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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES I Carteret County** Newipaper EDITORIALS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1958 Why Damage Was Less Why Helene was not as destructive, over-all, as Hazel can be attributed to several reasons, but one of the most important is that people were pre pared. Since Hazel, the hurricane tracking procedures and reporting of storm warnings has improved, but perhaps the most telling factor is that people heeded the warnings. Hazel is npt so far in the past that we have forgotten. Therefore, when told to get ready for a "dangerous hur ricane" most persons did just that. They evacuated beach areas when told to do so. Teople on south shores lapped by water consider themselves lucky that the wind was blowing from the north on Saturday flight's high tide. This means that oce^nfront property on At lantic Beach was spared considerable damage. This same ?wind, however, piled the water higher wi property with water on the north. This caused flooding along the Neuse and sections in the northern and extreme eastern part of the cauqty. Radio and tv reports on the storm, as it moved northward, seemed to be, as a whole, factual rather than hysteri cal. In one instance a commentator sail that waves were reported 9 feet high at a coast south of here. He said that this was the highest "tide" that had been reported. There's a difference between height of a wave and height of a tide. Calling a 9-foot wave a 9-foot tide gives, at the very least, an inaccurate picture of a situation. But such misrepresentations were few. Grover Munden, radio station WMBL, Morchead City, handled the situation calmly. Those who had port able or car radios heard music and only beach evacuation orders. When the storm is right 011 top of us it's rather ridiculous to try to get "on-the-spot" news reports of how "bad" things are. Our regrets go to all businesses and homeowners who have suffered be cause of Helene. Our thanks go to town and county officials, Red Cross work ers, police, firemen, highway patrol men, the Marine Corps, Civil Defense and the numerous other individuals and groups who helped us weather the blow. Things could have been worse. Always on Guard . . . Tomorrow is the first day of Na tional Newspaper Week. Along with the knowledge that the newspaper guards the freedom^ of Americans, a new phrase has been heard in reccnt years: freedom of in formation. This is different than free dom of the press. Newspapers have the right and priv ilege to print what they learn. What is distressing to reporters and editors is the blacking out of information at its source. In other words, news media have been denied aecess to informa tion. It's not that they arc being pre vented from printing4t; they can't get it in the first place. Congress holds more than one-third of its- committee meetings in secret, STrJiiTiJ *** National ??"? r NEWSPAPER WEEK most of these meetings be open to the public. ; Depart ment heads of the fed eral govern ment have denied the press access to information about activities. In addition, "military security" has become a convenient shroud with which to cover facts which the citizen needs for an enlightened opinion on some of the most crucial is sues of our time. Newspapers have been fighting strenuously to pierce this fog of secre cy. Their aim is to make public busi ness, as it should be, the people's busi ness. There is a tendency for most of us to feel complacent about our rights and freedoms. Yet we should feel just the opposite. Restrictions on the press of the world are increasing. In December 1966, military police in Indonesia arrested and imprisoned an editor in Djakarta. The charge against him was publishing news which ex pressed "hatred and hostility towards the government" ... In August 1956 a 15-year-old Turkish newsboy was ar rested for shouting the headline, "Fi nance Minister Resigns" on the streets of Ankara ... A US correspondent was banned from Haiti this year because he wrote stories unfavorable to the gov ernment. These are just a few of many exam ples showing how governments are using drastic means to prevent the peo ple from knowing anything except what the government wants them to know. In this country, the throttle-hold on information, for example, exists not only in federal circles. Newspapers in every region, in every state capital, in every city, town and village have the responsibility of seeing that news is available to the citizen, and then to print that news without fear or preju dice. As Dean Theodore Peterson, College of Journalism and Communications, University of Illinois, states: "A demo cratic government derives its power from the people. But people cannot govern themselves wisely without knowing the issues at stake, without having free access to the facts on which sound opinions are based. James Madi son put it this way: 'A popular govern ment without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a pro logue to a farce or tragedy, or perhaps both.' " Drop in the Bucket "What I say does not matter. My in fluence is not even one little drop in