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What's the Future for Recreation?
Sale of Morehead City's recreation center means that the
town ahould begin making plans immediately to replace the
Urge barn-like structure with a smaller building which can be
easily maintained and adequately equipped (or entertainment
of children.
Because funds for a recreation center would be a long
time accumulating if taken from the recreation levy, we recom
mend that the municipal recreation commission request the
town immediately to earmark "unbudgeted" funds (race track
dividends) for the construction of a center which would give
the youngsters a place to dance, play ping-pong and sip a soda.
From present indications, the town has already spent or
has slated for spending the returns from the track this year.
In that case a smaller recreation building should be figured
in on next year's returns. Sale of the property on which the
old recreation building new stands has been discussed. Real
estate men term that block one of the most desirable areas in
town. Should Morehead City sell it off in building lota, sev
'eral should be retained for a new recreation building and re
turn from sale of the lots would certainly swell Morehead
City's treasury.
It is unnecessary to suggest that the funds could be han
dled so that construction of a recreation building could get
nnder way soon, because the town fathers are past masters at
keeping things "financed" when necessary.
Right now they are contemplating the purchase of a
"motor scooter gutter sweeper." They've got a great big silver
garage to house the motor grader, recently-purchased bucket
loader, town trucks, and other rolling stock, so why not a gut
ter sweeper for $1,584? It's another high-cost toy to keep the
street department happy.
Purchase of the sweeper may eliminate a man or two from
the present crew, but what good is a gutter sweeper on Aren
dell street at any hour of daylight? Right now even the men
have trouble sweeping around the cars in the business section
early in the morning.
It is claimed the gutter sweeper will keep the grass out
of cracks in the gutters. Undoubtedly this new gadget sweeps
up cracks too.
The town now has a nine-man police force to keep peace
' in town and to keep the radio going. Radio was supposed to
make coverage of the town easy? they wouldn't need "so many
men" to do the job. Instead they need just as many men and
more because somebody has to sit 24 hours a day and listen
to the radid.
The old patrol wagon has gone' to the street department
and three police cars are now running all over the place. The
board room in the municipal building is a beautiful study in
geld, red, and aqua, the city clerk and treasurer's office is a
restful, cooling aqua. The town is slicking itself up some
thing fine, and we hope it is soon finished preening itself and
starts thinking about the people.
Undoubtedly everyone will be overjoyed with a gutter
?weeper, but they would be twice as overjoyed with a decent
recreation building, built and maintained with the annual
summer windfall.
There may be many excuses forthcoming in regard to this
proposal, but a small, well-built recreation Building is essential
and any so-called obstacle to the town's having one can be
overcome.
Western Union Spells Trouble
Service offered by the Beaufort Western Union office now
is a laughing matter. Nevertheless the office is open on cer
tain hours during the day and if persons schedule their emfr
gency messages for those hours, everything works out all right.
Now adding injury to insult, Western Union wants to close the
office entirely.
The number of people living immediately east of Beaufort
in recently-developed areas and in areas farther down-east has
increased tremendously during recent years. It Is only logical
then that Western Union business has increased proportionate
ly and the company's records would show thte, had not a con
certed effort been made to direct the business into the More
head City office.
' Even the hours on which the Horehead office operates
should be increased. In view of the tremendous business ac
tivity in this area, as indicated by expansion of business firms
and opening of new ones, accompanied by a steady home
building program, Western Union, strangely enough, is going
directly opposite the current.
The business is here if Western Union is interested in of
fering the service it claims to offer throughout the nation.
Directing business into the Morehead City office saves
Western Union money. A phone call to Morehead City from
Marshallberg or Atlantic costs the sender an additional 15 per
cent for the phone call. That's no skin off Western Union's
nose. Today if persons want to pick up Western Union money
' orders this has to be done, nine times out of ten, by calling
at the Morehead office, which means making a longer trip,
either by automobile, but, or by hitch-hiking.
As a nation-wide operation, exclusive in its field. Western
Union is making a daring if not dangerous move in attempt
ing to withdraw its "services" from Beaufort Give 'em an
inch and they'll take a mile.
