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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES I Carteret County's Newspaper EDITORIALS FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1958 School Program Develops The results of the survey of county schools fill closely in line with the thinking of the County Citizens Com mittee for Better Schools and the think ing of elected education officials. The variance comes in the size of the new high schools proposed, one for stu dents of Beaufort, Smyrna and Har kers Island and one for Morehead City , and Newport. The size suggested for the high school east of Newport River, 600, would just about accommodate the number of high ftchool pupils in that area now. The size for the school went of the mouth of Newport River, 600, would be sufficient, probably, for the present number of pupils. If such schools would be built, there .would be no space for growth. That is why the Citizens for Better Schools and the board of education will probably approach the county commissioners in September with a re quest for funds to build two 1,000-pu pil high schools. The school surveyors from Raleigh did not recommend that pupils at At 1 a n tic High School attend the east Car teret school. They seem to think the distance is too great. Perhaps it would be, but younger pupils than high school students are already traveling distances almost that far in this county. Solutions to that problem will un doubtedly be diligently sought by the citizens committee and others closely allied with public school education. The question, once school plans are drafted, is where is the money to come from? The board of education claims that the necessary money can be obtained, by borrowing, without raising taxes. Education officials also believe that the bonds could be sold ? despite what the Local Government Commission has said. The commission secretary, W. E. Easterling, doubts that the county could dispose of $3 million in bonds ($2 million for schools and $1 million to re-finance the present county debt) . Nobody will know the answer to that one until the bonds are placed on the market. If only $2 million is wanted for schools, it is $500,000 less than the es timated 10-year-scheol building re quirements set forth by the county board of education Jan. 1, 1958. That estimate, however, was made before the proposal for consolidation, and if consolidation can save $500,000, so much the better. An important thing to cultivate, in the current school situation, is an open mind. What was considered to be a solution last week may not prove to be the ideal solution this week. Changes and adjustments may have to be made all along the line ? in the interest of the greatest benefit for all school children. Thus persons who have already "made up their mind" or refuse to admit new ideas are contrib uting nothing, but are cultivating for themselves a fine crop of ulcers. Whats in a Name? Headaches Married women, irequently, will ask the newspaper that their name be put in the paper as Mrs. Ophelia Smith rather than Mrs. John Smith. Other than the fact that a married woman's going by her given name is not proper (according to the etiquette books), this request is somewhat un nerving. Pirst, the reporter doesn't care to insult the person making the request by flatly informing her that "Mrs. Ophelia Smith" is not proper, and secondly, if the woman doesn't like her husband and doesn't want to use his full name, why publish the fact? On occasion, after we have gone through lengthy ? and we hope tact ful explanation ? as to why the woman should use her husband's name, she will come back with, "But in our or ganization, we don't do that." In the Fiji Islands lots of the women don't wear clothes either. What may be accepted as proper in one place is not proper in another. Some women will claim that "no one knows me" if you don't use "Ophelia Smith". If a woman, consciously or unconsciously, has put on a campaign all her married life to be known as Mrs. Ophelia Smith, that can't be changed, but publications, such as a newspapers and magazines, have to adopt one uniform method of doing things, especially in name usage, and most newspapers have adopted the style approved by the authorities on social etiquette. We have yet to see a newspaper of merit which approves the usage of "Mrs. Ophelia Smith entertained at a luncheon yesterday . j Yet, getting women to use their hus band's names is an uphill battle. You ask a woman club member what an other club member's husband's name is and she doesn't know. After spend ing 20 minutes on the phone trying to find out the husband's name you final ly, in desperation, usa "Ophelia." We wish every woman would think as one once said to us, "By gum, I got that name by benefit of clergy and I'm going to use it. I want everyone to know who I've got