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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES Cartarat County" ? Nawapapar EDITORIALS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1958 Deer Population Dwindles If you're wondering why there isn't some newt of successful deer, hunts in the county, the answer is, simply, there aren't any deer. Veteran Carteret hunters say that the day of plentiful deer is about past ? unless strict enforcement of hunting laws is put into effect. t All during the summer, permanent residents in the down-east, Merrimon, Harlowe and Newport sections have been shooting deer . And the deer have not been bucks. Now affects of the slaughter are be ing felt. The dearth of deer this season is not the result of just one summer's out-of-seaaon shooting, but an accumu lation of summers. People who like to shoot deer any time of year cuss the game warden when they see him. Now, however, they're reaping the bitter harvest. The reason: they say there haven't been any game wardens stationed in the deer areas for months and months. As a result, the deer murderers have been riding the roads in their cars at . night, blinding the deer and one "hunt er" will kill as many as four or five in a night. This same kind of person who slaughters game in such numbers is the type that shoots a doe ; if she's not sleek and fat, he kicks the carcass and goes to look for a better one. The doe's fawn in a nearby thicket probably dies. Hunters say that there is no evidence of a disease killing the deer, nor is it likely that they have migrated to other areas. In addition to the wanton slaughter, they suggest that the cutting of new roads by pulpwood companies through formerly heavy-wooded areas may have some effect on the deer popula tion. Now the deer have no way to escape. Roads make it possible for hunters to get to a deer no matter which way it runs. Most local hunters know who the ones are who slaughter the deer month in and month out. As a matter of fact, it's probably easier to count the ones who DO obey the hunting laws. Hunters and guides can take their pick: obey hunting laws voluntarily or watch Carteret's deer hunting sport be come a thing of the past ? just like the waterfowl sport is passing. It is ridiculous, however, to expect persons to obey hunting laws of their own free will. If the newly-organized Carteret Wildlife Club wants to pre serve the sport of hunting here, it would do well to request state coopera tion in policing the hunting areas. Then courts should vigorously prosecute, without delay, cases involving hunting violations. Why Shop Early? Why do stores start Christmas be fore Thanksgiving? That's a question often asked and it deserves a sincere answer. Business men appreciate the spirit that prompts many of the objections to early Christ mas shopping. There are, however, good reasons for making the pre-Christ mas season longer than Thanksgiving to-Dec. 25. Some customers request that the stores display Christmas merchandise early. Many persona who hava a lotcf , gifts to buy refuse to be force (Ttntum frenzy in the weeks immediately prior to Christmas. They have come to the conclusion that if they are to enjoy the Christmas season in all its spiritual beauty they cannot delay the buying and wrapping of gifts until December. Thus businessmen bring forth Christ i mas merchandise early to accommo date them. Most stores could not cope with the holiday traffic if they waited to display Christmas wares until Thanksgiving had passed. One of the big things a store has to offer, besides merchandise, is service. , Can you remember standing at a store counter waiting and waiting for a clerk to wait on you during the holi days? Then when he or she did come, it took twice as long to wait on you be cause one clerk was always in the way of another, either in getting stock out or just plain stumbling around because so many extra clerks had to be hired in a vain attempt to provide "quick ser vice"? If no early Christmas shopping were done, there would not be room behind counters for enough people to serve the limpatient shoppers. Those in the retail business point out that a large precentage of the items selected for Christmas are in plentiful supply throughout the entire year. If you were to aak the thousands of retail store clerks, they would tell you that much of the strain of their Christmas would be lessened if people would Christmas shop during the year. Most of you have probably known a retail clerk who, by the day before Christmas, is ready to drop from ex haustion. Early Christmas shopping, rather than an abuse of the spirit of Christ mas is actually a boon. The custom of giving will not be done away with re gardless how many accusations of "commercialism" are hurled. If those who are anxious to put Christ back into Christmas want to do something helpful to all, they too will advocate "shop early". Then with Christmas shopping done, the church services, the rehearsals for Christmas pageants and cantatas, and the Christ mas parties can be entered into with an eased mind, and a joyous spirit. Hydrants and Lamps (Minneapolis Tribune) A Minneapolis woman is distressed by the unesthetic turn of events which has placed a city hydrant within easy viewing range of her