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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TiMES Cuiirat County' i Newspaper EDITORIALS TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 19S4 =S Washington? Its a Wonderful Place! "Efficient organization" has a point of diminishing return. The Hoover Com mission and others have been trying to show for the past several years that the federal government long ago reach ed that point. The average citizen seldom comes in contact with the government's over-or ganized efficiency which bogs down, sooner or later, in what is described as red tape. But the other day we got a prime ex ample of it. All we wanted was a cen sus booklet. One thin booklet that tells how many people live in North Caro lina. Bravely, we wrote a letter to the Di rector of Census, which in the first place was stupid. Any moron should KNOW that the Director of the Census does not send out information on the census. So the letter was forwarded to the Superintendent of Documents. After a month's journey through Capital City offices, it was returned. Judging from the number of figures, dates, check marks and stampings on it, it went through the hands of no less than 20 persons. It looks like a color map of Cherokee County. Accompany ing it, believe it or not, was the desired booklet. Also in the envelope was a printed slip of paper which explains what the various symbols, scrawled all over the letter, mean. Of course, the meanings are given only for symbols which are not even on the letter. Only the brethren and sistern of the duly-initiated Washingtonion Tribe can interpret, evidently, "P. 4988, 22x, PL70, Ref. 59, 28, mf" etc. Heavens knows, our letter may now have turned into a secret document containing the key to an underground Communist code. If McCarthy only knew! But Uncle Sam is honest when it comes to the pennies. A couple hundred million dollars? That's too hard to keep track of. But 26 cents? That's how much we sent to cover the cost of .the booklet. And in a big brown envelope we receive an itty-bitty coupon worth 5 cents which is our change because the book cost only 20 caittB. The'coupon, of course, is good only on purchase of additional government booklets, but that's all right because a catalogue is sent listing all the other enlightening publications that originate with the Census Bureau. The only trou ble is that we're not interested in more enlightenment, not even 5 cents worth. Well, these occasional interchanges of communications with Washington certainly are a revelation. Probably we should be amazed th'afoUt of the maze we got any response at all. Fathers Are Tops We don't envy the judges who were kind enough to serve in the Father-of the-Year contest. They had an extreme ly difficult job. Looking over the bundle of ballots after the judges had done their job ? and made a most worthy choice ? we realized that every father nominated would have been a good choice as Father-of-the- Y ear. Almost every reason given for nom inating a father mentions sacrifice on his part for the betterment of the fam ily, diligent work so the children could be sent to college, a Christian influence on his family and neighbors, patience and understanding during illness and numerous other factors that could be enumerated as qualities of the ideal father. If most of the dads of this nation are half as wonderful as the nominees in the recent Father-of-the-Year contest, the future of all of us is a lot brighter than prophets of doom would have us believe. Cattails Have Hidden Virtues While lots of folks go to Canada to look for uranium or hope to strike oil in their backyard, Carteret Countians need only go out and gather "cattails." Scientists at Syracuse University have announced that the cattail is a "poten tial goldmine" of raw material for in dustrial and scientific uses. But there's a catch: no use going out and harvesting those cattails down cast just yet, there's no market for them. But the scientists add, "When indus try recognizes their potential value, it will be time enough to start harvesting them and turning over other land into swampy cattail farms." The cattail root can be eaten like a potato or ground into flour. The flour can then be used to bake cookies. The flour also could be used as a substitute for corn starch, fermented to produce ethyl alcohol or used for growing molds from which antibiotics are produced. The flower or fluff can be used to stuff lifejackets, baseballs and mat tresses and was used this way during; the second world war. A drying oil like linseed can be drawn from the seeds. A wax can be made from the seeds and the meal remaining used as cattle or chicken feed! The scientists do not claim that all their discoveries are new. In the course of their study they have learned that Russia uses the cattail as a source of food, the French made ethyl alcohol from the stems and the Rumanians have used the cattail to.refine a whisky. Cattails, too, enrich