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Thuraday April 28, 1960

Thursday, April 28, 1960

Prime Target

A Huge Crop Is Burned Every Year

It would be unthinkable in North Carolina or anywhere else that thousands of acres of cropland would be burned over year after year consuming the production of the land that meant potential dollars to the farmer.

Yet, in North Carolina each yearand particularly in the Eastthousands of acres of valuable timber go up in flames every year mostly because of carelessness.

Some 9,000 acres of timberland has been burned in the Ponzer area in the past few days representing literally thousands of dollars in timber. And unlike other crops that are produced from the land, timber takes year, not just one season, to produce.

The unfortunate part is that most of us sort of take for granted that weTl have forest fires year after year, timber will be destroyed, and theres little that can be done about it. Certainly that is not true. Significant progress has been made in preventing forest fires, and fire wardens throughout the counties of the East have continually improved the facilities for fighting forest fires. Companies with large timber holdings have gone to consderable expense in their programs to prevent forest fires and to cope with the fires which cannot be prevented.

Timber is becoming an increasingly important agricultural product in Elastern North Carolina. The large holdings of companies and groups represent hundreds of thousands of dollars. The smaller tracts of individual farmers, while they may not be as impressive, represent important supplemental income on many farms throughout this area.

If several thousand acres of corn, beans, peanuts

!^as An Out In ;?olitical Race

By LYNN NISBET

DEDICATED - The plight of Steve Nimocks, although a little bit worse, is fairly typical of the situation in which many politically minded North Carolinians find themselves. Consider these facts:

Nimocks is a practicing attorney at Fayetteville, home town of Terry Sanford, where pressure is heavy to give the home town boy unanimous support in his campaign for Governor. Nimocks also is secretary of the State Democratic Executive Committee, to which post he was appointed by John Larkins, another candidate for Governor, during Larkins tenure as state chairman. It is common knowledge among their acquaintances that the personal relationship between Nimocks and Malcolm Sea well, another candidate for Governor, approaches Damon-Pythlas intensity. And Nimocks makes no bones about the fact there are a lot of things in Beverly Lake's platform which he likes.

What to do? WhUe the problem facing Nimocks is similar to that confronting a lot of other voters, he has an out not available to most of the others. Democratic party rules require that officials in the party organization maintain a neutral attitude among candidates within the party. When asked who he is supporting for Governor, Nimocks answers with a aUaight face: You arc talking to the most dedicated Impartial secretary of the Democratic party In the whole history of that great political organization.

On two points he is outspoken. He will not vote for Robert Gavin (Republican nominee^ for Governor, and he will vote in November for whichever of the Democratic candidates may be nominated In the primary.

BALANCEDThe program of activities scheduled for the Eastern North Carolina Press Association meeting this week and Illustrates the balance being sought in development of the area, A visit to industrial and business places at Ahoskle Friday afternoon, followed by a dinner that night at which Bill Henderson, chief of the industry section of C & D. will speak; an automobile tour of a large part of the county and a boat trip on the Chowan and Meher-rin rivers, with a visit to the graphic arts school at Chowan College in Murfreesboro on Saturday, compresses into a period of some 24 hours partUiipation in industrial promotion, tourism and education.

Besides the balance maintained locally between agriculture.

industry, travel attractions and education, the visit of the newspaper men will convince them that the imbalance so often bemoaned between that section and the rest of the state does not actually exist.

It is true that there is no big industrial plant thereabouts, but the aggregate payroll of the dozens of small operationsemploying from ten to fifty persons eachis very substantial, Hertford county is off the publicized path for tourist attractions. Yet there are few places offering as much real beauty and pleasure for a short cruise as the upper Chowan and Me-herrin rivers. Chowan College .does not rate with Carolina and Duke or any of the big universities as an educational center. But it has the only school of graphic arts, which is highbrow for printing, sponsored by the North Carolina Press, promoted by and named for the late Roy Parker. Although the area lacks an outstanding installation like Tryon Palace or old Salem, it is replete with history and examples of ante bellum architecture.

BY-WAYS-As the main highways, the big hotels and the widely - publicized resort areas become more congested, there is growing interest in these quiet places off the beaten paths. Every year more people seek out side roads and sequestered streams for restful travel and for real recreationwith accent on the original meaning of the word re-creation, a renewing of the zest for comfortable living.

