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Area Airport Hopes Giveii A Lift

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Another ray of hope that the elusive goal of an area airport for Eastern North Carolina may be achieved .came this week "with the indication by Administrator N. E. Halaby of the Federal Aviation Agency that he favors a regional airport for this area.

Halabys indication to Congressman Herbert Bonner is significant in view of the fact that Halaby's agency is the one which allocates federal funds for construction'of airports. It is also significant that the FAA decided early in November that it would allocate no funds for airport construction in Eastern North Carolina until after the Civil Aeronautics Board hands down a final decision on the joint petition of Greenville and Wilson for area ,air service. It means, of course, that if the CAB does rule in favor of the proposed joint air service for the two cities, they will have an opportunity to apply for some of the airport construction funds which are currently available from the federal government. This could be a major factor in facilitating construction of a joint airport facility proposed by the two cities.

For a decade now there have been almost constant efforts of various sorts to bring about a joint air facility to,serve a large part of this section of the state. The proposals have taken several forms as some communities have alternately indicated they favored such an undertaking and subsequently decided to seek air servdce on an individual basis.

Even though the present effort for joint air service in this section of the state is* on only a two-city

basis, it has progressed considerably further than previous efforts of similar nature. At least now the recommendation by the hearing examiner for air service ' to allocated on the proposed joint basis is now before the CAB for final decision. In addition to that, the * FAA has agreed to hold up further allocation of construction funds for this section of the state until a final decision is reached on whether air service will-be given the proposed joint project.

These factors, plus what appears to be a growing tendency by the CAB to favor joint air facilities for cities in the same area offer encouragement that this time the joint airport efforts in Eastern North^ Carolina maj^he successfully culminated.

Eastern North Carolina is in need of better commercial air service than it now has, and the proposed joint service for Greenville and Wilson could be a major step toward the realization of a better calibre of commercial air service for this part of North Carolina.

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TRAVEL ALL OVER Several surprising things are die-closed in the report on a survey of travel in North Carolina presented to. Governor Sanford and released for publication early thla week. The survey was made by Dr, Lewis Copeland, nationally recognized travel statistician of the University of Tennessee, for the State Advertising Division and the Travel Council of North Carolina.

Contrary to popular belief that tourism and travel benefits only the coastal and mountain resort areas, the survey shows that 60 percent of the state's total travel volume developed in 38 Piedmont countie.s between Franklin and Rutherford.

Factual evidence Is presented to support the claim that travelers directly paid into channels of trade last year $408 million. and that the total receipts .of businesses primarily serving the travel industry amounted to more than $810 million. This represented an Increase of 4.5 percent over 1959 and 167 percent over 1948, ' -

ECONOMIC AREAS - br. Copeland retains the traditional division of the state into mountain, piedmont plateau and coastal plain; but he does not adhere strictly to the commonly accepted boundaries. His approach is economic rather than . geographic. He puts 22 counties in the mountain area. 38 In the piedmont and 40 in the coastal plain. Economic and physical geography disagree in ome instance.^. For example, he puts Sampson in the piedmont area, while Moore and Richmond are placed in the coastal plain grpup.

The state is further subdivided for travel statistics into 17 economic areas, Including six Metropolitan counties buncombe. Forsyth, Guilford, Mecklenburg, Wake and Durham. The total amount spent for the various itema making up the travel budget are shown for the state as a whole and then for each of the areuand in some Instances for each county.

DISTRIBUTION A study of the distribution of travel spending will enable communities vitally intereited to determine whether or not travel promotion should be speeded up.

The 22 counties in the moun-tiin area have 12.8 percent of the state's totsl population, and 10.8 percent of the atate's total personal Income. But this area gets 14.4 percent of direct travel spending. . .

The 40 counties in the coa.',tal plane area have 32.2 percent of the population, and 28.7 pervent

of total personal income. It accounts for 26.8 percent of all direct expenditures for travel.

That leaves the 38 counties in the piedmont area, which have 5.5 percent of the population, 60.fi percent of the personal Income, and account for .58 8 percent of direct travel expenditures.

There are dozens of other breakdowns, including nunjber of facilities and amount spent for eating, lodging, automotive service and other items. The percent ratio holds fairly steady through the list.

