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Km Scoll and Passable Roads
A recent trip over the Nine-Foot road, from Newport to route
shows that before winter settles in,' the greater part of the
road will be a sand asphalt surface which will make the name
"Nine-Foot" a misnomer.
- Work has gppe on all summer on the Merrimon road, for
- years a source of complaint, but the number of roads that remain
' lb be put into passable condition make us realize what a big prom
ise Kerr Scott has set for himself to fulfill for Carteret county
just one, 99 others have their dirt roads too.
Scott made his promise stronger Thursday afternoon at the
venth district democratic rally
promise which all farmers and
-jiuiuug Clarity, mi' guvei nui -cievi ut-i'tuieu mai nc wuum nui
Wppoint any man to the Highway Commission, who doesn't see
eye to eye with me on getting roads that will permit school buses
? to operate any day in the year."
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Tune: 1948
Characters: The Women
1 Some one once remarked, "Think of all the turmoil in which
business executives of this country would be were it not for their
secretaries ..." ' 1
Women have found a place in the business world and it is
important to them not only as a means of earning a living, it is
important to their employers and the entire national business
structure.
Kaeh year the number of women who join employer ranks
increases, as well as the number of women who become doctors,
lawyers, or holders of positions in other professions.
(, Seventy per cent of the nation's private wealth is in the hands
,iqf women. Women own '48 per cent of the stock in United States
-Tailrouds, they own 40 per cent of the thirty million homes and
pend 68 per cent of all the money expended for consumer goods.
Women possess this large amount of the nation's wealth
partly because it has been bequeathed to them, in many instances
by husbands or other male relatives but the fact remains that
It is now in their possession and represents an impressive figure.
K. Frances Scott, president of the National Federation of
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Business and Professional Women's clubs, says "women have
lome of age in this country." and
fttical field."
It is on that phase that organized women are working now.
Theme of this week, proclaimed as National Business and Profes
sional Women's Week" is "Use Your Vote in '48." This is the
jnraai a wuinuii, ui any cuizeil, cull
Women's club objectives! however, are reaching farther than
Sights have been set on policy-making posts, in town, coun
ty, state, and national governments.
- Miss ScoM terms this yeratNmfcof ccUioj!Wpaking of
her sex, she said, "It wilt determine, whether we move on to
greater responsibility, or whether wVYfcJJrlt timq and so slip backwards."
The Good Old Days
THIKTYFIVE YEARS AGO
It was believed that the. Nor
folk and Western and' the Penn
sylvania railroads would build a
jfOroad line direct, to, Cape Look:
out from Cincinnati,
(the paper publisbe,! a special
Bice about, the, new legislative
! concerning compulsory alts d
ance.ai school, for all children, be
tween th. ages, of 8. and 1?- The
term would be 4 months.
tweni;y fiv.b years acq.
A committee composed . of Mayor
Thomas. J, Duncan, B, W. Hjil,
A. D. O'Bryan and C. R, WbeMlX
returned from Raleigh, with the
report that routq, Xpt youl bf
! brought into town, The, Raved
.road would be brought through
Beaufort by Live Oak, Ann and
Turner streets to, the county dock.
Tews torn mjssioneri let theceiv
tact for electric light posts, and
I fixtures to be put on Front Street.
TEN. YEARS. AGO
The WPA school, had 30 Children
.enrolled in its nursery and pre
school course.
Big mullet hauls were being
made. It was. reported, thai one
.Bullion- pounds, had been, ca.ugh.t
in the past ten days.
tFIVE YEAR8. AGOj
W. C. Carlton of the Man Pow
' r Commission in, Washintotu D.
C. and, Dr. H. F. Prytherch, coordi
nator of fisheries,, were- consider
ing the possibility of using Italian
war prisoners; ty, halfr solve, the
labor problem, for the fishing in
dustry in Carteret county.
Miss. Helen. Heffner of Morgan
. tonand, Henry Ha tsell of Beau
La, and Miss Mary Bell Fulcber,
( Hoxboro, and David. Poole Claw
ion, of Beaufort, were married in
double ceremony in South Caro
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1948
in Columbus county court house,
school officials have heard with
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then adds. "exccDt in the do-
UU. puiIUCBliy vote.
