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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES Carter* Cowty's Nawapapar EDITORIALS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1958 'Twas the Night Before Christmas It was very cold and snowy, that Christmas Eve in 1822. The hard snow crunched under Dr. Moore's feet as he hurried along the street to the market. Word had just come that there would be extra guests for the Christmas din ner tomorrow, and Mrs. Moore had sent her husband to buy an extra turkey, while she busily set to work baking more goodies to add to the already gen erous supply. The city streets were filled with peo ple that night, happy children shouting in the snow, fathers hurrying home ward, bustling shoppers making last minute purchases. In the lighted win ' dows of the homes he passed, in the bright shop windows, and in the de lectable smells of the holiday foods be ing prepared in the bright warm kitch ens of the neighborhood ? in all these Dr. Moore felt the heart-warming Yule tide Spirit. As he made his way toward the market, the good doctor's brain was buzzing with the words of a poem, words which seemed to dance and sing with the gaiety of Christmas. The turkey purchased and delivered to Mrs. Moore, Dr. Moore locked him self in his study. The room was almost foreboding with its shelves lined with books of Hebrew and Greek, for the doctor was a professor of languages at the General Theological Seminary of New York City. But Hebrew and Greek were forgotten this night as the words of a poem began to take form on paper. Later that Christmas Eve, Dr. Moore gathered his children around him and announced he had a poem for them. In his deep, rich voice he began reading: '"Twas the night before Christmas, When all through the house Not a creature was stirring, Not even a mouse." On and on he read through the gay, happy verses, and when Santa's merry voice rang out in the last line of the poem, "Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night," the eyes of the Moore children were dancing with joy. They clapped and applauded heartily, and Dr. Moore knew his poem was thor oughly enjoyed. So he promptly filed it away and proceeded to forget it. It was not until December of the next year that Dr. Moore had occasion to remember the poem. In a copy of the Troy Sentinel appeared a poem, "A Visit from St. Nicholas," and the dig nified Hebrew and Greek scholar recognized his own frivolous composi tion, although it was unsigned. Greatly disturbed, Dr. Moore learned that his own children had given a copy of the poem to a visitor from New York, gome months before. The editor of the Troy Sentinel was deluged with requests for the author's name, and permission to reprint the poem, and without consulting the doc tor, his name was furnished. Promptly the poem appeared in other publica tions, and within a short time the name of Dr. Clement Clark Moore was fam ous ? not for his brilliant scholarly work in the field of ancient languages, as he would have wished, but for a hap py, joyous little poem about St. Nick, which he had written for his own chil dren, and had never intended for any outside eyes to see. In the years to fol low,' it became a Christmas classic to gladden the hearts of children every where. ? Adapted from Marin Dugas Highway Lullaby . . . Are you "going home" for Christ mas? Perhaps you aren't traveling far but you probably will be traveling some where to visit friends or relatives. And everybody who takes to highways for the holidays shares the responsibility of keeping the highways safe. With the nation's vast highway building program under way, the old familiar roads are giving way to new highways. Expressways make travel easier ? and they also make it more hazardous. They are prime inducers of "highway hynosis". Driving becomes so automatic, you are lulled into a false sense of calm. Boredom, inattention and dulled re flexes soon follow. From an article, Dreaming Up a Nightmare, from the AIM magazine come these tips for safe driving on ex pressways : 1. At the first sign of blurred vision or heavy eyelids, stop your car and rest. You've just been introduced to the highway hypnotist 2. Change your speed, body posi tion and line of vision frequently. Otherwise your reflexes and judgment can be dulled by the monotony of road sights and car sounds. 3. Make a habit of moving the head and eyes frequently. Don't focus sharp ly on any object unless necessary. 4. Back seat driving by passengers helps the driver to stay awake. Passen gers should stay awake to help keep the driver alert. 