Thursday, A pril 12, 1962

Costly, But A Tremendous Asset

A Question of Cleeurance

North Carolinians have* never taken to the id^a of having toll roads in their state as evidenced by the fact that the state has no toll highways or bridges.

Governor Sanfords suggestion that a study be taken to determine the feasibility of financing an east-west highway across North Carolina by tolls is certain to arouse considerable oppositjon in itself. We trust, hpyvever, that opposition to the toll road idea will not automatically eliminate any consideration of a major highway to link eastern and western sections of North Carolina.

Like many other Tar Heels, Gov. Sanford has asserted that for a long time he has recognized the need for a major east-west highway across the state. This in itself is encouraging for it is indicative of a growing recognition throughout North Carolina that such a highway link is needed.

Traditionally North Carolina has been traversed by major north-south highways in various sections of the state. It has been sadly lacking, however, in a major route that linked* the eastern and west-ernn sections of the state. Such a facility has been long needed in North Caroli^^and with each pass-

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By LYNN NISBET FLOOD CONTROL The all-Seashore Highway Association has dfeided that may be something in a name after all. After woridng for years to obtain adequate State and Fedj-eral aid in combatting beach erosion along, the coast, the group Monday changed its approach. It has redefined the outer banks strip as a dam* and is asking for aid in a flood control project. There would seem to be merit in this position. The objective all along has been protection of the coastal area for many miles Inland from the ravages of sea floods if the dam off shore should break down. Beach erosion has been a relative 'insignificant phase of the overall problem.

The highw^ay association is seeking cooperation of other interested groups and is planning a conference with high level Federad and State officials to devise ways of financing the needed work. They believe it will be easier to get flood control than for beach erosion ~ which is more limited and has some selfish personal connotations.

STATE HOUSE - Good weather for the past few weeks has enabled workmen on the new State House building to catch up with their schedule. Prolonged bad weather plus the., sickness and death of one of the supervising architects, threw the work behind schedule. It appears now that the new building will be ready for the opening of the 1963 General Assembly on February 6 next year. The Assembly is expected to convene in the old captol, but to move immediately to the new building for the working sessions. K for any reason the new quarters are not ready by February 6 there will be no serious handicap, since the Legislature usually sort of marks time for a week dr so before buckling down to the real Job.

AIRPORT The people in mid-central Eastern NQjth Carolina are continuing their'eflis to get a regional airport. Latest development was at Rocky Mount the other night w'hen representatives of the counties of Edgecombe. Nash and Wilson and the cities of Rocky Mount and Wilson reached* tentative agreement on a site at Town Creek in upper Wilson county and a construction budget of $1,200.000. Of that amount the local units would pay $700,-000 and the Federal Government would provide $500,000.

This agreement is purely ten-tetive and effectuation of it will depend upon formal action by

the official governing bodies of the units involved. Several times before within the past ten years the project has reached comparable stage, only to fail when it came time for the local governments to put up their share of the money.

There,had been a good de^ of talk about a regional airport - Ixfore the General As.sembly of 1953 (Chapter 804. Session Laws '53i created the Eastern Carolina Airport Authority. This, agency wasclother with all the powders of a municipal corporation. including the right of eminent domain. It was composed of thb counties of Edgecombe, Na.sh. Pitt ard Wij [son. and the cities of Greenville. Rocky Mount. Tar-boro and Wilson. The act set out in detaik-the percentage which each corporate member should pay into the common treasury, ranging from 6 per cent -for Tarboro to 18 per cent for Rocky Mount.

The Authority organized but almost immediately split up in controversy over location of the airport, ^iost likely site seemed to be at Cobbs Crossroads, a few miles east of Wilson. That choice was not unanimous and some of the members announced withdrawal of their support.

MORE EFFORT Then Rocky Mount determined to develop its own airport, and obtained assurance of major airline cooperation and Federal aid. It needed endorsement by' the State. The Rocky Mount folks appealed to the C&D board for such endorsement, but the board declined, insisting that the Rocky Mount i>ort ^ould not serve the w'hole area The C&D board joined in advocating location of a regional airport at Waist onburg, with the hope maybe of getting Goldsboro and Kinston to participate. That site wasnt acceptable either. Rocky Mount, which was expected to put a larger. part than any other member of the money and perhaps a larger share of the traffic, found that the differenc^e in distance to Walstonburg and to the already established " and well servia RalelEh-Durham port -v^uld not justify the expendi-tuW. So the Walstonburg dream went the way of Cobb's Crosroads.

