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Friday, April 15, 1966

Uniform Enforcement Is Necessity

Unless there is uniform enforcement of the state's liquor laws throufirhout North Carolina, a chaotic situation will exist in ^every county of the state.

The liquor laws of the state cannot survive even a short period of bein^ enforced in some counties and ignored in others. The people of the state cannot tolerate a situation in which each law enforcement agency of each county will determine whether or not to enforce a state law.

Mecklenburg County's ABC board has taken H position which it cannot possibly defend, and one which it must abandon in the interest of its county and the state as a whole. It has adopted a policy in which it says that it will not enforce the attorney generals ruling on the liquor laws until midnight March 81. 1967.

In effect, the Mecklenburg board is saying it does not intend to enforce the rulings until the next regular session of the General Assembly has been working for almost two months. By that time, of course, it is generally expected that the legislature will have taken action to clarify the rulings

and perhaps to have made extensive changes in the present liquor laws.

Be that as it may, the question is what to do in the meantime. The governor has called fbr enforcement of the law according to the attorney generals ruling. State law enforcement agencies have been instructed along these lines. The state ABC board has indicated its concurrence in the position that the law is what the attorney generals office says it is and should be enforced accordingly.

Enforcement of the liquor laws ^s interpreted by the attorney generals office may not be pleasing to many Tar Heels. It will be much more displeasing, however, if the rulings are enforced in some counties and ignored in others. It will be an intolerable situation if individual county and municipal law enforcement agencies are left to decide individually whether they will enforce the rulings.

BABY-SiniNG CAN BE SO DISCOURAGING!

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Gain New Industries

:Beains To Flow

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

MINING Production of phosphate rock from huge mining operations in Beaufort County has begun, exactly two years after the electrifying announcement (hat Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. would Invest $45 million in developing its phosphate leases on the Pamlico.

It was a long-awaited day for Beauf o r t and East e r n North Carolina when the first consignment of 50 tons was shipped by rail the other day from the Lee Creek site near Aurora.

And this in turn electrified the worldwide fertilizer and chemicals industries and turned the eyes of industrial magnates, engineers and in fact world governments on Eastern North Carolina.

Destination of the first shipment of high grade ore from Lee Creek was West Germany, wlwre the phosphate will be used in German chemical industries.

complexes is enormous.

No one is more enthusiastic about prospects than Dr. Leo Miller, manager of TGS phosphate facilities at Auro r a. Phosphate mining, he says, undoubtedly will lead to a great industrial complex and the riches being tapped will make gold mines pale by comparison.

Incidentally, Miller participated in Texas Gulfs rich copper, zinc and silver mining strikes in Canada and uranium in Utah, He says the phosphate find in North Carolina is one of the greatest in the world.

FERTILIZER - Immediate impact of phosphate mining in North Carolina, Miller says, will be in the fertilizer industry contributing directly to world production of food and fiber.

Efforts to persuade industry to curtail its current expansion programs and plans is certain to influence the successor lack of iton the part of communities seeking new industrial plants.

President Johnson has made it clear to the nations major industries that he would like to see the rate of plant e^ansion curtailed sharply as a hedge against inflation. He has flatly asked that expansion programs be shelved and construction of new facilities held to a minimum. >

JThe effort on the part of the administration together with the tighter money market, is certain to curtail the rate of industrial expansion.

For Eastern North Carolina, which is i^eking industrial expansion as a means to economic growth, the situation means increased competition for the fewer number of plants which will be seeking new locations. With fewer plants being built, and new jobs being created at a reduced rate, chances of success in acquiring new plants will be less even though efforts to acquire them are increased.

This area of North Carolina, which has a sur plus of labor and which is in great need of enhancing its economy, must intensify its efforts to compete for the new plants that will be located in the months ahead. The task of acquiring new industry-difficult enough under normal circumstances

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

Dr. Thomas W. Matthew is a Negro neurosurgeon of uncommon brilliance. By forsaking much of his lucrative practice and spending his tima on the Interfaith Healtn Association, a Negro self-help group, he has managed, by enlisting voluntary aid, to create a general non-profit hospital in the New York City borough of Queens. His idea, .as he puts it, is to break die chain of welfare dependence which enslaves our people. Briefly, this means that he wants his hospital to pay its own way. He has refused to accept grants for it, which makes him the mast unusual person in the U. S. The money he has been compelled to boi> row for it has come at extremely high rates.

By HAL BOYLF

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INVEST - From this beginning, which wu two years in oo-the-elti preparation, Texas Gulf expects to produce pboai^ate rock from beds beneath the ancient river and ocean bottoms at the rate of 3 million tons per year.

In addition to its initial $45 million mining investment, Texas Gulf Is pouring other millions into related facilties.

It has mounced plans for plants which will produce sulphuric acid, phosphoric acid, solid fertilizar materials and superphosphoric acid, along with by-products. Addition^ capital mvestmoit will be more than $35 million.

POTENTIAL - It is felt strongly in historic Beaufort and all over the area that the potential for developing mining, fertilizer and chemicals

Eastern North Carolina can become the bread basket of the world, helping to feed and clothe the worlds multiplying population.

