I CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES J
Carter* County'* Newepepar
EDITORIALS
TUESDAY, OCT. 5, 1954
Court Clerks Take Action
The State Association of Superior
Court Clerks has taken long overdue
action to protect courts from non-pay
ing bondsmen. The association will ask
the coming legislature to place bonds
men under the supervision of the State
Insurance Department.
At present, the agents or companies
which put up bond when a man is be
ing held for alleged law violation op
erate under no state regulation at all.
Some local laws attempt to keep bonds
men in line, but the laws are of little
value because they vary so widely
throughout the state's 100 counties.
Things have come to a head within
recent years because more and more
bonding companies refuse to pay off
when the person they bailed out
"jumps bond." In other words, he fails
to show up in court when ordered to do
so.
When he does not appear for trial,
the court "forfeits his bond." This
means that the money he posted
(through the bonding company) is
collected by the court. Thus the bond
ing company simply loses the money
it put up.
. Disliking to lose such money, quite a
few bonding companies in the state
have recently refused to pay off. In
our own county, a bonding company
from upstate which posted a $500 bond
for a defendant flatly refused to pay
the bond when their client failed to
show up in court. The court is still try
ing to collect.
The judge of Recorder's Court in Wil
mington last February ordered that his
court accept no bonds from three bond
ing firms until they paid back bonds
owed the court. One company owed
$3,000 in unpaid bonds.
In this county, the clerk of Superior
Court asks bonding agents to file finan
cial reports with his office and on that
basis he decides whether the companies
are reliable.
The regulations proposed by the
Association of Superior Court Clerks
will go a long way toward correcting
the situation which now exists. We sug
gest that the state law go even further
and prevent court officers,, police Offi
cios, or persons in their immediate fam
ilies from acting as bonding company
representatives.
While those persons' serving as pro
fessional bondsmen is not, at present,
legally wrong, court officers and police
officers are in a position to profit per
sonally by being bondsmen. Such con
ditions, unfortunately, exist here.
Ethically, it leaves little to be ad
mired. For that reason, the State Asso
ciation of Superior Court Clerks would
protect the people, as well as the courts,
by including in the legislative recom
mendation a clause placing limitation
as to WHO can represent bonding com
panies.
Fire Prevention is Your Job
Let's jjrow up ? not burn up." That's
the advice from the safety council of
the United States Department of Agri
culture which joins this week with the
National Fire Protection Association in
promoting Fire Prevention Week.
This county has certainly done its
share of "burning up" this year. Home
fires, church fires, forest fires, grass
fires ? all have helped run the loss by
fire into thousands and thousands of
dollars.
Prevention of fire is as important on
the farm as it is in the city. Buildings
may be farther apart but many of the
rural areas are without fire protection,
whereas the towns have organized fire
departments.
The Beaufort and Newport Rural
Fire Associations have done a hero's
job in preventing fire losses but they
don't cover the entire county. It's a dif
ficult job to save property once a fire
has started. The best way to save it is
to keep fires from flaring up.
This can be done by rebuilding de
fective chimneys, installing heating ap
paratus properly, using fire-resistant
roofing, keeping flammable liquids
stored in safe places outside the home,
replacing frayed electrical wiring, and
removing trash and rubbish regularly.
There are many, many other rules
to follow in preventing fires, but basi
cally, all one has to do to keep his home
or farm safe from fire is to use common
sense. Everyone is familiar with the
things that make a fire ? heat, fuel and
oxygen. Whenever these things join in
"dangerous" proportion, fire is inevita
ble.
Cosmo L. Cox, president of the
North Carolina Firemen's Association,
makes a personal appeal to all of us to
do our part in preventing fires:
"After many years in the fire service
and after having seen the result of
many fires which could have been pre
vented, I am more firmly of the opinion
that each of us has a definite respon
sibility to himself, his family and his
community in this program of keeping
fires from starting.
"Those of us, who by necessity, have
had to see the dead victims of fires,
which in many cases were the result of
an act of carelessness by some adult
person, think more seriously about this
fire prevention effort than those of you
who have not had to witness such
tragedies.
