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| Carteret Comity News-Times I A Merger of The Beaufort News (est. 1912) & The Twin City Times (est. 1936) EDITORIAL PAGE FRIDAY, JANUARY 13. 1950 Health and a Brighter Horizon Startling advances were made by the county health depart ment in 1949. The overall program displays evidence of efficient operation, intelligent and economic planning, and commendable effort to provide the people of Carteret county the best in public health service. An innovation during 1949, made possible by appropriations in the 1949 legislature are the tonsil clinics. Those clinics give children, whose parents cannot afford extensive medical care, the opportunity to have enlarged or diseased tonsils removed at the Morohead City hospital. County doctors, cooperating in the pro gram. perform the operations. In a recent public health meeting at Goldsboro, it was reveal ed that Carteret county has made more progress in its tonsil clinic program than any other county in eastern Carolina and perhaps in the whole state. By the end of the year 14 children had un dergone operations and the program did not get underway until the late fall of 1949. In cooperation with other state and county agencies, the health department conducts eye clinics. Twenty-nine children with defective vision received attention last year. The number of innoculations for diptheria. whooping cough, typhoid fever and other diseases increased 69 per cent in 1949 over 1948. Examinations of school children increased 230 per cent (children in grades 6 were examined in addition to those in 1 and 4 as done in previous years). The number of X-rays in creased 13(H) per cent. This was due to the mass X-ray program, the first ever undertaken in the county, sponsored by the county tuberculosis association. In 1948 only 60 X-rays tfere taken, in - 1949 thero were 7,812. The number of persons treated for venereal disease increas ed 25 per cent. Dr. N. Thomas Ennett, health officer, points out that this may mean an increase in incidence, but there is no way to determine that factor specifically. Many of the cases are among the county's migrant population. Persons treated for syphilis increased 13 per cent. The health officer stated that there is no increase in incident in this disease, rather the rise in the number of cases is due to efforts of a worker in this field, assigned to Carteret county by the Pub lic Health Service. In 1948 the sanitarian inspected 589 cafes, meat markets and dairies, while in 1949 inspections totaled 904, an increase of 53 per cent. In every phase, Carteret countians should be highly pleased with the work of the health department. Understaffed, it has ac complished monumental tasks. It deserves nothing but praise, and our appreciation for making Carteret county a better place in which to live. Thoughts for an open mind ... Personal liberty may, in these modern times, seem to be curtail ed. but you can always have it in your thoughts. Where the ideals of the ignorant predominate, thbrc is a decline in freedom. The educated mind, having business of its own, minds its own business. The growth of tolerance is thus helped. A man governs himself to the degree that he acts upon his own judgment. ? J. R. Morrill Letter to the Editor To The Editor: Dear Mr. Lynn Guthrie: As a camoufleur, you, I would say, should be recognized as the world's outstanding fizzle. It seems that my use of certain per fectly proper words put a terrific stress and strain on your modesty, yet apparently you are satisfied with the ugly condition described by those words. And. also, Mr. Guthrie, It seems that a Mr. Webster used those words quite a while before I did, but I don't have any reason to think he condoned the perpetra tion of the meaning thereof. So I hope we have seen by now that not everyone who uses those words has a gutter prisoned mind. Now that the smoke screen has been penetrated, let us get back to the issue ? the hellish evil of gambling. Let us not forget that holy scripture reminds us that "righteousness exalteth a nation, but SIN IS A REPROACH TO ANY PEOPLE." Proverbs 14:34. Let us also remember the Christ of glory said "My word will never pass away." But we've known quite a number of people that passed away. We also remember ? "It is given man once to die, and then the judgment." Will our building of today comfort our children of to morrow? Or, are we building prison walls about them that will hinder their entering the "straight and narrow gate?" Open your eyes and see the nations of Eur ope of low moral standards, in