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I CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES Cartorat County's Nowapapor EDITORIALS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1960 Happy Birthday! Friends of Ma Taylor tomorrow will pay tribute to her on her hundredth birthday. As far as we can determine, she is not only the oldest resident of Beaufort, but of the county. There are quite a few residents in their nineties and we have attempted to obtain pictures of all of them. Un doubtedly, some have been missed. Our information^ came from the county steering committee for the aging, which made exhaustive efforts several months ago to obtain the names of our oldest senior citizens. If there are residents in their nineties whose names do not appear in the section honoring them, we would like to hear from them or members of their families. Senior citizens are becoming a very important part of our life. They al ways have been, but today there are more of them because medical science is keeping folks healthier longer. The social pattern is changing, too. Ma, like most elderly folks of long ago, lives with her family. But today, many old folks are not welcome in the homes of their children. Illnesses may require that they have round-the-clock nursing care and they must seek that care in Stalwarts Step Down Dr. S. W. Hatcher, after three years, has stepped down as head of the More head City Recreation commission. He is the second of two stalwarts who have left important positions in the mu nicipal recreation program in recent months. Fred Lewis, director for many years, resigned several months ago. Under Dr. Hatcher, the recreation commission operated efficiently, more activities for youngsters were estab lished, definite tasks assigned to cer tain commissioners, and much-needed improvements made to the recreation building itself. Perhaps that is because the recrea tion commission finally started to get the tax money due it — yet Dr. Hatcher and the commission saw that th'6 Money was well spent. Municipal recreation is not an easy program to administer. It must meet, the needs of all ages and all races be cause it is a tax-supported program. Unless tact is used, there can be con flict among groups who want to use the same facilities of the building at the same time. And because youth of the community are the ones who come in contact with it for the most part, the older citizens are prone to take little interest in it. Like any government program where there are jobs to be had with pay from tax funds, there are persons who want A Visit to the Depot (New York Herald Tribune) The old station stood in a hush near the highway, almost on top of the un derpass it had, in the last years of its life, ironically demanded. Weathered, or abandoned, to a bright mustard brown, it remained only as a blind land mark to the trains that roared through, shivering its windows. Being right on the main line made it the more forgot ten. Toothy gingerbread ran along the edge of the shed roof. Above it, the building itself was covered with board and batten, warped and peeling. Along the asphalt platform, now sprung with fifteen years of weeds, one of the thin, down-curved lamps was twisted rak ishly out of line. A huge, rickety over pass, brown too, spanned the tracks like the forelegs of a dinosaur, al though the wire fence between the rails, which had made people climb up special homes. Families of other old folks simply may not be able to care for them in the home; families of others may be dead, thus we find growing up in many com munities homes for elderly people. Today there are numerous publica tions geared especially to the interests of senior citizens. They deal with hob bies, health, place of the senior citizen in the church and community, and some offer health programs that are beneficial physically and financially to older folks. Miss Grace Wilson, Beaufort, who is vitally interested in problems of the aging, is well-informed on the subject and has been most gracious in supp'y ing information to any who request it. Our sincere wishes for more happy birthdays go to Ma Taylor — and to all our senior citizens, especially those who have reached the autumn years of 90 and older. They are an inspiration to younger generations. They make those in the 60’s feel like kids; they fill an important place in our changing American scene and we are remiss in our duty to humanity if we don’t let them know it. those jobs, believe they deserve them, and are miffed if they don’t get them. In addition to the directorship, the secretary-treasurer of the commission is paid. Positions on the commission carry no salary. Just before Dr. Hatcher left office, he saw that a set of rules for the recre ation commission was drawn up. Ever since the commission’s creation in 1950, it has rolled along with nothing in writing to steer it. Members played it by ear. It’s a credit to those on the first recreation boards that things went as well as they did. Not only were they handicapped by insufficient funds, but they were charting new paths in More head City. Dr. Hatcher merits a vote of thanks from the citizens. He’s still on the com mission and his influence will not be lost. Mr. Lewis, long-time recreation director, spent many, many hours on the job. Finding his replacement will not be easy. (James Shine succeeded Mr. Lewis but recently accepted a posi tion in New Bern). Our best wishes for a happy admin istration and successful operation of the program go to E. L. Smithwick, the new director, and his commissioners. A recreation program can fill a need or it can be just another drain of tax funds. It depends on how the commis sion handles the job. and down, was half beaten to the earth. Through a cracked pane everything looked neat, and the stove and radia tors freshly painted. Here