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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES CartMt Canty*! EDITORIALS FRIDAY. APRIL 30, 1954 Chamber Efforts Bring School Here The Beaufort Chamber of Commerce and local school officials who co operated in bringing the Woman's Col lege Fine Arts School to Beaufort are to be congratulated. Not only will the school be of value to the town economically but children of Beaufort and the surrounding area will have the opportunity to attend classes in art, dance, music and theatre. At least 200 students are expected to attend the six-week session. In pre vious summers the art classes were much smaller, numbering 15 to 20 stu dents, and the marine biology classes were sometimes even smaller than that. To put it mildly, Beaufort is really getting the works this summer. Instead of a faculty of two or three, there will be 12 teachers, many of them well known in their special fields. While most of us went about our business, not thinking one way or an other about the fact that the Woman's College summer classes had not been held here since 1952, Dan Walker, man ager of the chamber, and a Chamber of Commerce committee were evident ly looking into the possibility of having the school return. Serving on that committee were Hal sey Paul, Bruce Tarkington and Glenn Adair. We doubt if the Woman's College summer session would have been sched uled for Beaufort this summer if some one had not gone after it Perhaps it might have left the mountain town in the western part of the state, but that doesn't mean that Beaufort automati cally would have been named as the new site. While the chamber committee de serves much credit, we believe that Mr. Walker was instrumental in convincing Woman's College officials and faculty that Beaufort is the place for their sum mer session. Which recalls to mind the fact that Mr. Walker is acting as chamber man ager this year without pay while a com mittee looks for a chamber manager. Seems as though they're interested in finding a "fireball." Reports from that committee are never heard. It's almost a red-faced quiet. Maybe they have learned that you can compare the acting chamber man ager with anyone they locate and the new fellows always come out second best. Again we say thanks to Mr. Walker and the Beaufort Chamber for con vincing the Woman's College Fine Arts people that Beaufort is the town that really can fill their requirements for a school and at the same time will always greet them with its well-known, old fashioned hospitality. What's the Cure? The State Motor Vehicles Depart ment and Highway Patrol are doing very well in stopping speeders on the hard-surfaced roads. We wonder when they're going to figure out a way to stop the hot-rodders, especially those in the eastern part of the- cqunty and specifically those on the Grow Hill Road at Straits. There the car jockeys keep the un paved part of the road torn up all the time. Seems as though the zenith to which they all aspire is to turn down the road, rev the car up, slam on the brakes so that they skid in a complete circle and head out the way they came. To them it is a waste of time, evident ly, to put the car in reverse and back around. The road is a little too narrow to go through all that. So they skid around. The road, as a result, is a series of ruts that are meat only for tanks. And it doesn't do too much good to run a motor grader over the road because the minute the grading is finished, the hot rod boys get on it because it's in better shape then for their maneuvering. Naturally, all this goes on late at nfght or soon after midnight. The ac companiment to the carrying-on is cohstant backfiring. ' The state has come up with its wham mies and its cameras which take pic tures of speeders but we have yet to hear of their cure for the suped-up jobs driven by irresponsible characters rang ing in age from 16 to 26. Better Think Twice Following the reasoning of the More head City town board in declining to re-zone Presbyterian Church property, we fail to see how the board can do other than refuse to change an area under consideration on Bridges street. The board was requested several months ago to change lots 1, 2 and 3 on Bridges in block 54 from residential to business. This property is located just west of Mobley Buick Co. The board at its last meeting tabled the request. In our estimation, the board was jus tified in refusing to re-zone the church property (now residential), much as we would have liked to see the Church helped in its 'building program. How ever, the change was deemed unwise by a zoning consultant and it would have, if effected, set off a chain of headaches to which there would have been no end. At the board meeting where the change was considered, Mayor George ? Dill emphasized the fact that the