cluding legalized gambling, that have been kept out of the com monest ranks only by the Ameri can dollar. Our Savior said "Ye arc the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour it is good for noth ing but to be cast out and trodden under foot of men." "The cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word and it becom eth unfruitful." Are we striving to banish the things that will choke the word in the next gene ration? Or. are we giving old Sa tan free rein to contaminate the landscape with cesspools of iniq uity in which to drown our chil dren? Do we propose to exterminate the monster of vice while it may be done, or shall we sit back with folded hands while A1 Capone takes over? I challenge you church people everywhere to make haste to the rescue of virtue. Man, the creature, a creature of few days, a creature that as the grass soon withers into the night of death. Man, whose accomplish ments include the distribution of disease, sorrow, woe, misery, de struction and death. That some man has tried to escort God to the periphery of the universe, and there, usher Him out of His cre ation as being no longer wanted or needed. Especially does this apply to everyone who would poison the body of a community with the lust of gambling. I wish to say that I appreciate very much every one that has written me, and with me, taken a stand against gambling. E. A. Coward, Htvelock, N. C. CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TINES Carteret County's Newspaper A Merger Of THE BEAUFORT NEWS (Est. 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (Eat. 19M) Published Tuesdays and Fridays By THE CARTERET PUBLISHING COMPANY. INC Lockwood Phillips ? Publishers ? Eleanore Dear Phillips Ruth Leckey Peeling, Executive Editor Publishing Offices At 504 Arendell St.. Morehead City. N. C. 120 Craven Street. Beaufort. N. C. Mall Rates: In Carteret. Craveiv Pamlico, Hyde, and Onslow Counties $5.00 on? year; $3 00 six months; $1.75 three months; $1 00 one month. Outside in* 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. use for republication of local ~ news dispatches. SThe Associated flttftss Is entitled exclusively to u F In thl^wwspaper. as well as all AP Rights of republication otherwise ieserved. ?I X=s GLASS WARFARE Raleigh oundup By Eula Nixon Greenwood PLVMMIKST PLUM ... "He stuck in his thumb and pulled out a plum . . . so goes the little Mo ther Goose rhyme. This season,' the Jack Homer of political ap pointments turns out to be none Other than Harry T. Westcott of M:tnteo and Raleigh, who gets the [Utilities Commission post being j vacated by Robert Grady Johnson of Pender County. It is well nigh impossible to keep Dare County out of the political picture. Bruce t Etheridge was forced out by Scott, 1 but the same Scott gave West cott a big promotion from head of the Markets Division of the Ag. | Dept., where he succeeded Randul B. Etheridge, deceased, a few months ago. Randal B. was a cousin of R. Bruce, both from the isle of "yellow, stricken sand." He is as keen in his work as over the poker table. Harry Westcott's appointment will run until next year, when he will be reappointed to a new six-year term. This will carry him through Scott's administration* through ! Scott's successor's tenure, and a j month into 1957. All told, the i 1 job is good for about $7,750 It's I I the plummicst plum. V ' i NOW IN RALEIGH . . . No for mal announcement of it has been seen in the papers, but the newly organized N. C. Chain Store Coun cil is now formally operating here with Dan Paul of Pantego at the helm. Paul, former farm agent in Granville County and before the war alumni secretary at State College, is the son-in-law of Sen. Clyde R. lloey. YOUR AUNT EMMA ... If death has recently claimed one of your relatives, you shauld have in proud possession by this time a neatly worded, hand-written note of con dolence from one Robert R. Reyn olds, of Asheville. Thousands of special little, hand-drawn Christ mas cards presenting the map of the Reynolds acres with the "latch string on the outside' flapped their way through the m?ils in Decem ber. The other day a gentleman in a nearby city who for the life of him could not remember ever having met Robert R. Reynolds, lost his aunt. Naturally, he was grief-stricken. Then, as if by magic, in came that nice little letter from our Bob. Touching. There is some thing really saddening about all those cards and letters, for they carry one straight back to the twenties when Our Bob, then a gay blade and a world traveler, was so energetic with pen and postal. One thing sure: He is not interested in opposing Congressman Monroe Redden s . . otherwise he would grieve only with survivors in the i ? ? - Asheville - Ilendersonville-Waynes ville area. NOTES ... 