the land they grow on and some of America's richest soil was created bjr decayed cattail stands. So from now on, we'd do well to view the common cattail with a bit more re spect. It could some day become quite important to the county's economy. The Oppenheimer Case (From The News Chronicle, London) America has not much to be proud of in its treatment of Dr. Robert Oppen heimer. He seems to have become the victim not so much of blind anti-Com munist phobia as of a curious witch hunt against men of ideas. There is too much of this sort of thing in American life just now. A Congres sional committee has been turning a routine inspection of Howard Universi ty into a sort of crusade against intel . lectuals who are accused of fostering "subversive" notions like the New Deal. Such instinctive raising of hackles at men of ideas is probably a product of the atmosphere that McCarthy has cre ated, but it could do more damage than McCarthyism. President Eisenhower was right, though late, when he tried to stamp upon it . . . Freedom needs not only men who dare to dissent, but men who dare to let others do ao. Swiss scientists have discovered a drug which makes adults feel like chil dren. But what we need is a drug which makes adults act like adults. ? Greensboro Daily News. Carteret County N?w*-Tim?s WINNER OF NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA PUSS ASSOCIATION AWAKD8 A Marger * Tha Baanfort New* (M. 1111) aad Tb? Twin City TIdm* (Eat ISM) Pabllabod Taaadaya and Friday* by tha Carteret Publlahtaf Coaapany, toe. ' MM AmM St, Morahaad City, N. C LOCKWOOD PHILLIPS - PUBLISHER ELEANORS DBAS PHILLIPS - ASSOCIATE PUBLISHES EUTH L. PEELING ? EDITOR Mall Rata*: In Cartarat County and adjoining countlea, 16.00 ou yaar, $)J0 all Montha, $1 JS <aa aaantb; alaawhara |7.00 oaa yaar, HOP tli montha, $l M oaa Math. Martw af Aaaodatad Ptaaa ? Graatar WaafcUaa ? N. C Praaa Aaaodatlaa NattaMl Editorial AaairtaMea - Aadtt Sanaa a I Cli ilill i n Tfca Aaaaelatod Praaa la aptttlad aaetabaly to aaa for rapubtteattoa at laaal Mm jrtotod to Oh ?aiapayar. aa wall aa all AP aana lh|llikn * ? * * 'a&jhtik r In the Good Old Days THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO William Dabney White was to start working as reporter for the Beaufort News next week. Matt H. Allen and Charles L. Abernathy were running for the Democratic nomination for Con gress. The primary to settle the issue would be held in July. A. H. Harris, new county Farm Demonstration agent, had arrived to begin his duties here. TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO The Gulf Refining Co. had opened a new filling station at Tur ner and Front Streets, Beaufort. L. D. Springle was manager and Hugh Piner was assistant manager. Dr. Joseph McGuire, formerly of Dallas, Texas, was locating in Beau fort and would be associated with Dr. Maxwell, Dr. Johnson and Dr. Chadwick. Miss Neva Willis and Mr. Wil liam 1. Dail, both of Beaufort, were married in the Methodist parsonage. TEN YEARS AGO Beaufort Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, was granted a char ter. The chapter was one year old this month. Carteret county ice companies ran short of ice last week during one of the hottest weeks on rec ord. The dining room of the Beaufort Inn was closing for an indefinite period because of the ill health of Mrs. Eugene Carrow, operator. FIVE YEARS AGO The Junior Baseball League of Carteret County was lo start play next week. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Harker, whose lodge on Harkers Island was de stroyed by fire this week, planned to build cottages on the *anie site. The Morehead City Chamber of Commerce asked the town com mi?*!oner? for $3,500 which would be used Lor advertising purposes. The Readers Write THE MOREHEAD PLANETARIUM Atlantic, N. C. June 17, 1954 To The Editor: 1 learned that the North Star has not always occupied a fixed position in the sky; in (act, it is constantly moving. In a period of 20 minutes they spun me 12 thou sand years in the Milky Way until that star had sunk below the north ern horizon and appeared with its pointers in the Big Dipper, in a position so that it would rise and set like other constellations. Regullus, 1 believe it was, had become the pole star, and the Southern Cross had tuurned up in our neighboring sky. Will we ever see that? Yes, in 14,000 A. D. While we will have time to get used to Regullus, as well as other stars; aa our guide, and like it, and the gleaming Southern Cross and other fine stars that the Aus tralians have bad all their own, we will wonder if the heavens will ever come back like it used to be. Let us do a little plain arithmetic, no higher mathematics. We are in the 34th parallel north latitude, not exactly of course. The Planetarium dropped the star that many degrees to the horizon; I do not know bow many below. If it dropped six degrees be Vow, that it my guess from the appear ance, the total drop was 40 per cent And that