Carteret County News -Times
"Carteret County'a Newspaper"
TUESDAY, MARCH It, 1952
Perusing the Primary
Many "conclusions" have been drawn as the result of the
irecent New Hampshire primary in which General Eisenhower,
(Republican, won over another Republican, Mr. Taft, and 1n
which the man from Tennessee, Mr. Kefauver, won over the
n from Missouri. President Truman.
The "conclusions," briefly, are these:
1. That the New Hampshire primary shows to the people
"o! Europe that we Americans are pleased with what Eisen
?Qldwer has done in Europe and that we won't turn our back
trii them and depend solely on home defenses should a mili
tary conflict come.
2. That even though Taft polled less votes than Eisen
A?Wr, "the tremendous number of votes received by Taft is
evidence of the people's confidence in him and his polling
popularity."
3. The Kefauver victory indicates a complete repudiation
if Trumanism.
4. The Kefauver victory indicates not a repudiation of our
Resident personally, but disapproval of his policies.
5. That Eisenhower is now an authentic Republican and
will be able to carry with him all the nation's Republicans in a
Klguvenated party.
6. Eisenhower is now an active candidate for the presi
dency of the United States and should ask to bo relieved of
fyis command of the Supfeme Allied Forces in Europe.
7. Among the Democratic masses there is considerable
(Idubt as evidenced by the fact that the total Democratic vote
wps much smaller than the total Republican (the Democrats
flayed home, not knowing exactly what to do if they did go
to the polls).
. 8. The Republican candidates' victory means an eventual
Jaft-Eisenhower deadlock.
Take your pick. The New Hampshire primary means what
ever partisans want it to mean.
This, however, we know. Both Republicans and Demo
crats favored the two new, fresh candidates in the line-up ?
pjey weion't casting their votes for Taft, Truman, Stassen,
Or MacArthur. They weren't interested in political-battle
yeterans. men who in previous campaigns made commitments
and are old hands at throwing together platforms.
The New Hampshire primary was not "eyewash" as Presi
dent Truman classifies all presidential primaries. It was an
judication that people are looking for new leaders, new per
sonalities, and a new national political picture.
Of Space and Tomorrow
Human travel into space will come within the next 10 to
^ years, declares Dr. Wernher von Braun, young German
genius, now in this country, who created the V-2, terrible,
guided missile rocket that traveled more than 3,000 miles an
Jjpur and bombarded England during world war II.
i,i, Although Americans for the past decade have been condi
tioned to the idea of space travel through Flash Gordon, a
comic strip by Alex Raymond, and more recently other comics
Dud movies on space, the thought of actual space travel within
tye span of most of our lifetimes leaves one astounded, a little
fearful, and at the same time eagerly curious.
(l( What worlds lie in that great vastness, amidst the seas of
atmosphere and beyond the sweeping swirls of clouds? Scien
tists predict and on the basis of their predictions, we imagine.
Until the first man returns from hiv sojourn into the now
mysterious regions, we will not know whether our imagina
tions have been too confined or too elaborate. It may be that
ire will be greatly disappointed not to find mineral-laden
planets occupied by wierd peoples, or will we be greatly
relieved?
,,o A sign of the militant nature of our times is the name at
|f?ched to what is predicted to be the first manned rocket: a
military platform. Oddly and perhaps significantly, it is pic
tured by artists as a revolving disc that closely resembles a
jQUlette wheel. Will its spinning bring us fortune or despair?
A, Within the next 15 years we may be using words now com
f^tely foreign to our earth-bound vocabulary. We may be
meeting new heroes, prototypes of Leif Ericson and Columbus,
toe men who ventured into the unknown centuries ago.
^ Dr. von Braun, working for the United States Army at
ege of the Army ordnance guided missiles and rocket centers,
||ys that the first nation to put a manned rocket in the air
mo dominate the entire earth in military force.
The hope of domination is evidently everlasting ? the hope
^domination led Queen Isabella to finance Columbus's "crazy
yenture," for if Spain found new rich lands, she would have
new wealth to finance new wars against her enemies. While
Columbus was mainly interested in proving his theories, Isa
bella had reasons all her own. While today's scientists ap
proach space problems on a purely scientific basis, behind
^em are governments that see different ends.
Be the prime motives of government greed or self-preser
^ion, history shows that good has evolved. Spain. France,
itid England clashed over lands of the New World, and a new
nation rose from the flames. It is predicted that there will
? quarrels over the expected discoveries in outer space and
mr control of "nothingness" ? space itself.
oo It is to be expected that we shall have to pay a price to
push outward our earth-orbits. In paying that price, hopes
of a beneficial result should remain uppermost and perhaps
n'the future there will not only be a better world but a new
found, brighter universe.
