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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES Cartarvt County** Newepepw EDITORIALS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1958 Up for Adoption If ever there was an orphan, it's the Beaufort-Morehead airport. But it looks as though it might get a family, soon. Beaufort took the bit in its teeth Monday night at the town hall and appointed a representative to the Beaufort-Morehead Airport Authority. According to the law creating the puthority, passed in 1941, Beaufort ap ' points a member, Morehead a member, and the county appoints three. The airport authority or commission (it's called by several names) has seldom functioned as required by law. The law requires that it furnish a year ly report on airport administration and ?operation. Since 1941 such reports have been almost nonexistent. To be very blunt, appointing of mem bers to the airport authority has been a fouled-up mess. Prior to April 1956 there were six members on the authori ty (the law specifies five). Then in April 1956 five were appointed by the county commissioners. Two months later those five appoint' <ments were thrown out the window and another five named. Three of the new five, however, were repeats of those named in April. The new five were ap pointed for four-year terms "or the number of years specified by law for creating the airport commission". The law specifies two-year terms. If the June 1956 date is accepted as ^the beginning of the term of the pres ent airport commission members, then their terms expired in June of this year. During the past summer, Mayor Clif ford Lewis, Beaufort, became concern ed about the unsightliness of the ad ministration building ? a chronic con dition. He requested the newspaper to take pictures of the building. In con nection with the picture-taking, the chairman of the airport commission was contacted. He didn't want them taken. Anyhow, the proposal had the desired effect. In a very short time, workmen were out at the administration building, painting and fixing. Since Beaufort has cited the law on the airport authority, let's hope that this revival of interest may mean a new and better program in airport adminis tration. Thank You, USMC Carteret owes Cherry Point Marine Air Corps Station a double thank you at this particular time ? thank you for the generators sent to the Morehead City Hospital.during Helene, and thank you for letting T/Sgt. Paul Bray head the military police detachment in More head City for five years. We wish his tour of duty in this position could con tinue. Cherry Point has always been most cooperative when "this crazy civilian world" needs help that the military can give. Sergeant Bray's able admin istration in law enforcement may not be as sensational as rushing generators to the hospital, but over the long haul, his daily work of doing his job well has meant much to Morehead City, the beach, and Beaufort. We welcome his successor, S/Sgt. Alexander Barron, and hope that in all things the relationship between Cherry Point and the folks in Carteret will bear the hallmarks of mutual help and respect. Letter to Mr. Cane Oct.aO, 1958 Mr. Hurry Cane ( 76 Windy Channel Caribbean Western Hemisphere Dear Mr. Cane : Since this is International Letter Writing Week, I am taking this oc casion to send you a letter, one that is not written on the wind. Perhaps you are not as familiar with this place as are your daughters, Bar bara, Carol, Diane, lone, Connie, Hazel and Helene. All of them have called on us in recent years and we appreciate their interest in being sociable. However, you may not be aware that the customs in this country are not 'quite as lusty and uncontrolled as in that beautiful wild land of cerulean Bea where you and your daughters live. Here, in our country, a guest is treat ed courteously and if we enjoy her visit, we invite her to call again. Also the guest does not jump on furniture in the host's house, smash the favorite china, chew up the food placed before her and then spit it out. Recently, we have had some guests ?who have done this. They have been the lady guests we mentioned above. They have chewed off tree limbs, tv aerials and then when they found how they tasted, dropped them right there. They have played roughly with J roofs, boats, and buildings and in gen eral have caused a bit of turmoil. Now we are sure that you are un aware that your children act in such a manner when they are away from home, thus we have hesitated calling this matter to your attention. But the visits of .your daughters have recurred frequently in recent years. A ' lusty, uninhibited guest once in a while is a refreshing experience, but too many such visits can wear one down. We do believe you will understand. And If, in the future, your daughters come t6 Call, -we know they will speak only with a soft voice and treat our property with respect. . Hopefully, Mr. and Mrs. Carteret and the Young'uns Charge It? Recharge It! (Christian Science Monitor) Oil companies, hotels, the telephone company, the Diners' Club, and now the American Express Company have entered into what some call the "battle of the charge cards." Firms and organ izations have issued credit cards num bering into hundreds of thousands. Observing this trend. Editorial Re search Report* adds, "And the end is by no means in sight." To which we are inclined to reply, "Yes it is. We have seen it somewhere, but please don't ask us where." What we saw was an account of a talk by one of the inventors of elec tronic computers and business ma chines. He forecast that in a few more decades people will stop carrying money around; instead, each one will carry an electrically coded card with which the grocer, barber, dress shop, and