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TUESDAY, MARCH It, 1958 Even Steven? Once again North Carolina has a porta director, D. Leon Williams. If Mr. Williams is as highly qualified for the position as the SPA believes ha is, he can do the job North Carolina wants done. Due to alleged irregularities in op eration of the Georgia ports office, some observers feel that Mr. Williams is coming here "under a cloud". Well," there'll be quite a few clouds here to meet him. He's not walking into an easy job. He will be buttonholed by this group and that, warned against this man and told to look out for that one. He will be told by "well-wiakers" just how to han dle the so-called Morehead City-Wil mington rivalry. He will be given a lot of advice and "hush-hush" information that will be so much tommyrot. We're not well acquainted with Mr. Williams, but if he's any kind of a fel low at all, he comes here with an open mind and with one objective: to build the ports of Morehead City and Wil mington into North Carolina assets. In return, North Carolinians should meet him in the same way ? with an open mind. There's no reason why we both can't start out "even Steven". No Easy Way Out While many American industries are battling for survival in the face of an influx of cheaper-made Japanese pro ducts, Americans must remember that they are seeing only a small piece of a large puzzle. Industries affected in Carteret by Japanese imports are the cotton gar ment and cotton netting industries. Other Industries throughout the coun try are suffering from low-wage com petition from West Germany, Italy and Britain, as well as Japan. These countries, like the United States, find themselves in a business recession. The Japanese textile indus try isn't "well off" right now. Many of its exports to countries other than the United States are being curtailed by the importing countries. Japan is the only industrially-de veloped country in Asia. To survive, Japan has to sell the products it makes. Its big problem now is how to build exports in a world often closing the door on Japanese goods. If Japan cannot sell to the "West" or the free nations, she will most certain ly turn to Russian markets and markets provided by Russia's satellite nations. To have Japan, now in the democratic orbit, fall into the Communist orbij, would be disastrous in either a cold or hot war. The American who says "Stop buy ing Japanese goods" and who says, "Stop aid to underdeveloped nations, too" is prescribing suicide for America. Japan, like other countries, wants to sell to America because America has the dollars to pay. Yet America repre sents only a small segment of world population when compared to Asia and Africa. Why doesn't Japan sell to peo ple on those continents? Asians and Africans don't have the money to buy imports. Why don't they? Because they are primarily agri culture or mining countries that have years to go before reaching a stage re motely similar to the advanced indus trialization which produces goods and dollars. United States dollars are being pumped into those countries to help them pull themselves out of their prim itive states. Once the earning power of these countries is developed, nations like Japan won't have to look solely to the United States or other highly-de ?Veloped nations as a market for their goods. Thus, while this country may block Japanese imports, it must also provide some way for nations like Japan to dispose of its products without becom ing a part of the Communist bloc. It Is not easy for the American busi nessman who is hurt by imports or for the American taxpayer who sees dollar aid go abroad, to recognize these facta. There is no pat solution. Economic warn can be almost as bitter as shoot ing wars. And it's just as important to prevent economic wars as it is to pre vent shooting wars. So if boycott comes, or tariff walls go up to prevent import of cheaper made goods, United States will have to find another way to keep countries like Japan on an even keel ? and that will, undoubtedly, take dollars. Merely Human (The Charlotte News) The Congressional Record's prim concern for the tender sensibilities of senators and representatives is depriv ing the public of some splendid evi dence that politicians are, after all, merely human. A presiding officer meant to present Rep. Brooks Hayes (D-Ark.) as the "vice chairman of the committee" but wound up saying: "I present the chair man of the vice committee." But if you think such lip-slips are shared with C. R.'s readers you're dead wrong. Representative Hayes himself tells of the congressman who said in debate: "We have the Taft-Hartley Act. I mean the Haft-Tartley Act. Pardon me, Mr. Speaker, I am a bit confused." He was, indeed, but the reading public never suspected his delightfully human frailties. We keep wondering how the Record might have edited one of the most fam ous spoonerisms of all times ? the one about the man who shouted to two by standers as a thief drove his car away. "Did you dirty skunks see that gentle man drive off in my car?" i ? And if the world had relied on C. R. for the story it would never but never have enjoyed the Rev. W. A. Spooner's own classic twister: "I know only two tunes ? 