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Carteret County News -Times A Merger of The Beaufort News (est. 1912) and The Twin City Times (est. 1936) EDITORIAL PAGE TI1SDAY, FEB. 6, 1951 Another Typical Action . . . Inconsistence and poor logic are the earmarks of the order that the Beaulort fire department shall answer fire alarms to nearby industrial concerns and to river's Island while homes located beyond the town limits and representing a large amount of wealth, receive no consideration at all. According to the town's view of the matter, it is felt that Duke university on Fiver's Island and the fisheries laboratory operated by the federal government, as well as industrial con cerns. can afford to pay whatever the cost may be for fighting a fire, whereas it is considered doubtful that a homeowner would be able to pay a like cost. As far as we can determine, no Highland Park or Ann street extended homeowner, regardless how much he can guarantee in dollars and cents, is entitled to have the fire department answer a call to his home. Should he take out a special type of insurance policy which would guarantee payment to a municipal fire department for answering a call on the out skirts of town, even this would not be considered as proof enough to town officials that the homeowner would be able to pay the cost of fighting a fire. The persons most concerned about this situation are the ones who paid $10 during Beaufort's recent campaign to col lect funds from out -of-t owners to help meet expense of an swering calls beyond the town limits. Because the minimum number did not participate in this program, those who did want to participate had their money thrown back at them and now nobody gets protection. The Beaufort planning board warned town commissioners that homeowners who wanted to share the expense but then would be excluded from the privilege of fire, protection (if enough people didn't pay), would become angry. But the town board didn't listen to the planning board; it didn't ac cept. in the first place, the planning board's proposal on the out-of-town fire situation and now the very thing is happening which the planning board predicted. Extending the town limits would be the answer to the lire protection matter and it is hoped that with efforts of the planning board the extension problem will soon be solved. But hope of forcing out of-towners into the town by arbitrar ily withdrawing protection from homes, while granting it to industries and IMver's Island, is a mercenary means to attain the desired end. 11 a fire would break out today on Front st. extended ? a blaze that would threaten to sweep away as many as 20 homes firemen. according to the present order, would not budge. Actually, the fire department with its booster tank would be of little help in a fire of that nature unless it could pump water from Taylor's creek. And secondly, there would prob ably come a magnanimous edict from town powers-t hat-be ordering the fire department "in this emergency to speed to the distressed area!" Without water mains and fire hydrants, we can't see that the fire department can do much good out of town, but if a homeowner wants "protection" and can offer the town indi cation. either by sworn statement or otherwise, that he can pay for such protection, we fail to see the present fire order as other than discriminatory and unjust. ItPqysOff , . / The advertising division of tlift'BtpM'liiiiit of Conservation and Development keeps North Carolina folks posted on its aetivities. For example, it frequently gets requests from out of-state residents for certain types of property available lor purchase in our state and forwards them to newspapers or the proper agencies in the towns concerned. A New Yorker and a resident of New Jersey specif icially referred to Morehead City in recent requests addressed to the State Advertising division, They, along with other inquirers, have been sent by the state agency general information on North Carolina plus a list of the state's chambers of com merce. One writer asked for "information on farms in the area around Morehead City ? for fruit growing and small farming near good fishing." Another writer said, "Husband's asth matic condition improved during vacation at Morehead City last year." She's interested in a small farm or business in this section. Frequently it's impossible to point to direct results from the efficient operation of state-maintained bureaus. The above inquiries, handled by the Board of Conservation and Develop ment's advertising division, indicate that this division is di rectly responsible, in many instances, for channelng to local chambers of commerce requests for information that eventual ly mean new business, new capital, and new tax-paying resi dents in our own communities. The Boy Scouts March On February, a month of notable birthdays, sees the celebra tion of a "birthday" in which all Americans can properly join. Boy Scout Week, Feb. 6 to 12, reminds us that one of Amer ica's largest youth organizations has reached another mile stone. The Boy Scouts of America has reached its forty-first anni versary. Since Feb. 8, 