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1 CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES Cartarat County'* Nawapapar EDITORIALS TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1954 ' Thank Goodness There's Football t In this day of automobiles, motor bikes, power lawn-mowers, and other labor-saving devices, football iB a god send. The game of football is the last youth-toughener left. And we are in an era which needs physically strong children to grow into stalwart adults. It has been mentioned many times by old-timers that children don't work hard enough these days. They don't have to. Even if they hold some sort of job they are usually aided in their work by a labor-saving device which puts a callus on their button-pushing finger instead of powerful sinews on their backs and arms. Children don't get chores around the house to amount to anything now be cause there aren't any chores to be done. The power lawn mower can clip the lawn in less than an hour. There's no water to be brought from the well or wood to chop and about the only thing left to be done by children is the household work of women. That's all right for the girls but the boys are the ones who suffer from lack of toughening. Football seems to be the answer. It's the only bodily-contact sport of importance in Carteret County. In other areas there are lacrosse, ice hockey (supposed to be the roughest game today), boxing, wrestling and maybe even rugby. Here there is only football, but that is enough. It's the game of color. The game of heavily-padded gladiators, bands play ing march music, sweaters, cheers, and brisk nights filled with excitement. Most important of all, it is the youth builder. ? All of the football teams in the area are now practicing. The boys are sweat ing, working hard, building up legs and lungs. They are learning to hit and be hit They are being toughened on the outside as well as the inside. They are taught to handle thenfo selves, how to take a blow, how to avoid a blow, and how to strike a blow. They're also getting a little more intes tinal fortitude, or, if you prefer, "guts." Although football players today are heavily-padded, it still takes courage to hurl their bodies with force against other bodies. The boys are also taught the basic principle of our nation's economic suc cess. Competition. Not stab-in-the back competition, but friendly competi tion. Thjey learn a type of competition where it is better to outsmart a foe than it is to get in a permanently harmful blow. The rules, the coaches, and the schools see to it that the boys receive all of the benefits from the game. That's the way the sport has been set up. The game is not played for the spec tators or the won or lost record, it's played for the boys. It's the youth-builder. It's Good Business During the past few months many Tar Heel businessmen who deal in im ported and exported goods, made state ments to the effect that it was good economy not only for themselves but for the state as a whole, to tio their ship ping through North Carolina's state ports. Recently, one of the state's leading lumber dealers remarked, "Because of efficient handling and unloading of my imported mahogany from the ' Philip pines at the North Carolina state port, I realized not only a saving to myself but also to the furniture industry and all those connected with us in using our stock." * ? In addition to such specific things as savings, the people of North Carolina directly benefit whenever a ship enters a state port for taking on or discharging goods. Cargoes coming into North Car olina are handled by local people and . then, for shipment into the state, the railroads and truck lines are put to use. This means that engineers, brakemen, t truck drivers, helpers, the use of freight cars, locomotives and trucks, the fuels required to operate these pieces of equipment all have been employed be yond their usual scope. About a month ago a dealer in hardware began to import through the state ports and because of the lower costs in price resulting from efficient handling, no loss of time and the short er distances to his consumers, this im porter was able to sell his commodity at a price that was below his nearest competitor. This saving was passed on to hardware dealers, contractors and builders, carpenters and the man who works around the house. The other day, William A. Morrow of Monroe, a representative of the C t G Trading Corp., which handles huge car goes of burlap and webbing, said "The two main reasons I bring my goods through the state port are that I have saved my company time and money tad that this saving can be passed along to our customers." More and more Tar Heel industries I are being made aware that shipping through home ports is good business; not only that, they are bing made aware of the fact that the services provided by the