Carteret County News -Times
A Merger of The Beaufort New? (ert. 1S12)
and The Twin City Time? (e?t 19JS) ,
EDITORIAL PAGE
TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1951
Federal Aid for the Future?
In the light of events in national lawmaking halls, there is
the possibility that Carteret towns could receive federal fi
nancial aid for municipal projects.
In the works in the halls of Congress is a bill which would
provide fungs for projects in towns located within defense
areas.
The town of Jacksonville has already obtained Federal Se
curity Agency* approval on a loan of $27,900 for preliminary
planning and survey of several proposed community facili
ties: water and sewer lines, street curbs and gutters, street
improvements, sidewalks, a municipal building to house city
offices and jail.
The loan is for making a survey of the proposed projects
only. If the work is undertaken, it will be the town's job to
furnish or obtain funds for it, but Jacksonville officials are
proceeding on the assumption that the proposed Congression
al legislation will make those funds available.
If Jacksonville is considered wKhin a "defense area," then
towns in this county can likewise be classified.
We are not familiar with the bill which would provide fed
eral funds for cummunity development. But we believe that
Carteret county's municipalities or chambers of commerce
should familiarize themselves with the bill and take any steps
necessary to put this country in line for any federal aid
which may be obtained here.
Family Traits Will Out!
From the sound of the following Associated Press dispatch
the President's penchant for punching people on the nose
evidently runs in the family!
Seventy-year-old Ralph Truman, of Springfield, Mo., knock
ed off the hat of an insurance salesman who made a remark
about President Trypan last week.
Ralph Truman, a retired major general, is the President's
cousin.
The incident followed a chamber of commerce directors'
meeting. ?
During the session, civilian defense pamphlets telling what
to do during an atomic bomb attack were passed around.
Witnesses said Larry Eiffert, the salesman, remarked, "they
ought to drop one of these on old Harry."
Truman, who attended the meeting, approached 35-ycar-old
Eiffert afterwards and said:
"You can't talk like that about the President."
He followed throtfri with a punch that knocked off Eiffert's
Jiat.
A bystander stepped between the men and they both walked
away.
Slinging the Lingo
No wonder ^ie female of the species gets a puzzled look
on her lace as she attempts to rca^an account of a baseball
game. Unless she's an avid {an, expressions like bingle, dark
ball, bloop, and shoestring catch leave her dizzy.
Because this sports lingo is duck soup to fans, and indeed
a most fDgical manner of writing in the opinion of Fred
Miller, NEWS-TIMES sports writer, we've asked him to come
up with some English definitions of Sportcse in the hope of
making life less complicated for the gals who would like to
read about baseball but simply give up trying to understand.
A bingle. Fred says, is a hit. Bingle, bongo, bongo, who
says we've left the Congo?
A grasscutter is not a lawnmower; in baseball it's a ball
that "whips along the ground, cutting the foilage down to size.
"Stout sticking" means hard hitting. When a batter whiffs,
he is retired on strikes, and a dark ball is a third strike!
A four master is not some sort of sailing craft, it's a home
run, so's a four-bagger and a round tripper. The hot corner
man is the guy on third base, and he's supposed to be in
quite a strategic spot, therefore the hot corner designation.
The maskman could be the Lone Ranger, but without the
horse. He's on the spot behind home plate wearing wire
baskets to keep the balls from knocking his head off. The
oretically, he's supposed to catch the "apple" (that's ball or
horschide, sports writers contend ) g>ef ore it hits him, but
sometimes he misses.
A pitcher can be a fastballer, a hurler or flinger, and if he
fires 'em with his left hand he's a southpaw A team blank
ing another team is keeping it from getting any hits. A rol
ler is not somebody who fleeces a guy and takes all his money
from him, a roller is a ball that's not hit very hard, but just
moves along the ground. (Fred sez).
If a batter "skies" a ball it's a high hit into the air. That's
not too hard to figure out. But a ball that's laced is solidly
whacked, and one that's poled is a good hit, "long and far,"
according to sports lingo.
A bloop is a short fly ball that falls between infield and
outfield, while a bounder bounces along the ground. A
bloop. incidentally, is also called a Texas leaguer! Texas is
bound to get into this somehow.
