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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
A Merger of THE BEAUFORT NEWS (Established 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (Established 1936)
GRADUATION
EDITION
88th YEAR, No. 39 EIGHT PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY, MAY 24, 194S SECOND SECTION PUBLISHED. TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
177 Carteret County Seniors Complete High School Careers
Job Clinic
Outlook for Graduates
In the World of Work
(First of 14 Articles on Job Opportunities for June Graduates,
Written Exclusively for AP Ncwsfeatures by Authorities in Busi
ness and Industry.)
By WILLIAM J. CRONIN
Managing Director, Automobile Manufacturer* Association
The automotive industry and its related fields offer more job and
business opportunities today for trained and enterprising young men
than perhaps any other business field in the world.
This spring's college and high
school graduates will find employ
ment prospects encouraging in the
automotive field in many parts of
the country.
More tha>. 41 million cars,
trucks and buses are In use to
day on the nation's highways and
It takes many different types of
businesses and Jobs to meet the
needs of the vehicles and the
|*ople who operate them.
About 600,000 automotive en
terprises have been established to
serve motorists in cities, towns
hamlets and along rural highways.
They include gasoline stations, re
pair garages, trucking concerns
and automobile dealerships.
Specially-trained individuals are
in greatest demand throughout the
automotive industry. Vocationally
trained high school graduates, for
example, are particularly needed
today in automobile repair work.
From the earliest days of the in
WILLIAM J. CRONIN
dustry, a good mechanic has always
found a ready market for his ser
vices.
The high school graduate
usually enters the automotive
field as an apprentice, but he
is entering a field that offers
unlimited opportunities for ad
See JOBS Page Six
Graduates Conduct
Commencement Programs
Readers will note ip stories on
commencement exercises that
the majority of the schools in
the county have departed this
year from the practice of hav
ing a speaker.
The seniors themselves, main
ly the honor students, are mak
ing the speeches.
This is an attainment which
H. L. Joslyn, superintendent
of county schools, has hoped
for ever since he became head
of the county school system.
Featuring the seniors in their
commencement' program had
been his practice at rdorchead
City school where he was prin
cipal for 25 years.
Mr. Joslyn has always believe
ed that commencement is the
day for the seniors and they
themselves should be the princi
pals in graduation exercises.
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It has been a long, hard fight, boys and girls ?
and we congratulate you^on your achievement of
this goal. We have stocked up with the gifts
you'll appreciate.
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For ihe Girl Graduate:
Luggage ? Billfolds ? Pen & Pencil Sets
? Comb and Brush Sets ? Compacts ?
Cameras ? Cosmetics by Tahn, Elizabeth
Ardcn, Yardley Dorothy Gray and Lucien
Lclong.
For the
Boy Gradaale:
? Luggage ? Billfolds ? Cameras ? Pen and Pencil
Sets ? Electric Shavers ? Shaving Sets ? and
many other items.
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"A GOOD DRUG STORE"
% 815 ArenleU Street . . . Phone M-5M1 ? *
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USES Office Aids Seniors
j In Selecting Occupations
High school seniors in the coun
ty may take advantages of testing
facilities at the United States Em
ployment Service office, Seventh
and Evans street, in Morehead
City that will aid them in deciding
what vocation they wish to under
take. The facilities are offered
free of charge to all seniors and
ethers uncertain what occupation
they desire to enter.
The office registers and receives
applications from seniors who are
entering the labor market for the
first time. General aptitude bat
tery tests to determine aptitude
for 20 occupational patterns such
as clerical, mechanical, and so
forth are first given.
The placement and counseling
service of the office which is es
pecially developed for high school
graduates is then put at their dis
posal to assist them. The office
has attempted to give all of these
tests before graduation and tries
to develop job openings for the
students.
Representatives from the office
appeared at different scho</ls in
the county recently and showed
a film, "Your Life's Work." This
film illustrated various tests given
and showed students some of the
factors that could affect their
choice.
Congressional Committee
Reports on Library Bill
First educational measure of the
81st Congress to be reported out
of committee is tfie public-library
service demonstration bill, SIM.
Hearings last year revealed that
approximately 35 million persons
in the United States were then
without Iiblary service. In only 11
states and the District of Colum
bia were there as many as 85 per
cent of the people to whom public
library service was available. Ru
ral areas are particularly in need
of public-library facilities.