bank teller will enter debits or credits on an account in a central clear inghouse. Or perhaps, having said "Charge it" once too often, the holder will go to the payroll window for a re charge. Then, after centuries spent develop ing a medium of exchange, commercial civilization will have learned how to do without money ? and so be right back where it started. Carteret County News-Times WINNER OF NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARDS A Merger o f The Beaufort News (Est 1812) and The Twin City Times (Est lfM) Published Tuesdays and Fridays by the Carteret PwHlshtng Company, Inc. 504 Arendell St, Monhead CKy, N. C. LOCKWOOD PHILLIPS - PUBLISHER ELEANOR* DEAR PHILLIPS - ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER RUTH L. PEELING - EDITOR Mad Rates: In Carteret Oooaty and adjoining counties, M ?aa year, ?M0 six' $L2S one month; elsewhere $7.00 ana year, 94.00 all. months, $LM one Member ot Associated Press - N. C Pwss i National Editorial Association - Audit Bureau of Oreulatieaa National Advertising Representative Moran * Fischer, Inc. 10 East 40th Street, New Tart 10, N. T. i Associated Proa* la entitled exclusively to ase for repnbHcation of local am I la thla newspaper, aa wad a? aR AP aai CUas Matter at Merehead City, N. C, Under Act of March I, 1 HOW' NICE I [?we VOW NOT TO USE ANY Hun becoming smear tactics ? pHTHEOOMMGCAMPAKSN. ' \?>p Hi Security for You... By RAY HENRY The Social Security Administra tion had some bad and some good news this year. Both affect you. The bad news: More money will be paid out in benefits in the next five years than is collcctcd in taxes and interest. This came from the trustees of the Social Security funds. The good news: A committee of businessmen reported, after a year of study, the administration of the Social Security system is sound, vigorous and efficient. "So what?" you ask. It's simple. The Social Security system is run with your money. And, it's, at least, a part of your key to a se cure old age. What does it mean to you that more money will be paid out than is taken in between now and 1963? In the long run, nothing. Thai's the word of Secretary of Welfare Folsom. He said the system now has on hand about 22V* billion dollars. It can draw upon tfeis money to make up the IV* to 3 billion dollar short age in income expected over the next five years. By 1965, he says the system will again start taking in more than it'll be paying out and will con tinue to do so until at least the year 2025. Thus, as Folsum sees it, the sys tem's financial problems are tem porary and for these reasons: ? When the Social Security sys tem was broadened in 1954 and 1956 to cover millions of additional workers in dozens of occupation!, a bad estimate was made of how | many of the workers would soon qualify for payments. Many more, particularly farmers, have been qualifying than was expected. This can't happen again. The system now covers almost all occupations. ?More women than expected have chosen to take smaller pay ments at 62 rather than wait for full payments at 65. In the long run, this means nothing because, on the average, the women will collect the same total amount of money regardless of which choice they make. ?This year's recession has made it more difficult for older people to find work, many not being able to. So, more than expected have been drawing Social Security. ? The recession, with its unem ployment, has reduced tax income below expectations. Folsom didn't specifically say the recession was temporary, but did so by implication. What difference does it make whether the system is adminis tered soundly, vigorously and effi ciently? If it is, it's obviously using your money wisely. And, every extra dime the system can save by good administration means less tax you'll probably have to pay into the system to keep it going. (Editor's Note: You may con tact the social security repre sentative at the courthouse an nex, Beaufort, from 9:30 a.m. to noon Tuesdays. He will help yon with' your own particular prob lem). Washington Report Br SEN. B. EVERETT JORDAN Raleigh ? Recently I have had quite a number of inquiries about how the Student Loan and Fellow ihip Program will operate under the National Defense Education Act that was passed by the 85th Congress. This program was designed to offer federal assistance primarily to graduate and undergraduate stu dents in the fields of science, mathematics, engineering and for eign languages. The program that will be set up under the law will make valuable contributions in other fields of education, but it is in these areas that greatest defi ciences now exist. I have been in contact with The Office of Education in the Depart ment of Health, Education and Welfare on several occasions to get information as to how the program will operate and the pro cedure students should follow to take part in it. It appears that loans and grants to students probably will be avail able for the second semester of this school year ... in January or February of 1959. At least, every effort is being made to get the program in actual operation by that time. Under the program, a student should apply for a federal loan through the college or university he attends or plans to attend. To be eligible for ? loan, a student must be in need of the loan, and no student may be loaned over $1, 000 in any one year or over $5,000 in all. The loans carry a three per cent interest rate. Under the fellowship division of the program, 1,000 fellowships are authorized to be awarded between now and next July 1. During each 0 1 the next three succeeding years 1,500 fellowships are authorized. Each student who is awarded a fellowship will receive <2,000 for the first year of graduate study, $2,200 for the second