? Carteret County News-Times A Merger of ,J Thvfleaufort Newt (est. 191?) & The Twin CUy Times (est. 19J6) EDITORIAL PAGE TUESDAY, MAKCH 21, 19.', 8 Sriltag Imagination or Space Ship? A dispatch about two weeks ago from Mexico stated that to there is brsis for belief that one of the renowned flying saucers * crashed on a mountain in Mexico. Not only did it crash but W the pilot's body was sent off for embalming. His body is re ported to have been only 23 inches long. An American salesman in that area says that he saw the lei site of the crash, which reportedly occurred two months ago, and "k> that he also saw a large piece of "metal" out of which the saucer was made. In the same dispatch it was stated that American *l! military observers viewed the site of the alleged crash but would make no comment. Flying saucers, have been in (tie news for more than a year. Many believe that they originate with human beings ? may be beings like ourselves. 01 beings of another planet. Jet planes have chased after these objects but have "lost" them. Fiction has dealt with these new phenomena. scientists have given their considered opinions, and the military has not been totally silent on the subject. Unbounded imagination can take one to infinite planes on this saucer business. Assuming that there is some fact to the Mexican story, perhaps there is a race of tiny human beings on another planet, beings whose intellect is far superior to ours and who have already conquered space. If these pilots from another world are skimming near Earth in their weird mechanisms, the average person might ask, "Well why don't they land?" But these individuals don't know whether we will kill them or welcome them. They probably don't know much more about us than we know about them. Tntil they land here, they don't know how the atmospheric pressures of our planet will affect them, they don't know whether they could survive in our climate, eat what we call food, or much less be able to communi cate with us. (If they made landings on this planet successfully we know nothing of it). If they are a race of people averaging 23 inches in height, and they have come close enough in their "saucers" to see us, they undoubtedly consider us giants. It they come from another planet that engages in wars, would their weapons have any effect on these giants who inhabit Earth? Another thought makes one shudder. If their world is advanced so much farther, scientifically, than our& could it bo that they, centuries ago, discovered the power of the atom, that their world plunged headlong into atomic wars and radioactive materials so affected their planet that the type of inhabitant which survived and emerged from the catcfysm was a creature of dwarflike stature? We have wondered too, if necessity may force us to conquer space, that in order to flee the devastation that seems imminent on Earth, will our struggle to avoid liquidation lead us to other planets where the few who might escape will adapt themselves to an inconceivably new way of life? Flying saucers may bo another one of those crazes in which Americans are apt to become involved, the power of sug gestion makes lots of us see things that aren't really there. Then again, they may be fantastic space ships. If so. the future holds discovery that will, in comparison, make the finding of America a minor historical episode. Only this time, it looks as though we may be the ones to bo discovered! Then we'll know" f sow Hie Indian's felt. ? ? ? ? * ' I Letters to the Editor I To Ihr pruple of the Town of Beaufort: I wish to thank each ami every one for the cooperation that was given to us in putting on our con cert Sunday. We cannot help from feeling disappointed in the small crowd, but feel like the |>eoplc do | not fully understand why we have different ki id of entertainments. The few that did see the concert Sunday did enjoy it very much and the ones that did not. missed a great deal While 1 have alresdy written this much I would like to say a few more words in regards to the Beau fort Fire Department. We all know that our fire department has had a bad name in thf past but that is all behind us and has been so for sometime. I. being the newly-fleeted fire chief for the year 1950, expect to do my best to make this department better than it ever has been, but to do this 1 have to have the cooperation of the town people as well as the members of the department. It's true, the department is here j but I really do not think the peo pie realize what it mfans to have a department such as we have. For instance, the firemen are all vol unteers, they are willing to get out of their beds, leave their jobs, in all kinds of weather, to help anyone that needs them, and are more than willing to stay until the need for them is over. One house to them is as good as an other. Remember that these men do not draw any salary whatsoever for what they do. True they do not have to pay poll tax which is very imall, considering the dan ger they face at any fire. The Town of Beaufort is better equipped to fight fires than any other small town in the state. I know there are lots of people in this town who. have never been in