'God Save the Weasel' and 'Pop Goes the Queen'." How Easter Seals Help The Easter Seal campaign will end in three weeks, on Easter Sunday, April 6. Proceeds .from the sale of Easter seals go toward care for crippled chil dren and adults. More than half of the money collected in Carteret County will remain here. It will be used to finance the speech therapy clinic this spring and to help individuals who suffer from any kind of crippling disease and need treatment, rehabilitation, guid ance or recreation. The Morehead City Junior Woman's Club again this year is ably directing the Easter Seal campaign. Persons who would like to contribute may mail their donation to Crippled Children, care of their local postoffice. Carteret County Newt-Times WINNER OF NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARDS A Merger ol The Beaufort New* (Eit. 1*12) and The Twin Citj Times (Eat. 1136) Published Tuesdays and Fridays by the Carteret Publishing Company, Inc. 504 Araadell St, Morehead City, N. C. LOCK WOOD PHILLIPS - PUBLISHER ELEANORS DEAR PHILLIPS - ASSOCIATE PUBUS&R RUTH L. PEELING - EDITOR Uafl Ratea: In Carteret County aad adjaiaing counties, one year, $3.50 aU months, $1.25 one month; elaewhere $T.OO one year, M.SO au montha, $1.50 one month. Member at Aaaoeiated Preaa ? N. C. Proaa Aaaociatiot National Editorial AaaocifUw ? Audit Bureau ti Circulationa National Adrertisuig Representative Moran * Fiacher, Inc. 11 Eaat 40th Street, New York 1?. N. Y. The Aaaoeiated Press to entitled raduairely to uae far republication <4 local am printed in this newspaper, as well as all AP news dispatches Entered aa Second CUaa Matter at Morehead City, N. C? Under Act af March S, 1*71 1 NOW FOR THE LONG COUNT DOWN <%t*Mn.UOHNlH?\ f^l Ruth Peeling Signs at New Bern Give us Boost as you drive on inc Dridgc spanning the Ncusc and enter New Bern from Bridgcton, there are large natural wood signs, plaeed at the bridge-end by the federal government, directing motorists to Carteret beaches. The signa are most attractive and are at a strategic spot. They should help a lot to turn motorists' minds toward coming this way to loll by the ocean. Persons watching Tryon Palace restoration, day by day, arc so enthusiastic that the enthusiasm seems to rub off on everyone with whom they come in touch. Mrs. A. J. Flowers, from the city of New Bern where the palace is located, brought many a chuckle Thursday night at the Beaufort Woman's Club meeting when she told where most of the fragments of palace pottery and glassware have been found. During the excavations in the early work of restoration, such fragments were uncovered on the site of the palace's outside toilets. The large number of fragments in those spots leads the restorers to believe that aervants, to conceal the fact that they had broken something, would toss the evidence down a place where they were sure it would never be found by Ilia Royal Highness. The woman s Uub is getting well along with its plans for Beau fort's Old Homes tour in June. An added feature this year is a bus and motor tour of landmarks in and around Beaufort. As proposed at present, Mr. Grayden Paul will be the lour guide. Mrs. Neil Gilchrist, chair man of the tour, says that people on the bus might hear what he has to say as the bus goes along, but people in the cars couldn't hear. Mrs. Paul's laughing comment: "Well, If he opens his mouth, you'll hear 'im!" If the ferry ever links Ocracoke to Cedar Island, visitors will have a lot to ace in Carteret. Perhaps, as in other places, landmarks could have permanent numbers posted on the property and tourists furnished with a small guidebook so that, on fheir own, they could visit the historic places and read from the guidebook a brief history about them. The cast of the Carteret Com munity Theatre play. Peekaboo Penny, presented the director, Trcssa Vickcrs, with a bouquet of red and white carnations between the first and second acts of the production last, week. Trcssa has been Morchead City'l play director for longer, perhaps, than she cares to remember. When ever a civic or church group de cides it wants to put on a play to make money, Trcssa is the one they go after. She directed the Carteret Com munity Theatre's first and biggest money maker, One Foot in Heaven. If the theatre had been giving awards that year, she certainly would have copped the best direc tor trophy. Mrs. David Bcvcridge was parked in New Bern Saturday a week ago. Her car door was open and a woman in a car behind her came along and gave it a whack. When the officer came to check on things, he said to Mrs. Bcv eridge, "How long have 'you been driving?" "How long?" Mrs. B. screeched indignantly, "Why, I haven't even left the curb!" The earthquakes in Wilmington this spring have been causing quite a bit of consternation in that quarter. Burke Davis, columnist for the Greensboro Daily News, says that the quakes arc just the shakes that Wilmington has had all the time, but they are more noticeable since Atlantic Coast Line has pulled out. Aims of National Library Week (The following Is condensed from ii article by Marchette Chute la the Jin. 1 Issue of the Library Journal). The United States could not exist without the written word. Take it away and the country could not operate. Nor can the United States exist without readers. Ours is govern ment of the many, not the few, and it it based on trust in its citizens. It trusts them to have formed the habit of finding out, and that means the habit of reading. We live in ? complicated and difficult time, when we must be well Informed If we are to sur vive, and at a democratic na tloa we depend on