CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
Carteret County'* Newsyepw
EDITORIALS TUESDAY, FEB. ?, 19S5
Tar Heel Gl Bill
New definition for North Carolina ?
place where retired Army colonels are
put out to pasture, and get paid to boot.
Now North Carolina's ports program
has its third raiired Army colonel, a di
rector of commerce. We haven't met
the gentleman who may, indeed, be a
charming individual. But we, and a lot
of other folks have been asking just
how a retired artillery colonel fits into
ports, commerce and transportation?
According to the newsstories, the
new gentleman, Stephen S. Koszewski,
was apparently selected by Richard S.
Marr (retired Army colonel), who is
director of the state ports. Colonel
Marr has lamented on several occasions
that he has been unjustly treated by
elements in the two port cities, More
head City and Wilmington, so he un
doubtedly feels it imperative to move up
the artillery.
If he needs protection on another
flank, he may call in another of the
Army fraternity, equally unachooled in
ports and commerce. Evidently the idea
is to look after the boys wearing the old
school tie.
Whether they're qualified for the job
seems to be a minor matter. After all,
the colonels apparently reason, these
are state government jobs and the idea
must be about the same as the federal
GI bill of rights ? Earn While You
Learn.
The North Carolina ports program
seems to rest on how fast these retired
Army gentlemen learn ? and whether
the state can afford to run its training
program to the tune of $8,000 or more
a year per colonel.
Waterways - - Neglected Stepchildren
Resident!) of eastern North Carolina
can play an active part in the project
to improve waterways. The investment
required is a few minutes to write a
letter and 3 cents for a stamp. The re
turn on that investment, if enough peo
ple cooperate, is a more profitable fish
ing industry.
The thousands of dollars now going
into repair of boats damaged in shal
low waters and the costly time lost in
boats taking circuitous deep-water
routes, would become dollars in the
pockets of fishermen and businessmen.
Especially should the fisherman take
it upon himself to write Congressman
Graham Bardcn and Senators Sam
Ervin and Kerr Scott relative to the
deeping of eastern Carolina waterways.
The North Carolina Fisheries Asso
ciation, a group of men engaged in the
fishing industry, last week recommend
ed that Wallace Channel and Ocracoke
Inlet be deepened. Those two water
ways are the gateway to the greatest
commercial fishing area in the stale.
Large numbers of commercial boats,
86 to 150 feet in length and 15 to 300
gross tons, which use these waterways
?fe finding "the bottom too close to the
top," as one Beaufort operator termed
it. Damage to underwater gear and
costs of salvage after running aground
cost, last year, an estimated $100,000.
Loss of revenue due to the inlet and
channel being closed to larger boats is
also estimated at $100,000. Aside from
Beaufort Inlet, which is far removed
from the best fishing grounds, there is
no safe waterway from the ocean to in
side waters between Southport, N. C.,
and Norfolk except Ocracoke Inlet and
Wallace Channel.
The trawler fleet using those two
passages is growing larger each year.
Most of the menhaden boats are too
large to traverse those passageways
safely. An operator of a menhaden
fleet and plant says that restricted use
of Wallace Channel and Ocracoke Inlet
can reduce the value of the menhaden
catch during a normal season from 40
to 50" per cent. That could mean a loss
as high as a million dollars annually.
Likewise, the trawler industry suffers.
While Ocracoke Inlet and Wallace
Channel are deemed the most in need
of deepening, other North Carolina
waterways in want of maintenance are
Beaufort harbor and Taylor's Creek,
Pellstier Creek, and the following in
lets: Oregon, Ocracoke, Bogue, New
River, Masonboro, Drum and Barden.
While fishermen are the ones direct
ly affected by this need for waterway
improvement, everyone in eastern Caro
lina is indirectly affected by the eco
nomic status of the fishing industry. It
would be appropriate for each one of
us to write our representatives in Wash
ington now, requesting their support of
North Carolina's waterway improve
ment projects.
Two Year Old
; . (From Greensboro Daily News)
He' who has not been father to a two
year old has been spared many of life's
trials but he has also missed many joys.
The two year old is a number of
things calculated alternately to infuri
ate and charm. He is a great spiller of
milk, concealer of bath tub stoppers,
climber of cabinets, marker of , walls and
puller down of books.
His sense of timing is diabolical. He
waits until an important telephone con
versation is begun to start his drum con
cert. Some fiend tells him when his
parents plan an outing (sans two year
old ) and triggers his tears.
This sense of timing carriers over and
dombines with a marvelous know-hofc
of public relations. He knows how to
inflect "Hi Daddy" with a tone of inno
cence to forestall a spanking. And in
the super market he knows just the
smile to debase staid old ladies into
admiring, simpering fools.
