CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES "
Cartarat County's Newspaper
EDITORIALS TUESDAY. JULY 13, 1954
Would 'United', Solve Our Problem?
Having suggested editorially early
this year that a United Fund ca.npaign
may be the answer to our parade of
charity drives during the winter, we
have watched with interest the recent
meetings on the United Fund in More
head City.
We talked three month's ago with a
Carolinas United representative in
Morehead City. We had some misgiv
ings about the plan after hearing what
he had to say, but the only way to find
out whether Carolinas United will an
swer our problem here, is to try it out.
In our opinion, the full value of a
"one package" campaign could be ob
tained only if the entire county partici
pated. The businessman who lives in
Morehead City but works in Beaufort
would give a check to the United Fund
in Morehead City but in Beaufort he'd
be besieged by all the individual cam
paigners just as in the past.
His normal reaction to United Fund
would-be, "That doesn't help me any.
I still had to write just as many checks
as before."
Secondly, would the USO angle of
the United Fund appeal to a lot of
folks? On the USO factor we have had
conflicting reports. The Carolinas
United representative to whom we
spoke INFERRED that excluding USO
from our campaign wouldn't be cricket
because after all, the United Fund's
"nucleus," as the Raleigh United Fund
chairman said Thursday night, is the
USO.
On the other hand, those who are
looking into United Fund possibilities
have been told that it is NOT necessary
to apportion any of the take to the USO.
As worthy as the USO is in providing
entertainment for our servicemen, it
may require a bit of selling to convince
folks that USO should be added to our
contributions list.
Another thing to consider is that four
of the major groups which put on con
certed drives, heart, cancer, tubercu
losis and infantile paralysis, refuse to
participate in the United campaign.
In larger cities there are many more
agencies which appeal for public funds
than there are here. Excluding the four
national agencies which will not join a
United Fund campaign, the Morehead
City United drive would encompass,
probably, only the Scouts, Salvation
Army, USO and Red Cross. If the cam
paign were undertaken in Beaufort, the
recreation program might be added.
The foregoing cannot b? interpreted
as an optimistic view of United Fund
possibilities. But we repeat, the best
way to find out if it will work is to try
it.
A Judgment to Note
A rather noteworthy judgment was
issued in County Recorder's Court last
Tuesday.
For driving without an operator's li
cense and possessing and transporting
non-taxpaid whiskey, a defendant was
ordered to pay a fine of only $25 and
costs. He was charged an additional
$15, the cost of towing his car.
Not usually inclined to question court
decisions, we probably could dismiss
this with the thought that there certain
ly must have been worthy mitigating
circumstances to justify such a light
penalty.
However, the defendant concerned,
Theodore Lawrence, has quite an exten
sive record of previous motor vehicle
law violations and we have long been
of the opinion that repeated offenders
of the motor laws are potential highway
murderers, endangering the lives of the
safe motorist and his children.
We believe the court erred in its
decision.
It's Playing with Fire'
Newport is beset by a dangerous sit
uation? faTse fire alarms. In the course
of a week recently the alarm rang nine
times and only two of those alarfns were
actual fire calls.
Under the Newport system a call to
the fire department automatically rings
the alarm.
Because of the number of false
alarms last week, several firemen,
weary of racing to the station only to
find there was no fire, just waited last
Tuesday afternoon to see whether it
would be worth their while to leave
their business or not.
It happened then that there actually
was a fire. In case of a serious blaze
when all the men are needed immedi
ately, the wasted minutes in rounding
up enough men could mean the differ
ence between saving or losing a build
ing.
Fire alarms are not playthings. Per
sons who treat them as such have the
mentality of a child and don't deserve
treatment as an adult should it come
to prosecuting them in the courts.
Bound, however, by our laws, we would
take them into court rather than tan
them good and proper with a length of
pine.
