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tt Carteret Connty News-Times A Merfer Of The Braufort Newt (est. 191!) * The Twla City Timet (mL ISM) Thai Noll*! ^ 'wa Again The Atlantic and East Carolina railroad lets its freight carl #>' block cross-streets in Morehead City - but they have improved a bit J" on that point lately, most of the trains are broken at croas , streets ) , the company hasn't done a blessed thing about improving the three crossings at the standard oil terminal east of Morehead City, and now it proposes to stop running the passenger train i > from Goldsboro to the Carteret coast. After those hard rains somebody dumped a couple bucketfuls of gravel between the steel rails where lank cars crosa highway \ 70 at Port Terminal, but the gravel, which does hardly any good at all, has of course, disappeared by this time. Mr. Charles Byrd Wade of Morehead City suggests that General Motors come down .. here and use that stretch of highway as a test .course. If there's anything leastways loose, it's sure to fly off when going across those tracks, or if there's anything on an automobile that can't stand strain, it will be sure to break right there. _ The A & EC wants to stop runuing its passenger train down here because it's most unprofitable ? however, moving oil tank cars (across automobile-ruining tracks) and carrying mail is highly profitable, so the A & EC would like to hang on to that business. The railroad reports that they carry no more than 1$ pas sengers a month down here, which all adds up to a 135.000 loss annually. If they discontinue passenger service, it would mean an increase in $85,000 profit, the company says, some of which would be used to improve the mail and freight service. If the A & EC wouldn't have made schedules to this section so slow and inconvenient so as to discourage passenger travel, they would probably have a much larger passenger load now than 15 a month. Their suggestion to discontinue it is all part of a planned program. They wanted to stop it before and a howl went up so thy simply decided there is more than one way to skin a cat. Let's look at their competition: bus service ? to travel on busses a person must be born with a Bob Hope sense of humor and a physical condition like Mr. America's; plane service ? when the weather is suitable in summertime, not at all in wintertime; pri vately-owned automobile ? an increase of one cent per gallon of gasoline, approved by the people of North Carolina June 4 and an alarmingly increasing highway accident fatality rate ever since the inspection lanes closed. And the railroad wants to stop passenger service! If the A & EC would get some new blood in its organization, some people with forward-looking ideas that can keep pace with the growing Carteret area, who would promote and improve pas senger service, they would make their $85,000 profit a year by bettering not curtailing operations. If passenger service is stopped now. and the day comes when WE would like it re-inaugurated, it will never happen. It will only happen when the A & EC decides it should happen, and we all know when that would be . The Mullet lin may discontinue passenger service here, but it should never be done with the consent of Morehead City or anyone else ia this area. New Directory in the Ofiing Employees of the Carolina Telephone and Telegraph company will be around soon to check on listings for the new directory. We certainly will be glad to spe a new listing because 90 many families bavw gotten telephones, and more have had their old numbers changed We have rung a number time after time, deciding that the S petaw we were trying to contact was a purebred gadfly ? never home. Finally the brilliant thought dawns that maybe the number has been changed. A chat with "Information" proves us correct. (Sometimes, however, it takes so long to get "Information" we're inclined to think maybe she's a gadfly too ) hi our opinion, a new directory, with towns listed alphabets cally, would be more convenient than the arrangement in the (current directory. In other words, Atlantic, Beaufort. Marshall berg, Morehead City, and Newport, should be placed in that order. Beaufort would be easily found, because Atlantic requires only both sides of one page and Morehead City could easily be found by immediately preceding It with the yellow classified section Also, because there are five separate towns listed in the direc tory, it should be called, "Telephone Directory, Carteret County, N. C. Carolina Telephone company has invested thousands of dol lars in Carteret county during the past year improving telephone facilities. Their new building on 9th street, Morehead City, is indeed a beautiful structure. Laying of tl<e underground cable on I Turner street, Beaufort, has improved their equipment there.* t Of course, we can still find things to gripe about? like the C directory, for instance. But we feel, that when at all possible, the telephone company will attempt to grant requests. (nL Bf w Willis Liste Excursion Scbdnlts Washington ? Permanent ache dule for the "Lindsay C. Warren," North Carolina's only excursion boat, has been announced by Cap ^ tain Glenn C. Willis, master. The 118 foot motorship, will leave Washington on the Ocracoke run Sunday* at 4 p.m., Wednes days and Fridays at 7 p.m. The returns from Ocracoke, island re sort on the Banks called locally "the Bermuda of America," are scheduled at 7 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays, at midnight on Saturdays. Regurlariy scheduled sightsee ing and fishing trips down tfct Pamlico rivar will be made 09 CARTERET COURTT NEWS- TIMES Carteret County's Newspaper rXE BEAUFORT NEWS (EM. 1912>M^2*THE TWIN CITY TIMES (EU. 1936) Published Tumdays snd Fridays By THE CARTERET publishing company, inc. Lockwood Phillips ? Publishers ? Eleanor* Dear Phillip* Ruth Leckey Peeling, Executive Editor Publishing Offices At 504 Arendell St.. Morehead City. N. C. I ; 120 Craven Street, Beaufort, N. C. a-"!