5. Instead of eating a big meal just before or during a long trip, stop fre quently and eat small amounts. 6. Try not to drive long distances at night because the danger of hypnosis is much greater. Keep instrument panel lights low to reduce hynotic glare. 7. Start a trip well-rested. Fatigue deteriorates your entire driving ability. 8. Wear loose-fitting clothes and keep fresh air circulating in the car. 9. Don't follow the same car too Ion#. If you find yuorself staring or your eyes begin to glaze, pull off the pavement. 10. If your right foot goes to sleep, stop off the pavement and remove your shoe. Vibration from the gas pedal will wake your foot up. 11. Try to avoid sun glare. Prolong ed exposure to glare is a major factor in eyestrain fatigue. 12. Keep thinking of emergency sit uations, such as gauging a safe stop ping distance ahead. Monotony is the age-old tool of the hypnotist. Steer clear of it and you'll be entranced by ? but not in a trance from ? your expressway driving. Lions Decked Out On New York's famed Fifth Avenu#, the approach of Christmas is heralded when a garland is ceremoniously placed around the necks of the two marble lions guarding the entrance to the Public Library, a custom started in 1950. Each wreath uses enough Nova Sco tia balsam and hemlock in fashioning the lions' ruffs over the steel frames, which are nine feet in diameter, to make a hundred home decorations. Circlets of white bulbs set in the greens provide illumination after dark, and flaring red bows lend elegance, as the Library Lions look down beneficently on hurrying gift shoppers. ? Sunshine Magazine The pioneers would have shed big tears and thrown away their axes, if in a dream they'd caught a gleam of what we pay in taxes! ? Carl Helm Carteret County News-Times WINNER Or NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARDS A Merger at The Beaufort Nowa (Eft. 1*15) and Tlie Twin City Timet (Eat 1IM) PubUahed Tueadaya aad Fridaya by the Carteret Publiahiag Company, Inc. SM ArendeD St, Motehead City, N. C. LOCKWOOD PHILLIPS - PUBLISHER KLEANORE DEAR PHILLIPS - ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER ROTH L. PEELING - EDITOR ?all Ratea: to Carteret County and adfeUac eountlee, *00 one year, ttJO alz I1.2S one month; elsewhere >7.00 o? year, M ? alx months, $uo one Member ot Associated Preea ? N. C. Preaa Asaodstte National Editorial AaaocUttoa - Audit Bureau oi Circulations exclusively to nae for republication of local aa well aa all AP newi dlapitcho> CKy, N. C? Under A at oi Much t, Wt IF HE WOULD JUST KEEP WEARING IT THegtrr Ruth Pealing Keys Cause Much Trouble! Stamey Davis, our faithful wea ther observer, has a story to tell ? if he'll tell it. He and Mrs. Davis Jr. took his grandson, Ethan Da vis, to Atlantic Tuesday, Dee. 16, to catch the boat to the Coast Guard station at Ocracokc, where he it stationed. Ethan drove to Atlantic, fare wells were said? and you guessed it. Ethan boarded the boat and sailed off with the keys to the car in his pocket. Some kind fellows at Atlantic did something with wires to the ignition which got the car going and after a few shoves, the Davis'* were headed back to Morehcad City! W. C. Carlton has his key prob lems too. Th? other day he was driving along Arendell Street. Somebody kept tooting it him from behind. They finally got his attention and informed him that a bunch of keys were swinging back and forth in the lock on his trunk. "And you know," Bill sayi, "I was looking everywhere for those keys!" Robert Seamon was in the same kind of trouble several weeks ago. He lost a bunch of valuable keya. He kept thinking they'd turn up, but they didn't Finally, in des peration, he decided to run a "lost" ad in the paper. Meanwhile, Ted Garner had found the keys in front of the Sani tary Fish Market and Restaurant where Robert has been working since Tony Seamon Jr., his ne phew, is in the Army. But Ted thought somebody would come ask for them, so he just left them in the restaurant. Ted was reading the paper at home, saw the lost ad, jumped up and called Robert and told him his keys were at the restaurant. Robert was some kind of happy. He laid he never thought to men tion at the restaurant that he had lost the keys ... it took just a small ad in the paper to get keys and owner togcthar again. Dare County's Aycock Brown, famed former Beaufort News edi tor, usually has three cameras slung around his neck. Triple in surance against never missing a shot. Aycock helped engineer the splendid ceremony at the Wright Memorial Wednesday. The cere mony commemorated the SSth an niversary of powered flight. And to S/Sgt. Jack Baird at Cherry Point public information office goes