state ports do not only benefit the industry but directly and indirect ly benefit the people as a whole. Everyone in North Carolina, in a sense, is really an ambassador of good will for the State Ports Authority, for they are the peoples' ports and what ever develops at the State Ports level for increased activity eventually bene fits the people. Pipe Dreams (From Greensboro Daily News) It was bound to come. The latest fashions in women's pipes are being shown by lovely models in New York ? queen size, we reckon. "Women's pipes," said a designer, "should be colorful, exotic and above all feminine." So we have the zebra striped pipe to go with the zebra striped swim buit, the tobacco pouch in matching tweed, the pipe with "the reddish stem and the streamlined white bowl set with red simulated rubies around the white bowl." Another pipe type, according to the New York Herald Tribune, is "a delicately blue-shaded and simply stemmed briar creation with the collar Y>f simulated blue sapphires running lazily around the white bowl." Had enough? Just listen to what is the smoking accessory for pink man darin pajamas ? it is a pipe with ruby buttons along a stem a foot long, "for sleep wear op intimate moments when a woman wants to be alone." There is also the "jeweled white bowl" to match the white mink stole. The proper tobacco for these "creations" is a "mildly aromatic mixture to blend with the faint aroma that clings to the lady of the house." Our observation is that pipes and "faint aromas" don't go together. Carteret County Newt-Times WINNER or NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARD8 A Merger of Tlx Beaufort Nm (Bit 1*12) tad Tba Twi?Clty Tiiaee (E?t 1>M) I Tueodaya and Pridaya by the Carteret Publlahinf I 504 Arendell St., Nonhead City, N. C LOCKWOOD PHILLIPS ? PUBLISHER ELEANORS DEAR PHILLIPS ? ASSOCIATE "PUBLISHER RUTH L. PEELIltO - EDITOR Mail Ratee: la Carteret County and adjoining coantiee. *1.00 on* year. $S.M all nontha, |1JS oM bmmvUi; alarvhere (7.00 ow yw, H-OO ate ami the. tlJM Mai bar at Aaaodated Pre* ? Greater Weekliee ? N. C. Pnaa National Editorial' Aaaoc tattoo ? Audit Baraau of Ctraala I Pnaa la aa till ad axel uaivaty to aaa for repahlieattaa of teoal a tm I la tfcla aaaa>a|iat. a* wall aa all AP aewa illniUhH City, N. C, Under Aet af Manfc & UK ******* ?ps!' k ^ aeoo*1 *>c - ?. ??. -t Good Old Days THIRTY TWO VEARS AGO A new dry goods store, to be known as Davis Bros., with Roland Davis running it, would open soon in Beaufort. County commissioners voted to have a full time county health offi cer. The county and state would each pay half his salary. The Beaufort Chamber of Com merce made plans to advertise and publicize the town. TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO Milton S. Lee of Morehead City was appointed a member of the Board of County Commissioners to succeed Frank B. Klein who had re signed. T. S. Eudy was opening another barber shop in the Chadwick build ing in Beaufort. Mrs. Eva Bravaldo, who had been acting as secretary treasurer f tit the1 'Beaufort City Water and Light Co., had resigned. TEN YEARS AGO Shoppers were advised to bring their own bags with them because of the paper shortage. T/Sgt. Robert Frank Rice, sta tioned in England with the 8th Air Force Bomber Station, was award ed the Oak Leaf Cluster. The G&W Dress Shop in Beau fort had erected a new neon sign on their store. FIVE YEARS AGO Seven Negroes were drowned when their car crashed through the gate at Core Creek bridge. Miss Jean Farrior of Morehead City was competing for the title of Miss Atlantic Beach. Beaufort's Town Hall was being painted. Author of the Week Uhbel RoM has balanced her biographical books with "Rebel Roae." first, she wrote "Proud Kate." a biography of Kate Chase, duaghter of the Secretary to the Treaanry in Abraham Lincoln's Cabinet Now she has turned to the Con federate side of the Civil War fence to produce an exciting book about an exciting woman, Roae O'Neal Greenhow, a Southern agent and, incidentally, a bitter enemy of Kate Chase. Ishbel Ross la a native of Scot land, a former reporter on the New York Herald Tribune, and a vet eran of wartime work with the OWL She Is married to Bruce Rae. a newspaperman, and Uvea in New York City. Someone baa said the moat unde veloped territory in the world la right under your hat Ruth Peeling Charming Denmark Native Observes 89th Birthday I met Mrs. Thomas D. Hill of Rocky Mount Friday morning. Mrs. Hill celebrated her 89th birthday Wednesday by making an auto trip here to visit her son, Mr. Harry Hill and his family at Atlantic Beach. She's another one of the few oldsters I have met whose vitality puts most of the younger genera tion to shame. She was born at Oreby, Den mark, near Copenhagen. At the age of 21, her parents were ap palled when she asked to be al lowed to go to America with a friend of her