The trouble, of course, is that as more people are attracted to these off-side places the attributes of quiet restfulness are destroyed. Fortunately North Carolina has enough such places to last for a long time, and as traffic congestion pushes back the frontier there are still rivers and creeks and coves in prestine state beckoning the explorer. Many of these places which challenge the pioneering instincts ' of adventure seekers are within less than an hour drive from the most congested centers of population, and the nationally publicized tourist attractions.

When North Carolina proclaims its advantages as Variety Vacationland it means not only modern beach and mountain resort hotels, excellent golf courses, horse shows and organized fox hunts, outdoor dramas and all such. It means also sequestered nooks and crannies where the outside world is for all practical purpoacs completely inaccessible. .

or any other crop were destroyed by fire in Eastern North Carolina even once, there wouJd be raised such a prevention program that vast resources of the area would be thrown behind it. The loss in income represented by the fire would quickly be brought home to the agricultural area as a whole.

Why then do we take such a passive view of the forest fires which rob this section of the state of many thousands of dollars year after year? This represents the loss of potential agricultural income just as the loss of. a crop of corn or tobacco does. Moreover, it represents a long-range loss because tiniber requires years, not just a few months, to grow to marketable size. . ^

All of Eastern North Carolina needs to pay more attention to the fires which annually take a heavy toll of our timber crop. Greater efforts are needed to bring about more effective propams of preventing these fires, and also more effective programs of minimizing losses when these unfortunate fires occur.

Clear Indication U. S. Is Not Backing Down

President Eisenhowers warning to Premier Khrushchev that he will not go to any summit conference with a Soviet ultimatum hanging over the West is a clear indication the U. S. does not have^^in mind making major concessions at the May summit meeting.

It can be further assumed that the statement made by the President represents the thinking of the other Western powers which recently gathered for a pre-conference strategy meeting.

Although the Presidents statement was made in a reply to Khrushchevs veiled threat of again blockading "We.st Berlin, it appears also to be an effort by the United States to prevent a deterioration of the international situation before the summit conference next month.

Premier Khrushchev, in his most recent Berlin statement, may well have been seeking to evaluate the Wests determination to assist Soviet demands at the summit conference. By his reply, President Eisenhower has shown that the United States is willing to risk calling off the proposed conference if the Soviet Union tries to put undue pressure on the West before the conference begins. The Presidents statement also indicates that the Uiited States does not*believe that the forthcoming conference can produce a solution to the Berlin question and that the West is not going to the conference with the idea that the tension over Berlin must be eliminated regardless of cost.

There is another factor which must be considered in conjunction with the Presidents statement. That is the current review by Western military officials of resources the West would have to provide another air-life to West Berlin if that becomes necessary. The fact that the West has begun tentative preparations for a possible Berlin airlift should further impress Soviet officials with the fact that the West will not give in West Berlin to East Germany.

While we are concerned because the West apparently has no new program to offer at the summit conference, there is at least some satisfaction in knowing that the West is not inclined to accept whatever Russia proposes as the only answer to problems of international tension.

Through almost two decades of negotiations with the Soviet Union, we should have learned by now that the communists put much more stock in action than they do in words. If they know before the summit conference begins that the West will not be intimidated by threats or boasts, things at the conference will go more smoothly. If they know the West intends to stand by the position it has takenand is ready to back up that position with action if necessarythe chances are greater for a successful conference.

A New Approach Given Standoff

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A Hurry

Although It was somewhat earlier than scheduled, it happened aftyway and left at least two people klnda numb-feeling.

Monday night we watched TV before stretching out for the night around eleven-thirty. We never got to sleep.

After more than three hours of wondering if this was the time and two sleep-rousing phone calls to the doctor, we swiftly made our way to the hospital.

Upon arriving we were quickly Informed. This is it.

You bet It was! Less than six hours after our arrival we suddenly became parents for the first time. But it took loqger than the six hours for the reality of it all to soak in.

For the loneliest hours of the night we were separated. Only by a pair of swinging doors, but nevertheless separated. And you may be assured, those hours are pretty lonely.

During the wait, no two thoughts could be linked consecutively. Everything had been so sudden the ole brain just wouldnt do right.

