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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
Carteret County'* Ntwipaptr
EDITORIALS
TUESDAY, APRH 22. 1958
John Doe vs. Hospital?
If a person dies in a hospital, can
family survivors take action to recover
"damages"?
Occasionally this question is raised,
especially if the family believes that
death was caused by negligence on the
part of hospital personnel, improper
administration of medication, improper
use ? or failure of ? equipment in
the hospital.
A search of legal cases and records
would be necessary to report whether
such cases have been taken to court
and what the outcome was. A cursory
check indicates that such eases are rare
and if they do occur, the persons bring
ing suit are seldom successful.
The reasons are somewhat obvious: .
1. A person who enters a hospital
for treatment usually goes of his own
free will. If he is a child, he is put
there by the conscnt of parents or
guardian. In the case of accident, and
a person is unconscious, officers or
others at the scene are required to of
fer aid and assistance. This is general
ly interpreted to mean that the victim,
who cannot think for himself, must be
taken to a place where he can get the
necessary care. Most people agree that
such a place is a hospital.
2. The medical and nursing profes
sion boast of a high code of ethics. Most
of the people in those professions live
up to that code. This, however, has
many ramifications. An extreme case
of negligence or maltreatment would
have to occur before any member of
the profession would testify in court
against a fellow member. It is extreme
ly important to doctors and nurses,
economically and professionally, that
the public's faith not be shaken in med
icine and hospitals. .
It is extremely important tttihe pub
lic, too, that their faith not be shaken,,
for the greatest doctors readily admit
that muc|i healing comes from the faith
people have in those who minister to
them.
3. Proof of negligence, maltreatment
or failure of equipment used in treat
ment is difficult to establish.
Through the years, the medical pro
fession, nursing profession and hos
pitals have established a reputation
that people may, occasionally, survey
questioningly, but never openly chal
lenge.
If some persons have died because
of treatment they received at the hands
of doctors or nurses or while in a hos
pital, there have been hundreds of
thousands more who have been saved.
With all their skill, dedication to hu
manity and sincere desire to help those
who arc suffering, hospital personnel
and doctors and nurses are only hu
man. They make mistakes, as do all of
us. Some of those mistakes, may oc
cur because hospitals are crowded and
understaffed, not because of willfuj
wrongdoing on the part of personnel.
Persons may want, in their grief, to
find fault with those who ministered to
a loved one who has died. But to carry
such a case to the courts would prob
ably be as foolish as refusing to take
a seriously ill person to the hospital!
Another Borden Mace Film . . .
Among the native sons of whom Car
teret is proud, Borden Mace would cer
tainly be numbered.
Mr. Mace, son of Mrs. Maybelle
Mace, Beaufort, as associate producer
with Louis de Rochemont, shares the
success of their new film, Windjam
mer.
The focal point of the fila* is ft
square rigged sailing ship. The movie
is the story of a journey of this ship,
the Christian Kadich. It is filmed in a
widcscrecn process that captures the
vastness of the sea and big adventures.
Here are some of the stories that have
come out of the filming . . .
The windjammer was only a short
time out of Oslo when, in the Bay of
Biscay, she was struck full-blast by a
hurricane. So severely did the storm
rage that not only the production but
the lives of all aboard Radich were in
serious jeopardy.
For ten days the sailship fought the
storm while larger vessels, including
the French liner Liberte, returned to
home port. By the time the hurricane
abated, the 45 green cadets had re
ceived a crash course in seamanship,
and the camera crew had a hair-rais
ingly realistic storm sequence . . .
The most difficult shot, and the high
light of the island of Madeira sequence,
was a sled ride down a Madeiran
mountainside. The sled, mounted on
metal-edged wooden runners, hurtles
down a cobblestoned mountain road
and through the town.
To achieve audience participation,
de Rochemont installed the 600-pound
Cinemiracle camera in a special sled.
?This required some daring, for the
danger of a runaway camera was
great. But the gamble succeeded, and
the audience will feel the wind whist
ling about their cars as they race down
from the Monte of Madeira toward the
blue Atlantic . . .
On the island of St. Thomas, Pro
ducer de Rochemont prepared for his
second educated gamble with the cam
era to take audiences on a visit to the
underwater world.