*-' ? ? ' Mail *atfs: In Carteret. Craven. Pamlico, Hyde and Onslow Counties $5 00 ?T mr; >3.00 six months; SI. 73 three months- 91.00 one month. Outside the stove Mined counties 96 00 one year; 93. six months; 99.00 three 9100 o? sxistn Member Of Pr~ A-??u"~ - -Tapayf SrS par cuy- * c T>* AaNCtaMd Piwi la entitled txdiatw-ly to w for republication I* np ares&as, tsbsc- zjggjm * ap 06ORf JUNIOR W8j|Ofc &Lhdtmm&in l hi ^ v i - HEHE and THERE With F. C. SALISBURY. Morehead City If you have missed our items from pag two oi the News-Times from pa^e two of the News-Times it is because we have been piuch hitting tbe past two weeks for Ben Alford of the Herald Printing Com pany who weat to the City Hospi tal for i>n appendectomy. Ben is back on the job and we have been scouting about to find something of interest for Here and *There. Out ft the corner of 28th street j and the highway a new super fill ! ing station is being erected. Golds- j boro pal ties are said to be back of the project. The structure is i being built of brick and from all indications of the size of the build ing and the general layout it will be one of the most attractive sta tions in the Morehead section. Repo-ts are that in addition to the filling station a trading cen ter is to be built on this corner property consisting of stores which will cater to the needs of the homeowners in that section. The housing project that was planned and announced some time ago to be built on this property is said to be in the offing. Passing through Chapel Hill a short time ago we stopped to visit the new Morehead Plane tarium which is now completed and In operation. The build ing is a beautiful piece of work, dedicated to the wife of John It). Morehead, a descendant of the mau who put Horehead City oa the map. The lecture and Wednesdays at 2:30, returning at 6:30, and a moonlight sail leaves Washington at 7:30 p.m. Fridays, returning at 11:30. A UttU Chocking May Savn You A Micwei It yoof propncty intvronco la (in* with grootiy-incrootnd property val on if A litM^ taking NOW ?ay Mv* yov a Mg chock in nvnnl of hu of danogo by tiro. tornodo. or olHor covin, without obliga tion, lot v? hntp yov rnvinw yovr propofty inivrancn with Plaaofyilt ? th? ooiy, ivro way to koop yoof proporty imvronco vp-todoto. CoM ?. JLPUU. J8. MitfiM a lnwmn Agency M CiUnw B*nk Bid*. Morchud CUy Hwne N IK! *3k demonstration of the stars and planets as projected on the dome of the hall form a most interest ing and instructive program. Wings on each side of the build ing are devoted to many oil painting of various subject by noted artists. Don't miss this on your next trip to Chapel Hill. ( ; .One tloes not have to be remind- ! ed that, summer is here but just to keep the record* straight, the Summer solstice arrived on Tues day, June 21 at 1:03 P. M. Old man Sol will now begin to work his way southward. James Albert Taylor, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Taylor and Carl Gordon Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Smith, both of Bogue, en listed the past week in the U. S. Navy. Both men are recent gra duats of the Swansboro High school and have enlisted for the term of" one year. Planning for a complete new registration of the voters of the state, the State Board of Elec tions has placed an order for 2, 500 new registration books. A new arrangemnt will permit use of a single registration book in primaries and general elections, instead of the separate party re gistration books now used. Judge Luther Mamliton of More head City presided over a one week's term of Lee County Superi or court held in Sanford the past week for the trying of civil cases. County tax notices mailed out the past week and with each state ment went an eight-page booklet entitled "Factual and Financial" compiled by County Auditor James D. Potter. The Board of County Commissioners are to be commend ed (or putting this booklet of coun ty facts and figures in the hands of the tax payers. It givea pro perty holder a host of facts that here to fore has never been put out in published form. As a "stock holder" in Carteret County we ap preciate receiving a copy. Good progress is being made on the new church building of the First Methodist church of More head City. Brick laying of the walls ha? reached the first course of the sandstone trim on three sides of the building. Over on the other corner of Mh and Bridges street the Baptist Sunday School building has been entirely eacloi STALUNGS RBO'S., IMC. Plnmbing ft Heating Conhaclan Since IMS AMEBICAN STAND AID PLUMBING nZTOBES GENERAL ELECTRIC ML BroNINtf HEAT1NC SYSTEMS We Furnish Estimates oa New Work 243 Craven St. Pkone M77 NEW BERN. N. C. Democracy in Action "Fraternity In Action" aa practiced bv tbe Woodmen of tbe World is Democracy is Action. This will be evidenced at the Society"* Sover eign Camp (National) Convention at Saq An tonio, Jane 27 to July L There tbe delegates, cboeen earlier at Head Camp meetings wtU adopt recommendations for the Society's actfr I ties, legislation governing Us operations, and elect tbe officers to admleWet Us affairs. WOODMEN of the WQRLD Life Insurance Society OMAHA. NEBRASKA AtTQI I. TICK. KsMd |MS S. 21st.' St. MORE8EAO CITY, N. C. PHONE M?