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Federal Aid to Fishermen? Fishermen of eastern North Carolina suffered loss of more than a million dollars in the recent freeze. The esti mate was made by officials of the 'North Carolina Fisheries Association. , When disaster hits the farmer in the same proportion as it has just hit the fisherman, immediate appeals are made to the federal government for funds, or other aid such as supplemen tary feed for livestock. Both the fisherman and the farmer sre food producers. Why, then, do the ! farmers get "the breaks" when it comes to emergency aid? One's immediate reaction is to feel' that the fisherman is simply getting an unfair deal. But there are other facts to be considered. Most of the nation's food supply is produced by the farmer. While con sumption of fishery products is inereas ing, the mainstay of the average per son's diet is land-produced. And look at the farmer today. He is hemmed in by regulations imposed by the federal government. The price for federal aid is federal control. Before controls can be imposed, rec ords must be kept. And the government ,has found that to keep records ac curate, many agriculture agencies and offices have to be established. These agencies help the farmer keep those records. They recheck them. It has taken years to train the far mers to keep records that will bear up under government inspection. Legions of workers, over the years, have been paid to compile those figures that re veal an overall view of the farm bus iness. When the fisherman wants to follow in the steps of the farmer, it is possible that a program of federal aid to the fisherman can be devised. It is well known that a fisherman is a fiercely independent individual. The working fisherman resents any kind of regulation. Perhaps it is because he has never seen tangible benefit from such regulation. An interesting question arises: If the oysterman would know that he could get government aid should his oyster production not meet a season's average, would he keep an accurate record of his oystering opera tions? ... On the face of it, this premise remains: if one food-producer is en titled to government aid, all should be entitled to such aid. We have never heard of the fishing industry getting, federal help except during hurricanes when the Small Bus iness Administration gave fishermen loans, not outright payments. Whether fishermen, a minority, can find an acceptable basis on which Con gress would grant them continuing aid, such as subsidies, is debatable. First of all, fishermen have to decide whe ther they, want such aid. And if they do want it, are they willing to submit to the control that goes with it? Trap for the Motorist The repeated number of accidents at the intersection of westbound Highway 70 and Highway 70A west of Mord^ head City, indicates that an additional warning signal is needed there. At present there is a red and white stop sign on Highway 70. Officers sug gest a red blinker light as an additional ?warning. We have written editorials about the intersection before. It's good subject matter because the intersection is cer tainly unique. Strangers have trouble figuring out the flow of traffic in the daytime?and at night they're almost at a complete loss. If a driver is drunk, a red light blink ing at him will probably do no good, i He's going to crack up anyway. But accidents occur at that intersection even when the driver is sober. The red blinker would, of course, be for the westbound traveler on Highway 70. He is the one who, at the intersec tion, suddenly becomes the fellow who does not have the right of way. In addition to that, if he's going to continue on his westward course, he must make ap angle turn to thfe left? or else end up in Willie Gray's junk yard?as many drivers do. The responsibility for putting addi tional warning signals at the treacher ous intersection lies with the state. We hope the situation is studied and action taken?either a red blinker light or some other warning put up?as soon as possible. Not Good Enough (Charlotte News) Out in St. Louis lives a man named ,AIphonse J. Dulle. Like most people, he has a mailbox. Like most mailboxes, his is just a plain box with black lettering. That isn't good enough for 27 of his neighbors, who got together and de cided they'd like their boxes to be black with white lettering. Mr. Dulle decided his is all right the way it is. It isn't all right with his neighbors, however. Because he has refund to conform to their color scheme, they've 'asked a court action to make Mr. Dulle paint his box black and add white let tering. That isn't all. They want him to get rid of his "unsightly, unfinished post" and put the box on a rack. Further, they want $2,000 for the anguish he's caused them. Out in our neighborhood there are all sorts, black with white letters, white with black letters. Some of the letter ing has a professional touch, some of it is obviously amateur. Some boxes are blue, some yellow. Some posts are metal, some four-by-fours, some un stripped cedar posts. But nobody has complained about this individual pref erence expression. We hope the judge throws the case out of court. Then, we hope, Mr. Dulle will paint his box with wide, alternate ing stripes of green and purple, the whole splotched with red polka dots. We think puce, or maybe burnt amber, would be a nice color for the lettering. And finally we hope Mr. Dulle