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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES Cartarvt County's Newspaper EDITORIALS FRIDAY, OCT. 22, 1954 We Need Some Changes Under the leadership of the North Carolina Judicial Council and the Gen eral Statutes Commission, North Caro line may, in the coming General Assem bly, sweep away many of the cobwebs that strangle its court system. The average citizen rarely comes in contact with courts. He'd like to stay as far away from them as possible, but when he does get involved, either in a criminal or_civil suit, he soon becomes weary of the delay and red tape en countered. Because most folks do NOT come in contact with the courts, there is pres sure from only a handful of people for court reform. Unless you are a lawyer or have had to contend with the courts at some time during your life, you're probably not even going to finish read ing this editorial. Three things, to help expedite court matters, have been suggested by some of the state's top legal minds. Simply, they are this : 1. Make the state into four judi cial divisions instead of two and increase the number of judicial districts from 21 to 30. This would reduce the distance a Superior Court judge has to travel, allow ing him more time to work on court business. 2. Keep a Superior Court judge in his home DISTRICT six months at a time. This is calculated to keep the judge on the local scene long enough to clear up cluttered dockets. Thus during an eight year term of office, two of those years would be served, at differ ent times, in his home district. 3. Place the power for making rules on court procedure in the hands of the State Supreme Court. The United States Supreme Court makes the rules for the nation's federal courts, why shouldn't the same be done on a state basis? Returning to the first point ? redis tricting should be easy to understand. A salesman who has 50 calls to. make over ah area of 20 counties has little time for intelligent dealing with any one of his customers. Thus it is with a judge who has many courts to attend over a wide area. While the second point may have its disadvantages, its advantages outweigh the major objectionable point which , may be that the judge would get awful ly palsy-walsy with the lawyers, be come very well-acquainted with jurors / and court officials and start granting favors that may not be in the best in terest of justice. While a judge is sup posed to be above all that, any realis tic individual knows that ALL judges are not the sterling characters they should be. The third recommendation for re form is most important. Now any changes that are to be made in our court system must be made by the legis lature or by constitutional amendment. Legislators lament loudly that they are held in Raleigh too long ? and they're right. Asking the legislature to make rules for court operation is like asking a boiler-maker to repair a watch. Once the rule-making power is placed in the Supreme Court, assurance should be included in the law that it will stay there. If not, it could be kick ed back and forth from legislature to Supreme Court and we'd be in a worse fix than we are now. We hope that most of our thinking citizens and all of our civic organiza tions will see merit in the court reforms proposed by the Judicial Council and the General Statutes Commission. We hope, too, that they will make their feelings known to Carteret's next legislator ? for our courts, and jus tice, have been gagged too long by the cobwebs of ancient court procedure. Watch that Loss Account! Our county and towns were severely damaged in the hurricane, but we hope the loss estimates, submitted in our re quests for federal aid, are reasonable. All you have to do in most cases like this is to let folks know that "Uncle Sam is going to help you" and they go wild, asking for thousands and millions of dollars just as though money were as plentiful as air. There have been so many natural disasters in the country this year that it is a wonder the federal aid nest-egg hasn't disappeared months ago. We're not saying that the persons, "the businesses and tB'6 towns hard hit in the storm should not be given all the assistance needed to get things back to normal. But let's hope the requests are tempered with wisdom, for if investi gators find that we're padding the "ex pense account" they're going to get twice as inquisitive and payments may be delayed for a period much longer than necessary for the sole necessity of rechecking to reduce the padding. Epitaph for a Marriage (From the Greensboro Daily News) Listen, Manny, it can't miss. It's a natural. Now get the picture. Here's this ball