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Housing Deal Blows Up? Where do things stand now in the Eastern Carolina Regional Housing Au thority situation? Governor Hodges has fired his repre _ sentative on the authority. This fol lowed the firing of Wayne County's representative. The Carteret County board of commissioners, at present ap parently, has no intention of asking its representative, I. E. Pittman, to resign. Mr. Pittman is chairman of the au thority. Mr. Pittman, Morehead City, told the board Monday that he would like to stay on the housing authority until the present trouble is "straightened out". He was referring to the fact that the housing authority approved payment of $1,165,000 for housing near Sey mour Johnson field, Goldsboro, which, the federal government says, the hous ing authority already owns. The deal was recently investigated by representatives from 10 counties , which have housing units administered by the ECRHA. The investigating com mittee recommended that the county boards take proper action to see that the ECRHA stands up and asserts that it owns the Seymour Johnson homes. Proper action was interpreted by the governor and Wayne County as firing their representatives on the authority. Pamlico, Sampson, Duplin and Onslow Counties didn't fire their representatives, but told them to do as the investigating committee rec ommended. Mainly, that was fire Em mett Powell and N. E. Mohn, executive director and assistant, respectively, who stood to profit by the deal. The opinion seems to be now that if the ECRHA cancels out on the homes purchase, as it certainly must in the face of what has transpired, that Powell will have to go to court if he wants to prove that the property in question is his and not the govern ment's. T. J. Collier, Pamlico County mem ber on the ECRHA, said he believed that the lawyers advising the authority, D. L. Ward, New Bern, and John Lar kins, Trenton, were as much to blame as members of the authority them selves, since the lawyers let the deal proceed. Johnston County, as well as Carteret, has reaffirmed faith in its representa tive. Now the public waits. Net Industry Suffers Too The textile and garment industries are not the only ones affected by the influx of cheaply made Japanese goods. Standard Net Manufacturing Co., Beaufort, has been hard hit ever since 1956. ? Standard Net uses cotton twine and rope for the manufacture of sports nets. It is faced with the same depressing set of economic factors as the manu facturers of cotton cloth and cotton garments. Japan buys the cotton in this coun try at prices lower than United States firms can buy it. Japan manufactures it and sells it back to this country at prices lower than it costs us to manu facture it. ' Walter Lasker of Standard Net re ports that Japanese net makers are paid 10 cents an hour. How can Amer ica's dollar-an-hour pay, required by law, compete with that? Standard Net's volume of business has fallen 50 per cent since 195$. At one time the firm employed close to ? 300 workers in Beaufort and down east. Now the labor force has dropped to 65, many of those working only part time. Japanese firms have offered to sell Mr. Lasker the finished net product, at 50 cents a dozen. Mr. Lasker declined, saying that he would keep Carteret i County people at work as long as possi ble. Today in 5 and 10's and other stores which aim for volume, Japanese-made products are available at ridiculously low prices. The American shopper buys a Japanese-made blouse for a dollar and thinks she is getting a bargain. Be hind that "Made in Japan" tag are hundreds of American textile workers who today do not have a job because of the flooding of American markets with cheap Japanese products. Behind every net marked "Made in Japan" there are net makers, just like those in this county, who are now with out net-making jobs because of the . Japanese competition ? which the United States government fosters and United States taxpayers finance. During the first world war, Ameri cans boycotted German-made goods. During the second world war anything marked "Made in Japan" was shunned. An American merchant couldn't move it off his shelf. Perhaps the only way the South can save its cotton manufacturing industry is to promote another campaign to boy cott Japanese made goods. A drastic measure to be resorted to only in wartime? Perhaps not. This is economic war and the result, if Ja pan keeps on winning, means an in crease in the South's unemployed. Down With the Sack! Garment workers went on strike last week. We're not sure why but we hope it was in disgust over having to make bags. Bags are the new mode of apparel for females. Oh, they go by other "glamorous" names, such as "sack" or "chemise" (which usually ends up be tng pronounced "shimmy"), but in the final analysis they're all bags. The radical change to a shapeless covering for a woman is believed by the dress industry to be "just what the doctor ordered" to make the women junk their present wardrobes and rush out to buy the new styles. From what we've heard round and .about, the campaign is meeting with opposition. Even the women who, we're told, used to cower under Paris dic tates, are passing up the racks of sacks. The sales clerks are trying every thing. "Oh, just try them on. You'd be surprised how comfortable they are." Yep, just as comfortable as the old shapeless housecoat you put on in the morning while you eat breakfast. But you wouldn't be caught dead in that housecoat on Front Street. Will you tell me why they sell cer tain "appliances" to poke a woman out here and hold her in there, and then after all this remolding, cover it up with something that looks like the cover thrown over a nude dummy in a dress shop window? It doesn't make sense. But when it comes to clothes, women don't make much sense anyhow. Some who are actively rebelling against the shapeless sacks are taking to their sewing machines and making the clothes that look best on them. More power to 'em. 