1). S. Coltranc, assist ant budget director, represented Gov. K. Scott at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas . . . The break down of fine little rural communi ties which began 20 years ago with the wholesale consolidation of schools (big ones out of little ones) continues, amid arguments, before the State Board of Education as it allots 50 million dollars for bigger and better school plants through out the State. Construction on new buildings for the State Fair made possible by the 1949 appropriation of $2, 000.000 is expected to start around the middle of April . . . One of the most informative and all-around best conventions held each year in N*. C. is that put on by the N. C. Dairy I'roducts Association and Executive L. L. Ray ... It is being held here this week, with head liners as featured speakers. Because most of Kerr Scott's support in the 1949 Legislature came from freshmen and others who could not afford the expense l of a three-months' stay in Raleigh, | you may see the more conserva tive and better-heeled element in control next time . . . The shame ful $600 maximum provided by the people for legislators is preventing many a good man from seeking EVEN AN ESKIMO WANTS A ROOF OVER HIS HEAD ! North pole or south pole, or any place in-between, ev erybody seems to want a roof over their head. This human desire is more pronounced naturally in civilized climes where there's a housing shortage, currently. Fire insurance will reim* burse you, Mr. Home Owner for direct physical fire dam age to your home; but where are you going to stay during the time you can't live in it? You need temporary quarters then, and RENTAL VALUE INSURANCE will provide the money to rent a temporary "roof." Let us tell you ill about this providential "Keep-a Roof-Over-Your-Head" Insur ance plan. Phone ? Write ? Call. John L. Cramp Insurance A. Real Estate ?23 Arendall Street | Phone M 3621 Morehead City Tomorrow Will Come Tomorrow as a day may never come because It's always lust a day away . . . but tomorrow as a period In your life will come Just as surely as the seasons. Plan for your tomorrow with a life Insurance policy. It will mean financial security during your retirement years. Life Insurance Ls the best assurance for a happy tomorrow! ? BRUCE L. GOODWIN and ELVIN T. HANCOCK BOX 592 PHONE M-3046 MOREHEAD CITY Pilot Life Insurance Company, Greensboro, North Carolina DIRECT AND F H A LOANS the office tfiis spring, according to reports reaching Raleigh from about the State . . . Kerr Scott, before he became Governor advo i cated the amendment providing a raise in pay for solons, pointing out that the $600 figure only | served to make the North Carolina Legislature a "Rich Man's Club." WILL NOT RUN . . . Said this 1 column last week: "The belief in j this corner is that he (Umstead) ' will not make the race." I One day after the above state- ! ment appeared in some 35 papers | in the State, William Umstead an- [ i nounced that, because of a throat ; , operation, he would not be a can ! didate for the U. S. Senate this year. For some time he has been both ered by a cough, but thought it came from smoking too much. He h3d a physical examination at Duke University, where he was found to be in excellent condition ?except his throat. He then went to the famous throat clinic at Phil adelphia, where they found water warts near his larynx. These were removed about three weeks ago. but he has not yet recovered his voice. TWO YEARS . . . 4t is hard to believe, but two short years from right now another Governor's race will be well alongj the way. If William Umstead is not a candi date. then Highway Chairman Henry Jordan may be the man. Up until Umstead's recent an nouncement. Jordan was the ob ject of poHtical finger-pointing from several quarters. One outstanding Scott appoin tee even put it in rhyme last week as follows: "The in's like him and the out's all love him, too. so Jor dan may emerge as the man for '52." He is a brother of Demo cratic Chairman Everette Jordan, happens to be a relative of Mrs. Kerr Scott, and will go down as the road huildingest highwayman we have had in several years. The important thing to keep in mind ? on the leanings of the present ad- 1 ministration on the next Govern- 1 or's battle is the next Senatorial | race. You see. Dr. Frank Gra ham's term will only complete that started a year