to put up with." Mrs., if you don't like your husband or his name, you have our deepest sympathy, but PLEASE, try to under stand that if we do things your way we're bucking Emily Post and an ac cepted style for social columns and newsstories that has been established for years. The 'Great Goof-Off' (John S. Knight) Our national affliction today is what Charles Brower, president of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, calls "the great goof-off." "The land from coast to coast," says Mr. Brower, "is enjoying a stampede away from responsibiilty. It is popu lated with laundrymen who don't bother to iron shirts ; with waiters who won't serve; with carpenters who will come around some day maybe; with executives whose minds are on the golf course; with students who take cinch courses because the hard ones make them think; with spiritual delinquents of all types who are triumphantly de termined to enjoy something called 'The New Leisure'." In the context, Mr. Brower concedes that the advertising business has been partly responsible for making work look foolish. "Advertising," he says, "sometimes resembles a dog track wherein the public has been taught to race after a stuffed rabbit labeled "Leisure Time!'" Admittedly, much of this is true. But whether or not you succumb US the drug of the half-done job and are swept along on the high-tide of medi ocrity is squarely up to you. Carteret County News-Times WINNER OF NATIONAL EDn<ORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARDS A Merger of The Beaufort Newi (EiL 1*12) tod The Twin City Timet (EiL 1836) PublMhed Tuesdays and Fridays by the Carteret Publishing Company, lac. 504 Areodell St, llorcbead City, N. C. " LOCKWOOD PHILLIPS - PUBLISHER I ELEANORS DEAR PHILLIPS - ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER RUTH L. PEELING ? EDITOR Mail fcatea: to Carteret County and njJaMm counttoa. ana yaar, tt.to si* months. (L2S one month; elsewhere <7.00 ?ne year, MOO six months, *1.50 one month. Member of Associated Press ? N. C Press Association National Editorial Association ? Audit Bureau of Circulation* National Advnrtisini Representative Moras * Fischer, Inc. 10 Eaat SOth Street, New Yort !?. N. T. The Asaocisted Presa ia entitled exclusively to uaa for republication of local nam , printed in this newspaper, as well aa all AP newa dispatches nland aa Socead Claaa Matter at Monbead City, N. C, Under Act at March 1, 1(7* FENCED INI t DC CAUCUS 1'V" ' We). K A '\ WX V w npj FRENCH^GENEPAl-$ . (Wj i= Security for You... By RAY HENRY Buying a new home may not be in your plans for retirement. But it's something you and your wife ought to consider if your present home has more than two bed rooms. You'll probably find a smaller home more economical, lets work to keep up, more suited to the other needs of your old age. And, the chances are good that the government will help you sell your old home and buy a new one ?if you can't swing the deal on your own. The government offers its help through a special home-buying pro gram run by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) for people who've reached 60. Here's the help you may be able to get from the FHA: ? The FHA may insure a loan made by a bank or other lending agency, even though you have to get money from friends or rela tive*? or even a corporation ? to make the down payments. This may rot be necessary for you. But, it docs offer older peo ple who have a regular retirement income? but little cash? a ckance to qualify to buy a new home. ?The FHA will allow another person or corporation to co-sign your loan if you can't qualify as an acceptable credit risk on your own. For example: Suppose a lender won't make you a loan to buy a new home because it doesn't con sider you a good credit risk. Your son may co-sign the loan and, thereby, assure your acceptability as a credit risk. The only linit on such a trans action is that the loan insured by the FHA, plus any down payment loan, can't exceed the FHA ap praised value of the property you're buying. ?The FHA will help you get ? loan directly from the government to buy a new home if a bank or other lending agency won't agree to make you a loan. This step, however, can only come after you've been turned down by two lending agcncics in your attempt to get a loan. ?The FHA may insure your old home before you've sold it? and no matter what its age? to enable you to apply the equity as a down payment on a new home. By this move, it's much easier to sell your old home and lenders are much more willing to take the old home aa a mortgage risk. (Editor's Note: Ton may cm tact the social seenrHr repre sentative at the eoartboose as ?ex, Beaafort, from t:3t a. as. to aooa Mondays. He will help yoa with your own particular prob lem). Free Wheeling By BOX CROWELL Motor Vehicles Department SALUTE . . Col. James R. Smith, for 