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I^AGE FOUR

* , THE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVlLLi; N. C

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Could Buck Trend; Of Tax Incredses

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Greenville citizens are fortunate in that' their note that had it not bn for the additiqiial anticipated governing officials found the city in a financial posi- revenues, a tax increase of something like 26c would tion to buck the trend of increased taxes, hold the have been necessary to provide the additional $83,000 city's current tax rate^ at $1.38. for another year, and which has been budgeted for city expenditures during still have a budget which they feel will provide for the coming year.

efficient city operations. ' The city of Greenville, on the basis of its property

A key point which influenced tKe final decision ^ax valuation, realizes slight|y more than $3*100 reve-of the City Council was clearly the fact that even with e from each cent added to the tax levy, pus the in-holding the tax rate at its present level for another creased property valuation within the city which will year, the city would have some $83,000 more in reve- produce, an estimated $30,000 more this year than last nues for the 1961-62 fiscal year than it had for the is equivalent to a tax increase of about 9i/i cents. The 1960-61 f iscal-year. * ' additional $28,500 in revenue brought about by the

This-$83,000/sn additional anticipated revenues estaMishment of a ^paving revolving fund trough a allowed the ciTy sufficient income, in the opinion of year would also be .equivalent to about

the Council, to squeak by during the coming year even y . .

though it meant that total appropriations fell some-additional $6,000 the city will get from the $110,000 short of the budget requests made by various Commission operations this year is equiva-

'rionoUmonfa nf ftiP rifv Icnt to revcnuc that two morc cents on the tax rate

In spite of the fact that the new budget of $940,- the equivalent of approximately

671.83 tentatively approved by the Council sets a new .additional cente on the tax levy lyepresented by

record high for Greenville city budgets, it obviously J,*' 'aerease over last year ,in Powell Bi liftio i....,o .n. iiand and anticipated in the coming year.

leaves little leeway in city operations for the coming , . . , , x t.- i. .c j

year. It will mean that the governing officials as well ,}) P'"'.? o"' Kovernment which funds

j 1...____1____- 4... 1____ itself in the position to increase its budget by almost

as other city officials and employees will have to keep

a close watch on expenditures and see that maximum return is received for every dollar spent.

.It should also be significant to local taxpayers to

10 per cent from one fiscal year to another without increasing its tax rate is in an enviable position inde^tL^ With the increase in the cost of overhmentj operations since the $1.38 tax rate in GreraviHe-^iS'^ established for the fiscal year 1958-59, Greenville is fortunate indeed that its rate can be held for another year.

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Outdoor' Dramas Presidents Thinking

By LYNN MSBET

OUTDOORS North Carolina . ranks near the top among all the states In the presentation of outdoor drama*. A klful combination of entertainment and history has made the presentations of three major shows attractive cnougii to bring more than four million visitors.

Pot the establishment and operation of these dramatic historic performances the State of North Carolina has contributed out of public tax moneys approximate-h a quarter million dollars. A brief breakdown on the outdoor summer attractions follows;

THE LOST COLONY-A symphonic drama, written by Paul Green, was first presented in the watereide theatre on Roanoke Island near the site of old Fort Raleigh, in 1937. It portrays the tragic story of Sir Walter Raleighs abortive attempt to colonize the New World and the mysterious disappearsmce of his colony. President Franklin Roosevelt attended the performance on August 18, 1937, the 3.^h anniversary of the birth of Virginia Dare, first child of English parentage to be born in the New World.

On July 8 last year the Colony gave its one-thousandth performancemarking the longest run of any outdoor theatrical show in modern history. The show has gone on nearly every night in July and August from 1937 until now, except for four war-time black-out years in the mid 1949s. The show is sponsored by the Roanoke Island Historical Association, a private membership group, but has enjoyed State patronage in occasional grants to make up operating deceits. ..

The original theatre was built largely by WPA, and money to launch the show came from generous private contributions. It became apparent when presentations were resumed after the war-time black-out that ad-misklons and contributions would not carry the load. Grants in aid by legislative appropriations and allocations from the contingency and emergency fund have aggregated $120,000.

The recent General Assembly voted $10,000 to help rebuild the theatre, which was destroyed by a storm last year. The Legislature also voted $125,000 to purchase additional land around Fort Raleigh, which cannot be charged directly to the theatre project, but will aid it. nie Fort Raleigh area is under control t the National Park Service.

UNTO THESE HILLS - The second oldest, and by attendance records the biggest and

most popular of the outdoor dramas, is Unto These Hills, a Drama of the Cherokees^, presented by the Cherokee Historical Association at a mountainside theatre on the eastern slopes of the Great Smoky Mountains in Cherokee Indian land. Written by Kermit Hunter, this drama portrays the story of the Cherokees to the west in the mid-nineteenth century.

