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Up To Boards Of Six Counties

It if up to iht County Boards of Commissioners approve the new organization, it can become |in .of Pitt and five other counties of this section to take effective instrument in aiding\the economic develop-the next step in effecting an area development ment of the entire area. '

* group which will be able to work for improvement The Boards of Commissioners should approve

of the section as a whole. the proposal as recommended in order that the

For some months now representatives of the organization can begin its operations no later than ix countos have been working on organizational July, the beginning of the new fiscal year for plans for such an area development group, and this county governments.

'week they completed their plan of organization. The devious efforts in this part of the state to

representatives recommended adoption of the plan organize similar groups have been unsuccessful. For iby the Boards of Commissioners of the six counties, one reason or another tha-offorts sputtered and died 'and asked each to appoint three members from their before any lasting organiaation was effected. With county to membership of the area organization. the support of the County Commissioners of each The Coastal Plain Planning and Development of the six counties, and withthe organization which Commissionthe name selected for the new body has been proposed, the new group offers important will fill an important gap that has existed in develop- pew advantages to the area as it seeks to improve 'ment efforts in this section. While most counties economy.

and many communities have their own organiza- If is undertaking which deser\'es the full tions devoted to economic development, there is a support of each of the six counties involved, need for greater coordination of area efforts in dealing with problems common to the area as a whole. If the Boards of Commissioners of Pitt,

Wilson, Martin, Beaufort, Edgecombe and Nash

Amerilcanslds Gatting Very Treeky

!3oat AndTrave'. Show Amazes

Punta Del Este Shows 1 Partners Want Voice

By LYNN NISBET

EXPOSITION - The Sportsmens B(mt and Travel Show of the Carolinas is attracting large crowds to the Chariotte coliseum. Many of the \vlsitors have expressed amaaen^t at the exhibits of equipment and attractkm.

The sbofw was formally opened Tuesday night by Governor Terry Sanford who took oecss-l(m to welcome the joint participation of South Carolina. The Governor commended Uw activities d prl\iUe enterprise in sponsoring travel proinouon to the point tt is the third largest Industry in this state. He sug gested that by working togeth er the two Caruilnas and neighboring states could attract many more visitors to this part of the souUmst.

Oistanding among the exhlh its was the mobile information unit of the N.C. SUtc advertising di\ision, loaded with literature about the state and manned by the attractive young ladies from the advertising division staff. The literature was so much in demand it required almost full time work of an assistant to keep the racks and shelves supplied. The mobile unit being hauled as a trailer by a pick-up truck had an eventful trtp from Raleigh to Charlotte Sunday afternoon. Battling a six-inch snow between Asfaeboro and CcHicord the trailer slipped off the road hito the ditch. Damages were aixnit four boors time lost and some fras-zled nerves on part of the men who were handling the unit.

Before the formal opening of the show Governor Sanford posed for pictures in the door of the information unit and In or in fnmt of nch d the Individual resort exhibits from North Carolina.

SOUTH CAROLINA Although this is a boat and vacation travel show, the exhibit of the State of South CaroUna is an industrial promotion item. Emphasis on panels in the rwvolving wall display is on the availai^iity of good industrial plant sites. Some of the Tbriieel rivals were amused at one panel which proclaimed that S(nith Carolina is the *ex8ITKme&t state." All the letters in that sign are purple except S-I-T-E which are white. What the North Carolinians smiled about was the ex before the SITE. They wonder if that means good sites In South Carolina are things of the past.

BOATS The display of boats and boating equipment empha-aiees the tremendous development of interest in water based recreation during the past few years. Until fairly recent times boats were'associated with the coast, the ocean and sounds and maybe some low country rivers. That is all changed now. Man-made lakes

and reservoirs upstate provide still waters for boating and allied sports. Once the turbulent swift flow of mountain streams permitted only canoes and very small hand-manipulated craft. Now the Little Tennessee, the Catawba, the Yadkin and other fast flowing rivers have been harnessed by electric power producing and flood control dams, forming large artificial lakes

Results of the Punta Del Este conference of Inter-American foreign ministers should impress upon the United States that while mok of our Latin American neighbors are anxious to be our partners in hemispheric undertakings, they are not willing to be partners without an equal voice in decisions.

