fr\<ky, AArch U, 1966

Astronauts Have To Be Heroes

Sinct th U. s. minned spact tfiort put ita first astronauta into aub>orbital, than orbital, flights, Americans have witnessed repeated displays of courage, skill and endurance.

It was clear to all that the young men chosen for manned space flights wereand had to be the best available.

For the most part their repeated flights were relatively uneventful. Sometimes things didnt function precisely as intended, but preparations had been made for all kinds of eventualities. Back-up systems made the finely honed spacecraft as safe as human knowledge could make It.

Space flight had reached the ho-hum stage, in which all factors of safety and success were putting the great adventure into the realm of taking it for granted.

The miraculous perfection of this weeks double launching drew less attention than those first efforts of the Vanguard series.

So accustomed were we to success that most attention was given to speculation on the programmed rendezvous and its significance in ultimately

first

that

men

reaching the moon.

Complacency was shattered with the reports that something went wrong. From point on it was a matter of bringing two safely back to their families.

The fact that Neil Armstrong and David Scott are safely returned after coping with the unexpected is a tremendous tribute to the Gemini 8 astronauts, their training, their craft and their ground-based team.

Nobody panicked . . . Ifiast of alli^the two men in space. They showed a most unusual heroism in the loneliest place imaginable. It can be harrowing for a motorist to encounter the unexpected; and infinitely more so for the astronaut whose life can suddenly end with any one of a thousand possible misjudgments or technical failures.

But then, as everybody knows, those who win their spurs as astronauts are the very best. They have to be.

Long

Term Notes For

ManiDUlation Is Building Dormitories

Now Being Fe.

By WJIXUM A. HIRES WINDFALL North Car-oUnii general fund bask ac-couBt Is Just now feeling the impact of an almost uonoticed bit of manipulation which helped Qov, Dan K. Moore balance the stetes 1965-67 budget yeer ego.

This involved e $50 million piece ot legislative legeder-main the wiping out of a reserve aecount held by the state Revenue department from wklch to pay refunds on state Ineomt tax returns.

Tbla ISO million aeeount was set I beck in 1969. during the Hodges edminiftrat i o o, when tlM state firit adopted the wid^-aeeepted withholding system for ptate income tax collections. In thit year, the Hodges edministrat i o n balanced its biennial budget by collecting two years Income taxes in a single year.

Doing this provided a fat windfall for the Hodges administration in 1959-60.

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IMPACT The reserve account, in effect, amounted to another one time windfall for Moore six years later.

Moore asked the General Assembly to abolish the idle reserve account and put the money in the 1965-67 credit column on a non-recurring basis.

Of course, as in all such cases, the piper must be paid. And that time has come. The reserve account is gone and this is the time of year when the state must make the bulk of its withholding refund payments. These are being paid out of current collections. Thus far, it appears the im-act is not as severe as had en feared in some quarters.

WARNING Administration ofRdals have been flying warning flags in monthly state revenue r^orts linee last

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July to expect figures reflects ing payment of Income tax re-fun from current collections this Spring.

They have been careful to point this out, month by month, in reports on general fund revenue coUeetlons and percentage increase over the previous year.

Revenue commissioner Ivey L. Clayton has emphasized that caution should be used In comparing general fund collections for 1965-66 compared with those for 1964-65.

The reason, Gayton points eut, is that no funds are be-io| placed in the income tax withholding reserve ecco u n t for payment of as has been the practice in prior years. Income tax refunds ere being made from current collections and a majority of these refunds will be made during the remainder of the fiscal year. Actually the majority of refunds are made during March, April and May. Some 1965 refunda were made during February amounting to an average of about $28 per taxpayer.

OPTIMISM - The optimism of state officials who felt that growth of the states economy and the earning power of North Carolinas individual taxpayers apparently is being borne out

Revenue officials say there is no question that income tax refund can be made from curreiit collections with o u t damaging ^sct. It will, however, be noticeable.

Actually revenue offici a 1 s have been adj u s ting their monthly comparisons to measure the effect of abolishing the withholding reserve since last July.