"We parents have definite responsi
bilities to our children. We have to pro
vide food, clothing and a home. Why
shouldn't we provide adequate fire pro
tection and continually teach them safe
ty habits at all times? Let's constantly
think of this! Will you?"
'Experts' on Race Relations
(From the Greensboro Daily News) /
"The quicker the United States Su
preme Court ban on segregated schools
is put into effect, the less chance there
will be to evade it." Such is the con
clusion, according to the New York
Times, of "a committee of 19 race rela
tions experts" which met recently in
conjunction with the American Psycho
logical Association in New York City.
Those who do know something about
the problem counsel moderation and
patience. They know that conditions
vary greatly in various parts of the
South and that trying to proceed at the
same speed in all sections would be like
linking an oxcart and a jet propelled
plane.
Yet the committee of race relations
experts blandly concludes that "the
only delay permitted should be the time
f
required by specified and necessary ad
ministrative adjustments. There is no
available evidence to suggest that this
time need be any longer than a school
year."
The committee is evidently incapable
of seeing any evidence it doesn't want
to see. Too great haste will bring on
not only evasion but defiance.
Thurgood Marshall, special counsel
of the National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People added his
bit to the enlightenment when he ob
served that "from the earliest days of
slavery Negroes have been teachers of
white children ? spanking them, wet
nursing them and teaching them man
ners." That is true, and both sides will
need a lot of manners before all this is
over, but there seems to be a shortage
of teachers.
Carteret County News-Times
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SPRINGBOARD
rx-'?? ? -
In the Good Old Days
THIRTY TWO YEARS AGO
Congress had allotted $24,000
for dredging Beaufort harbor and
$2,000 for Taylor's Creek cut.
County commissioners were ask
ing for bids for a road through Sea
Level, connecting the Stacy road
with the Atlantic road.
The William H. Gillikin home at
Otway was destroyed by fire.
TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO
The first big storm of the year
blew in with plenty of wind, tides
and rain, but little damage was
done.
County road superintendent D.
M. Jones returned home from
Goldsboro where he had been in a
hospital recuperating from injuries
received in an automobile acci
dent.
Miss Nell Blair Jones and Ben
jamin Ernest Windley were mar
ried in the Ann Street Methodist
Church.
TEN YEARS AGO
Atlantic field, crashed into the
A Navy plane, stationed at the
shoal opposite Front Street in
Beaufort, killing the pilot.
Earl Pavis, Jack Lynch, Ed Gil
likin, Jim Beck and Roland Willis,
all of Smyrna, opened the season
by killing the first deer in the
county*
The fishing situation in the coun
ty was critical with a flooded mar
ket, hot weather and no ice.
FIVE YEARS AGO
THE NEWS TIMES was observ
ing National Newspaper week by
holding open house. On three dif
ferent occasions the plant was open
to the public.
The Carteret County Fair was to
open next week at the Legion fair
grounds.
Beaufort and Morchead City ac
cepted FHA plans for slum clear
ance within their town limits.
Thank Youl
A Reader Comments
(Editor's Note: Early this year
we ran on this page a humorous
piece of writing by Amnion Mct'lel
lon, a weekly newspaper editor in
Florida. He told of all the trials
and tribulations to which an edi
tor is subject. The following com
ment by T. H. Carrow, a native of.
Beaufort, now living in Philadel
phia, was sent us soon after Editor
McClellon's rib-tickling tale of woe
was reprinted here. We thought
Natioaal Newspaper Week would
be an appropriate time to publish
Mr. Carrow's comments).
"Getting Out A Newspaper" by
Ammon McClellon is a fine piece
of satire. But it seems to me that
the delightful humor that per
meates the essay is likely to leave
unwary readers without a full ap
preciation. of the difficulties that
actually beset the man who runs a
newspaper.
In this writer's opinion, the edi
tor has one of the stiffest jobs in
the whole list of occupations and
vocations.
In the first place he has to be
well educated. No other vocation
requires a man, or woman, to know
so many things, including many
apparently insignificant things that
most people know nothing about.
