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'Time Is Short Time is running out for Carteret county farmers who plan to use migrant workers in their fields this spring. They have only a few months in which to do something about providing better housing for the workers. Employment officials have warned repeatedly that better housing will be needed in order to attract the necessary num ber of workers to the county. Migrant workers will no longer accept the poor living quarters in which many of them have been lodged in past years. Farmers in this county must face the fact that they are de pendent upon migrant workers during the harvest season. There is not enough local farm labor to fill the demand and farmers must use migrant workers or let their crops rot in the fields. The farmers must also take into consideration the new regulations of the health department which will probably be enforced this year. Health officials have announced that hous ing which does not meet rigid sanitary standards will not be approved for use by migrant workers. There is a definite possi bility that if workers do come to the county they will not be allowed to stay because of lack of approved housing. The new sanitary regulations were originally scheduled to go into effect in 1952. but the health department agreed to give the farmers a year in which to bring their labor camps up to standard. Even with this year of grace, however, only a few farmers have taken steps to improve their camps. Two of the exceptions have been Neal Campen of Wire Grass and Heber Golden of Bettie. Both men have constructed new camps and Mr. Campen has also renovated an old camp to meet the health department's requirements. They have a*iown that it is possible for almost any farmer to provide the type of housing which is required for migrant workers. Mr. Campen, who operates a large farm, has constructed a camp which will provide housing for the large number of workers which he employs during the harvest season. The two buildings, completely equipped with electricity, running water and toilet facilities, will house about 70 workers. The cost of a similar crimp can easily be met by any of the large farmers in the county. \ Most of the objections to the health regulations and to any proposals for better housing have come from small farmers who have maintained that they cannot afford to build camps. Mr. 'Golden, a small operator, has proved that small farmers can afford to build better labor camps. Mr. Golden has constructed a small camp which will house all the migrant workers he needs for his farm. The camp meets all health requirements, but was constructed at a relatively low cost. Mr. Golden was able to keep expenses at a minimum by doing much of the work himself. The cost will be further re duced by using the building for more than just a labor camp during the harvest season. At other times, Mr. Golden plans I to use the building for a storage shed. * Many of Carteret county's farmers suffered heavy losses last year because they could not get labor when they needed j it. Those losses would have paid for better housing for the ' workers. Losses this year may .be even heavier unless the farmers provide housing which will attract more workers to the county. They will, however, have to start soon If they ex pect to complete camps by the time the first workers arrive. Spring Is Coming With Spring approaching rapidly, the home magazines have Hiunched their yearly attack on that poor, be-morlgaged spc cies, "home-owner." This species is found in all localities at this time of the year wearing a particularly harried look. Many of us cannot afford to make our homes over com pletely, even to please New York editors; but all of us can work with what we have to create more beautiful homes and a more beautiful community. It's clean-up, fix-up time, and there is no one who cannot ix-up this and clean-up that to improve the general appear nce. A clean and beautiful community will make everyone happier and bring the community many other dividends. Price of Inflation Consumers wonder why they don't find similar declines in food prices. The reason is simple. Major costs of any business today are made up of Irreducible expenditures that are the re sult of twenty years of an inflationary trend, which has seen the value of the dollar cut in half. This has put a higher value on everything from matches to locomotives. The cost of goods and services that enter into the operation of a retail store have doubled and tripled in some instances. Drops in farm prices have been substantial. The index in mid-December stood at 96 per cent of parity compared with J07 a year ago and 122 per cent in 1846. Some major crops are selling below 90 per cent of parity. Consider taxes. In pre inflation days they were not a bur den. Today taxes cost us more than our food and clothing combined. Hundreds of taxes are included in the price of necessities. They begin on the farm and accumulate through every