TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1958
Science in Variety
Schools always seem to be in the
spotlight these days, but this week
Morehead City has a special event that
will be of interest ? the Science Fair
? and throughout the county Future
Homemakers chapters are observing
National FHA Week.
The coming Science Fair, Thursday
and Friday, will be the second at More
head City School. The first, last spring,
was a tremendous success.
Science Fairs are sponsored by the
North Carolina Academy of Science,
with financial support from business
firms. This year The News-Times is
among the cooperating sponsors.
The number of exhibits in the Sci
ence Fair has almost doubled this year.
Eighty-two children will enter 65
projects and, in addition, there will be
22 classroom exhibits.
The exhibits will be set up in the
school gym. Winning exhibits will be
entered in the district fair at East Caro
lina College April 4.
While some boys and girls are focus
ing their attention on the physical and
biological sciences, many girls this
week are telling parents, friends and
neighbors about the science of home
making.
When homemaking courses were
first introduced, they were called "do
mestic science".
Homemaking is, in a large sense, a
science which calls into play many
other sciences, including medicine
(who's going to stop the flow of hjood
when Junior gashes hi3 toe? ftofher) ,
business (who's expected to keep the
household budget intact? Motlur),
chemistry (who knows what ingredi
ent will make ordinary biscuits better?
Mother), and psychology (who knows
best how to handle Daddy when he'd
rather sleep than put up the screens?
Mother).
Homemaking is both a science and
an art. A homemaker is an artist who
can make her home lovely with drapes,
harmonizing colors and floral arrange
ments. She is a sculptor working with
living beings, her children, molding
them into individuals who will be a cre
dit to their parents and community.
Surprisingly, very few women are
"natural-born homemakers". Unless a
girl is taught the better ways to make
a home, she will muddle along, merely
"keeping house" in this modern day in
the same way as her mother and grand
mother did.
Future Homemakers of America is
an organization of girls who are study
ing home economics, and are interested
in developing homemaking arts to a
higher degree.
Now is the time to plan to attend
Morehead City's Science Fair, and now
is the time to take an interested look ?
all this week ? at one of the most im
portant sciences: homemaking, as it is
fostered and refined by the Future
Homemakers of America.
Taxes, How Important?
Industry-seeking states used to think
that industry goes where taxes are low.
The American Municipal News quotes
Wilbur R. Thompson, Wayne Universi
ty economist, who says that fuel and
transportation costs figure more im
portantly in an industry's considera
tions to relocate.
William D. Ross, Louisiana State
University professor, says tax conces
sions to lure new industry are vastly
overrated. Of $365 million invested in
new industry in Louisiana, under the
10-year property tax exemption plan,
only $25 million represented plants
that would have gone elsewhere except
for the tax forgiveness program.
In other words, $330 million in new
industry would have gone to Louisiana
anyway, regardless of tax rate.
Bait Sfaifs Rolling . . .
It is gratifying to learn that the pub
lic relations department of the State
Ports Authority has started plans on a
North Carolina Port Day.
As anyone who is interested in porta
knows, EVERYONE in the state must
be informed of the value of the ports.
The average citizen in upstate North
Carolina, in Hickory, Shelby, Jonas
Ridge or Cullowhee is not concerned
about ports welfare. Yet the repre
sentatives of those people go to the
legislature and are asked to enact legis
lation concerning the coastal ports.
Unless our brothers in the western
part of the state know how the ports
can benefit them, the work of folks in
the ports orbit is going to be difficult.
Likewise, here in the east we must
take an interest in the problems of fel
low citizens west of us. Only with such
cooperation can North Carolina main
tain its rating of "No. X State in the
South".
Morehead City and Wilmington's
joining hands in promotion of a ports
day would be one of the best publicity
factors that could be sent westward.
News media heretofore have harped
mainly on the alleged Morehead City
Wilmington feud. That's not good pub
licity.
The mountaineer's reaction when he
hears the word, "porta", is probably,
"Oh, ports. Heck, they're always
squabbling down there. They don't
even know what they want them
selves." That's not true, but that's the
impression that is conveyed when most
of the news made about porta concerns
some kind of fuss.
r
A North Carolina Port Day is an op
portunity to promote some positive at
titudes, not negative ones. It is an op
portunity to carry out Governor
Hodges' request in his February speech
at Wilmington when he said, . . both
communities must get behind and sup
port the entire SPA program . .