The first footage shows a party of
cadets on a sub-surface inspection of
the British sailinjfship Rhone, sunk in
a hurricane of 1867. The second foot
age gives the audience a periscope view
of a submarine dive.
* One miirute the submariu^ is on the
surface ; an instant later the wide ocean
engulfs her and she is in an eerie realm
where porpoises seem to greet her as
they flash past her bow . . .
Many other adventures are filmed as
the Kadich sails 17,500 miles of the
Atlantic. The captain of the ship is 70
year-old Capt. Yngvar Kjclstrup, vet
eran of 55 years on the sea. The film
ends with the Radich standing idle in
Oslo, Norway, her home port. She ?
and "Windjammer" producers ? hav
ing proved that perhaps the days of
sailing ships are not dead, after all.
Giving with a Reason
"Thinking comes from the head but
giving cornea from the heart."
But giving is also a responsibility; it
involves thought and reason. The Cru
sade of the American Cancer Society
appeals to the heart, but also to the
sense of responsibility of thoughtful
Americans to help stajnp out a sinister
disease which kills a quarter of a mil
lion of us each year and which will
strike two out of every three American
families.
Industry and labor recognize this re
sponsibility in providing for health
checkups of workers.
This is encouraging progress, but
much more needs to be done through
research and education to help save
the 75,000 Americans who die every
year, needlessly, from cancer.
We can be thoughtful givers. We
give with our hearts, but we give with
a reason ? to fight the scourge of
cancer.
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Three File ; Two Will be Chosen
There's more lhan one candidate
for the state senate, as John Daw
son, retiring state senator predict
ed. This means some campaign
ing, for three have come, but only
two will be chosen: Clyde Sabiston,
Jacksonville; Jimmy Simpkins,
New Hern; and Judge Luther Ham
ilton, Morehead City.
Mr. Sabiston and the judge arc
old pros at the political game. Mr.
Simpkins is comparatively new, but
fired with ambition.
Things were comparatively quiet
in the courthouse in Beaufort Sat
urday as the filing deadline neared.
A couple minutes before noon (the
deadline) the few gathered, to
chcck on last-minute filers, were
saying "What time you got?" Noon
came and went without anything
unusual occurring.
'Ralph Paul, constable up Cedar
Point way, drove up about 10 after
12. He probably didn't intend to
file. Since he hasn't, of course,
that section will be without a con
stable after November, unless the
county board appoints one. Paul
was appointed by the board some
months back.
George Brooks, who was sup
posed to be the Republican candi
date for surveyor, must Ihink Phil
lip Ball is a pretty good surveyor.
Mr. Brooks didn't file, as was ex
pected, and thereby Mr. Ball has
no competition.
Morehead City seniors turned in
a fine performance Friday night in
their annual play, Everybody's
Crazy Now. They kept the audience
in stitches nine-tenths of the time.
The cast presented red roses to
Miss Ilorlcnse Boomer, who di
rected.
Speaking of theatre, a mother
cat has deposited her offspring on
nn old settee baekstage at the
recreation building. Morehcad City.
There are two tiger kittens and two
yellow kittens, cute as the dickens.
Two of the kittens have already
been spoken for, but if anybody is
interested in some theatrically
minded cats, get in touch with the
theatre's business manager, Frank
Carlson.
They're probably the only thing
backstage right now that he's will
ing to give away.
The name of this month, April,
is believed to have its origin in
the latin word, aperio, meaning "I
open." It's a time of opening for
leaf buds and flowers and gives us
the first preview of summer.
April has a reputation for rainy
weather. She has certainly lived
up to it this month. Weather rec
ords show that in modern times,
however, April is not the wettest
month anywhere in the United
States!
The reputation for dampness is
believed to come from the month's
moodiness ? sun one moment,
showers the next.
With so much rain here this
spring. I wonder if summer will
prove to be drought-dry.
The cabbages next door in Mr.
Captain Henry
Sou'easter
I hear that one of the county's
former residents was featured on
a local radio program called Col
lector's Corner. The program was
aptly named. He collected money
that belonged to other people and
cornered it ? for himself.
Everybody's giving away color tv
sets ? or so it seems. The Beau
fort Chamber of Commerce is of
fering tickets on a tv to help raise
money to pay its secretary. The
Morebead City Centennial commit
tee is giving away a color tv and
some other interesting gifts U> wipe
out the Centennial deficit.