Oct. 8 Mrs. Will Willis ipft
last week for a. ten days vacation,
She has gone to Florida with Mrs.
WanUa Gillikln whq has n son
there. We all wish them a fine
trip.
A very large crowd witnessed
the ball, game Saturday ancfc San
day at Smyrna. It was a fine g-aa
of Dscball.
MV Thomas, Wade spent the
weekend home with, his, parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Wade
Mrs, Caroline Piner is sick, She
has beeif right, feeble for quite a
while,
Mp. and Mrs. Eunice Gillki and
their daughter and son of Beau
fort visited Mrs. Lydia Wude Sun
day afternoon.
Mr. Ion Willis is on the sick hU.
We all wish him to set better soon.
Mrs. Leon Piner and Mrs. George
Piner spent a- short time in Beau
fart Friday afternoon,
Mrs. Johnnie Wada ia sick. The
doctor visited hen Sunday night,
had an attack of gall bladder
trouble. She ia soma better, at, this
writing. ,
Mr. and Mrs. Hiury Parkins, of
Beaufort, visited Mrs. James. W.
Wade Sunday afternoon.
Irish Elk Skeleton, ljound
SEIiEAST,, Northern Irelani-(AP)-
Th Bractly preserved
skeleton of an ancient Irish elk
was found "ai. Churchtown, Cork
County, bv river drainage wprkers.
Expqrta said It, was, aj. least 3,000
years old. The. alk's wlexs mea
sured, U feet, from- point to point,
and the combined, weight, of ant
lers and; skull was 244, poui)dg
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Roundup
By Eala Nixon Greenwood
FEELING BETTER With the
election only about three weeks
distant, North Carolina Democrats
at least the Raleigh variety are
feeling much better than during
those hct, humid days of August.
Plagued by the Dixiecrats on one
hand, the Progressives on the
other, an uYining head-oa into a.
Whole swarm, of Republicans, the
sons of Jefferson, Jackson, Wilson,
and Roosevelt have been forced to
roll up their sleeves and take to
the field. They have done it, rov
ing the Republican-infested moun
tains like squirrel hunters out for
the bag limit.
After a busy week, a few of
these foragers slipped into a rela
tively calm Raleigh last Saturday
for a peaceful weekend of rest,
clean, clothing, and general stock
taking of the Democratic situation,
They, found it to, their liking,
Fr" one thing, the c,ro,w.ds; at the,
rallies had been good. For an
other, "that fellow Harry Truman
is getting the Republicans told."
vrnereas six weoics age many a
leading Democrat in this State ori
vately thought that Dewey might
carry North Carolina and swine, at
least two GOP Congressmen with
him, consensus this, oast weekend
seemed to be that the Old North
State Is safe for democracy with
a capital "D" for the next four
years.
OIL WE&LS Although, the
rrollnTexas game 1 a thine of
history, n,ow. it ia still, be.in?.
cussed where two or more Carolina
men are gathered, together. And
on,, that day in which the meeting
of those two adversaries of the
Lone Star and the Tar Heel did
occur, great planes did appear
from out of the Southwest bearing
strange men under cowboy hats
and on high-heeled 'boots. Char
tered planes, they were, son, and
the Municipal Airport of, Raleigh
waa crowded with. them. They
wanted to hetr any amount on
that Texas team.
. "Just think," s?id one Carolina
alumnus to another last week, "I
could probably own an oil well
now if I had just had more nerve,"
NOTES Anv time you want to
Jiave sn informal'' conference with
the associate justices of the State
Supreme Court, lust arrange to get
vntir noon meal at the S & W
(Stand k Wait) Cafeteria here
around. 1 o'clock, Monday through
Friday . . ; Five of them descends
ed. on a little stenographer sitting
alone at a tabic last week. She
djdn't know whovthey were, chat
ted along gaily over a leisurely
lunch and no doubt imparted some
younger generation wisdom to the
legal brains. . . . .