1910, more than 17,750,000 American boys and men have been influenced by the Scout oath and law. They have benefited by using their leisure-time energies in outdoor living and activities of cultural and practical val ues which lead boys to become dependable men. Today oyer 2,750.000 boys and men are actively enrolled in over 75,000 different units. Fortunate indeed are com munities where Scouting flourishes. American adults of good character give generously of their time to give leadership. Others help by raising funds and are members of local Boy Scout councils which in turn provide training for leaders, camp facilities, worthwhile year-round activities, personal ad vancement and opportunities for Scouts to render community service. In celebration of this birthday, the Boy Scouts are engaged in a nationwide clothing collection to meet emergency needs abroad, are stepping up their training for Civil Defense and are promoting greater interest in conserving the nation's nat ural resources. We sincerely wish the Boy Scouts many more happy birth days and continual growth in their marvelous' program. Sculptured Snow Every vacant lot that furnished an adequate supply of snow vii the site of a snowman Sunday. ? Sofae fellows had hats on their heads, others the traditional piece* of coal for eyes, nose, and mouth, and one incongruous individual even had Spanish moss for hair. Strangely enough, they all looked like Congressmen. Happy people are those who are producing something. ?Dean Inge SPLENDID VVpLENdTdI [ I 1 . Sou'easter BY CAPTAIN HKNRY Lois of youngsters saw snow for the first timr Saturday, enough snow to make snowmen and snow balls of! Driving was risky business and for the first time since the last speil Of bad weather, every speed limit in the county was prob ably "observed." Some homeown ers suffered loss of windows from swiftly-propelled well-packed mis sies. Speaking of broken windows, I was wondering if the government would replace all the windows thai, have been broken in Las Vegas, Ncv., and surrounding areas due to waves ol air pressure from atom ic bomb tests. II the government would initiate such action, it would be JfttyU'US for bvety broker! window, T^nitH shattered, or rock4>usted. Trying to collect from Uncle Sam for a window broken as the result of atom bomb tests would, no doubt, be a bigger pane than re placing it one's self. I wonder if it has ever dawned on the Goldsboro chamber of coin mercc that by taking the '1 out of Gold sbort) il would be Godsboro. There have been rumors to I ho effect that a four-lane highway is going to be built from New Bern lo Cherry Point. Could be, but il would seem more logical to me, that should such a plan be in the mak ing, it is one that would involve completion of such a highway all the way to our locale. The Beaufort Choral club gave a nice concert the other night. Mrs. Hassell is an excellent accompanist. 1 know she directs the chorus, hut the** aocompauj^ and accom "Moht a}? awful there mifefe gbo(f ones. She's nne?0fe t?eorge Dill came bouncing home from Raleigh the first or second weekend with the information that in capital circles, The News and Observer is better know" as "Scott's tissue." In The Good Old Days TIIIRTY-TIIREE YEARS AGO The county board of commission ers created a new township, Har lowe, at their February meeting. The Beaufort graded school had re-opened after being closed for a month whifc repairs were made to the heating apparatus. TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO A. L. Brooks and E. S. Parker, jr., both of Greensboro, and W. G. Mcbane of Beaufort had purchased Town Marsh for an unannounced sum. and there was hope that it would be made into a residential suburb. Plans were underway for an or chestra, composed of amateur musical talent, to be organized in Beaufort. TEN YEARS AGO Smyrna school was assured of a new building which would serve as classroom and auditorium. F. W. Heslep, formerly with Joe House Drug store, had gone to Bell's drug store, where he suc ceeded Clarence Guthrie, who with David Jones had opened a drug store in New Bern. FIVE YEARS AGO A quick freeze plant, with capi tal of $100,000 was to be erected in Beaufort. W. John Price would be vice-president and general man ager. A delegation of 40 Crab Point ers met with the county commis sioners to ask that their road be paved. W? Wilt/ * 4f*frvnu/e>t4ato/ /95f BOY SCOUTS Oi AMERICA COVERING THE WATERFRONT By AYCOCK BROWN Corolla, N. C. ? This area was once the scene of many maritime disasters. That is why Currituck Beach Lighthouse with its 160,000 candle power light, 163 feet above the level of the nearby ocean was erected in 1875. It was establish ed to fill a dangerous unlighted gap between Cape Henry to the north and Bodie Island to the south, where south-bound ships in the days of sail kept well inshore to avoid the north-flowing rips of the Gulf Stream in its swing to the eastward. Locally, from the time its beacon first flashed a warning to mariners off shore the light has been known as Whales Head. Ironically as it may seem, al though the structure was erected to prevent shipwrecks, the worst maritime