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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES II Carta*** County's Newepeper FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1954 School Issue Causes Fireworks Where three boundaries of separate political units meet, fireworks can be set off sometimes with little provoca tion. The battle between Onslow, Jones and Carteret Counties over school chil dren and where they shall be educated has been rumbling about for months. And at this point nobody knows how it will end. The State Board of Education was to take action on one phase of the matter yesterday. The issues, boiled down, are these : 1. Jones County wants the children from the western section of our county who are attending the White Oak School in Onslow to go to Jones County Schools. At the March meeting of the Carteret Board of Education, our board recommended that these children, numbering 56, go to the Jones County Schools. We asked that the State Board of Education ap prove that recommendation. The State Board was to act on it yes terday. 2. In addition to the 56 children in volved in that issue, approximate ly 225 youngsters from the west ern section of our county attend school in Swansboro. Swansboro is planning to build a new school. They claim that since 25 per cent of their enrollment are Carteret children, this county should, help pay for part of the new school. Following the recommendation made by our board of education the first of this month, the Onslow County educa tion board met and passed a resolution saying that the Carteret County chil dren shall not go to Jones County but shall attend the school at Swansboro in their county! Where Onslow County gets the idea that they can dictate as to which school Cartgretpuplls shall at tend Is be'yvnd us.'fcevertheless that It what they have done, according to news reports from Jacksonville. So, after appropriating more Carteret students, they claim that this county shall help pay for a new school to take cate of them. That's like a farmer steal ing his neighbor's land and then order ing his neighbor, from whom the land was stolen, to help pay to build a barn on it! Carteret school officials naturally are against giving any money to Onslow County ? even if we had it. They , rightfully reason that because of the increased enrollment in the Swansboro school, due to our pupils, Onslow has received thousands of dollars through state and federal aid that they would not have gotten otherwise. Had those pupils been in schools in this county, we would have received the dollars funneled into Onslow. As h mat ter of fact, there would have been enough money come to this county to rebuild the Carteret County White Oak School which burned several years ago. The destruction of that school made it necessary for our children to be sent to schools elsewhere and that's how quite a few of the pupils got into schools in other counties in the first place. (Jones County, however, has been educating Carteret students for about 20 years) . Carteret County Superintendent of Schools H. L. Joslyn said that this coun ty can accommodate our students now going to Swansboro. They could be taken into the Newport and Camp Glenn schools. While we now have the space, the issue of distance arises. Many of the parents would, object to their children being transported the long way from their section of the coun ty to Newport or Camp Glenn. Distance is a factor that figures largely in the entire controversy. Car teret pupils in the western part of the county are much closer to the Onslow and Jones County schools than they are to ours. Because of the inter-county aspect of the whole affair, Carteret school of ficials have repeatedly asked the State Board of Education to settle the mat ter. But realizing the explosive nature of the situation, it's been juggled like a hot potato, the state tossing it back into the hands of the counties involved. As a result, lawyers have been hired by Onslow and Jones people to plead their cause. At this writing we know not the outcome of the State Board of Education meeting in Raleigh yester day. We do know that Onslow hasn't a leg to stand on in asking Carteret for money to help build their new school at Swansboro. How to Rise Above it All Now we know the solution to the traffic problem. Get a 'copter-glider. This is a gadget unveiled Saturday by the Bensen Aircraft Co. President Igor Bensen built it at his helicopter plant at the Raleigh-Durham airport. The gyro-glider or 'copter glider is . just big enough. lor one perwu). It* rotor