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Time is so precious that it ia dealt out to us only in the
smallest ponible traction ? a tiny moment ? at a time. We
cannot live again the moment that is Just past, nor can we
live in the moment that is to eome. Just while the pendulm
is swinging through the present instant ? this is the only
time of which we are sure, the only time to do our thinking,
our working. We should make this a perfect moment.
No fovernment cin long be secure without a formidible
opposition. ?Disraeli
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By Gene Handsaker
Hollywood.? One of the lesser
known things about Jane Russell
is that she can paint. Pictures. A
dreamy-eyed portrait by her, titled
"Geisha Girl", recently went on
display in the lobby of a local
bank.
"I copied it in pastels from a
photo of a half-Chinese girl," Miss
Russell said when asked about her
hobby. "I can do things from pho
tos but not very well from real
life."
This last statement blasted my
plans. I'd taken my young son's
crayons along to the "Las Vegas
Story" set. hoping Min Russell
would make a sketch of me be
tween scenes.
The shapely star said she "took
art mainly" in school. If she hadn't
got side-.tracked into photographic
modeling and movie acting, she
might have become a clothing de
signer.
Instead of concentrating on prob
lems in her arithmetic class, she
drew pictures. Mostly they were
girls' faces, hands, legs, and feet.
"The same girl over and over,
idealized," Jane said. "All the
other kids also drew their particu
lar girls. I don't think my girl
looks anything like me."
She pencil-sketchcd a sample of
her idealized girl. The features
were square and strong.
She finds painting "more stim
ulating than relaxing."
"I wock in a room off the
kitchen," she said. "There are
about 50 old, dusty paintings that
I've never finished. I. never have
the time. I'm not much of a fin
isher, not much for detail. I have
to do it in one sitting or it never
|ets done."
She has another artistic talent,
too ? pottery. She fashioned the
everyday dinner dishes, of a square,
Chinese design and kiln-baked, that
are used by Jane and her husband,
Bob Waterfield.
Glimpses of GlammerviUe: Vin
cent Price plays a smooth gambler
in "The Lai Vegaa Story". He lost
115 trying to learn to shoot dice
like an old hand while on location
ia that city . . . Johnny Weissmul
ler's contract will cost him $1,000
for avery pound he ever again
weighs over 200. The most he's
been over that figure (since reduc
ing) was three or four ounces,
which the producer generously ig
nored . . . Half of the "Little Big
Horn" prints list John Ireland's
name first. The other half put
Lloyd Bridges' name at the top.
That's how th$ir agents' argument
over who should get top billing was
settled.
TODAY'S
BIRTHDAY
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CAMERA NEWS
BY IRVING DESFOR
VACATION ADVICE for photo fans, repeatedly given each summer
and so easily ignored, will pay off in the long run if heeded. I'll vouch
for that statement from personal experience in the past week, having
both heeded and ignored some of my own advice.
Annually I've advised fans to check their cameras and equipment
before a vacation trip and especially after a long lay-off. You don't
have to be a camera expert to see if it's operating normally, if the lens
is clean and the body free from dust and sand and paper scraps Open
the back and look through it as you click the shutter at various speeds
and at "Time" and "Bulb" exposures. Open and close the diaphragm.
This will re-acquaint you with the camera's operations and show you
what's happening when there's film in back instead of your eye.
Ahh . . . how I wish I'd done all that last week BEFORE instead
of AFTER shooting five rolls of 35mm color films! For it was then, as
an afterthought, that I started a routine check and discovered, to my
horror, that my shutter was stuck open all the time. At what point in
my picture taking this happened I don't know but I will find out when
the five rolls ara. returned after processing. As one friend understated
the case, the pictures are bound to be "over-exposed" with the lens open
all the time. That is putting it mildly.
Today that camera goes back to the manufacturer's service depart
ment, bccause further normal manipulation, such as shifting the speeds
and setting it on "Time" and "Bulb", had no effect. That's as far as
"DEAR BOSS: The picturf tells the story. It may be a new car but
it has its weak moments and on a country road it spells . . . delay!