. . . Tha latest edition, of- the
Gallup Poll gives Truman. 4i per
cent of North Carolina's vote, with,
33, per. cent, f Dewey, 13. pet
cant for, Thurmond, one per ' cent
for, Wallace, and nine per! cent "da
opinion'. ....
. . . . President Truman's visit
to- N, C. weak after next is ex
pected to pull the percentage-up to
batter than 59. . . . while. Governor
Dewey does not contemplate mak
ing an appearance in this State, ;
. . One of Gregg Cherry's prin
cjnalj clients; whan h wturea to
private, law practice in Gastonia
in January will . be Queen City
KEEPS" ROLLtriQ ALONG
Coach Co. of Charlotte. . . . Wood
row Teague, Thomasville native,
Wake Forest alumnus, and a Lt,
Commander during World War II;
is J. M. Brotighton's law partner
here and should inherit many of
the new Senator's clients next
year . . .
... The John Langs of Wash
ington, D. C. (he's Congressman
Dean's Good Man Friday and- she's
tte , former Katherine. Gibson-, of
Gibson) are the proud parents, of
an eight.nound boy: John, Jr. . . .
. . . Fred Dixon, State College
alumnus, former sports publicist
for that school, a State and local;
Jaycee leader for years, and for
some , time now head of the Atlan
tic Life Insurance Co. in N, C..
still does some sports publicity
for the News and Observer (Ra-1
leigh daily) . . . and is still, a civic
and church leader . . . and the
slogan he uses for his printed, and
vocal sales talk is: "Honestly, it's,
the best, policy" . . .
SCHOOL REPORT Gov. R,
Gregg Cherry says the. majority,
and minority reports of. the State
Fducation Commission wiI. not be
released to the press until "about
the middle of the month." Mean
time, tasty morsels .from- this
bountiful table. ... the majority
report alone runs over 500 pages
. . are already falling here, and
there. There is a move on foot
now to have the whole shebang put
in a book . . . a,a cost of appro xj
matelv $12,000. Some, of, the.
perts . . . most of. then educational
Phd's from that great leader in
education, the State of Florida,
were paid, $50) per day for, their
contributions to the survey, j
GAL TWO RALEIGH ROUNDUP
BACK 20 YEARS If the major
ity report is; adopted . . . as' it
might well be . . . N. C. schools
will, in great, measure, be operated
as they were in 1928, when,; the
State Equalization Board was the
czar of education in Tarheelia, As
it is now, the State looks after, cur
rent expenses ef all' the- schools
. . . that is, teachers' salaries and
general operating expenses . . .
while the counties build and main
tain buildings, etc. - Under the ma
jority report, the . whole thing
would be lumped together: capital
Ort9 Test Wfcm(r4o,
NO THOAT IMITATION
In a recent mt. Quad red of men and.
wonea.alt acraaa tha cottntty unoked
Camelt and only Camels an areraff
of on to two packages a day -for 30
contecutive dart. Baca, week
tselr iaaa war csamiatd
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by Doced tftroas sneciatr
iiti-a total, of 2470
examination-and these
doctors found aot one
ingle cat ef throat
irritation doc a amok
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.outlay, debt service, maintenance.
and current expenses.
This seems the IMPORTANT
POINT: The majority report . . if
news morsels are correct (and this
column has all confidence that
they are) ... has the State paying
only 50 per cent of the total edu
cation costs in some counties, but
as much as 90. per cent in others
(Dare, Onslow, Yadkin, for in
stance). The percentage which
any county would have to set, up
for school buildings, teachers sal
aries, etc., would be determined
by a State "ability-to-pay" com
mittee. This group would study
0"Mfnrd's wealth, total income,
industries, etc,,, and then would
decide, for example, that Guilford
should be responsible for one
half its education costs, the re
maining half coming from the 1
State.
But many of the less weal-
thy qounties would get out for only
10 per cent of the total costs for'
education. Guilford, Alamance.
