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r CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES Ctrtani County's Newspaper An Ounce of Prevention . . . The report by Mayor Edgar Hibbs last week that one household in New port was using contaminated' well water should make Newport folks extra-cau tious. There is no need to get panicky but family water supplies should be checked and members of each family should be immunized against typhoid fever. Anyone knows, who has been follow ing the news, that Newport's town boards for the past, six years have been trying to get a municipal water system into operation. The job is tedious and costly but progress is being made. Meanwhile, home wells should be re checked. The water can be tested by sending samples to the state laboratory at Raleigh. Further information on safe water supply can be had through the County Health Department, Beau fort. As for typhoid inoculations, they are given free by the health department. The times when the shots can be re ceived are Tuesday from 1 to 4 p.m. and Saturday from 9 to XI a.m. in the health office, courthouse annex, Beau fort, and in Morehead City in the hos pital annex Thursdays from 1 to 3 p.m. They Dood It! Beaufort Jaycees did a finp job with their beauty pageant Saturday night. They, the girls who entered the contest, and others who took part in it deserve community-wide thanks. Ronald Earl Mason, chairman of the affair, says no money was lost ; neither was any money made. But the Jaycees can take pride in the fact that they suc cessfully staged, in a way that has never been done before, a Miss Beau fort pageant. Anybody Can Nominate a Dad The Father-of-the-Year contest is one in which EVERYBODY can put in their 2 cents. Any father, whether he lives on Ocra ? coke, in Marshallberg or Havelock ? anywhere in the Morehead City trading area ? can be nominated for Father of-the-Year in the contest being spon sored now by 10 Morehead City busi nessmen. The father selected by a committee of judges will be heaped with expen sive gifts Saturday, June 19, in a cere mony at the Morehead City municipal building. Every dad must have his day. And that day is coming up Sunday, June 20, when Father's Day will be observed throughout the country. One lucky father in this area can have TWO days, both Saturday and the day following, if he is chosen Father-of-the-Year. It seems to be the policy these days to make dad the scapegoat in movies or on radio and TV programs. He's a blun derer, pompous oaf or both ? the pur pose of course is to rouse laughs at the expense of the "old man." A national board set up for the preservation of wholesome family life recently expressed regret that dad has to be the fall guy in entertainment pro grams. They attribute depicting him as such to the fact that script writers and program sponsors are cognizant of woman's buying power. Therefore, Mom is seldom cast as the silly one for fear women will take o'ffense and not buy the product being advertised. Dad too frequently is thought of as being important only when the first of the month rolls 'round and bills must be paid. Or because he likes to lounge in the living room in his bare feet or tin* snuff all the time, he's "tolerated" by the family. If folks will just stop and think a minute, Dad is a pretty swell guy. And there are some fathers who are typical of the entire species. They're really outstanding dads. We'd like to see one of them named Father-of-the-Year this year. Only you folks know who that out standing father is. Write his name on the nomination blank appearing in to day's NEWS-TIMES and give your rea son why he should be Father-of-the Year. The dad you nominate may be the winner! Colleges Come to Carteret Carteret can rightfully be called this year the Summer College County. Look at the summer schools that are scheduled here: 1. Duke Summer Sessions 2. Woman's College Fine Arts Sum mer Session 3. Surveyor's Short Course 4. Annual Meter School 5. Salt Water Fishing Institute 6. Design Fundamentals 7. Summer Course in Outdoor Science 8. Statistical Quality Control Short Course The first two listed are Beaufort schools and the other six are State Col lege-sponsored courses taught in the buildings of the former Morehead City Technical Institute at Camp Glenn. Naturally, we think the college ad ministrators' selection of this county for their summer courses is ideal. Sun, surf, sand ? and school make an easy to-take combination. Board