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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES Cuttrft County's Newspaper EDITORIALS TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1957 Unlucky 13! Members of the All Seashore High way Association will meet Saturday at New Bern to discuss a problem brought about by a change on the new North Carolina map issued by the state high way department. What it's all about is described by the president of the All Seashore High way Association, Joe DuBois, as fol lows: Have you seen the new 1957 North Carolina State Highway Map? Have you noticed that U. S. 13, which terminated at Williamston, has now been extended through Greenville and Snow Hill to Goldsboro? Did you know that forces are now at work to have U. S. 13 extended to Fay etteville where it would merge with U. S. 301, "the quickest route through North Carolina"? What does this m'ean to you and your community? It means that a vast amount of traf fic, entering North Carolina from the North on U. S. 13, will now follow 13 AWAY FROM the entire Coastal Area, instead of driving through it on U. S. 17. It will lead traffic away from our re sorts and beaches. It will certainly re tard all agricultural, industrial and re sort development. It must also follow that MORE Fed eral Highway funds will be spent upon U. S. 13 - West. NO ADDITIONAL FEDERAL funds in sight for the de velopment of better transportation in the backward Coastal Regions. Do the towns to our west intend to dry up their valuable markets in the east by killing the growth of the coas tal area? Could investors in the multi-million dollar resort areas of other states be interested in stopping the development of this most promising section of the At lantic Coast? What peculiar circumstances brought about this sudden and surprising move by the State Highway Department? Why no hearing? It looks as if our only salvation now is an All Seashore Highway. After this crippling blow we should realize, more than ever, the cold fact ? the fact that if we are to progress, or even to hold our own, we must provide access to our 300 miles of scenic and historic sea shore ? further delay means disaster! Officers Condemn Wrongly We disagree with Lenoir County court officers who in superior court at Kinston last week said highway pa trolmen used "bad judgment" in chas ing a car that wrecked, killing one of the occupants. All the highway patrol has to do is make a practice of letting speeders out run the patrol and there will be the big gest rash of racing, speeding and high way killing this state has ever seen. It is unfortunate that once in a great while a speeder or a highway patrol man has been killed in a chase. The loss is much greater if the officer is killed than if the lawbreaker dies, for a maniac speeding on the highway of fers nothing to society but danger. . In the case which gave rise to the condemnation, a driver took off when a patrolman stopped him to check a li cense. The patrolman radioed to an other patrolman to set up a roadblock. This was done, but the roadblock pa trolman took his car off the road when he saw that the speeder was not going to stop. He used good judgment there, for if the speeder had hit the parked patrol car at a hundred miles an hour, some one in the speeding car would surely have been killed. Patrolmen are trained to enforce the law without needless kill ing. 4 It happened that the "outlaws" later turned over on a curve while patrolmen were in pursuit, and a passenger in the car, a 22-year-old youth, was killed. But the death should not be laid at the door of the highway patrol, nor should the patrolmen be chastised for using "bad judgment". They were do ing their duty as it has to be done. Death of the 22-year-old is a warn ing to all highway outlaws. The public should be gratified that there are men in the highway patrol who fearlessly do a dangerous job in spite of oc casional ill - founded condemnations such as "bad judgment." Hiking Shoes for Geese (Manchester Guardian) An expression which is hardly ever heard these days ? "Dew your father shew geese?" ? had its origin some 60 years ago when roads were neither so hard nor so full of traffic as they are today. It was no strange sight, then, to see flocks of geese driven along the roads of the eastern counties, feeding on the wayside grass and drinking from ponds on their way from Holland. Geese buy ing then was quite a business, and deal ers would go to the continent and buy three or four thousand geese between them. Later, their men would go over and fetch the flocks home. In preparation for their journey, the geese would be shod in the following manner: They would be driven through compounds of tar, sawdust and sand in that order, two or three times, until a pad was formed on their feet. This treatment did not cause the birds any suffering. They were then shipped in open boats to England, landing at Dov ercourt, and, though a very few might not survive the journey, in the main they did not suffer any ill effects. On landing they set out on the walk home. Ten miles a day was the average distance covered. The whole journey took over a week. During the night the flocks would lay by in a field and the men lodged at a nearby inn ? though it is doubtful if they slept at all, for the noise from the geese must have been considerable. When each driver reached his des tination, he drove his own flock away from the main one, while the rest went on their way. Geese were sold after they had been fattened, and were no doubt purchased for Michaelmas by those who believed with the old saying that "he who does not baste a goose at Michaelmas will want for money all the year." A Wilmington newspaper avidly sup ports the bill allowing the Board of Conservation and Development to meet each July in a coastal city other than Morehead City. Have we heard any voice from down that^away objecting to a Buckley report proposal for a con ference at WILMINGTON each year to discuss port problems? Carteret County News-Times WINNER OF NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARDS A Merger of The Beaufort Newi (Eat. 1912) and The Twin City Times (Est. ISM) Published Tuesdays and Fridays by the Carteret Publishing Company, Inc. 504 ArendeD St.. Morehead City. N. C. LOCKWOOD PHIL. IPS ? PUBLISHER ELEANORE DEAR PHILLIPS ? ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER ? ' RUTH L PEELING ? EDITOR Mail Rates: In Carteret County and adjoining counties, $C.OO one year, $3 50 six months, $1.29 one month; elsewhere >7.00 one year, >4.00 sit months, $1.50 on* month. , Member of Associated Press ? N. C. Press Association National Editorial Association ? Audit Bureau of Circulations / National Advertising Representative . Moran * Fischer, Inc. \ 1 M Madison Ave., New York IT, N. Y. The Asaodated Press la entitled exclusively to use for republication of local new* printed la fUa newspaper, as well as all AP news dispatches. Entered a* Second Class Matter at Morehead City, N. C., Under Aet at March S, l?l?. Ruth Peeling Buses Roll in with Happy Youngsters There arc lots of ways to tell spring has come. One, in this sec tion, is the sudden presence of buses loaded with youngsters from far-away places. A big yellow and green bus with Fremont High School lettered on it was in Morehead City Tuesday. Spring is the time when school groups start going on field trips, visiting spots of local interest; and then there are the bigger trips when buses are chartered and an all-day jaunt is planned. Add to this the week-long or weekend trips when bands or sen ior classes take off for the nation's capital and you can be sure of one thing, it's spring! In slanguage, "wheels" arc big time operators. Dan Walker takes some wind out of the wheels when he says, "Those who go around in circles shall be known as wheels." And then there is the story of the Carteret school principal who was upset because the kids on a certain bus run cussed so much. An understanding teacher ex plained to the principal, "They don't know they're cussing, they just talk that way!" Mary Simpson sends me from Florida a story in the Miami Sun day News about the shrimp size problems in Florida. Written by Jack W. Roberts, it confirms the story we have heard from Tar Heel shrimpers who worked off Florida this winter. From a drag yielding 400 pounds of shrimp, 150 pounds of dead "un dcrsize" shrimp were shoveled overboard one night from Capt. Jim Buckmaster's trawler. The shrimp didn't meet the minimum count of 60 to the pound. Shrimp the size of those thrown overboard arc marketed fresh in many places and arc canned in Georgia, Texas and Louisiana. That's why shrimpers are disgust ed with a regulation which makes them throw "marketable shrimp" overboard. At present this rcgolation is just a regulation but according to Florida's way of doing things, the legislature can make it a law this spring, and that's what many shrimpers don't want to happen. North Carolina shrimpers, many of them, came home early be cause they couldn't make any Captain Henry Sou'easter There were m i g h t y Jew Tar Heels who survived the weekend basketball battles without a few more gray hairs. The first mate and I watched the games at a neighbor's be cause 1 still haven't made up my mind about this TV business. But she's wearin' me down. We'll prob ably have a set before long. I'm not much of a basketball fan either, but if I hadn't seen those games, 1 wouldn't have been able to carry on a conversation with my younger friends for the next two weeks. I know that's all they'll be talking about. The Tar Heels were playing in a mighty chilly atmosphere 'way out there in Kansas City. Those Kansans weren't keen about see ing the championship go to any body but Kansas, and if their Jay hawks couldn't take the title, they at least wanted to settle for ano ther midwestern team, Michigan. Do you remember how there used to be movies in slow motion? You'd go to the show and in the newsrccis once in a while they'd show diving or horse races in slow motion. Well I would like to see Tommy Keams dribbling that ball, slowed down to a speed where you could get the full enjoyment of the grace and coordination that boy shows on the basketball floor. Never have I seen such a per formance. He was so closely at tuned to the motion of the ball that no human being could get near him without fouling him. He moved like greased lightning but not a muscle was out of tune with the entire movement of man and basketball. The NCAA finals will be tops in thrills for a long time to come. I hope UNC keeps its winning streak for a long time to come too. Distraught Beaufort mother to a group of wild children at a birth day party: "There will be a spe cial prize for the one who goes home first!" I see that some of our azaleas along Ann Street are blooming. Several year* ago the bushes were sold by the Woman's Club to home owners. The purpose was to beau tify the town. Very few buahes show any care or attention and I'm surprised that quite a few are still living. f olks wno nave ine ousncs Ml front of their houses should cer tainly do