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Tuenday March 1961

Tuesday, March >8, 1961

Perish The Thought

AiiotHer Coll Fof A United Effort

The need for the communities and counties of Eastern North Carolina to put aside jealousies and local prejudices and pull together for the overall development of the entire area has been pointed up again by veteran editor Henry Belk of the Goldsboro News-Argus.

Belk proposes that the counties of this area jom " together in forming an Eastern North Carolina Plaiff ning Association patterned after an organization formed by a number of countiesnn the Western section of North Carolina, created under legislative act.

The suggestion is ound and it should be implemented during the current session of the General As--sembly.

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There are many counties and communities in /Eastern Carolina which have their own groups working for the economic development of their particular areas. For the most part, however, each of these groups carries on its own work without close coordination on area-wide undertakings which could prove beneficial to Eastern Carolina as a whole.

Certainly these individual organizations play a major role fn the economic devejopment of the individual counties and communities, and no area-wide organization" could replace them. Yet, if their work

could be more closely coordinated from the area viewpoint, the development potential for the area as a whole could be greatly enhanced.

Problems such as transportation,,-, agricultural diversification, the creation of home-grown industry, the availability of a considerable pool of surplus labor are common to practically all the counties and communities in this part of the state. By closer cooperation between the individual counties and communities these problems might be solved more quickly on an area basis than with each little group seeking its own individual solution.

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By projecting long-range development planning on a regional basis. Eastern North Carolina can better compete with other sections of the state, and the area as a whole as w'ell as its individual counties and communities will receive the benefits of such w*ork.

Perhaps This Will Be Year For Home Rule

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By LYNN NISBET

TIMINGThe time element Is important In legislation and there la frequent conflict of time limiUitiona in the early statutes fixing datea when certain thinga must be done and the later idea of postponing the convening date of the General As-emb^.

The constitution provides for appointment of members of the State Board of Education before April 1, and confirmation of these appointments by joint aea-aion of the two branches of the Legislature. Terma of Gerald ' Cowan of Aaheville, Dallas Herring of Rose Hill, and Guy Phillips of Chapel Hill expire this year. The constitution requires that Governor Sanford reappoint or name replacements for these men this week and that the General Assembly confirm the appointments before Saturday.

The Governor has publicly announced his intention to reappoint Herring, but has made no commitment as to the other two upcoming vacancies on the board.

The General Statutes provide for appointment by the Legislature of members of county boards of education before the first Monday in April. And the statutes also requr^that budgets for operation of the public school system, budgets by the State Board of Education, and all county and city administrative units, shall be prepared before Ju^f L These April 1 and July 1 deadlines were fixed many years ago, when the General Assembly convened early In January for a constitutional 6(Hlay session. The time limits appear to be almost absurd in view of the curent convening date of the Legislature In February, and the chance that the appropriations and revenue bUla might not be ratified until very close to July 1.

UNCERTAINThe exact time at which many new laws become effective has long been in dispute. A great many of the bills Introduced provide that this act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification. The act is ratified when the presiding officers of the Senate and House affix their ignatures. Sometimes one signs first, sometimes the other. That ritual is usually performed within a few minutes after the house or senate meets, or shortly after the noon hour. Therefore, some acts performed by citizens might be entirely legal in the morning and a violation of the new law that afternoon. In most instances there has been no general public notice of the rati

fication and the citizens have no way of knowing they are violating the law. Some laj-ers contend that in light of numerous court decisions the date rather than the hour of the ratification is controlling.

WOMENIn view of the upsurge of interest in politics by women throughout the country it Is surprising that so few women are seeking places on the municipal governing boards. More than 350 cities and towns in North Carolina will have elections this spring to choose mayors. aldermen, commissioners, councUmen, and other officers. That means more than 2.000 officials will be chosen, and that further indicates at least 4.000 candidates. Undoubtedly there are women among these candidates about whom your reporter has not heard. Only three are knownMrs. Martha Evans In Charlotte. Mrs. Jane Moser in Raleigh, and Mrs. Hannah Block in Wilmington. If all the women voters would get behind these gal candidates they'd win without questionbecause there are rqore women than men of voting age in North Carolina.

