Newspapers / Carteret County News-Times (Morehead … / May 20, 1949, edition 1 / Page 2
Part of Carteret County News-Times (Morehead City, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
CARTERET COUNTY NEWt-TMES Carteret County's Newspaper A Merger Of THE BEAUFORT NEWS (Eat. 1912) ajid THE TWIN CITY TIMES (Eat. 1936) Published Tuesdays and Fridays By THE CARTERET PUBLISHING COMPANY. INC. Lockwood Phillips ? Publishers ? Eleanor* Dear Phillips Ruth Leckey Peeling. Executive Editor Publishing Offices At A rend ell St.. Morehead City. N. C. 120 Craven Street, lieaufort. N. C. Mall rates In Carteret. Craven. Pamlico. Hyde and Onslow Counties $5.00 one year; S3. 00 six months; $1.75 three months; $1.00 one month. Outside the above named counties $6.00 one year; $3.50 six months; $2.00 three months; $1.00 one month. Member Of Associated Press ? Greater Weeklies - N. C. Press Association Audit Bureau of Circulations ? Entered as Second Class Matter at Morehead City. N. C. under Act of March 3. 1879 The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to use for republication eft local news printed In this newspaper, as well as all AP news dispatches. Rights of republication otherwise reserved. Schools and Hoads Go Hand in Hand Three weeks from tomorrow the citizens of North Carolina will go to the polls to decide whether there should be issuance of $200 million State of North Carolina secondary road bonds and whether there should be Issuance of $25 million school plant construction and repair bonds. There is little doubt that Carteret countians will approve the school bond issue. For more than three years we in this county have watched fearfully as our children trudged or rode off to school buildings that are held together mainly with a prayer. Although many of us believe that the figures should be reversed, $200 million for schools and $25 million for roads, actually, an improved road system will make possible in future years one of the major recommendations of the State Education commission: consolidated schools. What would be the sense in building large schools with music departments, manual arts de partments, home economics and commercial departments, and a large gymnasium and auditorium if there were nothing but muddy, impassable roads over which busses could go to carry children to the schools? Norpi Carolina in 1921, like North Carolina in 1949, had to decide whether it should pay the price to get ahead. Then, as now, the State was faced with a choice between piecemeal building of roads on a cash basis and planned road building on a pay-as-you-ride basis. Only then, the decision rested entirely with the General Assembly, while now it's up to all the people of North Carolina. In 1921, the General Assembly decidcd to issue bonds in the then unheard of amount of $50 million in order to launch a road building program that was nothing short of radical for its day. In fact, during the period between 1921 and 1930, the State issued a total of $115 million in special highway bonds and set up a tax on gatoftn# and ihotor vehicle registration levy 'to liquidate them ' "? v In many respects the argdiffents used against the road bond issues of the 20's are identical with those being used against the present proposed road bonds. Then as now the opponents said that by issuing road bond! the State would be recklessly Humbling the future of its highway system by encumbering itself with unwarranted debt and un necessary taxes, and that (he road building program was im practicable and unjustified. Then as now proponents of the road bonds said the bonds would be an investment that would more than pay for itself In increased revenue and countless other benefits to the State and its people. Which group ? proponents or opponents ? did history prove to be correct? According to figures compiled by the Bureau of Public Roads for the year 1927, near the close of the State's first great toad-building era, North Carolina led the entire country in percentage increase in automobile registration over the previous year. The same figure showed that states having bond issues had a greater increase in automobile registration than states which stuck to a pay-as-you-go basis. Several years prior to 1M4 (long before Governor Scott proposed his $200 million bond Issue) financing methods in Georgia. Virginia, and North Carolina were reviewed. The first two states had financed from current revenue and North Carolina on a pay-as-you-go basis. The advantages of the immediate construction of a connect ing system of highways to meet a pressing demand was proved in North Carolina. The completion of the primary highway reacted immediately on automobile registration. In lBlt, juat prior to the beginning of the construction program, there were 129.000 motor vehicle registrations In Georgia, 105,000 in Vir ginia and 65,000 in North Carolina. In 1918, as the