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Carteret County News -Times A Merger of The Beaufort News (est. 1912) and The Twin City Times (est. 1936) |?D1T0RIAI< page TUESDAY, FEB. 20, If 51 Exploring q Blood Bank Venture It was gratifying to learn that the new head of the Beau fort Red Cross chapter, the Rev. W. L. Martin, is interested n operation of a blood bank in this area. Because of the war, the necessity for supplies of blood, 30th for shipment overseas and for use here at home, has >ecome increasingly important. Craven county has almost perfected a blood bank program t started last year. That required the raising of close to ?4.000, and YV. II Wooters, executive secretary of the New *ern Red Cross chapter, states that expenses in connection vith operation of a blood bankwire rising constantly. .When New Bern and Craven county initiated its blood bank >roject, Carteret county was asked to cooperate. The matter *as taken before the Carteret County Medical society. Wheth 'r it was later decided that the project could best be financed ind operated in Crayen county alone, or whether other prob ems entered the picture, We have not been able to learn. Graven county and the Red Cross chapter there, plus New 3ern civic organizations have carried the ball and lack only i few yards from crossing the goal line. According to latest reports, more funds are needed for op eration ? and perhaps more human beings than Craven ?ounty can recruit will be needed for donors. It would be ?vise, we believe, before any Carteret county unit begins work >n a blood bank, that contact be made with New Bern to (iiscover whether they are still interested in Carteret county ooperation. Blood banks are expensive to set up and op rate and we doubt if our county would be able to finance uch a project, or whether the establishing of two banks, so lose to each other, would be the best move. Wooters states that the New Bern bank is the only one of ts type in the southeastern states, he nearest one to this area ^>eing at St. Louis. Mo. , A blood bank must be operated and co-sponsored by the local medical society and Dr. A. F. Hammond, jr.. of the ICraven County Medical society, has informc?d the New Bern (Red Cross chapter that action to start operation of the bank Eould be faken by the medical society before the last of this onth. It is extremely important, we understand, that the New crn Red Cross chapter raise $20,000 next month in its an nual campaign, to carry out full plans for operation of the &)lood bank. Perhaps a proposal of financial help from Car jteret county ? ^nd blood donors, in return for privilege of ?drawing on the New Bern bank, would be of interest to jWooters and his organization and the Craven County Medical society. I We believe the proposal is worth presenting. the Perpetual Mystery There is probably but one answer to (he faseination that Ihe weather holds for all of us . . . it's the only thing in the world that remains a mystery to every human being, be he world-renowned scientist or beggar. The weatherman can predict that snow will fall tomorrow, that an area of high pressure will prevail in our sector next week, but no one actually knows until it happens. Weather is the basis for conversation in awkward situations and among just so-so acquaintances. No one need to be a "brain" to comment "It's blowin' a .gale." and furthermore a .remark on the prevailing weather condition doesn't bring a stupid stare that conveys "What the blazes arc you talking about?" Late Saturday afternoon a heavy fog blanketed part of (he county. It lay close to the ground, strangely allowing a clear view upward to the stars and the rising moon. It aroused interest and conversation . . . here was a new scene, a new act in this constant parade of drama called weather. Our environment may be rainy one moment and sunny the next. No one can accurately predict. It's a mystery ? in consequential for the most part, but one that fascinates ruler and roustabout alike. fo Promote Cordeality Our guest editorialist today. In observance of Brotherhood Week, is Virginius Dabney, editor of the Richmond Timcs jDispatch. I Brotherhood Week, sponsored by the National Conference lot Christians and Jews, is in the great American tradition. fThls annual observance, designed to promote cordiality be tween Catholics, Protestants and Jews, harks back to colonial days and draws its inspiration from some of the most bril liant and honored names in our history. Roger Williams, New England pioneer in the cause of re ligious freedom, might be termed the spiritual ancestor of the Conference. It was Williams, a Protestant, whose un> orthodox views earned him the hatred of the Puritan theo cracy of Massachusetts Bay. In the desolate wilderness to which he had been driven by the Puritans, he founded the colony of Rhode Island on a basis of absolute freedom of re ligious worship. Here was one of history's