INCUMBENTSThree of the 350 cities and towns that filed reports last year with the N.C. League of Municipalities have women mayors. They are; Broadway, Thelma C. Stone. Falkland, Virginia Stancll. and LilesvUle, Rubye Hedrick. Twenty-six municipalities have women members of the governing boards, and nearly all have women in official capacity.

County governments have more women officials. There are half a dozen or more women clerks of superior court and more than a dozen registers of deeds Several counties have women accountants.

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Every two years the matter of giving more autonomy to local governments in North Carolina comes up during the legislative session, and each time the legis-' lature adjourns without taking any significant strides toward cutting the apron strings that tie local governments to Raleigh.

This year it is to be hoped that the final outcome will be different. This year, perhaps, the legislature will take a positive step toward allowing local governments to handle local administrative affairs to a larger degree without awaiting approval of the General Assembly.

Such a move would enable local governing boards to do a better job in administering local affairs, and at the same time it would eliminate the necessity of the legislatures handling literally hundreds of bills pertaining to only one county each session.

Under the general statutes of the state, boards ot County Commissioners have many powers, it is true. But it is true that dn many occasions. County Commissioners find they do not have the authority to make decisions on matters pertaining solely to the administration of local government. Therefore they have to wait until the legislature convenes, send up a local bill for consideration and hope that the legislature will authorize the necessary action. This wprks a serious handicap upon elected officials whose responsibility it is to administer local government. It also divides the legislators time between local governmental problems and matters of state-wide importance which the legi.s-lalure must resolve.

In the interest of better government both at the local' level and on the state level in North Carolina, the legislature should grant greater autonomy to local governments in handling local affairs.

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By DON SCHLIENZ

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The retired U.S. Navy jet warplane put out to pasture at Elm Street Park is in a sad way.

Things have happened to that veteran guardian of our skyways that no enemy could do.

This once-proud blue eagle, whose nature it was to hurtle in scant minutes further than the eye could see, is chained to the ground and indignity after indignity heaped upon it.

A thousand - and one inl-tiqls and names have been scr'^tched In its paint; more thousands of scuffs and scratches mar its clipped wings and fusilage where youngsters have clambered, scraped and walked.

The canopy is gone; so is the nose-piece.

Little servicing-hatches built into the planes body have been wrenched off or bent so they can no longer close. Last Sunday, what looked like tom out parts, were lying on the ground nearby.

Make-believe pilots jostle one another for a chance to sit in

the cockpit, and once there slam the rudder from side to side, and the elevators up and down, with such vigor the airframe shudders.

Where jet engines once nestled in the wings on either side of the fusilage, greater wounds are to be seen. These could not have been yrrought by bare lianls, they suggest a lusty pounding with brick or cement block. The metal is tcMTi and bent, and pounded into disfigurement.

Elsewhere, the body bears other wounds not made by bullets. shell fragments nor rockets . . .more like holes from a well-throw'n brick.

Still. . . .

She stands there, a tethered thing made for flight and glory. The familiar insignia of a white star reminds one of her destiny.

Crouched low, wings extended. tail up. . .at a distance she is a thing of strength and beauty.

Parents who bring (not send) children to the park often stroll

"QUALITY JUSTICE^ov-emor Sanford has made legislators and others so acutely conscious of "quality education" they are carrying the quality idea into other areas. Rep. W C. Harris of Wake was pleading the other day for his bill to improve the administration of the courLs so as to guarantee justice of the ^:highest quality".

He was reminded that there are degrees in mercy and in education and In many other areas, but there can be no degree in justice. It is either ju.st. or it isn't, Harris Insisted he was talking about the quality of ad-minLstration and none can question that there Is wide diversity in that field as well as in opinions about what should be done to correct the situation.

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) The United States doesnt figure to win in Laos. A cease fire and neutralization of the country is about the best the United States can hope for. Even that has its gloomy side.

No wonder President Kennedy and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan flew to Key West Sunday to talk over the situation. No wonder, either, that while they made stem talk, it was careful.

In the first place, the rainy season soon will begin in Laos. It will last until November, turning the few and poor roads into swamps. Any troops sent in would have slow going. There is no railroad.

Its a land of mountains and jungle.s, no place for big armies. GueiTilla war would be more like it, with help from airlifts. But Russia could .send in supplies by 'air.Tu.st as its doing now. So is the United States.