disaster to ever occur a Idng the Ncrth Carolina coast hap pened on January 31, 1878. just three years after the lighthouse was first commissioned and about three miles south of the unpaint ed brick tower. This was the wreck of the double masted steamship Metropolis bound from Philadel phia to Brazil laden with 500 tons of railroad iron, machinery and 200 tons of stores. Aboard also were 215 passengers, Irish and American railroad workers enroute to South America to help build a railroad. The tragic wreck cost the lives of 148 persons aboard. Nothing remains along the beach today to remind one of the wreck. Many of the residents in this Cur rituck Banks community cannot even lemember the date of the dis aster. An old Whaleshead Lodge guest book now owned by Ray Adams at his magnificent estate here makes an occasional reference to employees of the club finding another body on the beach, the body of a person lost in the Me tropolis wreck, in the weeks that followed the disaster. The annual Treasury Department reports of its U. S. Life Saving Service (which was later (o be known as Coast Guard) give many details of the Metropolis* wreck. But the Dest account, and eas iest to read article about the wreck of the Metropolis appeared as a full page featift^ in Victor Meek ins' Coast land Times, published down at Manteo, in the current is sue. Meekins has been doing a marvelous job from week to week in featuring various shipwrecks as they were reported in the old rec ords. He makes popular reading or what otherwise is usually a dull report of a ship foundering or stranding. The Times story reprinted a graphic description of the wreck by a Dr. Green, one of the survi vors: . t ?"The old coffin was rolling from side to side, the breakers dashing in from every side tearing her to pieces, cabin windows stove in, skylights gone, and at every surge of the ship a heavy sea poured in throwing all into confusion Dozens who were on their knees only had time to commence their prayers before they were piled and smothered or pinched from one end of the cabin to the other; we all had our lifebelts on waiting a horrible doom; all expected to be lost; the night was intensely dark, the waters were pouring in upon us." "As the vessel hit the beach an officer shouted. "Men! Save your self if you can." Old "Whaleshead" was flashing its warning on that terrible night? but no warning could have kept the leaky old Metropolis, fast fill ing with water, from its doom. What's Going to Happen? By fhomas H. ( arrow Everybody is worried about what is going to happen in the world and especially in their own coun try. Everybody feels as if some thing catastrophic is inevitable and that the stage is already set for it. All that is necessary to start the show, it seems, is to raise the curtain. There is apparent a determina tion on the part of a big section of the human race to impose its ideologies, its rule, upon the rest of mankind. This is not a unique phenomenon in history. Since time immemorial particular countries have done so and some have been temporarily successful. Now, what are the more apparent things that bespeak trouble a head? The first and most import ant are the techniques of war. Means of destruction have been de veloped and actually demonstrated to such an inordinate degree that instead of mere war and partial devastation as in times past, there is not only the possibility, but the stark probability, if not certainty, of literal annihilation of big seg ments of several nations at the same time. This is what worries pec pie. Even if annihilation does not eventuate the result will be horrible. Destruction will be wrought in a different manner and on a tremendously bigger scale than in any other war. In past wars, as. for example, in the American civil war, only a small proportion of the population were maimed and killed and only a small part of the resources and means of production were destroy ed. making it possible in time to restore the economy and rehabil itate the population. Now. the world is confronted with the possibility of a repetition of a hundred Hiroshimas ? the utter (Jest ruction of vast cities en masse. Boston, New York. Phila delphia, Baltimore, Washington, Miami, New Orleans. Los Angeles, San Francisco. Portland, each one can be destroyed in one fell swoop of an A-bomb. The bridges across the rivers and the tunnels under the rivers and through the moun tains can be put out of commis sion. Transportation can be com pletely stopped and food cut off in large areas. All these things can happen. All these things will happen if the enemies of the Unit ed Stales deem it possible and nec essary to achieve their purpose, the domination of the world. Dm not the United States as a last resort destroy Hiroshima? Did not Germany in two wars try and partially succeed in destroying Lon don and Stalingrad? Would not Germany have starved England in to submission if she (Germany) had had. say 100 additional subma rines at the beginning of World War I? Who knows what re sources Russia may have now to accomplish what Germany failed, by a very small margin, to ac complish? What is going to