truly important advances in the cause of both liberty and toleration. The fact that it occurred in an age when narrow clericalism was 10 widely dominant made it doubly impressive. At (bout the same time. Lord Baltimore, a Roman Catholic, founded the colony of Maryland, and decreed complete tol eration of all faiths. However, this decree was not so sweep ing as that of Roger Williams, which specified not only tol eration but freedom as well. Yet it was far in advance ot the restrictive systems which prevailed at the time in almost ?11 other countries. The next notable advance in promoting cordial relationships between persons of all faiths, was achieved through Georga Mason's Virginia Bill of Rights, the basis for the subsequently ?dopted Federal Bill of Rights. It declared that all men are ?ntitled to the free exercise of religion "according to the dic tates of conscience." Soon thereafter came the adoption by the Virginia Legisla ture of Thomas Jefferson's epochal Statute of Religious Free iom. This enactment, which passed only after a terrific ?truggle, was "the first detailed law in all human ordinances living perfect freedom of conscience." Jefferson said that it was designed "to comprehend, with the mantle of its pro tection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and the Ma tiometan. the Hindoo and the infidel of every denomination." Four years later, President George Washington addressed to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, R. I., the famous letter in which he said: -a "It ii now no more that toleration is spoken ot, as if it was V the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoy ed the exercise ot inherent natural rights. For happily the Sovernment of the United States, which gives to bigotry no unction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they irho live under its protection should demean themselves as good citiaens, in giving it on all occasions their effectual sup Thia quotation from George Washington might almost Mrra a* the alogan for Brotherhood Week. Certainly it expresa ? SIMS at the salient principles on whieh this annual obeerv inee, under the auapiees of the National Conference ot Chris tiana and Jews, la baaed. Here succinctly set forth by the Fath er of His Country, are the attitudes which tsday should guide 41 religious groups in their mutual relations. STICKS AND STONES - ?ridrrn- ? ? ? i n ? ? i ? * tt -v . ????! ~ RED CHINA ECONOMIC I ^EASURCS U Unctions In The Good Old Days THIRTY THREE YEARS AGO A meeting was to be held to re organize and rejuvenate the Beau fort chamber of commerce. Rural public school teachers in the state received an annual salary of $235 and city public school teachers received $454 as an an nual salary, while brickmasons re ceived $1,317 and plumbers $1,408. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Dredging for the fill for the big Beaufort-Morehead City bridge was to start soon. Dr. C. L. Duncan had been awarded the contract and expected his dredge to arrive from Baltimore within the week. -mm* Morehead City had let the con tract for a new city hall that would cost $40,000 and would be a tile and stucco building. It would also house the fire apparatus, part of which would be a new La France motor truck. TEN YEARS AGO $40,000,000 has been appropriat ed for a Marine base and air sta tion in Onslow and Pamlico coun ties. (See today's column, Cover ing the Waterfront. ? fed.) The roof of the Beaufort Ice company collapsed while workmen were renovating the building and installing new equipment. FIVE YEARS AGO Hendricks House, who was sta tioned in Germany with the occu pation army, was enjoying skiing in the Bavarian Alps. A, D. Fulford, county sanitation wt^urging Carteret county fiinienritoi go into dairy farming to alleviate the local shortages of milk and dairy products. AYCOCK BROWN'S Covering The Waterfront Cherry Point, X. C. ? The Second Marine Air Winn is ready to go. To get the full significance of the training that makes the flying Leathernecks here at the world's largest and most important Marine air station ready to go. one only has to make a brief visit to this base where pilots are trained in flying just about every type of fighting aircraft that takes off in to the wild blue yonder today. A visit here to see what is going on in the way of training makes a person mighty glad that the wrecking crew in Washington were not 100 per cent successful in their attempts to let the Air Force do the job alone and thus eliminate Marine and Xaval aviation. When the time came for fighter pilots to get into the Korean mixup a few months ago the military commands found the Marine trained pilots and the Xaval airmen ready and raring to go to a job they have helped do in a commendable man ner. It cost a hundred million dollars to create this most important ot all Marine air stations here in the North Carolina coast country, but considering