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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES Carteret County's Newapaper EDITORIALS FRIDAY. AUGUST 1, 1958 4 Cents, Please Higher postal rates were bound to come. The amazing factor is that Con gress, until this year, was able to beat down postal department requests for higher rates. Since world war II the postoffice de partment deficit has mounted to $6 bil lion. The 1957 deficit was $622 mil lion. Last year the postoffice depart ment handled mail for 86,089 more business firms than it did in 1956; average daily rural deliveries were ex tended making a total additional mileage of 1,579,045; 1,274,388 more families were served. Increased population, rising costs, all the factors that have made prices higher in every way, have also in creased costs of the postoffice depart ment. Postal employees were recently voted a pay increase, but it is , M ,, an increase wnich came years fifter postal work ers' pay had been pegged in the same notch, while other workers received latter paychecks. In recent years, first class mail ? the postoffice department's prime service ? has been a money-loser. Traditional ly, first class mail paid 40 per cent more than it cost and contributed 50 per cent to the postal department's op erating costs. Up until yesterday more than 29 billion letters were being carried an nually at a loss, according to Arthur E. Summerfield, postmaster general. Efforts are being made to reduce postal department operation costs through use of machines for sorting parcel post and letters, plus equipment to replace the human eye in some mail sorting steps. The postmaster general has outlined six goals for the future : 1. Greatly increased automation and mechanization of manual operations 2. Improved planning of postal work to provide increased efficiency 3. Improved buildings, trucks and other physical facilities 4. Extended training of employees, especially those in supervisory jobs 5. Use of the most rapid and effi cient means of transportation in all areas 6. Continued efforts to reduce the deficit and provide a self-sustaining postal service. All right, plunk down your 4 cents for that letter to Auntie Mame. Growth Here, Too The fact that the circulation fig ures at the County Public Library in creased during the past year shows that reading is playing an ever grow ing part in the life of county residents. Miss Dorothy Avery, county library director, says circulation increased al most 7,000 during 1957-58, as com pared with the previous year. Much of the increase came in the rural areas where the bookmobile makes regular trips. Regular publiciz ing of the bookmobile routes and change of hours at the main library to make its services more convenient for patrons probably has much to do, too, with the increased circulation. In spite of other attractions and dis tractions, people will read if they have access to books. People read more, ab sorb more and remember more than the average person may think. The library board and library per sonnel are to be commended for their continuing effort to give all Carteret citizens the opportunities a good li brary affords. Red Boss Will Play Only His Way Krushchev's refusal to talk about the Middle East within the framework provided by the United Nations indi cates again that Russia is not interest ed in international cooperation. It is probably a good thing that Krushchev is not coming to New York, a city housing hundreds of thousands who are native of countries that are now under the heel of Russia. On July 19 Hungarians in New York trampled the Russian flag. Two hundred police were required to keep the Hungarian sympathizers in check. David Lawrence, editor of United States News and World Report, in this week's issue, demands that Khrushchev be met with nothing less than a sign, "Welcome, 'Murderer'", should he step on our shores. Eisenhower's refusal to talk with the Russian leader at a "summit meeting" involving the great powers will be in terpreted by the Russian propagandists as a United States' refusal to talk peace. That is to be expected. In a nation where news is controlled, noth ing detrimental to that nation's govern ment or leaders reaches the people. You can be assured that Russia's ver sion of the revolution in Hungary in 1956, and maintaining of the present government there by use of Soviet troops, is a version far from the truth. The leaders of the Hungarian revolu tion were executed just several weeks ago at the command of Khrushchev who now wants to engineer a meeting of major powers in a guise of maintain ing "peace" in the Middle East Had United States used Russian tac tics, it would have gone into Iraq and ruthlessly put down the revolution there ? as Russia did in Hungary. In stead the United States and Britain, at the