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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES Cwrtarat Cou?ty*? Niwspap?r EDITORIALS FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1958 Where Does the Money Go? What's happening to Morehead City Recorder'* Court funds? According to financial reports by A. H. James, clerk of superior court, the town of Morehead City has turned over to the county no funds since February of this year. In February, a token sum of $50 was paid. There are several suppositions as to what is happening to the money: 1. Either the court is not meeting expenses and all funds have to be di verted to pay court officers' salaries, or 2. The court is running a credit agency and convicted defendants are paying their fines when and if it suits them to do so, or 3. Morehead City has decided that it is going to run its court its own way, without turning over fines and forfei tures to the county board of education, as required by law. There is some contention between the town and the county as to which political unit should pay for feeding and homing prisoners. Morehead City claims that it is the county's obligation to pay for prisoners fed and housed in the Morehead City jail. This has been an ancient bone that was picked between Beaufort and the county when Beaufort had a recorder's court and now it is probably being picked again between Morehead City and the county. Thus, the fund with holding? , While there is a law to uphold the claim that the county is obligated to feed and house prisoners, when a po litical subdivision such as a town sets up its own court and has its own jail, it seems that the town must also as sume obligations connected thereto. If that is the major problem, it is conceivable that the town and county could get together and come to an un derstanding. (It would be interesting to learn how other counties cope with the problem). The fact cannot be disputed, how ever, that for the past five months, fines and forfeitures due the county board of education have not been turn ed over to the county. In view of the fact that Morehead City is extremely eager to have bigger and better school facilities, it is stand ing on rather shifty ground in refusing to pay those fines and forfeitures. Other courts, Newport and Atlantic Beach, as well as justices of the peace, make regular accounting to the county. If Morehead City is setting itself above the law, the cou lty is allowing a poor precedent t be set and will experience difficulty in the future with Courts in all political subdivisions. Try Again . . . ai last me comity nas a civil de fense director. We hope he's in office longer than other recent appointees. The new director is John Valentine, Marshallberg. As we have mentioned previously, there is a lot more to Civil Defense work than getting radio equipment and trucks for practically nothing through the state surplus property division. It is, perhaps, the most important govern ment post to be filled by a non-paid "volunteer". When the United States Yoshefl Ma rines to Lebanon several weeks ago, the newspaper office again received a flurry of telephone calls on "Who's our Civil Defense director?" "What are we doing about Civil Defense?" "Why doesn't somebody do something, I'd nice 10 neip, dui i aon c Know wnai 10 do." Until Civil Defense directors in their respective communities appeal to the public for specific assistance, the most important thing you can do in Civil De fense, as an individual, is ask yourself, "Is my family capable of surviving for four or five days without power, with out plumbing, without my running to the store for food or medicine?" If you can truthfully answer "Yes" to that question, you've done about all that you can as an individual, to be "prepared". You might keep up to date on the latest information on radio active fallout, biological warfare and similar factors related to modern war. If called on by Civil Defense directors to help in an organized program, you could respond with a "Yes, I'll do my best." Home is Still a Castle (Greensboro Daily News) The old common law doctrine that a man's home is his castle has been up held again ? this time by the U. S. Su - preme Court. "Every householder, the good and the bad, the guilty and the innocent, is entitled to the protection designed to secure the common interest against un lawful invasion of the house," is the way Justice Brennan phrased the ma jority opinion. As it turns out, "the guilty" was ' probably protected in this case. The defendant was one William Miller, whose Washington apartment was broken into by police without first tell ing him their authority and purpose. Believing that Miller had just soild some heroin capsules, officers went to the