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PAGE TWO CARTERET COUNTY NEWS TIMES, MQ&EHEAD CITY AND BEAU FORT, N". C. V v sr.ii urn r. illlt Wlfc Ql'n : TUESDAY, MARCH 22,;i 1949 i m it ii in I I 'Hi in ii ii i n ii ii Ccricrd Counly Ilevs-Tinos . A Merger Of the Beaufort News (est. 1912) & The Twin City Times (est. 1936) tDlTOftlAL PACE TUESDAY. MARCH 22. 1949 Wkert tall Pines Crow This is the season of the year when forest rangors and fire wardens expect fire. While farmers clear overgrown land by burning, flames have a habit of defiantly leaping beyond intended bounds. However, some of the fires that have occurred recently have been deliberately started with no intention or preparation to keep them under control. In one or two instances children have been responsible, but in most cases, adults, through willful neg ligence have caused scores of acres of timberland to be burned. The lumbering industry in our county is a major one. Tower ing pines are as good as money in the bank for farmer and woodlot owner. Sawmills provide employment for hundreds, yet we con tinue to take our stands of timber for granted. A sky, blackened with clouds of smoke, creates no undue concern on the part of the average citizen, yet every time an aere of timberland burns, each one of us is being robbed of dollars and cents whicTi one day would have been in our pockets. Two years ago the county board realized that our timber iands had to be protected. With financial help from large timber land owners in the county, Carteret became a part of the statewide forest protection program. Prior to 1947, when there was a forest fire, it "burned itself out" or if enough farmers in the area could be gotten together, attempts were made to stop it. As for proper machines to bring it under control or trained men necessary for such a job--there were none. Today, E. M. Foreman, Core Creek, heads our forest fire fighting department. Located in every section of the county are his assistants. All are doing an efficient job. Night and day they are on call, protecting not only forest land, but e:ich resident of the county. The question was asked the other day: "Does the farmer, under this program, get reimbursement for his fire-damaged timberland?" The answer is no. The interrogator retorted with "What good is the program then?" , The forest protection program, as set up by the state, is not a fire insurance company. It is not supported solely by indi vidual landowners. It is a service, offered by state and county governments, and supported by every taxpayer, to protect our natural resources, our property and homes from destruction by fire. It does not pay benefits any more than do the town fire departments of Beaufort. Morehead City or Newport. To prevent wanton, indiscriminate burning, the county fire warden asks that each person wishing to burn off land obtain a burning permit. This permit, required by law. is obtainable from the various district fire wardens throughout the county and at the sheriff's office, Beaufort. A permit costs nothing. It is a means of checking on spots where fires may occur and it impresses the farmer or timberland owner with the seriousness of the jb he is about to undertake. Persons deliberately setting forest fires can be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and they should be, for what more valuable heritage can we give our children than a land abundant with Mil niilctt ti A' scorched tree trunk ' from its sides, is a symbol of poverty, a portent of despair. A living tree Is a symbol of security, wealth, and a fruitful tomorrow. with charred' branches poking stiffly A Golden Year This is Carteret's golden year as far os basketball is concerned. In intra-county play Smyrna girls successfully defended their championship title in the Down-East tournament at Smyrna school, and Beaufort and Morehead City teams have brought fame to their alma maters by winning the Atlantic Christian college tourney and- the Grainger Invitational tournament respectively. So many trophies have come our way that if we got near a large enpugh magnei, we'd probably be yanked right off the face of the earth. Every tealh member deserves our happiest congratulations. If their scholastic achievement Is comparable to their performance on the court, we Indeed have champions to be proud of. Ulief t Editor What does the planning board of Beaufort think they are? In my opinion they are just a bunch of barber shop boys come here from Other towns and got together to take things in their own hands. Other good citizens, as well as my self, think the boys are trying to rule Over the tdwn commissioners who were put In office by Beau fort citizens .that voted for them. ft wilt cost the town of Beaufort one half million dollars or more to" nil sidewalks, sewer lines, wa ter pipes, and new trash trucks, not figiirlng labor. I think the