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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES Carteret County'* Nawsp?p?r Lets Make It Clean The county is experiencing a first in its clean-up program this year. For the first time the spring clean-up is being sponsored and energetically promoted by the heads of county agri culture agencies. As the County Agri culture Workers Council, these officials are pointing out the importance of a "new look" for spring. In the past, mayors made their plea for a scrubbed town face, and business men, in cooperation with THE NEWS TIMES, carried the burden of remind ing folks how important it is to sweep out winter cob-webs. But a county-wide program in which more people cooperate is so much bet ter. Everybody putting their shoulder to the wheel makes the wagon roll along^ On that wagon should be tossed all the old junk littering your yard and at tic, the dirty rags and papers clinging to the fence, and those old boxes and cartons you always think you'll use but never do. Fresh paint does wonders for a house or outbuilding, but putting the paint on top of layers of dirt is a lazy way to fix up. A good dousing of places with a hose or brisk brushing with a broom provides a clean surface to which the paint will stick. You'll have a better job when you're finished ? and you won't be likely then to blame the paint, should the job look sloppy. And the yard is important. In the county there are many homes, expen sive ones built three and four years ago, and the yards look miserable. Weeds are 6 inches high, pieces of brick and lumber lie around, and remnants of cement bags litter the premises. A $20,000 home with the disreput able front yard gives the appearance of a shack. What is incomprehensible to us is the ability of people to take pride; apparently, in the house itself, but not give a hoot about the surround ings. Even the most modest home, neat and with a clean front yard, is inviting. An expensive house in the middle of a trash heap is like a pretty girl in slovenly clothes. There's beauty there if you can battle your way through to it. One of the things that stops strangers quicker than anything when they visit the county is the apparent ability of so many to live in ill-kempt surroundings. It shows that we have not discovered the psychological lift and the feeling of pride generated by clean homes, clean yards and uncluttered highways. It's never too late to turn over a new leaf. Make it a spring leaf and join the County Agriculture Workers Council this week in promoting the best clean up Carteret has ever undertaken ! It's a Problem Officials of Atlantic Beach are ex ploring the possibility of changing the name of the beach. It's a tough problem ? there seem to be about as many reasons against it as for. Atlantic Beach property owners have been asked whether they want the name to stay as it is, or to be changed to Morehead Beach or Morehead City Beach. Town officials point out that strang ers frequently drive all the way to At lantic, N. C., thinking they're going to Atlantic Beach. And then there is the usual reference by "summer people" who say they are going to "Morehead" when actually they're going to Atlantic Beach. Reference to Atlantic Beach as "Morehead" really doesn't bother any body except the lovers of Atlantic Beach who wish people would say "At lantic Beach" if that's what they mean. There is at least one other Atlantic Beach along the South Atlantic sea board and there may be more, so get ting a different name may have merit in that respect. Changing the name of the beach to Morehead Beach or Morehead City Beach could cause the postoffice people some headaches, though. There is lots of room for confusion when places with separate postofficeS have very similar names. If the name is going to be changed, it would seem that a name completely different from "Atlantic" or "More head" would be necessary to end the present confusion. It should be remembered too that it will take at least several years for all the publicity on this area, the road maps, and highway signs to be altered in conformance with a new name. But the pains in "re-tooling", so to speak, would certainly be warranted if a name for the beach ? a name that would solve all current problems ? could be found. Mary Alice Meets Pain (Greensboro Daily News) For two weeks Mary Alice had been telling her friends about her tonsil op eration. She was going to the hospital. She would get presents. Mother had read her a book about hospitals. It was the greatest thing in her four-year-old life. Mother and Daddy, this being their first experience with a child under the knife, had only vague memories about tonsillectomies. They remembered they were done rather casually at the doc tor's office. There were no mental scars. On the big morning, then, they were entirely unprepared for this first real experience with parental anguish. It might have been better if Mary Alice, radiant and confident sitting in her hos pital bed beforehand, had made it something less than a lark. She was trusting and serene. When the nurses came to glide her away down the hall, she was all youthful innofcence. (They learned later she even helped the doc tor put on the ether mask). When she came back later that morn ing, her eyes rolling in her head and en gulfed by the strong smell of ether, life had caught up with her. She was pale; when her large brown eyes finally fo cused on Daddy, she rose suddenly from her bed, grasped his neck tightly and said : "Let's go home." While the ether wore off during