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Carteret County lews-ftps A Merger Of The Beaufort Newt <esl. Kit) * The Twin CUy Timet (est. 1936) FRIDAY, DEC. 23, tiftO 1951 in Carteret Conn y The coming year will see Carteret county caught up in the whirl of increased military activity at nearby military bases and we will inexperience the years ot the second world war with some variations. Kather than abnormal, this military activity will probably extend over a per icl of years and soon We Will be able to recall nothing else. Million-dollar spending by the federal government on con struction at both Cherry Point and Lcjcunc will tend to make up ior the decline in private building activity in this area which will be curtailed to a large extent because of lack of materials. Not only will fewer homes be built in 1951 but non-essential commercial building will go by the board. For example, the re cent federal clamp down on erection of buildings for amusement purposes has thrown the hooks into a proposed new theatre for Morehead City. In spite of the fact that this theatre, to be built by Stewart Everett on Arendell near 7th, has been talked of for many years, it looked, during the latter part of 1850, that something was fi nally going to be done. Then the federal regulation came along. Efforts will be made, however, in the early part of 1951 to convince federal authorities that the theatre is essential here be cause of the proximity of the Marine base. The talking point would be that the men should have access to better entertainment facilities when they get several hours leave. As for the Morehead City port, 1951 will not see completion of all port facilities. Dredging of the channel to 35 feet, which would be carried out by the Army engineers and federal appro priation, requires much palaver and preparation before the actual work begins. As for warehouses and storage sheds, bids will probably be asked in 1951. Unless super effort is. exerted and pressure is brought to bear through the country's military pre paredness program, 1952 is a more likely year for the port to be gin to resemble engineers' drawings. Usually when construction projects are underway, local busi ness benefits from the laborers' payroll. If local labor can be found by the contractors, the businessman's benefit is proportion ately greater. But as has been the case in the past, the con tractors will find it practically impossible to stir local labor from its wintertime non-fishing siesta. Living costs will continue high. Food, clothing, rent will eat up the greater part of the pay check. Credit controls will cut the demand for automobiles and household equipment of which there may be an increasing shortage since industries which manufactur ed products for domestic consumption will be filling war contracts. Beaufort's tax rise which takes effect in 1951 is following a nation wide trend in a rise in taxes. Increased federal taxation is another means of curbing inflation. Putting controls on prices as an inflation check has long been anticipated by the people, but the administration seems to be bidding for greater production of materials by luring higher production with higher prices. 1951 will see certain controls come into being, but widespread control or rationing will not occur unless steady war makes them neces sary. The year just dawning has a few more clouds on the horizon than the opening day of the year just past. But the sun is far from obscured. Man-made winds of wisdom can blow away the threats to peace and prosperity. And with faith and sincere hope for a better world, we wish each and everyone of you A Happy New Year. To Him Much Credit Is Out The highest officer of a newly organlze4 group, always faces a trying task. Bennie Rnyal Garner, retiring chief of the New port fire department, was given jusl such a task when he was chosen chiet of Newport's new fire department two years ago. Under his leadership the fire department has functioned well. The Newport Kural Fire Protection association was organized dur ing his tenure of office. Another truck for the purpose of fight ing out-of-town fires was purchased by the town and a garage was built to hotfse the equipment Chief Garner, wisely believing that a change in leadership would ke advisable and would benefit the department, declined re-election for 1951. Too many officials get the idea that their services are indispensable and by clinging jealously to an office kill the very organization they seek to perpetuate. Newport can be proud of its fire department. II fills a great need for the town arJ the surrounding farm country. Every volunteer fireman who offers his services to the department de serves highest commendation. Chief Garner can turn over his duties to the new chief, Charles Masters, with a feeling of pride in what he has so ably helped to achieve. Raleigh Round-up Bi?Jam?s H, Pou Bailey HOME FOR CHRISTMAS . . . Ra lelgh, like all slate and national capitals, is populated to a great ex tent by people whose old homes and close relatives are elsewhere. It would be interesting to know to what extent the population of this city shrinks during the last week of the year. Literally thou aands of Raleighites hie away "back home" tor the holidays. A large percentage of them maintain their legal voting residences at Ashe vllle, Monroe. Aalteboro. Elizabeth