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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES Carter** County's Newspaper EDITORIALS FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1958 Argonaut Captivates Visitors The visit of the submarine Argonaut turned last weekend, into a special one for Carteret Countians. Many enjoyed their sight-seeing tour through the "tin ? fish". Arrival of the Argonaut at the state port for Armed Forces Day weekend was Bomewhat of a surprise. The Morehead City Chamber of Commerce, according to its manager, J. A. DuBois, had contacted the proper authorities to request a ship of some sort at the port in observance of Armed Forces Day, but not much encourage ment was given him. Then, almost at the last minute, Mr. DuBois receives word that the Argonaut will be here. The men aboard the sub were most gracious hosts. In war, a submarine and its crew is a formidable weapon; in peace and on its mission here last weekend, the Argonaut and its men were devastatingly effective in building favorable public sentiment toward the Navy and the Armed Forces. Our best wishes go to the skipper and men of the Argonaut for happy days ahead. The buoy at the entrance to Beaufort Inlet will always curtsey a fond welcome to you should you ever be in these waters again. Another Milestone . . . The Npw?-Timp.s rpftfhpH n milnafnnp now hnilHintr urhirh if n/>pnnioa frwlair on the first day of this week. It was 10 years old. But we were so busy going about the business of putting out a newspaper ? and especially Tuesday's resort-port edition ? that we hardly noticed one whole decade was behind us. It seems but only yesterday that dire predictions of failure were made when Morehead City's small daily newspaper and Beaufort's weekly were combined , as The News-Times. Some businessmen who looked upon newspaper advertising as "a favor to the publisher" instead of one of the necessary ingredients for doing busi ness, refused to advertise. There was grumbling and mumbling on both sides of Newport Kiver. But, as the man once said, the world will beat a path to the door of the man who builds a better mousetrap. Thus far, the world hasn't come to our door but Carteret folks seem to realize, whethey they are conscious of it or not, that their newspaper is a good one. We have exerted every effort to make it that way ? and will continue to do so. A large part of this success is due to you. Some of those who doubted, back in 1948, that The News-Times had a chance for survival, were willing, at least, to give us an even break. That's all we asked. In 1949 the newspaper moved into a ??v ?i ?> iiivii ib vvvupiva buunj on Arendell Street, Morehead City. Its coverage of the county is unprecedent ed in the annals of county publishing history. Nobody at The News-Times is yet in the Rolls-Royce category, but a healthy annual payroll supports the baker's dozen who work here and the paper supplies spending money to a corps of fine newsboys and girls. We hope The News-Times prospers. It will if the rest of the county pros pers, too. That's why one of our major aims is to promote in every way possi ble this area ? its advantages, and the opportunities that are here for earnest, hard-working businessmen? to support the efforts of those who are rearing families, who give of their time and brainpower in civic endeavors, and who hope with us that Carteret will ful fill the golden destiny we believe awaits us. This anniversary cannot pass with out our wishing Happy Birthday to John Christian Smith, age 10, who was born at the Morehead City Hospital in the early hours of the morning when his daddy, Joe Smith, our pressman, had just started rolling off the first papers of the new News-Times. We're looking forward eagerly to the next 10 years. The decade will have its peaks and valleys, but through it all, our sole aim will be to produce a good newspaper worthy of the good people who read it. A Car for a Bear - And No Boot (Greensboro Daily News) With the "hard sell" coming back into the automobile industry younger salesmen accustomed only to plush times might hearken to old-timers who have been through wars, previous de pressions and natural disasters, i Charles H. Jenkins of Aulander, president of a unique automotive firm in a small Eastern Carolina town, might offer some advice. ~ Once he traded an automobile for a bear, Mr. Jenkins told the Bertie Coun ty Historical Association. Departing from the usual fare of county historical societies ? old homes, Indian tribes and early settlers ? the Bertie group took note of recent economic develop ments in Eastern North Carolina. i Mr. Jenkins, known elsewhere in Tarheelia as a former state senator and member of the State Board of Conser vation and Development, was invited to tell about his unique agency. He start ed in business with one Overland ? all he was able to borrow money to buy ? in 1912; now he has five agencies in four counties and is one of Jthe few dealers in the nation to hold the fran chise for all General Motors cars. ' His reminiscences about the old days are contained in the April issue of The Chronicle, the Bertie society's