Saturday, June 16, 1062 . ^

Beauforts Dream A Step Nearer

Pitt's neighSor Beaufort County moved one every reason to believe that the company is well step closer to an estimated $40 million a year in- aware of what is involved in preventing damage to dustry last week with tentati\*e approval in Ra- the river while mining operations are being carried leigh of one of the bids to lease phosphate mining out. It is not likely that they would have gone this rights in a square mile of the Pamlico River below far in their planning if they anticipated any prob-

Iq^m so far as damage to the river is concerned.

Development of the phosphate mining operation in Beaufort County will provide one of the greatest economic lifts in the histry of that county. The economic effects of the industry may be expected to be felt in other counties in this immediate section of the state as w'ell. ^

There have been many obstacles to overcome in lecent year.>? as efforts hi^ve been made to clear the wpy ttvmining Beaufort's rich phosphate deposits but now Jtiippears that the efforts will be cuiU minated in success. It will be a great day for Beaufort County and for Eastern North Carolinas as a whole.

It Still Waves

squar Washington.

Although approval of the proposed lease by the full Board of Conservation and Development is still required before the matter can be finalized, tentative approval of the least continues hope that this economic bonanza for Beaufort will not be thwarted.

There still remains^the question of complete agreement between the company which proposes to carry out mining' operations in the river and the Stream Sanitation Committee which is responsihi^ for seeing that the TT^r^ not polluted. There is

r

rime For Green

nwarrie nills

By WILLIAM A. vSHIIlES

DROUGHTIt Is the lime of year, mid-June, for the Uhwar-rie hills to be turning lush and green.

And they will. a.s always, to delight the traveler with their calm, quiet beauty. Drought-relieving rains in early June and generous, slow, 'soakinc rains of the past few days will hurry* the Uhwarrics to life..

The bloom of summer beauty Is a little late this year. Last month was the driest May on record in many parts of Nonh Carolina, and for farmers the rains may have been just in time.

It was dr\- not only In the gentle hills of the Uhwarries but also In the uhper Piedmont, In the Sandhills .and over in the Roanoke-Chowan Rainfall and moisture was potty in other parts of the stateand the drought situation varied considerably. Some mountain areas, for example. . had plenty, of rain and others did not.

Growth rate of tobacco crops across Eastern North Carolina Indicate where there was sufficient rain, or' perhaps Irriga-tiai. and where there was not.

In some cases, the difference from county to county, almost from field to field, is striking because of the fickleness of spring showers.

WATER The May drought situation, while not as severe and prolonged as In some past years, did result in water shortages or greatly reduced levels In a number of the states smaller towns and communities.

The dry summers of 10 years ago pinched even the larger citiesRaleigh. until It obtained adequate lake reservoir supplies. was banning car-wash-ing. laT^-n watering and urging careful conservation of water less than a decade ago.

And despite the building of reservoirs, the damming of rivers and other water-conserva-tion practices by North Carolina counties, cities and tovms a dry month like May still has its effectsboth immediate and long-range.

These effects are on agricul-, ture, industry, municipal water supplies, farm ponds, and res-erv'olrs such as those behind the large dams. Forests and wildlife feel the effects of drought.

UHWARRIESIt may not be possible to prove it scientifically but the gentle hUls of the Uhwarries In Randolph, Davidson, Montgomery and Stanly from Healing Springs and Southmont to Morrow moimtain have long been considered pretty fair weathervanes for much of the state, so far as drought and ground water tables are concerned.

These hilLs are in the center of the state, in the middle of a vast watershed, where spring and summer rains run off to the Yadkin river basin and the tributaries of the Cape Fear to the East and the Catawba to the west.

The chaui of dams and reservoirsfrom High Rook. Tillery. Badin. the new Tuckertown damand the propo.sed Wilks-horo ro>enoir v,ell upstream on the Yadkin, all are evidence of the importance of the water re-source.'i in this area of the state.

Water resources of the Catawba. from the Blue Ridge fcKHhiiis at Lake James and RhodhLss have been tapped for the industrj', utilities and population centers of the Catawba basin.