I've beard mixed reactions to
color tv. Some say once you see
it, you're dissatisfied with black
and white. Others say that color
tv isn't so hot.
All I know is that if the first
mate and I win a color tv set, one
of us will have (o go. There's no
more room in the house for any
thing besides what we got already.
One of the eounty officials was
ailing recently. The report was that
he was home in bed with Arthritis.
Ask Dan Walker to tell you the
joke about Linoleum.
I read this the other day:
A young wife, just learning to
drive, had hopelessly gotten traffic
all snarled up in trying to make a
left turn at an Intersection. Ex
citedly. she turned to her husband ,
and asked what to do.
"I don't know," he calmly re
plied. "but I'm sure if you climb
into the back scat you can figure it
out."
May I say ? the lady may have
been young, but bcr husband had
been married long enough.
in TEE GOOD OLD DSTS
THIRTY YEAR8 AGO
Beaufort was to have a new
chain store. Rose's 5 and 10 would
open here within the next two
months.
Aycock Brown, who had been a
staff member of The Beaufort
News, had resigned and was now
connected with the Morehead City
Herald.
Charles 8. Wallace of Morehead
City had announced his candidacy
for state senator from the seventh
district.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
The Atlantic Hotel in Morehead
City was destroyed by fire.
Misa Marjorie Lewis and Mr.
Christopher Jones, both of Beau
fort, were married on April IT, in
St. Paul's Epiacopal Church.
TEN tEARS AGO
Twenty-two women from Beau
fort, Morehead City, and Daria
became charter members ?< the
Carteret B4PW Club, wblcb wan
organized this week. Mrs M. M.
Ayscuc was named president.
John Butler, Beaufort Jaycee
president, was chosen man of the
year in Beaufort.
Telephones were installed at
Markers Island and exchanges
were planned soon for Atlantic and
Marsballberg.
FIVE YEARS AGO
THE NEWS-TIMES received sec
ond prize in the National Editorial
Association Contest for the Port
and Progress Edition published in
August 1952. THE NEWS TIMES
entry woo over more than 1,200
other papers.
Eight American history pupils
and their teacher, Mrs. Theodore
Rondthaler, all of the Ocracoke
School, visited Waahington, D. C.
Political campaigns were grow
ing hotter as town elections for
both Beaufort and Morcbead City
drew near.
John Oglesby's "cabbage patch"
arc beauties. The wild rabbits
think so too. Several months ago,
the wild bunnies scampering
around were just little things. Now
they're big and fat. And I'm sadly
mistaken if they haven't devoured
a cabbage leaf or two.
Judge Lambert Morris says: "If
a man steals a chicken, they send
him to jail; if a man steals a rail
road, they send him to Congress!
A Little Boy Who
Had Three Friends
One day in the 1860's there land
ed at F.llis Island a young Hun
garian lad seeking entrance to the
United States. He had five cents
in his pocket, lie informed the
immigration officers that his par
ents had died, and* that he had a
burning desire to come to America.
The officials thought it foolish
to admit him, and were about to
return him to his native land, for
he was a potential public charge.
As a final question, one of the
officials asked him if he had any
friends in America.
"Oh, yes," declared the lad;
"Harriet Beechcr Stowe, Benjamin
Franklin, and Abraham Lincoln!"
The officials talked it over. Here
was a boy, all alone, with only
five cents in his pocket, but with
"three great friends" whom he
had never seen! They decided to
take a chance.
Today, if you talk over long-dis
tance telephone, you can thank
Michael Idvorsky Pupin, the little
boy with a nickel in his pocket,
the great American scientist and
inventor of the long-distance tele
phone?the little Hungarian immi
grant with three great American
friends.
Smile a While
A sensitive damsel in Butte,
Had a figure decidedly cutte,
Til a man with a quip,
Put his hand on her hip,
So she busted him one in the
snutte.
IwiIm Splvty <
Words of Inspiration
OBLIGATIONS
"We Americana arc a good people, but we have left our churches and
put away our hymnali. We believe In relifion, but we have ceased little
by little to practice it, and we have ceased little by little to practice
charity. We cannot endure in this way of life.
