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Beach Puts Brakes on Beer If the Atlantic Beach town board and the law enforcement officers there car ry through on their restrictions regard ing sale. of beer, they will have gone a long way toward making the beach a place that families enjoy. While the business section of the beach has attractions, rides for young sters and things the small fry enjoy, many parents have been known in the past to seek the quieter strands east and west of Atlantic Beach where they wouldn't have to kick beer cans out of the way or protect the kids from adults who, intent on having a good time, aren't quite as considerate as they should be of the other folks who come to enjoy the beach. The mayor and the town board, if they mean what they say and are go ing to stick to their guns, are intent on keeping the beach from becoming known as one grand beer joint. As the mayor said, people who go to the beach like to know beer is available if they want it. The businessmen there feel that they must sell it, but the beach of ficials are aware that it can and should be sold under certain restrictions. Aside from the state restrictions, no sale to teen-agers, no sales after 11:30 and no sales to drunks, beach rules re quire that the beer may not be taken out on the beach, nor can people walk around the boardwalk tipping a bottle. They must stay and drink it where it is bought. (Grocery stores, of course, sell beer which the customer may carry with him, unopened, to his home or to a private party) . The beach also requires that places which do not have restrooms may not sell beer. At the Saturday board meet ing the chief of police asked that he be given authority to have places ade quately lighted where beer selling and dancing goes on. The mayor suggested that to keep the beach from being littered with dis posable beer cans that places selling beer on the premises be required to sell it only in returnable bottles. Because the bottles have value, the sailer will be interested in keeping them in his place, but the disposable containers, cans and plastic, end up in gutters and along roads all over the place. Because the beach board believes businessmen should be interested in keeping the beach clean, the business men will be asked at their forthcoming meeting if they would object to selling beer only in returnable bottles. We believe that they will object. While people believe in certain things in principle, the principle usually goes out the window when they THINK their pocketbook will be affected. If the businessmen agree to sell beer, on premises, in bottles only, we'll chalk it up as one of the biggest surprises of the year. The fact remains that beach officials have shown they are interested in main taining a clean, attractive beach. Per haps this is the glow of pre-opening ex hibiting itself. Ideals set when a beach season is a-borning sometimes get tar nished as the summer progresses. We hope 1954 will be different. We'd like to show folks that, as Mayor Coopv says, the beach is get ting better and better. We'd Love That Extra Hour! Well, here it is again. Time for the Marine bases to go on daylight saving time. And the lucky dogs that work at Cherry Point and Camp Lejeune will have at least four hours of daylight after they leave work. You can bet your bottom dollar, too, that they won't rush home to Morehead City or Beaufort stores. They'll go to the beach, go swimming, blue fishing, loll in the sun in their backyards with a tall glass of milk in their hands, or play golf. We know the farmers don't like day light saving time. We know that a few fuzzy-heads think that the Marine folks are going to spend their free hours shopping, shopping, shopping in local stores. However, we'll say it as long as we treve- breath, it would be mighty nice to have that extra hour of daylight in the summer time. Newsboys Are Not Expendable Newsboys are a hardy lot. But just because they look as though you could drop them out a second story window and they'd come up grinning is no rea son to see how much they can take, without flinching, week after week. Sometimes, it seems, one or two peo ple try to see how much guff they can hand a newsboy. Recently, in one of the towns in the county, a newsboy knocked on the door to collect. He waited. And waited. And waited some more. Then he knocked again. From inside, came an angry voice, "All right, all right, you don't have to knock the door down!" Some boys, If they have a mature sense of humor, might inwardly smile at the response, but others might be scared to death. The result is that they decide they don't want to carry papers any more. It may be several weeks be fore another boy is found to take the route. Nine times out of 10 the people who