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CARTE RE T COU N TY Ln rM SECCrCD SECTIO! PAGES 1 TO 4 10c A Merger o! THE BEAUFOBT NEWS (Established 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (Established Ij)36) 38th YEAR NO. 7. BEAUFORT AND MOREHEAD CITY, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1948 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS vv v7 Barbara Edwards Will Be First II. C. Halive lo Play 'Lost Colony' Lead Manteo, N. C. Beautiful Bar bara Edwards, native of Troy, N. C, will play Eleanor Dare in Paul Green's exciting symphonic drama, "The Lost Colony," when it opens for its eighth season here on Roa noke Island in the Waterside thea tre, July 1. It is the first time she has appeared in the show and also the first time a native of North Carolina has taken this stel lar role as the female lead. Miss Edward's acting and sing ing career started in Spartanburg, S. C, at Converse college where she appeared in Dark of the Moon, Family Album, Cavalliera Rusti cana, The Mairiagp of Figaro and many Gilbert and Sullivan operas. She has a bachelor of music de gree from Converse, and has been taking special coursi s in drama at the University of North Carolina this year. She appeared with the Carolina Playmakers in An Enemy of the People, The Mikado, and sang the soprano role in Hayden's Season's Oratorio. Miss Edwards is preparing herself for a career in grand opera. During the religious programs to be featured in the Waterside thea tre each Sunday morning during the shoe's run which will continue until Labor Day. Miss Edwards will frequently be guest soloist. There will be singing also by the famed Westminster choir and the presentation of noted theologians who will conduct religious worship. Only The News-Times reports the news of central coastal Caro lina. Subscribe today. By mail less than 5 cents per issue. 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Mr. and Mrs. Leo Simnsoh. of Morehead City, spent Saturday evening here. They went fishing and had good luck. Janice Norman and Kathleen Hardy spent Sunday afternoon with Gertrude Mason. Mrs. Rone Wallace, Mrs. John Wallace visited Mrs. Mamie Nor mal! Sunday afternoon. Mn. Levi Pittman carried her babjrVJtabar Joyce to Dr.. Salter rest Tnuriday for treatment. She had head trouble. Hope she . will soon be better. The health nurse, Mrs. Leota Hammer was here Friday after noon giving the children shots and the older ones also. Mr. Cleve Courtney, Mr. Edward Courtney and Mr. George Tosto were in Beaufort Saturday morn ng on business. Mr. and Mrs. George Tosto vi sited Mrs. Nannie J. Pittman and mother, Mrs. Lizzie Tosto. Mrs. Tosto is sick and hope she will goon be better. Miss Francis Blake and sister, Ella Carroll, of North River, spent the weekend with their grand mother, Mrs. Ruth Eubanks. Mrs. Ruth Eubanks spent Satur day afternoon with her mother, Mrs. Mary E. Hardy. Mr. and Mrs. John Wallace visit ed Mr. and Mrs. Willie Pittman Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Guthrie and son, Jimmie, of Beaufort, spent Saturday night with her mother, Mrs. Ruth Eubanks. Mrs. Marvin Fulcher and sister, OAVIG 195 HTh AN KONOMV Tilt TIT ' SOKT TO HVI SAH, DIFCNOAM.I SMVKI UMOtt ' All CONDITIONS, MOOHM ANTMKO TMAO KK quick tuu iron, mood IV WBTUN AUTOS FAMOUS wurrrm ouamnthi V Western Auto Associate Siore Bone-Owned and Operated By CALVIN JONES FRONT STREET SAVE THE SOIL By Roy R. Beck Soli Conservationist Early spring pastures have help ed numerous farmers in the New port area save money on their feed bills for spring farrowed pigs. These pastures represent good land use because thev nrevent erosion on sloping land, do better than most row crops on poorly drained land, and prevent leeching and build up fertility wherever they arc seeded. Walter Bland Fulcher says "I am raising sixteen pigs which I feed five quarts of hog feed and five quarts of corn a day. They are making good gains on this small amount of feed because of the feed furnished by my pasture." E. C. Quinn has a litter of nine pigs on a small plot of grape and lespedcza. Mr. Quinn says "This pasture has saved quite a bit on my feed bill and is on a small area of wctnatured land which has to be cut out of my tobacco field." Art is Garner seeded a spring pasture of oats, rape and lespedeza on an area of wet land which he has to cut out of his tobacco field. The seeding was made in late March and dry weather hurt the stand but the oats and lespedcza are growing nicely now. Mr. Garner says his hogs have made rapid gains since he turned them on it two weeks ago. This field will be seeded to ladino clover and orchard grass as part of a soil conservation farm plan worked out in cooperation with the Lower Neusc Soil Conservation District. Sam Edwards has an excellent stand of sericea lespedeza started on sloping sandy-clay soil on his farm east of Newport. Mr. Ed wards seeded the sericea to choke out joint grass which it will do in three or four years while provid ing hav and seed crops and con trolling all erosion. Casey