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Carteret County News-Tunis A Merger Of The Beaufort News (est. 1912) * The Twin City Times (est. 1936) EDITORIAL PAGE TUESDAY, DEC. 26, 1950 It's Not Tso Laie It's not too late to make the most important holiday purchase of all ? tuberculosis Christmas seals. Some of us neglected to take that moment to acknowledge Christmas seals when they were received in the mail in Novem ber. It is easy to put something like that aside during the busy, pre-Christmas days. But it is not too late to take a moment off to make a return for the seals. The dollars and cents' cost of tuberculosis in this country is conservatively estimated at $350,000,000 a year. That is high tribute to pay a disease. It is particularly high tribute to pay a preventable disease. Even so, it is only a small part of the cost of tuberculosis. The worst toll exacted by this disease cannot be computed in dol lars and cents. It is paid for in suffering, in the pain of separa tion for months, perhaps years, from loved ones, in the sense of frustration when careers are interrupted. The costliness of tuberculosis lies in the fact that it is a chronic, long term, communicable disease. These characteristics explain both the financial burden and the physical and emotional suffering it causes. ? TB has a slow onset, thus too frequently it is not recognized and diagnosed until it has a firm hold on its victim. Recovery is then a slow process. During the period when the patient is un der treatment, he is deprived of normal family life, of earning a livelihood, of following a chosen vocation. Yes, TB comes high. Better, far better, than paying the cost of TB would be preventing TB. This is not an impossible task. We know that if all the peo ple who have TB but who are unknown to health authorities ? and it is estimated there ^ire at least 250,000 in this country ? were diagnosed and placed under proper treatment, within a rea sonable time we could eradicate TB, and, eventually, the tremen dous cost it exacts. For the sake of our financial and human resources, it is ob viously sound economy to prevent TB. And each of us can help bring this costly disease under control by supporting the cam paign against TB in our community. Through Christmas Seals, we can cut down the tribute to TB. Sou'easter By Captain Henry I don't know what we would do if our alphabet didn't have an X. By itself it spells more words than two or even three letters in* some cases. Look at Xmas, X X X at the end of a letter means kisses. X always marks the spot, there are X roads, and at the newspaper office one day I learned that an X through printed matter means "kill." X makes the vowels look like pikers. All America blossomed out in miniature Hopalong Cassidys Mon day morning. Hopalongs, most of them, were "busting two-wheeled broncs while their sisters in tooled boots and all the trappings were incongruously clinging to organdy f rocked dolls with silky, marcelled hair, Roller skates whirred, their wheels spinning in air more than they spun on the ground. It was an all-out Christmas ? for many felt as though this Christmas,* perhaps, may be the last one before a restricted way of living makes gathering of families and other holiday customs impossible during several Christmases to come. This season of the year has been ado d by the fatihless as well :>s I k' faithful. It sheds a light which can encompass all people j hut only the few feel the real warmth of the glow and only through those who believe can the true meaning of the birth of Christ be interpreted to the world. Who dares to lay the fact of the birth of a Saviour against a dis illusioned world, against the boom of cannon, against weariness, dis trust, fear? It requires a courage born of faith and love. I In several days f*e -new^ear be* 'ins. How fast time run# out! An other volume has been added to the history of the world. You and I had a part in writing it. You and I, t6o, will help to write the next one. The story we would like to he told depends on how even the least of us, my brethren, ?treat our fcllownien. Covering the Waterfront By Aycoek Brown Hatteras Inlet, N. C. Christ mas Eve came on Sunday this year. It came on Sunday in 1899 when the British tramp steamer, Aristo, a 2,265 ton schooner rigged vessel hilling from Glasgow, Scotland, stranded near the old Ocracokc Life Saving Station to become the worst maritime disaster of the year. Out of the crew of 30 only nine were saved and the official report of the disaster described it as "the most calamitous because entirely needless, loss of life during the entire year, or Indeed for many recent years in the history of the Life Saving Service." Harkers Island ? born Matthew Outline, one of the surfmen in the crew of the station which in later years was to be rebuilt and des ignated as Hatteras Inlet by the Coast Guard, was trudging through the alushy sand on the South Pa trol when he discovered the dim outlines of a ship's hulk in the surf ahead He also sighted the diatresa rockeU fired from the ship and immediately answered the sig nal by his Coston light. The sea was running high and a biimard of gale force did not help matters. The sttrf was running over the high water mark. It was tough going walking against the driving (leet and snow but soon Onthrie was back at the station to report the ship in the breakers. David Williams, the north patrol man, having discovered the wreck, likewise returned to the station, to find his comrades already moving to the scene of the wreck with res cue equipment. Aboard the Aristo the situation was in a slate of confusion. First thought of Capt. R. It Baines and his officers was that the ship had struck the dreaded Diamond Shoals. In those days when a vessel struck these shoal* off Cape Hatteras the first thought was to abandon ship. And that is what 21 of the crew { members were attempting to do when the lifeboat in which they hoped to reach safety overturned in the mountainous surf. The few members of the crew who remained aboard the ship were rescued short ly after day break. The Aristo had not struck the dreaded shoals, she had hit the reef within a stone's throw of the beach. Those in the crew who attempted to reach safety in the ship's life boat were lost. Several of the bodies were discovered during the day and they were given a Christ ian burial atop a dune in the vicin ity. Bodies continued to come ashore here on Ocracoke Island, at Portsmouth and on nearby Hatter as Island until late January. Assisting the Ocracoke life sav ers in the rescue were crewmen of Durant's station at Hatteras. The survivors remained here and at Hat teras for several days . . . Late in the afternoon of Christina! Eve Chief Engineer Warren returned to his quarters aboard the Aristo to get a package. It contained fruit cake from his family in England. Many of the surfmen at the sta tioned here tasted fruit cake for their first time when it was cut on Christmas Day. CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-T1MCS Carteret Newspaper ? A Merger or THE BEAUFORT NEWS (Bat. UUI THE TWIN CITY TIME* (Bat. MM) Published TuMliyi aaO nttayi By THE CARTERET PUBUSHINO COMPANY. INC. Lockwood Phillip* ? Pubiuheri ? Eleaaore D car PhilMpi Ruth Leckey Peeling, Executive Editor ~ Pu blishing Office At 564 Arendell St., Morthcad City, N. C. a? I tba abova mm ml cuuntlem $? 00 one year 9190 tlx month* ; 93.01 An* Btwil 91.00 on* month. ? 4?oclatetf Fraas ? Gr* ? If. C. PM AMMm I And* Rtrmi J OwmatloM Enured u Nowd CM Mnttar at More head CBjr. N. C ^ U? ar Act of March 3. 1TT9 ^ xsmasr " THE MAN AND HIS WIFE WHO CAME TO DINNER I > INFLATION . I ' .7 , HIGHER" TAXES In The Good Old Days THIRTY THREE YEARS AGO | President Woodrow Wilson pro claimed that the government had seized the railroads and would op erate them for the duration of the war. Beaufort citizens held a meet ing to decide whether or not to complete the water and sewerage systems. It was decided to con tinue the work. TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO The barge Hammond, rescued a week ago. left Beaufort Christmas eve, making it necessary for the salvors to take action against her. She was stopped at Southport, bond was arranged, and the matter was to come up in Federal court. According to a new ordinance it was now hmlawful to chum or its by-products through the streets of .Beaufort. TEN YEARS AGO | Congressman G. A. Barden re j ported that $143,000 had been al | lotted the Carteret-Craven REA, j which meant that 90 per cent of the homes in the county would | soon have electric power. Capt. O. W. Chadwick, who for 15 years had run the Harkers Is land ferry, was relieved of his du ties by the State Highway depart ment. FIVE YEARS AGO Four Morehead City men, J. V. N?*w* from BAY VIEW Dec. 20. ? The Christmas pro grams will be given Friday eve ning at Mt. Pleasant, F. W. B church, Saturday evening at Gra ham'* chapel and Bay View Bap tist Church Sunday evening. Ev eryone is invited to attend these services Mr. and Mrs. KUby Haakett spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Conway of Hu bert Rev. and Mrs. W. M. Watkins spent list week with relatives in Wayne and Johnson county. We all hope that Mrs. James Skinner who is on the sick list will soon be better. Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Haskctt and daughter, Brenda Joyce, of Have lock spent Sunday with their par ents. Mr. and Mrs. James Wadd,ell of Havelock spent a while Sunday with Rev. and Mrs. Watkins. I Mrs. P.D. Smith ot Maysville spent Monday night with Mrs. Gilford Cannon. Mrs. Thomas Haakett and Mrs. Gilford Cannon spent Tuesday in New Bern. Mr. and Mrs. B. G. Lewis and daughter, Darlene spent Sunday witk Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Small. Mr. and Mrs. Gilford Cannon ?pent a while in Maysville Sunday. Several from the community at tended the concert given at the Newport school gym Sunday after noon. Mease on the Mere Moose Jaw, Sask? (AP>? An 18 room farmhouse was moved 12S ?IMS to Moose Jaw in 24 horn Two linemen accompanied the mov ing crew to clear overhead line*. The heoae was settled on its new to? dstlims with no damage ex esgt a tow broken window' panes. rwkvn Uithrr it of Waters, Paris Willis, J. T. Willis, and Dick Williams were safe at home after drifting for a day and a night in a 12-foot dinghy. They left Morehead City early Christmas day, and finally drifted to Topsail Inlet in the dinghy after being forced to abandon their schooner yacht at Frying Pan shoals. They were lost for three days, while an intensive air and sea search was being made for them. Indians Seek Model For Mahalma Gandhi Shrine New Delhi ? (AP) ? Indian lead ers are studying models of the Lin coln and Washington monuments in Washington and Moscow's Red Square tribute to Lenin in their search for a suitable shrtne for Mahatma Gandhi. Preliminary plans call for a shrine of 100 acres covering the area of the Rajghat? burning pyre ?where nearly 100,000 Indians watched their idol's body turned to ashes. New* fati HARLfctft =r=! V Dec. 18 ? Mr. and Mrs. Ash by B. Morton attended Mr. and Mra. M. D. Taylor'* golden anniversary in New Bern Sunday. December 10 at the Woman's club. Mrs. Mor ton. neice of Mr. Taylor directed the guests to register. Mrs. Gordon Becton, Mrs. Luke Turner and Mrs. W. Kuch Will iams were in New Bern Wednes day. There will be a Christmas pro gram and Christmas tree Sunday evening Dec. 34 at the church. Mrs. George W. Ball and Mra. Charlie Bell aocompanied by Mrs. Earl Dickinson of Core Cr^tk spent Tuesday in New Bern. Mrs. Aahby B. Morton was in New Bern Monday. Mrs. Burney L. Wltherington of Vanceboro motored down Tues day afternoon to bring her mother. Mrs. W. C. Williams home. Mrs. James L. Smith of Bach elor passed through Tuesday SB route to New Bern. Mr. and Mrs. Bar) Creech were In Beaufort Wednesday to see pr. Moore. Mr. Creech entered Morehead City hospital for treat ment. Philip and Frank Taylor spent last Sunday in Warrenton with Mr. and Mrs. Scott Gardner. Mrs. Carl H. Morton was in New Bern Wednesday. She was ac companied by Mr. and Mrs. Hobart Kelly of Beaufort. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Becton and Mr. and Mrs. Claude Taylor o! Bachelor passed through last Sun day enroute to New Bern to at tend the golden anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Taylor. Rev. J. M. Jolliff of Newport held services hsre Sunday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Butner and Mr. and Mrs. Blivins of Havelock attended church services here Sunday. Mrs. M. C. Taylor and Mrs. J. T. Hardesty were in New Bern Sat urday. Mr. and Mrs. Aahby B. Morton. Mrs. Earl Creech and M/Sgt. Harlea I Earnest visited Earl Creech Wed nesday evening at the Morehead City hospital. Xenophon Mason, member of the Mtioaal guard af Fort Bragg, ?peat the weekend here. *l Aahby B Morton and Mrs EartoCroMh apent Thunday morn ing in New Bern Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Tolson, Mr. and Mra. Lionel Conner, Wal lace Conner, Mr. and Mra. Wal ter Guy Temple and sons. Gary and Floyd attended the sixtieth wedding anniversary of Mr. and i Mrs. Levi Taylor at their home at Bachelor Sunday, Dec. 17 and Dew- ' ey Taylor celebrated his birthday f Mrs. Lottie Adams and Mrs. Sadler Morton spent Saturday New Bern. Mrs. Rupert Hardest}' entered | the Morehead City hospital (or u> appendectomy Sunday afternoon.,} Mrs. Ash by B. Morton and M^t Earle Creech are in Morehead Civ today, Monday. Mrs A. N. Bell. Mrs. W Kuch WUliams were in Beaufort Monday afternoon. t COMPLETE INSURANCE PROTECTION 4 John L. Crump Insurance ? Real Estate PHONE 6-4000 823 ARENDELL ST. MOREHEAD CITY Save Time! j Bank From Your Car! Here'* the new way to save time and step*. Bank from the window of your car! Ju*t drive up to our special teller'* window, do your banking and drive away. This service it free to all our depositors. Drive up today I First-Citizens Bank & Trust Co. 8&S Arendell St. Morehead City, N. C. Phone 6-4151 MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORP. 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