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PAGE TWO “I do enough walking already, ■ tw-Q-M r—» 351^ f«C jQiiBB- that’s why we installed a barn extension” So many modern farmers tell us the extension telephone in their barn has been a real time and step saver. If you would like to know more about how this low-cost, labor saving convenience can be yours.. call our busines: office today. k’ The Norfolk & Carolina Telephone & Telegraph Co. Manteo - Elizabeth City - Coinjock Kill Devil Hills - Edenton RENEW YOUR SUBSCRIPTION .y old On RManm £ | STRAIGHT bourbon WHISKEY I © II w/ YEARS // I sz-25 I ’public fl A II I n fs3so | 4/5 QUART jy JAMES WALSH & CO. LAWRENCEBURG, KENTUCKY H. CLOYD PHILPOTT Epl FOR ■3m. Lt. Governor ■ Aw, ■ CLOYD PHILPOTT AN OUTSTANDING RECORD IN PUBLIC SERVICE IN CHURCH AFFAIRS • Four times Representative in Legislature from Davidson • Deacon of First Baptist Church and former Chairman County. °f Board of Deacons. • Four years Mayor of Lexington and extended • On building committee for erection of new $750,000 service on Lexington Utilities Commission. church plant. • Finance Director of Democratic Party of North Carolina • Former superintendent of Sunday School for several since 1958. Y« ars - • Rotarian. Past President of Lexington Club. • Taught a women's Bible class for 25 years. . • Recently completed second term as president of Board IN EDUCATION Trustees of North Carolina Baptist Children's Home. • Attended Lexington City Schools, Eastman Business AS A BUSINESS LEADER School, and Graduated Virginia Military Institute. • of Uirngton CH, School Bo«J fo.lo Un!tad “ d Philp<>H F “ nah " Mwf-Hwb. and for several years its chairman. Twice chairman of successful campaigns for local school supplements. • Former president of Southern Furniture Manufacturers . , u | .| , . v: - ’ Association. Voted "Furniture Man of Year" for 1956 Carolina Advisory Committee on Education. • Director of banks and savings and loan associations. YOUR SUPPORT WILL BE APPRECIATED . . . DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY MAY 28TH » (Political advertisement paid by Dare County friends of Cloyd Philpott) WANCHESE PERSONALS Mrs. Sibyl Sawyer of Norfolk spent the week end with her moth er, Mrs. Emma Daniels. Mrs. Crowder Davis is a patient in the Marine Hospital Norfolk, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Reggie Tillett and Mr. and Mrs. Cass Daniels visited in Shawboro and Elizabeth City Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Nixon and son of Norfolk, were week end guests of Mrs. Nixon's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gage Williams. Mrs. Mildred Davis, Mrs. Ethel Parker and Mrs. Nellie Hazen at tended the Great Council Meeting of Pocahontas in Rocky Mount this week. Parker Midgett of Elizabeth City visited here Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. 0. W. Austin and son, Norfolk, spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Crowder Til lett. Mrs. H. 0. Bridges is a patient in the Marine Hospital, Norfolk, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Harley Ross of Virginia Beach visited Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Harris Monday. E. M. Daniels of Norfolk visited here Sunday. FOR YOUR SAPOLIN PAINT AND PAINTING SUPPLIES Always Stop at FEARINGS, INC. Why? We offer a complete line ABOVE and BEYOND! By ROGER P. MEEKINS SOUTH OF THE BORDER DOWN MEXICO WAY The clerk in the hotel in Mexico City told me that the very best rate which he could give me on a room would be 70 pesos ($5.60). Obviously he was applying the tourist standard to what I had asked for, since the room turned out to be a small suite. The ho tel was an old one, but comfort able* and near downtown Mexico City. A small room, with a bath, would have cost four dollars or less, but as my wife and I were already in the suite and tired, and since our stay was to be short, we let it go. The cost of the room was typi cal of what we found during our two weeks in Mexico. At a motel the night before we had paid 55 pesos, and the night before that 40 ($3.20) for a hotel in a small town. I have concluded that most any American can afford to travel in Mexico, if he can afford to travel at all. Mexico, a land that was cap tured, settled and governed by the Spanish 50 years before white man ever set foot on Roanoke Is land, can open your eyes to many things which you might never be lieve existed in this decade so near to the United States. You'll see poverty which one would think of as being typical