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Friday, June 23, 1961

THE DAILY REFLECTOR. GREENVILLE. N. C

Much To Be Done In Latin America

Speaking

How well is the United States doing in its program to create a closer friendship with its Latin American neighbors?

If that question were answered solely on the basis of some of the events which occurred during the 10-nation trip of Adlai E. Stevenson, certainly* the result would be anything but encouraging for the United States,

Although the disturbances which occurred during Stevensons trip have been labeled as the work of radical groups, they are sufficient to indicate that the United States has considerable fence-mending or fence-building to do among some of its southern neighbors. They are sufficient to indicate that the United States cannot continue to follow its policy of passiv'e politeness toward it Latin American neighbor and expect to build hemispheric solidarity.

Before he took office, President Kennedy pointed to the deterioration of inter-American relations as one of the key points his foreign policy would seek to overcome. Perhaps there has been some progress in that direction since the new administration took office in Washington, but it is evident^ we believe, that considerably more effort must be put forth by the United States before the goal will be realized.

Wild Activity As To Wildlife

By LYNN NISBET WILDLIFESome of Urn wildest activity of the legislative session appropriately enough center-e(k around the Wildlife Resources Commission: Take, for example. the bullfrog bill. Designed to iwotect bullfrogs during a good part of the year, the bill croaked, was revived, went into hibernation in a subcommittee. emerged again, and was finally almost starved to death by eliminating all but a few counties from its provisions The bullfrog bills experience, however, was tame compared with that of HB 51which is believed to have set some kind of record. The bill was designed to raise the cost of hunting and fishing licenses and to provide some $300,000 additional revenue for the wildlife conservation program. It was killed in the House one day, revived the next day. passed the House on two readings by overwhelming majorities and was sent to the Senate It was amended in a Senate committee by raising license fees above House proposals and was passed without a dissenting vote. The House which once had -voted down any increase accepted the larger Increases proposed In the Senate.

As enacted the bUl raises nonresident hunting licenses from $15.75 to $20 00 and creates a special nonresident 6-day hunting license for $15.75. The resident combination hunting-fishing license is raised from $5.25 to $6.25. county hunting and county fishing licenses from $110 to $1-65. and the special non-resident trout license from $2.10 to $3 25. The new rates on combination hunting-fishing licenses go into effect August 1, the fishing license rates on January 1.

The revised schedule is expected to yield about $320,000 in additional revenuesome $20,000 more than the original bill once killed in the House.

WHAT FOR? With rising costs of everything the WUdlife Resources Commission was faced with cutting back services, unless additional revenue could be obtained. Programs drastically affected were farm game management, big game manage-meirtrand fish managcmentraggregating about $125,000. The blanket 5 percent employees salary raise requires about $65,000.

The new revenue from increased license fees will prevent these cutbacks, provide more adequate pay for employees, and permit additional personnel and services. Some wildlife protectors (the technical term for what most people call game wardens) will be reclas-slfied by the Personnel Department so that titles

and compensation will be more in line with their responsibilities.

Improvement in method of distributing hunting and fishing licenses and more accurate check on accounting for collections by agents will add to convenience of hunters and fishwmen.

The commission plans to spend some $50,000 a year to make public hunting and fishing grounds especially waterfowl refuges and public shooting areasmore readily accessible to the public.

Rod Amundson, public relations man for the Wildlife Resources Commission, says that hunters and fishermen may have to pay a bit more for the privilege of taking game, but for their money they will get better hunting and better fishingand certainly better enforcement of the laws protecting game and fish. Quality hunting, like quality education, is an expensive thing.

OTHER LAWS-So far as the Wildlife Resources Commission itself is concerned the most important act of the 1961 Legislative was that which tiirows all nine of the members out of office on June 30 and gives Governor Sanford authority to name an entirely new board, with two additional members. The fact that the new appointments will be for two. four and six years doesnt make any difference. The next Legislature, or the one that convenes under a new Governor in 1965, can terminate all tenuresjust as this one did.

Amendments or revisions of the boating safety law. which Wdlife administers, were fewer than have been anticipated. Proposals to bring all power boats, regardless of size or speed, under registration requirements failed 0 passage, and commercial flsbermen were granted exemption from paying a fee for renewal of registration.

