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iesufort town commissioners met fhurt^aj pqrpiM. jtyapft p, in th* town hall f? fiwu the powtt^iy of *xfeodif>{ tf>e town limits. They agreed that at' their April meeting they would paM ? resolution recommending annexation of Piver's {aland. Inlet Inland, all property oa the south tide of the cause way between Beaufort and Newport river, and property on the borth side of the f?n$eway from Beaufort to Newport river, pPtytfjDf H* JMf**' Thjs feapjutjon yas passed ft fheir meeting ^Pfil 4. On tueaday, April 12, the legal notice on the proposed annexation ? Was published in THE NEWS-TIMES. 9' Ttyis u4dr thin#. Wh>ch, upfaftunately, has the pptan?ialitifs ?f starting a ifcogUpg war feftfeep Beaufort and i(?er??iefd City began over a month ago when a field representative for the North Carolina League of Municipalities came here and tug letted thpt ftefiftyrt fONE yl) the lan4 one and one -quarter miles beyond its present limits. This would hava included the area now in question. A bill to this effept, a atafwjard bill whiph giye? any gpipl cipality the right to carry out this zoning, was asked by Beaufort to be introduce^ ip the general assembly. H S. Gibbs, the county's representative ip the legltlature, fefused to do to, according to reports from Beaufort officials. It Wfs then that the town of Beaufort hoped to effect the zoning by taking in causeway territory and zoning it under the plan which soon will be draws up for the town as a whole. forehead pity cried "Thief!" Trie causeway citizens cried. "Leave us alpne!" And Beaufort suddenly realized it had a lion by the tail Monday night a wee|c ago, April 18, causeway and island residents met at the Bainbow inn on the causeway. They were chagrined because Beaufort did not approach them with thp annexation proposal before adopting the resolution. They de cided to circulate a petition demanding a referrendum. Their objections against being taken into Beaufort were that tbeif tax rate would be doupledt $3.60 (county $1.80 and Beaufort $1.80) instead of only $1.80 as at presept. They claimed that without water mains Beaufort's fire-fighting equipment would do them no good. (Each cauaeway resident and ialand dweller uses water from wells). JJjfy predict that if they ^pcopie a p?rt pf Beaufort they wjll not be* given a sewage dis posal system nor will their garbage be collected ". . . because Beaufort doesn't collect its garbage in town pow." (forehead City's reaction was this: Morehead City money, blood and sweat had been spent in promoting the port and having the ports bill passed, then Beaufort tries to cash in on Ifcpir efforts by taking the 'and east of Newport fiver which has been designated as area for expansion. At the second Monday night meeting, April 25, at the Rain bow ion. causeway residents were presented with a petition by a resident ?< Morehead City who owns property in the area up^er dispute.' This petition asks that the whole area originally designated by Beaufort, with the exception pf the railroad and the marshes, becoipe a part of Morehead City. Morehead officials say the tax rate will be ffjf father than $1.80 per hundred ? the causeway residents would be exempt from payjnent of debt servi?. Thi? nould jnak? their total $2.95 per hundred (iaclpdfng the county tax) father than $8.f9 if they went with Beaufort, or (1.18 more than they are paying now. The $1.15 Morehead City tax rate, broken down, would be: (1 to the town {or general expenses, 10 centa port asseasment and 5 cents hospital assessment. It (a, clainyd that 80 per cent of the year-found causeway eligible to vote, have already aigned this petition. More head City does not want its ports expansion plans b?m atrunf by } high tfx rate on the sfcorp opposite the present Port fyrmippl. |t claims it| hand has been forced to keep the tax rat* as lov as posaible so (hat large comppies planning to build Y<febo,i*e* there H their own expense will not be scared pii t>y the |>igb fate. Beaufort, attempting to "progress" as it has been accused to often qf net .doing, thought it had something to offer the cause way citiiena; with good intentions, if pffhaps, blunderingly, went '$*?* jNty '?