I CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
Cirtanl County's Newspaper
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EDITORIALS TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1958
It Was Quite a Show
roues who took tne dub tour 01 land
marks in Beaufort Wednesday were
most impressed. Some were thrilled.
One woman enthusiastically said, "I
bet they could run one of these tours
every day and have a full bus in the
summer time."
That's probably too wild a dream.
The tour, however, was every bit as in
teresting as most of the bus tours we
have taken, both on the east and west
coast.
Grayden Paul is an expert guide. On
the "professional sight-seeing" tour
buses, the driver has a microphone into
which he talks. Anyone who knows Mr.
Paul knows that he doesn't need a mi
crophone. But it's quite a strain to
shout to a bus-full of people for an
hour at a stretch and, fortunately, his
voice didn't "give out".
He knew some interesting stories
about some of the houses and the town
itself. He told of a flirtation, after the
fall of Fort Macon, between a young
girl, Fannie Styron, and a wounded
Confederate soldier, Raymon Paul.
The soldier was being held prisoner in
the basement of the Alonzo Thomas
house, as were some other prisoners.
The young girl, from Davis Shores,
was visiting at the little house next
door. She and the wounded soldier
struck up a friendship and eventually
they married. "As a result of that flir
tation, I'm here talking to you today,"
Mr. raul said. "The two were my
grandparents."
The ladies on the bus loved that.
They applauded and laughed.
The Old Homes tour in Beaufort
proves a point. When people take a
trip somewhere, they want to see some
thing. This is difficult to explain, per
haps, because you "see something"
every place you go.
It's more difficult, though, to pro
vide something to "see" for the ma
jority of the people. You take some
persons, show them the ocean from a
high dune, and they will be thrilled. But
for most people, that is not enough.
You've got to put on a show for
them. Maybe it's a show of gardens,
maybe it's historic homes, maybe it's an
exhibit of firearms or sea animals ?
but it's got to be something that they
can't see in their old home town.
It takes some effort to attract tour
ists, but once a town, or an area, hits
upon the formula, the project rolls
along almost under its own momentum.
This does not mean that people can
sit back, fold their hands and watch the
tourists flow by. The Old Homes tour
and exhibits required much work, as
any Woman's Club member who helped
with the program will tell you.
The town of Beaufort owes the
Woman's Club a vote of thanks, as well
as total support for any future pro
gram the club may have to capitalize
on the town's historical heritage.
Dragging Our Feet . . .
Sen. Everett Jordan has asked for
an expansion of the federal govern
ment's sewage disposal program to
help North Carolina reduce stream pol
lution.
Beaufort and Morehead City were
notified by the State Stream Sanitation
Committee in 1954 that each town
would have to take steps to stop the
dumping of raw sewage in waters
around the towns. By law, such towns
are required to file notice of intention
to comply.
Federal money is available for ap
proved municipal plans for treatment
of sewage. Beaufort and Morehead
City each contend that the amount
Uncle Sam would provide is so small
that the towns, under present financial
conditions, would still be unable to pay
for sewage treatment plants.
Senator Jordan's request for double
the present federal funds will help the
towns which already have approved
plans. And there are quite a few of
them. If Beaufort and Morehead City
are ever to take advantage of federal
help, they should get their names in the
pot now.
As slow as Uncle Sam moves, by the
time federal funds are available here,
the towns may find a way to go through
with putting in the plants required by
state law.
Four towns which, according to Sen
ator Jordan are on North Carolina's list
of nine "priority" cities for sewage dis
posal are not as large as Beaufort or
Morehead City, according to 1950 cen
sus figures. They are Star, Richlands,
China Grove and Pinetops.
Among the 21 other cities whose
projects have been approved are other
small towns.
We like to talk of growth in this
area. The major factor contributing to
growth is our waters. .The, more we
grow ? continuing to dump raw sew
age into those waters ? the more we
whittle away the lure that attracts peo
ple here. Dumping raw sewage is bit
ing the hand that feeds us.
One of the objections to towns' put
ting in sewage disposal plants is that
areas immediately beyond the town
limits continue to dump sewage in the
streams. This points to the necessity of
sewage treatment on a wider scope
than town-by-town. "Sanitary dis
tricts" may be the answer to this.