When a runner gets a life, he's safe. That sort of makes
sense. A liner is not the inside of a hat, it's a ball that
hardly rises, but is hit hard while a trickier results when a
hitter "gets only a slice of the apple." In other words, he
doesn't hit the ball squarely.
A shoe string catch, Fred says, is something a fielder tries
when he attempts to get a low ball before it hits the ground,
"but be usually ends up on his face."
And when a sports writer is talking about pivotnun and a
keystone sackcr, he's not talking about a guy fronj Pennsyl
vania, he's referring to the fellow holding down second base.
And all this is just the simple stuff about sports writing.
Getting into a "pop-up to deep short" and "sacrifices" and
"bull pen" could fill another whole column.
Some people like crossword puzzles and acrostics. But to
the novice sports reader, those brain exercisers are as simple
as ABC in comparison to baseball lingo.
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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
Carteret County's Newspaper
A Merger of THE BEAUFORT NEWS (Est. 1912)
and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (Ect. 1936)
Published Tuesdays and Fridays By
THE CARTERET PUBLISHING COMPANY. INC.
Lockwood Phillips ? Publisher* ? Eleanore Dear Phillip?
Ruth Leckey Peeling, Executive Editor
Publishing Office At
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| STAMPS
By Syd Kronish
TO CELEBRATE the 50th anni
versary of the Commonwealth of
Australia, that eountry has issued
a speeial set of four stamps.
The 5 Me -pence blue stamp shows
the opening ceremony of the first
commonwealth parliament in Mel
bourne by IIRH the Duke of York,
who later became King George V.
The words "Foundation of the
Commonwealth" appear across the
top. The dates 1901 and 1951 ap
pear at the ends.
The 1 shilling six pence stamp
is cedar brown and depicts the
Parliament House at Canberra
which was selected in 1927 as the
capital of the commonwealth.
There are two three-pence
stamps in scarlet that have the
portraits of Sir Henry Parkcs and
Sir Edmund Barton, important
personages in the history of Aus
tralia. Parkes has been termed
"the Father of Federation." He
was an English newspaper editor
who came to Australia in 1839.
Through his efforts a federation
of the Australian states was made
possible.
CZECHOSLOVAKIA has issued
four new airmail stamps, reports
the New .York Stamp co. The 6
koruna green shows a plane in
flight over Carlsbad. The 10 k red
violet depicts a plane over Pistany.
The 15 k blue pictures a plane
over Marienbad. The 20-k gray
brown shows a plane over Silac.
AS PART of its Tourist Series,
Japan has issued two new stamps.
The 8-yen yellow green shows girls
picking tea. Mount Fujiama is in
the background. The 24-yen blue
illustrates the famous snow capped
Mount Fujlama. Also issued was a
24-yen stamp showing Phoenix
temple built in 1053 by Prime Min
ister Yorimichi Fujiwara.
THE SECOND in the coat of
arms series from the Philippines
has been issued. The cit'y of Cebu
is the recipient of the honors. The
date of issue coincides with the
historic battle between Lapulapu
and Magellan at Matcan Island,
Cebu, 430 years ago. There are
three stamps in this series.
HUNGARY has issued an eight
value set commemorating its agri
cultural advancement since the end
of the war. The satellite govern
ment boasts that there is now more
livestock on Hungarian fartns than
before the war Depicted on the
adhesives are various animals and
their young. One stamp shows a
sow and its sucklings, another
a mare and foal, another a cow and
calf.
TO HONOR its textile induitry,
France has issued a special 25
franc blue itamp, reports the A
merican Berolina co. Pictured is
a loom in operation. In the fore
ground li a pair of hands holding
ona al tha spools from Um loom
Sou'easter
BY CABTAIN HENRY
"Froiessors" at work in the var
ious branches of the American
Business College (better known as
ABC stores) will have a holiday
come May 8.
I see where our neighboring
county, Pamlico, is now without a
newspaper. The Pamlico County
News, a tabloid paper, was pub
lished for a little while some
months ago, then folded. Now the
Pamlico County Herald, the long
established paper has succumbed
to the defense program. It's young
editor was called into the service
and courageous attempts to run it
since his departure have failed.