the day, slowly and with much nausea, she became silent and soulful, peering at her parents with the look of a wounded bird. "Why did you do this to me?" her eyes asked. And that was worse than her raw throat ? her wounded spirit. This persisted for three or four days. The presents poured in. Her older sister was insanely jealous. And yet some thing had flown out of her youthful life that morning in the hospital. She would never be quite as trustful again. She had learned something of life's pain. She was growing up. Carteret County News-Times WINNER OF NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARDS A Merger of The Beaufort News (Est. 1(12) and The Twin City Timea (Eat. 1936) Published Tuesdays and Fridays by the Carteret Publishing Company, lac. 504 Arendell St., Morehead City, N. C. LOCKWOOD PHILLIPS - PUBLISHER ELEANORE DEAR PHILLIPS - ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER RUTH L. PEELING ? EDITOR Mail Rates: In Carteret County and adjoining counties, M OO one year, $3.50 six months, 11.25 one month; elsewhere $7.00 one year, $4.00 six months, $1.50 one month. Member of Associated Press ? N. C. Press Association National Editorial Association ? Audit Bureau of Circulationa National Advertising Representative \ Moran * Fischer, Inc. 299 Madiaon Ave., New York IT, N. Y. The Aaaociated Press it entitled exclusively to use for republication of local news printed in this newspaper, as well as all AP news dispatches. Class Matter at Morehead City, N. C., Under Act of March 1, 1179. ITS LIKE LIVING OVERAJMQ uHANNOUNCED SOVIET NUCLEAR TESTS . Ruth Peeling The Air is Filled with Mutterings "Out goes the bad air, in comes the good." Those words are being muttered all over the county as firemen and housewives who are enrolled in first aid classes practice artificial respiration. The old-fashioned method of get ting suffocated victims to breathe has given way to a new method where the operator kneels at the patient's head rather than strad dles the body. ? "Out goes the bad air, in comes the good," are still the same words used to get the proper rhythm. Mr. J. R. Carter, teacher of the classes in Beaufort and Morehead City, liberally sprinkles his instruc tion with tales of life-saving and first aid he has experienced with the Carolina Power and Light Co. Many a time, on a power pole in a storm, he declares, he has .waited for a (lash t>I lmMnin?L .to show him where to put his hands so he could proceed with his work. It's risky business, but all in a day's work for the fel'ow who helps to keep electricity flowing. Mr. Carter, who for several weeks taught the first aid class of Newport firemen, paid them a com pliment. He says they're one bunch of interested fellows. They now have a new instructor from Cherry Point. Mr. Carter took that class on a temporary basis. Saturday was my sister's birth day. She wanted some fish netting to drape the wall of a room, so I got her netting, some that I thought would be enough to drape all out doors. Not so. Have to get her another time as much. She told her family that their birthday gifts to her need not cost them a penny. From Johnny, her 12-year-old son. one day of baby-sit ting (taking care of 3-year-old Sal ly), from her teen-age daughter, Pat, one day of freedom from get ting meals and doing dishes, and from her husband, John, one day of companionship. She writes, "You should have seen the expression on their faces. I think 1 asked for the impossible - 1 'P'1 in*nam>Ma sistcd that DJW*had the easiest gift to give but I said that I thought it would be pretty hard for him to stay away from the school site on a Saturday!" John is head of the board of edu cation and is all wrapped up in a new school going up in the neigh borhood. He likes to show visitors over the place. It gives him a good excuse to see that every brick is in place and every piece of floor tile is set properly. (As if he needed an excuse! ) I'll be interested in learning how the birthday gifts pan out. It's harder these days, it seems, to give of time than to give of money. Did you know that in the past three years North Carolina has re ceived almost $5 million from the federal government in disaster funds? $4.9 to be exact. Wedding bells will ring in August for Joan Melton of Albemarle, Miss North Carolina of 1957. Joan was crowned the state beauty in More head City last summer. She will marry Bob Grubbs of Winston-Salem, who was a mem ber of the cast of Horn in the West last year. '-f rPIV.flUng the perform ance of Miss Faye Arnold, Tar Heclia's official 1956 beauty, who was married soon after she relin quished her crown to Joan. And Faye's predecessor. Betty Jo Ring in 1955 was maried right after she passed her crown on to Faye. It looks as though fellows who have their eyes on the state's fam ous beauties have to stand in line! Free Wheeling By BILL CROWELL Department of Motor Vehicles TESTING ...Tar Heel drivers whom the state expects to show up every four years to have their driver's license renewed, watch deadline time approach with all the anxiety sometimes of a con testant going for the $64,000 Ques tion. Others pass it off as effortlessly as ordering dinner from a menu. All get identical examinations at the state's 182 licensing stations, manned by Motor Vehicles De partment personnel. , On D-Day the nervous nellies miss easy questions on the written test, fumble grievously at the wheel on the road test, and often surrender in confusion at photo graphs of unidentified road signs which they must name. Astonishingly enough, some ap plicants actually