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I CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES Cutarti County's Newspaper L EDITORIALS FRIDAY. JANUARY 1, 1954 1953 Was Good to Us ? ' The year 1953 wag good to Carteret County. As the old fellow with his white beard departs, he rightfully walks with his head high ? no slinking out like an unloved, unwanted critter. The Morehead City Chamber of Commerce New Year's greeting which reached members through the mail this week enumerated the many good things that 1953 brought to the town and the entire county. To the list we have added a few items which we be lieve too make 1953 worth remember ing: 1. Completion of the Morehead City Golf and Country Club 2. Opening of the new bridge to At lantic Beach 3. Beginning of tobacco export through the Morehead City port and provision of chemical storage there for the Ethyl Dow Corp. 4. Increase in pasture acreage in the county and larger cattle production 5. Opening of the Aviation Fuel Ter minal between Beaufort and Morehead City 6. Increased fish catches 7. Opening of the Sea Level Hos pital 8. New athletic field for Morehead City made possible by the Jaycees who also brought to Morehead City the Miss North Carolina pageant 9. New school construction at New port and Camp Glenn 10. Organization of an All Seashore Highway Association 11. Expansion of the town of More head City through extension of the town limits 12. Expansion of established busi nesses and opening of new ones in Beiju fort and More'.iead City 13. Building of new churches throughout the county 14. Increase in real estate values and construction of new homes 15. Radio-eifulpped police car at Newport and organization of a New port Businessmen's Association 16. Municipal improvements ? start on opening the west part of Arendell street in Morehead City; a painted town hall and tackling of the Ann street drainage problem in Beaufort 17. Organization of a Beaufort Ru ral Fire Association and installation of a new fire alarm system in Beaufort 18. Consistent reduction of town and county government debt This list could be added to by each and everyone of us. But these few ac complishments ? if they constituted ALL the good things 1953 brought us ? would be sufficient to make us quite pleased with the year just past. An Authority Comments on Weeds In a recent Beaufort town board meeting the commissioners scratched their heads over the problem of the town crew cleaning off lots that had grown up in bushes and weeds. Two lots had been cleared that ? to hear the description by the workmen ? had young stands of timber on them. The discussion centered arourflj "How much should we charge the property owners for clearing the lots?" and sec ondly, "Does the town have a right to remove anything from a lot except noxious weeds?" The second question was raised by the town attorney after he read the ordinance regarding large stands of weeds in vacant lots, the town's author ity to cut them and then charge the property owner. "Noxious", weeds are those that are injurious to health (they provide living quarters for mosquitoes, gnats and other flying disease carriers) . The town attorney said he doubted if the town had the right to clear off myrtle or fig bushes and charge the owner of the lot for the use of machinery and the time consumed in hacking out such growth. In the December issue of Popular Government, published by the Institute of Government, Chapel Hill, the attor ney general agrees with Beaufort's le gal counsel, Gene Smith. The attorney( general, in answering a question re -gardkig ?eed--?and "trash removal" from lots skys, "In the absence of a clear showing that the trash or offen sive matter is detrimental to the health, morals, comfort and safety of the pub lic I do not think that General Statute 160-200 (8) or General Statute 160-55 (state laws which tell towns what they can and can't do) authorizes a levy and collection of assessments for anything but noxious weeds." Of course, the town board pulled their irons out of the fire by deciding that the town crews shall no more clear off any lots. The procedure now is to be that the property owner shall be asked to clean up his property and if he doesn't, he'll be asked to appear in court and answer to violating the law the same as if he were caught speeding. Holidays Aren't for Everyone One holiday weekend has passed and another is just around the corner. For three days the community in which you live will be almost at a standstill with parties and celebrations going on all around. Yes, it will be a holiday for every one ? that is most everyone. There are some members of the community who still have to stay on the job. A community has to be protected from fires, criminal acts, and encroach ments of persona] and public rights. Persons are born on holidays, as well as other times, and they become ill and die too. The policemen, firemen, doctors and hospital staff in the community never have a real holiday vacation. Others too, whom we take for granted, have lit tle or no vacation. The truck drivers who bring in per ishable foodstuffs and other necessities of life must be on the job to keep the community running smoothly ? even on a holiday. So, take time during this holiday to stop and give a thought to those who are making your holiday celebra tion possible by not having one of their own. A friendly hello to the cop, the fire man, the doctor, and others who can't be out celebrating ? or a pat on the back to show appreciation for doing a job that has to be done would be quite in order during the New Year weekend. Carteret County Newt-Times WINNER OF NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARDS A Merger of The Beaufort New. (Ed 1913) and The Twin City Tlmei (Eat. 1836) Publiahed Tuesday* and Fridayi by the Carteret Publishing Company, Inc. ? _ 504 Arendell St., Morehead City, N. C. LOCKWOOD PHILLIPS ? PUBLISHER ELEANORE DEAR PHILLIPS ? ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER RUTH L. PEELING ? EDITOR ? GORDON A. SKEAN JR. ? PRODUCTION MANAGER Mail Ratea: In Carteret County and adjoining counttei, $6.00 one year, $3.80 aix montha,* *1.23 one month; elaewhere (7.00 one year, KM aix montha, $1.90 oae month. Member of Associated Press Greater Weeklies - N. C. Preaa Aaaodatlon National Editorial Aaaoelatlon ? Audit Bureau of Circulation The Aaaoclated Preaa la entitled exclusively to uae for republkatioa of toad nawa printed la this nowapaper. aa wall aa all AP nawa diapatchea. Claaa Matter at UoreluMl City, N. C, Under Act * Maaafa 3. ? HOT NECES8ARH.Y THE BEST VABB1KX ? we /our / [i *010*1/ Ikecuwr/j Cliff Swallows Build Mud Nests ; Eat Many Insects In some areas this relatively com mon swallow is known as the Treves Swallow. The names suggest that the birds may nest under the eaves of buildings or on cliffs. The nests arc often more obvious than the birds. They are usually gourd shaped structures of mud with a lining of grass, leaves, feather and wool. Of course, they differ from the burrows of the Bank Swallows and the mud nests of the Barn Swallows. The National Wildlife Federation is interested in all kinds of wildlife whether this refers to game species or not and would welcome observa tions made on these birds. The Cliff Swallow, Petrochelidon pyr rhonota, is about 6 inches long with a wingspread of just over 1 foot and a tail about 2-'? inches long. The sexes are about equal in size. S The most distinguishing field char acter is the Kght brown to buffy Cliff Swallow rump and the square-tipped tail. The upper parts are steel blue, much like those of the Barn Swal low. While the Bank Swallow has a whitish throat patch, the throat ?f the Cliff Swallow is dark. There arc three subspecies of the Cliff Swallow recognized: the Northern, the Mexican and the Les ser. Of these, the Northern has as its breeding ground the region from central Alaska to Cape Breton Island south through the United States except for Florida and the Rio Grande Valley. In winter, the birds migrate south through Flor ida and Central America to Bra zil and the Argentine returning to the North in time for the spring breeding season. In the nest the female Cliff Swal low lays four or five white or creamy and pinkish eggs that are marked dark brown or reddish brown. The eggs are about 4/9 inch by 2/3 inch at their maximum and it would take 16 of them to reach a weight of one ounce. There ts but one annual brood and the in cubation and the care of the young is shared by both parents. In cubation takes from 12 to 14 days. The fact that Cliff Swallows nest in colonies is often to their dis advantage. Such colonies arc bound to attract attention and sur vival in any species is more likely if attention of potential enemies is avoided. In the nest-making, muddy ma terials may be dropped to the porch floors beneath the eaves and this creates a condition that it not ap preciated by tidy folk. The result of coijrse is that the cause is removed. This is unfortunate both for the swallows and for the men involved. The food of these swal lows is almost exclusively insects. Among the insects found in some 375 stomachs of these birds were the following whose names are- like ly to raise the ire of farmers and those whose living depends on the raising of plant crops: Alfalfa weevils, chinch bugs, rice weevils, and cotton boll weevils. With them were spiders and now and then a few wild berries. One should not evaluate all of nature solely on an economic basis and anyone who has taken the op portunity of studying Cliff Swal lows or other swallows for that matter need not be enlightened by lists of noxious creatures that en ter the diet of the birds to be come their champions. The birds arc just good, ordinary, beautiful neighbors and as such they de serve our friendship and cooper ation. ? E. Laurence Palmer Today's Birthday JOHN EDGAR HOOVER, born Jan. 1, 1895, in Washington, D. C. As head of the Federal Bureau of Invest! iaiion (FBI) he directed opera tions against gangster ism during pro hibition and af ter. When he personally cap lured kidnapper Alvfn Karpis, Hoover didn't pull his gun because children were playing in the streets. Since 1B24 he has served under six presidents, and more than a dozen attorney! general. A Famous American Ship The Mempfcia, am of the glamorous Mississippi River packets of old. Wtth light draft and high pressure she was able to make 24 miles an hour, according to -the American Merchant Marine Institute. Plush, elegance and sumptuous interiors staggered the foreign visitors to America who happened to travel on ships of this type common in Mark Twain'a day. Owned by the Anchor Line, the Memphis served between St. Louis and Memphis. Today only a few excursion boats remain that evea faintly resemble this gaudy craft. Vast dieael-power ed tows move up and dowtf our great rivers taking cargo to the sea ports where ships of the American Merchant Marina carry it abroad. Jane Eads Washington Washington ? Only one