CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
Carteret County'* Newspaper
EDITORIALS
FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1956
Protection is Possible
Out of a study of huivicanes have
come recommendations for lessening
the damage which future storms might
cause.
i Emphasis is placed on individual
communities and counties' making spe
cific plans to protect themselves. We
fear, however, that in this day of "let
the government do it," few communi
ties will take hurricane-precaution sug
gestions seriously.
The hurricane project report, issued
by the North Carolina Council of Civil
Defense, and released through the gov
ernor's office, suggests that a special
coastal district be organized. The re
port says, "Special development dis
tricts are often organized on the basis
of a single function, like mosquito con
trol districts. There is no reason why
a special development district could not
carry out all of the protective measures
that should be executed ... Its re
sources, jurisdiction, and responsibility
would be larger than that of the county,
but smaller than that of the state."
The report makes it clear that "a ma
jor portion of the money for hurricane
protective works must come from local
sources." While the state is making
every effort to obtain federal assist
ance, special districts set up in other
states have found that they cannot de
pend on state and federal aid.
It has been suggested that the state,
however, in addition to offering tech
nical assistance, establish a revolving
fund from which money could be bor
rowed at low interest rates, to carry
out hurricane protection projects.
It rests with local communities, to
draft zoning laws and enforce building
regulations which would protect people
from building in places which continu
ally flood, or putting up houses which
invite wind and wave destruction.
The vastness of planning against
hurricane invasion staggers anyone
who gives the situation more than pass
ing thought. For this reason, the hurri
cane report recommends that the state
assume responsibility for the guidance
and coordination of a hurricane protec
tion program.
Yet there is something that mayors,
town and county commissioners can do
right now. They should read the hurri
cane project report. They should know
what has been done to define the prob
lem facing the coast ? and what can
be done to protect our natural re
sources, businesses and homes. Unless
they acquaint themselves with the task,
they will be in no position to work in
telligently with the state.
Hope for Cripples
The amazing progress in caring for
the crippled is one of the most obvious
factors noted in the news released in
conjunction with the 1956 Easter Seal
campaign.
More has been ac
complished for the
crippled in our time
than in all generations
of man's civilization.
Improvement in tech
niques is one explana
tion for the progress.
Another is the work of both public and
private agencies without whose effort*
scientific advances would be meaning
less.
Not many private organizations can
match the superlative contribution
made by the National Society for Crip
pled Children and Adults and its affili
ates, including the Carteret County
Easter Seal Society. For more than a
quarter century, these societies have
been providing care for the crippled
and informing the public of the crip
pled's needs, spending Easter Seal dol
lars wisely and well.
The campaign in this county has
meant these tangible things: purchas
ing braces, wheel chairs, hospitaliza
tion, speech correction, transportation
to and from the hospital, direct medi
cal aid, and crippled children's camp.
This is the time of year when resi
dents of Carteret can again contribute
to the cause. The Easter Seal program
is in the finest tradition of humanity and
deserves support. It opens tomorrow
and continues through April 10.
Orange is Still Orange
(Greensboro Daily News)
A rose by any other name may smell
as sweet, but down in Florida they do
not believe an orange in other color
will sell as well.
For some uiirty years orange grow
ers have been routinely using artificial
coloring to pretty up their ripe oranges
that still looked green on the outside,
110 matter how ripe and sweet they may
have been on the inside. Everybody was
happy. The man in the orchard knew
he could market orange oranges with
greater ease and better profits than he
could market the same fruit looking
green. The man at the breakfast table
knew what he liked ? and what he
liked was an orange orange.
Then last fall the Food and Drug Ad
ministration in Washington suffered an
attack of conscience. Maybe the orange
dye was poisonous. The secretary of
agriculture issued an order that use of
dye on oranges would not be approved
after February 15. Orange growers
were up in arms. As far as they were
concerned the new orange order was
purely a lemon. They wrote their con
gressmen to pass a law to save the
orange orange. A bill was introduced
in Congress.
But now the tempest in the orange
crate is all settled. The growers man
aged to squeeze an orange compromise
out of the Food and Drug Administra
tion. They may still dye their oranges
for three more years, while the admin
istration's scientists continue to test for
any ill effects.
So rest well, drinkers of orange juice !
When you totter sleepily to the kitchen
in the morning for your glass of fruit
juice, the orange will still be orange.
All you have to do is squeeze it.
4-H 4 All
As 4-H Week comes to a close, adults
would do well to note again the 4-H
Club pledge, because the pledge, if
lived by, would improve every com
munity.
Too frequently adults look patroniz
ingly on youth programs, setting them
apart as something only for the chil
dren. The grown-ups feel they have ac
quired all the principles and teachings
necessary to live successfully.
Unfortunately that's not true. Thus,
if adults would join 4-H youngsters in
pledging themselves to clearer think
in*. greater loyalty, larger service and
better living, Carteret would be a model
for all communities.
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Bill Whitley
Washington Report
(Editor's Note: This column is
written by a member of Sen. Kerr
Scott's Washington staff).
VOTES. It's rather amusing how
certain things just seem to "hap
pen" in election years.
