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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES Carter* Couaty's Newspaper EDITORIALS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1954 Referees Deserve Better Treatment Now that the baakteball season is just about over we should think for a minute about a few individuals who have had much to say about how the game is run. We're talking about the referees. Many times they are cussed, booed, and otherwise bedeviled by fans, coaches and players. Theirs is a tre mendous task to keep the game run ning smoothly, straighening out score books, and trying to keep their eyes on 10 swiftly moving players. Before a person can become a referee he must study the rule book and all phases of the sport or sports in which he wishes to be an official. He then must go to the State Athletic Associa tion headquarters ? at his own expense ? and take an examination. His training doesn't stop there. He has to keep abreast of rule changes, attend clinics, and go to conferences. This entails a lot of time and personal expense. In return the official gets a nominal fee of $7.50 for each game officiated. He is rated on his abilit)*as an offi cial, his personal appearance, and other factors that are reported at state head quarters.* From these ratings, by coaches, the state association deter mines whether he's doing his job right and whether he's really being an official. Before the season starts the associa tion heads get together and with their list of officials, work out a schedule for officials for every area of the state. Referees pay their own expenses to and from games, buy their own uni forms and equipment, and all for $7.60 per game. As one official told us, it's not for the money that he's an official but the love of the sport and the satisfaction gained in doing a job well. Referees are only human. They make mistakes, but fans and coaches don't it this way. They hoot and holler at the first opporturfity and say we've got, a bum reforee when actually the official is doing the best he can. Some admit that they do a poor job at times. These times are when a gams is wild and woolly. Because of the pace, they can't keep up with every little thing. Spectators are the ones quick to point out a referee's so-called bad call. Yet the referee is in a position to know what's going on. He has studied the game, knows the rale book and has a comprehensive knowledge of the sport. The average fan hasn't had this train ing. He oft-times knows little about the finer points of the game and if asked, could recite few if any rules. Yet fans have set themselves up as judges of officials and instead of giving the referee credit for a good job, rake the poor guy over the coals because he didn't see "my Johnnie get fouled over there in the third period." Referees are often blamed for being in favor of one player or another yet when we have talked to them they fre quently don't know the n&me of either team's star player. ? Referees give up a lot of their time, money, and patience for one hour and 45 minutes twice a week to be objects upon which uneducated fans vent dis appointment and chagrin. The true sports fan lets the referee run the game. There should be more of them. If you know what's happening on the playing area and understand the sport, then you are an educated sports fan. Educated sports fans bring glory to a eommunity through good sportsman ship. Article Appears The problem of towns taxing out-of town businesses or peddlers is becom ing worriesome throughout all the state. Evidence of that fact is the publication in the February issue of Popular Gov ernment of an article ."Collection of City License Taxes from Out-of-Town Businesses." Written by George H. Eager Jr., AsaisUqt^ dir^Juc. at the institute of Government, it deals exhaustively with the laws on collecting business license taxes. It attempts to help the city busi ness tax collector determine who is tax able and who is not. In this county the collectors are the town clerks. However, the article doesn't help much with our specific problem: how to keep the ijy-by-nights OUT. Cooperation Opens the Way The by-word among coastal counties of North Carolina these days is CO OPERATION. We seem to be entering a new era in that respect. Perhaps it all began with the proposal for an all-seashore high way. Perhaps the seeds were planted even farther back than that when the state looked to the development of the ports at Morehead City and Wilming ton. The North Carolina Coastal Marine Council is a new