happen? There is no exact answer. But there are a number of plausible conjectures. Further action in Korea is cer tain. The extent cannot be pre dicted. While it would have been possible to have vanquished the North Koreans, it is not possible to carry a successful war to China. The situation, even in Korea, at this writing is ominous. Russia, al ready helping the North Koreans, and China will extend her help to the extent necessary to prevent, if possible, the United Nations, which means the United States, from be ing victorious. Even if the United Nations are victorious in Korea the result at best will be a white elephant on the hands of the United States and a drain in which it will be neces sary to pour millions of dollars, as in the Philippines, Germany and Japan. Regardless of what eventuates in Korea, the festering situations in various other parts of the world will come to a head in due course. How long it will be no one can guess. But the nature of a fester is that it ultimately comes to a head and bursts. At this time it is not possible to say where the clouds of the world are darkest or where the storm will break first, or whether it will be wind, rain, thunder, lightning, heat or cold or all the possible ele ments of storms combined. One thing is certain, it is not going to be just a summer squall. It is possible that if either side, Russia or the U. N.(U.S.) starts td drop A-bombs, the other side will immediately do likewise. If there are enough bombs available, neith er side will stop dropping them until one or the other surrenders or is knocked out. Russia or China will not stop because of the loss of life. Ten million lives will mean nothing to them if by losing them they can win. It is probable that any means of warfare other than A-bomb9 or something equivalent would not a chieve victory for either side in years. A-bombs probably will. If America does not soon use the A-bomb and Russia has facili ties for making them it is more than probable that she will use them as soon as she determines the time is ripe for doing so. When two dogs fighi, each one tries to get the death grip, a hold on the' throat, first. When it comes to an imperative necessity to do or die, one side or the other is going to use not only the A-bomb, but every other instrument of war that will give any slightest promise of vic tory. ' The possibility of resolving dif ferences between Russia and the U.N. (U.S.) is frightfully remote be cause Russia will never stop short of her demands being met and the U.N. (U.S.) will take the same po sition. Compromise is impossible on either side. Communism (Rus sia) is not and never will be will ing to let democracy survive and expand. Democracy can never be Milling to accept communism. Rus sia's aim and fixed determination is to force communism upon, the rest of the world. The aim of the U.S. is to make it possible for other countries of the world to embrace and enjoy de mocracy if they choose. This puts Russia on the offensive and the U.S. on the defensive. Russia can and probably will strike where she wills. The U.S. cannot be prepar ed for every possible attack. Hence the disadvantageous position of the U.S. The U.S. could have put Russia in any place she might have seen fit at the end of the war and with out too much sacrifice. This prob ably would have been done if the present situation had been visual ized in advance. But the spread of communistic influence and the great development of Russia's re sources was not anticipated by the United States. Since the fighting war was con cluded there were possibilities with the A-bomb to have driven Russia back behind her own boundaries. But this was not done although some people felt that it was neces sary, as it has turned out to be. The United Nations organiza tion may have delayed war. It ap parently can not stop it. If an ex panded war' is to take place it is possible that then it would have been to the advantage of the Unit ed States to have gone to war earl ier. In which case the U.N. has served no purpose. It is now evident that Russia, even in World War II, had no in tention to abandon her purpose to propoxate communism throughout the world. On the contrary her increased strength has accentuated her determination to carry out her plans. She has .become more and more audacious and outspoken, all of which shows she is biding her time to strike. Russia is pitted against the U.S., England, Canada, France and a number of other countries. These countries have the greatest facili ties for production. But the Rus sian sphere of influence has by far the greatest population, in cluding both white and colored races. The colored races are in the overwhelming majority. The poten tials of the colored races in all di rections, especially in war, is un eslimabte. The longer global war is defer red, the better the Russian and col ored races will be equipped and qualified to fight. Even if Amer ica beat the world, the world would be on her hands, like Germany and Japan is at the present time. Now coming back to the original question? What is going to hap pen in the world? A full answer is impossible. But it is a tertainty