the bucket!" Have you ever heard that said, or felt that way yourself? Well, do not be too sure of that. It all depends on what the drop is, and what is already in the bucket. One lit tle drop of water falling into a bucket of acid may cause an explosion. One drop of germ culture may change the contents of the bucket in a few hours. A speck of yeast introduced into the dough will leaven the entire mixture. One drop of disinfectant may neutral ize a whole bucket of poisonous ma terial. A "drop in the bucket" is not at all unimportant. It may be of very great importance in the result it achieves. ? Sunshine Magazine "Power and liberty are like heat and moisture; where they are well mixed, everything prospers; where they are single, they are destructive." ? J. F. Saviile, English dramatist. Carteret County News-Times WINNER OF NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARDS A Merger of The Beaufort News (Est. 1912) *nd The Twin City Times (Eat. 1(36) Published Tuesdays and Fridays by the Carteret Publiahing Company, Inc. ; 304 Arendell St., Morehead City, N. C. LOCKWOOD PHILLIPS - PUBLISHER ? ELEANORS DEAR PHILLIPS - ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER , ; RUTH L. PEELING - EDITOR Mail hates: In Carteret County and adjoining counties, $6 00 one year, $3.50 six montha, 11.25 fne month; elsewhere $7.00 one year, $4.00 six montha, $1.50 one month. Member of Associated Press ? N. C. Press Associatloe ? National Editorial Association ? Audit Bureau o< Circulations National Advertising Representative Moran A Fischer, Inc. 10 East 40th Street, New York !?. N. T. The Aaaoclated Preaa la entitled excluaively to uae for republication of local news printed Id this newspaper, aa well aa all AP news dispatefcas Entered aa Secood Class Matter at Mcrchead City, N. C, Under Act ?f Much i, lt? CAUGHT OFF BASE ! I iwr in i wiminn t? <| ii i i ? igyt ?jtfOek/f? Ruth Peeling Spectacular Sunrise Precedes Storm The sunrise Saturday morning was one of the most beautiful I've ever seen ? even including the sun rising on Victoria glacier at Lake Louise. Why I awoke at the unearthly hour of 5:30' I don't know. Maybe it was the rosy glow of the entire sky reflecting through my windows on the west and south. When 1 walked into tl:e living room and saw the dazzling golden sky in the east, I thought happily, "Well, the storm's over!" The last thing I heard before going to bed the night before was that the storm would probably hit Charleston, S. C. The clouds made the sunrise beautiful, just as they make a sun set more lovely. The sun's halo rays stretched upward. Purple bil lowy clouds framed the base close to the earth and the low clouds all over the sky caught the light and bovnra! It baelr in a gorges glow. Several hours later, there was nothing but gray clouds and rain. Definition of a hurHcane as use loss as a plastic hoop after the fad has faded. In all justice to Mr. Bill Mc Donald of Newport, I must report this. He (otherwise known as the daring - gigger - of - Bermuda - shorts ) went fishing at Shackleford several weeks ago with nary a mishap. In the company of Oscar Wininger, rCewport. he caught 22 blues and a spanish mackercl. But Bill can't win for losing. He's got a wife. Recently they sold their airplane and acquired a 31 foot boat. They had it up on the wpv* anH V|, naid wife. w?? being helpful. While Bill was topside, she was below on the ground check ing the keel with a pen-knife. She discovered some black stuff and started digging at it with the knife. It came out. "Bill," she called. "There's a lot of rotten wood in the bottom of this boat." "There shouldn't be," he non chalantly called back. So she kept on digging the stuff out. After a while, she showed him a handful of it. He looked down from his high perch and remarked, "Certainly is rotten." She went on digging. After a while he got down and walked around to where she was busily helping. Words he said were most picturesque. The end result was that she stopped digging. That stuff, he explained, was the caulk ing (corking, in the vernacular) between the planks and she was costing him money! Vi's "rotten wood" was replaced with new caulking. Walter Zinglemann, Beaufort, parked his little Volkswagen in a place in Washington, D. C , that did not meet with the approval of the police force. Fine: $3. Bob Hicks wants to know how much they charge for parking a Cadillac in a "verboten" spot. * H. L. Joslyn has become quite intrigued with a new game. It's played with flying saucers. You toss these things through the air. They look something like silver pie plates. Ralph Wade has one of the gadgets. When Mr. Joslyn was in Pennsylvania weekend be fore last, some fellows playing the game called it "Frisby". The interesting part of it, ap parently, is that you never know where this flying saucer is going to go?you've got to learn how to throw it and how to snag it when it's in the air. Well, the game may penetrate to this neck of the woods some day. Capt Carl Bunch was busy again on the flower front Wednesday night. Mrs. Kemp Arthur, 700 Bridges St., Morehead City, has a night-blooming cereus which had burst forth that night