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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES Carter at Couaty'i Ntwiptpw EDITORIALS TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1958 Streets Get Face- Lifting Work has started on widening 5th Street, Morehead City, between Aren dell and Evans. The project has been undertaken by the town to provide all-day parking space for fishing parties. A place for sports fishermen to park their cars has always posed a problem. Evans Street is narrow and parking is permitted on one side only. If it were otherwise, there would be no space for two-way traffic. Fifth Street is being widened to per mit diagonal parking on the east side. Since charter boat parties leave before sun-up, it is highly unlikely that per sons other than fishermen will beat the fishermen to the parking space. The town is providing the labor and equipment to widen the street and waterfront businesses are paying for the materials. This is another one of the projects being carried out by the street depart ment, G. E. Sanderson, commissioner, in conjunction with suggestions by other commissioners. It will go a long way toward making the town more at tractive to sports fishermen. The street department has been very busy. Grass has been seeded along the railroad tracks, now the 5th Street project is under way and Commissioner Sanderson has not forgotten the prom ise to the folks from W. S. King School. By school-time in the fall, he main tains, Bay Street approaching the school, which is usually a sea of mud, will be improved. In a Garden, Silence Speaks "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." A blooming garden in the spring is, Indeed, a joy. Spring does not last for ever, nor do the blooms. But the mem ory is sweet and thrilling and forever new if you can recall how the tiny red buds of the apple tree looked against the singing blue of a spring sky . , . how the daffodils, looking up, re flected sun from their trumpet cup . . , how the water sings as it trickles over rock and feeds a pool that reflects the green wonder of the season . . . blue and white violets, fearing not that they be overshadowed by other blooms more brilliant, cuddle close to the fragrant earth . . . judas trees, the lush color of crushed purple grape, weave a blazing pattern beneath the green of pine . . . how suddenly and vividly comes the artist called Spring! Boughs heaped with the snow of bloom are the flowering crabapple's reason for being . . . the weeping cherry, in delicate pink blush, throws a mantle of lace over brown twigs that recently shivered 'neath ice . . . resplendent red tulips emerge from a brown tomb,*a fiery promise of resur rection . . . bridal wreath shimmers in its gown of white . . ? yellow jasmine throws a kiss to a passing cloud . . . a wee tot leans toward a fountain, for spring spells fascination for old and young . . . a cardinal leaves off his shrill whistle and sings a new song to his mate-to-be; so thrilled is he with the day and the hour that each feather trembler as he ends the chorus . . . ring golden bells of forsythia, shout new leaves in the sun . . . spring has tumbled from a meadow in heaven . . . and a caressing zephyr keeps re minding you that God truly lives in a garden. Simmer Down, Jim (Greensboro Daily News) The ozone up around the throne gets pretty, ratified. White House Press Secretary Hagerty is one of those who has inhaled so deeply that it's gone to his head. Instead of remaining a tough news paper reporter he has become a hyper sensitive, stuffed-shirt bureaucrat who can't take kidding. Mr. Hagerty has been given a ride by Art Buchwald, the New York Herald Tribune's clever columnist jn Paris, in a "transcript" of a "briefing" held . "Jate at night for reporters who couldn't sleep." The "man behind the microphone" arrived at 12 :30 a.m. with the report that the President had gone to bed at 11 :06. Some of the questions : Q. Jim, whose idea was it for the President to go to sleep? A. It was the President's idea. He vraa tired and decided to go to sleep. Q. Did Sherman Adams or Dr. Sny der or the President's son suggest he go to sleep? A. As far as I know, the President suggested the idea himself. Q. Jim, did the President speak to anyone before retiring? A. He spoke to the secretary of state. Q. What did he say to the secretary of state, Jim? A. He said, "Good night, Foster!" Q. And what did the secretary say' to the President? A. He said, "Good night, Mr. Presi dent" Q. Didn't the secretary say, "Pleas ant dreams"? A. Not to my knowledge . . . Q. Jim, when the President went to sleep last night, how did he feel? A. He was feeling chipper and in good spirits. Q. How many blankets were on the bed? A. I'm not