program closed in, registration In North Carolina had increased to 450,000, exceeding Virginia by 100,000 and Georgia hy 150,000. In 19S0 there were 17 people per car in Virginia, 20 in Georgia and 31 in North Carolina. In 19M there were 10 people per car in Georgia, seven In Virginia, and six in North Carolina. In the 1919 - 1928 period North CaraliM built 3,500 miles of hard surface pavement, Virginia, 1,600 miles and Georgia 900 miles. North Carolina's very rapid completion of a connecting sys tem of highways was responsible tor the higher rate ef increase in automobile registration as compared to the other two atatea, and proved that this increase is a function of highway improve ment Without the bond issue, less than one-half the mileage would have been built In North Carolina during the 1919-1928 period, and while the registration trend might nave paralleled that of Georgia and Virginia, it would hardly have exceeded it The resulting increase in income from registration fees and gas taxes met the servicing requirements of the bonds. The ievio?> in operating costs by reason of driving over improved highways, figured at a cent a mile, amounted te an estimate ol $30,000,000 annually which was more than the motorists paid to the state in gas tax and registration fees. The state got the une and the benefits immediately from ? big>wsy system which, had it been financed by current bMome, weald have been buiK piecemeal and would have taken ten years loatfT to complete. The extra coat was Justified. la aa article written in 1M? by BUI aharpe ef the State News KNIT ONC-PUIL TWO AUNT SAMANTHY POINT* or PI55CNSION Raleigh oundup By Eula Nixon Greenwood RIGHT BEHIND-? Four chortling and cluttering women, obviously completely carried away by the balmy weather, the spring styles and an opportunity to gel out of the house for an hour or so, were bouncing along hardly noticing where they were going on Raleigh street last Saturday morning. Jusl in front of them in solemn majesty walked Mr. Law ol North Carolina. "Aren't we right behind Hudson Belk?" sang out one of the shop^ pers. "No", came the thundering voice from in front, "right behind Walter P. Stacy." As he graciously stepped aside for them to pass, he bowed slightly and four fluttering hands ? as il lifted by one huge hand? flew to blood-red faces. WORST SINCE 1938- This isn't the kind of things one likes to write home about, but officials of the N. C. Employment Security Commis sion are privately very much wor 1 ried about employment conditions in the State. Unemployment in North Carolina is now at its high est level since 1938. With the ex ception of a few isolated spots- it is still clunking. The first three months in the year are normally poor for employ ment, and conditions usually im prove with the coming of spring. Not so this year. Unemployment ns of last week was still on the up swing in North Carolina. FERTILIZER SALES? On the oth er hand, fertilizer sales have been booming in North Carolina for the pait six months. The State Agri culture Department had prepared for a big letdown this season, but sales are approaching the record peak established in 1047. This may mean that farmers, anticipating lower prices for their crops, plan to make up for the lots by growing larger o.uantities. Another thing farm people in this State have been taught that i the application of fertilizer is a Kood investment. More and more j of them are following this sage ad i vice as it flows from SUtc College I and from county agents offices. NET DEFICIT? The Legislature ! hemmed and hawed so much with | the budget that it has been al most impossible to determine the actual financial condition of the State as of today. The final result of Scott's "going forward'' and the Legislature's caution is that we are faced with a net deficit of $5- 135, 574 in our General Fund operation for the next two years? unless one of the following happens: 1) a sharp upturn in business; 2) a cut in appropriations; 3) a special ses sion of the Legislature to raise taxes. The business upturn is un expected. Scott will not cut appro priations. That leaves only No. 3 which will occur between January and August next year. BOND ISSUE NOTES? Virtually every State employee will be plum ping during the next two weeks for the passage of the ?200,000, 000' bond issue to improve rural roads and the adoption of the $25 000,000 bond issue to huild more schoolhouses If you voted is the Election last fall you don't have to register to vote for or against these bond issues . The estimated carry ing charge each year for 20 yean including interest, on the $200,006, 000 will run $14,000,000. 