WednMda^r, September IS, 1961

B^st Springboard to White House?

Powell Bill Importance Is Growing

During the 11 years since Powell BiH funds have been distributed among municipalities of North Carolina, this source" of revenue has become increasingly important in operations of cities and'towns.

This year the $182,486 which has been distributed among the nine municipalities of Pitt-County represents a new high in their receipts from the funds. It means that the municipalities, as has been the case since the Powell Bill funds became availably will be able to carry out a more comprehensive streetMmprove-ment and maintenance program than in the past.

Revenue from Powell Bill funds has enabled cities and towns of the state to put considerably more into their street improvement programs each yf than otherwise would be the case. There are few cities indeed which would have been able to increase their local tax rates sufficiently to provide an amount of revenue for street work equal to that they receive from the distribution of these state funds.

The Powell Bill funds have not only become an important part of every municipal budget in North Carolina, they have also become the means for an unprecedented program of street improvement in municipalities throughout the state.

This windfall of revenue to the municipalities of

the state has in recent years been an important? factor v

in helping cities and towns over the hump of an in- Tm* MOOIft Tt

creaaingly difficult financial squeeze in which they JCiVSU JLw iv** *ii

have found themselves. In the case of Greenville, for m

example, the $80,000 it will receive from the state T Tq TmnCfinG

fund this year represents slightly more than 8.5 per IB JTAUrU cent of the total city operating budget of $940,000.

On the basis of approximately $3,170 in revenue realized by the city for each cent of its tax rate, the $80,000 coming to the city from the Powell Bill distribution hi equivalent to the revenue which would be realized from a city tax increase of approximately 25 cents.

Even for North Carolinians who have witne^ed the wrath of many hurricanes in recent years, it is difficult to imagine the devastation across Texas in the wake of Hurricane Carla. The damage will soar well into the hundreds of millions of dollars as people return to their homes to dig out, pick up the pieces and try to start life over again as it was before Monday.

--The evacuation of hundreds of people from low-I IT 7/^lT lying areas along the Gulf Coast in the^area of the V iJI I III r^C J V huge storm must be credited for the extreely low loss

X xwv^ accompanied the blow. Had it not been for

the diligent work of officials and a well organized civil defense operation the death toll could have been staggering. Just a few years ago the dead were counted in the hundreds as a hurricane slammed into Louisiana coast.

Had it not been for the preparedness taken in the affected areas in the path of Carla, the toll could have been many times higher this week.

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Coast Resources

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BarWERRp. Htrbm Bonner O tiM first district left BtMfh Saturday afiemooa for Washington. *But its the wrong Washington. aaid the eongreaa-znan. 1 want to go home to WaaWngton. B.C.. but Iva gotta get baek to tiiat piece on me Potomac river. Ive got a lot cr work to do before the Ccngnm adjooma.

Target date for adjournment la September 23. Saturday of nai^ week. He thinks they can make it--but ft will require a lot of xdght seealona and intense ommittee actlvfty. Although he la Interested In all the general problems before Congreea-na-ttonal defense, foreign aid, aid to education, and all the othera 4a immediate interest is with matters coming within the pur* view of hie committee on the Merchant Marine and Pisher-iea. He has been chairman of that committee for a number of years and he doesnt hesitate to eay he is concerned about some of the things that are happening to marine natural resources.

Legislation which be sponsored permitting line ships flying the U.S. flag to divert from schedules In alack season and pick up passengers at off-route ports has helped the cruise business. Special cruises do a lot to build up regular line business for ports like Morehead City and Wilmington. Bonner said he expects to continue efforts hi promotion of this type service.

RESOURCE -- What disturbs the first district congressman more than anything else is the ruthless and thougtUleas exploitation of the natural marine food resources along the coast, especially In PanUico Sound. This is ths largest body of uncon-tamhiated water along the eastern seaboard he said. In too many instances state laws permit the kind of fishing and dragging that can have no result except to destroy a great nar Sural resource.