delight in wiping their feet on the newsboy are the first ones to scream, "Where's my paper? Haven't gotten one in weeks!" Others never have the right change when the boy tries to collect. They make a habit of coming to the door week after week with a ten dollar bill. Seldom does the newsboy carry that much change with him and the cus tomer knows it It's a well-known ruse used to set out of paying the bill. Our newsboys are instructed to let a bill run only two weeks. If, after that time, the customer does not pay, they are to stop delivering and THE NEWS-TIMES stands the loss. The youngsters are not credit agen cies. They are in the business of sell ing newspapers. They buy the papers and sell them to the customer at a slight profit. Their earnings are not suffi cient to allow them to operate on a credit plan. Therefore, it's quite im portant that they get their 20 cents weekly from each customer. We know, of course, that the cus tomers occasionally have legitimate^ complaints. Sometimes the paper may be tossed in wet bushes on a rainy day. Once in a while a newsboy eats too much pop corn and hot dogs and can't get out of bed the next morning be cause his iron-clad stomach has finally revolted. So the papers may not get delivered that day until the afternoon when our circulation manager gets the job done. Sometimes customers complain that they'd like to pay every week but the newsboy doesn't show up. "Few stop to think that maybe he did show up but they were away or didn't hear his knock. We're proud of our newspaper car riers. We're proud of our customers too. They, of courae, are the beat-in- . formed folks in the county. Courtesy to and consideration of the newsboy are important. Likewise, cour tesy to and consideration of the cus tomer is important If those qualities are shown, newsboys will be kept hap pier In their job and the customer will profit. Carteret County News-Tim?s WINNER Or NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARDS A Merger of Tlx Beaufort New. (Est IMS) and TIm Twin City Timet (Eat ISM) Pobltahod Tom day and Friday. by the Carteret PubUaMng Company. Ise. 604 Area dell St, Morehead City, N. C LOCKWOOD PHILLIPS ? PUBLISHER ELEANORS DEAR PHILLIPS ? ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER RUTH L PEELING ? EDITOR Mail Ratea: la Carteret County and ad]oininf countiea, M OO one year, p Jo aix roontha, flJB om month; oloowhoro >7.00 one year, >400 ?U montho, SUM) one Moth. Member of Aaooiatod Preaa ? Greater Weekilea _ N. C. Prow AwodaMw National Editorial Aaaodatlon ? Audit Bureau at Clrcnlationa Ik* Pro* It en titled excloalrely to w lor republication ei looal aem Entmilm Sooonfrftaai SSSm X M.rihiid Otj, H C, Pndor Aot * Mawfc ? MWl OTRX3NIY DAVID gi. JO** Kidd Bnwti Raleigh Roundup WET AND DRY . . . Although very yttle is being said about it right now, evidence is reaching Ra leigh of a vicious battle shaping up for a year hence between the drj forces and those favoring legalized liquor. The drys feel better about the situation for three or four reasons. First, they see a sign -though may be no larger than a man's hand ? that the tide may be turning against liquor. They couple this with the decision of several legisla tors known to be strong for the legal sale of alcohol not to become candidates for re-election. Along with these reasons for feeling brighter is one connected with mon ey. That is, they seem to be getting more of it from somewhere. Main obstacle the drys will have to overcome it need of revenue. Liquor is a big tax-gatherer. fring ing in the sheaves is one of its principal occupations Consequent ly, those who favor getting rid of it .must preach greater economy in government- at city, county, state, and federal levels ? or show where funds can be raised to offset the loss in revenue which would re sult from taking whiskey off Alco holic Beverage Control shelves. DULL-ER-EST . . . Dull- duller dullest. And so it is- this Scott Lennon thing, that is. There seems to be no steam, no interest, and nothing either candidate has been able to do seems to have attracted very much attention or excitement. But don't be misled. There is plenty of fire being built by each side. Look out for May. OPEN . . . Offices may close, the mailman may be home working his garden, school may be out, with sheep in the meadow and cowl down the lane, but there is one place around here that apparent ly stops for nothing. That's the State Museum, a di vision of the N. C. Dept. of Ag riculture. Tak^Easter Monday, (or example. Everything else around Raleigh was shut tight ? almost like Christmas. But an announcement came out in the papers last Friday as follows: "The State Museum will be open on Easter Monday, from B a.m. until S p. m " It's that way every holiday? weekends, too. And