30 years a policeman and now commanding officer of North Carolina's award - winning state highway patrol, likes this tribute to the professional lawman. It was written several years ago by the late Malcolm W. Bingay, veteran Detroit newspaperman. Give the cop a break. He's not out there in the snows and ice and winds of winter or in the blistering heat of summer be cause he likes it. He's working for a living just at you and I are. He's the man who protects your life, your home. He's the one who has to go up dark alleys at night or over roof tops to trade bullets with criminals so that you may have security. He's the man who has to offer his life to the underworld so that law and order can be maintained. He is your servant and he has no idea of being your master? as long as you are a law abiding citizen. He is your friend and protector, not your enemy. No, you do not intend to rob a bank or burglarize a store or hold op another citizen or attack a wo man or a child. It is to save the community just from such dangers that he stands guard. But there are other laws and rules and regulations that must be enforced as well as the criminal code. There is no more vital problem than safety in street traffic. If those traffic cops were not moving about in our streets driv ing would become anarchy. So, if you are stopped don't bawl out the cop who is doing his duty. Don't sit in your car as though you are Godalmighty as a tax payer and a citizen." If you are a man, get out of your car and meet him on the level and ask, as a sincere citizen, what you have done wrong and listen to his ex planation. You can no more win an argu ment with him than a ballplayer can with a umpire. Instead, congratulate him for being en the job. Think him for giving you ? ticket He's been axaalned physically and has a stout heart Ha will not drop dead. VERSE . . . And patrol sergeant A. H. Clark of Wilmington is fond of this poem by Marty Hale, the Old Spinner. I want my boy to iiave a dog. Or maybe two or three, He'U learn from them much easier Than he would learn from me. A dog will show him how to love, And bear no grudge or hate, I'm not so good at that myself. But dogs will do it straight. I want my boy to have a dog. To b* his pal and friend. So he may learn that friendship, Is faithful to the and. There never yet haa been a dog. Who learned to doublet roes, Nor catered to you whan you won, Then dropped yon when you loat. HOW FAST . . . Can a few yean back bad speedometers that ran "fast," that is, they tended to in dicate a speed that in reality waa a little higher than the car waa actually traveling. Now cornea word from servicemen of the American Automobila Association , that the revena is true: speed omctcrs are "slow." They explain by saying that more than SO per cent of the newer model aars they've checked throughout the nation had speed ometers that gave a "slow" read ing, especially in the lower speed ranges. All of which for bod aa trouble with the wham my! Carolina Motor Club experts ad vise Tar Hoel car owners to have their speedometere checked once or twice a year, or at any time they notice irregularities such aa whirring noises, excessive oscilla tion, or lag? a tendency for the needle to remain stationary until the car gets up to 10 or 12 mph and then take a sudden jump. Even the most accurate speed ometere begin to get "fast" er "slow" after is to 11,000 miles and should be readjusted or replaced. Just in Passing . . . Definition of a neurotic ? a per son who thinks you mean it when you ask how ha b. Praisiag yourself to tin iUm is aot (otatl to fat you there. Comment . . . j. K.iium UNFINISHED VISION The port AUce Monks Mears, in the following poem, paints word pictures of great beauty. When first she imagines a "pastoral" past and then the buay present, she makes the fruit of her imagi nation visible to us. But on the last line. Oh! The swift and stirring imagery is cut short. We do not know what was in her mind at that point but we do know that she has not carried us on with her to what should be a grand conclusion. For she refers to love as a briel enterprise. Shallow "loves" are brief enterprises. Love is not. That relationship between man and his Maker, the archetype for all of our relationships with each other and with the universe, is the only love fitting the requirements of the poem. And that love is eternal, magnificently. Brief Enterprise Others knew the lazily shepherded summer years, The sunny, lrlaed ledges of the onetime years, The sense of time only like a noon still light hearted with a far bell; knew all that is ancient as the lute, idyllic, silent, forgotten. They held in hand the half-grown feather-breasted hours, wing clipped against flight, stroked to song; put the teeth to some dripping fruit as they lay in the slow soundless shadow cooling the stene. Envy them if you