The commission was happy about gaining extension of time for repaying a loan of $1(K),000 from the contingency and emergency fund to set up the boat regulation program. Originally the loan was to be repaid in full ..on September I this year. Receipts from boat registration fall 80 far short of expectations when the control bill was enacted two years ago, the 1961 Legislature authorized Installment repayment over a four-year period. LOCALSThere were a num-^ber of local bills dealing with foxes, deer, the use of bow and arrow for hunting, and regulations of farm ponds. One of the most Important local bills was that which put Hyde county un-der general state law with respect to hours for shooting waterfowl.

The aemonstrations which accompanied Mr. Stevenscns tour in some of the nations of Latin America should bring home to Americans the fact that the impression we think other nations have of us is not always the impression they actually have. Al-i,hough we picture ourselves as. showing nothing but the greatest friendship for most of eur Latin American neighbors, it is evident that in some of the countries other interpretations have been read into the words and actions of the United States.

This situation has not come about in a few months as suggested not only by some of the incidents which confronted Mr. Stevenson, but likewiie by some of those which confronted Vice President Nixon on a similar tour several years ago. We cannot expect the misinterpretations of our objectives to be overcome in a few months; but neither can we expect them to be overcome in a few years unless U.S. foreign policy reflects a greater concern for the welfare of the people of Latin American nations than it has in the past.

There can be no doubt that Mr. Stevensons tour of Latin .^merica help to strengthen the fibers of friendship with the United States, but neither can we afford to close our eyes to the fact that displays of feelings far from affection for the United States came to light in some of the places Mr. Stevenson. visited.

Course Will Be Set By Choices For Posts

In every state administration, the leadership afforded by the governor sets the course of the state during his term of office and likewise determines the vigor with which the course is followed. At the same time a large measure of the responsibility for achieving the goals of the administration rests upon the men and women the governor selects for the many appointive posts within the state administration.

Now that the legislature has adjourned, there will follow in the next several weeks many appointments by Gov. Sanford to various positions in the states government. Indeed, the announcement of thr appointmfints began as the legislature went into its finaL day of activity.

If the initial appointments made by Gov. Sanford are indicative of the calibre of people from throughout the state who will fill the appointive posts on boards, agencies, commissions, and other slots in the state government, th^ state will have well qualified individuals in these important positions. It is important to all of the people of the state that the best possible selections are made by the governor as he goes about filling these important positions.

The legislature has done its job of appropriating funds to be used for state operations during the coming two years, and setting forth guideposts concerning programs which are to be carried out. It now re-mains up to the administration of Gov. Sanford and the people he appoints to various positions to implement these programs and see that the greatest possible benefit is derived by the people of the state from the funds w^hich will be spent.

Why Has Berlin Become Issue?

By HENRY HOWARD

?ets

Also Feel Summer

Since summer is officially underway since Wednesdaythat time of year is here again when certain individuals begin their annual lamentations of how adversely hot weather can affect

folks.

After a long winter and a somewhat dreary spring, it may be hard to understand how anybody could find time to complain about hot weather.

Its been an annual thing with the chronic plaintiffs since no telling when. Its not just summer they complain about, its every season.

Still, when the sun boils down through a high relative humidity. meanings just seem to be a little more severe.

People, however, are not by themselves in guarding against the hot summer months. Think of the dogs and cats around here.

They dont complain much, but theyre perhaps in real danger during the summer.

We were led to believe this yesterday by receipt of an an

nouncement heralding a new drive to save the lives of thousands of household pets.

The American Foundation for Animal Health (Des Momes. Iowa) started its summer by pleading with American pet owners to protect the animals against distemper.

If dog and cat owners would do two things. the Foundation said, the saving in pet lives could be enormous: Firstowners should have their pets vaccinated against distemper. Modern vaccination is dependable and confers solid immunity Secondowners should learn the early warning signs of the disease, so that prompt action can J)e taken when it strikes.

^ The announcement advises; In dogs, distemper symptoms include poor appetite, watery eyes, sluggishness, rough hair coat and extreme thirst. Symptoms in cats include depression, loss of appetite and extreme thirst.

Early treatment of the disease

were urged by the Foundation. It said, A veterinarian should check the animal immediately , . .Late treatment is often unsuccessful.

An amusing sideline on the Foundations announcement;

A friend was up here browsing through some stuff and ran across the announcement.