SEEDWhetbsr you are dsal-ing with trees or com plants, cattle or hogs, or peoplehe said, you must save some seed. One of the moat severe indictments that could be brought against people in olden times was that they had eaten the aeed com.

Many of the state laws regulating fishing in coastal waters and shooting wiktfowl in the area are wrltteci to provide the greateet possible Iznmedlats ea-tisfaetloo or profit to operators, without regsrd to preserving aeed stock for the future.

BIG POU-lf tlie anticipated schedules are maintained North Carolina will entertain a lot of big folks during the,

next four or five weeks.

Pirst appearance will be Secretary of Agriculture Orville Premian at ^e Fairgrounds Friday, September 15, the oc-casim being the annual joint meeting of ths Farmers Cooperative Exchange and the N.C. Cotton Growers Cooperative Association. It is expected more than 5,000 people will attend tjiu meetings

Next in line is the anticipated visit of Voit Gilmore, head of the newly established U.S. Travel Service, who will speak at the jiftnt meeting of the Board of Conservation and Development and the Travel Council of NcMth Carolina at WlnsUm-Salem on October 1. President Kennedy has tentatively accepted an invitation to speak at Chapel Hill and Charlotte around October 12. Governor Sanford is presently in Mexico to Invite President Mateos to come to North Carolina and speak at the State Fair during tbe week of October 16.

WHATS IT WORTHDr. John T. Dees of Burgaw, a member the Board (A Conservation and Development, is interested in obtaining as accurate estimate as possible on the economic value of sports fishing along the North Carolina coast. Any flgiH*e decided upon will of necessity be an estimate,' without possibility 0 ocmplete vwifi-catlon. Also, any reasonable estimate will run into the multiple millions of dollars.

There are fairly reliabls statistics on tbe value of the commercial fishing operations along the coast, although these figuree do not include a great many Incidentals of expense and Indirect profit. The profit from sports fishing is largely intangible. It consists of pleasure rather than money. The commercial fishermen Invests money and effort in a business with the cxpeotatlon ef profits comparable to what he might expect from manufacturing or mer^iandlsing. The sports flsh-men Invest money and effort with expectation of itrofits (?) comparable to what he would get from similar investments on a hunting trip or a golf course-

Main point here is that regardless of how the investor takes bis "profits the total spending by the sports fisherman is considerably more than that by the commercial fisherman.

Tke main difference is that the eoMimerelal flsliman operates in a small fixed area. The sports fisherman rambles all ovw, spends many dollars for travel and lodging and means always looking for that one big catch (like the golfer cherished hope of a hole In one) and so contributes more to the total state eoocMtny.

Nikita Needs A

Parley

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKT . Copyriht. 1961. King Features Syndicate, Irw.

The question must arise in the minds of Russians as weU M Americans Khrushchev th^ moving? He blows off bomte.

we can bk>w off wSt

hasi ,been accomplisl^? Wtot diiference does it really make?

- The guess is probably that Khrushchev needs another m^S^with President Kenn^ dy. He needs ft not to world problems, but to estabtoh that KennMy will come to him to plead with him not to explode more bombs. He needs that to strengthen his own position in the Communist world, particularly vis-a-vis Red China which desires war a war against the United States to be foiht not by Red China but by Soviet Russia. ' .

