W^nesdty, 2, 1962

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Phosphate Mining Holds Promise

Formation of a phosphate exploration company in Beaufort County by two nationally known companies indicates an increasing interest on the part of major industrial concerns in tl^e phosphate deposit' located in our neighboring county.

Kennecott Copper Corp. for several years has shown its interest in the phosphate deposits in Beaufort County through its subsidiary Bear Creek Mining Co. It has now joined with American Agricultural Chemical Co. to form Pamlico Mining and Chemical Corp. which continue the exploration in Beaufort County. ^

This new development in the effort to bring about a phosphate mining operation in Beaufort County suggests both an intensification of the exploration and confidence by major national concerns that a successful phosphate industry will be developed. It is important for Beaufort County

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where large phosphate deposits are located, and it is also important to other neighboring counties which may be affected by development of a major industry in Beaufort.

During the several years that interest has been shown in phosphate deposits in Beaufort County by major industrial concerns, there have been indications that development would not be just another small industry for that county. If phosphate can be successfully mined in Beaufort County in appreciable quantity, V it may be expected that industries which phosplmte will grow up in the immediate area. While sqme ^f these will be located in Beaufort County, .others may be located in near-by counties. The potential for new jobs in Beaufort and surrounding jobs could be significant.

Progress in the development of a phosphate industry in Beaufort County should be of interest to citizens of Pitt, and other neighboring counties as well as to Beaufort.

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By LYNN MSBET

BATTLESHIP The formal dedication Sunday afternoon of the . S. S. Battleship North Carolina as a permanent memorial to men and women who foughtand many died for their country was an impressive ceremony. Admiral Arleigh Burtce, who made the principal address, sounded the keynote when he said Let us remember not only those who diedbut why they died.

This was an unusual kind of dedication. It was not like the dedication a bridge or a school or big new industrial plant such as the state has had many of during recent months. This ship had been christened when it was launched and had undergone a baptism of fire in numerous battles during World War n. Now it is dead, just recently retrieved from the junk yard. The engines which gave It life arc gone. But somehow the five or six former commanders of the mighty battlewagon by their presence and in brief comment managed to bring back the spirit of life to the great hulk and it did not seem dead. In his address Admiral Burke and in his dedicatory prayer Father OConnor made of the ship a lively symbol of courage and of faith, a fitting memorial to keep alive memdfies of great deeds.

It was estimated that more than 5,000 people attended the dedicatory services, 2.000 of them crowding on the ship itself. Although the ship I'; not yet fully renovated for show, and the adjacent ground.s have not been landscaped, more than 110.000 people have visited it since it was berthed last October. As its fame spreads more people will come, and predictions arC that half a million visitors a year from all parts of America llU come to Wilmington to see the big ship. No more battleships are being built.

APPEAL-The battleship has universal appeal. It attracts old people who have sentimental memories of days when battleships were lords of the ocean;

It attracts kids, especially little boys, who have no recognition of its history or purposes but are delighted with its gadgets. Sunday afternoon nearly every place where a wheel could be turned a small boy was there turning it or trjing to. This diversity of appeal adds to the value of the battleship as a tourist attraction and an economic asset.

We havent got the full story; In fact It hasn't developed yet. But Upchurch says that with proper handling more food can be grouTi on an acre of water stocked with catfish than any other product. He sees in this venture an opportunity to add to the economy of eastern North Carolina to replace some of the losses suffered by the decline in cotton production. He thinks the farmers who go in for catfish culture will enjoy the work and profit by it, but he insists it is not a sporting lark. It is a real job requiring planning and careful attention.

CATFISH - If anybody had told me a few years ago that I would pay $1,000 for catfish I would thought they were crazy, said Tommie Upchurch of Raeford, one of eastern North Carolina leading farmers and chief boosters. But he did just that.

He bought $1,000 worth of breeding stock catfish from Arkansas a few months ago and Is stocking a number of ponds in his area with them. Already he has orders for hundreds of thousands of fingerlings to stock other ponds and to start a catfish industry.

ADVERTISINGWe borrow from the Henderson Daily Dispatch some pertinent comments on the place advertising holds In the business set-up:

Certain so-called liberal political quarters are trjdng to make a villain out of advertising. says the National Association of Manufacturers. And politicians. it says, have fallen for . two untruths about advertising, and have overlooked the ways in which it is truly useful.