It's daylight saving time. AjkI
it's also a race between man and
the birds, it seems. The earlier
some of us set our clocks ahead,
the madder the birds get, and de
termined to keep ahead of those
big two-legged characters who
don't wear feathers, they get up
twice as early as usual.
A whippoorwill or cardinal or
something whistled in my ear yes
terday morning long before roost
ers were even stirring, dadgum
mit.
Of course, some folks don't set
their clocks ahead, around here,
even though the Marine bases op
erate on daylight time.
North Carolina's golf courses, I
learned this weekend, number
120, eight of these are in the vi
cinity of Pinehurst. At the Tine
hurst Country club the Interna
tional Ryder cup matches will be
played in November.
In the swelling seas and strong
winds off Cape Hatteras last Sat
urday morning, the Coast Guard
completed another one of its un
believable air-sea rescues. A sea
man on the merchant vessel SS
Absirto had broken both legs, one
arm and received a brain concus
sion when he fell down the hatch.
The Hatteras Coast Guard station
directed the merchant ship to a
sea buoy off Hatterw inlet where
a surf boat from the shore station
met it and picked up the injured
man.
Meanwhile an amphibious flying
boat was dispatched from Eliza
beth City. Because of high seas
there was difficulty transferring
the seaman from the surf boat to
the plane. After considerable dif
ficulty, he was moved to the plane
via life raft.
The plane then carried its hu
maq cargo to Norfolk where the
seaman was admitted to the Marine
hospital.
Chalk up another for the Coast
Guard!
DEATH AT THE WHEEL
Clear Days, Dry Pavements
Make Motorists Take Risks
By Ben Funk
(Third of Six Articles)
It had been a gay, happy Mem
orial Day for the Indiana man and
his pretty, 17-year-old bride. Doz
ens of friends had turned out to
make their wedding an event to
remember.
After the ceremony the bride's
parents loaded their two small
children and the newlyweds. into
the family car and with other auto
mobiles following the caravan be
gan a noidy tour of the town.
Laughing with the rest, the
bride's father failed to see an ap
proaching passenger train as he
approached a crossing. Drivers of
the cars behind blew their horns
in warning, but everybody was
blowing horns. There was so much
noise . . .
After the smashup, bodies were
found scattered over a 500-foot
area. All six celebrants in the car
were dead.
The files of highway patrols list
many causes of last year's automo
bile accidents that killed thousands
and injured over a million. An over
whelming majority of them boil
down, to just plain bad driving.
Worn-out, defective family au
tomobiles were generally assumed
to have been a major factor in the
toll. But less than 10 per cent of
the vehicles involved in accidents
were defective. And usually, even
in these cases, records show that
recklessness or incompetent* of
the drivers was responsible.
Rain, snow and fog took part of
the rap for the slaughter but usual
ly the real guilt by elsewhere.
Take, for example, that wintry
day in Minnesota when a car car
rying five peoplo skidded into a
ditch. Nobody was hurt ? but that,
was only the beginning.
The driver of the second car
slammed on his brakes to offer
help. He skidded Into a third ear
coming from the other direction.
A fourth car piled iqto the others..
Three were dead, eight injured.
It was snowing and dark, but po
lice records show that it was not
the condition of the road that caus
ed the smashup, but mistakes by
the drivers Each driver was either
going too fast or was "bumper
chasing."
Two out of three accidents in
volve mistakes by drivers. ,
A vast majority of accidents, sta
tistics show, occur in clcar weather,
in daylight on dry pavements.
That's when Mr. Average Motorist
"opens 'er up" and begins to take
chances.
In Nebraska last Christmas Eve
a young man with a girl raced a
train to a crossing and won in a
photo finish. The engineer of the
train wrote an open letter to the
driver which was published by the
Omaha World-Herald.
"When you drove your car a
cross directly in front of a speed
ing passenger train," he wrote, "it
was so close that I, in the cab,
could see the young girl (your
sweetheart. I presume) throw her
hands up in front of her face and
cringe against you in stark horror.
"If 1 were that young girl I'd
pull away from you fast. You
probably say you love her. I won
der. Those we love we try to pro
tect.
