Here's Why We're Proud
Visitors to the Carteret coast fre
quently tell us that "We've got some
thing" and we all feci very proud of
this recognition but, too often, fail to
understand just what it is that we have.
Climate, water, fishing, etc., we take
for granted and let it go at that while
many of our visitors see things that we
completely overlook. .
This is emphasized by the frequency
with which visitors ask questions for
which they can get no satisfactory an
swer.
Certainly we know that there is
much fishing and that foreign ships
call at our port. Too, there are some
few manufacturing plants in this coun
ty, but except for those who are direct
ly connected with one of these activi
ties, how much do the rest of us know
about them.
This lack of knowledge is our own
fault for local news media are contin
ually bombarding us with information
while we pay little attention to any
event that does not directly concern us
as individuals.
There is where we miss the boat, for
all such development concerns all of us
vitally.
While it would be highly desirable
to have sales people proclaiming the
advantages of this area throughout the
length and breadth of the land, we are,
unfortunately, unable to do so, but we
do have people from everywhere visit
us right here "on location" every sum
mer.
I
If we, every one of us, would take
the trouble to keep ourselves informed
concerning activities in our area we
could all be sales people of the finest
sort.
If you think that you already know
all about everything, then just try to
mentally locate all of the churches in
your town. Have you ever seen the
new County Health Center just north
of the Court House Annex in Beaufort,
or didn't you know it was there?
Some of us have never even visited
Fort Macon and we have no idea as to
what Emerald Isle looks like to say
nothing of what might be in those
warehouses at the Port Terminal.
What does it ma iter? Well, visitors
want to know and if we are to sell the
advantages of this place to others we
must know too.
This newspaper has told us about
all of these things and will do so many
times again so let's pay attention to
everything in Carteret County in order
that we may, in turn, talk intelligently
and enthusiastically about this garden
spot that we call home. ? George W.
Dill, Mayor of Morchcad City.
The Empty Lunch Plate
Although Bchool is not in session, any
time of the year is a good time to think
about welfare of our children. One of
the programs which directly affects
their well-being is the school lunch pro
gram.
Did you know that there are many
children who cannot afford to buy
those 25-cent lunches? Civic organiza
tions have usually given five or ten dol
lars a year to the school in their com
munity to provide lunches for the chil
dren who otherwise wouldn't get them.
Some organizations muy give more, but
the amount doesn't come anywhere
near meeting the cost.
For example, at Beaufort School dur
ing the past year between 70 and 75
free lunches were given a day. With
180 days in the school year, that means
that free lunches costing nearly $3,000
are served. During 1956-57 a total of
$280 was given the school to help feed
the children who could not afford the
hot meals.
That leaves a tremendous deficit, a
deficit which is made up by the state
and federal government. One's imme
diate reaction to that information is, "If
the government pays the balance, why
should we worry?"
Too often we forget the old saw,
"You never get something for nothing.
We pay, one way or another, for every
thing the government gives away
"free". If school lunchroom deficits
keep mounting, it could probably be
that the day will come when the cost
of school lunches will be raised. Then
this will increase the number of chil
dren who can no longer afford to pay,
and more will be placed on the list of
those needing free lunches.
The local school districts are re
quested to support the school lunch
program to the best of their ability.
We believe Carteret communities could
do more than they are. We would like
to see the Christmas spirit of giving
spread more evenly throughout the
year.
Perhaps civic clubs could adopt ? in
September?a really worthwhile school
'lunch project as their Christmas char
ity program. Fifty or a hundred dol
lars, per club, would go a long way to
ward keeping youngsters well-fed the
year around. Now civic groups give
their mere five or ten dollars, and their
conscience is clear on the school lunch
subject.
The value of a good meal at school
was dramatically shown at the W. S.
King School last year where a little un
dernourished lad gained 9 pounds in 14
days after he started eating regularly
at the lunchroom. The meals were pro
vided for him free.
September will be here in jig-time.
When civic organizations or church
groups plan their fall and winter pro
grams, it would be beneficial to many
children if they would give more than
just a few dollars to the school lunch
program.
Comedy and Tragedy
(Greensboro Daily News)
The Italian movie-makers at best are
hard to beat.
After World War II they produced
several eloquent, moving portraits of
love, hunger, humor, greed and pathos
of people under stress (notably The Bi
cycle Thief). Since then one of their
producers, Vittorio De Sica, has intro
duced a scries of lovely Italian movie
queens to American audiences, Gina
Lollabrigida, Silvana Mangano and
now?Sophia Loren.