The gap has been narrowing. In February, for example, the adjustment reduced the percentage increase in general fund tax collections from 1966 to 1966 by less than four per cent, from 23.29 to 19.55 per cent

Four months earlier, last November, the adjusted percentage increase was 17 per cent It is expected that the percentage in March, April and May will range somewhere between four and 17 per cent

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A legxl notici publiahad recentiy graphicilly illustrates just how long the state will be in paying off bonds which are now being used to finance dormitory construction.

This particular notice concerned the sale of $1,968,000 in dormitory bonds for East Carolina College. The aame thing, however, ia being done at state supported campuses throughout North Carolina.

A portion of the bonds will mature each year with the first $25,000^due In 1967. The final $98,000 will be due in the" year 2004. The bonds are guaranteed by the U.S. government and they are paid off with dormitory rents nald by the studenta.

It is interesting to note, however, that haany of the students who occupy a new dorm financed in this way will be near tneir own retirement before the notes are finally retired. It could well be that their children and grandchildren will uie the same dorma and their fees too will go to pay off the notes.

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Nanks

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN Opyrigbt, 1966, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

The Jonnson Administration considers it significant that it put through its wsrtime tax bill with the loss of only two Senatorial votes, those of Wayne Morse of Oregon and Emift Gruening of Alaska. But the big victory does not necessarily mean that LBJ retains real control of the Senate. The fact If that a dozen or go little rebellions are almmerin|, and no one cfn predict now tb^ will coalesce on a number of issues that could have an important bearing in an election year.

JOB

The federal loan plan for college housing has gy BOYLF

it much to this state and every other i^te as ^

Are You Young In Heart?

meant much to this state and every they have sought to meet the deluge of enrollmsntit over the past year. We wonder, however, if some other method of financing dormitory construction does not now need to be found.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP)-Ev-erybody watches the Red dragon. the Red drMon looka in the mirror and Ukis what it sees, end the future shudders.

All through these past few months in the debate about the war in Viet Nam there has been one overriding concern; that Red Chine might step in, involving the United States In a massive land war in Asia.

The Johnson administration, to calm fears that through any helter-skelter tactics it stumble into war with Red C!hlna, has tried to spread assurance that it would conduct the Vietnamese war with restraint.

This puts the United States in the position of fighting a war with one hand tied behind its beck. But the Johnson administration has to worry about Red China and American public opinion, too.

This business of keeping the

This Date--40 Years Ago Today

By JOHN G. DUNCAN March 18, 1926 Trustees of The Local (College In Session Here

The board of trustees of East Carolina Teachers College held its regular quarterly meeting at the c o llcge. The main things discussed were the building program and salary schedule.

Americans guessing Is as inexpensive weapon for the Chinese since they know, as President Johnson knows, the last thing this country wants is a land war with e nsiioo with 700 million people, like Red China.

It could fight the war at home. The United States could never match it in manpower and would have to transport men and weapons half way around the world to fight at all.

The United States could, of course, demolish Red Chins and its people, by using some of its nuclear weapons. That might be even more hazardous.

NEW YORK (AP) - How young in heart art you?

Age is msMurid by msay thinis-by chuies in hsir color, the segus^ of wrinkles, flowing of phyilesl setivity.

It is slso shown by hard-eaing of tbs mentsl artsriss, the growth of omidsm and prtjudlce, and ths dtvslop-ment of s dtsUks for meeting new people or having nnw pfHences.

Bf tbifs last staadardf, iomt are tldnrly bnfort t#y get out of coUnge; otim still are youthful at 70.

Ones trua aga is told by the spirit It is tha rail baromstr of youth. And you ara still pret-^ young in baart If

You don't mind picking up a baby, sven if it looks pretty sticky.

When you hasr of 2l-yssr-old footbsU player being ilp ed by the pros for a 1200,000 bonus, you rather envy the fel

low instesd of thinking it is a national disgrace.

You can fill out an income tax form without gattiog an ulear attack.

If ona of your naphews da-ddaa to grow a baard. you dont nacisiarily think has gona batty.

Thara art mora things you Uka than disUka.

ChUdrtn today dont laam much differsnt to you than whMi you wsra a child yourself.

You can talk to a tean-agar about his ambitions or his nob-blis without ftaling islf-coos-cious or founding patronising.

You rscsll tha past with mora affaction than Wttamass, but you wouldnt want to ralive It as you srs sttU too b n a y planning what you want to do In tha luturs.