The meeting emphasizes the need for the United States to be aware itselfand make others awarethat inter-American affairs have become a

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Boat exhibits dominated the Charltrtte show, ranging from small outboards to large houseboats on pontoons and without power of their own. And the surprising feature, surprising to your reporter at least, was that while there are some exhibits by big nationally-famed manufacturing firms, most of the boats shown were made in North and South Carolina.

3allad Of A Soldier

partnership between the United States and other nations of the hemisphere. It is no longer a relationship in which the big brother calls the shots and the smaller ones follow the course without question.

Secretary of State Dean Rusk did an excellent upon which outboard speed job of representing the position of the United States HENRY HOWARD t^pes Sn *oper*^^^ cruiser meeting of American foreign ministers. He

was forceful in presenting the points the United States felt essential to protect the intra-American relationships from inroads by communists through the Cuban government. At the same time the steps called for by Rusk were not presented in a dicta-

torial manner, and obviously they were not accepted through a'^'^w-mtaute'^RussSn by other American nations as being presented as Ballad of a soidier,"

in Austin Auditorium th 0th-

The net result of the conference was a stagger-ing blow to the position of Castros Cuba in its rela- '?te''e!fch2fge"p

tionships with other nations of this hemisphere. It gram through which Russian is a blow which cannot be taken lightly by either Castro or his supporters in the communist orbit.

Aside from being a victory for the Upited States in HjUILOX O OUy illy , ..

that it dealt a blow to Cuba, it was a victory for

hundred East Caro-College students sat

POSITIVE Governor Sanford has made it clear that he intends from now on to "accentuate the positive with respect to the tax program which he sponsored in the 1961 Legislature. Several times recently the Governor has indicated that purpose, but he made it more specific in a statement at Charlotte the other night. Occasion was a small dinner party given by the Travel Council- of North Carolina with Governor Sanford as honor guest. It was a private affair only in the senae that there was an invited guest li^. but there was nrthing secret about it. The guests Included three or f o u r PTOTnlnait newsmen.

There was no program and the Governor spoke for only three or four mihutes and very Infonnally. But in that short time be announced that he is going on the offensive to support his program, and will have no part of apology or defense attitude. He repeated figures used before showing that North Carolina ranks almtt at bottom of the list of States In per capita cost of State and local government and claims an ot'craU very low tax rate. Despite this low per capita cost and tax rate, he says North Carolina 1ms an enviable position in public schools, welfare and other State social services. He challenged newsmen to give more publicity to these positive factors about North Carolina, less about the low per capita income and rating of the state on other points.

There was definite implication. without specific commitment, that Governor Sanford will exert whatever influence he can in the upcoming legislative primaries to get nominees who are in full ssmipathy with his program.^'That will be an essential feature of the offensive policy. How that will affect the election remains to be seen.

movies are viewed in this country and, in turn, American-made films are available on Russian movie screens.

"Ballad of a Soldier" was just what its title implies. The story depicted about four days in the World War H military life of a 19-year-old Russian

Of Great Coneern

(Washington Daily News)

Recently Governor Terry Sanford asked the North Carolina Utilities commission to

this country in that it reflected a truly cooperative spirit between this country and other countries of the hemisphere which are dedicated to freedom. It helped to impress more firmly the idea that the countries, large and small, in the hemisphere are

partners in undertakings designed to improve the ______ ___________ _

position of each indivi(lually and the group collec- look t the" power ratrnow tiveiy. chained by Vii^inia Electric

Although the conference did not bring forth a company,

collective position toward Cuba as strong as that known as"'*^\^PCO?^Srves for which Rusk initially asked, it must be recog- Washington and surrounding nized as a successful conference in strengthening the relationships between the free nations of * the Americas.

Stockpiling Has A Sizeable Role

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By SAM DAWSON

NEW YORK (AP) - Government policies of stockpiling materials that might be needed in an emergency have played a sizeable and varied role in private business since World War

n.

At all times the stockpiling has afforded an increased market for a large number of commodities. Occasionally the stockpile has been tapped or acquisitions suspended to ease a critical shortage In civilian industry. Sometimes government buytag has frankly been used to maintain production when lack of civilian demand for one or more items would otherwise have caused a shutdown and unemployment.

Changes in stockpiling policies or rumors of impending changes have at times upset ccmimodity markets and affected prices of stocks of particular companies Involved, either as producer or user.

The stockpile includes metals, rubber, opium, diamcmd dies, sperm oil. castor oil, feathers, quinine, talc to name but a few.