His eyebrows drew into sharp-pointed parabolas as he read one paragraph.

It had me worried at first,

he said. That part about poor appetite, watery eyes and sluggishness. . .1 thought maybe I was a victim, but I dont have that rough hair coat.

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WASHINGTON (AP) The simple meat and potato question WHY?get.s lost in the noisy East-West wrestle over Berlin. Here are some of the answers.

Since the war the West and the Soviet Union have discussed unifying Germany. Theyve never agreed on how. The West insists on free elections to set up a single German government. The Russians have never bought that. The result: two Germanys.

The Western powers are allied with West Germany. Russia is allied with Communist East Germany, which the West refuses to recognize as a legitimate government. The reason: It was not created through free elections.

But there are also really two Berlins. West BerUn, with its 2 5 million people, is linked to West Germany. The Communists hold East Berlin as the capital of East Germany.

But the city happens to lie 110 miles inside East Germany. Therefore, all people and supplies, bound for Berlin from the West must pass through or over Communist territory.

The West insists these supply routes must not be interfered with. And, except for former Soviet Premier Stalins unsuccessful effort to blockade in 1948-49, the Russians have kept the routes open.

Russia has kept control of those routes out of the hands of the East Germans even though it recognizes the Communist regime in East Germany as a sovereign government. To have done otherwise would have created an awkward situation:

What would the allies do if the East Germans, whom they dont recognie\ attempted to tell them what they could or couldnt send over those supply routes? It could have produced a mess.

But the United States. Britain and France keep troops in West Berlin. Theyre too few to mean anything militarily. Any all-out Communist attack would roll over them. They're not so much a force as a symbol.

But theres a main point involved here: the West insists it has a right of free access to Berlin for people and supplies and a right to keep troops in the city. It says those rights were agresjd to by the Russians after the war.

But West Berlin has become a pain to the Communists, for various reasons.

This highly prosperous part of the city is a Western outpost and showcase in the middle of the Communist world. It is a refuge for East Germans fleeing Com

munism.

And the allies troops there are a symbol of freedom so long as West Berlin remains free it holds out hope to anti-Com-munists behind the Iron Curtain that they may in time become free too. The reverse of that would stifle hope.

And the Western troops there are a symbol of Western support to the West Berliners. And as long as the present situation endures, the attempt by Russia to make the East German government look like a power in its own right becomes ludicrous.

These are all reasons for Premier Khrushchev to force a change. But theres another good one; if he can force the West to make concessions on Berlin, it will weaken the confidence of the Western allies in themselves.

This is particularly true because West Berlin is a key.example of Western determination and good faith in upholding the rights of the West against Communist encroachment.

So Khrushchev says .those postwar agreements on Berlin are - outdated by events. He wants the West to pull its troops out of West Berlin. He wants it, he says, to be a. demilitarized free city. But he wont permit any change in the status of East Berlin, where the Communists are boss-He wants the West to recognize Communist East Germany as a legitimate government. Whether it does or not, he says, he will turn control of those access routes to Berlin over to the East Germans.

Khrushchev has made it plain the question of continuing to use those routes to Berlin would have to be settled between the West and the East Germans, whom the West insists arc not a real government. This would put the West on the spot.

So long as it insists on the present arrangement, the West can insist it has the right, based on postwar agreement*, to use the routes to Berlin and keep troops there.

Once It agreed to Khrushchevs demands, it would yield Its rights, could no longer claim them, and have to dicker as best It could with the East Germans who might let supplies through a concession but not as a right.

In the end such a Western retreat together with all the hanky - panky the Communists could cook up in the years ahead to make Western contact with Berlin difficult would almost certainly mean the loss of West Berlin to communism.

(Goldsboro Newa-Argus)

The 1961 funeral Assembly made history in its action to implement the quality education program led by Governor Sanford.

The daring and astute young Governor put his house in order to get approval of his program of additional millions to bring North Carolina public school education to a national level from the time of his appearance before a rally in Chapel Hill. That occasion drew leaders from most counties. There Sanford, fresh from a general election victory, blueprinted the detail* of his quality campaign.

From then even until the last week of the Assembly Sanford never deviated from the line he had set for himself.