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 Times (Est. in) Published Tuesdays and Fridays by the Carteret Publishing Company, Inc. S04 Arendell St., More head City, N. C. , LOCKWOOD PHILLIPS ? PUBLISHER ELEANORE DEAR PHILLIPS ? ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER ROTH L. PEELING ? EDITOR Mail Rates: In Carteret County and adjoining comities, It. 00 one year, $3.50 six months^ $1.25 one month; elsewhere $7.00 one year, $4.00 six months, $1.50 one month. Member o< Associated Press ? N. C. Press Associatloa ' National Editorial Association ? Audit Bureau of Circulations National Advertising Representative Moran k Fischer, lac. 10 East 40th Street. New York !?, N. Y. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to use for republication of local new* printed In this newspaper, as well as all AP news dispatches Entered as Second Class Matter at Morebead City, N. C? Under Act of Marth $, 1J79 EASIER GOING IF THEY'D CUT OFF THE CABOOSE r r ? 0 ~ f m iMBSi'flliw lliilMii il'H War iH ?MI? fc I Ruth P? ling Dan Walker Delivers Water A couple weeks ago Dan Walker delivered, in person, some Beau fort water to Stanley Winborne, chairman of the State Utilities Commission. Dan stopped at Raleigh en route to the town administrators' school he attends at Chapel Hill week ends. The jars of Beaufort water looked too much like bootleg whis key to carry them in his arms to Mr. Winborne's office. So he put them in a shopping bag. After he got in Winborne's of fice, he set the bag down by the chairman's desk, went through the usual howdy-do's, then reached in the bag, pulled out a, jar and set it in front of Mr. Winborne. The chairman's eyes popped "Well, I do declare," Mr. Win borne grinned, "I haven't seen any of that for a long time." His interest soon was turned to the busincu at Juod, however, when Mr. Walker informed him it was just water? smelly, sandy wa ter at that. Mr. Winborne turned the water over to W. S. McKimmon, chief engineer of the State Health De partment. ?Congratulations t o Mewellyn Phillips, Morehead City senior who is the most recent Carteret student to be awarded a scholarship to one of the state's top educational institutions. Mayor George Dill of Morehead City calls Llewellyn's award "the biggest news that has happened here in a long time". "If a child has the proper incen tive and encouragement, he can absorb learning," the mayor con tinued. "Education is a lot more than just reading and writing. After the second world war there was a let-down on the part of the family to sec that children apply themselves. "Children rebel against the harder courses in school. When I went to school here, I got four years of Latin. But pupils don't get it any more. Our schools ara exactly what we have made them." The mayor continued, "We have other students who are outstand ing. But they need an incentive for learning." That, the mayor said, must come from the parents, an well as the school. John Motley Morehead, grand son of the founder of Morehead City and donor of the Morehead Scholarships, was recently hon ored in New York for his contribu tions to North Carolina. The North Carolina Society of New York, at its 60th annual meet ing, presented him a Citation of Honor. It lauded Mr. Morehead's achievements in business and sciencc. William C. Friday, president of UNC. presented Mr. Morehead a certificate of appreciation for his gifts to the university. The Central Carolina Convales cent Hospital, Greensboro, where many a polio patient has been treated, will close its doors Sept. 30. By the end of this week, hos pital trustees say there will be only 21 patients in the hospital, as compared with 129 when the hos pital opened its doors to polio pa tients in 1948. The reduction of the number of polio patients "is a fine tribute to polio control and we can well be proud of the effectiveness of the Salk vaccine," comments Floyd Craft, president. Mr. Craft says the hospital is in excellent physical condition and will probably make a valuable plant for "some noncommercial o-;;aniiation". Scheduled to occupy the two new brick buildings going up west of Pownum's on Arendell Street, Morehead City, are Dora Dinettes, Western Auto, the Employment Security office and Sherwin-Wil liafns paint store. B. B. Baker Jr., an oceanogra pher with the USN Ilydrographic office, Washington, p. C., wrote recently and asked us for infor mation on the shark attack on Ru pert Wade last summer. We sent him what information we had. stating that it has never definitely been proved that Mr. Wade was mangled by a shark. Mr. Baker wrote back, "Very likely the attack on Mr. Wade was by a shark, as most attacks by barracuda take place closer to shore. Considering the presence of numbers of species of sharks along United States coasts known to be dangerous, it is a wonder that more attacks do not occur." Free Wheeling By BILL CROWELL Department of Motor Vehicles THE FIXERS . . Of necessity, state troopers can't baby their cars. So when road weariness be gins to show through they turn them in to one of six