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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES Cartarvt County's N?wapap?r EDITORIALS FRIDAY, MARCH 21. 1958 What You Can Do How can you help build the business in this area this summer? If you are a member of a club, it is probably one of those clubs which has a district meeting or a state meeting some time during the summer months. Why not invite the larger unit of your group to meet on the Carteret coast? J. M. Davis, chairman of the More head City Chamber of Commerce tour ists and conventions committee, says "Local club members' inviting their groups to our Morehead City can be more effective than a formal invitation from the chamber." The United States Chamber of Com mefce reports, "If a community de velops ita tourism potentials to where it attracts a couple dozen tourists a day throughout the year, that is economi cally comparable to acquiring a new manufacturing industry with an annual payroll of $100,000." Mr. Davis reminds club members that if they invite a convention here, the Chamber of Commerce stands ready to assist them in any plan or ar rangements that have to be made. Carteret County has hotels, motels. Inns and lodges ? let's fill them up in '68! (If your group has already made plans for this summer, booking them for '59 will be fine). Just Wishing ? Or Doing? Do you ever walk into a friend's house, see a built-in desk or compact home laundry and say* "I wish our house had that!" Lots of wishes can come true, if folks get out of the hypnotic state of just "wishing" and decide to DO. Taking part in The News-Times Home Improvement Contest can help put you in the frame of mind to make some improvements to your home, whether it's add a room or just build an attractive nook shelf for a cprner. The Home Improvement Contest is under way now. It started Tuesday and will continue through April 22. In Tuesday's paper appeared the first "home inventory" blank. One of these blanks, for different areas of the house, will appear in each Tuesday issue through April 22. # Actually, the blanks are check lists. They help show you what can be done to improve a house. Have you thought of* putting up acoustical ceiling to "sound condition" a room, or enlarging a closet that is always overflowing with coats, mops and toys? Maybe you're in the frame of mind of "something's got to be done!" but you don't know just what. The "home inventory" contest blanks in the Ttifefe day paper will help you out. After you work with them, you will see just, how much you CAN do, without large ex pense in many cases, to improve your home. The final entry blank in the contest will appear April 22. This blank will be a bit different than the first five and is highly important. The only cost for entering the con test is interest in making your home a more pleasant place. The reward is a new frame of mind on how you actually CAN improve your home and, for some lucky folks, CASH PRIZES. Maybe you won't be a top money winner ($250 up to $25,000) but 250 one hundred-dollar prizes are being given and 600 twenty dollar prizes. The contest is being sponsored, nation wide, by the Home Improvement Coun cil. You stand just as good a chance as being in the big money as the other fellow, so why not take a fling at it? If you missed Tuesday's paper, you can pick up a copy at The News-Times office. Look for the next part of the contest in the building section of this coming Tuesday's paper. Messages from building supply dealers and con tractors in this area will appear on the same page. Anyone of them will glad ly confer with you on how he, in his particular building trade, can help you improve your home. Whether you want to improve your home right now, or are going to wait for several months, the "How's Your Home" contest can be most helpful to you in planning. Elks Threw a Party The Beaufort-Morehead Elks lodge rates three cheers for the dinner party given basketball players Saturday night. Good reports on it have been heard from all sides. It evidently was the most successful party of its type ever given. Eighty-six boys and girls, their coaches and parents attended. The Elks have been doing big things in their youth recreation program. The basketball party for high school play ers is a worthy addition. Easy, Miss Williams (From Laurel Leader-Call) Our instinct for gallantry sat up and took notice the other day when we saw a picture of Esther Williams, the noted movie swim queen, looking; glum. The caption said she was disturbed because woodpeckers had been playing hob with the roof of her house in Holly wood. Miss Williams, it developed, was looking for a humane way to discour age the woodpeckers. Now, Miss Williams, rest easy. We know a way. It was first tested by a friend of ours some years ago when a woodpecker repeatedly awakened him at dawn with a brisk attack on the old homestead's rooftree. Being a believer in kindness to animals, our friend sought a way to get rid of the bird without doing it in. He observed the woodpecker until he discovered its sleeping quarters in a nearby hollow tree. When the bird had settled down for a peaceful night's sleep, our friend whacked