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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES Carteret County'* Newspaper EDITORIALS TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1958 The Experts Speak Town officials got the word "straight from the horse's mouth", so to speak, Wednesday afternoon when two repre sentatives of the Institute of Govern ment spoke to them on town zoning and planning. Beaufort's town clerk, Dan Walker, is to be commended for inviting the representatives. Usually, he explained, they don't care to speak to officials of just three or four towns. They pre fer meetings in a town where repre sentatives of many towns can attend. We appreciate the graciousness of Mrs. Ruth Mace and Mr. Philip Green Jr. in consenting to visit here. One of the consultants was told of a recent incident in this area where two property owners were in contro versy. They went, to the board of ad justment. The board heard the com plaints and then announced that it could do nothing until the persons themselves reached an agreement. If that is the position a board of ad justment takes, the need for a board of adjustment lessens considerably. The institute representative said the board is empowered to work out a solu tion and offer it to the arguing proper ty owners. If either one doesn't want to accept the decision, he may resort to the courts. For a board o * adjust ment to put the burden of solution on the property owners is ridiculous. The property owners are not as familiar with zoning laws as the board of ad justment, theoretically, is. Beaufort, at present, is faced with a decision as to the route Highway 70 shall take when it reaches Live Oak Street Some want it to go beyond Live Oak to the east and then rejoin High way 70 at a point north of town be yond the school. Mr. Green said that deflection of k major highway around a school can save lives. At present, the Highway 70 and Mulberry Street intersection at the school is terribly congested. Businesses in that area, however, are dead set against the highway going other than by their door. It is interesting how, in many places, businesses are anxious to get. off main thoroughfares into quiet, parking space-rich shopping areas. But here, evidently, this philosophy has not pene trated. Downtown Beaufort, at first, didn't want Highway 70 "way back" on Cedar Street. Fortunately, that's where the highway is going. It has always been our contention that people who want to shop will go "out of their way" to the store or shop ping area they have in mind as long as that area is accessible to an auto mobile! The Institute of Government repre sentatives also said that towns, legally, can set aside tax funds for "capital im provement" such as taking in new areas, and supplying them with sewer lines and street lights. It was their opinion too that Highway 70, for ex ample, could be "area zoned", along both sides from Beaufort to Cedar Island to assure pleasant surroundings for tourists passing through. If this meeting answered just one question for each town represented, it was Worthwhile. We think it did that. 4-H and You Mrs. Josephine Stanton McCabe, ex tension secretary in the office of Mrs. < Floy Garner, 4-H advisor, is guest edi torial writer today. Jifijr. editorial, on 4-H work, follows: Four-H'ers are wonderful people! Do you know any of these fine boys and girls here in our county, personal ly? Well, if your answer to that is no, I suggest, as one who does know them, that you acquaint yourself with them, and soon. Our 4-H'ers range in age from 10 to 18 or 19, and are to be found in every community in our coun ty. There are 4-H boys and girls at Ce dar Island, and there are 4-H'era at Stella, and that is about as far east and west as you can travel within our i county boundaries. We also have some from Craven County who attend school in Beaufort. They hail from Bachelor and North Harlowe. Our 4-H'ers go to school at Newport, Camp Glenn, Morehead City, Beaufort, Smyrna, Harkers Island, and Atlantic. They total over 1,200 strong, and they are all busy, active, interested and in teresting young people. This , week, the 4-H club boys and . f girls in our county are joining with 4-H'ers all over the nation in the ob servance of National 4-H Club Week. This is the time set aside each year to inform the public of the objectives and value of 4-H Club work and to deepen the loyalites of its members. The boys and girls, themselves, are telling the people about the wonderful opportuni ties offered them, through the 4-H Club organization. Perhaps, you, like so many others, have always thought that 4-H Clubs were for farm boys and girls exclusive ly. In the begiCning, this was true, but not any moref Times have ' brought about changes in 4-H. Today, there are thousands of urban and rural non-farm boys and girls, ac tively engaged in 4-H Club work. Four-H Club work has given and la giving millions of youth an oppor tunity to improve their lives through a program