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No Fort Macon Postcards! It is easy to understand why local residents are not postcard conscious. Few folks buy a picture postcard of their town hall to send to a friend. Yet, as we mentioned here several weeks ago, postcards are one of the best means of advertising an area. As we said, the postcard situation has im proved in both Morehead City and Beaufort since last year, but there is still one tremendous gap ? no post card views of Fort Macon. Such postcards would find a ready sale at the fort itself, comments Ray Pardue, park superintendent. Cer tainly the usual postcards stands should have views of the fort available. But there are none. Since none are available, and we have been told that certain other state parks do not have postcard scenes of their areas, we thought that there may be some regulation against them. But Charles Parker, state advertising di rector, informs us otherwise. The only thing the state requires is that pictures used for commercial pur poses, such as postcards or calendars, be approved by the state parks division before they go into production. . this is only to insure quality and not to discourage production," Mr. Parker comments. He adds, "Where there are conces sion stands in state parks, postcards are sold. Seems to me it would be good business to have them for sale not only at Fort Macon but all over the area. "We agree that attractive postcards are good advertising, and encourage production of more and b?tter views." Let's hope this area has postcard views of the fort by next season. Are chamber of commerce tourist and ad vertising committees willing to carry the ball? No Sissy, This One Every once in a while in the routine of living, you come across a tale that makes you believe some of our modern folks could survive in a frontier world after all. Such a tale is the one about the fish erman of North Wilkesboro who shot out a snake-bite wound. Ronald Walsh, 23, was fishing in a creek in the Blue Ridge. He had caught three trout when he felt a sting on the middle toe of his left foot. Looking down, he saw a rattler. He had no knife with which to cut the wound so he could suck out the venom, but he had a .22 calibre pistol. Before the venom could get into the bloodstream, Ronald took his gun and shot off the end of the toe which con tained the bite. Then he tied his fish ing line tightly around the toe at the base. The next three shots were for the rattler. He didn't stop to see if he kill ed it, but took off in the direction of his car, wading slowly through the rocky stream and avoiding extra ex ertion which would rapidly increase the circulation of his blood. He reached his car in about an hour, drove 20 miles to his home where his wife went to the hospital with him. There a doctor dressed the injured toe, found no evidence of rattler toxin in Ronald's system and commended flim for brilliant thinking and courage. He remembered to bring home his fish, which he cleaned and had for sup per, but discovered he had lost his bill fold. So he and his father returned to the scene of the snake-bite, found the billfold ? and a dead rattler with 10 rattlers. Buy, Buy Baby (Wall Street Journal) We have just bought three new Buicks, seven Plymouths, four Lincolns i and a Mack dump truck. We also have placed orders for six new suits, four pairs of socks, a parakeet, a 12-story apartment building and three trunks full of chocolate bars. Now we don't need all this stuff, and, in fact, can't pay for it But we have managed a few down payments by hocking the life insurance, drawing our savings out of the bank and doubling the mortgage on our house. And we certainly hope the folks in government and out who are urging us to buy are satisfied. Some have been telling us over the air and in published advertisements that it actually is our patriotic duty to buy. Well, we always have favored peo ple buying things and other people sell ing them things. But we had always thought also that this was a free enter prise economy, based on the idea that it was strictly up to the consumer to buy or save or whatever, and that his patriotism was not suspect for exercis ing his free choice. But obviously we mus* have been i wrong, for here are these officials of a I ' free enterprise administration and these free enterprise businessmen tell I ing us otherwise. It seems that if we I don't buy, the recession will become a depression and there will come a de pression and there will be a revolution I or something and the Communists will I take over. We