year, and 12,400 for the third year, plus $400 each year for each dependent. The fellowships will be awarded for periods of study, not in excess ef three academic years, during which time the graduate student devotes full time to study or re search. There are other provisions in the law authorizing federal assistance to state educational agencies to strengthen courses of study in science, mathematics and foreign languages; to expand vocational education programs; and to do research in finding more effective use of television, radio, and mo tion pictures for educational pur poses Congress was wise in writing into law specific provisions pro hibiting any federal control over the curriculum, program of in struction, administration, or per sonnel. All of this will be under the complete control of the states and the local colleges and schools taking part in the program. This program is by far the most comprehensive and far - reaching educational undertaking the fed eral government has ever engaged in and there is no reason why any snags should develop if it is prop erly administered. I am confident that it will, in the long run, do a great deal to stimulate badly need ed additional interest and activity in education at all levels of gov ernment. Stamp News By 8TD KKONffiH By agreement with the U.S. Navy, Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield has announced that all first day covers for the 4-ccnt Overland Mail Centennial atamp (to be issued Oct. 10 at San Francisco) destined for delivery east of St. Louis, will be picked up that day and flown by Jet plane to St. Louis. Then the covers will be transported by normal methods. This flight will require approx imately three hours aa compared to the 24 days for the Butterfield Overland Mail on its run from Tipton, Mo., to San Francisco. Italy and Brazil both have issued stamps honoring the visit of Italy's President GroncU to Br axil. Italy's stamp depicts ? plane flying from Bom* to Bio d* Janeiro. F. C. Salisbury Here and There The following Information Is taken from the filea of the More head City Coaster: FRIDAY, OCT. 10, 1919 Mr. and Mrs. Cecil R. Willis re turned to the city last week follow ing a two weeks' bridal tour in several northern cities and Canada. D. F. Koonce of Stella returned to his home this week after spend ing several days in the city with friends. D. B. Wade Jr. recently under went an operation on his nose made necessary when that member was injured in a fall while at his work in New Bern. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Lee of Balti more arrived in the city last week to spend some time here visiting Mr. Lee's mother, Mrs. Bettie Lee. Mrs. B. I. Tart and son, B. I. Jr., left Tuesday for their home in Four Oaks after spending several daya with Mr*. J. C. B. Morton. Lorenzo E., the infant son of Mr. ind Mr*. Birdie Dixon, died at the family home Thuraday night. The Rev. C. If. Cavinett, pastor of the Carteret Circuit, a charge of nine churches, was here Wednes day visiting the pastor of the First Methodist Church. Marriage licenses issued for the week were to Clem R. Mann of Newport and Myrtle Taylor of Bogue: Melvin Willis of Sea I^vel and Margaret Ingle of Morohcad City. An enjoyable sail was given Tuesday night by Ensign Wm. H. Gobel and G. McAnney, secretary of the Knights of Columbus of the Naval Air Station. Stand-In Seve jl men who were seated in the waiting room of a maternity ward were surprised to see a little boy in football uniform enter and take his place alongside them. The boy remained solemn and quiet until one of the mun asked, "Is your mother in here, sonny?" "Nope," replied the lad, "our coach's wife ii . . . we got a big game on, and he sent me here as hia replacement." ? Coronet By BI1X CROWELI. Department of Motor Vehicles FATAL STROM. ... The North Carolina pedestrian has been catching it something awful from the auto of late. And what follows will probably read like a textbook, but some thing needs to be said about the walker who is turning into one of the major items in the traffic death and injury tally. Ironically, many pedestrians struck dead last ytar never owned a car or a driver's license. For that reason they probably made the fatal mistake of not interesting themselves in traffic laws and regulations. But we do have laws that every pedestrian should know ?and it remains true, of course, that every driver should be fa miliar with pedestrian regulations. In North Carolina, where 238 walkers were fatally injured last year, the pedestrian has not yet become the forgotten man. The first regulation we ought to consider is a rule that sets forth a clear and important pedestrian right. And underscore right. That rule is for pedestrian protection at crosswalks and intersections. Let's Not Miss the Boat (Editor'* Note: Boatbuildera in Carteret, both commercial and pleasure may be intereated in the following editorial which appeared in July In The Greenaboro Daily Newa). Evidence on every tide attests to the changing pattern of living in North Carolina. The trend is toward outdoor living. All you have to do to make sure of this is to check with those who sell out door furniture, grills and rotia ser ies, fishing equipment, water skis, sports clothes and swim suits and boats. In this editorial we're more con cerned with boats. More and more you note them on the highways, hoisted on special trailers and hauled to beach, lake or nearest pond. There is scarcely a com munity of any size that does not have a water sports center. Any sizable body of water is likely to have one or more marinas which are widely patronized and obvious ly making money for their oper ators. Figures recently announced by the National Association 0 t Engine and Boat Manufacturers and the