tax payers have enough of their own Without grabbing a new settlement. I hope the barber shop boys rea lize what Hitler got when he tried to rule the world. Wake up, town commissioners, and see what's go ing en and be ready to meet there boys In April. G. W. Mason The total capital invested in the Ii. S. K4 industry totalled nearly Ii billion dollars in 1948. NOW, WILL THEY CZ USED 1 . " ' ' . V IT 'lilt f , p"8 I know a change ' :'j '"ft:::-:- J, X rs Sy. son nn,l h Sou 'Muster By Captain rlenry ' It has happened! Clark Gable doesn't have anything on me. I'm getting fan mail too. Some water front dope and I quot .from my mail: "The admiral found his skiff. The Coast Guard can rst next summer as the net was de stroyed in the lust fir." HERE and THERE With F. C. SALISBURY, Morehead City Smile a While Delayed Action He: "Miss Willing, I'm going to propose to you " She: "Really, this is so sudden." He: "That we have some ice cream " "She: "Oh, I shall be delight ed." He: "Some evening when the Weather gets warmer." Bird In the Band Is Worth As Much As One In Field LONGMONT, Colo. (AP) l.""M Dawson was walking along; a downtown street when something struck his hat. He made a quick grab for the hat, missed it, and felt his hand close around a struggling feather leg. The leg belonged to pheasant which had somehow been flushed from the doorway of a store across the street. No one was able to ex plain the bird's mysterious bus! ness in this city, but Dawson said later: "It cooked up just as nice as a country pheasant." I Providing that workmen iii,.ivc this weekend lo dismantle the or gan in the First Methodist chinch of Morehead City, the services held on last Sunday will be the last to be observed in this church that has stood for over three quartern of ii century as a symbol of relig ious service to the community. Erecte'd shortly after the close of the War of 'fil its portflns-huve never been closed. It has main tained a record of liberal support by its members (n both local and other church causes This old struc ture replaced a smaller church edifice which stood across the street from the old Arendall house. During the Wr) between the states the Union soldiers who invaded the city in 1862 tur.-ed the church into a bakery. When they vacated the city the buildiny was burned. airfield of the Marine Air Base at Cherry Point. Tor the hrsr i;me la the history of Iredell county, so far as has been ascertained, the Iredell Sup eijior court in session last week. Judge I.uther Hamilton of More head City presiding over this court for the first time, asked that the audience standing as the sheriff formally opened trie court, rem.iiti standing for pj.iyer- The prayer was lead by Re'". Noil I l(. Mc Geachy. The first marathon boat rare for utility stock lioat.s ever held on the Carolina coiist will be staged from New Bern to Morehead City, a dis- ' lance of 45 miles, 7y the F.nst Carolina Yacht club on july 17. The finish line w:;i be at the yacht basin in Morehead City. Three generations of fislie;l whh him And pulled in all the 7.ens that swim. father, ither family ditii hushnnr Admiral Ernest Davis had a very successful oystering trip 4he other Saturday, I hear. The last day of the oyster season to be exact. The motor on his boat konked out and his total take of oysters that day came from Davis Kish house. Most of these yowlinjf pietes of noise that I've been Hearing I ho c days are called "songs" by some of the folks I know. If I'm going to appreciate them, reckon I'll have to take several courses ,n the Core Sound -Conservatory of Music. Theii top flight profes sor in voice sounds mighty like a ifull- Every member of the Reaufort Loved Adrian and they loved no other. And many a day I've risen .while yet it was dark And scorning sleep, considered it a lark To fry the bacon, put the coffee on And meet the skipper on his pier at dawn ; And felt the true sportsman's tiirill of joy When we headed for the cape and Thistleroy. To sail with any other skipper will be strange And like the restless wave that breaks upon the shore, I'll mourn my own loss o'er and o'er. Lucy Parham Cooper. Henderson, N. C. March 14, 1949. basketball team who went to Wil son over the weekend was sporting a little gold basketball when he returned Saturday night, yep, the kind of gold basketballs that only champions wear. Reminds me of my younger days. I played basketball too, bat there's one game in particular I'll never forget. We had had an un defeated season and were playing the last of our scheduled games. The visiting team was hot that night and w were dolrig every thing but inflating the ball with helium to feeep up With 'em. - The score was ,13-32 m ', pip? favor and three minute to play. I got my hands on the bajl, shot, from the middle of, the floor, and from a beautiful, arc it dropped dead through the hoop. the WRONG hoop. I'll never