step of the production and distribution process. A large part of current high prices for processed and manufactured products is due to taxes. Then consider what has happened to wages ? those paid by retailers are no exception. Also they have another new cost ? a mountain of paper work and expensive legal guidance in at tempting to comply with those evil misnomers called price con trols. Current reductions in some farm prices largely evap orate in inflation and taxes before they can be passed along to consumers. This is the penalty we pay for swallowing the advice peddled by spend-ourselves-rich politicians. If it were not for the efficiency of the modern retailer who is able to operate on an infinitesimal net profit margin per sale, we would be back to a barter system. CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES Carteret County's Newspaper A Merger of THE BEAUFORT NEWS (Est. 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (Est. IMS) Published Tuesdays and Fridays By THE CARTERET PUBLISHING COMPANY. INC. Lockwood Phillips ? Publishers ? Eleanore Dear Phillips Publishing Office At 504 Arendell St, Morehead City, N. C. Mall Rates: In 'Carteret county and adjoining counties. 98.00 one year, $3.50 six months. $1.35 one month; elsewhere $7.00 one year. $4.00 six months. $1.90 one month. Member Of Associated Press ? Greater Weeklies ? N. C. Press Association Audit Bureau of Circulations The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to use for republi cation of loeal .news printed In this newspaper, as well as all AP news dispatches. Entered as Second^Claji Matter^ Moretead City. N. C. ROARS JUST LIKE WHEN HE HAD ALL HIS TEETH TODAY'S BIRTHDAY MARJORIE MAIN, born Feb. 24, 1890, at Acton, Ind., as Mary Mc Gaughey Tomlinson, daughter of a minister. A c tress and come dienne, she ap pears as "Ma" in the "Ma and Pa Kettle" films, the first of which was "The Egg and I." Her greatest Broad way success was as Mrs Martin in "Dead End" in 1935. After the death of Marie Dressier, Miss Main took over the Dressier roles in the Wallace Beery films. Broadway By Mark Barron New York ? If the new year is as busy as 1652 was for soprano Nadine Conner then she may be compelled to take on the semblance of twins or even Quintuplets. So busy was she that she couldn't get back to her Compton, Cal., home so her husband. Dr. Laurence Heacock, came to Broadway to spend the holidays with her. Thia petite soprano ? she's only 5 feet 3, set a record at the Metro politan Opera when she sang two major roles in one day. doing Micaela in "Carmen" in the after noon and Sophie in "Der Rosen kavalicr" in the evening ? truly a superwoman feat. Her Micaela on this occasion was a rather historical one, for it was the first telecast of an opera ever made from the stage of the Metro politan. going over closed circuits to motion picture houses in more than 90 cities. "Another thrill about that per formance," Miss Conner said, "was that I met * man who is really an ardent fan of mine. He comes from Oklahoma and he wrote for tickets a year ago when he read in news papers that I war going to do the role. He had saved his money so that he could make the trip to hear me sing." Postscript to this is that Miss Conner, backstage at the Met. sang three extra encores just for this Oklahoma fan. Miss Conner also sang the star role of Mimi in ' Howard Dietz's English-language version of "La floheme" which had its world pre miere at the Met two days after Christmas. In learning the English version of Mimi. Miss Conner said she worked diligently to forget the ltaliaa version that she had pre viously sung. But a holiday ap pearance as guest singer at the Opera Guild luncheon at the Hotel Waldorf Astoria hindered her progress. "The plan was for me to sing selections from the English version and Licia Albanese was to sing the same selections in Italian," Miss Conner said. But at the last minute Mme. Albanese could not appear. So Miss Conner had to do some quick shifting of memory and sing the selections in both languages. Miss Conner also has recorded album* of Victor Herbert and Scotch and Irish folk songs. In addition you may encounter her in radio and video studies where she sings on "The Railroad Hour," "Telephone Hour" and other pro grams. Miss Conner said she became a singer on a doctor's prescription. The doctor told her to study sing ing to itreagtheo her abdominal muscles. Washington By Jane Eads Washington ? "Who - said - its" sometimes constitute a major head ache for scholarly sleuths in the congressional reading room of the Library of Congress. We get a large number of phone calls and letters asking for infor mation on the sources of quotations used by people in public speeches, or about quotations congressmen themselves wish to use," C. M. Wil son, chief of the reading room, told me. "We don't want to let these queries interfere with our main business, the reader service, but we try diligently to track every saying down. We can usually spot a quo