C.'IPE FEARRising to the east and north of the Catawba and Yadkin basins, stretching from the upper reaches of the Haw and the Deep, to the east and north of the Uhwarries and flowing the greatest distance of any river system across North Carolina is the historic Cape Fear.

It winds to the sea. from the New Hope valley of Orange and Chatham, through the clay beds of the Deep river in Lee and Moore out of the Uhwarries. and down through* the sandy loam of Harnett and Cumberland to the moss-hung low country around Wilmington and Southport.

It is in the upper Cape Fear basin now that controversy rages about, how best to consene the water for future use by Industry. municipalities, agriculture and for recreation, and how to hold back the water in time of floods.

OTHER RIVERS-A combination of public and private dams have harnessed the Roanoke river, and flooding on this major stream in southern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina now' is rare.

There is a study for the Neu.se river basin, not as far along as that proposed with a major plan and alternatives for the Cape Fear, but which will likely be similar to that and perhaps hinged on what final . decisions are made about the Cape .Fear.

Proponents of the Army Engineers proposals for a series of major dams in the Cape Fear basin, starting with a high dam on New Hope creek in Chatham County, contend that eventual Neuse river basin development depends upon Congressional approval of the big dams on the Cape Fear, and Sam J. Ervin Jr. havp en-and Sam J Erv.ln Jr., have endorsed the New Hope dam project. but it has been opposed by Rep. Harold, D. Cooley. D-N.C.. who repre.sents the district in which the New Hope dam would be built.

Cooley and other farm .spokesmen and groups favor a .series of small watershed dams. propo.sed by the Soil Con.servation service, as having greater long-ranee benefit and achieving the same de.sired results.

Both side.s agree that a plan for the Cape Fear i.s a logical next step in the development and con.servation of North Carolinas water resources.

There is keen interest in what the next move will be.

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Rac Settled Eight Months Before Start

h's a little tmjsual in North Carolina, known for its heated family scraps within the Democratic party, to have the race for Speaker of the House settled some eight months before the legislature convenes. '

That's .lust what happened a few days ago, however, with The announcement by Rep. Thomas H. Woodard of Wilson County that he had conceded the race to Rep. Clifton Blue of Aberdeen.

Since before adjournment of the 1961 General Assembly l oth these capable legislators had been politicking lor the power job as Speaker of the House. They had been talking to members who had served with them in the House last term, and possible legi.<-iators who were seeking seats in By HAL BOYLE the legislative session which convenes next Rebru-ary.

Obviously, following the Democratic Primarv on May -26 Rep. Woodard reached the conclusion that Rep. Blue had firm commitments for sufficient votes among prospective members of tht House to assure his election as its presiding officer.

To the new post in, the 1963 legislatuiT to which he now appears sure 'to be elected, Rep.'

Blue will bring a wealth of e.rperience whiah should stand the state in good stead. The 1963 .session of

the legislature will not be easy for any of the

members who serve in that body, least of all the

man w4h> occupies the post as Speaker of the

House. > ;

Sjnxlicak, Inok

The Guest In The House

Treating Rough-Senate Mildly

NEW YORK tAP)There are people who think the ideal home machine is one which would air condition the place insummer and serve as a television set the rest of the year.

Those are the kind of people who criticize summer tele-vLsion programs because they are largely a rehash of things shown previousb.

It's the same old stuff. they complain. Nothing new.

To som'e thoughtful aficionados. how'ever*. the sameness of summer television is-nt so bad. Its the sameness of w'inter television that seems to them the real problem. The summer sameness is just an echo.

But Im not so sure Id want the situation changed. It has

B.V JAME.S MARLOW

WASHLNGTON <AP) President Kennedy, as mild a.s President Eisenhower in dealing with Congress, is still mild with the Senate which shot holes in his foreign aid program').

Acting contrary to the policy followed by Eisenhow'er and last year by Kennedy, the Senate last week voted to cut off all aid to Yugoslavia and Poland except, as an afterthought, surplus food.