publica tion. Swapping a sedan for a bruin was only one experience: On another occasion we traded a car for a cow and a diamond wedding ring. Once while negotiating a sale in a customer's home, the car which was parked near the house self started and knocked the kitchen of the house off its foundations. Notwithstanding the accident the customer bought the car. During the depression of 1921 we sold only two cars and one of these was sold to a customer from Texas. Fortunately for us his bride lived in Northampton County, so we supplied the transportation for the honeymoon. No doubt Mr. Jenkins has plans for weathering the current recession. The modern miracle of atomic en ergy is being put to work in the Nile River in Egypt, where fishing has been going on for over 6,000 years. A young Swiss scientist, Dr. Richard Vollen weider of the United Nations Educa tional Scientific and Cultural Organ ization, is experimenting with the use of a radio isotope (Carbon 14). His aim is to measure the amount of glucose being produced in the algae on the floor of the Nile pools. More glucose in the algae means more food for the fish, and ultimately more fish. Carteret County News-Times WINNER OF NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARDS A Merger of The Beaufort News (Eit 1912) and The Twin City Timet (Est. 1936) Published Tuesdays and Fridays by the Carteret Publishing Company, Inc. <04 Arendeil St, Morehead City, N. C. LOCKWOOD PHILLIPS - PUBLISHER ELEANORS DEAR PHILLIPS - ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER RUTH L PEELING - EDITOR Mail Rates: In Carter* 6onntjr and adjoiniag counties, NN on* year, ?l.n six months, $1.28 one month; elae where 17.00 one year, $4-00 ilx months, tlJO one month. Member at Associated Press ? N. C. Press Aaaodattoc National Editorial Association ? Audit Bureau at Circulations National Advertiatng Representative Moran * Fischer, Inc. 10 East ?0th Street, New York 1?. N. Y. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to use for republication at local Bows printed in this newspaper, aa well aa all AP newt dispatches Entered aa Secood Class Matter at Morehead City, N. C., Under Act of March 1, 1179 ALWAYS THE WALLFLOWER rut CUTT1H6 OF , W *$T?AHOr HOHl ~ 5PB.HPIN6 \ INGCVT \t?ccnati\ Securify for Y ou ... By RAY HENRY From Mrs. M.A.V. of Washing ton. D. C.: "I am a widow of a World Wnr 1 veteran and want to know if you can tell me where I can go to get a raise in the widow's pension 1 gtt from the Veterans Administration. I am 74 years old and receive $50.40 a month." Under present laws you are now drawing the highest amount the Veterans Administration paya to widows of World War I veterans who died of causes not connected with their military service. So, there's no possibility of a raise un less Congress changes the law. From Mrs. B R. of Beloit. Ohio: "I'm wondering how I should go about obtaining my Social Security. I will be 72 on the 17th of Novem ber but there is no record of my birth in the city where I was born." You don't necessarily have to have a birth certificate to draw So cial Security. Other types of proof of your birth may be accepted. I suggest you get in touch with the nearest Social Security office to find out if you don't now have something in your possesion which will be acceptable as proof of your age. From J.F.A. of Cape Girardeau, Mo.: "I have a question 1 would like to have answered about the lump sum Social Security payment which is paid after a person dies. Who draws this payment!" Ordinarily, the lump sum is paid to the widow or widower. If there is no such eligible dependent, then the person or persons who paid the burial expenses may receive the payment. From Mrs. L.G. of Lock Haven, Pa.: "I worked for 10 years be (ween 1937 and 1947 under Social Security. Since then, I haven't worked. I'm now 62 and would like to draw any payments I have com ing, but I don't have a Social Se curity card. I can't remember my number. Do I have to have the card and number to draw pay ments?" No. Just go to the nearest So cial Security office and fill out the appropriate forms. From E.O. of Pittsburgh, Pa.: "How long does a woman have to be married to receive Social Se curity payments as a result of her husband's Social Security record?" The marriage must have been in effect for three years or the cou ple must be the parents of a child. From N.E.E. of Knoxville, Tenn. : "When a man and wife have both worked under Social Security and contributed the maximum amount since H started in 1937, what will they get when both are 65, under the present law?" They'll both be eligible for )10t.50 I month. From U.D. of Midland, Va.: "If a person works 10 years at the same place under Social Security and then quits work when only SO years old, can he draw Social Se curity when he is 65?" Yes. Once a person has 10 years employment on a job covered by Social Security he is fully and per manently insured. His benefit at age 65, however, will not be as big as if he continued to work. (Editor's Note: Yoa may con tact the social security repre* seatative at the coortboase an oex, Beaafort, from (:? a.aa. to 1Z:? p.m. Wednesdays. Be will help