ia just one-ninth of 390 per cent around the earth from pole to pole. If it takes 12,000" years to move one-ninth around, it takes nine times 12,000 years to go all the way around and back to its present position, just a matter of 106,000 years, the time for our great galaxy to make a revolution. And the good old North Star Is back in its present position, all safe and sound from Its journey. In the meantime, it has been with us, rising and setting in the Story on Quakers To Start Friday Starting Friday on this page will be a two-part story on the early Quakers in Carteret County. Written by F. C. Salisbury of Morehead City, the story tells 0 f the Qusker migration into Carteret la the early part of the 18th cen tury and of the ancestors of Edwin M. Stanton, Lincoln's Secretary of W?r. The Edward Stanton home, now owned by J. S Sabiston, still stands in the Core Creek Community. sky like the great Orion and other constellations, tracking from north to south, letting the Australians use it for a pole star, and then tracking back to us. And in that moment of ever lasting time, we merely swapped the North Star for the Southern Cross with the folks down under, a swap that has been going on for eternity, every revolution of the Milky Way. Melvln Robinson Captain H?nry Sou'easter A couple of surprising events oc curred in the Front Street boat world last week. Roy Barbour was towed home Wednesday by Carl Smith and on the same day, but a lot later, the Lockwood Phillips' skiff was towed home. That Lockwood was towed in is no surprise because we all take a tolerant view of his knowledge of engines. But It's who did the tow ing, and! when, that's surprising. It was Ernest Davis who once in a while has had to be towed him self. Roy's engine gave out, I hear, in the channel in broad daylight and in view of other boats. It he'd real ly been pressed though, I bet he could hsve fixed things and made it home. Lockwood and his son Walter had along Harry Hill, mechanical su perintendent of THE NEWS TIMES. and C. C. McCuiston, More head City Golf Club pro-manager. The engine gave out about half way between the Banks and the en trance to First Deep Creek. Night wss fast descending. But a full moon gave them light by which they poled to shore and then pulled, pushed, poled and paddled to the head of Taylor's Creek where the swift-going tide was too much for them. There they anchored. About 9 p.m. Mrs. Phillips asked Mr. Ernest Davis to pleaae go searching and the always obliging Ernest took off. He didnt have far to go. Those four were vary happy to see him. The deck o < that skiff is pretfy sleeping. Did you ever hear of anybody having a pot lamb? Of course, Mary did, and the modern-day Mary is 13 year-old Helen Mason, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. George Mason, Lennox ville Road. Only her lamb, Buddy, isnt the type that's interested In school. He's Interested only In staying one Jump ahead of Joe Davis, the big Jane Eadt Washington It was a day full of surprises for Chief Justice Warren as well as his wife. Mrs. Warren said she had no ink ling her husband was going to hand down the important Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation in the public schools of the land. She had gone to the court with her daughter, Virginia, with a carefully guarded plan to surprise him. "And he was most happily sur prised," she told me, "when he saw standing before him, seeking ad mission to practice before the Su preme Court, his old friend Miss Helen MacGregor of Oakland, who had worked for him more than 20 years while he was district attor ney, attorney general and governor of California." Miss McGregor, whom Warren appointed to the California Youth Authority, had come to Washing ton for the day from Atlantic City, where she was attending a confer ence. In on the secret was Warren Olney, who also long worked with Warren and had been appointed by him to serve on California's Crime Commission. Now in Waahington on the staff of the U. S. attorney general, he was sponsoring Miss McGregor's admission. Another surprise for the Chief Justice was the appearance of Robert Moseley, a nephew, who had just returned from Indo-China. Moseley is the son of Mrs. War ren's brother-in-law, Dr. Thomas Moseley, dean of the Nyack (N.Y.) Bible Institute. "We went to surprise my hus band, and he surprised us," Mrs. Warren laughed, "It wn quite a day." The Warrens, who had their trou bles finding a house in Washing ton. finally decided to settle for a large apartment in the hotel where the widow of the late Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson still lives. I suggested that Mrs. Warren barely had time to get homesick for California. "But I am home sick for my youngsters ? I Just can't tell you how much," she said. "Yesterday I started putting their pictures up. I just couldn't put them in the bedroom." Virginia, 24, the eldest, is the only one of the Warren's children with her parents. Dorothy, 