in four love ly blooms. Captain Hunch took a picture of two of the flowers. They are, really, gorgeous. Beau tiful white petals, and a part that may be a stamen opens in sort of a star burst at the center. They have an exotic sweet fragrance. This is the second time this year, Mrs. Arthur reports, that her plant has bloomed: Close-up of the blossoms Captoin Henry Sou easier Somebody's been poisoning dogs in the neighborhood of the 1500 block of Ann Street. I've heard of five dogs that have died of poison ing. Death by poisoning is horrible. It shouldn't happen to a dog. If the families who have lost their pets by poisoning learn the iden tity of the person who has been putting the poison out, I believe he would find it very uncomfort able to remain in the neighbor hood. As a matter of faet, he may find himself a few blocks eastward with 6 feet of dirt over him. Many's the time I've said the kids are smarter these days than they used to be. But somebody is just as ready to say that kids aren't as smart as they used to be. That's just what happened the other day when a visitor went to one of the class rooms. He said to the teacher, "I think children are not as observing as they used to be." "I hadn't noticed it," replied the teacher. "Well, I'll prove it to you. Turn ing to the class, the visitor said, "Someone give me a number." "Thirty-seven," said a little boy eagerly. The visitor wrote 73 on the board and nothing was said. "Will someone else give me a number?'* "Fifty-two," said another young ster. The visitor wrote down 25 on the board and smiled at the teacher. He called for another number, and a little boy called out, "Seventy seven? and now see if you can change that!" IS THE GOOD OLD BBS THIRTY YEARS AGO The Isaiah Severn place on Orange Street, the oldest residence in Beaufort, was being torn down, and J. O. Barbour was to build a home there. 0. Max Gardner, Democratic candidate for governor, would apeak in Morehead City next week. A Republican club was organized in Davis. Willie Willis was presi dent; Ijeslie Styron, vice-president; C. F. Davis, secretary and Alonio Willis was treasurer. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO The Carteret County Herald was leased to R. S. Prcscott for one year by the owner and publisher, F. C. Salisbury of Morehead City. Health officials were inoculat ing and vaccinating people in the storm stricken areas. County schools opened this week, ? week late because of the recent hurricanc. TEN YEARS AGO Marshallberg defeated Beaufort and won the Tidewater League Crown. The BAPW Club was sponsoring ? benefit bridge. The proceeds would be used to buy an oxygen tnit fnr Morehead City Morehead City received $29,000 from the dog track. $25,000 of which would be used to repair Evans Street. FIVE YEARS AGO Voters would decide Saturday whether they wanted a $72 million state school building and mental institution bond issue. Phillips fish factory, on Melt Lee island in the Newport River, burned. The estimated loss was more than $100,000. James E. Willis of Morehead City received the Eagle Scout award. Perfect Pair Bernard Shaw had been bored for several hours at a dinner party by the pretentious and pedantic discourse of a man who was try ing to impress him. "You know," Shaw said at last to this fountain of unsolicited in formation, "between the two of us we know all there ts to be known." "Really?" asked the delighted conversationalist. "How's th.it?" "Well," said Shaw, "you seem to know everything except that you're a bore. And I," concluded Um great man, "know Uutl" Lowlw Sptvy Words of Inspiration Our Navy sod "Ted" Is now at home on furlough. I know yon have heard the alogan "Join the Navy and see the World." That i* just what he has been doing these past few months. He has had the opportunity to see the World's Fair as Brussels, to visit great cities in the old world, London, Paris, Rome, but be (ays he didn't see a city that looked as good to him as Beaufort. He visited many fine churches and cathedrals, but none as dear as the church he grew up in, many beautiful homes aad palaces, but none looked as beautiful to him as his home on 101. Many beautiful girls, but none as fair or as dear as his Own young wife. This furlough brings him the most anxious moments el his life. <NI Wednesday his wife, Shclba Jane, had a major optrs^en at the Baptist Hospital in New Bern. I trust that each reader of this column will send Up a very special prayer to the heart of God in her behalf. When Ted was a little boy during Y^wld War II, each night he prayed "God bless (naming every one he knew personally in the armed forces) keep them safe, and send them home. In Thy name we pray, Amen." Each person remembered in his prayers returned home to their loved ones safely, perhaps if enough of us will pray this same prayer In his wife's behalf, she too will return safely home. My sincere thanks. opportunity They do me wrong who say I come no more When once I knock and fail to find you in; For every day I stand outfide your door, And bid you wake, and rise to fight and win. Wail not for precious chances passed away! Weep not for golden ages on the wane. Each