father's. The friend had land holdings and cattle in Kansas. Her parents reluctantly consent ed, so come to America she did. The agreement was that she would stay a year and then return to Denmark with the cattle owner. But fate, in the person of Thomas Davis Hill, a native of Stokes County, North Carolina, in terfered. This young gentleman was with the engineers in Kansas when he met Louisa Wilhelmeena Jensen, the young lady from Den mark. Time came for the return home to Oreby. Louisa said she wasn't going to go. Her guardian said yes she must go, because he had promised her father he'd bring her home at the end of a year. Louisa said she was not about to go be cause she had met her future hus band. That was that. It was 36 What Probaters Of Wills Seel (The remarkable specimen of a man's hand-written last will and testament, printed below was re portedly offered for probate at the July 1934 Term of the County Court of Anderson County, Texas. It was given us by A. H. James, clerk of Superior Court. ? The Editor). "I am writing of my will rnine^ self that des lawyir wand he should have too much money. He ask too many answers about the family. First think I don't want my brother oscar get a thing. He done me out of four dollars fore teen years ago. "I want it that Hilda my sister she gets the north sixtie acres of where I am homing it now. I bet she don't get that loafer husband of hers to break twenty acres next plowing. She can't have it if she lets Oscar live on it. I want I should have it back if she does. "Tell mama that six hundret dollars she has been looking for 10 years is burried behind the bak house about 10 feet down. She bet ter let little Fredrick do the dig ging and count it when he conies up. "Paster Licknitz can have three hundred dollars it he kisses the book and want preach no more dumhead talks about politlks. He should a roof put on the meeting house and the elders should the bills look at. "Mama should the rest get, but I want it so that Adolph should tell her what not she should do so no more slick iriahers sell her va cuum cleaner, they noise like ? and a broom don't coat so much. "1 want it that mine brother Adolph take care all this for me and I want it that the Judge should please make Adolph plenty bond put up and watch him like cat Adolph is a good business man but only ? dumbell would trust him with a penny. "I want mad* sure that Oscar don't get nothing. Tell Adolph he can have hundret dollars If he prove to Judge Oscar don't get nothing; that sure tlx Oacar." i . years before she returned to her native land. Mrs. Hill, who still talks with a charming Danish accent, said, "I couldn't speak a word of English when I met Mr. Hill, lie bought me an ABC book. We studied it together. We'd go on walks. At first we couldn't say much of any thing to each other, but we coded and got along all right." They married and had six fine children. Four of the boys, one of whom is shop foreman at THE NEWS-TIMES, entered the print ing business. Mrs. Hill, who is bothered a bit by arthritis in the knees, thinks the southwest breeze here is the best medicine possible. She says she hasn't had an ache since she came! West York borough where 1 was born, on the outskirts of York, Pa., celebrated its 50th anniversary the weekend of Aug. 13. It was a big affair, a parade, block parties, ox roast and a program on which Paul Harvey, ABC radio commentator, was guest speaker. I was pleased to be invited back as an honor guest. West York is a populous suburb of the city of York. It has its own three-man police department, street depart ment, fire department, ambulance operated and maintained by the fire department, bank, hospital, and schools. The 50th celebration was a credit to the people of West York and their ability to administer efficient ly an area populated by 5,857 people. ' One of our readers with an en viable sense of humor sent us a clipping from the Richmond Times Dispatch. The story reminds us of the stop sign placing and displacing that took place recently at 28th and Arendell Streets before the new highway opened. Five times, according to the news clipping, police had moved a stop sign at an intersection in Los Altos, Calif. Unable to bear the continual agony of not knowing where the sign was going to be next, a poetic motorist penned the following and clipped it to the sign: "Make up your minds where you want this sign, and let the darned thing ml. For it may take yean ?f blood and tears to tell which place is best. "Without your conniving, Just everyday driving makes good folks risk theif necks. But the floating condition of this sign's position has nearly caused three wrecks." Today's Birthday UQUID JAMES CU8HING, born Aug. 14, 119 J, in Boston, Mass., son of a blacksmith. The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston, once aa pired to be a baseball pitcher. Was