
death cell for 12 years while he
presented plea after plea. There
seems to be no end to it Again
and again he has, gone back to the
same courts which previously had
affirmed his sentence. The sym
pathy he has received is due sole
ly to the fact that he has been
so long under the death sentence.
Why haven’t we told our foreign
critics that only in America could
a man prolong his life for so many
years when he deserved to die? Is
there another country in the world
where he could have obtained the
benefit of so many doubts ? Is there
another country where one man,
alone in prison, could learn more
law than many lawyers ever knew
and use it to fend off the verdict
of an impartial jury chosen at ran
dom from among respectable citi
zens? The answers are obvious.
What should we do to mollify
our foreign critics, turn this man
loose to repeat his crimes, modify
his sentence and place him in a
comfortable cell to continue to
mortify us with his cunning but
psychopathic writings? We think
not.
We survived the Rosenberg case,
didn’t we?
The case of Chessman is but the
most ridiculous example of a long
series of ridiculous instances of
the sort of thing.
We have done it before. The
State Department has told us that
race relations, especially in the
South, Halve hurt our prestige
abroad. Perhaps so, but only be
cause we have failed to make the
truth known.
We have failed to point out that
the Negro in the South has more
real freedom and opportunity than
his relatives in any of the new and
highly nationalistic black republics
in Africa. We have failed to point
out the obvious truth that, as he
qualifies for it, he will receive
more.
What ha* happened to America?
THE COASTI-AND TIMES, MANTEO, N. C.
STUMPY POINT PERSONALS
Mrs. Lucy Best, Mr. and Mrs.
H. E. Best attended the funeral
of Mrs. Lucy Bests’ brother, Tooley
Cuthrell at Middletown Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Carol Payne, Mr.
and Mrs. Carl Nunneri of Norfolk
visited Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Payne
Sunday.
Glenn Twiford was in Washing
ton on business.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Payne were
in Norfolk Monday. They were ac
companied home by their son, Mike
who was taken from the light ship
“Chesapeake” last week to the
U.S.P.H. Hospital where he has
beei> a patient.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Barbee left
Sunday to make their home in
Norfolk.
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Hooper, and
children of Buxton visited Mrs.
Gertrude Wise and Mrs. Frances
Hooper Sunday.
Mrs. Carson Meekins and Mrs.
Gertrude Wise accompanied their
I mother, Mrs. Frances Hooper to
I Belhaven for medical treatment
Saturday. Mrs. Hooper is improv
ing' slowly.
Estelle Knight returned to Wash
ington, D. C., Sunday where she
is employed.
Mr. and Mrs. Hildred Golden vis
ited Mr. Golden’s father, George
Golden of Sela Level, a patient in
U.S.P.H. Hospital, suffering from
an eye injury.
Billy Best was home for the week
end from State College.
Charlie Brinn visited relatives in
Engelhard.
Doanld Midgette visited his
family while on a weeks leave from
Norfolk.
Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Gray visited
Mr. C. W. Mann in Manns Har
bor.
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Wise at
tended the thirty fifth wedding
Anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. T. L.
Midgette in Norfolk Sunday. Mrs.
Miidgette is a sister of Mrs. Wise.
Mrs. William Gray visited her
husband in Maryland Sunday.
Mrs. Bruce Gray and Mrs. Bob
Midgette were in Norfolk Friday.
Mrs. D. R. Nixon, Johnny and
Joan of Camp Lejeune visited her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Mid
gette.
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Litchfield
of Engelhard visited Mr. and Mrs.
H. B. Hooper.
Attending the third Quarterly
Conference of the Dare Charge at
East Lake Church Sunday even
ing at three o’clock were: C. E.
Payne, M. V. Hooper, Charles E.
Meekins, Ralph O’Neal, Mrs. Geo.
Wise, Sr., Mrs. R. D. Wise, Mrs.
Florine Hooper, Mr. and Mrs. A.
C. Hooper, Mr. and Mrs. H. B.
Hooper, Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Gray.
Reports showed all items paid up
to date.
