Wday, Septemb'ei 29, 1961

Dont Answer That!

May Go Further To Get Efficiehcy

Most people, we assume, reco^ize from a practical business standpoint the advantages gained by the Internal Revenue Service in assigning each taxpayer

signing of numbers to taxpayers has approved, in principle at least, the arguments that greater efficiency will result and better service will be rendered to tax-'

a number for the sake of simplifying its enormous payers, amount of record keeping. result in the authorized change in the

At the same time,' most citizens also probably program, greater efficiency; does not result, members have some deep-seated resentment against being re- of Ongress should not hesitate to look carefully into garded in the future as a number rather than a name the matter to determine why the promised efficiency so far as the department's records are concerned. did not materialize. If, on the other hand, there is a

significant gain in efficiency of the operation, Con-If the new numbering method for keeping track mjght want to investigate further modernization

of income tax,payers proves to be as efficient and federal operations for the sake of bringing

effective as proponents of the measure say it will, greater efficiency,

however, we would guess that most citizens will welcome the change. For one thing, the amount of addi- ffil

City Fortunate That

tional automation it will make possible in keeping the records should bring about a reduction in cost of the operation. And if, as proponents of the measure assert, it closes loopholes through which millions of dollars in revenue annually is slipping away from Uncle Sam, It could in time be reflected in benefits for most of the present taxpayers either by allowing some small reduction in taxes, or by making unnecessary some portion of tax increases we may potentially face.

It Was Spared Blaze

l\he fire aboard the navy tanker at Morehead City was tsagic in that it took one and possibly two lives, and tljat it caused the loss of an |8 million ship as well as its valuable cargo.

Citizens of Morehead City, however, were spared

issue of the greater efficiency th^ what mirh Vav b^^n an eXTn ^reM^VreTedy und^r

Will bring about in the huge business of collecting and ,,___ ttj +1,^ ;ii

Will orinif auuuL izi u.e circumstances. Had the ill-fated ship been moor-

keeninflr records on federal income taxes of millions of , * . , , . ^ j .n. i. ^

IndSaf citizens. Congress, by authorizing the as- d at the state port docks mstead across the harbor.

Secondary Roac.

the storage warehouses and other port facilities at Morehead probably would have been heavily damaged. Had the blaze caused the explosion of the huge fuel storage tanks on either side of the harbor, the /fire could have spread over a wide area instead of being largely confined to the ship itself.

Soendina In 62

By LYNN NISBET

ROADS Several road building cofitractors were admittedly disturbed by iniormatlon they picked up while here for the monthly bidopening eeasion Tuesday- Bids were opened for more than four million dollars worth of work, repreaentlng over 100 miles of highway, pretty well distributed throughout the state. A few contractors tb(Hg:ht the bids were too low, but admitted that was their own fault and benefited the - taxpayrs.

The disturbing goasip, which proved to be pretty well based In fact, dealt with the Plans of the highway commission to rush the spending of some $34 million on secondary road improvement during next year, with a major part of the work being handled by, force account" Instead of let to contract. and without benefit of adequate engineering.

At the SeptembCT highway commission meeting CJhalrman Merrill Evans urged his associates to speed up the Job of programing secondary road construction So as to commit all the funds expected to be available through 962. It was stated then that tome divisions probably would not have equipment and manpower to complete the prt^ram within the specified time, and suggestion was made that the State rent equipment from contractors- It Is no secret that many contractors wl have sur-rius equipment if they cannot

Set the contracts. Naturally ley prefer to use their equipment with their own personnel. They would rather lease it to the Btate than to have it stand idle-.ENGINEaERING Main ob-jectlons is to the alleged plan to put expensive paving on roads without adequate engineering to determine proper grades and curves andmost Important io get effective drainage. It is very short-sighted policy, say the contractor - engineers, for the State to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars promoting highway safety campaings and at the same time spend millions of dollars building highways without regard to the safety factors of grades, curves and unobstructed view.

There is nothing new in the ooirtroversy between the engineers and the politicians with respect to location and type of construction of highways. A fair balance is hard to find, and the pendulum swings backward and forward. At the end of World War n both constructions and igineerlng were far behind the needs- There was an emergency skuaUan in which the prime

need was for roads over which people could travel, to get from Isolated homes to community centers. When engineers protested building roads at the wrong places without authority of engineering blue prints, the late Governor Gregg Cherry quipped that people could not ride blueprints. Leave the road where it is. and fix it so folks can use it," he insisted. That was the philosophy of the Scott regime.

