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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES Cartarat Couaty'i Nawspapar EDITORIALS TUESDAY, FEB. 1, 1955 i i ? i~-~? ? ? - How Trouble Could Start That Leonard Goodwin didn't lose his life in the oyster boat bombing in Pam lico Sound last weet does not minimize the fact that extreme danger evidently exists when pilots from Cherry Point take off on practice bombing missions. Goodwin, alone on his oyster boat, was rescued Wednesday after 22 hours aboard his nearly-submerged craft in Pamlico Sound. The boat sank after a bomb scored a direct hit on it. The bomb fell from a plane making a run on a target about seven miles away. Incidents such as this are rare and Cherry Point authorities explain it by saying that a hung smoke bomb prob ably broke free from the plane carrying it. Accident or not, it does little to bet ter relations between fishermen and the military. Things have been going along all right recently but there was quite a hassle several years ago about target areas and fishing grounds. Fishermen claimed that some of their best oyster ing grounds were being used for target practice. Changes were made and things settled, apparently to the satis faction of both groups. Fishermen have to make their living and the military has to practice bomb ing, but if any more incidents such as this occur, there will be, no doubt, an other crisis between the two parties in volved. * Since the Goodwin incident, another fisherman reported that on the very day that Goodwin waa rescued a plane de liberately dived at his boat and released a bomb. That is a bit difficult to be lieve. Maybe pilots get bomb-happy but we doubt if a pilot would wantonly practice his skill, in peacetime, on a defenseless fisherman; We are confident that Marine Corps authorities will take all measures to see that such incidents don't occur again. Oystering and other activities connect ed with fishing are back-breaking enough without making the fishermen dodge bombs too. Cruises Need Backing The desire of five North Carolina or ganizations to make convention cruises in 1954 was an important factor in the Stockholm's sailing from Morehead City Jast fall. That and the Morehead City port manager's avid interest and work toward making the cruises possible re sulted in the Allen Travel Service bring ing the Stockholm here. 'If organizations don't want to take cruises, operation of a passenger liner from North Carolina ports is economi cally impracticable. There are not enough individuals in this area or in sur rounding states ready to book passage on a passenger ship leaving this state. Cruises from North Carolina, prefer ably Morehead City, could be promoted and may become routine in future years, but at present a travel agency needs the backing of organized North Carolina groups to make sailing from this state profitable. ' Allen Travel Service says that unless the North Carolina Realtors and Seeds men decide to take convention cruises, the Stockholm's contemplated sailing from Wilmington may be cancelled. That shows how building of ports, in one way, is everybody's business and not just the job of a port manager, ex porter or importer. Convention cruising offers an A-l op portunity for North Carolina folks to back their ports. This state has a lot of ^ organizations with members financially able to go on cruises. And when we run out of North Carolina organizations, there are those in adjoining states to the west. For our money, Morehead City is the ideal cruise port. The head of the Allen Travel Service, H. H. Allen himself, said he prefers to run cruises from here. Morehead City has a port closer to Ber muda than any other on the Atlantic seaboard. It has the facilities to make a cruise successful from other standpoints. The cruises in 1965, if there are any, evidently will start at Wilmington. This is a disappointment to Morehead City folks. But Mr. Allen has to run his business to suit his customers and his pocketbook. We only hope that North Carolina folks will want to take convention cruises in the future and that the Allen Travel Service, or other travel agencies, will look with favor upon Morehead, the efficient and friendly port city. Shoplifters in Mink (From Greensboro Daily News) Shoplifters cost the average customer 15 cento a week in the suburban supei marketo, writes Kays Gary in the Char lotte Observer. And all the shoplifters aren't poor, as a groceryman's story makes clear: Brother, there are minks who will knock themselves out to pocket a tube of toothpaste or put a can of sardines in the purse that smells of Chanel No. 6. I guess with them, it's a symbol of the excitement they don't have in their own lives. Why, just last Friday a gentleman, one of our best customers for years, was caught shoving a jar of soluble coffee