The current project for Towm Creek is being promoted by five members of the ^original Authority, having lost Pitt County, Greenville and Tarboro along the way. Ray Bandy, chairman of the Rocky Mount committee, has the same idea now h;: had ten years ago.- If the rest of the members decline to go along. Rocky Mount will iry to build its' own airport up to required standards.

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ing year the need becomes'greater.

We have no objection to a study of the feasibility of financing such a road by tolls, but we strongly feel that consideration, of such a highway should not be confined to toll road possibilities. Serious consideration should be, given by the State Highway Commission to undertaking such a project financed by public funds as are the other highways in North Carolina.

The state Ls spending literally millions of dollars on super highways that for the *mOst part link North Carolina with states to the north and the south. ShouTd not similar consideration be given to a major higTvay which would link the eastern and western sections of the state and tie iji with major highway systems of states to the West of North Carolina?

North Carolina has not found it necessary to resort to" toll roads for financing the major highways it now has. Why should it be necessary to resort to the toll idea as the only possible means of constructing a major east-west highway that is so sorely needed for North Carolina?

Such a highway would be extremely costly, to he sure, but it could also be a tremendous asset in the development of North Carolina.

No Comihunty Should Put Up With Hoaxers

It was bad enough that classes at South Greenville Elementary School had to be interrupted yesterday while officials searched for a bomb an anonimous caller said had been placed in the build-ing.

It was even forse, however, that over 500' children had to be sent out into the pouring rain becaiise of the bomb hoax.

Law enforcement officials and school officials should leave no stone unturned in their efforts to apprehend the person or persons responsible for the bomb scare-at the school. It is a serious offense and the parties responsible should be^ made to answer for it if they can be found.

Neither Greenville nor any other community can afford to have pranksters using bomb scares to interrupt the work being carried on in the schools.

Many Affected' 3y Steel Action

By PATRICIA MOORE

Sack To The Dictionary

By JA.MES MARLOW

WASHINGTON lAPi - What now?

A new wave of price increases and therefore another jump in living costs?

Keep your fingers crossed. A lot of industries using steel will be affected by Tuesday nights announcement of the U. S. Steel Corp. that it is raising the price of steel.

Other steel companies, as a starter, can be expected to start raising prices since the U. S. Steel Corp usually sets the pattern for the industry'.

This sudden move must have been a surprise to the Kennedy admmLstration, judging from what it said just a few weeks ago. It may even have been a surprise to some firms in the steel industry itself. '

Only a few hours before the U. S. Steel Corp. announcement President Edmund F, Martin of, Bethlehem Steel was telling a stockholders meeting hi.s firm W'as trying to hold the price line in the face of increasipg ffoffiestlcr ami ftfrngti compete tion.

President Kennedy was so delighted when the steel union and the steel industry agreed on a new contract without a wage increase or a strike that he sent both sides telegrams.

He even told David J. McDonald. president of the union, it Ls obviously noninflationary and should provide a solid ba.se for continued price stability.

At the time of the settlement there was no public evidence that the industry, or anyone in it, planned a price increase, at lea.st any time soon.

McDonald seemed so earned away with what he got for his-members when it was cfiite po.ssible sooner or later the union benefits micht ffec^ stonl price.s that he .said; Lets forpet about the price and look at the benefits.

Those benefits amount to about 10 cents an hour more for

the workers, whose average wage is S3.28 an hour. The additional 10 cents an hour didnt go into a pay raise but into things like longer vacations, better unemployment pay, more job security.

The industry estimated the cost of the contract at about 2*2 per cent of payroll costs. U. S. Steel Corp. prices which went into effect at midnight Tuesday will average about 3*? per cent more the the old prices, roughly $6 more per ton of steel.

U. S. Steel President Leslie B. Worthington said the increase was a catch-up adjustment made necessary by a profit squeeze between rising costs and declining prices. The last price boost was in 1958.

The Kennedy administration put a lot of pressure on the industry and the union to reach a settlement before their old contract expired next June 30.

The talks began Feb. 14, an unusually early starting time for the union and industry. By MarciT 2,

ment had been reached.

