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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES Cartarvt Camtyi Newepejer EDITORIALS TUESDAY. APRIL 8, 19S8 We, the Grand Jury.. One of the most significant points made by the grand jury, which met last week, was a recommendation for consolidation of the county's high schools. It is significant because it shows that some folks realize that much is to be gained by grouping students in a large building equipped with necessary fa cilities and manned with a faculty qual ified to teach subjects which are of fered, without question, in metropoli tan public schools. As one school official cautioned, however, we had best not get ahead of ourselves. The state, you know, has an awfully lot to say about where and how high schools shall be built. It is true that the state has been pushing for consolidation, but perhaps the state's ideas for consolidation in Carteret are not the same as ours. As yet, the County Citizens Commit tee for Better Schools has made no of cial and formal recommendation for "two consolidated high schools for our county", the grand jury report to the contrary. It is true that the subject has been discussed. As things stand now, the committee has requested that John Cameron, di rector of the division of school plan ning, State Department of Public In struction, with his aides, make a sur vey to determine if consolidation of certain high schools is feasible and if bo, where would the buildings be lo cated. Right now, a lot of people may be in favor of consolidation. But each prob ably haa in his own mind a reservation, unbeknownst even to himself. He may think consolidation is fine, until he learns where the state recommends lo cation of the school. That's where much compromise will have to be made if Carteret's children are to benefit from a richer all-around educational pro gram. Atlantic high school students may be too far removed from other areas to be included in a consolidation plan. Yet some students in the Adams Creek sec tion are now making a 90-mile round trip daily to Beaufort School. If a Ce dar Island student came as far east as North River, he would be riding no farther than the Adams Creek children are now. Should consolidation be carried out, the immediate cost will probably be no less than contemplated now under the 10-year piecemeal school building program. The advantages will be gain ed in lower maintenance expense over the yean, and schools like Newport and Smyrna getting better high school facilities much sooner than if they had to wait their turn. There are many ramifications and many points to be considered. Consoli dation won't come easy. Anything worthwhile never does. Half the battle is won if the people want consolidation ? and if they keep on wanting it even when certain phases, of which they may not approve, crop up. Pity the Poor Witness Ive never been a witness and I never hope to be one . , This, with apologies to the gentle man who wrote, "I never saw a purple cow and never hope to see one." Pity the poor witness. The witness is a foil in a court battle between two at torneys. He is like a man, defenseless, subject to pummelling this way And that The witness must tell the truth but at the same time he must also tell what the examining lawyer wants him to tell. Doing both these things at the same time frequently is difficult. Sometimes lawyers ask nagging ques tions. They belabor a point. If it suits their purpose, some ask questions de signed to make the witness angry. They ask demoralizing questions. They re sort to every trick in (and out) of the books. Theoretically, the witness is to b? on the side of at least one of the lawyers in the case, bat frequently the lawyers get so enamored of the case they are trying, and so interested in (by fair means or foul) getting a certain point across to the jury, that the witness stays caught in the cross-fire. The judge, theoretically, should pro tect the witness and frequently does. But many is the time a witness who has not completely succumbed to men tal threshing, has shown a bit of gump tion and asked an attorney a mild ques tion like "Well, what would you have done?" Imagine a witness DARING to speak, except to answer ? question. Read him the riot act. Here the lawyers have been screaming at him, doing their level best to confuse, confound and make him tell different stories, and he has the unmitigated gall to react like a human being! Some insolent, smart-aleck witnesses should be sat upon. And judges have ahown they are perfectly capable of doing that. But others ? the more stolidly they stick to a story, the more enraged some lawyers have been seen to react. The witness is probably only telling the truth. f Sometimes a witness is warned to an swer