know yet how came io aim for the wrong basket. This put the score to 34 83 in favor of the OTHER team,, with two minutes to go. The coach' should have yanked me out right then and there but he didn't. 1 don't believe it was until after the game was over that I actual ly realized what had happened. All I could think of was to get my hands on that ball again. The hands of the clock were getting closer to zero, our team had the ball, but one false moye and the other guys would freeze it, but solid. The gym was Jam-: med, every person there was on his feet, half blessing nie and half cussing me out. I'll never know how it hap pened, I was close to the sidelinest made what I was surewas a wild shot, and the next thing I knew, the final whistle blew and I was being thumped on the back, punch ed, pummeled and practically car ried back to the shower rooms We won, 35-34. Headlines in the paper the next morning, all the way across the top of the page read: "(ioat Turns to Hero in Last Sec onds of Gtfme:" That was me, young 'ufrt. This ' old ticker of mine does flip-flops now when I think of it. Young Julius Adair was a hero himself the other day. He was sanding the floors at his daddy's place, suddenly ' fire ftered up from the motor and Julius heati the flames out with his hand&d Got burned kind of bad. -)ty ' ti.ili Have you seen the new Fljw mouth yetf She's a honey. Halsey; says the fact that he has two jto show off instead 'of just one , ! "just pure luck," , w fjity Appliance Is goingitp mye into Pave .WetrilKs building nexffl to. the AP , ; rpaVeValkq, paf fifg the newspaper office on Craven-street. He recently bought fif building from-Bill, Hatsell.1 0yr town' going, to be all decked ou.J come summer. lay . I'm still lopking for some war,(fy wind, nothing quite so blustery, as, that sou'wester last week wn'i fur, .i Russian Teachers Returned To Take Exlra Work Too Mi hoi .MOSCOW (AP) The Ministry of EIUcation of the Rms,-, sian Republic has now decided Wt, alL School teachers who have npfc ha 4 pedagogical; education - must, take, special courses.- ,.,t . The courses given the teachtfrs vil not interrupt their teaching' and will be partly correspondence courses. .Special attention, It j'ls gtated by Tass, will be given to biology teaching. The decree prb-1 vided that teachers with iirtder l!V years work must take the specified courses while those with ovei1 ,1 fl ypurs of work . to their credit wou)d be expected to study by themselves to improve their quail ' fications. Nearly 23,000,000 customers were served by gas utilities In the United States at the end of 1948. ,' 1 " Services were then held in the school building until the stucture now going under the hands of a wrecking crew was built. The late Rev. Badges Arendall, a Methodist dist preacher, is said io have bee.1 the pastor of the sm'ill church opposite his home on nth street. A contract has been given by church to J. Luther Helms of Golds boro for the erection of the new church building at a cost of -130, 000. Du.ling the constuction of the building, church services will be held in the Sunday School building adjoining the present church- G. W. Phillips of Morehead City who for the past two years has been operating a whole sale and feed business on North 12th street, has filed a peti tion in voluntary bankruptcy In federal court. He gives his liabilities as $13,200.51, in cluding $11,659.39 in unse cured claims, and his assets a stock valued at $1,778, and $1,840.25 due him on open accounts. Prof. Thomas B. Hood, princi pal of the high school at Smyrna was the speaker on Saturday night at the first annual spring ban quet of the New r;ern City-Wide Youth Movement. His subject was "The Challenge of Youth" CABTEEET CC3NTY f3WSTC.XS Carteret County's Newspaper - A Mfcrgtr Of HIS BEADFORT NEWS (Eft. 1913) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (Eit.1938) - Published Tuesdays and Fridays By THE CARTERET PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC Lockwood Phillips PublUhers Eleanor Dear Phllllpa Ruth Leckey Peeling, Executive Editor 804 Arcndell 130 Craven Publishing Offices At v. treat, Beaufort, N. St., Morehead City N. C. C Mali rates- In Carteret, Craven, Paittllco, Hyde and Onslow Counties 15.00 Sne year; $3.00 Six months: S1.7S three months; Sl.oo one month. Outside K. above name counties $6.09 one year; $3.30 (lx months; $3.00 three raths? $1.00 on month. r 'k. ' : v 1 v ' Knriber Of ; Associated Press - Greater Weeklies N. C. Press Association ' Audit Bureau of Circulations .. , u.f. f. l.i . ! : , ....... Eatarea aa Second Claaa Matter at Morehead City, N. C. j ' , -. , under Act ot March J, 1879 , " Ul l&Zl3r&E! ta-MW thaj.the-aarg.st single sUsata of repubUcaUoa otherwise reserved; Frugal citizens of Crteit county invested during the month of February in savings bonds the sum of $37,260 in E bonds, $1,480 in F