Fri<Uy, April 27, 1962

It Would Be Helpful To Tell How

Youre Gonna Keep Foolin Around-

The North Carolina Congress of Parents and expenditures? Do the PTA Congress and the UFE Teachers, which represents a membership of some anticipate new tax sources will have to be found 340,000 Tar Heels, has called for a legislative pro- to provide tPfP' additional amount they proposed,

gram that would add some $45 million annually to be spent for public education?

Do-the more than 340.000 PTA members in ^ * North Carolina expect to support measures for addi-

Items proposed by the PTA Congress coincide tional tax revenues if they are required to provide with the legislative program recently proposed by the additional funds called for by the PTA legis-thc United Forces for Education. lative program?

The programs offer improvements which would North' Carolina needs to continue to move for-

make for better public educition in North Carolina, ward withMts program to improve the quality of If recommendations of the programs were followed, education in its public schools. In order to do so, each child in the state would have better educational however, it must give as much attentionif not

opportunities in the public schools. They set forth moreto the matter of paying for better quality worthwhile goals that fit into the overall program education as it does to citing needs within the edu-

of the state to improve the quality of its education.

As representative groups of citizens,interested in the betterment of public education in the state, the PTA and the UFE could have rendered a furtner service to the state by also recommending means by which these additional funds might be acquired. If

cational system. It needs the constructive thought of such groups as the PTA Congress concerning methods of financing a quality school program as it does concerning what new steps must be taken to improve the schools.

It would be most helpfqLto members of the 1963

the funds are to be made available for public edu- Genera! Assembly, we believe, if the 340,000 mem-cation, they will have to come from the taxpayers ber PTA Congress would suggest methods by which of the state in,some form. Is it the feeling of the state revenue may be acquired to offset the addi-PTA Congress and the UFE that present state tax tionai S45 million annually they are asking to be levies will produce a sufficient amount of revenue spent for education, in the next biennium to underwrite their proposed

Great Public Service

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In The Tetanus Clinics

By LYNN MSBET , TOLL ROADSSeveral conferences have been held in North Carolina with representatives'of Federal and State a*

cue. They have called upon Don Hall of the Roanoke Rapids Herald to ser\e as referee. Meantime Henry Dennis of the Henderson Dally Dispatch puts

Members of the Pitt County Medical Society have rendered a distinct service to local citizens through the tetanus immunization clinics held in the county during the month of April.

''tS SiSiS ' medical jfroup. only a,fraction of these people would By DON SCHLIENZ

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Literally thousands of Pitt Countians have been immunized again.'it the disease commonly referred to as lockjaw. Without the clinics sponsored by the

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Solution

charging fees and tolls for the use of Natloial Forests, Parks and Parkways. One such meeting was held at Asheville this week, ^

This state Is primarily concerned with proposed tolls <n the Blue Ridge Parkway. The issue has crxne to the frtxit every four or five years siftce the scenic highway was opened for trwfc. North Carolina has consistently opposed the Idea and has succeeded several times in having orders rescinded for collection of toUs. The State and the operators of resort places adjacent to the parkway have used two main arguments in their protests. One point is that the character of the road and the numerous access points make the collection of tolls almost Impossible.

Another strong point has been contention that the State of North aroBna provided the right of way for the paik^ay, although the Federal government built and maintains the road, and that it has been the ln\iolate policy of North Carolina not to tolerate tolls on any of Its highways.

That line has been cracked and the claim of aU toll-free routes cannot be maintained. Tolls have been applied on the ferry between the mainland and Ocracoke. Governor Sanford has Indicated interest in and acceptance of tolls an several proposed bridges and on an east-west cross-state turnpike. Having accepted for itself the policy of tolls on public roads, the State cannot support argument against tolls charged by the Federal government.

While these rival communities fight for the title, other parts of the state continue to eat a product which they call barbecue but which has little kinship to the eastern Carolina food. The easterners Insist It isnt barbecue unless cooked slowly over coals In a pit and then properly cut up and seasoned.

The office dictionary doesnt support that posltlra. The man who wrote the dictionary evidently never spent any time in North Carolina. Here's the definition of barbecue; A hog, ox or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast . . . Another definition when used as a verb Is To cook (meat or flsh( in thin slices In a highly seasoned vinegar sauce. >

have received the immunization on an irrdividual basis. A number of citizens who responded to the clinics received only one instead of two shots,)however, and these should heed the plea of the medical group to obtain the second immunization shot from their private physician.