request of Lebanon and Jordan, sent troops to countries not actively in revolt merely in an effort to prevent the kindling of tinder that could mean total war. As Eisenhower told Khrushchev in a note offering to meet Krushchev in the UN Security Council : . the real danger of war would come if one small nation after another were to be engulf ed by expansionist and aggressive forces supported by the Soviet Union." It is no secret that Russia actively sup port's Nasser's moves. Eisenhower rightfully maintains that the UN is the place to talk over world matters. To organize other meetings of powers beyond the framework of the UN is to spell its doom. It would soon become another League of Nations full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Lo, the Lovely Yucca Standing like white beacons against the creamy sands are the blooms of the yucca. Characteristic of the Carolina coast, the yucca is also claimed as the state flower of New Mexico. The sword-like leaves defy anyone to pluck the tall flower. Only winged creatures, such as the yucca moth, can reach the bloom in complete safety. The female yucca moth carries the pol len that fertilizes the flower. Not only is the yucca beautiful, but what youngster has not broken off a cluster of new leaves and happily knifed them into the ground as he walked? Carteret County Newt-Times WINNER OF NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARDS A Merger of The Beaufort Newi (Eat 1912) and The Twin City Timet (Eat 1*36) Publlabed Tueadayt and Fridaya by the Carteret PubUahing Company, Inc. 504 Arendell St, Hon head City, N. C. LOCKWOOD PHILLIPS ? PUBLISHER ' ELEANORS DEAR PHILLIPS - ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER RUTH L. PEELING - EDITOR Mail Ratea: In Carteret County and adjoining coontfea, ??.<? ooe year, 13.50 aix motiQu^ $1.25 one month; elaowhere >7.00 one year. >4.00 ilx montha, ?1.50 oo* I Member of Aaaodated Preaa ? N. C. Preaa Aaaociatiot National Editorial AaeodatiOe ? Aodlt Bureau of Circulationa Nation aJ Advertiaing Repreaentative Moran * Fiacher, Inc. M Eaat 40th Street, New York 10. N. T. The Aaaodated Preaa ia entitled excluiiTely to nae for republication of local i printed la thia newapaper, aa well aa all AP newt diapatchea I Oaaa Matter at Morebead City, N. C., Under Act at Marafc S, 117f i NEW CHALLENGER! The Readers Write comment... j.K.num V.rK.,1 MaI? Harkers Island, N. C. July 27, 1958 To The Editor: Webster says, "Isolate, is to place apart by itself." Well that is what the State Highway Commis sion is and has succeeded in doing with Harkers Island. Months ago they stopped bull dozers and drag lines {rom crossing our bridge which can't be more than 6 years old and now they have stopped Seashore Transportation Company busses from using it. Now we have no public transportation. If you don't have a car you are out of luck. The Gillikin Boat Works is hav ing trouble rebuilding after a dis astrous fire, due to not being al lowed to bring a bull dozer over the bridge, which all of a sudden was restricted to 8 tons. Now on April 25, 1958 I wrote to Mr. Markham, Division Engi neer, Greenville, about the trouble we were having trying to get heavy equipment over the bridge. I was eventually informed that it was on account of the draw which was not renewed when the bridge was rebuilt, that looks like incompe tence on someone's part. I may as well state here that I don't think much of the bridge department, especially the way they repair and maintain the bridges near the coast. On May 20, I talked to Mr. Rod gers, Chief Engineer, and he ad vised getting up a petition, which was done. A number of new piles were put in the bridge but so far nothing has been done to the draw. This may not seem important to the Highway Department but to us in Carteret County it is vital and should be an emergency job. People on Harkers Island are folks that do not like to fuss much but I can assure you that they, at least the thinking ones, are getting tired of being considered the un derdog. I feel sure that I can speak for these people. I told Mr. Rodgers during our very enjoyable conversation that I believed politics played a part in the department in this county; this be denied. I don't believe that Mr. Rodgers wants politics to en ter his department. It won't be long before the high school children will be going back to school. Will they have to walk the 7/10 mile bridge? If they, the bridge department, want to be technical and Just, they should put up a weighing station and stop all trucks over weight which they are not doing now. That remark may sound foolish to tome ignoramuses, but if we are to be isolated for some types of vehicles, let's make it all types and then you would see some h? raising by folks from off the Island who send large trucks over here. Mr. Rodgcrs