night I burn the records of the day, At sunrise every soul is born again. Though deep in mire, wring not your hands and weep; I lend my arm to all who say, "I can!" No shamefaced outcast ever sank so deep, But yet might rise and be again a man! ? Walter Malone There are always reasons for giving up. Arguments for self-pity are as thick as blackberries. The world is crowded with thorns and cruel ties, causes for tears. Courage is the divine unreason against which, as against a rock, the waves of disaster beat in vain. Say to yourself: I am unconquerable. I shall arrive. In the center of creation sits not an enemy, but my Friend. I shall arrive ? what time, what circuit first, I ask not. In some time, His good time, I shall arrive. Let come what will, I shall never say I am beaten. I am not a negligible mole cule, a mote in the sunbeam, a worm! I am a man, and, so help me God! I shall play the man. Failure! There is no such word in all the bright lexicon of speech, unless you yourself have written it there! There is no such thing as failure except to those who accept and believe in failure. ? Marden It isn't enough to say to our hearts that we like a man for his ways. It isn't enough that we fill our minds with plans of silent praise. Nor is it enough that we honor a man, as our confidence upward mounts . . . it's going right up to the man himself and telling him so that counts. If a man does a work you really admire, don't leave a kind word un said in fear that tci do so might make him vain and cause him to "lose his head." But reach out your hand and tell him "Well done", and see how his gratitude swells. It isn't the flowers we strew on the grave . . . it's the word to the living that tells! As soon as you feci too old to do a thing, go out and do it. As soon as you feci critical, say something kind in a kindly way. As soon as you feel ncglected send a cheery note to a friend. ? Rev. Oliver G. Wilson DO YOU WANT TO BE A SUCCESS? Then THINK Deeply SPKAK Gently LAUGH Often WORK Hard GIVE Freely PAY Promptly PRAY Earnestly And. BE KIND. TODAY'S SELF-INQUIRY What know I more that's worth the knowing? What have 1 done that's worth the doing? What have I sought that I should shun? What duty have 1 left undone? Or into what new follies run? These self-inquiries are the road That leads to virtue and to God. ? Isaac Watts Death of a Mighty Tree By RUTH HOWLAND DEYO Long ago, a soft breeze cradled you and gently dropped you here. Tenderly, the earth, the kind rains ? the sunshine nurtured and cared for you. You grew in itature? and waxed atrong? and beautiful. Stark againat a winter's sky you held your branches, gracefully and exquiaitely? a sketching of ahcer poetry. Spring came and tight little buda unfurled into leaves of ailvery green ? clean and pure. Summer? and the winds sang aonga In your leaves ? the birds satig songs in your branches ? and the moonlight made a lyric claasic of you. Autumn touched your leaves, making them a warm gold. One by one they danced gaily off. The first time 1 saw you I loved you. I had never had a tree? and now > tree? mighty? and beautiful was mine! I was so proud of you I Your strength succored me. Your comeliness delighted me. I en dowed you with a human quality? and thought of you as friend. The seasons came and went. All storms brought many anxious mo ments of watching? and waiting. Now, another storm has passed. The winds? all four of them, have beat and battered you. Staunchly you stood? brave and gallant. I saw you struggling? un willing to yield to wild and destruc tive force. 1 was just as unwilling to let you go. My heart cried out to hold you up? to help you in your time of need. I hate violence I In the end? the wind? not gentle now, the rain? no longer kind, took you ? the mighty sentinel that guarded by house? a beautiful tree that lifted my heart. Stamps in the News The United Nations' third com memorative stamp of 1958 will honor ita Economic and Social Council. Scheduled for iaauance on United Nations Day, Oct. 24, the stamp is the third in the series depicting the main organs of this world body. The design of various cog-whcels symbolizes the work of the council In its many economic and social fields. It was prepared by Ole Ha mann of Denmark, a member of the UN's Graphic Presentation Unit. The wording "Economic and So cial Council ? to promote better standards of life for all peoples" appears in English oo the 4-cent and In French on the t-cent red. On Um msm date (Oct >4) the UN will issue ? new 4-cent regular stamp in orange. The design fea turing the UN seal will be the same as the (-cent regular. Further details concerning first day covers will be announced in this column soon. There has been a slight revision in the forthcoming 4-cent Kossuth "Champion of Liberty" stamp an nounced in this column earlier. The color has been changed from ochre to green. The reason for the switch is that green is a predom inant color in Hungarian symbol* and denotes hope. The (-center will be the same ai originally re ported ? red, blue and gold. They go on first day sale Sept ? at Washington, D. C.
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