will, but this plummeting time. The whir of these metallic years, this time of slintered night, violent day, must strike the mind awake. Vision of races: how we millions and millions plunge and pour through strange skies, meteorites and fragments of what inconstant star! must finally shake and exhaust the little ego,? clean it to the steely core which is indivisible man and his brief enterprise of love. F. C. Solitbyry Here and There The following information U taken from the file* of the More bead City Coaster: FRIDAY, AUGUST IS, 1(11 T. M. Mallison of Spring Hope is in the city spending a few days here with Mrs. Maggie Mallisoa. Miss Ethel Wiliisford of Black Mountain is spending a few days in the city the guest of Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Bell. A marriage license was issued this week to William S. tons of St. Louis, Mo., to Olive Longest of Beaufort. Rev. C. M. Levister of Camden, N. J., was a visitor in the city this week. He was formerly lo cated at Marshallberg where he was principal of the Graham Acad emy. Mrs. J. D. Reed and children of Norfolk, Va., are in the city viait lng her brother, Frank Colenda, Jr. F. P. Outlaw of Kinston is visit ing in the city at the home sf Mrs. J. E. Kornegay. Miss Mamie Lillian Davis left Tuesday for a few weeks visit to relatives in Norfolk. Va. Booee Lewis has returned home from New York where he has been working for the past several months. Mr. and Mrs. I. G. Chadwick of Raleigh are spending a few days in the city with Mrs. Ckadwkk'e parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Chad wick* Mrs. Nancy Piner Bell, wife a I Jamea W. Bell, died at the family home in thia city Friday afternoon, age 76. She waa born at Smyrna but had lived ia thu city for the past 21 years. Jesse H. Boll, for many years prominent in the business lite of this city died Friday morning in Raleigh. Between Wednesday night and Thursday morning three homes were entered by a burglar and money and other articles of value taken. The thief entered the homes of W. J. Hales, D. B. Wade, Mrs. Maggie Mallison, C. W. Chadwick and E. P. Mendcnhall. As yet the thief has not been apprehended. Stamp News By 8YD KKONBH Portugal has issued four new stamps. The 200 esc. green and the 5 esc. brown honoring St. Theo nius, a 12th Century Augustinian monk. The 1 esc. brown-red and 2.50 ese. violet pay tribute to St. Elisabeth, a 14th Century queen who became famous for her char ity. Stamp Notes: The Netherlands Antilles has issued a new series of pictorial definitives. The first in the set shows the queen's por trait and a building in Araba. Poland's latest stamps honor the Seventh International Glider Cham pionships. Haiti has issued two new stamps depicting the Dessalines Monu ment at Gonaivet, a portrait of Desaalines on a medallion and his dates U7?-iao?). Japan baa issued two new ?? mer post csrjis of 5 gao-fly I)r stows i dri Lout? Sylvy Words of Inspiration LIFE'S BLESSINGS Life give* to *11 of ui many prieeton gifts. Parent! wmMm thai* children aa their best gift from God. Their very presence in our homea will open many doors to ill that might have remained cloaed. Another of life's greatest bleasings are our friend*. Many of them ar* given to u* by our children. They fill a very special place in our hearta. On spring day when our children wer* quite small, we had Just moved to Jacksonville at the beginning of the construction of Camp Lejaune, when our children fouad a little boy and girl for playmates. Ot coarse they met the children's parent* first and introduced ne as "llom, tfaia is Dianne and Gordon's mother." So, Mrs. Virginia Mattocks, beoam* a very dear friend, a friendship that has Issted all through the year*. When we moved to Bettie the children brought us many friend*. Among these wer* "Phyl's mcrther," Mrs. Lacy Pake, and "Jaa'f mother, Mrs. Hilda Keller." These were happy years for all ot us, as the children visited back and forth into **ch other's homes. I shall alwaya ch*rl*h the memory of these years, when these girls were frequent visitors at our house, twing ing and playing in our yard, and an important part in our Music Club, community Christmas programs in the church and in our home. When wc finally settled dewn on the New Bern road, one day the children said, "Mom, this is Bobby and Winki's mother," adding Mr*. Virginia Willis, to my life's blessings. As I look back through the years, down life's road of happiness (thi* road can be seen clearly, looking back) I find that thes* mothers hava meant so much in my life. So many times, just being in their presenaa, I have found comfort, courage and inspiration. looking back through the years in my own book of memories, I find so many blessings. During our children's growing up years, I find so many friends there Just isn't room enough here to even begin to m*nUasi them. The houses