This angered the Kennedy administration but the President could hardly be described as boiling at his news confere^qe Thursday. He mostly limited himself to quoting the reaction of American amba.ssadors to what the Senate did.

The closest he, came him.self to criticism w'as this one sentence: T don't think we should do those favors to them ahe Russians* if w'e can help it.

The administration regards the Senate action as 'a break for Mo.scow by slashing American ties with Communist-run countries which some day might cut loose from Ru.ssia.

This is the background of what happened:

Last week the Senate approved an amendmentspon.sored by two Democrats, William Proxmire of Wisconsin and Frank Lau.sche of Ohioto shut off all aiq to Yugoslavia and Poland.

The former, while still very friendly to Moscow but no longer under its thurnb, had received both economic and military aid. Poland, still under Moscows ovef-lordship but rest-le.ss, has been given only economic help.

While the debate was going on . McGeorge Bundy, one of Kennedy's main advisers, sent the White House view on the whole business to Sen. Mike Mansfield of Montana, the Democratic n,lajority leader.

Two Republican senators George Aiken of Vermont and Jolin Shprman Cooper of Kentuckyfcautioned the Senate, including Democrats like Pro.x-mire and La.sche. to be careful.

But the Senate voted. .)7 to ."4, to .''hut o'ff the aid ThinV-lour Democrats .joined 2;J Republicans , in supporting the Proxmii e-Lausche ameiuinu nt. Voting with th*' admiiii.siiution

against the amendment were Democrats and six Republican.s

Almost immediately Secretary of State Dean Rusk protested the Senate action would give the impression abroad that we are permanently writ-ing off to Soviet domination the million.s of people w'ho still yearn for freedom.

And Thursday, before Kennedy's new'S conferenqe,''the administration made public the reaction of George F. Kennan. American amba.ssador to Yugoslavia. and John Moors Cabot. American ambassador to Poland.

Kennan called the Senate vote a big favor to Russia, a severe blow to American aims in Eastern Europe and a signal demonstration of ill-will toward an increasingly friendly people.

Cabot predicted a ' violent change In U.S.-Pollsh relation.s.

And Thursday, Kennedy, giving the ambassadors, reactions rather than his own, hardly went beyond calling the Senate vote a favor to Russia, which is what Kennan had said.

In answer to the very next question about Democrats voting against him. Kennedy praised the Democrats who voted for his request to raise the national debt limit and obliquely rebuked the Republicans who voted for cutting off aid to Yugoslavia and Poland. However, if the 34 Democrats who joined the 23 RepubUcans in voting against him on the amendment had stayed on his side, the amendment would have been drow'ned and hed have no problem.

American aid to Yugoslavia began in 1950 after Marshal Titos break with Stalin. Since then it has amounted to almost $2.3 billion in economic and military help, which the latter was $693.9 mUlion. In addition this country has provided the Yugoslavs with $437 million in surplus foods.

The greatest part of American aid to Poland was in the yeans immediately after the war1940-48. It came to $422 niillion in economic aid then. Since 19.)7 the economic aid ha.s l*en alKuit $72 million. In addition tlii.s counlrv provided the Pule.s with .$;16.5 3 million in sur-

JllUS Xl.'.

certain over-all rewards as It is now.

There was a time when I, like many others, wanted television to be new and challenging and different. And I yapped because it wasn't.

But lately Ive been thinking along these lines:

After aU. television Is like having 'R guest in your living room.

We have had our set for 10' full years'^now. Some people have sets that are always breaking dowm. We have a set that never breaks dowm. You couljl hit our set over the forehead with a watermelon, and It would only blink its big bright eye . and go right on. ,

This perennial gupst in our

IS. Othei Editors Saying. Somethings Got To Give

(Richmond Times Dispatch)

Marilyn Monroe said she was sick and quit. Dan Martin said no one else would Inspire him, and he quit too. Twentieth Cen-tury-Fox finally quit, and two million dollars worth of film already shot landed on the floor. The title of the movie had been too carefully chosen; Somethings Got to Give

Everybody Is busy assigning the blame: to temperament, to the star system, to New York financing, to Miss Monroe's old contract that pays her only

television began to keep people away from the movie houses, the producers panicked. Their first answer w'as the multimil-lion-doUar spectacular. There w'ere not more people on the screen than in the audience. The setting w'as exotic, usually in some savage kingdom. By the thousands, barbarians were portrayed breaking all the rules of civilization, and getting away with ituntil, of course, the deluge. or earthquake, or slaughter. The movie-goers were aw-

r fascinated, and amazed.

