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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES Carterat Countjr'i Newspaper EDITORIALS FRIDAY. JANUARY 13, 1956 They Set Their Own Trap Shed a tear for Virginia. It's the state we're talking about On Monday Virginians voted in favor of a state con stitutional convention. The purpose of the convention will be to rewrite the law so that pubiic money can be used for private schools, a proposal which would allow segregation to continue. North Carolina, wisely, has not blun dered into such a disastrous trap. Cer tain educators and officials of this state are considering plans whereby the spirit of the law can be followed, our ways of life continue and all children guaranteed an education as in the past. The important word to watch for in rulings adopted by southern colleges ? and perhaps in the future by the public schools ? will be the word "qualified" used to define those who shall be ad mitted. The Supreme Court says that no child may be barred from the public schools because of the color of the skin. The Supreme Court did not say that boards of education may not decide ? on the basis of IQ, place of residence, or certain other factors ? which school a child shall attend. Parents may apply for entry (under a plan being consider ed) to any school they wish. But if the child does not meet the requirements necessary, entry will not be granted. If the parents are not satisfied, they may appeal the decision. Even if Virginia's move is not inter preted by some as a lethal blow to free public school education, the cost of ad ministering such a program will fall heavily on the Virginia taxpayer. Segre gation is expensive, and the mess Vir ginia has just gotten itself into is going to be mighty costly ? not just from a money standpoint. It looks as though a lot of poor whites, as well as Negroes, are going to be denied the type educa tion that only free public schools can offer. Maybe North Carolina's contemplated program is not the best, but if it func tions properly, it will mean that less of the tax for education will go to top heavy administration and more to the business of giving all youngsters some schooling. If North Carolina's plan is effected, every citizen is morally obligated to see that the Negro schools in all sections of the state are brought on a par with the white schools. In some of the state's larger cities, the Negro schools are bet ter than white schools located in rural areas. But in most of the state, it can't be denied that the Negro schools are suffering from lack of facilities. They are separate, but not equal. Again, -w^ say, segregation is expen sive. But in this time and in this place, a choice has to be made. Someone has said that the opposite of segregation is disintegration. Socially and culturally, in the South, that is true ? what has happened in Virginia is the first indica tion, disii tegration of its pubic school system. North Carolina, somehow, has been blessed with a wisdom not found evi dently among most of its sister states. This public school problem is not some thing to be decided at the polls. It's something that our state educators can work out ? calmly and quietly ? for the good of both the white and Negro. The rush to obtain the new Presby terian College has turned into a stam pede. One governing board in this coun ty has already passed a resolution sup porting Kinston as the site ; another has formally recommended New Bern, and a couple civic organizations here have endorsed favorite sites. What's the mat ter with Merrimon? It's Not Wartime, But . . . During wartime, folks can't do enough to make the serviceman com fortable and happy. But once th? war is over, the boys who are still protect ing the nation by filling the ranks in our armed forces are usually left to get along as best they can. During the past week it has been bit terly cold. Stationed at points along the highway from west of Morehead City to the port have been Marine MP's di recting traffic bound for the port from Cherry Point. Unless a few sympathetic residents took tye boys a thermos bottle of hot coffee occasionally, no civic gesture was made to make the MP's chore more bearable. There's no USO here any more, but on occasians like this when the boys in Cherry Point are in this area, a civic organization could accept the responsibility of seeing that the fel lows on duty throughout town get some hot coffee once in a while. Some military experts may snort and call that molly-coddling, what with all the recent emphasis on "toughening up," even torture to get our men in fighting condition. But these MP's sta tioned in our area aren't here only to expedite the moving of military equip ment for the Caribbean maneuver. They're stationed at intersections to help protect civilian motorists and pe destrians. If they weren't here, someone would be raising a fuss before long because there wasn't adequate "police protec tion" during the military movement through Morehead City. And while we're on this subject of helping out the Marines, it makes our blood boil every time someone requests "additional" police protection because Marines "are living in our neighbor hood." The Marine settled down in a home with his fa re^ily is seldom the ojie to get into trMtfte.