Several events in the past two
weeks have made some mighty
good news for farmers. The De
partment of Agriculture has seen
fit to change some policies that
will mean a big boost for a lot of
farmers in North Carolina.
PEANUTS. Just recently, peanut
growers in North Carolina were
given a hefty acreage increase,
averaging up to almost 14 per cent.
The Department of Agriculture
was very gracious about it, and
came through with the increase
without a whimper. Last year, the
same peanut growers had a tug-of
war *1th the department and then
wcr# given only a token increase.
A week or so after increasing
peanut acreage, Secretary Benson
announced that he was putting
surplus cotton stocks up for sale
at competitive prices in the world
markets.
This was another delayed action.
For the past 18 months, Benson
has refused to do just what he
proudly announ<fed last week.
The fact that he will sell sur
plus cotton in the world markets
at competitive prices means that
a lot of the cotton stocks now
hanging over American farmers
will be removed.
Farm leaders have been plead
ing with him to take this action
for many months.
BAIT. At about the same time
Benson announced his cotton pol
icy, it was revealed that he had
offered some bait to southern Sen
ators to vote for flexible price
supports.
He told some senators, he said,
that if flexible price support laws
arc retained, then he would be
willing to increase support prices
on cotton.
VISITORS. Quite a few Tar Heels
were visiting in Washington last
week. As the bitter winter wea
ther subsides, more and more vis
itors arc enjoying the sights of
Washington.
Democratic party leaders arc ex
pected to be in town in force the
weekend of March 24 for the an
nual Congressional Banquet staged
by the Democratic Club of Wash
ington.
Henry Oglesfcy, secretary to Rep.
Herbert Bonner, is handling tickets
for the affair. The tickets arc
going for $6 each.
Paradise for Bachelors
The Polynesian beauties of the
storybook island of Rapa want
men. Rapa is famous as the "island
of women." It lies far to the south
east just wjthin the borders of
French Oceania.
This morning a small sailing
schooner arrived at Moorea from
Rapa. The captain is a strapping
Amazon measuring approximately
230 pounds by six feet. Her name
is Anaa. She has island products
to sell or exchange, but her chief
concern is to persuade men to
come to Rapa.
Rapa women want babies but are
thwarted in this ambition by lack
of male collaboration. There are
six women to every man on Rapa.
Of the 350 inhabitants 300 are
women.
Anaa assures her prospects that
they will not be expected to work
on Rapa. The women will do that
for them. Life will be made pleas
ant for them. Their every wish
will be gratified. She promises, as
an extra bonus, that they will even
be fed by hand, if they so desire.
One is reminded of the Amazons
and their annual importation of
males to perpetuate the race. The
only essential difference between
the two tales is that the Rapa
story is true.? From Adventures
in Paradise by Willard Price
Restless Sea
The edge of the sea is a strange
and beautiful placc. All through
the long history of earth it has
been an area of unrest where
waves have broken heavily against
the land, where the tides have
pressed forward over the conti
nents, receded, and then returned.
For no two successive days is
the shore line precisely the same.
Not only do the tides advance and
retreat in their eternal rhythms,
but the level of the sea itself is
never at rest. It rises or falls as
the glaciers melt or grow, as the
floor of the deep ocean basins
shift under its increasing load of
sediments, or as the earth's crust
along the continental margins
warps up or down in adjustment
to strain and tension.
Today a little more land may be
long to the sea, tpmorrow a little
less. Always the edge of the sea
remains an elusive and indefinable
boundary Rachel Carson in "The
Edge of the Sea"
Author of the Week
Samuel Flagg Bemis, in "John
Quincy Adams and the Union,"
completes the Adams biography
begun with the publication in
1949 of "John Quincy Adams and
the Foundations of American For
cifZLPoUcy."
Native of Worcester, Mass., Be
mis took degrees at Clark and Har
vard, and continued graduate stu
dies in England and France.
After teaching at several col
leges and universities Colorado,
Whitman, George Washington Uni
versity, among others he joined
the faculty at Yale where he is
Sterling professor of diplomatic
history and Inter-American rela
tions.
Stamp News
By SYD KRONISH
Sierra Leone, the British crown
colony on the west coast of .Africa,
has issued a set of pictorials, re
ports the New York Stamp Co.
The designs also include a por
trait of Queen Elizabeth with the
crown.
The illustrations include Cape
Lighthouse, Queen Elizabeth U
Quay, Piassava workers, The cot
ton tree at Freetown, rice harvest
ing, iron ore production at Ma
rampa, Whale Bay at York Vil
lage, a bullom boat, a map, Orugu
bridge, Kuranko chief, law courts
at Freetown and Government
House.
Two new stamps, one of them a
triangle, have been issued by the
Netherlands Antilles. The stamps
hail the Caribbean Conference of
Nations held in Aruba last Decem
ber. The conferencc discussed ways
and means of developing the na
tion* in that area. The United
States was one of the participants.
The triangle shows the petroleum
refinery at Aruba.
Smile a While
A sailor was anxious to have his
fortune told He went to a swami.