If a woman drivar boats you to a parking placo, you dont lot it upiet your digoitioo for

more than two days.

You ar# nover tho first guos t to leave a cocktail party.

Now and than you hoar a joke you havent haard before.

The advent of enother April makes you feel lazy, but not partieularly sad.

HAL

BOYLB

JAMES

MABLOW

Other Editors Saying

It Hasn't Crumbled

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Missionary Rally A Great Success

Held in Immanuel Baptist Church and attended hundreds of pastors, laymen and women.

Black Jack Wins Athletic Event Supt. R. G. Fitzgerald declares there is no end to future power of Pitt if she will educate Rural child.

Attractive Events The literary work and athletic events of the various schools are attracting much attention and proving mo$t enjoyable. They should because anything tdqcation a 1 should receive the lupport of the public. Frivality and things not worth while may sttract people, but those things that are real worth while will always predominate. They never fade sway but are stepping stones to a greater nation and more intelligent people. Lets encourage the children by attending the exercises.

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At that point Russia, even though it has split with Red China, might feel compelled to assist it, get into the war, and use its own nuclear arsenal against the United States. The result would be chaos for mankind.

But the Red Chinese have even a better weapon than making the Americans worry about a war with Peking now. Thats time.

Red C!hina has suffered a number of recent reverses in its zeal to spread communism: in the East, in its split with Russia and Communist Cuba, and in Africa.

But it can endure these. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara recently pre-.., dieted that within two or three years Red China would bo capable of launching a nuclear attack of its own on countries within 700 miles of China.

Those nuclear weapons will be the best form of blackmail against its neighbors that Rod China ever had. The whole picture of Asia may begin to change then.

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More piy for less work Is the goal of many who cant lee very much beyond their own selfish lethargy. But the cold facts are that more wages for less work mean higher prices for all. This destroys any gain in wages and makes the leisure worthless. Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel.

(Tha Franklin Times)

We visited dispel Hill recently. We spent some time on the campus of the University. We were somewhet surprised to find that the acting Chsncillor wss not sprouting boras. In fact, be ete, drenk coffee like the rest of us sad spoke English.

We saw several Professors. All were clean shaven. All wore well pressed suits. Most looked through rimmed glasses, much as anyone else in their age ^oups. They, too, spoke English.

The dining hall served plain old American dishes, such as roast beef and gravy. The rolls were much like those we eat at home and the potatoes, much like home also, were fUghtlv burned.

We looked forward to our trip. Surely, we thought, this wiu be en experience. But, also, we failed to set a single

live Communist Or if we did, be looked like everyone else.

There was no Red wall. No speakers in the streets. There were no pickets and no slogans postad.

The old place looked exactly is It did the lest time we were there. The kids ittU look like kids. We didn't even see any 10 n g-hsirs, exo e p t. of course, some girls.

There might be some question about appearance of some of the students. First time this year wed seen bermuda shorts and some of them were on the loud side.

But, it was somewhat heart warming to find that the world at (hapel Hill doesn't seem to be crumbling. Indeed, it appears to be having good time. We did, however see a boy holding a girls hand. This bothered us, until suddenly, we remembered, its almost Spring.

At least one day a week you whistle or bum while shaving.

You have as many friends younger than you as yon do friends who are older.

Your life is filled more often with wonder than with sour regret.

So now vou know whether you still sold springtime in your heartor have become just one more fuddy-duddy on times treadmill.

Opinions In Brief

A newspaper ad is more than cold type. More even than cold type carrying a message. To the businessman, a newspaper id Is the adrenalin that makes a tired sales curve spring to life and shakes a sleepy economy awake. Warrensburg (Mo.) Star- Journal.

Hie bigiest dhtlengt te

Lyndon Johnson during the Vietnamese wartime tax argument came 00 the issue of restwri the excise tax. Sen-ATOR vanoa Harike, Democrat from Todjana, who annoyed tha Whita Hoom earlier in tha year by gtvliig leadership to a groim d Senators who opposed resumption of North Vlatman bomNng raids, tried to tie SB exemption of residential telephone excises to the Johnson tax Wll. Hartkes justification for his anti-Adminis-tratioo stand was two-prong-ad: (a) he thought restoration of excises might contribute to a daprassioB within a war boom by drying up purcbas-log power, and (b) he considered It poor policy from the stendpomt of war morale to impose selective sacrifice on telephone users, a great majority of whom are already strugmlnf to make ends meet.