The stockpiles role in private industry could be stepped up sharply as the result of President Kennedys ordering of an Inquiry Into its size and procurement practices.

Some domestic producers would be affected If Congress orders a halt to further stockpiling. Overseas suppliers doubtless would complain loudly. U. S. government contracts art still in force to buy many materials which the President says the stockpile already has to excess. Some contracts run to 1965.

If supplies the President calls excessive are put on the market, price disruption is a real threat although the President promises "We will take no action which will disrupt commodity prices. Reducing the stockpile without affecting markets and prices will be a neat trick for the AdminlstnUon and Congress'to consider.

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The President puts the present value of the stockpile at $7.7 billion. Experts say that is stated in present prices for the commodities stored, but the actual outlay was probably a billion more, since in many cases commodity prices are below their peaks.

What we really need for an emergency would have a value of about $4.3 billion, according to the President. Cutting away the $3.4 billion he calls excessive, and getting out of contracts to buy still more, is'the big threat to private business, and the President recognizes it as such.

The original goal after World War n was to build up a stockpile of some 76 items labeled strategic or critical in times of war or other crisis. One such crisis loomed for a time when the Soviet Union cut off sale of magnesium we needed we now get it elsewhere.

In addition to the 76 items, in which goals have been met on all but 13. stockpUers have brought 22 other materials without specified goals.

The President says we are still critically short In three items he declined to name. But the stockpUers are reported still buying Jewel bearings for precision Instruments, smaU-slzed diamond dies to draw out fine copper wires for .circuit components in missUes and spacecraft, and amosite asbestos used in special insulation by the Navy.

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"The total expenditure of Americans for alcoholic beverages in the 27 years since^ the repeal of prohibition has* amounted to more than $204.-' 000,000,000. This is enough to have bought $l.ft()0 worth M improvements rerooflng. carpeting, heating equipment or plumbingfor every house? hold in America."Christian Science Monitor.

the service given. We do have great concern about the rates charged, the apparent indifference of the company toward industrial progress for our area, and the attitude of the company itself toward pubUc relations.

Some time ago we read a list of comparable rates between VEPCO, CaroUna Power and Light company, and Duke Power company. On the basis of the printed Ust, VEPCO rates were the highest oii the list. Why is this so?

Today Roanoke Rapids is making a determined effort to

f:et some measure of reUef rom the high rates being charged by VEPCX). We now read where Elizabeth City is interested in Joining hands with Roanoke Rapids. It might be a step in the right direction for Washington to join these two cities.

For a long time now people of this area have been complaining about the high electrical rates being charged here. The city of Washington must make its electrical rates on the basis of what it has to pay VEPCO. If rates arc high in Washington, it is because Washington itself is having to pay a high rate.

One factor which might help VEPCO a lot is a better program of pubUc relations. In recent months many industrial prospects have come to Beaufort county to look us over as a prospective site for some in

dustry. We have had no help whatsoever from VEPCO. In fact, we have on occasion been afraid to ask for help because of the high rtites now charged.

Is VEPCO Interested In Washington and Beaufort county? We wish we could have the answer to that question. Because VEPCO sells power directly to the city of Washington and not to the individual users, it appears that VEPCO feels that no pubUc relations program is necessary here.

We have no way of knowing just what steps the UtiUties Commission wiU take in the effort to find out why VEPCO charges more than two other competing companies. And we do not know what steps might be taken to give reUef if indeed it is found that VEPCO rates are too high.

Has VEPCO made any attempt to explain to the people of Washington just why its rates are so high? Our answer is that Insofar as we know, no effort has been made.

Is VEPCO interested in Increasing its own business, or does it feel that it can take a self-satisfied attitude now because it has Washington behind the well known eight baU? Offhand. It would appear that the company does have a cold and indifferent attitude toward us.

The entire electric power story is of great concern to us. R is of great concern because we arc paying a higher rate than many other communities are now charged.

It is our hope that the Utilities commission will move with proper dispatch in this matter. This is not time for dilly-dallying.

And besides relief In the matter of rates, it appears to us that VEPCO could well stand a good public relations program

boy. During three of those days, the youth struggled through problem after problem on a motor and rail Journey to visit his mother.

