CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TlMES I
Carteret County'* N?w*pap?r
EDITORIAL TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1956
Books at Your Door
The proposal of the County Public
Library, !o establish book stations in
communities throughout the county, is
splendid.
To become an actual fact, the co
operation of folks in those communities
is necessary. At present, the bookmo
bile makes regular calls, but as Miss
Dorothy Avery, library director, points
out, it is not always convenient for peo
ple to get to the bookmobile during the
short time it stops.
Therefore, the book stations are pro
posed. These would be located in a
home or perhaps a store. The bookmo
bile would bring the books to the sta
tion. Readers could go to the station,
borrow a book and return it when
they're finished reading it.
In that way they will have access to
books at all times, not just the few mo
ments when the bookmobile comes
through. The bookmobile would bring
supplies of new books as needed.
Unsung heroines everywhere are the
women who drive bookmobiles. Rural
America has access to the latest and
best of books only because a corps of
dedicated women ? and sometimes
men ? valiantly carry loads of books
on highways and byways, through fair
weather and foul, to the people beyond
the cities.
Mrs. Monroe Willis, Carteret's book
mobile librarian, has served faithfully
through the years. Mrs. Willis, Mrs.
Paul Woodard, librarian, or Miss Avery
are eagerly awaiting word from the
communities as to where book stations
can be set up.
Cooperation of Home Demonstration
Clubs is being sought. The library
couldn't find better partners for their
project than the Home Demonstration
Club.
Of all the entertainment for folks in
this day, none has yet equaled the thrill
of reading. The library, its board and
staff are to be commended for their
worthy never-ceasing mission, that of
taking good books to all corners of
Carteret.
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Lesson in Citizenship
The Boy Scouts of America, now num
bering 4,175,000 members and adult
leaders will have a realistic experience
in citizenship this year.
Together with the Freedoms Foun
dation Inc., of Valley Forge, they will
conduct a nonpartisan Get-Out-the-Votc
campaign.
First they will promote the registra
tion of all persons eligible to vote. A
principal reason for not voting is fail
ure to register. It has been aptly said
that bad candidates are elected by good
people who do not vote.
Throughout the nation before regis
tration days, Scouts will put in public
places one and a quarter million pos
ters bearing the slogan, "Vote as you
think ? but vote November 6."
The Scouts will encourage registered
persons to vote on Klection Day. On
Saturday, Nov. 3, Scouts will call at
35,(100,000 homes across the nation.
They will hang on doorknobs a Liberty
Cell placard bearing the message,
"Heed youth's call. Vote as you think,
but vote November 6, 1956. Use your
freedom to vote."
Scouting has long had participating
citizenship based on good character as
one of its principal goals. In its current
project it will roll up another mighty
Good Turn to the nation.
The job needs to be done. Should
the time ever come when Americans
lose their interest in the right to vote,
and neglect to make the small effort
voting requires, the right to vote would
gradually disappear. Self-government
endures only when the people support it
vigorously. The act of voting is in itself
an expression of good citizenship and
appreciation of democratic privilege.
Epitaph for an Emu
(Greensboro Daily News)
(Jut in hvansville, Intl., a lanious
father emu is dead, cut down in thfc
prime of life by a power lawn mower.
Even before his sad encounter with the
mower, this intrepid bird had made
headlines by hatching out the eggs his
wife had laid. Evidently he had a mind
Of his own.
But the other day he suddenly
charged the lawn mower that invaded
his enclosure at the zoo, caught his
feet in the whirling blades and was so
seriously injured that he had to be
put to death.
What moved the emu to attack the
mower? Did he think it was some
strange new bird come to rob him of
his emu-wife? Did he resent the mow
er's cutting in on his private grass?
Was he trying to protect his father
hatched children? Or was it a sudden
human fury at the encroachment of the
modern machine age into the natural
habitat of the zoo?