takes tftne to thumb his nose at each and every one of the nice, neat, conforming black and white mailboxes sitting co zily on their racks. The job of the United Nations' Inter national Finance Corporation is to further economic development by en couraging the growth of private enter prise. It can invest in productive pri vate enterprise in association with pri vate investors where sufficient private capital is not available. The IFC also serves as clearing house to bring to gether investment opportunities, pri vate capital and experienced manage ment. Carteret County News-Times WINNER OF NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARDS A Merger of The Beaufort News (Est. 1912) and The Twin City Time* (Eft. ISM) Published Tuesdays and Fridays by the Carteret Publishing Company, Inc. 804 ArcndeU St.. Morehead City. N. C. LOCK WOO I) 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, $1-23 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 Circulations National Advertising Representative Moran A Fischer, Inc. 10 East 40th Street, New York 16, N. Y. The Associated Press la entitled exclusively to use for republication of local new* 1 in this newspaper, as well as ell AP newi dispatches Oaae Matter at Morehead City, N. C.. Under Aet at March $, IfTt. THE SECOND RED MENACE Security for You... By RAY IIENTtY From C.B.B. of Phoenix, Ariz.: My cousin who recently arrived from England plans to spend the next 18 months with me. He got a job about a week ago in a bank. Since the job is covered by Social Security, his employer is taking Social Security tax out of his pay. Is this right? He doesn't plan to live in the United States, so he'll never benefit from the tax he has to pay." The law requires everyone in a job covered by Social Security to pay the tax. It makes no differ ence whether he's an alien or whe ther he'll ever benefit from Social Security. From E.M.E. of Martinsville, Va.: "I have been drawing Social Security for almost a year now. My wife died in 1954. Should I re marry, would my second wife be eligible for Social Security upon my death?" Yes, if your second wife has been married to you at least a year before your death. She wouldn't be eligible for payments as a wife?that is, while you're alive?until you've been married for three years. From W.S.J, of Rock Hill, S. C.: "I'm an employee of the federal government and am covered by the civil service retirement pro gram. I put in four years of active duty in the Army in World War II. Is this military service recog nized as credit under the civil ser vice retirement program?" Yes, if the service was ended under honorable conditions. From F.W. of Woonsocket, R. I.: I have been told that 1 qualify for Social Security disability pay ments. I'm now 61. Will my pay ments bo more or less after I reach 65?" The payments will be the same | before 65 as they arc after 65. From S.E. of Toledo, Ohio: "I'm S8 and have never paid in Social Security. I'm desperately in need af money to live on. After reading your column. I believe you might be able to help me. What can I Jo?" Chances are you're eligible for Public Assistance from your state, rhis aid will come in the form of :ash if you arc without enough money or resources to provide the ssentials of living. From B.S.T. of Albany, N. Y.: Would you please tell me how much the operation of the Bureau Df Old Age and Survivors Insur ance will cost in 1957 and the aumber of people working for the bureau?" The cost of its operation will be about 119 million dollars and it *ill employ nearly 21,000 people. From Mrs. D.H.S. of Poplar Bluff, Mo.: "About three weeks ago, I was injured in an auto acci dent and will be away from my job for about three months. Am I eligible for Social Security disa bility payments?" No. One of the requirements to be eligible for Social Security dis ability payments is that the dis ability is expected to continue in definitely. However, you may be pligible for workmen's compensa tion. I would suggest you get in touch with the nearest unemploy ment compensation agency in your state. (Editor's Note: You may con tact the social aecurity repre sentative at the courthouse an nex, Beaufort, from 9:39 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Wednesdays. He will help you with your own particu lar problem). Washington Report By SEN. W. KERR SCOTT Some days ago Mr. J. George Stewart, architect of the capitol, told the Senate Public Works sub committee on public buildings that plans for extending the east front of the Capitol "do not belong to the public," which would pay the $10.1 million bill, and that the plans "arc not for publication." He said it wasn't a matter of secrecy?it was just "the way things are done on the Hill." He sure told the truth. Secrecy is what I often suspect Washington has the most of. ex cept waste paper, maybe. This secrecy thing, this all-too-frcquent business of "executive session," is something that merits scrutiny. Since Mr. Stewart's remark about "the way things arc done on the Hill," I've done some look ing-back into the record. 