the credit for the ter rific idea ot having an honor guard Captain Henry Sou'easter 'Til the season to be jolly Fa la la la la la la la la! The first mate says I can't sing worth * darn, but I can't resist the Christmas carols. The way I sing sounds pretty good to me, so I'm ]ust going to keep on. Al a matter of fact, the way I sing is probably the best? everybody else sounds out of tune. I guess it's the same old story, you think everybody else is out of step. They're still talking about J. P. Harris and his horses that were in the Christmas parades. I guess it will be a horsey Christmas. I hear June Teich s horse is getting a new bridle. I'll bet he didn't ask for that! Here's something slightly off the Christmas beat: Three old ladies in a mental home were sitting on the porch talking together. Finally, one ex claimcd, "I wish i big strapping he-man would come along and make love to us." One of the other ladies leaned over to the third and whiapered, "Poor Gertie, she won't be with us long; she's beginning to talk sense." Well, here it is? almost time to hang up our stockings. You know, men always come out the little tod of the horn on this stocking deal. The women have nice great big long stockings and all we. got arc those little short ones that won't hold a thing. I'd have to hang up four of my stockings to equal one of th? first mate's. But she won't let me do it, says it's not fair. One stocking a piece, she says. Women. Oh well, It wouldn't be Merry Christmas without 'em. Hope yours is gay and bright (both your wife and Chriatmas). IS TSE GOOD OLD BSTS THIRTY YEARS AGO Morehead City school had re opened. Grammar grades were meeting in the school annex and in Sunday school rooms, and high school students were using the old Beaufort school building on court house square. Beaufort school elosed early for the Christmas holidays because of a flu epidemic. Duncan and Willis were giving away chances on a $50 kitchen cabinet with every $2 purchase. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO The Confederate veterans and widows of veterans had received their pension checks from the state treasury. In all, IS checks were sent in the county. The Beaufort Furniture Co. wis advertising floor lamps for tZ.M, three-piece bedroom suit* for $39.50 and bridge tablei for $1. Taylor O'Bryan and Borden Mace rod* their bicycles to Smyrna and returned home within the rec ord time of two hours. TEN YEARS AGO Morehead Garment Company was closing (or a week so the em ployees might have their annual week's vacation. The National Geographic mag azine photographer left after spending the past nine days here taking pictures of the menhaden fleet, fishing and the processing of fish. The county donated six tons of food to Europeans in the recent Christian Rural Overseas program. FIVB YEARS AGO Graham's Chapel at Newport burned. Members o I the Core Creek Methodist Church were presenting the nativity scene in the church yard. George W. Ball of Hariowe was elected president of the Carteret Craven Electric Membership Corp. of Marines there from Cherry I'oint? all with the last name of Wright, an added tribute to the brothers, Orville and Wilbur, who gave man wings. While Carteret had some snow, it was nothing like the tons that fell upstate. Even Cherry Point golfers were migrating here to keep in trim on the Morchcad City golf course. All they had to do was drive a short 20 minutes to get from there to the "Florida of North Carolina": Carteret Caunty. The killdeer are with us again? those beautiful large birds, white and tan with the two black bands around their necks. Since we don't tec them the year-round, I have come to the conclusion they arc on their annual migration to South Amarica. The dogs in my neighborhood love to chase them. The killdeer seem to have great faith In their ability to outfly anything. If they're in the street and a car comes be hind them, thay fly straight ahead, hoping apparently to outdistance the car, rather than meve off to the lawns at the side of the street. They have a shrill penetrating cry which is supposed to sound lik? "Killdeer . . . killdeer!" but it just sounds like a screech to me. And they don't lat up at night. Fre quently In the cold, still dark, they'll start calling. On a short ride upstate recently, the sides of the roads where bull dozers had scraped back the snow, were full of birds. The small strip of exposed earth beside tha hard surface wai the only place they had to forage for food. And many a .wheel whacked a sparrow that delayed take-off time because he was busy looking for a stray seed. If you read the lime capsule let ter from