IIow many enraged workers have de
stroyed the machines that displaced
them? When a man's car won't run
and he can't fix it, how many times has
he wanted to strike it in frustrated an
ger? When a woman's vacuum cleaner
refuses to purr in its machine-like stub
bornness, how many times has she
wanted to throw it out the window?
And how many small children have
hurled their mechanical toys on the
floor in anger because they wouldn't
work?
Maybe the emu just didn't like ma
chines, including the power lawn
mower. If his death was a mute pro
test against the machine age, his epi
taph should read:
Here lies a courageous, furious emu.
You'd do what he did if you knew
what he knew.
Along the Way
The English essayist and divine of
the 19th century, Sydney Smith, had
this to say about initiative and courage:
"A great deal of talent is lost in the
world for want of a little courage.
Every day sends to their graves obscure
men whom timidity prevented from
making a first effort; who, if they could
have been induced to begin, would, in
all probability, have gone great lengths
in the career of fame.
"The fact is, that to do anything in
the world worth doing, we must not
stand back shivering and thinking of
the cold danger, but we must jump in
and scramble through as well as we can.
"It will not do to be perpetually cal
culating risks and adjusting nice
chances. A man waits, and doubts, and
consults his brother, and his particular
friends, till one day he finds that he is
sixty years old, and that he has lost so
much time in consulting relatives that
he has no time to follow their advice."
? Sunshine Magazine
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A BAD COMBINATION
Jerry Schumacher
Everybody's a Chamber of Commerce
Our two hcadboats, the Danco
and the Carolina Queen, deserve
a good word. First they arc a
credit to this fishing community
bccausc they both give the cus
tomer a lot of fishing for their
money. Second, they both run a
well organized business enterprise
I iirt i in uie lung
run will bring a
lot of people to
Morchead City
who wouldn't
otherwise come
here.
In fact what do
we have to at
tract the hoard
o f visitors? A
lot of wonderful
people who for
the most part
Jerrjr
arc walking one man Chambers of
Commerce, great climate and salty
atmosphere, the best seafood in the
world, and fishing the like of
which there ain't none no place
else in the wide world. That's all!
Bob Carr says at his golf course
at Roanoke Rapids the fairways
arc so narrow that he has to use
one of those small English balls,
our balls arc too big to go through.
Look out for the Fabulous Fish
ermen. Them boys are going
places and doing things, no town
ever had a group that worked so
hard and did so much good for
so little.
Pappy Joe Fulchcr, perhaps the
most famous fisherman in these
here parts, who by the way is 80
years old, has retired. Sort of that
is. He has a sign at his dock that
says, "No telephones, no business,
no address, and plenty of money."
However, he still comes to the
dock every day and can be talked
into taking a party or two.
George Stovall and his lovely
wife, Helen, my Gorgeous Tomato
Penny and me are planning a trip
to the South River and Adams
Creek. Now these arc just names
to me but 'Captain Oeorgc says that
this is paradise, the Utopia of all
fishing and boating places.
Well if we can ever get the Lost
Lumber fixed up to where she can
run away from the dock, this is
what wc all arc gonna do.
Captain George in his boat and
uss'ns in our tub are gonna spent
a weekend in this so-called para
dise.
Dear reader, if this ever comes
to pass, 1 will promise you a full
fledged account of the proceed
ings.
This crispy tangy fall weather is
some kind of wonderful, takes
away the sweaty stickyness of the
summer heat, gives our beat up
old airconditioncr a much-needed
break.
One thing about Morcheaders,
they are loyal football fans. There
wasn't a seat or much less a place
to stand at the game Friday eve
ning, and the fact that we lost to
Swansboro didn't make any dif
ference. The cheer leaders, the
band and the customers rjotcd
with all the enthusiasm and pep,
just as though the team was the
Chicago Bears and were 50 points
ahead.
Heard at the Golf course, "Caddy
go see if that Gentleman went into
the sand trap, or if the Son of a
Blankety-Blank landed on the
green."
