CARTERET COUNTY NEWS -TIMES
Carter*! Couaty'* Newspaper
EDITORIALS TUESDAY, JUNE IS, 1954
Health Officer Sought
The budget of the County Health De
partment for the coming fiscal year in
cludes a request for funds to pay the
salary of a health officer. The County,
Health Department has been without
a full-time officer since the death of
Dr. N. T. Ennett about a year ago.
Dr. F. E. Hyde, Beaufort, has been
serving as part-time health officer
since then. The report of the health
department on its activities for 1953
shows how busy the health officer,
nurses, sanitarian and clerk have been.
Statistics Indicate an increase in 1953
in pre-school examinations, vaccina
tions and most other phases of public
health work. Now that Dr. Hyde will
be lea.'ing the county, it Ss important
that the health department have a su
pervisor.
In the current issue of Redbook mag
azine, an article by Albert Q. Maisel
points up the importance of public
health departments. Mr. Maisel says
that nearly 200,000 Americans die
every year because selfish groups are
financially starving health depart
ments. ? ?
He adds that one-fourth of all the na
tion's health departments cannot find
anyone for the post of officer. In Geor
gia 24 out of 49 departments have been
headless, in Arkansas, 20 out of 27.
He attributes the reason to the fact
that in private practice a doctor can
earn an average of $12,500 annually
and specialists more than that. The pay
for a health officer is considerably less.
For that reason, the trained medical
men turn their backs on public health
work and seek the more lucrative fields.
- Carteret is fortunate that there is a
possibility of obtaining a health officer
for its health department in August be
cause other counties in the state are
looking for health officers too. Dr. K.
P. B. Bonner, chairman of the county
board of commissioners, reports that an
Army doctor who will retire this month
is interested in accepting the post open
here.
Mr. Maisel in his magazine article,
urges citizens to check on the status of
their public health departments. Key
questions to ask, he says, are the fol
lowing: Does the county have a full
time health officer? Is he a competent
doctor? Is there a nurse for every 5,000
persons and a sanitarian for every
15,000? Does the governing body allow
$2 per person per year to cover health
department operation? How often are
restaurants inspected? Are food hand
lers put through health examinations
and training courses? Are there clinics
to suppress and control venereal dis
ease, TB, and other illnesses?
Our county health department has
been doing a good job. The county can
not afford to give it as much money as
Mr. Maisel recommends, $2 annually
for each county resident, but if a com
petent health officer is employed, coun
tians can be assured that their public
health program will not fall by the way
side.
Summer Schools in Jeopardy
Because of upkeep expense, the State
Board of Conservation and Develop
ment has decided that the buildings at
Camp Glenn now being used for State
College summer schools, shall be sold
and dismantled.
This means, says E. W. Ruggles, di
rector of the schools, that the sessions
will be moved to other cities in the state.
He. adds that this will be the last sum
mer here for the meter school, sur
veyor's short course and similar sessions
offered under the extension division of
State College ? unless a place can be
found to .iold the classes.
Ted Davis, manager of the Morehead
City Chamber of Commerce, points out
that 90 per cent of the men attending
thi meter schodl last week brought
thfeir wives and children and stayed at
mbtels and hotels at the beach and in
town.
Estimating that each meter school
student and his family spent at least
$100 here during the week, the income
to this area was about $13,500. And
that is just for the meter school alone.
Six similar schools are conducted at the
section base by State College during the
summer. The enrollment at all the
schools will be more than 500.
It is understandable that the Board
of Conservation and Development does
not wish to spend money to maintain a
building it docs not use. However, it
will be a tremendous loss to Morehead
City if the summer schools are held
elsewhere.
It has been suggested that the town
maintain the building but it is a well
known fact that Morehead City has no
funds to keep up buildings that are not
essential to operation of the town.
The Chamber of Commerce is work
ing on the matter. Use of either the
school or the Recreation Center has
been considered but neither seems feas
ible. Persons who may have sugges
tions as to how the problem could be
solved would be doing the town a ser
vice if they would present their sugges
tions to the Chamber of Commerce.
The New Look in Movies
(From Ocean County Leader, N. J.)