When he first proposed adding the sales tax on foods as his suggestion for Increasing needed funds by $50 million, revolt against his leadership threatcn-e(l in several directions. But with masterly handUng, conferring, and quiet personal contacts from himself and his main lieutenants, opponents to the tax, by a great majority, were brought in line.

The lessons Sanford had learned in the Legislature as a member. the ways he picked up from the late Kerr Scott, and the courage of the man pushed his quality spending program through with masterful handling. No major mistakes came in the

long journey to legal enactment-

Despite the large majorities by which the program was approved, there was. and continues, an undercurrent of reluctance at taxing food. The prophets are saying that this tax will rise up to confront the Democrats in the future elections. Others are saying that the food tax is certain to be a campaign issue In the next race for governor.

In the end the people of the state accepted the food Ux as the most logical way to pay for better schools. If they had not we should have had more cries of pain from more sources and more long continued.

Sanford has pledged that the extra millions for public schools will be properly spent to improve the quality of schooling. He has said that he intended to go into every county with a personal plea for support of and interest In their own local schools by all parents. He was calling on the people to help get this better education going even as he fought for his bills in the Legislature.

It boils down to this: if the additional spending does what it is intended to do it will be the greatest thing for North Carolina since Aycocks day. School patrons must do their part to insure success of the quality effort. Money and teachers cannot do this by themselves.

After hearing what he had to say, we decided how fortunate people must be just to be people Some may complain about summer, but at least were not bothered by distemper.

Strength'

For To(day

By EARL L. DOUGLASS Watch Out For That Attitude

Thomas Huxley once wrote that the sense of uselessness is the severest shock which our systems can ever sustain.

Some people need to experience that shock because they are selfish and indulgent. Others experience it in a very pathetic fashion when the children grow up and move away, when the day of retirement arrives, when Invalidism sets in, when old age begins casting its shadow across ones pathway.

^isL-iis face life as it is. God woiild not have created us if He had not had something for us to do. Ah yes. you say, but my life Is all behind me. Dr. Tom Dooleys life appeared to be behind him when his medical colleagues had to tell him that he was marked for death within a year or two. But this noble soul used every minute of that time to make himself one of the most useful persons of his generation.

The time will come when it will be as natural for people to begin a second career after sixty-five as it now is for the average person to begin a first career at twenty-five. Your greatest usefulness may come after your children have grown up and established their own homes. Titian painted his finest picture when he was ninety-six. Helen Keller, unable to hear, speak or see is one of the worlds most useful citizens.

Uselessness is not a reality it is an attitude of mind.

Friday# June 23, 1961

Hough

Choice Aheoc.

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY

Copyright. 1961. King Features Syndicate. Inc.

Those who expect the President to act Uke a conservative Republican are asking too much from a Democrat with Fabian Socialistic leanings. On the other hand, the Democrats who believe that President Kennedy will carry forward the ailing program of Harry Hopkins are also mistaken, for as ideaJistic as John Kennedy may seem to be, he comes of hard-headed practical stock.

Those who assumed that the President would be a figurehead under the captainship of his father. Joe Kennedy, misunderstand any father-son relationship. No matter how wise a father may be. a son naturally iSf* product of his own generation and wll sooner or later go his own way. The Kennedy family is extraordinarily talented and closeknit and while It is interesting to note the loyalty of one member for another, it is not to be expected that they will all have the same viewpoint. Age, experience, temperament wll affect them as everybody else in this very complex world.

John Kennedy is likely to be an altogether different man in 1964 from what he was in 1960. Four years in the White House at a climactic period will not onlv influence his attitude but he is still young enough to grow intellectually as well as emotionally. He is not likely to become so set in his ways that he cannot adjust to the facts which confront him.

Vienna is a case in point. He went to Vienna without a program on a exploratory visit with Khrushchev. He was undoubtedly advised that this was a smart thing to do by the negative-minded eggheads who may be specialists in particular fields but w'ho lack imagination and far-sightedness. Vienna was a failure for John Kennedy in that Khrushchev used it to belittle him. but it was a success from the standpoint that Kennedy has learned that he cannot deal wim Khrushchev by any standards with which he is familiar / Khrushchev is brutal a.ryir no conversation between him and anyone can be confidential because he regards the "refinements of international relations as bourgeois absurdities like a white tie or patent leather shoes. Kennedy had to learii this for himself, apparently. He could have known it from Nixons experience, from Eisenhowers experience, from Ham-marksjolds experience. But he wanted to see whether he could not succeed where 'others failed. Now he knows.