At he sat at the table, he noticed
the crystal ball had two boles in
It.
"What's the idea of the boles?"
be asked.
"On Wednesday nights," ex
plained the swami, "I go bowling."
?The Hoiat
Louiw Spivey
Words of Inspiration
LINES TO A BLOOD DONOR
On some far lonely battleground
A soldier . . . lying in the mud,
Blesses your unknown name . . . and lives anew!
You gave him blood.
You helped him pay the price for freedom's ground . . .
Yes, hard won ground . . .
Red with his own blood stains . . .
And it must comfort you somehow, to know.
That your blood now runs in a hero's veins.
And somewhere, there arc parents, humbly praying and thanking
God for you . . . they kneel beside
The bed of their small child, now calmly sleeping.
But for your gift of blood, he would have died.
How it must warm you, thrill you, recompense you . . .
This knowledge that your gift one early morn
Held back the hand of death from one small body
Because of you ... an injured child's reborn!
You gave the priceless gift . . . the gift of life!
Unselfishly, to save the lives of others.
You make the stranger kin, the weak the strong,
And bind the unknown ones to you as brothers.
And so your blood becomes a thing divine,
A Christ-like gift; you give unselfishly.
There was Another, once, on Calvary's hill,
Who gave llis blood ... to save humanity.
? Betty Stuart
The Red Cross blood program is only one of the many services offer
ed by our Red Cross. Those of us in Carteret County are not quite as
familiar with the many fine programs that are sponsored by this organ
ization as we are the "Disaster Service." Our minds are still fresh with
the memory of strong hurricane winds, high seas eating away our shore
lines, and homes and businesses washed completely away, drowned
crops and flooded farms.
Representatives of our Red Cross arrived in Carteret County ahead
of these severe hurricanes, they directed us through these storms. In
many of the storm shelters coffee and sandwiches were served. The Red
Cross was prepared to give us more assistance, if the need became
ncessary.
Following each of the severe hurricanes that have struck our county
in the past two years, your Red Cross set up an office. All of those who
suffered loss and needed assistance camc to their office and registertd
these losses together with their needs.
In an organization as great as the Red Cross you will probably hear
that some might have been helped who were not deserving. I believe
this is the case in almost any of our charities, and beyond complete
control.
I accepted the chairmanship of the Red Cross this year, not becapac
I felt that I was capable of serving in such a position, but because I Re
lieve in it. The Red Cross has spent in Carteret County during the ptfjt
two years approximately $100,000. Another hurricane season is not too
far away, and we certainly have no assurance that another storm will net
strike here. If one should come. I want the Red Cross to be here, wjth
all of its fine services, to help me. and to help you. I want the
Cross to stay again after the storm, and help us as we try to build a
better Carteret County.
The minimum goal for our county is $3,960, the maximum $4,480. To
reach this goal I shall need the help of every one of you.
Co-chairmen have been appointed in most of the communities, but
you know it will be impossible for every person to be contacted and
asked to help support this great organization, so I would like to appoint
each of you, as a committee of one, to help me. If no one has contxWd
you. and you would like to help, mail or brine your contribution to' me
ir. Beaufort.
F. C. Solitbury
Here and There
The following information is ta
ken from the filei of the Morehead
City Coaster:
FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1917
Miss Alma Richardson returned
home Friday night from Kinston
where she spent a few days with
friends.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hawkins left Sun
day afternoon for New Bern where
she has accepted a position in the
altering department of S. Coplon
& Sons.
Will W. Brinson returned to
New Bern Monday afternoon after
spending a short time in the city
visiting his mother, Mrs. Melissa
Brinson.
Capt. J. M. Wallace of New York
who has been spending several
weeks here with relatives left
Tuesday morning to return to his
home.
C. S. Wallace and son, George,
returned home Tuesday morning
from Washington. D. C.
Mrs. Addie Hobbs and son, Ar
chie, who have been spending sev
eral weeks with Mr. and Mrs. C.
N. Hobbs, left Thursday for their
home in Tunkhannock, Pa.
The Five Hundred Club met
Friday evening with Mr. and Mrs.
A. B. Roberts who proved to be
most charming entertainers. Mas
ter Jack Roberts gave out the score
cards and Miss Bernice kept (core.
The wireless plant at Beaufort
is now being guarded night and
day. Reports have been current
that plans have been made to dis
able the plant and the government
is taking no chances and is using
every precaution that is possible.
The Social Department of the
Epworth League held its first meet
ing of the season Saturday eve*
ning. Miss Archia Ormond, super
intendent of the social department
was in charge of the meeting.
Mrs. George Thompson was hos
tess at a bridge party Tuesday eve
ning at her home on Evans street.
The hostess, assisted by Mrs. J. G.
Kuhn, served a delightful four
course luncheon. .
A committee from the town
board, consisting of J. T. Daven
port, A. H. Webb and Gilbert Wil
lis. has been named to look after
the building of quarters for Fire
Company No. 2 on a lot recently
purchased.
HOUSE BUILDING COSTS
31%
LAND and
OVERHEAD
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