The result was a lot of miles of substandard roads w-e built. Some of these roads proved very expensive because of early i^essity to rebuild. The important fact, however, is that the emergraicy was relieved, the people got roads when they were desperately needed- Pew people now, even among the conservative engineers, will contend that the total post war secondary road program was anything le-ss than a success. It represented a distinct government service for the people.

DIFFERENT The same class groups, and many of the same persons, that protested the post-war waste due to haste are objecting now to the administration plans for spending $34 million before the 1963 General Assembly convenes, without regard to sound engineering policy. They contend their positions is much more tenable now, for that there is pret^ntly no such urgency of need as maintained 15 years ago. Tiwn It was a question of necessity. The absolute need to get out and In. Now It is a matter of convenience only to a minority of the people. A surfaced road by every farm, a convenient bridge that will cut travel distance in half, are highly desirable. Whether the need is sufficient to justify construction without adeqimte planning is questioned by the contractors and engineers.

One contractor pointed to an Interesting paradox. The program for qualitMcducation calls for fewer schooTnouseg,'-located at points where they will serve the most people, and acxjording to a master plan. The.program for secondary roads has taken almost the opposite course, he says, and apparently is designed to build more miles of roads without regard to quality.

SELF-INTEREST Of course the road contractw-'? have a special and selfish interest in this matter. There is no reason to assume that this interest is in conflict with the public Interest. The purpose of this column is simply to present the contractor - engineer point of view.

As it was, Morehead City suffered only a number of anxious hours until the huge fire was brought under control. The navy lost a valuable tanker and two men apparently lost their lives. That in itself is bad enough; but the coastal city is fortunate that it got by with nothing worse from the huge blaze.

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By ALVIN TAYLOR

3ig Question In Aid From Near Far

' Recd^liar antee

By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER

NEW YORK (AP) Eight days end two meetings after the start of his talks with Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko, Secretary of State Dean Rusk does not know whether the Soviet government has any intentiwi of negotiating a compromise settlement of the Berlin crisis-

two had a very good lunch and a very good talk." He declined to say whether any progress had been made toward agreeing on negotiations, saying only: Well see. Both men, who appeared relaxed and smdl- Ing, said they had agreed to meet again Saturday.

Headline In Wednesdays Dally Reflector read: Methodist Giving Up."

Lest this startle the Episcopal, Baptist and Presbyterian breth-en, it should be explained that the Methodist are not quitting.

What the article said was benevolences to the Methodist Church totaled $30,052,232 for the fiscal year which was an Increase of more than $5*4 million over the giving for the previous year.

Shades of John Wesley!

some future disaster in his own hometown.

Response to calls far assistance were immediate. Fire fighting equipment poured in to the Morehead Beaufort area from towns and cities ail over eastern North Carolina. Heavy equipment designed for fighting dangerous fires such as airca-ait crashes roared to the area from Camp Lejeune, Cherry Point and Seymour Johnson Air Force Base.

But he still hopes to find oiA and wl make another attempt SatiH^y morning.

To this Gromyko added that Our conversations ore not concluded."

Gromyko for his part appears to be playing the classic game of Soviet diplomacy. In private talks he is sticking to the hard line of public statements by Premier Khrushchev for a change in the status of West Berlin. If he Intends to give ground in order to get agreement on negotiations, he is expected to wait as long as possible whe pressing Rusk for aU possible concessions. ,

Later It was learned that Rusk pressed Gromyko for an explanation of precisely what Soviet leaders mean when they talk of guaranteeing Western access to West Berlin- The question is a crucial one because the Western powers have indicated they will not tolerate any Red blockade of Berlin.

Its comforting to know that this much fire fighting equipment can be assembled on such short notice, one observer said at Morehead Tuesday night.

He was "thinking, perhaps of

The blinking red dome lights which characterize fire fighting equipment today were dotted all along the Morehead-Beaufort causeway, the road leading out on Radio Island and all along the State Port dock.

Other Editors Saying .,, Can We Negotiate?

Later coast grard cutters, tugs and other vessels were moved in to beat back the burning fuel.

Fire trucks were still rolling in to Morehead hours af^ the fire began, ' .

It was possibly as much re fighting equipment as has ever been assembled at one spot in Eastern Carolina.

Luckily no major fire* broke out on land, although the threat of this was ever iresent

Firemen saved the highway and railroad bridges from the burning oU which floated on the Newport River and fire fighters also undertook the dangerous job of wetting down the big storage tanks an Radio Island even as the tankers burned fiercely nearby.

Gromyko 1s understood to have given no clarification, but Western diplomats hope it may be forthcoming Saturday.