a little bit more than cuss them when they have to clip the grass around them. Now that we have planes that travel faster than sound, scientists will probably go right to work on a sound that travels faster than a plane. And with that profound thought, 1 leave you 'til next time. Author of the Week John Dos Passos adds a new book to his long list of succcsscs, "The Men Who Made the Nation." Native of Chicago, he was moved around a lot by his family, has traveled a lot on his own, and now lives in Westmoreland Coun ty, Virginia. An ambulance driver in World War I, he first attracted wide at tention with his novel, "Three Sol diers," in X922. Smile a While "I'm sorry," said a wealthy man who had been approached by a minister for a donation to the for eign missionary fund, "I don't be lieve in foreign missions." "But surely," the minister per sisted, "you know that we are com manded to feed the hungry " "W< 'k can't we feed 'em on somn j[ cheaper than mission aries? money throwing most of their catch overboard. Dr. C. P. Idyll of the University of Miami, who is in favor of the 60 count-minimum law, says that the conservation regulation will work in conjunction with a mesh law which would call for large enough webbing to let the little shrimp escape, lie says the law proposed to the legislature in cludes a mesh regulation as well as a 60 count minimum. Meanwhile, there are many side plots. The little shrimpers say the big shrimp fleet operators got the regulation through in December when all the little operators were working off Texas, Louisiana and Mexico. The big operators can go into deep water and take the larger shrimp, but the smaller trawlers have to take the little shrimp in shallow water if they are going to operate at a profit. They may get less per pound, but they sell more pounds. The big boy, under the guise of "conservation" isexecutinga squeeze play to get rid of the bothersome little shrimpers ? so say trawler captains who operate just one or two boats. Stamp News By SYD KROMSII Nepal celebrated its first anni versary as a member of the United Nations with much fanfare and elaborate ceremonies. And, in hon or of the occasion, the government issued a new 12 p blue and brown stamp in a triangular design. De picted was a mountain scene. In the center was the U. N. symbol and the date of Nepal's admission to the world body? Dcc. 14, 1955. The Dominican Republic recent ly issued a series of eight stamps honoring the Olympics in Austra lia and depicting such former Olympic stars as Paavo Nurmi, Jesse Owens, Bob Mathias and the late Mildred "Babe" Didrickscn. On Feb. 1, that government an nounced it had surcharged and overprinted this set with the sur tax going to the aid of Hungarian refugees. The charity surtax will be turned over to the president of the Dom inican Red Cross for the aid of the Hungarian victims of Com munist aggression. The Domini can Republic also announced that it opened iti doors to 20,000 Hun garian refugees. The Philippines has issued a new 5 cent dark blue stamp hon oring the Girl Scout World Camp. The Pacific area camp is to be held in Quezon City, Philippines. Depleted is the insignia of the World Girl Scouts above the tents of a camp. On the right ia the profile ailhouette of a Girl Scout. Three new stamps have been issued by Jamaica showing local flower designs. These are the last three stamps in the 19S6 definitive act. The 3-pence brown and green depicts mahoe, the 4-pence blue and green ahowa breadfruit, and the 5-pence green and red illus trates ackee. Some minds are like concrete all mixed up and permanently set. toul? Splvy Words of Inspiration IT TAKES HELP FROM ALL TO CREATE A HAPPY FAMILY What makes a happy family? First of all you muit have a husband and wife who love each other enough to stand by each other when the going is rough. They must alao appreciate each other and all they have when the going is smooth Then you need children who are loved for themselves alone and not just as a projection of their parents' pride and ambitions. Then you have to add companionship, with the whole family interested in each other and. part of the time, interested in doing things together. You have to have cooperation too. A family in which each member ia selfishly pulling for himself is never a happy family. You need family jokes and family traditions. You need good-natured kidding, the kind that brings grins and not the kind that causea hurt feelings. You need Laughter and Memories. Lots and lots of laughter. Only a family that knows bow to laugh at mishaps and follies can stay happy for very long. You need sentiment, too. Snapshots must be treasured, birthdays and holidays properly celebrated in a way that creates memories. You need kindness ? lots of it inside the home and kindness that goes outside of it. And you need religion for comfort and warmth and hope and faith in things to come. It takes a lot to make a happy family, contributions from every singl* member. ? Ruth Millctt Do you do your part? Too many times the job is not done because too many people don't consider their part of it important. When families picked fresh vegetables from their gardens for their meals, they found it easy to remember God was the River of the soil, sunshine and rain which produced the harvest . . . But modern refrig eration tends to transport man entirely away from direct contact with the Power which is the sourcc of the harvest. In it's place develops the idea that man himself originated both the shiny electrical appliance and the provisions which come from