CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
Cartorat County** Newspaper
EDITORIALS TUESDAY. MARCH 8. 1960
Learning by Doing
This is National 4-H Week. Four-H
doesn't stand for Ho-Ho-Ho-Ho, al
though 4-H Club members do have lots
of fun.
The most unique characteristic of the
4-H organization is that it teaches by
having its members DO. Many organ
izations are merely an excuse for a
group of people to get together periodi
cally and talk.
Four-H Club members are encour
aged to carry out specific projects by
which they will learn. The girls learn
to sew, cook, preserve food; the boys
can choose a forestry project, poultry,
tractor maintenance, beekeeping; and
there are numerous other projects of
interest to both boys and girls, such
as electricity, botany, biology, and
other scientific subjects. The list is so
large that one wonders how the 4-H
leaders could think of them all.
Every phase of the 4-H program is
aimed at making meaningful the four
words. Head, Heart, Health and Hands.
The purpose of 4-H Club Week is to
acquaint more young people with op
portunities available to them through
4-H, to assist new members in starting
projects in farming, homemaking, or
community service, and to inform the
public about 4-H aims and methods.
In this state there are 165,000 4-H
Club members.
Kour-H'ers have received the follow
ing greeting from the President of the
United States:
"Your theme for 1960, 'Learn, Live,
Serve through 4-H,' reflects the high
purpose of your organization and the
broad concern of its leaders. This
changing world places new demands
upon the spirit and abilities of our peo
ple.
"Therefore, the opportunities offer
ed to 4-H Club members to grow in citi
zenship and in practical skills are espe
cially valuable to them and io the na
tion. I hope the coming year will be re
warding both in your local 4-H pro
grams and in your personal efforts to
become active, informed, and effective
citizens."
That's the Way It Is
This is the time of the year when
you'd like to wake up in the morning
and find summer at the door.
Just when we figured we had out
maneuvered Old Man Winter, he let
go with a snowy blast that brought
freezing days in its wake.
Saturday morning the marsh grass
was covered with icy lace mantles,
water in pipes under the house was
rigid, and the March wind shrilled a
song that chilled.
As much as we may exclaim about
the weather, one can't deny that with
out it life would be a monotonous thing.
If every day were alike, what would be
the use of looking forward to the morn
ing?
Likewise, it would be most dull to
live where there is never any change
in the seasons. Every four months Na
ture in North Carolina changes the Bet
ting. Sometimes she and her sidekick,
the Weatherman, go to extremes, cre
ating a background of storm, or blast
of heat, that makes us poor humans dis
card old routine and adapt, for a few
days, to a new.
But that, too, adds zest to living.
If anybody complains too much
about the weather, just ask them if
they have a substitute.
Nice, If You Have Time . . .
(Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Any person who is known to be a
regular reader of books ? not maga
zines or sales manuals or fix-it-yourself
handbooks, but real hard-cover books
which he takes the trouble to buy or ob
tain from the library ? has to contend
with some strange reactions from his
non-reading fellowmen.
The remark he is most frequently
challenged with is, "Golly, I wish 1 had
time to read!"
Implicit in this remark is the sugges
tion that reading books is a rather friv
olous occupation, to be indulged in only
by those whose time is not at a pre
mium. The quaint "bookworm" ? a
term favored by non-readers ? is out
of the mainstream of life.
Instead of rushing out every evening
to attend to such essential business as
deciding who is to be second vice chair
man of the bylaws committee of the
local chatter club, this funny old egg
head stays home and reads a book. Oh
well, nice if you have the time.
But also implicit in "Golly, I wish
I had time to read !" is a certain defen
siveness, even a tinge of envy. Some
where in the back of his mind the non
reader is uncomfortably aware that the
book reader enjoys a secret life that
all the second vice chairmanships in the
world can never offer him. Then he
hears that the book reader actually
knows about the local chatter club, has
even been asked to serve on the bylawB
committee, but has regretfully declined.
You mean, he says, you think read
ing is more important than joining or
ganizations and having a sense of be
longing? You mean, you have to make
time to read? You mean, you don't
just read because you've got nothing
better to do? Ah, but you're different.