picture window. In fact, she has agreed to pay half the cost of having it removed and the coun cil committee on public grounds and ' buildings has voted to accept the offer. For us this raises a question of some what less than overriding importance: Whether the city has an obligation to guarantee lovely vistas, devoid of such things as fire hydrants, to the owners of picture windows. Furthermore, we , are troubled by this thought: If the city does have such an obligation, is there not a corresponding one, on the part of householders, to place objets d'art and other comparably attractive items in their picture windows? We can imagine a compact by which the city committed itself to moving all fire hydrants from the range of picture windows in return, let us say, for the summary banishment of all lamps in stalled therein. The next worst thing to staring at a hydrant from a picture window, in our opinion, is staring at a lamp through a picture window. Or isn't the passer-by, h? eye jaded by a monotonous succession of living room lamps, supposed to stare? Carteret County N?w*-Tim?s WINNER or NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARDS A Merger at The Beaufort Neva (Eat 1*11) and The Twin CHj Tlaaee (Eat 1M) Published Tueedayi and Fridaya by the Carteret PubUahlag Company, toe. (04 ArendeU St. Morebead City, N. C. LOCK WOOD PHILLIPS - PUBLISHER ELEANORS DEAR PHILLIP8 - ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER RUTH L. PEELING - EDITOR tLM one month; elaewhere $7.00 one rear, f4.? tU taanfht. ?LM eae Math. Member of Aaaedated Praaa - N. C. Preee Audit Bureau at 10 Eaat 40th Street. New Yort It, N. T. la entitled rabMtreiy to noe to r^eUlnlbju at lata! I k this new?p?yer, aa ad aa all AP newa illantthaa daaa Matter at Merehaad Ctty, N. C, Under At* of March 1, 1*7> -AND WHERE IT 1ANPS-.NOBOPY KNOWS! ^^HCHEV Security for You... By RAY HENRY THE CHANGES recently made in Social Security affect almost every adult in the United States. The main changes won't go into operation until Jan. 1, but here, briefly, is what is in store: If you're drawing payments now, your February check will be higher. If you start drawing payments after Jan. 1, 1960, it's possible for them to be larger than any ever paid before. If you're now collecting disabil ity payments, your wife and chil dren may now be eligible to re ceive payments. If you become disabled in the future, it may be easier to get payments than it has been. If you're an employer or a work er now paying Social Security tax, you'll have to pay more after Jan. 1. Here's a summary of the main changes? with details to come in later columns ? PRESENT PAYMENTS: Payments to retired or disabled workers now range from $30 to $108.50 a month. After Jan. 1, those getting $30 will get $33. Those getting $106.50 will get $116 and those receiving payments in be tween will get an average increase of 7 per cent. Payments to wives, dependent husbands or dependent children of retired workers now range from $11.30 to $54.30. After Jan. 1. these payments will be increased an average of 7 per cent. Payments to survivors of de ceased workers now range from $30 to $200. After Jan. 1, the range will be $33 to $254. NOTE: Although all the in creases in payments mentioned above go into effect Jan. 1, they'll show up first in the February checks. Social Security checks re ceived at the beginning of a month are always for the previous month. It will not be necessary to apply to- the increases; they'll be paid automatically. FUTURE PAYMENTS: Payments to workers who retire at 65 or over or who become dis abled after Jan. 1 will range from $33 to $127 a month. But, it'll be a number of years before any re tired or disabled worker will be entitled to top payment. Payments to survivors of a worker who dies after Jan. 1 will range from $33 to $254. DISABILITY PAYMENTS: Dependents of disabled workers have not been eligible for pay ments. Now they may be. A wife 62 or over will be entitled to col lect an amount equal to one-half of what her husband is receiving. Wife caring for children, regard loss of her age, will be entitled to an amount equal to one-half of her husband's payments. Depend ent children, in most cases, will also be entitled to an amount equal to one-half of what their father is getting. TAX INCREASES: Employes now pay a 2'? per cent tax on earnings up to $4,200 a year ?that is, (95.50 ? and their employ ers match this amount. On Jan. 1, they'll have to pay 2V4 per cent on earnings up to $4,800 a year? that is, $120? and their employers will have to match the amount. Self-employed persons now pay a 3% per cent tax on net earnings up to $4,200 a year? that is, $141.75. Next year, they'll have to pay 3% P?t cent on the first $4,800 a year of net earnings or a tax of $180. The tax rate for all workers employed or self-employed? will be increased again in 1960 and every three years until 1969. The high for employes will eventually be 4V? per cent and for self-employed persons, 6% per cent. When It Rains The great sculptor was seen one day standing bareheaded in his stone yard. A drizzling rain was falling, and people pitied him as they hurried to get out of the storm. At his side a workman toiled, turning over heavy pieces of stone. Block after block was examined