sure. Maybe two or three. But certainly no more than he uses in Washington. Q. Could we say three? A. I better check that. I know three blankets were made available, but it's possible he didn't use all of them. Q. One could have been kicked off during the night? A. Yes, that could be possible, but it's unlikely. Q. Was there a glass of water by the bed? A. There was a glass of water and pitcher . . . This is harmless enough. Yet Mr. Hagerty denounced it as "unadul terated rot" and said he "assumed" the New York Herald Tribune would give his remarks "equal play on the front page" next day. What a ridiculous reaction. Fortu nately, President Eisenhower had the right reaction. He laughed like mad and told Hagerty, "Simmer down, Jim, simmer down." ' While Mr. Hagerty's reaction is downright silly, his straight-faced an nouncement that this was an imaginary interview is not hard to understand when you read some equally inane questions put to the presidential press secretary by the "working press." Carteret County News-Times WINNER OF NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARDS A Mercer a f The Beaufort Newi (Eft. 1112) and The Twin City Timei (Eft. U3? Published Tueadayi and Friday! by lb* Carteret Publishing Company, Inc. 504 Arendell St.. Morebead City, N. C. LOCKWOOD PHILLIPS - PUBLISHER ELEANORE DEAR PHILLIPS - ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER RUTH L. PEELING - EDITOR liaU Ratea: In Carteret County and adjoining countiea, H-00 one year, O.SO six rooothi, $L3I ooe month; elae where tT.OO one year. >?.00 ala monthf, 11.10 one month. Member of Aaaoctated Pretf ? N. C. Preta Auociatiot National Editorial Aaaodatlon - Andit Bareaa of Circulations National Adrertieim Representative Moran * Ftacber, Inc. 10 Eaat 40th Street, New York !?. N. Y. The Aaaociated Proas la entitled exclusively to me for republication of local news printed in this newspaper, aa well aa all AP newa dispatches aa Second Class Matter at Merehead City, N. C., Under Act of March 1, lilt NO CAPTION REQUIRED Ruth Peeling Black Sow Follows Easter Bunny It was pork on the hoof in our neighborhood Easter Monday morning. About 7:30 Ruth Bell, next door, calls and asks me have I seen a pig in my yard. I informed her, no, T hadn't investigated the out side world as yet. Well, she said, there was a pig around and he was rooting up everything. Now 1 immediately pictured a pig about the size of a half-grown boxer, only a bit fattfcr. Brother, was I in for a shock. I looked out my back window and high-tailing it down through the yard was a black sow. She was a yard high, if she was an inch, black, muddy with a tail like a tangled rope. There was nothing corkscrew about that tail. And she wasn't very fat either. Looked lean and ready for a fight. She kept going back into the woods. Whether she ever came back that day, I don't know, but (he bad already done enough dam age. She didn't have to come back. The Bell's yard looked as though someone had run a sod-breaking plow through it. The old sow tried my lawn but apparently it wasn't nearly as delicious as the Bell's. She tested in a few spots and quit. Mean as she looked, if she had really gone to work on my yard, I would have gotten out my bow am arrow and had pork on the plate instead of on the hoof that day. There is more than one way to look at the bill introduced in Con gress advocating turning of mili tary aircraft, for repair, over to private industry. The proposal has been flatly opposed in almost every quarter in eastern Carolina. Skinner Chalk, Morehead City, says, though, that we may be back ing ourselves into a corner. Just suppose the O&R department were declared surplus at Cherry Point and it were taken over by a pri vate aircraft company and operat ed right where it is. Mr. Chalk said that we would already have put ourselves on record as not wanting that done! Then, of course, another view is that the federal government's an nual bill of operation should be reduced, no matter what. Some think that putting repair of plane* in private hands would be more economical. Attempts to cut government ex penses have never gotten very far. Most folks believe that as long as the federal government is handing money out, this section may as well get its share. Cherry Point is the biggest industry in a five county area, including Carteret. Without it, everybody would Captain Henry Sou'easter There are some chosen few still driving around with 1957 Beaufort tags on their cars. Gene Smith and Claud Wheatly, I understand, have become in separable golfing partners. I'm wondering whether they both play the same kind of golf ? and will the duo dissolve after May 31T So many golfers talk about their "perfect swing". "I'd have ' this game licked," one