The bill calls for $40,000 a year
grant for five years in each state
with which to provide demonstra
tions of good public-jibrary service
to people now without it. If the
state wishes to match funds for
public-library services, the federal
government would be authorized to
grant up to $100,000 a year for
each state for five years.
Congratulations
Graduates
of '49
Your grealesl Success
is our most sincere wish.
MOBEHEAD CITY
FLORAL CO.
FlorlsU for 28 Ye?r?
Phone M ? 5581
Schools Don't
Neglect 3 Rs,
Official Says
WASHINGTON ? (AP) ? The
three R's, instead of being neg
lected, are getting more atten
| tion than ever in the nation's
i schools.
| So reports Willard E. Givens,
executive secretary of the National
Education association.
"The amount of time spent in
| today's school in the three H's is
more than four times as great as
j it was a hundred years ago,"
' Givens said in the associations
j annual report.
"The techniques of leaching the
tool' subjects (reading, writing
and arithmetic) are vastly im
proved. Students who can advance
rapidly are given the opportunity
to do so. Special difficulties ham
pering the advance of some stu
dents are diagnosed and elimi
nated through instruction adjusted
to individual needs. The three
| R's are still the foundation of our
school studies. Schools are teach
ing them better than they have
I ever been taught.
Children read more books, read
more rapidly and read with great
| or understanding, Givens says.
In grandfather's time, one basic
i reader was often the only read
ing text. Not so now, says Givens,
i adding that it's now not unusual
' for a pupil in the better schools
I to read 25 or 30 books during his
; first year.
Givens also reported progress j
In the teaching of social studies, |
| safety and conservation, interna
j tional understanding, music and |
; the visual arts, health and related
i subjects.
Elaborating on his formal re
I port, Givens told a news con
| ference that the schools are "do
ing a whale of a job," consider- j
ing the shortage of space and j
teachers.
| "We are not doing nearly as well j
I as we would like to do," he said, j
j "But we arc sure we are doing a
better job than we ever did be- 1
I fore."
i The census bureau reports that
the nation's school enrollment
topped 28 million, highest in his
tory, at the start of the present
school year.
Rnlgers University Adds
Department oi Geography
Rutgers university' will estab
lish on July 1 a department of
geography in its College of Arts
and Sciences in recognition of the
increasing importance of this sub
ject to a well-rounded college
education. It will be one of the
new university departments in the
northeast devoted to geography.
In addition to providing elective
courses for students majoring in
liberal arts, business administra
tion and engineering, the division
will offer a full program of study
for those who plan careers in
geography. It is reported that col
lege-trained geographers are "now
in increasing demand as their ser
vices are required in mounting
degree by government and teach
ing."
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GRADUATES
of '49
DOM'S SANDWICH SHOP
,rfhe Little Place with the Big Welcome"
The graduation classes of Carteret county schools increase yeai
by year . . . during the past three years the group of graduates has
been larger by approximately 10.
Seniors who will receive d^pfomas next month number 177, an in
crease of 10 over last year's graduates. In 1947 they totaled 158.
Forty-three and five-tenths per cent of those completing their
high school careers in Carteret county intend to further their educa
tion at business schools, colleges, and beauticians schools.
According to present plans, seven of the 13 seniors at Atlantic
expect to continue their studies, as do seven of the 24 at Smyrna,
three of the 10 at Harkers Island. 25 of the 41 graduates at Beaufort
high, 13 of the 19 at Queen Street
school, 18 of the 49 at Morehead
City high, and four of the 21 at
Newport.
Twelve girls intend to enter the
nursing profession, five will go to
beauticians' school, two boys in
tend to become doctors, two plan
to enter the ministry, four law,
three engineering, seven intend
to teach, two are going to enroll
in business administration courses
at college, and two expect to launch
careers Ui science.
One student is planning on enter
ing the diplomatic service, one
Christian education, another hotel
management, another interior de
corating, three plan to enter civil
service, one journalism and an
other expects to make music a pro
fession.
Five Newport graduates will
work at Cherry Point Marine air
base, if their present plans ma
terialize.
One of the graduates at Atlantic
high school is planning on a ca
reer in professional baseball.
Fourteen of the girl graduates
plan to marry within six months
after they receive their diplomas,
while only one boy is contempla
ting matrimony that soon.
