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1 CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES Carterat County* i Nawipaper If ? I EDITORIALS FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1954 Farmer Looks Toward Safety The increase of population and the proportionate increase in importance of feeding everyone puts the farmer in a key position. To meet the demands for food, more farm machinery has come into use and the farm begins to resem ble, more and more, a factory as well as a place for growing things. For the foregoing reasons Farm Safety Week, which begins Sunday, is important not only to the farmer but to everyone who depends on him for food. Machinery and use of electricity has made the farmer's lot much easier than it was 25 years ago. Machinery and power have also enabled one farmer to produce as much as many farmers pro duced in years gone by. The farm pop ulation of the country decreased and the city population increased as the rural folks migrated to the city. Those who remain on the farm there by have become increasingly important and their lives should be safeguarded. Every summer there are news ac counts of farm accidents ? children getting caught in a hay mower, a trac tor turning over and pinning its driver beneath it, an arm or leg being lost in a saw. A disabled farmer is practically useless. He needs his legs and his hands to attend to all the things that must be done on his acres of land. Not only does an accident handicap the victim but it means additional expense to th< farm family. In North Carolina 600 persons arc killed yearly in farm and home acci< dents. Hundreds are injured. In the in dustrial world, concerted campaigns impress upon factory workers and em ployees the importance of being care ful on the job. Should a man be injured, there are financial plans to help meet the expense incurred and usually some one else can l?e found to take his place while he recovers. The farm family is confronted with a different problem in the case of acci dent or injury. The farm family is a closely-knit organization. Each member fills a place that cannot be re-filled by simply going out and hiring someone else. And there is no workmen's com pensation in the farm family to help meet expenses. It is fitting that one week should be set aside to call our attention to the importance of preventing accidents and needless deaths on the farm. Casual-, ties on the farm are paid for, not only by the persons involved, but by the ul timate consumer of food. Thus we urge farm families to make their farms safer this coming week. They can be assured that their city neighbors are support ing them in their effort, not only for economic reasons but because they value the friendship of rural folk and wijnt to see them healthy and happy. To Duke, Best Wishes Duke s dedication tomorrow of its new research laboratory at the marine station on Pivers Island presents an op portunity to Beaufort and the county to extend best wishes to Duke and its per sonnel for continued success here. Accomplishments at the laboratory during its 16-year history are notable. If anything has put Beaufort "on the map," it's the work that has been done at Pivers Island by Duke students and faculty members. In saying this, we do not minimize the importance of the Fish and Wildlife Station which pre ceded the Duke station by many years. But this is the first time in recent years that an occasion has arisen which makes it appropriate to re-consider how fortunate we are that the Duke Marine Laboratory is on the Carteret coast. We're pleased to number college stu dents and faculty members among our summer visitors. Their presence en hances Carteret as a place for marine study and research and has played no little part in attracting similar institu tions here. Duke's presence gives a wel come lift to our economic status and as we stated before, the scientific papers and the research work done at Duke has made the name "Beaufort" a familiar one in marine science. To Dr. C. G. Bookhout, director of the lab, to the administrators of Duke University and to others connected with the development of the marine station, Beaufort and Carteret say thank you for your friendliness and for your con tributions to our community. We're proud that you have seen fit to become a part of us and wish you the very best in the years to come. Heard from Swansboro . . . Henry A. Tolson, a NEWS-TIMES reader at Swansboro, has written us the kind of letter we love to get. He tells how much he likes to read the paper. He also mentions that Cedar Point is increasingly being referred to as "East Swansboro." Swansboro is growing and we're glad to see it. Any town or business in eastern Carolina that prospers means prosperity for all of us. But Car teret Countians feel closely akin to Cedar Point and we like to think that the folks there are more a part of us than of any other county. Geographical ly, they are within the Carteret line. Beaufort is their county seat. Cedar Point is one of the many pret ty spots of our fair county. It has lovely homes, places of business including a new drive-in theatre, a shore develop ment that is growing and we'd like mighty well if the folks there realized that the rest of us in the county count on them to give visitors coming here via route 24 