Bans Palmists The County Board of Commissioners is to be commended for denying a li cense to a woman wanting to practice palm-reading here. Palm-reading is a first cousin to voo doo and tomfoolery. It's living proof of the fact that people love to be hood winked. They pay good money to get told a lot orbroad "predictions" about their future, predictions that are so broad that they could apply to the lives of everyone ? but the person whose palm is being read believes the "predic tion" is solely for him and the palmist is always smart enough to throw in a lot of stuff to make the customer feel good. As Sheriff Hugh Salter said in the county board meeting Monday, "If palm-readers really can see in the fu ture, they'd be making so much money they wouldn't have to read palms!" Honoring Our Flag Monday is Flag Day. On June 14, 1777 the design of the American flag was adopted by Con gress. The Stars and Stripes can claim antiquity among national flags. Great Britain did not establish a national flag until 1801, France 1794, Spain 1786 and Italy 1848. Carteret County Ntws-Timti WINNER or NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA PUSS ASSOCIATION AWARDS A Merger o t Tb* Beaufort Newe (Eat 1811) and The Twin City Tteoa (K?t UN) Published TMidui and Eridaji by the Carteret Publlahlof Company. In?. _ 8M Aracdell St, Mitfoboa d City. N. & LOCKWOOD PHILLIPS - PUBLISHER ELEANORS DEAR PHILLIPS ? ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER RUTH L PEELING ? EDITOR Hall Ratea: la Carteret County and adjoining couatlee, $6.00 oae year, $3.90 aU montha, $1 J8 cm math; oloowhoro fl JBO one year, HOP ate montha, 1190 one aaaath. Member of Aaeociated Preae ? Greater Weeklle* ? N. C Proof National Editorial Aaaodatton ? AndM Bureau of Circulation* The Aaeociated Preea la antltlad ezclualvety U nee (or republication of local am printed la thia newapaper, a* well a* nil AP am (IhflffcM Oaaa Matter at Marahaad Otj, N. C, Under Act it March I. ISIS. From the Bookshelf A TIME TO LOVE AND A TIME TO DIE. By Erich Maria Remar que, translated from German by Denver Lindley, Harcourt, Brace. "The Russians are exhausted by their gigantic losses. ? We will annihilate the enemy this year. ? Our new weapons will be irresis tible." This is the official picture given the Germans as they retreat west ward after Stalingrad. But the soldiers know they're taking a terrible licking and dream of going back to their clean, safe, home land. One man, Ernst Graeber, goes now on a long overdue furlough, and he's the hero of this novel by the author of "All Quiet on the Western Front," "The Road Back" and other fiction. Graeber is warned not to say a word about the parlous situation at the front as he is warned, on re turning, not to say a word about the situation at home. For the civilians have had it, too, in dev astating air raids which blast en tire families and leave hardly enough for the hungry rats. He finds former friends, and primar ily he finds Elisabeth. This then concerns three weeks when, caught up in collapse, catas trophe and chaos, a young man and his girl strive to recapture cer tain basic, abiding satisfactions ? "warmth, water, a roof, bread, qui etness, and confidence in one's own body," There's too much of the aut?> maton in all the characters, and Re marque fails to arouse much sym Today's Birthday RISE STEVENS, barn June 11. 1913 in New York City. This world - famous opera singer has I*) been a star of i the Metropoli L tan Opera Co. ? since 1938. As I a youngster she H won a scholar ^ ship to Juilliard I School of Music. ? Made her Eu g ropean debut at I Prague in 1936. ? Although her most famous role has been in Car men, some of her earlier success es have been in Der Rosenkavalier and Samson and Delilah. Also has appeared in film and on radio and television. pathy for his luckless couplc. Furthermore, the opening pages are so suggestive, in a general way, of the opening of "The Road Back" that it might be possible almost to interchange them; it's a sort of road back for Remarque. But in spite of this, he keeps you absorbed in his story, and his vivid descrip tions of the hardships and brutal ities of warring Nazis would be hard to surpass. The .translation seems expert. THE POWER AND THE PRIZE. By Howard Swiggett. Ballantine. Three Americans, Cleves Bar wick, a big-shot businessman, and his aides, Struthers and Everett, are in London, as this novel opens, to put over a deal which will add millions to the coffers