that has been planned for them, and one that meets their needs. Club work has made a definite contri bution to the strength of the nation, and it is with pride that 4-H Club mem bers and those of us who work with , them, honor their organisation during this week. It has been interesting and revealing to note during the ten years I have been associated with our 4-H'en, that some of them go to the top, some of them get about half-way to the top, and others never get out of low |ear> These last ones are no less Wight, no less interested, no less enthusiastic. Their lack is not in themselves, but in their parents. They do" not have and cannot gfcin the 'interest and Cooperation of their parents, and this one lack impedes their progress, dulls their enthusiasm and initiative, kills their interest to such a degree that they simply cannot go forward. Those boys and girls who do reach the top in 4-H (or other work), will tell you that they could never make it without the interest, cooperation and enthusiasm of their parents. Those who just get half-way to the top, usu ally make an excellent start. They work faithfully and diligently, keeping thei; project record books up to date, and meeting the requirements for com pletion. Maybe they win out In some county contest, and are supposed to represent the county in district competition, or state competition. This, of course, will take them away from home for a short period of time, and will probably cost ? little money. Here is where they meet with their parents' lack of interest and cooperation. They (the parents) "don't mind" their child's belonging to 4-H, but that is as far> as they go. They are not in terested in investing a little of their money and time to help their child de velop his talents and abilities. So ? the parents' cooperation IS necessary if the 4-H'er is to succeed. But they need even more than that. They need an adult leader ? at least one? in each community, to help them with their project work, and to strengthen the link that connects them with the other 4-H'ers in their com munity and the other clubs in the county. . The 4-H motto is "To Make the Best Better". The 4-H'ers are willing to strive to reach the top. Are you will ing to help themT n - - - r ? T, The International Labor Organisa tion of the United Nations works to im prove standards of living around the world by teaching workers, employees and governments how to produce more and better gooda, with no competitive advantage resulting from underpaid la bor. Sparked by American labor, it has pioneered in exposing such violations of bnman freedom as slave labor which exists in man? communist countries. CHAMPIONSHIPS ARE WON WITH BOTH HANDS ? Ruth Peeling Nobody Mentions It Any More... It seems very peculiar ? haven't heard a thing about Mel West fur the longest time. Like 1 said, if . . . ? Mel really was out there on the ocean and if . . . ? he did run into trouble, he should have written a note, tell what was happening to him, put it in a bottle and throw it overboard. Then maybe somewhere it would have washed up on a shore and we would know what happened to him. That's considering he was out there in the first place. Of course, someone could play what they would think was a very funny Joke, write a note allegedly from Mel West, put it in a bottle, throw it overboard and then watch the excitement when someone finds it. At present a. man by the name of John Bremer is making a 10, 000-mile round trip from New York, clMimAavi^ating North America In an 18-foot New Bern-built out board motorboat. Bremer, with his traveling com panion, Kai Petersen, stopped at New Bern the latter part of Jan uary. Bremer, who at that time did not know that West was off on a second trip, had a few comments to make about the Morehcad City adventurer. He termed West's first trip "a foolish, ill-planned stunt." "Everything I tried to do, that guy was thrown at me," Bremer told a New Bern newspaper re porter. He was referring to his own efforts to promote financial backing for hi* round-thc -continent trip. He said the boating Industry was damaged by West's voyage and the publicity that ensued. "I'd bet $5 I could make Ber muda in a 16 foot outboard," Bre mer ventured, "but I'd take plenty of time for planning and plenty of gas. And I'd make sure the weather was ripht before I start ed." Bremer, 35, is a writer and lec turer. He is under contract to Life magazine for the story and pic tures of his voyage. He and hia companion, who is 26, left Manas quan, N. J., Jan. 22, after their craft was displayed at the Na tional Boat Show in New York. They put in at Swansboro and made the side trip to New Bern to wait for engineers who were arriv ing to adjust crystals in their ship to shore radio equipment. The name of their boat is the Explorer (no close kin to the American satellite). From Swam boro they went along the inland waterway to Florida, from there to Key West and Havana. Their itinerary includes a brief stop on the Mexican