in his shirt. He knew he was caught when he looked up and saw a clerk star ing at him. He walked around the other side of the counter and slipped it back into a stock of other canned goods. But he won't come back. A still greater menace are the "wholesale boys" who throw several hams into an open box and plop an other box on top of the goods and inside the first container. "Golly," the man ager told Gary, "we had one man walk right through the checker's stand with boxes like that, asking if he could have them. Of course she told him it waa all right. But she noticed he was having considerable trouble with extremely light boxes. We caught-him outside the store." Now that Mr. Gary has exposed the shoplifting business in food, we cer tainly will watch more closely the next time we meander through the super market. Is the old gentleman with a pot belly really secreting a Smithfield ham? What is the shady purpose of those trunk-size ladies' pocketbooks which carry everything from diapers to dolls? Is the lady fumbling for a handkerchief or a can of Hormel? But really, Kays, we had rather be lieve, in this winter season, that most shoplifters are hungry, like Jean Val jean, and not women in mink stealing for the cheap thrill of it. ' A Beginning . . . In county school* next year there will be 349 students of legal age to drive cars and 424 students who will be 16. And none will have a trained driver to Instruct them in the rules of the road or operation of a ear. But the Statfe Department of Public Instruction is offering free driver-train ing courses for high school teachers. (See story page 1). We hope several county teachers will take the course and dpen the way for ? county-wide driver education program. Carteret County N?wf-Tim?s WINNER OF NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARDS A Merger of The Beaufort New. (Eat. 1IU) tad Tba Twin CHf TUnea (Id MM) Publtobed Tuaadayt and Friday* by th? Carteret PahliaUas Oaapaay, Inc. _ 90* Areadell St, Marehead City. N. & LOCEWOOD PHILLIPS - PURLISHER ELEANORS DEAR PHILLIPS - ASSOCIATE PUBLISHES RUTH L. PEELING ? EDITOR Hail Rate*: b Carteret County and adjoiainf counties, WOO ?m year, *J0 tlx mootha. BH month; alMwIwrt ftJMam year, HOP ate ?tatb. $LSO one mouth. Member of Aaaodatod Praai ? Oreatar WaeUka ? N. C. Preaa Aaaodatioa Nattoaal Edttarill Aaaodatioa ? A adit Bureau W Clrnllliai The iaiiWH Preaa fc laUUH exctaaively ta aw far mtoHnUia rf total im prtotod la tMa ???amir, aa well at all AP mnm di^ttehoa. I a* Mum am Matter at Mwifcul CMp. N. C, Padar Aal * Hareh S. 1S7S. ? ? i ? ' ? THl RUFFIAN'S BODYGUARD Diary Kept by Union Soldier Tells Of Events in This Locale During War PART 10 By F. C. SALISBURY THE YEAR 1865 Jan. 1 ? The first day of another year dawns unpleasantly upon the command, the members of which, having no confidence in the ability of the commander . of the post, feel that the expedition had been a "wild goose chase" and barren of results. Jan. S ? Embarking on the steamer Helen yesterday we reach ed the Neuse River and late to night steamed into Newbern, dis embarking at an early hour next morning. Reached our old stamp ing grounds at Carolina City by noon. Jan. 21 ? Lieutenant J. E. Mc Dougall of Company A, acting quartermaster at Beaufort was uniMd in marriage to Miss R. K. Johnston of that place. Jan. 24 ? Colonel Stewart as sumed command of the troops in Beaufort. Feb. 2 ? Four companies of the Ninth with three days' rations proceeded to Newport where they joined a cavalry and howitzer com pany, where a start was made for the Adams Creek section, a dis tance of thirty-one miles, the troop3 arriving by dark. Feb. 3 ? This section had been reported infested with guerrillas and deserters, whom it was de sirable to capture, kill or disperse. A tiresome and fruitless raid was made on Hard's Island. A weari some night was spent with nothing occuring to relieve the monotony. Sunday found the Ninth back in camp' attending religious* services. Feb. 22 ? Birthday anniversary of him who was "first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen," in honor of which salutes were fired at Fort Macon. March 3 ? Busy day. Orders for preparing three day's rations. Tents taken down and knapsacks, surplus stores and luggage packed and removed to Beaufort for stor age. Would the Ninth ever again occupy this tenting ground, whose memories were so dear, was a question that none could solve. Here the men of the Ninth hpd spent their pleasantest days in the service. The next* day found the troops in Ruth P? ling Newborn ready for further orders. From this time until the surren der of General Lee the Ninth with various other regiment* took part in the battles of Kinston, Golds boro and were at Raleigh when Johnston surrendered to Sherman. April 30 The Ninth was in spected and mustered today, after