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I CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES Carteret fc<mnty'? Newspaper EDITORIALS . TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1954 The Problem is Still With Us An editorial, "What Are Your Teen agers Drinking?" appeared in the May 7 issue of THE NEWS-TIMES. The ed itorial called attention to the fact that drinking of beer and other intoxicating beverages is prevalent among a certain group of our youngsters. Wiley H. Taylor Jr., solicitor of Coun ty Recorder's Court, is correct in his interpretation of this condition as a community problem and not just a church or a legal problem. (See news story page 1). Basically, it's first and foremost a home problem, but parents (at least quite a few of them), don't recognize it as a home problem. If they do they don't know how to cope with it. When the discipline and training that should take place in the home is sloughed off by parents, then the community as a whole and other agencies, court, church or welfare organization, must step in. Why? Because the commuhity is di rectly affected by action of children who are without parental restraint. We believe that parents of teen-agers who are drinking are unaware, prob ably, that their children are getting whisky. If youngsters who have been drinking and have reached an intoxi cated state are presented to their par ents in that condition, we believe the parents will willingly take the neces sary steps to get the child striaghtened out. If they won't, then the case will most certainly end up in the hands of the juvenile court judge and the county welfare department. Impractical dreamers will say that this problem can be solved by prohibi tion. If prohibition could keep whisky out of everyone's hands as effectively as the federal government keeps dope under control, THE NEWS -TIMES would be the first to advocate prohibi tion. Until the moral code changes, thus condoning murder and racketeering, THE NEWS-TIMES will never support prohibition. It is a. generally recognized fact, as well as a legal fact, that persons who h^ve not reached the age of 18 (in cer tain instances 21) are "minors" and are not answerable for their actions in the same way as are adults. Society, for example, frowns upon child mar riages, children under "legal age" are not permitted to enter into contracts or handle without supervision an estate they inherit. If adults exercise such supervision, it is also within their realm to exercise supervision in the case of drinking. It is hoped, according to Mr. Taylor, that this supervision need not be effect ed through the courts. If parents of drinking teen-agers cooperate willingly with authorities, or better yet, take their youngsters in hand before they are picked up on the streets for being drunk, action will be unnecessary. Fun or Funeral? There's a well-known highway safety slogan, if you drink don't drive, if you drive, don't drink. That is as ap plicable to boatmen in small craft as it is to the motorist. Thus far this season, there have baen two drownings in this area directly at tributed to the mixing of boating with whisky. If people board small powered craft in an intoxicated condition or else get that way once they are in the boat, trouble is never far away. In case of emergency, all the full mental faculties a person can command must be brought into play. And drunk en boatmen usually create the emer gencies with which they then find themselves unable to cope. According to a medical report in To day's Health, a magazine published by the American Medical association, small boat accidents take about 1,200 lives each year, more than most communi cable diseases. In sports fishing areas like this, a large percentage of the boating or drowning fatalities can be attributed to the disastrous combination of whisky, boats and fishing gear. It's too much, evidently, to expect renters of skiffs or outboard motors to deny potential cus tomers the use of such equipment if they are in a drunken condition. And customers may start out on a fishing expedition cold sober, but by the end of the day it's a different story. The drunken boatman is as much a menace to other boatmen as is the drunken motorist to others on the high way. And the only way to prevent need less tragedy is to appeal to fishermen and boatmen to use what common sense they have ? to refrain from drinking if they're going fishing and are responsible for operation of the boat. That kind of "fun" can end up with a funeral. Charms of Summer (From the Greensboro Daily Newt) The charms of Summer are mixed with madness. When the Fourth of July fades, Spring and the best part of Summer seem gone with it, and approaching is the time of Sirius, the dog star, and its conjunction with the sun. Ancient peo ple thought Sirius produced the close heat of mid-Summer and its maladies. Thus the term "dog days" when the sun's fierce rays sear the fruits of earth ? and animals and men wilt and gasp. Yet the discomforts of Summer bring their compensations. Who can forget its familiar sounds and sights? The sound of tinkling ice in tall glasses, the cooling mist from a lawn sprinkler ? and song sparrows and thrushes bath ing in it. The thrill of a ride on a carou sel for the children, wide-eyed with de light and left wet with perspiration and excitement. Who will forget the thrill of catching lightning bugs at dusk, or the mocking bird's song at full moon? Or the tide sweeping up some beach