Mayor George Dill to the mayor of Morehead City of 3006, you noticed that Mayor Dill re quested the mayor of SO years hence to have the band play The Stars and Stripes Forever. "What do you want them to play that for?" I asked the mayor. "BECAUSE I LIKE IT!" he roared. And what better reason could there be? Stamp News By 8TD KS0NI8B A front view of tht Hermitage, home of Andrew Jackson, seventh President of the United States, will be featured on the 4V4 cent postage addition to the regular se ries. The new green colored stamp will be released March 16, 195#, at Hermitage, Tenn. Collectors desiring first day can cellations of this stamp may send their addressed envelopes to the Postmaster, Hermitage, Tenn., to gether with remittance covering the cost of the stamps to be af fixed. The outside envelope to the Postmaster should be endorsed "First Day Covers Cent Stamp." Austria's 1S51 "Postage Day" stamp is a 40 schilling plus SO groscheii adhesive depicting the new post office of the Tyrolean resort town of Kitzbuehel. The 21st anniversary of the Con stitution of Ireland will be com memorated on a 3 pence and a 5 pence stamp scheduled for issu ance on Dec. 29. The design features s young wo man seated (symbolizing Eire) with her right hand on a harp and the first words in Gaelic of the Preamble to the Constitution. Also shown is a lectern which iacor .porate* the arms of the four pro vinces of Ireland. louhf Splvfy Words of Inspiration WHAT CHRISTMAS MEANS TO ME Recently I tiked several of the children In our schools (moat at them In eighth grade) to write me a short article on the above inbject. I am sorry that apace does not permit us to print all of their lettera. Tha following will give you an idea about bow the children In general really feel about Christmas. . . . God sent His Son to the world to save lost souls, so that they would learn more about Him . . . Christmas is also a time to help a person in need. ? Dorothy Penny Christmas is an exciting time in the year. During this season most people are thinking of nothing but getting presents snd other good things of the season. Like most people I do not think much of the meaning that really goes with the Christmas season. I don't always think of it as Christ's birthday, but I think thst all of us would be happier aid the world would better if we thought of Chrlstmaa as we really ahould. ? Earl Jones . . . Christmas is a time for thankfulness, love, exchanging of gifts and cards and a time of wishing that I could give more to those whs arc really in need. ? Harriet Whitehurst . . . Today Christmss hss become commercislizcd. Merchants make more money than at any time of the year. This too is line, but do you know why we give gifts at Christmss? It all dates back to the Birth of Christ and the three Wise Men bringing their gifts to the infant Jesus. Do you think of them when you exchange gifts? I am guilty of not understanding the true meaning of Christmas my self, but I hope this paper will enable me and others to remember the actual meaning of our greatest holiday, Christmas. ? Doris Young ... On Christmas morning, our family wakes up early to find under the Christmss tree our gifts which Santa Claus left for us. Later on we sit down to a delioious turkey dinner with all thi trimmings. This is the festive side of Christmss, but we should not forget thst it is tha birthday of Jesus. ? George Gibbs . . . Some fun I get out of Christmas is baking Christmas cookies and cooking candy, gathering holly, pine cones and mistletoe to decorate our house, trimming the tree, and sending Christmas cards. Of course, not to be ignored is the fact of getting out of school ? this year, for sixteen and a half days. All of these things make Christmas more joy ful. Truly Christmas is a great and wonderful holiday for all. Let us never forget the real meaning of Christmas, the birth of Jesus ... As we read the Christmas Story and sing carols, let us renew our spirit of Christmas. Let us give our gifts as the Wise Men, and as God gave His Son, through love. ? Mary June Merrill . . . God gave to the world a gift of love, His Son, who later died to save the world. So on Christmas this year remember to stop and think of the true meaning of it, remembering the greatest gift evar given to anyone ? Jesus ? a gift of love. ? Anne Clemmons To some people, Christmas means presents, fun, and good food. To me Christmas means so much more than this. The spirit of Christmas- is peace. The Joy al Christmas Is God's Son, the beauty of Christmas is tha Virgin Mary. The promise of Christmas is life everlasting. ? Brenda Dcwitt Christmas to me is a time of love and joy ... I feel very joyfnl be cause now I am able to run and play like other boys. For nine years when Christmas came ... 