zon ing consultant said the town already has more areas zoned for business and industry "than is normally considered necessary or desirable." On that basis, there is no existing nted for more busi ness area. Furthermore, what is the use of zon ing a town and adopting a zoning ordi nance if at the whim of one citizen or another the zoning set-up is changed? Constant change would defeat the pur pose of zoning. How can people con templating building a business or home act with assurance if there is always the possibility that action by the town board tomorrow may change what to day is residential or industrial? We do no? advocate that the zoning ordinance be regarded as unalterable law. We believe the town board should have the power to make changes if necessary, but those changes should be backed by a series of excellent reasons which have as their core the betterment of the town as a whole. For this reason we believe it would be untimely and Unwise for the board to make the zoning change requested for Bridges street. It may be that we are unaware of certain circumstances there which would make the change desirable. But again, this request comes from a private citizen who probably stands to profit by the change. In the face of the decision in the Presbyterian Church matter, a move to make the change would be rather un popular. And we repeat, there would have to be some mighty good reasons to back it up. Carteret County New*-Tim?s WINNER OF NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARDS A Merger of The Beaufort New* (Bit 1912) and The Twin City Times (let UN) Pmhlfched Tuesday! aad Fridays by tbe Carteret Publishing Company, Inc. 804 Arandoll St, Moreheod City, N. C. LOCKWOOD PHILLIPS ? PUBLISHER ' ELEANOR* DEAR PHILLIPS ? ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER RUTH L PEELING ? EDITOR Mall Rates: In Cartaret County and adjoining counties, M OO one year, $3.50 six months, gl.28 oaa month; elsewhere 17.00 one year, >4-00 si? months, 91 JO oaa month. ' Mimhir W Aaaociated Press ? Greater Weeklies ? N. C. Press National Editorial Aaeociation ? Audit Bureau a f Circulation Press la entitled azclushrely to oaa far rapubllcaUon of la thia laamiaiiai. aa wall aa all AP news Clip. N. C, Under Ad at March I, UTR o 83 #>&/?/?/% F. C. Salisbury Here and There The following information is taken from the files of, the More head City Coaster: FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1915 Miss Elodie Webb went to New Bern Thursday morning. Captain Isaac Webb is quite sick at his home on 8th street. Mrs. Martha J. Webb is visiting friends in New Bern. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde D. Morton left Monday to make their home in Beaufort. Mrs. Jack Neal of Beaufort was the guest of her mother, Mrs. Ju lia Bell last Sunday. J. C. Helms returned home Wed nesday night from Raleigh where he spent several days. C. C. Willis of Asheville spent a few days in the city last week. Mrs. Adams of Four Oaks was called here Tuesday on account of the illness of her daughter, Mrs. A. F. Royal. Mils Mittie Bradham left Mon day for Beaufort having accepted a position with The Beaufort News. Dr. B. W. Spillman will occu- ? py the pulpit of the First Baptist Church Sunday morning. A party composed of Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Dodson and family, Miss Jane Hancock, Messrs. Charles Freeman and Dan Oglesby spent Sunday at the Straits. Rev. K. L. Dennis, a former pas tor of the M. E. Church of this city, is here this week assisting Rev. T. E. Pierce in a series of meetings. Mr. and Mrs. Stacey W. Wade and sop Louis Mann of Raleigh and Mrs. M. E. Simmons will arrive in the city Saturday. Mrs. Simmons is coming to make her home witn her daughter Mrs. E. Clay Boom er. Mrs. F. S. Duffy, Mrs. O. H. Guion, Misses Susan Guion, Mary Louis Jones and John A. Guion all of New Bern came down Mon day morning in Mr. Guion's car and relumed home in the after noon. Miss Beebe Boyce of Crab Point entertained a few friends at her home Wednesday night, the eigh teenth anniversary of her birth day. Many delightful games were engaged in. Those enjoying Miss Boyce's hospitality were Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Powers, Misses Bettie, Alice Contentnes and Lucy Oglea by, Eleanor, Eva and Alice Laugh ton, Elsie Twiddy. Messrrs. John Oglesby and Sam Weeks. Miss Ethel Webb, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T- D. Webb, died in Raleigh Thursday evening at 8 o'clock after an all nesa of only two weeks. Miss Webb was taken to a hospital In Raleigh a week ago today where aa soon as her strength would per mit she was to undergo an opera tion. On* of the prettiest marriages of the Kiion took place In Elixa beth City Thuraday night when Mill Cordie Davis of Wilmington, Del., became the bride of