1 find that while there arc too many ex ecutive sessions, to my way of thinking, amongst Senate commit tees and subcommittees, the situa tion has been worse and the inci dence of such sessions apparently is falling off. Executive sessions arc as old as the Senate itself. From 1789 to 1795 all Senate business, with one exception, was done behind closed doors. The exception was in February 1794, lit debate over the seating of Albert Gallatin when, by vote of 19 to 8, specta tors were admitted. But the situation is improving. Congressional committees last year held fewer closed-door sessions than in any year since 1953, on a percentage basis. Senate commit tees closed only 33 per cent of their meetings to the public last year, four per cent fewer than in 1958. Committees and subcommittees I am on arc holding fewer cxccu tivc sessions. Forty-nine per cent of the Agriculture Committee's were closed-door in 1956; there were but 41 per cent last year. Thirty-two per cent of the post office and Civil Service - Commit tees sessions last year were closed, four per cent less than in 1956. On Public Works, 4^ per cent were executive sessions in 1956, but only 27 per cent last year. What happens in executive ses sions? Well. When we take up the agenda on the Agriculture Committee wc automatically go into executive session. Some days ago the only business involved watershed pro jects, two in Piedmont North Caro lina, Abbotts Creek and Deep Creek, and Senator Ellender, the chairman, said at the outset that all agencies concerned had en dorsed- them. They had come from county and state levels and been approved here by the Department of Agri culture and the Bureau of the Bud get without dissent. So, somebody in our executive session moved that they be au thorized by the Agriculture Com mittee and 1 seconded the motion and it was done. Our "executive session" didn't conduct any secret business, after all, and lasted about two minutes. In my many years in public life, I have heard a great many excuses for secret government meetings. There arc plenty of ex cuses given for conducting the public's business in secret, but I know of no re;.! justification. The new cars arc so streamlined a pedestrian can't tell whether he's been ran over or backed into. ? J ax Air News F. C. Salitbury Here and There The following information is ta ken from the files of the More he ad City Coaster: FRIDAY. FEB. 28, 1919 Ensign Stanly, who has been at the Naval Air Station for the past several months, left this week for New York. Miss Sadie Willis, who is teach ing at Grifton, spent the weekend in the city. Miss Marie Jackson, who is teaching at Bethel, spent a few days here with her parents. Miss Mary Loyd Hardy, after spending some time in LaGrange with relatives, returned to the city on Saturday. Carlyle Willis returned to Vance boro to resume his studies after spending the weekend in the city with relatives Born Saturday, Feb. 22, to Mr and Mrs. L. K. Finer, a son, Lu ther Woodland Piner. Mayor Gurney P. Hood returned Saturday from Raleigh after pre senting the proposed new charter to the senators and representatives of Carteret County for enactment. Mr and Mrs. D. G. Bell enter tained a number of their friends Tuesday evening from eight to twelve in compliment to Mr. and Mrs. I. C. Stallings. The guests were met at the door by Mr. and Mrs. Bell and ladies were shown to their coat room by Miss Winona Nelson while Master D. G. Bell Jr., quite patriotic in red, white and blue, assisted the gentlemen in disposing of their wraps. TTie Rev. R. H. Broom is in Dur ham attending a meeting of the representatives of the various classes of the Alumni Association for the purpose of formulating plans to erect a memorial to for mer students of Trinity College who died in France. Morehcad City now has a regu lar policeman, thank you. A bet ter selection could not have been made than the election of Ira Wil lis, whose return to the city is as pleasing to his friends as it is joyous to him. The members of Hose Company No. 2 wish to take this method of thanking Mayor Hood and the board of commissioners for ap propriating the nice room over Fire House No. 2 to the use of our members and for the installa tion of a telephone as well as a fire bell. The Company will give a basket supper to-night at the Atlantic Hotel for the benefit of the new room. Dancing will fol low. towh* Spivay Words of Inspiration PEOPLE ARE TBI RAMI Some would have ua believe that we have created a whole new war of life in this supersonic sge of science and invention. Some writers tell us, therefore, that we are different from our ancestors, and thus the old truths and the old beliefs that girded up our forebears must give war to new ones. But as the New Year swings into it's course, Father Time can tell us different. ^ We maj have changed the mechanics of life, the stage settings are different; we move faster and communicate with each other faster, but we have not changed. Our physical bodies still have to be fed the same as a thousand years ago, and the basic needs of man are the very same. Human beings still laugh at the same Jest, and weep over the same sorrows. There are no new vices and no new virtues; the facts of life are the same. Men still must have friendship, love, faith, hope, and the Gospel of redemption from their sins. We have much to make our lives more comfortable materially; we ought to use the future days as golden opportunities to make lives stronger in spirit and soul. The shining lamps of faith and hope must be kept bright, and the sights of every true soul pointed to God, or the very creature comforts that so possess us today may well bring us nearer to spiritual poverty and soul misery. Our Saviour said that a man's life does not consist in the abundance of things