player, he's famous all over the world and Brooklyn; he's got everything, a seafood house, even, and the world's his whenever he wants it. And here's ? this girl, see, a real knock-out, only she's from the wrong side of the tracks, but it don't matter because she's so beauti ful she's a star. Figure the plot line. They meet. They fall in love. They get married already. Manny, it's the American Dream. It's bigger than Cecil B. DeMille; bigger than thd Series or even Sam Goldwyn. But now get this angle. Here's where the twist comes in ; the old switcheroo. i This'll leave 'em gasping for air, on ac count of what happens but this ball player figures that maybe his wife ought to take it easy, see? Slow up on the glamor stuff. Only she don't see it that way, on account she's devoted her whole life to getting to be a big star, i And finally, Manny, you know what gives? They get a divorce; very friend ly kind of divorce, naturally, but here's this kid, see, sacrificing all for her art, r only with a capital "A." And here's the ball player showing true American sportsmanship, see ; taking it like a gen tleman and ball player. Manny, it's got everything. It's a natural, but maybe like you keep say ing, it's too corny to be true. . . . The UN DOES Work! This is United Nations Week. Although the UN is sometimes called "mere debating society" where dele gates talk and talk and accomplish nothing, "talk" in the UN got Russian troops out of Northern Iran; helped In donesia bring her struggle for inde pendence to a peaceful and successful conclusion; ended a shooting war in Palestine; and is keeping peace be tween India and Pakistan. The UN is a place to help people talk out their problems, not shoot them out. He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees. ? Benjamin Franklin. Carteret County News-Times WINNER OF NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARDS A Merger of The Beaufort New. UEat 1912) and The Twin City Time. (Ed ISM) Pnbliahed Tueaday. and Friday, by the Carteret Publiahing Company, Inc. 504 Arendell St., Morehead City. N. C. ' LOCK WOOD PHILLIPS ? PUBLISHER ELEANORS DEAR PHILLIPS ? ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER RUTH L. PEELING - EDITOR Hail Ratea: la Carteret County and adjoining counties, 18.00 one year, $3.90 aix month*. $1.28 om month; elsewhere $7.00 one year, $4.00 aix montha, $1.80 one month. tt An i-tefd Praaa ? Greater Weeklie. ? N. C. Praaa AaaodaUon National Editorial Aaaodation ? Audit Bureau oi Circulation. Tba Aaaociated Praaa ia entitled exclualrely to uaa for republication of local am printed In thla newapaper, a. wall aa all AP new, diapatchea. Entered aa Second Claaa Matter at Morehead City, N. C., Under Act of March I, 187#. STILL OUTSIDE GETTING SOAKED w J..* A .J . / L. HTfWri? m ?"effSJSw* BJftwR F. C. Salisbury Here and There The following information is ta ken from the files of the Morehead City Coaster: FRIDAY, OCT 22, 1915 Mrs. Duffy Wade has returned hom? from a two weeks' visit to relatives in Goldsboro and Thur man. A. H. Webb left Wednesday for Raleigh where he will attend the State Fair. Friends of Mrs. R. T. Wade will be glad to learn that shir is able to be out again after an illness ofa several days. C. W. Freeman returned home Sunday night from LaGrangc where he spent a few days. Dr. M. W. Ball of Newport was a business visitor in the city Tues day. The Rev. J. W. Alford will leave here Monday for Small, N. C., where he will spend a week lec turing the Masons of that place. Mr. Alford is Worshipful Master of Ocean Lodge 405 AF&AM, of this city and one of the assistant grand lecturers of the Masonic Order in this state. C. W. Styron and George Evans of the Morehead City Plumbing and Supply Co., left Monday for Mount Olive, where they will be gin work of laying water mains for that municipality. Billie Bell of New Bern arrived in the city Sunday to spend some time with his brother, Sheldon Bell. Billie has been suffering from rheumatic trouble for some time. Died at the home in this city on Oct. 17, little Melba Gordon Da vis. aged two years, two months and ten days. Little Melba was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Abram Davis. Funeral services were con ducted from the Baptist Church Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock. Roma Ainslie Guthrey, the only child of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Guthrey died at the family home on Sat urday afternoon. Oct. 16, after an illness of forty-six days. He was born December 18, 1904. "Uncle Gould" as he was loving ly called by his many friends here, died Sunday afternoon, Oct. 17 at "Clingracie," the home of his niece, Mrs. Washburn, on