CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
Carteret CouiIt'i Newspaper
EDITORIALS
TUESDAY. APRIL 6, 1954
We Wish Them Well
Best wishes for success go to the Sea
Level Community Chamber of Com
merce which holds its initial meeting
tonight in the former Sea Level School.
We hope the residents of communi
ties in the eastern part of the county
realize the importance of an organiza
tion such as this. It can weld together
the common interests of them all and
eventually put more money in their
pockets.
The chamber is particularly for
tunate in its leadership. While selec
tion of officers is important and the
president of the chamber should be
carefully chosen, the manager is the
fellow who serves as sparkplug. More
head City lost a valuable chamber man
ager when Joe DuBois accepted the
managership of the Sea Level Chamber.
Well-acquainted with this area and
confident of its potentialities, Mr. Du
Bois is a natural for the Sea Level job.
He has long seen the valu6 of promot
ing Carteret as one community. He has
raised his sights to greater things while
a few others still cling to the belief that
progress of their own particular busi
ness in their own particular little town
is all that matters.
The Sea Level Community Chamber
of Commerce is the closest we have
come to the ideal of a county-wide or
ganization devoted to selling our nat
ural blessings to the world. Credit for
its beginning goes to D. W. Taylor and
his associates who have faith in their
home community and can envision its
blossoming.
Mr. Taylor has furnished our people
with the tools with which to work. They
have only to pick them up and use them
with diligence and wisdom.
Watch and Wait
People here and all over the state are
asking about the status of the dog track
at Morehead City. "The status is quo."
WlJch means that things are just as
they always have been ? on the surface.
There is much speculation. But all
the surmising and wondering as to what
might happen ends up with nothing
more or less than a question mark. The
future of the local- dog track came to
the fore after last month's supreme
court ruling outlawing the track at
Currituck.
Morehead City has accepted the su
preme court ruling and the possible
closing of the dogtrack here philosophi
cally. There has been no wild tearing
of hair on the part of town officials ?
some of them don't have much hair to
tear anyhow ! They've lost it worrying
over other town problems.
Upstate newspapers expecting
lengthy public debate or discussion on
the matter went a-begging. Other than
coffee klatsch conversations here, dog
track surmises have not been aired.
The prevailing official policy seems
to be watch and wait.
Nursing Profession Beckons
With graduation days fast approach
ing, many girl graduates are thinking
about what to do after high school days
are over. A field that will welcome
young women with open arms is nurs
ing.
The demand for nurses grows but the
response from the girls needed in the
profession lessens. In an effort to
strengthen the bulwarks against illness
and disease, Congresswoman Frances
P. Bolton has introduced to Congress
two nursing bills. One would give fed
eral grants and scholarships in the nurs
ing field and the other would give male
nurses commissions in the armed ser
vices. Strangely enough, in the latter
case, men do not have equal rights with
women. Women nurses are eligible for
commissions but men in the same field
are denied that privilege.
Mrs. Bolton recently sent out 10,000
questionnaires to leaders in the health
field. She asked : "Do you believe there
is a nurse shortage? If so, what are the
causes? Is financial aid needed and
if so, where? How do you feel about
federal aid, state aid or a combination
of both?"
The yes replies to the nurse shortage
question were overwhelming. Less than
2 per cent of the persons replying felt
there was no nurse shortage.
Opinions as to the reason for the
nurse shortage were as follows:
1. Many jobs open to high school
graduates, jobs that require little
or no extra training
2. Cost and length of nursing train
ing without financial assistance
3. Low pay plus long and irregular
hours
4. Increasing demand for nurses be
cause more people are using hos
pitals
5. Competition of nursing fiejds
other than genera), such as public
health nursing, industrial nursing,
use of nurses as doctor's reception
ists ?r assistants.
6. Better nursing conditions in gov
ernment - managed nursing ser
vices
7. A decline in the desire to bring
comfort and ease the pain of fel
low human beings
8. Reduced birth rate during the
1920's and 1930's which has made
for less woman-power during the
age when nurses train
As for government aid (money) to
help make the nursing profession more
attractive, most of the respondents to
the questionnaires favored giving fed
eral funds to schools which would re
duce the cost to girls enrolling in nurs
ing courses.
Both professional and practical
nurses are needed. Nursing is one of
the highest professions a young woman
can tmter and those who heed the call
will be performing an everlasting
service to humanity.
How About a Slogan?
Just two days remain to get your
slogan into the Newport Businessmen's
Association. What slogan? The words
that are to go on the welcome signs at
the town limits of Newport!
Charles Hill, president of the associa
tion, hopes to have a barrel-full of slo
gans to place before the judges. The
winner in the contest will receive a $25
government bond.