Long months of thought and pleasant anticipation had gone before the This-is-it night. It had been firmly resolved to be percently calm and turn all thoughts toward constructive ideas. But, as most likely in all cases, no such luck.

After it was over, it was absolutely impossible to even remember what all those thoughts were. But, by then it didnt even seem to matter any more.

A pair of nurses came through the swinging doors (anyway, it seems like there were two nurses) and said, Guess what youve got. A raspy voice ventured, Probably a boy or a girl. The next words said something about it being a boy, but somehow that was far from the most

Other Editors Saying... Breathing Taxes Now

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP)-Just a little over a year ago this countrys handling of foreign affairs began to undergo a profound change, at least outwardly, although there was no way of knowing it for a while.

The word outwardly was chosen carefully. There has been no basic change in American foreign policy which still remains a standoff with the Soviets. In this past year there has been no solution of any major East-West issue.

But at least the way of handling the standoff is different. <

It began in April a year ago when Christian A. Herter was sworn in as secretary of state, succeeding John Poster Dulles who soon afterward died of cancer. The difference in handling foreign policy is rooted in the difference between them.

Dulles, the dominant type, was given to flamboyant, startling, even provocative statements as part of his foreign affairs strategy to threaten an enemy or try to push him off balance.

Herter is a mild man who pitches his foreign policy In a low. soft key. Dulles seemed to think nothing could be done un-le.ss he did it personally. Herter has more confidence In his subordinates, depends more on his staff.

Neither Dulles nor Herter has come up with an original basic policy. Both followed the Truman policy before them; stlff-arm the Soviets and the Red Chinese, But at least relations with the Soviets handled on a much milder plane than Dulles was capable of. seem to have improved.

In the long run this appearance may prove to be an optical Illusion.

But the Improvement in relations with the Soviet Union has its roots in factors which have noUilng to do with Herter* manner. President Elsenhower has taJicn a more active part in foreign affairs, and the Soviets pushed Eisenhow'cr into this.

Almost from the time Herter took over Elsenhower moved out

of the Dulles shadow and began asserting himself, with the result that Herter is now pretty completely overshadowed by Els-enhow'er.

In the beginning, because he didnt know Herter as well as Dulles, Eisenhower may have felt Impelled to take charge.

But in the background, forcing Eisenhower to move up front and center, was Premier Nikita Khrushchev who created such a crisis over his demands for the Allies to get out of Berlin he practically blackjacked Eisenhower into inviting him here to talle things over.

Further, the nimble Khrushchev had set an example for activity by a head of state by his own personal trips to countries and areas he wished to impress or Influence.

The Khrushchev activity and travels were a challenge to Eisenhower to do the same. And Elsenhower did. This of necessity put Herter in the background.

It would be the crowning achievement of his life if at the summit conference in May or sometime before he leaves office next Jan. 20 Herter could work out an arrangement with the Soviets to give better relations some permanency.

There is no doubt he will try his best, since he work* hard, despite his crippling arthritis. Otherwise, he will go down in history more as a caretaker than a leader. It's t(o soon vet to say which he is.

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"Americanism means the virtues of courage, honesty, justice, truth, sincerity and hardihood the virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America arc prosperity-at-any-* price, safety-first instead of ' duty-ilrst, the love of soft living and the gct-rich-quick theory of Hie.Pres. Theodore Roosevelt,

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

The tax critic used to complain, The government is taking everything now except the air we breathe,

Well, that complaint cant be used anymore, for Uncle Sams tax agents are finally getting around to a tax on breathing air, in a manner of speaking. It comes by way of a tax that is increasing the cost of air conditioners by 10 per cent, and thats the closest theyve come so far to a tax on air.

That seems to be the pattern for the news on taxes that has been coming in lately. Maybe it will not affect the sale of air conditioners, but there are too many taxes, that fail to raise the desired revenue because they hurt business.

For instance, there was that 20 per cent tax levied against night club tabs in places where a night out included entertainment In addition to the meat and drink. This tax. plus the fact that the Internal Revenue people have gotten tougher about wining and dining on expense accounts, hurt night club business. And across the country many clubs gave up providing entertainment because of the tax.