Ruth Paating
New Social Class Emerges
A man will tell you that if there
weren't any women around, most
of his problems would disappear.
Well, this will only confirm his
opinion ? a new social class is
emerging in America, the wife who
deserts her family.
Today 50,000 women belong to
that class. It's disturbing to social
workers. They say, however, that
it's a trend that was bound to
come, as women began to feel more
and more on * social and economic
par with men.
Desertion at one time was con
sidered simply not possible for a
woman. But woman's "emancipa
tion" has changed that. Today
women can get good Jobs, live well
and command respect, therefore de
sertion by women Is creeping into
the American domestic scene.
Even to, only one woman deserts
for every 20 men who pack up and
leave home.
So the fellow who says woman's
place is in the kitchen, dishwater
up to her elbows, better watcb out.
William C. Guthrie, an engineer
with the Department of Conserva
tion and Development, will help
eastern Carolina counties with in
dustrial development projects.
Carteret is one of the 46 coun
ties to which he is assigned. Mr.
Guthrie can be contacted at the
Department of Conservation and
Development, Education Building,
Raleigh.
The two million dollar construc
tion program at Camp Lcjcunc is
expected to be completed early
next year. The improvements in
clude a new bachelors' officers
quarters, barracks, air-conditioned
theatre, gymnasium and swimming
pool, enlisted man's recreation cen
ter, new chapel, dispensary, and
supply warehouse.
One of our enterprising farmers
this summer had a sign out in front
of his place. It read
For Sale
Cattle
opes
Later this sign was replaced by
another:
For Sale ? Watermelons
Put money in coffee cup
The watermelons disappeared.
Don't know whether money appear
ed in the coffee cup though.
A story, beautifully illustrated,
and called The Magic of the
In the Good Old Days
THIRTY YEARS AGO
The Morchead City graded school
had opened with 700 puplU regis
tered.
County commissioners asked for
bida on roada in the eastern sec
tion of the county and granted the
llarkcrs bland ferry franchise to
0. W. Cbadwick.
The new Beaufort graded school
would cost $100,000.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
Beaufort school opened with an
enrollment of <31 pupils.
The Bank of Beaufort, the coun
ty's oldest bank, suspended opera
tions.
The Rev. J. A. Vache, rector of
St Paul's, had accepted a call to
Greeaeboro.
TEN YEARS AGO
Herbert PryUicrcb Jr. of PJvsrs
Inland saved ? 7-year-old, who was
swimming on the west side of the
island, from drowning.
Morehcad City Jaycecs would
sponsor an airshow at the More
head City airport Sept. 22.
Miss Christine Vlck assumed her
duties as superintendent of Morc
bcad City Hospital.
FIVE TEAKS AGO
B?. lufort met Vanceboro and
Morehcad City met Beulaville as
the two schools opened tie foot
ball scaaon.
The B4PW Club would sponsor
a fashion (bow next week at tb?
Beaufort school. Funds raised
would go to the Beaufort and
Morehcad City school bands.
The Flnt-Citlaeiis Bank and
Trust Cft was planning on erect
ly a b|gk at Newport.
Smokies, appears in the summer
issue of The Lamp. The Lamp is
published by Esso Standard Oil
Co.
The North Carolina State Adver
tising Division, Raleigh, says it will
mail a eopy of The Lamp to you,
upon request. This offer is good,
of course, as long as their supply
of copies lasts.
Thank you, Mr. Davis, for the
bulletins on spiders, birds, snakes
and such. It behooves me to keep
up with these critters, by golly.
(Mr. Davis, who hails from Car
teret County, is curator of the state
museum, Raleigh. The museum has
all kinds of bulletins which you
may have free and some which
they'll sell you for a few ccnts).
America by 1975
Amrrica by 197S will be a land
in which natural resources and
minerals will be taken from por
tions of the globe now unexplored.