Take me. When could I find time to
read? On the bus going to work? Fun
ny, I never thought of that. At lunch
time? But I always eat lunch with the
boys. On Sunday evenings? But that's
when we always watch television. I
simply don't have the time. What's
that you say? The only people who
don't have time to read are mothers
with 10 children, no maid and a job in
the evenings? Ridiculous. Just the sort
of thing a bookworm should say . . .
On the High Road . . .
The Seadogs are taking the high
road and directing their opponents to
the low.
Another milestone was passed Satur
day night. The road is going to get
steeper now. Will they make it two
state basketball championships in a
row? The odds are in favor of it but
these days only the federal government
counts its chickens before they're
hatched !
The players have come through a
season with "upset" lurking between
every starting and final whistle. That
makes the word "Congratulations" to
the district champions take on more
meaning than just a shout of joy.
The team merits every kind of sup
port, confidence and good wish.
They're going into a tournament at
High Point where no mercy will be
shown, no quarter given. We believe
they're equal to it. All they have to do
is show the rest of the state.
Go, Seadogs. Go!
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They Were Turpentine Vats
Mrs. W. D. Arthur, 80 years old,
who lives in Norfolk but is a for
mer resident of Beaufort, wrote us
this week about the "mysterious
hole" found near the headwaters
of Calico Creek.
At the bottom of the article clip
ped from a recent issue of THE
NEWS-TIMES and headed "What
Could It Be?" Mrs. Arthur wrote:
"They are tar vats or turpentine
vats. They were made level with
the ground. The ground has grown
over them."
That's about the straightest an
swer we've received yet. But with
the help of the many people who
kindly told us what they knew or
could learn, we just about deduced
that the hole in the ground held
pitch or turpentine in the old days
when those materials were essen
tial to sailing ships.
Mrs. Arthur writes in an accom
panying note: "If land is not dis
turbed. it grows. They (the vats)
hive been there many years. My
great grandfather's crowd put
them there.
"On the shores of Mill Creek was
a brick yard. On the Bouth side
of Newport river was another brick
yard. It was nearly gone when
my father took me there when
I was 14 years old. Now I am 80.
"Later on. they boxed out the
trees (slashed the bark) and put
buckets in them to take care of
the syrup (sap), as they do maple
trees to get sugar syrup where the
sugar maple grows.
"There were not many people in
Carteret county when my great
grandfather went there and there
were no Indians there."
Mrs. Arthur goes on to tell that
'Indians later landed at Harkcrs
Island and lived there several
years until they tried to board
freight boats that came in to get
brick and turpentine.
The Indians apparently scared
the boats out to sea and eventual
ly, I guess, the Indians were run
off or taken care of in other ways.
My apologies to Mrs. Arthur. I'm
not quite sure that is exactly what
she means to convey about the In
dians, but I will say this: her hand
writing is better than most young
people's these days. Her words
arc spelled correctly and that's
more man i can say anoui loaay s
average high school student.
Eighty-year-old Mrs. Arthur evi
dently went to a school where pen
manship and spelling were taught.
The Rev. John Staton of Char
lotte sends word that his genealogy
of the Staton family, The Staton
History, is off the press and on
sale. It represents 18 years of re
search. His postcard reads, "Con
tains all Statons we could find in
the world from 750 to 1960. They
are going FAST ..."
1 assume he means the books, not
the Statons.
No Leap Year babies were born
in the county Monday, Feb. 29, but
a little girl was born at Cherry
Point to M/Sgt. and Mrs. Harold
C. Mitchell. As the Windsock re
ports, the newcomer, Pamela Sue,
will be a hundred years old on her
25th birthday!
But Mama and Papa have de
cided to celebrate her birthday ev
ery y?ar on the last day of Febru
ary.
Stamp News
By SYD KR0N1SH
If you collect United Nations
stamps or are about to start such
a collection, you can obtain an al
bum for these issues for only 10
cents (to cover the cost of postage
and handling).
The pages arc standard size,
punched to fit any three-ring bind
er and contain spaces for all U. N.
stamps up to and including 1959.
The album also contains helpful
tips on U. N. stamp collecting.
Just write to U. N. Stamp Album,
New York Stamp Exchange, 79
Wall Street, New York 5, N. Y. and
enclose the dime.