bonds and $100 in G bonds. Plans are being made throughout the nation for a Spring Savings Bonds campaign to begin May 18. Thirty years ago, Floyd Chadwick of Morehead City who was a member of the 113th Field Artillary and who was In service overseas, wired his parents that he had landed In Newport News Va- We take our hat off to the P.T. As of Carteret county after read ing the report of the Grand Jury 1.1 session last week. They made a survey of the schools of the county ty and finished their report with the statement "After, checking all the county schools we find that If it were not for the P.T.A. they would not be fit to go in." paving project in the world is the Uuder the direction of the State Park system the recreational ar ea at Fort Macon may be ready for the use by patrols during the early summer. During the war and since that time the buildings on th's area have been used by the government fit 1 as an officers club of the har bor defense unit stationed at Fort Macon during the war and later by officers of the Mari ie Air Base of Cherry Point. When the build ings are opened this season it will be the first time that the public at large has made use of this re creational area- The menhaden fishing boats, Dewey and King Fisher left on Friday for the spring fishing in the Gulf of Mexico. They will fish for the Wallace Fisheries out of Cam eron, La. Several other menhaden fishing boats now being repaired at the local ship yard will leave about the first of April for fishing in Florida waters. ,if The trawler Royal Flush work ing out of Morehead City for the Belhave.i Fish and Oyster com pany, captained by Stanley O'Neal, came in Sunday with a load. of fish estimated at 8,000 pounds, . This catch contained some of the largest croakers ever to have been caught in this section. Some of ,he fish measured nearly two feet, in length. ,j the THE SKIPPER The birds and the boat and buoyant sea,' r Sun in my face and the squid running free While across the inlet the white houses of Beaufort gleam, Like a little city in a dream. Ah 1 here it is that since ; hood dava ; k- . I've-' glne with the skipper4ml1 learned his ways, - ' . Laughed at his stories, listened to his good advice; a And many a "blue" I've hooked and landed nice And many a mackerel, that king of fish, And once a cero, that made a fine dish. i . But yesterday, in the .News and Observer, t read . , ; That Captain Adrian WflttsvWw dead, " . :.v'lS. ," j And for his wife Daisy ftft&jy ' my tears are shed. " " But for myself and mine, I'll fff " ' ' ' '" '- M .V'-4 ' J p-f ilk ' l; I..... --t . a - 1 l. i- irr- PRESIDENT RALPH C. PRICE EXCELLENT EARNINGS ON INVESTMENTS For the twelfth consecutive year Jefferson Stand ard maintained its leadership among all major lite insurance companies :n rate of interest earned on invested assets. HIGHEST RATE OF INTEREST PAID In 194$ 4 interest was paid on fends held in trust for policyholders and beneficiaries. Nnt Since organization of the company in 1907 hat Jefferson Standard paid lest than 4. STRONG FINANCIAL POSITION Assets increased $21,287,525 in 194$ now total $221,144,9)1. Surplus, capital, contingency 're serves total $26,200,000, an unusually high ratio of additional funds for protection of policyholder. For every $100 of liabilities there are $113.44 of assets. i YEAR OF RECORD ACHIEVEMENT (1) New sales largest in history $122,165,121. (2) Gain in insurance in force $73423,754. (3) Insurance in force total now $820,725,276. BENEFITS PAID $9,273,819 paid to policyholders and beneficiaries in 194$. Total payments Since organisation $176,985,153. ' EXPANSION PROGRAM V . . . A 194$ highlight ia Jefferson Standard's expansion was the opening of eight new branch offices: Albuquerque, Eaton Rouge, loise, Mobil, Ment fomeryy Cortland (Ore.), Seattle and St. Louis. JEFFERSON FAMILY PROVIDER A new policy plan for preferred risks was made available to the public in 1948 low cost pro tection tuned1 to high cost of living; needs. JEFFERSON STANDARD'S PRESIDENT reports on 42ryear Record of Service to tlie Public "The aim of the life insurance business is to provide financial security. This 1$ o service now given high public acceptance. In the Jefferson Standard at in all other well managed companies, we carry with us in our daily operation a keen sense of fiduciary responsibility. "The reports for the year tell the story pf ur worft. Tk $dfery f policyholders funds, the extension of service fo mr fields, the dereJopmeot of new policy contracts, the ever-all stability of Jefferson Standard should be a matfer of great satisfaction to our policyholders. s ... a i 42nJ nnucil i&tcttenimt DECIMtfIR ai , A$$m Cash IMHsrf tares AH OtW Stacks . . . J . . Usted eeeurtUek tt earried at narket, east, or eaU Driee. whichever Is krmet. $) M.M - .ll UAililTMfl ' '"' "'-. 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