Located where the Blue Ridge Parkway enters the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, this show has copped all attendance records, averaging more than all the others combined. The State appropriated $35,000 to e.stablish the theatrebut has not been called upon to make up deficits in operation. A grant of $25,000 to Cherokee Historical Association to aid in establishment of Oconaluftee Indian Village l.s not properly chargeable to the theatre project, but like the Fort Raleigh item. Is of material benefit to it.

HOltN IN THE WEST-Young-

Is Obviously Changed

Presidentj^^Kennedys comment this week on the prisoners-for-tractors deal with Castro should shut off future negotiations with the Cuban dictator in connection with buying political prisoners. *

The fact that President Kennedy publicly sanctioned the tractors-for-prisoners idea ^ associated the T President with the de^I, even if on an unofficial basis. The further fact that the President quickly cleared away red tape that normally would haV pT6V!ted negotiations between a private group and a government with which the U.S. had broken diplomatic relations further implemented the President in the deal.

By DON SCHLIENZ

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enthusiasm Is Gone

It was almost weird.

'The gathering of the newsroom clan was called to discuss who

T, , , j j j X, X a boUday on Inde-

It has been assumed, and with good reason, that pendence Day, and who would

the President favored the Tractors for Freedom Com- be working.

mittees initial negotiations with Castro. It must now Even^body wanted tocnwork.

be assumed that the President recognizes that further j-ooSi wurbe^opCTatin^^oST^a dealings with Castro in the matterunless there Is an half-day on July 4; and with abrupt change in Castros positioncan be of no bene-fit to the United States, and probably of no benefit

to the prisoners Castro holds.

Those who held a similar opinion.from the outset

est and smallest with reject to of the negotiations should find some gratification in

attendance records, is Horn in x 4.u 4. 4.u n -j l 4.1 i.

the West, presented at Boone that-the President now-^pparently has come

around to the same opinion.

by the Southern Appalachian Historical Association. Another Kermit Hunter product, this drama features exploits of Daniel Boone and of Carolina settlers during the decade from the battle of Alamance in 1771 through the battle of Kings Mountain and the British surrender at Yorktown in 1781.

The State appropriated $10,000 to help establish the project In 1953, and has made allocations to alleviate deficits at the rate of $10.000 a year since 1957 an aggregate amount of $60,000.

OTHERSIn addition to these State grants-ln-aid to the surviving outdoor dramas, there was an allocation in 1953 of $10,000 for the abortive Thunderland project at Asheville, and $2,500 for the Kings Mountain Little Theatre group that same year to put on the "Sword of Gideon at the South Carolina site of the battle of Kings Mountain. Other projects at Charlotte and Fayetteville sought and obtained aid from the State, The amounts were small and mostly buried in larger appropriation bills.

THIS YEAR - "Unto These Hills opened Tuesday night of this week and will run every night, except Monday, through-September 3. Lost Colony opens Saturday night. July 1, and will run every night except Sunday, through September 3. Horn in the West also opens Saturday, July 1, for showings every night except Monday through August 26. It is expected that more than 200.000 will sec these shows this summer.

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much news-making on holidays.) Those who worked would have a Saturday off. also (nominally) a half-day operation in the office.

This is considered by one and all to be a very fair proposition.

But the lack of enthusiasm displayed toward holidaying on the Fourth of July is something to marvel at.

First one, then another, on being asked if they wanted to be off on the Fourth, would volunteer that theyd just as soon work, or it really doesnt matter to me.

One writer definitely let it be known she preferred to spend a day on the job, so that solved that one.

As for the rest, it was a case of shuffling and re-shuffling the line-up. A baseball addict would have said It was a job for Stengel.

It bears out an observation made almost exactly a year ago by this column. Holidaying on the Glorious Fourth has become less of a holiday and more of an ordeal.

You think about getting in a car to go somewhere and the

first thing that comes to mind is the traffic and discomforts and inconveniences. The National Safety Councils grim predictions of so-many hundred holiday fatalities are also in the back 0 your mind.

You reflect upon the uncertainties of the weather, the exhausting qualities of a holiday, and the comfort and satisfaction of your accustomed daily routine.

Results; a ho-hum attitude.

Predictionfewer people each year are going to want July 4 holidays.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) Those in search of peace of mind but disturbed by the Russian ruckus on Berlin should try to stay calm in the next feysr months unless there is an actual crisis.

This seemed to be the message from Secretary of State Dean Rusk Thursday night.