certainly wouldn't want that to | happen. So we have bought the Buicks and the socks and the parakeet ana ail the rest and if everyone else does, too, the economy will spin upward, upward to new, new records. Or so we're told. And there may be new overexpansion by industry and if there should be another recession ? well, let's not think carefully, only big. Fisherman's Luck What is your measure of fishing suc cess? Do you count only the number of pounds of meat to be taken home? And do you feel a special sense of ela tion when you have taken the limit? Or do you count as part of fisherman's luck the bass that shatters the quiet of early morning as he leaps at an insect across the pond, and the rhododendron that hangs jewel-like over the trout stream ? Do you consider the waves that lap at your feet and the gulls wheeling overhead as you stand in the surf? To some the trip is a failure unless a rec ord catch is made; to others the fishing rod is the price of admission to a pa rade of sun and sky and water. Look closely next time; have yoa missed something? ? North Carolina Wildlife If you plan for one year, plant rice. If you plan for ten years, plant trees. If you plan for a hundred years, ed ucate people. ? ? Chinese Proverb i Carteret County News-Times WINNER OF NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTE CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARDS A Merger of The Beaatet Newt (Ect 1912) and The Twin City Time* (Est. IMS) Published Tuesdays and Fridays by the Carteret Publishing Company, Inc. SM Arendell St, Morehead City, N. C. LOCEWOOD PHILLIPS ? PUBLISHER ELEANORS DEAR PHILLIPS - ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER RUTH L. PEELING - EDITOR Mall Rates: In Carteret County and adjoining coontleo. IMP ana year. sir montha. 11.25 one month; elsewhere <7 00 one year, $4.00 six months, tl.50 one Member of Associated Press ? N. C. Press Aaaodattea National Editorial Association - Audit Bureau of Circulation* Nattooal Advertising Representative Mar an * Fischer, Inc. 10 East 40th Street, New York l>. N. T. The Associated Pre** is entitled exclusively to use for republication of local new* I la this newspaper, aa well as all AP newt i daaa Matte* at Marahead City, N. C., Under Act of March *, 1I7? . HOW TO STAY HEALTHY IN A TOUGH NEIGHBORHOOD Security for You... By RAY IIENRY From T. A. of Nrw York City: "Some time ago you mentioned In your column that a parent could not earn Social Security coverage if he were working for a son or daughter. I'm wonder ing if the money earned by a parent working for a son is counted against the income lim its which apply to a person col lecting Social Security? For ex ample, I'm working for my son and making about $1,800 a year. Before going to work for my son, I worked in another Job and be came eligible for Social Security payments. I'm now 66. Does the SI, 800 my son pays me count to ward the Social Security earn ings limits?" Yes. All earnings you have from any type of work, whether or not it's work covered by the Social Security law, is counted toward the Social Security earnings limit. From P. D. L. of Pittsburgh : "la another year, I'll be retir ing from my job with the fed eral government after 31 years service. 1 served in the Army for nearly two years daring World War I. part of it la France. Is it possible that this military service can be credited toward my Civil Service an nuity?" Yes. As a general rule, military service is credited toward Civil Service retirement provided it was active duty, was terminated under honorable conditions and was ren dered before separation from a civilian government job. From Mrs. B. G. of Newark, N. J.: "If a woman is older than her husband, can she collect So cial Security payments on her own work record when she reaches (2 and then switch over to payments on her husband's work record when he reachea ??" Yes, but any reduction in her payments due to collecting tbem before she reaches 65 is carried over to the payments she collects later based on her husband's So cial Security record. For example: Suppose your payments at 62 are $24 a month, but would have been $30 if you'd waited until you reached 65 to collect. This reduc tion of $6 a month is carried over to any payments you collect based on your husband's Social Security record. From Mrs. V. S. of Washing ton, D. C.: "My husband Is M, retired and receiving Social Se curity. I've never worked in a regular job because I've been too busy keeping house for my family. I was (1 on Feb. 10, 1958, and have a heart condition. Would I be able