We hope that the governor will be
asked to proclaim May 22, National
Maritime Day, as North Carolina Port
Day. We hope that the chambers of
commerce of both Wilmington and
Morehead City will do as much as pos
sible to supplement any program which
may be planned by the SPA.
North Carolina Port Day CAN be a
great day. But only work and coopera
tive spirit will make it so.
The Orders: Go Out
One stormy day the Coast Guard was
ordered to the rescue of a liner wreck
ed off the coast of North Carolina. An
old and tried seaman was in charge,
but the members of the crew were for
the most part young, untested men.
When one of them comprehended
the the situation, he turned white-faced
to the captain and said, "Sir, the wind
is offshore, the tide is running out. We
can go out, but against this wind and
tide we cannot come back."
The grim old captain faced the
young man and said, "Launch the boat;
we go out."
"But, sir ? " protested the young
man.
"We don't have to come back," re
plied the captain.
l
Carteret County Newt-Times
WINNER OF NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA
PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARDS
A Merger of The Beaufort New* (Eit. 1912) and The Twin City Times <E?t 1938)
Published Tuesdayi and Friday* by the Carteret Publishing Company, Inc.
504 ArandeO St., Morehead City, N. C.
LOCKWOOD PHILLIPS ? PUBLISHER
ELEANORE DEAR PHILLIPS - ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER
RUTH L. PEELING - EDITOR
Mail Rates: In Carteret County and adjoining eountie*, $6 00 one year, $3.$0 tlx months,
$1.25 one month; elaewbere $7.00 one year, $4 00 six months, $1.50 one month.
Member of Associated Pre** ? N. C Press Assoeiatior
National Editorial Association ? Audit Bureau ol Circulations
National Advertising Representative
Moran * Fischer. Inc.
1? East ?ath Stmt. New Yort H. N. *.
The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to use lor republication of local nsw*
printed in thi* newspaper, as well aa an AP news dispatchea
Entered as Second Clan Matter at Morehead City, N. C? Under Act of March i, lfl?
4 mi in i ii
AU IN ONE BIG BASKET
w ~r\n ^ ? y r. - -*Trx ?v<rowwwn ?
Ruth Peeling
i4 Britisher Interviews Mrs. FDR
Reading an English newspaper
recently, I came across an inter
view with Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt.
The writer was Christopher Lucas.
Some of the things he said in
the interview:
"More than a decade after her
husband's death," Lucas writes,
"Mrs. Roosevelt is still the ONLY
Roosevelt who matters. For 11
years she has been chosen as 'the
world's most admired woman' and
haa been showered with more
honors and public affection than
any living figure except Sir Win
ston Churchill."
Many folks in this section of the
country take a dim view of Mrs.
FDR, this sentiment nurtured by
Debnam's book, Weep No More,
My Lady, which took Mrs. Roose
velt to task bitterly for criticising
the South and its way of life.
Today on Broadway, Mrs. Roose
velt and other Americans can
watch the play, Sunrise at Campo
bello, a story of crippled Franklin
Rooacvelt's light back to public
Of the play, Mrs. Roosevelt
says, "I think it's a beautiful play
but it might just as well be about
somebody from Mars. I have no
feeling of reality. I have no feel
ing of self-identifiealion with my
self on the stage."
The interview closes with Mrs.
Roosevelt's comments on Dulles
and on Eisenhower. The one on
Eisenhower is most striking.
Of Dulles, she says that he has
the country's best interests at
heart, but waits too late and then
instead of having to deal with a
situation, he has to deal with a
crisis.
Mr. Lucas closet with this para
graph:
"For President Eisenhower, ail
ing and indecisive, she (Mrs.
Roosevelt) reserves the sympathy
of experience. 'A man gets used
to power. He doesn't like to give
it up. I saw that when Franklin
faced his third term. I'm sorry
for Mamie'."
Sent to THE NEWS-TIMES this
week was a clipping from the pa
per of March 14. Alongside the
newsstory on Jaycees selling
chances on a car were the words,
"Here comes the bunny Are the
Jaycees untouchable?" There was
no indication, of course, as to who
sent the clipping.
Jaycees throughout the state
are selling chances on a car to
raise money to promote North
Carolina at the national Jaycee
convention in California.
Anyone buying a ticket from the
JayceeB and paying a dollar in
return is making a donation to the
Jaycees. The tickct says so. If
that ticket happens to have a num
ber on it and if it happens to be
a lucky number, the law, apparent
ly can't do anything about it.
The Jaycees aren't untouchable.