Three "sanitary districts" are on the
approved North Carolina list for which
Senator Jordan is seeking more funds.
The longer the heavily populated
areas of Carteret delay in making con
crete plans for sewage treatment, the
sooner we will wake up and find that
our major asset, abundant blue waters,
have turned into a liability.
Moved to Tears
(The Irish Digest)
Even the London pub audience was
shattered by the appalling row that a
hack violinist was making. Every note
was a reminder that violin strings are,
reputedly, made of catgut
Yet when the ear-rending perform
ance was finished, its perpetrator, un
abashed by a universal sigh of relief,
announced : "And now, ladies and gen
tlemen, thanking you for your kind ap
plause, I propose to play for you my
well-known 'Variations on the London
derry Air*."
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The horrible noise had not got be
yond a dozen bars when an old gentle
man standing at the bar put down his
glass, dropped his head onto his chest
and broke into sobs.
This went on so long and so loudly
that the violinist was constrained to
stop. He walked across to the old man,
who stood there with great tears run
ning down his cheeks, and put an arm
round those heaving shoulders. "An
Irishman, sir?" he asked tenderly.
"No," replied the grief-stricken an
cient, "a musician."
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Will Problems Never Cease?
Things are going to the cats.
Anybody who says things are
going to the dogs has not been in
Morehcad City lately ? if what town
commissioners say is true.
They have been getting endless
complaints about cats. The re
bellion against cats is attributed
to the fact that the town fathers
employed a dog catcher to get rid
of the dogs.
"Now if we catch the cats," the
mayor declares, "we'll have to
get somebody to catch the rats."
As the man once said, "Don't
mess with the balance of nature."
The things that usually keep the
cat population down are cars,
guns, poison and dogs. You can't
fire a gun in the town limits. The
dogs (at least some of them) are
being corraled, so that leaves just
two remaining weapons.
To hear the folks in some neigh
borhoods, there are still plenty of
dogs around. Maybe the best thing
to do? for those people bothered
by cats? is to get a cat-chasing
dog. Get him a license, feed him
once a day and hope the dog catch
er won't pick him up until he's
chased every cat out of the neigh
borhood.
You know how wonderful your
voice sounds when you sing in a
tiled shower or bathroom?
Well, you've got nothing on the
frogs. Those yodeling characters
have discovered that my bottled
gas tanks are enclosed by gray
metal covers that serve as excel
lent sounding boards.
So they jump inside those cov
crs, porch themselves on various
shelves and squawk away. I look
under here, expecting to see a
bull frog as big as a head of cab
bage and what do I see? I little
itty-bitty blinkin' frog an inch
long!
If he ge's in there and squawks,
he knows he sounds like a basso
profundo. What ego!
Somebody else has animal prob
lems ? Mayor George Dill has had
a menagerie dumped in his lap.
His 10-year-old son, George Leigh,
has gone off to Elizabeth City, but
he left behind orders for his fa
ther, all written down, on when,
how much and what, to feed: one
alligator, two goldfish, one dog,
one cat, one rabbit, and when to
water "a plant that look! like a
miniature tree".
Woe be to the mayor if his son
gets back and finds any one of the
above in an ailing condition.
.Round and 'bout: Lt. W. 1.
Adams, USCG, transferred from
this area to New Orleans, La., cer
tainly appreciated the kind of at
tention he got while stationed here.
In a letter to George Phillips,
manager of the Piggly-Wiggly
store, Morchead City, he said:
"Both you and the butcher were
out on my last visit by the store
there before departing town, so I
just wanted to drop a note to thank
you for all your fine service while
we were in the area. It has always
been a pleasure to do business in
your store . . .
"My relief is Lt. Cdr. Bill Mont
ZS.TSE GOOD OLD B2ZS
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Morehead City would hold i
referendum on July 10 to decide
whether to sell its waterworks and
lighting plant for which $350,000
had been offered.
Members of the science depart
ment of the College for Women at
Greensboro were studying marine
science at Beaufort for three
weeks. Among the group were
Florence Parkin and Mildred Sal
ter.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
The Noe Hardware Co. was
building a new warehouse on Front
Street, Beaufort.