Firemen are not taking this false
alarm fever lightly. The person or per
sons responsible may end up in court
quicker than they think. And it
wouldn't surprise us in the least if fire
men would urge the judge to have the
defendant serve time rather than get
off with a $50 fine.
News from Mars
(From the New York Herald Tribune)
The picture of Mars as a world just
coming to life, rather than as a dry and
desiccated planet, is an intriguing one.
It has been presented to the American
Astronomical Society not as an estab
lished fact, or even as a likely one, but
as a "speculation" which might explain
some of the hitherto inexplicable fea
tures of the mysterious planet.
This month Mars is going to undergo
an unusually close scrutiny from astron
omers, for the heavenly movements will
bring it to a point 40,000 miles from the
earth ? the closest it has been in thir
teen years, or since the great 200-inch
Palomar telescope has been probing in
to the skies. If weather conditions are
"favorable, new evidence may be obtain
ed concerning the presence of vegeta
tion on the planet .and the true nature
of the famous "canals" (hat have
stirred men's imaginations ever since
Giovanni Schiaparelli first plotted
them on a map in 1877. Substantiation,
or refutation, may also be adduced for
the latest hypothesis that Mars is still
evolving toward a habitable world.
But if atmospheric conditions are bad
this month, the Palomar telescope will
be unable to add very much to our
knowledge of Mars at this time. And
that would be most unfortunate. For
the possibility that even as we look at
Mars the Martians are looking at us is
so tempting a thought that many peo
ple will not be convinced that there is
no life on Mars until they go there for
a look themselves. Perhaps the Palo
mar telescope can save them a trip. At
any rate, everybody will wish the
astronomers clear skies and good hunt
ing as they prepare to take the best
look anybody has yet had at the red
planet.
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Ruth Peeling
Mosquitoes Put Bite On;
Victims Start Offensive
Mosquitoes are putting the bite
on. And this time, apparently, is
the only time people in the mos
quito-ridden areas feel inclined to
bite back. Talk of mosquito con
trol in the winter time is about as
fruitless as trying to sell someone
an electric heater when the tem
perature's 92.
I used to think the mosquitoes
in the Boguc Sound area west of
Morehead City were bad until I
went down-east the other night.
One woman who seemed oblivious
to the bites, watched while I flailed
my arms around trying to beat the
pests off. But the mosquitoes on
her were so thick she looked like
a bee hive at swarming time.
They laughed at Mr. Early Mann,
Newport commissioner, at the
town board meeting last Tuesday
night when he said that he has
seen swarms of mosquitoes so thick
on Cedar Island that they blacked
out the sun. After my experience
in that down-east section, I believe
him.
The mosquitoes are thick at
Newport this year too. Any place
close to marshes is bothered by
them. Leon Mann Jr. tells me he's
written to the man at Cornell Uni
versity who developed a mosquito
trapping device that was described
in detail in one of the nation's
leading magazines last summer.
It's the gadget that plays the re
cording of the mosquito mating
call. The skeeters fly toward it and
come in contact with an electric
grid that shocks them into eterni
ty.
So the Cornell scientist answers
Leon and tells him these mosquito
traps are now on the market. "But
he failed to mention how much
they were," chuckles Leon, infer
ring that they probably cost beau
coup jack.
Skeptics can scoff all they want,
spraying does help. The folks at
Atlantic and Cedar Island who
benefited from the spraying of the
airfield at Atlantic during the last
war say that each year -since spray
Author of the Week
William Howelli, son of * dis
tinguished architect and grandaon
of the author, William Dean How
ella, writ*i about more remote
forebeara than theae two in his
new book: "Back of History: The
Story of Our Own Origins."
Bom in New York's Waahington
Square, he atudied at St. Paul's
School and Harvard, where he got
three degrees. Earnest A. Hooton
interested him in snthropology, and
since 1999 he has been teaching
at the University of Wisconsin.
? He is past president of the Amer
ican Anthropological Association,
and editor of the American Journal
of Physical Anthropology.
ing stopped, the mosquitoes have
become worse.
