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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES Cartarat County' i Niwipi|?i EDITORIALS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1954 A New Program Wins Applause Thursday night saw the completion of the first successful attempt to pro vide an organized sports program for ?mall fry ? the Junior Baseball League Sponsored by Morehead City Jaycees. , The idea of having a Little League hi Morehead City was first brought be fore the Jaycees in mid-July. In about two weeks the youth activities commit tee had made plans to start such a league. Advice was sought and received from others who had had experience with Little League ball. The Jaycees were advised that sanction had to be obtained from Little League head quarters in Williamsport, Pa., before the program contemplated could be called "Little League." But this did not dissuade Jaycees from their plan. They were advised by Little League headquarters to go ahead with the program, calling the league by another name. This the Jaycees did. They arranged for a field, obtained uniforms, issued a call to boys, formed the Junior League, and brought the season to a successful close. Thursday night was Junior Leaguers Night. At that time an award was given for outstanding sportsmanship and an other was given to the championship team. Two of the four Junior League man agers were Jaycees, two others were not. They were just interested in pro viding a sports program for boys. Jaycees volunteered as umpires, groundkeepers, equipment managers, and *an organization was set up within the Jaycees to handle Junior League business. Both Jaycees and non-club members gave gladly of their time and experi ence to provide a youth sports program. For this they received no pay. But judging from comments heard from parents, business men, and a high school faculty member, the program went over with a bang, and with plenty of approval and hopes for a continua tion next year. To members of the Jaycees and other men who helped out in this program, we express our appreciation for a job well done, and hope that the program will be continued again next summer with Little League status. Morehead City has as (food a chance as any town to field a Little League world series championship team! Chalk Another One Up Both the Newport and Beaufort rural fire protection programs have been highly successful. As the Beaufort Ru ral Fire Association launches its second membership drive, it is well to take stock of the association's accomplish ments during the past 12 months. Convincing rural folk that the pro gram was going to work, was a hard job. But enough money was received to buy a truck, equip it with a tank and help pay for the carpentry work needed to house it at the Beaufort Fire Station. It has been suggested by some that the rural fire association is "taking all the credit" for the rural fire fighting work. The association officers are the first to set folks straight with the in formation that without the equipment of the Beaufort town department and the fire-fighting abilities of Beaufort firemen, the rural association could do nothing. The rural truck is so equipped that its water can be used only when it is connected to the town pumper. If Beau fort firemen weren't willing to go out of town, and if the town board refused to let them go, the Rural Fire Associa tion, as it is now set up, could not exist. Chairman Leslie Springle of the Ru ral Fire Association, Fire Commissioner J. P. Harris and others instrumental in getting the rural protection plan under way can be proud of their accomplish ment. " ?' The program deserves the financial support of all property owners north and east of the Beaufort town limits. The Compleat Angler' (From the Golasboro News-Argus) It was about 1640 when Izaak Wal ton published in London a book which has made his name famous down to this good day. "The Compleat Angler" he called the book and it dealt with the delights of outdoor life, including fish ing. Walton was about 50 when he wrote his book and had retired after a successful career in the iron business. Fishing to this day remains a sport with which man lessens the burden of daily living, and indeed some men are transported to great joys with their fishing. It has remained for the Stale Collage Extension Service, however, to approach the subject of fishing from the scientific standpoint. A few years ago the State Extension Service established its first salt water fishing institute at Morehead City and this most unusual in