"Wouldn't that have been a nice
Christmas present to hand your
mother ? a broken and battered
body? And how do you think we
in the cab of that engine would
feel? We don't want to hit you
but we are hclpleu. 4
"You and your girl were one
second from eternity, son. If I
were you, ?on, and you too, sis,
I'd thank God for that split second.
I said a prayer when I realized you
were going acroH. Perhaps that's
what saved us all.
"Please, for God's sake, don't
trjr.it again."
KENNETH PUTNAM
Meet Your News-Times Carrier Boy
ON THE HOUSE
BY DAVID G. BAREUTHER ?
Big expenses always seem to come at the wrong time. Sometimes
the home owner gets a forewarning, such as when a new paint job is
going to be required ? or even a new root. But the need for a new
heating plant invariably is an awful ki^c in the budget.
So it's worth while to take care of the plant you have. Treat it like
the h?art of your house and it won't get the palps or a thrombosis.
Since summer is tougher on a heating plant than any winter ever
was, this is the season to give the old hot box the once over with a
good coat of oil to ward off rust and corrosion. A thorough cleaning
is first on the program.
Assuming that your basement is average, where the air is cool and
damp through the summer, you'll play safe by taking down the smoke
pipe, cleaning it and storing it in a dry place until fall. The chemicals
in the soot can have a destructive corrosive effect when they become
damp. They produce a form of sulphuric acid that eats through the
metal.
IT'S A DIRTY JOB to take the pipe down, but if you maneuver it
carefully you won't have to look like the end man in a home talent
minstrel show. Hold a newspaper over the low end and get the pipe
outdoors. Stand it on end on the paper, tap it gently all over to loosen
excess soot; then brush it out, scraping if possible.
An oil spray ? using any light oil, such as drainings from the crank
case, in an insect spray gun ? will protect it from rusting. If you
don't want to take this trouble, get set to replace your smoke pipe
every two or three years.
A good place to store a smoke pipe, if you can't get it into your attic
conveniently, is to hang it from the ceiling in the garage or basement.
Clean the baffles in a hot-water boiler for the same reason. Use a
wire brush and a scraper. And remove all ashes from the firebox
and ash pit. They can get soggy from condensation during the sum
mer.
DON'T FORGET the ash dump of your fireplace flue. This will
yield wood ashes that your wife will prize highly for mysterious min
istrations in the garden.
After you have the entire heating plant cleaned out, inspect the grates
and the walls of the firebox for broken or cracked units. Any such
defects should be remedied promptly. Order the parts and have them
installed while the time is ripe. Examine the boiler for leaks. Then
give all the innards a good coating of lubricating oil.
Oil or grease the edges and hinges of the boiler door and leave it
open for ventilation. Unoiled boiler doors left dosed for the summer
rust radically around the edges where air is drawn in and condenses.
IF YOU'RE ONE of the lucky ultra-modern home owners with auto
matic equipment ? an oil burner, automatic stoker, or gas-fired furn
ace ? you can rely on the manufacturer's, instructions. # But take them
seriously. They arc compiled from actual tests and mean exactly what
they say. No reputable manufacturer is going to stick his neck out
by omitting a fair warning.
In many communities the fuel dealer offers service for a modest fee
in connection with his contract. This .is especially advantageous if
you live in a development or a neighborhood where several homes have
similar heating plants. The service man gets to understand them.
Heating and ventilating firms clean furnaces with vacuum systems
to prevent the spread of dust and keep peace in the family. However,
if you notice an excessive collection of wool in your heating plant, it
may mean that you are using the wrong type of fuel or that you have
inefficient combustion. Have the dampers adjusted.
If you have an oil burner, you can make a big mistake by not keep
ing your oil storage tank filled during the summer.
Partial filling allows an air space in whic-b condensation can occur.
Although this is not likely to rust your oil coated tank, it can add an
accumulation of water to your oil and cause trouble next heating season.
FINALLY, take a look at the chimney. See if the cement is still
sound around the smoke pipe joint. Cracks ki chimney masonry call
for repointing. Double-check the woodwork around the chimney for
safe clearance or need of fireproof ing.
Author of the Week
BY W. G. ROGERS
ANITA LOOS, whose first novel,
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," still
gets talked about, read and seen on
stage and screen though it is al
most 25 years old, has written a
second novel, "A Mouse Is Born."