Miss Loren, already seen hereabouts
in Boy On a Dolphin, is currently on
view in The Gold of Naples, and she is
something to sec. This group of four
vignettes is warm with life. At times it
is absurdly funny, then full of pathos,
then poignant. It deals with the ele
mental forces of life. Its children are
magnificent.
In The Gold of Naples it is easy to
see what the great writers of literature
and drama have always Been: That the
line between tragedy and comedy is
thin. Wo have seen few scenes better
illustrative of this than one in which
a bereaved husband is being comforted
by his friends; it is sad and funny at
the same time; and the audience is not
exactly sure when to laugh and when
to cry.
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NCFA Presents Good Case
The testimony presented by the
North Carolina Fisheries Associa
tion at the Drum Inlet hearing last
week was excellent ? at least in
my estimation. The Army en
gineers may think differently. But
I don't sec how they could fail to
be impressed with the men from
Atlantic and other down east com
munities ? good, solid fishermen
who got up and presented their
points thoroughly and quickly like
"expert testifiers."
All the evidence had to be
planned, of course, and fishermen
saw Monday morning that the
North Carolina Fisheries Associa
tion is doing a whale of a job for
them.
Any fisherman who is not a
member of the association should
take a second look. The NCFA is
in there fighting battles, as no or
ganization has done for the fisher
men of North Carolina ever before.
Charlie Markcy was beating his
brains out last week (that's his
favorite pastime). He was getting
ready for the centennial party and
fashion show at the Morchcad Bilt
more Friday night. The fashion
show presented its problems. Says
Charlie: "I never had so much
trouble with dresses before in my
life!"
By the time you read this I'll
probably be somewhere gnawing
on a rock in the Grand Canyon.
Arizona, that is.
The tour lasts 22 days and start
ed June 15 in Chicago. We, my
mother and I, are taking this 22
day jaunt which will put us back
in Chicago ? barring train wreck
and flood ? July 6 1 hope.
I have serious doubts as to how
much of a traveler I am. My idea
of a vacation is to go some place,
stay put and snooze. There's all
the hub-bub of "getting ready" to
go some place for any length of
time.
On previous trips there was al
ways the planning, getting reserva
tions, the driving, etc., and I need
ed a vacation more when I got
back than when I left. But not this
time ? no sirrec ? somebody is
going to plan the whole business.
Theoretically, I will have no wor
ries.
If I keep half my wits about me,
there will be no wrong buses like
there was that one time in New
York City when I got on a bus that
took me to Newark airport instead
of La Guardia. At Newark airport
1 discovered my mistake (some
times it takes a long time for the
light to dawn) and practically had
to throw myself under the wheels
of the plane to keep it from taking
off for Puerto Rico with my bag
gage. All I wanted to do was to go
to New Bern, N. C.
Getting fouled up there meant a
flight later only as far as Norfolk
and then a bus into Beaufort. As I
said before, I have serious doubts
about this business of travelling.
I'm probably biting off more
than I can chew, but I'm going to
try to do a Salisbury travelogue.
In other words, write a play-by
play day-by-day tale of what we're
doing and why. First installment
of such should appear next Tues
day. But if you don't see it, it will
probably be because I REALLY de
cided to take a VACATION.
Free Wheeling
By BILL CROWELL
Department of Motor Vehicles
TEENICIDE . . . Imaginative
teenagers have dreamed up so
many ways to turn an automobile
into a steel coffin that quite a
lew dictionaries now carry a word
?"teenicidc"?to describe such in
sanity.
All that's needed lor the sport
is a car. the family car or the
youth's own hot rod will do nicely,
and no brains at all. In a pinch
you can include Tar Heel drag
racers, although plain high speed
races on the highways arc partic
ularly unexciting compared with,
say, "charioteer."
This bit of frolic makes Ben Ilur
look like an old maid school teach
er on a quiet Sunday drive. Let's
thank our stars the Highway Pa
trol has had no reports of "cha
rioteering" in North Carolina
(yet), but state police in Iowa are
still mopping their brows over it.
This quaint pasttimc begins
when the teenager ties a rope
around the steering wheel, rigging
so that the car can be steered from
the back scat A friend lies on the
floor to operate the gas pedal,
brake and clutch at the chari
oteer's command. Get the picture?
Many of the new "games" derive
from the well-publicized "chicken,"
in which a car load of youngsters
hit the pike at speeds up to 7S
miles an hour?and the driver
takes his hands off the wheel.
Everybody in the car hovers
over the driver and the first one
to get frightened and grab the
wheel is "chicken."
Delightful, huh?