college studies re ceived .national attention. Many na tional magazines dfevoted pages of words and pictures to extensive reports of the institute. The institute lasts about four days and covers all phases of fish ing a man needs to know to become the much envied "compleat angler," tackle and equipment, bait, where to look for the fish, how to identify the fish, what bait to use when fishing for different kinds of fish and so on. Directed by the experts the fisherman gains in about (our days information which it would take him years to obtain on his own by the trial and error method. The salt water institutes limited en rollment to about one hundred and the number applying was greatly in excess of the number which could be accom modated. The salt water experiment was so successful thta this year the Extension Service is sponsoring a fresh water fish ing institute. The course of instruction was given at Fontana Dam lake and continued for about four days. The re sponse to the announcement of the fresh water institute was as large as to the previous salt water institute. More stu dents wanted to enroll than could be accepted. The Fontana institute will cover for fresh water fish what the Morehead institute has covered for salt water fish. The graduates of these fishing insti tutes will be marked men among that large tribe of fishermen in their com munities. They will be sought after for advice on fishing problems and alto gether will have had an experience which will remain a pleasure to them for the rest of their lives. A Moscow newspaper took a young opera star to task for being drunk. Over there they don't like for people to get intoxicated on anything but Com munism. ? From the Greensboro Daily News. Carteret County N?w*-Timw WUOOB or NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARDS r at The Beeulort Nm (Eat. 1912) and The Twto CUj Timm (U UN) " I Toeedan and Fridays by tlx Cartarat PubllahJai 504 Arendell St, Morabead City, N. C. LOCKWOOD PHILLIPS ? PURLISHER ELEANORE DEAR PHILLIPS - ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER RUTH L PEELINO - EDITOR la Cartarat County and adjoining counties, 96.00 one year, IMS aU Ma month; eleewbere $7.00 ona year, M OO all Praia - Greater Weeklies ? N. C Praaa al Aaaodatioo ? Audit Bureau at Ckcal Praaa li enUtlad exrlueirely U aaa for repshlketWr at laaal ' " to thk new apapar, a? wall aa aU AP nawa CUT. N. C, Date AM ef UNNECESSARY BOOK LEARNING iiii' iTr-r>*-fi iwinw ii i ? Mi ir?lii 'SCHOOLS^ OPEN. DRIVE carefuu.% j We?Zfi/??.{ Captain Henry Jane Eads Sou'easter George and Eileen Taylor went fishing the other afternoon in George's "yacht" which he ties up at Noe's boatyard at the foot of one of those loose board docks. Eileen got in the boat all right and George heaved some stuff in it. The last thing he had to do was put in a rod and reel. He picked that up. stepped on the overhang ing edge of a board, and flip! George, rod and reel went into the water. James Davis, the banker, calmly summed up the situation with: "He got in before he got off." I asked if George swore much. They told me he couldn't. His mouth was too full of water. James happened to be there be cause he was watching Clarence Noe line up the motor in the new 22-foot Davis skiff built by Brady It's a fine skiff. Has a re built Ford motor and James ex pects to be the speed king on the cut. They were telling me the other day about Gene Smith. Seems as though he was teeing off out at the golf course recently and swung the club so hard his glasses flew off and he couldn't see where the ball went. He found his glasses and the other boys with him finally located the balK-up on the green a few feet from the cup. I guess when he drops his teeth he'll score a hole-in-one. Incidentally, I hear Gene wants to sell his skiff piece by piece. On Labor Day he decided he'd take his three favorite girls over to Shackleford for a picnic. So Mrs. Gene packed a lunch and the family set off from their home on North River. They got about half-way to Shackleford and you gues-sed it, the motor konked out. Luckily, they got a tow into a dock on Front Street They got out of the sniff, kids, picnic basket ami all and stood there looking for all the world like they were waiting for a trolley. Mrs. Lockwood Phillips, appre ciating their dilemma as only one can who has also been marooned in a skiff with a temperamental motor, carried them home. What a picnic! Every hurricane, big or little, has its freak episodes. Edward Arendell, Morehead City ABC store clerk and expert fisher man, lost the sight in his right eye when he was a youngster. A tiny sliver catapulted from a stick he was breaking and punched the cor nea. On advice of the medicos, he re cently underwent an operation for removal of the sightless eye. It was replaced with a light, hollow, plastic eye. At 6 p.m. on Hurricane Carol night he and Wade Bell tidied up the store, turned out the lights and pushed themselves out into the howling wind. The first gust plucked the plastic eye right out of ?d's head and he never saw it again. He's got a new one on order. Sea Anemones Are Animals That Thrive Along Coast The name anemone is applied to some plants as well as to some an imals. Here we reler to some of the animals known as sea anemones of which there are approximately 1,000 known species. With such a number of kinds of sea anemones it is only natural that there will be considerable variation. One of the commonest sea ane monea found along the Atlantic Coaat of North America is Metri dium dianthus which has world wide distribution around the Arc Plumose Anemone % tic region, everything u far south u New Jeney and being moat abundant and of largest aire in the area between New Jersey and the Bay of Fundy. In that area it ik found on piles, in tidal pools, among the rocks from low tide mark on t? depths of ISO feet. On the west coaat this same species is found from Sitka south to Santa Barbara, Caltf This sea anemone varies great ly in stse. Normally thoee found by beach combers sre at moat only a few Inches high or wide but one dredged from s depth of 90 fath oms off our Pacific Coaat filled ? 10-gaHou crock. Uaually there is a smooth velvety column about 4 inches high (Bd 3 inches through. This Is crowned with an expand able disc covered with a multitude of maay waving tentacles. In large speclmena the number of tentacles may be well over a thousand When expanded the disc may look something like a chrysanthe mum colored chocolate brown, streaked or blotched with brown or even white. When the animal is disturbed it quickly contracts the disc and seems to swallow it self since the tentacles all quickly disappear into the animal. When an animal is being eaten by the sea anemone its fate may be sudden. When a hungry sea anemone ia fed a chiton the flesh may all be consumed and the shell expelled within a period of IS minuMs. The animals have been kept active and healthy in aquaria for over a half century and there ia no reaaon to believe that at the end of this period animals so kept could be considered decadent. ? Sea anemones may reproduce by simply splitting longitudinally into two or more animals by budding at the base, by breaking off frag ments of tb? baae or sexually. When reproducing sexually, eggs are fertilized by sperms. These fertilized eggs give rise to free swimming larvae that move about and eventually settle down more or leas permanently attached to some solid support. Some aea anemones attach them selves to the backs of crab* and thus get moved about increasing the area from which they may col lect their own food. The crabs that carry these sea anemones get protection in return for their ef forta since the sea anemones with their waving tentacle* are able to injure attacking animals. The poison barb in ? tentacle of a sea anemone ia something moat animals learn to avoM no matter where the anemone may be found. The graceful movement of the tentacle bearing disc* of sea ane mone* have appealed to motion pic ture photographers and soma spec tacularly beautiful motion picture* have been made of them.? E. Lau ranae Palmar. Washington Roy L. Whitman, as official re porter ol debates at the U. S. House of Representatives for some 20 years, has not only had to listen to but record for posterity the lofty, and sometimes not so lofty, oratory of our lawmakers. I doubt if Mr. Whitman has de veloped ulcers, or even jitters, while jotting down the verbiage of congressmen, for with his gentle and understanding wife he has indulged in a hobby that takes him far afield from politics and the turmoil of the day's work. "He's been interested in photog raphy as long as I've known him and that's been about 45 years," Mrs. Whitman told me. "We're roamers and with his camera we've traveled the length and breadth of this county three times. We've also been to Canada, Mexico and Ha waii." Recently the Whitmans showed their collection of outstanding color pictures of Hawr.ifan island scenes in a 'National Capital Parks program on the Washington Monu ment grounds. The pictures were made during a month's trip to the islands in 1952. They