His single-handed mastery of two Nazi tanks was a sufflclent contribution to the Russian cause to persuade the youths commanding general to issue a six-day pass for the long trip home. The young soldier, after the long and arduous Journey, enjoyed a flve-mlnute visit with his mother.

A moving story, to say the least, "Ballad of a Soldier" was not technically perfect by American standards. Some episodes of the young soldier were viewed as quite far-fetched by the ECC students. Their reaction at times indicated that view.

But one Idea effectively presented by the film certainly made Its Impression upon the minds of the students. A powerful patriotic image of the young soldier could not have been overlooked.,

Still, films In exchange programs between nations could reasonably be expected to be crammed full of extreme patriotism and loyalty.,

Augmenting the young patriot image of the soldier, however, was an element that may be more difficult to uncover in American films going into the Soviet Union.

The hero in "Ballad of a Soldier" was unquestionably a person with an Individual moral standard that would be considered outstanding In this country.

Still, the story made no great fuss about this. It was assumed that the young soldier represented the typical Russian 19-year-old.

A striking example of the strength of the young soldiers moral backbone came when he had stowed away in a boxcar loaded with hay dispatched to the Armys cavalry. Suddenly, the door flung open and a pretty young girl joined him Inside.

This episode led to strong emotional ties between the soldier and the girl. But there was never even a kiss. Could a similar result be. found in an American movie In which a teenage couple suddenly found themselves isolated together in a dark hay-laden boxcar? Well, maybe. But only maybe.

To me, the movie seemingly another particle among

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By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKT Copyright, 1962. King Features Syndicate, Inc.

To have known Fritz Kreis->er was to have tasted of the richness of centuries of human culture. During recent years, he and I spent mir summers in the Berkshlrss and it was a joy to be with a man whose genius knew no limit. He "was as much at home in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew as in the modem languages. He could dlscuss^world politics in amazing detail. His knowledge of music was overwhelming and withal he was a modest man who was interested in the aspirations of the simplest, Tanglewood student.

During his last years, he was partiftUy deaf and blind, the reiult of an accident when a truck hit and knocked him down and he lived in darkness. Even 80, he did not lose his Interest in the affairs of the world and a conversation with W him was always an everlasting memory.

Two tragic occasions stand out In my memory. One was at the Dutch Treat Club when Fritz decided that he would try to play the piano and he could no longer strike the right notes. He was full of fun that night * and could laugh at his mistakes. The other was at Piddletop, the home of Zlno Prancescattl In Monterey in the Berkshires. Our families were gossiping after lunch. Mrs. Harriet Kries-ler always watched over Fritz mrtherly, fearful that he would be made miserable by his Inabilities. but the two violinists got into a comer and had what might vulgarly be called a jam session. They played on and on, Kreislcr showing Fran-cescattl how he played Beethovens Violen Concerto.

It was probably the last time that Kreisler played either the violin or the piano. He was a very happy man. He loved the Berikshires: he adored Fran-cescatti; he was among friends. He let himself go.

I do not recall Kreisler coming to a Tanglewood concert after that. In fact, when I called on him during the following summer, he was already suffering from the numerous ailments that beset him. But we talked of the many worlds he loved.

To Kreisler, music was not something apart. It was a manifestation of life in all Its richness. He composed perhaps 200 pieces in his lifetime, everything from the noblest music to a light opera, "Apple Blossom." For such a sentence as this, Fritz would have reprimanded me. He would have said that all music that is beautiful and that adds to the richness of life is good and that snobbery is always intolerable.

He loved the United States. Although during the frightful years of World War I, he suffered from a divided loyalty, he really never could think of his beloved Austria and his beloved America as separate or s enemies. In front of the Heaton Hall Hotel in Stock-1 bridge, Massachusetts, stands! a flagpole, erected In honor of. Fritz Kreisler. I was present at the ceremonies and made a short address. The American flag was raised and flew each day during the season. It will* be a permanent memorial to a noble soul. It will be his American memorial.

Fritz Kreislcr was beyond doubt the greatest violinist of his day and although youcsjcr generations cannot hear him play, the phonograph and radio will continue to bring him to them as it will continue to bring him to future genera-' tions. He loved life and he loved humanity and he knew no rancor or envy, expecting the next generation to be more wonderful than the one he would leave behind. His sense of humor was as rich as his understanding of man was keen.

To him music was not a profession but an art that brought light and love into a world that was cursed by hate and prejudice and war. Music was for him the antithesis of evil (Continued on Page 6)

Problems Of West Comnoundec.