In a tv interview he discussed dealing with the Russians now when they have tizzied the West with their renewed demands about 2*4 years old that Berlin be turned into a free city and that the allies get their troops out, of it.

Ever since taking office Rusk has run his Job likie a man who had an understanding with President Kennedy that the secretary would play it cool and quiet while the President made the big pronouncements and furnished any fire needed.

Rusk was cool Thursday night, speaking very firmly on the Al-lie.s determination not to be pushed out of Berlin. ,But he spoke very vaguely on just how the Allies were going to avoid being pusjied.

Kennedy was just as vague on this point at his news conference Wednesday. In fairness to both men they may'feel it much too soon to get down to specifics for fear of sounding belligerent-

But Rusk did reveal the kind of thinking which has beconve an international way of life in situations which may be Extremely serious but are not in actual crisis.

Its this: Lets talk. This explains the , fantastic number of international conferences by foreign ministers and representatives since World War II on subjects ringing from Berlin to nuclear tests and disarmament.

Rusk suggested that the Allies would discuss the Berlin problem among themselves Just as they did in 1959. after Premier Khrushchev fiist raised it and then would discuss it with the Russians, Just as they did

Other Editors Saying Why Did Tax Prevail?

In 1959.

Berlin was a long drawn-out business before and promises to be again unless this time the Russians are determined on less talk and more action.

Since its been 2*4 years that Khrushchev first upset the Western calm on Berlin, Rusk was asked if in the intervening time American planners had figured where to drawr, the line on the Russians.

Rusk wouldnt even go into that. He said Kennedy had dwelt on that Wednesday. But Kennedy gave the impression that this countrys ideas are still far from fully formed on what action or, actions it should take.

In the days and weeks ahead. Kennedy said, he will be considering a whole variety of measures which might be taken.

But Thursday an Associated Press reporter at the Pentagon wrote that so fw as the Defense DepartmenYis concerned there are several plans, constantly being updated, for dealing with any Berlin showdown.

But now, as in 1959 under President Eisenhowers administration, Kennedy and Rusk are avoiding sabre-rattling, preferring get together with .the Russians for a confab.

In 1959 the storm Khrushchev raised over Berlinsetting then as now a six-month deadline for a settlementdidn't get any closer to a crisis than a conference between the Russian and Western foreign ministers.

And six, days before that one petered qUtr-it ended July 13 Khrushchev proposed a meeting with Eisenhower. Then he forgot about his own deadline and met with Eisenhower, a meeting which didnt solve Berlin at all.

Khrushchev talked tough in 1959, just as hes talking tough now. But what makes dealing with the unpredictable Khrushchev painful to the Allies is not (Continued on page six) ^

(Greensboro Daily News)

The Richmond Times-Dispatch is amazed, in the tradition of Virginians gazing patronizingly across the border, at Gov. 'terry Sanfords success in foisUhg a 3 per cent food sales tax on Tar Heels instead of a heavier tax on cigarettes and cigars.

One would suppose that this food tax any food tax would be political .p>oison, the Times-Dlspatch muses. But in North Carolina the nations largest grower and manufacturer of tobacco it appears that taxing cigarettes is even worse political poison than taxing bread and meat. Thats something to put in your pipe!

And then the T-D adds;

Of course, Virginia is always reactionary" by comparison with North Carolina, if the liberal fraternity is to be believed. Will these brethren now argue that it was a progressive and "forward-looking act for our ^ neighbor to the south to put a 3 per cent tax on food,

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while refusing to put any at all on cigarettes?^

The (luesUon is a fair one. The answer must that plenty of Tar Heels are still disgruntled that tobacco was spared tiie additional taxation It encounters in all the other states simply because the tobacco interests are so Influential in the legislative halls and the* Governors office.

But the Times-Dispatch forgets that most Tar Heels looked beyond the food tax itself. They

looked at the condition of teacher pay and education standards and concluded that a food tax was the lesser evil. In choosing quality education, even if it required an unpleasant ,tax, they showed a traditional* regard for education.

That was why the food tax prevailed even though it stuck in many throats for a while.

North Carolina intends to break the pattern of educational mediocrity, jit will start by providing a 2 per cent hike in pay of its public school teachers. That will not automatically produce quality, because most of the same teachers will be back next year.

But the additional s<>iary inducement will help keep our brightest teachers at home. They will not be flying off to^ California, or even Virginia, to get jobs offering better starting pay and more advantages later. They will stay at home to enrich their home states.

And then quality education will place a heavy burden on all other school personnel. They will no longer be able to rationalize about Inadequate pay and justify sloppy performance.