the first taste of the loveliness that is Carteret. East Swansboro? Perhaps. Shake speare asked, "What's in a name?" All we can say is "Cedar Point" is a pretty name, it's distinctive in itself and it means that some day, should Cedar Point ever want' to incorporate as a town, it doesn't have to contend with an appendage like "East Swansboro" I which could cause confusion due to Swansboro's being in Onslow County. We'd like to suggest that folks who seldom travel 24 westward take a ride through Cedar Point and Swansboro sometime soon. The new bridge across the White Oak River is splendid. Both Onslow and Carteret have benefited by the improvement. And many other changes have taken place within the past two years. Swans boro and Cedar Point are communities of which to be proud. And Carteret is most happy that progressive Swansboro is our close neighbor. They're Still Trying The late Roy Hampton, who was chairman of the Commercial Fisheries Committee, advocated that the fish eries regulations be revised and simpli fied so that someone could make sense out of them. The work was started. As a matter of fact it was completed. As a result the fisheries division inadvertently was cut out of necessary income from oyster licenses. That was later remedied. Now another request has been made for "complete revision and codifica tion" of commercial fishing laws. We hope they make it this time and that the laws are written so the FISHER MEN can understand them. Carteret County News-Times WINNER OF NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARDS A Merger of Tin Beaufort New. (Eft 1B12) aid The Twin City Tin* (Eat IBM) PubUabod Tueoday* and Friday* by the Carteret Pubiiahing Company, too. 804 Arendell SL, Morebead City, N. C. LOCIWOOD PHILLIPS ? PUBLISHER ILEANORE DEAR PHILLIPS ? ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER RUTH L. PEELING ? EDITOR Mall Rate*: In Carteret County and adjoining counties, *8-00 one year, fl M all month*. ?1J8 one aoath; alaevhere >7.00 one year, M OO ai? month*. |LM on* month. Member of AiaoeUtod Pram ? Greater WoekUea ? N. C. Pre** Aaodatisa Natianal Editorial A**ociation ? Audit Buma of Ctrcolatlom The Aaaodated Pr*e* i* entitled excludT*ly to ?** for republication of tool new* prtntod la thi* newtpapor, a* weU a* aU AP wwt dj*>*trh** I da** Matter at Mor?hiad City. N. C, Undw Act of ItaNh *, ism F. C. Salisbury Here and There The following information is ta ken from the files of the Morehead City Coaster: FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1915 Mrs. Paul Webb and little daugh ter returned home Wednesday from Greenville where they visit ed friends. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Hornaday of Beaufort passed through the city Tuesday on their way to New Berit where they will spend a few days visiting. Miss Pearl Creech and little Miss Julia Robinson returned to their home in Goldsboro after spending a few days with Miss Corinne Bell. Mis Margaret Stem of Darling ton, S. C., is visiting her sister, Mrs. I. G. Farrow. Mrs. B. P. Way and children are visiting relatives in Portsmouth, Va., this week. Miss Capitola Wade is working for Miss Java Adams while Miss Adams is taking her vacation. Mrs. Clem Boren and son of Greensboro arrived in the city Thursday to visit her sister, Mrs. B. F. Royal. Misses Clara and Lula Paul left Sunday for their home in Granta boro after spending several days here as the guest of Miss Giula Willis. Miss Mildred Holding of Raleigh is visiting Miss Elodie Webb. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Davis of At lanta, Ga., are in the city visiting Mr. Davis' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Will Davis. W. R. Willis of Whitakers ar rived in the city last week to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Willis. Gilbert Arthur Jr., of Raleigh is here visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Arthur. Douglas Eaton who holds a po sition in Elizabeth City is spending a few days here with his mother Mrs. Ida Eaton. Capt. B. J. Weatherb.v left Thurs day for Baltimore with a load of lumber. Elder J. T. Tingle of the Prim itive Baptist Church in Grants boro preached to a large congre gation here in the Primitive Bap tist Church Sunday. The First Regiment of the North Carolina National Guard ar rived here Tuesday morning in three sections and were all in camp by 9 o'clock. Colonel J. T. Gardner of Shelby is in command. The Rev. R. C. Craven, Scout Master of Troop No. I Boy Scouts of Rocky Mount, who has been spending the past week at Camp Glenn with about 40 boys, left here Tuesday morning. Oasis Temple, Order of the Mys tic Shrine will make a mid-sum mer pilgrimage to Morchead City the middle of August. B. C. Way, who for the past 15 months has been actively engaged in the operation of the Morehead City Seafood Co., withdrew from that company and on the 15th of this month opened up a fish busi ness of his own, conducting this business under the firm name of B. C. Way & Co. M. S. Lee of the firr.i withdrew some time ago and he likewise will engage in the fish business. Mr. Lee expects to en gage in the fish business in Eliz abeth City on or about the first of August and operate a branch house in this city. Did You Know? By F. C. SALISBURY That: Carteret County drains more rivers and sizeable