yoa with jroar owa partlca lar problem). F. C. Salisbury Here and There The following information li taken from the files of the More head City Coaster: FRIDAY, MAT U, 1*11 Miss Lena Yokely left Wednesday for her home in Winston-Salem, having taught here in the graded school during the past year. Leo Lupton and family left this week for Baltimore where Lupton will be engaged in the ship yard there. Miss Pearl Davis has returned to the city after several days' visit with relatives in Durham. J. C. Helms and Linwood Wade have returned from a trip to Flint, Mich. Baker Morris, formerly "Ser geant Morris," has returned home after several months service in France. Miss Lucile Arthur has returned to Camp Mead, Md., after spend ing two weeks here with her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Arthur. Miss Arthur, an enlisted nurse cf the American Red Cross, has been stationed at Camp Mead since ca tering the service. Mr. and Mrs. Q. Arthur Leathers have returned to the city after spending some time visiting north ern cities. The following young men have given their lives in the service tf their country: Irving Fulford, Morehead City; Lloyd Harris, Mar sh allberg; B. Tucker WUIia, Willis ton; Y. Z. Weeks. Cedar Point; Gales Robinson, Atlantic. Heroes from the front line* are always awarded their medals, but the Morehead City policeman con tinues to wear the back of a "dol lar watch," however much ? hero be might be. C. M. Wade and A. Dewey Willis, trading as the Willis Grocery Con pany, have dissolved partnership. The store will continue to be op erated by C. M. Wade. Yeomenettes, Missel Healy, Val la and Winterbottom arrived In the city Wednesday morning, having been assigned to the Naval Air Sta tion at Camp Glenn. The many frienda of Miss Erne line J. Pigott will regret to learn that she ia critically ill at her home on Bridges Street Carl Taylor of Wilson has ac cepted a position with The Coaster. Before entering the service he was employed by the Wilson Printing Company. The city's crack baseball team won over Kins ton Saturday in a very closely contested game at Carwile Park, the score being 9 to S. The Southland, a handsome fish ing boat owned by the Carteret Fish and Oil Co. of this city, was launched recently from the shlp yard of the Bell-Wallace Company. A new pier has been erected by M. S. Lee of the Newport Fisheries, near the spur of the N-S Railroad in the yard of the shipbuilding company. Wedneaday and Thursday waa "moving day" for the hospital when they vacated the upper floor of the Paragon building. Built at a cost of MS, 000, this institution is one of the most handsome build ings in North Carolina. Smil? o WhiU A sultan, at odds with his harem, thought of a way he could scarem. He caught him a mouse, set it loose in the house; thus starting the first harem -scarem. 1 Free Wheeling By BILL CROWELL Department of Motor Vehicles HAZARD . . . There's nothing new about "highway hypnosis." It's still a wolf in sheep's clothing and it can kill you if you aren't alert. Highway hypnosis, remember, is tbe relaxed feeling of security one experiences driving hour after hour along new improved highways. You sometimes get it after long periods of steady driving. As you go along mile after mile on straight, easy and level road way you may be lulled by the con stant drone of the engine and tires, the sameness of the scenery, fixed eye position and the general mo notony of flawless car operation. You may develop a false sense of security and grow less aware of actual traffic conditions. In this sub-alert state, you may drive off the road, plow into traffic or any thing else in your path, or even d?7.e off at the wheel. Or you may grow so accustomed to aunt sained speeds that you lose the ability to judge speed accurate ly. You may well be unaware that your speed is above safe and pos> ed limits. Accidents that happen from such sub-alert driving are generally bad ones. Motor Vehicles Department au thorities suggest that you check your speedometer often, vary your speed slightly now and then, and keep vourself fully alert at all times. Keep a car window open beside you so that a stream of fresh air blows across your face. Stop at least every hour, whether you feel like it or not. When you do stop, take time to wash your face and freshen up, get gasoline, a bit to eat, a cup of cof fee, and walk aaround a little. If possible, change drivers at these rest stops. All such measures help prevent grogginess, combat "highway hyp nosis," and reduce the likelihood of driving at unrealized speeds. In addition to fresh air, varied speeds, frequent stops and rest, ex perienced drivers suggest different tips for maintaining alertness. Some of them are: Avoid heavy, sleep - inducing meals. Glance at passing scenery to avoid steady focusing of eyei ahead. Wear loose, comfortable cloth ing. Avoid long driving periods, espe cially at night. Listen to a snappy radio pro gram. Avoid oversmoking. Converse with others or sing a song. Be interested in road markings, traffic signs, colors, other traffic and such things OUTSIDE the car SUDDEN T H W A T . . . The whammy may speed up our indig nation, but it sure slows down our driving. ANON . . . Her lips quivered as they approached mine. My whole frame trembled as I looked into her eyes. Her body shook with in tensity as our lips met, and my chin vibrated and my body shud dered as 1 held her. The moral i?, of course, never kiss a girl with the engine running. Column Will Reappear in June Mrs. G. T. Spivey, Words of In spiration columnist, has reported that she will resume her column the first of June. Mr*. Spivey has been unable to write the column during tbe past month due to her heavy schedule as public health nurse with the County Health Department. We're sure her many reader! will be happy to have her inspira tional messages appear again on tba editorial page.? Tbe Editor. The Readers Write May 1*. 