The two year old understands the
importance of proper table manners
and knows that their keystone is a re
liance on the spoon rather than fingers
for placing food in the mouth. With
complete confidence in the correctness
of his behavior, then, he loads the food
upon the spoon with his fingers and
transports it to his lips with the aplomb
of Emily Post.
Life, in fact, for the two year old is
just plain full. He has conquered
enough of his environment to feel se
cure and yet there are enough strange
objects cluttering his hbrizons to excite
his imagination. <
Included among his conquests, of
course, are his parents. They make good
servants. His grandparents serve him
as acolytes.
But like all successful monarchs and
minor deities, he knows that to reign
he must reward service. This he does
through a number of devices : the heart
felt thanks for being allowed to open a
form letter, the kiss composed of one
part saliva to three parts enthusiasm
and by looking on occasion just a little
like his father.
In this way, the two-year-old rules
his little kingdom until his third birth
day when he finds new values in his
life and his parents lose their adored
tyrant.
A man usually considers it a food
Sunday sermon when ht feels the min
ister didn't refer directly to him.
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Cartoret County N?ws-Tim*s
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TAKING A BACK SEAT
Jerry Schumacher
Just 6,000 Gallons Short , Captain
Capt. Bill Styron had a heart
breaker the other day. A 250-foot
car ferry tied up to his dock and
needed some fuel. Now this time
of the winter customers at the Gulf
Marine dock are Jew and far be
tween.
Well, anyway, the captain said
Jerry
fill her up. Bill
hoping for a
good sale said,
"How much will
she hold. Cap
la i n ?M 15.000
gallons, was Ihe
answer! The
best Captain Bill
could get to
gether was 9,000
gallons, the
most gallorlage
he's ever put in one boat and proo
ably one of the biggest fuel oil
sales ever made on the inland
waterway. Well, it couldn't hap
pen to a nicer guy.
George Wallace has a new pair
of fancy slippers. He explains them
like this, "They are just like walk
ing barefooted! with something on
your feet."
Capt. Julian Willis of Atlantic,
captain of the trawler Clay haul
ed In three sturgeon, each weigh
ing around 1,000 pounds. In fact
two of the monsters weighed with
in 3 pounds of each other.
According to my old timey water
front experts, sturgeon are rather
rare around here, especially that
size.
....
Sturgeon, up north, is a very ex
pensive fish, and furthermore,
caviar is derived from the roe. Cap
tain Willis ought to have enough
ready money to buy a few plugs
of tobaccy this winter.
The old studio is froze up tighter
than a tick this morning, all the
pipes are frozen solid, not even
enough water to ipix wjth the ne
cessities. Penny brushed her teefh
with coffee.
Did you hear about the Indian
named Chief Screaming Train
Whistle who wanted to. shorten his
name? The judge said, "OK, what
would you like?" The Chtef thought
a minute and said, "Toot?.'<
Ruth Peeling
Toastmasters - - Great Boys for Toast
I was fortunate enough to be in
vited to the Toastmasters meeting
Wednesday morning (I wasn't so
sure I was fortunate at 6 a.m. that
morning when the alarm when off).
I got there at the starting time, 7
o'clock, and what a meal those
boys pack away. Eggs, ham, grits,
toast, hotcakes and coffee. But it
didn't seem to bother the speech
makers. They got up and talked
with the greatest of ease.
I especially liked Cliff Lewis's
talk on the harmful effect of ciga
rettes. After drawing a picture of
all the horrendous things that can
happen to the nicotine addict, he
sat down and his first words were
"Gimme a cigarette."
Then there waa the lady at New
port who told the carpenter not to
worry about making places for
electrical outlets In the bedroom
she waa putting on her house be
cause the street light was right
outside the bedroom window.
Hearing of thoae three stills and
confiscated whisky during the put
couple weeks. I asked Marshall
Ayscue, ABC officer, what if was
all about ? did the proposed tax
increase on whisky, now being con
sidered by the legislature, have
anything to do with it?
Mr. Ayscue said that should the
tax on legal whisky be raised, that
will give the bootleg boys an op
portunity to raise their price and
they're getting ready for it.
Mrs. Robert Lee Humber, Green
ville, former state officer in the
American Association of University
Women, has suggested that a chap
ter of the AAUW be organiied
here.
The purpose of the AAUW is to
encourage high standards of edu
cation, support legislative programs
such as federal aid to education,
offer fellowship* to women scholars
and bring women from other coun
tries to study in America. The varl:
ous branches throughout the coun
try carry on programs suitable to
their locale, all in line with na
tional policy.
Only graduates of AAUW-ap
proved collegs - are eligible for
membership. Among the North
Carolina approved colleges are
Duke, East Carolina College,
Greensboro College, Meredith.
Queens College, Salem, University
of North Carolina and Woman's
College. Graduates of AAUW-ap
proved colleges ia Other states are
eligible for membership here, of
course. ' . ? ? .