director for 11 years of Soci ety for the Prop agation of the FMth. Named Auxiliary Bi ihoo in 1938 and youngeit Archbishop in the world in 1944. Instituted Rosary Hour on Boston radio station. Went on Holy Year pilgrimage In I960. - Thought for tho Day The man who la never very strong against anything Is never very strong (or anything. The darkest hour la only (0 min utes long. Rambling Through Carteret Bf P C. SALISBURY 9 At Roe there ere move houses, several stores, e picturesque ceme tery with the plots outlined in conch shells or plots completely covered with shells. Several hunting csmps are locat ed on Cedir Island and s private one at nearby Hog Islsnd. At the end of the island, on Pamlico Sound is the Cedar Islsnd fishing pier where tremendous csbio have been caught this summer. Occasionally, there are pony pen nings on Cedsr Island, but they do not attract ss many persons as the pennings on Shackleford or Cape Lookout. Returning from "down east," if you were to turn right st the junction of the Merrimon road, after crossing the North River Bridge, a few miles brings one to the "Open Grounds" where a cattle ranch of nearly 50,000 acres is being developed. Said to be the largest area of ranch or farm land in the state. If you proceed toward Beaufort on Highway 70, take the turn on to Highway 101 at the junction of 70 and 101 if you want to go through a truly historic section of the county. Let us ramble along this highway between Beaufort and Newport, setting our mind back in many cases a hundred years or more. Turning onto this highway a short distance out of Beaufort, the route passes through some of the most productive early vegetable growing farms in Eastern North Carolina. From these farms come some of the finest early cabbagc and Irish potatoes. If you are a flower lover, pay a . visit to Copeland's Nursery. A, sign along the highway about three miles from the junction, directing a left turn, ends at the nursery. During the season there will be a breath-taking show of camellias and azaleas which are a specialty with this nursery. Returning to the main highway and continuing westward, you en ter one of the first Quaker settle ments in the state. One of the re maining landmarks of the early settlement of this pious sect is the " "Core Creek Meeting House" lo cated a few miles from the nursery road. It is a small white structure on the left side of the highway. It shows it was built for Quaker wor ship, for there are the regulation two-door entrances, one for the men and one for the women. The old Meeting House rule was the division of the sexes. In some cases a partition was erected between the two sections, reaching almost to the front platform which was called a facing bench. The land 6n which the building stands, consisting of two acres, was given to the Friends by Henry Stanton in 1737. The deed stated the location was in "Cartrtght" precinct. In 1898 at the yearly meeting of Friends at Guilford College, this organization ceded the Core Creek building, since known as Tuttle's Grove Church, to the trustees of the Ann Street Methodist Church of Beaufort, re serving only the right to hold Quaker services at any time not conflicting with the regular church program. In the vicinity of the Meeting House is the home of Henry Stan ton, who coming from Rhode island in 1131, settled along the shore of Newport River not far from the present church building. His frand son, David, was the father of Ed win II. Stanton, Secretary of War in President Lincoln's cabinet Ed win was born at Steubenville after the family moved to Ohio. Being opposed to slavery, a large number of Friends moved to that state about 1812. In the rear of the Meeting House is one of the oldest Quaker bury ing sites in the state. Inscriptions on the crumbling stones show names of persons whose descend ants still live in the county. Buried in the plat is Joseph Borden, one of the most prominent citizens of his time. A Isrge l*nd owner and active in the gruwth of the county. No elaborate plantation homos dot the landscape for the Quakers were plain livers in homes, dress and daily living. One of the best preserved homes of this early sect is that on the original plantation site at Henry Stanton. You will not find this stately old house on the main highway. About one half mile south of the Core Creek bridge, take a short dirt road to your left, turn right on the old country road, once known as the Federal Highway over which the stage coaches trav eled from New Bern to Beaufort. A short ride will bring you to the old house. The architecture is very plain. The style has been de scribed as "country farm house." With the setting and all, it has a charm that will appeal to any lover of old hnmes. The place is owned fey descendants of the Stanton family. The owner will welcome you. A rise in the road, after return ing to highway 101 is