Friday. April J3, 1962

It Hurts,

But The Truth May Help

Poor Butterfly

C & D Director Skipper Bowles handed this people must either recogni^-e these problems and Bix-county area of Eastern Carolina some bitter pills overcome them, or pretend that these facts do not to swallow Wednesday night in addressing a meet- exist. To make the latter choice w'ould be folly in-ing of the newly formed Coastal Plain Planning and deed.

Development Commission. ^ Progress toward economic development has

But as with the pills doctors hand out, its nojt been made in recent years in the six counties of Pitt, how the pills taste, but the good they do that really Beaufort, Edgecombe, Martin, Nash and Wilson

counts.

Perhaps the words of Skipper Bowles will shock some of the communities into a new awareness of the situation to be faced.

Eastern Carolinians, for example, dont like to be told they are lagging behind the rest of the state in spite of the progress they have made in recent years.

The people of ,the six-county area will not par-

which make up the Coastal Plain Planning and *4 Development Commission. The point is, however, ( that the overall progress in the six counties has not f been sufficient to keep pace with the state as a ^ whole or with the needs of the immediate area. More must be done and on a broader scale in the area in the future if the gap of progress betw'een this and other areas of the state is to be closed. Considerabry more must be done if the area is to

ticulaViy reu4''brin'Ryminled'thri7hV'Ve^^^^ Potential for development,

the most underdeveloped .section of North Carolina. what may he the most underdeveloped area

even if the statement is true. state the six-county territory has a greater

It is not a^very pleasant* thing to be reminded Potential for development than any other section that in the six-countv area job opportunities have state. Even so it may take greater effort

shown a slight decrease rather than an increase development programs moving at a good

during the past decade; or that 33,000 non-white P^^e.

citizens and .14,000 white citizens left the area be- Collectively and individually the communities tw-een 1950 and 1960 while the state as a whole which make up this six-county area need to face showed a gain in population. up to the economic problems they have. It is not \

But for the six county area of the state, the enough to cite a few development successes and 1

assert that they are sufficient to meet the needs * ^ of the area. It is not enough to passively declare that the problems will solve themselves in time.

They will not. But through sound planfting and-determined effort the communities individually and the area collectively can successfully meet and overcome the economic problems which now^ beset it.

Bowles comments may ruDt have been as flattering to the six-county area as some citizens would have liked; but they served to bring into sharp' ocus the fact tli.at greater effort needs to be put forth if needed economic development is to be realized.

More Land For A State

X, A Value

The ^Dollar

?ark

By LYNN NISBET

PARKS Governor Sanford tQjd newsmen the other day he hopes to confer with officials of Duke Power Company in the near future about land for a State part on the shores of Lake Norman. The power company has offered the State a tract of 1^ acres cm the Iredell side of.the lake about halfway between Mooresville and Statesville. The State park folks could not accept the grant, because 1300 acres is insufficient to supply the need. At least 3000 acres will be required, and the State would like to have 4000 or more. Whether Duke can provide that acreage is dcHibtful, and the State had no money ulth which to buy land for parks.

Practically all the land in the existing State parts was donated. The State has constructed the buildings and otherwise equipped the parks to serve the public, There have Been numerous offers on part of landoyn-ers to sell the State park sites. Latest instance was the effort of the ouners of Chimney Rock to get the State to take over that property. A few years ago similar effort was made to sell the Lake Tahoma site near Marion. Also there have been offers of gift land which the State could not accept, as in the Lake Norman case, because for some reason It was not suited for park purposes There is recognized real need for State part facilities in the central Piedmont. Morrow Mountain on <me edge and Hanging Rock on another cannot begin to serve the needs of the concentrated population in the Mecklenburg-Catawba-Ire-dell sector. Lake Norman is Ideally located for that purpose.

MEXICOOne of the most Interesting things aboyt Mexico discovered on a recent trip is the number, size and utilization of public parks. Whether the federal or state governments have part systems comparable to that in North Carolina we <hd leam. But cveFy viHage^ has a central plaza which is the heart of community life, and cities of any size have several. Standard equipment consists of a bandstand, a curio and refreshment stand, seats for spectators and playground areas.