R. E. Lee of Morehead City. On Monday the Daughteri of the Confederacy held its regular meet ing at the home of Mr*. C. S. Wal lace. At this meeting "Shiloh Day" was observed. Mr*. W. M. Webb, chapter historian read a descrip tion of the battle of Shiloh and Mr*. J. 0. Kornegay, the chaplain, read a poem on Shiloh after which the Chapter made a contribution to the Shiloh monument. . C. D. Morton who ha* for some time been with The Coaater left Monday to take charge of The Beaufort New* which he ha* re cently purchaaed. Mr. Morton ha* given absolute satisfaction to The Coaater and we extend to him our best wishes. On laat Friday night Neal Wade gave an automobile party in hon or of Miaaea McMillan, Ritch, Mc Kay, Krvin, Blackman and Stem. About 12 couples were invited and the trip to the Carteret Lodge waa made in six automobiles. A de lightful supper was served on the veranda of the Club House over looking the lake. At 8:30 the jolly party started home arriving here at 10 o'clock. Those in the party were Misses Eva McMillan, Reecie Ray Ritch, Kate McKay, Edna Ervin, Jessie M. Stem, Jessie Bjackman, Mil dred Wallace, Elodie Webb and Al lie Boomer; Messrs. Neal Wade, Clarence Taylor, I. G. Farrow, E. A. Council, 1. C. Stalling, W. J. Moore, P. H. Murray, W. H. Barn hill, Frank Stroud, Robert Lacy, J. G. Kuhn, Otway and Andrew Bell; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wade, chaperones. The U. S. Engineers motor sur vey boat, "Neuse," was successful ly launched from the shipyard of J no. F. Bell Co., Saturday after noon April 24. The sponsor was little Miss Catherine Wade, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Wade, the trippers were loosened, Wade kept pace with the boat and as the craft slid down the ways, broke, not the traditional bottle of wine on the prow but instead a bottle cf Neu:e river water. Today's Birthday EVE ARDEN. bom April 30, 1912, as Eunice Quedens, in Mill Valley, Calif. This com edienne, well known for caus tic, brittle hu mor, began her career at 16 with a stock company. When she open ed in Ziegfield Follies in 1934, name to Eve Arden. Her first movie, in 1937, was "Oh Doctor" with Edward Everett Horton This twice-married blue-eyed blonde has made more than 40 motion pic tures, is now popular as "Our Miss Brooks" on radio and TV. Smile a While Farmer, pulling with one mule: "Giddap Peter! Giddap Barney! Giddap Johnny! Giddap Bill!" Stranger: "How many names doe* that mule have?" Farmer: "His name's Pete, but he don't Know his own strength; so I put blinders on 'im, yell a lot o' names, an' he things a lot o' other mules are helpin' 'im." The Readers Write April 26, 1954 To the Editor: Question: How much longer will ve the people of Carteret County have to ride on log cart roads? We were of the impression that the Powell Bill would take care of this situation. However, we would like to know which streets have been improved with the money ap propriated by this bill. It certain ly has not been Highway 70 through Beaufort and Morehead City. One of the roughest pieces of road in N. C. is on this highway from the Jefferson Hotel to the Morehead City Bridge. When will this highway be re-surfaced? Does the Powell Bill expressly state that the money appropriated to each town be spent only on road Improvement, or is it permissible for the town officials to decide to use it for repair of Fire Houses, or any other type of improvement which may be needed? Also, why doesn't the railroad maintain the crossings properly? These are pertinent questions af fecting not only the welfare of the individual citizens, but also that of the municipality aa a whole. It would seem that if the funds received from the Powell Bill were not diverted, that money should be available for re - surfacing the streets. There have been many cases of the diversion of highway funds, to the detriment of our roads and streets, and the present conditio!* in Beaufort is a flagrant example. Something should be done! T. EVERETT, Representative Taxpayers of Carteret County Beaufort, N. C. (We appreciate hearing from Mr. Everett. It'i alwaya well (or citi zens to voice their opinions and atand up for their beliefs. , We hsve attempted to check on Mr. Everett'a place of residence and are slightly puzzled. His re turn address on the envelope is Morehead City. He signs himself as a representative of county tax payers. "Beaufort, N. C." A check with the town clerka of both towns shows that there is no "T. Everett" on the tax books in either Beau fort or Morehead City. Be that as It may, even though the writer may not own property here, he may be a resident of this area. 1 user of our xoads and streets, and therefor* entitled to speak in praise or criticism of them. As for the Powell Bill funds in both towns, we doubt that they are being "diverted," that