Forsyth, Wake, Durham, Mecklen
burg, and counties of, this type,
wouldin all probability find it nec
essary to shoot their tax rates a
way up yonder, in order to match
the State funds. It is safe to say
hat virtually ALL counties would
have to raise additional revenue,
whether they be- large or small.
But you can just hear these large
counties hollering; "Who in thun.
der said we were able to dovthis?''
Delegations would come pouring
into Raleigh from all over the
State. The Equalization Board
arguments, bickerings, and near-fist-fight
would reoccur, And
what if the counties could not col
lect taxes when due (this dqes
happen, you. know)? Well, it
wouid aeem that teachers' salaries
could, not be paid when due.
Now, the majority report mem
bers, led by John Umstead, have
a great deal on their side, which
will come later, but the minority
group, generally speaking, wants
the educational setup, to remain
as it is, with the State's obligations
and responsibilities clear-cut and
those of the, counties likewise . .
with the teaebers getting their
money when their. 20 teaching
days are up- . . . and sometimes,
as during the. Christmas season,
before they are up . . .
. Meantime, poor, old, Gov. B, 0,
Cherry must wade through, those
pages, Many Plug, of tobacco
will have turned info."ambeer." be
fore he- reached, the final sentence.
However, the. battle will not be
settled until, the qet Legislature
meets . . . and meets.
$2Qv,0O(h-rDon't enw, i mP
who must toil, in the House or Sen
ate during the next term, of, the
General, Assembly, Nobody knows
what to. expect .. . . so everybody
ia getting ready for anything. One
gentleman, of note who , has served
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t The o.nT officers elected arc
- 11 . '.. ' "i Thomaa Davis, vice-president; Bil
J WCa V Zmnl picture.t0ii ly Downum, secretary; Ivy Ma-
class eating in the lunch room
Tuesday. Our senior privileges
were granted and one wa that all
seniors could jump in line and not
have to wait like the underclass
men. Sq therefore the majority of
the class, used their privilege.
We really are proud of these
privileges and just to illustrate
how' proud, there- were a few of
us who nearly froze to death yes
terday. We were sitting out oh
the front steps, or the veranda, as
Miss Dunchan insists upon calling
it, and it wfts so cold we were all
blue and stiff, but do you think
we went inside. No indeed. We're
all too thrilled to refuse the
chance.
Consequently the senior class
room sounds like a cough-sniff bri
gade. Well finally we have accomplish
ed something toward onr annual.
Thursday morning we elected the
statf and we're all sure that theyj
mm uu mini uesi 1:1 puuiisning in.
yearbook. The staff consists of
the following: Editor in chief,
Dowd Davis; Assistant Editor; Do
rothy Taylor; Associate Editors,
Nina Bell, Mary Fond Mason, and
Rosemary Bessent; Literary Edi
tor, Gerry Dickinson; Business
Manager, Clifton Lynch; Assistant
Business Manager, Milton Laugh
ton; Art Editor, Laura Davis; As
sistant Art Editor, Margaret Ann
Windley; Faculty Advisors, Miss
Duncan and Miss Chadwick.
The Student Government in
Beaufort High School is lining up
to the high standard which it pos
sesses. Mary Fond Mason and Co
ion Huyes Wilson were chosen to
represent the senior class in the
council.
Saturday night at he canteen
the Senior Follies was a howling
success. Every boy in town is just
dying to date any one of those
lovely chorus girls.
The first meeting of the Beau
fort High School sophomore rl;ss
was held October 6 in the school
auditorium durin? activity period.
Billy Downum, president of the
freshman class lai year was in
charge of the meeting until the
new president was elected. The
several terms in this august body,
and who has kept in close touch
with each session for the past 20
years, predicted last week that ap
proximately $200,000 in lobbying
fees will be paid out in January.
February, March. April by various
groups interested in preventing or
passing some piece of legislation
Although the Scott-Johnson bat-
tie is over, the spirit behind this
i,war.Yi11 be found hovering like a
meadow fog over each meeting of
the 1949 General Assembly.