The National Association of Man
ufacturers cites an article by Da
vid Sarnoff, chairman of the Radio
Corporation of America, in a re
ccnt issue of Fortune Magazine
which shows the things that lie
ahead of this country.
". . . Fresh water, purified from
the briny seas, will enable us to
make deserts flourish and to open
to human habitation immense sur
faces of the globe now sterile or
inaccessible. Tldelands and the
ocean floors beyond, already being
tapped for oil, will be increasingly
mined for other minerals and har
vested for chemical and food re
sources," Mr. Sarnoff writes.
Smile a While
"Newspaper obituaries have a
way of sounding all alike, as if the
writer had ? form and had Just
filled in the blank apaces. Only
now and then, when lome cele
brity, such as Henry Mencken, dies
are the obituariea really worth
reading unless you actually know
the person. I have long since for
gotten the name of a man whoaa
obituary appeared Marl ago in the
Stanly Newa * Press But I re
member It waa a good one, for it
related that he owned the beat
pair of mulct In the county."
Louif Spivey
Words of Inspiration
CHMST1AN1TY
As In nature and in the Art, so in tract; it ii rough treatment that
gives souls, as well as stones their luster. The more the diamond is cut,
the brighter it sparkles, and in what seems hard dealing God has no end
in view but to perfect our graces. He sends tribulations, but tells us
their purpose, that "tribulations worketh patience and patience expert
encp, and experience hope." ? Guthrie
This is the blessed life: not anxious to see far in front; not careful
about the next step; not eager to choose the path; not weighted with the
heavy responsibilities of the future; but quietly following behind the
Shepherd, one step at a time.
Religion gives you courage to make the decisions you must make in
a crisis, and then the confidence to leave the result to a higher power.
Only by trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.
? Dwight D. Eisenhower
Are you willing to stoop down and consider the needs and the de
sires of little children; to remember the weakness and loneliness of
people who are growing old; to stop asking how much your friends love
you, and ask yourself if you love them enough; to bear in mind the
things that those who live in the same house with you really want, with
out waiting for them to tell you; to trim your lamp so that it will give
more light and less smoke, and to carry it in front so that your shadow
will fall behind you; to make a grave for your ugly thoughts, and a
garden for your kindly feelings, with the gate open?
? Henry Van Dyke
Do today's duty, fight today's temptations, and do not weaken and
distract yoursoll bv looking forward to things you cannot see, and could
not understand if you saw them. ? Kingslcy
One kind of trouble is enough. Some folks take on three kinds at
once ? all they have now, all they have had, and all they ever expect
to have.
You may be well read and often quoted, but it is for your life that
you arc noted.
God does not give everyone the same ability. There are those with
one talent, those with three, and those with five. Some gained the ad
vantage of heritage, in training or through opportunities.
God, however, did give to each the ability to be dependable. He re
quires of a steward that he be faithful over that to which he is en
trusted. I
God will reward the person who did the best with his given talents,
lie will bless that one who accepted responsibility and was loyal to it.
But in none of His teachings do we find lenicncy for those not found
faithful ? Unknown
We arc likely to jugdc ourselves by our intentions, but to judge
others by their acts. ? Dwight Morrow
Character Counts ? The grindstone of life either grinds a man down
or polishes him up, depending on the kind of stuff he is made of.
A Christian is a Mind through which Christ thinks, a Heart through
which Christ speaks, a Hand through which Christ helps.
Captain Henry
Sou'easter
Capt. Jim Uui nicy has his trou
bles. Rcccntly he got a railway
freight bill which was higher than
usual.
He inquired about it and was
told that the bill was right. So he
writes to headquarters in Wash
ington, D. C., and points out the
error of their ways.
A letter comcs back informing
him that the last bill was correct
and if he had been getting his
freight any cheaper in the past,
there was a mistake somewhere.
FUTHERMORE the freight office
would look up the old bills and
send him a bill for the proper
amounts.