This was a costly search for knowledge, but it is worth the price if the President has learn-' ed who misled him concerning Cuba, Laos, and Vienna. Or if he was not misled, if he pursued his own course, he now knows from experience that he could not deal with Khrushchev; that communication with a Communist requires not only a different language but that the moral responsibilities of men are on a different basis in West and East.

To have learned that early in his career wl prove to be i great advantage to Kennedy. It will make him more suspicious and more cautious and he will observe who in his entourage seeks to lead him into a position which will destroy him politically and bring shame upon his country. It is likely thatt these who are responsible for the Vienna fiasco will not last long in this Administration, although it is often difficult to fire men from important positions without losing face or developing a political scandal.

The Presidents dilemma now is how far can he move away from those who joined his campaign without political offense: how far will practical experience drive him from the Ideological positions which he had accepted as correct during the years when he was a Senator. He will have to reach a decision soon or his Administration will suffer from indecision and if he decides on a firm policy, he will have to let those men go who cannot be trusted to carry forward a policy from strength. John Kennedy unfortunately does not have too long to reach a decision. As General MacArthur said to him: The chickens have come home (Continued On Page t)

Bootino Products Still Booming

By ELMER ROESSNER

The boating market has been one of the fastest-growing In the United States in recent years. Long locked-ln landlubbers have been buying boats like crazy, traffic problems on Inland waterways have been only slightly less than those on the Los Angeles Freeway, and marinas have been built along every waterway deep enough ti) float a five-foot centerboard.

The boom peaked out (as the business columnists say) in 1959. The recession last year cut Into sales of new craft and accessories and this year has not started very well.

However, the rising Income level and the large number of new boats and accessories may make 1961 one of the better boating years.

NEW MATERIALS, PRODUCTS

The development of new materials is helping the industry. While plastics, stainless /steel, foam plastic and other newer materials may be more expensive Initially than wood, copper, kapok and othei/ U^ditional com

modities, their longer life makes them cheaper for the ever-laig-er crop of boating enthusiasts.

Developments in plastic alone have caused Dow Chemical to spend thousands in boasting of new boating accessories made with various Dow basics.

Here is a list of some of them:

A nontippable. unsinkabie boat for children of molded plastic ^ foam, to be towed by other boats or propelled by feet through a special floor opening.

An outrigger canoe, an unsinkabie pair of polyethylene foam pontoons with a double-bladed paddle.

A Sea-Gat. a small non-capsizable craft with a molded plastic foam hull, with outrigger pontoons, an aluminum mast and a sailaU less than 20 pounds.

Rafts made of plastic planks joined with webbing that can also be used a padding for a beach chair or a sun mattress.

Water toys, on which children and grownups can ride In pools or surf, in the shape of porpoises, sea horses, bowls.

turtles and seals.

Water lounges, consisting of Toam plastic In the form of floating chairs, basking life rings, plastic surfboards and other floats for the tired, the weary and the sun-hungry.

Water toys, with which many land games can be played in pools and surf, but not including slides Into second base.

Fenders, floats and markers, all made of foam plastics.

In addition, there has been no let-up in the production of sailboats and other craft. One successful boat and equipment company was established 60 miles from the ocean but on the route there.

To the hundreds of new boat being added each year are scores more auto trailers which, in many cases, are as important as the craft itself. In addition, there are hundreds of peripheral businesses, such as those that sell tires for auto trailers, outboard motor repair establishments, dock yards, cabin acces-sorlw, Inboard and outboard motors. motor repair establish

ments. waterside service star tlons and schools for navigators.

Even if total boating and related sales do not hit a new record this year, there will be plenty of profits floating in on the tide for aggressive merchandisers.

STEEL COMPANIES MEET foreign COMPETITION

Theres excitement in the steel inclustry because price cutting has spread to rebar.

Rebars is the trade shorthand for reinforcing ban. widely used in construction, especially In concrete work. Including columns, supports, girders and highway pavements.

For many years European countries have been delivering rebars at American ports lower than the cost of domestic construction. Many skylines are held In place today by strength imparted by European rebars.

.S. Steel withdrew Its rebar price list and other companies have indicatefi a willingness to quote prices competitive with foreign suppliers.