It is now apparent that both Rusk and Gromyko are as interested in sounding each other out on the results of possible negotiations as they are in finding a formula to get negotiations started.

Rusk wants to know, for example, what guarantees Khrushchev means to offer when he talks of "guaranteed access" to West Berlin after he signs a peace treaty with Communist Blast Germany.

President Kennedy made cl^ in his speech to the United Nations Monday that the Westmi powers win not actively oppose the Soviet-East German pact. He caUed it a paper arrangement" between Moscow and a puppet regime. He denounced as nonsense charges made by Khrushchev and most recently by Gromyko here that the West would go to war to block such a pact.

Gromyko evidently is trying to determine whether the Western powers can be pressured into modifying their Berlin stand to accommodate some or all of Khrushchevs demands.

The two men first met a week ago when Rusk invited Gromyko to lunch. They talked for hours. They mej;a second time Wednesday when Rusk went to lunch with Gromyko at Soviet headquarters in a brick and stone mansion on Park Avenue. They were together four hours-

If war comes, U. S. officials say it will come because of what the Soviet Union and Red Germany do about Berlin and its supply lines after the treaty is concluded. But the treaty is Important for the West to the extent that it may limit the action they take.

The Daily Reflector

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When Rusk emerged, accompanied by Gromyko, he said the

This In turn has a bearing on the prospective East-West negotiations. Should Rusk and Gromyko come to some informal understanding on the access issue, governments on both sides of the Berlin dispute would have a much clearer idea of whether full-scale negotiations might be successful.

ODinions In Brie:

Nixon l.s an effective campaigner, Now that his decision ha.s been made he will lose no time in mending his political fences and in working on his organization. Oov. Pat Brown, the Democratic Incumbent who has wrestled with more state problems than perhaps any of his predecessors, will be no pukhover.Kinston Free Press-

turned down by two networks on the ground that crime |ind punishment do not provid^ a proper climate for commer-'" dais. This will come as quite a surprLse to those of us accustomed tq a heavy television diet of gunslingers, private eyes, and prohibition era gangsters. St. Louis Post Despatch.

(Smithlleld Herald)

In the Atomic Age it is difficult to see any virtue in waging a war. Ortainly there would be no virtue in waging a war over such a weak cause as maintenance of the status ,quo in Germany.

Leaders who insist that^ there is nothing to negotiate" in the German crisis are increasing the risks of war without solid moral justification.

There is something to negotiate. '

The Russians are determined to establish East Germany as an officially recognized state. The West equally is 'determined to keep open its access routes to and from Berlin, 110 mUes inside of East Germany. The West also is determined to safeguard the freedom of the peoples of West Berlin.

Western diplomats are hypocritical when they base opposition to recognition of East Germany on Avowed hopes of an early reunification of Germany. Pretty speeches can be made on the reunificatiMi theme, but there isnt a Western diplomat who doesnt uiuierstand that East Germany no less than West Germany exists in fMt and that there is no likelihood of Russia end the West reaching any general agreement on a new unified Germany.

The West has litUe, if anything, to lose in recognizing a state that already exists. The West would gain much if it could exchange recognition of East Germany for establishment of Berlin as a free city under United Nations control.

The Russians have said they are willing to establish West Berlin as a free city under in

ternational control. Perhaps they would not agree to declare all Berlin a free city. But the . West should engage in serious negot^tions to find out what the Russians wl grant in exchange for Western recognition of East Germany.

Russia, which has been invaded by a mitarized Germany twice in this century, under-standabb^ is fearful of a resurgent Germany, especially a new hosto Germany that soon might possess nuclear wew>ns. The West, without loss of honor, could grant Russia safeguards against any new Gorman militarism in exchange for protection of Western rights against Communist encroachments.

A ppjlcy of negotiation means neither abandonment of West Berlin to the Communist nor weakening of essential Western security arrangemMts against Communism anywhere in Cei^ral Europe. It means working out agreements mutually beneficial to West and East. It means settling Issues that haVe tigbteqed International tenrton and aggravated the war risk ever since the Western powers and Russia.ocaQzied Germany at the close of World War II. It m^LDa effecting changes in G^many to produce a grater degree of international stability. The status quo of Germany is not sacred. We have *as much to gain by changing it as the Russians.

In pursuii^ negotiations, we might not stuxseed in gaining all the concessions we would Uke to have from the Russians, but let us not turn our backs on negotiations and resign ourselves to solving (Jerman crisis by militarism. There is something to negotiate.

Nothing is quite so awesome as an oU tanker fire.