We haven't heard a peep out of
Jim about his freight bills since.
A new terror on the golf course
i$ Claud Wheatly. He's getting a
higher score hitting the ball with
the wrong end of the stick than
anybody in eastern Carolina. Mack
McCuiston, the pro, says if they 1
had just put Claud on the course
about a year ago, they wouldn't
have had to pay anybody for
knocking down those trees for the
new nine.
Lockwood Phillips entertained
James Potter and Ernest Pavis at
a beefsteak dinner Saturday night i
at the Phillips house, since Lock- <
wood is being a bachelor (or a
few days. From all reports, there
wasn't a pot, pan or dish in the
kitchen that wasn't used!
Captain Ernest had a birthday
Thursday and the good sheriff,
Hugh Salter, celebrated his happy
day Sunday.
1 went out to the school house
a couple weeks ago to that meet
ing on the Pearsall Plan.
I learned there why the Nation
al Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People was con
spicuous by its utter silence in
this state prior to the election.
In Virginia, the organization
made such a hullabaloo fighting
against Virginia's "Gray plan" that
even white people who were
against it swung to the other side.
The NAACP decided it would be
best to let the white folks in
North Carolina fight among them
selves -which they did.
Several of my colored friends
say that the NAACP has done a
lot for the Negro race in the past
20 years, but they've done an awful
lot of damage in the past couple
years.
Football coach: You're out of
condition. Buck. WhalU ya' been
Join', studyin'?
Free Wheeling
Br BILL CROWELL
Motor Vehlclet Department
Y IPPEE ...Those acquainted
with Superior Court Judge Mal
colm Scawell know he'* a man not
given to judicial pussyfooting. In
Raleigh last week the Lumberton
jurist calmly dispatched a thrice
convicted speeder to six days in
the county lock up.
Next day. same deal. A poker
faced drunk driver who offered
the startling testimony that he
"took only one small drink AFTER
the accidcnt" was given two yeara
on the roads. And still another de
fendant, who had some yeara be
fore tried to wreck a highway pa
trol car to avoid capture, was sent
up for a similar term. He was con
victed of driving after his license
had been permanently revoked.
A bit of imprudence, Judge Sea
well observed, which should have
made him "as afraid of a car aa
the devil la of holy water."
TRUCK TALK... Truck driven
have a vernacular all their own, a
mystifying palaver only other
truckers understand. As an exam
ple, what do you make of the fol
lowing converaatlon?
"I pulled out last night with a
hot load on the box and all but
toned up. The horse was a sturdy
six-banger In good shape so I
wasnt down In the corner much.
And when she got to yodeling the
?kins hummed.
"Coming up the hill 1 waa split
ting ? shift when I saw the pota
ahead. Then waa an old lour
banger with in Armstrong starter
stalled in the road. The cowboy
couldn't get the stemwinder to
work and was waiting for the
hound.
"On the way in I passed some
cackle crates dusting along. To
slow down I put on the air easy
because the binders were grabbing
a little.
"In town I dropped the box and
bare-backed over for Java."
Confused? Well, translated, the
driver said:
"1 pulled out last night with an
emergency shipment on the semi
trailer, heavily loaded. The power
unit was a six-cylinder tractor in
good shape so I wasn't in low gear
too much. And when she got roll
ing in high gear the tires hummed.
"Coming up the hill I saw the
flares ahead. There was an old
four-cylinder truck with a hand
crank engine stalled In the road.
The driver couldn't get the starter
to work and was waiting for a bus.
"On the way in I passed some
poultry haulers with the outside
dual wheels off the pavement la
the dust. To slow down I applied
the air brakes easily becauac the
brakes were grabbing a little.
"In town 1 unhooked the aemi
trailer and drove the tractor over
to get some coffee."
Simple, huh?
SUDDEN THAWf ... I n mid
ocean there's a 11m you can cross
and lose ? day. There's another
one on the highway where you can
do even hotter.