on the hoi low tree with a broomstick. Out flew the bird. After three nights of such treatment, the woodpecker packed up and left those parts, never to return ? or never, at least, to play another tat too on our friend's rooftree. So there you are, Miss Williams. Just find out where those woodpeckers live and then give them the broomstick treatment. Here at Lastl Today is the first day of spring. We hope the weatherman has a cal endar that coincides with ours. This winter has been ofie to remember and we're not interested in having any freezes after spring officially arrives. We'd like to see the weatherman fill our order for sunny days, light breezes, blue skies and hosts of daffodils. Welcome, sweet Springtime 1 Carteret County Newt-Times WINNER OF NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARDS A Merger of The Beaufort Newt (Eat. 1912) tod The Twin City Timet (EM. ISM) Published Tuesdays and Fridays by the Carteret Publishing Company, Inc. 504 Arendell St., Morehead City, N. C. LOCKWOOD PHILUPS _ publisher ELEANORS DEAR PHILUPS - ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER RUTH L. PEELING - EDITOR Mail Rates: In Carteret County and adjoining counties, fS.00 one year, $3.50 six months, *1.21 one month; elsewhere $7.00 one year, $4.00 six months, $1.30 one month. J ember of Associated Press ? N. C. Press Associatior sal Editorial Association U Audit Bureau a f Circulations National Advertising Representative Moran * Fischer, Inc. 10 East 40th Street, New York 16. N. Y. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to use for republication of local new* printed in this newspaper, a* well at all AP newt diapatchea Entered as Second Cteaa 'Matter at Morehead City, N. C., Under Act of March 1, W9 N6T A PRETTY PEDESTAL ESS*:- .. c* Ms m Security for You... By RAY HtlNKY From E. E?. of Hibbing, Minn.: "I'm 59 and still working. About three years ago, I lost my left eye. My good eye is getting worse and I ean no longer work my old job I have been offered other work which pays less money. Do you think I'm eligible for Social Security disability payments un der the circumstances?" Probably not. Social Security disability requirements are very strict. Vou can meet them only if you're so diiabled that you're not able to engage in any substantial work. As you are still working, it's very doubtful that you could qualify. From Mrs. T. D. of Oakland, Calif.: "I will retire from federal government work in about two months. How will my monthly re tirement benefits be paid?" The Civil Service Commission authorizes the payment of all ben efiti; the checks are issued by the Treasury Department. The checks are dated the first business day of the month after the month the benefits were earned. The govern ment tries to deliver Ihcm to re cipients on that date. ? From R. G. P of Sterling, Va . : "I have been told that if I should pass on before my wife reached 62 years of age she would not be entitled to Social Security bene fits based on my work ? unless there were children under 18. I have been paying Social Security tax ever since it started. Do I have the correct information?" No. Your wife will be eligible at age 62 to Social Security pay ments if you should die. The gen eral rule for a widow to be eligible for payments is that her husband must nave worked under social Security an amount of time e<;?ial to half of the time between .Tan. 1, 1951 and the time of his death or a total of 10 years under Social Security. From A. C. of New York City: "Could you tell me how many names the Social Security Admin istration has on its records?" About 138 million. From E. E. W. of Ventura, Calif.: "My father receives Social Security. My brother is 25 and to tally disabled due to a childhood illness. My mother is 56. Is there any way my brother and mother could qualify for Social Security?" Yes Your brother and mother may both be eligible for payments. Your father should immediately get in touch with the nearest So cial Security office. From A. W. of Phoenix, Ariz.: "I worked upder Social Security from 1838 to 1945 and on the rail road from 1945 to 1954. I've worked under Social Security since 1954. How do 1 stand on the possibility of collecting retirement pay ments?" To be eligible for Railroad Re tirement payments you must have worked on the railroad for at least 10 years. Otherwise, your time on the railroad is credited to you just as if you had been working under Social Security. Since you didn't work ten years on the railroad, that's what happens to your rec ord. (Editor's Note: You may eon* tact the social security repre sentative at the courthouse an nex, Beaufort, from 9:91 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Wednesdays. He will help you with your own particu lar problem). Rebellion is Bondage By SIDNEY J. HARRIS Richmond News Leader I know a man who grew up in a stuffy Midwestern atmosphere of Victorian piety, and who rebell ed at an early age. lie is now 50 and still rebelling. His old family home was clutter ed; so his own home is starkly sim ple. His parents were fanatically devout; so he is fanatically irre ligious. His relatives were dog matically conservative; so he is