A considerable part of the area of Mexico City Is taken up with pla^, for public gath-eiings, parks 'and playgrounds. The number of people using the park facilities was impressive. Everyone seemed to be crowded from early morning until bedtime. There are lots of trees and an almost unbelievable display of brilliantly

colored flowers. But there were no marked off areas with signs wamirig to keep off the grass. The entire space was used by children plaj'ing, old folks sitting ind talking, families picnicking, and everybody having a good time. It appeared to be 'more appropriate use of parks than reserv'ed flower beds and keep off the grass signs.

At Victoria Ciudad, the capital city of the State of Tamau-lipas. Hidalgo Plaza was right near the hotel where we spent the night. Up early in the morning we found the plaza already well filled with men and boys, some of them just loafing, some hawking curios and wearing apparel, shining shoes, etc^ They were all at ease and at ,home, because the plaza belonged to them.

One of the surprising features was the cleanliness of the grounds and of the people congregated there. The small town plazas and the big city parks as well as the streets and yards, were free from trash to a degree that would make citizens of Raleigh ashamed of themselves.

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By DON SCHLIENZ

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Happy Minstrel Man

Greenvilles Minstrel Man is in action again, and you can tell hes happy. Im certain in my own mind that if Eli

NON - INTERFERENCE -Governor Sanford has adopted a policy of'declining all invitations to appear before congres-.sional committees to express his opiniOTi Ml the merits on pending leglslatiMi. His theory is that the chief executive of a State should not inject himself into ctMigressional business which is of general nature. It is a different story when the propc^d legislation dii*ectly affects the interest of North Carolina and its pecHsle inMa special way. Even then his intervention is more often with administraticm agencies in Washington than with congressional committees.

The Governor told newsmen at his latest conference with them that he had fully endorsed that part of the highway program propased by Jim Mac-Lamroc of Greensboro which called ' for major .

road across the state, connecting the ports with jhe trunk highways leading into the middle w'est. He denied that he had endorsed other phases of the MacLamroc plan which calls for a system of highways radiating out from Greensboro in all directions and which has been termed by critics as "the , wheel."

The east-west road is important enough and Governor would accept it as toll turnpike if it cannot be obtained otherwise. He said he has asked some people to study the best method of approach to get an adequate road as quickly as po.ssible.

U.S. Is Bound To Get Unfavorable Reaction

The United States, in considering what is rapidly becoming a last-minute decision on whether or not to postpone its proposed nuclear tests in the

pacific, cannot overlook the probability that the Bloom hadnt settled on law-*- WOTM . . . directed by

tests will cause unfavorable reaction in a number retailing he would Bloom, who happens to be one

of nations of the neutral bloc If-.

Fressure is mounting on the United States and himself get very far from

Great Britain to forego further tests even though that field; and his musical the Soviets do not agree to a policed moratorium, ^^terests during university It will continue to grow .until the deadline, and cer- evenTh"'

tainly the Soviet propagandists will .seek to make i years past he has pro- tine that made the select au-

the most ofthe situation if the U.S. begins its tests, duced and directed is mins- dience sit up and take notice.

At the same time the United States and its regularly (The writer can say he has

Western Allies cannot i^norp thp nppd for mirh bands . . . you get .seen nothing like it since his

Allies cannoi ignore me neea mr sucn the picture; he knows and en- last visit to the Golden Gate

testing II superiority in nuclear weapons is not to joys the entertainment field. Theater in San Francisco too

be forfeited to the Soviet Union. But about his being in the many years agone.)

President Kennedy made it quite clear in an- business again ... it all ended much too soon,

nouncing the test., some weeks ago that the West r'i^rLnate totow^ed"

vStlll has superiority., He also made it clear that gents were guests of their enthused males were saying

further Soviet tests, in the absence of testing by '^ives at a dinner-dance given over and over again "Why

the West mii?ht shift the halancp nf siinprinritv in Greenvilles Women of the dont you do it over and make tMs impoVtTnffield supenonty m ..something extra; a tuU-scale productionr.

The West, therefore, has no alternative but to O

go through with its planned tests unless the Soviet wtil0r ILCllLOrS K^QVinCT

ideauate in-

for the boys, the ladies put on a minstrel of maybe forty minutes duration. The cast, the entertainment, was all by

of their few honorary members.

There was singing, dancing and dialogue between Mr. Interlocutor and end men; and t Marie Wallace put together a chorus line,and devised a rou-

Union agrees to a moratorium with adequate inspection to assure that neither side cheats on the agreement not to make further tests.