They wre not e.specially,enter-

critics are bemused by the special effects; they never think of holding a serious .story' conference on the .scenario! Hollywoods problems are deeper.

Yes. of course Marilyn Monroe and Dean Martin are irresponsible (Thank You. Marilyn and Dean, for lasing our jobs, ran the crews ad in the trade magazines*. But the movie industry as a whole has lo.st its sense of responsibilityits responsibility to itself and to the nation. Most people have learned to ignore the silliness of the pretty, empty heads in Hollywood. precisely because they occasionally got down to work and turned out a good script and a good show. Movie-making is a business: it is also .something of an art. And if, a few years ago, the average product failed to titillate the highest aesthetic sensibilities, it at least presented human beings doing things thab human beings do or would hoTC to do.

When the first great wave of

tained.

Numbers pall, and even the tongue of Liz Taylors asp is blunted. The pleasures i which will attract must become subtle and exquisite. Within the past year, the moviemakers have in desperation been demanding rnoi;e adult themes. According to some of the themes offered, becoming adult means becoming perverted. Certainly many problems can be discussed by those who can do so with responsibility, but Instead of insight, these movies offer a peep-hole. The major sequence that had been filmed in the five days that MariljTi worked was the nude bathing scene.'

The abdication of responsibility by the two stars is clearly a surface sign of a general disintegration of the movie industry at all levels. When Hollywood ts faced with an Interior collapse of Imagination, sure enough somethings got to give.

living room Is no longer a stranger. We have learned to live with it, and now regard it rather fondly as a backward member of the family who w'ill never quite grow up.

Were not at all sure now we ever want it to grow up. We have become accustomed to its ways.

Consider, on the other hand, what might-have happened if this guest in our living room had remained new. challenging and different. It would have made us all nervous w'recks.

Who wants a new, challenging and 'different guest in his living room every day for 10 full, years? Nobody. Long ago wed have been forced to turn the living room over to such a gabby, frightening monster. We would have had to camp out somewhere between the bedroom and the kitchen.

There are some whod like to see Kitty sell the Longbranch Saloon, set fire to Marshal Dillon. have Doc operate on Chester's leg. then elope with Chester to Kansas City and open a beauty parlor.

There are even some who'd like to see Jack Benny change his expression or take up the piano.

Well, not us. We have thought this matter through, and we prefer to keep things as they are.

Every time we open our front door we run into something new and challenging and different. Life outside is so new and challenging and different it rather frightens us .sometimes.

Thats why weve decided we want that longtime guest in our living room to stay as sweet and hopeful as he is.

Ooinions

In

The government has virtually completed its expensive research project into the fac-tor.s that contribute to bruises on tomatoes. You, through your government, paid to learn that if tomatoes are dropped on a hard surface they are likely to be bruised. We might add that if a truck runs over a ripe tomato it virtually ruins it. We are sending a bill to the government for this information. Wynne (Ark.) Progress.

ess Publicizina Of List

Ljtrength For To(day

liv KAHI, L. J)()l (.I.AS.S

Have you (vcr .sat in a (hurch ILtciiiiig to tlic pealing oryan. 01 bcfoie a huge chorus rendering .some mighty anthem, or at a .'\mphony.concert ^rterpieting the wonderful compositions of. ijie- old masters' If so. have you thought of what a blessing God has given us in music? Suppose He had left us with-oui music. Suppose nothing but the sound of our own voices, the lacous turmoil ol the world, the explosives repoils- acconi-Pauying cata.*^Uophe vieie the only .'-oumi.s wr ever heard. But God ha.s gjvrii ns nin.'^ic. Enr-opc airt Nonh America prrfrr their ninsie on a diatonic .scak' llie rr.si of the w'orld fog H*e

mti-sf pail prrfrrs llic pdaionic scale. But we have our music

and ihcv have theirs and each Is sali.sjied and thrilled.