Why shoidd President Kenn^ dy meet with Khrushchev? He met wtth Wm at Vie^a and it was utterly unsatisfactory. Since the Vienna meeting, Khrushchev has gone out of his way to weaken Kennedy s . in the world and even in the Um^ ed States if Kennedy accepted the advice of the so-called neutral nations and he met wiui Khrushchev? ^ ,

There would not be a single advantage. Kennedy would come out of such a meeting much weaker than when he went into it. The united States would^ be m a weaker position than it Is today. Why do we give in? my are we the ones to make the concessions? How many mre concessions can we afford to

make? ^

President Kennedy bw, organised his foreign relations staff so that there must be a conflict of view. Already it is evident that the Secretary of State Dean Rusk and the Under Secretary, Chester Bowl^, do not always agree. Siwh ^ agreements rfwuld not exist. The responsibility for the formula-tion of the foreign policy rest wlfii the Prcfiktent oi the United States; the responsibility for the conduct of the foreign policy rests with the Secretary of State. When there are half a dozen or so personalities, of considerable pubkc appeal, funo tioning as aidvis^a to the President. some of them travelling about the world, dtecussing serious prcWems with various heads of state, there is the prob-abittty of confusion. How can a President protect himself from his asaodates when he extends to them authority for which only he is responsible?

R is obviously not necessary for KhriBhchev to fire bomb after bcnnb to raise Ms stock. This is being done to frighten the United States, Great Britain and France- What is there to fear? If Khrushchev wants to make war, then we khall have to fight ft out and large numbers of us and of them wiU be killed. If he thinks that by frightening us, we shaQ concede whatever he wants vis to concede, then aB we need to do is to make no cooceseions. If he behevee that the so-called neutrals wiB become his satellites because be fires more bombs then we do, then when the time comee, the neutrak may discover that we can blow one of than up to prove ^hat anyone can blow anytkie up.

Khrushchevs enxxr is that he assumes that we are a diemoral-ized. degenerate people, who are to wedded to luxurious living that we would rather be Red than dead. But suppose it is Just tbe (^iposlte? Stqipose it is established that we would really prefer to be dead than Red? Americans are now having such stickers printed which they glue onto the bumpers of of tiKlr automoMles.

The Kaiser, Hitler, the Japanese and others have made that mistake about Americanfi. We are not readily frightened. And wher^ just before a war, we seem to be a natkm of pacifists, fearing shot and shell, the day tiie fight starts, the entire nation becomes mobilized and submits to whatever hardships are necessary. If Khrushchev wants to test that, all he needs to do is to try ft.

From an hlstork; point of view, ft wouW be siwind for the Russians to pursue a course directly opposite to what they are doing. Their Immediate necessity is peace. It is true that the Chinese CJommunists are driving thii to war, but that is to the advantage oif the CMoese not tile Rusaiens. Tliereiore Khrmh-chev would be smart if he de-p^ided upon the United States, Great Britain, Prance and West Germany to help Mm consolidate his own country. He will not succeed in doing this by scaring anytxxly.

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Emergencies such as the one brought about by Carlas approach to the Texas coast show the value of effective civil defense organizations. Even in the absence of a nuclear attackwhich all hope will never comethere are many instances in which well organized civil defense operations can pay for themselves many times over in preventing loss of life in emergencies brought about by natural causes.

Communities which take their civil defense preparedness seriously will find it stands them in good stead should disaster come.

Khrushchev Has Stalins Goals

By ALVIN TAYLOR

Touching All The Bases

Rescue squad&men were called to the college campus the other night. They transported a coed with a wrenched knee to the hoepital.

"Howd you do It. the physician treating her asked.

I was d(^ the twist, the gtrl replied.

"Hmmmm, said the doc. I thought that involved the hips.

Eighteen giant cabtes three and a half mUes in length and weighing 130,000 pounds will stahlize the big tower. The foux-t<m antenna on top cost $50,000 and there is to be a 50 KW trimsmltter Installed.

Station officials have said that space has been provided at the Grifton site so that spectators may park and watch the giant tower go up.

which wasnt tuned in to the big pageant from Atlantic City that year. And lo<^al folks were thrilled when their favorite was named as one of the top five finalists.

Betty Lane placed fifth whi the order of the finalists were announced. But she had (Jone Pitt County proud. The thrill of seeing a home town girl cMne that close is one that is seldom known to a community.