Most Tar Heels, we think, will not find the food tax too burdensome if quality education appears.

And that explains, for the benefit of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, and everybody else, why the 1961 General Assembly went along with the food tax. It was a matter of putting up with an obnoxious remedy to achieve a worthy objective.

For something like six years the writer has yearned for a home-grown bright saying of a child.

With ears at the ready" when around our boy. It has been a disappointing wait. It took our girl to deliver two of them in one evening.

Ill save one for a rainy day. (Hah!)

At the supper table we were holding a refresher course for the kindergarten grad onletter

sounds.

What letter docs Boy start with?, wed ask.

Buhbuhbdh - B!,

hed say.

And what letter does Flag start with?

Pff-fff-fff. . . .F", was th response.

Well, his four-year-old sister was * clamoring to get Into the act; and to make it easy, her mother said:

Mary Jane, what does icecream start with?

And she thought a minute.

A dime, says Mary Jane.

Opinions Brief

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"If the Pentagon did not have a Rickover, terrible temper and all. the taxpayers would be right in insisting that one be invented. . A little real brass in the Pentagon will do the Republic no harm. The Washington Post.

"The two-party system of our politics has been the bulwark of democracy in the United States. But, it is meaningless If we allow policy to be determined by bureaus rather than those chosen by ballot." Rutherford (N.J.) News.

"He who laughs last did not get the joke.-Anderson (S.C.) Independent.

GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY

Ck}pyrigbt, 1961, King Features Syntheate, -Inc. -It is being planned by some very astute planners in the State Department to get Red China into the General Assembly'of the Unit.,, ed Nations. Actually, there have been discussions with some other * countries about theprospect of working out a Two Chinas scheme at.the next session of the Un^ Nations.

The astute plannera do not expect Red China to accept what to Mao TSse-tung would be an ignominious position. Red China wants Chinas permanent seat on the Security Council which would give to Red China the power of the veto. It Is very doubtful if Red Cihina will settle for less. Ortalnly Mao TSe-tung would not agree to be limited to the General Assembly while Chi-ang Kai-sheks representative sits on the Security Council.

The scheme then is for the Western Powers to make this proposition to Red China; that Red CJhlna will inevitably reject the offer; that It will please India and the neutrals that the offer was made to Red China*; it will leave Soviet Russia without an excuse for quarrelling over this issue; it would give Red China a bad reputation because Red C^a rejected the offer.

Of course, the Nationalist Chinese government on Formosa would lose face and its position throughout Asia would be reduced to a nullity. This does not bother the schemers who feel that they are Important planners of mankinds future. They feel that Formosa oiht to be happy that Red China is caught in a trap-There is a tale of a great rabbi who travelled about deliv;?, ering sermons on what is right and what is wrong. Men came from far and near to listen to the rabbi. One day, in a very small synagogue in a very small town, the rabbi was telling the townspeople what they should do and how they should live and everybody wondefed at the enormous scholarship and the noble character of the rabbi. However, there was a shoemaker In the very back seats, the shoemaker being regarded as an ignorant man who did not know this or that. Nevertheless, the shoemaker rose and said tlmt he wanted to ask a question. The copgre-gation was in consternation. How dared a lowly shoemaker deign to ask the great rabbd a question? It was demanded that he sit down. The rabbi insisted that the shoemaker ask his question. *

'The shoemaker said:

I am an ignorant man who cannot read'and cannot write and has never been to a school. Nevertheless, I have lived long and seen much. Therefore, I want to ask, Suppose it is just the opposite?

My son, suppose what is just the opposite?

"How should I know? answered the shoemaker. I am ignorant. Nevertheless I ask, suppose everything is Just the opposite?

I could not help thinking of this story as the work of the State Department geniuses enfolded itself. What would happen to all this scheming and plotting and planning if Red China did accept a seat in the General Assembly ignoring the loss of face of not having the permanent seat on tiit Security Council? What would happen if Marshal Chen Yi or Premier CThou En-lal came to the United Nations to turn the General Assembly into a brawl?

Of course,' the great men would then find enormous fault with Red CMna just as nowadays these same great men who helped Castro rise to power now denounce the rascal and even tried to make war on hima stupidly planned war, it is true, but nevertheless they sat about scheming on lM)w to do it when they might have brought in a Marine Corps corporal to give thega expert direction.

Unfortunately, when schemes are overdone and plans are obviously unsound only bankruptcy can result. Red China is now economically and socially in very bad shape. A rising antipathy to the Ck>mmunist government is apparent to all who recognize the signs of mass disturbance. The power of the Red Chinese government is being weak-* cned by famine rather than by (Continued on Page 8)

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Strength For Today

By ELMER ROESSNER This is the era of opportunity in small business, especially of .opportunity for the shrewd operators and those gifted with power to look ahead.

