CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
Cartarat Coaaty'i Nawiptp?r
EDITORIALS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1957
Cities Study Taxes
The studies made by legislative com
mittees on state problems are being
closely examined. TI?e study on tax re
vision is no exception and going over
that study with a fine-tooth comb is
the League of Municipalities.
The league is composed of North
Carolina towns. Beaufort, Morehead
City and Newport are members. At a
recent meeting of the executive and
legislative committees of the league,
the league released its report on the
tax recommendations.
Towns are particularly interested in
tax revision because they have long
been feeling the squeeze when it comes
to tax money. Uncle Sam gets a lion's
share. The state gets its hand in the
taxpayer's pocket and then what's left
the towns have to fight for.
For this reason city dwellers and
those living on the fringe of cities may
soon find that they will have certain
new "charges" to meet. These charges
may not be labeled "taxes" but they
will be fees that towns will find they
must charge if they are to continue ser
vices that people have been accustomed
to.
For example, city dwellers expect
that the town will keep streets in good
shape. The number of automobiles is
increasing. Yet the number of people
living in cities is decreasing. They are
moving to the suburbs.
The people who "get away from the
city" usually work in town, though.
Their children ride in buses to town
schools. The town has no way of mak
ing those folks help to keep up the
streets; the burden falls on the town
Jweller who has to foot the bill for the
man who has moved to the suburb but
gets just as much pleasure from fine
city streets as his city neighbor.
Thus the new tax study recommends
that the state pass a law which would
allow levying a fee up to $10 a year
on each motor vehicle, including those
owned by suburban residents.
Should such a law be passed, towns
could levy the tax only if they chose to
do so. For example, town A may find
that it can meet expenses without it;
town B may find it necessary to levy a
$5 auto tax. In other words, if the state
law goes into effect it is merely on the
books and the state says to the towns,
"You can do this if you want to."
The League of Municipalities has
taken no formal stand on the tax study
recommendations. As Mayor George
Dill, Morehead City, who is vice-presi
dent of the league, has said, the tax re
visions may never get before the legis
lature in their present form. The league
is gratified, however, that the state at
long last has recognized the "financial
plight of the municipalities."
We don't know who is going to final
ly recognize the financial plight of the
taxpayer, but most city dwellers would
be happy to see their tax burden shared
by folks who live outside the city, yet
enjoy city privilages such as paved
streets, fire protection, schools, shop
ping districts, and traffic control.
Always Welcome . . .
The Board of Conservation and De
velopment at its recent meeting at Ra
leigh approved a regulation which says
that the board does NOT have to meet
at Morehead City every July. Under
the new arrangement the board is re
quired only to meet at least once a year
in a coastal spot.
Now we can easily see why other
North Carolina coastal towns would
like to play host to the board but we
hope that the board does not interpret
its new regulation as meaning that it
shouldn't meet in Morehead City any
more this century!
Frankly, we think Morehead City is
a most ideal spot. The commercial fish
eries building provides more than ade
quate facilities; the sound and ocean
can't be beat for a summer setting; and
when it comes to fisheries, Carteret is
undeniably the state's focal point with
its fishery laboratories and college sta
tions, as well as its commercial fishing
enterprises.
So.th# board <nay hang its h?t jjf)*
July somewhere other than here ? out
we hope our C&D friends remember
that Carteret's welcome mat is always
out.
Hospital Grows
Letting of the contract for the new
hospital wing and medical center at Sea
Level Community Hospital is good
ne^s.
Since the half million dollar hospital
was built in 1953, a nurses' home has
been added, and now, less than four
years after the hospital opened its
doors, major expansion is under way.
The hospital addition will increase
the bed capacity to approximately 50.
This means that the staff of the hos
pital will grow too.
Adding the clinic will moan that the
doctors will have their own offices and
waiting rooms (places where patients
wait impatiently). The doctors in More
head City are interested in such a cen
ter too. Instead of offices being scatter
ed hither and yon, doctors are consider
ing one "medical building," which
would, preferably, be located near the
Morehead City Hospital.
This would be convenient both for
the doctors who regularly visit the hos
pital and for the patients who could
drop in to see their doctor while "down
town."
Growth of the Sea Level Hospital is
positive proof that location of a hospital
east of Beaufort was a wise decision.
The people of the down east communi
ties have certainly benefited ? as has
the entire county. In serving one man,
one woman, or one child, the whole of
humanity is served.
Curbing the Threat
This is the month when the nation is
invited to contribute to the Heart Fund.
