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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?