Further, there is great apathy among the gentle Laotians. To complicate it even more, the Laotians are split Into tribes. Among them many reportedly have scant feelings of nationalism-

Thase who want the country neutral between the West and communism outnumber thase who support the Red-led Pathet Lao in the north and right-wing American-backed forces in the south.

While American allies In Southea.st Asia might supply most of the ground forces sent into Laos if that became nece.ssary this country would have to do most of the supplying.

Except by air. that would be tough, long-way-around supplying.

For this country to use nuclear weapons to win in Laos seems out of the question If it tried, its highly questionable it could win.

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els, are good with nuclear weapons, too.

Kennedy last week told his news conference the Unated States didnt want to be trapped or drawn into a Laotian war. Before that, though, he had turned thumbs down on nuclear fighting In Southeast Asia.

On Oct. 16, 1959, he said: "In practice our nuclear retaliatory power is not enough. It cannot deter Communist aggression which is too limited to justify atomic war.

"It cannot protect uncommitted nations against a Communist take-over using local or guerrilla forces. It cannot be used in a so-called brush - fire peripheral war."

War in Laos would be peripheral. Still the United States could not afford to avoid taking a stand If the Russians refused to cease fire. The loss of American prestige In Southeast Asia and the world would be too great-

Further, since Laos has four non-Communist neighborsThailand, Burma. Cambodia and South Viet Nam Communist control of all Laos would be preliminary to a push against the neighbors.

Even with a truce and cease fire, it is unlikely .the Communists will yield that northern part of Laas which they hold now. A cease fire pr-obably would wind up in a divided La as.

Then it would be only time before the Reds, without open renewal of the fighting, began Infiltrating southern Laos to take ever from inside.

When a 1954 truce In Indochina ended the fighting between the French and the Reds, the northern half of Viet Nam was kept by the Communists, the southern half by a government tied to the West.

But now, seven years after the divlson. Communi.'t guerillas from the north have started operating in South Viet Nam-

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Other Editors Saying Plan As One Region

(Goldsboro News-Argus)

For a* quarter of a century this writer has been urging the necessity of Eastern North Carolina cities and counties cooperating to sell" their region. We have insisted that fighting between cities, that jealousies and local prejudices handicap the whole area.

The need is now greater than ever before.

Such a move Is made particularly tinriiely by the direction of Governor Sanford that North Carolina shall give every aid and assistance possible to President Kennedys program for aid to distressed areas. The Governor already has assigned two excellently trained men to represent the state as the Congress implements the Kennedy program.

The low Income counties of North Carolinas mountains beyond Asheville already are in nomination for help from any program. This results from the Appalachian region study and council formed to aid the area a long while ago. The Asheville Citizen in a widely copied editorial has given the picture. Berea College with a Ford Foundation grant made a study on praspects for the Appalachian country, including a number of Western North Carolina counties.

The W.estern North Carolina

Planning Association, created under Legislative act can speak with authority for our mountain counties.

The East has its areas which are as isolated and undeveloped as our Far Western section. We have a tremendous surplus of labor. Some estimate this as high as 150,()00. The whole rfr gion produces vast riches of resources, but the region rnanufac-tures or processes such a minor fraction of its raw materials.

We make the tobacco and ship it to the Piedmont for manufacture. We grow the peanuts but ship them to Virginia to be made Into peanut butter, oil, candy and other products. We have vast areas of quick-growing forests but we In the East are of minor Importance in furniture manufacturing. We have the truck crops but no freeze or drying or curing plants to speak of.

Eastern North Carolina should act now to correct this lack. We need an Eastern North Carolina Planning Association modeled after that of Western North Carolina. We* need a cooperative working out of regional development by cities and counties.

We could with prompt action get this in the present General Assembly and pull together as one in the national program now shaping.

over to Inspect the old plane. Some bring cameras. Its pretty obvious that briefly they picture in the minds eye this plane in other days; soaring up, up and up. Seen close-up that vision doesnt last.

'But they do examine where once engines were emplaced, where guns were mounted, where a wing camera was tucked. They marvel at intricacies of wiring and tubing that remain; they marvel at the vast amount of detailed planning ahd workmanship that went into its building: at the economizing of space. They know todays jets are even more complicated and wondrous in design alid power. It helps equate the millions of dollars those planes cost with the value received.

This retired jet was placed In the local park to give the youngsters a "treat".