The government finally realized that the tax was putting a lot of people out of jobs, and cut it in half. But the expense account crackdown continues, with skeptical agents trying to figure out how many tax-exempt martinis a salesman

should be allowed to pour Into a prospect. (Meanwhile, the State Department a few block* away from the Internal Revenue Service *eems to shed some legitimacy on the cffcctlvencsa of the 100 proof mean* of reaching accords by asking $833,000 worth of liquor at taxpayers* expense to entertain foreigners)

What emerges is the picture of the government hurting night club* with a blue-nose law. hurting them with a crackdown on money spent with the clubs and then halfway helping them with a halfway tax cut.

The same bill that cut the night club tax also clipped the tax on breath sweeteners, something that was long overdue. These sweeteners are the miniature pungent pastiles that papa may use to disguise tippling, or the onion on his luncheon hamburger.

' The packs used to sell for a nickel. The tax on them made it uneconomic to sell them for that odd tax penny. So breath sweetners just about disappeared. The tax raised no revenue and wrecked a business, but it took 10 years to get the silly thing off the law books.

There have been plenty of experiences to show the ill effects high and unwise taxes can have on % business. Now, if the government "wants to get into air taxing with a guarantee to raise lots of money and really help a business that needs help, let them levy a tax on hot air in Washington.

Within what was probably two or three minutes Uhat seemed quite longer) the skilled master himself, all clad in green, emerged through those doors at the end of the hall, smiling.

Congratulations," he offered, then asked, have you seen your baby girl yet?

I think youre pulling my leg. Doc. was the reply. Then came what sounded so sweet to anxious ears. He's a real fine baby. Perfectly healthy, said the doc. Your wifes fine, too.

A very proud and greatly relieved father turned his gaze through a plate glass window where the nurse was holding a tiny gentleman by the heels checking his height with a Upe, They weighed him and carried him out of sight just as the swinging doors opened again and the loveliest young mother in the world was being wheeled down the hall.

They carried her to her room, and shortly afterward we were together again. "How is he? she first wanted to know. After excited assurances of his wellbeing. she smiled wearily and said softly, It all happened so fast.

Yes, was the only answer she could get right then.

But a slightly befuddled mind was thinking that everything went so fast it was hard to believe it had really happened, already. Wed been Uken by surprise. We just hadnt been quite ready.

But, its like the man said. When Mother Nature gets ready, you might as well hitch up your galluses and go. cause, ready or not, here she comes.

By GEORGE E, SOKOLSKT Copyriflit, 1$W, Ktog Features SyiRUeate. lac.

Our age, in many respects, starts with Henry the Navigator, Prince of PwtugaJ, whose 500th anniversary of his death is being commemorated this year to his native country. The United states should note this man's commemoration because he is the father of discoverythe spiritual ancesti* of Columbus and the other navlgstors who crossed the seas or circled the Earth. ^

The 15th Century could not accept the folklore assumption that the Earth was flat, lying between Heaven and Hell. Mwe knowledge existed of the Indian Ocean and the China Sea than of the South Atlantic, but progress was being made to the art of naviatlon and in the mathematics of astronomy. The beginnings of modem discovery started with Henry the Navigators expedition of discovery of the Azores to 1419 and brave men continuo to move into the unknown up to this very day when expcdlUona of discovery go to the Antarctic, the Himalayas, and prospective-ly to the moon.

More important than this event, which ultimately led to the discovery of Anwrica, was that Henry the Navigator was perhaps the first to approach navigation scientifically. He brought together and arranged to systematize the existent knowledge of the science of geography and llshed an observatory at Sagres where more accurate tables of the declination of the sun were developed.

The journeys of the Portuguese navlgatmrs in the South Atlantic paved the way for Columbus. Magellan and all the others who were seeking a sea route to India, by which they really meant Indonesia where they could find spices. Columbus was on hi* way there when be found the Americas in his path. Europeans knew about India and China because they had been trading with those areas as far back as there Is any recorded history. Even to the Bible mention is made of Sinim which is obviously China. But nothing was known of the Americas.

There was an old folklore of Atlantis. a lost continent that may have existed at one time somewhere between North Africa and South America, but it had disappeared. The earliest European* assumption was thati if one travelled West from Europef, at some point he would fall, off the Earth, By 1453^ it had become essential for Europe to find; a road to the East which would not be held by the all-conquering Arabs. Enough knowledge was already available to justify Informed men to believe that the Earth was round and thtrtiore if one travelled West, one would ultimately reach the farthest East. It was a courageous thought and even a more courageous act to try to accomplish.