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To the Editor

The Lord God said Thou shtlt not covet thy neighbors house, Th^ Urban Re-developmen^ Commission says they are going to take my house and sell It to someone else. They covet my house. They will not tell me how much they will give me for the home l have labored long

and hard to get. They will not tell me where I can buy another home or where the public housing will be. Let them buy from thqse who want to sell, but dont go. against man and Ood and take my home.

Mrs. Thoma.s May 105 S. Pitt St. Oreenvillq.

By ELMER ROESSNER

In choosing oil as its eeonom-^ weap<m in the cold war, Russia compounded problems for the West. It could not have used grain, because there are no great surpluses in Russia and there are tragic shortages in China, a presumptive ally. It could not use steel or machine PCpducts because Russia Itself is short But in using oil, It uses a commodity that is abundant, especially with the supplies from captive Rumania. And it uses a commodity that can most embarrass the West.

By dumping oil on the world. It harms the economy of Venezuela and hence aids the communists there to enlist dissident people: it hurts the Arab kingdoms which Russia hates because communism is ruthlessly suppressed there, and it hits the United States, where the economys based largely on petroleum and electric power.

The West and the United Kates are not entirely helpless. We can alert Western and neutral nations to the danger in reliance on the Soviets for oil. And we can take vigorous counteraction.

"COMPE'TE ON PRICES"

Senator A. S. Mike Monron-ey (D.. Okla.) at a meeting of the American Petroleum Insti

tute late last year, proposed a five-point program:

1. Enlist the aid of our natural allies to resist the challenge to the free world, espclal-ly the petroleum-producing nations.

2. Compete with the Soviets by developing reserves.

3. Compete on price.

4. Compete by furnishing a market for basic conunodlties from under-developed countries.

5. Restrict the flow of Western equipment and technology to the Soviets.

The third point Is the most diificult. Labor will not agree to lower wages, certainly not to Russian levels; the Arab kingdoms are asking higher royalties at a time when a reduction Is the only hope of meeting the Red price competition. Perhaps technological advances are the only hope.

ACTION IN JAPAN

The United States has tikan some competitive reactKms in Jan.

Russia wants the Japanese markat more than any other. It is close to Vladivostok and other Siberian ports; winning a share of the Japanese market would be driving a wedge between Japan and the United States. Furthermore, Japan is a big customer.

To gain this market, Russia

offers tremendous bargains. Oil from the Arab states sells around $2 a barrel; Russia offers It at less than $1.50 a barrel to Japan.

Some Japanese companies are buying. But the U.S. Defensa Department reacted quickly. When it learned that the Idemitsu Kosan Co. was getting 30 per cent of Ita crude from Russia. the Department refused to renew Its contract to buy 600.-000 barrels of jet fuel a year from Idemitsu Koaan. Defense also announced it would take similar action against other suppliers who deal with Russia.

Misubishl OU, one d the largest oil companies in Japan, has pointedly announced that it will buy no Soviet oil. The company Is 49 per cent owned by the Tidewater Oil erf America. George F. Getty n. president of Tidewater, declared In Tokyo that while Russia eyas Japan as a big potential markat, "thara la avtry poaaibiUty d the product being used as a principal weapon for ita planned economic aggression of the free world."

Meanwhile, NATO has been warned that Ruaala la planning to sell 40 million tons of crude oil a year to NATO nations by 1960, more than tripling present skies. '

In the oil world, that is only

a mildly alarm' .g figure. The United States still leads Russia in the production of oil, although Russia has already nudged Venezuela out of second place as an oil-producing nation.

PERFUME MANUFACTURERS WATCHING COTY CASE

Other manufacturers, packagers and distributors of perfume are closely watching a Federal "Jrade Commission action against Coty, Inc., charging that the company failed to comply with an order requiring it to disclose that its French-named perfumes were made in America.

The government charges that Cotys advertising did not make It clear that "LAlmant" was of domestic make. The government demands $5,000 penalties for each alleged mlsleaidlng advertising over 11 television and 21 radio stations, and In two magazines.

The broadcasts were made In 1958, and the maga;dnes published In 1960. Since earli^ last year the PTC has been urging the perfume Industry to comply with PTC rules and digging up this three-year old case therefore appears to be a gesture against the entire Industry.