What Does the Easter Seal Buy?
^'Through the 1952 annual Easter Seal appeal, the National
flteiety for Crippled Children and Adults and its affiliates, of
wlllch the Carteret chapter is one. are seeking funds to finance
IT sources to meet the needs of America's crippled chil
ng the past year alone aid was offered to nearly a
T million crippled children and adults through diagnos
clinics, treatment and training centers, convalescent homes
I children's hospitals.
The National Society for Crippled Children and Adults and
Iff -affiliates are justified in feeling they have made a vital
(Mitribution to the nation, as well as to a humanitarian work,
cause deserves our support.
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PROBLEM BOYS
Sou'easter
BY CAPTAIN HENRY
Culling humor from court . . .
When people were called to be
sworn in for jury duty last week,
ohe young man told the judge he
worked at Cherry Point and would
probably lose his job if he stayed
away.
"Well what do they do," Judge
Burney asked, "when you go on
vacation?"
"I don't go on vacation. See,
they'd have to get another man to
take my place because of this job
I'm on now."
"Well, how long is it going to
be before this job is finished?"
asked the judge, transferring his
chaw of tobacco from one jaw to
the other.
"About 12 months."
The judge raked his hand
through his shock of black hair,
and remarked, "Well, I declare, I
hope nothing ever happens to you.
If it does, I reckon the whole Ma
rine base will fold up." Judge Bur
ney took aim at the cuspidor. "You
can go. I wouldn't want the United
States government to collapse be
cause of you."
Claud Wheatly, attorney for Mrs.
Foster who was charged with shoot
ing her husband, told the jury that
he was going to claim justifiable
homicide and that he didn't want
anyone on the jury who couldn't
ronder a "not guilty" verdict be
cause they believed "an eye for
an eye and a tooth for a tooth."
To one juror, he simply asked:
"You an old testament man or a
new testament man?" Evidently,
the juror felt the new testament
has merit, for he stayed in the
jury box.
Charles Holland, charged with
assault, was asked by Harvey Ham
ilton, attorney, to enumerate all
"the trouble" he had been in prior
to his present difficulty.
Charles listed a few things,
among them an automobile acci
dent, several frays, and then: "Dey
cha'ged me once with stealin' three
chickens." He turned to the judge,
adding indigantly, "and dey only
cber found but two!"
Frank Taylor of Sea Level and
three other boys fishing with him,
made a nice haul last Monday in
Long Shoal river in the Stumpy
Point vicinity, Dare county. With
a short haul seine they took over
a ton of shad, herring, and smat
tering of other fish including a
giant striped roc bass that weighed
close to 30 pounds. The haul even
included some diamond back terra
pins.
All Beaufort is chuckling. Lock
wood Phillips has finally bought
a boat. It's probably the only one
in Beaufort with three admirals,
big Lockwood, little Lockwood, and
elder son, Walter.
I see that the Beaufort Choral
club is going to present a concert
at Morehead City high school Fri
day night to help raise money for
the Madie Bell Bible class. The
club gave a concert in Morehead
high school last year too.
Dr. Ennett made his introduction
of Dr. Green short and sweet at
the St. Paul's men's club meeting
last week. Dr. Ennett said he was
afraid Judge Duncan would roar at
him again if he didn't. Seems as
though at an earlier meeting the
good doctor was proclaiming the
accomplishments of the man he was
about to introduce when Judge
Duncan boomed: "Are you the
speaker of the evening?"
Smile a While
"I've got a job at last. Dad," the
young actor reported. "It's a new
play, and I play the part of a man
who has been married for 20
years."
"Splendid!" said Father. "That's
a start anyway, my boy. Maybe
one of these days they'll give you
a speaking part." ? Good Business.
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Our United States
By Floyd Cramer
President of the National Asso
ciation for the Preservation of
Free Enterprise, Inc.
By way of variety, let's try a
guessing game.
Picture a man and his wife liv
ing in one dingy room. No carpets;
sand on the floor; no stove, just
an open hearth; no furniture ex
cept a rough table and a couple
of chairs; no bed, but some rush
mats in the corner; clothes of the
roughest texture; food, a steady
diet of potatoes, beans, fish and
rabbit. Now for the question;
Where does this family live?
You say, Russia?