to get SocUl Security because of my age and poor health?" No. Social Security disability payments ma} only be paid to peo ple who've worked in jobs covered by Social Security. But, you will be able to draw payments as a wife when you reach <2 next Feb. 10. From D. E. of Parsons, Kans.: "I have reason to believe that my employer has been deducting Social Security tax from my wages, but not turning the mon ey over to the government How can I check up on this?" Write to the Social Security Ad ministration, Candler Bldg., Bal timore 2, Md , and ask for a state ment of wages. Give your Social Security number, full name and address and sign your name the way it appears on your Social Se curity card. After this statement is returned to you, compare it with your record of your wages. If the two don't jibe, ask the nearest So cial Security office to investigate. (Editor's Note: Too may coo tact the social security repre sentative at the courthouse an nex, Beaufort, from ?: W a.m. to noon Moodays. He will help you with your own particular prob lem). From the Bookshelf - - ? - " ?? ?? Umm t'traA Can Down tkc Storm. By Le Gette Blythe. Holt. $3.85. The war is over? the Civil War ?the slaves are freed but still stay on the plantations, and Dr. Cardell, back from Northern medi cal school, finds beautiful Sarah ready to wait oo him slavishly and lovingly when be returns to an cestral Holly Grove in North Caro lina. The young doctor had dreamed of Melissa, but here is Sarah, al most white, in Negro quarters, Just outside his bedroom, handy and complacent. They have a houseful of chil dren; Melissa marries and bears pure white offspring; and in our present, three generations later, with black faded into white, the descendants, beyond differentia tion except by chance, meet again. This all may mean simply, let nature take ita course; for accord ing to onetime Carolina newsman Blytbe's pat plot, miscegenation, if it didn't offend us so violently, might solve the whole race prob lem. The Horn. By John Clellon Holmes. Random House. $3.75. Jan, which reaches for you ao insistently and ruthlessly from the dance spot, the barroow, from your radio and from your neigh bor's radio, jazz which nagged Dorothy Baker into writing "Young Just in Passing . . . When you fet all wrinkled up with can and worry, it's a good tim to gat your faith ttftad. wan 'wiui a nuiu, uw* ??? v and fomented another novel, about Edgar, a not so young man with a horn. Holmes tells the story of Edgar's magnificent triumphs and the final hours of defeat and tragedy? "the last fifth drained, the last girl loved, the last horn lost." The chapters are called, to good effect, "chorus," "riff" and "co da," and the prose, though it may trouble you, has deliberately the complex thump, pound, whine, cry and sob of the music about which llolmes writes. Comment . . . j. Keiium Waste Somewhere along the line, we citizens have lost our former road of frugality (Never spend as much as you earn, A penny saved is a penny earned) and gotten our selves figuratively up the tree of Constantly Increasing Debt. It is true of us nationally as well as individually. Our great country could feed the world. As it is, with less and less of our land in farms, we produce more and more food, so much more than we can eat that we have cornered ourselves with the stunting abnormality of state con trol. So what do we do? Throw it away! Let it rot I From the food so many of our children throw around like sand to the sometimes overage farm products we dump on world mar kets ? which send other nations' prices plummeting while we hold ours up with artificial controls? we are a wasteful, extravagant, greedy people. Buy this! Buy that I Gimme, gimme, gimme. What for? The answer is, of coursc, for bankruptcy. And worst of all, the bankruptcy will be not only physi cal, but moral and intellectual as well. Most properly educated school children knew that the proud em pire of Rome fell because as one child said, "The people grew soft and pampered theirsclfs." (Quot ing Carl llayden in the current Reader's Digest). Are we next? From the paper supplies, repre senting forests of pulpwood, which go up in smoke from our city dumps every day to our national inability and disinclination to use our legs for walking because we have fuel-burning machinery to cart us around, we are wasting our resources. We have attempted reform. We recover steel, offer occasional prizes for athletic and mental prowess. But it is still true that the heritage of freedom and prop erty, both for generations to come, is very much in