muttered, "if I could just do away with the ball." L. G. Dunn, who's running com petition with Judge Duncan for the affection of the girls in the bank, is bragging. His name was men tioned on the course at Augusta during the master's tournament last week. L. G. announces, "I'm famous. One spectator tapped another on the shoulder at Augusta and said, 'Did you know L. G. Dunn got 102 at Jacksonville last week?' " For those of you who don't know any more about golf than I do, 102 is a pretty awful score. But L. G. figures as long as his name is even mentioned within spitting distance of golf pros like Doug Ford and Arnold Palmer, life is worth living. The first mate was out watching me work in my nice new garden. Mostly, I've been wading in mud. She takes a dim view of my early spring gardening ambitions, claims my energy gets shorter as the days get longer. Trying to discourage me, she said, "When the seeds come up, how can you tell the plants from the weeds?" "Pull 'em up," I told her. "The ones that come up again are the weeds." She stomped into the house and left me to my garden patch. I think I shall go around and call on Wiley Lewis. I hear he's gone in for gardening and orchards in a big way. I'll never forget the time Wiley's wife, Emily Clyde, announced that all the spring bulbs Wiley planted never came up. Mrs. Parkin, Emily Clyde's mother, put two and two together. "I never could figure out," she said, "what happened to my spring onion sets." IS THE GOOD OLD DSS THIRTY YEAH? AGO The state's largest seaside re sort. Atlantic Beich, was rapidly Bearing completion and would be ready (or visiton by June 1. Beaufort Rotary Club wai to re ceive its charter this week. TWENTY -FIVE YEARS AGO Smyrna High School won first place in the county track meet; Morehead placed second, Beaufort third and Newport fourth. Newport residents were hoping the atate bank commissioner, would approve the re-opening at the Bank of Newport They were plan ning to increaae the stock to $10, 000 with an additional $5,000 in reaerve. TEN TEAM AGO fir* destroyed 3S0 acres ot wood land in the county in the past week. Alfred Cooper sold all his prop erties at Atlantic Beach with the exception of the Ocean King Hotel and Idle Hour Amusement Center for $110,000 dollars.: The Beaufort fire department re leaaed its sole sponsorship of the baseball team but agreed to lend its help as a supporting body to any interested group. FIVE TEARS AGO Parker Motor Co. was celebrat ing its sixth birthday. Alfred Cooper was named mayor tt Atlantic Beach. Edgar Hibbs was nominated mayor a I Newport. have to go back to growing col lards ? or move elsewhere. Members of the coroner's jury at the inquest on the Coast Guards man's death took a deep interest in the proceedings. This was indi cated by the questions they asked. Most inquests I have covered have been like wakes. The jurors sit like mummies. Maybe they were afraid to ask questions. May be they were asleep. Maybe they didn't care. Perhaps all people were not satisfied with the outcome of the Rogers inquest. But if those who weren't satisfied had ever at tended any of the previous inquests in this county, they would know that the Rogers jurors were super ior to most. The first type of odor killing equipment tried at the stickwater plant at Lennoxville has been dis carded, so they say. Now new equipment is going to be tried out. A new voting precinct has been established in the county? Mans field Park . . . Dr. Leroy Burney, surgeon gen eral of the United States, says polio will probably stage a come back from its 1957 low. Epidemic years have always followed years of low incidence. He urges every one under 40 to get Salk shots . . . The smaller cars help solve one problem: parking space. In Wash ington, D. C., certain parking lots have set aside space for the little cars. Where once 18 average-siied cars were parked, 25 of the small variety can now be parked . . . The brochure distributed by Cape llatteras National Seashore Park shows a map of the park. It also shows how close Carteret County is to a tremendous tourist gold mine IF there were a car ferry between Ocracoke and Cedar Is land. Right now the words at the edge of the map are "Passenger Toll Ferry to Atlantic". How long until they read "Car Toll Ferry to Atlantic"? Stamp News By SYD ZKONI8H An aerial view of the United States Pavilion at Brussels will be featured on the 3-center to be is sued in Detroit on April 17. The stamp honors the opening of the Brussels Universal and Interna tional Exhibition. Stamp collectors desiring first day cancellations may send their addressed envelopes together with money order remittances covering the co?t of the stamps to Postmas ter, Detroit 33, Mich. The outside envelope should be