You're probably pretty close to
the truth at
that, but actu
ally the family
is American.
That's how
the ordinary
American
lived in the
early days of
the 19th cen
tury. I've taken the details right
out of, J. B. MeMaster's History of
the People of the United States.
We've eome a long way since then,
haven't we?
Right .now in the 20th century
millions of people in other lands
still live like that. Or even worse.
Why then, do we live better?
It's no secret that American
progress is, due to free enterprise.
Under the American system of pri
vate ownership, profits, competi
tion and mass production, we've
come a long, long way.
The average American today has
a well heated, neatly furnished
place to live. He quita possibly
has a car, almost certainly a radio.
If he doesn't own a television set,
he's thinking of buying one. He
has two suits of clothes, maybe
more. He can read whatever he
wants to read, and his newspaper,
his radio and his local movie house
bring the whole world right into
his home town.
We take these things too much
for granted. Actually they are the
fruits of freedom, and freedom has
to be defended and maintained.
Up to now, our individual free
dom has been carried over into our
economy. Under free enterprise
we allow a man to make a profit.
We encourage mass production.
And we love success stories!
Of course, there are people who
abuse this freedom; who put profits
ahead of human decency.
There are always people who will
take unfair advantage. But the
thing to do is to penalize the men
who abuse freedom ? and not to
scrap the system which hat done
so much for us.
Better a few wrongs which can
be righted, under a free economy,
than a multitude of evils which
would go on forever under bureau
cratic socialism.
Hollywood
Hollywood.? "Retreat, Hell!" is
a better-than-?rdjnary war movie
that conveys a realistic feeling of
the cold, peril, and heroism in Ko
rea today. Fortunately most of the
usual cliches are missing.
There is, for instance, no single
soldier everlastingly making wise
cracks. The bany- faced rookie who.
you feel sure, will die in the last
reel, miraculously survives. Even
the heartaches of lovers are por
trayed with effective restraint and
brevity.
Probably the picture's worst fault
is too much blaring background
music, particularly of the inevita
ble Marine hymn. But even this
trimming averages less than for
most war films.
"Retreat, Hell!" is based on the
Marines' withdrawal from the
Chosin Reservoir sector in Decem
ber, 1950, after the Chinese Com
munists' entry into the war. The
title is from a remark credited to
Gen. Oliver P. Smith when asked
if the Leathernecks were retreating
from North Korea: "Retreat, hell!
We're just advancing in a different
direction."'
Frank Love joy gives a hard-hit
ting portrayal of a tough colonel.
Richard Carlson is a reservist call
ed back into service. Rusty Tamb
lyn the rookie who proves finally
he's as tough as the rest of the
Marines in his family. Anita Louise
is seen briefly as Carlson's wife.
Suave Ray Milland fighting In
dians? Slugging it out with brawny
Forrest Tucker? Yep, that's Ray
and his doubles in "Bugles in the
Afternoon." a fairish frontier melo
drama about Redmen and the Cav
alry.
AUTHOR
OF THE WEEK
By W. G. ROGERS
FREDERICK MORTON, author
of a third novel, "Asphalt and De
sire," has such a command of Eng
lish you'd think he was born to it,
but he comes from Vienna. Born
there 27 years ago, he started out
to study medicine, but Hitler in
terfered. After his father had spent
a year in prison camps, the family
went penniless to London in 1939,
and there the young son got a job
in a bakery. In the following year
he came to this country, and work
ed in a New York bakery . . .
there's a baker in ir\pre than one
of his novels. He entered the City
College of New York in 1943 and
was awarded a B. S. in 1947; studies
at Cornell and the New School com
bined to give him an M. A. and he
went to Columbia for a Ph. D. He
has taught at New York Univer
sity, the Universities of Utah and
Southern California. Johns Hop
kins, and lectured at the New
School.
Bettej- learn from the mistakes
of others ? you don't live long
enough to make them all yourself.
OM THE HOUSE
BY DAVID G. BAKEUTHER
THE SPRING CLEAN-UP, paint-up, fix-up custom is one of the best
things that ever happened to home owners. You can't bask in the sun
on the uack steps and whittle, letting the house go to rack and ruin,
when all the neighbors are busy sprucing up their places. You naturally
get busy and before you know it, you've tallied up a neat saving.
"A good paint job can increase the value of a house by 12 per cent"
? that's an old rule-of-thumb among real estate appraisers. There are
two reasons:
1. By keeping the weather out, you give the house a new lease on
life and make it more comfortable, because you can then sit around and
enjoy it without distractions of damp spots here and blisters there.