of their com pany. Chutwell, English opposite of the subordinates, offers the two the kind of Saturday night tired bus inessmen are supposed to enjoy, with girls supplied by the Artists Refugee Organization. At the same time Cleves, asked to investigate this supposedly charitable ARO, meets the executive director, Ra chel Linka, beautiful Viennese wi dow, and falls in love. Cleves is a bachelor. The head of his company, George Salt, whom he expects to succeed, is married and has a mistress; Everett is mar ried and would like a mistress; Struthers is married, has a mistress and would like to return to his wife. While these and other af fair develop, business marches on. the Americans connive to beat rivals in gaining control of a money-saving English process, and the English do their best to drive a paying bargain. This is a remarkably expert and knowing novel by a writer who doesn't miss a trick. There is nothing to offend, everything to win popular approval. Only the good man prospers, only the wrong doer is punished. Ideas current ly in the air are indorsed, to wit, that racial prejudice is bad, that the right international policy is trade not aid, that the better bus inessman is gentlemanly and cul tured. There is even a woman who, before she can become a wife, must pass the test of the McCarran Act. Swiggett smartly tugs at heart strings, then at purse strings; this is old-fashioned love let loose in a new-fangled world. It's easy to take, easy to forget, fun while it lasts. Jan* Eads Washington Washington ? There still seems to be only one good answer to the threat of the abandoned icebox, the hideaway in which 30 little ad venturers were suffocated last sum mer. That is, to take off the latch or the whole door, before abandoning it. A Senate subcommittee is con sidering legislation requiring man ufacturers to install inside latches in food refrigerators, freezers and lockers, but it admits it is stymied because no satisfactory gimmick has yet been devised. Industry spokesmen, testifying at hearings of the Interstate Com merce subcommittee, say as yet they have been unable to come up with a foolproof inside latch that could be operated by a 3, 4 or 5-year-old, the age range of most youngsters who die in discarded re frigerators. They have informed the subcommittee the industry will intensify its efforts to develop such a device. It is agreed that once one is invented legislation will be introduced requiring its use in re frigerators shipped in interstate commerce. Sen. Mike Mansfield (D.-Mont.), sponsor of one bill calling for in side latches on refrigerators, is authority for the figure of 30 ice box deaths last year. His bill and one introduced by Sen. John Spark man (D.-Ala.), are based on the premise that if these abandoned iceboxes had been equipped with inside latches many or all of these children might have been able to get themselves out in time. Though the bills were introduced more than three months ago, Sen. Purtell (R.-Conn.), chairman of the subcommittee, points out ac counts of tragedies continue to ap pear. "Thirty deaths in old ice boxes during 1953 doesn't seem like an astounding number," Sen. Pur tell said, "but the number will in crease with the rapid develop ment of refrigeration in our homes and subsequent replacement of old appliances with the new." Smile aWhile "Did you see much poverty In Europe when you were there?" "Not only did I see it, but I brought some of it back!" Raleiah Round ud WHAT ABOUT STAFfST . . ? In *11 the talk ?bout W. Kerr Scott eking out ? win over Alton A. Lennon for the U. 8. Senate and whether thia persoo or that per son would tuceoed by Governor Umstead appointment the late Sen ator Clyde R Hoey. moat of us have neglected to think of ? or at least to refer to ? the people who are moat directly affected by the two changes which w? occurring. 