tation in from 10 minutes to an hour, but we get some sticklers. Often we publish these in the li brary's information bulletin, ask ing help from our fellow libra rians." Probably the largest number of quotations people ask about are traced to Lincoln, Jefferson and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Wilson said. "They arc being quoted more and more as time goes by," he added, "but during the recent political campaigns the Democratic presi dential candidate, Gov. Adlai Stev enson, stirred up quite a business for us." Some of the quotations used by the erudite candidate are still giv ing the reading room staff furrows in the brow. They recently asked for leads to help in the identifica tion of the following: "On the Plains of Hesitation "Bleach the bones of countless thousands "Who on the eve of victory rest ed ? "And, resting, died." Wilson said that after much in quiry they got some clues attribut ing the quote to George W. Cecil, an advertising man, who uses the name of William Lawrence in his writing, though some doubt he originated the verse. Of the nine other quotes current ly listed for identification in the information bulletin, only one had been identified at the time I talked with Wilson. Among the unidenti fied ones is, "We shall force the U.S. to spend itself into destruc tion." This, Wilson told me, was said to be in Lenin's "Collected Works" but was not found there Others include: "Never treat with a successful enemy," believed made by some Roman general or statesman, "and "A law without penalties is no more than a pious resolution." In The Good Old Days THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO Warren G. Harding was to be inaugurated president of the United States in March. He had chosen Charles E. Hughes as secre tary of state and Herbert Hoover as secretary of commerce. Three cases of smallpox were reported in the county and resi dents were advised to be vac cinated. The Beaufort PTA had a story in the paper that their main functions were equipping and beautifying the school and grounds, and to enforce law and order. In respect to the latter they deplored the open sale of liquor. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO l.uther Hamilton, mayor of More head City, would run as represent ative from this district in the state legislature. A four-masted schooner, George W. Truitt, jr., was lost near Ocra coke Monday when it ran aground. The mail boat which carried mail from Morehead City and Beaufort to Marshallberg, Atlantic, Lola and Ocracoke might be stopped, in which case the mail would be car rietl overland to Atlantic and then by boat to Ocracoke. TEN YEARS AGO Helen Taylor O'Bryan and Clif ford Bridges Fleet, Lt. jg., USN, were married in St. Paul's Episco pal church in Beaufort. The Rev. Stanley Potter, min ister of Ann Street Methodist church, was named chairman of the Red Cross drive for Beaufort and east of the county. WPA workers for the county were being withdrawn, with the exception of those in recreational work, so there was danger that the county library and the bookmobile would have to close. FIVE YEARS AGO Two men, Ned Willis and Charles Anderson of Morehead City, were drowned in Bogue sound when out oystering. W. C. Carlton, secretary of the Morehead City chamber of com merce, had resigned effective May 1. He would be affiliated with the Madix Asphalt Roofing company. A. Sorrentino and S. F. Greco would open the Beaufort cannery on Lennoxville road on July 1. from the Bookshelf This year promises to be a highly productive one with regard to books about North Carolina or by North Carolina authors. The books range from a first novel due for publication today to a reference hand book about North Carolina writers. Many of these books will soon be available in the Carteret county library in Beaufort where Mrs. Paul Woodard, county librarian, makes every effort to obtain the best in read ing material. The Plantation; Ovid Williams < Pierce, Doubleday. This first novel i by a professor of English at Tulanc < university has received highly fav- 1 orable pre - publication notices, i Headers will have a chance to judge for themselves whether or nfct the praise is merited when the I book is released today. I Professor Pierce, a native of ; Halifax county, has set the scene I of his novel on a large cotton and peanut plantation in northeastern < North Carolina during the early < years of the present century. ? The novel deals with Ed Ruffin, a Halifax county plantation owner, ! Hollywood By, Gene Ilandsaker Hollywood ? The strangest-sound ing script now shooting belongs to "Bandits of Corsica." Richard Greene plays identical twin broth ers. To start with, they were Siamese twins, but they've long been surgically separated. Well, one of 'em, a nobleman, is good. The other, a gypsy, is bad. When the good one gets stabbed in a fight, the bad one, miles away, feels the pain. When the good one kisses Paula Raymond, the bad one knows it. This makes him mad be