These days the movie business is flex
ing its muscles and making rounds like
a showman. It's a good thing. This year
will mark the fifty-first anniversary of
the industry. But it's a young industry,
fifty-one years young 1
After every crisis, the innate opti
mism and enthusiasm of the movies as
serts itself. The movies were always
among the really rugged or rugged-in
dividualist industries in their growth
and expansion and met their toughest
going (some of it recently) in the same
spirit. Now once again, you can feel
the upbeat.
There is an indestructible buoyancy
in the motion picture theatre business
that seems to prevail from the top to
the taproots. And it was never more
in evidence than today. There is a
renaissance in the making and it prom
ises a new look for the new show sea
son. A very exciting new look.
The new inventions, of course, ac
count for most of it The production
men, the specialists and technicians, the
experts and experimental laboratories
have largely contributed to it.
The screen has become high, wide
and handsome. It offers a new visual
and auditory experience. It has expand
ed in breadth and depth and occupies
the entire proscenium of a theatre. It
encompasses a vast and spectacular
sweep of action and new wonders of
wide-angle photography. Pictures are
sharper and truer, possess a new beauty
and clarity. The new proportions ap
proximate the range of vision of the
human eye and improved color tech
niques enhance the effect of reality.
These phenomenal new processes
give to the movies a technological per
fection that no other existing media
can approach or provide. The horizons
of motion picture entertainment have
been immeasurably widened. The new
look is here. Many fine films have been
released or are being readied in the new
miracle media and movie-goers by the
millions are finding new magic within
the portals of their local theatre.
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Claud Wheatly Tells Why
Nobody Can Visit Track
Claud Wheatly says, "Nobody can
go to the dog track any more. Saint
Wiley's closed it up."
I was down making my regular
call to the Morehead City police
station Thursday and admired a
bouquet of lilies over the radio
panel. I asked Cap'n Herbert where
they came from.
That reminded him of a story.
He said he walked into a dairy bar
not too long ago and someone no
ticed him all of a sudden and ask
ed, "Why Herbert, where did you
disappear from?"
Herbert says, "That goes for
those lilies. I don't know where
they disappeared from."
Members of the Toastmasters
Club must be hardy souls or else
firea with ambition to be th*
world's bett public speakers. What
other reason would inspire anyone
to get up at daybreak to attend a
meeting at 7 a.m.?
A Camp Lejeune Toastmaster,
Capt. William L. Nelson, recently
took top honors in a 10-state talk
athon at Birmingham, Ala. His
topic: "What's the best investment
for a young man?" His answer:
"Take a wife."
Dr. Frank G. Slaughter, an au
Jan* Eads
Washington
Washington ? The discarded ice
bo* is a 15-year "time bomb."
A Senate subcommittee probing
ways of ending their toll of suffo
cated children has found that most
of the death traps are electrically
operated refrigerators which have
been in use about IS years, their
approximate lifetime. As people
replace these they become what
safety-campaigners call "attractive
nuisances," along with gravel pits,
lumber piles, crumbling house
foundations, water-filled excava
tions. dump yards, rusty Ironwork,
sewer holes and fish pools, which
tempt the young and curious and
preaent an ever-serious threat.
As yet NO foolproof gadget has
been invented to enable a trapped
child to escape from inside which
will still insure the sealing in of
cold air required in refrigeration.
Manufacturers are working on this,
and there have been suggestions
that if their laboratories can't pro
duce the proper gimmick Congress
appropriate funds to promote work
on such ? project by the U. S. Bu
reau of Standards.
Sen. John Sparkman (DAIa)
who ? along with Sen. Mike Mans
field (D-Mont) ? has proposed a
MIL requiring installation of inside
latches on refrigerator doors,
acknowledges effects of such a law
would not be evident until the cur
rent batch of refrigerators is dis
carded in another 13 years. How
ever, he says, "We should not hold
back on taking some kind of action,
becauae unless the problem is
solved it is going to be just as seri
ous 18 years from now as it is to
day."
C. B. Collins, genersl counsel of
the Refrigeration Trade Associa
tion of America, has told the Inter
state Commerce Subcommittee that
nearly five million refrigerators art
manufactured each year. "Eventu
ally approximately the same num
ber will be abandoned," he aaid.