which a squad took train for Beaufort to procure the knapsacks of the men and the luggage of the officers, together with the camp and garrison equipment. July 22 ? After serving as po lice patrol and assisting in estab lishing civil magistrates, the Ninth was formally mustered out of ser vice today and all surplus ord nance. together with the camp and garrison equipage turned over to the proper government officials. There is nothing now left of the Ninth New Jersey, except its brilliant history and its glorious record of four years of service. Morehead City was less than four years old when the Federal forces invaded the to>vn and county lead ing up to the battle and capture of Fort Macon in April 1862. The promoters of the settlement had received its charter in 1858. and in October of that year opened a land sale office under the title of the Shepard Point Land Com pany. A little over a year before the invasion, Feb. 20, 1861, the town had received its certificate of incorporation, Bridges Arendell Jr., being named as mayor, Davis S. Jones. J. W. Collins and Wm. H. Cunninggim Jr., as commis sioners. Population of the town at the outbreak of the war was estimated at about 200, for the first census in 1870 gives the population as 270. From a sketch made in 1862, during the battle of Fort Macon, a view from the upper porch of the Macon House at the corner of 9th and Arendell Streets shows that considerable building had taken place about the center of the new town. In the foreground on 9th Street stands a house built by Anthony Wade, later known as the Alex Webb home. Two brick houses had been built, one by Silas Webb, a one-story structure which stood on the present site of the Matthews block. The other brick house stood on the corner where the Wallace home is located. Next to the corner house stood the first wooden school building erected in the town. The Macon House had been built and was being operated by Tom Hall. Being a staunch Confederate, he is said to have objected strongly against the Federal forces taking over the hotel as headquarters for the various officers of the sev eral regiments encamped at Caro lina City, ft was in this hotel that General Grant was entertained when he came to Morchead City to confer with General Butler over the plan of battle resulting in the capture of Fort Fisher. The school building as well as several homes about the town were used for hospital purposes. Joseph Royal purchased the school build ing after the close of the war, converting it into a residence, lfis son Fred recalls that while clean ing the walls of the building he found many names written there by sick soldiers, among which were thoses of members of the Ninth New Jersey as well as other regi ments. The late Allen C. Davis, who was a youth in his early teens at the outbreak of the war, could relate many interesting happen ings of those days. Even at an early age he had an eye for business. His mother would bake small pies of various kinds for which young Allen found ready sale among the "Yanks." He vividly recalled the battle of Fort Macon. How he stood across the street from the school building and watched a signal corps soldier from the upper porch of the building signal to the forces on. Bogue Banks to give the gun ners the proper range of their guns to play on the Fort. Few building are standing in Morehead City today that passed through those three years of the war period which the historian of the Ninth New Jersey has so interestingly described. The history of the Ninth New Jersey Veteran Volunteers from which these facts haye been taken are from an uncopyrighted book published in 1880 by Capt J. Madi son Drake, Eliubeth, N. J. ' The End Re-Zoning Will Probably be Shelved It is unlikely that any official action will be taken on the request to re-ione the aouth side of front Street from Queen to Pollock for commercial use. The town board in December asked that the planning board make a recommendation regarding the change and if they favored a commercial lone, state what type of buildings could be placed on docks. I spoke with a member of the planning board a couple weeks ago becauae no recommendation from the planning board waa presented at the January town board meet ing. The planning board evidently doesnt want to touch the thing with a 10-foot pole. They recom mended more than a year ago that the section be re-toned commercial ly and people in the area raised a hullabaloo. Therefore nothing waa done. Planning board personnel aay that the town board ha? to take final action cm what they recom mend. 80 they feel that the town board may ah well make the .de cision and leave the planning hoard out of It Not all of the town commtaainp ers are in favor of the re-zoning. But if It came to a vote I believe the majority would vote to re-zone. Re-toning would