. . . Al."
a non-expert should go with the delicate innards of a lens shutter, I de
cided. Eapecially when I couldn't even find a screw driver small enough
to expose the works, much less discover what was wrong.
I'VE ALSO often advocated separate cameras for black-and-white
and for color. When the 35mm camera went out of commission for the
traie being, I was still able to picture the rest of my vacation in black'
and-whitc, using 120 roll film. As a matter of fact both Eastman Kodak
and Ansco have color film in 120 rolls, so 1 could have continued shoot
ing in color. Therefore, having separate cameras is not only a handy
way to shoot either color or black-and-white ... or both . . . when
ever the lighting conditions or the subject mstter warrants, but permits
you to keep right on snapping if one of the cameras goes berserk sud
denly.
Here's another bit of oft-repeated advice you've heard before: "Keep
your camera loaded with film, handy for instant shooting." Let me teU
you now this solved a problem for a worried friend when he was kind
enough to drive me back to the city after a week's vacation in the
country. ,
In his new 1991 car, we headed 'for the city early Monday morning
in time to put in an early appearance in our offices. We were still on
the country road when the car got temperamental and quit There, si
in the case with my 39mm camera, normal tinkering and the usual tests
produced no results. Fortunately, friend Al Rose was a member of the
AAA and off he went to the nearest farm house where he phoned for aid.
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THIS EVENTUALLLY arrived and the trouble was finslly located
as a faulty condenser in the distributor. This wis replaced and once
again the new car purred and off went went . . . two hours behind
schedule. , , *
"What bothers. me," Al sadly said, "is the corny excuse I have for
my boss . . . 'car trouble.' He knows I hsve a brand new car and he
even kidded me in advance that I couldn't use 'car trouble' aa a reason
for not being in on time. How can I convince him it's on the level?"
"If that's all that's bothering you,"' I replied, "your worries are over;
I have your convincer right here ... in black and white. The camera
was handy, the incident seemed part of the vacation story, so while the
mechanic was tinkering and you were worrying ... I snapped a few
pictures. JTbe boss may kid you today about the excuae ? but you'll have
the last laugh tomorrow with a picture."
Yes sir, L too, find it pays to practice what I preach.
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Raleigh Roundup
i ?Y JAMES FOU BAILEY
COMING TO TOWN . . . Look for
a lot of news on Caput Waynick
this week.
He will be in Raleigh sounding
out sentiment as to whether he
should stop running for Governor.
There will be pictures, newspaper
stories, telephone calls, and visits.
This column's prediction is that he
will not stop running. Waynick
says he will let you know by Sep
tember 1.
COBLE . . . Trial balloons for
George Coble, Lexington dairyman,
and the champ road-builder among
the highway commissioners, were
hoisted last week. If Waynick stays
in the race, Coble will not run. If
Coble does run, cow bells will ring
throughout North Carolina. He
never goes about anything half
ELECTIONS . . . There is always a
lot of political talk winging here
in the Capital City, year-in-year-out
elections or no elections. The beer
people are always having elections
and votes; and the outcome makes
news.
In the beer elections this year,
Yadkin has gone dry; Rockingham
County, wet; Hope Mills, in Cum
berland County, wet: < and Morgan
ton, dry. On August 30, a beer
ejection will be held in Liberty in
dry Randolph; on September 1 in
Gaston, a community in dry North
hampton; and on September 11
again in Moore Couiity. This coun
ty went dry in the initial vote, but
the Supreme Court held the elec
tion illegal, so they are going at
it again.
YD CANDIDATES . . . Willie Stat
on of Sanford, James R. Chcstnutt
of Clinton, and Vaughn Winborne
of Raleigh seem to be the leading
candidates for president of the
Young Democrats who meet at Car
olina Beach on September 27.
Staton, who assisted with public
relations in Dr. Frank Graham's
campaign for the U. S. Senate last
summer, is a law partner of J. E.
Pittman. Chestnutt was also a
Graham supporter. Winborne, son
of Stanley Winborne, head of the
State Utilitiea Commission, is not
regarded as a liberal ? although he
is certainly not a mossback conser
vative. ,
HOOD SYSTEM . . . Gurney P.