thla station to see what we do have, everyone takes it for grant- j ed that we do have a fire depart ment. When we do try to put on some kind of entertainment to make',, money, it's all for the benefit ofj our fire department. The people i ir town sain from the proceeds | as well as the department, as the money is spent for the- benefit of , the department for buying things I we need to help fight tires, send I ing delegates to eonventions, our I men to fire fighting schools, as well os to help the volunteer mem bers when they are in need. Let me take this opportunity to | i :vite the people of this town to' our station, have a talk with our! engineers and let them explain the j equipment to you. Let's try to ! work together and make this fire j department a department to be j prou|l of. Any assistance we ean give you will be done so gladly, regardless of whether it's in the lire fighting line or not. Give us a chance. Charles B. Harrell Chief, Beaufort Fire Department. To the Editor: We. the people, of the commun ity of Marshallbcrg want to thank j our good friend, the Hon. L. W. I Hassell of Beaufort for his loyal I support in taking our road pro gram and establishing it before the Highway commission. We want to extend our thanks to Capt. .CB. Harker of Marker's Island for giving the state, and the community the sand to build our roads with. 1 want to thank Mr. Lee Hum phery (the ole master road build er) for his kind consideration and loyal support in developing our road program into a reality. I personally want to commend Mr. I Humphery for his genius . . . to ( be table to take the sand of the i earth and to assemble it together] and thereby build an addition to , a community that will develop and accelerate Its resources and beauty. Such workmanship should not go without praise and admiration. Sincerely yours, * James C. Davis. CAHTEBET COUNTY NEWS-TINES Carteret County's Newspaper A Merger Of THE BEAUFORT NEWS (Est. 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (Est. 1938) Published Tuesdays and Fridays By THE CARTERET PUBLISHING COMPANY. INC. Lxxjkwood Phillips ? Publishers ? Eleanore Dear Phillips Ruth Lwkfy Peeling. Executive Editor . Publishing Offices At SOJ Arendell St.. Monhead City. N. C. 130 Craven Street. Beaufort. N. n April Fool's day? Lawrence Hassell seems to be Proceeding satisfactorily in lining ip candidates for his ticket. It s hot likely that he will release he names ot' any of his candidates jcfore April. I see that Dare county is hav ing the same problem as Carter l'I county need for fireproof Vaults to store deeds and other county records It has been sugges led t h :? t lrvin Davis, the register i)f deeds move across the. hall to the sheriff's office and the sher iff move to the court house annex. Then all of Irvin's present bffice t'ould be made into one large vault. But the sheriff doesn't want to be moved out of the court house (by mandate of the people or oth-j erwise) and lrvin doesn't want to give up his office Of Southern ex posure which brings him warm sun in the winter and cooling breezes in the summer. So. if the lawyers don't want to be jammed in that little register of deeds vault, looking like ants swarming over a piece of cake, they better dream up a new idea. Preferably one that won't cost the county any money. They'll get what they want quicker. I read a newspaper story the oth er day about a car and an oil truck which collided when the -car tried to avoid hitting a dog. Two women in the car were killed. The remainder of the story re minds me of a currently popular song. "Where K You?" ? "She and her sister. Alma, 30. were kil led. So was Clem Merrill, 35, the tuck dive. The dog was not hut." The following from Oscar Salter canae into the newspaper office the other day. They handed it to me, probably because they know Osoar and I like to swap ydrns oc casionally. Well, this is one from Oscar: The Home Life of a Farmer A certain farmer whose wife discovered 12 bottles of whiskey in their cellar told him to empty the contents of each and every bottle down the sink "or else". So he proceeded with the un pleasant task. He withdrew the cork from the first bottle and poured the contents down the sink, with the exception ' of one glas?, which he drank. He extrac ted the cork from the second bot tle and did likewise, with the ex ception of one glass, which he drank. He then drew the cork from the third bottle and emptied the good Did booze down the sink except a glass which he drank. He pulled the cork from the fourth sink and poured the bottle down the glass, which he drank. He pulled* the txjttle from the cork of the next and drank one sink of it and [x>ured the rest down the glass. He pulled the sink out of the next glass and poured the cork down the bottle. He pulled the next cork out of his throat and poured tfte sink down the bottle and drank the glass. The he corked the sink with glass, bottled the drink ang drank Ihe po wr. When he had everything emptied, he steadied the house vith one hand and counted the bottles and corks and glasses with the other. which were twenty- : nine. To make sure, he counted again when they came by and he had seventy-four, and