require a public hearing. The zoning law requires auch. There is a good likelihood that at the publii; hearing the citizens would say no to re-zoning. So, if the town board takes no action, it will probably be due to the fact that they think there's no use jet ting everybody stirred up and mad at each other If, In the end. the change they favor will not come about. The state of Pennsylvania has a Democratic governor for the first time in 30 years. He hails from my home county of York. A poultry farmer, he comes from the good, solid Pennsylvania Dutch country to bead one of the nation's greatest Industrial states. The leader of the Keystone State, he is probably the first governor in history whose last name indi cate* his position ? George M. Leader. Only 37 years of age, he's Pennsylvania's second youngest governor. An York County got into the act at the Inauguration Jan. 18. Even Charlie Markey's hometown, Hed Lion, had a float in the parade at Harrisburg. v The governor took hit oath in a specially-built glass enclosed In augural stand in front of the State Capitol. The atand. reportedly built at a coat of 110,000, was the target of a blast from the state Republi can chairman who aaid it waa typi cal of Democratic apending . . . Governor Leader took his oath of office on a Bible given him by his wife when he entered the Navy it the start of World War II. Hia two sons. 9-year-old Mike and 5-year old Freddie witnessed the cere mony. The only member of the family who waa absent waa their 1 1 month-old .. sister . All Harrisburg waa decked out with specially built novelt* stands Wiling the usual array of buttons, flsgs and pennanta. A York paper reported that the proprietor of one, who apparently flunked In history, bad a good line of Confederate flags! Consider Thii The fellow who rocks the boat is mw Mm fallow at the oars. Exemptions Provide Best Device for Cutting Tax PART ? By FRANK O'BRIEN Your exemption* are the biggest single tax chopping device pro vided by the law. The new income tax law makei it possible to claim exemption* in several circum stances formerly not allowed. Every exemption you have acts aside (exempt*) <600 of your in come, making it tax free. Since the amount for each ex emption i* so large, the rules about who may and who may not be claimed as an exemption are pre cise and rigid. But you are fully entitled to all the exemptions due you under the law. Thi* article is aimed at telling you exactly what exemption* you may claim. There are three types of ex emptions: 1. For you. and, if you file a joint return, your wife or husband. 2. For your children. S. For others. The new 19M tax code liberal ized the rules under which child ren and others may be claimed as exemptions But let's take up the rules for the three types of exemptions in the order listed above, because that is the order in which they occur on your tax form. 1. You and your spouse: The taxpayer always gets at least one exemption. If you were 65 or over during 1!>54, you get two exemptions for yourself. If you were 65 or over, and blind, you get three exemptions. You get exactly the samp exemptions for your wife, or husband, if you are filling jointly. Thus, a couple filing a joint return could get a maximum of six exemptions for themselves. Blindness, for the purpose of taxpaying is: ? Total blindness, meaning no sight at all, unable to tell light from darkness. A statement claim ing total blindness must be at tached to the return of the sight less. ? Partial blindness sufficient for an additional exemption. This is defined as no more than 20/200 vision in the best eye with cor recting lenses, or width of vision not exceeding 20 degrees. Returns claiming extra exemptions for blindness when seme sight exists must be accompained by a state ment by a qualified physician or a registered optometrist stating that the vision does not exceed these limits. 2. Children: You get one exemption for each Captain H*nry of your children, within certain limits. Children include step children and legally adopted child ren. One of the new tax law provis ions allows you (or the first time to claim foster children. The pr? viaion, aimed especially at foster children but written to include others aUo. is: You may claim as an exemption anyone, even if not related to you, whose home was your home and who was a member of your house hold, and who received less than $600 income in 1954 and got over half support from you. Previously, the law limited you to claiming children as an ex emption only if the child (what ever his age) had income during the tax year of less than MOO and received half his support from you. The new law liberalized this provision. Now (with restrictions to follow) you may: Claim an exemption for your child regardless of how much the child earns if he is under 19 years of age. You