In dollar amounts and In percent of .state total the mountains fall far below the rest of the state. But. and this is important. the percentage of travel business In the whole economy of the area Ls much higher in the mountains. The proportion of retail sale of good.s to travelers amounted to .57 2 percent of total business in the mountains, slightly more than 49 percent in the rest of the state. '

DEFINITION It is nec-jcssary. particularly in view of the showing that more than half the travel business In North Carolina develops In the 38 central counties', to define travel as used in this survey. A traveler. In purview of the Copeland survey, is anyone who goes beyond his daily routine on a trip, whether for business or pleasure. The travel miles counted do not include commuter trips to and from work, haul-. Ing kiis to and from school, or even such long daily trips as rural mail carriers make.

If these trip* were counted the industrialized piedmont area probably would move much higher up the percentage ladder. The reason the piedmont rank* io high on current rating 1* obvious, and it 1* hard to understand why business men in .that area have not more adequately capitalized on the alt-uatlon. Travel has Increased in recent year* from the east to the west and vice versa by North Carolinian*. To make that trip they must go through the middle piedmont. North Carolina 1* about halfway between the congested metropolitan area* of New York and Pennsylvania and the Florida vacation pointa a logical place for an overnight stop.

BROAD So piedmont area travel serving businesses have^m thriving trade. What the operators of these places sometimes forget is that they would have no business if there were not roads and service* for traveler* up and down the line.

Much has been said in recent weeks throughout the state of the accomplishment in Greenville and Pitt County in the raising of more than $260,000 for construction of the new James S. Ficklen memorial stadium at East Carolina College.

As President Leo W. Jenkins of ECC pointed out, it is tangible evidence of the partnership which exists between the college and the community.

In recent days at least two other tangible incidents of the partnership and cooperation which exists between the college and this community and county have also come to light.

Yesterday the students of East Carolina College, as an expression of their appreciation for the support the people of this community gave the the stadium effort, turned Out in record numbers to contribute blood when the bloodmobile made one of its Pitt County visits. The result was that the visit of the bloodmobile to the East Carolina College campus set a new record for the number of pints of blood contributed on any single visit to Pitt County.

Another example is the fact that the students, faculty and staff of the college did not sit back on their hands as the community set about the job of raising funds for the stadium. Yesterday also, there came the announcement from the college that its self-imposed quota of $25,000 in contributions for the new stadium had been realized. The amount came from faculty and staff members, students, campus organizations, and proceeds from various functions staged by the students to raise money for the stadium project.

They are examples of the kind of partnership which has exi.sted, often unnoticed, between the college and the community over a long period of years. They are examples of the kind of partnership which we believe in the future will be strengthened as the t;oIlege and the community move forw'ard together, each helping the other and itself at the same time.

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8AULT 8TE MARIE, M*ch. AP) As any young sailor of 18 then or now I was looking forward to a day of liberty in Honolulu, and the liberty boat was due alongside, any minute. ,

Suddenly an alarm we thought a routine one rang. It was a call for the ships fire and rescue party, .a procedure often practiced and designed to send aid to another ship or ashore to meet an emergency.

The scene was the battleship West Virginia; the time, 7:55 a.m.; the day, Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941; the place, Pearl Harbor.

With the alarm, the liberty party broke up. Sailors in our division were assigned to a station on the port side of the ship for this type of emergency. We were to fall in and stand by. We started topside for our deck adjacent to the waters of the

harbor.

I was about to dart out onto the open deck when the boatswains mate turned around. That wild look in his eyes told me this was warbefore he passed the word that the Japs were attacking.

In the words of an old cliche, It all happened so fast.

Members of the crew reacted In accordance wdth their training. The long hours of monotonous drilltracking airplanes, loading guns, closing water-tight doors, manning battle stations all paid off in the first minutes of the attack.

My station -was sky port, an anti-aircraft fire director on the side of the ship where the Japanese aviators were malc-ing their torpedo runs. It was necessary to climb ladders to reach this station, one of the highest on the ship.

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By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) If an outer-spacc psychiatrist had been ^ watching earth people these past 20 years, he might conclude; Get them a doctor; they look disturbed.

Thursday 20 years after Pearl Harbor, earth people who were in a dreadful mc.ss then are in an awful mess now. although now theyre not shooting at each other except for here and there. But theyre prepared to shoot, and they tell each other to.

Theres no solution In sight. As President Kennedy said when he took office, there may be none in our lifetime.

In these 20 years the most overwhelming lesson earth people have learned is how to kill themselves quicker and easier. Theyve graduated from TNT bombs to nuclear ones, from hitting a railroad center to wiping out cities.

Only an outer-space man. with an upside-down look at the earth, could appreciate how down-side up it is.

Old friends have become new enemies. Old enemies are new friends. Capitalism and commu-nlam, which had no trouble teaming up to wipe opt fascusm.

it. They dont permit the people free election.s or, for that matter, anything to say about their government.