I have no doubt hundreds up on hundreds of kids were thrilled by seeing it; further thrilled by clambering over it, and imaginations raced skyward.

Some of them presumably will go on from that dream to reality. So, its fair to say the onetime Naval warplane has fulfilled a peacetime assignment.

On seeing her wounds one is tempted to raise the question "How many times must a tethered eagle die?.

But that comes close to really outrageous sentimentality . . , doesnt It?

Ooinions

The old grouch says the world is not nearly so round or flat as it is crooked.Bartow (Ga.) Herald.

A pharmaceutical expert tells us cures have been developed for diseases that havent been discovered yet."Atlanta Journal.

When we talk about unemployment and sagging business, lets put in a word or two for the record number of employed and the high national income." Alma (Mich.) Record.

"The revenue bill should be so shaped as to convince the mass of the people that while much is required of them, other sources are not protected or petted.Raleigh News & Observer.

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY CopyrlRBt,* t58t-,-Kinr Peataret Syndicate, Ihc.

The ''final result of World ~ War n will be the destruction of the great empires of the 18th and 19th centuriesthe Dutch, French, British and Portuguese Empiresand the establishment of four new Empires: the Soviet Universal State, the Marxist Sln-ic Empire, the Moslem Empire and the Marxist Latin American Confederation. This is the trend in the year 1%1.

That Portugal is placed In this grouping may surprise those who do not realize that Portugal, the first of the explorers, retained a number of colonies and that whereas Portugal lost its greatest colony. Brazil, the ties between the two countries have held firm,

Portugals colonial empire de-' veloped as a result of the great explorations under Prince Henry the Navigator (1394-1460). The Portuguese Empire started in 1415 when Ceuta was taken from the Moors, thus establishing a European foothold on the mainland of Africa. In 1463, the Portuguese captured Casablanca and in 1471, Tangier. Thus, Portugal became an African ?^wer.

To go back to Henry the Nav-Igator, who was partly English on his mothers side, he was general of the Order of (Jhrist, a wealthy, crusading order. He diverted Its funds- and its enthusiasms to science and exploration. His work was monumental. The discovery of the Azores brought Portugal farther west in the Atlantic. By the Treaty _of Alcacovas (1480) Portugal came Into possession of West Africa, Guinea, and the Islands of the Atlantic Ocean.

The Portuguese, throughout the 15th century, continued to explore the West African coast and move up the rivers which they encountered. Portugal became rich because of these discoveries and-'Sent out land expeditions as well, hoping to find a land route to Ethiopia and to India by which they could by-pass the rapidly rising Moslem.s.

It was Vasco da Gama (1498) who finally moved on to India, taking advantage of the prior knowledge of other Portuguese explorers. He rounded the Cape of Good Hope and sailed on toward the Malabar Coast of India. He was followed In 1.500 by Cabral who sailed with 12 ships to establish trade between Portugal and the East. In 1557, they took the island of Macao, near Hongkong and Canton, establishing a trading center with China which still flourishes to this day.

In 1500, Cabral sailed to India by way of the Cape Verde Islands. He landed in Brazil where he stayed 10 days but took possession of the country. The Portuguese held Brazil un-_ til 1822 when it became Independent. Brazil remained spirit- ually related to Portugal, the language of which continues to be spokerf in that country.

The Portuguese acquired Gao in India which became the center of their activities In that part of the world. Whereas the British and the French have been forced out of India, the Portuguese remain in passgssion of Goa which they have refused to give up.

The Portuguese have never regarded their African and Asiatic , holdings as colonies. They have I called them Overseas Provinces. The Portuguese intermarried with the natives and lived comfortably among them. Tliere has been no revolt against the Portuguese in Macao or Goa but In Angola, in Africa, such a re-~volt is being stirred up,

' Portugal has no intention of giving up any of Its territory anywhere. Just as Cuba has been spreading its particular form of Marxism throughout Latin America, so the Left Wing Congolese are moving into Angola to drive the Portuguese out. It is part of a universal conspiracy to take over all the weak spots of the Earth in the interest of Marxism.