creeks from within its boundaries than any other county in the state. The rivers are Newport, the larg est, North and South Rivers. The North River flows south and the South River flows north. Water from the Lake Pocosin forms a large part of the White Oak Riv er and Hunters Creek, which wa ters are the boundaries between Carteret, Onslow and Jones coun ties. The numerous creeks are Calico, Pettiford, Starkey, Deer, Goose, Saunders, Broad, Gales, Jumping Run, Spooners. Core, Harlowe, Turner, Back, Cedar, Big, Eastman, Southwest, Herring Pond, Sleepy, Chadwicks, Maddam. Willis. Wil liston, Frowland, Smyrna, Oyster, Salters and Clover. The Lake Pocosin In the north west part of the county including that portion extending into Cra ven county is said to be the largest pocosin in the state. The best ex planation of this seems to be that it was formed by the collision of a piece of a comet which broke up and struck the earth in the far distant past. That: Onslow County when It was formed in 1734 extended eastward two miles into Carteret County. Later the line between the two counties was established in tha center of the White Oak River and Hunters Creek. That: E. D. Goodwin obtained permission in December 1903 to erect a amall shelter on the Fort Macon reservation (or the purpose of housing a life saving station which he waa opening. Four years later, on Feb 13. 1807. the United Stales Treasury Department obtain ed a leaae for a section of the Federal land and opened a Coast Guard station to replace Goodwin'* civilian service. That: After Fort Macon was abandoned 1886, three Beaufort men. R. H. Bradley, Thomas Keougb and Dr. W. L. Benton, d? cidcd that in the abandoned fort there lay a ready-made business venture. Since the Beaufort-More head City area was a summer vaca tion mccca for people from acroM the state of North Carolina, these three men wished to obtain a lease of the fort and open an exclusive summer resort hotel in the cita del. a unique idea to say the least. If the fort itself were not avail able. perhaps the officers quarters and other buildings outside the fort could be obtained. Before replies to these gentle men could be dispatched from th? War Department a fourth party, one A. Oaksmith whose residence and plantation was on the main land opposite Bogue Point, an nounced himself "as probably the best qualified man in the area to assume the care and trust of Fort Macon if it ia to be rented out." Oaksmith was the legal representa tive of George Little and heirs, who by Oaksmith's assertion, owned most of Bogue Island. .A contest among the local residents to de termine who should establish I re sort at Fort Macon was not to avfil. The War Department was without power to rent government proper ty unless directed to do so by special act of Congress. That: The vestry of St. John's Parish at ita meeting in Beaufort in September 1760. received a pe tition from the Hunting Quarters (Atlantic) people concerning building a chapel. The vestry voted to allow 8 pounds provided they give a deed to the Parrlsh for the land. There ia do record that a chapel was ever built In Atlantic. That: Some 89 yean ago a school known aa Harlowe'a Creek Acad emy was located In the Harlowe section. The building since convert ed into a residence was located on the right of the highway a short distance from the Mill Creek Road where it branches off of Ro:te 101. W. T. R. Bell waa principal of the school and J. Henry Tolaon was as sistant. This Academy not only served the local students but drew many from surrounding counties. Today's Birthday HAROLD (PEEWEE) REESE, born July 23, 1919 in Ekron, Ky. The captain and shortstop of the Brooklyn Dodgers first entered organ ized baseball in 1938 with Louis ville of the American Assn. In 1940 he was pur chased by Brooklyn and has been with the club ever since (minus three years for military service in World War II.) Has played in five World Series ? all on the losing side. This is a major league record. Jona Eads Washington Miss Ruth McRae says she'll miss the boys who attended classes from 6:30 to 10:30 a.m. in the unique school on Capitol Hill of which she has been principal since 1951. The respected, gentle-mannered head of the Capitol Pages School, for boys who work for members of Congress and the Supreme Court, has a new job. This fall she will head the department of home eco nomics of the public schools of the District of Columbia, under whose jurisdiction the Capitol Pages School operates. Miss McRae says there's little foundation for occasional state ments that the out-of-state teen age page with a monthly salary of $240, left to his own devices after working hours, misbehaves and is in need of supervision. "The boys are surprisingly self-reliant," she says, "and sensible enough to seek advice from their teachers or spon sors when they're in doubt about some personal matter." Sponsors and their wivei take a personal interest in the pages. Reports between the school and the Capitol and Supreme Court, and thence to a boy's home, are made every six weeks. Miss McRae is proud of the school's high academic standing. Four of this year's 21 graduating students have won college schol arships. "Whether these boys go into politics or not ? and a num ber do not," she said, "they are go ing to make fine leaders of the