CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
EDITORIALS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. 1954
What Shall It Be?
With another question facing Beau
fort on utilization of its waterfront
property, the town should be aware
that again it has come to a fork in the
road : shall the path be taken that will
lead to further commercialization of
Beaufort's waterfront, or shall the steps
be taken which will retain the water
front as a scenic area?
From the commercial standpoint, the
waters surrounding Beaufort are its ma
jor asset to industry. Those same
waters make it a picturesque seacoast
town. Thus the dilemma: to what use
shall those waters be put?
One faction says, "You want indus
try. All right, let us put docks for fish
ing boats along the waterfront. That
will bring business here."
The other faction says: "The main
thing Beaufort has to offer is its scenic
view across Beaufort Inlet. Take that
away from us and you turn us into an
other dumpy, smelly fish town."
The town board and the planning
board are going to be told: "Decide
this issue, what shall it be?" And
frankly, we believe the issue is one that
cannot be decided by a handful of
people.
The pressure groups for both sides
will harangue long and loud. The com
mercializers will sniff at the view
lovers. "Scenic," they'll snort, "with
the garbage wash of the whole coast
backing up into Taylor's Creek and ly
ing smelling along the sea wall!"
And the view-lovers will snap back:
"And who wants menhaden boats and
shrimpers strung all along from Way's
fish house up in front of the postoffice
or even farther? In the fall the fisher
men wake everybody up at 3 and 4
a.m. tramping aboard the boats and
shouting around until they shove .off.
It would be a disgrace."
Commercializers could argue that
there is nothing more picturesque than
the menhaden fleet tied up at Beau
fort's waterfront in the fall. And they
can cap their argument with the quiet
query, "Do you want more and more
of the menhaden boat business going to
our neighbor to the west?"
The scene-lovers will say, "Use the
back part of town," but the commer
cializers shy off frunt that because they
know the dredging and filling would
be a tremendous expense. Taylor's
Creek is already a federal waterways
project.
Thus the argument can see-saw back
and forth. For that reason we suggest
that the people themselves be allowed
to decide the issue by expressing their
opinion when they go to the polls in
November. If the commercializers
emerge victorious, the town board
would feel justified in changing the
zoning ordinance affecting a portion
of Front Street. If the view-lovers win,
the town board would have basis for
refusing to change the ordinance.
On an issue like this, which to an
outsider may seem like a tempest in a
teapot, we maintain that no decision
will be accepted by all unless each citi
zen in town has an opportunty to ex
press his opinion ? formally and fairly
? at the polls.
France, the Saboteur
Again last week the world was shown
that France is still able to sabotage the
plan of western nations in putting up
an effective block against Communism.
Because of France, the plan for an
army with divisions from West Ger
many, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, tj)8
Netherlands and France itself, was kill
ed. The plan was known as "EDC," or
European Defense Community.
The basic purpose of the plan was
to remove from western Europe the soft
spot where Russia could attack. That
soft spot is West Germany. West Ger
many, still occupied by allied troops,
has not been allowed to have its own
army.
The allied nations were looking for
a way whereby. they could remove. West
Germany as a likely spot for Russian at
tack and at the same time prevent the
Germans from building an army which
again could become a menace to the
world.
So "EDC" was born. The idea was
that the six European nations involved
would contribute men and equipment to
the EDC Army, but the army would be
under a unified command.
France, unable to run even her own
government, is as much a help to inter
national planning as a tantrum-throw
ing 3-year-old child.
As a world power, she has shrunk
miserably. In the face of a world where
colonialism is on the way out, France
still clings to the 18th century idea that
she must rule her colonies in Asia and
Africa with a Napoleonic flourish. And
those colonies are causing her nothing
but anguish and will continue to do so.
Torn domestically by Communists
who promote Russia's aims and French
rightists who make German national
ists look like children at play, France
has long been relegated to the position
in the world of being of nuisance value
only.
' But how annoying nuisances can be 1
France would probably have been
thrown aside by European planners
long ago but in the race of trying to
i
keep more free nations than Communist
nations in the world, the west must give
an ear to France.