organization of 25 eastern counties which have joined forces to "plan orderly commercial, in dustrial and recreational development of the intracoastal and navigable inland waterways of the State of North Caro lina." The All-Seashore Highway Associa tion is a group committed to promotion of a highway along our picturesque outer banks. Members of the associa tion are residents of all North Carolina coastal sections. Another group indicative of the co operation among coast dwellers is the Southeastern North Carolina Beach Association, a group that might be called the granddad of all the others because it has been promoting our southeastern beaches for a number of years. We are at last realizing that by help ing the other fellow we help ourselves. That is as true on the coastal scale as it is on the local scale. Rugged inde pendence has its place but not in a so ciety that has reached the point to which we have advanced. At this stage in the game cooperation will bring the greatest gain. * The Majority Like It The general reaction to speed clocks or "whammies" as they are called has always seeme<J to ua to be unfavorable. But like lota of things, the people who make a big noise eventually realize that th<! crack-down on. speeders ia for their own safety. Members of the Winston-Salem AAA club were polled as to their opinion of the whammy. Replies to a question naire totaled 1,690. Of those, 1,398 said they were in favor of electrical speed devices and 292 were opposed. Carteret County N#w*-Tlm?s WINNER OF NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA PRE8S ASSOCIATION AWARDS A Merger a I The Beaufort Nm (Eat 1111) and The Tain City Tinea (Eat ISM) Pabllabed Tuaadaya and Pridaya by Ik* Carteret PublUhinf < Mt Arendell St. Morebeed City, N. C LOCEWOOD PHILLIPS ? PUBLISHER ELEANORS DEAR PHILLIPS - ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER RUTH L. PEELING ? EDITOR Mall Ratea: la Carteret Couaty and a4MMM Mrika, ISM one year, $3 JO lis ?LIB eaa month; alaewhera $7 00 O? yeer. HOP ate montha, $LM Member of Aaaociatod Preaa ? Greater Weakliea ? N. C. Preaa NaUonal Editorial Ajeeetatfea ? Audit Banaa of CkroiaMoaa The Aaaariatad Preaa la entitled eactoairely to aaa for republkatioa of total I v?Maa all AP FLYING SAUCERS WERE BAD ENOUGH ir i ? im *- - ? ? ^g? i The Readers Write 125 Den Bleyken Place Kalamazoo. Mich. Feb. 8. 1054 To The Editor: I heard Vice-President Nixon last night on TV urging everyone to send a dollar for Freedom to Eu rope. That is all very well and good, but how about freeing our children from the enslavement of the publishers of Crime Comic Books, who keep filling their minds with ideas of crime, violence, sex, mayhem, and every known kind of brutality? This is where the "bat tle of ideas" begin. They need the TRUTH too. Dr. Frederic Wcrtham, writing in November's Ladies Home Jour nal on "What Parents Don't Know About Comic Books," says, "Juve nile delinquency of our time can not be understood unless you know what has been put into the minds of children." I was happy to read in the Kala mazoo Gazette, Feb. 5, that a step has been taken by Rep. William S. Brownficld of Michigan. He is urg ing an investigation of "possible subversive taints of comic book creators whose portrayals of crime and violence are alleged to under mine youthful morals." He added that subversives were using so called "comic" books to undermine youth by glamourizing law-break ing. murder, and immorality. I say Crime Comics are a na tional disgrace. We wouldn't know ingly give our children dope, but crime comics are a kind of "Mental Dope." Sincerely. Mrs. Giles W. Willis Sr. (Editor's Note: Mrs. Willis is a former resident of Morehead City and Gloucester). Red Pine, Called Norway By Some, Is Valuable Tree In competition (or public favor the sensible alternative is not al ways the winner. It is sensible to call this tree the Red Pine because of the (laky orange-red bark of the young trees. In ipite of this, it is known far and wide also as Nor way Pine although it is a native American species. Some say early explorers took it for Norway Spruce. Others offer the explana tion that large stands of the tree were to be found near Norway, Maine. In this latter case, one wonden whether it is not as likely that the village was named after the tree rather than the tree after the village. It was' apparently introduced to the Britsh Isles In 1756. The Red Pine may grow to a height of 150 feet, according to some authorities, but more conserv ative students set the limit at 100 feet with a trunk