One untruth is that advertising adds to the prices of things.

This is not so. says NAM, because low pri^s can oriy result from volume jiroduction and volume distribution. This can result only from volume sales, which are impossible without advertising."

A second untnith cited is that adxertising is so sinister-clever that Americans aie persuaded to buy things they dont want. This is an insult to every housewife, Who stretches her smallish budget to cover the needs of her family, says NAM.

Many .seiwices of advertising are cited: It makes new pro-, ducts known; helps the careful housewife find bargains: in effect forces competing companies to keep on their toes, de-veloji better products, new products and power prices: services as a director^ for every kind of need.

Those who attack advertising in general, rather than some limited abuses in advertising. says NAM, must be suspected of either speaking In ignorance of the subject, or of deliberately ..wthing to deprive the free press and the broadcast media of foundation of support. Are they seeking a government press to replace our free press? ,

The defense of advertising scarcely needs further elaboration or support. Advertising has justified itself in the expansion of Industry, creation and sale of new products, increase in . emplo>Tnent and reduction in the prices of merchandise through volume distribution. Everybody, even the politicians who fall for this line of criticism, should know better. The public is neither the fool nor the imoramus these ,;mart alec politicians would pretend. Consumers know their way around and do not need the wouldbe papa knows best breast-beat-ers to guide them.

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Stte highway officials are moving aheati with p4ns to study the feasibility of an East-West turnpike across North Carolina, but with the stipulation by Highway Chairman Merrill Evans that we are not tied to any one suggestion.

Evans announced this week that an engineering firm will be employed to study the situation and consider various possible routes. It will, he said, be a wide range study.

While the Highway Commission and Gov. Sanford appear to lean to the idea that a toll road is the only answer to providing a major East-West highway across North Carolina, the possibility of a major highway, minus the tolls, should not be eliminated. Careful consideration should be given- the possibility of building such a major East-West Highway as part of the state system just as major North-South highways have been constructed through North Carolina without ihe necessity of resorting to tolls.

It would be a costly undertaking, to be sure, but other major highway projects undertaken by the state have also been costly. They h'ave been completed because the need for them existed and because funds were made available without tolls to finance their construction.

Certainly a major East-West highway across North Carolina is needed as it has been for years. The existence of such a highway would be a great a.sset to the state and its economic development. In view 'of consideration of the matter

By HENRY HOWARD

A Time To Think Quickly

A BRISK wind a couple of weeks ago blew through Evans Evans Street. Riding with it, unbeknownst to me, was just one of those things.

There are those unexpected occasions when a definite decision must be made wdth reckless speed. This occasion fits precisely into that group:

A' charming young lady, arms well-laden with the results of a lunch-hour shopping trip, stepped smartly along the sidewalk, near the row of shops. I was approaching her from the opposite direction, strolling along near the curb.

feet of each other and nodded our respective greetings. At that very instant, the playful wind sw'ooped through the avenue and whipped J^e full skirt unbelievably hfeh behind her head. '

Being mutual acquaintances, we approached to w'ithln a few

should not be limited to building such a highway a.s a toll road, or not a*t all.

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abor, Industry

Legislative Inequities

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(Washington Daily News) There Is a familiar cry in North Carolina that populous counties of the Piedmont area are being discriminated against In the matter of legislative seats in the General Assembly.

By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON i.APi - Ever since President Kennedy got mad at the steel industry and made it call off a price increase. hes been telling busi-ne.s he's not mad at it.

And maybe he isnt. His shake-hands - and - let - bygones -bc-bygones approach Is even considered conciliatory by Richard Wagner, outgoing president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce.

But theres a difference between being, friendly and turning soft or backing up.

Kennedy has given no assurance to labor or business if they try to push up wages or prices that he wont u.se a club again. He has left them guessing, which seems to be precisely what he wants to do.

This is going to make the weeks ahead acutely interesting. Labor-management settlements are coming up in various indu.stries, such a.s aluminum, rails, aircraft and missiles.

Kennedy's main theme in talking pleasantly to and about business labor hasnt created a crisis for him yet is that government, busine.ss and labor must get along and all have a responsibility for preventing inflation and keeping the economy even.

Beyond that he hasnt gone. He put it this way to the U. S. Chamber of Commerce Monday; I have been impre.ssed that all the segments, including the national government, must operate responsibly in terms of each other, or the balance which sustains the general welfare will be lost.