tbe. value of our na tion and the training that is given pilots here who will play the very important role in helping atop aggressors, the price Is low. My first trip to Cherry Point was made in 1941 during the early summer. The trip was made to get some pictures in the area of a lo cality lying between Hancock and Slocum creeks and bordered on the northern limits by the Neuse River. The g?ieral idea at the time was that a Marine air station may be constructed on the south side oF the river, although It seemed con siderably more likely that it would be built on the north shore at Wilkerson's Point and embraCe such localities as Minnesott Beach, Arapahoe and extend northward perliaps to NC 55 at Grantsboro in Pamlico county ? or nearly that far. The north side of the river, as the location for the base, seemed to be in the bag ? so to speak. There was much Activity in real estate circle*. I had made many pictures on the north side of the river? because the pictures were newsworthy in those days of dick ering about where the base would be built. Then one day a friend of mine who aeemed te know sotae thing said, after aeeing some at the north of tbe river shots pub lished, "Why dont you get some pictures of the Cherry Point side? That is where the Marine air sta sion will be built." In those days there was an ob scure signpost near the intersec tion of NC 101 and US 70 at Have lock which advised the traveller that Cherry Point was six miles distance. The clay road was rtiud dy the day I made the trip through the woods of slash and long leaf pines. There were mosquitoes by the millions. It was not a very pleasant drive through the woods and the only picture I made, which did not look like it was worth shooting was the 6-mile signpost. . . . Within a few months the air station was being built ? and at Cherry Point. It looked like a life-long job to me, if the govern ment ever got an airport out of those woods ? I thought, without figuring on the magic that millions of dollars could perform. A decade later presents a dif ferent picture. Cherry Point is not only a completely modem air ttation ? it's a city within itself with all utilities, an assembly and repair center and a fighting air wing, that is READY. Words to Remember George Bernard Shaw, Irish dra matist: "Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible be fore handing it on to future gen erations." Hollywood Ry Gene Handsaker Hollywood ? Is Gary Cooper an actor ? or just an interesting per sonality? Gary himself doesn't know. "I like to consider myself an actor," he confided, "but I don't know whether I am." The lanky onetime Montana cowboy has been in the movies 25 years. * "I often wonder how I could have learned so little," he said. "Maybe I just forgot a lot. I guess I'd rathpr see most any body else than myself on the screen ?and I'm not trying to be falsely modest." Yet Coop doesn't know how else he could have made a living. Ranching, maybe. "That's more fim in the movies. You don't have torget put and feed five or six hun dred head of cattle when it's 45 below zero." He did that as a youth Of 19 on his father's ranch. In Hollywood he was a $10-a-day extra. One day he earned $40 by also doing two $15 falls from a horse as Tom Mix's double. It was the era of handsome heroes ? Barthelmess, Dix, Valentino. Coop saw himself in pictures as. if any thing. a lean type of heavy. "From my own experience," he says now, "I don't think looks are important to a movie career." But roles in "The Winning of Barbara Worth" and "Wings" tabbed him as a lead ing man. It hurt his ego when directors said his love scenes were all wrong. Eventually, despite his shyness, he found them "one of the pleasanter phases of the busi ness." Coop is playing the skipper of an experimental sub-chaser in "U. S. S. Teakettle." It's around his 80th picture. What's kept him on top so long? Gary dug his spoon thoughtfully into the sugar bowl on our lunch table, like a miner probing gravel. "A series of lucky breaks," he said, adding impersonally: "Story material that's right for you. A di rector who knows what to do with you. The right producer. To get the right pictures ydu've got to do a few turkeys along with 'em." His Osc?r for 1941's "Sergeant York" is "another example of good luck. Good story, good director." Coop confessed an acting weak ness: "You develop mannerisms, reactions to certain situations, tricks that may haw been good one time. It's a deadly thing. Mannerisms keep sneakin' up on you. You're not always entirely responsible. Some directors want you to overplay a bit. You find yourself not being real, not being sincere." , Now 49, he doesn't know how much longer tye'll be in pictures. "I can't quit," he said, grinning. "I gotta keep eatin'." CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES Carteret County's Newspaper A Merger of THE BEAUFORT NEWS (EM. 1913) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (Bit. 1936) Published Tuesdays and Fridays By THE CARTERET PUBLISHING COMPANY. INC. Lockwood Phillips ? Publishers ? Eleanore Dear Phillips Ruth Leckey Peeling, Executive Editor Publishing Office At 504 Arendell St., Morehead City, N. C. v Mall Rates: In Carteret County. 