door of Miller's apartment and knocked. Miller cracked open the door, then tried to close it With neither an arrest nor search warrant, the officers forced the door open and ripped off the chain holding it. Inside, they made the arrest and seized a quantity of heroin and marked bills. The Supreme Court ruled that Miller could not be lawfully arrested in his home by officers breaking in without first telling him why they were there. Since Miller did not receive such no tice, said Justice Brennan, the arrest was unlawful and the evidence must be suppressed. Undoubtedly these legal require ments make the task of law enforce ment officers more difficult Justices Clark and Burton, who dissented from the majority, complained that the court had superimposed upon District of Co lumbia laws "an artificial and unrealis tic requirement that, even under the circumstances found here, police must make 'an express announcement' in un mistakable words they are the police and have come to make an arrest." But that, in our opinion, is not the main point, and Justice Brennan had the answer: "However much in a par ticular case insistence upon such rules may appear as a technicality that inures to the benefit of a guilty person, the history of the criminal law proves that tolerance of shortcut methods in law enforcement impairs its effective ness." The purpose of the law is not to make law enforcement easy, but to protect the rights of citizens. Carteret County News-Times WINNER OF NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARDS A Merger of The Beaufort Newt (Eft 1113) and The Twin City Timet (Eit. UN) Published Tuesdays and Friday* by the Carteret Publishing Company, Inc. 504 ArendeB St, Morehead City, N. C. LOCIWOOD PHILLIPS _ PUBLISHER ELEANORS DEAR PHILLIPS - ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER RUTH L. PEELING - EDITOR Hail Rate*: In Carter* Cooaty and adjoining conntia*, HHO got year, $Uo six month*. tl.23 am month; alaowhere I7.M one year. $4 80 ?ti month*, $LM ana Member d Associated Preaa ? N. C. Pre* Associate National Editorial Association - Audit Bureau <d OrculatioM National Advertising Representative Moras * Fischer, lac. 10 East SOU Street New York !?. N. T. Ik* Aaaodated Preaa is entitled exclusively to use far repubikatloo U local news printed In this newspaper, as well as all AP news dispatcher ? Class Matter at Morebead City, N. C., Under Art ?( March t, Wt A CHILD SHALL LEAD III rn~l W1 liJill lH7Ti?i Will II Ml ? Mill RECORD CRIME KATE RECORD JUVENILE ,sss&= Security for You... comment... By RAY HENRY There's only one way you can raise your Social Security old age payments once you start drawing them: Go back to work. Even if you do, an increase isn't automatic. And, you face the pos sibility of losing some or all of your monthly checks while you're working because of your earnings. Whether you'll get an increase after you go back to work depends on these three factors: How long you work, how much you earn and the size of your present payments. Here's how they're involved: In general, your present pay ments are based on your average monthly earnings in jobs covered by Social Security between Jan. 1, 1937, and the time you retired, or between Jan. 1, 1951, and the time you retired. (In arriving at this earning average, your Social Se curity officc may drop out of its calculations up to five years in which you had low or no earnings and periods of officially recognized disability. ) Suppose, for example, you're now collecting monthly Social Se curity payments of $76.50 based on average monthly earnings of $190 between Jan. 1, 1951, and Jan. 1, 1956, when you retired at 65. The only way you can raise your payments is by going back to work and earning enough to increase the $190 average monthly earnings on which your payments are based. In doing so, you must also meet the following conditions: 1. You must work at least a year in a job covered by Social Security and earn at least $1,200. This year, of course, must be worked after you started drawing payments the first time. 2. Your work record under Social Security must include at least a year and a half of work since 1950. This doesn't mean you must work a year and a half once you go bacK to work. It only means that the total of all your work after 1950 must be at least a year and a half. If you meet these conditions and you figure it's to your advantage to have your payments rcfigured on the basis of higher monthly earnings, all you have to do is file an application at your nearest So cial Security office. If after the rcfiguring, it turns out that your additional work doesnt' raise your payments, you'U be entitled to the same size pay ments as you are getting now. For example: Suppose you go back to