was a faith ful copy of every country railroad sta tion, of neither more nor less interest than any other. On the other side of the platform rusty tracks circled off to the old steamboat landing four miles away which passengers fifty years ago had used most conveniently to cross the bay. Here indeed was a vintage ghost. As the melancholy inspection ended, a car drew up and a man jumped out. "What time does the next train go from here?” he asked in a Southern accent. "I have to get home to Florida in a hurry.” He had noticed the station from the road. His question was nat ural. He stopped time for a moment, if not a train. Carteret County News-Times WINNER OF NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION AND NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARDS A Merger of The Beaufort News (Est. 1912) and The Twin City Times (Est. 1936) Published Tuesdays and Fridays by the Carteret Publishing Company, Inc. 504 Arendell St., Morehead City, N. C. ' LOCKWOOD PHILLIPS — PUBLISHER ELEANORE DEAR PHILLIPS — ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER RUTH L. PEELING — EDITOR Mail Rates: In Carteret County and adjoining counties, $8.00 one year, $6.25 nine months, $4.50 six months, $3.00 three months, $1.50 one month; elsewhere $9.50 one year, $7.25 nine months, $5.25 six months, $4.00 three months, $1.50 one month. Member of Associated Press — N. C. Press Association National Editorial Association — Audit Bureau of Circulations National Advertising Representative Weekly Major Markets, Inc. 10 East 40th Street, New York 16, N. Y. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to use for re publication of local new* printed in this newspaper, as well as all AP news dispatches Entered as Second Class Matter at Morehead City, N. C., Under Act of March 3, 1*79 THE JURY ROOM Ruth Peeling Wanted: New Kind of Human Somebody ought to invent a hu man being who doesn't make a mess of things. In my house there are no kids, no dogs, no cats—just one para keet—and I can get that house in a bigger mess in shorter time than anyone can imagine. Take my outside utility closet for example. Every time I turn around, it seems, it could be clean ed again and stuff thrown out. I guess I have a squirrel instinct. Al ways saving things like boxes, aluminum foil pie plates, old lamps, vases, half-packages of seed I’ll never plant, paper bags, newspapers, magazines, old kitch en utensils. The clutter makes me sick just to think about it, yet I can’t force myself to throw it all away. But aside from closets. Look at the mess left when all you do is put a meal in front of your fam ily. Look at the chaos of the bed rooms after they all get up and get off to school. The mess left in front of the tv from the snacks eaten there the night before. The clutter in the room where you were sewing. Think of all the extra time we'd have for other things if we just Education — Its Importance To Civilization (Note: In observance of National Education Week, students at Morehead City high school wrote essays. The following is by Jane Langdale). Civilization is dependent upon man’s education and his desire to improve. During primitive times, man was dependent upon his own muscles for power. But because of his desire for improvement, power has gone from man power to atomic power. Bach improve ment enabled him to make more goods and give more services. Therefore, civilization grew and grew; it became better and better because of man’s desire to improve himself and things round about him. Through automation and speciali zation, our civilization has reached a new height in power. Education of others brings profit to all of us. We cannot be expected to know enough about medicine to treat our own illness. We cannot be expected to know enough about construction to build our own homes. Therefore, we leave the knowledge of medicine to the doctor, the knowledge of construction to the engineer. But, it is through the education of oth ers, it is through their kind of knowledge that we are served. Therefore, the education of oth ers unlocks for us the door to the great achievements of mankind. It is also through education that we receive our social heritage. We have today so many freedoms and economic opportunities because of the work of past educated men. It is because of their beliefs and their work that our civilization has been improved. We live in a democratic country. Democracy is a political system, but it is also a way of life. It is because of education that every one is given an equal chance—the poor child, the Negro child, the child on the wrong side of the tracks, the one born to foreign parents. Our schools must teach democ racy. They must help directly to create a democratic society. There fore, we can say that it is through education that the door of democ racy is unlocked. Our civilization must keep mov ing toward progress. The way to do this is through education. The old frontiers of free land are gone, but new frontiers of opportunity are open to us. It is through education that man didn't have to keep cleaning np. That's why I think it would be nice if someone invented a human who could go through life without making a mess. Floy Garner said she looked out of her house at Newport the other day and Book Wilson’s old hound dog was in front of Republican headquarters howling as though he'd lost his last friend. Floy said she couldn’t figure out whether he was prophesying dark things for his master’s party or whether Mr. Book wasn’t in Re publican headquarters like he was supposed to be and his dog was calling him to his post. Friday night was the Beaufort Morehead football game. The wife of a minister who had recently come to town couldn't understand why the junior choir couldn’t sing that night at a revival service. One of the county’s leading citi zens said, “She