diameter of 3 feet. Unusual trees have been known to have a trunk diameter of 5 feet. Red Pine is a beautiful,* cleao looking tree at all times of the year. Each year's growth may be identified by a falsewhorl of branches such as may be found also in the White Pine. The needles of the Red Pine are in 2s though sometimes they may appear in 3a in areas attacked by insects. Normally there are rela tively few inaects and fungus pests in trees grown in the open. The needles are from 4 to 8 inches long, clean dark green and flexi ble. They remain in position on the tree from three to five years. The cones that bear seed and those that bear the pollen are sep arate but are to be found on the same tree. Two years are required for the maturing of the cones which are erect the first year and turn downward the second. The cones bearing seeds are from 1H to 2'<z Inches long, and, when mature, about aa wide aa they are long. The seeda are shed from Septem ber through October and weigh about 81.000 to the pound. They are distributed by the wind and may germinate from 70 to 80 per cent The aeedlings bear aix to seven cotyledons and by the end of the first year after germination may be over 1 inch high. The wood ot the Red Pine is light and bard aad about 40 per cent as strong as white oak. It weighs 30.3 pounds per cubic foot, is close grained and pale red. Red Pine is valuable as a Umber tree and tt an ornamental tree. Ita' timber has been used (or piles, masts and in general heavy con struction. The bark has been used in the tanning at leather. Normally, the Bad Pine ranges Quebec rania Uat ted States. It may grow in pure sUmN at which time the trunks are tall and straight and things of genuine beauty as well as of great value to the forester. Grown sep arately. the tree quickly develops stout lateral roots which give good w.nd resistance. The National Wildlife Federa tion through its stamp program and through other activities en deavors to develop in the public an understanding of how useful trees like the Red Pine may best be handled to continue their use fulness. Author of the Week By W. G. Roger* Virginia Sorenscn has written another novel, "Many Heavens." Like her earliest work, this is about the Mormons; and her in terest in them is due in part to the fact that Sorenson is an early Mormon name and she as a child studied in Mormon schools and took part in the life of her Mormon community. Married to a teacher, she has lived in many university towns, in California. Misaouri, Indiana, Mich igan, Colorado and Alabama. Her home at present is in Edlnboro, Pi. Smil? a While He wis one of those tourists who liked to brig about the number of ?On covered in i day As the even ing wore nn they passed motel after motel with Uie Ho Vacancy" sign out. / Finally, the little wamtn re marked: "I know well find one soon dear . . . people ire starting 16 get up." Jane Eodt Washington Washington ? Alice K. Leopold, new chief of the U. S. Woman's Bureau, is one of those happy wo men who can successfully combine marriage and family life with a public carecr, with neither of them suffering. Married in 1931 to Joseph Leo pold, vice president of a New York advertising agency, and mother of two sons, Robert, 20, a junior at Dartmouth College, and John, 16, junior at the Westport (Conn.) High School, Mrs. Leopold served in the Connecticut State Assembly (legislature) and as Connecticut's secretary of state before coming here. "It wouldn't have been possible for me to take on these jobs if I hadn't had the understanding and support of my husband," Mrs. Leopold told me. "Coming to Washington meant mikfrtf many changes in our life. I think my husband deserves a gold star. We have been married 23 years." Two congressmen and a labor official were waiting in an outer office to see Mrs. Leopold. The phone jingled constantly. Once she talked on two phones simul taneously. Mrs. Leopold has leased a small, attractively furnished apartment near downtown Washington. She commutes weekends to her home in Weston, leaving here by train Friday nights and returning late Sunday nights. Carrie, the maid, presides over the 10-room house, set in a 10-acre plot in the rolling Connecticut hills, and cooks dinner five nights weekly for John and his father. "i do the cooking weekends, plan menus and stock up the freezer lor the next week," she said. , In addition to being chief of the Women's Bureau, Mrs. Leo pold has two other new assign ments. She i? chairman of the labor secretary's Advisory Com mittee on Womanpower and acts as special advisor