Next he has to have a bump for
accuracy as big as the head of Mar
cus Aurelius. One little mistake
may create a furor among the
readers. He must be in the state
of constant anticipation to get the
lump on any and everything that
happens. Otherwise, his "stuff"
wouldn't be news.
Somewhere along the line comes
a remarkable sense of the fitness of
things. A harmless faux paa may
antagonise the whole community.
He puts hia reputation in jeop
ardy when he expresses his opin
ion, but he isn't worth hia salt M
He doesn't
But the tittle things that must
be perfectly done in running a
newspaper are what I marvel at
For example, miaspelled words
stand out like a sore thumb, but
they almost never appear.
Headlines that don't tell the story
are a bane. But they almoet never
misfire. News reports are often
on the presa within an hour or so
after the event and they are nearly
always accurate and not infrequent
ly food literature.
The editor assembles a lot of
facta and (leans and haa to depend
on others for them But they are
?early always tillable. How does
this near perfection in running a
newspaper come about? The an
swer is plain.
The maa who runs a newspaper
mint be well educated and fully
trained, especially in the art of ac
curacy before he takes the job and
above all he must be a hard worker.
Being a Carteret Countian from
away back. I am happy to say that
reportorially, editorially, photo
graphically, typographically, and
may I say advertising^ THE
NEWS-TIMES ranks well with any
newspaper in its class in the United
States.
Finally I would like to say that
through its current dissemination
of news and information the peo
ple ought to know it is contributing,
in large measure, to the social and
economical development of the
county.
Author of the Week
Pierre Boullt, once upon a time
a prisoner of the JapaAeae, from
whom he escaped, has written a
novel about a gang of prisoners.
English in the fiction, held in a
camp in the Siamese jungle, "The
Bridge Over the River Kwai."
Born in Avignon, France, in 1012,
Boulle trained as. an engineer^ but
went to Malaya as a rubber planter.
Since the war he has lived again
in Malaya, the Cameroona and, at
present, in Paris.
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Smile a While
A mountaineer took a trip to
New York City, hla first to a large
city. On his return, a friend aaked
him how he liked New York.
"Well," said Zeke, "to tell the
truth, I never did get to ?ee the
town- there waa so much going on
?round Um depot "
Jon? Eads
Washington
Some 1,850 American children
linear ^ ** ol ""?
And 22,500 fires, resulting in 8y?
'lon dollars' worth of damage
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iL ?,y 10 '"''or vehicles 3S
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crippled P rmanenUy *??d or
moPsrtrmCpo?rntantUPerVirn >nd
w5?oS?r? .ri~ p~"
crty from preventable fires.
thaSnn"alf ofeflmated ,h?? more
^p,rarr^?c
ahs ^"^-waa
for the prevention
the parent- ""m?5t "*?> "P?n
He believes this is not tnn ...
that0?cidem ** ""'P' his ,heor>
nat accident prevention in chJId
ti^H eqU're? 100 ?*' <** Po
tion during the first ye,r of life
tecimn While m*'ntaining pro!
tection against lethal, subtle .nd
uncomprehensible hazards, increas
"Th P'aCed ?n educ*tion.
th??" ^ UU^t "yi do ^My^n
things compatible with his abilities
and interests, and should alsi ?
rh:\rr<? ot m> Mmi,??on. ?.
22. "? wi" n"t attempt to do
derita?ding.",d "" 'tnngth or
" !*|??ed ,0 m,i"tain the de
Z 2?? P" cen' protection, ne
fh!t T bec,use of his helplessness
year V' ^ child ?P to o"e
Deitrich says we would
experienced If 'un<"nli?hten?l. in
experienced, burn-prone child."
clir'T.' }??k forw,rd realisti
c??y to the time at 5 or 6 years
When b?"1 who?' and play
bin-'era ? h"d 'JS" 0ur
S'",., ! ,dd* "Normal curl
o-'iy. intellectual stirrings and
^?|?'"ty will result in re
r when the child,
* flame (actual or potential) and
combustibles will bThrwiht ?
gether without adult supervision
Then only the child's k!ToXge
trolled^ " c,n prev'nt uncon
trolled fire and tragic results."
