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Wednesday, December 13, 1961

Important To All Of Eastern .C.

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Announcement that a huge industrial plant will for goods and services, be constracted on a portion of the Elizabeth City ^ tangible asset which comes with a new Kaval Air Facility further emphasizes the appeal major industry of this sort is the fact that its location Eastern North Carolina has for some industrial firms may prompt other large and small industries to give

more seriout. consideration to the advantages the par-

seeking locations for new plants.

The new electronics industry, which is expected eventually to employ some 1,600 people, will be an important stimulant to the economy of the Albemarle region of North Carolina. Even the initial employment estimated at some 300 persons will have an important, economic impact on the area.

ticuiar area might offer their operations. Attention is attracted to the area by the location of such a facility and other manufacturers 'mfty see new advantages in the area which they have previously overlooked.

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. When one considers the economic aspects of such an industrial installation, however, consideration must be given to factors other than the immediate plant and its employment. It is not unlikely that the location of this important industry in the Elizabeth City area will attract other plants and facilities which will do business with the major installation. The expected $6 million annual payroll of the new plant will bring about the creation of other new jobs in the area as the new money in circulation increases the demand

Obviously the location of this large new industrial operation will be of greatest benefit to the area immediately around it. To a lesser extent, however, benefits will be felt throughout this section of the state as another important new feather dons Eastern Carolina's cap of industrial development efforts. The new facility is important to Eastern Carolina as a whole just as the location of an industry in any other part of this section is important to the entire section.

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Sales Tax Labe.

By LYNN NI8BET

8ALE8 TAX Governor Sanford and other admlniatratlon leaders have taken umbrage at reports that sales people in grocery atorea are calling attention to the sales tax collected on all purchases Including food by referring to the amount collected as pennies for Terry." Of course. Governor Sanford does not get that money, although the additional food tax was levied at his insistence. It Is common practice to use personal names to symbolize a Stats Or a nation. The old symbol of Uncle Sam for the United States was replaced by FDR and now JFK. The Union of Soviet Social Republics is almost nnlveraally identified with Khrushchev. Although the grocers are peeved with the tax, there is nothing personal in the facetious reference to pennies for Terry.

As for keeping the tax separate from the sales price of the merchandisethat Ls required by law. The tax must be stated separately. When the tax was, first levied in 1933 it was argued this step would make the tax-<^ payer conscious of his contribu-' tlon to government, whereas much greater amounts of taxes were hidden in the total price. There is another, and perhaps more influential, reason why the super markets should Insist upon separating the tax from the other money collected. Most of the atores give trade stamps, and certainly they would not give stamps for the amount of tax collected.

During the first five months of the current fiscal year the sales and use tax receipts were up $14 million over the same period last year. Most of thus was due to the extension of the tax on base food.*;, but it included also higher taxes on automobile, new taxes on newspapers and 'several other items.

NOT NEW The grips on part of salespeople for having to collect taxes is not new. Long before the general retail sales tax was levied, when the gasoline road tax was relatively new, your reporter saw crudely lettered sign at the base of an old-fashioned hand-crank gas pump near Hendersonville. The exact figure# have been forgotten. not the Intent end style of the algn. It read something like this: Price of Gas today: Standard Oil Company. 14 cenus: Calvin Coolldge; 1 cent: Cam Morrison. 3 cents; me, 7 cents; total 25 cent#.

It i interesting to note the amount which Standard Oil and me got more than 30 years ago hasn't changed much The Federal tax has gone up from one cent to four cents, and the State tax from three cents to eevenplus a quarter-cent inspection fee. .

FEES Interest, has been focused lately on the system of special fees charged public

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Christmas Baskets A Part Of The Season

Approach of the Christmas season should brinjr to mind not only plans ,for gifts for the family and close friends, but likewise tjioughta of citizens of the community whose Christmas gifts will depend upon the compassion of their more fortunate neighbors.

school pupils, especially in high schools, for various services, many of which the public had thought went along with the a c b 0 ol' operation. Apparently there Is no accurate total record of what these fees amount to during a school year, and in many cases very Inadequate records as to Individual schools. Certainly the statement attributed to an attache of the Department of Public Instruction the other day that the total amount was probably $40 million a year Is utterly absurd. Th | would be about $38 apiece for ev^ry pupil enrolledfrom the first grade up.