that he possesaeth There are no new virtues and no new vices. We have the ancient Gos pel for a modern world. It is desperately needed in all its glorious ap plication today, at home and abroad. ? Unknown SEVEN DEADLY SINS OF MODERN SOCIETY Worship without sacrifice Politics without principles Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Knowledge without character Business without morality Science without humanity. ? Unknown EVERYTHING GOING UP? "Everything is going up!" Well, the rain's still coming down; there's no war tax on sunshine, or the red and gold and brown of autumn leaves, or on the snow that jnakes a mountain's crown. "Everything is going up!" But bird songs cost no more, no 10 per cent for luxury on the jasmine round the door; and moonlight in my garden's as inexpensive as before. "Everything Is going up!" But the price of joy is the same; it costs no more to work or sing, or fan the ancient flame of love; and to a comrade's smile wo still may stake our claim. "Everything is going up!" Come, come what is that you say? The things that really matter cost the same today. The broad, blue sea, the mountain-tops, the trees, the rain, the sky; they arc tax-exempt forever ? oh, lucky you and I! ? The Speakers Library Simple Heart-Savi ng Facts That Everyone Should Know This is the last of a series of seven articles presented by your Heart Association to inform readers of this newspaper about the progress be ing made in the fight against heart disease. What can the average person do to safeguard his own heart? As has been noted in earlier in stallments, medical scientists have made dramatic progress in their fight against heart and blood vessel diseases. Well-established is the fact that some forms of heart disease can be prevented, a few can be cured, and that almost all cases can be helped by proper treatment ? especially after early diagnosis. Tremendous forward strides have been made in the prevention of rheumatic fever, the successful treatment of bacterial infections of the heart, the use of new and im proved drugs to control high blood pressure, and the surgical correc tion of congenital or acquired de fects of the heart. Dramatic progress also has been made in the diagnosis, care and treatment of patients suffering from "heart, attack", as in numer ous other phases of the cardiovas cular problem. But these are things largely, if not wholly, within the province of the physician. What, if anything, can the layman do? The answer to this question can be set down in six broad and gen eralized rules. They arc: 1. Don't worry needlessly about "symptoms". If in doubt, see your doctor. 2. Control your weight. Look better, feel better, work better, and live longer with normal weight. 3. Get enough rest. Regular rest relieves constant fatigue and light ens the work of your heart. 4. Keep physically fit. Exercise regularly and moderately. Have fun ? "but act your age". 5. Ease up ? and relax. Don't let tensions and anxieties wear you down. Relax and enjoy peace of mind. 6. Help fight heart disease. Re member that your contribution to the Heart Fund supports heart re search, and brings the latest ad vances to you through education and community heart programs. This last point deserves special consideration by every thoughtful person. However brilliant the progress made thus far, the simple fact re mains that a long and difficult road lies ahead before medical science can achieve victory over the heart diseases. Great gaps in our knowledge re main to be filled. Medical science, for example, does not yet under stand the underlying causes of hardening of the arteries, high blood pressure and rheumatic fever ?conditions responsible for more than 90 per cent of all heart dis ease. There is but one channel through which this vital new knowledge can be acquired ? research. It is a plodding, time-cdnsuming and costly venture that can be under taken only by skilled, technically trained persons of long experience. On the success or failure of their efforts depend the health, the hap piness and the well-being of many millions of persons, living and yet unborn. So until the major "break throughs" occur, Americans will be well advised to utilise not only the full resources of modem medi cine to help ailing hearts, but also to follow the six simple rules set forth above to safeguard healthy hearts. *1 ? ? ? ! Fill the Eemrtl u ...Do Your fart to H9M Hoart Oboes# snaring uranium At the recent General Confer ence of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United King dom said it would contribute 44 pounds of "pure" uranium. The United States offered 11,000 pounds and Portugal indicated she would make available mater ials from' which 1,575 pounds of uranium could be produced if the enormous coet of refining it could be met. The Soviet delegate said his government would contribute 110 pounds to the pool. Many other nations said they would supply materials and equip ment The Atomic Energy Ageney was set up In 1956 under the aus pices of the United Nations to share the peace-time nuclear ma terials and know-how. Smile a While A small boy asked the meaning of "guaranteed." It means "very good, most re liable, the best," his mother re plied?and forge* about it. .When bedtime came he gave her his goodnight kiss and hugging her, said with deep feeling, "Good night, guaranteed mother." -WOW Magazine
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