Today's Birthday
JOSH LOGAN, tore Oct. S, IMS
In Texarkana, Tex. A successful
acior. director
producer and
playwright, be
aerved bftth aa
writer and pro
ducer of auch
recent hita aa
"Miater Rob.
erta" and "South
Pacific" Bur
in* World Wtr
II he waa in the
U. 8 Army u Intelligence officer
in the 90th Troop Carrier Wing.
He 1* married to actreu Nedda
Harrigan.
The editor of Speed Queen Newi
?aya, "If you think you work ? little
harder than the average, you an
an avenge worker."
This Farm Fight is Being
Carried on Right at Home
Leon Mann Jr., who call* that
bastion o I Republicanism, Newport,
hia home, aent me thia wee, but po
tent, item:
"Seen on a neat, well-painted
sign on a (arm building near Char
lotte: 'Democratic products aa Re
publican Prices.1 "
At last reports, Leon waa still
calling Newport his home. How
long that will laat in the face of
the above, I care not to predict.
They say this is the time of year
when dogs go mad and cats climb
trees and refuse to come down. A
New Jersey man has made a study,
he says, of the latter freak of na
ture and explains the cats' sud
den "desire" for height as the re
sult,of sinus trouble
The sinus trouble causes them
to lose their sense of balance. They
get ' p a pole or a tree and in
tend to come down, but when thex
start they get dizzy, so they stay
put!
I could hardly believe my ears
last Sunday when 1 heard blaring
forth on a disc jockey program a
song called "The Man Upstairs."
When I heard the first line, I
assumed it was another one of
those completely senseless ballads
about an upstairs roomer at a
boarding house. As the lyrics con
tinued, I realized that the "man up
stairs" meant God.
A throaty, night-club female
voice gurgled and yelled through
this number accompanied with all
the hot drumming and trumpet
jazz a musical outfit can mutter.
The theme throughout, aa beat I
could gather, wis "have you talked
to the man upstairs," or in other
words, do you pray?
The number hat all the hill-billy
and cowboy song qualities neces
sary these days to make a "hit."
The St. Louia Blues is a reverent,
hymn-like number compared to
it
Religion has experienced a re
vival in recent months Billy Gra
ham has become Umous in his un
dying determination to "carry re
ligion to the people." But when
the people get religion and turn
it into something on which they
can commercialize by calling the
Lord the "man upstairs" and turn
ing out a tune that does little more
than mock the Christian faith, the
time has come to question the right
of record-manufacturers to feed
such "music" to the public.
The modern so-called music-mak
ers have taken some of the beau
tiful passages from classical music
and made them into popular num
bers. I have been holding my
breath in fear that some of the
best-loved hymns of the church
might some day be snatched by
money-mad record companies and
revamped into the trash now
ground out on hundreds of discs.
But I shouldn't have worried.
Evidently the industry is capable
of taking a religious theme, all on
its own, and beating it into a hot
number that they think will set
the cash registers jingling.
Octobers Birthstones
Express Autumn Colors
The opal and the tourmaline, Oc
tober's bicthstones, both signify
hope. Equally expressive of the
season's gay coloring, each of them
captures the brilliance of a clear
October day.
Famous October birthdays be
long to U. S. President Dwight D
Eisenhower and to a celebrated ex
president. Teddy Roosevelt, as well
as to such international notables as
Chiang Kai-Shek and Admiral Rich
ard E. Byrd. Author Damon Run
yan is also on the October birth
day list, along with contemporaries
in the theatre ? playwright Eugene
O'Neill and leading lady Helen
Hayes.
The opal, one of the most mys
terious and beautiful of all gems,
has been treasured for centuries.
Emperors and kings have worn it
for its beauty and because it was
said to guard their regal honor.
The ancient Greeks believed its
possession gave foresight to its
wearer, leading thus to its modern
significance as a symbol of hope.