1 couldn't enjoy my toya because I was too tired to play with them ... I had a bad heart and could not run or get excited. Thanks to the same God who gave us the Christmas Babe, I am Able to play without getting tired. Than, s, too, to the nurses, doctors and my parents who made it possible for me to go to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore In 1956 and have an operation which helped ae breathe better aid made me well. ? Leak Johason III Comment . . . J. folium What His Mother 8*14 Wc know little about the birth of Jesus. Even what we translate as "stable" was probably no more than a barren, shallow cave serv ing to shelter the shepards' flocks from severe storms. Yet this lack of comfort is ignored in the Bible, that book of all books and best seller of all times. The magnifi cence of the event, the announce ment by angels, completely over shadow the details. Almighty God, in His infinite wisdom, had finally answered the fervent prayers of faithful Jews for their Messiah. He had made one woman pure enough to be His mother, aurely the greatest honor that has ever been given a mortal. And she, in responding to the greetings and inspired praise of her cousin Elizabeth, gave forth a song which is also a prophecy. This is what she said of the Gift God had given her to give the world, in the poetry of the King James version: My >oul doth magnify the I.orrf And my spirit hath rejoiced la God ny Saviour. For he hath regarded the low ea tate of hia handmaiden : for, behold, from henceforth all ge? erationa ahall call rae Meaaed. For he that ia mighty hath dona to me great thinga; and holy ia his name. And his mercy la on them that fear him from generation to generation. It* hath ahewed strength with his arm; ha hath acattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. He hath put down the mighty from their aeata, and exalted them of low degree. He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich h? hath aent empty away. He hath holpcn hla servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy; As be spake to our fathcra, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever. ?Luke 1:46-35 This is the Law By ROBERT E. LEE F*r the NX. Bar Association LOTTERIES Whit Is a lottery? A lottery Is any scheme for the distribution of prizes, by lot or chant*, by which one pays money or something else of value, and obtains a token which entitles him to receive a larger or smaller value, or nothing, depending on chance. The courts refuse to give a pre cise definition of lottery, because no sooner is a lottery defined, and the definition applied to a given atate of facts, than some legal mind is at work to evolve a scheme of evasion. There are three essential ele ments of a lottery: the offering of a prize, the awarding of the prize by chance, and the giving of aomething of value for the op portunity to win the prize. Are lotteries Illegal? Yet. It is a criminal offense for any person to carry on or promote a lottery. Its name, style, or title is immaterial. It Is alao a crime for any person to play a game of chance at which any money, property or other thing of value la bet. The paying of a price for the privilege of winning something of greater value by chance by means of a slot machine, a raffle, the spinning of a wheel of chance, cake walk or the playing of the gam* of "bingo" and slmllsr games of chance are generally classified ai lotteries and a violation of the law. On* who pays for the operation of a machine far amusement only, no prizes being offered, is not par ticipating in a lottery. Is o ae who pays to participate In a "turkey shoot" violating the law? No. This has been said to be a game involving skill and not chance. Are schemes Involving chain let ter* or ether fens* of mathemati cal progressions latteries? Although there are no North Carolina Supreme Court cases, ia the opinion of the writer they would be. The fact that the United States postal system ia not used ia immaterial. Similar schemes have in several states been held to he lotteries. Is It a violation of the law far a lady giving a bridge party la offer a prise far the meet saccess ful player at cards? Neither the hostess nor he* guest* are violating the law if they pay nothing for the privilege of playing and hat nothing. They loaa nothing if unsuccessful and pay nothing for the chance of winning. One may decide who 1* to baiha doaee of hi* property by either a flip at a card or the toaa of a coin.
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