cause it interferes with a romance of his own. Jeanne Crain's daughter Jeanine was given a "half-birthday" party when she reached the age of six months the other day. The cake had half a candle on it. One pres ent was an autographed copy of Sou'easter BY CAPTAIN HENRY Charles Davis was mighty liberal with cigars to announce the birth of his second son, Stephen Porter. His older son, Chuck, now almost five, attends his grandmother's kindergarten. Father Charles gave out cigars to Chuck's school mates and told them to take them home to their fathers. All the young sters were very proud to carry home cigars to their fathers. I know one youngster now almost five who practically stood over his daddy and made him smoke the gift. The daddy is a cigarette smok er as a rule. The youngster said to him: "You smoke that cee-gar. That's for Chuck's new baby brother. That smells better than cigarettes." "What about if it makes me sick?" the father asked. "If cee-gar smoke makes you sick;" the five-year-old said, "you oughtn't smoke cigarettes." So the father smoked the cigar. Saw young Jackie Lewis, son of Pritchard Lewis, violently biking down Ann street Sunday. He had his dog in the basket. What with trying to hold the dog in with one hand and with the other on the handle bar he was quite a sight as he dexterously avoided and evaded traffic. Every parent who attended the Teachers vs. the Junior Woman's club basketball game at the school gym last week was disappointed not to see his kid's teacher on the team. I just beard it. I know it's old stuff. But I can't help but chuckle over the idea of all the Wheatly kid* getting the chicken ' pox all together. Of course it's a cinch for Claud. All he has tp do is re port to his office. "Just fancy that!" exclaimcd the proud mother. "They've promoted our Herbert for hitting the serg eant. They've made him a court marshal!." Smile a While Mr. Do Good, while driving along the avenue, noticed a young man sprawled face downward in the street. "At last," he cried, "Providence has sent me someone to minister to." Parking the car, he rushed over and began to give artificial resira tion. Presently the victim stirred and looked over his shoulder, "Mr, I wish you'd stop tickling me. I got no time to play games. I'm holding a lantern for my buddy working down in this manhole." After a lengthy conference with the estranged husband, the lawyer reported to the man's wife, his client. "Mrs. Blake," said he, with a self-satisfied air, "I have succeeded in making a settlement with your husband that is eminently fair to both of you." "Fair to both!" cried Mrs. B, "I could have done that myself! What do you think I hired a lawyer for?" Hubby: "What are we having for desaert tonight, dear?" The Mrs.: "Sponge cake, I spong ed the eggs from Mrs. Brown, the flour from Mrs. Smith, and the milk from Mrs. Joms." "Jeanine, I Dream of Lilac Time," from the composer, L. Wolfe Gil bert, of Beverly Hills . . . Like to have a producer's woes? June Haver, rehearsing a dance number with Dan Dailey last April, slipped and fell 12 feet from a re volving platform. She landed on her feet, but the jar aggravated a previous back injury. While June convalesced, the million - dollar, color musical, "The Girl Next Door," most of which had been shot, was shelved. Dailey went to another studio to keep a picture-commitment there. June recovered, but by then Dailey was in New York doing yet another picture. And Dennis Day, the pic ture's other star, was appearing with Jack Benny at the Palladium in London. The other day, after five months' interruption, the high-priced three some finally was reassembled. Luckily the remaining musical numbers involved only the princi pals and not the large group of players seen in previous scenes . . . Oops! Recently it was stated here that a waitress' tips, in a ma jor-studio lunchroom, average 50 or 75 cents per individual star. Seems I put too much baking-powder in that morsel. This is to advise the income-tax people ? and others whose eyebrows went up ? that a waitress averages such a reward only when waiting on a table full of diners. A producer hosting sev eral stars, for example. "If," wait ress Bette Peterman adds, "you're lucky." . . . Producer Robert Bassler wanted to make sure that an iron-barred jail set in "The Silver Whip" was practical. So Bassler, trying out the cell door, locked himself in ? and had to wait 20 minutes till a man fipm the studio hardware de partment arrived with a key. and the women who loved him too much or not enough. The mem ories of all of them crowd through his mind as Ed's life slowly ebbs away. Professor Pierce says, "Though I've been away since the war, I still Feel that North Carolina is my home. At least when I try to write a story that's where my mind has to go." The author began his writing career at Chapel Hill where he was editor of the undergraduate liter ary magazine. He graduated in 1932 and later received his MA from Harvard. After serving in Lhe Army during