endorsed "First Day Cover Brussels Stamp." On the following day, April It, the 25-cent Paul Revere stamp of tha 1954 "Liberty" postage series will be issued. It will first go on sale at Boston. The date coincides with the anniversary of Revere's famous ride to warn the country side that the British were coming. The stamp depicts a likeness of Revere reproduced from a por trait by Gilbert Stuart. First day covers of the Revere stamp may be obtained by send ing your addressed envelopes to Postmaster, Boston 9, Mass., to gether with money order covering the cost of the stamps to be af fixed. The outside envelope to the Postmaster should be marked "Fint Day Cover Paul Revere Stomp." u*riwfr)v*r Words of Inspiration FABENTAL DELINQUENCY Fathers and Mother*, just what are our duties in today's world? Should we continue to sit quietly by and wait for someone else to straighten out all of the problems in our communities, our schools, our state and our nation? You know moat of the solutions will be found right in the home, centered around fathers and mothers who have no greater love than that for their children. There have been many guide books written Xo help parents rear their children. There was one theory, that babies should not be held and cod dled by relatives; soother, that all children should be free to express their own feelings, with no restraint. Making them control their emo tions, or follow certain standards found to be best by their parents, we were told, would make them feel insecure . . . bah. The best Book of instructions, for both psrent and child, that I have ' found is the book of Proverbs. As we read the Bible, we will find that down through the years fathers were always at the head of the house hold, looked up to, honored, and respected. Before I go sny farther, let me also say that a father can only fill this honored state at the head of his house by living a good example. It is difficult to teach a boy to be a careful driver when he rides with his father and sees him break every written traffic law. It is impossi ble for a father to teach sobriety if he drinks. I believe that most mothers and fathers of our time have tried tu do what they believed to be best for their children. They have worked and given, and giverf, and given, listened to the wise ones, recommend self- , expression and the things they were sure would bring happiness to children. Somewhere along the line, we have gotten our values all mixed up. I do not believe there is enough money in the world to furnish sll the social workers, playgrounds, new schools, police officers, jails, and courts to take care of our growing number of delinquents. We do not need to learn how to take care of delinquents in Carteret County, we need to know how to keep from having them. If there is one thing that a mother needs in rearing a child, it is the child's father. All of you know how mothers are, loving, soft-hearted, and can be out-talked by a teen-ager without too much trouble. Mother can tell Sally, age 15, to be in at 10 and Sally will quickly tell her that Mary, who lives next door and is just the same age, doesn't have to be . in until 12. All that is needed is for Father to say, "Sally, what time did your Mother say for you to be in?" Sally tells him and then adds "But Father . . All father needs to say is, "Be very sure you are in at that time." Sally will recognize the authority in his voice, and I'll bet my bottom dollar she will be home at that time. Young people respect authority, they thrive under discipline, learn best by example. It takes both parents to rear a child. I think the biggest headache that I had for five long years was on Junior-Senior night. An established pattern has been set where the ( children stay out all night following the school dance. I fought as. hard as I knew how to change this pattern but didn't get to first base. At PTA some of the mothers thought those of us who were opposed were old fashioned and didn't trust our children as we should. MOTHERS, I said, where were the Fathers? Well, you know how it is, only a few ever attend PTA. So we dressed our juniors and seniors in the finest, prettiest clothes we could afford, cleaned up the family car, filled it with gas; gave them a little more money than they even asked for, with our permission to stay out all night, and sometimes all weekend. Should they get into trouble, we could just never understand how it could have happened ! A home where the father feels that it is the absolute duty of the mother to solve all problems, to keep the home life in order, to see that the children get their lessons, that she direct their spiritual life, and bring honor to his name ? this home is not much better than one broken by divorce. Blessed