work and, later, ask to have your payments refigured on the basis of the earnings from this work. If it turns out that this addi tional work lowers your average monthly earnings on which your payments were figured the first time, you'll continue to be eligible for payments based on the first figuring. Remember: Going back to work may result in barring you from one or more of the monthly pay ments while you're working. In general, if you're under 72 and you earn more than $1,200 in a year you lose your right to one month's check for each $80 (or fraction of $80) of earnings over $1,200. After you reach 72, how ever, you can receive monthly checks no matter how much you earn. (Editor's Note: Too nay con tact the social security repre sentative at the courthouse an nex, Beaufort, from 1:10 a.m. to noon Mondays. Be will help you with year own particular prob lem). The Readers Write Aug. 3, 1958 To the Editor: I have been residing in More head City for the past two years with my family. Recently, we read several arti cles in your paper pertaining to the stray dog situation in this town which was beginning to present a problem. We have owned a dog for two years here and didn't have any difficulties with anyone, but I must say it is very difficult for a dog owner in Morehead City now. First, we had to get a tag from the city and pay $2. This wasn't so bad. We understood it would in sure the dog from the dog catcher. Then, after we already had thq tag, they said we had to keep the dog confined. This I could not un derstand. But to top it all, I re ceived word from our fine police department that unless he was con fined, I would receive a ticket. I can't undersatnd what they mean by all this, but for me, I think it is a rotten deal and a black mark for Morehead City which I think they have enough of already. I would like to see an article on this printed if possible in your paper. Very truly yours, A Taxpayer P.S. If this continues to go on unattended, God help Morehead City. (The dog program is designed to protect people from roaming packs of dogs and to protect dogs well taken care of from being molested by roaming dogs? whe ther those roaming dogs are tagged or untagged. A dog is supposed to be kept on its owner's premises, just as a farmer who owns cattle is sup posed to keep the cattle confined to his own pastures and not let them roam on hit neighbor'! farm or on the highways. Dogs in Morehead City are sub ject to be picked up and put in the pound if they are not in the company of their owner. If a tagged dog is missing, it is ex pected that the owner will call at the pound, identify it and reclaim it. The owner will not be arrested. Morehead City is not the only town attempting to curb the roam ing dog problem. Many towns have laws more strict than More head City's. The program is far from perfect. Until a dog control program U carried out on a county-wide basis, the public will not be protected from dogs roaming at large, creat ing traffic hazards, breeding at will, turning over garbage cans and frightening? sometimes biting ?children.? The Editor. Stamp News Br SYD KKONISH The first In the series of four stamps commemorating the lei quicentennial of the birth of Abra ham Lincoln will be issued on Aug. 27 at Freeport, 111. It also marks the 100th anniversary of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. A reproduction of an old print showing Lincoln addressing an out door gathering with Douglas be hind him is the main design of the new adhesive. The 4 cent stamp will bear the Inscription "1851-1958" and "Lin coln-Douglas Debates." The color will be sepia. Collectors deairing first day can cellations nay send their ad dressed envelopes, with remit tances, to the Poctmaater at Free port, m., prior to Aug. 27. The outside envelope should be en dorsed "First Day Cover* Lincoln DoujUl Ptbiltt sump." roijnesian naviKauini In "KonTiki" (Doubleday), au thor Thor Ileyerdahl tells of steer ing their balsa raft across the Pa cific : "It was incredible how easy it was to steer by the stars when we had seen them marching across the vault of the sky for weeks on end ... "The old Polynesians were great navigators. They took bearings by the sun by day and the stars by night. Their knowledge of the hea venly bodies was astonishing. They knew that the earth was round, and they had names for such ab struse conceptions as the Equator and the northern and southern tropics. "In Hawaii they cut charts of the ocean on the shells of round bottle gourds, and on certain other islands they made detailed maps of plaited boughs to which shells were attached to mark the islands, while the twigs marked particular currents. "The Polynesians knew five planeU, j?hich they called wander ing stars, and