Luther Hamilton had announced
his candidacy for Democratic nom
inee for Congress.
D. M. Jones and L. J. Noe Jr.,
formerly with Gaskill-Mace Hard
ware Co., were now with the Not
Hardware Co.
TEN YEARS AGO
Miss Joyce Johnson was crowned
Miss Beaufort in the Beaufort
beauty contest.
John Smiley Jr. of Morehead
City was drowned in Bogue Sound
when he fell out of his sailboat.
Beaufort was without power for
14 hours after a cable through
Gallants Channel was damaged by
a deep draft tug.
FIVE YEARS AGO
An attempt to annex land west
of Morehead City by resolution
failed, and a referendum would be
held.
Morehead City commissioners
voted to install traffic lights at
four intersections on Arendell
Street.
The State had awarded the con
tract for the Cedar Island Bridge.
Coptairf Henry
Sou'easter
Doesn't the Inlet Inn look nice?
We are so close to it, that I guess
we don't realise how much has
been done to Improve the appear
ance of the "front yard".
With the table and chain out
there and most of the jungle gone,
it again has taken a commanding
view of Beaufort Inlet.
I hope the folks who came to
town Wednesday on that Old
Homes Tour bad a nice time. The
tour did one thing ? it got the
town mower out and cut those sign
1 high weeds in the first block of
Ann 8tre?t and even mowed that
meadow where the playground-by
the-sea was born and died all in
ooe season.
It would be a good thing if some
body stole the roof of that toppled
picnic shelter that has been lying
there ever since the hurricanes. If
that roof were ia somebody's back
yard it would have been itolen
long ago.
But it's lying out there in plain
view, good lumber in it probably,
and because nobody teema to want
it, not even thieves will bother it.
Talking about thieves . . . sev
eral years ago, Wardell Fillingame
of the town street department and
Gray Hassell, town engineer, work
ed like dogs to build those con
crete benches that were placed
along the waterfront.
They did it after work hours, re
ceiving no pay, Just doing it as a
personal gesture to help make the
town more attractive. When the
job was done, each made a bench
for himself.
Then you know what? People
said that Gray and Wardell "stole"
benches for themselves!
People make me the maddest
sometimes of anyone I know.
gomcry, and I told him to be sure
and stop by and see you . .
Another letter: From I. F. Ro
chelle of Roehelle Realty Co. Mr.
Roehelle wrote last week to Judge
Luther Hamilton and sent a copy
of the letter to the newspaper of
fice. Mr. Roehelle thanked the
judge for his efforts in obtaining
the Cooperative Savings and Loan
Association for this county.
The realtor was a prime mover
in showing the necessity for such
a lending agency. Judge Hamilton
is a personal friend of Fred Wil
letts Sr., whose savings and loan
firm this month located an office
in Morehcad City.
Comment . . ? J. Kellum
POETRY
Robert Frost, in his introduction
to the "Collected Poems of Robert
Frost" (Halcyon), says of poetry:
"it begins in delight and ends in
wisdom. The figure is the same
for love. No one can really hold
that the ecstacy should be static
and stand still in one place. It
begins in delight, it includes
to the impulse, it assumes direc
tion with the first line laid down,
it runs a course of lucky events,
and ends in a clarification of
life ? not necessarily a great
clarification, such as sects and
cults are founded on, but in a mo
mentary stay against confusion. It
has denouement. It has an out
come that though unforeseen was
predestined from the first image
of the original mood ? and indeed
from the very mood . . ."
And there comes to mind this
gentle piece by Rolfe Humphries:
Rain in Forty-Eight Hours
This kind of day stream; over us
like water,
With water's clarity, light and
sound and smell;
The leaves take on a gloss like
dark-green china,
Scalded and polished well.
Not only around and over us the
bright river
Washes, but through our very
flesh and bones:
Why not? Is our material so
solid?
Are we men or grey impervious
stones?
We feel this weather, right as
Mozart's music,
Moving and luminous, profound
and gay,
And come to life, or welcome its
invasion
This kind of day.