He added a sentence which can be interpreted as a warning, just in case once again he has to throw the influence of his office against some action of labor or business.

"We have many burdens In Washington we do not W'ant the added burden of determining individual prices for individual products.

H left unsaid what power he might try to use other than the denunciation, persuasion and

threat of antitrust action he used in steel if business again tries to puncture the inflation rim or if labor tries.

Theres no peacetime 1 a w giving him authority to hold down prices or wages. But, while many in business resent his intrusion in the steel case, no one is publicly talking of trying to test him or frustrate him.

The friendly attitude of the post-steel Kennedy toward business in general is the same attitude he has continually employed as a politician in a broad field of dealing with people when, apparently, he feels he has nothing to gain by showing anger.

For example, he has suffered a number of frustrations in Congress, particularly from some of his own Southern Democrats. He could tear into his opposition on any given Issue on which he has been blocked

But there are many pieces of legislation he wants passed. And men who W'ork against him today for some special reason of their own will be working for him tomorrow on something else if he doesnt antagonize them.

Youll notice that Kennedy has done very little antagonizing isince he took office. Its not that hes not capably of anger. He showed he was m the steel case.

In short; hes a cool politician who doesnt seem to get angry unless its useful.

If ^we look at the picture only from the standpoint of population, it would be easy to see that discrimination exists.

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Retraining of the displaced is a must if our country is to continue to prosper and to hold its place of leadership in the free world. Automation and changing trade patterns will create opportunity which caa be met only by a better educated, higher skilled, more productive working force. Memphis (Tenn.) Press-Scimi-tar.

For Instance, Mecklenburg county. North Carolinas most populous county, has today about 300,000 people living in it. Tyrrell county. North Carolinas least populous county, has less than 5,000 people living there. In the last session of the General assembly Mecklenburg

county has a senator and four Representatives. Tyrrell county had one representative and it did not have a senator. Thus Mecklenburg with 60 times the, population of Tyrrell county had only five times the amount of representation in the North Carolina legislature.

Prom the practical standpoint there is absolutely no practical w'ay of giving every county exact representation according to population.

Every county in North Carolina has at least one legislative representative. Then others are given to the more populous counties according to the people living there.

If we look at legislative representation in the national government we find the fact that , from the population standpoint there are great inequities. In the United States senate every state has twQ^ senators regardless of size and population. Thus Alaska with less than 50,-000 population has as much power in the American senate as does New York state with more than 12,000,000 people.

In the lower house of the U.S. congress states have representation based solely on population. Thus Alaska has only one

representative there while New York state has 45 representatives. Actually we see no way in any legislative body to have a situation where membeiship is exactly equitable.all the time.

In North Carolina it has been sort of an unwritten rule that in state legislative representation we must consider area along with people. Thus Tyrrell county, with a very low population still have considerable area involved. If in North Carolina today we used population solely as the basis of determining legislative representation, we would find that the 25 largest counties of our state would be in absolute control of the legislative machinery of our state. The other 75 counties would in a real sense be at the sufferanc of the largest 25 counties.

We can argue this point all we wish and we still can come up w'ith no answer which will satisfy everyone. It just cannot be done. We suspect that our own state legislature does need some overhauling in this matter of representation. We suspect that some of the larger counties ought to have more representation. But to put it solely on the basis of population and without any consideration of territory would leave 75 counties at the political mercy of 25 counties.

North Carolina ought to try to work out some system whereby every 10 years the legislature is automatically reapportioned. It should not have to go on year after year vdth the same old arguments prevailing.

Reapportionment ought to be compulsory after every census. and it should be done then and there. If the Secretary of State, after every census could determine re^portionment by law. then we probably would be much better off than we are with the present biennial legislative arguments coming up every session.

Grave alarm and dismay shone in her eyes, but she pivoted the upraised 'skirt gracefully but immediately toward the brick wall. Before there was tim to speak, her eyes were pleading desperately for help.

That was the dilemma. Her own hands were rendered helpless by the bundles, ob-, viously breakable. The, wind w'as consistently merciless. My own hands may as well have been tied. It was a problem that begged for an immediate, if reckless, solution.

There certainly wasnt time to write Ann Landers, so I frantically grabbed for the armload of packages. Her hands rocketed to attack the erratic skirt. Instantly then, all was well.

She agreed we both attacked and conquered proper objectives.