Why did France Reject ED?? She
fears a German army more than she
fears the devil himself. Mention the
wortt*'Gehnan" to her and she starts
quailing in her panties. But now that
EDC is out the window, France has, in
her usual emotional, hysteric blunder
ing, opened the way to giving West
Germany an army over which France
will have not a bit of control. France
would have been able to keep check on
an EDC army.
The United States is ready now to go
ahead with plans to re-arm West Ger
many. West Germany is also demand
ing more sovereignty since EDC has
been killed. And that in itself will cause
France to throw another tantrum.
But as the Belgian foreign minister
recently said, France has been shown
all the understanding and conciliation
which she was entitled to claim.
We believe it's time for the west to
get on with its business of keeping Com
munism in check and recogniz? France
for wh?t she is: a juvenile and senile
conglomerate which is happiest sitting
in a sidewalk cafe ? settling world
problems by frenziedly ordering an
other glass of wine.
Southward, Ho!
Ports officials are pleased with the
reservations thus far for the four cruises
to the Caribbean. Morehead City is the
port of departure. The second and third
cruises are fully booked and people are
clamoring, we hear,, for space on the
first and fourth cruises.
On the first cruise which is sponsored
by the State Medical Society, no Car
teret doctors have booked passage. We
hope that at least one doctor and his
wife will see their way clear to take a
well-deserved vacation and at the same
time help serve as an ambassador of
goodwill for the Morehead City port.
Carteret County N*ws-Tim?s
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BUT DID HE HIT THE BALL?
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Captain H?nry
Sou'easter
'Long about the third or fourth
week 'in August I had a feeling
there was going to be a mullet
blow "back home" and I got that
old itchy feeling to get on back
here to welcome the same herring
gulls that had been bouncing up
and down on those waves in Long
Island Sound.
I usually do beat 'em back here,
but not this time. Anyhow that
mullet blow I thought was coming
turned out to be a full-fledged
storm. Carol, as they call her,
wasn't too bad, but anyone who has
lived through a few bad ones like
I have doesn't write 'em off as
nothing until they're really gone
by.
The only person I can find who
got hurt because of the storm is
Grayden Paul, our candidate for
legislature.
Ha climbed up to sec how much
datrnge the storm had done to his
roof, got into a wasp's nest and
when they started jabbin' him, he
jumped down and sprained his
ankle.
Dr. Johnny Way was a nervous
wreck Monday night. He wouldn't
leave that Queen Martha. There
she was tied up in Taylor's Creek
with the rain a'blowin' in the stern
end and the boat swinging and
tugging hard at her lines. When
he thought the Queen would be
okay for a few minutes, he'd jump
in his car and dash back to the air
port to make sure his plane hadn't
blown away. Problems, nothing
but problems!
A lot of skiffs were lost on Mon
day and Tuesday. People who find
stray skiffs really should make an
effort to return them to their right
ful owner. Once I lost a skiff. But
I had a feeling somebody helped it
go adrift.
Well, I found out who had it and
I went to him and told him it was
my skiff and I had no idea of giv
ing it away anytime soon to him or
anybody else. I got it back all
right.
Now, I'm not saying all skiffs are
stolen when they go astray. Some
folks find them and honestly don't
know who to return them to, while
others have earned a star for their
crown by getting up with the own
er in hurry.
Well, our first football game is
Thursday night. .I'll see you out
there to help give the Sea Dogs a
big send-off for 1954.
Ywterday
Two Men Die as Guns
Blaze in Feud over Hogs
By HENRY A. TOLSON
Bogue Banks, including Atlantic
Beach, in other days was "any
body's" property. We mean by that,
that it was the frontier of the
North Carolina sea coast.
Very little taxes were paid, by
the reputed owners, to Carteret
County. Those who claimed to
own it were too good "politicians"
to allow it to be highly taxed. In
fact, tweren't wuth much.