knowledge at we never have before. Yet, as a nation, we have not formed the habit of reading. A Gallup poll of 1955 showed that tl per cent of the adults in Amer ica have not read any book except the Bible the previous year. Ano ther survey showed that half the natioo'i adults live within a mile of a public library but only one fifth of them go iniiidc. Reading bas incerased In re cent yearn aa measured in news paper, magazine and book aales and in the use of public libraries, but the Increase baa not been aa great as It has been in many other uses of leisure time. The purpose of "this week" is to encourage the people of the United States to do more reading, and ita theme for the first year is "Wake Up and Read"! We cannot afford a country of lazy minds and the boredom that cornea from know ing little and caring less. We can not afford a nation of non-readers. Moreover, the habit of reading is not only vital to a democratic society but a source of enrich ment to the individual himself. It is tbe people who read who have the moot auccessful ca reers, for business and industry have never been able to find aa many educated and intelligent men and women aa they need. Moreover, any reader bas in bis IS TOE GOOD OLD BBS THIRTY YEARS AGO Bonner Willi? Jr. won the biby contest sponsored by the girls of the Beaufort Junior high school. Twelve pairs of Mexican quail were being imported into the coun ty in hopes o< increasing the game bird supply. R. E. L. Hardesty and E. D. Hardesty were in Morehead City hospital recovering from injuries received in an automobile acci dent. TWENTY-FIVE TEARS AGO St. Paul's Basketball team de feated tli* Smyrna team 14-13 and woe the county championship. Da vid Windley waa referee and Ro land Longest led with 7 points, Carlton Rose had ( and Cecil Bar rel! L : Superintendent J. G, Allen an nounced that the . school teachers would be paid promptly for the titfadgd grhffol term. TEN YEARS AGO A freighter, the Norfolk, ran aground near Fort Macon when seeking entrance through Beaufort Inlet to eacape high acas. The Markers Island Chamber of Commerce adopted ita constitution and by-laws. , Willard Willis was president; Gordon Willis, first vice president; Maxwell Willis, record ing secretary; Morton Willis, cor responding sccrtary, and Garry Yeomans, treasurer. FIVE YEARS AGO Storage tanka for the Dow Chem ical company would be built at the Morehead City Port terminal. Beaufort town commissioners re fused to support ? proposed bill to aboliah Beaufort recorders court E. B. Comer, Newport school principal, announced tbat he hoped to have both commercial and a vocational home economic! courses in the school soon. hands one of the world's gre?t re sources of entertainment, an activ ity that can be practiced almost anywhere and at any age. A child can read under an apple tree, a traveller in an airplane, a house wife shelling peas, an old man bound to the immobility of a hos pital bed; and each of them will be released into a world of de light that could never have existed otherwise. The first emphasis of Library Week will be oa the libraries of the United States. And so we present here the li braries in our county where free treasure awaits you and urge you to visit them regularly and to en courage your children to do so too: Carteret County Public Li brary, Broad and Pollock Streets, Beaufort; Webb Memorial Library, 9th and Evans Streets, Morehead City; and Newport Library, PTA Center Monday afternoons. Reading Mother By STRICKLAND GILULAN I had a mother who read me lay* Of ancient and gallant and golden days; Stories of Marmion and Ivanhoe, Which every boy his a right to know. I had a mother who read me things That wholesome life to the boy heart brings. Stories that stir with an upward touch Oh, that each mother of boys were such! You may have tangible wealth untold Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold . Richer than I you can never be I had a mother who read to me. Just in Passing . . . "It won't be lawn now," laid the motorist aa he backed over his neighbor's front yard. A monologue is a conversation between a traffic cop and an auto mobile driver. Loulf Spivey Words of Inspiration MISTAKES There are ?U mistakes that many of ua make, laid a famous author, and then he gav? the following liat: The delusion that individual advancement ia made by crushing others down. The tendency to worry about things that cannot be corrected or changed. Inslatlng that a thing ia impossible bccause we, ourselves, cannot accompliah it. Refusing to aet aside trivial preferences in order that important things may be accomplished. Neglecting development and refinement. The failure to eatablish the habit of saving money. ? Selected Too much worry ia spent on things we can't control. Too little on things we can do something about. You can't control the annoying faults of others, but you can do some thing about your own. And while you're working on them, the other fel low's will not look so prominent. You can't control the opportunities of your associates, but you can accent those that knock at your door. You can't control the facial characteristics with which you were born, but you can control your expression. A smile coupled with a understand ing spirit can make the difference. Let's spend our time and thoughts on things we can do something about, those within our own control. Neglect not the gift that is in thee. ? (I Timothy 