*? The cfHHWCy residapU they wy. capght betypen th?. devti and the deep blue set. fiff *0* keco^e a part of apy town, Henry Hojt, w?' 1>* *ou,d r?thtF "91 incorpprate a tow at their own. But H they myst go* with one town or the other, they would rather *9 with Morahead City? probably because ^jje t|X 'r| te Js lower (Hpyreyer, as the laws now stand, exempt ing causeway reaidants from tfce H cents Morehead City debt <pndse tax ii illegal. It is, es^entiajly, discrimination agajnst ?W?t city rfsifcjtfs. TS puke this exen)pt|pn If gal. a special bill wiU have to fee pasted by the legislature or thy town charter of Morehead City will have to pe amended). Rtor *>?? pfypf jw m vM f?r t* pr* and regular garbage col^-ctiqn Neither can it offer causeway residents sewage disposal systems. It's doubtful tqo U thp town can bring enough pressure on T$p TJTatpr jfp^t Cf company Jo Jay water mains there. Perhaps causeway, Piver'i Island, apj Inlet Island residents, (Wf ha*e cpltyfn of school age) would Wee their youngsters to tttond the Morehead City school In that case, plans might be made to have GfUikin buses carry them to school. Tgyp officials of Morehead City claim that aety^ly they dopt jrapJ the cayaeway within their town limita because of the fcigh tax rate problem cited above; plap thft thf yppexation will m "ftP WWTt H M? th* IfUff W Pfft j- .? ? pvt i HWW W 16 SUCH AN ANIMAL t| q pS. " w lift KCM WRf 1 % m ip OF I : Beaufort admits, ton. that the annexation will cost them money. To us, a neutral observer, it's a tempest in a teapot and we suggest that the lid be lifted and everybody cool off for about 30 days ... r To digress for a few moments, this makes us realize vividly how international conferences and the Un;ted Nations can become entangled in seemingly hopeless snarls. Nations which have more problems of greater magnitude than Beaufort and Morehead City, have their squabbles. We read about them in the papers and wonder despairingly why the problems can't be ironed out. If Beaufort and Morehead City don't settle this squabble amicafely, we assuredly will think the same thing in this case. This is an opportunity to make narrower the rift between the two towns. Anyone who is too narrow-minded to see that can be put in the same class as Molotov. Right now Morehead City says, "Beaufort wouldn't cooperate." Beaufott says. "Morehead City won't cooperate." That's the same thing that has been said (or years. But nobody has earnest ly sought cooperation on either side. If forehead City is sincere in saying. "We'd rather not have the causeway part of our t??n" ? if the causeway Ind island r, residents are sincere in saying they would rather stay the way they are, and if Beaufort is sincere in saying that annexation of that territory would mean an additional financial burden, there is the basis for an agreeable settlement in which a bright future (or the port and Carteret county would bte guaranteed. However, if these claims are merely talk, if spite work is going to maintain the upper hand as it has in the past, then we (ee) nothing but regret and a lesser faith in those individuals who faaye in their hands the (ate of Morehead City and Bca ' f)oleigh MVoundup By E?4ji Jttxwi Greenwood ,? WftOr Mr ? i that the average member of the legislature has lost Id cold f=ss)i approximately JljOOO through ~"?(e this session. ludp the money . - :ing away from r.. work. ftit yourself in his pqsiflon: Suppose you had to leave your law practice, your me jJioJ your school mfcri. ? smotp y<"j ?re doi?* ior ?bout four months Not opjy h#ve the legislators not dr^WTi a cent ol pay for about si? WseK? pjw, they have been forced to rent a room here, eat ? ? Constantly, and at the same i maintain their residence back ou might say some of the get money (rom corpora for voting a certain charge has often |*en made, but )ias never been substan tiated. One fine man who now lives in Raleigh and who has been a member of the Legislature for 20 years says he has never known and never heard of one legislator's having accepted one cent for his vote. RALEIGH SCENES . . . Joseph us Daniels, Jr., standing on the curb patiently waiting for the city bus uptown ... Dr. J. Henry High smith, veteran school leader, cash ing a ct^ck in a local bank and asking the cashier for a quarter's worth of pennies for "my grand child's piggy bank." . . . Pou Bai ley, son of the late Senator J. W.. making pedestrians go around him while he laboriously works at a broken shoe string. . . . Charlie