spicand-span garages, operated by the State Highway Patrol, for mechanical therapy. Stroll into any one of the patrol's modern gear-and grease establish ments and you'll sec anywhere from one to a half-dozen highway cruisers undergoing repairs. Exper ienced mechanics can handle any thing from a punctured tire to a major engine overhaul. In a pinch they can even rebuild a wrecked car from the ground up, but ordi narily such heavily damaged cars are junked in safety's favor. Specialists in electric wiring, glass and sheet metal arc on duty at each of the garages to mend parts and equipment damaged in action. They get a steady diet of broken window glass, mashed fend ers and doors, body dents and scratches and the like. Highway patrol cars, bear in mind, are driven six miles for every one mile you drive. Patrol cars, during the two years they are in use, arc operated at about an average of three cents per milt. Half of the. 600-vehiclc fleet is replaced each year with new models, a complete change-over oc curing every two years, of course. At present, the entire fleet is made up of Ford and Chevrolet sedans, specially-powered and beefed-up mechanically for heavy duty. New cars, fresh from the manu facturer, arrive at the patrol'* headquarters garage in Raleigh and are completely serviced be ' fore being assigned Mechanics in stall three-way radios, a combina tion roof-mounted red light and si ren, and a state seal on either door. Each new car is further equipped with a fire extinguisher, first-aid kit, flares and shovel. Safety seat belts are installed before the car goes the first mile ob a regular patrol. Those radios, contrary to a wide ly held opinion of the public, give relatively little trouble. The curi ous motorist, seeing a trooper speak Into his radio, feels certain it must be a heavy juice user. How ever, the maintenance and repair force has found that standard equipment batteries, when proper ly used, operate quite satisfactori ly. The radio receiver, which is constantly on, pulls about four or five amps. The transmitter, used intermittently, about 30 amps. Tires, though, catch it like all get-out. Subject to abuses that would horrify the average car own er, patrol tires nonetheless last a respectable eight to ten thousand miles or more before they are re placed. Hardly anybody gets more than about 15,000 miles on a set of new tires. What brands are favored by pa trol repairmen? They're not say ing, but they do use nearly every standard make of tire. The same goes for batteries. While major and minor repairs are handled by mechanics, ordi nary maintenance It left up to in dividual patrolmen. Weekly wash ing, and periodic lubrication and oil changes, are looked after by each officer. Off duty, many troopers wax and band rub their cars to a gleaming finiah in order to present tbe be ft appearance on the highway. Garages and the mechanics who man them are under the jurisdic tion of the patrol's communications and transportation division, head ed by veteran lawman Major W. B. Lentz, a charter member of the 29-year-old highway patrol. Major Lentz employs 38 trained technicians to keep the patrol's vast fleet of vehicles rolling through all kinds of weather, night and day, tbe year around. And trooper* who, in a year'a time average up something like 20 million miles of protective patroll ing, can look, to competent help from tbi> little heard-about patrol operation when their ailing steeds need attention. Author cf the Week William Maier, ex -businessman and ex-Marine Corps major, haa turned definitely to fiction, he saya, with his third novel, "The Wonder ful Sibleys." A native of Schenectady, N. Y., he was educated at Phillips Exeter and Princeton. He Uvea la Plain field, N. J. Smile a While There is a waiter in a New York restaurant who la reported to be an expert on the waiter "there's a fly in my soup" Jokes. (You know most of the answers: "Thafa all right, he can swim"; "Not so loud, everybody'll want one"; "What do you want for a nickel, a humming-bird?" "It's not hot enough to bum him," and so on). 1 Ills latest answer to a customer who complained about fly I* hia ice cream waa: "That's all right? he likes winter sports." ? J.G.F. in Batarday Review Just in Passing .. Luck h*s a peculiar habit of favoring those who don't depend M it Loulf Spivy Words of Inspiration SINGING Until about three weeks ago, our church waa blessed by having a very fine music director, Mrs EUen Piner. Some of you knew her ai Ellen Sprinkle, for ahe had lived in Carteret County when her father waa a minister here. During the time ahe served In our church ahe organized aeveral choirs and had the unusual gift of being able to bring out the best in music. She left us to join her husband, Robert Bruce Piner, in the western part of the atate. Our congregation will miss her for a long, long time. Moat of us enjoy the privilege of Joining the choir In ainging. There Is a sermon for me in most of the old songs in our hymnal. Many are associated with perhaps the happiest years of my life, when my chil dren sat beside me on Sunday morning. During the time Ellen served our church as music director, ahe placed thoughts such as the following in our order of service: The singing of "hyipns, psalms, fnd spiritual songs" should be a thrilling experience for every Chriatlan. Through congregational sing ing we can in reality pray, give testimony, express adoration and praise, and issue an invitation to the unsaved. As Christians sing they should meditate on the meaning of the words being sung. A