Last Tuesday night the Laugh
tons and the Pauls had a fish fry
to end all fish fries at the Grayden
Paul house on Front Street. Grand
pa Grayden proudly reports they
were celebrating the birthday of
his year-old grandson, Harry Paul
Jr. who was visiting here with his
mother and daddy.
"And the thing of it is," says
Grandpa, "we were out fishing all
Monday and Tuesday and didn't
catch a one. We had to go buy all
those fish we ate Tuesday night!"
Re-drawing of the state's judi
cial district boundaries is being
considered. Political aspirants to
court offices from this county
would like it mighty well if some
how Pitt could be drawn OUT of
the fifth district. Because of the
high registration there, they feel
Carteret County political candi
dates have slight chance against a
Pitt County candidate when it
comes to judgeships or solicitor
ships.
Judicial district lines have not
been re-drawn in the state since
the early 1920's and the population
changes since then have been ter
rif..\ Governor Umstead seems to
be holding up action on redisrict
ing because he says he's not quite
satisfied with some of suggestions.
It has been suggested that the
fifth district, of which Carteret is
a part, be composed only of Car
teret. Craven, Pamlico and Pitt
(dropping Jones and Greene).
That, of course, still doesn't please
Carteret politicos ? Pitt's still
right in there.
So maybe the local powers-that
be are pleased that Governor Um
stead is holding up on redisrict
ing. It might even be remotely
possible that they are partially re
sponsible for his delaying.
Building Fences
Look more closely at this busi
ness of fencing against weeds. The
only protection againat the weeds
of communism is the planting and
cultivatioh of our own garden ?
the faith in and the practice of our
Christian democracy. Thia does not
mean there will be no military
fences. We will build fences
against cows of imperialism, lest
they come over and devour the gar
den. But we must not apend all
our time building and guarding
fences against the cows, else our
garden will go to weeds through
neglect, and there will be no con
tinuing reason for the fence.
It is the tragedy of our time
that we have become a world of
fence builders and that we are
spending almoat no time at all in
the garden. Amid all this frenzy
over military defenses, where is
the passion for the faith and the
practice of Chriatian democracy?
Where ia the concern for injustice?
What haa happened to our com
passion for the hungry and needy
millions who compoae two-thirds of
humanity? Where are lh? gar
deners? ? Dwight E. Stevenson in
Faith Takea A Name (Harper).
Smile a While
The visitor was making conversa
tion with the preacher's little son.
"Tell me, son, doe* your father
ever preach the same sermon
twice?"
"Oh sure," answered the young
one, "but he hollers In different
placet."
Jane Eodt
Washington
Nobel prize-winning author Wil
liam Faulkner and the eats were
the main attractions drawing a
large swoosh of local and out-of
town lights to a nearby Maryland
estate on one of the sweltering
afternoons we get here in June.
The literary lion, decidedly of
the nonroaring variety, had come
from his home in Oxford, Miss.,
with Mrs. Faulkner to attend the
much talked about affair given by
the Burks Summers, whose nephew,
Lt. Paul Summers Jr., will marry
the Faulkner's daughter Jill in Au
gust. Burks Summers is the son of
the late Dr. John William Sum
mers of Walla Walla, Wash., a for
mer congressman. Helen Summers,
also from Washington state, met
her husband at the University of
Washington, where she was voted
a most beautiful coed in the '20s.
More than 300 guests received
invitations written on great sheets
of paper with a map showing the
route to beautiful Holly Oaks, the
Summers' place, and the reminder
that the hosts had "cooked them
selves a dish" consisting of a "tidy
sum of wild game shot in many
blinds or bagged across interna
tional lines" by the host. There
was. for instance, "ragout of cari
bou" bagged in Newfoundland,
salmon from Nova Scotia and "Wy
oming-style" elk meat sausages.