Clumsy Public delations

School Drop Out Problem

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wAshINgtON (AP) Steel's bigwigs did a clumsy public relations job the way they announced boosts in steel prices. .It was their timing: Of all th^ days in the week they picked the worst ones for the announcements.

This might make no difference if American business didnt spend a lot of money trying as the advertising boys say to improve their image.

In this case they must have sent their public relations men home.

At his news conference Wednesday President Kennedy didn't credit them with concern for public relations at all. He said they showed "utter contempt for the interests of 185 million Americans

What they did was choose the night before and the morning of Kennedys conference to say steel prices were going up, a move bound to kick up living costs by setting off price boosts in other fields.

Kennedy never holds a news conference oftener than once a week. After Wednesdays, the next One t the earliest would have been next Wednesday.

Many of his conferences have been televised live. This means millions can watch him in action and other millions, on television reruns, can see him in their homes later.

Thus these televised meetings with the pre.ss give him a

^ chj,nce tg get across to^Hhe maxirriurn humbe'r of people, newspaper readers, television watchers, and millions of both.

By ^making their announcements Tuesday night and'Wednesday^ morning, the steelrnen gave, Kennedy at his meeting with newsmen an almo.st immediate chance to denounce the price boost.

This is what he did in the angriest mood he has show*n in public since becoming President. In the course of it he heaped scorn and ridicule on the steelrnen as a bunch of greedy merchants.

The steelrnen could never have had any doubt this is what Kennedy would do. He had worked hard to get ,, noninfla-tionary contract settlement between the steel indus'try and the steel union.

The contract, coming only five days before the sudden and unexpected price boost, gave the steelworkers some benefits but no pay raise. Kennedy said it left him hopeful there would be no price increase.

If the steelman had waited until after the news conferencie, Kennedy would have hadHhree choices in deciding how to respond to what they did:

He could have waited until next weeks conference before cutting loosp as he did Wednesday: he could have issued .statements, which would not be the same as being seen by mil-'Continued on nage five ,

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

Concerning the states continuing .student drop-out problem. Gov. Sanford has put forth two suggestions he says might help in a'ttacking this issue. First, , we could enrich the curriculum to it broad enough to attract those students who drop out for lack of interest. No doubt, many students who leave iheifriSlol8 do 60 because sheer boredom.

Not all students find instnic-tion interesting. At th# same time all instruction 'definitely isn't interesting. Therefore, it would seem reasonable to assume that the number of dropouts woul(T decrease if the curriculum was made more attractive.

But that is only one step, and w'ould not eliminate the entire trouble. There is another step recommended by Gov. Sanford, This would be the appropriation of state funds for enforcement of attendance at the local level. It seems strange that in a state as well off as North Carolina, With a government as solvent as ours, we cannot afford to enforce our regulations and statutes.

Certainly on a matter like this the General Assembly should be able to find the funds to finance such a worthwhile endeavor. If counties dont step up enforcement of school attendance laws it rpight come to the point where state funds would be u.sed for special truant officers at the local level.

Habituafeand Tofelstent dropout practices in North Carolina, when added up, amount al

most to the equivalent of the schools standing idle during the summer months. This means that, when the school vacation months are added to the dropout rate, we have an appalling picture of wasted resources apd facilities, both material and human.

In an age when most teenagers have more opportunity to

To make a good long story shorter, that started the ball rolling.

Later this month the ladies are sponsoring a whopping-big Dixieland Minstrel. Eli Bloom is producing and directing.

Hows it going?

The producer-director is fired up about early rehearsals and preparations. His enthusiasm is infectious; and when Bloom says "Tliis is going to be tb biggest and best of them all," you are just hearing him get warmed to his subject.

"Schlienz, he said (pointing a cigar),theres just so much talent around I dont see how Im going^ to get it all in. Youve gotta see the scenery theyre putting together, to believe it. Theres going to be 140 people ... by actual count . . . in the cast, and maybe more by the time we get it all ironed out.

""Were going to have a professional orchestra ... and Marie Wallace's dancers . . . and six end men.

There was also some talk about a mixed chorus and some barbershop quartets, but my mind was diverted by pFospects of how one would get six end men in a phalanx of minstrelmen.

A line has but two ends, a string, a rope, a stick, a length of wure. a road, a river . . . you name it . . . you still find only two ends.