News of this contract which contained no wage boost, the usual excuse for a price boost so plea.sed Kennedy that he told, both sides they deserve great credit for developing this imaginative program.

Tuesday Worthington seemed to be explaining the reason for the new price inci^ease largely in temis of increased co.sts before this latest settlement.

This raises, therefore, a question: Did U. S. Steel have this price increase in mind before the settlement and, if so, why didnt U. S. Steel say so then instead of now?

The industrv's steel output is about 100 million tons a year, a quarter of the world s output. It employs 430.000 men directly and. indirectly, provides jobs for another haif-miiiion. Eievcn-companics were involved m the .settlement.

Courthouses are many things to many people trouble for some, marria.86 for some and etc. For us. to use an old cliche, the courthouse means words and dictionaries.

In the confusion that results from our. complicated English language, due to both education arid Ignorance, words are oft-times mixed up. And, consequently. so are the people who use them.

It came to our attention yesterday. as it has in the past, that every time we receive some infoi-mation which mentions the word courthouse the word is spelled' alternately courthouse and court house. For years we spelled the word courthouse, as one.

For years, we got information calling the word court house, But we and the dictionary kept right on spelling the word as one. We like togetherness. The other day, us

ing a very authoritative source, we finally gave in and spelled the word in two installments. Yesterday we got something else involving the word and it was spelled in one installment.

We referred to not one, but two dictionaries, and tjjey spelled it as one. We held an office consultation.

The word courthouse. Never again will we falter on THAT one, but there will be others as long as we up here use words that should be right . . .and the confusion will continue on and on.

We were informed that one dictionary spells the word burglar like this, and another dictionary spells the word as burgler. We think the word is burglar but when one goes to dictionary as a final authority on a spelling, what does one do?

Its interesting to think what happens when a dictionary, of all things, misspells a word.

Speaking of words and such things, we enjoyed a story told by Edmund H, Hardy of little Washington, at the recent E.C.C. senior banquet. It seems that someone asked a crowd if anyone could tell what Napoleons nationality was. A girl asnwer-ed, Course-ah-can. And that was the right answer.

If confused, we recommend a biographical dictionary.

Other - Editors Saying A Case Of Blackmai.

For the benefit of the thousands of college students who attended the Azalea Festival and failed to spot the lovely buds, we wish to present a definition. straight out of a dictionary, so they can, if necessary, save face: an azalea is any plant of a particular group of the eri-caceous genUS Rhododendron, comprising species with handsome, variously colored flowers, some of which are familiar in cultivation.

These flowers were located in both Orton and Airlie Gardens, as well as throughout Wilmington.

We figured a few people might have missed seeing the azaleas.

(Henderson Dispatch)

Fidel Castro's demand for $62 million as the ransom price for 1,179 prisoners captured in the abortive invasion of Cuba last April is sheer political blackmail. It affords the Cuban communist leader an opportunity to get American dollars, as he think.s. Shortly after the invasion attempt a year ago, Cas-'tto had -ef#erd^4^ liberate -th - 43iftths ago prisoners in return for 500 Arne- milltarlstically ricanTractors. An effort to raise money to buy that many pieces machinery bogged down at

ing an embargo on trade with Cuba would be largely blunted, morally speaking.

Senator Capehart of Indiana had a word for it. He called the sentences one hundred percent communistic blackmail, and added that if we have a moral obligation to put up $62 million, then we should do what we should have done many

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According to the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, our government spending has grown so vast that in a 15-mOnth period it w'ould be sufficient to buy up everything that Soviet Russia produced in one year, including financing the Russian armed take over Iuhft ^, forgjes and all their missile ^abUsh work.-dstal Wwr view.

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the time and w'as dropped.

Now that the men have been tried and convicted in a court who.se verdict of guilt was accepted in advance as a matter of fact, and have been sentenced to thirty years of servitude. Castro is prompt in making an offer to ^get money he so desperately needs for the islands economy. More than one-third, or $26 million, reportedly has been raised to apply against the ransom.

Should the United States, either by government or private subscription, provide the funds needed, Castro could boast of having Uncle Sam across the barrel and forcing him to come to terms. Moreover, in the eyes of the world, this powerful nation would be put in the role of appeasement of a shirt-tail dic-Xator. who: exists largely by tolerance of this country. If Castros terms are met, firmness of Washingtons stand in plac-

free government do^^^^ there.