4:14) ? Rev. A. Purnell Bailey ALL INKIDK Last eve I walked a certain street and met such gloomy folk; I made ?.eat hast to pass them by, and neither smiled nor spoke. The giant elms drooped sullenly, the very sun was dim, I met a friend, and said, "I hope I've seen the last to him." Today I walked the selfsame street, and loved the folks I met; If business had not made me leave, I would have been there yet. Of course, I've solved the mystery, 'tis very plain to see; The day 1 met the gloomy folk, the gloom was inside me! ? Unknown What have you done today that nobody but a Christian should do? Doing the best you can with the little opportunities that come along will get you farther than idly wishing for the big chance that may never come. You can't control the length of life, but you can control its width and depth. Ego is the only thing you can keep on growing without any nourish ment. Human minds arc like wagons. When they have a light load they are much nosier than when the load is heavy. There is an old Roman proverb that says, "A learned man has al ways wealth within himself." Captain Henry Sou'easter The golf pro, M?c MeCuiston, drive* an old gray Studebaker that he dearly loves. Every ear dealer looks at it, wondering how or what is necessary to make Mac part with his galloping ghost. Marion Mills, seeing Mac drive up to the club in it the other day, tried this: "Who was hurt in that wreck?" Kids all over the country are trying to send up rockets. And kids themselves are getting blown up in the process. There's one thing sure, if all our young rocket enthusiasts kill themselves off early, none will be around to build the real thing when they should be. North Carolina interprets rocket firing as coming under its anti fireworks law. Well, that will do, I guess. A lot of people still think rockets are playthings, anyhow. Living It up . A retired gentleman of Beaufort wrote in out of town friend. The out-of-town friend was afraid if he retired and came to Beaufort he would be quite bored. The retired and happy Beaufort resident wrote him that he himself had plenty to do because he was a member of the Emeritus Club, the historical socicty and the ceme tery association. How to raise your pay: The fatherly head of a big con cern called one of his young office boys before him. "You're dressing pretty expen sively," he said, "and 1 hear you took a girl out to dinner last night, drank champagne and then went to the movies. Don't you think that's flying too high for $27.50 a week?" "Oh. not at all," the young man said, "You see, I really make be tween ISO and $60 a week by raffling off my check to people in the office." ? From the Bookshelf Peace River Country. By Ralph Allen. Doubleday. $3.75. The New England Story. By Henry Beetle Hough. Random House. $3 95 O Genesee. By Janet O'DanicI. Lip pincott. $3.95. If any calling has won for ita followers the reputation of being hard-boiled and cynical, it is jour nalism. The newsman la the fel low who lets nothing? sentiment, decency, loyalty or law? stand be tween him and his story. So naturally I blow on my fin gers before I pick up these three novels by present or one-time newspaper people, for fear they'll be too hot to tell newspaper read era about. Never believe that old legend again. Here are books so tender, sentimental, mild and sweet they'll bring tears to your eye and sobs to your throat. Except for one epithet, Allen's almoat could be a juvenile, it is such a pretty little Pollyanna-lsh story about a mother trying to support two darling children de serted by the father who has taken, alas, to drink. It's full of silver linings? the gift of food to the hungry and aban doned family, the gift of a home, the gift of a 50-cent piece by a brakeman to the drunk, the par don granted the boy who swipes candy. Hough's hero writes about an old whaling captain, whose deacend anta urge him? the hero? to "let us be what you can make of us, not what we really are," and Hough, too, does his characters this amiable kind of justice and bars and bolta the doors against aordid realism. Miaa O'DanicI alao haa a hungry family rescued at the laat faint ing moment by the gift of food. About tin settlement of the Gene see valley. It gets a bit more mas culine, thanks to a runaway horse, the shooting of an Indian and the war with the British, than the works of her male colleagues. The Allen and tlough are Liter ary Guild selections. Allen, editor of Canada's Maclean's magazine, has reported for Winnipeg and To ronto papers. Hough and Mrs. Hough are the well known editor and publisher of the Vineyard Gazette. Miss O'Daniel used to work on papers in Itliaca, N. Y., and Altoona, Pa. ? W. G. Rogers Stamp News By 8 YD KHONISH France has issued four new stamps in Its famous cities scries. Each bears a scene of the city and the name. The 12 franc is for Le Havre, 15 fr Maubege, it fr Saint Die, and 25 fr Setc. Also issued by France was a 15 franc plus 5 semi-postal for "Stamp Day." Depicted on thia adhesive arc French postmen de livering the mail. They are travel ing on the road via bicycle, motor cycle and truck. Liechtenstein has lamed a new aet of four sports stamps. The 15 rappen depicts swimming, 10 r fencing, 40 r tennis, 90 r cycling. Also issued on the same day were two new stamp* for the Interna tional Exhibition at Brussels. The 25 r and 40 r show a relief map of Liechtenstein.
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