his 80th birthday. He was born at Hunt ington, L. I. He held seven med als from the American Institute for inventing water filters. Twenty years ago he came to this county to live with his niece. The Supreme Court has held that an agreement of a fish dealer to sell his business to the Morchead City Seafood Co., which all fish dealers of the city formed and pro viding that no fish dealer would engage in the fish business for 10 years within 100 miles of the city, was valid. An injunction was ob tained against B. C. Way restrain ing him from conducting an inde pendent fish business after joining thj seafood company. REGIONAL GROWTH IN PER CAPITA INCOME 1939-1953 *?'I> VI 1931 poc capita bicsiM for WmI $1,9M North Wort 1(535 So?fl4i Woof 1/441 Central $1,?M Sooth tort 1,13* MkMloM I.M4 Now NM lfl? The best single statistical meas urement for comparing economic well-being by regions is per capita income. In 1953 the average per capita income for the entire U.S. was $1,709 This was 217 per cent greater than the corresponding figure for 1939. There is considerable variation, , from one region to another, both in the level of per capita income and in the percentage change since 1939. However, there is a pro nounced tendency for the regions which have been below the average to show more rapid growth than other regions. The southeast is still the area in which the per capita figure is low est ? $1,199 per person in 19S3. But this is the very region in which the percentage growth has been moat rapid. Per capita Income has very nearly quadrupled since 1939 in the Southeast. Much the same situation prevails In the Southwest and in the north west. In both these regions per capita income la aomewhat below the national average but the rate of growth since 1939 is tomaiderably greater than the corresponding fig ure for the nation a> a whole. At the other end of the Kale, the Middle East and Far Weat have been and remain the regions in which per capita income l? highest. despite the (act that the percentage increase since 1939 has been be low the national average. The New England and Central regions have per capita income well above the per capita income for the Southeast and Southwest, but show I a smaller percentage increase since 1939 As a result of the especially ra pid growth of the below-average regions the range in per capita in come has been sharply reduced In 1939 the highest figure for the seven regions was 2.3 times the lowest; in 1953 the highest was only 1.7 times the lowest. Consider This . . . Experts now claim there is no special benefit from sun tan. But how else are we going to impress people with the fact that we have been on a vacation? A timely slogan: Work and save, young man, and some day you'll have enough to divide with thoae who don't. Nature seems determined to make us work; the leas hair we have to comb, the more face we have to wash. Jane Eadt s j Washington * h Pretty Miss Nugyen Thi Cut, whose name, pronounced "Coot," n means "little bird" is returning F to her native Saigon, Indo China, J after several months in the United J States boning up on her job and J, learning about life in America. The tiny, 29-year-old daughter 0 of a retired Vietnam government official, has been assistant to the cheif of the U. S. information Ser- " vices Library in Saigon since Feb- . ruary, 1951. One of a family of ^ 5 girls and 10 boys, she had been J working in a French school after * graduating from Gialong college in ? the Vietnam capital. She was 11 asked to take over the post of a good friend who had come to the United States to work for the Voice * of America. v Traveling with a group of nine 1 from the Far East, she has visited libraries in New York, Maine, c Ohio, Georgia and Nebraska, where s she lived for several days on a 8 farm near Lincoln. "There are more interesting 1 things to see in the big cities," 1 Miss Nugyen Thi Cut said, "but f I had the best time in the small J towns. Everybody was so friendly. * I went to picnics, luncheons, din- J ners. Sometimes 1 cooked Vietna- ? mese dishes like fried rice with * meat, egg and soy sauce; fried c meat, stuffed tomatoes, and a Chi nese soup for my American * friends." The doll-like Vietnamese, with J her satiny black hair, pearly teeth ' and rose-polished nails, was wear- 1 ing a picturesque costume, an "ao dai," or long tunic of moss green 1 brocaded silk with slits up both j sides, over long white "quan," or 1 trousers. She wore Vietnamese made, black suede "wedgies" and ' no stockings. She carried an Amer- * ican purse and diamonds sparkled in her ears. "We have our ears pierced be cause we wear real diamonds and j pearls, jade or jet," she told me, "And, the women always wear costumes like this, though the men wear western dress. I'm t taking nylon and dacron shirts home for my father and brothers, as well as flashlights and cigarette lighters. I'm taking my sisters American-printed fabrics for tun ics. We have beautiful silks at home, but not so many different patterns.