If there is anything "wrong", per
haps it is with the law.
Ma Taylor doesn't believe in
telling people her age. She just
iajTi, "I'm almost a hundred."
Author cf the Week
Free Wheeling
By BILL CROWELL
Department of Motor Vehicles
HOW'S THAT? . . . Young fellow,
applying for a driver's liccnse the
other day, startled examiners
when he casually inquired "Now,
about this road test? do you take
off from a standing start?"
AUTO LORE . . . Here are some
historical tid-bits covering a half
century of American automobubl
ing.
Who built the coantry's first suc
cessful gas-propelled automobile?
A couple of Chicago brothers,
Charles E. and Frank Duryea.
They cranked it up and ran It
smartly on Sept. 21, 1893 at five
miles per hour. Later they won a
race? at five-and-a-half miles per
hour.
When did the first auto race oc
cur?
That was in 1895, on Thanksgiv
ing Day, when six horseless car
riages sped away in a Chicago
Times - Herald sponsored event.
Only two vehicles finished and the
winner was a Duryea Motor Wa
gon, driven by Frank Duryea.
Thirteen cars were built by the
Duryea Company in 1886. One of
them was sold to George H. Mor
iU Jr. of Norwood, Mass., the first
known sale of an American car.
When did Henry Ford come oa
the scene?
Ford successfully operated his
first motor vehicle in Detroit, on
June 4, 18(8. It had a two-cylinder
engine, developing four horse
power.
What was the first aatoaMbUe
company in Michigan?
The Olds Motor Vehicle Co., es
tablished in 1887 by Ransom E.
Olds. Olds had been experimenting
with steam-powered cars sincc
1888. The production of automo
biles in the year 1900 totaled 4,192.
All record of who gat the first
driver's license?
Yes, a New Yorker, Harold T.
Blrnie, who was issued what was
then termed an "Engineer's Cer
tificate" on May IS, 1800. No rec
ord of whether he ever lost it,
though.
T. H. Shelvln of Minneapolis
wasn't as lucky. He opened up a
Pierce- Arrow to ten miles aa hour,
waa promptly arrested for speed
ing and fined $10. This was in 1(02.
When was the first Btwfchakti
aald?
In 1(01. But the Studebaker peo
ple were no novices at building
wheeled vehicles. Thejr had been
in the buggy business since 1852
and began experimenting with
autoa in jot.
Who won the first Indianapolis
Speedway Race?
It was Ray Harroun in a six
cylinder Marmon, which intro
duced the first use of a rear-view
mirror. Time: 6 hours, 42 minutes,
8 seconds. The year: 1911.
Remember the Atterbury, Atlan
tic, Davis, Daniel, Dort, Hackctt,
Harvard, Madison, Monitor, Owen
Magnetic, Sandow, Simplex and
Sun? They were all models which
appeared in 1915.
By 1924, Ford Motor Co. had
built its ten-millionth car with
production soon to exceed 9,000
cars a day.
Thinlt cars always had hampers,
front and rear?
Not until 1925 did bumpers ap
pear as standard equipment on
all models and makes. Heaters
were introduced the following year.
Cadillac came out in 1930 with
a monster V-16 engine and police
cars were equipped with radios
for the first time.
They called it "Airflow" in 1934,
the year Chrysler introduced its
beetle - shaped sedan which the
country soon laughed out of exis
tence. And a single new make ap
peared : Lafayette.
Now read this and weepl During
1938, the Automobile Manufactur
er's Association reported that 95
per ccnt of all the current model
cars sold for less than $750.
Whea did the first Mercary ap
pear?
That was in 1938, the same year
Charles E. Duryca died and Floyd
Roberts won the Indianapolis
Sweepstakes at 117.2 mph.
When did raining hoards dis
appear?
It must have been the following
year, when the '39 Lincoln-Zephyr
rolled out without running boards.
The Crosley, a small car, came
on the scene.
In 1940, automotive engineers
witnessed demonstration of a
small, armed vehicle designed and
built by Capt. Robert G. Howie.
The demonstration resulted in the
development of the world-famed
Jeep.
1946: Kaiser and Frazer cars
displayed for the first time.
Lastly, how many tracks can
jm name?
Arc there any more than Amer
ican La France, Autocar, Brock
way. Chevrolet, Corbitt, Diamond
T, Divco, Dodge, Duplex, Federal,
Ford, Four Wheel Drive, CMC,
International Harvester, Kenworth,
Mack, Marmon-Herrinfton, Peter
bat, Reo, Sterling, Studebaker and
White?