doesn’t know yet that there are just some things that aren’t in the Bible!” (In case someone is reading this who has never lived in Beaufort and Morehead City, no young’un in his right mind is ANYWHERE is able to improve his way of life and the way of life of all mankind. The Readers Write Newport, N. C. Nov. 2, 1960 To the Editor: Now that Halloween is over and the PTA’s can once again breathe a sigh of relief that their budgets will balance for the present, let us reflect on the price we paid for the endeavor. Since when is it up to the chil dren and teachers to forfeit a month of the school year with ex hausting money-making schemes just to keep the PTA in the black? No wonder teachers leave their professions for ones less taxing (physically) and more pay. No wonder the American students are falling down scholastically behind students of other countries when they must spend school hours and hours after school, which should be more profitably spent in home study, when they must sell, sell, sell to outdo another class. Do they in their own- rooms bene fit from these financial drives? Perhaps indirectly, but the crying needs within each room are still there and they (the parents) have no say-so what the PTA spends the money for. The day comes soon enough for our children to get out and earn for a living but it is not their re sponsibility to finance all these organizations. (I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if the students didn’t get asked to stage a carnival to help finance the proposed hospit al.) So let's face it—it’s the parents and taxpayers who should square ly face these problems. Granted many mothers spend endless hours toward these carnivals, but which one of these isn’t making her fam ily neglected during October? But mind you, the students are still selling—they too must raise funds for band equipment, so the stu dents try Christmas cards (just let the poor teacher handle the money—she has so much spare time.) t during a Morehcad-Beaufort game except at the game!) Dick Lockey reports that an el derly lady called Prentiss Garner the other day and said she couldn't get to see him so she could regis ter and could he come to her house and register her? She said she wanted to register as a Republican. Well, this crushed Prentiss. Be ing a Democrat, he’s much hap pier registering Democrats. But he went with the registration book to see the lady. When he got there she announced that she wanted to register as a Democrat. Prentiss was somewhat surpris ed. He told her he thought she wanted to register as a Repub lican. “Well,” the lady said, “I heard that if Kennedy got elected, he’d close all the churches, so I wanted to vote for Nixon. Then I heard that if Nixon got elected, he’d cut off my social security, and I came to the conclusion that the check is more important to me than the church!” Now Mr. Lockey may just have made that up. If he did, it’s a good story. It certainly illustrates a lot of misinformation. Mr. Kennedy, as any fool knows, couldn't close the churches, and as any fool knows, only Congress, not the President, could change anything like the social security program. In the third place, it doesn’t mat ter how you're registered, you can vote any way you want. So don’t believe everything you hear. As a matter of fact, at this point in the campaign, you’d do better if you don’t believe anything you hear! There was a time when October was a lovely month—moments to enjoy its beauty, the sound of hap py school children eagerly antici pating Halloween parties and fun. But now its a miserable month— just ask the teachers. The loudest October sound is of money being counted for the PTA. Where I hail from the school board of education and the county boards handled the financial problems— they faced these issues and met them—not by turning them over to the students and teachers and mothers. And our school was a ‘‘hall of learning,” not a composite of mon ey-making projects. I don’t pre tend to be a genius in solving this problem, but it doesn’t take one to figure out where this money comes from. It’s dad's pocketbook that pays, so why not pay it find save all the needless wear and tear that is shattering our educational system? Of course, the PTA needs funds to operate but there’s no place in its constitution that says students must finance it. So next year give me a different October and I’ll gladly exchange it for a substan tial contribution. A tired mother, Mrs. G. G. Anderson FIRST IN LINE? Nov. 4, 1960 To the Editor: I have been asked for a word of comment on Steve Roberts's letter in Friday’s edition. (It really doesn’t matter who wrote it for him.) My only comment is this: If he had been living in Massa chusetts in the early days of this country when the antecedents of our (the Protestant) faith were burning the witches at the stake, he in all probability would have begged the privilege of being the first to apply the torch to the fag gots. Luther Hamilton I LouheSptvey Words of Inspiration THE LAD WHO WENT AWAY I set his room in order on that bright September day. And I handled all his treasures in a helpless sort of way; Books and pictures, scattered letters someone wrote in girlish glee, And a diary far too precious for a mother's eyes to see; Cast off shoes and belts and collars, all I put aside to stay; For I set his room in order when my laddie went away. I set his life in order when my laddie was a child; Crooked ways 1 straightened for him, wounded feelings I beguiled. May the hand that in his childhood lay so trustingly in mine, Reach out upward through the darkness to a guidance divine! Keep him safe, 0 Heavenly Father, keep him strong and true today; And grant eternal victory to the lad who went away! — Author Unknown SOMETHING MORE “Just do what you can. It’s not merely enough to exist. It's not enough to say, ‘I’m earning enough to live and to support my family. 