Hood,- as you have noted here
previously, is organizing a Hood
System bank for Raleigh. In about
a month now he has sold $112,000
worth of stock. His goal is $150,
000.
In the years 1924-1927, Gurney
Hood and his brother, C. E. Hood,
organized eight industrial banks in
North Carolina. They are situated
at Burlington, Wiaston-Salem, Dur
ham, Elizabeth City, Goldsboro,
High Point, Reidsville, and States
ville. Each of them passed through
the banking holiday period in 1633
without difficulty.
C. E. Hood is now executive pres
ident of the Hood System Indus
trial Bank in Winston-Saleip His
brother hopes to go before the
State Banking Commission here
within a few weeks for permission
to begin business in Raleigh.
Robin Hood, son of Gurney, is
executive vice-president of the
First National Bank in Marion.
PROMISED LAND . . . About 50
y?ars ago in the back country of
Missouri a revival ipeeting was
conducted by one of that State's
outstanding young ministers. He
lived in Kansas City, was a busy
editor, but liked to get out in the
sticks and get down to earth with
real folks. They reminded him
somewhat of people he grew up
with in Yadkin County.
One of his most interested list
eners at this particular meeting
was a strip of a boy around 16 or
17 years old. This boy recalls to
this day how that minister would
laugh, cry, and sing a little dur
ing his sermons. His favorite ser
mon was "1 am Bound for the
Promised Land."
This minister was Dr. S. M.
Brown, who for years and years
was editor of the "Word and Way",
the Baptist paper of the Midwest.
His son now operates a big pub
lishing house in Kansas City. Sant
Brown, as he was known around
Hamptonville, Yadkinville, States
ville, Elkin and through that count
ry, died several years aKo at the
age of 85. He left the red hills and
the scrubby pines of Yadkin while
he was still a young man but came
back to North Carolina eveiy two
or three years until he became
too old for such long trips.
The little boy who used to listen
to him so avidly was invited last
week to come to Winston-Salem,
only 35 miles from Dr. S. M.
Brown's Hamptonville, to partici
pate in the ground breaking cere
monies for the new Wake Forest
College on October 15. A visit to
Northwestern .North Carolina
should give Harry S. Truman new
strength at a time when he sorely
needs it.
SPORTS . . . Billy Joe Davidson,
the North Carolina boy who was
paid $100,000 to sign up with
Cleveland, is fluking out on the
Indian's farm out West. Hasn't
done a thing, says his fast ball
isn't working, etc., but the scouts
insist be bas the stuff and will pan
out all right.
The basketball scandals are be
ing followed closely by basketball
conscious Raleighitcs, but there is
full confidence here that the North
Carolina colleges were not afflicted
in the slightest by the disease
which has crept onto some other
sportsline campuses.
VISITORS . . . i;hc argument as to
whether the Raleigh-Durham air
port will get the air force base of
6,000 men (and $33,000,000 for
setting it up) still rages in Wash
ington. Meantime, some members
On the Highway
of North Carolina's Congressional
delegation are looking daggers at
each other. Some rather harsh
words have been tossed about.
A Congressional subcommittee is
scheduled to look over the situa
tion this week.
NO SCOTT MAN . . . Kerr Scott
got him a good State Prison Sys
tem head this week in tbe person
of Walter Anderson, but he didn't
come up with a Scott man. This
might be regarded as a tribute to
Anderson and to the Governor.
As head of the SBI, Anderson
has worked along with the admin
istration in the investigation of
this, that, and the other when
called upon. Some of the so-called
investigations were more headline
material than anything else, but
Anderson cooperated witb bis Gov
ernor.
A few of the boys have thought
Anderson was a Scott follower be
cause he wasn't kicked out during
the wholesale firings. Not so. Fact
of the matter is, the head of the
SBI is appointed by the Attorney
General and the Governor has
nothing whatever to do with it
You ought to know Walter An
derson. He is a big, burly, red-faced
and raw-boned, ugly and ungainly.