only "Yes" or "No". Then when he tries to follow that warning he may be upbraided for not "explaining fully". It's amazing. I Have Seen the Sea' A tribe of Indians had no contact with the outside world. The old chief, before he died, wished to choose the young man who would be chief after him. He called together the young braves of the tribe and said, "See yon der peak? You will climb that moun tain and each one bring back something to show how far he has climbed." By and by one young brave came back, "O Chief," he said, "I have travel, ed to where the fields end, and I have brought back a grain of wheat" The (thief said to him, "Go shoot the arrow, and wrestle with the wild ox, and strengthen thyself." Another young brave returned. "O Chief, I have traveled beyond the fields of grain, and I have brought back this last branch of the last tree." The chief replied to this one as he had to the first During the long day the young men kept coming back, some with one thing and some another, until it grew dark. The last man burst into the circle by the fire. His face was shining as ha said, "O Chief, I traveled beyond the fields and the trees until I came to the snow. I struggled through the snow to the mountain peak. I have brought back nothing, but I have seen the Sea." The old chief said, "My people, this is the young man who will be chief when I am gone, He is worthy to lead you. He has seen a vision." ? New Chronicle Carteret County N?ws-Tim?s WINNER OF NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARDS A Merger of Tlx Beaufort New. (E?t UU) aad The Twin City Timet (EiL 1?M) Pufaliibed Tuetdayt tod Frldtyt by the Carteret PubUthlnc Company, Inc. SO* ArendeU St, Merehetd City, N. C. LOCKWOOD PHILLIPS ? PUBLISHER ELEANORS DEAR PHILLIPS - ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER v RUTH L. PEELING - EDITOR lUil iafcee: In Carteret County tad adjoininc (Seuntiee, 9100 one year, $S.50 tlx moothi, (LB oat month; elte where tT.OO one year. M OO tlx moatht, $1.50 out month. Member of Ateodated Preta ? N. C. Prett Attoclitior National Editorial Aaaoelatloo ? Audit Bureau of Circulation! National Advertiiin* RepreaentaUvo Koran * Pitcher, lac. U Eaat 40th Stmt, New York It, N. T. The iMorltted Preta it entitled ezeluatvaly to ute for republication of local I printed in tide newtptper, at well it aU AP newt < aa Socend Clatt Matter at Mtrehead City, N. C., Under Act of March S, Wit 1 NEW HORIZONS ?mtAWwy* FiWr j^reuire i Rvtji P? ling Frogs They Do a-Wooing Go "Romance blooms ill froggy lit tle hearts on the first warm night In spring." This quote is from an article by Willard Neal in the magazine of the Atlanta Journal and Constitu tion of March 23. Mr. Leon Mann of Newport kindly passed the arti cle on to me. He and Prentiss Garner recall the frog population around my house! As a matter of fact, the frogs are probably quite disgusted with civilisation. They have all moved back to the swamp abaut 150 feet to the rear. But they make themselves beard. The article tells of a (0,300 grant to a biologist at the University of Georgia, Dr. Bernard S. Martof. With this money from the National Science Foundation, Dr. Martof Is hoping to uncover some secrets of human behavior. After all, he says, amphibian* were the first creatures to emerge from the water and live on land 300 million years ago. They be came the ancestors of all birds, reptiles and mammals on earth. "It will be interesting to see what trait* they handed down that we can recognize in ourselves," the scientist says. At the moment he's studying the love life of the tiny chorus frog which sets swamps a-throb with their voices on warm nights la spring. Girl frogs swoon when boy frog* croon. Certain sections of a awamp are more romantic than others, Dr. Martof points out. He's trying to find out why. The following is from Mr. Neal's article: "When the sun goes down, boy frogs gather around the romantic part o < their swamp and start sing ing . . . First a frog chirps over here, and is answered by one over there. One across the way tries his voice, two or three others join in, and finally the whole works get going in unison. Their cadence is perfect. No frog ever sings off beat. "The more tiogs In the chorus, the greater their fervor," said Dr. Martof. "They ean keep it up all night, never seeming to miss a rote, and never growing tired or boarae. "The girts don't sing, but they bear tnd heed, and go hopping or swimming to the spot They are choosy. They pay no attention whatever to a frog that Isn't sing ing. Each girl picks a voice she likes out of the din and moves to ward it, being very careful not to get too near another boy on the way over. If the one of her choice atopa singing, she selects another and moves toward it. "In the frog