Someone explained that the $40 million estimate included school lunchroom receipts. School lunchrooms have become big business, and there is growing resentment on part of some commercial operators for alleged unfair competition, but certainly it Is ridiculous to class the price paid for purchase of a meal with a fee paid for classroom material.

FRINGES The old designation of free public schools no longer applies. Of cour.5e the schools were never free, because always somebody had to pay the bill. But the payments were indirect and for many of the pupils and the parents the schooling was to all intents and pi*ur-poses free. Not aiiy n;ore. Now every pupil and parent is conscious of the cost.

Most people will agree that is how It sho.uld be. The public discussion over the sales tax on food to finance the school program made many citizens more conscloos than ever before of the coat of schools. The numerous bond elections throughout the state by which counties levied taxes to supplement State funds for operation, as well as to provide building, emphaszed the coat and brought recognition of its impact closer home.

These recurring bond elections havt led to more thorough study of needs, a clearer distinction between frlUs and fundamentals. The interest focused now on the fee system may have a similar gratifying result with respect to careful analysis of the fringe benefits. In the past parents have paid the fees charged and taken them in stride. The pyramiding effect of taxes and fees and the increasing costs of other essentials such as clothing have influenced the parents to double check some of the Items.

Papa and mama atill want Johnny and Mary to have the best possible schooling, including some of the fringes. But papa and mama are not accepting an unquest toning ly as they once did all of the suggestions for quality education." With reaped to some Itcmi, both in the tax and non-tax categories, they are demanding proof of valuebefore authorizing apend-Ing.

In Pitt and most othr counties, providing Christmas baskets for needy families has become a part of the Christmas season. The Welfare Department, the 'Salvation Army and other agencies already have compiled the names of many families and information on these-families which need help at Christmas time.

Many organizations and individuals already have come forward volunteering to provide food baskets, fuel and gifts for these families, but there are still others who are awaiting a helping hand from one of their fellow citizens.

The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of brother- bome Jraiin

hood, love and giving. There is no finer way to express these at this season of the year than by assisting a needy family.

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By JAMES MARLQW

WASHINGTON AP)-There only one unknowm remaining about President Kennedy* interview laat month with a Soviet newaman.

full treatment In return, in Russia. by giving # Soviet newsman an interview.

What effect, If any. did It have on the Russian people or, rather, the Russian people who read it?

The interview was arranged at the request of the White House end Khrushchev's son-in-law, Alexei Adzhubel, editor If Izves-tia, did the questioning. The result wasnt quite the same as American Interviews with Khrushchev.

Theres no doubt about the effect on the Soviet leadership, which would have been predictable anyway, since Kennedy pic--tured a peaceful America confronted with a trouble-making Russia.

The Americans simply asked questions and let him do the talking.

The leadership, through its controlled pres.s, ripped Kennedys views apart. The intervew was printed in full m Izvestia, the Russian government newspaper.

- Adzhudbei also asked questions but he sandwiched them in between long speeches giving Soviet views on problems Kennedy discussed.

Peace on Earth. Goodwill To-w'ard Men rings out over the* Christian world at this time of year, but the merchant among us often has his faith in mankind shaken.

If this seems to be a doubtful statement during the busiest commercial season, one might remember that the stores are sitting ducks for that strangest of all thieves, the shop lifter.

Nobody knows how much merchandise Is taken out of stores simply by patrons picking it up and walking out. However, it is a considerable item in any stores operation. Consequently, store managers, employees and police are all on the look out for shop lifting.

Occasionally one Is caught, but obviously more than not. they get away.

Thus it was. in a local drug store one day this week. A customer purchased some drugs and was directed to the cashier. The customer saw no one was watching so she just kept going and the clerks never realized it.

If that were that, how could this story ever be told?

Theres still such a thing as conscience. This patron had one and what she had done bother

ed her. Finally she wrote a

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took pen in hand note (we Identify the writer as a woman because the hand writing appears feminine)

Saturday afternoon, I bought $6.10 in medicines in your store. But when I went to the cash register to pay, I realized that I did not have enough cash with me. Besides, there was nobody at the cash register and I was in a hurry. So I left the store.

With my apologies, please find enclosed the $6.10 I owe to your store.

The store manager said the cash amount was attached to the note.