96.00 one yew. $3.50 six months, $1.25 one month; elsewhere. $7.00 one year, $4.00 six months. $1.90 one month. Member Of Ti Associated Press ? Greater Weeklies ? N. C. Press Association Audit Bureau of Circulations t Entered as Second Oaas Matter at Morehead City. N. C. Under Act of Harch 3. 1879 The Associated Prasa la entitled exclualveljr to not for republication of loqal newa printed in Uila newspaper, aa wall as all AP news dispatches. HERBERT PRYTHERCy Meet Your News-Times Carrier Boy rTOKY MAKE NEWS STAMPS A FIVE VALUE winter sports set has been issued by Romania, reports the New York Stamp Co. The 4 lei brown pictures a skier in mid air. The 5 lei orange depicts an ice skater. The 11 lei blue shows a skier as he finishes his run. He is encircled 1c by a wreath. The 20 lei brown il lustrates a hockey game in action. The 31 lei green shows a four-man bobsled team in action. BOY SCOUTS seeking aid in qualifying for the Stamp Collec tion Merit Badge as well as other young people desiring information about stamp collecting may have the friendly assistance of the American Philatelic Society. Those interested may send their names and addresses to the president of the society. Wilbur F. Cannon. 118 East Fourth St., Davenport, Iowa. TO HONOR the new and mod ernistic post office in Recife, capi tal of the state of Pernambuco, Brazil has issued a new stamp, re BRASIL i CORREIO CfSD.60 t?50 "ftps Mot cos cxtwan i t ~P*mwlce6 KKTr^rrs^entrrm.,..^ ?~*r~-xa ports the American Berolina Co. The new edifice is depicted on the stamp. The color of the adhesive is blue and white. The value is 60 cruzeiros. FROM DENMARK comes word that on the recent Constitution commemorative designed by Sven Ewart, there were 173 lawmakers illustrated. The detail was so fine that many of the famous Danes could easily be recognized. THE PRIZE WINNING, 21 vol ume airmail collection of Mrs. W. E. Heathcote of St. Petersburg, Fla.. which has a catalogue value of $90,000, will be sold at auction in New York on April 3 and 4. The collection includes the valuable airmail rarities of Newfoundland, Honduras and Mexico in addition to those of other countries. The Newfoundland pages in clude unused copies of the "Hawk er" which has a catalogue value of $2,200, the "dePinedo" which cat alogues for $3,250 and the "Colum bia" catalogued at $700. In the Honduras group, Mrs. Heathcote has the 5 c light blue with red overprint which is listed in catalogues at $6,000 to $10,000. There are only six other copie^ of this stamp in existence. MEXICO has issued two new stamps. One of them is a continua tion of its States series. The 60 c aquamarine is for special delivery and depicts two hands. One hand is carrying a letter to the other hand. A 40 c blue adhesive shows the head of a stone Goddess be longing to an ancient Indian civili 40 CIS CORREO AEREO bob! zauon. in is stamp is ior me state of San Luis Potosi. SYRIA has issued four new air mail stamps. The design shows an aerial .view of Latakia. seaport town in Syria. The 2 p 50 c is deep purple, 10 p blue green, 15 p brown and 25 p blue. FOUR NEW modern-style hotels in the Dominican Republic appear on recently issued stamps from the Dominican Republic. The Hotel Montana appearf on a light blue 5 centavo stamp. The Hotel Cris tobal in San Cristobal is depicted on the 15 c orange and the 37 c red' The Hotel Maguana is seen on the 20 c violet. The Hotel Ji mani, near the Haiti border, is il lustrated on the brown half-centa vo. THE EIRE Philatelic Associa tion has Just mailed to its mem bers, the firit issue of its bi monthly publication. The Reveal er. This association specialise* in the postal history, stationery and stamps of Ireland. A free copy of this issue may be secured by addressing a request along with two three-tent stamps to cover postage, to the Editor, Neil Stack. 8281 Shore Road. Brooklyn B, N. Y. The supply of th? publication is limited. ? Kronish I . .i ... . ... . Herbert Prytherch, 15, son of Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Prytherch, 610 Ann st., Beaufort, is one of the newer NEWS-TIMES carrier boys. He started on his route, lo cated between Craven and Orange, Front and Pine streets, in Novem ber 1950. i Herbie is a freshman at Beau fort school and is in Miss Ann Salter's homeroom. He's saving his newspaper route money to buy a pair of baseball spikes. For mamy years, prior to their moving into town, the Prytherchs lived on Piver's Island. Sou'easter BY CAPTAIN HENRY Gulls perch anywhere. I've no ticed recently that they particular ly like the ball topping the court house dome. From a distance the gull (there's only room for