of India or some place else. You’Ll find supersalesman, super con men, smoothly operated “rackets,” and many, many lovable latins. Oft en, the most important word in a tourist’s vocabulary is “NO.” ( At the border, as soon as I had received my tourist visa and oth er papers, I was hounded by pro fessional money changers who, if you will examine their rates of exchange, want about ten per cent to exchange it for you. They try to bamboozle you before you have a chance to go to the bank. Mexican banks will exchange your money, one hundred dollars worth for a charge of one peso (eight cents.) An American dollar is worth twelve and one-half pesos. The different, and the unexpect ed, were to me the most exciting parts of a trip into Mexico. It is impossible to predict what is coming next, and it will in most cases be different from anything you have ever known. But I must compliment the Mexicans on their hospitality. With the annoying exceptions of being hounded by salemsmen hawking their unwant ed wares, and a few short-change artists, I did not receive a single discourtesy while in their country. I learned early in the trip to have plenty of change in my pockets, because a common thing is the pretense on the part of the Mexican that he has no phange, THE COASTLAND TIMES, MANTEO, N. C. and he wishes that you might for get what change you have com ing. This applies, of course, only .to the tourists. I went to a bank and got a big wad of un peso bills (one peso each). You feel like a rich man after exchanging U. S. currency into Mexican, be cause you need a basket to carry it in. During my first day in Mexico I learned to count in Spanish, how to ask the price, and how to say “that’s too much.” Little more of the language was necessary, but I picked up a bit more each day as we went along. The roads, to my surprise, were good to excellent. These, of course, are the major tourist highways of which I am speak ing. Some are toll roads, but near ly all are of good construction and graded properly so as to make montain driving easier. But Mex ican drivers will inevitably make three lanes out of a two-lane highway, for I have seen several occasions when two or three cars in trail will attempt to pass another car or truck while going around a Curve and over a hill at the same time. If an approach ing car comes around the bend, everybody squeezes together and makes three lanes and keep on going as if nothing had happened. I never was able to understand the rules of the road in Mexico, but the best that I was able to deduce was that the one going the fastest had the right of way. I gave way to everybody. Sur prisingly enough, the only acci dent that I saw in 2,000 miles of driving in Mexico was one car which failed to make the curve | of a mountain and had gone top- | pling down the cliff, about a thousand feet or so. But, getting back to the Mexi- 1 can currency; it is the dirtiest that I have ever seen. Apparent ly it is used for a much longer time than is U. S. currency, or at least it changes hands fast er. It is used to the point that the numbers on many bills are obliterated and unreadable. Every time I spent a peso, I felt as though I ought to go wash my hands before doing anything else. Everybody in Mexico wants some of those tourist pesos, and they have a goodly number of “rackets" for getting it. First of all, every time you park your car there is' someone there to “guard” it for you, for which in turn they ex pect a peso or more. Actually, this is cheap insurance, because if there was no one to “guard” it the chances are that some part of it would soon be missing. The youngs ters get started on' this pretty early, and I would estimate the ages of some of the youngsters at about seven or eight. Most guards or “car watchers,” however, were adults. One of the tilings which per turbed me most was that the Mexi cans almost washed the paint off of my car. Evey time I stopped at a motel, someone always washed the car. They never used soap, probably because they didn’t have any, and sometimes no water either. Amazingly, these car washers were always just putting the finishing touches on the “wash-job" just as you were ready to leave, and were conveniently standing in your way for their tip. At one motel where we stayed four days, I gave the man 5 pesos (40 cents) because he had done an exceptionally good job, and his reaction was an excited one. He washed my car every day for the rest of the time that we were there. On the day we left I gave him two more pesos for sweeping