He walks as if he were climbing a
mountain. He looks not a little like
a big Rode Island red rooster. An
derson is probably the most deeply
religious man on Capitol Hill. He
has a heart of gold and only one
Boss. And you may be sure this
Advisor was consulted several
times before Walter Anderson
agreed to go on the firing line at
Central Prison.
REARMAMENT REVERBERATIONS
World Suffers Sulphur Shortage
As United States Cuts Exports
Rearmament has made it neces
sary for America to curtail severe
ly the txport of sulphur and to re
duce domestic consumption for
other than defense purposes.
Since 1907 the United States has
been the world's chief exporter of
sulphur, the American Geographi
cal Society notes, supplying in re
cent years more than 90 per cent
of the market demand. Sulphur,
either in raw form or as sulphuric
acid, is so important to industry
that there is scarcely * manufac
tured article into whose production
it does not enter at some stage.
Present Shortage Expected
The United States is by no
means the only source of sulphur.
However, its principal deposits can
be worked so cheaply that their
product can be priced far below
that of the world. The result ii
that sources elsewhere have been
neglected or have been worked
only enough to supply limited lo
cal needs.
The present shortage was not un
expected. Last year, of a total of
5,441,000 long tons of American
sulphur used at home and abroad,
241,000 tons had to be taken from
stockpile and the early exhaustion
of stockpile is expected.
Sulphur in its native state oc
curs .in three forms: in deposits
around volcanoes as in Japan, Java,
and Chile; in sedimentary beds, of
which the lsrgest known are in Si
cily and Russia, although smaller
deposits are known and worked to
some extent in many parts of the
world, including our own states of
California, Colorado, Nevada, and
Wyoming; and in the cap* of the
so-called salt domes in Louisiana
and Texas. In these salt dom?
are the largest known sulphur de
posits.
Great columns of salt (the larg
est now being worked, Bollng
Dome in Whsrton County, Tex.,
has an area of more than 1,500
acres) thrust up from beda many
thousands of feet beaaetb the ?ur
, i. ? .i A
face. They are capped with lime
atone five to 200 feet thick and
containing no aulphur. Beneath i<
a second bed whose fissures and
seams are filled with pure sulphur.
Superheated water Is pumped into
this rock and the melted sulphur
is driven by hot compressed air
up into vats where it solidifies.
Exploitation began with the
Louisiana domes, but those in
Texas now yield more than 73 per
cent of this country's sulphur out
put Elsewhere aulphur must be
mined, a much more costly and la
borious process.
Of the countries known to have
sulphur deposits only Sicily could
make any appreciable contribution
to the present emergency by in
creaaisg production. Forced from
its cetatury-old monopoly of the
sulphur export market by Ameri
can aulphur, its production dropped
to aa low as 39,000 tons annually,
but It the past few year* it has
risen again to more than 100,000
tona.
Pyrites, which are sulphides of
various metals, but chiefly iron,
supply about half the world's an
nual production* of sulphur chemi
cals. whether mined expressly for
that purpose or recovered in mill
ing copper and sine ores. Sul
phuric acid is also obtained from
gases produced in smelting sul
phide ares. Us MtmliM Croat
natural gas and from smog, an in
creasingly serious problem in
many manufacturing cities, is be
ing considered.
Production Accelerated
Of the European countries pro
ducing sulphur from pyrites only
Finland is known to be self-suffi
cient. The Meggan mine, in what
is now the British tone of Ger
many, produced annually during
World War II a tonnage of pyrites
that would be sufficient to meet
present requirements of both the
British and American tones. Ia
the past, Spanish pyrites, of which
there is little domestic consump
tion, were exported in consider
able quantities. For several years
sfter the revolution of 1938 pro
duction was low but it has been
on the upgrade again for the past
few years.
To meet the present emergency,
measures are being taken to step
up sulphur production from sources
already being worked i? (his coun
try. Operation of two new salt
domes (one in Texas and ooe in
Louisiana) are expected to begi?
this year, and a third in Louisiana
is scheduled to start production
late in IMS. Meanwhile. plaaa ara
underway for increasing produc
tion of European pyrites and long .
closed p lints are being rmnnsd
to meet the pressing demands at
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