also told me he would order a drainage survey of the island; this he may have done but no actual work has started. In rainy weather this creates a health hazard. Sincerely yours, W. Bos worth Newsom NO BEACH 1431 West Horah Street Salisbury, N. C. July 27, 1958 To the Editor: Recently I visited Morehead City, my hometown, and waa shocked to discover that there was no place on the beach for Negroes to bathe along the ocean front. There once was an undeveloped area near Fort Macon where Ne groes could enjoy the seashore. And now, surprisingly enough, thii area has been developed for whites and no place at all remains for Negroes. I wonder if this is the result of thoughtlessness or is it the policy of Morehead City to exclude mi norities from the recreational fa cilities and enjoyment of the sea shore? I sincerely hope this is ? mere oversight and not an avowed policy of the municipal govern ment. It seems to me a retrogression for a city to take steps backward. The title of progress it moving forward and time hat come for all growing citiet to be forward look ing in their concern for all people rcgardleai of race, creed or color. Your a very truly, Mrs. David IT. Butler (Editor's Note: Morehead City has no control over any oceanfront property. The town limits do not include such. The only oceanfront property in the Morehead area controlled by a political unit la Fort Macon park, which ia owned and operated by the state. The state, in order to provide jcean front bathing facilities for Ne groes, has set aside Hammocks Beach state park, near Swanaboro, and is developing it u I recrea tional area.) F. C Soli?bury Here and There The following information la taken from the filea of the More head City Coaater: FRIDAY, AUG. 1, l*lt Hiaa Ethel Finer of Marahall berg ia visiting in the city, the gueat of Hiaa Lila Wade. The Rev. J. W. Alford left Sat urday for Ayden where he will aaaume the duty of field aecretary for the Ayden Seminary for the enauing year. Mra. J. C. Clark of Key West, Fla., la visiting in the city, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Cole burn. CapL and Mrs. W. T. Willis of South port, who have been spend ing some time in the city viaiting relatives, returned home Thurs day. Mr. and Mra. N. W. Taylor of Beaufort paaaed through the city Monday enroute to Baltimore where they attended the funeral of Mra. C. C. Backman. A. B. Morris who was formerly eoanMted with the Canfleld Lum ber Co., but recently discharged from the Army, baa returned to the city aad has opened ? fUh budneaa ia the building formerly BCfnjtod by J. H. Fulcber. Eliza Hancock Guthrie, age 42, died at her home in thii .city Mon day, after an illneti of many weeks. The Rev. O. L. Hawkins of the Methodist Church conducted the funeral services. Died at his home on Friday of last week, fourteen days after he was stricken with paralysis, Joseph Royal, age 77. He was born on Shackleford Banks to John R. and Caladonia Moore Royal, the third of nine children. His father was keeper of the Cape Lookout light house. Smile a While Airplane pioneers, Wilbur and Orville Wright, a taciturn duo, hated to make speeches. Once, at a luncheon, they were scheduled to speak before a group ot inven tors. Tbe toastmsster called on Wilbur. "There most be some mistake," stammered Wilbur. "Orville is the one who does tbe talking." The toastmsster turned to Or ville. Tbe latter stood up sod said: "Wilbur Just mad* tbe speech." a If speech were handled as care fully as a silversmith handles the metal of his trade, perhaps it would indeed be silver. Unfor tunately, our verbiage is not al ways of the useful sort and, in the entertainment world, it becomes sometimes so seriously worthless that instead of being just not good it becomes positively burdensome. Our popular interest in peace of mind may be the effects of a mon umental hangover induced by ill considered words. Most of us like to have our backs scratched, but not to the point of removing our skin. Yet in our will ingness to be "entertained" we let ? or do we drive? ? our enter tainers to bury us under an ava lanche of mayhem which is not entertainment at all. Consider what Aldous Huxley said on the subject in his book "The Perennial Philosophy": "The twentieth century is, among other things, the Age of Noise. Physicol noise, mental noise and noiac of desire ? we hold history's record for all of them. And no wonder, for all the resources of our almoat miraculous technology have been thrown into the current as sault against silence. "That most popular and influen tial of all recent inventions, the radio, is nothing but a conduit through which prefabricated din can flow into our homes. And this din goes far deeper, of course, than the eardrums. It penetrates the mind, filling it with a babel of distractions ? news items mutual