blades are bn top, two of them, just like a helicopter. The 210-pound President Bensen, who has flown his own 86 pound craft, says its "simpler than a bicycle" and "weighs only a trifle more." Just think, in a 'copter-glider there would be no more waiting for draw bridges to close, no more waiting for trains to shift back and forth, no more struggling with Sunday , traffic. Of course, such Utopia has been predicted before ? automobiles with wings that could just zoom down a highway and take off. But this is the first time some thing as inexpensive as this has come off the drawing board. The gyro-glider can be built, Bensen says, for $100. He says it can be put together in any home workshop. Of course, that leaves us out right off the bat, but possibilities of such a flying machine are thrilling to contemplate 1 They say you can't get hurt in this thing. It can't stall and its landings are so gentle the pilot could carry a sack of eggs without cracking 'em. Here on the coast where we almost always have a brisk breeze, this gyro glider would be the nuts. Probably for nuts too, but we still think it has possi bilities. People who go nuta trying to drive a car are right ready for some thing like this. To Protect Our Young'uns . . . Two events will take place this month which will go a long way toward protecting our youngsters. One is the bicycle safety crusade being sponsored by the police departments of Beaufort and Morehead City and the other event will take place at the Boy Scout cam poree at Camp Croatan next week end. That's* a demonstration on safe handling of guns. The other day we were driving along Bridges street. In front of us was a boy on' a bike who looked to be about 11 years old. He was pedaling for all he was worth. But he looked over his shoulder, saw a car behind him, held out his left hand signaling that he was going to turn at the next corner, and on his way he sped. would have liked to have caught up with that little fellow and shaken hand* with him. Those are the kinda of bike riders we like to see. The cautious motorist always gives bike riders a wide berth, becaofcf we've been trained to the faet that kida are unpredictable. But if the bicycle safety crusade and bicycle clubs train bike riders to give signals as did that youngster on Bridges street, we've gone a long way toward protecting our children and easing the mind of the motorist. As for the gun handling, we com mented at Christmas time that some how, somewhere, boys should receive training in handling guns. From the day a boy can run, he wants a gun strapped to his hip, be it water pistol, target pistol, or six-shooter from the five and ten. As they approach their teens, they begin to get more interested in the "real thing." BB guns, rifles, pistols ? they're somehow as alluring to a boy as a steak to ? starved beggar. The Scouting announcement of a demonstration in gun handling is the first ever to come to our attention in any program for boys. And we say it's high time. With training in bicycle safety and gun safety, we'll soon make the teen age accident statistics take a nose-dive. NEIGHBORHOOD'S GETTINGTOUGHftfVWY DAY gag r UtoKR! s. ? - ' F. C. Salisbury Here and There The following information is taken from the files of the More head City Coaster: FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1915 Hon. John M. Morehead of Char lotte was in the city Monday. Captains Harry Moore and S. W. Farris left Tuesday in the "Do hema J " for Sound Beach, Conn., where they will meet Edwin Bin ny, the owner of the yacht. The "Dohema J." arrived here Wednes day of last week after having cruised in the waters of southern Florida for the past three or four month*. Captain Foard left Thursday in the yacht "Aloa" for New York where he will meet Colonel Frank Marion, the owner of the yacht. W. H. Stead left Tuesday morn ing for Sound Beach, Conn., where ne will visit his daughter. Mrs. g'l"'iT 'VjfT will make the trip on t Be yacfit 'toohema J." be ing the guest of Captains Moore and Farris. Mrs. W. S. Franklin and chil dren of Goldshoro left for home Monday after spending several days visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Willis. Charles Piner Jr., left for Charles ton, S. C. Monday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Keifer and daugh ter Arline of Stroudsburg, Pa., re turned home Monday after spend ing several weeks here as guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Canfield. Isaac Tawes of Crisfield, Md., ar rived in the city Friday and will remain here during the crab sea son. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Woodland of Crisfield, Md., arrived in the city to spend several weeks so that Mr. Woodland can look after his bus iness interests during the crab season. Leroy Davis, Abram Riggin and James Davis of Marshallburg were business visitors in the city Mon day. Mrs. llettte Roberts and daughter Mamie of Wilmington who have been visiting John D. Styron for the past several days returned to their home Wednesday. Miss Emeline J. Pigott has re Discourteous Drivers Cause Most Accidents i Rfnrm. * r ri f-rni^ i "hamuli Most motor accidents last year were directly due to discourtesy ? reckless driving, excessive speed, driving on the wrong side of the road, bulling through without the right-of-way, cutting in ahead, pass ing on curves or hills, passing on the wrong side, failing to signal, or signalling improperly. In other words, accidents dont just "happen" ? accidents are caused. You're the driver who cauaes accidents, if you're a driver who leaves your manners on the sidewalk when you get into your car. The man who wouldn't think of standing in line at a movie theater bellowing at the top of his voice be cause the line doesn't move fas ter ? is the same man who leans on his horn, fraying all the temp ers within earshot, and putting other drivers into an accident-caus ing mood. And that same man will belliger ently expect his car to respond to every emergency, even when not kept in top operating condition. The man who handles the make of car you drive can keep it In par feet operating shape? if you aak him to? but only you can keep your driving manners polished. Today's Birthday ALEC GU1NESS, born April 2, 1914 in London, England. The famed British actor is known to American au diences for his motion picture roles in "Great E x p e c t a - tions," "Kind Hearts and Cor onets." "Man In the White Suit" and "Captain's Paradise." Alto featured on Broad way in "The Cocktail Party." Has acted in and directed Shakespear ean plays During World War II was an officer in the Royal Navy. turned home from New Bern where she has been spending some time visiting relatives. H. Agnew Lewis returned to New Bern Sunday alter spending some time here with nhtiwi. C. F. D. Bell returned to the city Monday after spending a lew days with his family at Harlowe. Miss Kate Leary returned to her home at Buies Creek Monday morn ing after spending a few days here with Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Leary. Mrs. T. B. Davis of Zebulon re turned home Monday after a short visit with friends here. Mrs. J. T. Davenport who has been visiting in New Bern as the guest of Mrs. A. E. Hibbard re turned home Monday night. Two cars of machinery, have been shipped to Morehead City for the D. L. Taylor Contracting company to be used here for the unloading and handling of the stonp to be used in the construction of the Harbor of Refuge at Cape Look out. Mr. and Mrs. James R. Bell have moved from their home on the cor ner of 8th and Arendell streets to that of their daughter's, Mrs. Dan G. Bell on Bridges street. Af ter April 5 the house recently vaca ted by Mr. Bell will be occupied by E. C. Boomer and family of Sur folk. Va., who moved here this week. W. B. Blades of New Bern was in the city Tuesday looking after the erection of his new cottage which is now in the course of construction near the Atlantic Hotel Elijah Willis has begun work on his new building on the vacant lot just east oi the R. T. Willis build ing in which the store* of Klein Brothers and J. C. Helms are now located. The building when com pleted will be 22 feet by 75 feet and two stories in height. The low er floor will be useif as a store while the upper floor will be used for residential purposes. I As was i fated in The Coaster several weeks ago, that the More head City Fire company had pur chased another hose wagon from the Goldsboro Fire Department, it arrived here last Tuesday and is now in commission. The wagon ia of the lateat make and carries mod ern fixtures. Colt of the new wag on was (155. Carteret County News-Times WINNER OF NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARDS A Merger of Ifee Beaufort Newi (Eft. 1913) and The Twin City Timet (E?t ISM) Publlehed Tuaadayi and Friday! by tbe Carteret Publiahinf Company, Inc. ao* Arendell St, Morehead City, N. C ~~ LOCKWOOD PHILLIPS ? PUBLISHER ELRANORE DEAR PHILLIPS ? ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER ' RUTH L PEBUNO ? EDITOR Mall Rate*: In Carteret County and aljoininf counties, $6.00 one year, fsio all montha, ?138 one Booth; eloowhcre >7.00 one year, <?.00 ?i? montha, $1M one math. Member at Aaaodated Pre?a ? Greater Weeklies ? N. C. Preaa Aaaociatioo National Editorial Aaaodatlon ? Audit Bureau of Circulation The Aaaadated Preaa la entitled excluaively to dm far republlcatiea oi local aavs printed la thla newspaper, aa well aa all AP newa dispatches. Entered aa Snanl Om Matter at Matahaad CHy, K C, Uader Act af March *. Ifll ft/ j ? Jjl Maa Drewer Raleigh Roundup N0T*8 ON ALVIN . . . Don't tulLi ?ch?me-drwming in your thinking about Alvin Wmgfieid', decision to run (or the U. S. Sen Kerr Scott didal have anything ill V' -A"0"1" ,uU Sco,t e.renf Li n<*odJ' "ere running non^ v 4nd, A?on Len i may 1,6 ,ure that neith er Lennon nor any of his folks "er* on the decision. They wou!d have much preferred that WingfieW stay out of it. Well, you ask, then just what happened? Nothing, really, "t *' e of Wingfield'a mind. He just decided he wanted to be the junior lin. ^n^?r ,rom North Caro lina. Anything wrong with that? He s free, white, and of age. He fA n^*,r7"ly' the 1250 fee. Don t try to read any deals C dagger smoke fil,e<' S P * into ,he statement. nlZrr' ,none There are none **? people ?t first pleased tfte announcement. They still Hocur'r,unh,ppy ibou' " House of Lennon was seen to jway slightly like a tall pine in a ,br?" But it recovered quickly enough. Its recovery be came complete when Wingfield's <? ke bounty Courthouse talk here night 83 P??P'e '*8t Frld?y W.Wi.hfnn0n. pcople feeI 'hat contest Int en y may push lhe There ^ " MCOnd Penury. There are four men -not all of Scott I e,ther ? running besides i,.. on. and Wingfield. Thev are Oils i Ray Boyd, whom you have no doubt heard of before, A. E Bostick L' Sprinkle and w M. We understand that Turner plans i?8pfnd some money and that wants ? PJe"'y t0 !pend " he wants to, so don't sell these fel lows short just because yon have never heard of them. Ten years ago you didn't even know Adlai Stevenson existed, and now look Anyway, Lennon people sav and*"0 th"r * SCCOnd Pr'mary ind that s just the briarpatch they re looking for. BURGEON Wjth sprjng busting out all over and momen u' *" for educat'on n North Carolina and elsewhere, there ? i* a word with which all good Tar Heels should become familiar ??aIr an '"ter?ting story in con nection with it. Ever heard of "burgeon?" Chan ces are you have not in all your born days uttered the word in or dinary conversation. Odds are Just a. great that y?u have never heard iddrew. eXCCPt P0SSibly in 50me Well, a burgeon h a bud. To the'buS to comawnce growth in ine bud. The word has becomp peculiarly North Carolina ^a ? one man made It famous 40 years f??n? 11 ra"ks 'n Importance right along with "equal," "indepen de.nce; ,and "freedom" with us in ?tate. Gov. Charles B. Aycock pleaded in one of his speeches for the equal right of every child tha" i??wiSin him!''>Ur8e0n ?Ut "" But It wasn't until some 20 dren'ofY'r h'' de,th that chil , *r0Willg Columbus, for instance, had achool facilities dren nf?t'h08e available 10 the chil ?f tobacco manufacturinR For syte .LJ' c,me only aftcr ihc ye.? ago 0Ver the ,chMls 20 bimi^k "ieburgeoning |n many a? been retarded until re because of inadequate schoolhouaes. Many a county in hIimi . neglected their achool the State n ??l0red chUdren until Ind ,pproprlated 'unda in IMB *Ch0?l pl*nu> QUOTES . . , Writing In the ^mni'.i'u 0b"r?" last ?eek, Col umniat Marguerite Smethurst aaid uf""/irpri,1d to find in -The .1* a" lSpee,chcs of Charles B. Aycock by Clarence Poe and R. D. W. Connor the phrase "to bur geon out ill that ii within htm" act off by quotation marks. Did Aycock borrow the state ment from some great word mer chant of another era? Not at all, it developed. Clarence Poe came for ward with the explanation in a letter to Mrs. Smethurat. Dr. Poe, now famous middle-aged and semi retired, married one of Aycock'a daughters. They were in a hurry to get started to Europe on their wedding trip. "In preparing the manuscript of this last speech . . . instructions to put this phrase in italics so as to emphasize it somehow got mis phrased into 'put into quotes' * wrote Dr. Poe to Mrs. Shethurst. The quotes stayed there, for Dr. Poe never got to check on the book after it was set in type. It may surprise you to know that Aycock never made the speech from which the quotation was lift ed. Ready to run for the U. S. Senate, he dictated the address for the announcement of his candidacy, but died in Birmingham, Ala., while making a speech there and thus never delivered, in the usual sense of the word, the