to the secre tary on policy matters relating to the standards of employment of women. A tall, serene woman with keen blue eyes and black hair touched with silver and worn in a neat page-boy style, Mrs. Leopold dresses with style. She likes Jew elry. She enjoys music and sing ing, ice skates weekends on the family pond, grows flowers. She hankers one day to "do over" ber big office in the Labor Depart ment. Most of all she wants to have the little wash basin behind an ugly screen in a corner of the room removed. "I'm not getting very far with that project," she sighed, and laughed when she recalled that someone suggested she should have gotten her appointment during the regime of former Secretary Mar tin Durkin ? "He was a plumber." Today's Birthday KATHEUNB CORNELL, km Feb. It, ISM. In Berlin, - Ger many, Where fcer father, an Aroer lean doctor, waa > taking a poat graduate course. Thli famed a tag* actreaa played her (lrat ?tarring role on Broadway In the "Green Hat." (1825). She la | uaually directed 1 by her produc er husband outline Mccunuc. Some of her top roles have bora "Candida," "Romeo and Juliet," "No Time for Comedy," and "The C onstant Wife." In IMS she wrote "I Wanted To Be An Actieaa," a book tor beginners in tbe theater tilth P? ling Tea Salesmen Hope Coffee Prices Stay Way Up There Because of high coffee prices, enterprising food stores are put ting tea in obvious places along their shelves. It's that same old busineas about "It's an ill wind that blows no one good." Yet the Brazilian coffee boys say if we keep on drinking coffee the way we are, despite the price, the price is going to stay right up there. Where oh where are all the fine "investigators" in Washington with their solution to the problem? Isn't it funny how investigstions just never seem to come to any conclusion except the obvious con clusion. An investigation is the official answer to the public clamor, "Do something!" The coffee investigation will probably come up with a report pages and pages long, which when boiled down will undoubtedly say, "Coffee is expensive because the prices are high." Nevada, I believe, has the answer to the problem of gun handlers who use roadside signs for target practice. The Nevada highway de partment hangs a round metal tar get under each sign. On it are the words, "Hit Me." Only the shots that miss damage the highway sign. Out thar, not many boys miss. ? Early Mann, Newport's street commissioner has worked on high ways and streets for over 30 years. Before going with the State High way Department, he was with a private contractor 18 years. Mr. Early says he's be*n through every phase there is on this road business. The man on the dirt road, says. "Get me some rock to fill up all those ruts out there." Mr. Early comments, "There's a hole out in the road holding about a pint of water, so we get him some rock. Then he sees other roads being paved and he says, *1 want my road paved, you can't even get in and out from my place.' So finally we get him his road paved. Next time 1 see him he's yelling, 'For $(?&* sakes, put some signs up here to slow 'em down. They're goin' to kill me!' " A1 Cooper is contemplating build ing a "Marineland" at Atlantic Beach. On display in saltwater tanks, equipped with glass peep holes would be all kinds of sea life. Anyone who has been to Ma rineland, Fla., knows what a thrill it is to watch the fish from a sub marine vantage point. A1 says maybe the Marineland will be ready this summer, maybe not '4il next. Tentative location is on the section being pumped in to the left of the new bridge. Scuttlebutt (that means this may or may NOT be true): The bank that was once slated to move into the Royal Theatre building. More head City, is planning to locate in the place which will be left vacant when the A&P moves into its new supermarket. Blanchard's Electric Service is said to be contemplating a move into the place that will be left va cant when the Morehead City Drug ? Store moves into the former Rose's location. There is talk of a new A&P store to be built in Beaufort. 