distinguished them from the fixed stars, for which they had nearly two hundred dif ferent names. A good navigator in old Polynesia knew well in what part of the sky the different stars would rise and where they would be at different times of the night and at different times of the year. "They knew which stars culmi nated over the different islands, and there were cases in which an island was named after a star which culminated over it night after night and year after year. "Apart from the fact that the starry sky lay like a glittering giant compass revolving from east to west, they understood that the different stars right over their heads always showed them how far north or south they were. When the Polynesians had explored and brought under their sway their present domain, which is the whole of the sea nearest to America, they maintained traffic between some of the islands for many gen erations to come. "Historical traditions relate that, when the chiefs from Tahiti visited Hawaii, which lay more than 2,000 sea miles farther north and sev eral degrees farther west, the helmsman steered first due north by sun and stars, till the stars right above their heads told them that they were on the latitude o f Hawaii. Then they turned at right angle and steered due west till they came so near that birds and clouds told them where the group of islands lay." And they did that in canoes. Primitive? Louis* Spivey Words of Inspiration HOMECOMING DAT In 1W1, the First Baptist Church of Beaufort celebrated its one hun dredth birthday. On Sunday, July 20, 1958, we celebrated our first recrded "Homecoming Day". This great day was planned by our pastor, the Rev. Alec Thompsoo, our music director, Miss Ruth Durham, Mrs. P. A. Lewis, Mrs. Fred Bertram, and Mrs. Lillian Arrington. At the morning worship service, Mrs. G. T. Spivey, church clerk, called the roll. Each member present stood and was recognized as their names were called. Mrs. P. A. Lewis, recognized special visitors and many noo-reaident members who were back for their church's homecoming. Mrs Lewis also recognized SDecial members of the church. Among these were Mrs. Sidney Whitehurst of Straits who i* 87 years old and has been ? member of our church for 72 years. Although Mrs. Whitehurst could not be present due to her health, members of her family were asked to stand as the membership paid special tribute to its oldest mem ber. Mrs. L. C. Davis, who was our 1955 Mother of the Year, received the honor of having the "family with At Homecoming were Mrs. Shelba Spivey, the most members . Mrs. Gay MUler, Miss Bonnie Robinson, Mirs Davis, as most of Clay Miller, Miss Ruth Durham, Jim Smith. y,ou know is the mother of eleven children. Ten of these are members of our church. Perhaps you are wondering about what happened to the eleventh. Well . . . this fine family was tQO per cent Baptist, but one fell in love . . . and married ... a Methodist preacher. I'm sure that answers your question. The world judges a mother by the life of her children. If a child suc ceeds in life, the world says, "He must have had a good mother." If he fails, the world will say, "His mother must not have been all sha should have been." As the members of our church look into the lives of the children of Mrs. Davis, we arc proud to honor her, and each Baptist's heart says, "She must have been a very good mother." Mrs. Lewis paid double tribute to the family of Mr. and Mrs. I. D. Gillikin, with ten members of their family present. Among these was our youngest church member, Miss Linda Tilghman, who is 9 years old. This is one of our most active families. Mrs. Grant Leonard, a daugh ter, is our church organist. Mrs. Clifford Tilghman, another daughter, is superintendent of our Intermedi ate Sunday bcnooi uepartmeni. All adult members of this family hold important offices in the work of our church. The grandchildren are all members of the church school, and wlil be among our lead ers of tomorrow. A picnic lunch was served imme diately following the service with approximately 250 people attending. On Sunday afternoon between 2 and 3, a reception was held in the church recreation room honoring our pastor, his wife, their children. Norma, Joe, Mary and Ernest, and our music director, Miss Ruth Dur ham. Our pastor left in the late after noon to begin a week's revival at the Bayboro Baptist Church. Linda Tilghman, t . . . youngest member The evening worship service was in charge of Miss Durham who also delivered the message. With the events of the day so fresh in my thoughts, as I watched her lead our Junior Choir and congregation in the singing of hymns, and listened to her clear young voire, teaching the Word of God, I thought "You must have been blessed with wonderful parents; I