City. Manteo, Murphy. Haw River, and throughout the hundred coun ties that compoae this heaveubless ed commonwealth of ours. So laok for the folks. They will be home for a few days with old tried and true friends before the legislative storm of 1851 breaks down with full fury upon them. THEN AND NOW ... It hardly j seems like it, but a quarter of a century ?ro this month Meredith college held its last claim at its campus enclosed by the streets of Person, Edenton, Jones and Blount and movad to the present location just west of Halcigh. At that time there was some complaint from the angels that tha Baptist institution was moving too far out into the country. Today Raleigh is pushing hard against Meredith, and the col lege owns one of the most expen sive pieces of property in Eastern North Carolina. High on its water tank are splashed in bold white paint the words "Angel Farm," words placed there by visiting fire men from Wake Forest and State. The buildings left behind in Ra leigh as years ago are now used for apartments, a drycleaning plant, eating places, and little of the quiet charm which literally per meated the environs in the early year* of this century is left. An interesting item in this connection: CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES Carteret CwuUjr'i Newspaper A Mtrftf Qf I HAUFORT NEWS (Est. 1?U) and THE TWIN OUT TIMES (Eat 1??> Publubad Tuaaday* and FrMara By THE CARTERET PUBLISHING COMPANY. INC. Lock wood Phillips ? PublUhen ? Eleanor# Dear Pbillipa Ruth Lackey Peeling, Executive Uitor Publishing Offlce At 904 Arendtll St., liorehead City, N. C. aJSTE ,5v4sfl? A*oeUM CKy. N. C. off local TOUGH I HPS GOT TO BE TOUGH ! .?? i. -ri * ? .** . ?. ^ > John C. Memory, crack attorney for the N. C. Employment Security Commission, has the same room he slept in one night about 35 years ago when he was in Raleigh with his parents visiting a sister who was to graduate from Meredith. The president of Meredith col lege is Dr. Carlyle Campbell. He is a brother of Dr. Leslie Camp bell, who is president of Campbell college. Meredith is now regarded as one of the outstanding women's colleges in the South. It has an enrollment of 600 students chosen from the most apt high school grad uates. Mrs. Jim Reed, wife of the WPTF sports announcer, handles public relations for Meredith. She reports that "Good Housekeeping" in an issue last year listed the best four-year small colleges in the Na tion. On this honor roll were two North Carolina schools: Davidson ! and Meredith. Another listing was j carried, in a recont number of the j same magazine, and again only Davidson dhd Meredith made tfee | list from this State. '?VOLUNTARY CONTROLS" . . . Grapevine reports from Washing ton are to the effect that wage and price controls are being set up on a voluntary basis only to provide the Federal Government sufficient time to develop machinery in every state for rigid enforcement of con trols. During World War II, State of fices of OPA had a large staff in the Capital Club Building here. It would surprise very few people here if a similar# operation gets going around the first of March, with expansion and additional per sonnel as found necessary. ANOTHER RESIGNATION ... It is indeed a sorry month these days when some official of the State Government or some member of its various boards and commissions docs not fly the coop or get his walking papers. December has its Judge Luther Hamilton of Morehead City and Judge D. JS. Henderson of Char lotte. The Hamilton affair is prob ably a long way from settlement. Thought here is thai the Legisla ture may have a hand in its final disposition. Henderson has resigned from the State Board of Elections, where he served less than a year. Hender son's son, by the way. will be a member of the Meeklenburg Coun ty legislative delegation. Haywood Robbins, also a judge and also of Charlotte, succeeds Henderson and will likely be sworn In at a public hearing the State Board of Elections will hold on January 8 in Marshall in an effort to settle the terrific fight whieh has developed in Madison county between the Democrats and the Re publicans over certain ballots cast in the November election. Robbins no iioubt loves excitement, else he wduld not have accepted appoint ment to the State Board of Elec tions. This thing on January 8 will doubtless be only the forerunner of court action ? whatever the State Board of Elections may find. They say around Raleigh that Hender son resigned because of the mess in Madison. THE BOOING ... A visitor from another state, in Raleigh for a few days on business, attended the N. C. State-Michigan and N. C. State Villanova basketball encounters at the Reynolds Coliseum last week. He was particularly impressed with the coliseum. But he noted that each time one of the officials call ed a foul against a State player, a loud "boo" went up from the stands. Fouls against the visiting players were of course all right. 