is, used on anything but streets, roads, tide walks or street maintenance equip ment. Paving, grading and maintaining streets is an expensive operation. Both towns are having difficulty in making Powell Bill funds take care of ALL streets. The Waterloo is maintaining unpaved streets in the northern section of both towns. They are streets that white folks, perhaps, are not as fainlliar with as they are with the main streets. While It would be impracticable to print here a detailed financial report on disbursement of Powell Bill funds in Beaufort and More head City, the clerks of both towns extend an invitation to anyone in terested to call on them and they will show how the funds have been spent since they were first avail able several years ago. We do think it a deplorable fact, however, that the audit for the town of Beaufort for the year 1952-53 has not yet been completed. And here it la, almost time for the 1953-54 audit. The fact that the auditor employed to do the Job is slow in getting it done is an ex cuse, but not a very good one. We agree with "T. Everett" that the highway between the Jefferson Hotel and the Morehead City bridge is not in good condition. A lot of the bumpiltess is due to drip pings of oil and asphalt along that stretch. And we'll say amen to anyone who calls attnetion to the terrible condition of the railroad crossings. The Morehead City town board has repeatedly asked the A A EC to fix the crossings and occasionally one or two are repaired but never is a regular maintenance kept up. We don't know why the railroad won't "maintain the crossings properly." The operators of the road are certainly aware of the situation. It has been called 'to their attention on numerous oc casions in NEWS -TIMES edi torials.? The Editor). Thought for Today The meaning, the value, the truth of life can be learned only by actual performance of lta du ties; the truth can be learned, and the aoui laved. Is no other way. KkM ftrawvr ? ? ? I Raleigh Roundup NEXT WEEK . . . Th? next seven days promise to be something be sides merely the firtt week in May. You people who have been look ing for excitAient in your politi cal campaigns will find plenty of it in the Lennon-Seott-Wingfield battle. Charges are being prepared. The other side hai heard of these charges. My understanding is they already have counter charges ready. Much of the material which will be used in these attacks has been ready for some time. However, for reasons plain only to themselves, the principals involved have held off until the first week in May. This may be too late to prove very effective for either side. YOU NEVER KNOW . . . It s get ting so you never know when some body or someTHING is watching you when you are out in your little auto. Motor Vehicles Commissioner Ed Scheidt revealed privately last week that he wants it that way. Referring to it as the "psychologi cal approach," he said it is mani festly impossible for the patrol men now available in North Caro lina to cover adequately all the highways we now have in the state. However, and thia is point of it, they turn up so unexpectedly that you never know when one is around. Consequently, you stay scared ? scared to speed ? and that's just what Commissioner Scheidt wants. A fellow was traveling last week on a rather lonely stretch of road between Sanford and Durham via Pittsboro ? through there ? and he was in a hurry. He was checking along a little better than 60 most of the way. He came around a gentle curve. There stood one of those old gray geese? and there standing by it and waving him down was a patrol man. As he told it to me, he hadn't seen a car in several miles ? just bright beautiful road, spring weather, and nothing to bother him. This all went through his mind as he began putting on his brakes He couldn't stop right at the patrolman, so backed up. "Aren't you in a little bit of a hurry, friend?" inquired the of ficer. Fellow told him he was, ana blah-blah-blah. Meantime, he kept trying to figure how the patrolman knew. Guilt complex all over him, you know. "When you crossed our tube back yonder you were doing 60. Now watch it ? just a little more and you would have been in court ? tied up from your work for a day and kicking away a lot of money you probably need around the house." said the patrolman. "Yes, SIR," said the guy. He thought he recalled seeing one of those wires across the highway a few hundred yards back, but had thought it was to check on .the number of cars using that particu lar road. Even if he had known it was to check speed, he was on it before he could check his speed. At a distance of 50 feet ahead you can't distinguish between tube and tar. You don't know, for sure, whether the black thing across the road is a concrete separation filled with tar or whether it is to check speed or to check