Outboard Boating Club of America show that 35,000,000 persons, or one fifth of the population of the United States, took part in recrea tional boating last year. They spent over *1,900,000,000 for boats, en gines, fuel, insurance, maintenance and such. These same sources report that there are mora than 7,000,000 rec reational bull la ma. Mo figures are available (or North Carolina, but a breakdown does show that 73,000 outboard motors are listed in Tarheelia, which is also one o( the states in which outboard motor aales increased last year. Other than motorized boats, there is no way of knowing how many rowboats, dinghies and sail boats there are in North Carolina, but they must run into large fig ure!. What we are leading up to is the opportunity which this new and growing business holds for indus trial expansion. There are several boat builders in the state? one or two operating in a small way In our own community ? and Tar heelia, we are advised, does lead the nation in the production of flail ing trawlers. It la understood, however, that these are used com mercially and thua do not fall with in the category of recreational boating. But the material which goes into boat building is at hand. Tar Heela have shown that they have the know -bow; and the demand la growing by leap* and bounda. How come, with all these inducements, moat boat-minded Tar Heela have to buy boats which come from far away places? Boating is big bus iness and North Carolina is Just the state which ought to get in on Lout? Splvy Words of Inspiration THK INDI8PEN8IBLE MAN Sometime when you're feeling Important, sometime when tout ego's in bloom. Sometime when 70a take It for granted you're the heat qualified la the room. Sometime when you feel that your going would leave an unfillable hole. Just follow these simple instructions, and see how they bumble your aouL Tske a bucket and fill it with water, put your hand in it, up to the wrist. Pull it out . . . and the hole that'a remaining ia a measure of bow you'll be missed I You csn splaah all you wish aa you enter, you may atir up the water galore; But stop, and you'll find that in no time, it looks quite the same aa before! The moral in thia quaint example is ... do just the best that you can; Be proud of yourself, but remember, there's no indispensible man! Money can be a vile thing: it can turn a man's head and ruin his soul. Only it isn't the money that is vile; it is the man. You can squan der money or you can save it. You can let it master you or you can take money and say, "This is something that is God-given. This is part of me. Take, Lord, and use it." ? Theodore Ferris The five most important words: "I am proud of you." The four most important words: "What is your opinion?" The three most important words: "If you please." The two most important words: "Thank you." The least important word , . . QUOTES Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician pre scribes because we need them and He proportions the frequency and the weight of them to what the cause requires. Let us trust in His skill and thank Him for His prescription. God looks most where man looks least ... at the heart. A great many Christians are "missing in action." The deepest problem is not to add years to our lives, but to add life to our years. He who seeks trouble will have no trouble finding it. Hem your blessings with praise lest they unravel. He who sins for profit will not profit by his sins. To say one has no time for God is like saying one has ne time for breathing. He is richest who ia content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. ? Socrates I've shut the door on yesterday, its sorrows and mistakes; I've locked within its gloomy walls past failures and heartaches. And now I throw the key away to seek another room To furnish it with hopes and smiles and every springtime bloom. Free Wheeling The motorist must yield right of way at these marked zones. And here's something to think about the next time you take a jaywalk. The law does not protect your pedestrian rights when you cross in the middle of the block or at random wherever you choose. That's why the State Department of Motor Vehicles repeatedly urges pedestrians to cross only at inter sections? never in mid-block. VERSE . . . We've been stockpil ing poems again. Here's one of the better ones, contributed by C. S. Zealand of Louisburg: "It isn't the car that begins to whine When forced to stop for an old stop sign It's the driver. "It isn't the car that will take a drink And quickly lose the power to think? It's the driver. "It isn't the car that falls to heed The dangers of reckless, discour teous speed It's the driver. "It isn't the car that steps on the gaa And causea an accident trying to pass ? It's the driver. "And a car may be bent and twisted awry But it isn't the car that's likely to die It's the driver." SUDDEN TH AWT... One thing about backaeat drivers? they don't lose control of the car. NOPE . . . They call 'em Powder puff Derbies nowadays, but SO years ago auto racing promoter* weren't having any part a t fem inine racing enthusists. The AAA, in a 1906 publication, declared that "No woman ahall be permitted to operate or ride as a passenger In a motor car In any conteat of speed." SmiUaWhiU In an Army hospital a soldier was cooking up a letter to his wife. A kind nurse was writing for him. "The nurses here," he dictated, "are i very plain lob?" Oh, I say," interrupted the angel of mercy, "dont you think that's a little unfair to us?" "Of course it la." said the aol dier. "But just think how happy my wife will be when she reads It." ?Capper's Weekly Character la pretty much Ilk* window glass even a little crack shows dear through.
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