The United States, ^hlch prides ILself on its free cnter-prLse system, practices it only in a limited way and it isnt entirely free at all.

The government has to ball out the farmers with price supports, helps various enterprises with subsidies, put* up tariff wall* because it dreads outside competition and puts all kinds of restrictions on business.

And thl* country, where every 4th of July orators pay homage to the Declaration of Independence which says all men are equal, had slavery for almost half Its existence and still discriminates against people. and segregates them, because of' race.

Earth people, seen in a 20-year backward look, felt at the time that In defeating Hitlers Axis that they were cleansing the world, giving it a new and Innocent birth.

But, a* events showed, they only cleared the decks for a longer and perhaps more deadly struggle between the West and communism.

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now, when theres no one el^>.^ommunlsm was limited to

- to fight, cant bear each otheKii bout 140 million, almost all

Half the history of mankind was spent in learning how to get out of caves and live in the open. Now mankind is building new caves, called bomb shelters, in his backyard. Just In case.

Russia, which proclaims its communism, isnt Communist at all and'probably never will be. Communism mean^ giving to each according to his needs. In Russia theres a caste system, with the elite living highest off the hog.

The Soviets, who call themselves a peoples democracy, dont practice U and dont want

within the Russian frontiers. Today, although Vice President-Lyndon B. Johuson says thl* country is winning the cold war, there are one billion people, one-third the earths population, living under communism.

This struggle between capitalism and communism began before their joint war against fascism wa* over when Stalin armies took and held the satellite nations in Europe.

Within five years of the wars endby 1950the West had set up a new military alliance, the

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A recent conference in Louisville on the' educational needs and goal* of the South resulted in the formation of a challenge aimed at the South in the form of a far-reaching program of Improving higher education or watching the rest of the country go by In the parade of progress.

Whether the South will rise to the challenge is something that will be learned In. the next few critical year* in the area of higher education. The challenge was contained in a com-prehenaivc report from the Commission on Goals for Higher Education in the South set up by the Southern Regional Education Board, a 16-state organization meeting in Louisville.

The South must try to attain the goals set forth if It is to ' grow and keep abreast of the rest of the nation. The South cant afford not to. Gov. Sanford has hailed this reportand its challengeas a guide for action. Survival in the future depends on education In the present. The goal* of the report speak well of the common hopes that southerners have with all Americans. It is clear, too. that our survival in the world demands a redoubling of effort in education.

Steps must be taken for fostering widespread discussion of the report, and to direct the resource* of institution* in the states, and the South as a w'hole, to'attain the goals outlined. A*

for North Carolinas part, the report will be turned over to a commission on Education Beyond the High School.

The Louisville conference report calls for boosting college enrollment in the South to 1.7 million students and putting $2 9 billion annually into the higher education system by 1970. The expenditure now is $1.1 billion a year for 883,000 students.

The report proposes a partnership of southern higher education, business, industry and government to promote the growth of professional and technical manpower, to provide the research necessary for full development of resources and speed the economic progress of the region.

Unless the South make this effort to cultivate its intellertual resources it must abandon hope of directing its own economic destiny. Economically the South can be one of the most productive areas In the world today. Even now the areas artists are adding new laurel* to American literature, music and art. The same leadership can apply in industry as well.

Operation of colleges on a year-round basis 1* getting ^ to be a virtual necessity. The report by the educational conference recognize* this need. Classes could be conducted a minimum of 45 week* a year. Development of a strong junior college system Is recommended to provide educational opportunity for those financially unable to leave home for school.

hit. It Is difficult to describe how a torpedo shakes a battleship when It hits. It knocks a person off his feet and throws a column of oil and water up over the top of the ship. One hit when I reached the director platform on the star-board side. I went skidding across the deck on my bottom and Into a steel shield.

Looking up from the deck, I saw high-level bombers overhead. They were making the bomb runs that gave them so many centerline hit* on the sitting ducks below.

One bomb passed no more than 20 feet, it seemed, from by battle station. But to this clay, I cant remember it hitting although It killed the captain.

TluKlships damage knocked out the/power and our fire control difwtor was useless. We were ordered to the anti-aircraft gun-deck, but our four guns were out of commission because of damage on the port side.

The order to abandon ship came shortly after. Mo;?t of us went to the starboard side, which was adjacent to the battleship Tennessee. We scrambled down to the armor belt, and then Into the water for the short swim to Ford Island.