are the children who are born into homes where love abides, where both parents work together with the child, share his problems, share his dreams and teach him the responsibilities of life, realizing that he is an individual who is trying to learn to stand alone in a con fused world. There will be differences of opinion many times between parents. Blessed is the child whose parents will discuss or argue them out in privacy, never in the presence of the child. Mother'* duties to her children reach around the clock. She will al ways be there to guide a-id help her child when she is needed. Father has an important job to fill too. Mother needs him. His teen-agers need him desperstely. They need his authority, his decisions, his discipline. Many fathers are willing to work night and day to make more money, to keep raising the family standard of living; to supply Junior and Sister with too much spending money that they haven't earned; yet never raising a voice in parental guidance. Then when called to juvenile court, he will wring his hsnds and say "What in the world did I do t wrong? I gave him everything." The Country Parson once said, "Life, like a cake, can be ruined just as much by what we leave out of it as by what we put into it." The cure for juvenile delinquency (parental or juvenile) is a lot like tuberculosis. We csn do quite a lot to prevent having the disease, but the cure for far advanced cases is difficult, long, expensive, and of times fatal. This is the Law B y ROBERT E. LEE For the N. C. Bar Association ADVERSE POSSESSION White inherited unoccupied land. Black, without the consent or knowledge of White, went into pos session of the land and built a house thereon. He cultivated por tions of the land and made pas tures of the balance. He held him self out as the owner of the prop erty. Twenty-two years later White sold the land to an industrial cor poration. Hay the corporation evict Black from the land? No. Black has become the owner of the land underthe doctrine of adverse possession. Adverse possession is one of the methods of acquiring ownership to both real and personal property. Black now has the title to the prop erty. If the corporation wants the land, it must pay to Black his sell ing price. In North Carolina, ownership to real property may be acquired against the claims at individuals if the land has been held by an adverse possessor for a period of twenty years. The possession must be continuous, visible and notor ious, hostile and adverse. As against the State of North Carolina, where one relies upon adverae possession alone, the sta tutory period is thirty years. An intentional wrongdoer may acquire title by advene posaession. If he entered and continued in posaession with the consent of the true owner, the possessor would not be holding adverse and hostile; and, as a consequence, would not acquire ownership no matter how long bis possession continued. Allen owns a vacant lot. Baker, who actually has no legal rights in the land, tells Collins that he is the owner. For a price. Baker executes and delivers to Collins a deed to the lot. CoIHm immediate ly proceeds to build a house on the lot and to occupy the lime. Seven years later Allen brings ? legal proceeding to evict Collini. Hay he do so? No. If ? person li in adverse possession of land under "color of title," he may acquire ownership in North Carolina as against the claims of individuals upon the ex piration of seven years. ' As against the State of North Carolina, where one relies upon adverse possession under "color of title," the statutory period if twenty-one years. "Color of title" consists of a writing which, although inoperative as a conyeyance, is believed by the occupant to constitute a valid con veyance. The purported convey ance may have been executed by one not having the title or may have not complied with the formal ities required by law. "Color of title" Is not necessary when possession has been held ad- , versely, against an Individual for twenty years; but it is if the ad verse possessor wants to claim the shorter statutory period of seven years. Suppose In the ease above that Collins had died after being In possession only four years. His heirs continued in possession after his death. Upon the expiration of seven years from the date of Col lins entry of possession, would his heirs become owners under "color of title"? Yea. This la permissible under a doctrine known as "tacking." The heira can "tack" their three years of adverse possession under "color of title" to the four years of Collins, thereby making a total of seven years. Just in Passing . . . H?T better this world would be if we would let Oppor tunity do all Um knocking. A
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