The astounding thing about tha Hartke dissant from the LBJ program here is that it rallied a formidable coalition of war havdt Southern Democrats, liberal Democratic doves from the north and west, and Republicans. Bv enlisting a mixed group induding DIek Russell of Georgia, Abe RiUeoff of Connecticut, Prou-ty of Vermont, end Mrs. Smith of Maine, Hartke beat the Administration on the floor of the Benete by 46 to 43 vote. He bad 47-41 vie-tory tha first time around, but lost bis sldsklck. Demo-cTii Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota, on ths finsl tally. Fiva absantaes anaounced they would have voted to oppose raetoratioB of the telephone cxdsea 11 they bed been present, which means that Hartke actually had an absolute majority of the Senate on bis side. To defeat the Harka maefurt, tha Admlni-itration had to rely on t h e Sen ate-House eonf a r t n ce, which obligingly knocked it out

'Die tdephooe excise tax doesn't involve much money, and the quarrel over it is mainly Important as s symptom. What makes the fight interesting ^ and perhaps an Important augury of tbiogs to come if that is showed a complete wilUngness on the part of several Democratic Smtors to rade with each other on antt-Administration legislation.

Better world monetary machinary to handle world trsde is sought. The idea ts to make the wheels of global finance produce more with fewer revolutions. Brownsville (Ps.) Telegraph.

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The beet thing about tha future is that it comas only one day at n time."Grossett (Ark.) NiWf Observer.

Rebuttal On Safety Argument

Easiest way to stay awake during an after-dinner speech is to deliver it.Seneca (8. C.) Journal and Tribune.

By ELMER ROESSNER

With tongue in cheek, I recently wrote that safer autos might ssve a few lives, but might wreck the economy by putting so many undertakers, hospitals, insurance investigators, wreckers and others out of business.

I got e lot of sbuss. I wss called s ghoul but. # ftr SI I know, GeosrsI Motors put no

detectives on my trail.

I also got an interesting rebuttal from Alan L. Colvin.

Roessncr presented only one side of the argument, he wrote. He faile(T to mention that those 3,840,000 injured people represent s setbeck to the productivity of business and corporations insofar as those people who are tn auto accidents undoubtedly ewa those cars.

Thou people who own the cers must heve Jobe or professions to finance their autos. Thus, the effect of euto accidents is te remove workers end msnsgerimany of them from the work force.

ffMEl

ROBMNBR

THE GONE CUSTOMERS Roesiner inferred that there would be at least 50,-000 deaths via auto accidents in this and coming years. These 50,000 ex-people are corpses that will never work

again. Nor will they ever buy groceries, gasoline, automobiles, clothing, insurance, ride busses, buy booze nor will they pay income taxes.

These 80,000-fewer taxpayers' taxes are to be absorbed out of our -4. e,, the labor forces Incoms, sioee the government wont reduce its speoding Just beoeuse ths SO,-000 people killed tbspsslvss. Thus the economy la 4eslt a setbfck not mentioped by Elmer.

TMs argument, 1. e. paying taxes nnd^yiog goods end services and losing work time, applies similsrly but oQ t lesser level to the 3,140,000 who are tojure6-or doee It apply to a lesser degree?

WHO PICKS UP TAB?

How do the Injured pay for those medical txpenstsT Life and health insurance pol

icies or by breaking Into their eevings aeeounts.

If the life end heelth insurance companies are hit with a barrage of people who cash in their poUdei, bow cao the companies recoup their losses? Primarily and ultimately ^ bicreawM premiums to you and me aM otfaeri who arc not killed or seriously injured.

Assuming these people brnk into their saws ac-eeuBts, (he efieets ere felt by the bwks and other finaadal iastitutioiii itooe tbaro would be less monay available to lend to prospective borrowers. The banks, stc., would then pass on this burdan to eorporationt and to the publle in general by do> creasing tha amounts of money lent/

Alsn L. Colvin la a aenior at Ball State Unlverslly, Mele, Ind.