There was buffalo meat and stuff
ed pheasant and Mrs. Summers,
who spent some time in the Orient,
introduced two Chinese dishes.
Outside of the Faulkners, the
Democrats present could be count
ed on one hand. Someone asked
the slight, soft-spoken, white-hair
ed author if this was his tint
Washington party. "Well," he
mused in his deep-south drawl, "it's
my first Republican party in Wash
ington."
As usual at most Washington
parties, politics reared its head.
"Politics," said Faulkner, "is a
form of behavior with Republicans.
With Democrats, it's an activity.
Like poker or raccoon hunting, it's
a game you play and have fun at."
The men took the fashion prizes.
Morris Cafritz, wealthy realtor,
husband of hostess Gwen. wore
bright orange trousers, plaid shirt,
tan jacket. An admiral in civvies
wore a flaming red jacket with
grey trousers. Former Washington
Republican Sen. Harry Cain wore
an icecream suit with black shirt,
while Australian Ambassador Per
cy Spender and former Navy Secre
tary John L. Sullivan doffed their
coats and sat around in their shirt
sleeves.
Thought for the Day
You can preach ? better sermon
with your life than with your Hps.
? Oliver Goldsmith.
Keep awake in the daytime, and
there will be leaa occasion to lie
awake at night.
The longer we dwell on our mis
fortunes, the greater is their power
to barm us.
In the Good Old Days
THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO
County commtatooers voted to
create a convlrt road force.
George Taylor and Ernest Davit,
serving with the U. S. Navy, were
in Panamian waters and would
cruise soon to the Bermuda islands.
The BEAUFORT NEWS ran an
editorial citing the need of bath
houses to help make Beaufort a
good summer resort.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
Mr. Joseph House bad moved his
drug store to the corner store of
the C. L. Duncan building.
The Morehead City High School
was to offer a commercial course
to any high school graduate in the
county. The course would be limit
ed to 30 pupils and would cost $60.
The annual encampment of the
120th Infantry of the N. C. Na
tional Guard was being held st
.Camp Glenn this week.
TEN YEAU AGO
A woman, who had disappeared
four dayi ago waa found dead ia
her car in Morehead City.
Harry Tyler. USAF, of Beaufort
was awarded the Distinguished Fly
ing Cross Air Medal and two Oak
Leaf clusters.
Judge Luther Hamilton was aak
ing for the name of every boy or
girl from the county in service, so
that they might be inscribed on
the Honor Roll War Memorial in
Morehead City.
FIVE YEARS AGO
Nancy Yelverton of Rocky Mount
won the title of Miss North Caro
lina in the state beauty contest
which was held in Morehead City
last week.
Judge Luther Hamilton of More
head City was to retire as an active
jurist because of his health.
Marine Air reservists were arriv
ing at Cherry Point this weekend
for their third annual reserve ma
neuvers.
American Pipits Thrive
By Eating Harmful Insects
Most Americans associate the
name "pipit" with the word
"tawny" and if asked what the
tawny pipit might be would say
that it was a movie about dickey
bird watchers or something like
that. While the movie, "Tawny
Pipit" was viewed by millions of
Americans from coast to coast, it
is doubtful if any American ever
saw a free wild tawny pipit on
American soil.
Americans who use the Peterson
bird guides as their ornithological
Bible might tell you that there
were two pipits to be found in the
country, the American pipit pic
tured here and the Sprague's pipit
whose back is more striped and un
der parts less striped than in the
American pipit. Each of these spe
cies shows white outer tail feathers
and each wags its tail, bobs its head
like a dove when walking, and
walks rather than hops like a spar
row with which it might be con
fused by a careless observer. Off
hand one might say that because of
the white outer tail feathers there
might be the suggestion that the
bird observed was a vesper spar
row but the vesper sparrow hops
like a self-respecting sparrow.