By EARL L. DOUGLASS "But when . the fullness of time was come. God sent forth his son, . G <Gal, 4:4.

God has a calendar and a schedule. We may mess tliihKs up badly, but Goda program oontinues without deviation. When a thing is needed, It appears in the life of the wjriri. The Hebrews went .into EgVVit a nomadic tribe. When H was necessary to lead them out and make them a great nation. God sent Moses. ^God sent the p^hets kt the time these great preachers and teachers were,,, needed. Ood sent St. Paul to do work which only thatapirlt* ual genius could perform.

There was a Columbus ready when the horizon nefded to be pushed back, * There was i.n Edison ready when a generation

arose, literate and eager *to read

Hundreds of businesses are be-,ing uprooted every day. Those that are being torn from familiar areas of good will seldom

books. There was a Lindbergh ^ find new locations before young-

ready to span the Atlantic at precisely the right moment Ihe United States had her Washington. Lincoln, and the Wright Brothers. Great Brltlan had her William Shakespeare, her Queen Victoria, her Winston Churchill.

Always the right person appears at the right time. Gods schedule never fails When a united Roman world was ready for the spread of the gospel. God sent Jesus Christ into the. trortd to preach that gospel, In^ the fullness of time Ood sent forth His son, A century earlier or later wou)d not have done. It had to be right at that time.

Relax and stop worrying. We have alarming, problemsBut the God who runs things has a schedule. ,

er, more aggressive enterprisers stake their claims.

There are three forces uprooting businesses:

1. Slum clearance and* .urban rehabilitation projects, .

2. The highway .program, which strands enterprises on roads no longer frequented by. heavy traffic,

3. Trends of populations away from distressed areas to greener fields.

MULTIPLE IMPACTS

Here is how those three fore* es disrupt business:

1. Urbatv clearance wipes out existing businesses often with no recompense. Many of the businesses in slum areas are sound and prosperous. A delicatessen or grocery store in a slum may

be operated with as much care, cleanliness and pride as a ntid* town establishment, but when the authorities drive out the rats and the poor, they also drive out well run businesses.

They may get varying degree of help in relocating but their good wiU, their ability to bring back customers, is shattered because the customers are driven to the ewinds. By the time the management of an old business faces the facts and begins to search for a new location, it finds that younger, more aggressive enterprisers have taken over the best.

2. The highway program Is usually even more ruthless. When -new highways drain traffic off old roads, the roadside businesses are left to wither. Rarely do these businessmen haye opportunities 4o re-estatoh thendselV-ea^bn the new higpways or parkways; the rights there are sold to big odtiKAations or political favorites. . ^

THE CUSTOMERS ARE GONE

3. The mass migrations, a phenomenon of the I960's, drAn poorer areas of customers To-

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day. a probably 1,000 persons will move Into the state of California to settle; about 300 will '^invade Oregon; other states will have many newcimiers.

The 1,000 entering California, for example, wUl represent a loss of that many customers to stores in the rest of the countiy. One customer in New Jersey, a few in Indiana, and many in other states.- Nothing may happen today. But after a while a restaurant in New Jersey, a toggery in Indiana and grocery stores a over wiU^feel the accumulated loss of cuktomers.

Some enterprisers may rush to California, not to find old patrons but to be there to await new cuatomefa from all over; others will Just fade away. But every 1,000 people entering Califor-aia~i>r any other statsmeans enough more people to supiJbrt half a dozen more businesses.

Apd therein lies opportunity.

When- changes affect farmers, tenants, mining companies, big corporations, workefs, o(l men, fishermen and unions they are quick to demand that the government provide funds to see *

them through their imoertalftty.

But to their everlasting credit, few small businessmen have demanded dislocation bonuses. There are three reasons:

1- They know that <tislo<^on is. Uke income taxee and gangster levies; one of the baards of small business.

2. They know that Milfts of customers man4he creation t as many opportmdtlee as they destroy.

3- They know dam wen that any such demanda wooM have little chance.

Their' only hope, of eome. la to watch oomiDf foieee of dlalo-cation and to atake out new opportunities when the foroas emsb their enterprises.

ABOUT CANNED FRUIT, QGARSnmp:6.:AMII .MXAX Import controls on all canned fruit excess citrus truH and apples, will end tn the Umtpd Kingdom August I. . West Germans last year smoked "more cigarettes than ever before. I Jkus-tralia canned 30,000 ions 0^ meat in the first quarter of this year, double the amount in the first Qusner of iMa

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