From the episode comes an alarming axiom for cases of those things:

Snap Judgements at worst seem best.

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AHHHH. THE SOUTH the professor answer-

He wasnt a.sked for any reply. H volunteered it when a student informed him during class that she had not yet checked on the whereabouts of a book assigned at the first .class meeting.

The professor marveled aloud at the consistent leisure in the Southern attitude and personality. His next comment was inconsistent in his English - teacher personality, but he said it: It aint necessarily so up North.

The student was totally un-rufHed by the psofessar^s words. She smiled leisurely w'hile the prof continued: That reminds me. You w'ont believe this. Yesterday morning I was teaching my 11 oclock class. About 11:20 I looked out the window and there w'as the morning Hag-raising. The flag of the United States going up at 11:20!

A leisurely stirring was the classs response. It prompted the professors final comment on the subject;

Thats Southern dawn, he said.

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By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY Copyright. 1962, King Features Syndicate, Inc. Representative George M. Rhodes wrote to a reader of this column as follows:

The tax bill had my support because it would enable the Federal government to receive at least $600 million In tax revenues that escape the Treasury every year. The legislation imposes no new tax.

The method of collecting taxes is as important and can be as brutal as the tax itself. When the Income tax was accepted by the American people, it was said that the tax would not become burdensome. **

For most Americans, the tax takes about 20 percent of personal Income. There are, of course, deductions which give some relief, but the burden is becoming unconscionable, particularly as there is a rise in prices due, in part, to excessive corporation taxes as well as many hidden taxes.

It must be taken for granted that in this time of war, the government must have enormous sums of money. Each orbiting effort, each bomb testing, runs into millions of dollars. This burden must be carried by the American people un-tU we are safe from conquest by Soviet Russia. Our first problem is national security.

On the other hand, the Income tax is too violent a method for gathering funds for the government in a capitalist country. It destroys incentive. It leaves young people without hope. It encourages cheating. It drives surplus money out of the country.

The times require a radical approach to taxation to get the country moving. I have, for many years, recommended the transaction tax as a substitute for the personal income tax. Perhaps the transaction tax is not the best remedy, but a remedy must be found because both ..the personal income tax and the corporate income tax are too damaging to the morale of the country.

What is the moral basis -of our economic system? It is that the individual labors to provide for himself and his family, to set aside an estate to support his old age and disabilities, to educate his children and to improve their status In the community and to leave' something over for them when he dies.

All the social security devices have not succeeded In making the American people dependent upon government. Americans still want to earn their

own way; want to build their

own lives. This we might call

the capitalist system, the ffee^ enterprise system, but a better term for It is the System of Free Individuals joined together in families and living

by mutual respect and aid.*

The mechanism of this system Is the exchange of goods, services and labor by means of money. Governrnent, in such a system, rightfully performs only such tasks as individuals or groups of Individuals cannot perform privately. Because of war and economic miscalculation, during the past half cenl tury, the tasks that have fallen to government or which government has assumed h^^ grown m9re numerous. > For Instance, the task of keeping the streets clean is a proper government function, long recognized and relatively inexpensive, but the orbiting of the Earth, the search for, means to control weather, the need to maintain an equality of Intricate defense involve new and ultra-expensive governmental costs. These costs force upon the dividual as well as upon government a restudy and a revjs-lon of the tax methods of the nation, which requires a greater vigilance against cttlating but a gentler approach to the individual and the corporation lest our economic system and morale be destroyed not only by the amount of taxation but by the methods of taxation. Confidence in the system of government can be destroyed by the tax collector.

From a political standpoint, this subject is extremely Important. The present Administration Is making a valiant effort to halt the inflation which is like a rotting disease. Psy-(Oontinued on Page 5)

3illion-Dollar Fight Being Won

Strength For Today

By ELMER ROESSNER It is beginning to look as If the shore people of New Jersey will win a billion-dollar fight. They will have the area sufficiently rebuilt by Memorial Day to welcome the annual crowds of holidayers.

By EARL L. DOUGLAS

WHAT OF THE FUTURE?

Will there be' a third world war? Probably not. The probability would seem to be 65 per cent that we will nof have a war and 35 per cent that we a-m.., It may be 80-20. It may even Be TOtDalainst war.