spirit of worship and dedication should prevail as Chris tians join hearts and vtiices in Joyful song. Too often we fail to heed their admonitions. We sing "Sun of My Soul, Thou Saviour Dear," but stay away from the house of God when the weather Is' too hot. Wc sing "Sweet Hour of Prayer," but content ourselves with little or no daily prayer time. We sing "O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing," but do not use the one we have to ten people of the love of Christ. We sing "There Shall be Showers of Blessings," but let a shower of rain keep us from attending church. We sing "1 Love Thy Church, O God," but are hesitant in responding to the needs of the church. We sing "Hiding in Thee," but our actions endeavor to hide from God. We sing "Blert Be the Tic," but let the slightest offense sever Chris tian fellowship. We sing "A Charge to Keep I Have," but fail to give a good account of our stewardship. We sing "We're Marching to Zion," but fail to keep in step with the program and progress of the church. Wc sing "1 Love to Tell the Story," but seldom tell that story to those about us. We sing "It is Well With My Soul," but proceed to worry ourselves into mental breakdowns. Wc sing "Welcome, Delightful Morn," but fail to find our places in God's house on God's day. We sing "1 11 Go Where You Want Mc to Go," but fail to go when the opportunity is afforded. We sing "Onward Christian Soldiers," but wait to be drafted into Christian service. We must face the question realistically: how sincere are we in our singing? Captain Henry Sou'easter Claud Wheatly was invited to ?pvak recently to one of the I'TA's in the county. The business meeting was con ducted Time marched on. Then the grade children gave their pro gram. llanda of the clock kept daggering on. Finally, the presiding officer an nounced that (he group would now have the pleasure of hearing from Mr. Wheatly. Mr. Wheatly stood up and said they .would not hear from him either. He said it was time for the young'uns there to be home in bed. And he sat down. The meeting was over. Odell Merrill's picture was in the News and Disturber so much last week that some folks are thinking he's getting ready to run for gov ernor. Tom Hughes, the Marine flyer lost last week, was at the Blue Ribbon Restaurant Sunday night. Tom. who was recently moved to Beaufort, S. C , has quite a few acquaintances around here. Tom and a fellow pilot, Bill El lard. were last h?ard from at 3:38 p.m. last Monday while on a train ing flight. I wonder how many recall the days when one of Beaufort's now prominent citizens equipped his jalopy with screens so that the windows could be rolled down and be and his girlfriend could woo, undisturbed by mosquitoes, at the Black Cat. in TEE GOOD OLD BETS THIRTY YEARS AGO W. A. Mace of Beaufort, W. B Blades and A. R. Marks of New Bern and David Thorton of Atlan tic City, N. J., were going to Fer nandina, Fla., to operate a men haden plant. A rum runner with 800 cases of liquor was seized near Southport by the Coast Guard. Charles S. Wallace of Morehead City had not yet announced his candidacy for lieutenant-governor, although his friends were expect ing it momentarily. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO The national bank holiday, which had been ordered by President Roosevelt, made little difference to Carteret County residents, since the only bank in the county still solvent was the Bank of Newport. The Beaufort banks had closed a year ago. Beaufort town commissioners gave permission for a driveway in front of the S. W. Davis Co. on the south side of Front Street. TEN YEARS AGO Beaufort School wa> to add a commercial tcachcr to its (acuity next year. The county board recommended $35,000 (or inclusion in the coming year's budget (or building a gym and two classrooms at the Markers Island school. Beaufort Chie( of Police L. B. Willis announced that stray and unlicensed dogs would be shot. FIVE YEARS AGO Superior Court Judge Henry Stevens ordered the grand jurors to investigate 500 county residents who had (ailed to list their taxes. Morehead City town commis sioners voted to call a public hear ing April 6 to discuss annexing residential areas west o ( the pres ent town limits. The Ocracoke civic club voted to support the proposed coastal high way. Stamps in the News By 8YD KRONISH To honor the World'! Sri Cham pionship* held in Finland thii year, that nation has Issued two special stamps. The 20 markka dcpicta a aki jumper in action while the JO markka ' shows a tidier climbing to hit starting position. Also reported from Finland is a 30 markka adheaive commemorat ing the 400 anniversary of the City of Pori (Bjorneborg). The central design la from a painting, "The March of the Bferneborgienaes," by Albert EdcUelL The British Crown Agents' office reports a special issue of three vslues for Malta honoring "the intensification of technical educa tion" in Malta. Each value is of different de sign depicting various aspects of technical education. Every stamp also will include a portrait of Queen Elizabeth. West Germany has issued a new stamp publicizing its anti-forest fire campaign.' The 20 pfennigs green stamp shows the burned taps of trees. Over the trees in white lettering Is "Veitaettr Wald Braende." This means "Avoid Forest Fires." Almost 3,200 stamps picturing various topical subjects were is sued by the governments of the world during ISO. This list was compiled by the American Topi cal Assn. in iU latest bulletin.
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