"We cannot prosper: Christianity Is not a theory to be believed. It
is a living force which must be active, else it will die. And if it does,
everything which it has touched will perish with it ... We had better
be about our Father's business. He will not wait forever."
? Col. Edmund Starling
Back of the loaf is the snowy flour,
And back of the flour Is the mill.
And back at' the mill are the wheat, and the shower,
And the sun, and the Father's will.
, ? Reprinted
The Rev A. Purnell Bailey says: "Two keys arc needed to open a
safe-deposit box in our bank. The owner of the box and the bank must
cooperate to open the box.
"There are many areas of life that operate with two keys. It is like
that in the classroom. Unless the pupil brings his key of cooperation,
the teacher, no matter how gifted, can do little for him.
"Two keys are needed at church, too. No matter how meaningful your
church service, little will be gained unless you take your key of coopera
tion to worship.
"The Master came that you might have life, and have it abundantly,
but lie needs our key of cooperation to unlock the treasure awaiting
you."
My neighbor' said, "A minister has got an easy life. He has a house
provided for his family and wife. He works about two hours a week and
gets a wad of pay. For all he has to do is preach and tell us folks to
pray."
1 looked my neighbor in the eye and said, "Old chap, you're wrong.
A minister is never through. His work is hard and long. He makes his
sick calls every day, and helps out folks in need. But you will never
hear him tell of doing some good deed. He's always working with the
men when church repairs are made. He tries to foster harmony within
the ladies' aid. His sermons all arc criticized as much too short or long.
He steps on 'influential toes' to right some glaring wrong Next to a
teacher, he is paid as low as law allows. He gets the brickbats for his
share but seldom takes the bows. He freely gives to all who ask. his
labor and his love. And brings into our hearts and homes the peace of
God above.'* ? Karl Fiaster
PORTRAITS
We go to church on Sunday . . . We bow our heads and pray . . .
And after that, for one more week . . .We put our God away . . .
We turn to Hiin on Saturday for . . . The favors that we seek . . .
And then we ju?t forget Him through . . . Thr hours of the week . . .
How poorly can we treat our God? . . . What gifts can we expect . . .
When we ignore His presence or . . . Are guilty of neglect? . . .
Why do we not remember Him . . . When Monday is at hand . . .
And ask Him eVery day to bless . . .Our family and our land? . . .
We ought to think of God each day . . . And say a thousand prayers . . .
As lie dispels our fears in life . . . And carries all our cares.
? James J. Metcalfe
From the Bookshelf
An Epitaph for Diile. By Harry
Ashmore. Norton. $4 50.
"The end remit of Orval Kaubus'
manufactured crisia at Little Rock
might well be, not t? (lay Integra
tion, but to speed it . . . after Little
Rock, the nation moved closer to
enactment of a genuine force bill
than it had since the Reconstruc
tion."
In the fail of 1957. when the bit
ter dispute over integration sud
denly brought angry crowds and
troopa to a high school In Little
Rock, Harry S. Ashmore was
putting the finishing touches on a
book about the South.
Thesis Unchanged
The startling events that he wit
nessed caused him to add some
material to his story, but not to
change its central thesis.
This is expressed in the title,
"An Epitaph for Dixie"? meaning
the transition taking place in the
essential and typical characteris
tics of the Old South. He calli
them ita "peculiar institutions,"
and cites the three basic ones, an
agrarian economy, the one-party
political aystem, and legal segre
gation.
The events at Little Rock, as the
passage quoted at the start shows,
seein to fit perfectly into Ash
tn ore's central theme.
Harry Ashmore is a Southerner,
a native of Greenville, S. C. For
yean, he has been studying and
writing about the problems of the
Free Wheelina
By BILL CROWELL
Motor Vehicles Department
SPRING TONIC . . . Yean ago,
when I was a lad, Grandma used
to give me lulphur and molasses
when spring roiled around. Good
blood tonic, she claimed.
Maybe you drank sassafras tea.
It "thinned the blood" for people
who wanted to get in good work
ing trim after a hard winter. Now
adays there are a million varieties
of vitamin compounds, sun lamps
&nd tranquilizers to give that same
feeling of well being.
