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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES Carteret County's Ntwijwpvr EDITORIALS TUESDAY, MARCH 10. 1959 No Time for Dilly-Dallying Concerted effort should be under way right now to work out * program for improvement of the schools. While county officials may be thinking about the matter, there must be more than passing thought given the problem. In our estimation, the least that should be done is authorize an organ ized group of about five people to come up with a definite proposal by Monday, April 6, at the next county board of commissioners meeting. This committee could be appointed by the chairman of the county board of commissioners NOW. It should in clude a county commissioner, the coun ty auditor, a member of the board of education, the superintendent of schools, and of course the chairman of the board of commissioners as an ex officio member. In two weeks of concentrated work, this group of people should be able to hammer out a program whereby this county can START building one new school next year. In line of need, More head City would be that school. Now there will be a lot of excuses made as to why such is impossible. The fact that a "cumulative fund" bill has not yet passed the legislature, will be one. The excuse that it will be "im possible" to do any school building in this county in less than two years will be another. We heard on every side prior to the bond vote that people would be "will ing to tighten their belts" to pay more taxes on a pay-as-you-go school build ing program. If the present debt is re financed, as the county board of educa tion suggests, and the tax rate raised to $1.60 or a few cents more, there should be funds available soon for school building. Now those who are remorseful that the bond issue did not pass can pout and say, "We can't do anything." It will be infinitely harder to do anything without $2 '/s million, but the county MUST do something and DECIDE WITHOUT DELAY what that some thing shall be. It must be remembered, too, that while we're waiting for this money from added tax to accumulate, tem porary rooms have to be "built on exist ing schools. This is going to whittle down, somewhat, the amount that can accumulate. The county has pushed school mat ters aside for the past five years, al ways reluctant to raise taxes. Unless something is done immediately, our ed ucation system is going to be in a con dition that even higher taxes will not correct. The people have voted against bor rowing money for schools. The respon sibility rests squarely now on county of ficials to meet their obligations for pro viding an adequate school system, and the responsibility on the people is to ac cept higher taxes without a whimper. No time must be wasted in adopting a plan. Unjust Phone Tax Clings Telephone service carries a federal excise tax not imposed on any other utility. This tax, levied directly on the telephone consumer, is neither just nor reasonable. It is a tax which the nation's tele phone companies must bill, collect and remit to the federal government. During 1968, for instance, Carolina Telephone and Telegraph Co. coilMUd from its more than 125,000 customers about $1,800,000 in such taxes. This represented an increase of approxi mately $Vi million over the previous year. This, of course, is $1.8 million being drained from eastern North Carolina that could, if retained in this section, have a most healthy effect on the econ omy of the area. The telephone bills of telephone sub scribers here and throughout the nation could be 10 per cent lower each month, if it were not for the federal excise tax. Carolina Company customers paid an average of $14 each for such taxes dur ing the year just past. This discrimina tory tax on telephone service has been retained long after the wartime emer gency for which it was levied. Recent Congressional bills have been directed toward further entrenchment of the excise tax levy into the regular tax structure, by proposing the sharing of resulting revenues with state govern ments. In addition to this levy on tele phone service, state, county and state municipal governments tax the tele phone company itself with ad valorem taxes. The federal government adds its income tax. All of these taxes, of course, must be paid from operating revenues which the company receives from its customers. During 1958 the total telephone tax burden of eastern North Carolina sub scribers averaged about $45 per tele phone. Stated another way, out of each dollar paid for telephone service, about 28 cents went for taxes. The need for maintaining sound and progressive government is fully recog nized. Taxation is one means to that end. However, facts like these indicate that the telephone excise tax is exces sive and burdensome to telephone cus tomers. Two North Carolina Congressional representatives, Basil Whitener and Paul Kitchin, no\v have bills before Congress aimed at repeal of the tele phone excise tax. Telephone customers can assist by expressing their views to their Congres sional representatives. Such action could conceivably result in substantial tax savings on the tele phone bills of subscribers in this area and add a significant amount to the net available income of eastern North Caro lina. Faith and Works An old Scotsman was operating a small rowboat for transporting passen gers across one of the little lakes in Scotland. One day a passenger noticed that he had carved on one oar the word "Faith" and on the other oar the word "Works." Curiosity led him to ask the meaning of this. The old man said, "I will show you." He dropped one