so we want to pay our man ners to Curator Harry Davis, Miss Mary Knight, his secretary, and to .his assistant, Frank Meacham. Note to Agriculture Commission er L. Y. Ballentine: Stag, can't you make these folks take a little reft now and then? They make us normal people feel lazy. COMMENDATION . . . Several weeks ago, incidentally, upon the occasion of the dedication of the new Weights and Measurea Test ing Station here, Gov. William B. Umstead commended publicly the fine service of Agriculture Com missioner Ballentine. He praiaed Ballentine for the coop* ration his department had given the Gov ernor's administration. The aharp compliments led to the comment that Stag Ballentine might be the man who can con solidate and bring together again the varioua elements o ( the Demo cratic Party In North Carolina. WATCH IT . . . Keep an eye on this FHA scandal now brewing in Washington, for our private infor mation Is that It will make pikers of the RFC racketa and the U. S Agriculture Dept.'s grain mesa The Investigation will cut square ly acroaa party lines, will reach out Into virtually every state In the nation, and mayhaps ? right down into your own home town. That's the way we heard It FOLKS AND BABTKR . . . Kerr Scott observed his 58th birthday over the weekend at hia Haw River home with his wife, brothers, two sons and daughter. Attorney General and Mrs. Har ry McMuiian spent the Easter holi days visiting relatives and friends in Washington, N. C., their old home town. Senator Lennon spent Easter with wife and kids in Wilmington, but ran up to Greenville, N. C., in the afternoon to appear on the big new television station there being managed by Hartwell Camp bell, eldest son of College Presi dent Leslie Campbell and nephew of Dr. Carlyle Campbell, president of Meredith. Headquarters of both Senatorial candidates operated right on through the weekend. Supreme Court Chief Justice Barnhill and wife spent Blaster with son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mr*. M. V. Barnhill, in Wilming ton. Malcolm Campbell, head of the State College Textile School, his wife, and their daughter were in Washington, D. C., and Now York for Easter. And so it went. There were a few folks left in Raleigh last Sunday thanks to students home for the holidays -but red figures on the calendars greatly decimate the Ra leigh population. F. O. OR SOMETHING? . . . Pretty soon now the Lennon pitch ing will have to do with an item which is said to be reaching the scorching stage in many sections of Eastern North Carolina. The blasts will have to do with the fact that North Carolina has not had a Governor elected from east of Raleigh since J. C. Khrtng haus made the grade in 1B32. That was 22 years ago. No U. S. Senator has been selected from east of Raleigh since the election of Fur nifold Simmons in 1924. That was 30 years ago. Westward, ho! SIGNS OF THE TIMES ... A ?lire indication th*t the Senate race may be wanning up a little is that tome of the paper* taking this col umn are criticizing us for favoring a candidate. Some say the writer it favoring Scott. Others say Lennon. The wri ter has tried to favor no candidate, but to state facta, report the news, and seek the truth. When it gets down to the final round, the Senate campaign will be decided by the people on the ( basis on whieh candidate they be lieve will be the most nearly hon est and fair in carrying out the du ties of the office. They should have the facta on which to make this decision. So far, they -have not had them For instance: It does not make aense for one large daily news paper in North Carolina to run a full-page article, unbiased, fair and square, about one of the candi dates ? and for another daily with in a 30-mile radius to charge $500 for the same article to run as a political advertisement. If the Information was not cor rect, then it should have been re futed by the candidate when it appeared in the firat paper. If it was correct, then the readers of all the papers should have been given the opportunity to reed It. SmiU a While ; "When I arrived home laat night," related the young hueband. "my wile greeted me with a big kias. She had ? beautiful dinner ready, and afterward she wouldn't let me help her with the dishes, but made me sit in the living room and read the paper." The old married man sighed, and then he aaked, "And how did you like her an hatt" Jane Eads Washington Washington -The little cabinet? the undersecretaries, deputy secre taries, assistant secretaries and as sistants to the assistant ? had a big party, a get-t o g e t h e r-to-get-ac quainted affair. A cocktail talk-fest followed by an informal buffet, it was the first little cabinet party ever held and vied right down the line with the shindigs enjoyed