Anyone leading the Bible

must Ije Impie.ssed by the a.s-' snraiice given ns that one o the oiUstanding ble.ssing.s of heaven w ill Ije its miuslc. We think the music of this world is inspiring; what of the micsic of that tin seen realm' What of the day w hen we enter that realm where there Is no disharmony, where hinnonirs a.s yet undiscovered by u.s flow- out of the peace and love of (.jocL* And perhaps 'their is much mu.sic on this .side of lira ven. Ihrmtghoul the .vet undi.scoverrd uni verse,

God ha.s civfHi us .sunshine. lo\e, rnu.sic for thr .sweeleninc of Mir andIt- Ihrillipg^f mind at*d .soul." rrai.'e the roid iu Hi' goodne.s.s. His mercy, Hri love.

By EL.MKR ROKSSNER

List prices in adveitlslng will be seen le.ss and les.s In the future.

The Better Bu.siness Bureau, in its campaign against list ' prices, manufacturers sug-gt'sted* prices, catalogue prices. etc., lias called on some 2.UM) retailers in the metropolitan New York area to di.scpn-linue the u.'e of such phra.ses ,a.s of Monday. According to Hugh H. Jackson, head of the BBB in New York. The fact i.. that articles of merchandise advenised w ith list' or sug-., gested' .selling price.s are, ' in the great majority of instances, .sold by retaileiif throughout the area at substantially below list prices.

The BBB 'doesnt object to price deductions by an advertiser from his own bonafide .'^elling price or from generally prevailing piices in the area. But it does object to advertising that implies there i.s a general price level 'the "list'

price"* when dt floe.sn't .really exl^t.

The Ferlrrnl Trade Comnus-.sin)) ha.s ehalleuEefl General Electric jlln.. a leading .sup porter of the .,1 price theo-i.v.'on the bafcis that it Is try

ing to enforce its list price.s by discrimination, bi Its co-operative advertisbig plan, against retailers who sell for less than the GEs suggested retail price.

And GEM. a members-only discount chain, continues its battle in Maryland again.st fair trade laws with advertlsmeiiLs appealing directly to the con-.sumer <who also happens to vote'.

But the.se development^ are onlv hastening the end of llsi^ prices which are disappearing' anyhow. A "list price" is ef-fi'ctive only when the buying public believes there really is a stndard price which it can gel iindei' if it shops for bargains. List prices were very real when backed by w'idespread, strong fair trade laws and a -somewhat cohesive, stable merchandising system. But co-ops and 'discount houses and the fall of fair trade laws have made the phra.sc. "and others like it. practically meaningless for the most part.

General Elcctiic is .swimming acain.'^t thr tide.- WesUnghon.sp Electric has already announced it will drop ihe nse of .siigce.st-ed price li.sLs with M.s new llne.s iiilinduced next ninnth. Other major' electric house

wares probably wont follow the lead immediately. But it's hard to see ho.w they can hold out very long. .

Theyll have the choice of either supportbig the retail prices and ritnning the risk of iTC suits and the risk of underselling by competitors or else publishing listed prices without enforcing them and being accused o deceit.

A third alten*ate list prices that are actually in line with prevailing prices in a given ior the retailer nor provide a area-are pointless since they neither support a good markup high price that can be sufficieiit-ly cut for sale days*

ATOMIC FOODS NEAR IVURKET

Foods preseiwed by exposing them to nuclear radiation will l>e introduced in the U.S. market in the next year or two. The Pood and Dnig Adminstration will soon be asked to approve Irradiated bifcon. Other reque.st.s will follow. Irradiated potatoes have been sold .in Ru.ssia for over a year now' and in Canada more recently. Main problem, w ill ibe to convince the American consumer the foods ere

Who.