Up until last week, slogans were com
ing in slowly. It shouldn't be difficult
to think of something to put on the
signs ? "Welcome to Newport, Fastest
Growing Town on the Carteret Coast"
or "Welcome to Newport, Center of
Carteret's Bright Leaf Belt . .
There are literally hundreds of slo
gans befitting the town that forms the
gateway to Carteret. Anyone anywhere
may enter and there's no limit to the
number of wordings that one person
may submit.
How about getting busy right now
and send in several slogans to Slogan
Contest, Newport Businessmen's Asso
ciation, Newport, N. C.? Entries. must
be postmarked before midnight Thurs
day.
Bond Sales Go Up
Savings bond sales in North Carolina
for the first two months of this year
were 1 per cent ahead of the cor
responding period last year.
From that we would judge that
there's just as much money around as in
1963 only people are evidently stashing
it away. Thrift is a fine thing ? if the
grocer bill, shoe bill and other obliga
tions are met first.
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Bogue Island Transaction
Holds Promise for Future
Without a doubt, the most excit
ing thing with the farthest reach
ing possibilities for this area was
the sale of half of Bogue Island
last week.
Persons closely connected with
the deal foresee the spending of
hundreds of thousands of dollars
to develop "Emerald Isle" into the
resort -area its investors dream of.
Things like this are always
launched with high hopes and I
hope the need for money (should
such occur) does not shelve the
dreams, meaning that the result
would be in five or ten years, what
we have seen so many be?-hes de
velop into ? honky tonks, beer
joints and dives.
The Bogue Island beaches, in
deed, are the safest along the At
lantic coast. Their east-west di
rection and the prevailing south
west winds mean they are virtually
without undertow. It may be that
at last, a beautiful resort area,
second to none that Georgia and
Florida boast, may come into being
in this county.
Friday's newsstory said that Hen
ry K. Fort who bought the proper
ty in the early 1920's came to this
"country" in 1918. The word
should have been "county." Al
though born in Ireland, according
to Mr. Fred Seeley, Mr. Fort lived
in Philadelphia many years before
making the Bogue Island purchase.
The nickel parking meters have
caused no little stir in both Beau
fort and Morehead City.
The following is not official but
you may take it for what it's worth:
Morehead City policemen, before
writing a ticket for overparking,
flip the handle of the meter in
front of the car. Should another
coin be sticking in there, it will
drop, registering another hour of
time, and no ticket is written.
Now Beaufort meters are not
built that way. There is no handle
to flip. The coin as it goes in the
slot automatically makes the point
er jump to 60 minutes. I have
heard, but IJiave not personally ex
perienced this ? if a nickel is
placed on the windshield of the
car, the Beaufort policeman will
take It and put it in the meter
should your car still be parked af
ter the red flag flips up.
Before 4rying such a thing, yoa'd
better check with a policeman. It
was also suggested at the March
town board meeting that the
meters on the south side of
Front between Queen and Pollock
be changed to nickel-for-two-bour
meters. Should that be done, you
can park there for two houra, pay
only a nickel and go to the show!
The drug store picture in More
head City certainly is changing.
The SJiW drug atore has closed.
Goodwin's Pharmacy in the 1100
block of Arendell street is in the
process of construction and In the
1200 block next to the AfcP atore
will be another drug store of which
they aay Dan Pickett, formerly of
? Today's Birthday
OLIN EARL TEAGUE, born Ap
ril ?, Itl* in Woodward. Okla. The
U. S. r?prc?enUtive (D.-Tex.) hu
been identified
in Coitmi
with veteram af
fairs. A' many
time* decorated
veteran of
World War II
he served from
1840 to 1046 and
vu discharged
as i colonel.
Some of his dec
oration* war* the Silver Star with
two clutten and the Purple Heart
with two eluetera. Laat re-elected
to Conireae to IMS.
Straits will h? manner. The Morc
he'd City drug Store of course
had its gala opening in its new to
cation Saturday. l.
Soon, evidently, there wil II
three drug stores in Morehead City,
just as there have been in Beau
fort for a long time.
A radio announcer, reading a
commercial for a seller of TV sets,
said the other day that this parW
ular television set had a Bum
in tuna " We could at least be
loyal to the old hometown in this
business and have bu'ltjln p?S'"t
p. S. I do believe the man meant
"tuner."
Jane Ead?
Washington
mo'st6 l?c^T?TofU ?f Kepub
^p^y'atopwo^n^rsM
nr.rs?=8ib,u.y
TSTSS: houses needs a
? doins over." Last summer, when
iho Washington house needed
decorating. Mrs. Harrington was
luckv enough to be able to
out and just let the decorators tak
over while she spent five months in
Hawaii with her husband.
?It was the first time in the 12
years my husband has been dele
gate we have been able to nave
such a long visit andspcidChnst
u?waii she told me. un
U1 recently this energetic lady
didn't have much time to spend a
Washington home eitner.