person among the distinguished guests at a recent dinner party at the Lux embourg legation had the right answer in one of the guessing games with which the minis ter and Mrs. Le Gallais like to in trigue their company. The game centered around a Jap anese scroll on which were scat tered brush strokes of gray. The minister asked everyone to study it and write his interpretation of the design on a piece of paper. One thought it looked like a dancing girl, another, guessed it was a tiger, and there were other bcquiling in terpretations ? all of them wrong. I guess it was natural that the right answer was given by Eikichi Araki, the Japanese ambassador. The brush strokes represented a bursting chestnut. The big ballroom of the elegant Turkish embassy is being done ov er in preparation for the visit late in January of President Celal Bay ar, the first chief of state of the Turkish Republic to visit thig coun try. The president will spend the first night at the White House, where the Eisenhowers will honor him with a state dinner. For the rest of his three-day stay, Bayar will go to Blair House. He will give a big dinner for President and Mrs. Eisenhower at the embassy, however. Two guests it a recent embassy party a man and a woman? wore monocles. Former Sen. Harry Cain (R. Wash ), with Mrs. Cain as his part ner, won the jitterbug prize at a recent square dance party. Mrs. George Tyson, sister of Perle Mesta. has acquired a ken nel in Charlottesville, Va., to house 40 v prize French poodles she brought back from England with her. Mrs. Tyson's son Bill and his wife live in Charlottesville, where Bill attends the University of Virginia law school. The poodles, some of them champions, probab ly will make their bow to Washing ton society one of these days through Mrs Mcsta's hostessing. "I've got a huncb I'll want to travel again," Lt. Col. Jeanette Blech, Army Nurse Corps, said at a recent party where she an nounced her retirement after 39 years of service. Col. Blech al ready has seen lots of the world and says she just couldn't "stay put." She has the Commendation Ribbon with Oak Leaf Cluster for her work at Halloran General Hos pital on Staten Island during World War II. Her moat difficut day, she recalled, was when 3,200 wounded men arrived in convoys from Europe. Vic Vet says OVM ^04*00 MCtt or MAM. CAM! TO V* M A SKINT MONTH WITHOUT room iCfNTiH CATION.CAuaM* Of LAY* in HnyiNfi M?*?m SCRVICf , ICf KT?V VDUMIlf YOOBOAIM FULLY. h"T" KkM Brcwir 1 Raleigh Roundup DE8EKT1NG . . . Rumon per sist that her* la Wake County some outstanding (oiks in Gov. William B. Umstead's campaign last year are deatrting the eamp. Main causes for leaving are listed as: counsel and advice have been ig nored; those wanting appointments have been lelt waiting at the church. The (eel th^y have not been giv en recognition commensurate with the work they did in 1952 -and they are deeply hurt about it. These disgruntled ones are be ing wooed energetically by the other side"- the Scott and Olive crowd. The situation in Wake may be finding echoes throughout the State where Umstead followers have been neglected. Take Kerr Scott's power amassed over a (our-year period; add Hu bert Olive's strength of 1B52; throw in a dash of disappointees; and you come up with a formidable potion. It could definitely work to the disadvantage of one Alton A. Len non in 1954 Of course, we all rec ognize that there are more people to "take care of" than there are jobs. Nevertheless, it is good to let them down gently, to listen to them patiently, and to send them off with a smile. FREE MEMBERS . . . You recall our complaint here two weeks ago about Carolina Motor Club's strong connections with the State on sale of license plates. We expressed the opinion that selling these things should be placed on a competitive bid basis. My information is that literally hundreds of State officials arc be ing provided free memberships in Carolina Motor Club. No wonder Coleman Roberts, head of the or ganization, stands in so well with the boys. They receive an insurance pro gram without charge? and all the other items coming with member ship. It seems to me the whole thing would bear a little looking into .... NEXT DOOR . . It isn't often that the Governor of North Caro lina can lean out of one of his side windows at the Executive Man sion and literally yell up an ap pointee. But last week he might have done this very thing if he had so wished. In naming Mrs. J. Wilbur Bunn, wife of a pron.iuent Ral eigh attorney, to the Prisons Ad visory Council, Gov. Umstead went next door, the Bunn's living within hollering diatance of. and right across the street from, tha Mansion. Mrs. Bunn succeeds Mrs. Kate Burr Johnson. She is a native of Yadkin County. She was form erly Miss Maud Davis, and is a sis ter of Egbert Davis, president of Security Life and Trust Co., and one of the powers behind the throne In getting the new Wake Forest established in Winston-Sa lem. Since the rather awkward hand ling of the Ronie Sheffield affair here, the Umstead administration has reportedly not stood as high as it would like with various women's groups. Raleigh consensus is that naming of Mrs. Bunn, popular president last year of the N. C. Federation of Women's Clubs, will enhance the administration with the women. Mrs. Bunn and husband are leading Baptist lay leaders. GRANGE ... By reappointing Wiley W. Andrews of Goldsboro to the Prisons Advisory Council, the Governor kept firm his alliance with the SUU