be fore the sculptor straightened up. "There it is, Pietro," he said calmly, "the very picce of marble that I need. See, Pietro, the beau tiful pink in the scams and the smoothness of the grain! When it rains, Pietro, then it is the true color comes out in the stone. That is the time to select the block for the next statue." To Bake a Cherry Pie Mrs. Sadie Brown, 69 years old, (till climbs trees on her farm near Pottstown, Pa. This is an admir able avocation, though somewhat unusual, considering. The older one becomes, the rule is, the less likely one is to climb trees. Moreover, as age carries us farther from our remotest ances tors, who did climb trees, we might be presumed to stay out of the branches if not on the ground. Mrs. Brown is defying the law of age, gravity and evolution. But she obtained 89 quarts of cberrics that way, and we doubt if any scientists would challenge those results. ?St. Louis Post-Dispatch F. C. Salhbury Here and There The following Information U taken from the file* at the More head City Coaiter: FRIDAY, NOV. 14, Kit T. D. Webb, Norman R. and Charles V. Webb and J. L. Willis spent a few hours In Kinston Wed nesday. They returned home in T. D. Webb's new car. Born last Thursday to Mr. and Mrs. V. A. Bedsworth, a son named Junior. S. A. Chalk was operated upon Thursday afternoon at the local hospital for appendicitis and kia condition is favorable. Minnie Idleburg, aged 8, died Tuesday, a victim of spinal menin gitis. The slx-nionth-old son, Paul, of Mr. and Mrs. 8herwood Piner was buried Wednesday. An addition is being made to the building occupied by Parker * Brock as a machine shop. A foundry will b* constructed to tin rear of the shop and a pattern maker will be employed. The Emeline Pigott Chapter UDC met at the home of ita new presi dent. Mrs. D. G. Bell. A report of the High Point convention was given by Mrs. C. S. Wallace. Mrs. C. Byrd and Miss Pearl Davis were received as new members. The marriage of Miss Henriette M. Moore to Jarvis McLohon took place at the Methodist parsonage Saturday morning of last week. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. R. B. Broom. Garfield Stanley, a colored man of Beaufort, employed on the schooner Blades, lost his life Mon day while the boat was coming through the inlet. J. W. Bailey of New York City arrived In the city last Friday for a hunting trip. He will be remem bered as the author of "The Heart of the Blue Ridge," which was drsmstlwri to U? "silver screen." Comment . . ? J. Kellum Simple Language Emily Dickinson, a Yankee of retiring nature, seems to have set herself on a path of sclf-disciplinc and pursuit of intellectual ac curacy. She wastes no time on ex cess conversation; yet, having ar rived at economy of words out of love for accuracy rather than re jection of locquaciousness, she is seldom abrupt and never rude. A taste of her work: There is No Frigate I. ike A Book There is no frigate like a book To take us lands away Nor any courses like a page Of prancing poetry This traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of toll; How frugal is the chariot That bears a human soul! The Snake A narrow fellow in the grass Occasionally rides ; You may have met him ? did you not? His notice sudden is. The grass divides as with a comb, A spotted shaft is seen; And then it closes at your feet And opens further on. He likes a boggy acre, A floor too cool for corn, Yet when a child, and barefoot, I more than once, at morn, Have passed, I thought, a whip lash Unbraiding in the sun, ? When, stooping to secure it. It wrinkled, and was gone. Several of nature's people I know, and they know me; I feel for them a transport Of cordiality; But never met this fellow, Attended or alone, Without a tighter breathing. And zero at the bone. Smile a While A Viennese restaurateur wanted to run a restaurant such ai had never existed before, and adver tised; "Cutlets From Every Ani mal in the World." His first customer, a countess, asked for an elephant cutlet. The chef rose to the occasion. "Ma dam," he said, "I am very sorry, but for one cutlet wc cannot cut up our elephant." ?Irish Digest lodf Splvy I Words of Inspiration "The holy hush of the Sabbath ii gone. Our religious custom* are breaking down. A changed mood has come over much of Christendom. Like the psalmist of old, many are asking 'How can we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?' "We are not a godless people, but every day the forces of secularism are pushing America toward godlessness. We need to catch the spirit of a more militant and aggressive faith. "We must not be satisfied to see the church on the defensive in so many parts of the world, to see one Christian stronghold after another taken over by Communists or yielding to secularism. "The world more than ever demands the impossible of the church. Without strong Christian convictions we are no more than animals around a trough. "We can't change conditions without first changing people. One of our oldest illusions is to look to external cures for social life. Man's problem is man. Change comes from within, not from without. Some thing must happen to the hearts of men. "There are enough Christians to change the world, but we are so timid in our witness and so afraid to stand up for Christ that our ef forts are ineffectual. "Our disturbed world society is mentally enlightened, but morally bankrupt. We want a smooth, comfortable and riskless life. We want to be amused and entertained. This is the perfect formula for bore dom as we sit at the banquet table of life without an appetite." ? Dr. J. Wallace Hamilton Many times, this little verse by Harry Chester has fallen on my heart like a benediction: "The Scripture says that in His own sweet way if we but wait, The Lord wil take our burdens and set Crooked matters straight." ? Jowett QUOTES God is a substitute for everything, but nothing is a substitute (or God. God gives every bird his food, but He docs not throw it in the nest. God has wonderful things to display if He can only get the showcase). Many folks have ability but lack stability. The self seeker seldom finds himself. Faith is more a way of walking than It is a way of talking. The only things we can be sure of accomplishing arc the things we do today. If we had to walk in the other fellow's shoes we might not criticize his gait. No man can push himself ahead very far by patting himself on the back. In this world it is not what we give up that makes us rich. More people arc won to Christ by friendship and zeal and holy living of laymen than by eloquent sermons from the pulpit. ? Glad Tidings A bright little boy once took the Bible from the center-table of his father's home and turned its dusty pages and said: "Mother, is this God's Book?" "Certainly," was the good mother's reply. "Well, I think wc had better send it back to God, for we don't use it here," said the little fellow. This is a fair picture of many a home and the way the Bible is treat ed. The ccnter-tablc is a catch-all. It Is a place for relics, letters, poe try and pressed flowers. He has revealed to us words of truth and grace, and like David, we should meditate upon Hit word by day and night. The Scriptures are sufficient to make us wise unto salvation. Christ says, wc arc sanctified by them. Paul says, wc are begotten by them. Peter says, we are born by them. ? Public Speakers Library The study of God's word, for the purpose of discovering God's will, is the secret discipline which has formed the greatest characters. ? J. W. Alexander This is the Law By ROBERT E. LEE For the NC Bar Association PAYMENT OF MONEY Allen his borrowed tlOO from Butler. On the date the loan is to be paid, Allen tenders the $100 with Interest to Butler. The money offered and held out to Butler ia refused. May Butler two years later recover the money from Al len? Yea. Where the performance of a contract conaists of the payment of a aum of money, the tender of the same by the debtor and its re fusal by the creditor doea not amount to a discharge of the debt. The creditor may sue and re cover a judgment for the amount of the debt at any time within the period of the statute of limitations. If the obligation is oral or in writ ing without a seal, this means that the creditor in North Carolina can bring hla action at any time with KEEP UP WITH THE KIDS m then ' V Ti'f ZEM American Education Week in three year* from the date of maturity of the obligation. If the obligation is in writing with a seal or the word "seal" be aide the debtor's signature, the creditor can wait as long as ten years from the date of maturity to start his legal proceeding for a recovery. The effect of tender of payment li that it merely stops the running of interest and precludes the cred itor from recovering court costs in connection with any subsequent legal proceeding. Furthermore, even to achieve this result, the debtor must continue to be ready and willing to pay the debt at any time, or, as it is said, the tender must be kept good. Hence, Butler may at a later date recover from Allen at least $100 plus interest up to the date of tender. Corbln owes to Williston money on two separate obligations. One is aecured by a mortgage on Cor bin's home, the other is an unse cured obligation. Corbin makes a payment of $2,000 to Williston, but does not at the time of payment specify which of the two obliga tions he ia making a part payment. A week later Corbin tells Wil liston that he wants the $2,000 ap plied toward the payment of his mortgage loan. Williston says that he is sorry but that he has already applied the $2,000 as part payment of the unsecured loan. May Cor bin require Williston to apply the $2,000 as part payment of hia mort gage loan? , No. Corbin should have specified at the time of payment that he wanted the $2,000 applied to the mortgage loan. A debtor owing two or more debtf to the aame creditor, and making a payment, may, at the time, direct its application to any one of the debts. The right is loct if the particular application ia not directed at the time of payment. If the debtor doea not exercise hia right, the creditor may apply the payment to either debt; or he may apply a part to one debt and the remainder to another; and he ia not restricted aa to the time at payment If, however, once the creditor makes the application, he cannot later change it without the consent of the debtor. If neither the debtor oar the creditor makes the application, the law appUea it to Um unsecured Ml aii. , .iin< ? in i t
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