You tell ma. I'va had it!
i
Albert Camus, author of a new
collection of short stories, "Exile
and the Kingdom," was awarded
the 1957 Nobel prize for litera
ture
Born in Mondovi, Algeria, in
1913 in a poor peasant family, he
worked his way through school
and university.
During the war he fought in
the Trench underground, wrote
for the resistance fighters' paper
Combat, and produced two
books. The Myth of Slayphua and
a novel. The Stranger, which
constituted his formal introduc
tion to American readers in 1M6.
Six volumes of his works have
been translated in this country.
Loui? Spivy
Words of Inspiration
STILL GAMBLING?
Arc you I gambler? That it ? good question.
Polio aeaaon la just around the corner, and (or the paat year all who
read THE NEWS-TIMES know they have been urged to take the three
polio immuniiation shots. There are .many of you who have had ana
ahot, some have had two. Two ahota give you 73 per cent protection
againat paralytic polio.
There are thouaands in our county who have never taken the trouble
to get one. They are 100 per cent ready for the diaeaae to come along,
ready for a life-time of invalidism, painful expensive treatment that
shouldn't be necessary. Now, wouldn't you say that la mighty poor
gambling?
Tuberculosis, when found in early stages in almoat all cases la cur
able. Do you think that you are germ proof? When did you have your
chest examined? When did you have a chest x-ray?
Well, I'd say that if you haven't been checked in years that your
chances arc pretty fair at getting the disease.
If you want to gamble ever, never do it with your life. If every mem
ber of your family has not been immunized against polio, see that it is
done right away.
If you have not had a chest examination within the past year, you'U
find no better time than now to rule out the possibility of tuberculosis,
cancer of the lungs, enlargement of the heart, aneurism of the aorta.
Don't gamble, help us rule out polio and tuberculosis In our county.
DID SPUTNIK WAKE US UP?
I copied the following editorial from the New York Herald Tribune
some time ago. I thought it very good, and felt that the readera of this
column would be interested.
If anybody had any doubts that there is something radically wrong
with U. S. education, these items of current news ought to startle him:
The Pulitzer prize-winning historian. R. Carlyle Buley of Indiana
University, gave 90 of his students an informal quiz in American hia
tory. Of the 90, only eight could identify the Rill of Rights, only four
knew what a right-to-work law ia, only IS came anywhere near esti
mating the population of the United States, and not one could name a
scholarly history of the country or an author who had written one.
A study made by Opinion Research Corp. for Life magazine discloses
that only 10 per cent of the population can name two living scientists.
Moreover, Staff Writer Paul O'Neil discloses, one third of the population
still doubts that scientists "can be trusted with the secrets of important
new discoveries ? even though it would seem obvious by new that there
will be no U. S. discoveries at all unless scientists discover them."
"Ten per cent of the population," says O'Neil, "really think that every
scicntiat has a spy at his elbow or Is in direct communication with the
Kremlin. The rest of the anti-science bloc just feels that they are 'old
men with long hair and whiskers,' that they 'may be geniuses but half
insane', or, reflecting a curious horror of reading iB certain segments
of U. S. society, that 'they just keep their heads in a book all their life
. . . would rather learn than have fun at parties."
The most appalling part of thia opinion aurvey is the public degenera
tion of the teaching profession. When people were asked to evaluate
various professions in terms of financial return, future security, oppor
tunity to win respect and fame, and the chance for fascinating work,
they put high school teachera at the bottom of the list. Moreover J00
editors polled as "opinion leaders" considered teaching even less attrac
tive than the public does. In their opinion it offers only mildly interest
ing work, only a moderate chance for respect and security, and no
chance at all for fame and money.
Captain Henry
Sou'easfer
America is itili in ? do-H-your
aelf craze, although a reactionary
tr?Bd haa aet in. Some people
have decided it'a better to call the
plumber than try to stop a leak
that has already swept away the
kitchen table.
My nomination (or the most un
shakable, tenacious, do-it-youraclf
er: the bootlegger.
When I was In the Coast Guard
one of my North Carolina moun
tain friends used to tell about his
grandpappy.
Grandpappy went down into
Asheville one weekend for a big
time. He was even spending Sat
urday night at a hotel. When the
hotel clerk handed Grandpap the
pen, he took it and drew an X.
After a thoughtful pause, he
drew a circle around the X.
"I've seen people sign with an
X," said the clerk, "but that'a the
first time I've seen it circled."