A Lesson In Show Biz

One can learn something about show business by watch-The tetanus clinics were another step in provid- performers uive ones) on

ing better health for the people of this county

through preventke medicine and we join with others i,'"Umencf' Td'nuficaUon! in commending the doctors of this county for their identifying itself with the per-

efforts which made the undertaking a success.

BARBECUE The word barbecue has a distinct meaning as descriptive of a particular item of food in eastern North Carolina, especially the area roughly bounded by Virginia on the north, Wind.sor and Washington on th^ east, the Neuse river on the south and Raleigh-Durham on the west. Within that area Goldsboro and Rocky Mount vie for the title of the capital of barbecue land, with Greenville, Tarboro. Wilson and other cities offering frequent challenges.

Right now one of the periodic feuds is raging between Henry .Belk of the Goldsboro News-Argus and Vernon Sechre-1st of the Rocky Mount Telegram over which community offers the most delectable barbe-

GARDENS Th following editorial clipped from the Wilson Times Is passed along as more appropriate to this particular season than anything we could write:

A garden is made to be shared. When there Is beauty you want others to njoy it. So it Is with our gardens. This is the reason we have the little notices In the paper saying that this garden or that garden is open to everyone who is interested.

The ov^mers are only doing what all true garden lovers do, creating a joy for everyone, to be shared with others. You cannot think of selfishness and a garden. There may 'be a high wall, but the vines that creep over beckon you to come inside. In fact the wall provides the coziness and protection the growing plants like. Just look over the garden wall or better still go inside, and enjoy the beauty.

This was brought to mind Monday when we had a call saying another of Wilsons gardens was at its prettiest. The one calling said several had stopped in, to enjoy the beauty. They were passers-by. attracted by the vivid coloring of the azaleas blooming underneath the tall pine trees. In a natural setting or in the many charming garden designs.

It- was Sir Francis Bacon v^ho said God first planted a garden. Whatever God had a hand in He wants shared. We believe this Is the thinking behind those who open their gardens. They want as many to enjoy the beauty as are interested.

Quieter Nikita On Our Hands

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP)Soviet

Premier Khrushchev seems quieter, perhaps because he's getting olaer. This, if true, would be comforting to the Western nervous system that he has kept a-tingle.

had never done any nuclear testing underground, and never would, because there is no value In small tactical weapons. ^0'^

formers. This is easier to attain when members of the "audience are acquainted with members of the cast, in, say, the hometown staging of a Dixieland Minstrel. And it helps when performers are obviously enjoying themselves. The atmosphere is contagious.

The foregoing should lead any reader to conclude "Schlienz went to a minstrel this week.

So I did. So I did.

The audience passed Judgment by laughing and ap

plauding at all the right places, so the writer wont attem^ a critique.

Little' reascm, anyway. The curtain closed for the last time last night until another year, another show.

But back to our contrived lesson In show biz: Producer-dlrector Eli Bloom insured a degree of audience identification with his cast of 144 people ... I quit counting after 97. The odds are that everyone In the audience had a friend or acquaintance in the production, which virtually assured a home run before the cast strode to the plate. Another factor: the entertainers were having a good time, and that always inspires a warmth n both sides of the

This bubbly and imaginative man. just turned 68, has been notoriously impatient with delay and stuffed shirts. He acted as if under compulsion to get the show on the road, no matter what show.

By April l3. 1962, he had changed. At that time, refusing the kind of nuclear test ban agreement the West wanted and knowing Kennedy would resume testing if he didnt, Khrushchev said;

Other Editors Saying. . Various Kinds Of Testing

But now for months, compared with the earlier Khrushchev, he has seemed rather withdrawn. There has .been less flamboyance, in word and deed, less animal spirit, less thunder in his threats of lightning.

In the future Russia would match all tests carried out by the West whether underground. in the atmosphere, or in outer space.

So his moments of calm after crises dont necessarily mean that he is getting tired.

At least he seems that way to this writer, although it is easy to read too much Into his periods of quietude between escapades. He has had them before and came charging back like a refreshed bear.