The manager, who did not want to be identified, described such occurances as rare. But it restores a little bit of your faith in people when it happens.

and raincoat.

'At the office. X cleaned up as best I could but in the process something occurred to me. My shoes didn't match. So back home I went, changed shoes and trousers, delivered the pants to the cleaners and returned to the office.

, The remainder of the day was uneventful but as evening fell, I parked my car on the street. Just as I was entering the house, I heard a crash. Someone had backed Into my car.

Luckily the damage was minor.

Fifteen minutes later I had stopped for a red light Another crash! The car behind me had slammed into the mumper. No damage. . "

Oh well, everybody has such daysit says here.

Some days it just doesnt pay to get up department. . .Your columnist had one yesterday.

Like everybody else I arose to a wet, dreary morning. Finally, however, I trudged off to work through the drizzle. A car sped by and a liberal amount of mud splashed on my trousers

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But Izvestia. in a country of 220 million people, has a circulation estimated at i to 5 million.

Thus, while Kennedy got into Izvestia in full, he didnt dominate the scene as Khrushchev did in his question-and-answer sessions. The President had to share space in Izvestia with Ad-zhubei.

Other Editors Saying... The Common Market

One of the moat authorities In the fall says it is better not to rake leaves in the fall. The authority most quoted last spring said spring. Valley News, Elizabethtown, N.Y.

If the Kennedy interview made a good impression on aome of them, the leadership ha# sought to offset it. Even if the Impres-.sioa on all who read it was ex-cellent, there isnt much they can do or say.

Maybe one result will be to make Khrushchev a little less willing to give Americans interviews If he feels hell be expected to have Soviet newsmen talk with Kennedy and then print the results in full.

Since Kennedys views are not 'going to appear at much length very often when they are critical of Russia, this interview can hardly be considered of much impact in the long run.

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Even if the final score shows no hit, no runs and no errors If nothing was won and nothing lastthe interview was at least on both sides one more effort in their long-winded propaganda war.

Great as our need is today for timber, water, meat and minerals, the need will be far greater tomorrow, for the Jobs as well as the resources themselves. We can get ready for that only by continuous development, conservation and search.-Lakevlew (Ore.)_ Lake County Examiner.

Kennedy could consider it an achlevemeni that hLs view thase he found time to express in the Interviewwere printed in full in the Soviet pres*.

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At the same time the Russian government gave itself a chance to say its press isnt entirely closed to the outside. As a matter of fact Russia would have been in an embarrassing spot if it hadnt printed the whole interview.

Three times this year Premier Khrushchev got his vlewa across in great length to people in this country by giving intervl*ws to American newsmen who journeyed to Russia to see him.

(Winston-Salem Journal)

Senator B. Everett Jordan was simply facing up to a real nes-slbllity when he said the q^er day that the entrance ofr.JBng-land into the European Common Market would be a serious blow to the American tobacco industry. As the leading tobacco producing state- North Carolina would natuially feel th heaviest Impact of that blow.

As Senator Jordan pointec) out, if England becomes a member of the Common Market, other British Commonwealth countries, Including Rhodesia and Canada, probably will come into that market with her. These countries are already fairly large producers of tobacco and are steadily increasing their production and endeavoring to improve the quality of their leaf. As Common Market members they could ship their leaf into that market with little if any tariff restrictions upon it, and thereby gain a great trade advantage over American flue-dured and burley leaf. The present quality advantage in American tobaccos favor probably would soon be overcome.

The only immediate answer to this problem, In the opinion of George V. Allen, president of the Tobacco Institute, lies in working out lower tariff agrees ments with the Common Market to enable American tobacco to

remain competitive in that market. But Mr. Allen believes that this is only a first step toward what must be the ultimate solution for the trade and economic problems_ which the Common Market pKxses for the United States. That ultimate solution, he said, must be the broadening of the Common Market program to include the United States and Canada, thereby creating a North Atlantic Community. This would form the worlds greatest free trade or low-tariff trading area,

This idea is opposed by those who fear that close American panlcipatlon in the Common Market would adversely affect our trade relations with other areas of the world and possibly create new labor problems in the United States. But a North Atlantic Community plan would not bar re'asonable triule agreements with countries outside the

Vi is ^uite clear that the Eu-ro^an C<immoD Marketa dy-^iiamic new force in world trade and economicsis here to stay. As Mr. Allen points out. failure to deal with this new force realistically could be tragic, both in the economic and political sense. President Kennedy apparently sees the problem whole and is endeavoring to deal with it in a practical and realistic way.