-l ed and the plastering of the in terior walls ia well uqderiyay. from all indication this new building will be ready by early Full. Employees of the Morehead Cl*y laroK^t Comply in con slderlng forming or Joining union, so It Is stated, covering the working trades as applied to this type, of manufacturing. According to the reports of some of Um employees notice has been given them by the hsada of the company that such a union will not be tolerated. A sign in the entrance of the factory has been posted carrying such a state ment. Kr ports have Aso been circulated that U i union is formed the plant will be closed. The members of the Webb Me morial Presbyterian church have extended a call to Kev. Mr. Con yers, a recent graduate from the Seminary at Kiclunond, to become pastor of the local church. The call has been accepted by Rev. Conyers, who, with Mrs. Conyers and daughter Apn, arrived the past week and are established in the Manse which has undergone im provements belore their arrival. Kev. Conyers succeeds the Hev. J. .V Axtell who resigned this pas torate several raontns ago. Kev. (t. T. Willis, Jr., has served as relief pastor of the church most of the time since Kev. Axtell left. Kev. Conyers starts bis pastorate this coming Sunday. Seven new members have been recruited lor the 449th Field Artil lery Observation Battalion, a mili taryltraining service organized in this county a tew months ago. Headquarters are at the former USO building in Morehead where weekly meetings are held every Tuesday night. Any young man between the ages of 17 and 35 years are eligible to join this outfit. Officer Sgt. Wm. French holds at the USO each Monday through forth Friday from 5:00 to 8:00 P. M. to furnish any information de sired pertaining to joining this or ganization. Honoring the memory of the late | Emiline J. Pigott, whose activi- 1 ties during the War between the States made history for the Con federacy and known as the Emi line J. Pigott scholarship has been awarded deserving scholars of the state for several years. The award this year goes to Miss Peggy Ann Cillikin of New Bern who will study at the Woman's college of the University of North Carolina. The scholarship is awarded an nually to a student who is a lineal dscendant of a Confederate ances tor and on the basis of that stud descendant of a Confederate ances racter white at Woman's college. Lester D. Styron of Morehead City made no less than a "B" on " * * t Sou'easter ? I 1 By Captain Henry What's a. baseball season without a fifljit? One team threata* to withdraw, another team does Just tbat, one teas is accused of uaing illegal players, another with put ting uranium 233 on the ball, and heaven only knows what eUe. It's a great American sport. So now Charles Hassell has taken Gebrmann's place on our team's board of directors and Jack Gard ner is at Charles' old spot of play ing manager. Good luck, boys, there's a good-sized chunk of ball season ahead of us. As long as there's an empty spot on th county commissioners' board, many past, would-be, and probable polticians have been casting covet ous eyes in that direction. One of them is Bayard Taylor, former mayor of Beaufort. any of his studies at the^Jniversity of North Carolina and therefore made the Dean's list in the final report of the 1648-49 school year. Styron was one of 75 students on the list while another 48 made the honor roll during the quarter just ended. The grade of "B" means 90 to 95 on all subjects. The change of personnel in th^ welfare department may seem In significant, but actually, it's prac tically a revolution. Harry Tyler, son pf the late C P. Tyler, is working there, the new 'welfare suprintendent. succeeding Mrs. George Henderson, will arrive this week, and the new county commis sioner will probably take C. Z. chappell's place as commissioner representative on the welfare board. Look next May for a prominent citizen 'of Harkers Island to seek a high county political office. Did you notice that in the road and school bond election Harkers Is land went 100 p^r cfnt in favor of both issues? It so happens that there, as in several other instances, the desires of two opposing fac tions converged on the same path ? the pro-Johnsonites trying to scramble back on the band wagon and the pro-Scotters pushing the thing through for their leader. Wonder how the votes will stack up when the two factions lock horns? Uncle Sam has nearly 29 million youngsters between the ages of 5 and 17. "Get Acquainted With RULANE" As a special savings to you we are offering $50 off of factory list prices on any Magic Chef range on our floor. T^ke advantages of this special Rulane offer "today." SEE MAGIC CHEF TODAY! See the Greatest Magic Chef Gas Ranges Yet! EASTERN RULANE SALES CORPORATION 12th Street it Evans .... Morehead City, N. C A natural outgrowth of condition! in southeastern North Carolina is its increas ing industrial development. This sewing machine at work in oae of the local factories ( is evidence. Industry LIKES this part of the country. Thn- pleasant people who live here make ideal employeea ? intelligent, quick to learn. Transportation by sea and rail and highway and air are all available to bring in raw materials, take out finished goods. New industry is important to us who live here. It means more jobs and bigger pay rolls. It means greater prosperity for mer- ^ chants and formers ? for everybody. Tide Water is proud that iti reputation for service ha* helped in thii in dustrial growth. For Tide Water behevea, aa you know, that its main job is to provide good service at the lowest possible cost If you care to look into it, you will find that Tide Water rates are as low or knyer than the average for the entire Atlantic seaboard. * TIDE WATER POWER COMPANY
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