by the big Cabinet the secretaries and administrators of the various government departments and agen cies. It started with the setting up of a special hospitality committee made up of the wives of 10 offi cials. Checking in the guests and pin ning identity cards to them were Mrs. Orme Lewis, wife of an In terior Department assistant secre tary, and Mrs. True D. Morse, wife of the under secretary of agricul ture. It was the first time many of the guests had met, but it wasn't long before everything was on a first nftme basis. Some were even calling each other by their nick names, spelled out on the identity cards. Deputy Attorney General Wil liam P. Rogers was called "Bill." Assistant Secretary of Defense Wil fred J. McNeil was tagged "Mac." Even some of the ladies answered to their favorite monikers. Mrs. Charles R. Hook Jr., wife of the deputy postmaster general intro duced herself as "Louie." The cards told where the folks came from too. Only a few were from the District of Columbia. Among these was Mrs. Wilton B. Persons, wife of Maj. Gen. Persons, deputy assistant to the President. The majority seemed to hail from the Middle West. Little cabinet wives are so pleased with the suc cess of the get-together they're planning another party. This will t. C. Salisbury Here and There The following information is taken from the files of the More head City Coaster: FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1>14 Mrs. Bettie Lindsey of Beaufort has been visiting her sister Mrs. W. L Arendell. Dr. J. T Nicholson who has been visiting his daughter, Mrs. John D. Webb, returned to his home in Bath Wednesday Mrs. Wesley Willis and son, Ray Prletier. spent Monday in Beaufort. The Atlantic Hotel will be under the management of R P. Foster this season, opening June 1. Gov. and Mrs. Jarvis are expect ed to arrive here next week. The Rev. Edwin R. Harris con ducted the Men's Meeting in the Palace Theatre last Sunday after noon. J. W. Glover left Monday for New York on his yacht "South land." The front of the R T. Willis building occupied by Klein Broth ers and J. C. Helms has been torn down for the purpose of placing a steel girder in the wall. Dr. and Mrs. W. E. Headen left Tuesday for Chapel Hill to attend the inauguration of the president of the University, E. K. Graham. M. S. Lee, representing the More head City Sea Food Co., is traveling in the central part of the state. Messrs. J. C. Helms, John F. Nelson and It. ft. Lee left Thurs day for Raleigh to attend the State Convention of ine Baraca and Phil athea classes of North Carolina. Miss Lina Wade who has been teaching school at Magnolia has returned home. W. L. Kennedy and wife of Fall ing Creek have arrived in (be city to spend the summer. Captain Robert Loder died here Tuesday morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. A. T. Finer, on Bridges St., at the ripe age of 78. ' Burial took place at Berkley, Va. On Wednesday night of this week the store of J C. Helms was en tered by a thief who ransacked tbe cash register, broke into the safe and besides taking with him all tbe cash he found, stole quite a lot of merchandise. Mott Bell, son of Mrs. Mary Eliz abeth Bell, wKile playing ball near the school grounds last Fri day, had the misfortune to fall and break his fcft leg between the knee and foot. A devil fish measuring 18 feet in width and 14 feet in length and weighing 5,000 pounds was cap tured at Punta Gorda, Fla , last week by C. W. Willis of this city and Russell J. Cole of New York. The montrous fish was not killed until it had been lanced 24 times. Lively scenes at the City Hall last Friday night resulted in tbe nom inating of the following ticket for the coming city election: for mayor, Dr. K. P. B. Bonner; for commis sioners, A. H. Webb Jr., George W. Dill, Richard Fodrie, J. T. Dav enport, Gilbert Willis. From the Waterside correspon dence: Here's to The Coaster, Long may she wave o'er the land of the free And the sands of old Carteret's health giving shore. The smoke house with no lock on the door. From the Bookshelf ISN'T ONE WIFE ENOUGH? (Kimball Young, Holt) Here's a book about Mormon poly gamy written by a man who knows. Grandson of Brigham Young, the author was brought up by a mother and "aunts," as the extra wives were called. Thus he could begin research, if he planned it that far back, without leaving home ? or is it homes? Young reviews the Gentile at tacks on plural wives, considers problems of psychology, inheri tance and other matters, but his most interesting pages have to do with polygamy on, as he discreet ly puts it, a "day-to-day" basis. It ( was the curious situation where the husband could say, and mean it, I love you I love you I love you. Did a man with half a dozen wives kiss them all good night? Sometimes