- Brt one <H ttie best citi zens ia cfttnrtiunity could have and the time has long past for this county and surrounding areas to wake up to the fact that we benefit tremendously from contact with military personnel. Forget the economic angle. There's a social contact which is important. Any section which fails to have people flowing through it ? people from other places ? ia stagnant. New ideas are seldom hit upon, living becomes dull because you come in contact with no body but the same old people with the same old prejudices. The wife of one of the Marines in this area, voluntarily and without pay, helped catalogue the Camp Glenn School library. Other Marine family members have joined our civic organi zations, helped in our churches and fitted well into community life. The Marine getting into trouble or ilito court is the one you always hear about. He's the minority and he makes news. Unfortunately, the Marine father who's, a good citizen, whose kids attend our schools, never makes the headlines. Our hat is off to them ? we think the boys standing duty' on our streets ought to be given a cup of hot coffee once in a while ? and we wish them all good luck on their war games in the Caribbean. Church of England, we note, fears sex is taking over as the "main driving force" of modern life. Have seats in the rear, Reverends, with the rest of the late-comers, where you won't disturb the audience. ? Greensboro Daily News Carteret County News-Times WINNER or NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARDS A Merger of The Beaufort Newt (Est. 1913) and The Twin City Time* (Eat 183*) Published Tueedays and Fridays by the Carteret Publishing Company, Inc. 304 Arendell St., Morehead City, N. C. LOCKWOOD PHILLIPS ? PUBLISHER ELEANORE DEAR PHILLIPS ? ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER RUTH L. PEELING ? EDITOR Hail Rates: In Carteret County and adjoining counties, H-OO one yesr, $3 90 six months, $1.28 one month; elaewhere >7.00 one year, >4 00 sl? months, $lfO one Math. Member ot Associated Press ? N. C. Press Association National Editorial Association ? Audit Bureau ot Circulations National Advertialng Representative Moran * Fischer, Inc. 280 Madiaon Ave., New York 17, N. Y. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to use lor republication e t local news printed In this newspeper, as well ss sU AP news dispatches. Entered sa Second Class Matter at Morehead Cttjr. N. C, Under Act al Kerch 1, tm . r ,, Tiir.Tf inrit .... . . . jaii.rnitu imrf'fflwnr l 6EHIN0THE SCENES t*i i hi i i i 1 1 1 i r r t li it > . Jerry Schumacher The Flu and I ? Lost Weakend' Having spent several days in bed with the flu and being thai I now feel OK excepting for a couple of rubber legs, I want you all to read what I wrote while under the influence of medicine, fever, or what have you. Now take the part about the doctor with a grain of salt, as my doc is the finest in the whole world, proves it cause here I am almost well again. Well, anyway the following was written when I was some kind of sick and sort of loony upstairs. Now is the time for all good men to comc to the rescue of the old man, Doy on boy am I sick. Don't know what I have ex cept that the chills I am hav ing shake the whole building worsern Hazel. I Started with i a sore throat, j which in turn went down in Jerry my lungs, it l ever had any, and now someone is beating on me with a sledge hammer clean down to my kid neys. Now the funny thing about me is as soon as I get sick I get a fever and with just one or two degrees I go completely off my rocker. Sing songs, make up poetry, hol ler and shout, sometimes funny and sometimes plain vulgar. Bless Penny's heart, she is so nice and considerate no matter how rough 1 get, she is always there with a soft, "It's going to be all right, darling." What a comfort to have the luck to have found a wonderful woman for your life partner. Sickness and trouble separate the girls from the women, don't they? Here comes an earth shaking chill, Woweeee, my choppers are going like motor-driven castanets. To show you how nutty I get when 