Summerfield also announced that
the 50-Star Flag stamp will be
first placed on sale at Honolulu,
Hawaii, on July 4. Details of this
stamp will be given in this column
as soon as they arc received.
Minkus Publications has issued
five new and up to date albums in
their line of individual Country Al
bums. Each space in the albums
includes catalogue numbers. The
new albums are Belgium and Col
onies; Netherlands and Colonies;
Japan; Panama, Colombia & Ca
nal Zone; Tunisia, Libya & Mo
rocco.
From the Pulpit
God made this world and has a
plan whereby those on this earth
can live in peace and harmony.
At present there seems to be little
of either. The type of peace we
do have is being maintained by
force. Our nation is spending more
of its budget on war equipment and
defense measures than we are for
anything else. An enforced peace
is never a lasting one.
God's plan is for love to rule the
world and in spite of our failing to
rely on it? love is the most power
ful forcc on earth. Jesus went
about bringing the love of God into
the hearts of men. He is still at
work attempting to do this very
thing. He established His Church
to carry on the most important
task in the world.
This love is at work and is doing
miraculous things. A few years
ago when the great "A Man Called
Peter" was being made, just such
an event took place. Marjorie
Rambeau, an actress, wai to play
a minor role in the film. A few
years before, she had been injured
in an automobile accident and had
not been able to walk since.
Her bit part was to sit in the
front pew of the church, and at a
certain time when the congrega
tion stood at the close of the ser
mon she was to stand also. The
congregation was to walk out and
sincc she could only stand by hold
ing to the pew in front of her the
camera would switch from her and
show the rest of the congregation
leaving the church.
The actor representing Dr. Mar
shall was delivering one of the
preacher's inspiring sermons on
faith and love. The theme was,
"If you really believe and trust in
God's love and have faith you can
do amazing things". Miss Ram
beau, the crippled actress, forgot
where she was, even forgot that
an actor was delivering another
man's sermons. She heard only
the words ? the message.
It penetrated deeply into her
heart and mind and when the con
gregation began to leave the
church, she unconsciously walked
out with them. You can imagine
the excitement and joy that swept
through this movie set. The power
of love had removed the psycho
logical block in her mind, and oth
er impediments, which medical sci
ence had been unable to do.
A dead preacher's message on
faith and love healed a person. God
is at work and His love is available
to all of us. "And now abideth
faith, hope, love, these three, and
the greatest of these is love!"
?The Rev. B~. L. Davidson, Pastor
First Methodist Church
Morehead City
the good old days
THIRTY YEARS AGO
H. S. Gibbk, secretary of the
Port Commission of Carteret Coun
ty, asked the county commission
ers to authorize and issue $100,000
bonds or notes for the proposed
port.
William Potter, student at UNC
at Chapel Hill, had been chosen aa
one of the members of the all-cam
pus basketball team.
Denard Lewis was appointed
postmaster at Marshallberg to suc
ceed Miss Mary W. Jones.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
W. G. Mebane, editor and pub
lisher of The Beaufort News for
nineteen yeari, died after a long
Illness.
Alvah Hamilton was reelected
tax collector by the county com
miasioners.
William H. Potter, Dr. L. W.
Moore, Richard D. Whitehurst. A.
T. Gardner and Clarence Guthrie
?niwmn^j tbClT f<?T COD"
missioners of the town of Beau
fort.
TEN YEARS AGO
A Markers Island family was left
homeless when fire destroyed their
home.
Beaufort town commissioners
voted to annex the Beaufort school
property, bringing it within the
town's corporate limits.
Newport town commissioner!
planned to extend the town limits
to include the proposed veterans
housing project on the Nine-Fdot
Road and a portion of property on
the south side of highway 70.
FIVE YEARS AGO
The Beaufort Seadogs would play
Bath in the Kenansville gym in
the district basketball playoffs.
The Morehead City Shipbuilding
Corp. had received a $3(3,140 con
tract from the Navy for eighteen
30-foot utility boats.
Mitchell's Carpenter Shop, west
of Morebead City, waa celebrating
it* seventh anniversary.