one on the sphere) looks muchly like a dove of peace. The irony of it all ? what with the fighting and ar guments that go on beneath ttie court house dome, not to mention the recent invasions on the court house itself! Cap'n Bonner Willis predicts a big run of fish next month. Wheth er there will be enough to warrant manning some boats and going af ter them, is another question. The State News Bureau recent ly sent out a story on the Willis Brothers clam housd at Williston. A lot of good that does Carteret county's Williston when ohe of the papers that carried the story call ed the community Lilliston. Seeing all the atom bomb plants blossoming in the south has made some of the northern Congress men wonder if the south is re-arm ing. A couple years ago an editorial in the Coastland Times, Victor Meekins, editor, leveled a blast at the use of pictures of bathing beauties to publicize coastal re sorts. He supports, instead, at least he supported at that time "ihe age-old friendliness of our people" as a better drawing card. I note, however, that in the cur rent issue of Meekins' paper there is a picture of a blonde who is called "Miss Pinkie Perry" and is claimed to be the newspaper's cor respondent at a place called Cat fish Corner. I have seen the pic ture of the young lady, who has all the qualities of the usual mod ern pin-up girls, in Meekins' paper several times. The only cortclusion I can reach is that Meekins has certainly changed his mind about what at tracts .people or else he never be lieVpd. in. the first place what he wrote irr? his anti-bathing beauty editorial. Preston Mason gets my nomina tion for the salesman of the year. He's got a line of talk that would sell a shark on settling down in a desert. On a sweater for in instance: "This is the best import ed wool from Cashmere. When they got it here, they wove it up on the Fruit of the Loom. Can't get anything better anywhere!" It's more money in the till for Dill. The Readers Write Feb. 16, 1951 To the Editor: Yes, they got me. The first poll taxes I paid were for the year 1928. $4.50: the sec ond for 1929, $4.59. The 9 cents was interest. The third for 1930 was $1. Such a sudden drop aroused my curios ity so that 1 asked the city clerk at that time to read the state law to me in regards to same. Quote: "City poll taxes shall not exceed $1. County poll taxes shall not exceed $2." I immediately asked for an ex planation of why I had to pay so much above what the law allowed. I have as yet never received a clear, satisfactory answer. Where AUTHOR OF THE WEEK LAU SHAW, author o{ "The Yellow Storm," U the pen name of Dr. S. Y. Shu. Living now in Peiping, the scene of this novel, he taught in London in the School of Oriental Studies from 1924 to 1930, and during the war between China and Japan, he made his home in Chungking. The Department of State invited him to this couBtry in 1946-47 under its cultural co operation program. American read ers will remember his earlier nov el. "Rickshaw Boy,*1 published in 1945. upon I requested $7.09 be refund ed to me. This could not be grant ed unless carried, through legnl channels, thereby causing a lot of unnecessary trouble from the rest of the tax payers. There wasn't any need to do that, so I was told. I like to be a good citizen and as the city clerk and I were good friends, it was far beyond me to cause any trouble. Therefore I decided I would continue paying city poll taxes un til seven years before I became 50 years of age, at which time I would pay no further as I consid ered I had paid it in advance. I confronted the present city commissioner with this item, ask ing for a refund or exemption from further payment of poll taxes. Lo and behold, this is what con fronted me: the time of limitation had expired. Yes, they got me. Present commissioners are not responsible for any acts of former commissioners. Yes, they got me. If I refuse to pay any further poll taxes, they won't allow the time of limitation to expire on their part. All they have to do is sell my property. Wham! Yes, they got me. In last week's issue it was pub lished that I had been refused a refund. If ttiis is justice, according to my understanding of such laws, those who owe more than three years' taxes sure have a cinch. ? They don't have to pay any more if they just let it ride. The time of limitation should have expired. This if not written through prejudice, but principle. If one can be gypped one way through icrewy laws, there are hundreds of other ways. It's high time citizens should show more in terest in their local affairs. Charles D. Hill ?17 Front Street Beaufort, N. C. P.S.? The commissioners, under the advice of our city attorney, have not as yet stated whether or not I would be exempted from further poll taxes. If not, I would welcome a complete explanation according to the law by the state legislature 1B28-29.
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