1 am like this, I just ordered with some more medicine, a quart of ice eream, just makes me sick to think of it. You know doc ten are to wonder ful at times and ae horribly heart less at others. When the chips are down they will work the clock around to try to save some stricken soul, but for a guy with just the plain old flu and chills they have no sympathy. Real helpful, my Doctor said. "Now if you don't feel better in the morning, you call me, hear?" Well all morning I hold off, thinking I'm going to get better Notuf Romblingt Now is Time to Look For Those Sleepy Bats By HORACE I.OFT1N Science Service Biology Writer With the nation wrapped in freezing temperatures, this is one of the best times you might choose to hunt for and find great num bers of those flying mammals so typical of warm summer evenings, the bats. For now you may find them in the depths of caves or other se cluded hollows where the tempera ture remains cool but constantly above freezing. You will find them in fitful sleep, some preferring to hang alone, others crowded to gether in a communal roof-top bed. One scientist counted 401 east ern pipestrelle bats hibernating together in a space one foot wide by one and seven-tenths feet long in an Indiana cave. Not all species of bats hiber nate. Some of them migrate to warmer climes with the approach of winter, while many are resi dents of tropical or warm-wintered lands where hibernation ia un America by 1975 America by 1975 will be a land In which there will be a much greater demand for transportation equipment. The National Association of Man ufacturers cites a recent article published by McGraw-Hill Com pany, entitled "The American Economy ? Projects for Growth 1050-1960-1970" dealing with this matter. The report says, In part: . . Faster distribution of goods will require more transportation equipment. Since the trend la to ward moving a greater ahare of freight by highway or by air, we may expect substantially higher output of trucks, trailers and com mercial aircraft, including heli copters. The railroads' chief need la for modernisation. They may spend large sums for better freight cars, centralised traffic control systems and automatic retarder yard*." necessary. Among members of the family Vespertilionidae that range into the north-temperate tone, though, the winter sleep is com mon. Time for hibernation usually ar rives when the outside tempera ture fails to rise above SO to M degrees Fahrenheit. In general, the temperature of the bats' winter dormitories seldom fails below 42 Bat degrees, that la, if the bata are to ?urvive the winter! During their active summertime existence, baU may have body tem peratures ranging up to 104 de grees or even more. But in their winter sleep, they are only aa warm aa their cavern homes. In one test when the outside temperature waa 39 degrees and the cave temperature waa 44 de grees, delicate thermometera were applied to the akin and inaide the mouth of deeply hibernating bata. The teat showed that both inter nally and externally, the bata had a temperature of only 44 degreea. Breathing of hibernating bata la very irregular. Obaervations of the big brown bat showed periods with only an average of 4.6 respirations in half an hour. Then breathing apella lasting about three minutea appeared at intervala in which the bat breathed from 23 to 41 times per minute When gradually awakened, the bat's reapiration rate roae to 200 per minute before he was able to fly. Entering their winter sleeping quarters with a good aupply of fat. bata Iom about a third of their ftAdy weight before the arrival ot fcriafr I so I won't have to bother him, but at 8 p.m. Saturday night I finally give up and say Penny get the Doc on the phone quick. Now I can just see what goes on at the other end of the line. He and his Mrs. arc having a cocktail before dinner when the phone rings. They look at each other with That Look, and the wife answers, a real cautious hello? Penny says I must talk to the Doctor, it's about Jerry and its very important, so again 1 can see That Look. And then with a resigned sigh he answers. So after a few useless questions, he says, "I'll send over some medicine." This, dear reader, is the easy way out. Call up the drug store and send the jerk some aspirins in blue and white jackets, that will get rid of him till at least we can get to our party where thank goodness no one can reach us. So here comet the medicine from the drug store. Looks exactly like the ones 1 have been taking all day, so off to ano ther nightmare of hell on earth. Maybe the night will get over with and with the dawn will come a few minutes of troubled sleep. Nobody cares but my beloved Penny as she