Where does one put six end

got to work ip

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their grandparents or even pplavs*? ' their parents it seems a .

shame that virtually one hundred per cent' of them do not take advantage of it. It has been proved true with each passing year that the more education one has the better chances he has for escaping a life of poverty. Too late, many delinquent students are finding this* out.

On the other end is the tremendous investment the citizens of this state have put into public education. We have the physical plants and the teachers. This investment, becau.se it is so expensive, should be made to w'ork lor the good of the citizenry every moment possible. That would include enforcement of attendance laws at the local level.

It would not be out of place to mention the waste that is caused in this public investment when we allow our schools to stand empty each summer for a period of three months. No other field of endeavor has such a system, not even in government where time off Ls a tradition. Futting this investment

oT-oiirs to full 12-TTitbr Use

would help pay us dividends on our children.

"Some recent studies estimate that by 1980 when we expect "our population to have grown to around 250 million people w*e will be able to produce the food and fiber for all domestic and international heeds on about 50 million fewer acres than we have in production today.Sec. of Agriculture Orville Freeman.

"I have never considered a differehlfcp of opinion in politics, in rehgion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.-Thomas Jefferson.

"As the affairs of men each year gjow more complex, so do the children. Let him who doubts - ttiis visit - "3 Tnadem American toy counter.Wall Street Journal.

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY

Copyright, 1962, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

On December 31, 1952, the > gold reserve of the United States was $23.200,000,000; the gold reserve of all other countries outside of the Soviet Universal State amounted to $13-000.000,000. -^he gold reserve of the United States made the American dollar the most acceptable currency in the world. Most Western currencies were pegged to the dollar and the United States was regarded as the leading nation on Earth.

Since the introduction of-the Marshall Plan and a series of give-aways, the United States found Itself at the end of 1961 with a gold reserve of only $16,900.000.000 and the gold holdings of the other Western countries were $23,600,000.000. The American dollar Is no longer as favored as it was formerly and the nations economic and political leadership is being violently challenged all over the world.

In addition, Soviet Russia has been pouring gold into the London. Amsterdam and Zurich markets and this gives the impression that Soviet Russia has considerable gold.

Foreign holdings of dollars may be exchanged for gold; American holdings of dollars may not be exchanged for gold. This, of course, encourages speculators to hold American dollar abroad, particularly in Switzerland. The banks act as agents but will not disclose who their principals are. There are lawyers in Switzerland who. have numerous American clients. The main business of these lawyers is to handle American deposits in that country.

, The United States does not owm enough gold to .take care of its obligations. It owns not quite $17,000,000,000 of-gold, but $11,.500,000,000 of that amount must be used to support the American dollar without re-- gard to other obligations.

What is sound money?

It is money that is accepted readily in return for goods, services. labor, or earnings. The acceptability can be measured absolutely by the yardstick of value. In a word, if In a store $1 will buy one dozen oranges one day but only half a dozen the next day and there Is a plentiful supply of oranges, it can only mean that the dollar is worth half as much.

If for a century a postage stamp in general circulati(Mi for first class mail costs two cents, and is then raised to four cents, and again to five cents, for a reduced service, then either the currency is worth less, the management inadequate or the labor costs have risen to meet the reduced value of money.

Many psychological as well as economic and political factors enter into foreign exchange. For instance, the Common Market not only permits but encourag-eis cartels: American companies are forbidden to join cartels- within the United States but their subsidiaries In foreign countries may join cartels in those countries. This can justify the depositing of American capital abroad and the export

of jobs. -

It hardly makes sense giving an early warning, particularly when the country shows every evideitci # pfoiiserity. mvwr-theless, this is the time to talk up and this Ls the time for the President and Congress to take urgent and immediate steps to protect the value of the American economy and particularly the American dollar.

In the Depression of 1929, we waited too long. That Depression started in 1921 and became world-wide. The few prophets who gave warning In 1928 and early In 1929, were laughed at. When the stock market finally cracked and the banks were caught over-extended, particularly in mortgages, it was really too late to do much and the Depression, which ended its acute phase in 1932, ran on chronically until 1938 when the economy was rescued by war.

The sociological effects of that Depression are still taking their toll in national consciousness and morality. On the economic side, our government accepted the confusions of Keynesian economic under which we now still live because It is all that those under 50 were taught. The cost to this country is in efficiency, in know-Tiow and in the marketability of American goods. Private en-(Continued on page five)

S. Distillers Seek Even

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By KARL L .DOLT.LA.SS BALA.\CE

To what extent shall I conform and to what extent .shall I refuse to , conform?