Squatters could build a camp and
plant a garden anywhere he could
"pitchfork'' the rattle snakes off.
Bogue Banks was excellent for
"piaey-wooda" stock-hogs, cattle,
en' ateh ? along with the many
deer and alligators. And Mr. Any
body could keep hoga and cattle
on any of the 30 miles of beach be
tween Fort Macon and Swansboro
Life Boat Station.
The cattle lived, along with the
wild deer, on the natural marsh,
wild celery, reeds, moaaes, etc. It
is there now.
The piney-woods hogs lived on
the live oak acorns during the win
ter. Did you ever see a dead live
oak? And, when times got tough,
aaid piney-woods hoga would feed
on fish rotten or otherwise ?
or on crab* and sand fiddlers.
Mrs.' Hoffrian, who bought up
some of Bogue Banks, had a care
taker named Glover, I think It waa,
and Mr. Glover was a fearless man.
Misa Alice Hoffman would have
nothing elae.
Charlie Salter was a spit image
of the Sal ten that tamed the
ocean. A descendant of the Salter
who named Salter Path.
Charlie Salter had hawgs and
Glover wanted to get rid of them.
The Honorable Henry R. Grady Sr..
Judge of superior court, remembers
well the controversy between Hoff
man and the Salter Fathers
So. Charlie Salter met Glover.
Two guns blazed Both were hit
about the heart by simultaneous
shot gun blasts. That's how they
wen found. The top* of their
head* facing each other about so
yard* apart, and their empty shot
reads something like this. "They
came to their deaths by the hands
of each other" or words to that ef
fect.
There are now no hawgs on
Bogue Banks for dawgs to ketch.
The feud between Hoffman and the
Salter Pathites has been settled by
the Honorable Henry A. Grady Sr.,
judge of superior court. Mrs. Hoff
man, a wonderful lady, has gone to
her reward. Bogue Banki seems
to be all harmony.
But. there are still Charlie Sal
ters living, and they'll die for what
they think is right. The same tri
bute to Glover.
But go into the clerk's Office in
Beaufort and fad that coroner's
report. It may not say so in so
many words, but here is what you
may glean from it When men die
for a cause, they smile.
Charlie Salter, so It is said, had
a smile on his face, even in death.
We've seen that on the battlefield.
(Copyright IBM by Henry A. Tol
son)
Today's Birthday
WILLIAM BELLY HARRISON
JR., kn Sept. 7, IMS, in Washing
ton, D. C. The (enter delegate of
the United Na
tioni truce tetm
it Panmunjom.
Korea, la deputy
commander of
the 8th Army in
Korea. The ma
jor feneral waa
graduated from
Wcct Point in
1817, attended
Army war col
lege, wai camp commander it
Camp Canon, Colo., aorvod under
Ocn. Douglaa Mac Arthur from 1M6
to IMS.
Thought for the Day
Living to like rowing ? boat; to
keep going you ban to keep pull
iog?*i?ffc
Smile a While
The accountant of a new busi
ness concern reported to the owner
that for the first time the business
was out of the red.
"That's fine," said the owner.
"Make up twenty-two copies of the
annual report at once ? one for the
bank, and one for each of our
large creditors,"
"But I have no black ink," said
the accountant. "We never need
ed it before."
"Well, then go out and buy a
bottle," directed the owner.'
"But, sir, I can't do that? it
would put us in the red again."
A Chinese life insurance com
pany, worrying about a policy-own
er who had forgotten to mail his
premium, sent this memo: "Es
teemed policy-holder, kindly re
frain from joining illustrious an
cestors while insignificant premi
um reposes unpaid in offending
pocket since meantime honorable
family, not Company, is holding the
burlap."
Jon? Ead? ,
Washington
Mrs. Rowland Hughes, who was
brought up in a well-heeled fash
ion and educated to be a musician,
knew zero about budgets until her
husband taught her the intricate
art of figure-balancing.
He's the director of the U. S.
Budget and the Hughes family bud
get as well. Now Mrs. Hughes
sfys it's a "joy to live by a bud
get."