sits and quietly cries in a darkened corner. Oh lordy, I'm sick, what have I done to deserve this!? Garbles, Bloopers, Howlers (The following are excerpts from Nothing Brightens the Gar den Like Primrose Pants by Denys Parsons). It is proposed to use this dona tion for the purchase of new wenches for our park as the pres ent old ones are in a very dilapi dated state. ? Carrolton (Ohio) Chronicle. Lady desires post; domesticated, fond of cooking children. English weekly paper. Thirty thousand pigeons were re leased, filling the air with the flut ter of a million wings.? Commen tary in a news film. Mrs. David Miller has a new baby boy at her house. Dave is Just as happy as if it was his. ? Ohio paper. Alderman stated that he had re cently had a drink of beer to test it. If the beer had been intoxicaty, he would certainly nog have ben ystre uw lubricating. ? Canadian paper. When the baby is done drinking it must be unscrewed and laid in a cool place under a tap. If the baby docs not thrive on fresh milk it should be boiled.? Women's magazine. A son waa bora to Mr. aad mi* William Kleintop, Leigh Arenua, during th? laat week. Congntal# tlona. Petal ? Palnxrtaa (NH> Preaa. He went acroaa to the fireplaOi and stood with hla back to Mt warmth, ataring into the fire wi? unseeing eyes ? Short story. Mr. and lira. Wally Burman af Sioux Falls have just arrived af the Lindau home, where they wtM be houaepeata for several days. ? ? Minnesota paper. Gen. Graham, who likea to eat as well aa any man, would like tfr see a bit more cor bread ad mu> tard brees served to the preside* at the "wite White House" at th* aval submari atatio. "Don't get me wrong," he cat*' tioned? New York World Tel* gram and Sun. Here is an evening prayer for the little ones, and to me it ia very sweet and solemn: Savior, tender Shepherd, hear ma, Blesa Thy little lamb tonight; In the darkness be Thou near me. Keep me safe till morning light. To remove rust from window glaaa, dip cloth in coal oil and rub hard. ? The Kansas City Star. Bill Whitley Washington Report SERIOUS. It's practically unani mous that America's farm prob lems arc at the emergency stage, and government officials are al most all agreed that the problems should be settled on a non-partisan basis. In short, it's a job to be done, and not one to worry about who will be credited with solving it. But as serious as it is, there is an clement of humor in it. Tradi tionally, Americans are people who can smile even under the worst circumstances. The worst wars have pioduccd some of this coun try's most amusing and humorous literature, for example. Naturally, then, there is the lighter side to the American farm dilemma. Farmers find themselves kidding each other about the low prices they are receiving, and they make jokes to forget the crisis they face. BEST. Recently, the Washington correspondent for the Winston Salem Journal, Pat Munroe, went through the midwestern farm belt, and he turned up what is consid ered the best joke of all about far mars and their troubles. As Pat tells it, the incident took place on a midwestern farm where pork isn't worth a pig's squeal. It seems that this hog farmer was awakened in the night by his wife. "A thief is out in the hog pen, John. He's stealing every hog we've got." John hushed his wife and whis pered: "Don't make any noise. You might run the thief away before he gets the hogs." From the Bookshelf Cat Man. By Edward Hoagland. Houghton Mifflin. A circus that travels from New York out to Minnesota and Iowa is the ever changing scene for the novel by this new winner of the coveted Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship award. The performers, hangers - on, gawking townies, the winos, walk aways. bonghcads, the ringstock men, the sidewall kids, the jigs and, for individuals, Chief, Little Chief, Heavy. Red, Brownie, Pinito and other girls, and Fiddler, who is the hero, the "cat man" him self- they form half the cast. They are rough, tough, hard men or women able to look out for themselves. They drink; fight with clubs; work till they drop; have unshakable loyalties, other virtues and odd vices. This is half the cast, the lesser half. Next comes the too, the other zoo, the menagerie, the four-legged rough, tough, hard beasts able to take care of themselves, too. They have their own loyalties, virtues and vices. There are Sweetheart the tiger with the tickly places under her arms and hair so stiff Fiddler's fingers won't brush through it; the lion cubs and the great grown ups; Cheetah; Snippy, Pasha, Ma bel, 500- pound Ajax, the tigers. Smile a While Bored with "funny" storie* about traveling salesmen, Betty Kaiser in The Advertiser's Digest take* the