Among the many variations of
opal there are two main classes; the
milky "Hungarian" opal, which is
, shot with rainbow colors; and the
dark blue, grey and black "Austral
ian" opal, flashing with fiery lights.
The main source of opals today is
Australia, where opal fields were
discovered around 1903.
Popular as a ring stone, the opal
Coptoin Henry
Sou'easter
The Pigilee isn't immune to
shoalitis. Her master, Piggy Pot
ter, ran her so hard aground the
other Sunday that he had to wait
seven hours for the tide so she
would float off. They say he read
every word in the Sunday paper,
waiting. Even worked the cross
word puzzle.
Fishing for blues thus far this
season seems to amount, most of
the time, to a pleasant boat ride.
They Just don't seem to be around.
There are all kinds of theories.
Some say the blues are here, and
big ones, but they're getting plen
ty of food and aren't interested in
taking a lure. Others say the
wind isn't right, and still others
contend they just haven't showed
up yet
There were plenty of boats out
Sunday morning looking for them,
but the only blue around was the
sky and the water.
The Beaufort football team got
to Richlands Friday night in spite
of four whammies across the high
way from here to there.
F. W. Heslep. who for years has
been an open akiff addict, haa now
decided to put a cabin on the Ed
na-Earl. It's being built by Roy
Barbour.
If you doubt that Sunday's rodeo
had much attraction Value, consider
this: Will Arrington was there!
When Roy Eubanks is tired o I
sloshing around in his dark room
printing pictures, he might hang
this sign on the darkroom door be
fore he starts homeward: "Good
Night Sweet Prints."
Thought for th? Day
When you help aomeone up bill,
you find yourself closer to the top.
Men art like steal? when they
low their temper they lose their
warth. '
is often set with diamonds both in
rings and in other jewelry.
The tourmaline, which in history
had the power to dispel (ears and
melancholia, is found in almost ev
ery color, including dark green,
pink, red, blue, violet and brown.
Mined in Brazil and Madagascar, it
is versatile in its uses for jewelry.
Particularly pleasing for a man's
ring is a deep red tourmaline,
known as rubelite.
Stamp News
By SYD KRONISH
BRAZIL has issued a new stamp
for its Boy Scout encampment held
in Sao Paulo this year. The 1.20
cruizeiros blue adhesive pictures a
Boy Scout. In the background are
tents of the encampment.
The first railroad train in South
America chugged along at a very
slow speed. It ran 54 miles from
the mining town of Copiapo to its
port, Caldero, on the Chilean coast.
The year was 1851.
To commemorate the 100th an
niversary of the occasion, Chile has
issued two new stamps.
The stamps also were late arriv
ing. The dates 1851-1931 are en
graved on each.
The 10 centavos violet and 1 peso
red show a picture of the first lo
comotive on the line.
Austria has issued a special
stamp honoring the Second Inter
national Congress for Catholic
Church Music, reports Edwin Muel
ler. The meeting will be held in
Vienna from Oct. 4 to Oct. 10. The
design depicts the great organ of
the monastery of St. Florian in Up
per Austria. A trumpet ? playing
cherub is In the foreground. The
1 schilling adhesive is red brown.
ated will be issued Oct. 22. It will
be released at SL Louis, Mo., on
the occasion of the annual conven
tion and exhibition of the Ameri
can Philatclic Congress.
Collectors desiring first day can
cellations may send money orders
to the Postmaster at SL Louis, Mo.,
prior to that date.
A special sports set honoring the
2nd Polish Olympic Games has
been lasued by Poland, reports the
New York Stamp Co. The 25 groa- <
zy violet depicts a fencing match.
The 00 gr brown and 1.55 iloty blue
green ?how ? man and woman
throwing the Javelin. The 00 gr
ultra marine plcturea a gymnast on '
the ban. The 1 iloty blue illua
tratca a race.
To commemorate the official ria
it of Cardinal Puna, official le
gate of Pope Pius XII, Brail haa
iasued a new stamp. The Cardinal
came to Rio de Janeiro on Au?. Ill
The 4.20 cruzeiros orange stamp
be*? ? portrait of the Cardinal.