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By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) Its an Inexpensive, but not brainy, comfort to think that the pudgy man who talks peaceful coexistence is really a good guy being pushed by Kremlin tough guys into talking war and superbomb.

Nothing in the record bears out that notion which, from time to time, is floated like a dreamy balloon to explain the sudden and savage siritches which occur In Premier Khrushchev.

He didnt become leader of the Communist pack by being a soft-touch anytime for anybody. Ho had to claw his way to the top in a league whose lAllosophy is bMed on power and not on persuasion.

The world was shocked when Khrushchev suddenly ended the East-West agreement to forego nuclear tests. It didnt need to be. Khrushchev had carefully laid the groundwork for Just such a switch.

The only missing element in his decision was why he did it when he did.

Nor should Ms toughness oo Berlin now be a surpriee. He aaid three years ago he wanted the Allies out of Berlin and it had to be done. He said there would have to be a showdown this year and hes trying to make good on his threat.

Sttaltn looked toughar than Khruabchev. He was brtnd the Berlin blockade of 1948, the Communist guerrilla warfare in Greece, the pressure on Turkey, the seMure of Csechoalovakia, and. no doubt, tha Korean War.

Stalin wasn't toogher. Just more reeklees. By the time Khrushchev took over, the United States and RuMia both had tbe hydrogen bomb. So be had to be more careful.

^ But the two mens goal were the samew(ffld domination. The only difference ia tactics. A good exsmsAe M why Khrushchev isnt being iweesured by Kremllnltei more belligerent than himstif is in the nuclear teat suspensions.

When President Eisenhower In 1958 suspended American nuclear tasting, thsre were some who thought the United States should not stop. You can be sure there was a difference of opin-in in Russia whan Khrushchev said he was suspending his tests the same year. too.

In/January 1980, Kltrushchev said Russia would not resume the tesU unless the "Wetiem

powers resume them. In Khrushchevs mind the Western pow-M's, as it turned out, Included Prance which was then jarepar-ing to test.

A little more than a month lateron Feb. 13, 1960Prance had Its first atomic test in the Sahara. Immediately the Russian news agency, Tass, laid down what was to become the Soviet excuse for -resuming its own tests.

If nuclear explosiona ahould continue, the Soviet government will, naturally, not be able to overlook it and fall to draw the proper conclusions for Its own security. Tass said.

The Aasociated Press reported last May 15 that the American and British representatives. then negotiating with the Russian in Geneva on a permanent test ban, "were not greatly impressed by the threat of resumed Soviet testing.

But IChrushchev meant bu*l-ness, as he proved. Just as some of President Kennedys advisers thought the United States shoxild resume testing in the atmosphere, it can be taken for granted some of Khrushchevs advisers thought Russia should.

This record doesnt indicate that Kremlinites ganged up on Khrushchev to mske him change his mind about suspending at-mosphereic tests. The only question is why did he do it when he did. during the Berlin crisis.

A good guess is that he decided It was good strategy to show the West he meant business on Berlin and, If possible, tarroriae the Allies into yielding to him.

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Its hard to believe the Scotch really Invented a game which Involves as many lost balls as golf. Mason City (Iowa) Olobe-Oazettc.

In south Pitt County North Carolinas tallest struoture is slowly pushing toward the skies. It is the 1.523 foot tower wMch television station WITN is constructing to put its antenna high into the air.

A progress report on the tower, being constructed at the stations traaitter near Grifton, says that foundations have been completed and the tower is now rising30-foot sections at a time.

Miss North Carolinas taking of the Miss America title Saturday brought fond recollections of 1958 to practically every citizen of Pitt County and surrounding area.

-For it was that year that Btt!ysane Evans, Greenvilles reprewfitSlive, went on to become one of the five finalists in the Miss Ameri<ia Pageant.

There was hardly a television set in this part of the country

Other Editors Saying... The Indians Have Rights

"Labor disgraces no man. although unfortunately, we sometimes find men who disgrace labor.Ulysses S. Grant.