Four of the girls who will re
ceive their diplomas are already
married. Patsy Parker at Newport
became Mrs. Willard Thome on
May 7, Anne Robinson at Atlantic
married Milan Willis in December.
Peggie Mason, of Atlantic, was
married December a year ago
and Joan McKnight of Morehead
City became the wife of James
Douglas Springle Thursday night,
May 19.
Eight boys intend to become
farmers, 11 fishermen, and four
are planning on entering the arm
ed forces.
Of the 177 students, only one is
a veteran, lie is Richard Arlen
Lewis at Harkers Island. At Beau
fort school, Miss Lena Duncan,
senior class advisor, says the ratio
of boys to girls in the senior class
is back to normal for the first
time since the war. There are 21
boys in the class and 20 girls. Last
year there were 20 girls and five
boys, and the year before 20 boys
and five girls.
Beaufort's class of '49 has the
distinction of being the only group
with a set of twins, Billie and Bob
bie Springle.
Commencement and graduation ;
activities arc late this year. Usually
these events have been over by
the first of June. The polio epi
demic last summer has delayed
commencement approximately -two
weeks.
Harvard to Conduct
Special Six-Week Coarse
Harvard university will conduct
a special six-week program of
courses, beginning July 5. for
teachers who have limited summer
vacations.
The offerings will include
courses in comparative, elemen
tary, secondary, music, social
science and science education; ad
ministration, psychology, philos
ophy of education, principles of
teaching, measurement and ex
perimentation, and guidance and
student personnel work. - ,
Citizen Courses Offered
The University of Wisconsin has
introduced citizen seminars as
part of an adult education pro
gram to help groups in their study
of public affairs. The seminars
consist of discussion courses on
current public problems and are
supplemented by a study kit of
selected reading materials and a
discussion guide. Various topics
are available, each packaged in a
library kit. These can be borrowed
or purchased from the university's
extension division.
Teaching Methods
Change with Time
Teaching methods in the early
elementary school varies with the
individual teachers, though some
features were common to all
schools. Much emphasis was placed
upon memory work. Considerable
attention was given to writing, one
of the chief qualifications of a
teacher being his ability to make
and mend goose quills.
The most important qualifica
tion of a teacher, however, was his
ability to preserve order in the
schoolroom. To this end he main
tained a firm and severe discip
line. A bunch of well-seasoned
hickory switches was always handy
for administerihg such punish
ment. though sometimes a ruler
served the same purpose.
For minor offenses the culprit
was made to sit on a dunce block
or to wear a fool's cap or a pair
of leather spectacles, as the whim
| of the teacher dictated. Not in
frequently an irate teacher was
known to twist a student's nose or
box his ears, at the same time
I calling him "dunce," "blockhead"
! or "boobic."
Government Views
Job Possibilities
Many of the jobs which Interest
young people will be rather dif
ficult to find during the next
several years. These include such
jobs as airplane pilot, newspaper
reporter, radio announcer and
agent for the Federal Bureau of
Investigation.
But the outlook for other oc-.'
cupations ? such as physician,
teacher, librarian, stenographer
and automobile mechanic ? will be
much brighter.
These conclusions are contained
in a 54 page Occupational Outlook
Handbook recently released by
the Superintendent of Documents,
Government Printing office. The
manual, which took four years to
prepare, was compiled by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics for the
Veterans Administration. The
book is believed to be one of the
most extensive studies of its kind.
The handbook offers complete
reports on 288 occupations, rang
ing from the professions to farm
ing. It describes the jobs, pros
pects for employment, the train
ing and qualifications required in
various fields, earnings and work
ing conditions.
The personnel field is "over
crowded at present," the report
notes. The "long-run employment
trend is slowly upward, but keen
competition for entry jobs ia
likely to continue for several
years."
The handbook points out, how
ever, that good employment op
portunities are available in the
following fields:
Physicians ? Opportunities arc
excellent for those who can win
admission to medical school. The
need for doctors is greatest ir
rural areas.
Teachers ? The best opportuni
ties are for kindergarten and
elementary school teachers. The
shortage of personnel at those
levels is expected to continue for
a longer period than the one pre
vailing at higher fcrade levels.
Librarians ? Immediate employ
ment opportunities are good for
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Our Congratulations
To Yon Graduates... ~
Your greatest success and happiness through life i
our sincere wish.
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