dogmatically radical. This man considers himself a "free soul." 11c thinks he has burst the bonds of his enslavement to the past. But he is wrong ? for he is overreacting to the past, and is still chained to it by hostility. A hundred years before Freud, G. G. Lichtenberg, a German es sayist, made the shrewd observa tion that "To do exactly the op posite is also a form of imitation." To do exactly the opposite is also a form of bondage as well. This is something that young peo ple generally do not understand. To free oneself from parental dom ination does not mean to defy them or despise them, but to accept them for what they are, and to make life decisions that are based on one's own ideas and not on blind rebellion. In physics, we speak of nega tive and positive attractions. The same is true in psychology. The woman who hates the man she once loved is not free, but as much a slave to her negative passion aa she formerly was to ber positive passion. The young man who rebels from Babbittry to Bohemianism, be cause it is exactly the opposite of what his father tried to cram down bis throat, is allowing his decision to be made by somebody else. This is why such Bohemians eventually become bitter and aimless crea tures. Every person, as he grows up, must liberate himself from the past, but must at the same time learn to conserve what was good in the past ? which is only another way of saying that a balanced per son is both a liberal and a con servative. To be free, in the fullest sense, does not mean to reject what our fathers believed; it means to dis criminate, to select to take on the difficult task of separating our principles from our passions. Many a man makes the lifelong mistake of elevating his neurons into a creed. Each generation in some meas ure. rebels against the last. It is normal and natural and healthy But it is necessary to know that the aim of rebellion is civil peace within the soul, and not perpetual revolt. From the Bookshelf Reading for Ptcanuc. Chosen, with introduction and comment, by Bennett Cerf, Harper. $4-95. Here for you to gorge on, served up by Cerf with a welcome gen erosity, are T50 big pages, <0 writers and 60 selections: short stories, nonfiction, bits from nov els.. pieces from msgazines and newspapers, even advertising copy. The names range from Wolfe to Mansfield, Carson, Faulkner, Wharton, Beerbohm, Buchwald, Burke, and some not so familiar. I can't go for many of the selec tions with the promised pleasure, but be sure not to miss Cerf's bio graphical notes, where Cerf is Cerf. He spesks of Frank O'Connor seurs, for instance; and he calls the author of that very unfunny "Auntie Mame," whose names are Patrick Dennis, Virginia Rowans, Sarah Brooks snd in fact Edward Tanner, a pseudonymphomaniac. Of this sort of fun making there is never a Cerfit. ? W. 0. Roger* Author cf the Week Stringfellow Barr, author of a n<m:l, "Purely Academic," has consistently followed a purely academic career since his un dergraduate work and MA at the Unwersity of Virginia. ?rn in 1897, he studied at Ox ford, taught history at his alma mater, edited the Virginia Quar terly Review and headed St. John's College. He founded and is president of the Foundation for World Gov ernment, and now teaches at Rut gers. Loulf Spivey Words of Inspiration THE UNSEEN BRIDGE There ia a bridge, whereof the ipu , la rooted in the heart of man. And reachea, without pile or rod, Unto the Great White Throne of God. Ita traffic ia in human aigha Fervently wafted to the akiea; 'Tia the one pathway from deapair; And it ia called the Bridge of Prayer. ? Gilbert Thomaa Freedom la freedom to do that which ia right. ? Clipped. "Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare; who givea himself with his alma feeds three ? himself, his hungering neighbor, and Me." ? Jamca Russell Lowell I WANT TO BE I want to be a helpful child; not one who says "I can't". I want to be a useful child; not one who says "I ain't!" I want to be a follower of Jesus, our Lord. I want to go to church each Sunday, and daily read Hia word. When I have done my very best, and then kneel down to pray. I'll feel so very close to Ilim I will not miss the way!" ? Jane C. Gardner FORGET YESTERDAYS Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and some absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow if a n.w day. Begin it well and serenely with too high a spirit to be cumbered with year-old nonsense. This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopea and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays. ? Emerson It's not what we've done thai makes us feel tired so much as peeing so many things that need doing. ? Country Parson The best cure for worry is to find someone who needs your help. A smile creates happiness in the home, fosters good will in a busi ness and is the countersign of friends. Yet it cannot be bought, begged, borrowed or stolen, for it ia some thing that is of no earthly good until it is given away. WORDS "DID" is a word of achievement. "WON'T" is a word of retreat. "MIGHT" is a word of bereavement. "CAN'T" is a word of defeat. "OUGHT" is a word of duty. "TRY" is a word for each hour. "WILL" is a word of beauty. "CAN" is a word of power. ? Adlai A. Esteb Free Wheeling By BILL ('HOWELL TUTOR ... Hi men, gather around and let's teach the wife how to drive. In this era of garages marked "his" and "hers" it's sel fish for husbands to deny the little woman her rights to the family F. C. SqlUbury Here and There ? The following information is taken from the files of the More head City Coaster: FRIDAY. MARCH 21. 