1>5< To the Editor: No, 1 didn't have apoplexy when I read your editorial laat week 1 waa too tired. I gueas I felt aort of like the man who waa attacked by a gnat after being mauled by a tiger. You aee, I had just returned from the annual welfare superin tendents' conference and waa al ready overwhelmed with the prob lems of public welfare Your critt cisms were mild compared to the ones we made of ouraelvea and cov ered considerable less ground. The big blame' this year. "Why do we continue to fail to meet the needs of desperate children when their own homes fail?" Our an swers of (1) lack of personnel and (2) an inability to find calm un derstanding men and women will ing to be loving foster parenta didn't satisfy any of ua. We still have the children. One superintendent reported be ing "handed" eleven children by the court with no warning. I guess we've been lucky in Carteret Coun ty We've never had more than five at a time with no warning. We hotly debated that century old problem of illegitimacy again as usual, and came out with the same answer. Illegitimacy is the product of poverty, ignorance, and emotional instabUity. You cant fight any of those things with deprivation and punishment. In face of all the public criticism we almost regretfully stuck to the con clusion that to deny help to chil dren who arc hungry or sick be cause they were born out of wed lock is not the answer. This may sound stupid hut in re ply to some of the questions I ve been asked I'd like to state we have never helped an illegitimate child before he was born or before he was in need. We don't give help to a child because he doesn t have a legal father. We give help to needy children. We think they will have a better chance of growing up to he good citizens if they arc not deprived of basic necessities. The help we offer is frequently too little and too late, and I am not now talking just about financial help. Frequently, there are more important needs, and a few are given necessary financial help in their own homes only because we have no other help to offer. Social workers, like other people, often disagree. But we ?8ree on this None of us believe in foster ins dependency, nor in encourag ing relatives to pass off their re sponsibilities to government agen cies. Many of us feel strongly that there is a trend in this direction and that every effort should be made to combat it. We think that the number of chil dren who feel that their aged par ents should Htakenear. of hy th? state is increasing, and that there is a growing feeling that the tax payers should furnish a little spending money for the old people so they won't have to .ask their children for everything. We wonder, too, about parents reluctance to be dependent upon their children after their own re sources are used up. Is this be cause of changes in the total struc ture of families and our society? U public welfare has any part in t we are failing in the purpose of our '"public assistance grants are for those whose own resources have been exhausted, and whos*\ ," tjves are not able to provide for them without depriving of a minimum security and stand ,rd of living. Welfare check, are not pensions, nor rewards, they are only for people who are not lo cally able to provide for them selves and are in need of basic ^You spoke of a couple who drive a Mercury. We think you are re ferring to a man whose nephew owns a Chrysler. This m.n recen^ Iv had a very serious operation. He U receiving a check for the sup port of his children until he can go Kick to work. The doctor tells us he should be able to resume the support of his family in another two months His welfare checK win ^nth.s'.r.r.hc doctor tell, us he is able to work. No one In Carteret County who haa an automobile that la not used to help earn income should be on public mlitince. (Public ?. AW ? ?n!?e,JL* 0kl A?" AMtrt">ce. .k Children, Aid to the Blind, and Aid to the Totally and Permanently Diaabled. Thia X Z,?0? not *PP,J' to ??m? of the medical care program*, but an income chart doe?). We try to encourage people to or"',* "k,^ C,n' *Dd " ?n or disabled person can earn Dart of a living with an automobile, we not d?ny supplementary assist lr? iS ?n,y * the comings are sufficient to maintain the car plus 1 give some support to the in dividual. The car is allowed if it is absolutely necessary to the em ployment, and if the cost of