The United States Intervened in Cuba in 1898 to free the Cubans from Spanish tyranny under its very nose. It is doubtful if conditions were worse then than they are today under Castro, an admitted tool of the communists.

While we do not necessarily advocate a military invasion, there is at the same time Very little difference between half a century ago and today. One new angle is the fear here that intervention now would involve Castros supporters, namely, Soviet Russia, and antagonize other Latin American countries. So far as hemisphere effect is concerned, there was no hesitancy in 1898. Actually the move enhanced the prestige of the United States in the eyes of the world. It could do the same now. and the United States needs as much as anything else to exhibit some of the stamina that could not fall to attract respect where respect does not exist today.

Hiding 3ehinc. A Front

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY Copyright, 1962, Klpg Features Syndicate, Inc.

We, in our household, have long been urging the Lady of the House to adjust to modern times. We say that anytliing that W'as not current in 1896, she regards unfavorably. So we bought numerous gadgets of all kinds only to discover that sooner or later she threw them into the garbage pail.

So, for years, we have agitated for a dish-washing machine. We showed her the wonders on television and cut advertisements out of magazines and' reaUy did a first-cla.ss brain-washing job.

However, about a fortnight ago. on the spur of the moment, secretly, even furtively, she went out and bought the most modem dish-washing machine on the market, with the label of greatest of all dish-washing manufacturers. When the machine arrived w^e all gathered in the kitchen to see this w'on-der of wonders. It was factory inspected and guaranteed and was deUvered with absolutely correct Instructions.

So we had our dinner and put all the dishes in the washing machine afid hooked everything up according to Instructions. The machine made the proper noise and then when the top was opened, the bottom of the machine contained water. The next-day, It was tried again and this time, the machine conked out and started again and conked out again.

The following day, we telephoned and raised hell and in a slow due course, a mechanic showed up who said that the timer was defective. He took it away, kept it several days. Meanwhile a young lady efficiently telephoned from the great companys service station to announce when the mechanic Would show up. He came. He spent half a day on the job. Then he announced that there Was nothing wrong with the timer but the motor Was out of order. He would get a new motor. It W'ould take some time.

I did not like the gleam in my wifes eye. She w'as back In the good old days of 1896. So I informed the mechanic that his company was a swindler and I w'ould get the Better Business Bureau, the District Attorney, the Supreme Court and the Mafia after them.

He said.-that he was only wrorking for the company. He would give me the telephone number of the customers relations man. Calling the customers relations man every expletive I know in every language I know, I said that I would not telephone to him. I had nothing to sell to him. His company W'as selling me a defective washing-machine which they claimed was factory inspected.

While I was thus belaying his outfit whose goods will never again be purchased for my money, he was writing in a book. I demanded to see the book. He said that I must not write in it. 1 said that I did not trust him. I w'anted to see what he was writing. At this point, he was not a little frightened, although I am a very mild man and would not actually kill anybody.

So the mechanic showed me his book. He said it is for his dispatcher and I wanted to know why, they had different 'colbre'd^^aj^rs. Anyhow', lifi (Continued on page five)

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS

SUCCESS AND FAILURE

Why do some people succeed and others appear invariably to fa?

Well, the problem of ability is primarily involved. On the whole, those people succeed who deserve to succeed and those people fail who deserve to fail. But this Is not always true. Circumstances often enter in and spoil the picture, and the term misfortune is alone adequate to describe this catastrophe. Something happens over which the individual has no control. He misses out and the world does not know why. Or in spite of his apparent lack of ability he forges ahead and-^ comes out at the head of the line carrying the banner.

Let us never depend upon anything but our diligent efforts to make us successful. Know'ing the right people may help a little now and then, but the so-called right people will drop you fast if you do not make good. Special gifts are a help, but you may find yourself living in an age which does not place much value upon these special gifts. So in the end we have to go back to hard work sweat, blood, and tearsto ensure success. Sometimes even these, for some strange reason, do not prove adequate. But we can be sure that they are- the best factors for us to trust and use.

There is no substitute in life for dlligehce, character, and the honest desire to do and be the best we can. *

TO THE EDITOR:

I read the piece In the paper about the P. T. A. group trying to put Mr. Young out of business. Why don't we mothers gripe over the way we raise our children? We are always trying to put the blame on someone else.