traffic. Moreover, on one of these black top jobs you can't see the tube at all until you are practically on top of it. Our friend traveling from Sanford to Durham felt lucky that the tube wasn't around when he had slipped up to 60. It had caught him when he was ? as luck would have it ? doing only 57. Another thing: don't think when you tKive passed one patrolman, you're free of them for a spell. The other day I counted eight in a 100-mile stretch. Scheldt's statement last week that we should have a mechanical inspection law in North Carolina has already called forth opposition from some of the letters- to-the-edi tor fellows. But the man speaks with some authority, as the News and Ob server so aptly pointed out last Saturday, for since the first of the year fatalities on the North Caro lina highways have dropped 20 per cent under the same period for 1953 Scheldt's psychology seems to be paying off. You never know when somebody ? or SomeTHING ? is watching. BIWEEKLY ... We have been a reader of State Magazine for nigh on to 20 year now. We've been reading after Bill Sharpe longer than that. We enjoy his writing, as Old Trudge or Old Otherwise. See how Tlie State ? beginning next week ? will come out every two weeks Maybe that's good. We hope so, but we are going to miss seeing The State every week. Bill and Carl Goerch say the change will give us a better magazine. Well, it's been much better during the last two or three years than it used to be. But they ain't satisfied. Just want to keep on keeping on ? getting better, that is. They say that "other publications devoted to regional subjects, such as those of Virginia, New Hamp shire, Arizona, etc., are published either monthly, nine times a year, or even quarterly, as in the case of the Kentucky magazine." Bill and Carl say that coming out every week that way just doesn't give them time to get out the attractive magazine they want. We believe them. You can look for a better State, folks. You know, Collier's became a bi-weekly sev eral months ago to get away from the dog-eat dog competition of Life and Saturday Evening Post. Now they are in a battle, heads-on, with Look. Collier's is bigger, but it isn't much better. State aims to be bigger and bet ter, too. NOTES . . . North Carolina farm ers received approximately $449 million for their tobacco crop last year . . . but cigarette taxes levied by 41 states brought in a total of $482 million . . . Halifax is a great county for midwives. Of the 1,226 non white births there year before last, 897 were by midwife. N. C. Facts says every county in the state except Alleghany had some midwife births in 1952. The number one county in births with physicians in at tendance was Watauga ? 98.56 per cent. In Northampton, the lowest, only 24.79 per cent of all births were attended by physicians . , . Because of last Saturday's Red White game at Riddick Stadium, State College alumni are talking about the Wolfpack's chances on the gridiron this fall. They feel better about it ? but admit they still have a long way to go. State has a good coach. Now they need good material . . . Signs of the times: Want ad sec tions of the big dailies have begun to fill up again with "Teachers Wanted" appeals from principals and superintendents . . . W. Kerr Scott has as his Wake County manager Col. J. W. Harrell son, who until a few months ago was chancellor of State College. Senator Lennon has as his Wake chairman former State Senator James H. Pou Bailey, who decided not to run for re-election . . . Both are well and pleasantly known here . . . At the rate things are moving. Candidates Lennon and Scott should have all their county man agers and co-dittos, committeemen, etc., named in another two weeks. Little enough time, too, when you figure that the primary is only a month away. Every Automobile Accident Means More Expense to You I UHHBB mil. Ever atop to realise thit the ?c cident you were not Involved in coiU you money Juat the ume? You were mightly lucky at that. Lucky not to have been maimed or killed. But you don't get ofl ?cot-free Every accident coata you money in the form of increaaed in surance coat. Automobile inaurance rates are determined each year on the basia of the accident experience of the preceding three yeara. In areaa where residents have bad accident ?"^r . i anui ? records, Insurance rates ire higher. Strict enforcement of traffic reg ulations will reduce speeding and reck less driving - primary cauaee of accidenta. But you, yourself have the big responaibility. Drive with care. Remember that traffic regulations are, in fact, safety reg ulations obey them. And Just as important, keep your car In safe driving condition. There'! only one way to reduce the coat of accident* reduce the number of accidenta! /
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