communities in which they live." Mrs. Harry P. Cain, wife of tha former Republican senator from Washington, has made the Cain res idence in the city of Washington as artistically beautiful as the home they maintain in Tacoma. Her flair for interior decorating is noted in the striking living room, with its white, gray, gold and turquoise color scheme and its gold-flecked mirror decor over the fireplace; in the gold and white crystal ? chandeliered entrance hall, and in Cain's study, pannelled in hemlock. An intercommuni cation system links the rooms of the big house and enables members of the family to keep in touch with each other. Besides the head of the house, a member of the Subversive Ac tivities Control Board, and Mrs. Cain, the family now Includes son Buzzie, 17, home from Vermont Academy, and pert daughter. Can dy. 11, not to mention Jean Pierre LaFitte, the poodle. Smil* a While The sergeant was patiently In structing his newest group of rookies and asked one of them, "Beaaley, when you clean a rifle, what Is the first thing you doT" "Look at the serial number," was the prompt reply. "The numberl" roared the ser geant. "What In Sam Hill for?" "To make sure I'm cleaning my own rifle," explained Beasley. ?Sidetracks KkM htmr Raleigh Roundup BEDFELLOWS . . This will no doubt come as a big surprise to many people, but^the next guber natorial campaign may find some of the folks who have been most cloaely associated with William B. Umstead turning to Hubert Olive of Lexington as the man they would most like to see get the Democratic nomination for Gover nor* a year from next spring. A fellow who usually knows what he is talking about said last week that political winds seem to be blowing in that general direction. The next race for Governor of North Carolina has been a lot like Mark Twain's weather: people have been talking about it, but nobody ?at this stage of the game ? seems to be doing much about it. If Umstead supporters should swing to Olive, who provided such formidable opposition to Umstead in 1952, this would indeed mark a strange turn of events. But poli tics makes strange bedfellows ? and nowhere stranger than right here in the Old North State. To carry this strangeness one step farther, it just might develop that the 1956 race will find Sen ator W. Kerr Scott working for another candidate in opposition to Hubert Olive, the man he so active ly supported two years ago. In line with this reasoning, it must be remembered that Kerr Scott would not be obligated to support Olive again merely be cause he was all-out for him in 1952. As a matter of fact, Scott and his cohorts had tried desper ately to bring out several other candidates among them the Highway Chairman ? for Gover nor before Hubert Olive decided to announce. In other words, Ol ive announced for Governor and then Gov. Scott promoted him and not vice versa. During the next 18 months ? and particularly after the legis lature convenes ? watch carefully straws in the political winds and you might sec sailing gaily around the capitol an Olive branch. We are not predicting anything here. We are just urging you to be watchful for strange developments. LATE . . . Highway sign observed here and there on dangerous curves about the State: "A lot of your late friends uied to pass here." INK . . . H. F. Seawell Jr., Car thage attorney, was the Republican candidate for Governor two years ago. He is quite a speaker, too, has his own church, and by now would be in the higher echelons of the Republican Party if he hadn't irked Attorney General Her bert Brownell with one ol his wit ticisms. Chub Seawell can turn as neat phrase as the next one. He is not in favor of pulling too much to gether the white folks and Negroes. He said last week that the "surest way to ruin a colored man is to force him over to mingling with the white folks." Chub went on to show what the colored race has meant to Amer ica. For instance, he says that Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee might never have been heard of had it not been for the Negro. He points to Satch Page, Willie Mays and others and concludes by saying: "This country has produced two Washingtona, George and Booker T. When you try to mi* 'em, it is like putting ink in a glass of water, the water is not fit to drink and you can't write with the ink." Unusually expressed ? and that's one man's opinion. ?COLORS . . . This old barn of ours literally vibrates with music these days, with Mrs. Brewer at the piano and old Kidd himself performing at the electric organ. This, despite the fact that 1 don't know any mu sic, period. Know how I do it? Well, they've got this new thing which fixes it so you don't have to know beans about notes ? shaped or otherwise. It works like this: you follow the colors instead of the notes on your music sheet. You strike the "colors" on the piano or organ which correspond with those on your sheet, and do-so-do and here you go. There is a color chart over the keyboard. Those folks laughed when you sat down to play, but they soon stopped that infernal giggling - for now you are really playing. Since I am not color blind, it's really no trouble at all. So we have become, as you might say, a musical family. My wife sings in the choir. And, really, the only thing keep ing us off the local tv station is the manager. Last