1 am referring to about 20 peo ple who comprise the staffs of North Carolina's two offices in the U S Senate. We have talked about Sam Ervin, Bob Laaaiter, Imng Carlyle. Gregg Cherry and others. But now with Lennon going out, Scott going in, Clyde R. Hoey gone and Sam J. Ervin becoming the western senator, what about Harry Gatton? He went from a good job with the Treasury Dept last year to succeed Jesse Helms as ad ministrative assistant to Senator Alton A. Lennon. Both Gatton, who formerly managed a radio station in Statesville, and his wife work in Lennon's office. Then there is the veteran assist ant. modest and likeable, John Slear. For many years he was Congressman Robert L. Doughton s assistant. His wife, Julia McNinch Slesi, writes a Washington socio politico column. She is the daugh ter of the late Frank McNinch, former mayor of Charlotte who could not stomach A1 Smith in 1928, but who bounced back into prominence when the New Deal moved into town in the spring of ?33. Slear, when Hamilton Jones of Charlotte went to the Congress, moved over with Jones. The east windows in Jones offices, while Slear was there, had at their base in dirt as rich as Yadkin River bottomland? some of the finest Af rican violets seen by these tired old eyes in many a day. They bloomed in abundance, were hosts to many a casual visitor to the Jones office, but proved of little use to Congressman Hamilton Jones who ran head-on into the Re publicans and Charles Raper Jonas in 1952. It should be pointed out here that although the flowers were still around in '52, Caretaker Slear had long before moved over to the Sen ate Office Building as assistant to New Senator Willi" Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Slear know their way around in Washington, have a host of friends back in Tarheelia, and are among the leaders of the North Carolina group in the na tion's capital. Now if memory miataketh not, both John Slear and hii wife have law degrees, have seldom used them, but what about their future, with Kerr Scott of Haw River mov ing into Washington in November. What, also, about the others who make up the Lennon office staff in Washington? Well, they could hardly hope to remain in their present capacitics after the elec tion thia fall. The one man who did more than anybody else to lift petty details from the shoulders of Senator Clyde R. Hoey, thus leaving him to attend to the more important du ties of his office, was Jack Spain of Greenville. Spain, former may or of Greenville, became secre tary to Congressman Herbert Bon ner when Lindsay Warren was ap pointed Comptroller General, a job he vacated only a few weeks ago. Bonner, of Washington, N. C.. had been Warren's secretary, was ap pointed to succeed his boss and was elected in 1940. When Hoey went to Washington in 1944, Jack Spain left Bonner and became administrative assistant to the new icnator. Jack still main tains hia home and legal voting residence in Greenville, has farm ing interests in Pitt County, but doesn't get back to his homewoods often because of that rat race in Washington. Another asaistant in the Hoey of fice is Miss Helen WhiUker. ?la ter-in-law of Edwin Pato of Scot land County, farmer, merchant. State senator, and recently elected head of the N. C. Bankers As sociation. Carolyn Basin of Yanceyville, daughter of State Senator Sam Ba tin, his been an assistant In the Hoey office. | Will Senator Sam Ervin keep this staff? Only time will tell, of course, but the word is that they are not nearly so worried aa . is the staff of Senator Alton Len non, whose term of office has only about five months more to run. Something worth considering: Jack Spain over the years served in a dual capacity as secretary and administrative assistant to Sena tor Hoey as I did for Senator Hoey. Senator Ervin would do well to keep Jack Spain as administrative assistant and bring over one of Sen. Lennon's men for secretary. CROSS-BREEDING . . . Frank Crane, who last week was appoint ed Commissioner of Labor to suc ceed the late Forrest Shuford, and his lovely wife Edith, really have a birdish background. Until she became a Crane, Mrs. Crane was a Peacock. Yes, this is an actual case of where a crane married a peacock and now both are very fond of birds and are con sidered the best amateur ornithol ogists in this section of the State. Several years ago Frank put up more than a dozen bird houses on our hill. Belle Acres, just out side Raleigh on the road to Dur ham and overlooking Crabtree Creek. He took on the respon sibility of inspecting and cleaning out those boxes each year. Last Sunday week? when Frank and Edith were out visiting the Brewers ? he made his annual spring check and reported there was a family of blue birds occupy ing each box. Well, since blue birds are considered good luck omens, we all solemnly crossed our fingers and wished that the Gov ernor would appoint Frank Crane Commissioner of Labor. And ? don't you know - three days later he made it. The salary is $10,000. As labor conciliator, Frank was receiving $8,500 per year. By the time he expends a few hundred