Henry the Navigator is not as well known la these days as Christopher Cotombas. but he was a man of daring ideas. He was born to Oporto, Portugal, on March. 4, 1^. the smi of John I. King of Portugal. His mother was PhUlppa, an Englishwoman, the daughter of John of Gaunt.

' It Is difficult for us these days to realize what a great em pire Portugal had managed to develop. Brazil itself is <e of (Continued on pagn five)

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS THE FIRST FURROW In' the old days when the Chinese had an emperor. It was the custom of the emperor each year to plow the first furrow.

There was a beautiful and forceful symbolism embodied to this quaint custom. Life initially comes out of the ground. The emperor is the father of his people. The well-plowed furrow stands between the human race and death. When the Chinese emperor plowed that first furrow in the spring, he was setting forth the faith of his people that God would give them a harvest. He was calling the attention of his people to the fact that high station exists to promote all those things which make human life better.

Perhaps the Chinese feel that they have progressed by tossing the emperor off the throne, bringing in first a president, afterwards being swallowed up by the cruel Infamy ef at yrant. by the cruel Infamy of a tyrant, time will tell. But as of now it is cruelty, bloodshed, oppression. The only things men get by accepting Communism is an iron collar about their necks.

How basic and fundamental is that outlook on lifq which sees in the wholesome soil the assurance and continuance of life! We are earth-bound creatures, and the furrow means much to our health and happiness. Maybe we are going to have a better world now that we have cast kings and emperors onto the trash heap. But then apainmaybe we are not. Only time will tell.

ob ExDortina On Big Scale

By ELMER ROESSNER The extent to which the United States exports jobs to other countries is indicated by the operations of the Wolf Management Engineering Co. of Chicago.

This company maintains offices in eight industrial centers to assist management and one of Its principal ways is by Jobbing abroad, which means arranging for the manufacture of items in low-cost labor countries.

The practice is growing so much that Richard P. Miller, the Wolf international economic director, calls it a kind of sedond industrial revolution.

Among the Jobbed-out mar-ketables are veneers and wood products, textiles and nietal prefabrication, such as precslon castingsitems where a high degree of labor is requiied to bring the highest dollar value per pound of finished product. LESS SKILLED PRODUCTION No country can compete now

with the U.S. on high volume goods, such as yard goods, automobiles, assembly-line manufacture, or automatic items, Mr. MiUer said. "But for the last 15 years, U.S. home production of hand-made, high-skilled labor marketables has been declining.

-Eventually. he predicted, all such high-labor products will be made overseas.

In our labor market, we cant,compete, and there's no reasonable prices.

No one now seems able to compete with Japan on manufacture of low-priced transistor radios or textiles. They are making transistor radios that retail here for about $14, of a quality most U.S. manufacturers cant duplicate for under $29. And on textiles, Japan has taken a terrific bite of the U.S. maiket, and will continue to do so.

German radios and high-fidelity equipment are excellent and economy-priced. And dozens of television components are bcini

manufactured abroad under U.S. Instigation.

Many U.S. door manufacturers buy their skin veneers from Japan, because mills there can manufacture them cheaper, Mr. Miller said. The result Is a 30 to 40 per cent saving.

One door manufacturer in the U.S. is planning to start a veneer plant in Africa to supply not only his own needs, but other world markets.

Among plants with extensive overseas operations are Ditto, Bell & Howell. Boston-Wheeler, General Foods, Quaker Oats, Helene Curtis, oil companies and manufacturers of nucelar reactors.

Were exporting American know-how to countries where we can save on the finished product. Miller said. Such farming-out busine*s practices help not only us, but the economy of the country involved. It then has the dollars to buy our products.

Every time .some product is made overseas that could be made in the United States, jobs of Americar^ who could have made them are exported to the land where the product is actually made.

And while supcrioh foreign skills are sometimes a factor, the principal one is that American labor costs are high. To that extent, American labor has priced itself out of jobs.

WANTS FEWER CHANGES IN EXPORT MODELS

Fewer new models will prevent the loss of foreign markets for hundreds of American products. J. Gordon Lippincott, industrial designer, told the American Management Association.

Tooling up for new models to match every change in the calendar is making American products overcomplicated, overgad* geted and too difficult to repair and inventory, he said.