Meanwhile, hes had some problems at home in this past year, de.spite some spectacular successes like orbiting men around the earth. One of them Is the fact that the Russians have a miserable food supply.

An example of the slowing down in the Khrushchevian tempoif that's what it is was laid on the table this week with release of an interview he gave an American publisher, Gardner Cowles.

This alone would be enough to make many a leader a little self-con.scious about directing the destiny of the world before he could feed his own people better. It may have had a sobering effect on Khrushchev.

The Da3y Reflector

In the past Khrusljchev seemed obsessed with the need for a summit, without such preliminaries as a meeting of foreign ministers to see if there could be any agreement before the top men got together.

Western leaders will begin having uneasy moments if they believe Khrushchev is getting tired and may not be around long. At least they know how to deal with him. They may not be able to deal with his successflr. .

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But the interview' w'ith Cow'les showed he has changed his mind. Now he says there should be a Kennedy - Khrushchev meeting only if their diplomats can first negotiate agreements or if war threatens.

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This doc.sn't .sound like the bouncy, hard-driving Khrushchev of old. Nor was it his only recent change of heart, although its always been tough to figure whether his many changes were in him or jtust in his tactics.

Perhaps, ultimately, farming will be returned to the framework of the free, competitive entrpri.se system, where production is, geared to consumption and the law of supply and demand prevails in the market place. Thats about the only .solution we havent tried.San Francisco Daily Commercial New's.^

(Christian Science Monitor)

It would be interesting to know who orchestrated the rocketry this week.

If there was a grand design it could have been coincidence it made good .sense. A series of peaceful American explorations of space was aimed at the headlines just as the United States braced itself tq resume military nuclear testing in the atmosphere.

The telemetry of the mpon shot malfunctioned, as yoimg guidance systems will do. But there remain a second test of Saturn, perhaps the worlds most powerful rocket, and the first peaceful space experiments made jointly with Japan and Great Britain.

It would be unnecessarily cynical to call all this a mere public relations maneuver, although that w'as at least a byproduct. An electronic scouting party on the moon, sending its pictures and findings back to earth, would have outranked the military testing if it had succeeded.

But there Is a larger meaning. The West has been forced into rapid space exploration by the cold war, just as it was filled into splitting the atom in the first place by hot war. Military need gave the first impetus in each case. But the peaceful uses of space, just like the peaceful uses of atomic energy, are the civilian dream of the West which looks far beyond the immediate tasR of restraining war.

The peacAul element in this week's show of rocketry puts first things fiist.

This may not appear ,so to the -present adult generations. Nu

clear power Is slow in developing, The moon seems like a diversion from unfinished business on earth. But look at the glazed exultation on the eyes of youngsters emerging from the theater after seeing Walt Disneys Moon Pilot. Remember the wife of the space scientist who has her young son describe what her husband is up to. The husband can tell the boy and the boy finds the simple language his mother can understand.

The new physics textbook developed for high school freshmen by the Physical Science Study Committee had a picture of a high energy machine on page one. How high is high? The youngsters know.

We regret the need to resume American atmospheric testing. We join the Easter protest marchers in at least one respect: w'e share their agony that men have not found it possible ' to stop this part of the high energy war machine yet.

But the testsit cannot be repeated'too oftenare part of a great effort to prevent aggression and thereby to prevent war.- Reasonable men, not militarists or monsters or even bureaucrats likely to miscalculate, are in charge of this policy. Courage of this order has Its dangers and they will have to be guarded against, but they do not approach the dangers of Western cowardice before Hit- ler. ' ,

It looks as if peaceful space testing and military missile testing will have to go on together until humanity reaches a better means of separating the tares from the wheat.

footlights. A display of disinterest on-stage throws ice water on the proceedings. Q

An extra asset hometown performers probably are unaware of, is the unspoken recognition of their audience that hours of work above and beyond that of daily duties and responsibilities are Involved.

The writer will recall with pleasure (and a purpose) the one segment of the minstrel program which will be heard again In a full-scale production of their own. That was the singing of the S P.E.B.S. Q.S.A. (Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in Americaor the equivalent thereof),.

This group sings for the love of singing; and it shows.