ignore or other wise disregard traffic laws while in company with the examiner. On such occasions (if no accident results) the examination is con cluded, the errant applicant sent on his way with seldom even a "Goodbye." Experienced examiners say over eagerness is largely responsible for such boners, although for the record examiners arc not permit ted to distinguish the trivial mis takes from the real dumbbells. Women drivers expect and us ually get a measure of gallantry from the examiner in charge. "Parallel parking," says Raleigh examiner D. U. Sherman, "seems to be the toughest maneuver for the lady drivers. Although it's not required, we try to give the ladies a little encouragement as they go through the parking test. If they just settle down, most women drivers can do quite well." Sherman, who has been an ex aminer for seven years, issues something like 400-500 permits a month, following an applicant's successful examination. The ones he has to turn down, though, often leave in a huff. Or worse, some stay around to hurl abuse at the examiner and accuse him of arbitrariness, stupidity and what have you. "It's the fail ures you have to handle with kid gloves," he says. Where invective faila, some dis qualified applicants occasionally turn to bribery, a gesture that to furiates the examiners as it does any peace officer. "On the road test, when an ap plicant is obviously incompetent and knows it, you can sometimes catch him leaving money on the seat. This is an invitation, I sup pose, for us to pick it up and okay his application," Sherman ex plained. Another applicant who gets unique, if embarrassing, treatment is the illiterate. Applicants who are unable to write are given an oral test, marked and graded with comparable difficulty as the stand ard examination. "And a high percentage of them pass, too," Sherman adds. Of the 20 multiple-choice ques tions confronting the applicant, one turns up consistently as a stumbling block for even the most meticulous driver. It's the one about reporting ac cidents. The law requires a writ ten report to the Motor Vehicles Department of accidents involving injury or apparent damages in ex cess of $100. The question tests the applicant's knowledge of this procedure, a real puzzler judging by some of the goofy answers sub mitted. Sign recognition stumps its share of applicants, too. In this test a series of common traffic signs ? with their legends obscured? are shown to the applicant. He must select and identify each, basing his answer on the sign's shape and color. The eight-sided stop sign is nearly always correctly identified, Sherman says. The diamond shaped warning sign doesn't give much trouble, either. But the rail road crossing sign? round with a black X? apparently is meaning less to many applicants. They miss it frequently. Fraudulent applications are not unknown among the state's license examiners. Most of them are re luctant to discuss the inevitably cunning tricks applicants try to spring on examiners to get a li cense. For obvious reasons, tricks oncc exposed are better left un publicized. If he (or si ?) seems impatient when aaawering the phone, it prob ably meins that an interesting TV program is on the lire. Stamp News By SYD KRONISH The United Nations will issue a new commemorative stamp on April 8 to honor the United Na tions Emergency Force established by the General Assembly last Nov. 5. There will be two denominations, 3 cents and 8 cents. Depicted on the stamps is the circular badge worn on the arm bands and headgear of the U.N. Emergency Farce troops first em ployed in the Middle East. The designer of the stamp is OIc Hamann, a native of Denmark. He i? chief of the Graphic Pre sentation Section of the United Na tions in New York. Further details as to first day covers will be anonunced soon. Two new stamps have been is sued by Ecuador to honor the 6th South American Girls Basketball Tournament held in Quito. The airmail stamp depicts two girla playing basketball, a map of South America, with the flags of the participating countries su pc rim posed on It. The lower value for regular mall shows two girls in basketball action. On Jan. 1 the Saar became unit ed with West Germany. To hoi-or the occasion the Saar Postal Ail ministration issued the first values of a 21-stamp set ranging from the 1 franc to 200 francs. Each stamp shows a portrait of President Heuss plus the inscription "Deut sche Bundcpost" and "Saarland." loutf 5 pi v e y Words of Inspiration LET ME REMEMBER When little things would irk me, and I grow Impatient with my loved one?, let me know How, in a moment, Joy can take it's (light. And happiness be quenched in endless night. Keep this thought with me all the livelong day. That I might guard harsh words that 1 would say When 1 would (ret and grumble, angry, hot, At trifles that tomorrow are (orgot. Let me remember. Lord, how it would be 1( these, my dear ones, were not here with me. ? Unknown ' "W. SUPERLATIVES The Greatest word is God The Deepest word is Soul The Longest word is Eternity The Swiftest word is Time The Nearest word is Now The Darkest word is Hypocrisy The Broadest word is Truth The Strongest word is Right The Tenderest word is Love The Sweetest word is Home The Dearest word is Mother. ? Wonder Book of Bible REMEMBER Always remember to forget the things that made you sad. But never forget to remember the things that made you glad. Always remember to forget the friends that proved untrue. But never forget to remember those that have stuck by you. Always remember to forget the troubles that