"It gives you such a sense of
security," she adds. "You know
what you're doing. Budgeting is
planned spending, as well as a plan
for saving."
The mother of four, and grand
mother of five boys and girls, Mrs.
Hughes believes it is very import
ant for young people to know how
to live on a budget.
"We always had regular budget
sessions with the children," she
aaid, "and Mr. Hughes often ag
onized over tbeir lack of ability
in this field, while they agonized
over their budgeting. Our aon,
Richard, was his moat apt pupil
The three girla weren't aa com
petent, but now they all manage
their budgets quite well and are
glad for thia early training."
Also recognizing the Importance
of planning the best use and dis
position of the family pay check,
the General Federation of Women's
Clubs this year is stressing the pro
gram of its Family Finance Divi
aion.
In introducing the program,
which calls for the study of such
things as federal, state and local
taxes, budgets and allowances, in
vestments, and wills, trusts and es
tates, the Federation diviaion
chairman. Mrs. E. L. Hubbard em
phasizes that "All ?tudy and plan
ning should be done by the fam
ily aa ? whole.".
Mrs. Hubbard says that no one
can tell a family what should go
into Its budget.
Allotments, she says, depend not
only upon the income, hut upon the
desires and tastes of its members;
upon the situation and condition of
the family; and upon the standards
of the community and the social
group to which the family group be
longs.
"A family may be likened to a
going business concern with the
parents as senior partners, and the
children aa Junior partners," she
told me.
"As a senior partner, the wife
should be fully cognisant of the fi
nancial affairs of the firm. The
Junior partnen should learn busi
ness management through the ex
perience of handling small sums
of money of their own. Hence, the
importance of children's allow
Ruth P? ling
Insurance Men Follow
.
In Wake of Hurricane
It seemi as though the busiest
people, following the storm, were
the insurance adjusters. The town
crews who had to haul away the
leaves and debris might debate that
but I'll bet they didn't have as
many headaches as the insurance
men.
A big branch was broken out of
a willow tree in the courthouse
square and one of the dogwoods
had a limb twisted off, but other
wise the old oaks at the courthouse
stood up under the blow quite well.
While vacationing in Denver last
week, President Eisenhower sign
ed the bill which returns the Coast
Guard property at Lennoxville to
the town. Because of this legisla
tion Beaufort gets the property
back for $1, what the government
paid for it during the second world
war.
Stamp collectors say stamps arc
fascinating things. Although as a
youngster 1 collected them, I never
delved into it with the vigor of a
true philatelist (that's a'$10 word
meaning stamp collector).
But 1 saw recently a new use to
which stamps can be pat. They,
can be used for cut-out* in decorat
ing stationery. The stamps are can
celled of course. You don't realize
the beautiful and varied shades of
color in stamps until you see then
molded into something completely
different such as a small bird
swinging on a tall reed or a group
of tiny flowers in a window box.
The decorative pictures have to
be on a tiny scale of course, be
cause each part of them, a blade o I
grass, a bird's wing, or a flower
petal has to come out of a tiny
stamp. The parts are then assem
bled and pasted together to form
a picture.
It's quite effective as stationery
decoration but it might be adapted
for other things, place-card decora
tions. personalized postcards, invi
tations or even to keep a nimble
fingered youngster busy on a rainy
day.
A really artistic person can make
effective Use of the cancellation
marks across the stamp.
Collectors may throw up their
hands in horror at such use of
stamps, but not every tamp is a
collector's item. Most of them end
up in the wastebasket.
In the Good Old Days
THIRTY TWO YEARS AGO
Beaufort schools were opening
next week. Children from Len
noxville, Beaufort suburb, would
be brought to town by boat.
Cedar Island residents protested
the results of the school election
and the question was to be referred
to the Attorney Geoeral.
Hog cholera was on the increase
and farmers were urged to have
their swine vaccinated.
TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO
Atlantic Beach, Inc., and Atlan
tic Bridge Inc., were placed in the
hands of a receiver.