Loulf Spivy
Words of Inspiration
8UMMEB JOBS FOR PRE -SCHOOL PAKENT8
After Pre-School Clinic Is over and your child talks to you about
school, listen to him and talk to him about the wonderful things he win
learn there.
During the summer when he asks you "What can I do now?" ba
ready for this question.
1. Have a box of cryons, a coloring book, a pencil and a blank sheet
of paper handy.
2. A 5-year-old will enjoy using modeling clay.
3. A dime store drum could be the beginning of the development at
his sense of rhythm. Pie pans can often double for symbols.
4. Try to provide the opportunity for him to play with other children.
3. If you do not have a dog, you might let him get acquainted with
some friendly dog. Don't rush him. Children and dogs understand each
other. Each should learn to respect the rights of the other.
6. Pre scooters love to grow things. They love to plant seeds In their
own little garden when they see you planting seeds in the spring.
7. They love to play in water. A plastic pool with toy boata, spools,
soap for blowing bubbles and an old egg beater will furnish hours of
summer pleasure.
8. Toy blocks are always appealing.
9. Summer is a wonderful time for family trips, picnici, visiting,
walks through the woods.
If your child will walk to school, walk there with him several times
during the summer. Teach him how to cross streets safely and obey
traffic signals. As you walk, talk about the "safe way to go". Be aura
he understands the stop and go traffic signals, explain how cars tura
corners very quickly at times, making it always necessary to be watch
ful, even when the light is right
If he rides the school bus, teach him how to enter and leave it safely
without pushing and shouting. Teach him not to wrestle on the bus or
put his head or arms out the window.
Be sure he knows his name
His address
His telephone number
Teach him to go to the toilet properly, without assistance, to wash hif
hands thoroughly afterwards.
To wash his hands before eating.
Except for spccial occasions, establish a definite bedtime hour, not
later than 8 during the school year.
Teach him to put on his own coat, hat, mittens, and rubbers and to
be responsible for them
To eat balanced meals, without griping, because such meals are what
they need to make them grow.
After school, beginners' problems can oftimes be traced to some d?
feet. To get the most out of school, he needs to be physically ready for
it.
There are many pre school children with minor speech defects. It la
very important in these cases for parents to remember to speak clearly
and slowly. Give him your full attention when he talks.
You know more about your child than anyone else. Just loving him
gives you special insight. But you are wise to take advantage of new
knowledge, realizing at the same time that no word is the "last word"
and that every child is unique in many different ways.
Be generous with praise when he docs a job well, sparing with criti
cism, and lavish in tender loving care. Have a happy summer. Thi?
summer is important, it will not come again, except in memory.
Free Wheeling
By BILL CROWELL
Motor Vehlclei Department
WOMEN ... I guess to the aver
age Tar Heel male, women drivers
are a necessary evil, a nuisance
he somehow learns to put up with
through yeari of deciphering hand
signals and unpredictable maneu
vers on the highway.
As a release for some of the an
noyances he feels, the male directs
a multitude of jokes (usually bad)
about the womenfolk's activities
behind the wheel. He enjoys pok
ing fun because the jokes help
him forget how furious he can get
with her as a fellow motorist.
But hold on, there's one segment
of the adult male population that
actually loves her!
They are our car designers. To
the engineers the little woman is
no laughing matter. They like to
meet her every whim, please her,
and they're out to do right by her
? even the housewife you saw mak
ing a left turn from a right lane
last week.
When the auto Industry was
young, and salesmen were beating
the bushes for customers, they
learned quickly that more women
would be interested in the new
Smile a While
A prominent tycoon, middle-aged
but slightly sportive, was ordered
by hia doctor to spend some days
in the hospital for a check-up.
After answering innumerable ques
tions concerning his history, he
waa comfortably settled in bed by
a pretty young nurse. Turning to
her, be said:
"Now that you've got me all
tucked in so beautifully, how about
a little good night kiss?"
"Certainly," she replied, "I'll
call the orderly." ? Leverett S.
Lyon.
From the Bookshelf
Literary Reminiscences and Au
tobiographical Fragments. By Ivan
Turgenev. Translated with an in
troduction by David Magarshack,
and an essay by Edmund Wilson.