Parker rubbing his forehead in deep thought as he throws words together for Governor Scott in a back office in the Capitol . . . State Secretary Thad Eure look ing uncomfortable at a late-hour dinery as two alcoholics sitting on either side tell of their great love . . "Boy. we was for you, Thad. We always fur 6ne man . . . and that man is Thad Eure." . . . Re presentative J. H. McMullan of Chowan County, brother of Att. Gen. Harry, solemnly sketching pencil pictures of other menlbers as local bills are sing-songed through at the rate of one a min ute . . v Hep. I.? A Jfartin of Lex fngtiui. vitforoi^ dr^leader, pale and perspiring, feeling pulse and" putting hand over his heart as he finishes a tirade against whiskey. . . . Supreme Court Justice A. A. Seawcll looking at least 75 of his 85 years as he uses his neift little black cane in crossing Fayetteville Street. THE CAMPAIGN . . . After the Legislature adjourns. Governor Kerr Scott will find himself about where he was a year ago; waging a campaign. This time he will be out soliciting votes for the $200. 000.000 bond issue for roads and for the $50,000,000 bond issue for school buildings. He told some of his disciples last week that they must fight a much harder battle in putting this across than they did in getting him nomi nated Governor. You are going to find most of the p.-ess agents em ployed by the various State de partments going all-out for the bond issues. P. S. There will also be two or three good-paying jobs for news papermen who line up with the opposition. WINTEB BETTEB .... All along, the Governor has said the ballot ing should be done this spring. However, the feeling is that the road bond issue, at least, would stand a better chance of passage if voted on about the middle of Dec ember ? or a day or two before Christmas, when rural roads are ?t *c?te 1MB tccowrr ***** Sale Daparil Boxes far l?i ^ *" f ? ^m^Wr BET TOP HABIT Dm fa deive-m DEPOSITORY SERVICE "BANK FROM Y0UK CAB" Ffi TeuWiOTEFTO* Beni Lode Bag and Key mar m*nw i\w Tu Yew M First CiiUeis Bank ft TAri Co. CU ArcHell St. M?rehe?4 CKy, N. C r%m? ?l?-l umn FEDERAL DEPOSIT ? INSURANCE CORP. ? their wofst and when hupdredt of bus-riding children sometimes arrive at school from one (9 three hours late. It is thought that Scott prefers the vqfc lp?wd fearing that his rural friends might not be able to get to the p?Ms at all if the election were held in the dead of winter. NEWGROUND . . . Although Kerr Scott has played around with vari ous projects, plana, and ideas since becoming Governor, hitting ? sprout here and breaking a plow point there, he has never removed his eyes from the two big poles at the field. . . . $30,000,000 for schools and $200,000,000 for roads. Many a long root which he didn't know was there has sprung back to crack him on the shins, but he kept plowing. THE WINNER . . . While the Le gislature has been cursed a great deal, it has. nevertheless, gone along with Scott to the extent of spending every dime in sight for the next two years. It could not have spent more without raising your tfxes. It has permitted the Governor to spend $7,500,000 for ports. He is also getting his road | and school bond votes. He has | lost Mt on some relatively minor matters, but if you have looked on the past three-and-a-half months as a fight between Scott and the General Assembly, then Scott must be put down as the winner. If he fares as well at the hands of the people in the bond votes as he did with the Legislature, there should be no cause for anxie ty and further hand-wringing by Scott followers. BACK HOME . . Most of the le- , gislators have gone home each ! weekend to test the sentiment of their constituents, but North Caro lina is a long State and at least one member has been here con- J stantly on the job since the Gen- 1 eral Assembly convened the first ~<rr-- Jr f-V wee* ui January. He is C. S. Sla g!e of faraway Macon, who brought his wife to Raleigh and set up housekeeping here. Wot 0)M time has hfVep homo. At least one other member. Graver Davis of Haywood, has made only one trip back to the homewoods. OFF THE CUFF ... This column. which started ?ith the little Ren* fro Herald In Yadkin bounty ia January, 1943, it now being car ried in 42 paper* from Waynes* Mfle to Morehead City. ... . . . 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