Korsxyears she served as pres
ident o" ""e National Federation
of Republican women and '"J1?
the country, visiting is many of the
organization's 4,000 clubs ?? P?;
.^ Currently, she is editor of
thJ federation's Washington News
Letter a monthly publication with
i suff made up ?f some ?) prom
inent congressional wives_
The Farringtons -? who h?
two children, Beverly, wife of Lt.
Col Hugh F. Richardson and the
mother of a small son; ,ndJ?^
18 ? are gifted hosts. People
like to visit in their home her^
Which seems to have ?p^ed|J?
.unshine and color of Haw??
an?ig^*,n "P r
^Ju?d the Oriental influence In
^Wiw'the FarringtonJ bough^
Jfl the inside white. Framcs cov^
IrJ with white silk cover window
clear yellows, lime, jade
green, soft grey and
provide color accents In the draw
ino room. Colon in the library
Sing "5? H.^lto%rS.u^en|
make each coat, as one
only was taken from each bird
Smile a While
The four year -old, who took her
nursery stories very seriously,
pleased her parents by her eager
ness to make her first visit to see
her grsndmother. When she ar
rived, however, she paid little at
tention to the grandmother. In
stead she demanded, "Where's the
wolf?"
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Sou'easter
Anybody looking for a good
boathouse, a three-car garage, a
cow shed or the makings of a mag
nificent beach cottage may have
same by bidding on the present
Beaufort ABC store. It's soon to be
torn down. And the county prob
ably will sell the land on which
it stands. You can probably buy
the land too but that will cost a
penny or two. Beaufort and More
head real estate doesn't even have
a bowing acquaintance with lower
ed prices. It's not like butter.
The new location of the ABC
store is going to be in the Huntley
building diagonally across the way,
the new building next to Ideal
Cleaners.
The reason for the move is that
fire insurance rates on the present
tin and wood structure are so high
that insurance rate savirigs in the
new. fireproof structure^will vir
tually pay the rent. l
1 .
Carteret's photographer, the one
with the chartreuse auto, needn't
feel that he's the only one who
falls for a story. He almost went to
Salter Path the other day to pho
tograph a 50-foot whale washed
ashore. But there warn't no whale.
Harry Davis, famed curator of
the State Museum, took time off
from his duties in Raleigh this
weekend to travel to Salter Path to
see "the seals disporting them
selves offshore,"
When he got there, there warn't
no seals. He diligently checked
around and fourni that a "creek
otter" had crawled across the bank
from the sound and swum around'
in the ocean awhile, maybe looking
for a mate. Not finding one, he
crawled back to his sound home.
Big Gehrmann has a couple of
his pals scared. They're worried
about his remarks about "deep
freeze" fishermen. It isn't the num
ber of shrimp they catch that mat
ters, Gehrmann says, but the fact
that they make so much fuss about
so little results that they rile up
the waters, scatter the shrimp and
scare off the real shrimpers.
The geese were really flying back
to Canada last week. I saw flock
after flock of them headed north,
some of the flocks big ones.
Why Play 'Road Roulette ?
Perhaps a handful of Americana
have been killed gambling at the
dangerous Russian Roulette ? that
game in which you put a single
cartridge in a revolver, spin the
cylinder, aim at the temple and
pull the trigger, betting your life
that the bullet will not be In po
?ition to fire.
But statistics reveal that mora
than a thouiand North Caroliniana
died laat year ? and more than 1S,
000 were Injured ? taking bigger
gambles with their driving; exceed
ing safe speed limits, driving or
passing on l&? v.. wig side, cutting
In, passing on curves and hills,
improper signalling or none at all,
driving off the roadway or juat
plain driving recklessly.
"Road Roulette" ? with human
Uvea as the atakea ? you might
call such insane carelessness.
When you assume, for example,
that speed limits are set by legisla
tors Interested merely in forbid
ding something ? you're playing
"road roulette," with your life aa
the bet. Safety limits are set by
engineers who know how much
speed a given road or curve can
safely take.
Other players of "road roulette:"
the driver who drlrea too fast for
hia headlights; the apart who
aqueeiea through changing traffic
signals; the driver who parks and
geta out of his car on the traffic
aide; the exhibitioniat who covert
moat of hia windshield with stick
ers ahowing where he's been ? ao
that he can't see where he's go
ing; and the driver who "just takes
it for granted" that hia car ia in
aafe operating condition.
They're all playing "road rou
lette." Make sure you're not in the
game.
Stamp News
By SYD KRON1SH
FRANCE pays tribute to its an
nual "Day of Stamps" with a new
scmlpoatal. reports the New York
Stamp Co. The
12 franc plus 9
green (tamp
(how* ? profile
portrait of M.