Observation brought on by a trip out of town: It took the early settlers several months to cross the countryand if traffic becomes any denser that will still be pretty good time. Greenville (S.C.) Piedmont.

A pretty good example of labor union monopoly hs^s turned up In New York City. There, all the milk drivers and inside workers in all plants . . . struck over a wage increase and arrangements about overtime. Almost overnight, milk became as scare in New York as black ink in the Federal budget.Petaluma (Calif. > Argus-Courler.

Your Postmaster says: Be sure your Christmas cards and packages arrive on time; please shop and maO early.

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY Copyright, 1961, King Features Syndl(jate, Inc. .

What President Kennedy said to the football dinner was not merely that we watched rather than played games, hiut that w 17 had become a passive, people.

We spend hours each day listen^ ing to radio or watching television, but we no longer gather about a piano singing songs or doing a duet or quartette. We watch commentators discuss every subject under the sun, but we do not sit around a pou bellied stove or a cracker-bar-rel arguing pro and con.

It is not surprising that President Kennedy raises the issue because he is literate in history and knows that the ancient countries devoted themselves to sports not only to provide exercise for youth but to unift th nation. Will Durant, in his study of Ancient Greece, makes th point:

Religion faUed to unify Greece, but athletlcs^periodi-oally succeeded. Men went to Olympia, Delphi, Corinth, and Nemea not so much to honor the gods for these could be honored anywhere as to witness the heroic contests of chosen athletes, and the ecumenical assemblage of varied Greeks. Further he says:

Here under the rubric of athletics we find the real religion of the Greeks the worship - of health, beauty, and strength. To be in health, said Simonides, is the best thing for man: the next best, to be of form and nature beautiful; the third, to enjoy wealth gotten without fraud: and the fourth to b In youths bloom among friends. There Is no greater glory for a man as long as ha lives,* said the Odjssey, than that which he wins by his own hands and feet.

The entire nation participated in sports and those who were wiot. acimitted into the sports wer either aliens or slaves or persons whose bodies were damaged by flaws. Durant makes the point:

"The sixth century saw th peak of the splendor and popularity of athletics in Greece.

In 582 the Amphictyonlc Leagu established the Fythian games in honor of Apollo at Delphi; in the same year the Isthmian games were instituted at Corinth in honor of Poseidon; six.^ years later the Nemean games were inaugurated to celebrate the Nemean Zeus; and all three occasions became PanhelJenlc festivals. Together with ^ th Olympic games they formed a periodos, or cycle, and th great ambition of a Greek athlete was to win the crown at all of them.

When the games fell into th hands of specialists and the pop- * quoted - ulace sat and watched the spe-season clalists, the physical superiority of the Greek dL;appeared.

But this phjsical superiority was closely associated with * mentel superiority; athletics was associated with music, th dance with art. As long as there was a uniform concept of th wholesome body and the wholesome mind, the entire nation was absorbed in the development of personality.

When the Greeks gave up sports and sat about watching what others did, their entire social life was altered. In time the nation became weak.

President Kennedy makes an interesting point when he emphasizes the need for activity rather than observation, for participation rather than passive notice. To watch a foot-ball game and shout under the spell of a cheer-leader is not partid- -paUon in sport. It is sitting on ones seat and growing fat; it Is filling ones gizzard with popcorn and frankfurters. One might as well go to a motion plctur theater and watch. Does on ride a horse or merely look at a horse? Does one think for himself or only remember what some commentator has to say on a subject? Does one build a strong life or merely pass from one thing to another? Are games exciting moments in the lives of small boys or are they mere spectacles controlled by business men and calculated lia terms of money receipts?

The President has raised an in^ teresting issue and perhaps he owes the thought to his father who encouraged the Kennedy children to argue over every (Continued on Page 7)

This gave the lively Kennedy a good opening to look for the

U$e Chri$tmas Seals

!Bumper Crops In The Free World.