on a late after noon with a dozen squealing children chasing the foam? What of a blue mitt seen on a moun tain top, or a trout tugging at a taut line? What of the thrill of a sudden thundershower, when rain splatters along dusty rows of corn, and men and plants offer private thanks? And what of the smell of charcoal cooking after the sun sets, when mid Summer zinnias and roses are bathed in some strange last glow of day? Or the sound of mallets hitting croquet balls, and the hub-bub of children's voices? Or the late hour when a breeze finally touches the window curtains, and there is peace in the house? All these things are part of Summer too. They give it lasting charm. She Was Right , Because of the housing shortage near the military base where he was station ed, a young doctor and his wife and three children had to live in cramped quarters in a hotel. A friend said to the doctor's six-year old daughter, "Isn't it too bad that you don't have a home?" To which the philosophic young one replied, "Oh, we have a home; we just don't have a bouse to put it in." Carter*! County Ncwi-TimM WINNER Or NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA I ASSOCIATION AWJUtDS A Merger of The Beaufort New. (Set 1911) and The Twta CRy Tlmee (Eat IBM) Publiabed Tueedaya and Friday. by the Carteret Publiehtag Cmw, Inc. 504 AjaudaU Bt, Morehead City. N. & LOCKWOOD PHILLIPS - PUBLISHER ELIAN ORE NEAR PHILLIPS - ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER ' RUTH U PEELINO - EDITOR fell Ratee: In Carteret County and adjoining countlea , M OO cae year, $3 50 gix moatha, flJB one month; alaawhara 17.00 one year. $4-00 ato moatha. $1 JO ooa Booth. at Aaaodatod Praaa ? Greater Weckliaa ? N. C Praaa National Editorial Hitlalto Audit Sanaa of 1 Tha Aaaodatod Praaa If oatitled eaduelroly to oae lor npohUaatka of priatod la thia aewapapar, ee well aa all AP i _ ^ tMfMti iaty.N.C,Pad? Aafaf Ma^l. Did You Know? By F. C. SALISBURY That: The village of Atlantic, first known as Hunting Quarters, said to be as old a town as Beau fort, was incorporated Feb. 7, 1905. The first officers under the act were Mayor S. E. Hamilton; al dermen, J. R. Morris, Thomas Ham ilton, J. E. Willis; Marshall, Willie Mason. The people saw no need of a municipality, so for years failed to elect officers. This com munity was the first in the county to vote a special tax for schools. Also first to have a high school. In all its years no Negro has lived in the community. That: Lennoxville, a thriving vil lage of the past, located a few milA east of Beaufort bordering on the waters of The Straits, attained a size over a century ago allowing it to be incorporated in 1805, contin uing as such until 1816. That: An Irish brick mason from the North laid the entire outer course of brick for the new light house built at Cape Lookout in 1858. His helpers took care of the rough inner work. John R. Royal was the keeper of the old light and for several years the keeper of the new one. That: The settlement of Diamond City and other small units on Shackleford Banks, a century ago, was the center of one of the most active whaling industries along the Atlantic coast. During the period of this industry hundreds of whales were caught and their blubber con verted into oil. That: Robert Lee Humber, auth or of the Humber resolution of World Federation, presented his plan for the first time to a group of interested citizens at a gathering held on Davis Island, a small is land in Core Sound off the south end of Davis Shores. That: Bricks for the construc tion of Fort Macon were made at two different brick kilns in the vicinity of Core Creek and Har lowe. Otway Burns became the first manufacturer of brick under the supervision of a foreman from Alexander, Va. Later Dr. James Manney of Beaufort also opened a brick business. He was a formef member of the legislator, president of the Clubfoot and Harlow's Creek Association as well as a prominent surgeon In the county. Tfcut: Newport waa one of the first communities in the state to re ceive benefits from the Peabody Education Fund founded in 1867 by George Peabody for education al purposes in the South. Funds given were for promoting "intel lectual, moral and industrial edu cation in the most destitute por tions of the Southern states." A school having an attendance of 100 pupils and complying with other conditions, might have *300 yearly. Not only w*re funda given established schools meeting the re quired regulations, but in many cases school building were erocted. Records show that the Newport Peabody Educational Association waa formed and on Nov. 20, 1870 a deed was filed covering the pur chase of one acre of land in the Newport townahip. It was not un til 1888 that a building was erect ed. The early graded schools of Morehead City received yearly aid from the Peabody fund. How It Com* to Bo When Michelangelo waa ordered to decorate the villa of the Statine Chapel, he refuaed He had never dona any work o ( that kind, and he aaM he could not do It. But he waa told hla refuaal would not be accepted. When he diacovered there waa no alternative without unpleaaant conaequencea, he mixed hla colon and went to work. Thua cam* into being the world'a finest Ruth Peeling Appearance of Pivers Island Changes Greatly The appcarance of Pivers Island will change drastically when the old laboratory goes under the raz ing ax pretty soon. The white frame building has become so fa miliar that the passer by on the highway will not realize how many changes has taken place on the is land until the old building is lev eled The new buildings are beautiful as well as excellently-planned to provide the best working facilities for the Fish and Wildlife person nel. At the southern end of the is land the new research lab at the Duke station will be dedicated Sat urday. 