may also claim your child as an exemption, even if he earns more than $600 and is 19 year* old or over, if the child is a student. The restrictions: You may claim the exemption only if the child gets over half his support from you. (But you need not count the value of a scholarship as part of the child's support ) The second restriction applies to married children. They may not be claimed as exemptions when they arc party to a joint return. Also, the child must be a citi zen or resident of the United States, or a resident of Canada, Mexico, the Republic of Panama, or the Canal Zone. In the case of children who arc residents of the Philippines and were born to servicemen or adopted by service men, you will need expert person al advice. A student is defined in the tax law as a full time pupil, for at least five months of the tax year, at a regular educational institu tion, or a person who is engaged in on-farm training, in a program of a state or a political subdivis ion of a state, such as a county, 3 Others: On page 5 of the instructions booklet that came with your tax forms, you will find a list of per See EXEMPTIONS, Page J. Sec. 2 Sou'easter Ma Taylor has gotten the tele vision but;. She has a fine outfit, tower and all and watches the shows every day and night. She takes 'em all in, fights and every thing. And her son George has become a most dutiful son. Calls on her every night now. And what do you suppose he does? Sits absolutely quiet looking at television. He won't say a word. And he won't let anyone else say a word. Can you imagine George being quiet? Speaking of St. Paul's ... its rector, the Rev. Jimmie Dees, has left and a bouquet of some kind is in order for Gray Hassell, the lay reader. He's conducting services and prcaching the sermon. His first ser mon was a super duper. Short and to the point. Took 12 minutes. When complimented on it, both for its content and for its length Gray replied that he'd keep trying hard on the contents, but weak or strong, would hold his sermons to 12 minutes. The publisher's son, Lockwood, lying in bed the other morning asked his father to get him a glass of water. Father, who 1 have no ticed is a soft touch for those kids of his. dutifully complied. Lockwood took the glass of water. Drink it? No! He poured a good part of it on his teddy bear's face and said: "Wake up. It's time to get up!" Looking at the fine Morehrad City financial report in THE NEWS TIMES Friday I got to won dering about the finances of Beau fort. Nobody's heard . anything about them for so long that it be gins to make a taxpayer really wonder. I'm about over my bout with flu and hope to get around some thil week. This business of being con fined to the house is no fun. In the Good Old Doys THIRTY YEARS AGO Coutny Sunday Schools were to hold a convention tn Morehead City this coming week. U. E. Swann was elected presi dent; D. M. Jones, vice-president; Joseph House, second vice-presi dent and J. P. Betts secretary treasurer of the Beaufort Chamber of Commerce. Pender's was advertising tub butter at 47 cents a pound, print butter at SO cents a pound and cof fee at 39 cents a pound. TWENTY -FIVE YEARS AGO Mr. James G. Whitehurst of Beaufort had joined the Beaufort Today's Birthday William Clark Gable, born Feb. 1. 1901, in Cad it, Ohio. The famous icior na? orrn I top box-office attraction for 24 yean but once wai rejected by a studio because "hi? eara were too big." Hit farorlte fllma have been; "It Happened One VJffht" fAcxIn. my Award). "San Francisco," "Gone With the Wind.'' "Boom Town," "Teat Pilot" ?nd "Mogam bo." His diversions are travel, fiah ing and good female companion ahip. News staff as reporter and adver tising salesman. Earl Webb of Morehead City was building a two story brick office building at the corner of Evan* and 6th Streets. The Annis. blackfish boat, was unable to come into harbor be cause of a severe storm, and the Coast Guard had been alerted to look for her. TEN YEARS AGO There was talk of erecting a three million dollar porpoise plant at Markers Island. Miss Kay Sewell, personnel clerk at the Marine Air Corps station, was commissioned brigadier gen eral in the Blue Star Brigade of women bond sellers at Cherry Point Beaufort Rotary joined Beaufort Jiycees.in asking that Broad Street be paved. FIVE YEARS AGO Mrs. D. G. Bell of Morehead City, president and founder of the Morehead City Woman's Club, waa honored at their meeting Thursday night. The Public Housing Authority allocated 40 housing units to Bean- - fort and SO to Morehead City un- . der the federal housing authority's . alum clearance program. John D. Young of Stolla, Alton J DeBlanc and George ft. Francfcs ; of Newport won cash prim tar * having the bait farm record books . In the Veterans Twining claaa a* |
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