Washington Report
By SEN. B. EVERETT JORDAN
Washington? Once again I have
asked (or action on a bill I intro
duced last year which would en
able those people who received So
cial Security benefits to earn more
outside incomc without being pen
alized.
Under the present law, a person
?5 years old who receives pay
ments cannot earn more than $1,200
a year in outside income without
losing part of his Social Security
benefits. I introduced a bill last
year which would increase this
limitation on outside income to
$1,800 a year.
After the bill was introduced, it
was referred to the Senate com
mittee on finance. It took consid
erable time for the committee to
obtain a report from the adminis
tration on the measure. It it a
matter of routine procedure for the
administrative agency involved to
analyze each bill that is introduced.
The administration report filed
on my bill was unfavorable. The
administration took the position
that my measure would create ad
ditional demands on the Social Se
curity fund from which benefits
arc paid. It was reasoned that il
the outside limitation was Increas
ed, it would mean that more peo
pip would draw iuu boon secur
ity payment*.
An a matter of literal fact, this
probably would be true, but I do
not feel that it ia any justification
to keep the proposal from becom
ing law. After all, the payments
individuals make into the Social
Security fund were from their own
earnings and they should not be
penalized because of any outside
income they may be able to make.
I iincerely feel there is an ur
gent need for some changes in the
present law, and the modest in
crease in the outside income lim
itation I have proposed is certain
ly a minimum requirement in view
of the increased cost of living in
recent years.
Aa a matter of fact, I see no rea
son why there should be any lim
itation on the amount of outside
income a person receiving Social
Security benefits may earn.
There are many thousands <rf
people who are not able to con
tinue full-time work after they
reach the retirement age under the
Social Security program. Many of
these people would like to do part
time work in order to make enough
money above their Social Security
payments to earn a decent living
and avoid being dependent 00 rd
ativea and friends.
Lou I? Spivey
Words of Inspiration
IN MY OPINION
Each time that I begin to count my blessings, I find new ones thai
I have never really noticed before. 1 found a special one on Saturday
night, Feb. 20, the "shut-off valve" on my television set.
1 turned it on at random, being alone, to see if anything was on that
I might enjoy. The picture presented a group of people in church, but
the music was being played by a jazz band. At first I thought something
was wrong with the set, that the wires were crossed or something.
I tried to adjust the set and recover from my state of shock, and fully
intended to listen and see what it was all about, until the pastor, minua
the sideburns, began reading from the Holy Scripture in his best "twen
tieth century 'beatnik' voice."
Then something down deep in my soul sickened; it was at this time
I realized what a blessing there was in being able to silence this scene
from my living room.
To those who feel that since this is the twentieth century, and musie
should be played to match the times, 1 would suggest that those twen
tieth century musicians write their own songs. I believe that it is in
very bad taste for any orchestra to try te jazz-up our religious hymns.
Songs such as Nearer My God to Thee, Just As 1 Am, Tread Softly, and
everyone printed in the hymnals of any church, should be revently hon
ored and respected.
The hymn singing in most of our churches has been speeded up con
siderably in recent years. Can this be the next step?
Most of us in the congregation do not know a flat from a sharp, but
to us the singing of the hymns is one of the most impressive parts of
the service. We like to absorb the words, our voices merely express
the feeling in our hearts.
Every hymn in our hymnal is an expression of faith in God, every
response, a prayer, and should be timed as such. We do not increase
our faith by speeding up the music, not one iota. We need to feel the
meaning of the words.
The choice is ours, at least in our own churches. Do we want the
speed of jazz added to our church hymns? Or will we continue the
beauty, spiritual inspiration and the heart-felt faith in the singing of our
hymns?
"U is true that trained singers, choir directors and musicians are
taught to sing at the speed of so many beats to a bar, and we know it
is difficult for them to listen to the drag in the voices of the congrega
tion sometimes. We realize they want our music to be as near perfect
as possible, so I would suggest that the choir sing their own numbers
in the tempo most approved by them, but to remember that God accepts
all petitions of faith and love from every heart, whether these words be
professionally sung or in the form of a "joyful noise" that most of us
make when we try to sing.
1 believe we should try to reach a medium as near perfect as possible.
The tempo can be carried too far, either way, and should not be carried
to the extreme and discourage one soul from joining in and contributing
to the service.