1S19 Elijah J. Willis returned Thurs day from New York where he spent some time attending to bus iness matters. J. B. Bailey, superintendent of the North Carolina Ship Building Co., has returned home from a short business trip to New York. George Oglesby. having re ceived his honorable discharge from the U. S. Army, returned home Thursday from Camp Jack son. Hon. D. M. Jones, Carteret's representative in the last session of the state legislature, was in town Thursday. Rob Heady of New York is spending some time in the city, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Adler. Miss Mable Conklin of New York is visitingfin the city, the guest of Mrs. G. W. Jackson. Ulrich Mallison, pay clerk in the state legislature during the ses sion just adjourned, returned home Sunday to resume his studies in the high schml. Mr. and Mr^ James Sumers and son, Gilbert, arrived in the city from Crisficld, Md., Wednes day and will spend several months here. Mr. Sumers handles softshell crabs at this place and Crisficld. The young son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Lewis, less than a year old, died at the family home on Friday after a brief illness. Mrs. Hettie G. Kulcher, wife of John H. Fulcher, died Friday at her home at Camp Glenn. Thursday night at 8 o'clock the engine house at the draw bridge was completely destroyed by fire caused by the engine's igniting from backfire. Mr. Mozingo, the keeper and his helper, narrowly escaped instant death. Three barrels of tar went up in smoke Wednesday afternoon when they were ignited from fire under a large caldron used for melting tar with which fishing nets were being tarred. John Gaskill, popular mail clerk on the Morehead City-Ocracoke mail boat line, lost his life early Tuesday morning when be fell from the boat shortly after it had left Gloucester and was on its way to Marshallberg. A Mr. Pigctft of Gloucester who was standing on the shore as the boat passed, saw Gaskill when he fell and rushed to his boat and started towards the place where the unfortunate man fell overboard. A blinding rain storm closed In on him, and when it had passed, no trace of the man could bo found. Rock pf Ages c?r. But the husband must ap proach the task fully cognizant of what he is facing. There arc cer tain do s and don'ts he must ac cept as gospel if he is to survive with sane mind and sound body. Therefore I have compiled such a guide which we'll explore, starting now: * Do widen your driveway? about 50 feet should be enough. ..^.W'd'nJ,0Ur ,nd ?*i<e another entrance at the rear be fore she doea. Don't ask silly ques tions? just do it! Do learn the proper nomencU lur&-the whatchacallit" is the ? ?,r.J" pedal or ??ybe the clatch. What she calls the "thing, amagig ' it the ignition, cigarcttc lighter, Choke, or radio switch, or ?ny small knob on the dash panel S* T"*- you wi" ?"?? P?st the fifth or sixth lesson before you learn her complete auto voca bulary. Do be subtle. Don't explain why you installed safety seat belts. them*** >rC ShC W?n t evcn nolic? Tf^.be ,?rt"ble ?"<? cheerful If she compUins that street, aren't wide enough, or oncoming cars are driving t00 cl0K , her "^;*,,re That's right, dear.- y' A^r C.T'?r phy,i"' limitations. nt L Ji !rc ,re Probably lots T don'' know their right from their left. f*re'u, your instruc h bVic ,nd sin,P|e a?y. This, dear, is the kev Thi, io LW Th" " * b"ke' so on. If you get technical you confuse her and yourself traDf?i/V?/d ,trMK* 0,11 h?v ?ny traffic It it preferable to select one near a hospital. Don't cover your face and ge?*JVW!lrin ?"? ?PProaches dan ger. just grin and bear it Don't tell her she's a "dimwit," hr.in^-* "J1" he,d " " miintdre^hk" ,WOicft,?' Dop't leap into tie back teat *,"? V"y J1'* discdncerting Bc Eon J'Z. ' Hfthe ?V? ^'0* ? backseat driver i ",l "De*r- we'll smash nto that truck!" Wives consider un't'il *the8h ?' imP*Uence. Wait . " "** b" ?u?shed into the truck then say. gently, "That XfA <>u'te right." Avoid any hint o I tircasm. Don't sing or whistle such hymn. in bad^aste ^ 10 Thee " , ?on't *ive ?P From the very l??on. you will feel dis hful D?0 t ** ?I'rmed. This ? not unusual. You Will feel even Piore ditcourtgH ,fter ^ Unth Y,??rn'i,!,U5h ,f ???Pid mltUket. Your wife does not think they're .tupid. It-t ,ike laughing ITbe? Jew hat. And you know what that .hP?1!! complain if the drivet on the left aide of the road. In Eng J?' *' Perfectly okay Don t fuss about any bruises or cuts rectivfd during any at u* \ Probtb,y hers hurt just is much as yours. Don't claim battle fatigue. After vl If ^ RghUa* bc,id0 you, and if she doesn't learn to drive, you 11 never hear the last , JM>?lly, for keaven'a take, d<^ *bow "lis to your wife-or
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