the war, he taught at Southern Methodist uni versity and later went to Tulane. North Carolina Authors: A Se lective Handbook; University of North Carolina Library Extension Division. Prepared by a joint com mittee of the North Carolina Eng lish Teachers association and the N. C. Library association, this han dy volume has up-to-date informa tion on the lives, books and refer ence sources of more than 160 Tar Heel writers. An appendix lists the winners of the Patterson Me morial cup and the Mayflower So ciety cup. Taw Jamieson; May Davies Mar tenet. This novel by another na tive of North Carolina also has a North Carolina setting. The book, listed for publication in June, has already appeared serially in the Ladies Home Journal. The 80th birthday next month of North Carolina's Dr. Mary Sloop will be marked by the publication of a book about her life and work at Crossnore school in the moun tains of the western part of the state. Dr. Sloop's work at Cross nore has made her famous through out the country and led to her se lection as mother of the year. The biography has been written by Charlotte's LeGette Blythe, author of The Bold Galilean and A Tear for Judas. Horn of the Hunter; Robert Ruark, Doubleday. North Caro lina's most recent contribution to the field of newspaper humor has written another book which is slated for publication in April. The book deals with Ruark 's African hunting trip which furnished con siderable material for his syndi cated column. Since his graduation from Chapel Hill before the war, Ruark has made himself famous as a sports writer, crusading reporter and pur veyor of wit through bis Scripps Howard column. U.S. LAND FOR HORSE FEED K I I ll -?? AUTHOR OF THE WEEK Br W. G. ROC. Kits Ovid Williams Pierce, author of "The Plantation," was born in 1910 in Weldon, N. C., the state in which the scene of this first novel of his is laid. Duke university gave him his A.B. in 1932 and Harvard, his master's degree. After four years 1n the Army, he taught at Southern Methodist university, Dal las, four years, and is now on the English faculty at Tulane. Some of his short stories have appeared in the Southwest Review. p. THEY MAKE SEWS | STAMPS | By Syd Kronish WHEN NEW STAMP ISSUES are sold at post offices throughout the world many collectors purchase large quantities in hope of finding part of a sheet with an error on it. Such a find would be ;i rarity and therefore become a valuable item. The chances of finding such errors, however, are very slight. But last December in Bury, Lan cashire. England, a schoolboy did discover such a rarity. The stamps were the new Queen Elizabeth is sue. The youngster, on being served at the post office counter, noticed that one corner of a sheet of 2Vi-d stamps was not properly printed, lie calmly asked the clerk for the whole sheet and received it from the unknowing counterman. Immediately the boy went to a stamp firm in Manchester and sold the sheet for a large sum of money. And now the stamps are part of a display on exhibition at the Na tional Stamp exhibition in London. The entire show had 20,000 stamps valued at $1,400,000. TO COMMEMORATE the 50th anniversary of composer Hugo Wolf, Austria has issued a special ? 1 SO - vrhillinf stamp, reports Edwin Mueller. The stamp, in steel blue, bears a portrait of Wolf and his dates, 1860-1903. Wolf composed 111 a ii y ut'i limit "lieder" which are favorites of con cert singers. The adhesive was de signed by Prof. Vinzenz Gorgon. IN CONTINUATION of its "Fa mous Berliners" series, the West ern Zone of Germany has issued three new stamps. The 5-pfennig blue shows a portrait of Otto lil ienthal, ae* . nautical engineer and pioneer of the airplane in Ger many. The 15-pfg. violet depicts Rudolf Virchow, pathologist and political leader. The 30-pfg. deep purple illustrates Max Planck, physicist and professor. LIECHTENSTEIN'S fourth set of stamps showing paintings from the gallery of the Prince of Liechten stein has arrived in this country, - i ? i. ? ? ronnrts tho Npw York Stamp company. The 10-rappen green ' (hows a portrait of a young man by an unknown master. The 20-r khaki illustrates St. Nicholas by Bartholo m a u s Zeit-blom. The 30-r violet depicts St. Christopher by Lucas Granach, the elder. The 40-r blue pictures Leonhard, Duke of Hag, by Hans Kulmbacb. A SERIES of seven new airmail stamps depicting Israel landscapes ? i will be' issued gradually dur ing this year, re ports the Israeli ministry of transport and communication. The first stamp in the series is a 1,000-pruta dark and light green aanesive 11 chows a site of Tel Aviv? Jaffa (old Jaffa). In the foreground is a swaying palm tree and in the background horizon is a transport plane. The entire series has been designed by G. Hamori of Tel Aviv. A 25-MARKKA blue stamp haa been issued by Finland to mark the 100th anniversary of the temper ance movement in that country. The design shows a man and woman balding a torcb>
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