Here i.s a question w h 1 ^ h plagues practically everyone of us at .some time in our lives. Young people going out into social life for the first time eii-counter this choice. Boys and girls encounter it when they go to college. Young bnsine'^s men encounter it. The politician encounters it. The ministr- ..anting to be all things to all men and yet to be a cifiampibn of Christian righteousness has to confront this problem.

The chronic nonconformist is a nuisance to him.self and to the world. We meet such a person once in a while. He fits

tert who takes on the coloring, enters into the mood, and ac-cepis the _^ial .standards of any group in which he happ(*ns to he i.s a corrupter of the nio.st^dangerous variety.

Here, as everywhere, we must have balance. A certain conformity is required in life. We would make ounselve.s ridiculous in the eyes of the world, we woiild load our lives with unhappine.s.s if we aijsolutely re-fu.sed .to conform to anMhing Unless it met our fancy one hundred per cent. But the disposition to conform too m'w* lies at the basis of most of the world's .sinning. Most of the time people do not sin becau.se they are evil but becau.se they are weak. They go along with the crowd

Wr keep repeating in .this

By EI.IMFR ROE.SSNER

American distilling companies are waging a quiet battle With the Internal Revenue Ser-vic(? for an even break with Canadian, .Scotch and Iilsh whisky distillers.

They are a.sking two equalizing rules:

1. Perrais.sion to brag about aging in re-used barrels.

2. Tlie right to put whiskey into Ijond at higher than 110 proof.

Under pre.sent regulations, American distillers may not state the age of wliiskey on labels or in advertising if it has been .stored in re-u.sed barrels, and if it Is stored in re-used barrels, it must be labeled as having been "stored in re-used G-ooperage."

On the other hand, foreign w^hiskies, traditionally .stored in such barrels, can be imported into the United States without such legends.

.STRANGE CONSKQlKNCK

once-used by an American distiller for aging Old Bonded Pop-.skull cannot be used for aging new whiskey without the sales-retaiding legend, but a Canadian distilleV can use that same barrel for aging Old Canadian Popskull "without the legend. It seems apparent that if whiskey stored in re-used barrels is not a.s good as other wlii.skies, the Internal Revenue Service is giving foreign distillers quit a break.

Schenley, Waterfill and Frazier. and Willett mstilling recently asked the IRS to equalize regulations on storage between foreign and American distillers. A few days ago American Distilling and Federal Liquors joined in the ap-, peal for public hearings. BONDING AT 125 DEGREES

The .second complaint arises from the fact that American

more proof. Both dome.stic and foreign whiskies are reduced to lower proof by the addition of water at'bottling. ^

These differences give foreign distillers a great advantage. At higher proof, fewer barrels are needed for a given amount of whisky.

At a public hearing. Distilled Spirits Institute urged that the limit in the United States be raised to 125 proof. Schenley and Publicker Industries asked that there be no limit. The American companies said that the only t*ea.son advanced against storage at higher proof was that the taste would be changed. But, they said, the consumer and not the IRS is the guardian of taste.

The IRS indicated a willingness to agree to 125 proof storing, but not higher, because foreign distillers did not store

Washington, N. Y., pharmacist, has been denied incorporation as Doctors Pharmacy. The State Supreme Court upheld a law prohibiting the use of the word doctor or "Dr. in incorporated names.

For nine years Mr. Doctor has been running "Doctor's Pharmacy as a wholly owned business, which is apparently legal.

no place. On the other hand,

the snilliig, gooil liatured xtr-1rhpbrtiauil clrsHs^bSlaice:

Foreign distillers frequently colurnn that one^of life's nio.st ^uy up u.sed American, arifis ~ ' TT~tlTi1r T[gtnigriitiS7*aHj^

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distlllers must now put raw whiskey in government bonded- whisky at higher proof.

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COST OF LIVING RISING IN JAPAN

Official figures show that while the cost of living has risen 7.8 percent in Washington in the last six years and 11.7 percent in New York, it has gone up 18.6 percent in Tokyo. _

Members of the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan and American business representatives , stationed there are Informing their United States headquarters of the J^^cts. in nqt-so-gentle hints for Increas?

4ft livlir aftd

salary allowances.

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