coast, then south to the Panama Canal, up the Pacific coast, and enter the Bering Strait to negotiate the fabled Northwest Passage in early summer. They plan to reach Point Bar row, Alaska, by July 1 and get back to New York in August. By Bremer's estimate, half the trip has been underwritten by ma jor manufacturers. He and Peter sen pooled resources for the rest of the expense, counting on pro ceeds of lectures, movies, tv ap pearances, a radio and magazine contract to make up the deficit Bremer and Petersen have a framed sign which reads, "This is a non-profit organization. It was not planned to be that way, but it is." A new magnolia tree has been declared United States champion. It's a magnolia grandiflora stand ing in tbe front yard of Paul M. Myers, Pascagoula, Miss. The championship was estab lished by the American Forestry Association of Washington, D. C. The tree trunk's circumference is 13 feet 7 Inches; height of the tree is 32 feet and Its spread la 92 feet. It replaces the former grand champion of southern magnolias, a tree in Florida which died. No estimate has been reported on the age of the tree, but it has probably seen scores of generations come and go. The Swiss liner. Arosa Sky, sail ed from New York oo a cruise Thursday, it will sail from Wil mington oo a Caribbean cruise March 17. Author of the Week ZS.TSE GOOD OLD D2ZS THIRTY TEARS AGO The contract for bath houses and a dancing casino at Atlantic Beach had been let to a Charlotte firm. Structure would be completed by May 15. J. R. Norris of Atlantic was a candidate for the office of sheriff. Plana for * fulltime game war den in each county were discussed at a state conference of deputy game and fish commissioners in Raleigh. There was also a possi bility of establishing special li cense-selling agencies to relieve the wardens of license-selling. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO The Bank at Uorehead City had closed. The state legislature was still trying to deckle the question of six or eight months' school term and whether to have a luxury tax or a general sales tax. Carteret farmers were Increas ing their acreage of Irish potatoes. TEN YEARS AGO The Beaufort School Board had made a verbal agreement to leaae the ball park to the fire depart ment, which would erect a fence around the field, repair the grand stand and make other necessary improvements. Charles Hassell of Beaufort, Moose Tcnney and Bill O'Connell, both of Morebead City, were Judges at the boxing matches held in the Carteret recreation center in More head City. FIVE YEARS AGO ]. P. Harris was named Beaufort fire commissioner by the Beaufort town commissioners. Capt. Charlie Piner of Morehead City launched his tugboat which had been built on the shore of Bogue Sound at Shackleford Ave nue. The Newport town board ap proved payment for work on the town water tank which had recent ly been completed. Arnold Toynbee, author of "An Historian's Approach to History," is a native of London, a Balliol man, and an author of an impres cively long Hat of books, culminat ing in hia "A Study of History," which began in 1190 and wound up 10 volumes and two decades later. He has been a consultant and apokesman for Britain in inter national conferences following both wars. Just in Passing . . . The only people you should want to get even with are those who have helped you. These trying times are the good old days we will be longing tor a few decadea hence. Every time you give someone ? piece of your mind, you merely add to your own vacuum. Carteret County News-Times S WINNER OF NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARDS A Merger of The Beaufort News (Est. 1(12) and The Twin City Timet (Eat. 1136) Published Tuesdays and Fridays by the Carteret Publishing Company, Inc. 804 ArendeU St, Morehead City, N. C. LOCKWOOD PHILLIPS - PUBLISHER ELEANORE DEAR PH1LUPS ? ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER RUTH L. PEELING - EDITOR Hail Ratea: Id Carteret County and adjoining counties, W OO one year, *3-50 six *1.25 one month; elsewhere 17.88 one year, $4.00 sin months, $150 ooc Member o f Associated Press ? N. C. Press Association National Editorial Association ? Audit Bureau of Circulations National Advertising Representative Moran * Fischer, Inc. 10 Esst 40th Street. New York It, N. Y. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to use for republication of local news printed in this newspaper, aa well aa all AP news dispatches Entered as Second Class Matter at Morehead City, N. C., Under Act of March S, 1179 Loui? Spivey Words of Inspiration Guess I might be a wee bit jealous of Mrs. Tbeo B. Finney, Sea Level Hospital anesthetist shown in this picture. She has been invited to attend special lectures, movies, tours of hospitals and research or ganisations in New York City. March 3-6. This wonderful opportunity is sponsored by The American College of Surgeons for nurse anesthetists. Mrs. Finney came to Sea Level with her two daughters, Michele and Patty, on Sept. 1, to fill the position of anesthetist that I had held since the opening of the hospital. My hours are pretty well taken up and I had not had the opportunity to visit with her again until today. This opportunity came about by necessity. Or. Luther Fulcher had suggested lllll 1 have an electro cardiograph and a sedimentation test. I don't think my complaints could be caused by old age, although they probably are. My, how the hos pital has changed and all tor the bet ter. I was particu larly thankful {or the completely equipped "recov ery room" where all patients are taken and closely watched until fully Mrs. Thro B. Finney, anesthetic, (its a mask on awake from anes Mrs. Betty Daniels, Sea Level operating room thia mine, who acted as patient. ' can really ap preciate those beds in there that can be placed in any position by the turn of a handle. I can remember, through the years, having to use blocks or a stool when elevation was necessary during shock. The time has passed when oxy gen has to be braight from another room, for in the "recovery room", it is always there on one side of the bed, the suction machine on Uie other. The cabinets are filled with life-saving stimulants and sterile syringes ready for use. Everything within reach when the need arises. There in the x-ray room, 1 saw a new portable x-ray machine. So many times 1 have wished for one when a patient was injured and couldn't be moved without great pain. Many times it is needed in sur gery. 1 was so thankful to see it there. The new wing where Dr. Herbert Webb and Dr. Harold Peacock hold their daily clinics I believe to be second to none anywhere . . . clean . . , beautiful . , . complete. Many new faces have been added to the personnel, among these was pretty Mary Ix>u Norwood, RN of Morchcad City, a graduate of UNC. Her warm smile and efficiency is surely an asset to the clinic of which she is in charge. As I was examined and visited, I thought about how lucky we of Carteret County are to have two fine hospitals available to us. More head City Hospital serving our western area and Sea Level Hospital the eastern section. It is good to know that our own good doctors have the necessary fa cilities for their diagnostic use right here in Carteret County. Our doc tors and our hospitals together represent a good chance of recovery when we arc ill. It is wonderful to see a young girl wearing a nurse's uniform, "back home", serving her community. Guess if I were really jealous, I'd be gin with Mary Lou, instead of Mrs. Finney, although I really would like to go with her to New York. Wasn't it Nathan Hale who said "I regret that I have but one life to give fir my country?" I can truthfully say that "I regret that I have but one life to give to my profession." Captain Henry Sou'easter One of the ABC officers in this section tolls about the colored lady who' was suspected of selling boot leg whiskey. This was in Kinston, I think. The officers went to the house frequently, trying to find the moonshine, but no luck. Finally, the last time, the offi cers were warned not to let the lady out of their sight. They were to keep her with them from the moment they entered the house un til they got her to the jail. So they did. At the jail she was searched and in her bosom was found a two-quart hot water bottle filled with ? you guessed it, moon shine. When a customer came to the house, she opened her blouse, pour ed out the shot, and covertd up the evidence again. This was very handy, because in a raid, she could aak to "be excused" pour out the whiskey and few would suspect an empty water bottle if it were found! There's a tv program called The Price is Right. The first mate looks at U all the time. She drools all the time, too, over the things they give away. One of Carteret's well-known citi zens decided he would bid on the gifts being Riven away. The per son who bids elosest to the value of the gifts, without exceeding the value, wins. So he sent in a whole mess of postcards, a different price on each. He didn't watch the program the night the winner was announced. He was at his office. About 10 o'clock he got < call from his wife. "You won, dear," she said. "I did?" he asked happily. "Yes, you've won the vice preal dency of the PTA!" Seems as though the PTA met that night and the gentleman, in absentia, was elected to office. And then there was the girl grad uate, who sighed: "Four years at college, and whom has it got me?" When they were running short on natural gas In Macon, Ga., during the freeze week before last, a radio station kept broadcasting a request that listeners turn down their ther mostats five degrees so the gas supply would hold out. Toward the end of the day a listener phoned the station. She said, "I've been turning down the thermostat five degrees every time you aaked. It's now 40 degrees in my house and I'm getting sick and tired of it." > 4-H Salute to Patents /ifKJ NATIONAL mm CLIta WHK ( I
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