"Tain't nothin' odd about it,"
replied Grandpap, "When I'm out
for a wild time, I don i use my
right name."
.1 wu. walking along Ann S treat
the other day. Some little boys
were playing around the trunks
of the large trees.
A little fellow about < years old
came up to me and announced:
"My brother fell from a 50-foot
tree this morning."
I'd never seen the youngster be
fore in my life, but I felt as thoiigh
I had to say something so I said,
"Goodness! Was he killed?"
"No." the youngster hooted, "he
had only climbed up three feet!"
That's what television does to
us elders? let's us get roped in
by the young'uns.
Judge Luther Hamilton's grand
son, Billy, lives with his mother
and daddy in Durham, near a
lake.
The other day Billy camc homa
and announced to his mother. "My
shoes got in the lake, and my
feet were in 'em!"
From the Bookshelf
Young Mr. Keefe. By Stephen
Birmingham. Little, Brown. I3.9S.
Jimmy Keefe burn* up with a
secret. Blazer, dear old Blarer,
once his roommate, and Blazer's
evcr-so-dangcrously blonde wife,
Claire, with an underhanded as
sist from Jimmy's own anguish,
manage to worm it out of him:
Helen has left him.
The bitter truth is betrayed on
a picnic. Jimmy, Blarer and
Claire,' morbidly bemoaning exile
from their New England birth
place, are living in California.
Claire is rich, and her husband
IE THE GOOD OLD DSTS
THIRTY YEARS AGO
The yacht Ventura, bound from
Palm Beach to New York, which
had grounded on Willi* Lump, was
pulled off in time to eicape a bad
storm.
George Brooks was elected man
ager of the Beaufort town base
ball team. Clarence Guthrie was
manager of the Beaufort school
team.
The new Cape 'Fear River bridge
at Wilmington was to cost $1 mil
lion.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
Miss Hattie Lee Humphrey, stu
dent at ECC was elected president
of the student government.
President Roosevelt signed ?
beer bill, making the sale of it
legal in two weeks.
The state legislature passed a
bill making it legal for Carteret
County taxes to tie paid on scrip.
TEN TEAM AGO
B. J. May was elected preside at
of Beaufort Rotary, succeeding R.
M. Williams.
Miaa Lucille Wright of Beaufort,
a member of the Morehead City
high achool, won third place In
the seventh district Artierican Le
gion oratorical contest.
Damage amounting to $5,000 was
done when a curing barn at Mans
field sawmill, of Morehead City
burned.
FIVE YEARS AGO
The State Utilities Commission
refused a request to dismiss the
Carolina Telephone and Telegraph
Company's petition for ? rate in
crease.
County commissioners were hop
ing to borrow $50,000 to use in im
proving the county jail and other
county buildings.
Carolina Power and Light Co.
would reduce its rates for small
business firms and industriea in
tlx old Tide Water Power Co. ter
ritory.
hopes to M, too, Dy pis own ef
forts or her own pull. He doesn't
care which. Jimmy comes of the
wealthiest background of them
all, and has married a sedately
middle-class Californian.
Their love got off to a fairy-tale
start; but bit. by bit the families
intervened ? Jimmy's father and
the lawyers, Jimmy's supercilious
mother, Helen's too-awed parents;
and before the young people really
grow up, really grown-up prob
lems overwhelm them.
Once Claire thinks Jimmy is
freed of Helen, or can be pried
free of her, she decides she wants
him for herself; and all the wilier
for some high-powered martinis,
she makes some practically irre
sistible passes.
But Jimmy never wholly forgets
the wonderful idyl of the first few
weeks with Helen.
So this is a struggle? and you'll
find it stirs you deeply? between
good and evil, in broad terms; or
between two lures, that of a man's
own wife and that of his best
friend's wife; or between staid re
spectability and raffish adventure.
Though Birmingham plots well,
I have an uneasy feeling every
now and then that he plots too
well; and as I think back on it,
he does just escape being slick.
But if this suspicion is Justified,
there nevertheless is a deeper sig
nificance here, aside from the
fault of the too conscious neatness
and the virtue of emotional vital
ity: Better than any other fiction
I have seen, this expresses the
reported desire of American youth
to play it safe, to crawl into its
shell and stay there. It's a kind
of social neutraliam.
England has her angry young
men, France her drifting, though
by no meana pallid, existentialist*,
but we have our lukewarm, "
clean-like conformists.
-W. G.
c?