ly irrelevant bits of information, blasts of corybantic or sentimental music, continually repeated doses of drama that bring no catharsis, but merely create a craving for daily or even hourly emotional enemas." Of course, radio has been match ed by tv; and other purveyors of gabble are as busy as ever. Stamp News ?T 8YD K10NBH 1 A silhouette view of the wing ?pread snd fuselage of a composite Jet airliner will be featured on the new regular 7-cent air mail stamp for use when the new rates be come effective Aug. 1. The blue and white stamp will go on first day sale in Philadel phia July 31 at the annual conven tion of the American Air Mail So ciety. Philadelphia, incidently, was one of the stops on the first flight of air mail from Washington to New York City 40 years ago (Itay IS, 1(18). Collectors desiring first day can cellations of the 7-cent air mail may lend their addressed enve lope!, together with money orders to cover the cost of the stamps to be affixed, to the postmaster at Philadelphia 4, Pa. The outside envelope to the post master should be endorsed "First Day Cover 7-Cent Air Mail Stamp." Stamp Notes . . . Ecuador issued a new stamp honoring the visit of Vice President Richard Nixon to that country. Another visit hon ored philatelically by Ecuador wat that of Colombia's Minister of For eign Relations Carlos Santi de 8an tamaria . , . Just before Christmas this year, Ethiopia will issue a new tuberculosis set . . . Australia expects to issue a new floral series of stamp*. The first in the set will be Issued this year and the re minder in us*. ... lout? Spivy Words of Inspiration MAN TUKNS TO THE WORD OF GOD* A fighting man speaks from the floor o I a itorm-toued raft ... "I* there a Bible among us?" On a burning African desert a voice reads quietly . . . and a thousand heads bow reverently. In the silence of night on a Kansas farm ... a mother finds solace in its thin, worn pages. Quietly ... its words of comfort are spoken in solemn requiem . . ? as rough hands, grown tender, lower a hero's body overside. In the search for peace through generations . . . man has turned to the Bible. For the things men live by are found in this book that is the Word of Godr In its pages . . . man have found help for their deepest needs. Com fort for their shattered spirits. Light for their dsrkest hour. Always, the Bible has inspired the noblest courage and the moat sub lime actions of man. Heroes have dedicated their lives to its princi ples. Martyrs have died with its words on their lips. New, an anguished world turns to this book that has molded the life of man. For its lessons of mercy, humanity, tolerance, charity. For ? restoration of the spirit torn with grief. For a return of the hope and faith grown weak under the whip of despotism. And here in its pages to seek the flame that lifts men's souls. The courage to face tomorrow. The faith, that in good time ... the sound of war will end . . . and men shall live again in brotherhood and peace. ? The Saturday Evening Post IS OURS A CHRISTIAN NATION? We call ourselves Christian, but are we justified? Are most of our people loyal to Christ who for us died? What of our moral standard so disgracefully low? What of our harvest of criminals from seed of sin we grow. Our record of crime by Juveniles, what a record of sin and shame) So far from what is Christian and parents must bear much blame. Much of what young people are reading is both unfit and clean, Weaning them from the religious, while parents this should have fore seen. Drunkards now numbered by millions of women and men the same, While profanity and obscenity add to our rccord of shame. A nation to be truly Christian must do what Jesus once said. Must lay up its treasures in Heaven, and then by Him must be led. Just see how our nation now struggles for worldly wealth It may gain. Worshiping not God but Mammon, power and wealth to obtain. With such a rccord before us, how can we be justified In calling our nation Christian or saying we are on God'a side? To tell the plain truth of our country, without any prevarication. Does our rccord show now without question, ours is a Christian nation? God's dealing with His chosen people, the penalty they paid for aln. Should teach us if we ao continue, our penalty ahall some day begin. - W. F. Williami Security for You... By RAY HENRY Will a woman be better off to wait until she reaches 65 to start drawing her Social Security pay ments? My letters indicate this is one of the most vexing questions for women who are nearing the Social Security retirement age of 82. They're pondering it because starting the payments between 62 and &5 means for many of them that the payments will b? smaller than if they wait until they reach 6S to start. For some women, the question is fairly easy to answer. For others, it