Grange. Aidrwi for many years has been Grange Master Harry B Caldwolls chief assistant in Eastern North Caro lina. SAFETY MAN ... One of the South's better law enforcement of ficers is coming in as the new Di rector of Safety for the Dept. of Motor Vehicles. He is Capt. Charlie A. Speed of Asheville. Speed for years has been head of the Western Division of the depart ment. He is one of the State's most impressive after-dinner speakers. Look for it. Capt. Charlie Speed will bring new ideas and fresh ap proaches to the State's safety pro gram. To us, he seems to be the ideal man for a big job. UP TO ANYTHING? ... It is sometimes easy for a job good though it may be ? to pall on you. It becomes a thing of rote: the same old saw day after day This may be the reason that William Y. Bickett. solicitor of the Seventh Judicial District for 20 years now and son of the late Gov. T. W. Bick ett, is considering stepping out of the good-paying position and devot ing his full time to practice of 1**. There are reports that he was severely disappointed that Gov. William B. Umstead did not toss one of the special judgeships in his direction. Others say he might be giving some thought to running for Congress against Harold D. Cooley. That would be a big order for anybody, but Bickett has been one of the most potent vote-getters in this section of the State for two decades now. NECESSITIES ... An official of the Wake County Alcoholic Bev erage Control setup predicted priv ately last week that December sales of liquor in Raleigh would run $100,000 less than for December a year ago. Well, sales of legal liquor were down this past November about nine per cent as compared with No vember of 1952. The trend has started. However, retail sales of regular merchandise like clothing, food, furniture, etc., continue to climb. For instance, in October accord ing to sales tax collections retail sales were up more than three per cent over October of last year. This seems to indicate that peo ple still have plenty of money for the necessities of life. Our prediction is that sales of liquor throughout the State will run far behind December of 1952. Figures will be coming out in about two weeks now. Keep an eye out for them. In November of this year, more new cars and trucks were sold than in November of last year. Postal receipts were away up. Beer sales were 'way down. More mailing than aling. Average weekly earn ings in manufacturing employ ment were down nearly five per cent as against the figures for No vember of last year. Business in general seems still to be excellent. But there are several indications of a slight lev* eling off. HAPPY NEW YEAR! ... As we move out of 1953, we want to thank all of you for your interest in the column this year ... for your letters, your kind words, your advice, and your patience. We are now in the business of remaking New Year's resolutions. In which practice we hope you will join us. May 1954 bring health, happiness, and prosperity to each of you. What Your Home Needs For E mergency Sanitation (No. 2 in a Sertea) A simple emergency sanitation program may keep your family from serious illneaa in disaster. The Federal Civil Defense Adminiatra tion, in cooperation with the Public Health Service, haa compiled a 12 point checklist of materials which home makers can have ready in caae of an enemy attack or natural dia astera such aa fire, flood, tornado or hurricane which would disrupt normal food and water services Many homea already contain moat of the materiala, FCDA points out The lilt: 1. Stored drinking water or oth er llqulda to quench thirat (1 gal Ian for each member of your fam ily. plua an extra gallon for each child under 3 years of age.) 2. A three-day supply of prop er foods for your family, includ ing milk. (Thia can include food already in your refrigerator, plus canned or packaged foods on your cupboard shelves.) Also atore pa per plataa and aapkins. 3. Towela for emergency table uae, plua cooking and eating uten alia, measuring cup, can and bot tle openers, pocket knife, and mat ches 4. Canned milk for baby, and emergency canned foods for diabet ica or others requiring special di ets. 8. Large covered garbage can (20- gallon aiae, If you are a house hoMer) to keep garbage until IU dtapoa?tai oaa be arranged. S. Smaller garbage can with tight fitting lid (10-gallon size) as * container for human wastes. 7. A covered pail or other re ceptacle that can be used for bath room purposes if water is not available to flush household toi lets. 8. A supply of soap, toilet tta sue, sanitary napkins and dispos able diapers (If there is a baby in the bouse). S. If there is illness in the fam ily, spare rubber sheeting, extra medicines and a reserve supply of any special equipment needed by the patient 10. A supply of grocery bags (large) and a week's accumulation of daily papers, for soil bags, gar bage wrappers and other sanitary purposes. 11. Household Chlorine aolution (2 pints) for purifying drinking water, and 1 quart of 5 per cent DDT solution for use againat in sects. 12. Screwdriver, wrench (fur turning off valve on hoiue water service line) and shovel (for bury ing garbage and other wastes.) The booklet, FCDA Publication H il l, "What To Do Now Abort Emergency Sanitation at Home." is for aale by the Superintendent of Documents. U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington 26, D. C. for IS cents. Next: *Y?| Must Haw fete Drinking WaUr."
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