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"Whooo.sh!" Lily? fire-breathing dra
gon this big Tide Water gas plant blasts
its flames against, the, evening sky. Day
and: nighf this dragon,, belches forth as.
ofienv as accessary to- keep you supplied
with. gpod gas. service. v
Actually not many .o Tide Water'4 gasx
and electric operations- offer such, fiery
The Tide Water folks, are you neighbors. Every one oCtherq i. a good
neighbor and a good citizen, taking, part ir community activities, sharing
community burdens and, paying their share, of taxes. What's morethejr.,
bring you. Tide, Water's good neighborly, sEiCS,ajcois below the aver
age fpr all, ckjes on the Atlantic .coast
TIDE W fV
W'th tflese fine energetic Mead
era we are hoping to make this
class one to bo remembered. Class
Reporter Peggy Piver.
The freshman class of the Beau
fort High school . held its first
meeting in the high school audi
torium, October 5.
' We elected, the following class
officers, Shiela Smith, president;
Gary Copeland, vice-president;
Nancy Russell, secretary; and Do
ritha Gillikin, treasurer.
The class unanimously voted to
accept 50 cents as dues for the
entire school year.
Mrs. Lionel Salter and Mrs.' Da
vid Beveridge are the class advi
sors. In Mrs. Beveridge's class, which
are all girls, there are 35.. ' In
Mrs. Salter's class there are 23
boys and 13 girls,, totaling 71
freshman in all. Secretary Nancy
Russell.
From Beaufort High School
Smile a While
A university student who had
come under the spell of the mod
ern impulse instruction, came to
the examination question, "What
causes a depression?"
He wrote, "God knows! I don't!
Merry Christmas!"
When the examination paper
came back, he found the profes
sor's notation, "God gets 100, you
get zero. Happy New Year!"
Sunshine Magazine
In the Middle Ages, hunting and
fishing rights on his holdings were
universully reserved for the lord
of the manor.
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but it only reminds "dear John" of a gushing water
pipe ruining his home! No need to worry yourself sick
about such accidents when you can have complete pro
tection for your home, family and possessions. And
that's what you get when you take out Insurance with
us!
DIAL
JOHN L.
INSURANCE A
?3 Arendell Street" 1 u; . r!i
linn, 1 1. 11 i... .1 , iuii iw hjjjiijiiu lil. Pi,j m
drama. But dramatic or not, every Tide
Water, activity is aimed co give you ihe
bess possible service at, the lpwest possi
ble co An Tide' Water folks all 360
of them are constantly , alert to see that
your gas, and, electric service is maintain
ed, even in thf (ace. of. stormSv shortages
and unexpected' demands. . 1.
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1948
SAVE Till? SOU
By Hoy E. Beck -
Sqil, Conservationist,
Neat. Campeui of, Beaufort, has
just completed, drilling a. six inch
well 011 his farm to be used for
irrigation next spring. Mr. Cam
pen plans to irrigate about 40 acres
of crops by pumping water into
the drainage ditches, Mr. Cam
"en is cooperating with the Lower
Neuse Soil Conservation District
thmueh which Neal received tech
nical assistance in planning his ir
rigation system.
Sam Pollard has seeded most of
his low swamp land along the Deep
Creek Canal to pastures this fall
Mr. Pollard seeded ladino clover
and KY-31 fescue for permanent,
pasture and two winter pastures,
one of oats and rape, and one oi
crimson clover and rescue grass
Jack Bell is well pleased with
the stand of ladino clover fiscue
grass he obtained on hardpan soil
on his farm.
Leo Garner has seeded an acre
of sweet clover for grazing on san
dy land near Bogue Sound. Mr.
Garner expects to have good graz
ing for two or three summers from
the sweet clover.
Bernice A. Mann of Wildwood
has seeded permanent and winter
pastures on low lying sandy land
on his farm. Mr. Mann decided
that growing pasture ' grasses on
this land was the best use he
could make of it when working
out a complete soil conservation
farm plan in cooperation with the
Lower Neuse Soil Conservation
District.
ISN'T IT ROMANTIC,
JOHN? IT REMINDS
ME OF OUR HONEY
MOON AT NIAGARA
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