"Nothing stimulates an interest In world affairs quite as much as having somebody of mlliUry age In the family. Jacksonville (Pla.) Timea-Union.

Some people use religion like a bus. They ride on It only when It is going their way." Anderson (B.C.) Independent.

(Henderson Dispatch)

A Senate subcommittee <m constitutional rights is headed by Senator Ervin. The committee recently concluded four daya of heariftgs on "the constitutional rights of the American Indian." It is the first time a con-gressi(Mial committee has given such attention to the plight of these original settlers of the United States.

Testimony given produced information from the Bureau of Indian Affairs that 360,000 Indians arc living on reservations and 160.000 off reservations, and an assistant secretary in the Interior Department said more ai^uate measures should be taken to protect civil liberties of these people. That could be rated among the under-statements of the year. Senator Ervin says that out of the hearings may come a new awakening on the part of Congress and the people on the need for protecting the basic rights and liberties" of the Indians. It Is certainly long over due.

In these days of over-emphasis on mMH-ities and their status nearly ever group except the Indians has received attention. Politicians, legislators and the courts are knocking themselves out in behalf of those who have sizable blocs of votes wMch all covet at election time.

But never a vror and apparently never a thought as to the rights of the American Indian. His ancesUM-s were here before the rest of the world ever knew that this continent existed. What he possessed was taken from him by force as he was gradually pushed back into the Interior to shift for himself, with rarely a care on the part of government

for his welfare.

Most of the Indians have Been herdied together on reser-vatkms in various parts of the country. The government, to all intents and purposes, forces tiiwn to stay there. They are not allowed to vote and are permitted no voice whatever in the sort of government which decrees all their activities and their way of life.

There is no Justice in such an attitude on the part of the government. The people of the country do not know all the detitils of the status of the Indian. They are not concerned and are content to leave everything to the Great White Father in Washing, ton. And hemeaning the personification of authority takes things for granted. The fact is that Senator Ervins committee has for the first time on record held hearings as to the status and the rights of this minority of the people.

Treatment (rf the Indian is ons of the darkest pages in tbe nir tions history. What has happened and is happening is but to shame the whole country.

The Indian is entitled to vote and to all other rights and privileges of tiie American citizen. He is the forgotten man of the twentieth century. It can be hoped that hearings by the Ervin committee will shock Congress and the government as a whole into a realizati(n of the obligation owed to these people. They are fully an competent of citizenship as many who now possess the right, some of whom even abuse it. Congresa cannot be in too big a hurry to right this glaring wrong to this small minority of inhabitants whose ancestors populated what la today the United States.

Invitations to one of the states more unusut birthday parties will soon be going out.

Mr. and Mrs. George Cherry of Pactolus will be Inviting friends to a "Democratic Fellowship Get-Together". At this time some of the state top politicians will help Cherry celebrate his birthday.

Cherry has always been actively interested in the Democratic party and his annual birthday supper is Ms way (rf showing it.

Opinions In Brief

Somebody said newspaper readers will recall a snatch of an editorial longer than anything else except the spot news. We caht remember who said it and we cant prove it is true, but it comforts the l(mely inmate of the editorial writers cloistsr. He knows ha has no name, and therefore no fame; he only hopss. if his heart is in his work, that some reader may be confirmed In an opinion or act on a conviction because of a solemn sentence or two in an anonymous editorial.Los Angeles Times.

"Why 1 It iere8 never time enough to do the Job right, but theres always time to do it overt Dawson County (Oa.) News.

"Mr. Khrushchev is just no g(x>d, his word is no good and there 1 another man down there in Cuba who is Just as bed. Nikita Khrushchev is worse than Stalin." Harry S. Truman.

"Not only 1 the voice of the turtle heard in the land, but the turtle itself shows up ahead of us, driving ten miles an hour and straddling two lanes. Asheville Citlmi.