Another variation uncovered by
incredulous police is called "joust
ing." After casually checking traf
fic, two drivers line their cars up
several hundred feet apart and
heading toward each other. At a
signal they hit the gas and aim
for each other's grill picking up
as much speed as possible. The
driver who first swerves aside to
avoid a crash is the loser in the
contest ? according to the rules.
But it's hard to get details because
there usually aren't any survivors.
Wanta play?
The ultimate stamp of idiocy
was demonstrated a couple of
months ago when police discovered
two teenage lads sitting back to
back on the ccnterlinc of a heavily
traveled turnpike. With cars zoom
ing by on each side of them, they
admitted no other explanation for
such madness than "seeing who
had the most guts."
SUDDEN THAWT ... Some mo
torists you sec arc in such a hurry
to get into the next county that
they go right on into the next
world.
NO FABLE ... Safety was worth
writing about 850 years before the
birth of Christ. These words in
Aesop's Fables have a familiar
ring: , .
look before you leap.
Fear makes caution.
Danger awaits on haste.
Happy is the man who learns
from the misfortunes of others.
An optimist is one who, instead
of feeling sorry he cannot pay his
bills, is glad he is not one of his
creditors.
r HOUtt WOtKID m WtIK
IN MANUMCTURINO
> y, NAM In. G?i I
Author of the Week
Waller Lord, author of "Day of
Infamy," was born in Baltimore,
Md., 40 years ago, and has been
writing for 10 years. He hit best
sellerdom with "A Night to Re
member," published in 1955, and
his new book is a Book-of-thc
Month Club selection.
Lord has degrees from Prince
ton and Yale, he has traveled in
Europe, the Caribbean and Hawaii,
where he researched for "Day of
Infamy," and he has written one
popular song, "The Third Man
Theme."
In the Good Old Days
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Beaufort school trustees decided
(o add a domestic science depart
ment to the school curriculum.
The Joseph llousc drug store in
Beaufort was being remodeled.
William Garner of Beaufort res
cued Mrs. J. W. Harrell Jr. of
Rocky Mount from drowning.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
A new beauty shop owned and
operated by Miss Irene Smith was
opening in the Taylor building,
Beaufort.
Newport organized a chamber of
commerce with R. S Tilden,
chairman; and W. W. Adams, sec
retary. William M. Bell and J. l5
Shull were members of the beard
of directors.
Beaufort school had 19 teachers
allotted to It; six were high school
teachers and II were elementsry
teachers.
TEN YEARS AGO
John Lynch of Beaufort saved
I.cslic Lawrence of Otway from
drowning when Leslie fell into Tay
lors Creek from the Inlet Inn dock.
Corctla Thompson of Morchcad
City was named Misa Morchcad
City.
The United Slates senate agreed
to appropriate money to restore the
US Fisheries Biological Laboratory
at Pivcrs Island.
FIVE YEARS AGO
The Beaufort Choral Club, Mrs.
Charles Ifasaell director, present
ed Parade of Stars.
A Coast Guardsman, stationed
on board the Conifer, drowned
while swimming at the Port Ter
ns Beaufort and Morehead City
' recreation program open
Words of Inspiration
rUENDMIP
Friendship and understanding in the family depends on personal
sacrifice and special attention just as they do everywhere else.
Some make the mistake of confining their exertions only to persona
thought worth cultivating. Some are interested only in people, not for
people's sake, but for their own sake. Some are not concerned with
what they can do for others, but what they can do for themselves.
These, instead of pouring out happiness generally, sprinkle only drops
at carefully chosen points and wonder why these seeds do not bear fruit.
These seeds develop and do bear fruit bountifully. But the fruit is not
recognized by the owner who thought that he sowed seed of altruism and
love when he selfishly attempted to better himslf by favoring those who
in turn could help him.
Whether our acts of consideration for others be large or small the
principle is the same. If we made the conscious and frequent effort of
treating others with consideration, the effect on ourselves individually
and on society as a whole would be amazing. Not only would our own
personalities rise to a much higher level, the "personality" of the nation
would improve.
ilcre is the homely road, the human road, and probably the only
road by which we can achieve that which we all desire.
Experience is not simply what happens to you, but what that some
thing which happens to you docs to you. ? Dr. J. D. Riley
It's the little things of everyday life that mean so much ? remem
bering an anniversary, a birthday, and other important dales. A word
of cheer now and then, often changes one's whole outlook.
FRIENDSHIP IS LIKE WEATHER
Friendship, my friend, is like the weather;
Sometimes for days and days together
There's not a cloud ? the sun will shine,
For I'm your friend, and you are mine.
So let's cheer up, forget and smile;
It can't be sunny all the while
Look up and laugh through tears and rain,
Forgive, and let's be friends again.