Meanwhile everyone agrees that
a drive to get communities to
sdopt laws making it an offense
to discard an icebox in such condi
tion that it is a haiard should be
pushed. Removing the Istch or en
tin doer is the best way to make
It safe.
thor I interviewed when he visit
ed Beaufort several years ago, has
written another book. The Song of
Ruth. This is his first novel with
out a doetor in it. "It just happen
ed that this book didn't have a
plaee for a doctor." he explains.
Dr. Slaughter has written 16
books in less than 15 years. He
says if 'Ruth is a success, he wants
to do a series of religious plays on
women of the Old Testament.
Among his books are Luke the
Physician and The Galileans.
Overheard in the courtroom Wed
nesday afternoon after lawyers for
the track and against it had pre
sented their arguments and were
talking to each other and laughing:
Spectator A: Lawyers, they're all
alike, in cahoots with one another.
Spectator B: Yeh, and then they
take our money.
Spectator A: Hope I never have
to get a lawyer for anything!
While I was amused at the con
versation, I thought at the same
time that there's a powerful lot of
psychology wrapped up in what
courtroom spectators see. No law
yer worth his salt likes to lose a
case. At the same time, there's no
need antagonizing one's opponent
mor 4 than necessary ? lawyers on
opposing sides are no different
than players in athletic contests.
They fight like fury until the final
whistle, but when it's over it's best
to shake hands and compliment the
other fellow for waging a good
fight.
AYthor of the Week
Daphne du Maurier writes about
her great-great grandmother in a
new book with a toueh of fiction
and a Ipt of fact* called by the
grandmother's name, "Mary Anne."
Miss du Maurier's ancestry, how
ever, hap been solemn and serious
as well as flighty and frivolous,
for her father was Gerald, the ac
tor manager, and his father George,
was an artist and author of "Tril
by."
Miss du Maurier in private life is
Lady Browning, wife of Sir Fred
erick A. M. Browning. Among her
other books are "Rebecca," "The
Parasites" and "My Cousin Rachel."
Thought for th? Day
You have to enjoy doing some
thing before you can be successful
at it ? Martha H. Kirk, Owensboro,
Ky.
In the Good Old Days
THIRTY TWO YEARS AGO
A new resort, Asbury Beach, had
been opened on Bogue Banks.
County commissioners let the
contract for painting the county
home to H. M. Marshall, lowest
bidder.
Beaufort town commissioner
George W. Huntley wrote a letter
to the Beaufort News, now THE
.NEWS-TIMES, objecting to action
taken at their last meeting. He said
there was no need for a fire alarm
system when the town had no fire
fighting equipment.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
Local banks had on exhibition
some of the new money the gov
ernment would put in circulation in
July. The new bills were smaller
than the old currency.
The new funeral establishment
of Adair and Rice in Beaufort was
now completed. It was situated in
the rear of the W. E. Adair resi
dence.
Fred Lewis. Sam Way, William
Potter Jr., Cecil Longest, Charles
Howe and Clarence Guthrie, stu
dents at the university, had come
home for their summer vacation.
TEN YEARS AGO
Graydon M. Paul announced his
resignation as mayor of Beaufort
effective July 1. Bayard Taylor
would act as mayor after that date.
Mrs. J. G. Allen, county chair
man of Ruaaian relief, announced
that 7,180 pounds of clothing had
been shipped to the Russian Relief
warehouae.
Scoutmaster Charles Hassell, *
junior aasistant scoutmaster N. W.
Taylor, aenior patrol leader Tom
Gibba, and patrol leaders Robert
Thompson and Jimmy Piner had
taken patrols of Boy Scout troop
91 to a cuaporM at Jacksonville.
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F1VC Yt-.AKS AUU
A. S. Stinson, assistant farm
agent, would assume his duties
July 1.
Frank Moran of Morehead City
was elected president of the More
head City Lions Club.
Miss Elizabeth Willis of Beau
fort was named Miss Beaufort and
would participate in the Miss North
Carolina pagearit.