Ten women are needed to start
an AAUW chapter. Mrs Humber
has suggested that ' college grad
uates who are interested contact
me. If sufficient interest ia shown,
Mrs. Humber said she will be glsd
to come here to speak to the group
and make further plana for organ
ization.
I can be contacted at THE
NEWS-TIMES office. 64173 or at
2-5041.
The Readers Writ*
PLAY BALL!
Feb. 3, IMS
To the Editor:
Looking through the Carteret
County NEWS-TIMES. I came
across the Broad Creek News and
it read, in part, that the baseball
players of Broad Creek met on Joe
Morton's field Sunday, Jan. 23, and
they wish to warn the local teams
snd fans to prepare themselves this
season with sun glasses, because
they were "plenty hot"
Looking at K kind of stunned. I
called Tye Frost, the rfd wheel
horse Sslter Path manager, and
asked him to take a look. Tye re
marked. "Gosh! this is nice of
%huck Hall and Bobby Webb, to
advise us in time."
Then Tye turned to Irvtn Smith
snd Uncle George and asked them
what they thought of that remark.
Well, Uncle George said. Why
I've got the answer to that I win
Just put in an order at ooce (or a
couple hundred pair of sun ' glasses
for our players snd fans and that
will take care of that." Then Tye
remarked, "Was moat certain you
had the answer. You always have
k when we aet in trouble."
We are all looking forward to
this season aa lots of fnit and pleaa
ure. We do hope the boys from
Broad Creek will make good this
season snd we believe they win un
der Hall and Webb's management
They had bad luck in' the peat
and we trsty hope (hey win com
through this ttaae. With beet wishes
and kindest re garde. and luck to yo?
alL . ,
. Salter Falfe Ball Clnh
A chrysantheatuai by any otter
mm would be eeaier to spell.
Downy Woodpecker Likes
Orchards, Leafy Trees
PwWy tat' at the best kaown
of *U orchard. street-tree, feedlng
?tation birds is Um downy wood
pecker. a smaller relative of our
anil I a mi |ka haln, ? ? ?
suojeci mc najry wooapecuci
When one rewiAers that hair is
longer thai down. It is easy to
remnnkar Unt the hairy weedpeck
er la longer than the downy wood
packer, i hairy woodpecker qpy
be to 10H inches lanf while a
downy is only about 7 inches long
Both are essentially black and
white birds. Each has white outer
tail feathers though those of the
downy may ha faintly barred or
marked with black spots while
those of the hairy lack such mark
lags. In each of these birds the
male differs conspicuously from
the female by having a red spot
at the back of the head or the nape
but the matter of siie should ordin
ariiy be enough of a character to
establish the proper Identity.
Hairy woodpeckers like their re
latives are for the most part bark
gleeaers. They do not ordinarily
seek ants on the ground as do the
flickers nor do they ordinarily
pursue insects in flight as do the
red woodpecker. Instead they at
tend strictly to business and that
business Is the removal of insects
in the bark and dead wood of trees.
Tbey have neither the vigor nor
the implements with which to com
pete successfully with the pileated
woodpeckers in this connection but
they do their best and they are to
be found where the larger pile
ateds are not to be found. Without
tbeai. the insects that attack the
dead wood in orchards would have
a field day. Without such dead
wood the woodpeckers would be
likely to seek it elsewhere
There are 13 subspecies of hairy
woodpeckers ranging from Alaska
to Newfoundland and south to
Florid* and lower California. They
are resident birds perfectly' able
to aurvive la either winter oi^om
mer and therefor find It unnaces
aary to go to the trouble of mifrat
lat
The neat ii built in ? hole in
a dead tree trunk or branch. The
entrance ia about 2 inchea acraa
and the depth of the neat holo
about M inches Uaually the neat
Downy Woodpecker
if from S to 90 feet above the
ground. In the nest the female lays
3 to 3 shining white, inch-long
eggs. These are incubated for 14
days by both parenta. Care of the
young is shared by the parents,
too, and while the young do not
cloaely resemble the adults at first
they soon do so. There is usually
but one brood a year.
Careful studies of the food habits
of hairy woodpeckers indicate that
over 14 of the food is inaects in
cluding grasshopers, hairy cater
pillars, gypsy moths and ants as
well as the wood boring insects
which they are eminently fitted to
catch. The remainder of the food
is vegetable matter including nuts
and seeds.
The individual range of a hairy
woodpecker is only a few acres if
suitable food and nesting sites are
available. These birds will nest in
suitable boxes, will visit feeding
stations supplied with suet and
will generally please those who
must study their birds from inside
a house..
? - E. Laurence Palmer
In the Good Old Days
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Q. H. Whjtehurst of Straits was
appointed county commissioner,
succeeding J: Wesley Smith who
had died.