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By EABL L. DOUGLASS

SPEAKING OF FRONTIERS

For thousands of years, matters of imponte'nce were inscribed on rolls of Vellum or parchment. It takes two hands to handle such s roll. During all these centuries it never seemed to dawn upon anyone that it might be convenient to cut these rolls into what we now call pages and bind them together into a- codex, or book.

The Romans used single type to initial clothing and writers from the Roman day through medieval times used single decorative type at the beginnlnc of what we call chapters. Yet it was not until Gutenberg in the middle of the 15ih century invented whst we have come to call a printing prM that anyone thought of putting ilngle type together and getting a line of type.

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We are probably going on at the present time doing certain things in the most awkward and difficult way possible while all the time new and transforming Invenllons are staring us out of, countenance. Someday someone will stumble upon a new method or a new gadget and a whole new age may begin. Edison stumbled upon some of his most prtoelets inventions. Dr. Fleming left a saucer containing some liquid l3dng on an upper shelf. It developed mould, and from this came the discovery at penlcllliA.

Bring up your children with the reallastlon that untold mil-lioos of opportunHite for usefulness, happiness, and achievement are beckoning them for the horizon. There are more frontiers to be crossed In ^ the future than we have ever crossed In the past.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Thj free world is producing a series of bumper crops this year, according to intelligence gathered by the U. S. Foreign Agricultural Service.* Among major crops, only grains lag.

Figures from Russia and China are not available but reporta from other sources sty that Khrushchev . is dissatisfied with Soviet grain production, and that hunger is widespread in Red China.

The free worlds prodWtion of soybeans is estimated by the Foreign Agricultural Service fo be 1-1 billion bushels, bv far the largest crop ever produced. Not many years ago soybeans were little known outside the Orient. Now the . 8. exports them to Japan. A* ,

Milk produc!tfon.'il}e FAS aaid. will be 1 per cent hlghef . this year in,the 34 countries which produce about 85 per cent of the worlds supply. World cheese production in the first seven months of the year was 7 per cent above the same period in I960.

MORE COTTON, WOOL The worlds cotton crop for the l%l-62 season is expected to set a new record for the fourth consecutive year. Cottonseed production in the season begun August 1, 1961, is slightly above the high mark of the previous year and one-fourth above the 1950-54 average.

World production of raw wool in the 1961-62 season is estimated at 1 per cent above the previous clip and 23 per cent above the 1951-55 average.

A record number of hogs far^ rowed this year will make pork abundant In the free world. Slaughter in 33 nations, including Czechoslovakia. East Germany. Hungary and Poland, but not Rusala or China, is expected to be S per cent above 1961 and 23 per cent above the 1951-

55. average.

The world raUln crop this year is not quit as large as the bumper 1959 pack, but is 14 per cent above the 1954-58 average.

The 1961-62 cocoa bean crop is lightly below the 1969^ crop.

which set a new record.

MORE PEANUTS THAN EVER

The world peanut crop is another buster. Production in 1961 is estimated at 5 per cent larger than in 1960 and 2 per cent above the record set in 1958.

Jute production is close to the record set in 1940, and 39 per cent larger than the 1960 production.

The important grain crops showed declines, but production was still high. The 1961-62 corn crop will be slightly below- the 196941 crop. The 1961 barley crop is below the 1960 mark and the oat crop is 11 per cent below the 1960 harvest.

The world 1961-62 rice crop, exclusive of communist areas, is forecast 2 per cent under the 196041 crop, largely due to unfavorable weather at harvest tlm in Southeast Asia. Despite the 2 per cent dn^, the rice harvest may be the third largest in histoiT.

World production of sugar in the 1961-62 season will be about 15 per cent below a

Reports from ROaaia-indicate'

new high in beet sugar production, which means that the Soviets will need less from Cuba.

UNIONS WIN VICTORY

RAILWAY

Striking unions have won. a smashing victory over the Rutland Railway, running from Bennington, Vermont, to Og-densburg. N. Y. The railroad' has petitioned the government to abandon all of its track except that used by other railroads and to go out of busl-neas.

IMPORTS

URGES MORE FROM JAPAN

More rather than jess Imports from Japan would be good bu^ for the United States, imtes Stewart Rewoldt. of th Uniyeraity of Michigan School of Business Administration in "Bus-1^ Review. After a year of iProfessor Re-woJilt said that an eoooomically atronger Japan.would be a beU ter customer for American pro*