Today's Birthday
SINCLAIR WEEKS, bora June
IS, 1193 in West Newton, Mass.
i rw Brcreiiry 01
commerce his
followed in the
footstepi of his
father who wsa
a mayor of New
ton, senator
from Massachu
setts and a cab
I n e t member.
(The elder
Weeks was sec
remy ui wur under Harding ana
Coolidge). Successful New Eng
land business man he has been
chairman of the GOP Finance Com
mittee and was an early backer of
Eisenhower for president.
Smile a While
A father took his son on his knee
and told him the story of the lost
sheep: how it found the hole in
the fence aRd crawled through;
how glad it was to get away; how
It wandered so far that It could
not find its way back home. And
then he told, him of the wolf that
chaaed the aheep, and. how, finally,
the shepherd came and rescued it
and carried it back to the fold.
The little boy was greatly inter
ested. and when the itory waa over,
he aaked: "Did they nail up the
boW in the fence?" ? Circuit Rider.
This is the Law
By THOMAS P. ADAMS JR.
for the N. C. Bar AmocUuod
Rctl Property Law
Husband and wife questions are
frequently raised about the differ
ence in the inheritance of a hus
band in the real estate of his de
ceased wife and inheritance of a
wife in the real estate of her de
ceased husband.
Dawer
By statute a married woman,
upon the death of her husband
without a will or if she should dis
sent from his will, is entitled to a
life estate in one-third in value of
all of the real property which her
husband owned during the mar
riage. The wife may lose this dower
right if she commits adultery and
is not living with her husband at
his death or is convicted of the
felonious slaying of her husband or
being an accessory before the fact
to such slaying.
The widow's dower may be al
lotted by a deed between her and
the other survivors. If such deed
is not made, the fcidow may peti
tion the Superior Court to appoint
a jury of three persons to set aside
her dower in the lands of her de
ceased husband.
The remaining lands of the de
ceased husband descend to his
heirs at law (children and grand
children, if any, and if none, to
the parents and brothers and sis
ters of their children). Under the
law as written, if a husband does
not leave a will, owns real estate in
his own name, and does not have
close kin, very distant relatives
may inherit his real property to
the exclusion of the wife, except
for her dower interest. If the de
ceased husband leaves no persons
who can claim as an heir, the wife
is then deemed an heir and as such,
may inherit his real estate.
Dower Cannot be Cut Off
Generally speaking, a husband
cannot cut off the dower of his
wife if she is unwilling for him to
do so. He may, however, make a
will in which he devises her less
than her dower interest. This
forces upon the wife an election of
taking what is left her in the will,
or dissenting from the will and
taking what the law gives her as
her dower.
Curtesy
By statute, a husband is entitled
to a curtesy in all the lands owned
by his wife during the marriage,
which interest entitles him to the
rents and profits from the land
during his life. In order to qualify
for a curtesy in the estate of his
deceased wife, a husband must have
a child bom alive by her during
marriage, however, it is not neces
sary that the child be living at
the time of "the death of the wife.
The right of curtsey may be lost
if the wife has obtained a divorce
from bed and board and is not liv
ing with her husband at her death,
if the husband has abandoned his
wife and is living in adultery at
her death.
In addition, the wife may cut off
the curtesy of her husband by a
will giving her lands to other per
sons, and the husband cannot re*1
gain his curtesy by dissenting from
her will.
If the wife leaves no will, her
real property passes to her heirs
at law however distant relatives
they may be, subject only to the
curtesy interest of her husband;
and the husband does not inherit
real property from his wife un'ess
there are no persons who can claim
this property as her heirs.
The husband may sell his own
property SUBJECT TO HIS
WIFE'S DOWER; but except for a
lease for not more than three years,
a wife is NOT permitted by the
law to dispose of her lands unless
the deed is signed by her and her
husband. AND proved and acknowl
edged by them. A wife may. how
ever, convey her separate property
without her husband signing the
deed if they are living apart un
der a deed of separation, or if the
husband is insane.
An absolute divorce cuts off
both dower and curtesy.
Joint Ownership
The hardships sometimes result
ing under the dower and curtesy
laws may be avoided by having an
original deed for property made
to the husband and wife jointly.