1 do my work well. I’m a good father. I’m a good husband.’ “That's all very well. But you must do something more. Seek al ways to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to realize his own true worth. “You must give some time to your fellowman. Even if it’s a littla thing, do something for those who have need of help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here, too.” — Dr. Albert Schweitzer QUOTES The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to a mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity. Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man can have. If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so~much pleasure in noting those of others. When you gel into a tight place and everything goes against you till it seems as though you could not hold on another minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. —Harriet Beecher Stowe Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was dark ness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the corhpass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took depression to teach us the real value of a job. One ship sails east, another west, With the selfsame breezes blow; Tis the set of the sail and not the gale Determines the way they go. Like the ways of the waves are the winds of fate As we travel along through life; ’Tis the set of the soul determines the goal And not the winds or the strife. Under 21 Is Getting Too Serious Boy Fears Girlfriend By DAN HALLIGAN Dear Dan: I really have a prob lem. I’ve been going steady with this girl for about two months and I’m afraid we’re altogether too se rious. I’m an athlete and have a curfew and she’s been keeping me out too many nights beyond the curfew. 1 would appreciate your help and soon.—A Worried Man. Dear Man: If your coach ever finds out you’re not keeping your curfew, you won't have to worry about sports anymore. Besides that, you can’t expect the other boys on the team to play fair and square and not you. I'm not saying you'll have to choose between the girl and your sports but I am saying you know your obligation to your team and your buddies and it has to come before the girl. If she doesn’t or won’t understand, then you two had better break up. If she does understand, you can still see each other but yet get home on time. A heart to heart talk with her will solve your problem, one way or another. Dear Dan: I just turned 17 and would like to know how many nights a week a girl of my age should be allowed out on dates and the time she should be home. Thank you.—T. P. Dear T. P.: The big factors In any dating situation these days are that school and your studies must take priority over any boy, sad as those words sound. I think a girl of 17 should be allowed at least the good old days THIRTY YEARS AGO Democratic candidates were suc cessful in their bid for local offices. The Beaufort Fire department used water to extinguish a fire for the first time in 18 months. All previous fires, which had been small, had been put out by the use of chemicals. Mr. Ivey Mason, former manager of the D. Pender store in Beaufort, was now managing the Home Ser vice store on Front street, Beau fort. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO The State Highway and Public Works commission was planning a bridge from the mainland near At lantic to Cedar Island, to replace the ferry that was now in use. The Atlantic Baptist association voted to hold its next annual meet ing at Marshallberg. The Rural Resettlement adminis tration had leased a sweet potato curing house which would be avail able for RR farmers. one and possibly two date* a week but not on school nights. Friday and Saturday nights are good data nights. Your time coming in should be the time your parents tell you to check in the house. The five other nights should be devoted to your parents, your girl friends, your school work and keeping your wardrobe and your room in order. Dear Dan: I'm a girl of 18 and have a brother two years younger who knows more about my person al life than he should. I’ve done a couple of things I'm ashamed of and my brother somehow found out about them, from the boy I dated, I guess, and keeps hanging the threat of telling Mom over my head unless I’m nice to him. His way of my being “nice” is to give him spending money whenever he needs it. I make my spending money by baby-sitting and unless you can give me a solution to my problem, will have to keep being “nice” to my brother. Please help.—Wor ried. Dear Worried: I don’t know what your brother "has” on you but I’m sure it isn't that bad that you have to bow down to him. My advice is to tell your mother and hope she’ll understand. Maybe you should be ashamed of yourself for whatever you did but so should your brother. LETTERS from readers appear on page 2 section 2, as well as on this page. TEN YEARS AGO The State Highway department announced that the new beach bridge would enter Morehead City at 24th street. Three persons were saved aftef nearly drowning when their boat capsized at the Atlantic Beach bridge. The tide and current car ried them to 7th street before they could be rescued. FIVE YEARS AGO Beaufort town commissioner Ger ald Hill asked about the house numbering and street marking pro ject which was a part qf the Finer Carolina project. We would still like to know what about it! Morehead City received notice of approval of $59,956 in federal funds to meet cost of temporary repair of damage caused to town property in the hurricanes. Four residents of Atlantic, Cecil Morris, Clayton Fulcher, Ira Mor ris and Milon Willis, told the coun ty commissioners that Core Banks, especially from Drum Inlet to Ocra coke Inlet, must be restored. >
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