4 In the Good Old Days THIRTYTWO YEARS AGO County commissioners were urged by Beaufort and Morehead City residents to issue bonds to pay half the cost of the Morehead City Newport-Craven County road. W. P. Smith advertised in their clearance sale men's shoes, $6.75; ladies' shoes, $4.95; ladies' coats, $15; ladies high heel shoes. $3.95. G. W. Huntley was elected pres ident of Old Topsail Club; J. A. Hornaday Jr., vice-president; C. S. Maxwell, F. R. Seeley and Otis TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO The Beaufort News, now the NEWS-TIMES, carried a story on its front page, written by Jacob Henry, county representative in the state assembly in 1810, telling of the town of Beaufort and of its ship building and fishing indus tries. Morehead City was hoping to get an appropriation from the state assembly to build a road to Fort Macon. At present people could only drive there at low tide. Pickle plants at Wilmington and Kinston were asking farmers to grow cucumbers and peppers, so they might build a successful pickle plant in New Bern. TEN YEARS AGO Miss Caroline Kidder joined the county health department. A New York firm was offering to buy cucumbers from Carteret farm ers. Contracts for the cucumbers were to be made at Sam Edwards' store, Newport. Beaufort businessmen were planning a drive for $5,000 to build a Scout Club House. FIVE YEARS AGO The Beaufort PTA went on re cord dissapproving the lurid mur der movies shown Saturdays at the local theatres. The NEWS-TIMES machinery was moved from 807 Evans St. to its new plant at 504 Arendell St., Morehead City. Mobile X-ray units visited the county so that all county residents could have a free X-ray. . From the Bookshelf NOT AS A STRANGER, Morton Thompson (Scribners) Luca? Marsh, the doctor who is the hero of this 948-page novel, is born at the turn of the century in Milletta, "hub of the world," we are told. The father, Job, and the mother, Ouida, vie for the affections of their only child. The father, who never leaves his lusty appetites unsatisfied, is the go-getting pro prietor of a string of harness shops, and the nature of his business tips the reader off to the certainty of its eventual failure. The mother, at the oppoalte extreme, feeds the smallest possible number of her husband's appetites the fewest times she can manage. The boy has an appetite, too: He can't leave doctors alone. He dog* the local practitioners on their rounds, holds their horses, carries their little black bags, is allowed once in a while to sit beiide the sick and injured. By the time he grows up, he is deter mined, deapite objections at home, to become a doctor, too. So next we follow him off to col lege where he has complicated and extensive lesson trouble, money trouble and girl trouble, and then out to practice where he has ty phoid trouble, medlcalethics trouble, Jew trouble and woman trouble. Thompson himself has novel trouble, though 1 regret to say it of an author who died before this Literary Guild selection got into print He baa a book full of sym bols but empty of people, and he lets his story run three times too long. It may well be read, however; the medical profession la popular fiction, and besides many will re member Thompson's very superior earlier novel, "The Cry and the Covenant" OFT THE BOOK BEAT ? Miss is* A crocodile tauter. Alfred A. Knopf has a book about him coming out In the middle of February, but can't find him and hasn't beard from him la aix months The publisher thinks ser iously the crocodiles may have got UMiraMB. He is Bryan Dempster, subject of "Crocodile Fever" and a profes sional hunter who has vanished somewhere in Africa in the valley of the Zambesi. The author is Lawrence Earl, whose 'The Battle of Baltinglass" provided you a couple hours of hilarious reading last season. Earl is safe in Eng land. Captain Henry Sou'easter Everybody is supposed to have their town tags by now. Dan Walker has had his head aches with folks who wanted to match the last two or three num bers of their town tag with their state tag. But two things are always for sure: Milton Lipman gets tag No. *1.96, I mean 108. and J. P. Hetts, our postmaster, gets No. 13. He's the only one who has enough nerve to take it and he'd feel slighted if 13 were given to anybody else. I'm glad to hear that Dan Walker is recovering from an infected fing er . Maybe this will teach him not to try to open all the oysters for all the ladies. The residents in the frontier sec tion of Beaufort, the Front Street annexed area, are wondering when the firebox at Seaview Street U going to be put into operation. Beaufort's newest eligible bachel or is casting about, 1 bear, for a wile who almd/hai the house and furniture. Shelly Smoyer, THE NEWS. TIMES sports reporter, tells ma that the Jayceea finally broke down Friday night awl fare hi?a decent working facilities to cover the game The Jayeaao work oa the principle, evidently, that r* KrtHJdeU^!^ r tanT* ?et" a^pa* slbtol h ... JSK
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