Your columnist arrived at Morehead shortly after 9 oclock Tuesday night along with television station WNCT news crew. We pulled into the state Port Authority docks where we ha4^ a ring side view of the happenings.

" The ship was burning fiercely when we arrived but within a few minutes it burst into incredibly hot flames. Metal siding glowed ri hot and a whirl wind developed in the center. "

It appeared that another explosion, such as had rocked the area twice before, might be eminent.

Im scared," someone on the dock said.

He wasnt the only one. So was I.

As I took pictures I could feci the intense h^t beating against my face. Involuntarily I took a few steps back. Then It dawned on me that 11 there was to be another explosion, those few steps wouldnt make the slightest

bit of difference.

All this tme the TV men were setting 19 their equipment and doing sound-on film interviews with witnesses.

Finally the holocaust died down somewhat. For 20 minutes or so the ship was engulfed in a black smoke. Wh^ this lifted its hulk could stUl be seen silhouetted against the burning fuel.

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^In the nature of lU work the people cannot know all the facts about CIAs work. They must know this huge organization is restricting Itself to the collection of facts and leaving policy, and action to other parts of big government responsible in those fields."Raleigh (N.C.) News & Observer.

opber needs a press agent

In the most recent release, the Ie88 agent describes Oorliss Lamont as author, teacher and Humanist phikwopher, whlob is quite a bit to say abcrt anyone. It must be admitted, bowever, that F^del Castro got bk early idea from something that La-mont wrote which makes this humanist phc^opher very important politically. V^iereas it has generally been held that Castro got his way of life from Karl Marx, It would seem that he actually got It from Corliss Lamont.

So it appears that Oorhas La-mont attended the Seventh World Conference Against A and H Bombs in Tokyo and tiat a resolution was passed there which stated: The first government to resume tests should be denounced as the enemy of peace end of mankind."

ElgMeen days after this resolution was passed, Khrushchev commenced his long series of nuclear eacplosions. using the bombs as a weapon of coercion and Intimidation. As President Kennedy said in his speech to the United Nations, terw is an old weapcm.

.This must have been yery embarrassing to the delegates present at the convention, which included Chmese and Russian delegates. 'Ihe press agents release does not say what kind of Chinese he refers to. Were they Red or decent? It must be assumed that they were Red, as no Nationalist would wiBlngly sit with a Ck>mmunist.

At any rate, Oorliss Lamont is quoted to have said of this:

I am sure that the Soviet and (Chinese delegates, as well as those from other Socialist countries, had no i<fea that the Soviet Union would be the first nation to resume nuclear tests. This leads me to think that this Inexcusable Soviet action is opposed by large sections, of the population within the Communist bloc and in Soviet Russia itself.

Oh, dear! It must, Indeed, be humiliating to tbo^ who have heretofore , found excuses for whatever Soviet Russia did, that Khrushchev should have committed an inexcusable action. Of <x)urse, Lamont says that he is led to think that large sections of the Chinese and So-riet pc^Mila-tkm are opposed to whftt fBaiiish-chev is diring. It is truly unfortunate that President Kennedy did not first resume bomb testing; then it would have been possible to say that Americans are barbarians and that the Cfemmunists are truly humanists who restrain themselves. It did not happen that way. Instead, every morning when Khrushchev awakens, he .asks himself the profound question: To blow up or not to blow up And when he has cleared his bmin with a glass of tea. he dwiGes this monumental question and the world shivers and sii&k6is

AU of this would be of slight significance were it Hot that there are still Americans who try to apologize lor Khrushchev . or for the Commimists or fortbe Russian people. Why should Corliss Lamonts press agent tell us that his client thinks that there are large sections o Russian and Chinese who are opposed to what Khrushchev is doing? How does he know anything about it? What evidence does he have? Have there been mass-meetings in Russia protesting Khrushchevs improprieties? Htos a single newspaper in Russia or in Red China written a single article against Khruslxievs firing the bomb? Ih the old Caar-1st days, when fiery spirits were driven to Siberia for their opinions, there were underground movements to foment the people to oppose Czarist actions. The founders of the Bolshevik movement in Russia suffered ex-e for such activities.

Who in Soviet Russia is protesting? When some Oiinese raised their voices against Mao (Ccmtinued on Paga 6) '

Outlook As To U.S. Work Forbe

"The producer of a televi.slon series about real crime.s, filmed in California prisons and using convicts as actors, has been

Its time for the public to be on its guard when a public official begins referring to hlni-.self in the third person,"Atlanta Journal.