ago by the late J. M Broughton and will run for four years. Kerr Scott may want to go to the Senate in 1954. BAPTIST TROUBLES . . . What with having a murder in the stu dent body of their senior college, and investigation of gambling and wholesale cheating at the same school, with three of the leading footballers being expelled from this institution, and now deeply in volved in the old church-and-State argument, the 700.000 Baptists of North Carolina are certainly hav ing their troubles. The general board of the State Baptist Convention received a se vere handslapping from the Bap tists here in November for over stepping their authority in spend ing better than $250,000 in the purchase and development of sea shore projects, etc., and forcing the Baptists to go deeply into debt again in borrowing $250,000. AGAIN . . . Then, two weeks ago. the general board voted to accept a grant of $697,356 from Federal and State governments, to build a wing to the Baptist Hospital in I Winston-Salem. This was in direct! violation of one of the oldest Bap- 1 tist codes: separation of church ' and State. You can look for trou- 1 ble on this within the next day or two; maybe more later. Another I Jan. 11 ? Mr. and Mrs John Har-1 dy of Oriental spent the week end I with his mother. Mrs. Mary E. Har dy and Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Har dy Mr and Mrs. Harry Hardy of Norfolk spent Sunday with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. George Har dy. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Lewis, Mrs. Minnie Lewis and son, Wiley, of Lennoxville and Miss Alberta Pitt man of Beaufort visited Mr. and Mrs. Monnie Norman Sunday af ternoon. Miss Pearl Mason of Beaufort formal, severe reprimand directed ' toward the general board may be | in the offing. SKEI.ETON . . . Meantime, Wake Forest wrestles with murder, gam i bling, cheating, and what to do about going to Winston-Salem, j Other schools and other denomina- j tions are not entirely free of wor ry. but they manage to keep their i skeletons in the closet. OFF THE CUFF . . . North Caro lina is in the front ranks of the Washington mule train, so the; news that Vice-President Barkley j and new wife would be here for the Jackson Day Dinner on January 28. hardly created a ripple . . . . Speaking of the Dinner, what has happened to plans for a Hospital | for Alcoholics, provision for which was made last Legislature with an appropriation of $300,000? Two j of the advocates were Clifton Blue j of Moore County and John Urn stead of Orange. A committee ap pointed by the Governor has com- < pleted its study. Now it is up to the State Hospital Board. What about it? spent Saturday night and Sunday with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. { John Mason. 1 - j| Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Morris, ? Mr. and Mrs. Hortoise Morris and children Walter and Jeffery, of 1 Atlantic spent Sunday with Mrs) I Nannie J. Pittman and mother! Mrs. Lizzie Tosto. Mr and Mrs. Arline Taylor and daughter of Beaufort spent Sun day afternoon with Mr. and MrlL Willie Pittman and Mr. and Mrs. Luke Lewis. Mrs. John Mason went to Beau fort Saturday to see her sister, Mrs. Curlie Jones and Mrs. Charlie Glover. Mr. and Mrs Brooks Ball and son, Junior, of Cherry Point spent the weekend at his cabin. Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Hunnings and children of Greenville were here Sunday on business. Mrs. Joshua Hardy and daugh ter, Mrs. Gaston Hill, and her daughter. Sharen Francis, spent Monday at Atlantic with relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Allen of Ra leigh spent the weekend here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Brooks Ball at their cabin. Mrs. Mary E. Hardy spent last Thursday with her daughter, Mrs. Ruth Eubanks. Mrs. Johnnie Cannon and child ren. Butch and Donnie, spent part of last week with her sister, Mrs. Luke Lewis. Mrs. Elijah Dixon and son. Jun ior, spent last Friday and Saturday morning in Beaufort with her sis ter, Mrs. Dewey Guthrie. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Tosto. Mrs. Mary Tosto and Rev. Willie Stilly visited Mr. and Mrs. George Hardy Saturday night. Club to Meet The Young Men and Young Women's club of Carteret county will meet at 7:30 Tuesday night. January 17 in the home agent s office, Beaufort court house an nex. Topic to be presented is "Are You Marriageable?" Planning To Buy A New Car? See us first about your Insurance. You'll like the Savings and Service. j SECURITY ? SERVICE ? 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