In the words of Dwight D. Eisen
hower, "th? heart diseases constitute a
foremost national health problem and
pose a constant threat for almost every
American family."
Among the leaders of the crusade
against the heart diseases is the Ameri
can Heart Association. Through its 57
affiliates, including the North Carolina
Heart Association, and its chapters
throughout the state, it is conducting
the 1957 Heart Fund drive in an effort
to control the heart diseases that are
responsible for 53 per cent of all deaths
at all ages.
The Heart Fund makes possible a
broad program of research, profes
sional and lay education, and commun
ity heart services ? the front line of
attack against the heart killers. Re
member ? when you help the Heart
Fund, you help your heart.
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Here and There
The following information is ta
ken from the filei of the Morehead
City Coaster:
FRIDAY, FEB. 1, 1S1X
The Rev. J. M. Willis who oc
cupied the pulpit of the Baptist
church, returned to Sanford Mon
day.
Mrs. Mary Headen left Tuesday
for Chapel Hill where she was
callcd to the bedside of Mrs. Rob
ert Stroud, who passed away Wed
nesday.
Miss Janice Leary arrived in
the city Wednesday night from
Vanceboro to attend the funeral
of her uncle, the late A. S. Wills.
Miss Blanche Hamilton of At
lantic was in the city Wednesday.
Miss Vclma Canfield who teach
es school near Dover is spending
a few days here.
Miss Mattie Wade is spending
a few days with her mother, Mrs.
Ago** WMe.
Mr. and Mrs. Graham Duncan
of Beaufort passed through the
city Tuesday enroute to New Bern.
Lt. Banks Arendell of Raleigh,
stationed at Camp Jackson, is
spending a few days in the city.
Mr. and Mrs. John Rose of Cape
Lookout are in the city.
Scout leader J. G. McKcnzie
took the local brigade of Boy
Scouts on a long hike Sunday af
ternoon, giving them the first out
ing they have had in some time.
The Rev. Theodore B. Davis,
superintendent of the Kennedy
Home, will conduct services, morn
ing and evening, at the First Bap
tist Church.
George Alferman, a German
subject, was on Friday of last
week taken to Beaufort by Sheriff
T. M. Thomas, upon the charge of
making seditious remarks, so it
is said. Alferman, a member of
the crew of one of the German
ships that were interned at Wil
mington, came to this city and
has been working here since then.
He married Nellie Lewis, the
daughter of Capt. Joe B. Lewis.
G. W. Stancil has announced
that he will be 74 on next Monday
and invites his many friends to
call upon him during the after
noon.
The death of Mrs. Amanda
Small Morton, wife of Clyde D.
Morton of Beaufort occurred Tues
day night. She was the daughter
of B. F. Small of Sea Level.
The firm of J. M. Paver, Chi
cago, has sent to J. E. Woodland
of this city a check for $50, to aid
the people of Atlantic following
the severe wind storm of two
weeks ago.
Capt. Ira T. Willis has returned
to Wilmington, Del., after spend
ing a few days here on account
of the illness of his son, William.
Alvin S. Willis, prominent citi
zen, died here suddenly Tuesday
afternoon. He was born at Smyrna
in 1859. He taught school at sev
eral places in the county, was
sheriff one term and served two
different terms as postmaster of
this city. He married Charlotte
Davis of Smyrna who survives
with a son Cleveland L., and a
daughter, Mrs. D. B. Gaskill.
A Time for All Things
The situation has grown so seri
ous, reports say from Charlotte,
that a group of citizens calling
themselves the Parents' League
have organized to fight the ten
dency to push children into ab
normally early social life.
It is most disgusting, the tcn
dcucy, we note now and then,
when mothers unduly push their
young daughters out in the world,
and encourage courtships and late
hours when they arc in their early
teens.
But how far worse it is when we
learn that "children from six to
10 are pushed socially from the
first grade on: they become flabby
from riding everywhere because
they haven't time to walk; pouring
soft drinks and catsup on each
other at adult type parties for
which they are too young; children
driving automobiles before the le
gal age with their parents' per
mission."
A panel of mothers made a re
port that "lipstick is seen in the
sixth grade and almost always
worn by seventh grade girls. Sixth
graders go to weekly ballroom
dancing classes that last more than
eight months, and attend tea
dances in formal dress given at
the dancing schools."
The situation has gone to ex
tremes until now Boy Scouts arc
asked to give up their camping
trips in the woods and stay home
so the girls will have dance part
ners.