We have made mistakes, of
course, but since 1776 and until the
last decade or two we have defied
the greatest powers on earth to
assert and secure our rights. Why
should we now run for cover every
time some temporary dictatorship
or some Communist-inspired mob
questions a matter of domestic
policy?
The fate of Chessman, even the
race issue, is relatively, if not to
tally, unimportant. What is im
portant is that the United States
should stand tall in the Saddle of
world leadership and make no
apologies for trivialities that are
nobody else’s business.
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RURITANS TO MEET TO
CONSIDER MERGER, MARCH 18
'Continued plans by Ruritans to
merge the Manns Harbor and Wan
chese clubs will be brought to a
final decision on March 18, if pres
ent plans carry
Manns Harbor Ruritans attend
ing the meeting Feb. 19 and ex
pressing interest in merging were
Past Presidents Stanford Whiter
Jacie Burrus and T. O. Sutton.
They ageed that with the travel
facilities improved to such an ex
tent that it is a matter of minutes
to go from one community to the
other that it would be practical to
merge the clubs. The Manns Harbor
club has not been active in recent
months,” said White, “And I be
lieve most of our members would
like to be associated with the more
active Wanchese club.”
“Our Wanchese Club would wel
come the Ruritans of Manns Har
bor,” said M. R. Daniels who lias
been one of the active figures in
the Wanchese Club since it w’as
organized.
The Rev. Harold F. Leatherman,
pastor of Mt Olivet Methodist
Church was the speaker at the
Wanchese meeting. The theme of
his talk was community betterment
through the sharing of civic efforts
with others.
NURSE PUBLISHES BOOK
OF INSPIRING POETRY
NEW YORK.—“Pause for Medi
tation,” a book of poetry by Nelle
June Reid, Superintendent of
Nurses at District Memorial Hos
pital in Andrews, North Carolina,
published on January 30, by Ex
position Press of New York. (Price:
$2.50). It is a rewarding uplifting
little volume that leaves the read
er with a feeling of warmth in his
heart—and one that will call him
back to its pages again and again.
Mrs. Reid, who has been writing
poetry since she was in the first
grade in public school, was bom
in Asheville, and educated at the
Youngstown City Hospital School
of Nursing, Ohio, and at Pittsburgh
University in Pennsylvania. She
was head nurse of the United
States Veterans Hospital in Pitts
burgh for eighteen years.
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DARE COAST RACCOONS
SENT TO WESTERN N. C,
TO RESTOCK PRESERVES
Approximately 150 raccoons
taken alive by Dare mainland
trappers during the past season
have been transferred to Western
North Carolina counties to restock
hunting preserves, according to
State Game Protector W. ,S. White.
The final shipment was made last
week and as result of the oppor
tunity to sell the raccoons, the
mainland trappers realized about
five times as much as they would
have received had they sold the
pelts of dead’coons. The average
’coon skin brings only one dollar.
The selling price was $5 each
of which the N. C. Wildilfe Re
sources Commission paid half and
owners of game preserves paid the
remainder. “Usually about one out
of four raccoons trapped can be
kept alive,” said White.
In addition to raccoons, many
mink and otter were caught by
trappers during the past winter.
The biggest money-maker for
trappers are mink. About 50 otter
were taken during the season. “The
average trapper realizes an income
of about SSOO per season," White
added.
CHANGES IN PENSIONS FOR
WIDOWS, CHILDREN, VA SAYS
Pension eligibility requirements
based on the war service of a vet
eran become alike for widows and
childen of World Wars I and II
and the Korelan conflict after June
30, 1960, the VA pointed out to
day.
The VA explained that at the
present time pensions are granted
to widows and children of World
War II and the Korean conflict only
if the veteran had a definitely
ascertainable service-connected dis
ability at the time of his death.
No such restriction is at present
placed on the widows or children
of deceased World War I veterans.
The new pension law, going into
effect July 1, 1960, removes this
restriction and places widow's and
.children of World War II and the
Koren conflict on the same basis
las World War I dependents in this
FRIDAY. MARCH 4. 1960
regard, the VA said.
This “equalization clause” of the
new pension system is expected to
add approximately 200,000 widows
and orphans to the pension rolls,
the VA estimates.
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