Beaufort would be asked to vote
on a school bond issue next month.
A new building was needed and
I he proposed site was the block
between Cedar and Broad, Live
Oak anil Man,h Streets.
SUte Fisheries Commissioner J.
A. Nelson was cooperating with
the U. S. Bureau of FKberiei to
outfit menhaden boats for trawl
fishing.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
The blackfish boat and her crew
of five came Into the harbor Fri
day after battling high winds and
sou for 48 hours. Price and John
Johnson. George Garner, Robert
Hudgint and Gene Springle were
the crew.
Hancock-Huntley Co. was sold
to W. H. Taylor and Duncan *
Willis Co. waa sold to Sam Lipnian
and Son of New Born.
E. D. Martin m Beaufort was
advertising a sale. Gingham was
3 cents a yard, silk dresses from
M-M to $14.05 and men's work
shirts for 89 cents were some of
the bargains
TEN YEARS AGO
Beaufort's .school was destroyed
by (ire early Sunday morning.
Beaufort town commissioners
passed the rat control ordinance
and then nullified it by not pro
viding the 12.000 of Beaufort's
share of $5,000 for the rat con
trol program.
The water supply of Beaufort
was again pure after having been
contaminated when the water from
the channel was pumped into the
town water mains to help fight
the school fire.
FIVE YEARS AGO
County commissioners, at the re
quest of Wiley H. Taylor Jr., con
veyed for public usage 1,000 feet
of property from the bridge on
Turner Street to the F. R. Bell
tract, to the town of Beaufort. Mr.
Taylor said town authorities hoped
to dredge out th? area for small
fish boats.
James B. Rumley was appointed
Beaufort town commissioner to
fill the vacancy left when OrvUle
GaskiU resigned.
Shrimpers had discovered new
shrimping grounds off the Florida
Keys.
Sou'easter
The Two Kelly* have been miss
lnf their newspapers -a lot recently.
A dog has been carrying them off.
Whose dog, what dog, what kind
of dog, they didn't know.
The mystery solved itself the
other day when a neighbor saw the
dotf, a fine collie dog walk up on the
Kelly porch and take a quart of
milk.
Happy aa a lark over his achieve
ment, be trotted off home ? to Al
bert Chappell's bouse.
Haiti did on* good turn for
Geerie. Taylor. It ripped down the
ugly billboard near his home.
I'm glad to be up and about
again. 1 can see and hear more on
my feet Saw a funny one the other
day. A motorist parked where
there- Was no parking meter. Dur
ing hia abaence a meter waa in
stalled in front of his car.
When the motorist returned
there was a parking ticket on his
car. He dMnt think it waa funny.
(
1 suppose they may have been
Today's Birthday
Myron McCormick, born r?b.
B, 1908, in Albafqr, Ind. The stage
ratjie -and fHm jactor appeared Id
SS Broadway
straight dramat
ic productions
ll 1 |K W A
Mint aOlOC
comedy part la
the succeiaful
muaMal. South
Pacific. He
Made hit profw
?tooal debut In
la 1M0 as a
member at the
unmmty fUyen. At pruwMoai,
otwi' In mm ?l?*ad Phi B?u
K?*M. h? ptrtwd In triM|te
ihowa with Jote r?T?r, till
- - - * ? -A ? *L * -t-at-.
sitwin ana otncr lUDocquemiy
ffHwif pereomlllies.
necessary it the game but it never
seemed so. Anyway, ill the Beau
fort police were there.
So far as I know none of them
was needed anywhere else during
the time, which points up the fact
that Beaufort ia really a law-abid
ing community. For the moat part
all the police could sleep away
most of the day.
A truck driver who was hauling
clay backed hia truck too far over
the dump hole. The load slid back
ward. and the weight of it lilted
the front end of the truck several
feet off the ground.
"What are you going to do now?"
asked a bystander.
"Well, sir," said the driver, con
sidering his predicament. "1 guess
111 greaae It. I'll never have a
better chance."
America by 1075
The Printing Industry of Ameri
ca is looking forward to a 1975 con
sumer market of some $3.5 billions.
Thia contrails with consumer sales
volume of |MT millions in 1B29
and $2.1 billions la 1952.
Here again ia another example
of expanding population which,
with increasing productivity, leads
to a (rawing economy ? and points
the way to an even higher standard
of living.
Individual purchaaea of books,
magazine*, newspapers and other
periodicals have Increased with the
yean ? from marly seven dollars
par pereeo (an average figure) in
1*29 to over thirteen dollars this
year. By 1(79, individual buying
of reading matter should reach
aeventaan dollar* per parson.
As a result of the increased use
?f printed material, plus the rapid
stride* of formal education, Amert
Cwill be a more literate people
aver before.