Nature has created humanity so
there ia a time for all things. No
Smil? a While
A visiting Texan tipped a waiter
$100 in a Chicago restaurant.
"I beg your pardon, air," gasped
the startled man. "Do you raaltze
how much you Juat gave me?"
"That's to teach you a lesson
boor," growled the Texan. "I didn't
leave my__ usual Up because I
wasn't Wo'aatlafled with your ser
vice."
- Qmig
good can come of pushing children
into an early social life before
they hnvc known fully the exhila
rating fun of wholesome athletic
activity and recreation. They soon
get bored with an early and arti
ficial social life which never can
have its fullest meaning for them
before the time when nature has
prepared them mentally, physical
ly and spiritually to enter into suc
ceeding phases and partake of life
at its fullest and best. Nothing is
to be gained by making them
world-weary and tired before col
lege age. 1$a6c parents who are
so stupid and silly as to fall into
this pattern, would be laughable
and ridiculous to the extreme were
they not so disgustingly tragic.
? Coastland Times
The Readers Write
Jan. 27, 1957
To the Cditoi :
It seemed to me an unhappy cir
cumstance that a nurse had to be
the first to write in defense of the
excellent nursing servicc at our
Morehead City Hospital.
There must be many in our
county who have known the kind
ness and skill of our nurses, and
who should be happy to speak up
for them. But since Ruth Deyo
followed up with her letter of Jan.
25, which covered the ground com
petently, I will now add my two
cents' worth:
Before moving down here, I had
spent several terms in three of
what are considered the best hos
pitals in Pittsburgh, Pa. In none
of them did I receive more effi
cient or gracious nursing care ?
or medical attention ? than I did
during the periods I spent in our
Morehead City Hospital, where I
underwent two operations.
Elinore Cowan Stone
Author of the Week
Joseph Wood Krutch, author of
"The Great Chain of Life," comes
from Knoxville, Tenn., and now
lives in Tucson, Ariz. A graduate
of the University of Tennessee, he
taught at Columbia, and wrote
drama criticism for 30 years.
Among his other books, "The
Measure of Man" won him the Na
tional book award for non-fiction
in 1954.
It is more blessed to give than
to rcceive ? and it is deductible.
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Words of Inspiration
FACTS *
1. Man own* one thins; hi* will. ,(
2. Time cannot be saved; it can only be uaed.
3. The biggest cemetery in the world is the one where talent*
are buried. ^
4. Giving ia a natural law in the spiritual world.
5. Money ia life in conccntrated form.
6. Riches become a curse when they are secured at the cost of
society.
7. World missions is not an outside cause.
?Royal Service
A Big League baseball manager once declared that he br.d rather
have the public feel extremely doubtful early in the season regarding the
chances of his team to win the championship than have them feel that
it was more or less a foregone conclusion that the team was bound to
win. Cocksureness, he implied, could not fail to have a bad effect upon
the players, whereas public skepticism as to their winning qualities
acted upon them as a challenge.
There is wisdom in this for individuals and for business concerns.
The man who is smugly confident that he has arrived is ripe for the re
turn trip. So is the business concern. A measure of self-confidence,
even a large measure of self-confidence, is an asset when you are bat
tling to forge your way to the top.
Cocksurencss is not an asset, but a liability, a handicap. Have faith
that you can win if you put forth the very best that is in you. But
recognize always that you will not win jf you don't. The baseball man
ager had the right slant.
Figure it out for yourself.
You've all that the greatest have had;
Two arms, two hands, two legs, two eyes.
And a brain to use if you would be wise.
With this equipment they ail began.
So start from the lop and say, "1 can."
Look them over, the wise and the great,
They take their food from a common plate,
And similar knives and forks they use,
With similar laces they tic their shoes;
The world considers them brave and smart.
But you've all they had when they made their start.
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You arc the handicap you must face.
You are the one must choose your place,
You must say where you want to go,
How much you will study the truth to know;
God has equipped you for life, but He
Lets you decide what you want to be.
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Courage must come from the soul within,
You must furnish the will to win.
So figure it out for yourself; "*
You were born with all that the great have had;
With your equipment they all began.
Get hold of yourself and say, "I can."
? Unknown ^
From the Bookshelf
The Groat Migrations. By Geor
ges Blond. Translated from French
by Frances Frenaye. Macmillan.
Do you get the wanderlust? You
still can resist it, and nature lets
you off easy compared to the in
exorable compulsion* visited on
entire species of living creatures.