as the house came by he counted them again, and finally he had all the houses and bottles and corks, and glasses counted except one bottle and one house which he drank. ! /f March 17 ? Ocraooke's new' freight boat made its first run to I Washington. N. C\, on Wednesday oi last week. Name of the boat is the "Bessie Virginia"; she is 64" | ' 5" long, 19' wide, 90 tons capacity. | i Captain of the boat is Van Henry | | O'Neal. Mr. Walter C. O'Neal, sr., will make the trip temporarily; 1 I Powers C.avrish is employed on the boat. No definite schedule has ' been announced as yet Mrs. Hollas Bragg is building an ! addition to her home here. ! John Midgette left last week for | Beaufort and Washington, N. C. Ho plans to attend the trial of ; his brother, Ralph Midgette. in I Washington. ! Wilber (iaskill has returned to Manasquan. N. J., for summer work at a hotel there. Friends of Mr and Mrs. Norman Styron sympathize with them in the death Saturday, March 11, of their infant son. Fil Monroe. Funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon by Rev. W. Y. Stewart and Rev. Ernest Etheridge. Patrolman Jack Arthur Takes Burgaw Position ,!ack O. Arthur. Beaufort route 1. has been assigned to fill a state highway patrol vacancy at Bur gaw. Mr. Arthur, a recent graduate of the patrol training school at Chapel Hill, had been placed on reserve list until the need arose for anotjier patrolman in the state. DIRECT AND FH A LOANS According To Plan When everything I" going along according to plan you get the feeling thai \ <>u have some wni ro| o\or your future. And (hat's especially true of financial planning The easiest and best wiiy to make your finances go according to plan Is through life Insurance. I.ife Insurance can guarantee a secure financial future! BRUCE L. GOODWIN and ELVIN T. HANCOCK BOX 592 PHONE M 3046 MOREHEAD CITY Pilot Life Insurance Company, Greensboro. North Carolina COMPLETE INSURANCE PROTECTION John L. Crump Insurance ? Real Estate PHONE 3621 823 ARENDELL ST. MOREHEAD CITY COST TOO MUCH ? I DOES YOUR INSURANCE | 1 t We Can Save You Money 3 If You Are a Preferred Risk J SEE US TODAY ! I* V 5 BANK BLDG. MOREHEAD CITY TEL. M 8362 * J S. A. CHALK, JR. CARL V. NELSON j v ? : Security - Service - Savings lor Preferred Risks j MUTUAL INSURANCE AGENCY " CAMELS AGREE WITH MY THROAT!" TELEPHONE OPERATOR Mrs. Ethel James: "My throat gets a workout all day long. I made the JO -Day Mildness Test and i hanged to Camels. They agree with my throat ? they caste so good ! " RADIO ANNOUNCER George Aosbro: "Throat irritation cer tainly doesn't go in my job. I smokl only Camels. They're right for my throat ? cool and mild. And Camels have the flavor!" SALES DEMONSTRA TOR Madeline Ost rowe: "I talk to thousands of shop pers. When I smoke. I have to think of my throat. Camel is my ciga rette ? so mild!" c??r YES, CAMELS ARE SO MIL.D that in a coast-to-coast test of hundri da of men and women who smoked Camels? and only Camels -fot 30 days, noted throat specialists, making weekly examinations, reported Not one single case of throat irritation due to smoking CAMELS Even the COLORS sag at Spang! Too bad a newspaper has to be printed in black and white. For here we can show you only half the picture you can make this spring, this summer and for a long time to come. True, you can see the lines of this tidy 1 950 Super Convertible. You can, perhaps, imagine the top-of-the-world feeling you'd know with the wind combing your hair, a great valve-in-head straight-eight filling your ears with its song, these spinning wheels cradling each mile of your going in soft, toil-spring comfort. What we can't show you here are the bright. gay colors wc have made ready just for you and just for this year. We can't show you how they dress you up. clothe you in the very spirit of the season, add their own special plus to that unmatchable I drive-a-Buick feeling. Best wc can say is they won't cosfyou one cent ? extra. They arc part and pared of this gorgeous Buick package, l'ke the Fireballing power of our new F-263 engine- the level going of ill-coil spring ing?the steady readability of Buick's solid structure-thc handy controls for top. windows and front seat, the satiny smoothness of Dyna flow Drive.* ? .1tanJpthmil rqtilpmrnl at *.rtia c>Hr 1 im SltnMJ and Sl.'ffU. ^JW _ ? Why not comc sec the whole packagc for your self? Your Buick dealer can get right down to cases? prices, trade-in, terms and all. See him -and this year you'll want to meet spring in the gay Buick manner. Only Buick ba* and with it 90 ok: mom*. commission Fireball vahein-head power in thr ee engines. (New F-263 engint iff SUHK models ) ? NfW-MnfRN STY UNO, wHh bumper guard grilles, taper-through fenders, "double bubble" taillightt. ? WIDt-ANOLt VISIBILITY, dote up rood rfew both forward and back ? TKAFFIC^HAMDY Slit, less over all length lot eotier parking and garaging, thort turning radius ? EXTRA IVIOI SSATS cradled between flit axles * SOFT BUICK RIDE, from all-coil springing, Safety-Hide rimt, low-pressure ??*??, ride-steadying torque-tube ? WIDE AH KAY Of MODUS with Body by Fisher Time in HI NIY J. TAVlOf, ABC Ktwort. evwy Monday M?| *<*&>$ - m