A car that has worked through
the winter also needs special at
tention, say professional main
tenance men. Assuming that spring
is really here to stay, it's time
for a change.
A change in the radiator.
A change in the voltage regula
tor.
A change in the headlights, and
so on.
Some of the suggestions "about
good car care to follow may seem
Father obvious and simple. Yet so
many car owners do not follow any
sort of rehabilitation schedule for
their hard-working cars that these
"points of interest" ought to be of
Interest.
RADIATOR? Replacc all cracked
and dried out hose. Check con
nections. Flush radiator, add clean
water and a good rust Inhibitor.
GENERATOR - There will be
lesa drain on the battery during
warm weather driving (less sight
driving, thinner oil it starting,
warmer engine) so the voltage
regulator should be readjusted (or
proper output. Otherwise it may
burn up the battery.
FRONT WHEEL BEARINGS ?
After a steam cleaning to remove
accumulated grease and dirt, an
inspection of the bearings and
steering knuckles will show if
there is too much play. If loose
ness ia allowed to continue, tire
wear can become serious.
HEADLIGHTS? Lights should be
aimed and focused and all wiring
checked. In summer more people
are on the roads, so impro(*rly
adjuated lights are doubly annoy
ing and haiardous.
TIRES ? Check tires carefully
and rotate them every 5000 miles.
Look for cuts and bruises.
These simple checks, plus a reg
ular program of preventive main
tenance, can spell the difference
from one to two cents a mile in
operating costs. Don't be ooe of
the "wait for a breakdown" types.
? ? ?
GOOD SIGN... A smaU mid
western town has erected what
probably la the most effective anti
speeding sign from the Mississippi
eaat or west. It reads: "This com
munity puts its foot down on driv
ers who do likewise 1"
SUDDEN THAWT ... In a traf
fic Jam, ooe meet* a very cross
section of society.
South, lie is now the executive
editor of the Arkansas Gazette in
Little Rock.
During the September crisis, the
Gazette pulled no punches.' It came
out in solid opposition to Gov. Fau
bus, and he in turn lost no op
portunity to publicly castigate Ash
more and the newspaper.
"An Epitaph For Dixie" is de
voted not only, nor even primarily,
to the problem of segregation in
the public schools.
Ashmorc takes the long histori
cal look, showing how slavery and
the Reconstruction shaped the "pe
culiar institutions" of the South.
Then he points up the changes
and explains their causes. The
Supreme Court decision of 1954,
ordering the South to desegregate
"with all deliberate speed," dra
matically marked a turningpoint.
But before that, as Ashmorc shows,
the flow of new industry to the
South, the shifts of population?
and even the impact of the gaso
line engine? were quietly working
great changes.
At the moment, however, the
paramount issue in Southern minds
is desegregation, and Asnmore
says:
"The prevailing mood is escap
ist; actuality is not yet at band,
and moat Southerners still hope
that somehow it will go away.
"Thia time around, even those
who hive mounted the barricades
know, and privately concede, that
the cause wai lost before it was
launched . . . The battle cry is not
?On to Victory,' but 'Not in this
generation'."
Other observera, while not whol
ly disagreeing, might well say,
"Not in thia century
Determined to Resist
For Southerners generally re
port today that the determination
to resiat integration solidified into
rock-hardness aa a result of the
use of federal troops at Little Rock.
It ia reflected in many new stale
laws deaigned to delay integration
or block it entirely.
"The South has always contend
ed that given time it could work
out its own problems," Ashmore
writes. "Offered time by the Su
preme Court, the Southern leaders
for the moat part have refused to
use it to make even a tentative
start toward accommodation."
Aahmore'a -work constitutes a
fascinating study of America'a
greatest social atrugglc ? whether
you agree with him or not at all
points. Ralph McGill, editor of the
Atlanta Conatitution, and himself
a widely-recognized commentator,
calls it a "penetrating appraisal"
and the "definitive work" on the
New South.
"Will tbe New South be a better
place than the old?" Ashmore aaka.
His conclusion :
"Materially, almost certainly.
Spiritually, perhaps. Behind the
facade o i harsh words and extrem
lat lawa, there ia already emer
ging the pattern In which (be
South will finally accommodate
ita dwindling Negro population, aa
it moves from second- to first -class
citizenahip."
? Salman Marin