Seventy per cent of phosphate rock production and about 4 per cent of sulphur production goes into fertilizers. Initially, the sulphuric acid plant at Lee Creek will be supplied from sulphur mines in Texas. The fertilizer product plants now under construction at Lee Creek will use about 1.46 milln tons of phosphate rock annually when production begins this Fall.

STUDY One of the most complicated problems encountered by the states present Tax Study commission is that of variation between levels of local ad valorem taxation across the state.

will be even more difficult in the months ahead.

But the area, if its to realize the economic 'rains it sorely needs, has no choice but to compete aggressively for new industry even though the prospects for success are diminished by the changing circumstances.

May Look For

A Divided U.S.

Study commission sources say wide variations in ad valorem tax rates and ratios among localities makes it difficult to find a formula which might be recommended to aid local governments in their revenue problems.

Actually, this matter of comparison of levels of ad valorem taxes was number one on a recent list of items under study by the Tax Study commission. Second in the list of items concerned services now rendered by the state to local units and further needs of local unots.

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP)-When the full story behind the Buddhists, maneuvering in South

Viet Nam comes out it may prove to be one of the slickest pieces of Machiavellianism in our tim.

The Buddhists are trying to overthrow their government. The U.S. government doesnt seem well-informed on whats going on among the Buddhists and whats driving them or, if it is, its keeping the information to itself.

For that reason no one seems able to say whether the Buddhist leaders are in a deal with the North Vietnamese Communists to seize the South Vietnamese government, ask the Americans to leave, and let the Reds take over.

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It might appear at first, if this is what the Buddh 1 s t s have in mind, that they are are operating on sheer gall since this country is backing the government of Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and has enormous forces in Viet Nam.

But they might be hanking on something else to help them carry the day: divided American opinion.

When the history of these

days is written the effect of what has happened here In the field of one of Americas most prized possessionsfreedom of speechmay appear' as a strong factor in the Buddhists* thinking.

President Johnsons policy on Viet Nam has been under attack from many quarters in this country particularly in the Senate and the academic worldand perhaps he cant gauge its full effect on' him.

For instance: Would he have pursued the war harder, been 'less reluctant to bomb North Viet Nam more extensively if the critics werent on his hack? But any effecjLon Johnson is only part of the total possible effect of the criticism.

For example: What has been the effect of Americans criticism of their own 'overn-ment on the thinking of the North Vietnamese Communists about continuing to fight?

Or on the South Vietnamese Buddhists about their chances of overturning their American-backed government and getting away with it?

Johnson apparently has felt confident, despite the criticism, that he had the support of a majority of Americans for his Viet Nam policy.

But the criticism here at home could leave no doubt in the minds of the Vitenamcse, North and South, that American thinking was divided not only about how to wage the war but even about continuing it at all.

For instance. Sen. Wayne Morse, D-Ore., said the Ameri-(Continued on page 5)

NEW YORK (AP) - Remarks a tax collector gets tired of hearing this time of year:

What has the government ever done for me?

.Youll have to explain it again. I didnt understand a word you said.

If my cat has kittens, can I list each one of them as a dependent? I am their sole support. Their father ran away.

Do you think thatll satisfy youor do you also want the gold fillings out of my teeth?

Just put on the handcuffs. Ill go quietly.

In the old days they used to tax salt How come you guys overlooked that one?

So this is the Internal Revenue Service. Boy, Im already nervous from the sendee. Why should I have to stand In line? I came here to pay taxes, not to watch a hit movies.

paycheck, and let me spend the rest in peace?

If you give a depreciation allowance for an oil well, why not give one for a wife? My wife spouts even more than an oil weU.

What do you guys know about business expenses? Id like to see you have to meet a payrolljust once.

The poor pay taxes, and the rich hire attorneys.

I came here in place of my husband. He says hes too sick and tired to fight the government. Well, Im not! Tell Uncle Sam for me its time he went on a diet.

Please inform your Mr. Lyndon B. Johnson that I do no longer feel I can support his government in the style to which it wants to become accustomed.

Lets make a deal. You say I owe you $988; I say you owe me $576. Lets split the difference. You pay me $150 and well forget the whole matter, and start all over next

year.

Opinions

Why dont you fellows just take what you want from my

Cant we finish this argument over lunch? Ill pick up the check-if its deductible. So throw me in jail. You still cant get blood out of a turnip.

In Brief

Other Editors Saying

Henry Fords Law

(Chris&n Science Monitor)

The other day jve saw and enjoyed a fearsome and futuristic color movie cartoon called Automania. It showed the day when automobiles would cover the earth 20 to 30 deep and families would live their whole lives in them. Fantastic? Of course. But thought-provoking.

Also thought - provoking is New York Mayor John V. Lindsays statement when vetoing a plan to build a 2\^-mile above-ground cxpre s s-way across lower Manhattan to connect the New Jersey bridges with the Long Island tunnels. He said, the city is for people, not cars. He thus took the side of those who believe that such an expressway would cut too great a swath out of the islands already over-crowded living space.