Do we raise our children at horrie? Lots of us dont. We let them grow up by themselves. Lots of mothers and fathers get a bottle of spirits, forget about children and just go off somewhere with other men or women and think they are enjoying Themselves. But what happens to our children when we do this? Lots of us expect to do as we please, but think our children should do better. We can't expect more of our children than we do of ourselves.-

We do things we should not do, We say things we should not say, but we think our children, should not do anything or say those things either.

We should quit blaming the trash, as you call it, for our childrens downfall, and come home and a.sk -our.selves have we raised pur children riiht; ATI oTus, orrthe mosIF can say^ no. we have not.

Your children do not have to bujL tho.se books. Sometimes they might learn a le.s.son from them maybe you have' not taught t|iem

I think W'e as parents should live right and pray to God to guide our children. When we do the best we can, it is not always good enough.

You dont go around putting the ABC stores out of busi-ne.ss becau.se they .sell our children drink to make them act crazy and etc. Even you buy that and think thats okay. So why try to stop ju.st one thing when there is lots others we should think abut?

I guess you will say shes not a mother. Well. I am. I have five children and some of them ar married and have children. I have tried to raise them to be honest and treat people like they were people.

I am ju.st a poor person in worldly goods but with God's help I am doing the best I can and not blaming other folk for our mistakes. I am a very proud mother, although everything has not always been as I would like "It to have been. My children, I can say. I am very proud of. It was the Lords help they are as nice as they are.

^ I think we parents should ct6andtif bnr- tlws and "ttierr start other places if its nece:^ sary. If their minds are clean, what they read wijnt hurt them. % ' ,

Sincerely,^ Mrs. Lee Byrd"

Remedy Of Adding To Confusion

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By ELMER ROESSNER

President Kennedys message to Congressmen the transportation problem is a strange and wonderful document.

He attacks the problem of confusion: his solution appears to be more confusion.

Both American Transportation and the laws governing it are among the most incredible messes in the world.

The rules change from area to area, from one type of transportation rto another, from one goverpm^t agency to another. It has TOen said that a camel is a horse designed by a committee. If that is so. American transportation Is a herd .of camels designed by a legion of committees.

The mess began with the caii-als, which got government help because of their importance to "the economy and defense'. The Erie Canal opened

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years later, the first reguIaF.pa.s.scnger train* steamed out of Charleston, S. C.. and the government got Into that act, too. The government began an endlessly changlng.^f-W.

tern of help and restrictions, subsidies and taxes. The more the railroads demanded spoils, the more they got. The era gave us the slogans. All- the traffic will bear and The public be damned. SMOTHERING CONTROI^ ,

Years later came the truck and the bus, the plane, and the pipeline. Ahead is the rocket.

Each was lathered with laws, commissions and rules. With , each new layer of regulations came new layers of federal, state and local agencies and new layers of commissioners, inspectors, specialists arresting officers and taxes.

Meaiiwhile, layers of unions, union leaders^ union lawy'ers and union lobbyists were building up. And each new form of transportation and each new agency caused transport companies to create associations, hire more lawyers and exp^d lob-

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Thats what we have today?** Every time you buy a ticket er ship a box of apples you pay'^^something' for transportation Jand something to support thos layers and layers of peo

ple and agencies.

HOPE IN SIGHT

It was to this almost incredible bowl of spaghetti that President Kennedy addressed himself last week. His assault on confusion was to stir in more meatballs.

In one of the most diverse messages on a single subject S far, he presented a series of proposals for Congress, mixed in instructions to the Executive branch of the government and sprinkled it with electioneering for the general public.

Many of his proposals are good, sound and long needed. He referred^to the chaotic patchwork of Inconslatent and* often obsolete legislation. . . evolved from a history of specific Industries and spectfic times.

His remedy: More patchwork.

Hlsyf recomnren^ations for changes in the law' were thrust Tijxia a. ymt Jiot

yet scheduled its business for The'rest ..of the session and which stiH ha<i many pre.sslng decisionssuch as on the tax billto ipake before scurrying home to campaign In the pri

maries and In the November elections.

Mr. Kennedy, a former Senator, must know he cant possibly get action this year and that there will be a new Congress next year.

At least he has brought the subject out into the open. He has not simplified the problem and that might be his intention: to stir things up tc get statesmen to start working on it, with results about the time of Robert Kennedys first term as President.

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