prerogative to tetl about the traveling men's wives something like this: Said one traveling man to ano ther, "Was that your wife I saw you with last night?" Replied the other, "That woman was not Just my wife. That was my combination carpenter-electrl cian-mechanic - plumber - gardener - housekeeper-mot her-of-my -children, and Jack-of-all-trades!" ?Sunshine Magazine "Whit's eating jrou?" "Oh, nothing much, but when your girl friend said she'd dig up a date for me? brother, she waan't kidding!" ?The Goaport elephants with eyelashes as long as a flirt's; the python that slides out head, middle and tail, and the rabbit that disappears down its gullet head, middle and bedraggled hind legs. Even while you dote on the huge creatures, you never forget, or you forget only once, that they can be as deadly in play as in anger; the swing of a giant paw, the lightning-fast leap, the snap of the jaws kills you as dead for fun as for food. As soon as you take your life In your hands and enter the cages, hear the animals roar, watch them fed, watered, petted, avoided or beaten back, you're in a wonder ful and terrifying world, a world you never knew before. ? W. G. Rogers Author of the Week Arthur Koeatler, author of a volume of essays, "The Trail of the Dinosaur." was born SO yearn ago this fall in Budapest, Hungary. As a Journalist he traveled wide ly in Europe, the Near East, Asia and Russia, and for a time he was a member of the Commuaist party. Since then he has written a lot of anti-Communist books, such as the novel "Darkness at Noon" (1941) and 'The Yogi and the Commiaaar" (1MB). He came to this country for the first time in 1MB and had ? home on an ialand in tlx Delaware River, In Pennsylvania. He has lived in France, and at prweat la at home la Nortk Wales. ROSES. During the Christmas holi days, Congressmen get far more Christmas cards and other holiday greetings than they can possibly acknowledge. But one lawmaker, Sen. W. Kerr Scott, received a Christmas gift that he'll remember all year. The six ladies who make up hi* secretarial staff all chipped in and gave him roses for the whole year of 1956 -one rosebud each morn ing to put on his lapel. (Confidentially, the Senator say* he's not accepting unless the girl* themselves agree to pin the rose* on his lapel each morning when he arrives fSr work.) VISITORS. Quite a few Tar Heel* were seen moseying around Wash ington as the new session of Con gress opened. Some were tourists, a few were interested in legislation, and some others were still Christmasing. But one was checking on chewing tobacco. He was Mr. Arch Taylor of Win ston-Salem, one of the old-time chewing tobacco manufacturer*. For years he has been (ending Sen ator Scott a carton of chewing to bacco from time to time. The other day, he walked into Scott's office and said: "Just wanted to make sure the Senator is still getting his tobacco okay." It takes a considerate gentleman to be that concerned about the safe arrival of chewing tobacco. Stamp News By 8YD KKOMSH New Zealand'* annual health stamp set has arrived on the phil atelic scene. Thi* year's set in cludes three value* instead o( the usual two. The design feature* n medallion with a child's head en circled by the words "King George the Fifth Memorial Children'* Health Campa Fed." Argentina has issued a special stamp for its recent revolution. report* me New York Stamp Co. the 1.80 per olive hesive br J alle ?tea figi age. The inscription reao ation Revolution Sept That ii the date the ArgeMI recogniie as the (tart of U rising. A second edition of "Briti Colonial Stamp* In Current U?e" is now being prepared. The first edition was released in 1990. The new book of 190 pages will deal with all the colonial stamp* which will have been placed on sale by the end of October, IMS. A map of the world will be bound in the book in such a way as to permit reference while the book is open. It may be purchased from the Crown Agents' office in Washing^ ton, D. C. Three new seta of stamps have been issued by Yugoslavia, reports the New York Stamp Co. Tw* stamp* of the same design, show ing a nurse, were issued for the Red Cross Another sot of two stsmp* of identical design was is sued for Children's Day. The illus tration shows a smiling young girl. The third set contains only ooe stsmp and commemorate* the lOth anniversary of the procUnatlea of the Republic of Yugoslavia. The symbolic design depicts a woman with a dove in her hands. Ceylon's latest stamp honors the Royal Agricultural and rood Ex hibition. The central design de pict* a sheaf of wheat la the can ter with farm products and aethrt ties la the beckgrwuri.
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