rented a car and hired a driver to take them around, Mrs. Whitman said. In the United States, they visit the national parks in their own car. "As soon as Congress adjourns we're going to Europe and I guess we'll be coming back with a lot of new pictures," Mrs. Whitman said. "We'll start with the British Isles and we are looking forward to go ing to Scotland. We'll try to take in all the territory we can." The Whitmans take pictures only for their own enjoyment and that their friends and never have any picture-lecture in mind when they start out on their vacation junkets. Usually they try to spend part of the summer at the family place at Bar Harbor, Maine, where they are joined by their married son and daughter-in-law and six grand children. The son. Dr. B. L. Whit man of Drexel Hill, Pa., has two young daughters; the daughter, Mrs. Wayne Hill, married to a Washington lawyer, has four chil dren. Author of the Week Peter Abrahams. In "Tell Free dom." tells of the first two decades of his life, or the time It took him to get himself and his dark skin out of white-ruled Africa. Native of Johannesburg, student for some years at Grace Dieu Teacher's Col lege. he left Africa for England, where he now lives with his wife and two children. Except for a couple of years when he waa a stoker, he has earn ed his living regularly by writing short stories, novels and newspap er articles. American readers will remember beat two novels. "Path of Thunder." IMS, and "Wi'd Con quasi," 1090. In the Good Old Days THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO Newport ! new 180.000 school building would open next week. Two beacon lights were to be es tabliabed to mark the entrance to the dredged channel in Bogue Sound. A new electric water pump had been installed in Beaufort. TWENTY -FIVE YEARS AGO All schools in the county open ed this week. St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Beaufort was sponsoring a series of street corner religious services. The Vogue store in Morehead City had expanded its building next to the postoffice and now occupied the space formerly shared with the Webb Hat Shop. TEN YEARS AGO v The worst storm since 1933 struck the county when wind* reached 108 mpb Carteret County schools were op ening next week for the year's term. Sunday schools were reopening this week after being closed for five weeks because of the polio epidemic. FIVE YEARS AGO Dr. W. A. Chipman, research bi ologist of the Fish and Wildlife Service, had joined the laboratory staff at Pivers Island. Hugh Salter was appointed coun ty commissioner in place of Ivey Mason who was declared ineligible because he held a civil service job at Cherry Point. Beaufort's total school enroll ment for this year was 903 and the Morehead City school had 894 en rolled. Ruth P? ling Jacksonville Tobacco Grader Wanted Dry Job The Tuesday after Hurricane Carol struck, Jacksonville was be ing drenched and rocked with wind. In the downpour someone walked into the employment of fice and asked for a job in town that day because it was too damp out on the farm to grade tobacco! Then, of course, there are those folks ? a few of them ? who drive up the to employment office in Morehead City, in their shiny black Cadillacs, to collect their un employment insurance. Edmund Harding, the famed humorist of Washington, N. C., has regaled many a convention audi ence at the beach with his rib-tick ling tales. We received one of his bulletins at the office the other day and on it he has "Ten Rules to Insure a Good Party." The tenth, of course, is to have Edmund Harding for your speak er, but the first nine are worth heeding too. Everyone who plans a dinner party for a large crowd would do well to keep them in mind: 1. Be sure to have the ladies present ? no party is good without them. 2. Have plenty of light in your meeting place. For candle light or indirect lighting dis count the speech 15 per cent. (People want to Slit who's talking). 3. Have good food. (Be sure to have green peas. Nobody feels at home without them). 4. For slow service discount success of your party 20 per cent. Put the salad on the table before they sit down. (It will save a half hour). 5. Be sure to have some flowers on the head table and some music if possible. 6. Start the meeting on time and keep moving. Only 10 per cent of your crowd is inter ested in the presentation of golf prizes. 7. Have somebody to do the in vocation that really knows how to invoke. 8. Don't let bellboys come in during the speech, to look for somebody that does not even belong. 