The starboard side of the deck was a strange sight. Most of the men had removed their

By GEORGE E*> SOKOLSKT Copyright, 1961. King Features Syndicate, Inc.^^

Fidel Castro has now made it clear beyond a doubt that he U a Marxist-Leninist, that Is, a Com-, munist of the breed of Soviet Russia. He says that he has been one of them for some 'time. Therefore, the defwlders of Castro, a* not being a Communist, are either ignorant or untruthful.

Castro said:

I am a Marxist-Leninist and will be one until the day I die.

Thus we have his own statement of the case and the apologetics of Herbert Matthews of The New York Times proves to be false. Castros confession also establishes beyond doubt that' those officials of the State Department who are responsible for defending Castro and helping to put him in power were in error and that they ought to be dismissed summarily.

The significance of Castros admission is not so much that he is a Communist which all informed persons knew to be so and to which Ambassadors Arthur Gardner and Earl E. T. Smith witnessed. It* significance and importance lie in the inadequate policy-forming in the State Department and the White HOuae which is in too great a measure dependent upon the CIA which is supposed to supply correct and adequate information and never has.

Castros admission that he is a Marxist-Leninist puts an end to the falsehoods which are being spread by various committees and organizations in favor of what is called a free Cuba. It raises again the question of the reestablishment of the Monroe Doctrine as a fundamental principle of American policy. If we are to intervene, as we arc iiow doing In the Dominican Repub-; lie, let us, at any rate, irBRrene on the right side for a change.

American intervention in European. African, Asiatic and Latin American affairs during the recent decades has been based " on the supposition that we are opposed to dictatorships but that we must tolerate dictatorships if they are Communistic because we are opposed to any form of Conservatism and favor every form' of democracy even if what is called democracy is the dictatorship of the proletariat as devised by Marx and Lenin. Thus in China, the United States intervened in favor of the Communist regime of Mao Tze-tung and against the pro-American regime of CJhlang Kai-shek. Thus, in Korea, we prevented General Douglas MacArthur from putting an end to a Communist regime. Thus in French Indochina, we made it possible for Ho Chih-mlnh to establish a Communist state. Thus, we failed to resist the Soviet effort to establish Communist states out of the defeated powers of World War II, which we believed that we wer/ rescuing from Nazi Imperialism only to turn them over to Soviet imperialism.

Castros confession warrants a reorganization of American policy personnel and a revision of

shoes, and there the shoes were.^, . , neatly lined up for a consldef--^ American policy throughout the able distance toward the bow world. When a policy proves to

of the West Virginia.

Once ashore, a boatswain formed a small boat crew to evacuate some woimded men out of one of our 16-inch gun turrets. I was ordered aboard, and we rounded the bow of the burning ship from the heat of a bomb* hit on the turret. They were carried out of the turret, brought to the side of the ship which had settled to the bottom of the harbor by now. and were handed over to us. We covered them with canvas and took them to one of the fleet landing areas. '

About this time, the battleship Nevada was trying to get out of the harbor and the Japanese dive bombers had her under attack. She was beached before she reached the harbor entrance.

After the attack, many of-us wandered around Ford Island, in the center of the harbor. Toward evening, we were ordered to the Tennessee to reinforce her gun crews. I wa* assigned to a gun on which the paint was burned off the barrel because of the number of rounds fired that morning.

Pearl Harbor was a gloomy, eerie place that night. Smoke filled the air a* ships and oil burned. Trigger-happy describir (Continued on Page 8)

be a failure, it need not be sustained by reactionary bigotry. Our Cuban policy has proved to be a failure and we ought to be ready to revise it.

Prior to the cancellation of the Monroe Doctrine, it was American policy that we did not intervene in thq affairs of other countries, but that we also would not tolerate intervention by other countries when such intervention affected our right. Not only was the Monroe Doctrine enunciated to this end. but the Open Door Policy regarding China was a similar statement of principle. Both were based on the fundamental concbpt of American foreign policy as enunciated by President George Washington in his Farew'ell Address 'This doctrine advocated the avoidknce of interventlo'n in the interest of .'safeguarding American integrity.

In a word, this policy of nonintervention and resistance to intervention by Others. on the American doctrine until Woodrow Wilson brortghf this country into World War I- Franklin. D. Roosevelt chose to follow Woodrow Wilson rather than George Washington and intervened not only in European affairs but assumed the role of world leadership for which this country was (Continued on Page 8)

StamD Companies Are Worriec.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOLGLAN^

THE BIBLE 8AY8 THANKS

Oivf thanks unto the Lord; for h la good: for hl.s mercy endureth for ever. . .We thank thee, 0 God. and praise thy glorious name. . .Give thanks at the remembrance of Gods holiness. . I will give * thee thank* in the great congregation. C .It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and ta alng praise* in thy name. 0 Most High. . .At midnight I will Irise to give thanks unto the Lord. . Surely the righteous give thanks unto thy name; the upright hall dwell in thy presence. . .