Portugal will fight back. It win fight for Timor, Macao, Goa, Angola, for every small Island It possesses. Its weapon will be to retire from the United Nations which means that it will withdraw from the Western defensive union, leaving the United States without important bases. If the United States can afford to forego its strategic bases in Portu-(Continued on Page 6)

^i^elatively; Peaceful Labor Year

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOl GLAS.S HEAVENLY TREASURE

Jesus sijoke of laying up trea''Ure in heaven. (Matt. 6;20; Luke 18:22). What is heavenly treasure? Certainly it is not comparable with earthly treasure. Here we live in a physical world. The world beyond is what we term "spiritual. It may be just as real as this world In which we live and probably 11ls but it certainly must be different from this world. What is treasure jiere is Dot treasure there. * '

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stJireS of Aeaven are Internal

rather than ex.ernal treasures They do not ccmsist of precious metal or gems-, big bank accounts or broad acres. Heaven

ly treasures would appear to be the eternal values we have built up by the kind of life we live. A life eharacterized by kindliness will give Ais a most favorable balance in the world beyond. If however, we live a life of bitterness and jealousy, backbiting and hate, this will appear as a minus item and may indeed put us seriously in default spiritually. What wip call treasure on earth is onlyva sign or representation of certain values which w'e can use here and now There are bther values. We can begin accumulating them in this world. They go on for eternity.

Undobtedly there will be people of hiige trea.sures in the world beyond, but they will be spiritual treasure, earned not inherited, eternal not transitory.

By ELMER ROESSNER

This may be the most peaceful year in labor negotiations since the. war.

A major reason is the current recession.

The dip In business Is not generating fear in organized labor. The specter of unemployment Is not compelling leaders to accept what they can get.

But the' cause of much of the unemployment, automation, is cap.slHg labor strategists to review pcilietes. Thy are recognizing the fact that automation will eliminate thousands of jobs a month for years to.come. The obvious conclusion is that security Is becoming more important than wage increases.

Labor demands will be made just as vigorously this year as |Nn other recent years There will be less emphasis on pay increases and more on uriem-ployment benefits, pensions ant) severance pay Several unions are working on formulas to provide for workers dislocated by the introduction f automatjc processes.

BIG W.\GE ARGUMENT LOST

A minor reason for this situa

tion Is the fact that the cost of living index has faltered. In the past, the persistent rises constituted an unanswerable argument for pay Increases. Since casts of living were steadily going up, workers had the alternative of. getting more pay cr living less. '

This does not mean that unions will not demand 'pay rises this year. They will, surely. Some of them will be large But in most cases, union negotiators will be willing to trade wage demands for greater job security.

The list of nujor labor negotiations this fyr cofttlns few hints of strife and strike.. Teamsters will negotiate with New . England truckers next month. California truckers 4n June, and New York State truckers in July, but the pattern was set .farller by the Midwest agreement. The Teamsters will not accept less, nor will employers grant more, than was agreed in the Midwest settlement. There may be local flareups by^ various teamster unions, but' there seems little chance of a big battle. . i .

THE RUBBER STRETCH Contract talks with the big rubber companies come up in April, May and June, but since auto sales have been below expectations, demands .for higher wages will be modified for security programs.

The powiest powwow of the year will be the Auto Workers negotiations in August with Ford, General Motors and Chrysler. Since the auto industry seems to be emerging from Its sales slump right now, it may be expected that business will be brisk this summer. The extent of the briskness will undoubtedly have some effect on union tempers. But even if auto sales exceed expectations, union leaders will probably play for security harder than for pay

' It is not generally known that automation has eliminated, more Jobs in the auto Industry than In almost any other.

Armour and Swift will aLso have August negotiations In September, the Auto Workers will take on American Motors and International Harvester.

Settiementi will probably b similar to those with the Big Three auto makers.

There are a few mora medium-slze negotiations scheduled, and scores of smaller ones, but the ones listed above will I probably set the pattern for all the rest. In general, labor wages wont go up much but labor costs will, and the difference will be largely in employer contributions to security.

KENNEDYS DECLINE TO PEDDLE MERCHANDISE

Names and likenesses of the President and Mrs. Kennedy (may not be used in advertising without White House permission and. if that is granted, it will be only for government-sponsored fund drives. For permission, write to Pierre Salinger, White House, ViCashington, D.C.

However, models looking like Mrs, Kennedy may -be used as long as there is no attempt to Imply the First Lady Is being shown. These look-alike models are now getting from five to ten times their regular fees to pose for fashion piotui^es.