Needs

Status?

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

Every once. In a while, somebody gets out a book about prejudiced persons who set up protccUves against those whom they dislike. It Is not so much that a man really dislikes others because If he did. he would decline to trade with them or have any form of human relations with them. For* Instance, if l really and truly hated a person, for whatever reason, I would not want to make a profit out of him; if I were a banker, I would not charge him any interest: if I were a retailer, I would not sell him any goods although I might give him some for nothing to show how noble I am and what contempt I have for him.

I have never been able to dislike anyone that much. Having lived In China and Japan where the white man is regarded as inferior, I know how it feels. Japanese waitresses, for instance, find lhat Americans smell like goatsor, at any rate, it was so before General MacArthur altered the mores of the Japanese people.

I have never known body odors to be so repulsive although I sometimes find perfumes, in too great profusion, trying. My friends, Benjamin R. Epstein and Arnold Forster, have written ,a book entitled. Some * of My Best Friends..,.

It is a book about a curious American problem. We have no natural aristocracy in this country. Such an aristocracy comes into existence by birth and anointment. For instance, the houses of Hapsburg, Romanov. Windsor represent a natural aristocracy. We have, no such houses; not even the Cabots or the Hookers or the Lees represent such a lineage as the Obo-lenskys or the Cecils, if that matters.

That is very tough on the status seekers who need to prove that they are better than most, not through some accomplishment such as Einstein or Fritz Kreisler or Bernard Gimbel ha.s to offer: the best they can show is 'a grandfather who made some money honestly or dis-honestljf, by hard work or by a gimmick. ~

Well, the fellow knows how to wear his clothes; he is gentle-spoken except under the influence, as it Is said. And his name appears in the Blue Book, which lists unlisted telephone numbers and therefore has some value.

So the status seekers keep some people out of things that they like to go to. as, for Instance, a specific hotel or a club. I cannot get excited over that because I belong to a comfortable club and need not go to an uncomfortable one. As for hotels and resorts, I always feel that any manager should be free to decide how he wants to make his money and if he does not like mine, that Is all right with me. Thus far. I have lived many years and have had no trouble with hotel managers. Maybe I never go to the right hotels;!

However, when there is a housing shortage and a renting agent tells a new tenapt to fill out a questionnaire asking whaV clubs the prospect belongs to, what schools or colleges he ha.x graduated from, etc., etc., it Is obvious thal he is attempting to set up a road,block. This Is a usual practice among managers of this gimmick called the co-operative.

The landlord or agent wants to set up a pattern of the kind ol j)ersons he desires in his building, but dares not be truthful about it. For instance, were he to say that he did not waht Jews. Negroes, Italians, Greeks, Puerto Ricans, but that he In-.sisted upon having only WASPS, which is New York colloquialism for white, Anglo-Saxon Protestants. he might get into a jam witlv the law. Some might even set up a boycott which would say in effect, no equality no profits.

I, for instance, believe In the rights of, private property. I would never sign an agreement limiting my rights to dispose of my property as I saw fit unless I received direct compen-(Continued on page six)

?rices

safe.

OLD PROMOTER PLANS WATERING DOWN FOR PROFITS

If you have a few dollars % lying around. the Old Promoter said carelessly, I might let .you in on a sure-thing hypodeimlcs.

Is he racing at Belmont or Pimlieo? I queried.

Joke if you like. But I mean hypodennic needles. Im going to sell therri.

Not around raqe tracks, I hope.

Of course not.'* the Old Promoter sniffed disdainfully. Tra going to sell them to watermelon purveyors, tomato retail- ers, meat packers and anyone else who can increa^ the weight of his product by injecting water. -

' Youre referring, of course, to the Supreme Court ruling that ham curcrs can sell their product as ham even though It has been, pardon the locprcs- -Sion, beefed up with water.

Right!

Fm glad to hear It. Just this morning I arranged to handle the h.Ypodermlc needle distributorship in this area and can let you have../*