22, Nina, 19, and their brother, Robert, 18. are attending the University of California. Two other sons, James and Earl Jr., are married and liv ing in California. Today's Birthday GOWER CHAMPION, bom JaM 22, 1821 in Geneva, IU., son of an advertising executive. The popular dancer and choreographer, teamed iifKk Ilia u rifm Mkrge. hu ap peared in nu merous (1 1 mi and night clube. First received nation - wide ac claim on teie vis ion Won an amateur dance contest at 16. Whil# makiriff professional appearances he studied ballet and modem dancing. Team ed with Marie In 1M7, a few dayi alter their marriage. dog owned by the hero o < the pre ceding atory. The other night at the Davis home. Joe kept herding Buddy Into the kitchen every time the back door opened. Like the teacher in the nursery rhyme, the Davis's turned the lamb out, much to Joe's disgust Nobody appreciated his herding efforts. This is the Law I; OBAMJM W. DANIEL ft lit N. C. Bar Cri?a A "crime" I* any act, or con duct, which has been declared a crime by the state and for which the individual or group reaponaible may be publicly punlahed, either by line, or imprisonment, or both. North Carolina divides crime* in to two general classifications: mis demeanor! and felonies. A felony is a crime which is or may be pun ishable by either death or impris onment in the state's prisons. Any other crime is a misdemeanor. The distinction between the two classifications of crime is impor tant for several reasons. Not the least of these is the fact that one convicted of a felony loses his cit izenship and its attendant rights, including the right to vote or hold public office. A person convicted of a misdemeanor ii not severely penalized. Citizenship lost upon conviction of a felony may be re stored by law (outlined in Chapter 13 of the General Statutes). Petition for Citizenship A convicted felon, after he has served his time or paid off. ma> get back his citizenship by filing a petition in the Superior Court, set ting out his occupation since his release and the reasons why he believes he should be reinstated as a full-fledged citizen. The felon must wait two years after release before filing this petition. Then the clerk of court must ad vertise the fact that a hearing on the petition is to be held, so that those who might oppose the re storation could appear. On the ac tual hearing before the Superior Court Judge, the felon must prove by "five respectable witnesses" that his "character" for truth and honesty has been good for three years. The difference between felony and misdemeanor is also important because there Is no time limit against prosecuting felonies. On the other hand, the time limit af ter which a person may not be pros ecuted for a misdemeanor is two years. This means that if one com mits a simple assault or an ordin ary trespass (which are misde meanors) and the state fails to prosecute for two years thereaf ter, it is barred forever and the offender is free. However, if one commits murder or any other felony, he may be prosecuted for it at the pleasure of the state, no matter now much time might have elapsed before the criminal action is started Offense Against State All crimes are offenses against the state. They ara infractions of state lawi or, the "common law" which is unwritten. It Is for this reason that criminal cases in all courts are labeled "State (of North Carolina) v. John Doe (defen dant)." The General Assembly and cer tain stale adminiatratlve agencies over the years have determined what kind of conduct shall consti tute crime. It vu the General Assembly which determined that rape, first degree murder, bur glary, and arson are "capital crimes," punishable by death in North Carolina. Kidnaping is punishable by life imprisonment. Deuhle Jeopardy The Federal Constitution pro tects the individual against "double jeopardy"? trial more than o^to (or the same offense. On this point the question arises "When does the protection of the double Jeopardy provision begin to work? When is a trial a trial, after which the state cannot quit and begin again later, or after which the state cannot prosecute the defen dant on the identical evidence?" Generally, it may be said that a defendant has been placed ia 'jeop ardy' after the jury has been im paneled and the defendant arraign ed. If the state goes this far in prosecuting an accused person, it cannot later try the same individ ual for the original offense, un less the trial judge finds facts le gally sufficient as a basis for order ing a mistrial. In such case, the accused could be tried again for the same of fense. The accused could also be tried again if a mistrial in the first hearing should be ordered on mo tion of the accused, himself. A person accused of a minor crime which can be tried by a Re corder's Court or a Justice of the Peace may plead "not guilty" and yet have his case heard by the judge without a jury. This is not true of cases heard in Superior Court. There, every