passed away. But never forget to remember the blessings that come each day. ? Unknown It is not required of every man and woman to be or do something great. Most of us must eontent ourselves with taking small parts in the chorus as far as possible without discord. ? Henry VanDyke LIFTERS AND LEANERS There are two kinds of people on earth today, just two kinds o( peo ple, no more, I say. Not the saint and the sinner, for 'tis well under stood the good are half bad and the bad are half good. Not the rich and the poor, for to count a man's wealth, you must know the state of his conscience and health. Not the humble and proud, for in life's little span who puts on vain airs is not counted a man. Not the happy and sad, for the fast flying years bring each man his laughter and eaeh man his tears. No; the two kinds on earth that I mean are the people who lift, and the people who lean. Wherever you go you find the world's masses always divided into just these two classes. And oddly enough, you will find, too, 1 ween, there's only one lifter to twenty who lean. ? Anonymous We can aceomphsh almost anything within our ability if wc but think that we can! Every great achievement in this world was first carcfully thought out . . . Think . . . but to a purpose. Think constructively . . . think as you read . . . Think as you listen . . . Think as you travel and your eyes reveal new situations Think to rise and improve your place in life. There can be no advancement to success without serious thought. ? George Matthew Adams Bill Whitley Washington Report (Editor's Note: This column is written by a member of Sen. Kerr Scott's Washington staff). Senator W. Kerr Scott has in troduced legislation that would allow school teachers to deduct the cost of summer school and academic work toward graduate degrees from their Federal income taxes. "The legislation would correct a very definite discrimination against teachers which has existed a long time," Scott said. "We allow big business to de duct the cost of wining and dining customers, but for all practical purposes, under the narrow rul ing of the Internal Revenue Ser vice, most teachers get no tax de duction for what they spend for summer school and courses lead ing toward graduate degrees," he said. "Keeping their certificates up to date and improving their stand ing in the profession is just as important to them as new ma chinery is to an industry," he said. "Almost all professions and bus inesses, including farmers, get cx pcnsc deductions that are similar and comparable to what I am pro posing for teachers," he said. Under Scott's bill, teachers would be allowed to deduct the total cost of tuition, fees, books and other equipment and expenses while tak ing courses that would improve their certificate standing. Scott said the need for the legis lation arose after the Bureau of Internal Revenue refused to grant such deductions by administrative order. He said the Bureau is will ing to allow such deductions in cases where teachers arc ordered to take courses by boards of edu cation. "The Bureau's approach is un realistic." Scott said, "because tbe vast majority of teachers have to maintain or improve their certifi cate standing on their own." Scott said that his bill would ap ply not only to teachers already at work, but also to persona hold ing teachers' certificates who want to take graduate courts before commencing their teaching ca reers. The Scott bill would cover tcach crs in both private and public schools. In the Good Old Days THIRTY YEARS AGO The First Baptist Church in Beaufort had purchased the Over street house to be used as a par sonage. Work had begun on a new Ne gro school in Beaufort. It would lie located at Queen and Mulberry Streets. Beaufort town commissioners had adopted car parking regula tions for Front Street between Cra ven and Turner Streets. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO A cyclone struck Atlantic, de molishing one two-story house and badly damaging nine others. The rural schools in the county would hold a track meet at the Smyrna School. Richard Felton, Beaufort, was advertising Easter specials. Men's hats for 98 cents, women's slip pers and oxfords for II, and men's suits for 115 95 were among the bargains. TEN YEARS AGO Btaufort Fire Department would sponsor a carnival next week on the lot south of Ann Street and next to the bridge. Beaufort Jaycees were sponsor ing a minstrel show at the Beau fort school next week. Grayden Paul of Paul's Machine Shop, Beaufort, wild hit building to his brother, llalsey Paul, own er of Paul's Garage. The machine shop equipment had been sold to various individuals. FIVE YEARS AGO Beaufort Jaycccs made tZOO on a minstrel show given at the Beau fort High School. Wiley Taylor Jr. was clcctcd president of the Beaufort Jaycecs. Plans had been drawn by Archie Royal Davis, Durham architect, for St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Morehcad City. Smile a While After a hard day at the office, a man went home to his wife and cute little three-year-old daughter. "Have you a kiss for Daddy?" he asked. "No." "I'm ashamed <rf you! Your Daddy works hard all day to bring home some money, and you be have like that. Come on now, Where's the kiss?" Looking him right in the eye, the three-year-old said, "Where's the money?" ?The Co-Operator "Why do you want such ? big sink?" asked the plumber o I the man building a new house. "Well," explained the man, "when my wife leaves in (he awn mer^she'#. generally goat (or a month I"
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