I realize that, as in all other things that we do, God expects us to do
and give our best, even in singing.
I realize too that these beloved hymns were not written to make the
singers "feel good," but to "Glorify God."
1 also realize that 1 am oftimes considered old-fashioned.
But 1 am still an American and have the right to express my own
feelings and beliefs. The reading of the Holy Scripture "beatnik style"
and our beloved hymns played and sung in jazz tempo is sacreligious,
and makes me sick deep down in my soul.
Free Wheeling
By BILL CROWELL
Motor Vehicles Department
Things I never knew about autos
and auto building:
By 1975 there will be an addi
tional 29 million new drivers on
US roads.
Rubber, glass and steel do not
an auto make? more than 100 oth
er materials go into the building
of a modern car.
Six months to a year before they
hit the showrooms, prototype ve
hicles are driven almost continu
ously for 25,000 miles over all
types of roads in all kinds of wea
ther. Afterward, they are disman
tled and inspected part by part
down to the smallest nut and bolt.
According to the US Department
of Commerce, the average pas
senger car gets only 14.4 miles per
gallon of gasoline.
"Dog powered" vehicle was pat
ented in 1870. The pooch, enclos
ed within the front wheel, scamper
ed along an endless track furnish
ing motive power for the three
wheeled car.
Speaking of patents, auto build
ers maintain special staffs who
each month pore over more than
1,000 ideas, suggestions and inven
tions sent in by gct-rich-quick hope
fuls.
But only one idea out of some
30,000 ever turns out to be both
new and useful.
The Pierce-Arrow automobile of
1910, at $8,200 per copy, offered
motorists a luxury car "with room
for seven trunks, a wash basin
complete with hot and cold run
ning water and a seat that con
verts into a flush toilet." Because
of its craftsmanship and distinc
tion, the Pierce-Arrow was mad*
official vehicle of the White House.
Today's automobiles carry more
than a dozen clectric motors.
Think air brakes on trucks are
something recent? The English
Thorneycraft Steam Wagon, in
1897, had a compressed air brake.
In this country the Northern truck
used similar air brakes in 1908.
Early In the century, the presi
dent of Princcton University blam
ed the motor car (or "the spread
of socialistic feeling." He called
it "a picture of the arrogance of
wealth, with all its independence
and carelessness." But Woodrow
Wilson changed his mind about
automobiles when their military
usefulness was so dramatically
demonstrated for the first time in
World War I.
Sugar cane in an auto? You bet,
cane cellulose is used extensively
in the manufacture of safety glass.
Many passenger cars have horns
tuned to the musical notes of E
flat and G, the combination most
pleasing to the ear engineers say.
Some builders add a third note ?
B flat.
Almost 225,000 motor vehicles
are owned by agencies of the Fed
eral government.
One giant public utility (AT&T)
operates a fleet of 103,850 vehicles,
including 22,900 passenger cars.
In the auto industry, tolerances
of two-millionths of an inch are
commonplace. Special optical in
struments measure the peaks and
valleys on metal surfaces. A
"peak" rising two-millionths of an
inch from the top of a one-inch
cube would add as much height,
in proportion, as a fresh coat of
paint on its top would add to the
Empire State Building.
What is now called an estate
wagon used to be known as a sta
tion wagon and before that a depot
wagon. And in those days? 1850?
it really was a wagon.
SUDDEN THAWT . . . Glasses
affect vision, especially when
they're emptied too many times.
NEWS NOTES . . . Traffic police
men in Milan, Italy, arc furnished
water pistols filled with an evil
smelling liquid which can be squirt
ed 20 to 30 feet. Let a traffic vio
later refuse to stop when ordered
to do so and the Italian cop firei
away. The only effective remover
is available from the nearest sta
tion house. No where else.
Smile a While
"Minute Steak? tl," read an en
try on a restaurant menu. A cus
tomer ordered one, and it was sub
sequently brought to him? a piece
of meat containing about three
good bites.
"My mistake," he announced
with disgust. "I thought the 'min
ute' referred to time? not sue "
-Wall Street Journal
Jack? You say your wife is real
even tempered?
Mack? Yeah ... mad all tto