danger of going down the drain. Donald Culross Peattie speculat ed on this in "An Almanac for Moderns" (G. P. Putnam's Sons) when he said: "Man? man has the world in the hollow of his hand . . . His chances seem all but boundless, and bound less might be his optimism if he had not already thrown away so many of his opportunities . . . When he slays the birds, be lets loose their prey and his worst enemy, the Insects. He wastes hiq forests . . . and slaughters the mink and the beaver and the seal. He devours his limited coal supply ever faster; be fouls the rivers, invents poison gasses, and turn* his destruction even on his own kind. And in the end he may pre sent the spectacle of some Brob ingnaglan spoiled baby, gulping down his cake and howling for it too." F. C. Salitbury Here and There The following inform atton U taken from the filei of the More head City Coaster: FRIDAY, JULY IS, 1?1? Mrs. C. A. Ball returned to her home in Philadelphia Friday after spending a few weeki In the city with relatives. Mra. James R. Bell who has been spending some time at Seven Springs returned home Friday. Leo Weeks returned home Mon day after spending several months in the overseas force in France. W. R. Willis, of Farmville, who has been spending a few days in the city with relatives, returned home Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Chas Ortleib who have been visiting relatives in Lan caster, Pa., returned hone Toes' day. Miss ZjrlpUa Webb, who hai en t been visiting frienda in Sanford, returned home Wedneiday. Mi** Kathleen Piner returned home Saturday after (pending a few day* with relative* in Smyrna. Mr. and Mr*. Rod Morris o< Greensboro are (pending a few day* here, the gue(t* of Mr. and Mr*. B. A. Morris. Born Tuesday, July 22, to Mr. and Mr*. R T. Wade, a daughter. A marriage of intereat was sol emnized at the home <if the bride'i (liter, Mr*. C. M. Wade, on Easl Bridges street Wednesday evening when Miss Elizabeth W. Edwardi was married to Alfred S. Harrii of Charlottesville, V*. T. P. Hayden, machiaiit of th< i USS Trippe, mysteriously disap pes red here on Friday of la* week. TIM Trippe, a destrdyer, ar rived hare Tbunday evening ant I remained in pert until Saturday. Loul? Splvy Words of Inspiration SUCCESS AND HAPPIVFJ38 What U the difference in the two words, success and happiness? Can we have one without the other? How do we measure succeas? How do we find happiness? Where do we begin? Joshua 1:7-? gives us a few pointers. "Be thou strong and very courageoua, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law . . . then thou shalt have good success." Joshua instructs us to observe and do according to the law. What was this law of which Joshua was speaking? It was God's message to the people, given to Hoses on Ht. Sinai. There are ten of these laws. We have to obey these laws if we are to have real happiness . . . success. 1. Thou shalt have no other God before me. 2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graveo image . . . 3. Thou shslt not take the name of the Lord Thy God in vain. 4. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 5. Honour thy father and thy mother . . . 6. Thou shalt not kill. 7. Thou shslt not commit adultery. 8. Thou shalt not steal. ?. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. 10. Thou shalt not covet . . . _ Exodus 20:3-17 Jesus also gave us two great laws to live by, these we must obey if our lives are successful . . . happy. We find this law in Hattbew 22:17-39: ". . . Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great com mandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." To find happiness, we must first know peace in our hearts. The apostle, Paul, leaves us these instructions in Philippians 4:8: "... whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, what soever things are just, whatsoever things arc pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things." Perhaps if every person in the world would write their own recipa for success and happiness, each one would be different. The above would have to be the foundation in any true happiness or success. The following is my own recipe: MY RECIPE FOR HAPPINESS A meal to cook, a home to keep, A child in my arms to rock to sleep. A husband who is true and kind, Who trusts in God, his hand in mine. Love and health, my country free, Family dreams and unity. Service, friends, and neighbors so good. Courage, peace and World Brotherhood. Mix well and stir, when marriage begins, And contentment in the soul will blend Into memories, to use when days are