Why should the communists fight when they are making such tremendous gains without firing a single shot? We maneuver. back up, appease, reflect, and while we are so engaged communism moves In and takes over. Furthermore, they realize as well as we do what a war Would do ta their country, So We can be sure that communism will not fight if it can continue to grow wthut the pressing neces.sity of fieht-ing. But there may be crises, and if there are thcs might

start a world war.

Who would have thought that the incident at Sarajevo would have started the first world waK? Or going back furtbsr, w ho' would have believed that Lexington and Concord would have^been the beginning of the war tor American independence?, Most of the determin-Ing events of life happens when humanity as a whole has its face turned the other w'ay. Generations are almost never conscious of th great movements going on within their social framework day by day.*

Even more to be feared than a world war is the silent and hidden decline, mentally, morally. and physically, which people of considerable authority believe is taking place in our life today.

We may not have to fight n-otlicr world war if we oppose everyday the things w hj c h _ brought on two world wars'.__

It will be a triumph of cooperation between Federal, state and community governments free enterprise some So free that the workers would not ta^ a cent. Q-

The terrific storm that struck New Jerseys 120 miles of coast on March 6 and. 7 ripped up boardwalks, sluiced beaches away. smashed convention halls and piers, tossed hundreds of homes about and left scores dead. Property damage w'a s estimated at $100 mlUion.

After the emergency respe and repair w'ork, the community faced an even greater economic threat. The resort and travel business along the coast brings in $1.6 billion a year and provides 40.000 jobs in 55 resort communities. Word W' e n t out: If the area was not ready for vacationers by Memorial Day. a whole sea.son would be

lort,

EVERYBODY FITCHES IN With 28 days more to go. vlc-

tory Is In sight today. The Federal government allocated $10 million. The State voted $12 million. Cities appropriated more. But the biggest push came from businesses, mostly small, and individuals.

The Atlantic City Steel Pier is expected to be in operation by May 30: most of the Board-w^alk has already been rebuilt. All hotels and many private houses have. been restored, all by private spending .and aid.

Ocean City is spending, $787,-000 to construct a 43-b lock bulkhead, which will be strengthened by stone. The main section of the Boardwalk has been completely rebuilt, and work is progressing on other sections.

Ocean City had a special problem. It was founded by religious groups and ordinances prohibit work on Sundays. But ordinances were suspended' and work has proceeded around the cl(^k.

It was given a start., when 640 men from Allentowm, Pa., carried their own tools to Ocean City and worked along side jesl-dents to rebuild the Boardwalk. The Fishing Pier w'as totally destroyed but decision has not

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BOOTSTRAP REVIVAL

While Wildwood was not severely damaged. West Wildwood was hard hit and many cottages occupied by elderly persons were destroyed. Without outside aid, residents are raising funds for rebuilding. The local masonic organization has undertaken to rebuild a church.

,.While Asbury Park Is expecting state aid, the city is floating a $500,000 bond issue to repair damage to its Boardwalk. Damage^ to the convention hall and, homes has been largely repaired.

Long Beach Island also received help from Pennsylvania. A brigade of 254 workers, in-cluding-GlsFgymen from Stroudsburg. spent an April Sunday helping residents repair damage in return, they said, for the help Jerseyites gave during the floods in the Poconos in 1956. The Red Cross and the Salvation Army are continuing to help residents. More than 570 houses w'cre destroyed.

' Cape May ia. replacing tbe badly damaged old wooden Boardwalk with a 25-block retaining billkhead and a concrete promenade, 11 feet above the beach level. City and state are sharing the costs. Yhe' clty is

receiving bids this week for the demolition of the Convention Hall, a total loss. A new and larger haU will be built.- but on the land side of Beach Drive Instead of on the ocean. Here, as in most shore communities, volunteers plunged In to help. Quakers, Mennonltes and Lutherans sent in volunteer workers.

And In the other communities along the coast, the people are pitching In, working hard to get 20 mUes of coast ready for Memorial Day. Make it? Looks like.

JAPAN SOYBEAN GROWERS SHIFT TO ADZUKI BEANS

Japan is having agricultural problems too. Japan, which once grew all Its soybeans, has announced that It will Inqport more of them. Most will come from the United States, which has a surplus.

Consequently, Japanese farmers have been shifting to ad-zukl beans, white potatoes, peanuts, vegetables and feed crops. The government has embarked on a prlce-support program which will probably' be no more successful than the U. S. program. Meanwhile, Japanese Importers are buying soybeans In Communist Chln'.