Garner is rightly proud of his Utter of eleven pigs. The sow and pigs have grazed a rye grass - crimson clover pasture since early March and Mr. Garner feels sure the seven-week-old pigs will weigh 30 pounds each. Nor mally, crimson clover does not re seed itself but this pasture is cov ered with a new stand of clover. It will be interesting to watch what happens to this clover which should be grown during the winter. Mr. Garner did not seed the re cently developed reseeding type of crimson clover. Janice Norman spent last Thurs day in Beaufort shopping. Mr. Preston Mason, of Wilming ton, spent the weekend- with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Mason. Elder J. C. Griffin, Mrs. Griffin and F'.der William Anderson, of Morehead City, came over Satur day night and Elder Griffin show ed moving pictures of the orphan age at Middlesex. The Bible col lege at Nashville, Tennessee and the Cragmont building near Black Mountains. They were just grand. BUSY TSatAS "uWItires fr amy 25. WHK AfTCX SMALL HVtm OR TOOK WIARwmi TODAY! BEAUFORT . "i IV mm Ad! C. J. Shannon, Charlotte, History of Country's Mail C. J. Shannon, post office inspec tor from Charlotte, gave a histori cal sketch of mail service in the United States at the opening post masters' convention held recently at the beach. Mr, Shannon's address, in its entirety, appears below: During the century presiding the Revolutionary War the mail ser vice in America was of a very pri mitive and unsatisfactory nature and in 1639 the general Court of Massachusetts ordered that "Richard Fairbanks, his house in Boston, is the place appointed for all letters which are brought from beyond the seas, or are to be sent thither, to be left with him. and he is to be allowed for every letter, a penny." While sometimes referred to as the first American post office, it was in reality merely a place where let ters were to be left until called for, or sent by some ship sailing from Boston. The first step toward an international post was taken in 1672, when Governor Lovelace of New York started a monthly post for exchange of letters with the Governor of Massachusetts. The postman in this undertaking was charged with the duty of mak ing his own trail through the woods, blazing the trees so that other travelers could follow him on his route, but this post was soon abandoned. While intercolonial posts were maintained after a fashion, the service continued deplorably pri mitive for another hundred years, although during that period a Scotchman by the name of An drew Hamilton was made deputy postmaster general for the colonies by a patient granted by William & Mary to a court favorite, Thomas Neale. Hamilton set up a strag gling line of posts extending from Maine to the Carolinas and in duced the various colonies to pass fairly harmonious postal acts. There is, we believe, the story of the first post office inspector: In 1773, a Britisher by the name of Hugh Finley, representing the British Postmaster General, started from Montreal for an inspection of the colonial posts. Gci?ral conditions Were bad, even in the more thickly settled colonies, and even worse in the south. At Richmond, Virginia, there was no post office at all. At Georgetown, S. C, when Finley ar rived in January, he found no one to handle the mail. The postmaster had died in the previous October and no successor had been appoint ed. There was no post line from Charleston to Savannah although one was in operation between Sa vannah and Saint Augustine, Fla. Before this benighted inspector could complete his task of inspec tions, the outbreak of the revolu tion terminated his activities and to this day no one other than a U. S. Postal Inspector has inspect ed post offices in this country. The first American postal set vice was authorized by the con tinental Congress in 1775, with Benjamin Franklin as postmaster General at the magnificent salary of $1,000 per annum. A line of posts was established extending from Falmouth, Maine to Savan nah, Georgia, but the service ren dered during the war was very -COMPLETE - Automobile Service Wrecker Service - Motor Rebuilding Wheel and Frame Body and Fender Repair Glass Replacement - Painting LOFTIN MOTOR CO. - EEAUFC3T, N. C. uncertain and primitive. When Samuel Osgood became postmaster general in 1789, there were only about 75 post offices and about 2400 miles of post routes. The gross receipts of the entire service were between $25,000 and $35,000 a year. For an office, the post master general had one room con nected with the Post office at New York. Three years later he asked the Secretary of the Treasury, of whose department the post office was then a bureau to approve a charge of $300 for two rooms in his residence, as a general post of ficc, including the attendance of a domestic servant. At that time the post office at Boston and Philadelphia were each conducted in a single room in a private dwelling. The two clerks at Philadelphia were paid $500 each and the two at New York re ceived only $400 each. The sa laries of the postmasters