This creates what is known as ten
acy by-t he-entirety. This means that
both husband and wife must sign
any deed to the property if it is
sold. It means further that if the
property is not conveyed before
the death of either, the interest of
the deceased husband or wife
passes automatically to the sur
vivor and does not descend to the
heirs of the first to die.
This does NOT mean that proper
ty should always be held by hus
band and wife as "tenants by the
entirety," because, in some in
stances. severe inheritance and
estate taxes may be avoided by sep
arate ownership. Very often other
problems are involved which can
only be solved by a properly writ
ten will.
Avalanche Lily Grows
Wild in Western States
To most of us the names trout
lily, adder's tongue, dog-tooth vi
olet, fawn lily, or chamise lily have
some meaning. We know these
plants because one or the other
or many may be found growing at
tractively and reasonably abundant
ly wide-spread over America. ^All
belong to the genus Erythronium.
Most of them bloom early in the
spring and most are relatively
hardy, surviving picking rather
well in part because of the under
ground parts.
The avalanche lily is not so well
known. Even in some of the stand
ard botany books dealing with
kinds of plants it may appear un
der the name alpine fawn lily rath
er than as avalanche lily. Botan
ist* speak of it as Erythronium
montanum and it is found in al
pine meadows in the states of
Washington and Oregon. It was
first recognised as a separate spe
cies by botanists who had a plant
collected on Mount Hood in Ore
gon.
It rather closely resembles the
California fawn lily but has leaves
that are not mottled. It of course
has other differences but these
are not obvious at all times to the
casual naturalist The California
fawn lily la sometimes called the
Easter lily but this name of course
applies to many other plants.
The flowers of the avalanche lily
are white with the parts that are
moat showy orange at the base. The
flowers may turn pinkish with age
or when collected for use as her
barium specimens. There are 6 of
the showy "petals" that bend back
ward at the tips much as do the
parts of the adder's ? tongue of the
East. There may be more than one
flower to a pair of leaves. The
stamens are to H Inch long, with
the pollen-bearing portion being
white and te 1/6 inch long. The
pistil thrusts its 3-parted Up be
yond the length of the stamens.
The leaves are to 5 inches long
Avalanche LUy
and an inch wide with unbroken
margins and with parallel veins.
As stated earlier they are not mot
tled. Plants bearing flowers usu
ally show two leaves supporting
the flower while younger shoots
may have a single leaf.
The underground parts rise from
horizontal structure that is covered
with coarse, thickened scales. This
underground portion is edible but
the plant is too beautiful for it to
be sacrificed for food except in the
greatest emergency.
E. Laurence Palmer
Captain Henry
Sou'easter
Saw two examples Saturday of
the helplessness of public and
police against the reckless driver.
A friend of mine had some busi
ness down east and took me along.
We saw car after car speeding in
excess of 75 miles an hour. We saw
car after car skidding around
curves.
At Pake's Grocery we saw not
one, but three cars, just barely
make the curve.
Had any one of 4h?m somersault
ed his driver, I confess, I'd have
felt no pity over his injury or
death.
Then, back homo, about 6:30 and
even from better than a block away
I heard a terrible screech around
death man's curve where the Char
lie Styrons and Lockwood Phillips'
live on Front St.
Mrs. Dan Willis told me the car,
a blue Plymouth convertible, came
roaring up the road from the heart
of Beaufort, failed to make the
curve on the hard surface, struck
the dirt shoulder on the Styron side
of the road, swerved to the left,
hit the dirt shoulder on the Phil
lips' side of road. Tighter itself and
kept going at a terrible rate of
speed.
"I thought it was going to turn
over right in my yard," Mrs. Willi*
said.
Had the neighborhood children
been playing at the edge of either
of the Styron yard or the Phillips
yard, one or more of them most
certainly would have been killed.
Had any law-abiding person been
driving decently toward Beaufort,
and had his car been anywhere in
the vicinity from the Odell Mer
rill's to the Cliff Flowers' he'd of
been smashed into head-on.
I'm not blaming the police. They
can't be everywhere. Beaufort po
lice do their best to patrol Front
St. And as for down east, that'*
almost no man's land on a Saturday
and Sunday because the highway
patrolmen art needed in tlx dense
ly travailed Atlantic ~