world, the lady does the proposing. The only aggressive act of the male ia to keep singing and thus let It be known that be la available. He doesn't even notice Captain Henry Sou easier By the time you read this, John Dawson will probably have an nounced that he is not going to run (or the state senate. Ha told me last week when he was here (or court (John's a lawyer from Kin ston) that he was definitely not go ing to run, but he had some letters to write before he formally bowed out. He thought he would state his intentions over the weekend, or by yesterday anyhow. Rumors in political circles say that there will be more than two running (or the State senate. Judge Hamilton, Horehead City, and Jimmy Simpkins, New Bern, have announced their intentions. The prognoaticators (that's a 50 cent word (or the people who pre dict the (uture) say that Judge Hamilton is probably a shoo-in. The battle will be among the other candidatea who may file. BUI Blair's wife traded in his old car last week and he was some kind of mad. Bill lives over on Crab Paint He and his wife used to raise cows. Anyhow, Helen took the old ear when Bill wasn't looking, and traded it off on a shiny new job. I guess the dust has settled by now, but you'd think we husbands were devoid of brains sometimes, the way our wives maneuver things. Another deal: One prominent eountlan bought a Ford the day Parker waa giving Fords away. One of his friends laughed: "Ha ha, and your wife wanted a sta tion wagon." Ntw Ford owner replied, "That's what we got." Back in the days when the new county jail was being built, some one asked Hugh Salter, the sheriff, why he wanted a new jail. Hugh replied, "I want better clientele." m ra good old wis THIRTY YEARS AGO C. D. Jones m advertising Swift premium bams for 24 cents a pound (or Easter. Beaufort tows commissioners re fused a request for a bond issue for street paving purposes. ' The Coast Guard stationed at Bogue Inlet captured and destroyed a load of contraband liquor. TWENTYHVE YEARS AGO James W. Mason and Halsey Paul had withdrawn from the Re publican ticket as candidates for Beaufort tewn commissioners. Lawrence Rudder held the win ning ticket tor a suit of clothes given bjr Johnson-Saunders' Dry Cleaning Co. TEN YEARS AGO Ayeoek Brown, former editor of the Beaufort Nawa, columnist, free lance writer and publicity man, bad accepted the Job jf publicity nan tor the Dare County Chamber of Commerce and would alao han dle publicity for the Lost Colony at Manteo and the Morebead City Chamber of Commerce. The Rhoda Theatre, new moving picture houae at Atlantic Beach, waa to open this week. FIVE TEAKS AGO The tourist season opened Easter Sunday with crowds jamming At lantic Beach. Pat H. (Sonny) Geer waa elect ed president of the Morehead City Jaycees, to succeed Walter Mor ris. The -will of Mrs. Alice G. Hoff man was filed for probate. The bulk ?f the estate was left to a alece, His. ThMdore Roosevelt, Jr. 1. a female unless she actually touches him . . . "In the swamp, when the girl moves up against the frog of her choice he puts an arm over her shoulder, and he is through singing for the night, and in some cases i for the year. I "With thousands of frogs around I the same puddle, sometimes a fel low makes a mistake and grabs an other male. He is warned away by an irritated grunt, and if he doesn't move quickly, a swift kick puts him in his place." Other interesting notes from Dr. Martofs research: chorus frogs will suffocate in stagnant water . . . frogs do not cause warts ... they have poison glands in their skin which makes dogs, eats and foxes wary of gulping them down . . . frogs' tongues are as long aa their bodies and they can flip them out and anare an Insect in a flash. Frogs are sot stupid. After lap ping up a bee and getting stung on the tongue they know enough to let bees alone. Wise old toads will go up on porches and grow fat on bugs that drop from around the electric light. I know why the frogs moved away from my house. They got tired of being chopped up by the power lawn mowers. There must be more than just frogs making noise in my Okefe nokee. There are things that sound like Halloween noise-makers and one creature that has a built-in telegraph act. If I knew Morse code, 1 could probably figure out what he's sending. With my newly-acquired tape re corder I am going to take down all these noises, and when civilization crowds even closer and the frogs go hopping off to deeper swamps, I shall play their songs. It would not be home without them. Stamp News B7 syd ehonish Sweden hat issued (our new (tamp* showing two ways o f de livering mail. The 40-ore and Store adheslves show Sweden'* new Kungsholm ocean Uner. In the upper right corner it the stem of the first sailing vessel carrying mail