9. Have a reception committee to help seat the folks and make them feel good. Those are simple, common-sense The Readers Write Sept. #, 1954 To (he Editor: I was born and bred a citizen of the state of North Carolina and have lived in said state 77 years I have made myself a law-abiding citizen and fought faithfully, lo these many years to maintain and hold forth democracy. I never thought I would reach the place in life that I or any friends or relatives would not be allowed to come to Swanaboro fishing for a little recreation ? without having to be arrested by a patrolman apd carried to Morehead City on the Sabbath and tried by the Judge. A fine of 913.75 was placed againat a lady for standing on a bridge. She was not fishing, had not been fishing and waa only rest ing from weakness. She la now and has been for the past year under a doctor's care and is a nervous wreck. If the good citizens and law makers and enforcers feel she has had a square deal, we will feel sat isfied over the matter and 1 will go far enough to ask the state to put a notice at each end of the bridge forbidding anyone from standing or sitting or stopping on said bridge under any circum stances We noticed that there were post ed "No Pishing" signs from the Gales Creek Bridge. The name of the lady who waa arreatad was Mrs McNeil Adcock who waa with her huaband. Three other persons who actually were fishing were arrest ed at the aame time. I, ai one W. L. Anderson and the rest of the family connected with ma, want to reaffirm our good feeling toward the citizens of ?astern Carolina and the good people of Swanaboro. W. L. Andersen party rules, but if just two of the more serious ones are ever ob served, it's unusual. Wonder when some hurricane is going to remove those eyesores along the north side of highway 70 east of the yacht basin . . . I've 1 heard lots of excuses as to why the half-burned buildings have not been taken down, one of them be ing involvment in litigation, but < nothing does more to detract from 1 a section than broken-down, aban doned sheds, plants, or houses. * Those and the cracked, leaning lamp posts on the Beaufort - More head drawbridge make us look like the average Yankee's imagined pic ture of "the South." From Cherry Point comes the . : word on what kind of bomb was * dug up at port terminal the other week. T/Sgt. J. C. Blodgett of Ex- 1 plosive Ordinance Disposal recog- , nized the "200-pound bomb" as a 45-pound, 7.2 anti - submarine rock et of the type fired from surface craft during the second world war. No fuse was found in the rocket ( and it was taken back to the base | where the explosive was found to be either TNT or Torpex- and still capable of being exploded even though it had been in water since 1M3. Stamp News j By SYD KR0N1SH STAMP COLLECTORS know j that many nations issue stamps pri- f marily for propaganda purposes ? such as boasting of military might ? or honoring a general and his most ( famous battle. Russia and its sat- 1 tellites have been doing this for I many years. ' Sometimes countries will put forth a special stamp to lay claim to certain territory. For ex ample, Argentina and Great Bri tain have isiued several stamps claiming possession of the same islands. Now Australia is showing re newed interest in the Antarctic and the development of scientific re search in that region. A new 31** | pence stamp will be issued in No- ' vember for this purpose. , j Australian Postmaster General ' Hubert L. Anthony says that sine* I the summer of 1M7-48 Australian scientific stations have been maintained continuously on Mac 1 quarie and Heard Islands. A not able advance was made early this year when a further station, named Mawson, was established on the Antarctic continent. The design of the new stamp will be based on the emblem of Australia's Antarctio Division, De partment of External Affairs. A . map of the territory with Austral ian claims will be seen in the cen ter. Today's Birthday FRANCIS K. (OSIER) NEW COMER, barn Sept. 14, lit* in By ron, III. Has been Governor of the Panama Canal Zone aince May 1948. Reiisned from active Ar- < my duty in Oo- r tobcr 1940 after 40 yean of mili tary aervice. A graduate of Weat Point, he holda the DSC and numer oua other decor ?finm vice in World Win I and II. Wu U. 8. Army Enfineera officer in Hawaii and China India Burma the ater. In 1914 married Mary Bru not Roberta. Thought for tho Day If you Unlit on perfection, make the firit demand on youraelf. ? Frank L. Cox. The man who baa money and frieMh b Iwclty; the man who baa no mooey and Irianda ia luckier.