The county board of elections
was purchasing 80 voting booths.
Rudy's Barber shops in Beau
fort were advertising haircuts for
30 cents.
TEN YEARS AGO
All commercial and partyboat
fishermen must report* to the
boarding offieer at Fort Macon
dock before departing and on en
tering Beaufort Inlet.
Beaufort town commissioners ap
pointed Bayard Taylor, acting may
or, mayor of Beaufort as of July 1.
A fire at Inlet Inn was brought
under immediate control by the
Beaufort fire department.
FIVE YEARS AGO
Newport town commissioners ap
proved plans for a Rural Fire Pro
tection Association.
Newport town commissioners
voted to investigate the cost of
stop lights which would be placed
on Highway 70 through Newport
Because of financial difficulties,
the Beaufort and Morehead City
ball teams uould play no more
baseball games this season.
Obedient-Plant, a Mint ,
Is Known by Many Names
Some may know this plant as
dragon's head or as lion's heart and
few would be likely to consider
that either a lion or a dragon might
be considered obedient.
Whatever school you wish to
follow you will possibly agree
that the name is not too impor
tant and has little oh no effcct on
the beauty of the pale lilat flow
ers of the plant which is a mint.
This plant grows wild in waste
places and along banks of streams
where there is some dampness
from New Brunswick to Maryland
and west to Minnesota and Mis
souri with the range extending
south in the highlands of North
Carolina and Tennessee. In some
places, the plant is cultivated as
an ornamental and it is listed
commonly in books dealing primar
ily with attractive wild flowers.
Obe^ierit plant grows to I height
of nearly 5 feet with the four-sid
ed stem smooth branched and us
ually more slender in the upper
areas. The leaves are opposite,
coarsely but shallowly notched
along the margins and often with
Author of the Week
William A. Owena driws on his
own experiences and obaervationa,
aa a civilian and soMier. to write
his first novel, "Walking on Bor
rowed Land." It'a ? story (bout
Negroes and whltea in an Okla
homa community, such a place aa
he lived in when, in World War II
with the Counter Intelligence
Corps, he was assigned to the Job
of reporting on racial friction in
Tulaa, Okla. Born In Texaa, he
firat became acquainted with tbe
Negro people when be was a child,
and he worked with them later In
cotton fielda. With a B.A., M A.
and Ph.D. from, variously. South
ern Method lat University and the
University o I Iowa, he now ttacbes
lilAritw* Aft CfUumbifl Uiivarilty
short undeveloped branches in tha
axils.
As suggested earlier, the flow
ers are pale lilac, roseate or even
purple, with some being white. Tha
corollas are to over one inch long
and the narrowest at the base and
appear to be swollen in the middle.
Obedient Plant
The stamens are commonly en
closed completely by the corolla
but the branched tip of the pistil ia
long and appears beyond the corol
la tip. The flowers appear in July
and August. The spike of flowera
may be to 8 inches in length. The
flowers are sensitive to handling
and becauae of this the plant get*
the name obedient plant.
When grown in gardens, obe
dient plant may be propagated by
seeds or the underground parts
may be divided and transplanted.
While the flowers of obedient
plant are attractive to bees that
visit them and assist in pollina
tion the plant is not considered aa
an important source of honey. Thla
is largely because the plant ia not
usually found in sufficient abun
dance to compete with other plaiita
that are as good or better. It ia ob
viously more valuable aa a gar
den ornamental than as a honey
plant. It may now and then escape
from cultivation and establiah itself
precariously in some regions where
conditions are ideal for ita devel
opment ? E. Laurence Palmer.
Stamp News
By 8 YD UtONISB
ECUADOR has issued two new
stamps for Ita Poatal Employee*
Day, reports the New York Stamp
Co. The 30 centavoa brown shows
an Indian runner carrying a aM?
sage The 80 c blue airmail hat ?
symbolic design of a plana in
flight, a wheel and a building.
You can't puah yourself forward
by patting ywiMU an the hack.