"Do you ever get the feeling when reading headlines about Berlin^ and such places that history has gone in for summer re-nms? Memphis PreM-Scimltar.

Strength For Today

!ow Your Tax Document' Falls

By CARL L. DOUGLASS THAT PRECIOUS POSSESSION Jesus said to Ms disciples on one oceaaion; "Woe unto you when all men apeak well of you, for so did their fatbers of the falat prophets."

This is a hard saying. All of US like to have people speak well of us. If we know that we are bitterly crlticiaed bg some and at least mildly criticised by many. It gives us an uncomfortable feeling. We look at the people radiaift with per* eooal charm end wonder why we cannot be the same end have the same.

If people ire critical of ua we should never get the Idea Into our minds it is simply because we are right and they are wrong, we are wise and they are Ignorant, It may be that we

retUy do not deserve popularity. Our selfishness may ahow through too plainly tor people to become enthusiastic about ua. We may be conceited. We may be a bit lofUy in our manner and look down upon others. If so, peopls will dlahkt us wfth cause.

But there Is such a thing as being ertticizedperhapa dislikedbecause one takes a atand for what is right. If the issue becomes as plain as thst, do not hesitate where to take your stand. Popularity with men will nvean nothing if thia means unpopularity with God. 1

Remimiber that a ckar eoa^ science is tbe most precious possession you can ever have. If the COM involves taking sides or standing out even as a minority of onedo not hesitate.

By ELMER ROESSNER Longfellow ahot an arrow into the air and it fell to earth he knew not where. But if you shoot a tax document into the mails. ym had jolly well better know where it fills. Prentice-Hall

tax service notes that the rules on maUing are so diverse and hard to get at that even tax experta seldom keep them In mind. So weve put the most important together all in one place.

"Keep this basic distinction ia mind: some documents are offJoially TUed on the day that the District Director receives them. . .But other documents tie officially filed the day you mail them. . .assuming they are not lost In the mails. SEPARATION Here is the list of documents filed when received;

Income, gift, estate, tx-

else tax returns.

Declarations of estimated tax.

Partnership and corporats returns.

Information returns. Applications for extension of time to file.

Here are documents fUed when mailed:

Tax elections.

Waivers on sssessments (form 870).

Claims for refund of taxes (form 843).

Petitions to TXx Court Protests foUowlng 30-day letter.

But paymenta, the tax servioe points out. are peld only when ths District Dlreoter receives ths money or check. When it is put In the mall has nothing to do with it.

WHAT CAN HAPPEN So much turns on the exact

date you file and the exact date you pay. Among other things, you (Muld invite disaster with an untimely election, owe interest on late payment, run into penalties for late filing, and loea out on a refund or an opportunity for a Tax Court hearing, Prentice-Hall points out.

"Joe Smiths income tax return ia due April 15. He malls it oa April 14, with a check. In the return, he makes an election and uses the InstsHment method to spread out Ida profit on a big sale of land. The envelope arrives at the Dlstrkft Directors offtee on April 18.

"Result? TIm return Is thrse days late. Joe Is liable for Interest and o(Hd be liable for a five percent "delinquency penalty. But. surprise, the election is OK and he doesnt lose his right to instaUmtat method reporting.

For this purpose, ths election is treated as filed on April 14, the date of mailing.

When Preotioe-Hall didnt dare say so, ft looks at if Congress, the (Ureetor of Internal Revenue and President Kennedy ought to sit down and count toee, If not pull tbemsives together.

IHORT AND INTERSfTINO BITS OP BUSINBaS

A Kdit-level home win be awarded in a drawing about te be staged by Karo Syrup. There wm be I.M5 other prise# . . John R. SnowbaU hss been elected presldeift of Msgna Amerkan Corp., fhtifttimati . . A Mookgooienr, Ala., wmnaa baa just sent in a return postoard ^ In a isa promotion of home water systems by Fairbanks Morse. She got the 1929 booklet she rwqueoled.