Blond has investigated some of
them, or compiled the investiga
tions of experts, and treated the
"material not as a scientist but
as a writer."
He chose the grunions, herring,
salmon and eels; the flights of
graylag geese; the buffalo herds;
the swarms of locusts; and finally
the lemming.
These creatures all have in com
mon some urge that sets them on
the move at specified seasons of
the year, or at a time when they
arc too crowded, or when the pull
of the moon makes itself felt.
It doesn't happen to one locust
but to all so that vast clouds of
them obscure the sky. It doesn't
happen to one salmon but to all
the salmon loitering out in their
hidden deep-sea fastnesses, so
that they turn and beat their way,
though it may kill them, up the
stream from which they came to
the pool where they can mate.
The lemmings do not swerve
from the farm in their path, and
geese go on despite the peasants
with their clubs and dogs, the
buffalo plunge fatally over the
cliff.
This imaginative nature writing
is as good as half a dozen short
stories, indeed, it's better. Blond
wonders; excitingly, whether there
isn't a bit of the lemming, the eel,
the salmon in mankind; whether
the same irresistible cosmic forces
don't have their inscrutable way
with us, too.
? W. G. Rogers
The Decisive Battle of Nashville,
by Stanley F. Horn. Louisiana
State University Press.
Nashville was the one battle o(
the Civil War which ended in total
defeat and rout. John B. Hood's
Army of Tennessee never amount
ed to anything as a fighting force
after it was smashed by George
Thomas in front of Nashville Dcc.
15-16, 1864.
Horn describes the battle in tha
bold framework of Hood's desper
ate gamble to invade Tennessee
and Kentucky. He is not compli
mentary to Hood's generalship;
Thomas emerges as author of a
battle plan which has been hailed
as "a perfect exemplification of
the art of war."
Horn's over-all thesis that Nash
ville was THE decisive battle of
the war is open to argument.
There is no gainsaying that it was
the most conclusive in results,
and that it smashed the Confed
eracy's western power.
The argument comes on the
question whether Nashville would
have been so conclusive had it not
been preceded by the disastrous
battle of Franklin, where Hood
lost 8,000 men. It would seem
much sounder to refer to the de
cisive Franklin - Nashville cam
paign than to the decisive Nash
ville battle.
?Bob Price
Stamps in the News
By 8TD KRONISH
A new airmail stamp has been
issued by Mexico to. honor the 4th
meeting of Latin American na
tions located on the Carribean
Sea. The 25 ccntavos blue stamp
shows a map of the area. Also
Issued by Mexico was a new 35
ccntavos violet special delivery
stamp Illustrating a dove and a
pair of bands.
Eight new stamps have been is
sued by New Hebrides, reports the
New York Stamp Co. This set
commemorates the 50th anniver
sary of the Condominium's exist
ence. The S cents and 10 centa
values show a sailing vessel super
imposed over a map of New He
brides and symbolizing the discov
ery of the territory in 1806. The
20 e and 50 c feature the French
and British symbol* ? Britannia
and La Marianne.
A duplicate aat is being issued
by France alnce the (roup of is
lands in the south Pacific (just
north 0 f New Caledooia) is under
Joint administration of Britain and
franco.
Canada collector! will have a
varied itamp fare this year.
The first >et on the philatelic
agenda, acheduled for March, has
an outdoor recreation theme em
phasizing that Canada is an "all
seasons playground." Depicted will
be such sports as skiing, fishing,
swimming and hunting.
In April, a stamp for the na
tional wildlife conservation pro
gram will be issued. In June, ex
plorer David Thompson will be
honored. Two adhesives honoring
the U. P. U. (Universal Postal
Union) are planned for August.
Later a 5-center will honor tlw
United Natlona Children's Fund.
To coincide with President Eisen
hower's inauguration, Monaco has
Issued a special first day cover
franked with a set of four large
Monaco stamps picturing U.S.
Presidents Eisenhower, Lincoln,
Waahlngtoa, and F. D. Roosevelt.
Collectors in this country still
can get these covers by sending
IS cents (each) to H. F. Harris
and Co., 3720 Transit Bldg., Bos
ton IT, Mas*.
Korea has issued three new
stamps to commemorate "postal
day" in that country, according
to Stamps magasine. The 10-hwan
green depicts the central poet of
fice building. The 50 hwan red
abows the first Korean stamp. The
55-hwsn green illustrates mail be
ing delivered ty donkey.
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