great equal and burgeon address. BYRDIAN . . When you hear Kerr Scoit doing any talking about saving money, you may know he is running for public office. Harry Flood Byrd and W. Kerr Scott are, ordinarily, about as much alike as Sen. Joe McCarthy and Adlai Stevenson. But last week in Clayton when Scott said that Uncle Sam could save upwards of $300,000,000 by investing some of its idle money instead of letting it sleep in New York banks, he was snuggling right up close to Byrd. Scott knows a good campaign point when he sees one. Politics makes strange bedfellows. We know certain folks who yell loud enough to be heard from here to the barn at the mere mention of Byrd's name. They love Scott like a schoolboy loves his pic, like an old Kentucky colonel loves his rock and rye. It may surprise Kerr Scott to find that Harry Byrd has been plucking for years on the same strings now being harped on by the gentleman from Alamance. As the Greensboro Daily News said editorially last Saturday: "It doesn't make much sense to give them (the banks) several million dollars a year when the govern ment deficit is increasing, and gov ernment should be doing every thing it can to get its expenditures in balance." What we're getting at, too, ia that this ia the first time we have beard Kerr Scott say anything about say ing money since his campaign for Governor n 1948. Righ now he's a little Byrdian. He's Hkely to re main that way right oa until May 29 -or a month thereafter. But to paraphrase an old song: Will he love in December as he does in May? Will he love us in that same old Byrdian way? GOOD THING? . . . Parents and teachers having difficulty persuad ing some children to study and to attend school regularly would do well to quote from the Dec. 31, 1953 records of the N. C. Proba tion Commission. There were 4,113 under proba tion in North Carolina for various crimes. Of this number, 3,308 had never been to high school. Only 77 of the 4,113 probationers had received any training beyind high school. Only 19 of the more than 4,000 were college graduates. This would seem to indicate lhat education is, after all, really a pretty good thing, don't you think? TIP . . . Watch it. That innocent looking little green car away back there behind you may be a patrol man. Those wires across the road may be there to check your speed. Be safe. Drive carefully. Man-of-War Bird Attains Pinnacle in Air World Imagine * bird with a wingspread of 8 feet and a weight of just under 4 pounds! It has a length of about 3 <6 feet including a 6-inch bill and a 19-inch tail that is forked more than half Ita length. The wings are conspicuously bent backward at the "elbow" (which isn't the elbow really) and while many of the birds appear at a dis tance to be. solid black beneath, others show conspicuously white underparts. The bird that would fit into this picture may be seen fly ing endlessly over the ocean add near tropical shores and Is the frig ate bird or man-of-war bird. They have been seen on occasion off the North Carolina coast There are five species of man-of war birds recognised. They range from Nova 8cotia to Venezuela on the Atlantic Coast and from Hum boldt Bay in California south to the Galipagos Islands with one spe cies widespread in the Indian Ocean and other species extending the range over most of the warm seas. In spite of their uncanny ability to fly there is relatively little seasonal migration. Some times the birds are found inland in North America as far as Wiscon sin, Illinois tad Ohio. The birds never sleep on the witsr tod bortnii of their strong homing instinct have been used to cany messages for man. Sine* any group of half ? dozen birds would be likely to ?eek land with the ad vent of sundown and since individ uals probably do not range, at leact during nesting season, farther than 79 miles off shore, the movements of a number of birds in a given di rection at dusk is often taken to mean that land lies within 79 milea of the point the birds were ob served and in the direction they I- ? L4 W J Man of W?r Bird are (lying. To i nun loat In a boat thia may often have considerable significance During the breeding seaaon the male diatendi an enormoua bal- , loon like aac beneath Ha throat, aita on the neat and makaa cackling noise* when a female approach**. 3 From one to three e|p measuring 1 about 2 by 3 Inches and white ara Incubated by both paranta. The young ara mob covafad with ? - white down and hold their Juvenile plumage for a year. The adulta m Saa J>?. ? Sac. J
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