out the car. On the mountainous road from Mexico City to the silver mining town of Taxco, we travelled through a tropical section of the country which seemed very desti tute, and many of the little boys were without clothes. The thing which attracted our attention were the many boys with captive iguanas, a large lizard-type animal which sometimes grow to a length of five or six feet, and are sought for food. We stopped to take a picture of one of these, along with the little naked boy, and before I could get the vehicle stopped four littel boys and girls were running to the car. The little naked boy (3 years old) fought with a larger A MESSAGE FROM George R. Fuller YOUR VOTE IS IMPORTANT ——fl On May 28, 1960, Citizens of Dare County will go to their respective voting precincts and cast their votes for the Candidates that they prefer to represent them. It is with a great feeling of pride that I complete my first term as a Dare County Commissioner. I am proud to have een part of a five man team that has accomplished so much in such a short period of time. It is my hope that the many people who voted and supported me in that election, have a true feeling that I served this e . rr P * n a . s ’ ncere i > honest manner. That I was an individual with a mind of his own, endeavoring at all times to fulfill the pledges made when first seeking this office. In seeking re-election to this office, I would like to take this opportunity to repeat the vows made to the Voters of Dare County. That I will not be influenced by any person or group, that I will strive to work for the whole of Dare Coun ty* no ! s^ow Partiality to any special section, and that I will work in complete cooperation with all Officials of our County." Although this was a new field of endeavor for me, I exerted every effort to act in such a manner that upon completion of this term of office, that people would say, "George Ful ler made a good Commissioner." I have never made any commitments to anyone that would place me under any obligation, other than that which would benefit, and in my opinion, be the wish of the majority of the people. Although re-election to this Office is truly important to me, as it will present me with the opportunity to continue my efforts to further the progress of Dare County, I have no criticism to make of any member of the Board upon which I served, or any candidate now seeking election to this office, and I will not resort to any of the "politicking" tactics that are so often used to gain re-elecion. I do believe that the experience gained in government, as your Commissioner for the past two years, and the many friends I have made, will be beneficial and enable me to better serve Our County in the future. Should the Citizens of Dare County feel that I have served them to their advantage, that I have made "a good man on the Board," and are willing for me to retain this Office, without obligation to anyone other than the majority, I would greatly appreciate your vote and continued support. Sincerely, B GEORGE R. FULLER. JR. girl to determine which one was going to hold the iguana up to have its picture taken. I had not taken the first step after taking the picture when the chant of “un ppeeo, un peso, un peso, unpeso,” came simultaneously and repeatedly from the mouths of these four chil dren. Evidently the tourists spoiled them long ago. I reached into my pocket and pulled out a handful of centavos (one hundred o fthem equals one peso or eight cents of U. S. money), but the cry was “no, no. no—-un peso, un peso, un peso.” I gave a paper peso to the littel naked boy and let it go at that The children seem to learn early the value of a peso, and thgy are on to the scheme of being tipped for having their picture COASTLAND COLOR CARD CO. Tel. 2521 or 2707 NAGS HEAD, N. C. Jobbers Local View Post Cards Brochures - Commercial Photography Colored Photographic Business and Advertising Cards FRIDAY, MAY 20. 1960 taken. Steaks, of various assortments, constitue the mainstay of the tour ist menus in Mexico, with here and there occasionaNp finding a res taurant that serves Mexican food, specialized for American tastes. Eating is as cheap as guest ac commodations a hamburger steak costing sixty-five cents, and filet about $1.50 to $2.00, with every thing included. But so much for the Mexicans and their money. I’ll tell you more later about some other aspects of the trip. Goodness is the only investment that never fails. —Henry D. Thoreau
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