One of The Reflector staffers attended a meeting of the SPEBSQSA, and afterw'ard remarked You know how it is when a small crowd gets together for regular meetings; they do a lot of socializing and after ^while more or less get do\ivn to business. These guys dont. When the hour strikes, they start singing in earnest.*

At any rate, the Society Is planning a program for the public in May. Youll read or hear more of the details another day. But the sample they offered at this weeks minstrel is a good reason for making a point to go and hear them.

Ooinions

in

Brief

If destruction be our lot, we ourselves must be the author and finisher.Abraham Lincoln.

What we obtain too cheap we esteem too lightly; It is dearness that gives everything Its value.Thomas Payne.

If medicare is added, the Social Security tax burden on many young wage earners will exceed their regular income tax burden. And, once started, medicare wont be curtailed. Fort Lauderdale (Ha>) News.

A budding scientist of our acquaintance says the problem is to get a science fair project which will impress the judges without frightening his father. Jacksonville (Fla.) Times-Union.

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

The Presidents Commission on Campaign Costs has Issued an interesting but futile n* port on how to coi\(rol campaign expenditures. The 1960 Campaign cost the Republican and Democratic Parties $19,900,000. which is far less than the fact because considerable amounts in any campaign are paid In cash and are not accounted for and cannot be proved.

The Comralssion proposes: Where an Individual or o*'-ganlzatlon is subject to taxation, we recommend that ths reasonable costs of these activities be declared a deductible expense for tax purposes. That would be a sensible proposal if groups contributed only to absolutely defined campaign funds, not to so-called educational funds, which are a device to deceive. The Commission further proposes:

We recommend that individuals and private organizations Including corporations, labor unions, farm organizations, civic societies, and other appropriate groups be encouraged as a matter of gx)od citizenship to take part In and to make expenditures for bipartisan political activities (or mltlparti-san political activities where more than the two major parties benefit from such expenditures).

This Is jionsense. It Is a renunciation of partisanship. Our political system Is based upon . two parties. The Communists permit only one party to exist. Partisanship is 'wholesome and is the only protection that a free people have against tyranny. Recently. I tried to explain to some youngvsters that the reason I voted for Richard Nixon in 1960 was that I was a partisan. They did not seem to understand that at all.

The Commissio^aalso proposes a tax incenti^ for ccmtri-^butors on the ground that charitable, health, welfare, religious and educational groups are exempt. The argument is specious; however. I, like other taxpayers, am willing to take advantage of any kind of tax deduction at any time; but I do not want to contribute to the success of enemies or those who support ideas that I oppose.

The Commission wisely objects to the splintering of political organizations Into many Committees, which is a current device to raise money for campaigns. However, their recommendation that the benefits be limited to political parties whose candidates for President and Vice President appeared on the .ballot in 10 states is a curb upon the freedom of conscience.

I have salved my conscience on some occasions by voting for Norman Thomas and I once voted for Roger Babson because both the Republican and Democratic candidates were repugnant to me. That may happen to me in the 1962 Election in New York State.

It seems to me that this Commission has dodged the central issue, which is that campaign expenses run too high; that the candidate who has the money to buy more television time, competing for slots with toothpaste and detergents, has a better opportunity than the man who has less money. It may be that the man with less money may be more suitable.

The Kennedy-Nixon Debates in the 1960 Campaign made sense. Nixon was defeated because he was non-aggressive, defensive, unable, because of his office, to denounce or defend his President Granted* that Nixon was on a spot ahd that Kennedy belted him to the ropes; nevertheless, the voter hacl a chance to see both men in action,

Eve?*'thls Is not the cure. The British have it in their strict limitation of expenditures'" and if a nickel more is spent than the law permits, th election is null, and the candidates manager Is liable to punishment. This Is a good law. They do not bother there about the contributors, who might sUp a bill under the table. They go after the candidate and his manager who spends that extra money which he has a right to have but not to spend (i the campaign, r

This Is an honest and direct method of keeping elections decent. The Presidents Commission on Campaign Costs wanders all over the Earth seeking (Continued on Page 6)

In an interview with American columnist Walter Lippmann in ]%! Khrushchev said Russia

Look for the silver lining-to-be certain it is not a recent dye job.Anderson (S. Cj Independent.