oar and plied the other called "Works," and they just went around in circles. Then he dropped that oar and began to ply the one called "Faith," and the little boat went around in circles again ? this time the other way around. After this demonstration the old man picked up both "Faith" and "Works" and, plying both oars together, sped swiftly over the water, explaining to his inquiring passenger, "You see, that is the way it is in life as well as in the boat." ? Oanadian Churchman A firemen's organization, conducting a ticket-selling campaign for its annual dance, used this slogan, "You come to our dance and we'll go to your fire." Carteret County Newt-Times WINNER OF NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARDS A Merger of The Beaufort Newt (E*t. 1?12) and Hie Twin City Timet (Est. 1138) Published Tuesdays and Fridays by the Carteret Publishing Company, Inc. (04 Arandell St, Morehead City, N. C. LOCKWOOD PHILLIPS _ PUBLISHER ELEANORS DEAR PHILLIPS ? ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER RUTH L. PEELING ? EDITOR Mail Rates: In Carteret County and adjoining counties, ts.00 one year, |SJ0 six months, IL2S one month; elsewhere <7.00 oce year. $4.00 six months. $1.50 one month. Member of Associated Press ? N. C. Press Association National Editorial Association - Audit Bureau o t Circulations National Advertising Representative Moral k Fischer, Inc. 10 East 40th Street, New York u. N. V. The Aaaodated Press is entitled exclusively to ise for republication at local news printed la this newspaper, as well aa all AP news dlipatches Entered aa Second Class Matter at Morebead aty. N. C.. Under Art * March I, 1TO PONT GET CONFUSED, MAC MACMlllAN Ruth P? ling Snapper Begin Showing Up Again Lloyd Rccd, who came into More head City with a fine catch of snap per two weeks ago, is fishing for snapper out of Southport as home base. Johnny Chivas, who has caught his share of snapper in recent years, gave up the operation about a year ago when he said the cold water surging down from the north killed the snapper fishing business. Mr. Rccd has apparently been doing all right this winter, though. He is working his way north here from Florida and Institute of Fish erics Research folks say he has bad lots of good signs of yellow eye snapper. When the snapper catches fell off last winter, after being so ter rific for a while, snapper fisher men became discouraged. They were afraid they had "fished them out". Fiiheries biologists contend that such was impossible. The fill) merely moved to ano ther place due to cold surges of water or change in the location of their food supply. Last winter's freezes knocked shrimping in the bead, too. This winter has had its cold days, but nothing like last winter. So maybe the snapper fish ery will revive, as it is hoped the shrimp fishery will this spring. School children may be interest ed in a booklet. The Lincoln Ideals, published by the Lincoln Sesqui centcnnial Commission, Washing ton, D. C. To get a free copy of the booklet send your name and Captain H?nry address on a postcard to Lincoln, Box 1959, Washington, D. C. Everybody's familiar in this country with "baseball pools". The epidemic is especially rampant at World Series time. Well, Alaskans have their pool too. At Nenana, in April or May, the game begins. The winner is the person who comes closest to guessing the min ute when the icc breaks up on the Nenana River. Got a letter from a Beaufort friend last week. It apparently is a story about somebody who lost his hatchet because he had piled dirt on top of it. The letter is un signed, but it docs have a moral: Beaufort, N. C. March 2, 19S9 Carteret County News-Times Morchcad City, N. C. Dear Sirs, A certain Beaufort citizen re cently gathered his garden tools and sauntered forth to prepare his flower bed? Spring being in the air. Near dusk, the work was finished but a favorite new garden tool was missing. A scarch by flashlight availed nothing, ... an early-morn ing scarch seemed hopeless until a mound of earth was moved . . . and 'LO'! ... at least, one Car teret citizen had truly 'Buried The Hatchet'. Yours, . . . for more 'Buried Hatchets'. (Anonymous) Sou'easter Well, there's one thing (or sure, with *U this rainy weather, we don't have to worry about those new little trees being watered suf ficiently. The rain is holding up high school baseball activities. If the ball players would like to take up swimming, instead, they'd probab ly do better. They say the chief of police, Mr. Springle, is getting along all right after his operation last week. It will be good to see him back on the job again. The tame fellow who put screens on his car windows as a youth so that he could enjoy night-life un molested by mosquitoes at the Black Cat, says he's going to have strawberries for breakfast Easter morning. His plants have berries on al ready and if all goes well, he thinks they'll be ripe in about Uirec weeks. Roy Eubanks says this joke was told at the Morchead City cham ber of commerce banquet Thurs day night. A golf pro matched as partners two stutterers, a man and a girl, for a tournament. He thought that their common handicap would make each feel comfortable and then they'd get along well. On the first tee, the man said, "M-m-my name is P-P-Pctcr, but I'm no s-s-saint." The girl replied, "W-wcll, m-m my name is M-M-Mary, b-but I'm not a v-v-very good golfer." (That is a joke that is better told than read!) m THE GOOD OLD DSTS THIRTY YEAR8 AGO Herbert Hoover was inaugurated ? President of the United Statei. Atlantic and North Carolina Rail road directors were considering constructing a deep water pier at Uorebead City. The Waddell Lumber Co. o f High land Park, Beaufort, was incor porated. Sawmills and planing mills were to begin work soon. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Dr. K. P. B. Bonner was ap pointed chairman of the county board of commissioners, succeed ing W. M. Webb, who had resigned. Blakely S. Pond, county game warden, announced that the game commission would pay bounties on predatory animals and birds. Twenty men reported to Coach W. H. Potter to baseball practice. TEN YEARS AGO Mrs. John G. Jones, Beaufort florist, invented a plastic orehid tube. Production of her invention was started full scale this week. State highway crews were ex tending Evans Street in Morchead City for two blocks toward the state fisheries office. Beaufort Jayccci were present ing a minstrel show this week. FIVE YEARS AGO The Newport town board voted to remove the trees on highway 70. The State Ports Authority ap proved plans to build fl, 400,000 worth of warehouses at both More head City and Wilmington. The Beaufort Junior Woman's Club would erect a fence oo the east side of the school, next to the highway, to discourage chil dren from Jumping the ditch and grossing the highway. A West Beaufort resident has paid THE NEWS-TIMES the su preme compliment. He said he sold a floor furnace through a NEWS TIMES classified, even though the phone number in the ad was wrong. Word is out that the representa tive from Currituck County is going to joust with the devil in this com ing session of the legislature, the "devil" being the race track bill. Next to liquor, race tracks cause the most to-do among the populace at legislative time. The story goes that the Currituck representative campaigned on a race track platform. He told the people that if elected, he would in troduce a race track bill. He de feated his opponent by a very nar row mtrgin, I think it was one vote. Carteret, of course, had a dog race track once. Remember? A bill was introduced In the legis lature last time that would have allowed racing again in this state. It didn't get very far. One representative said that if a race track bill was ever to get anywhere, the pro-racing elements had to get their ducks in a row prior to the election and back the legislators who would go along with such a bill. That wasn't done, so he says he's not going to have much to do with any race track legislation this ses sion. The Readers Write Morchcad City, N. C. March 7, 1959 To the Editor: In your issue of March 6, 1959, I call your attention to your edi torial, It's Your Responsibility, which 1 agree with you 100 per ccnt. I suggest that you and Mr. Dill and the city fathers take a ride out in the city's slums sometimes .and see the condition of our streets and the city's dump ground. I be lieve then you will write something giving us some credit for doing as well as we do. Not many years ago, after a rain, the water stood on our lots. Now we have to climb out of the streets on the lots. If you can come out when the wind is blowing from the northwest and trash burning on the city dump and get just a good smell. We live here. Maybe you could ride through it. Now if you do not know where the city slums arc, come out to West Fisher and Bay Streets. You can't miss. It is better known as Billyview or Rabbit llill. Respectfully yours, John B. Willis 2312 Fisher St The Mediocre Man The characteristic trait of the mediocre man is his deference to current opinion. He never speaks: He repeats. He judges a man according to so cial and economic position, his suc cess, his wealth. He has the high est respect for those who are wide ly known regardless of why they arc known; his Idols arc those cur rently in the public prints. He would pay court to his most cruel enemy if this enemy were suddenly to become celebrated; but he docs not care much (bout even his closest friends so long as they remain uneulogized by any one. It Isn't possible for him to believe that a man might very well be a genius and yet be obscure, poor and unknown. ? Light of the East louIm Sptvy Words of Inspiration DE8TROY SIN, NOT SINNER One day Ethel Barrymorc waa aaked the secret of her productive Jfe. Among other thinga ahe answered, "You must learn, above all, lot to waste your soul and energy and brain and strength on all the ittle things. I suppose the greateat thing in the world la loving people ind wanting to destroy the sin but not the sinner. And not to forget lhat when life knocks you to your knees ? which it always will ? well, that's the best position in which to pray, isn't It, on your knees? That'* _ where 1 learned." AN ORDINARY CHURCH MEMBER Just an ordinary member of the church, I heard him say. But you'd always find him present even on a rainy day. lie had a hearty handclasp for the stranger in the aiale. And a friend who was in trouble found sunshine in his smile. When the sermon helped him he told the preacher so, And when he needed comfort, he let his pastor know, lie always paid up promptly, and tried to do his share In all the ordinary tasks for which some have no care. His talents were not many but his love for God was true. His prayers were not in public but he prayed for me and you. An ordinary church member? I think that I would say, lie was extraordinary in a humble sort of way. - Lillian M. Weeks THERE IS A VAST DIFFERENCE Between being sorry for sin and BEING SORRY YOU ARE CAUGHT. Between confessing your sins and CONFESSING SOME OTHER FEL LOW'S. Between seeing your own faults and SEEING SOME OTHER PERSON'S. Between conversion of the head and CONVERSION OF THE HEART. Between being persecuted for "righteousness sake" and "PERSECUTED FOR FOOLISHNESS SAKE." Between "contending for the faith" and BEING CONTENTIOUS ABOUT PERSONAL OPINION. QUOTES Greed is the heart disease which has settled in a man's hip pocket. ? Russell B. Hilliard God is glorified not by our groans, but our thanksgivings; and all good thoughts and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer. ? Whipple There is nothing like the bright scrubbed faces of youngsters in a Sunday School class to give a man faith in our future. ? Country Parsoa We should endeavor to be long suffering, faithful and charitable with all. To this small effort let us add one more privilege ? namely, silence whenever it can substitute censure. Fashion changes with the season, but there is one thing a person an wear that is never out of style ? A SMILE. Comment < ? ? J. Kellum Hard Sayings One of the most inspiring ad monitions left to posterity by Lin coln is: "In times like the present, a man should say nothing for which he would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity." A rather horrible thought for most of us. In the first place, how often do we say anything which would seem to have any conceivable signifi cance at any other point In time and eternity than this one? To ourselves, at least, nearly never. And is our purpose even what is commonly called deathless? Sel dom, very seldom. We could plead ignorance of Lin coln's meaning on this basis, ex cept that he meant something else altogether. Every Bible student is aware of St. James' instructions about the tongue ? that tongue is a flame of fire, etc. It ia. The responsibilities of speech are always with us, and should never be regarded as any thing but grave. Many of our activities concern ourselves alone, but speech in volves a hearer as well as a speak er. By its nature, speech is an activity which always affects others. Lincoln's words bring us face to face with the fact that we are responsible forever for what we say now. It is a frightening realization. It ia aa awesome and difficult to admit as any truth which jars ua out of our complacency. Many of us are only half-followers of what we profess because we cannot en dure the "hard aayinga." That we n\uat fie ia a hard saying. It is one w* have learned to accept Of course we cannot avoid mak ing mistakes. We cannot avoid treading on unseen toes, hurting feelings by accidcnt, being miaun derstood in what we do say and misunderstood in what we don't say. Wc cannot even avoid the difficulty of saying exactly what we mean in a way we can surely be understood to mean what we are thinking. But Lincoln himself givea the answers to these problems in hit many remarks about apeaking. In effect, he remained always inno cent: everything he said was ai true as he knew it to be and if he found that he was mistaken, ha admitted it and apologized. Being thus innocent, and truthful, thouaands and thousands of words he had to say in this world have come down to us in honor. We are proud to acknowledge them, proud to know them, proud to follow them. Lincoln was a politician. He was smart lie was clever. But be wa* also wise. And be took his own ad vice. - Free Wheeling By BILL CROWELL Motor Vehicles Department TYPES . . . Recognize anyone here? They're all typei you're like ly to encounter in a mile or two of driving. What's worse, they're in season all year. You can avoid 'em though. Here's a guide to identifi cation: Road Ho*. Neither of the lanes is quite right for him, but half of each Just about docs it Then be tries to pass a car. Then? crash! Show-Off. No hands, or at best, only one. No brains either. It's not) a safe procedure but it surely if exciting. Daydreamer. Brains, maybe. But they're at their best in the areas of dreams and grand illusions, not much use at lnteraections. Compensator. When they come to the stop signs they stop? with a shriek. And with a Jack rabbit, head-snapping start ? they're off again. Spoiled Darlings. "Oh, you tall, tan, manly and marvelous officer, you're not real ly going to write a ticket for me?" Coddled Babies. Mother never told them the world was full of other people's mean old automo biles which he must not run into. Hooker. He yelled in hit crib and got what he wanted. When he hol lers with his born, be should ex pect to be throttled. USED CAR TIP... When look ing over the market for a used car, check the speedometer reading carefully. If the first three digits on the right are not perfectly aligned, then chances are the ipwdoiiiftfr hit bwB rolled hffK GREAT NEW8 . . . Hallelujah, the true economy car is here. From a recent announcement, here's the newa we've all been waiting (or. A consumer's dream it ia. A new car with a low, low price tag. You can be the owner of a brand new FLUB for the unbelievable price of only $825.50. Designers have provided for the addition of accessories, of course. And they are extra. But all ia all they blend with the breezy line* of the bask car. Hcre'a what you get in a new FLUB: FLUB (FOB Detroit) $825.50 6-cylinder, hi-drivc engine, with (lipstick 315.63 Air filter _ 15.(0 Bulbe (for all lamps) 6.80 Windahleld wipers 11.40 License tag holder 7.00 Paint (3.50 Wheels (5) 125.7S Wheel coveri 30.00 Tire* (delux, non-skid) 150.00 Hood ornament 6 75 Front and rear bumpers _ 125.(0 Scats (4) 100.00 Extra washers, nuts, bolts _ 23.80 Operator's manual 5.00 Total Cert $181L73 Just in Passing . . . One of the big troubles with suc cess ia that its recipe theae day* ia about the same as that for a nervous breakdown. ?Greenville Piedmont Ideal are like children? every, body loves their own. -USS Dee I I
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