we lived in during this period *11 hold bright mem ories. The children's friends who visited in oar home seem juet * Mlti* dearer than all others. There arc many sights and scenes stored in the scrapbook ot ? mother's heart, most of them found very close to her own door. 1 have seen God's most besutiful sunsets, from my own doorstep*. The church spire best remembered, was seen from my bedroom window i? Bettie, surrounded by a canopy of bright atars. Th* church deans* to my heart, is the one where my family worAiped together. The roscl that I love best, came from my *on on* Mother's Day. My favorite flowers are of the common varietie* that grow la my yard, and in my neighbors'. The trees that I remember best were two poplars in my front yard at Bettie, where birds nested in the spring time, and gathered for their morning symphony. The beat remembered path, led to my neighbor's door. For these friends, these scenes, these things, that have beca a part of th? best years of my life ... I am truly thankful. FAMILIARITY BREEDS CONTENT Familiarity breeds contempt, or so the sage one* say . . . I may be wrong, but as for me, it works just the other way . . . An old familiar room somehow, 1 find is the very best . . . It's the only place in the world to be, when you want to relax and rest. An old pair of shoos, worn every day, may be an unsightly pair . . . But when your feet arc tired and sora, Uicy giv* comfort beyond cam. pare. An old familiar friond, I think. Is the finest blessing on earth . . . And the more you see of a friend like this, the more you count kia worth . . . Familiar books . . . and hymns . . . and songs and scenes and sooada and sights, One never feels contempt for them, they are part o t life'* delight* . . ? What a terrible place this world would be, with everything new ... and queer . . . With nothing familiar around at all. why, we'd all be atrangers her* . . t So let the sages have their say, let tham mock with critical Jest, But all that I've grown to know with Tim*, is all that I love beat ? Betty Heart From the Bookshelf Let No Man Write Mr Epitaph. By Willard Motley. Random Houae. $4.95. You rcmambcr Nick Romano who went to the chair in Motlay'i impreaaive first novel, "Knock on Any Door?" Here 10 yeara later is Nick Jr., son of the man who ahot the cop and of Nellie, whom he didn't marry. He ia a child when we meet him here, and we follow him through hia painful, troubled growth to manhood. The emphasii lies heavily on the pain and trouble. For the first few pages the youngster ia in the country having an idyllic time, learning that cowa give milk and that the yellow on a daisy rube ?rr. But back in Chlcafo life rink* Into a very deep very sordid ret. Nellie turn* to men, to drink and finally to dope, and tha boy hsngs oataide tha swinging doors to guide her home. Perverta are mugged, uncles go to bed with their niece* and brothers with their sifters, and the idol of the decadent slum is too apt to be the icy-eyed, knife-wielding, merciless toughie. The over-all course of this novel is pretty familiar to us? the un principled but faithful frienda who protect the boy, the unexpected and indeed somewhat Inexplicable talent he develops, and the rich ire*-Iance writer who beeomea his benefactor. But the lurid picture of the vicious slum existence will be bard to forget, emotion ii dished out raw, and perhaps moat unforeseen is Motley's evident be lief that In our white society some benevolent forces are at work ef fectively to relieve the wretched lot of the poverty-stricken whether white or black. The Cultured Man. By Ashley Montagu. World. 13.95. Fifteen hundred questions aimed to measure your culture ? how long, how wide, how thick? and the answers to them, make ap the bulk of this book, and may b? more popalar than anything elae In these pages. Yardsticks have t universal appeal; we like to think we are cultured; we will not miss a chance to prove it. Actually these are stiff question!, which will force many readers to the disappointing conclusion that they haven't much culture to boast of. But they aan take comfort ia Montagu's repeated assuranea that culture 1s not necessarily knowledge, nor merely education. We may have spent mare for eon certs than baseball in 1M4, more for classical music records than baseball in IKS, but we still mis use our leisure time shockingly, and our society encroaches ruth lessly on our precious individual ity. Montagu's introductory thesis is the best of this book; it isn't whst he ssks me but what he tallf me that I enjoy most. ? W. 0. Sogers SmiUaWhik A doctor aaked Us patient to pay his bill with ? (MO down payment and then *3) a month. Tha patiut Hi'l'fift -W*T. toetar, that's just lika buying an automobile." The doctor replied "Sure it la, ia tact that * what I'm Mag." (
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