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Lhe Use And Abuse Of The. Law

Public Forum

To the Editor:

Sincerest thanks to our fine medical per.-,onncl. who have given .so generously of their time and efforts in operating the Tetanus Clinics in order-to protett oiir" community from a dread disease;

^ Very -truly yours,

Mrs. U. W Fet.sc'b

To the Editor:

VVe have heard jnucli of late about' tiie pinch increa.s-ed public spending is putting on the taxpayer.s pocketbook. The recent state bond issue referendum . results showed a protest to the food tax. Locally even more ha;=; been heard about the addition of the sewer fee to water and light bills.

Yet on top of thjs utility incrc.se we are faced with tlie pos.;ibj]jty of even hi-:ticr bills when the utilities Com; missicm /nances the City'a

-Share of the c.st of the Sliore Diive Redevelopinent P.oject by putting $891,618 worth of underground .wii ing, w a t c r lines, gas lines, etc. down on the river. 1 lii.s policy was reported n the December 1.7, 1961 account of the Deteniber 12 nieetiiig of ih'is {'onmiission V.liich appeared in tiiis i)ap<o'.

The only way tliis money spent on tliis pioji.< t to save the dowm towji business di'^-tiict" can be r<*paid Is throneli water, light and gas bills. Can it be that you as a user of

the.'e utilities will face an in-crca.se to cover this little

item? Can it'^ be that this co.a will (veh be spread .to rural sub>crihers .-erved by thi.s Utilities Commis.sion for this project which wc bclievo would not have a chance of

pas.ang if put to a vote of

the people bond issue?

> Mra. Helen' D." Scott

By ELMER ROE.S.SXER

A bu,sine.ssinan refu.sed to buy a ticket to a firemens benefit.

>Xhc next day he Was slappi'd

with summon.s for 20 violations of tire regulations. . .

A friend of mine protested an income tax settlement. The courts upheld him. But it co.st $1-1.()(I0 to get ju.sllce. . . .

In half the cities of the land iiuioceiit people pay tialtic lines because it i.s cheaper than standing up for Iffir play. -. .

Sc'veii years ago a tax collector a.sked another filend for Silo. The fi'iend called in the IBI and the collector went to jail. But c\jeiy year, .since then my friend .says he ha.s been called " in for auditing ot his tax report, and has lost more than $2.K) in working time . .

Ml'iTl OF THE SAME ^ Another fellow I know of was upset because a bu.sine.ssman advanced his, prices after be- Inc rrq iired to increa.se pay-^ roll co.sLs. Tills fellow had grant jury impaneled to investigate anti trust activities. Per-

hap.s illegally, he ordered that no purchases be made from the price riser.

Coincidentally, that same man who used the law' to his own ends has proclaimed May 1 as Law' Day. calling upon schools, civic and .service organizations, public bodies, the legal profession and the media of information to participate In this 'worthy educational undertaking.

Pre.sident Kennedys proclamation .stales that just as freedom itself demands constant vigilance, it i.s essential that we nurture through education and example an appreciation of the values of our system of justice and that we foster through improved under.standing the function of law and of independ- ^ ent courts an increased respect for law and the rights of others as basic elements of our free .society.

THE NEXT STEP

The proclamation did not comment on the fact that law-s are often used as Instruments Of power by cops and presi

dents; that laws are being used to deny black men civil rights; that the law is being used to force industrialists to kneel and kiss the flag.

Perhaps it was unnecessary to point that out; It is unnecessary as long as there are Ikw-yers wlio...^till respect the law as law.

In years as a newspaperman, I know of no great advancement In the cause of freedom under the law' that has not been championed by lawyers, I have seen wealthy lawyers shove ^ corporation practice aside to give time for righting wrongs; I have seen beginners w'ork until sun-up without fee to bring about justice.

But there still is that nagging problem; the uae or abuse of the law to attain ends, no matter how worthy, not written or intended in the law itself..

If the law' is to underlie our whole social, economic ' and governmental structure. as President Kennedy ^ggesteci. then the law should never be

used as a needle or a sandbag.

The bar may some day act to remedy the misuse of law. It might be given some consideration this Law Day, May 1.

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r. s. IMPORTS 309 MILLION TONS OF AUSTRALIAN MEAT IN '61

The United States ha* replaced Great Britain as the largest customer for Australian meat. In 1%1, It took 49 per cent of aU exports, a matter of 309 million pounds, consisting of 2.t6 million pdnd* of beef, 49 million pounds of mutton and 3 million pounda of lamb. ' f