Lavalette. direc
tor of poatal aer
vicei under Na
polean. The
background is
brown. The
date* of Lavalettc's atay in office,
1804-1815, appear below the por
trait The additional valuea on the
a tamp* will go to the French Red
Crott.
In the Good Old Days
THIRTY-TWO YKAR8 AGO
County commencement exercis
es were held In Beaufort last
week. Harkers Island school won
the parade prize.
County commissioners ordered a
school election (or Smyrna town
ship to decide on a bond issue of
$1,000.
C. G. Gaskitl, Republican, and J.
H. Felton, Democrat, had filed for
the office of sheriff.
TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO
C. R. Wheatly of Beaufort was
reappointed to the State Highway
Commission.
The Sea Bird, a raised deck
cruiser-type boat, which was built
by Whitehurst and Rice Marine
Railway in Beaufort, was launched
last week.
County commissioners gave per
mits for bridges to be built on the
proposed highway to Harkers Is
land and Cape Lookout.
TEN YEARS AGO
Citiieni from the Deep Creek Mo
tion of Newport asked the State
Highway Department to make im
provements on their road.
Mr. David Merrill of Beaufort
had purchased the stock of E. D.
Martin and Company. Mrs. Merrill
would manage the store.
The Red Cross Drive for Beau
fort and the eastern part of the
county was over tl)e quota.
FIVE YEARS AGO
Cleve Gillikin of Bettie was the
first farmer in the county to mar
ket his cabbages.
Mrs. Ruth Emley of Beaufort
won the Lions talent show.
Beaufort town commissioners
passed a resolution to extend the
town limits westward to the New
port River, to include Pivers Is
land, Inlet Island, and the marshes
north of the railroad.
From the Bookshelf
THREE MEN: An experiment in
the Biography of Emotion; Jean
Evans (Knopf).
With an introduction by a Har
vard psychologist, here are three
case histories of men given the
names of Johnny Roccq, 27, Wil
liam Miller, 45, and Martin Beard
son, 30. The author, who began
these investigations as a New York
newspaperwoman working up fea
tures, talked to ease workers, con
sulted records, but mostly drew her
information from the subjects
themselves.
Out of an impoverished family
living insensitively and wretched
ly in slums, Rocco grows up to a
life that constantly throws hi into
trouble with the police. Miller, ov
ercome by the complexities of the
society in which he lives, turns
blind; overcoming those complex
ities, he recovers his sight; relaps
es, and goes blind again. Beardson
is simply 4F.
But the wonder of these three
sketches lies in the manner in
which the intensity and thorough
ness of the scientific investigation
develop into art. It couldn't be
done with Humpty-Dumpty but it
can with these three: they're tak
en to pieces and then put together
again.
This is a completely absorbing
trio, teetering precariously on the
edge of unreason. They are lonely
and bereft men, the cards stacked
against them in the outside world
and within their twisted minds;
they unfailingly make the wrong
choices, turn left when it should
have been right, say yes when it
should have been no. They fas
cinate me, 1 sorrow for them.
A SEED UPON THE WIND.
(William Michelfelder, Bobbs Mer
rill.
In a Catholic hospital in Florid^
Dr. Andrew Carew, intern, has suf
fered a couple of shattering exper
iences: A male patient, who sees
in Carew the indifferent scientist
rather than the solicitous man,
throws his beads in the doctors face
and dies; another patient also dies
as he looks on.
Now his past catches up' with
him tragically. There was an in
stinctive defiance of the church
when he was a child, and on his
conscience lies another death due
to an error. As if the past were
not hard enough, misery accumu
lates in the present. Dr. Andreozzi
schemes against him. Dr. Snavely
is too confident of his ability to
fix things on the staff; Sister Ag
nes, too confident of her ability
to fix things in Heaven.
Above all, Nurse Majorie But
ler intervenes as Dr. Carew madly
careens on toward what seems
catasrophe. "So here we are,
faithless, arriving by different
roads," says Marjorie as they hide f
in a hotel. If he? cannot have the
church, he can have the woman.
According to T. S. Eliot, "man
without God is a seed upon th?
wind." You may not agree, and
you may further question why the
God must be, in Carew's case,
Catholic. But in the end Carew
cannotquestion;and this firstnovel,
if we accept some premises, is a
powerful and eloquent account of
the love of the flesh and of the
spirit. The secret ways in and out
of the heart are explored tellingly,
and while you share in the anguish
of these 'men and women,, you
share, too, in the great free exulta
tion.
Author of the Week
Gene Fowler's new book about
some of hit Iriends ? W. C.
Fields, John Decker, John Barry
more and Sadakichi Hartmwia ? ?
la called "Minutes of th? Laat
Meeting "
Fowler, once a telegrapher and
later a Denver and New York n?w?
man, long since settled in Holly
wood. Among the subjects at his
recent biographies have been Jla*
my Durante, Jimmy Walker and ,
Barrymore.