aggrega ted a little over $9,000. and each of the larger offices was allowed $50 a year for candles and fuel. The postage rates at that time were very high and complicated. For instance, the rate on a single letter going not over 30 miles was 6 cents: rates for greater distances increased rapidly and if a single letter traveleld as far' as from Jacksonville to Long Key. the rate was 25 cents. A single letter did not mean a single communication as it would now, but a single sheet of paper weighing not over one ounce. Additional pieces of paper, no matter how small, made the let ter ; double or triple letter, re quirinng a proportionale increase in postage. Every parcel weighing an ounce or more required four times the single letter rate for each ounce, so that the postage on a .one-pound parcel traveling not over thirty miles was $3.84. anil if going as far as from Jacksonville to Long Key the postage would be $16.00. The conditions in the mail ser vice in 1806 arc indicated by a communication addressed to the House by Postmaster General Gi PAUL obby BEAUFORT Cabinels Made To BROAD ST. 613 LOWE BROTHERS PAINTS & VARNISHES (Quality Unsurpassed Since 1870) FREE Color Manucls pra pared by the experts. Over 100 answers to Painting Problems. Color schemes for every room plus time-saving hints for the busy housewife. Get Your Copies Today It you have special deco rating problem (inside or out side) Lowe Bros, will give you personal advice. Come in and find out how you may obtain this personalized service FREE. Sketches Service deon Granger, regarding the mail route operating between Athens, Georgia and New Orleans, which is quoted as follows: "This part of the route ought to be surveyed and marked out and cleared of underbrush and trees four feet wide. It would be ra ther an injury than an advantage to clear wider than is necessary for a single horse us it has been found to encourage a thick growth of brush. (Just figure that one out if you can) Dug River is 40 feet wide and is too deep to ride across whenever there is a considerable rain. Two logs may be laid across it so as to enable the rider lo cross with the mails on his back and swim his horse along side, l'ascagula River is 250 yards wide. A fa mily lives here and keeps ca noe in which the river should be crossed, the horse swimming alongside." In 1835 when the railroads began to displace the pony-rider and stage coach, the number of post offices increased from 75 to mc.r. than 10.000, the revenues to nearly $3,000,001) and the length of post routes from 2,000 to o'er 113,000 miles but the rates of postage con tinned high and the mails were slow and infrequent. Probably not over 20 post offices in the country had a daily mail. . , The railroads in that day did not I make- much, if any, better time than the 'tage coaches. The presi dent of the railroad from Charles ton to Hamburg, S. C. postively refused to run his trains laler than 4:30 p.m., claiming it would jeopar dize the lives of his passengers to run after dark. Kven as late as 1850 the great bulk of the mail was being handled by horses or horse drawn vehicles, traveling over the alomst impassable trails. As many as 12 four horse coaches frequent ly left Wheeling, W. Va. on n single morning with west bound mail. Boxes in post offices for the de livery of mail arc nurely an Ame rican institution, unknown to pos S - crafi Order Sign Painting P. O. BOX 66 Now Is The Season For TAILOR-MADE LAWN FURNITURE Flower Trellises . Boxes Borderline Fence Pickets Wooden Awnings Window Screens We make these and similar items either from our own de sign or your's. Theatre Seats and Projection Equipment for Sale. The scats are ideal for offices and waiting rooms. tal systems of other countries. Thomas Brown, formerly Governor of Florida, claimed that he had originated them while a clerk in the Richmond post office but there is a difference of opinion in that regard The earlv boxes were all call boxes supplied by the post master and he retained the rentals. The Department objected to I heir use on the ground of discrimina tion between patrons but many postmasters persisted in their use and collection of the rentals Most postmasters cheerfully carry out the ru'es and regulations of l be Department but the matter of box es is not the only occasion upon which a postmaster here or there has displayed a spirit of indepen dence, as in a letter from a Ga. P. M., follow: "Dear Sir: I have received all of your previous letters regarding some reports you desire from this office and I would have you 'AitHirsJh-iiiaife $2.10 pint $3.40 fifth Tfc Srratfhl Wkliliyi to Mill priori nl j 1-n m mn M; 40 SlrtlilH Whltlity. M tirtl NMlrri Sfkto. u I nil'. AustinNichols I 6C0.JWR Inc. I MOMITM-MW fOM Ml I The Hand-lacod Catual Classics They re oil (he raae- They're moling news These smart new Dun Deei Catual Shoes GLOWING COLORS Look radiant; feci foot- fresh n a pair of Hclter Skelters. s a color to eo very costtune, every There'! witn every mood. 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