it to feed his body. ? Ernest Thomas If you would get life's best, see to it that life gets your best. THE WAY TO WIN Let us then try what love will do. For if men do once see we lov? them, we should soon find they will not harm us. Force may subdue, but love gains; and he that forgives first wins the laurel. If I am even with my enemy, the debt is paid; but if 1 forgive it I oblige him forever. ? William Pcnn THE RULE OF THREE Three things to govern: temper, tongue, conduct. Three things to love: courage, gentleness, affection. Three things to hate: cruelty, arrogance, ingratitude. Three things to wish for: health, friends and a cheerful spirit. Three things to fight for: honor, country, home. FOUR THINGS Four things in any land must dwell If it endures and prospers well; One Is manhood true and good; One it noble womanhood; One is child life, clean and bright; And one an altar kept alight. ? Unknown In the Good Old Days THIRTY YEARS AGO The Beaufort-Morehead City fer ry would suspend operation of its automobile ferry for three days next week while repairs were made to the ferry. The passenger boat would continue its regular schedule. Only $125,000 worth of Beaufort public improvement bonds were sold at the town commissioners meeting. The Beaufort Community Club suggested a board of Associated Charities to coordinate the work of the county welfare department, the different societies and indivi duals. TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO The Bank of Newport was rob bed of $400 during the night. A fashion note announced that Paris designers had discarded the fur collar for spring coats. Samuel Thomas, last native Confederate soldier, died at the age of 87. TEN YEARS AGO Beaufort town commissioners voted in favor of installation of a $3,500 overhead lighting system on Front Street. The system would be installed by the Tide Water Power Co. The state had allotted $30,000 to Fort Macon State Park to bo used for extra buildings and im provements of present structures. Beaufort Jaycecs would spon sor a town clean up campaign the first part of April. FIVE YEARS AGO Morehead City civic and frater nal organizations chose five pro jects, a city park on the water front, a school improvement pro gram. clean up and beautification of the town, highways and water front, reactivation of the recrea tion center and more books for the public library in the Webb Civic Center, as their projects for the Finer Carolina contest. Dr. C. S. Maxwell of Beaufort was awarded a scholarship for a short course in cardiovascular di seases at Bowman-Gray School of Mcdicinc, Winaton-Salcm. Creditable Compromise From the Greensboro Daily News: One of the important reasons citcd for compromise rather than full-scale legislation reapportion ment (as ordered by the N. C. Constitution) is the disparate pop ulation of North Carolina. Carroll B. Weathers, dean of the Wake Foreit Law School and chair man of the Commission of Legis lative Representation, regards this as a prime reason for changing present constitutional provisions: "Take the state of North Caro lina. Approximately the first ISO milca of it are sparsely populated. The next 300 miles, or some such distance, are where the concen tration of population is located? roughly, from Raleigh, Lumber ton, Henderson, west to Gastonia. I-enoir and Morganton. Beyond that, we have the mountain area, which ia sparsely populated. If you base representation in this state solely on population, you will have a situation where the extreme east and the mountain sections are not going to have the sensitive repre sentation that they should have." The commission's majority re port would give this special con sideration to "area" by limiting the number of senators in any one county to two and by prohibiting any one senator from represent ing more than four counties. At present the State Constitution does not require this, and the people two years ago voted down a pro posal to limit number of senators in any county to one. To provide, as Dean Weathera terms It, more "sensitive" repre sentation In the House, the com mission's majority report would raise the number of House mem bers from 120 to 130. The const! tutional provision (or 120 repre sentatives dales back to 1835 when North Carolina had only 65 coun ties. Surely it makes sense to allo cate 30 instead of 20 representa tives on a basis of population. (Each county would continue to get a minimum of one House rep resentative.) Weimar Jones's minority report, of course, calls for immediate re districting on the basis of current constitutional provisions. This, we feel, would be satisfactory If there were more than one chance in a million that it would be approved by the highly suspicious Eastern leadership. We certainly agree with Editor Jones that rediatricting ii a "must" at this term of the Gen eral Assembly; but we alao feel the Weathers proposal la a credi table compromise, and any im provement in the currcnt climate is wclcome. Certainly the proposal, endorsed by both majority and minority re port. for a three member com mission to take over rediatricting responsibility from the General Assembly is worthy. We join Wea thers and Jones in hoping that whatever the General Assembly docs this session, at least it docs something. Further defiance of the Constitution is unthinkable. A cold i* sometimes affirmative and sometimes negative; sometimes the eyes have it and sometimes tha BOM. How do you know you're at tha end ft your *ope? It may be tha beginning.
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