2. By adding to the beauty of the place, you enhance its attractive
ness to others, increasing its resale value, thereby protecting your in
vestment.
IN THE OLD DAYS when mortgages came due every five years,
lending institutions used to compel householders to repaint before the
mortgage could be renewed. The lenders knew the value of a paint job
and took no chances on having the security for a loan undermined by
the insidious effects of weather wear and tear. But now with long term
monthly payment mortgages, no one can step in and tell a man when to
paint. He's on his own.
And the paint-up season is better than a string around a finger.
Paint manufacturers have accomplished a great deal in making paint
ing almost foolproof, IF ? and it's a big if ? you follow directions.
Proper application is so important that the American Builder maga
zine, trade publication for home builders, tells contractors in its current
issue: "You can give a good mechanic poor material and he will do
wonders with it; but nothing can save a good material in the hands of a
poor mechanic."
ONE OF THE WORST extravagances is to skimp on any exterior
paint job. Cheap paint, or trying to spread good paint too far, can cost
you more in the lorfg run than if you start right. When a coat of paint
goes bad, you can't just paint over it, unless you want to throw dollars
to the wind. The original coat will have to be removed ? probably burn
ed off ? and you'll spend 50 per cent more than if you had started right.
One way to spoil good paint is to add an extra quart of linseed oil
when it's not called for, in order to stretch the paint over a wider area.
Poor quality paint, left, does this. The U. S. Forest Products Lab
oratory found no evidence of cold weather condensation or other inner
mosture on this job. Poor carpentry, right, causes this. Split clapboard
near top has absorbed rain. Other boards, carelessly cut, \ouch roof.
All boards should have been cut slightly shorter and their ends should
have been primed. Then adequate flashing would protect paint.
Paint pigments are scientifically proportioned in binder, or oil. The
binder is the part that weathers away. Excessive dilution spreads the
pigments farther than intended, invites weathering, increases chalking
and wastes your money.
All loose paint must be removed with a scraper, wire brush or steel
wool. Old paint work should be washed, rinsed and dried to remove
grease. Detergents of trisodium phosphate, in weak solution, a tea
spoonful to a gallon, leave no soapy film. Ordinary washing soda works.
Cracks and nail holes are then filled with putty or wood filler. Small
fire-cracks in plaster will fill naturally with a two-coat job. But if you
use one of the new one-coat flat oil finishes, it's wise to cover such cracks
with spackle.
A CAREFUL PAINTER always removes all rust from nail heads and
metal surfaces. Painting over rust never stops its destruction. Sand
paper, emery cloth, steel wool or a wirebrush will remove rust. Then
the bare metal is primed with zinc or red lead.
You don't have to remove hardware. Door knobs, hinges, etc., can
be coated with petroleum jelly and no paint drippings will stick to them.
No paint is good enough to stick to rotted wood. Any disintegrating
porch posts, window sills or other members should be replaced and the
new wood shouJd be thoroughly primed. Knots have to be kept from
bleeding by use of a knot sealer ? shellac or aluminum paint ? before
a priming coat is applied.
MOISTURE IN WOOD is a leading offender in causing exterior paint
jobs to go bad. It travels through the grain for considerable distances
before blisters appear. There have been cases where no leakage has
been found and the paint failure was due to condensation. When no
provision is made for an insulated house to "breathe," and no vapor
barrier is provided against inner walls, moisture works outward and sets
up enough pressure to force the paint off.
Getting at the roots of such trouble and then using only top quality
paint in accordance with the manufacturer's directions can make your
spring clean-up well worth your effort.
In The Good Old Days
THIRTY THREE YEARS AGO
St. Paul's school hand was pre
senting a concert for the benefit
of Armenian and Syrian relief.
Mr. Isaac M. Moore had rented a
store on Front street, Beaufort,
and was preparing to open a gro
cery store ihere.
Charles H. Hushall announced his
candidacy for office of mayor of
Beaufort.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
Four Federal rum chasers were
in Beaufort and Morehead City
keeping a lookout for rum-runners
who might come into the harbor.
County commissioners instructed
the county engineer to complete
the survey on the road from Davis
to Atlantic.
The Markers Island Ferry com
pany withdrew their petition for a
ferry lranchise. It would have run
from Beaufort to Lcnnoxville to
Harkers Island.
TEN YEARS AGO
Van Sant inc., the new induatry
in Beaufort, had let the contract
for the buildings to be constructed
on its property.