** Today's Birthday JOAN FONTAINE, born Oct. ZZ, 1917, as Joan Dc Havilland in Tokyo, daugh- , ter of a patent ? attorney. The itage and acreen actress ia the aister of Olivia de Havil land Her firat starring role in "Rebecca' won ? her an Acad emy award. Other top films have been "This Above All," "Women," "Jane Eyre," "September Affair." She is now playing the feature role in the Broadway play, "Tea and Sympathy." Her secret for suc cess: "1 try to live each' character I play." Smile a While Then there was the gunman who walked into a night club and said politely. "Now ladies and gentle men. all those in favor o{ leaving this place alive, kindly bold up your hands." Of facts about money, this la the worst: to make it last you must maka it (Int. * Cidd Br?w*f Raleiah Roundup jtrs?*? Edith * , Union County native. YDC ' " Ind '?rmer assistant in ongresaman Deane's office re 'Vc,i"JUredher*nltle ""'now That isn't so unusual, but on the '* ?n autograph by Gov. Wil iam B Umstead, written there isUed th?uaCy> When Miss Marsh he .*n*i0n w,th othtrs on he Democratic Advisory Commit KX?*, '? .dm, tied hat nothing ,s more important expfrience whether it be in olitics, business or football, lender the present football rules K KettVnT bi? "???? arc final K getting around to substituting nt.re teams rather than a few in leal h at ? "me This is prac business"'*6 """ 'ootba" " Among other advantages, it will ,n,rsurlnS lha' each year here will most likely be eleven 'layers available who have hid onsiderable game experience to ZWnlt th" onp <" '"ese ieW L?e;Se ,cams '<-ave the 'eld? that, before doing so- thev ?H confer with their replace nents and give them the benefit a me thcy havc Earned in the tint'!!!? 'Lnot Practical, then it r^Sreie,0Pr?'i,fr0ma"u'h IKM-ArEMENT- K(i Summer oL . Jacksonvllle will succeed I-arkins in the in the State ?enato next January. ih?'S intc,rcs'in,! t0 that Ed ? the man Larkins succeed ?d when C|n"-w Came t0 lhe S,ale Senate Incidentally. j?hn is tho """J S r ?f the Stale Sona,e and rf?. 'u?'0* ,,c was n<>t a andidate this year, but has served or 20 years . yet he was one of he youngest members of the state I ase 11 h a"d 'S 0nly 46 years * age at the present time. JEXT DOOR Although I have ot visited either place, it says ore in a note handed mc by an thr North Carolina WiL? A clcty and the N. c. lurial Association have adjoinine ??> >= iOES STEADILY ON . . This is he last and final week of the state wide tour of the Democrats and he show goes steadily on. nnuTn',i?' the Part'eipants have onstantly improved in their pre ie" an'lotn.s' adding a joke here and ' song there. The Commissioner of Acrieul ,"rl hi Y Ba"?-n"ne ha, irobably made more consistently god aPPe,r?nces in th,t hc hay liscusscd varied subjects and has L"e Various ?'ories and okes and has thus been able to get ^hn\m?'C w?rthw'''le thoughts >7 time C?nsUming " ?rcat amount ?NTH AND TENTH ... As the democratic Caravan rolls to its 5ti" ,ook? a? ? the n1h??? State,wiu remain safely n the Democratic corner. This is true with the possible exception 0f the Tenth Congre, Vtath ~ lnd includc? the BIGGEST LOSS . . . Although ev irybody is dreading the 1955 Gen eril Assembly, biggest dreaders are those who will comprise its membership If the prophet* are correct, the session will last until ?bout the middle 'of May and the legl,U,or wi" ?P*nd "bout ?2.000 more for meals, room, transportation, and entertaining guests from back home who "just happened to drop by," than he will receive in salary In salary, he will receive *15 a day for each day of the session, not to exceed a period of 90 days? or three months Since the leg- < i si a tu re this year will convene on Jan. 5. your legislator, be he rep resentative or senator, will be paid until about April 5. After that time, he will be serving without Pay. How would you like to work from a month to six weeks without pay? Not only must your legislat or work from about April 5 to May 1, May 15, or June 1 ? whenever the session drags to an end without pay. he must pay his board, room, and meals. The session of 1931 and 1933 lasted for more than five months, but everything then was dirt cheap and members of the Legislature , ' n t fare so badly Matter of fact the only job some of them had was while the legislature was in session. This time it will be