Strength For Today

By EARL L, f.-.,

HEAVEN

All through the Bible we find references to heaven, but very seldom in the Bible do we find descriptions of heaven. A few of the prophets describe heavenly experience. The Book of Revelation, known as the Apocalypse, is replete with such description, but the remainder of the Bible is not. Jesus frequently referred to heaven, but he said ftmost nothing which could be interpreted as a description Of heaven.

Why this omission both In the teachlnga of the Bible In general and In the teachings of Christ in particular? Probably becauM heaven Is a reality so immeasurably exalted that human mind cannot understand It nv can human language describe A.

ALho we may well believe that the details of heavenly glory were left unexplained in order that we might eeflect upon them and think about them vastly more than If we could turp to tlie Bible and read page after page of descriptions of heavens glory.

If there is one thing of which we can be absolutely sure concerning Biblical teaching, it' is that there is a life after death, that it involves a separation of the 8ood from the evU, and to those who have loved God and obeyed Him promises of the most precious .variety are made.

There is too little of heav%n in the thoughts of modem Christianstoo little in our preaching, teaching, and writing. Heaven is real, and God wants us both to realize this and to ponder the sublime nature of such a truth.

By ELMER ROESSNER The future is not ours to sec, rtms the song. Frank H. Cassell, director of industiral relations for Inland Steel, said about the same thing in the American Management Associations magazine, Personnel."

Technological changes, the introduction of new industries, the business cycles and even the weather can make any buslneas prediction silly, he wrote. But there is one factor that is sure, he said, and all predictions must reckon with this one bit of soundness. That is the size and composition of the labor force.

WhUe population computations may be baMd 00 variables the work-foroe eatlmates are on sol- , id ground. They are based on the Immutable facts that everybody who will be employed over the next ten years has already been bom," he wrote.

80. WHAT'S AHEAD?

Any attempt to look ahead for labor maources and buoineos. trends must take these tn^ into conoideraUon. be decl 1. The 35-tb-45 age grouplfrom which a good proportion of i^igh-iy aklUed workers and

manafeement is drawn, will decrease tlu'ough the coming decade. The 25-to-35 age group wlU increase only slightly in the 60s.

2. However, 26 million young people will enter the work force in the 60b, about 40 per cent more than in the 50s. In 1965 there will be nearly 4 million people reaching 18.

3. High school enrollment will rise by nearly 50 per cent and college enrollments by 70 per cent during the decade.

4. About 70 per cent of the young people entering the labor force In the 60s wUl have completed high school. 10 per cent more than In 1960.

THE DROP-OUTS

5. Though the number of high-school graduates wUl increase greatly, 7.5 million ybungstera ^ win enter the work force without a hlgh-school diploma in the decade, and a substantial proportion wUl be non white.

6. By 1970, women will com-a third of the work force,

and oU women between

49 and sSVoom of age will be employed, 'nie shortage of men of prime/ working age may "serve to Eradicate the sex bar;

rier, Cassell otwerved.

7. In the 1960b, there wl be an incretse of 5.5 million persons to the group of workers of 45 years and old^.

8. The gape betwMn production and service workers, and between white- and blue-collar workers will grow wider during the decade. Since 1952. emirtoy-ment in the production industries has been running bellow employment In the service industries, and since- 1956, white-collar workers have outnumbered blue*KK)Uar workers.

people is another element. Each year 34 million of ub change addresses; of these, 2 mlioa are moving from rural to urban areas. This Involves a complex of changes and adjustments.

iTie Inland Steel executive has well defined the manpower basics of the next 10 yeans. CUp out these 10 p(rints and slip them under the glosa on the desk pf your chief recruiting officer. Uke the other Ten Oromand-mits. if carefuHy observed, they can keep him out of a lot of heU.

SHARPER REQUIREMENTS

9. The fastest growing occu-patloris ore the professional and technical fields, followed by managerial, clerical and soles, skilled, and service occupations. Except for the services, it is in these occupations that educational requirements are the highest and ore rising most quickly. (CasseUs generalization obscures the fact that medicine, engineering and chemical endeavorh are often In service fields, and that educational requirements ore rising os rapidly here os anywhere else.)

10. 'Die great mobility of the

INSTANT' GIMMICKS MAY LEAD TO INSTANT DEMISEI

Several savings organization I have been odvenlaing instant savings," lenders have been advertising instant nooney" and beauty shope ore begimilng to advertise instant beauty." An instant cocktaU" ia advertised in some states, although no saloon bos yet introduced on" Instant binge." Some clock* maker is. euTe to brimi out a clock with testont instants.

Dcwrt wwry. The instant bit is rapidly wearing us Oil down, and the ad agencies will soon be dropping it.

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