Hugh Pake of Beaufort was .he
first man in the county to be called
in the third Selective Service draw
ing.
Two more merchant ships were
sunk off the coast by submarines.
The explosions were felt in Beau
fort.
FIVE YEARS AGO
A. Sorrentino and co. of New
York were planning to build a can
nery on Lennoxville road near
highway 70, Beaufort.
Pat Crawford was elected presi
dent. Moose Tcnncy. vice-prcsident,
Glenn Martin, secretary and treas
urer. and Charles Hill statistician
of the Tidewater Baseball League.
Dunbrik company on Lennox
ville road in Beaufort was set to
work at toQ production, making
12,000 bricks a day.
A man can do no more than he
thinks he can, but he usually does
less than he thinks he does.
TODAY'S
BIRTHDAY
VICE ? ADM. EDWARD LULL
COCHRANE, born March It. 1892,
, at Marc Island, Calif., son of a Ma
rine brigadier.
Chief of the
Navy's Bureau
of Ships in
world war II,
Cochrane re
tired and was
appointed chair
man of the Fed
e r a 1 Maritime
Board in 1950.
He was gradu
ated from both
the Naval Academy and from Mass
achusetts Institute of Technology,
holding a master's degree in the
science of naval architecture.
? THEY MAKE NEWS
STAMPS
By Svd Kronish
IN THE INDIAN OCEAN off the
east coast of Africa lies a little
group of islands called the Sey
chelles These islands were at
tached to the British colony of
Mauritius from 1810 to 1903 when
they became a separate Crown col
ony. This week Seychelles issued
a new and interesting set of five
stamps. The 2-cents purple shows
a sail fish. 3 c orange a giant tor
toise, 9 c blue a coco-de-mer palm
tree, 15-c green a fishing boat, 18-c
magenta a map of the area. On
each of the stamps is a vignette
portrait of the late King George
VI. These stamps were designed
and printed long before the death
of the monarch but are ready for
issue now.
TWO SPECIAL stamps to honor
the expected visit of the thcn-Prin
ccss Elizabeth and Prince Philip
were prepared by Australia. The
1 shilling 6 pence depicted the
royal couple. The 3 'z -pence Eliz
abeth only. The stamps were about
to be printed when the news of the
King's death was announced and
the printing was immediately can
celled.
SWISS stamp collectors will be
glad to know that the 13th edition
of Zumstein's Specialized Cata
logue of Switzerland and Liech
tenstein will be issued shortly. This
catalogue contains much useful in
formation needed by the special
ist. It also contains a detailed
list of Swiss airmails. The preface
contains, in English, an explana
tion of signs and technical terms
used. This edition has 500 pages
with 1,200 illustrations.
TO COMMEMORATE the hun
dredth anniversary of the Danish
Lifeboat I n s t i
tution, Denmark
has issued a spe
cial 25-ore red
stamp. The cen
tral design
shows one sailor
rescuing an
other. A life
boat is seen in
the background.
The motif is from one of sculptor
Harald Salomon's reliefs; Viggo
Bang was the designer of the
stamp. The dates. 1852-1951, are
at the top of the design.
STAMP NOTES ... The Hash
emitc kingdom of Jordan has is
sued a brown and green stamp to
commemorate the unity of Jordan*
. . . Algeria has issued a new 15
franc blue stamp showing a statue
of a young boy holding a bird . . .
Hungary has issued an 11-value set
of stamps showing various birds
native to that area.
Al'STRIA has issued two new
stamps, reports the New York
Stamp co. A bne schilling blue
green bears a
portrait of Dr.
Karl Hitter von
Ghcda. Austrian
railroad en
gineer who built
t h e Semmering
Mountain rail
road which con
nects Lower
A u st r i a with
aiyna. nis nates. itHK-1860. are
noted. A 1.50-s green honors Josef
Schrammel. composer of Viennese
music for string quartets. He is
pictured holding a violin. His
dates. 1852 1895, are, also seen.
THE CENTENARY of the birth
of Abdulhak Hamid Tarhan is com
memorated by Turkey with the is
suance of four new stamps, reports
the New York Stamp co. Each
stamp bears the identical portrait
of Tarhan. The l.Vkurus is purple.
20-k blue, 30-k brown and 60-k
green.
EI. SALVADOR has issued a new
bicolored series of six stamps for
regular postage and eight stamps
for airmail use in commemoration
of her 1948 revolution and 1990
constitution. The two designi bear
a torch and a laurel wreath.