from Sweden to the United States. The 30-ore and 1.40 krona depict a helicopter carrying mail. Stamp Notes . . . Argentina haa issued a new stamp honoring the 75th anniversary of the city of La Plata. Pictured on the 40 centavos is the LaPlata Museum. Also issued by Argentina was a 40 c stamp commemorating the 50th anniver sary of its petroleum development. Communist China has issued three new stamps to mark the end of their first Five Year Plan . . . Egypt has issued a new brown stamp for its Fifth International Cycle Race. The "trunk" line from Laos re ports that a new set of . seven new stamps has been issued depicting elephants. The Miracle Of Easter Each time you look up in the sky And wateh a fluffy cloud go by, Or stoop to pick a daffodil Or gather violets on aome hill, Or touch a leaf or see ? tree. It's all God whispering this is HE . . . For every growing living thing That you can touch or see at spring Is bat a message from above To say that God la Life and Love. ? iialeo Stabler Ska ?OW Words of Inspiration BONUSES IN LIFE "B? careful what you look lor," warned my mother ooee, "lor that'* rfaat you'll find." My Mead acroea town leek* (or birds. He aeea more varietiee el drda In a day than I see la a year. My neighbor around the corner looks for ailments. I half suspect Its ter method of gettlnf attention. But one thing I do know; ahe finds hem. She has s new set every time I visit her. Aa acquaintance oa the nest street looks tor trouble. She aiust really w dlaappotnted when a day passes without some calamity worth telling, tut she doeeat have many of those daya. Lite to crowded with thoussnds of little extra pleasures for bumsa ujoyment The only requirement is to look for them. For the search ng eye there Is all the magic world of nature ? a whippoerwill at dusk, i pine tree against a sunset, snowflskes on the sill. There's the smell ' >f boxwoods after rain, the taste of fresh syrup on hot biscuits, firelight m the floor, the companionship a f loved ones at the end of the day. Little homey joys they are, more satisfying than any artificial imuaement. But they belong only to those who seek them. ? Loulie Latimer Owens NEVEK ALONE Who pauses long enough each day to count hla blessings one by one, Soon learns that there's a brighter way to travel than by stars or eun. Vhose heart remembers, with a prayer of thanks, the goodness it has known feed never ask if God Is there for face his trials alone. ? S. H. Dewhurst All that is needed for evil to prevsil is for good men to do nothing. Your dally duties sre a part of your religious life juat as much aa your levotions. If you would like to lesve footprints of the sands of time, you had >etter wear work shoes. The greatest thing in life is service ? service tor others. It is what ve have given that makes old sge sweet; the memory of things we hsve liven away, not what has been given to us. He has most who gives most, fie has most friends who has been s friend to most folks. We get back vhat we give. The only one who gets nothing is be who gives nothing. i ? Selected The Atlantic Hotel By RUTH ROWLAND DEYO It wii way past ita heyday when [ knew it. I remember, In the Win er K stood dejected, shabby, for orn and desolate, the north winds Mating it. Then summer came, and like nagic this long rambling, wooden itructure became overflowing with gaiety, music, a kaleidoscope of people and datillng events. It be :ame picturesque, colorful, even elegant. It was the most glamorous Jiing in llorehead City? the At lantic Hotel! Opening its hospitable doors in 1883, it began a gala summer that wrought recognition to Morebead City through the yean and earned the title of summer resort for the town. Wandering down the ?ntlr* Mock, It waa a three-story wooden bond ing, topped with a cupola that slowed each night with a power ful light beamed several miles at wa. Sections of double verandas extended across the front, and at ihe back were two large wings. Connecting boardwalks ran to two piers, with' bathhouses, over Bogue Sound. The Shoo-Fly came in twice a lay, stopping in front of the hotel, ?nd guests, the elite of North Caro lina and other states, alighted with their trunks of clothes, their ehildren, nurses and servants. Few Baths There were about 200 guest rooms with very few private baths, rhough every five or ten rooms bad a bath they were seldom used, rbere waa all of Bogue Sound to bathe in! And at the end of each if the two piers were two closed In bath bouses, one for men, one tor women. The sides extended down to the water line, enclosing an area of water of the sound? like a pool. If you were too modest to be seen in your stylish bath suit* in the wide expanse o I water outdoors, rou floated around in the water In the closed-in bath house. Ladies