1 The one-cent increase in the gas Bureau it was painted out that "the State'a greatest era of progress concided almost exactly with the development of good year-round roads." ? Sharpe pointed out that in the 10 road building years fol lowing 1021 "auto ownership in the State jumped 126,000 to 900,000." He credited "the highway revolution" with a Urge share in the equal growth of both small towns and larger cities and the development of the state as a resort center. He noted that the value of the state'a manufactured products "increased over 50 per cent in the two decades of good roads." ? Sharpe concluded his article in these words: "Highways have not coat North Carolina a cent." As usual in the case of progressive movements, the road bond program of the 20's, once looked upon as a risky departure, is looked back upon as a great forward step. oline tax will raise $7,000 000 of this and the remaining $7,000 000 would be picked up from here and there: highway sinking fund, etc. and it may be necessary to add another one-cent tax later on. You can't have anything worth while without paying for it. These improved country roads and new schoolhouse are going to cost big money. The question is: Do you want to step on the gas? It cost more to go faster, but you get there quicker. TURNABOUT? It is "funny how things work out sometimes. If Gov. Kerr Scott had not been so quick to pull the State's deposits (about $100,000,000) out of North Carolina banks, these hometown bankers would not be in the posi ion to buy about half the bonds which will be issued if the rural roads and schools vote passes. Fur thermore they would nojt . charge the State as much interest as would sharp-eyed New York bankers. A1 so- you would as a conse quence, find mere banker support for the adoption of the bond issues. JURNEY? T.A. Wilson, chairman of the Industrial Commission, re signed a few weeks ago to head up a new insurance company and was replaced by a Scott appointee, who does not yet know what it is all about. The term of Buren Jurney of Statesvitle, another member of the threeman board- ran out on May 1. Everybody knew he would not be reappointed, but Governor Scott delayed kicking him out. On the afternoon of May 10- Pat Kimsey of Brevard died suddenly while mowing his lawn at his home on St. Mary's Street. This left Jurney the only exper ienced man on the Commission. Jurney, a bachelor, can retire on $75 per month if the Governor will keep him on until January, when he will be 60 years old. If he is fired before then, he will only get in retirement what he h*a paid in plus a little interest. In any event he will settle down on his farm at Union Grove, near the old Ire dell County home of Van Hoy, Con gressman Bob Doughton's sidekick when he is through in Raleigh. Meantime, Claude Gray former Gates county lawyer and now an insurance man in Charlotte, and Bill Holoman Employment Security Commission attorney, are being considered to succeed Kimsey. ? I NOTES ? Kate Humphrey: Brough ton secretary. Is remaining as sec retary to Sen. Prank Graham... Baptists from all over the State are In Oklahoma City this week for the meeting of the Southern Bapist Convention.. ...Or. Louie D. Newton of Atlanta- former head of the Southern Baptists aad Fam ed Russian traveler, is being push ed by a few leading Baptist pastors, for the presidency of Wske Forest College John Armstrong- Utili ties Cam mission man who opposed Thad Sure, is set to ge so is Hard ware & Building Supplies Corp Serving Carter*! Cwty ?LOCATED? Intersection of Hiway 70 A Beach Ro*4 MOREHEAD CITY . Wood Moulding . 5 V Crimp Galvanized Roofing # .Sheet Rock .Bnilders Hardware .Brick j .Lime .Corneal .Sand 1 . Windows .Boon .Screen Wire . ? e*iwr i - j-u-i -i 1 H . Hi ! 1 i ii i Hubert Fulcher, member of Morahead City palita faro* and skipper of the Amberjack, More head City party boat, told More head City commissioners Tuesday night that he does not solicit bu siness (or his boat while on duty. Mayor George W Dill, Jr., mid that rumors of that type had come the board's way and Mr. Fulcher was asked to tell the commission ers his side of the story. The mayor also said that* he heard fram some sources that the accusations were merely an upshot of a boatmen's .tight. Mr. Fulcher said that his parties make reservations ahead of time either by phone or by mail and if, when on duty, he was asked the directions to a certain party boat, he either took the party to the boat or contacted the captain. The officer's duty hours are from 4 p.m. to 12 midnight. Mayor Dill said that if. before he goes on du ty, he goes aboard the Amberjack, some people may think he was working at his boat when he should be working for the town and sug gested that Mr. Fulcher not go aboard while in uniform. The officer said that the ru mors against him probably came from someone whom he has arrest ed or else from party boat captains who have been on his father's dock soliciting business and who were told to leave. Mayor Dill said that in the fu ture only complaints which are brought in person before the board will be heard. Bookmobile Schedule ' Mrs. Monroe Willis, bookmobile driver, has announced the sche dule (or next week. Places and the jtime the bookmobile will arrive I are as follows: Monday, May 28 ? Bettie chur ch, 8:30 a.m.; Mrs. Myr I tie Arthur, Bettie, 8:45 a.m.; Qt way school, 9.15 a.m.; H. R. Chad I wick's store, Smyrna, 9:45 a.m.; ; Smyrna school, 10 a.m.; Marshall berg theatre. 