dark, Store in the scrapbook of the heart. Border each page in life's bright gold, , To warm the heart, while growing old. I give this to you ? your life to bless My own recipe ? for happiness. Free Wheeling By BILL CROWELL Motor Vehicles Department TIRE FACTS . . . Today's lecture concerns tires, and here away are ? few surprising facts about them: No tire, for example, can legiti mately be called blow-out proof; a tire advertised as having a "new tread" is actually a retread, and a "third line" tire is designed only for economy but it doesn't save you any money. Manufacturers label their pro ducts premium, first, second and third line. The ones you get an a new car arc first line and for the average driver deliver the best milage and service. Many car owners, of course, prefer to pay more and have premium tires which are a grade above the first line. Premium tirea often have "ex tra!" like a layer of puncture seal ant, or flexible steel wires em bedded In the tread. Guarantees delivered with premium tires often call for 30,000 to 40,000 miles against the 20,000 miles usually guaranteed for first line tires. Second line tires are similar to first but usually have a lesser amount of rubber and fewer plies. Sometimes, and it's a good bargain when y?u can find them, second line tires may have once been first line numbers replaced by newer models. Thus they can be adver tised and sold at a genuine dis count. Dealers hate to sell third line tires and do so only to meet com petition. They are the lowest priced made, give stingy mileage, and in some cases may actually be risky. They are produced only to carry an "attractive" price tag. Which tire to buy is always a good question. It usually depends on how much they will be used. For the casual shopping chores of the housewife who takes only short tripe at low speeds and racks un 4,000 to 5,000 miles a year, a sec ond line tire is adequate. Because at that mileage the average second line tire lasts about five years, the extra rubber in a premium or first line tire would be old and worth less. Traveling men will get the best bargain and most mileage with a ??t of premium tires. They are excellent for hard, tornpike driv ing because flata are fewer and they are safer all around. For the average car owner, who covers about 10,000 miles annually, a good first line tire is probably the best buy. Although many owners, es I pecially those with families, pre fer the heavier premium tire as a safety consideration. The type of tread you choose ? should depend on the kind of driv i ing you do. On gravel or unpaved t roads, you'U want to select a tread I design that will give plenty of I traction. On smooth, paved high I ways oo the other hand, tread de sign is relatively unimportant and ( whatever kind you choose will be ? adequate. 1 Then there's the more difficult ? choice between tubeless tires and I those with tubes. Although every major builder of cars uses the tubelcss models as standard equip ment, many people feel the extra layer of rubber of a tube it "safer." Let the buyer's own Judg ment rule. In a tire dealer's place, before you make any selection be sure to watch for those tiny slips of rub ber protruding from the tread. That's proof that the tire ia really new for they are worn off almost instantaneously in use. SUDDEN THAWT ... On the highway, you often can't stop trou ble from coming, but you don't have to speed up to meet it. HOW TRUE . . . According to of ficials of the Traffic Institute of Northwestern University, the skunk appears to have the highest mortality rate among animal traf fic victims. Because he is equipped by na ture so that he has almost no na tural enemies, he probably thinks, when he sees a car bearing down on him, that all he has to do is make a threatening gesture and it will run away from him. His attitude is somewhat like the "it can't happen to me" philosophy that many human drivers and pe destrians possess. Stamp News By 8TD KKONISH Pioneering aerial feats make wonderful subjects for commem orative stamp issues. The latest one from Australia? honoring the 30th anniversary of the first air crossing of the' Tasman Sea by the late Sir Charles Kingsford Smith in the "Southern Cross"? ia no exception. 'Advance word of this stamp sp peired In this column many months ago. The ? pence adhesive depicts Kingsford Smith and the "Souther* Ctom." Mexico reports then win be a new so cent air mail (tamp far human rights and a set of tour honoring the 20th anniversary of the patrobom industry. ?
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