can't be answered with any certainty. The question should be no prob lem to a widow of 62 or older who's entitled to payments based on her deceased husband's Social Secur ity record. She should start draw ing her payments as soon as she can because the reduction in pay ments doesn't apply to her. But, the reduction does apply to wives of men entitled to Social Se curity payments and women eligi ble for payments based on their own Social Security record. For such women, the question of waiting until they reach 65 and, thus, not take the reduction in pay ments can't be answered with cer tainty. The reason is simple because whether they'll be better off de pends on bow long they'll live and. of course, there s no way of com ing up with an answer. Here's the story: If you're the wife of a retired worker and you start drawing your payments at age 62, they'll be 75 per cent of what you'd re ceive if you waited until you reached 65. For each month you delay in starting after 62, this per centage increases. For example: If you wait until you reach (3, you'll get 83 1/3 of the amount you'd get if you waited until 65. If you wait until you reach 64, you'll get 91 2/3. If you're a woman eligible for payments based on your own So cial Security record, essentially the same kind of arrangement ap plies, except that at age 62 your payments will be SO per cent of what you would get if you waited until you reached 65. Here again, for each month you delay in start ing the payments after you're 62, the percentage Increases. Thus, whether you're better off waiting until you reach 65 depends on whether your total payments when you die equal what you would have drawn had you started the payments at an earlier age. (Editor's Note: Yob may con tact the social security repre sentative at the courthouse an nex, Beanfort, from t:3* a.m. to noon Mondays. He will help yon with yanr own particular prob lem). From the Bookshelf India Chaages. By Taya Zlnkin. Oxford. $5. The great people of India are carrying through a revolution uniquely their own, lays Mr*. Zin kin She defines it aa "revolution by conaent," or the proceaa of be ing persuaded by the government to do what they want to do. It ia Socialist, with equality central to it; there may be democracy in it, but she does not see much Com munist threat. These are the conclusions of this Manchester Guardian correspond ent. But much more absorbing, to me, ia the body of her book, the picturesque route she followed to Iter findings. A first-rate reporter, she goea behind the forms and empty ap pearancea to life itself, the life in the 558,089 villages, the closely knit but loving family group, the real influence of woman despite her seemingly minor position, the significance of marriage customs, ritual aa against actual cleanliness and the gradual relaxation of caste lines. Mrs. Zinkin can make us visual ize her story with apt compari sons: Caste likened to our labor union, for inatance, and Buddhism related to Hinduism aa Protestant Ism was to Catholicism in their revolutionary origin. But she can write on her own with gripping vividness, as in the picture of Vino ba Bhave and her account of the tastes, smells, looks and filth that marked a village feast. - W. 0. Rogers Prince of Carpetbaggers, by Jon athan Daniels. Lippincott. *4.85. You will not find the name of Brigadier General Hilton Little fMd on any list af outstanding commander! of the Civil War. You will find many histories and gen eral worka that do not even men tion him. But there can be no doubt that be la entitled to the full length biographical treatment which Dan iela givea his story. Littlefield made his reputation in the Reconstruction period, in North Carolina and Florida. He saw op portunities to make money, and took advantage of them, without hindrance of moral scruples. He was shrewd, opportunistic, skilled In the wiles of politics, a handsome gentleman who knew what he want ed and knew how to get it Littlefield, in abort, was a car petbagger, one of that army of plunderers which, we have so often been told, descended upon ? prostrate South In the wake of war. But that was not the whole story, Daniels would have you know. Lit tlefield was not a lone woU, and some of his associatea stood pretty high in the Southern community. The point, as Daniels makea emi nently clear, is that Littlefield's Importance lies not so much in his canny personal maneuvers as la the fact that be waa a prototype of a period, that his career sym bolizes an era which offered prime opportunity for rascals, be they lik able or detestable, be tbey from North or from South. Thla is a fascinating story about a fascinating man. More than a biography of man. It la a biography of a period, a critical period which opened wounds not fully healed to day. ? Bob Price Buck paufag^is ^not k*-M