the approach to the steel bridge. It spans a link of the Intracoastal Waterway, known as Core Creek Canal, con necting Neuse River with Newport River and Bogue Sound. Crossing the bridge, to the left is one of the most beautiful set tings for a church structure to be found in the state. In a grove of oaks and cedars with its spire ris- * ing far above the branches of the trees, stands a brick church of simple but pleasing lines, erected to the memory of a man's parents by Col. Fairleigh Dickinson, a suc cessful manufacturer and philan thropist whose birthplace was in the vicinity of the church. In the adjoining cemetery are buried members of the Dickinson family. First conducted as an undenomina tional church it is now under the jurisdiction of the Methodist con ference. A few miles farther, the high way crosses a bridge over what is known as the Clubfoot Canal. This waterway for many years served as the connecting link .for small crafts ' between the Neuse River and Harlowe Creek, on into New port River. It was dug by slave labor starting in 1787 but was not completed until July 1827. It is recorded to have been the first canal project in the United States, if not in the Western hemisphere. Passage through it today is re tarded by overhanging vines and branches while its waters are in fested with diamond-back rattlers and water moccasins. Friday: Harlowe, Newport. Ywttrdqy Uncle Cicero Prescribed , For Youngerns' Ailments By HENRY A. TOLSON Let's turn the clock back to ?round 1890 to 1900 for this second story regarding our lovable Uncle Cicero. In those days medical doctors were few and far between. Distance had to be covered by sail boat, horse and buggy, or via feet. Just across from where Emer ald Isle is transforming sand hills into one of the greatest play grounds anywhere along the At lantic Coast, there lived a famous doctor on the main-side, about nor' west from Salter Path. The doctor, John W. Sanders, had his home on the north side of Highway 24, now known as the Koonce place. Only tn extreme cases, such as snake bite, pneumonia, or typhoid would conditions warrant sending for Dr. Sanders in a small skitf, no gas engines then, mind you; and bringing him to Salter Path with his little black satchel. So, here ia where our good old Uncle Cicero would come into the picture, when only medicine was needed. He would take down the symptoms - mentally ? of each patient, and then set sail for Dr. Sanders, relating to him each pain and ache, so that the doctor could prescribe for what he had deduced from Uncle Cicero's verbal descrip tion of the patient's aHment. Drug stores, in thoae days, being fewer and farther between than doctors, the country doctor would have to carry a good stock of drugs oo hand to compound them Into pills, tonics, lotions, etc. And, since there were no type writers then (the doctor's hand writing was almost as bad as that of lawyers) bottles and containers just did not have muah "advice" on them, except the skull and cross bones. After Dr. Sanders would get all the various medicines In their con tainers, he would tell Uncle Ci cero which was which, when and how, and far whom. Now let'? go b*ck with Uncle Ci cero to Salter Path: "Here comes Uncle Cicero back from Dr. Sanderi. He's tying his skiff and wading ashore with the medicine now!" Soon Uncle Cicero would be on his porch, or in the local grocery Store, with a crowd gathered about him. "Now youngerns," he'd say, "that yaller medersin is fur Sally Ann's stomach ailment. On* spoon full. Lemme see, Sanders says take er spoon full atter every meal. One uv theae here little spoona like you stir yo' coffe en' yer yew-pon wid. "Eff'n Sally Ann don't have ?he, I think Caldony has one she kin let 'er have. Now that there ( green salve is fur George> toot, where the stingeray stung him." (This George is still living). "Now youngerns, this blue-look in' medersin is fur Mix Marthy's rhumertlx. This here black-looldn' stuff in this bottle is piien, en' you'll have to be kerful wld hit and put it whar none uv the young- , erns kin get it" Right here someone who had to relay the prescription on to some patient, would inquire again, "Who is the black-lookin' medersin fur Uncle Cicero?" "It's fur ennything from ground itch en' dtwpiien to stingeray stings en' snake bites. Jes' put It up, when you need it we'll have IL Now theae here pills la quinine for chilla en' feveri. I aeen Sanders when be mixed it with biaquit dough, en he poured the quinine " to It. Cum git aum un 'em (CTn you' need >m." And to on. We could carry this story farther of the virions other prescriptions u given by the uned ucated, but agile atid Intelligent mind of Uncle Clcer*. We have no record, either hearsay or otker wtae, that he ever gave out , the wrong prescription (Copyright 1984 by Henry A. Toi?o.) .. W
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