different. ' Oh you may say, but what about the money which the legislators make on the side? rton't be old fashioned They just don't. Those who want them can get free din ners now and then, a case of beer, a fifth of whiskey, a carton of wine, a weekend at some resort or what have-you But little, if any. cold cash changes hands in the North Carolina legislature. I know one man who has been very close to each session of the legislature since 1931. He says he has never known one instance of any member's accepting a bribe or a contribution to vote for or against a measure. But with expenses in Raleigh running from $7 to $10 per day minimum, you can understand how legislators are already dreading next April and May. In addition to the tremendous ex penses involved, there are other reasons legislators are already look ing with dislike upon the first half of 1955. They know that they will be con fronted with the greatest problems !n?o any Gcneral Assembly since 1933. They realize that they must make decisions which may prove unpopular with the folks who are watching them back home. There will be many legislators who before the next legislature is over will wish they had never been a candidate for the position. SPEAKER . . One of the sub jects for discussion among the par ticipanfs in the Democratic Cara van concerns L. y. (Stag) Ballen tine. It seems that Stag had an en gagement to speak before a farm fr?uP and that Lt. Gov. Luther Hodges had an engagement to speak before a farm group ? the same farm group. How come? The story making the rounds is that Stag cancelled his engage ment because he had to remain with the Democratic Caravan. Lt. Gov. Hodges was then contacted? and accepted, not knowing of course that the agriculture commit sioner had cancelled out. You hear a little of everything on the Democratic Caravan. Ivory Baneberry Grows South as Far as Georgia Most persons in the United states who have access to rich woodlands have seen one or anoth pr of the white-fruiled baneber ries in late summer or early fall. Strangely enough the ivory bane jerry is probably a white-fruited [orm of the western red baneber ry. Some western botanies stick lo the name baneberry and merely lay that the fruit* are sometimes white. This baneberry is found in moist >pen woodlands from Alaska to :er<tral California and east to Mon tana and New Mexico or even North Into Alberta. The eastern Ivory Baneberry white baneberry ranges from No va Scotia to Georgia and weat to Minneaaota and Miaaouri. The white Iruita are about 1/3 Inch long, generally spherical, borne on pinkish or reddiah stems and are sometimes appropriately called "doll's eyes." They may ap pear to be good to eat but they are probably poisonous, affecting the heart and having been reported to have caused the death 'of chil dren who have eaten Uiem. At least this record holds for some of the eastern and European bane berries and preaumably doea for thla one. The eating of but aix berries of the eaatara red blaeberry has boon known to increase the pulse, cause dizziness, colicky pains and a burn ing stomach. It would be wise not to experiment to finds out if this holds for this western species. In spite of the fruits being pois onous to man they are fed on by some insects. The eastern white baneberry has its fruits eaten by a caterpillar that develops eventu ally into one of the dainty azure butterflies. The bees that polli nate the flowers feed on pollen rather than on nectar. The plant grows to a height of three feet, is bushy and somewhat branching. In the upper areas the plant may be finely fuzzy. The leaves are few, the lower ones be ing long-stalked 'and the upper ones rather stalkless. They are compounded of many sharply toothed or cut leaflets with long tapering points. The leaflets may be to nearly 4 inches long and are arranged along the supporting structures like the parts of a feath er. Their veins are conspicuous. , The flowers appear in early spring, are whitish, are borne at the ends of short stems, have a sickish odor. The clusters may be to 4 inches long in the fruiting stage at which the stalks support ing each unit may be to 1 inch long. The petals are shorter than the stamens. There are 3 to 5 sepals and 4 to 10 petals in the flowers of the bane berries and the stamens are always numer ous. The msny seeds to be found In each fruit are arranged in two rows. The six known species are all to be found in the north temperate zones of the Old World and at Un cient Creek name for the elder and probably refers to the simi larity In the shape of the loam of eldera and o I the baneberriot? E. Laurence Palmar.
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