1 guess there has been no place in the county this summer where carpenters and masons have been busier than on Pivers Island. The investment in buildings and equipment on that one small piece of land runs into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Don't be surprised it you're ask ed in several weeks to give again to the March of Dimes. An emer gency fund drive is being conduct ed throughout the nation. Nation al headquarters as well as North Carolina headquarters report that they have insufficient funds to meet needs of patients. The emergency campaign in the county will be conducted by the In fantile Paralysis Chapter, Mrs. Gehrmann Holland, president. She will be assisted by Mrs. C. L. Beam, chapter treasurer. David Beveridge tells this story about Oscar Salter in the days of the last war when Oscar, now a prosperous Bettie farmer, was a lieutenant commander in the Coast Guard. Oscar was talking to some of his men who were so impru dent as to inform him they were Republicans. "One day I was out hunting pos sum and it started to rain," says Oscar. "To keep from getting wet f crawled in a hollow log. "Well it kept raining and raining and raining and that log got wetter and wetter. The wetter it got the more it swelled and tighter it got. "It swelled so much that I couldn't crawl out and 1 knew I was going to have to stay there and starve to death. And I began thinking about all the bad things I had done in my life. How when 1 was a little fellow f stole cook ies my mother told me not to take, and how in school 1, did things I wasn't supposed to, and how when t became a young man I used to get a little wild at times. Then I thought of the time when I was 21 and cast my first vote for a Re publican. And do you know, when I thought about that, I got so small and shriveled that 1 ciawled right out of that log!" For people who are wondering where the money is going: it's be ing salted away. Personal savings in this country are running nearly $1 billion more in the first three months of 1954 thau in the same period last year. Commissioner Jim Rumley, hear ing the police department's report on sale of bike tags at last week's town board meeting said, 'Yes, now the next thing will be license tags on baby carriages!" Jam Ead? Washington Mrs. Munthe de Morgenstierne, Canadian-born wife of the Norweg ian ambassador, for 20 years has kept the embassy here as' truly a part of her adopted country as if It were in the heart of Oalo. The family converses in Norwe gion. All the servants ire Nor wegian. Norwegian dishes com prise the daily, as well as party fare, and customs of the Land of the Midnight Sun are observed me ticulously. "In fact, our grandson, Wilhelm Morgenatierne Coleman, 2, speaks nothing but Norwegian," good looking Marjorie Morgenstierne told me. "We're going to teach him English this summer so his little friends will be able to under atand him." The ambassador recently com pleted 20 years aa chief of the mia sion. As dean of the diplomatic corps, hia official and social ob ligations are stupendeous, but the handaome and popular diplomatic couple discharge these ticklish du ties with natural savoir fatre and charm. Their perfect dinner par ties and big receptions are the en vy of ambitious hostesses here. The ambassador first came to the United States some 44 years ago. He recalla the early days befpre Norway had an embassy here, when he served aa an assistant to the mi salon chief. He went to White House parties and danced with Mias Martha Bowers, who later bo came the wife of the late Sen. Tift (R-Ohio) He used to ride a bicycle to work. Once he walked Jo Baltimore to pay off a bet la k 1928 he was appointed consul gen eral in New York City. In 192S de Morgenitierne mar ried the tall, blue-eyed Marjorie Elizabeth Alder of Winnipeg. They have two daughters, Mrs. John Coleman of Washington and Solvig, 17, a talented, award-winning ar tist who will graduate next year from llolton Arms School here. "We try to get to Norway every other year," Hrs. de Morgenstierne told me. "We by-passed this year to wait until Solvig's graduation, when we will have more time. I guess I've made at least 39 or 40 ocean crossings since my mar riage." The de Morgenstierne's, like many other diplomatic families, maintain a summer cottage at near by Rehoboth Beach, Del., but they also spend a month every year la Maine. In fhe Good Old Days THIRTY TWO YEARS AGO The County Board of Education let the contract lor the new school building at Atlantic. An auxiliary _ yacht, Sea Scamp, was rescued by the Coast Guard oil Cape Lookout Terrapin being raised at Pivers Island were to be on display at the State Fair in ttaleigh. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Former county oflicials under went a six-hour examination Fri day when an investigation was be gun on county administration lor the past several years. Carteret County larmers led the State in shipping cabbages and sweet potatoes in the year 1928. Mr. and Mrs. 11. C. Jones an nounced the engagement ol their daughter, Nell Blair to Mr. Ben jamin Windlcy. The wedding would take place Oct. 1. TEN YEARS AGO The SB1 investigated the case of a wuman found dead last week and uid there waa nothing to support the theory o I murder. Jamea B. Canady, president. If. F Eure, vice-president, and Dr. V. L Woodard, secretary-treaaurar, were installed as new officers it the Beaufort Rotary Club. A freak wind lifted the roof the cottage Coxhaven, on the Beau fort-Morehead City causeway and draped it .over the telephone and electric wires along the road. FIVE YEARS AGO The Mispillion, menhaden boat belonging to Beaufort Fisheries, sustained $50,000 damage when fire swept it after an engine ex ploded. Morehead City commissioners ap proved the purchase of a road grader. B. E Tarkington was to be the new principal at Smyrna school. Thomas S. Hood, formerly of Smyr na. was to be principal at the At lantic School and H. D. Epting would be principal of Harkers Is land School. Red-Bellied Woodpecker Likes Woods, Quiet Towns Here is a relatively shy wood pecker found in forested lands or about the shade trees of small, quiet communities. It is much more cautious than the commoner downy woodpecker, the hairy wood pecker or the flicker, or for that matter, than the more conspicu ous red-headed woodpecker. It measures just under 11 inches and is therefore a couple of inches shorter than the flicker which in many respects it resembles rath er closely. It has a wingspread of 18 inches. In the male red-bellied wood pecker, the crown and nape are a lighter red than one finds in the red headed woodpecker, the black is conspicuously dark-striped. A spot of white shows at the base of the tail like that seen in the flick er and the breast, throat and cheeks are pale brown. In the female, the red on the head is confined to the nape with the crown becoming a grayish brown. The female is also smaller than the male. Red-bellied woodpeckers range from the Dakotas east to western New England through Southern Ontario and south to central Texas and Florida. They are resident in the territory they occupy so their winter and summer ranges are ap proximately the same. Closely re lated species include the golden fronted, the gila, the cardon and the Brewster's woodpecker that ex tend the range to the South and west. Nesting season for the red-bel lied woodpecker is May and June. At that time a hole is dug in a tree or pole from 16 to 50 feet above ground. It has an entrance of 1% inches and a depth of about 1 foot. In it the 3 to 5 or more dull white eggs arc laid. The eggs are incubated for 2 weeks by both parents and the young are helpless when hatched. With their first feathers the young resemble the mother and us ually not until the following spring Author of the Week Elliot Piul, in "Desperate Scen ery," writes another chapter in the autobiography which began in 1881, in Maiden, Mass., and reached far and wide in the intervening 60 odd years. A newspaperman, an engineer, a World War I veteran, he began his literary career irf earnest in Paris, where, with Eugene Jolas, he founded the magazine transition. Besides novels, and mysteries, he is the author o( numerous books telling the story of his own ex periences in France, Spain and this country, scene of this new work. PURCHASING POWER SHRINK? T^lSfc0-! 73.3 x 1939 1946 TOOAt" |1W DOUA* ? 100 CtNTS I cwhuiM iwri ?. ? ?, n?., Red-Bellied Woodpecker do the young males develop ma turity and the characteristic red crown and nape. The birds may on occasion nest in boxes put up for their benefit. The food of the red-bellied wood pecker is essentially insects glean ed or dug from trees. This in cludes caterpillars, beetles and their grubs and bugs of many sorts. The birds may on occasion follow the example of the red-headed woodpecker and feed on fruit and on corn, or it may follow the ex ample of the sap-suckers and tap trees and feed on the resulting sap that flows from the wounds thus made. In regions where the birds in jure oranges they are naturally most unpopular. Ordinarily they are looked upon as interesting, harmless and often useful members of the wildlife population. The 'National Wildlife Federa tion has featured this bird in its stamp series which have for many years presented the best illustra tions of wildlife that have been obtainable anywhere. Through this service the Federation makes it* contribution to the betterment oi conditions for wildlife. ? E. Laurence Palmar Stamp News By 8YD KROMSH VIET NAM, once t little-known kingdom in extern Indo-Chin?, has made front page newt in its fight against Communist aggres sion. Now it makes philatelic new* with a set of seven new stamps bearing portraits of Crown Prince Bao-Long. Three of the atamps depict the Prinrt In miH t a r y uniform and four in hta royal garb. The military group includes a BO cents green, 20 pias ters red and SO P violet, Hie royal portrait! an 40 cents aqua marine. 70 c red, 80 c brown and 100 piasters violet Viet Nam stamps first were Is sued In 1991 Stamps of Indo china overprinted "Viet Nam" as well as Viet Nam definitives of 1943-48 had no internatioaal validi ty. Today's Birthday BENSON FORD, bora Joljr tt, 1919, in Detroit, grandson of Hen ry Ford. The vice president of (.unaBan the Ford Motor Car Co. and di rector* tt? U? coin - Mercury division has bam associ ated with his family's empire since 1M0. To / improve labor management re lations be works closely with his foremen end in- ?; perviaori. Alio active la civic ?f- ' fain he has been cited {or hte I work in the cauae of racial and re- j
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