Hf took the stveo loaves and gave thank*. . .He took the cup and gave thanks. . .1 thank God upon every remenibi ance of you ., * .In everything give thank*

. . .Let us enter his gate with thanksgiving. . With thanksgiv* ing let yoiir request* be made -known unto God*. .1 will magnify God with thanksgiving.

I thank my God through Jesus Christ that your faith is spoken of throughout the world . . .Let the peace of God rule in your heojUs and be ve thankful. . .Blessing and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honor, and power and might, be unt God for ever and ever, . . The Spirit and the bride aay. Come. And let him that heareth say. Come. And let him that is athirst come. Whosoever will, let him take the water of life 'freely.

Thank* be unto God for Hii unspeakable gift. . .Thanks be

unto (0(1 which giveth us the vieiory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Cash register tape-appliance plans are creating turmoil in both the appliance and supermarket fields and are spreading faster than they were last month. Tradlng-stamp companies are swirling in worry and at lea.t one of them la getting into the act.

Those on the outside are demanding Federal Trade Commission and Better BusSPs Bureau investigations; major appliance dealers are in an uproar, and there is probably not a aupermarket atore or chain in America whose top brass is not, at thl* very moment, wondering whether to buck or Join the tape plan*.

The plans are simple. A supermarket customer select* an appliance from a co-operating appliance dealer, often from models displayed in the supermarket, and sign* an Instalment contract, often with no down payment. Each month the aupermarket pays part of the In-MalmeiU. dependuig on the customers total in cssh register tapes.

COSTS OF PLAN

Io one typical plan, the su

permarket gives credit amounting to 5i per cent of a custom-frs purchases, with credit limited to $10 a month. Thu.i if a customer buys $182 worth of groceries a month.*.she gets $10 in credit, which would pay for a $240 appliance in two years.

Trading stamp plans cost a typical store about 2 per cent of sales. Tape plans are said to cost no morc.'.flrst. because the market gets a discount or a sales commission on the appliance and. .second, because not all customers save tapes.

Tapes are not transferrable as stamps are. In most plaps customers are given plates which arc imprinted on their tapes.

Promoters of tape plans say their great advantage is that they tie the custoomer to the market. There has been a growing tendency in these days of ijRlng prices for hou'ewives to shop around,, visiting several markets to buy. specials. But the tape plan capture.^ the customer and the rise in sales is said to offset much of the.casts of the tape plan.

CONFLICT WITH STAMP.S

Most store* wiUi tape plan*

do not give stamps to tape-aavers, although a few do.

In Grand Rapids, Wurzburgs department store, which Is almost wholly owned by Sperry & Hutchinson, the green trailing stamp giant, and six appliance dealers are supplying appliances for a tape plan by the 19-supermarket Eberhard chain. The chain will continue to give S & H stamps, with double stamps on Wednesday, tO all customers.

In several clllerf; Btter Business Bureaus are looking into tape plans and the Pittsburgh, Pa., BBB warned shoppers to check appliance prices carefully because in many cases appliances were being offered in supermarkets at prices substantially higher than regular retail going prices.

WANT FTC PROBE

Some small food retailers and appliance dealers have been asking for a Federal Trade Commission investigation. They have raised the pointa that the us* of unrealistic list prices is against FTC rules, and that Ue-ups between appliance distributors and food chains that bar

other appliance dealers and other chains In the area are combinations in restraint of trade.

Among the name appliance* being offered in various plans are Philco, Kelvinator. Emer-on, Norge, Bylvanla and Admiral. Some of the plans have been sponsored by dealers over which the manufacturers have no control.

Earl Llfshey, Home Fur-. nlsfiings Dally columnist, credit Joe Lydon, former director of sales training for PhUco, with devlMng the tape plan. And since Ford is taking over Philco, a Pittsburgh market advertised, Theres a Philco in your future and were sure you can af-FORD it.

SHORT ft SIGNIFICANT BUSINESS BULLETINS Department stone gales in the first 11 months of the year ware 2 per cent above the same 1980 period, the Federal Reserve reports. . .The Boston district led with a 5 per cent rise ... A list of 2.8S7 email -firms intereited in performing research and de- velopment work can be inspected at all Small Bugines* Administration offices. , .