he did, and all the children, too. If he bought a dress for one, he bought a dress honor woman appointees to key government posts. Debutants Pat Priest, pert daugh ter of Mrs. Ivy Baker Priest, treas urer of the United States, repre sented the United States as queen of the Azalia Court at Norfolk, Va. Her princesses, representing for eign countries, included Carolyn Makins, a niece of British Ambassa dor Sir Roger Makins. She has a job at the embassy. She is the daughter of Sir William Makins, high sheriff of Hampshire in Eng land. She just celebrated her 21st birthday, is active in the District of Columbia Red Cross and directs the activities of more than 5,000 local Red Cross volunteers. Nut Holding Steering Wheel Causes Accidents 1 1 '?] ? i "The nut that holdi the steering wheel," said a wag back in the gay '20'a, "is the part of a car that cauaes moat accidents Seriously, it's almost a criminal offense these days to neglect the pare a car needs to keep it in safe operating condition. That care is ? long step toward your aafety. This is clear and obvious when you think about it. Think back to yesterday when the driver ahead of you stopped on a dime, and you had to thank your stars your brakes were work lag perfectly. And last Bight, whan that car came out of a side road too fast, and your headlights spot ted it In time for you to slow down and atop. Remember that rainy morning last week, when you had to brake suddenly at a crosswalk full of padcatriana? and you didn't akid? Or did you make it by the skin of your teeth each time- and mut ter to yourself: "Got to get that checked." It's time for a thorough check-up. And, if you think that proper car* doean't pay for itself, remem ber?the life you aav* may be your M m. for all, and paid all the bills. Ev ery wife might have a separate room, or home; might cook separ ately for her children and eat separately with them. The hus band rotated, a day with every one, or a week. One prospective bride believed it was "just as easy to love a man with a wife as without one." But another, learning her husband had a "revelation" to take a second wife, promptly had a "rev elation" of her own that she'd shoot any newcomer. Still another hated to hear her man's boots drop on the floor of somebody else's room. Young gives this old wives' tale the scholarly treatment, and un covers a lot of absorbing informa tion. No matter how serious he is, his book persists in being entertain ing. THE CITY AND THE WAVE; Jon Godden (Rinehart). Len Chase, we read in this wel come novel, is an office worker in a great river-city. Technically he is Anglo-Indian, but in spirit and tem perament he is neither English nor Indian. In this book it is not a problem of race- except that by his shyness Len is so remote he hardly belongs to any race, hardly even to the human race. The city below his shabby sixth floor quarters is an unsightly, smel ly warren Miss Godden shows us the crowded, littered streets, the diseases, the sores. Refusing to look down at it, Len has a tele scope that he trains on the cleaner, unattainable stars Miss Godden shows them, too, hanging brightly in the Indian sky. He should not have to endure the sneers of white superiors; he should have become a priest. Into this monk-like existence there steals one night pretty 16 year-old Marie, Portuguese-Indian, starved, for she has run away from her aunt's bed and board, and starved, too, for affection, for the aunt was unkind. Len thinks of her as a child, but she has older ways, and she inevitably begins his seduc tion. This is no common fictional se duction. Or it is that and im measurably more. It's the breath of life coming to the recluse who has tried fearsomely to renounce it. It's the tremendous magnetic pull of masses working on a man too puny, as man must be, to resist it. Miss Godden tells a moving story and sets it in vivid native scenes. But the hearts of her man and woman would beat the same hurt and happy beats in the capitals of the West as in the mysterious East. Today's Birthday CARL L. NORDEN, bora April 21, 1U0, in Semarang. Java, son of a wealthy Dutch planter. In ventor ana de veloper of a bomb-sight that was standard equipment on all multi - en gine U. S. bomb ing planes. Nor den earned a large share of credit for Allied victory in World War II. Immigrating to the Uni ted States In 1904, he became ? mechanical designer and went into business (or himself aa a consult ing engineer. Married, with two grown children, he lives in self-im posed obscurity. Thought for Today Few men during their lifetime came anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling In them. Thar* are deep well* of strength that are never uaed. Richard W. Bytd
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