were chic in tboae striped canvas suits? mostly navy and white, with ruffled bloomers down to ankles, high collars, long or short aleeves with ruffles, and elaa tic waisted ? ? full gathered shirt below the knees and a dust cap hat. They paddled about with de corum and squealed when splashed by daahing swains clad in two piece striped jersey, sleeved and below-the-knee length. Some health minded souls, who objected to exposing tbemielve* in luch manner, had bellhops carry Bogue Sound water to their bath tubs, and there in the privacy of their rooms luxuriated in the heal ing salt waters. This was the social center of North Carolina. Yon were Some body when yon could stay at the Atlantic Hotel. All summer a lusty southwest wind blew through the open windows and open doors, raced down the long corridors, fanned you delightfully in the spa cious dining room, cooled you in the ballroom and puffed the sails of the sharpies at the piers. At time* a romantic, balmy southeast wind gently caressed you and brou^it clean, aalty scents into your room. There was ? special diainf room for small children and their nurses. The main dining room was known far its excellent meals and ? ? ? ? ViMi t mm JImmw WrVlC". X W Ql vowvaa lOl UlBllvl ? * evening clothes and real Jewels (costume Jewelry had not been heard of then). The head waiter, in evening dress greeted you, and all Negro waiters were drawed in Immaculate white. The very best local seafoods, tod ice cold water served here. Ice cream w?a brought down on the train. Atlantic Hotel boasted a barber shop and beauty parlor. The beau ty parlor washed, crimped and marcelled milady's hair with cod ing irons. There were rooms tor children's nurses, for personal servants. There was a bar? for men only. License to operate this bar pro vided a means of revenue for the town and was a controversy among the town fathers cach year? whe ther to renew or not! On the sec ond floor there were two assem bly halls, used for conventions. Horning dances were from 11 to 12 o'clock, tea dances 4 to 5 o'clock, and dancing every night A grand ball waa held at the open ing of the summer season, on July Fourth, and at the closing of the season. These were gala affairs, not surpassed anywhere for their brilliant elegance. Every day the huge ballroom floor was cleaned and waxed to a mirror-like finish. A balcony on the second floor ran around the entire dance floor, and the orches tra played in a little balcony that extended out from this and slightly over the dance floor. Downstairs a railing went around the dancing area with benches and chairs for spectators and resting dancers. After dinner, you promenaded In your finery or chatted with friends in little groups around the dance floor, waiting for the orches tra to strike up the music. Ladies, with beautiful and elaborate aatins, brocades and velvet gowna with trains trailing, or looped over' a wrist, flirted with large feather fans, their white shoulders pow- ' dered and bare; their Jewels sparkling and flashing. Gentlemen in evening dress with black patent leather dancing pumps. Dowagers looking down their noses through lorgnettes and discussing the bold ness of the younger generation. The openirg grand ball was ? German? or Cotillion. All ladies had dancf cards dangling grace fully from wrists and anxiously waited and hoped tor many names to be written in them tor all the daace*. Gome prominent couple led the German figures, or the grand march. A military ball was the 4th of July feature. Staff cars from Camp Glenn brought in handsome men In full dress uniform. They cheeked their (littering sabers at the lobby desk and escorted exquisitely gowned ladies into the vividly dec orated ballroom. A colorful grand march led off the dance, brilliant uniforms vytng with the gorgeous color-hued dresses. Boating, on'Bogue Sound, was a ' favorite pastime. This was the be ginning of party-boating for More head City. At the hotel's two docks local fishermen tied their sharpies and sometimes came to blows, each declaiming the comforts and fast sails of their boats as aa en ticement. | When dances were over, a moon light anil was very popular. Guests hurried to change clothes; some daring or foolish ones boarded boats with their evening regalia still on them. Then voices raised in song accompanied by a banjo strumming, floated across the aeund and ttto the early morning air. ' Uandfc, and sometimes feet, wen trailed through the water. Water melon was eaten. Hands were held and proposals of marriage were made, all under the spell of moon- w light, topping waves and gentle or spanking breetes, aa you raced through the darkness with creak ing tiller and boom and white sails billowing. (Te he Ceatiaaed)
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