here and a couple hundred there for election and re election, chances are he will not be making as much net money as before he got the appointment. But he will have more prestige, will be in a good position to im prove the lot of labor in North Carolina, will be a member of the Council of State, and will reap any fiscal benefits that accrue through the possible hiking of salaries of the men who run the State of North Carolina. Incidentally, our Governor re ceives only $15,000 per year. He should not receive less than *?, 000. Members of our Council ot State should not draw less than $15 000 per annum. Folks, we are underpaying the men who have the chief responsibility of running this State and sooner or later we may regret it. NOTES . . . Surprised to see former Lt. Gov Reg Harris of Roxboro take it on the chin again from Byrd Isaac Satterfield up in Person County. Harris, showman and general howdy-dooer around Raleigh, can't seem to do anything with his home folks any more Harris' defeat by Satterfield for the Legislature - a little old seat in the House ? surprised everyone here He didn't run against Sat terfield in 1952, but took him on again this year and went down again. , , _ Just a lot of time people from back in the counties are a lot more popular around the Sir Walter and here and there in Raleigh than they arc with the folks at home. We've noticed that several times. Cousin Wayland Spruill of Wind sor, the old "rippling waters of the Chowan" man, was defeated tor the State Senate by A. P. God win of Gatesville, who In 19W served his first term in the Legis lature. It is an ironical item that the only man who has the nerve to take on Kerr Scott for Agricul ture Commissioner (Spruill op posed him. very, very, unsuccess fully in 1940) lost for the State Senate the same day his old op ponent was being nominated for the U. S. Senate. Cousin Wayland also lost out for the House in 1952, so this may mean the end of a long and Interesting career In politics for Cousin Wayland Spruill. F. C. Saliibury Here and There The following Information is taken from the files of the More head City Coaster: FRIDAY, JUNE 11, ItlS Miss Gerjldinc Willi* of New Bern is spending a few days in the city witri her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Willis. Miss Alice Edwards returned home from Pollocksville where she has been visiting relatives. Friends of Postmaster W. L. Arendell will be glad to know he is much better and expects to be at his post within the next few days. Col. Fred A. Olds, one of the best known newspaper men in North Carolina, Is here this week in the Interest of the Raleigh Times. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Kornegsy have Issued invitations for the mar riage of their daughter, Glen Dora, to James R. Murphy. Wednesday afternoon. June 18 it the Meth odist Church. A surprise wedding took place in New Bern Tuesday afternoon when W. 8. Webb, ( young man of More head City, son of T. D. Webb, and Miss Flora Freeman, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Freeman, were married by the Rev. R. W. Thoit of the Tabernacle Church. The couple were expected to at tend the Sunday School picnic in Newport but went to New Bern in stead where they were married. The rear part of the Teachers Assembly near the Atlantic Hotel la being torn down and the front part of tbe building will be con verted into a summer home for Mrs. F. W. Barnes of Wilson who has purchased the property. Henry Willis and Rad Purifoy were both aeriously injured Satur day afternoon wlwn the staging on which they were working gave away caualng both men to fall a distance of 20 feet The journey in a canoe from Raleigh to Morehead City, by way of Neuae River and the canal, is full of adventure and variety. W. J. O'Brien and George W. Carr of Durham made the trip In an Old town canot, arriving here Wednes day, having left home last Friday. Stamp News By W. G. Roger* Many foreign countries have done well printing their postage stamps by the photogravure and lithograph method. U. S. stamps are engraved only, but the Post Office Department is experiment ing with these other systems. The above stamp issued by Switzerland is a good example of the photo gravure process. The British Colonies' series for the 23th Wedding Anni versary of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth also was printed b y photograv ure ( Illustrations by Harraer - Co.)
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