own ing and maintaining the car is not unreasonable. We do not allow au tomobiles for any other reason, no matter how urgent. We do not de ny assistance if a person has a relative who owns an automobile We would like to know the name of the parent of the man in the Air Force and whether he ia able to support and if he does. Military personnel in the lower rates with families of their own are not often able to help support their parents But, we have had an Air Force captain threaten and berate the caseworker when she explained to him that his father was not eligible deserved Hc fch his fa,h" It is rather odd, perhaps, but I can count on my fingers the times l have had specific complaints with names and facts given about a person who did NOT need help But, we constantly receive com plaints about people who do not re ceive enough help or arc denied assistance. Names arc given then. One man made his mother-in-law move out of his home because she was denied Old Age Assistance on the basis of his income and ability to support her. He said we forced him to make her move. Blaming the federal government for our problems is the easy way out. I'm afraid if is more compli cated than this. The federal gov ernment does exercise control over the public assistance program. The purpose of the control is to insure uniform and equitable treatment to people in need wherever they may live and to prevent public assist ance from becoming a political football. The federal government couldn't use funds to help people in one sec tion more liberally than in another, nn.v more than Carteret County funds could be used more liberally on Markers Island than in Newport The county puts up approximately one-tenth of the public assistance money. The federal government puts up eight-tenths and the state the other tenth. There Is talk of putting this all back on the states and counties The President recommends doing so. * ff we could reduce our average checks to the old people, the dis abled, the blind and the dependent children we could save a few hun dred dollars of county money for other things. We would also deny these needy people ten times the amount saved. We can't reduce the checks be cause the basic rules to determine the amount each receives is de termined by federal regulations and amplified by state regulations. This federal money cannot be (pent on our other programs like hos pitalization and boarding home care for children and disabled adults. That it what is meant when people say the federal government controls the welfare departments. There Is federal money for some things and not for others, and when it i? available there are uniform regulations about how it should be used. We don't have to use it. We could get more if the state legisla ture would put up more to match it, but the countiei would have to put up more too. I want to comment on the com parison between costs of education and welfare, on the publishing of lists of welfare recipients, and on some other things, but will do that in the next Installment. Very truly yours. Georgia P. Hughes County Welfare Superintendent From the Bookshelf The Ginger Man. By J. B. Don leavy. McDowell, Obolensky. $3 95. A young man named Sebastian Dangerfield, whose rascally char acter gives this first novel Its title, runs wild over wine and women in Dublin. He has a wife Marion of whom he 'says, with a rueful sympathy: "She wanta It both ways. Dignity and me. She's got me." Yet he Is , not quite fair to himself for there is a kind o I savage dignity about him in fact lie clouts bis women In the mouth, he talks filth, but a fabu lous energy possesses him and drives him like mad. He la unin hibited natural man, but with a brain. I hesitate to recommend him to you, not becauHe of him, but be cause I don t know you. But 1'U tell my friends about him. ? W. G. Rogers The Uadergraaad City. By H. L. Humes. Random House. M.tS. The war Is over but the hate continues a* this novel, 7J5 long pages long, opens in Paris. A man named Dujardtn aits In a cell wait ing for the guillotine to end a ca reer disgraced by some pro-Fas cist, collaborationist activities. He if days (ram aeain wnen crowds of Parisians are aroused to demonstration in his defense. The Communists set out to help him, too. It seems that in the end the Americans will be the losers; they are represented mainly by John Stone, a weary one-time se cret agent, and Bruce Sheppard, an ambassador several notches higher than the popular notion of our diplomats. There are women. Frenchmen, Russians, and a Hontpelle mass acre seen in an extended flash back. This is a big. fat European kind <1 novel. Moving at a leisurely pace, motivating, explaining, the author aims to whisk you past less absorbing passages by heightening his tension and suapense. For me, he la aignally successful at creating a mood. He has a sure touch in setting a scene, letting the dark do** in ominously, and ac companying his characters as they drive or fly to some fateful en counter. ? W. 0. Rogers No man la fully accomplished un til he has acquired the ability to "to his own friitiiff t f i ?
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