Farrar, Straus k Cudahy. $S.
For about IS years, starting in
the late IMO's, Turgenev, whose
genius, like Tolstoy's and Dostocv
aky's, the czars could not suppress,
felt called on to reply to a still
more serious threat to his creative
work: The criticism of unsympa
thetic fellow novelists and essay
ists. Five of the 13 articles here
are literery and serve as answers
to fault finders, while eight com
bine autobiography and fiction.
Setting out is life under the rule
of his mother, who on every count
was an abomination of a woman,
he led something of that strained,
tense and tortured life which, we
sometimes suspect, has helped to
fashion other great novelists, those
profound students of humanity.
llagarshack quotes, from Tur
fenev's Introduction to his collect
ed novels, a statement about the
novelist's dependence so tlx life
around him, and defines it as hia
moat mature literary judgment.
You will be interested in some
of the literary piecea, but the best
of the volume, for me, is in the
near-fiction, the stories, like the
one about the old Paria revolu
tionary who risked hia life to aid
a stranger, and above all a grisly
account of a guillotining, "The
Execution of Tropmann." Doa
toevsky attacked it inexcuaably;
there ia genius in every blood
curdling line.
? W. G. Rogers
That's Logical
Hiram spent a lot of time fish
ing. In fact, a lot more time fish
ing than he did plowing fielda. He
said that was the way the Lord
planned it for mankind.
He would then show a map of the
earth, and say, "See there?" Two
thirds of the surface ia covered
with water, and one-third dry land.
That meana a man ought to fish
two-thirds of the time and plow
one-third." ? Egan Echoes
fangled horseless carriage if they
had tops on them. Early day mo
toring was more an athletic ex
perience than a pleasure, what
with a spin in the country leaving
the gals looking as though a stray
tornado had struck them. So en
closed bodies became standard for
passenger cars. And the ladies'
favor was won.
Another advance in the courtahip
between the women and the de
signers was the adoption of the
self-starter in 1M1? and the ladies
who would never dream of doing
anything so Indelicate aa cranking
an engine became charter mem
bers of woman driver'a fraternity.
Not until recently, though, did
the industry go all out in introduc
ing new designs aimed at increas
ing the beauty, safety and eaae of
handling which women demand In
today's car.
Just take a look at the '3S mo
dels, for example. There's scarcely
a manufacturer who doesn't offer
automatic shift, power steering
and brakes, finger-tip controls for
a variety of operations, and in
terior decorating that would please
the most meticulous homemaker.
There are colors men never
heard of? like "coral," "orchid,"
"flam e," "cerise," "flamingo,"
and other "decorator tones" in
body finishes which send men
either on the wagon on to an eye
doctor.
One builder even offers his deal
era feminine apparel to peddle
along with matching automobilesl
Several companiea have lowered
steering wheels, and have made
the wheel amaller for greater
handling ease. Gone too, in most
models, is textured upholstery
which left lint and dust on clean
clothing and furs. Seats and win
dows can be adjusted by pushing
a button, and the average car
trunk now goes up like magic with
the flip of ? key.
Trunk and glove compartments
have been enlarged to meet wo
men's demands for more storage
apace. And no one Is deceived
about whom the designera an
pleasing with all that chrome.
Women love glitter, and the indus
try la giving it to them with plenty
to apare.
It may be the ladies are simply
practicing the old business of
twisting the poor male around her
little finger, but in all fairness,
there's this to say: Deapite her
friviloua approach to car design
the women have adapted to the
automobile intelligently and well.
She recognises it for tf * neces
sity it is, and, on the wuoie, uaei
it with more care than the male.
Her safety record aa a driver la
far better than man's, qualified ia
that ahe la able to do most o( bet
driving when she chooses? during
off-peak traffic houra.
And she has cheerfully weath
ered the countless women-driver
Jokes. There are over 20 milUoa
women drivers In the country who
determine as high aa ?-per cent
of automobile sales so it's a fair
guess they will go on Ignoring
wisecracks, driving along In their
fashion-plate bnggtaa, having the
last word en who buys what tor :
years to coum.