It's a story about a screen actress
who interrupts her fabulous car
eer to have a prospectively fabu
lous baby. The place is Hollywood.
It's a city with which Miss Loos
has long been familiar. Before 1920
she w'as an established screen wri
ter, and she has spent most of her
time at it since 1025, though in be
tween she turned out a couple of
plays and some articles and stories
for the magazines.
In The Good Old Days
William Jennings Bryan addross
a large crowd at tM court house
when he was brought here under
.the auspices ol the Beaufort Cham
ber of Commerce.
Work was begun on an artesian
well which would supply Beaufort
with water.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
Daughters of Fort Macon chap
ter, UDC, were to unveil a monu
ment on the court house grounds
in honor of the confederate sold
iers of the county. Tho monument,
which would be unveiled on May
10, was costing $3,000, of which
$2,000 had already been pledged.
County chairman Luther Hamil
ton presided over the Democratic
county convention at, which time
Charles S. Wallace was endorsed
for state senator and Leslie M. Dav
is for solicitor.
TEN YEARS AGO
? The S. S. Samnanger of Bergen,
Norway, the first ship to call at the
new Morehcad City port terminal,
was sunk recently in the combat
zone of European waters.
Stamey Davis nabbed two thieves
at the Carteret Ice Company.
More than 700 junior! and sen
ior* war? expected to attend Um
nil county senior dance at the At
lantic Bcach casino.
FIVE YEARS AGO
Bill Willis and Sam Guthrie o
pened a children's shop in More
head City.
Fort Macon Coast Guard station
was to be reduced to a personnel
of 10 men as a result of the Coast
Guard being cut from 170,000 to
19,000.
Kenneth Putnam, 13, son of Mrs
F1 Nelson, More head City, and
Kenneth Putnam of Portsmouth, is
.seated beside a new boat that is
his pride and joy.
When asked what he planned to
do with the boat, (it seems to be
sueh a bii? one), he nonchantly re
plied, "Oh, just mess around."
Kein.eth is in Mrs. Robert Tay
lor's seventh urade at Morehead
City school and plays the cornet in
the senior band. He's a Boy Scout
with a sccond class rating and is
a member of troop 130.
He's been carrying papers for
Tli K NEWS TIMES since the first
of November last year and covers
the town from 25th to 34th streets
from the water on the south to the
water on the north.
COVERING
| THE WATERFRONT
By AYCOCK BROWN
Beaufort, N.C. One of America's
most unusual .summer schools will
be Kin here on June 4 and continue
until July 13. Known as Carolina
Marine laboratory the school, in
which a group of students from
Woman's college, UNC, may be
seen daily trudging through marsh
es or aeress sand bars looking for
specimens that will be taken back
to a modest little laboratory build
ing and studied, was established
by Dr. A. F. Shaftesbury several
years ago.
This unit of the Greater Univer
sity was here long before Duke
University established a more pre
tentious marine biological unit on
nearby Pivers Island. Since its be
ginning the activities of the Caro
lina Marine laboratory have at
tained national publicity and the
students who have studied there
have gone far in the field of bio
logy?especially marine biology.
Of course some of the early stu
dents chose matrimony in prefer
ence to biology as a career and it
is likely that some of the children
of those ?arly students may be en
rolled in the courses Dr. Shaftes
bury will offer during the coming
season.
C. W. Phillips, the director of
public relations for WC-UNC ex
plains in the announcement about
the summer courses to be offered
here that students can obtain six
hours credit during the period.
"The work is offered under nat
ural conditions of environment," he
stated. "Courses are designed fdr
advanced college students, high
school teachers and others inter
ested in professional biology. Lec
tures, laboratory and field study
and assigned readings are given.
The work centers chiefly on ma
rine invertebrates, together with
an introduction to the study of
vertebrates. Prerequisites are at
least two years of college biology,
or extended teaching experience in
biology."
The students who come here dur
ing the summer to study under Dr.
Shaftesbury room in private homes
here in Beaufort and meals are
taken at local cafes. The students
arrange for their own transporta
tion to and from the lab which
is located on the shore of Taylor'f
creek about two miles east of the
town.
It is an unusual summer school.
The sea, sounds, marshes and
shoals literally become class rooms
for the students during the period.
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