4 ? "What is the matter with the State college students?" asked the visitor. "I have never heard as much booing in ny life." Fie was told that Basketball Cofth Everett Case and some of the other State college coaches are frankly worried about so many cat calls at any little adverse decision. But blame for the booing last week could not be laid at the door of State college students. They were home for Christmas. The booing was done by "just folks" like him self and you and me. We have become a booing Nation. We boo the Governor, the President, the umpire, and anybody else who Nnnfraa Dec. 27 ? Mrs. Bruce Bareo Coinjock is home spending the hol idays with her pareftts, Mr. an<l Mrs. Wtlttr G(Mdwln. Mr. and Mrs. Do r wood Daniels of Florida are here spending the holi cumea along. It ia not a good al|n. On the other hand, it it a sharp. if Itl-mannered. indication of free dom tu express one's opinion. We seem ta be doing more of it all the lime. 1 HIGHWAY FRONT ... The State road system was part and parcel of several news items moving out of Raleigh last week. In the first place. Gov. Kerr Scott finally got around to doing what a lot of people had predicted as early as last January he would do: ask for more money for pri mary roads. He said North Caro lina needs $300,000,000 for its pri mary road system. The day follow ing this statement, the Highway Commission announced it is in the market for more road equipment. Bids will be opened on December 28 for about $1,000,000 work of ma chinery and heavy --tools, and on January 4 bids will be opened for 160 two-ton trucks and 30 pickup trucks. Bids totaling $3,378,870.19 were received by the State Highway Commission one day last week for IS road improvement projects. Low bids exceeded estimates by $38, 000. Add to these items the various recommendations from the Gover nor's Advisory Committee on High way Safety and you find a week full of highway news from Raleigh. NON-AGRICULTURAL . . . Tied 1 to the State Labor Department's! figures of last week showing that one out of four employed North j Carolinians is not working in agri cultural pursuits is a recent sur vey made by the American Wool and Cotton Reporter. This shows there are 7,208 textile plants in the United States, with 1,577 in the South Atlantic States and 886 right here in North Carolina. This state has more textile mills than any other state except Pennsylvania. of day* nUfc-Me Mr, and Mr*. A rite Daniels. Mr. and Mri. Morgan Goodwin, arrived home Saturday night from Norfolk where they spent sever al days last week. MissDeleii Daniels spent C(<fist-, inas at Williston visiting her aunt, Mrs. Fulfprd Willis. Mr. Divid Lupton af (he U. S. Coast Giard s petit the hplidays here visiting his (dtlwr. i M Mr. Irvin Lupton s^ent Christ mas at , Newport visiting his son, Clifton Lupton. Mrs. try Mmiejs of Norfolk i spent Christmas here visiting his i parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland Daniels. i , , Pfc. Edwin Daniels, USAF, left' OirwtniM ? D*y to return to station ia Tcxha. ?'He had several days be re visiting hi* ents, Mr. and Mrs. Arlie Danie II ins I test for and Wishes Prosperous HAPPY YEAR! BEAUFORT HARDWARE CO. Phone 2-4886 Merrill Bldg. Beaufort, N. C. ' YOUR HARDWARE SHOPPING CENTER" DR. J. 0. BAXTER, JRn OPTOMETRIST . . ; ?) h The Eye Only O '7 MERftlLL BUILDING BEAUFORT. N. C. S. A. CHALK, Jr. MUTUAL nSOIAMCE ACDtC? MIU First Citizens Bank Building Morehead City Phone 6-433AA/ SAVINGS FOR PREFERRED RISKS ...It! / ? " ? ' COMPLETE INSURANCE PROTECTION John L. Crump Insurance ? Real Estate PHONE 6-4000 823 ARENDELL ST. MOREHEAD CITY ' ? DIRECT AND F H A LOANS According To Plan When everything is going along according to plan you get the feeling that you have some control over your future. And that's especially true of financial planning. The easiest and best, way to make y?mr finances go accmdlng to plan Is through life Insurance. Life Insurance can guarantee a secure financial future! ? BRUCE L. GOODWIN I BOX 592 PHONE 8 3078 MOREHEAD CITY J Pilot Life Insurance Company, Greensboro, North Carolina 5 Look at the Typical Delivered Prices on 1950 Buicks Optional oquipmont, ?tot? and local taxot, if any, additional. Prlco* may vary tlightly in adjoining communi tioi duo to thipping chargM. All pricot ?ubjoct to chango without nqtico. MODIL 46D Buick SPECIAL 6-pa>i*n0?r S?dantt with d* lux# trim MODBL SCI luuk turtii 6-patMngtr 2 -doer ttvtora 4 \ MODIL 41D (lllo'*tr?t?d) Buick iptCIAl 6-paas?rtg?r 4-door Sedan with d? lux* trim > . .V ' 1 MODEL 72 R i.m tOADMAITEl t-paiMnjar 4-door Riviora Sodon >2266.50 >2105.50 '2901.50 frt ?*?<. ^-rn i up " ;*>M f r H it' pri f ui ,a?'v> . riri'irf ??? lulilin T i ? ? We think we ought td warn yofa ? this is the last time we aim to advertise these prices. . - ? i So you'd better take a careful look at them ?and what they ll buy. * " ** They'll buy the thrill af swift, smooth, spirited travel? and trigger-quick jjptyer $'o mighty that few Buick owners have ever pressed it to the limi^, - . , .. . ^ They'll buy sparkling style, spacious comfort and the durable, dependable, tittxe-HsfcS quality for which Buicks are famous. And when you check what you get for" what yon pay/youffjri&ke this discovery. On a poundsiper-dalthr basis? which is the engineers' yardstick of bedrock value ? no other cart of comparable dimensions can beat a Bulck Special, Super or Roadmaster. Or tobe ntore specific^Buiok's straight-eight Special ia priced like a six -and in the Rqadma#TFA "prjee claifc" ypu can pay ?J% or n?ore th*n you'fl pay for these great automobiles. ? ? 1 .3 > I But note this faets Our supply pf these bar gains ? limited? sp you'd better come in now and tee what we have on hand.
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