Unlike the sparrows, too, the
pipits have relatively slender bills
and this character will help dis
Pipit
tinguish pipits from the longspun
which are of course sparrows and
have the characteristic coarse spar
row bill. Longspun walk instead
of hop normally but the white on
the tail is usually not confined to
the outer tail feathers as is the
case with the pipits.
If one can master the confusion
which may have been created by
pointing to the slightly complicated
differences between pipits, long
spurs, horned larks and vesper
sparrows, between nodding heads,
walking legs and streaked upper or
lower parts and wishes to go
farther, he will find in Bent's books
on birds of North America that
there are really five kinds of pipits
that have been found in America
even though one of them, the Japa
nese pipit, was never found here
but once. Bent lists the American
pipit and the Sprague's pipit of
the Peteraon book and the meadow
pipit and red-throated pipit.
The American pipit is probably
Today's Birthday
DAVE GAMtOWAY, born July
11, IMS in Schenectady, N. Y , son
of a mechanical engineer. The
TV and radio
personality be
gan u a $16 a
week page boy.
In short time he
rose from spe
cial feature an
nouncer to disc
jockey to MC of
a variety show.
His TV pro
grim* are noted
(or their ingenious uie of camera
techniques and (or his casual, In
timate style. His morning show,
"Today," has been a successful
video innovation.
better known in the West than in
the East. It breeds from northern
New Mexico and the high moun
tains of Oregon north to near the
tree limit in Canada. There is an
eastern and a western race appar
ently. The center of winter abund
ance is in our Southwest or along
the Pacific coast north to Wash
ington. The center of winter popu
lation in the eastern race is from
New Jersey and Ohio to the Gulf
coast. In any of these areas the
birds' presence is more frequently
noticed by the thin peeping call
given when the birds are flying
overhead in their characteristic
flocks.
The pipits are primarily insect
eaters with records indicating that
70 per cent of the food may be
injurious insects. The nest of the
American pipit is on the ground in
open country. In the nest the bird
lays from 4 to 7 eggs which are
incubated probably for 13 or 14
days. The incubation is done by
the hen but both parents share in
caring for the young. The Ameri
can pipit is about 7 inches long.
? E. Laurence Palmer
Stamp News
By SYD KR0N1SU
A RARE U.S. stamp that no
body has evaluated will soon be
aold at auction in New York.
It is the oaly known example of
the 1857 12 cent black, pair im
perf. between, (Scott No. 36B).
The discovery of this rarity was
announced only a year ago and
that's the reason it is unpriced.
The highest bid at the auction will
therefore determine the value.
A certificate attesting to the
authenticity of the item was issued
by the Philatelic Foundation. The
auctioneer is S. Serebrakian of
Park Row, N. Y.
A NEW SERIES of stamps has
been issued by El Salvador. One
group is for regular postage while
another group of identical design
is for airmail. A variety of national
subjects is depicted on these ad
hesives including: the national ur
ban housing program, the coast
guard, modern park system, har
bor* and rivers program, fishing
industry, rural electrification,
bridges, and national government
buildings.
THE ISM Scott specialty album
for "Germany and Colonies" i(
now on the market. A supple
ment for the IBM edition has been
issued. Other albums and supple
ments issued are: "Northern
Europe," "Guam Hawaii and the
Phillipines," " Independent coun
tries of Africa," and "Mexico."
TWO NEW STAMPS have been
issued by Algeria, reports the New
York Stamp Co. One is a 15 franc
plus 5 green adhesive honoring the
French Foreign Legion. A por
trait of a Legionnaire and a native
outpost appears as the main de
sign. The other stamp is a 15 franc
light blue and deep blue. It pays
tribute to the Third International
Agricultural Congress of Mediter
ranean countries held In Algeria.
FROM WESTERN German;
comes news of a 20 pfennig stamp
commemorating the 1,200th anni
versary of' the death of St. Boni
face. English monk and apoatle to
Germany. The dates T54-19M, plus
a shield, form the main deaign of
this new stamp.
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