case in which a plea of "not guilty" is entered MUST be heard by a jury. Give All the Facts Many persons, seeking the aid of an attorney to defend them against charges of crime, make the gross error of withholding some of the facts from the attorney. No attorney can properly defend against an alleged crime unless he is given all the facts within the knowledge of his client. A person accused of crime should have no qualms about telling his lawyer truthfully everything he knows about the case. The attorney's relationship with the client is com pletely confidential. The attorney has taken an oath to protect ? within the law ? the interest of the client. Remember these facts if you are ever accused of a crime. They could easily be the difference between prison and freedom. Last of Series: This is the last in the current scries of articles "This Is The Law." The North Carolina Bat Association hopes that you have found the articles informative. Another series of sim ilar columns, designed to better acquaint readers of THE NEWS TIMES with our basic laws and court procedures, will be offered next fall. Ruth P? Nng 'Conformity' Factor Gives Rise to Question I wis somewhat puizled by one of the three factors on which en trants in recent beauty contests were judged. Two of the factors, beauty and poise, I understood. But "conformity" meant nothing until It tu explained to me that what the girls were being judged on was conformity without the "con" or the "ity." Rumor from Raleigh has it that the next legislature will remove the word "assistant" from in front of Gehrmann Holland's title which is now "assistant commercial fish eries commissioner." Mr. Hollsod whose name for al most 16 years was preceded by the title "sheriff" in Carteret was ap pointed in the fall of last year to the fisheries job, replacing C. D. Kirkpatrick. Ha ably has been en forcing the fisheries laws and reg ulations since then, doing the same job that Captain John Nelson did prior to Mr. Kirkpatrick. But the general assembly of 1933 passed a law during Klrkpatrlck's term which provided for a "com missioner" and an "assistant com missioner." The theory was that the top fisheries official would be someone who not only knew the catching, marketing and pro motion end of the fishing industry but also bad training In fisheries biology. The "assistant commis sioner" would be the industry's "policeman," just as the commis sioner had been In the past. Well, in theory that is splendid. A man such as the statute defined would, ideally, be satisfactory to t Hfc man who hauls a net and at the same time be would be recep tive to .suggestions offered by sci entists in Ua state' fisheries pro gram But finding such a person Is not as easy ss writing the law. It's ai moet the same as trying to find a fireball pitcher for a ball team who at the same time can hit homers every time be picks up the bat. The combination la rare and If you find him the price Is high. The pay far commissioner waa set at They say that the maa-of-the-fialtermen and biologist combination, even if ha could be found, would not accept the job at that figure. And there's some thing else to consider ? men who have scientific training shy away from political jobs. If they are not members of a uni versity faculty, they are pulling down very comfortable salaries in private industry. Univeraity affil iation, though the pay may not l>e high, carries with it a certain pres tige not to be found in industry or politics. Thus, while the 1953 law on the fisheries jobs looks good on pap er, it haa proved frustrating in execution. That's why it is being said that Aasistant Commissioner Holland may soon be commission er .. . In case anybody is wondering whether Wiley Taylor is mad at Claud Wheatly or vice versa, be cause of recent canonization com ments, they can rest assured that such is not the case. Wiley and Claud were talking together hap pily when the sainthood matter came up, and Claud aays his com ment is not to be interpreted as an opinion on the rice track matter, for or against. Persons in on recent discussion* between the State Utilities Com mission and Southern Railway re garding removal of one of the Southern passenger trains between Goldsboro and Greensboro say that the Southern is making no com mitments on running passenger trains between Eastern Carolina Marine bases and Selma (where connections can be made with the Atlantic Coaat Line). The Navy department has been requesting such. As for the so-csllrd proposal re garding Southern's acquiring the lease of the Atlantic and East Caro lina Railroad which run* from Goldsboro to Morehead City, that too is still said to be up in the air. Persons who have booked pa* sage on the M/S Stockholm which will sail from Morehead City lor the Caribbean in October may be I interested In knowing that the lux ury liner la sailing from New York tomorrow, bound for Cope* ! bagen, Denmark!
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