Christmas we had lights strung over one of the trees up here on the hill. We are going to do better than that this year. Here it is July and we are al ready working on yuletide music. We figure that at the rate we are going ? we will be ready for business by frost. FINE APPOINTMENT . . Since he is the man who ? next to Di rector Ben Douglas ? has done more than anybody else to carry the new-industry message of the Dept. of Conservation and Devel opment out to the people, we were glad to see Eugene Simmons of Tarboro named to the Board of C&D this week to succeed Eric Rodgers of Scotland Neck. We have written about him here before. He lined up the Speakers Bureau for the department Jast winter, and took time away from his tobacco business to make it tick. Gene will prove to be an above-the-average member of tho Board of Conservation afod Devel opment. DROUGHT . Well, the drought ended pretty well throughout the State last week when heavy rains descended in almost all sections. And, speaking fit tobacco, you know it's nothing Cut a weed and within 24 hours after the water came you could almost see it climb ing the stalk. Droughts arc not confined to field crops, however. I've had a drought of sorts on my place. Out. of my last nine white-faced calves, seven of them have been bulls. Any farmer will tell you a heifer calf is worth about twice as much as a bull. There are droughts and droughts. IRRIGATION . . Until water fin ally fell on Raleigh last week, I had been forced to feed hay 1 was planning to use this coming win ter. This has led me to sec the im portance of irrigation something we may all have to come to one of these days. I have a meadow with two nice creeks running through it. From information I have gathered from State College, Wake County Farm Agent Grady Miller and others, it appears that an irrigation system would prove profitable when the cost is compared to the additional grazing to be obtained and the con sequent savings in the winter feed bill. TIES . . . These old eyes have seen a little of everything in handpaint ed neckties ? from hula girls to an 8apound tarpon jumping at the end of a 20 pound test line. Last week I went to one of the summer clothing sales here and found something new. There was a tie with the Holy Bible painted on it. It's a poor commentary on the public's attitude to find a tie with a Bible on it selling at half-price while ties depicting other scenes, from sporting events to beer cans, go at regular prices. Anyway thi* was a tie with the Bible, closed, portrayed there, and on it in ? the Bible was black ? white letters were the words "Holy Bible." Un usual. I bought one of those Bible ties for my friend, Dr. Paul Townsend, minister now living in Albemarle who married the Brewers 13 years ago this summer. Friend Town send has pastored churches in Boone, Waynesvillc, and Greenv boro. He is a brother of Folger Townsend, prominent attorney of Lenoir, and is akin to the Folgers of Surry County. 1 hope he enjoys wearing the tie. From the Bookshelf RAPTURE IN MY RAGS. By Phyllis Hastings. Dutton. Agnes, oldest child of a farmer's family in isolated English country side, is left alone with her father after the mother dies and the other children leave. Target of her father's rough tongue and his blows, she takes refuge in the fields, the woods, the weather. Her loneliness becomes overpowering. She decides to make a scarecrow for company out of sawdust, a keg, a pumpkin, cloth, boots, gloves, her father's old suit She finishes the figure in her room. To this girl who discovers faces and shapes In clouds, who can't tell left from right and right from wrong, who sees with the mind's eye what the real eye can never corroborate ? to this girl so starved for the love which is en Joyed even by the farmyard beasts, this man in her room seems so real "1 was too shy to undress." She carriea the creature to the field, seta him up against the fence. Then on s frightening day, the po lice scour the (arm, the Scarecrow is tumbled over, Agnes throws her self upon him, he is warn and breathing, he opens his eyes, ha speaks. From the vary first sentence, "Some people are afraid of mice, some of burglar*, gome of ghosts," you are completely intrigued by this story wrought so lovingly and with such stirring magic. The bru tal fathtf-. the wonderful Scare crow. and the girl so tender and unforgettable arc a cast you can not match in this season'* fiction. Fantasy is common enough, and so is the fast-paced plot; this first novel weaves them together to pro vide a remarkably gripping and worthwhile story. I wouldn't have missed it for anything. THE NIGHTMARE. By C. S. Forster. Little, Brow*. , A master story teller, C. S. For ster tries his hand at a series of short horror tales of Nazi Ger many. They do not come oU welL Perhaps because truth Is stranger than fiction, particularly in deal ing with the brutalities of concen tration camps, the stories seem warmed-over news dispatches. Thii Is heightened by the fact Forster in his selection used true Incidents from the news as the framework for his fictional versions. On* of the mysteries la why wait almost ten years after the war to write aiM pubUah these. John Honey did a far more effective and timely Job in "The WalL"
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