know they must be so very proud." F. C. Salisbury Here and There The following information If taken from the files of the More head City Coaster: FRIDAY, AUG. S, 1919 Mrs. Abram Wade and daughter, Sadie of Washington are here on a visit to relatives. Miss Nellie Wells, manager of the telegraph officc in Washington, is spending a few days in the c<ty with her mother, Mrs. K. A. Or mond. Rupert Wade, USN, arrived in the city Thursday for a short visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Wade. S. A. Chalk and family, who have been spending some time in Waynesvillc, Va., have returned home. Miss Bessie Bell of New Bern spent the weekend in the city with Miss Pearl Ball. The following marriage licenses were issued the past week: Frank Fales Marker of Morehead City to Eva Littleton of Swansboro. W. A. Neal of New Bern to Annie Jin From the Bookshelf The Naked race of uenius: una Bartok'i American Years. By Aga tha Fassett. Houghton Mifflin. $5. In 1940 Bela Bartok, with his wife Ditta, fled his native Hungary to live here where he hoped to continue composing and hopfcd, too, with his wife, to earn money at the piano. Almost SO, he had five more years to live. Mrs. Fassett, who studied in Budapest where Bartok taught, met the fugitives in New York, helped them find and fur nish an apartment, had them as her guests, and remained a family friend and retainer till Bartok's death. This was an association of hero and hero-worshiper, the sort of thing that has ruined many a biog rapher. But Mrs. Fassett has not allowed her love for Bartok's genius and music to interfere with bar love for the truth. There is precious little about music in these pages? "The Life and Music o I Bela Bartok," by Halsey Stevens, published five years ago, takes case of that. Here instead la the picture of a muaic maker, pure music-maker, too. He is a creative power that drives ruthlessly to its goal, a power that happens to have its seat in a man, in a husband and father, but lets none of the usual domestic, social or fraternal obligations stand io his way. This directness, this kind of seeming transubstantiation of the weak mortal flesh into the everlasting stuff of concerto and symphony, may bring commissions from Koussevitzky and Mcnuhin, but can be rude to friends, insult benefactors and with outrageous selfishness demand slavish ser vices from intimates. Here was, in short, a monstrous ego? and yet undeniably one of the priceless manifestations of the hu man spirit. Here was a man starkly unfit for social intercourse, yet within his field friendly, lov ing and kind. It was too much to ask other human beings to put up with him, yet what helps make life precious to those other hu mans is precisely the fruit of his colossal intransigence. This it the great creative quandary: If a man is going to give himself to the nctt of Beaufort. Romie Mann of Newport to Eva Taylor, Newport. John Blangcr of Harlowe to Celia Parker, Beaufort, (colored). Dennis Mason, prominent mer chant of Atlantic, died Monday at the local hospital. He was a life time resident of Atlantic. A carload of the finest dairy cattle that could be bought was on Wednesday brought here to be put on Mrs. Hoffman's Bogue Banks farm. One of the Holsteln cows, in the lot of six, cost its owner $3,000. A hotel on the beach is assured Morehead City in the announce ment of V. A. Bedsworth, proprie tor of the Charles Hotel and owner of the pavilion and beach at At lantic View Beach. Fire of an incendiary origin was discovered Monday night in the ten pin alley opposite the Atlantic Hotel. The fire was discovered by Marvin Hughes who turned in the alarm. A pot of tar had been placed near the front door at the head of the stairs, the blaze from the burning tar having burned the partition up to and through the second floor. The quick response of the local fire department saved the building and contents from to tal destruction. At a meeting of the local Moose Lodge Wednesday night in their lodge room over Daniels' store, the following officers were duly in stalled: George W. Piner, dictator; Sam Adler, vice-dictator; J. B, A rmdrll. past dictator; S. L. Wil lis, sergeant-at-arms; A. B. Rob erts, inner guard; C. N. Hobbs, outer guard; Horace Mizell, secre tary; Jasper Phillips, treasurer. More than 135 members have been enrolled in the city's youngest or der. ages, he has mighty little time to be trivial and commonplace over ? cocktail. Do not let the flashy title mis lead you. There's no "naked face of genius" about this sensitive, subtly developed account. Mrs. Fassett with superb impersonality lets Bartok tell his own astound ing story of creation and the suf fering it entails. ? W. G. Rogers
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