that Russia will continue to work and fight, if necessary, to establish communism among the nations of the earth, with some possibility of her intention to rule the earth. Hitler had this in mind! The United States is not going to give up de mocracy nor cease helping other nations to achieve it. Most of all the United States will not be domi nated by Russia. Thus, everything outlined here points to one certainty, namely, that trouble for America is in the offing. Just what the nature and the extent of the trouble will be no one can safely predict. The worst that can happen is the de struction of our people and gur property on a tremendous scale. The least that can happen is con tinued bickerings between Russia and the U.N. (U.S.) with unpre cedented preparation for war, and all the deprivations that accompany it. Russia will never abandon com munism nor her determination to impose it ifron the rest of the world. The United States will nev er abandon democracy and her de termination to aid other peoples to embrace it. This creates a cleav age that it is apparently impossible to remove at any time in the near future. SMILE AWHILE A bee has a stinger actually .03125 inches long. The other 25 inches is strictly imagination. F THEY MAKE NEWS 1 HAVE $0 FEARS, U. S. stamp collectors. If Congress has its way there will be a "deluge of stamps upcoming for 1951. So far stamps have been suggested, in the form of bills introduced by the law mak ers, to commemorate the follow ing: John James AUdubon, Hey wood Broun, Theodore Roosevelt, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, The American Chemical Society, the Disabled American War Veterr ans. Serpent Mound in Adams County. Ohio, and the 175th anni versary of the Battle of Brooklyn. The last mentioned bill is for a Revolutionary War battle long be fore the founding of the National Baseball League. TO COMMEMORATE the 100th anniversary of the death of Josef Bern, Hungary and Polan:! have both issued new stamps. Bern (1749-1850* was a Polish soldier who was prominent in the Polish War for Independence and later served under Kossuth. In 1849 he led an Army that was defeated by the Russians but he managed to escape by feigning death. He then STAMPS fled to Turkey, adopted Moham mendanism. and under the name of Murad Pasha served as governor of Aleppo. Here, at the risk of his life, he saved the Christian population from being massacred by the Moslems and here he died a few months later. The new stamps bear a portrait of Bern and scenes of his battles. TO HONOR the formal opening and installation of officers of the Ryukyuan University, the Ryukyus Islands will issue a special 3 yen red brown stamp. The central de sign of the stamp depicts the Uni versity silhouetted against the his toric Shuri Castle which was de st roved during World War II. On the left is the Ryu (dragon) which was formerly in front of the Shuri castle. ALBANIA has issued new air mail stamps, reports the New York Stamp Co. The 50 quinlar grey and 5 lek green lepict a plane flying over a small town located on a hillside. The 10 lek blue and 1 f PU8UKA -PflfaitOft E 5Hu!P?R!SE lek brown illustrate a plane flying over the general hilly countryside. The 2 lek blue and 20 lek violet show a plane flying over a harbor town. A SERIES OF ARTIC LES on the postal history of Puerto Rico which appeared in "The American Phila telist" between 1939 and 1943 has now been published in book form by the American Philatelic Society. The work is by the well known specialists R. B. Preston and M. H. Sanborn. The coverage is from the pre-stamp period through the 1871 issue. A brief outline of the gen eral historical background of the area forms an introduction. CZECHOSLOVAKIA has issued two new stamps designed by Pablo Picasso, reports the American Ber olina Co. Pictured on these stamps is Picasso's "Dove of Peace." That's the theme of these adhesives. The 2 koruna is blue and the 3 koruna is red brown. Picasso's signature appears in the lower right hand corner of each stamp. COLOMBIA has issued three new 1 stamps to publicize its agricultural communities. The stamps bear the ! same denomination, 5 centavos, but have different colors ? red, 1 blue and green. ? Kronish CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES Carteret C ounty's Newspaper A Merger of THE BEAUFORT NEWS (Est. 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (Eat. 1936) Published Tuesdays and Fridays By THE CARTHRET PUBLISHING COMPANY. INC. Lockwood Phillips ? Publishers ? Eleanore Dear Phillips Ruth Leckey Peeling, Executive Editor Publishing Office At 504 Arendell St., Morehead City, N. C. Mall Rates: In Carteret County. $6.00 one year. $3.50 six months. $1.25 one month; elsewhere, $7.00 one year. $4.00 six months. $1.50 one month. Associated Press ? Greater' Weeklies ? N. C. Press Association Audit Bureau of Circulations Entered as Second dass Matter at Morehead City. N. C. Under Act of March 3. 1879 The Associated Presa Is entitled exclusively to use for republication of local news printed In this newspaper, as well as all AP news dispatches.
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