? Unknown
KEEP FRIENDS WITH YOURSELF
The late Sir Henri Deterding, Dutch-born British magnate of far
flung enterprises of colossal dimensions surely must have known some
thing about "worry" if anyone did. Once he said this about it:
"It's worry that chisels the lines in a man's face. And there is, in
most cases, only one cause for worry. We do not worry so much about
the different problems we have. The thing that makes us worry is the
feeling that we have not done all that we should have done to meet a
situation.
Most real, heart-eating worry comes from self-reproach. I try to
avoid that. If, during the day, I look squarely at every problem, and
do the very best that is in me to meet it, why, at night when I go to
bed. I can feel friendly with myself and sleep soundly.
If there is in my mind a feeling that I neglected something, or did
not meet some issue squarely, or that I trid to escape it, or did not
give the job my best, I feel unfriendly with myself, and 1 am worried,
and my sleep is slow to come. And so I try to keep friends with myself."
PORTRAITS
I thank You, God, for all the friends . . . Who comfort me today . . .
And who are helpful to me in . . . Whatever other way ... If only by
their brief hello ... A handshake on the street ... Or messages by mail
or phone . . . That makes my joy complete.
Especially I thank You for . . . Those friends forever true . . . Whose
kindness is above and far . . . Beyond their call to do . . . Who never
deem a sacrifice . . . Too great or small to make ... As long as it will
do some good . . . For someone else's sake . . . Who makes that special
effort to ... Be friendly as can be ... I thank you, and I ask You,
God ... To bless their souls for me. ? James J. Metcalfe
Washington Report
By SENATOR W. KERR SCOTT
Washington ? More and more
people these days arc asking:
What's happening to the postal ser
vice?
Postmaster General Summer
field contends that Congress has
reduced his operating funds too
much and service cutbacks arc
necessary. Furthermore, he says,
he will cut service some more if
Congress doesn't give him ano
ther 149 million dollars to operate
the post office system next year.
It is true that the cost of oper
ating the postal service is increas
ing, but this is a small part of
the true facts about our post ser
vice today.
Our postal service has been
growing steadily worse for some
time, and the cause is not a short
age of funds.
The real reason is the fact the
Eisenhower Administration has,
for all practical purposes, turned
our post offices into hotbeds of
politics.
As a result of this, morale is
very low among the thousands of
career post office workers. The
low morale of these public ser
vants can be traced directly to
the shoddy way the post office de
partment is being directed at the
policy level.
When Postmaster Summcrficld
took over the department in 1953,
he quite naturally wanted to put
as many Republicans in high
places as possible.
Under the law, his hands were
tied when it came to the postmas
tcrs, because these arc lifetime
civil service appointments.
But Mr. Summorfield has used
a shrewd?and effective?method
to get at the postmasters.
Mr. Summerfield used the re
organization of the postal system
in 1953 not only as a new way to
oversee and supervise the nation's
post offices, but as an effective
weapon to put the post offices on
as near a political organization
basis as possible.
Prior to 1953, the entire system
was operated out of Washington.
But under the reorganization plan,
regional and district offices
throughout the nation supervise
and control local post offices.
The regional and district offices
have been loaded to the hilt with
political appointees, many of whom
make it their business to harrass
and pester postmasters to the
point where they cither resign or
retire in frustration and disgust.
Of course, each time a postmas
ter throws in the towel and quits,
another political appointment can
be made.
In the process, the career postal
workers become discouraged and
lose faith in the service, which in
turn means a serious deterioration
in public service in Ibc handling
of mail.
In the name of economy, Mr.
Summerfield has curtailed win
dow and delivery services at thou
sands of offices, consolidated rural
routes and done any number of
other things to "shake up" and
cut back service to the public.
Actually, instead of economizing
for the good of the public, he has
padded the district and regional
offices and overloaded the system
with administrative jobs for poli
tical friends of the administration.
It has been impossible for Con
gress to find out exactly bow
much additional money it has cost
the taxpayers to operate the re
gional and district offices. That is
a figure that would naturally em
barrass Mr. Summerfield in all
his talk of economy. However,
conservative estimates show that
it has cost about 15 million dollars
additional each year to operate
the regional and district offices.
This is money that should go to
ward giving better postal service,
but in reality it baa been adminis
tered in such a way aa to be a
detriment to good service.
I am certain Mr. Summerfield
will continue to have his troubles
with Congress until he is willing
to take some of the politics and
sorry management practices out
of the postal system.
Don't worry about finding your
proper place in life; somebody is
sura to tell you where to go.