11:15 a.m.; Juanita j Newkirk, Marsha Ilberg, 11:45; Pi | gott store, Gloucester. 12 noon; Mrs. Oliver Chadwick, Gloucester, 12:45 p.m.; Sadie Nesbit, Glouces ter, 1 p.m.; Straits post office, 1:20 p.m.; Mrs. Evelyn Dameron, j Straits, 1:40 p.m.; Mrs. Curfis I Guthrie. Harker's Island, 2 p.m.; j Harker's Island school. 2:15 p.m. | Tuesday. May 24 ? Mrs. Leslie Brinson, Camp Glenn. 9 a.m.; Whit i ley Filling Statiun, Wijdwood, 9: | 30 a.m.; Newport school, 10 a.m.; I Carlton Garner, Masontown, 10:30 a.m.; I. V. Lockey, Masontown, 10:40 a m.: M. L Simmons, Iflason town, 10:50 a.m.; Pearl Simmons, I Masontown, 11:10 a.m.; L. B. Pi 1 ner, Masontown. 11:20 a.m.; Law rence Garner, Masontown, 11:30 a.m.; Nettie Garner, Masontown, 12:30 p.m.; Smith's filling station, Bogue, 1 p.m.; Nellie Parker, Bo gue, 2 p.m.; and Zeb Butts, Bo gue 2:30 p. m. Harry Sample, Probation Commis sion head Good Democrat Le .Roy Martin enchanced his popular ity considerably the ether day when he threatened te wWfc Dera ocratic Chairman Capus Waynick.... Jaycees Discuss Plans for State Beauty Pageant Morehead City Jayceee discuss ed a large volume of business, most of it concerned with the Miss North Carolina pageant, which they will sponsor, at their meeting Monday night in the Fort Macon hotel dining room. Walter Morris, chairman of the pageant, disclosed that 1 1 clubs have Altered the pageant thus far and that other entries are ex pected daily- He added that the Betty Jay Shop will furnish bath ing suits to all girls entered in the eontest. It was announced that the Gur ley Motor company will furnish new Nash automobiles and chauf fers to be used 'at all times by Miss North Carolina entrants while they are in Morheead City. The firm will also .furnish the cars to be used by Miss Morehead City entrants during the day of the local contest, May 27. Gurley Motor company has of fered, Warren Beck said, to sell one of its cars at the manufactur er's prices to Morehead City mer -ctiants if they wish to purchase it to donate to the winner of the Miss North Carolina pageant. The offer was referred to a committee to study its possibilities. Mr. Morris revealed that the Morehead City Jaycees will run an advertisement in the May 31 issue of THE NEWS-TIMES an nouncing the dates and times of the different events of the Miss North Carolina pageant.- That Is ?V# of tha ne warper will be a special race track edition with 3,000 additional copies to be mail ed to a select Hst of names throughout North Carolina. Mr. Morris stated that he thought it would be well worth {he money to publicize the pageant in this man ner. Jimmy Wallace, chairman of the Miss Morehead City contest, said that the contest was coming along fine but that more entries were desired. Arrangements for a band to play at the dance at 10:15 next Friday night at the Recreational center have been made and ad vance tickets for couples are on sale at $1.25. Tickets will sell at the door for $1.50 and stag tick ets will not be sold in advance. The club voted- to pay for the expenses of a Morehead City high school rising senior to go to the annual Boy's State held at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill each summer. The boy will attend the meet for one week and learn the principles of government indoctrinated in his | citizenship responsibilities. The youth will be selected by the high school faculty. Jaycees discussed the lack of local interest in the Morehead 1 City Technioal institute *nd de cided that an invitation to stu I dents of Jaycee age to attend future meetings would be extend ed and that possibly a Jaycee in docti. nation program for younger students might be established. Bernard Leary, president of ihe Morehead City softball league, disclosed that poles and lights for the ball diamond would be install ed this week and play should be j under way within* the next two | weeks. -And more op iti Ot? 12 Full Qlattct In P?p?l'? Six L?MUs More for your money? in taste and value. That's Pepsi, America's favorite big bottle cola. Pick up 6 Pepei't today! 31c *ix 1141. UlllM WHY TAKI LESS? WHEN PEPSI'S BEST! FEPSI COLA BOTTLING CO. ol GREENVILLE. N. C. Voder appointment from Pepsi-Cola Co., Now York "U^?to'CwnUr ipy.'TuMitayWTtntHdonvwIim, y?w*K Ntw" WALL-FIX HAS EVERYTHING you've wanted in a modern paint! R. T. WILLIS & SONS ?U ImaM SL. Hm+mi tty. E C. " # Phwe N-5Z11
Carteret County News-Times (Morehead City, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
May 20, 1949, edition 1
2
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75