Yet the highspeed highway would, it is reckoned, have taken 30,000 trucks alone from Manhattans seam- bursting streets daily. And it can be

argued that such a relief would have been a major means of giving the city back to its footgoers and to those cars which are on local busi-

Now' that the economists and politicians figure that everybody should get $3,000 a year whether they work or not, whether they are sick or healthy, educated or illiterate, we sometimes wonder just what the heck is the use of beating ourselves to a pulp trying to make a living.Random Lake (Wis.) Times.

ness.

Thus the problem grows and swells. To make it easier for those who live in cities, one must first tear down their dwellings to make room for the highways which will benefit them. And by Parkinsons (or, in this case, would it be Henry Fords?) law , the moment new space is created, so are the cars designed to fill it.

Our faith and hope have been placed on the intelligence and interest of our citizens, and our government has been guided by them. Because of this the government will serve us well only if its citizens are well Informed. Waldoboro (Maine) Press.

In short, we sympathi z e with the city dwellers whose homes come down, the mayors who must decide what to do, the truckers and drivers caught in snailing lines of traffic, and, of course, with ourselves whenever we venture in town with the car. But as for coming up with the best answer to it all, well, well have to give it a little more thought.

The safest car manufactured is not safe so long as the driver does not pay attention to his job. Human beings cannot be altered by manufacturers. They must be wiling to assume the res{^ sibility of watching their <mi! driving and the driving of others on the highway.Wil-liamsville (N.Y.) Bee.

The automotive world is filled with Tigers and mustangs and panthers. But no manufacturer has found an answer for the beast in the drivers seat. Memphis Press-Scimitar.

I have seen the hospital, and to a laymans eye it looks Cleaner than most It is truly interfaith, for it emp 1 o ys nurses without regard to color or religion, and it takes its patients on the same basis.

It is a true example of integration in reverse. Unfortunately, Dr. Matthews appeals to U. S. banking institutions to refinance his hospital have brought little beyond expressions of sympathy and admiration for what he is trying to do. So, after waiting around for months, and scrabbling to meet his obligations out of the money the hospital earns, he has done an unprecedented thing. He has apj^aled to Premier Alexsei N. Kosygin of the.,-Soviet Union for a ten mniioii dollar loan to be Issued over a five-year period and to be repaid in twenty-five years, at an interest rate to be ne-gotlate(L This appeal to Russia for money site badly with some U. S. commentators, who have attacked Dr. Matthew for being unpatriotic. They say he should have waited.

If he had asked me, I would have told him to wait, too. For If the Kremlin does anything for him, It will be a true miracle. StUl, I doubt that Dr. Matthew really expects help from Premier Kosygin. He is merely trying to dramatize bis own casC. He is trying to make Americans asham^ of themselves. Self-help doesn't exlit if that help is a handout -Dr. Matthews turn to a foreign nation for what he regareis as simple justice recalls that of Dr. Arthur Kraus, an instructor at New Yorks City College who was fired back in the early Nineteen Thirties for staging a march on the Polish consulate to protest anti-Semitism in Warsaw.

In those days marches were not so commonplace as they have since become, and Dr.

Nj&aus could not count on the complaisance that gives shelter'to our modem Professor Staunton Lynds, who arent even fired for breaking the nation's laws. Dr. Krauss case was investigated by various groups, including one headed by the famed John Dewey, and the verdict was (Continued On Page 5)

Strength For Today

?rivate Brands Future Threat

By EARL L. DOUGLASS PLOWING THE OLD LIFE UNDER

There are a number of highly recommended ways for getting weeds out of a lawn. One is to stretch two pieces of string parallel and several feet apart and go carefully up and down these narrow lanes pulling up the weeds. That Is the nard e s t way to meet the problem. Another is to try to smother the weeds with a generous sowing of good seed. Still another is to plow up the sod, plant in late summer, and the weeds which spring up will be winter-killed before they have time to seed.

There are a number of highly recommended ways of getting the weeds of bad habits out of ones life. One way is to tug at these bad habits every day and try to pull them up by the roots. The

trouble here, as in the case of weeds, is that the bad habits keep growing faster than our ability to handh them. A better way is to try to overcome evil by good. But admirable as this method is, it soon fills us with the realization that there is a powerful lot of evil int he world and in usto be overc o m e. The best way is to plow up the field of the soul and sow it over again.

Jesus told Nlcodemus, a noted teacher of the Jew s. that the thing he needed most was to be born again. He needed converting. He needed to start at the beginning, to open his life to the bene-ficient influences of the Spiritual world and let the Living God do for him what he could not do for himself.

The New Testament is the instruction book for t h'o s e who want to make a new start in life.

The Supreme Courts decision in the Borden milk case sent shivers of fear down the backs of the multi-million dollar private-brand business in the United States.

But analysis Indicates that the threat is not immediate and may never be a serious danger to private brands.

The court ruled, by a 7 to 2 vote, that the Feder a 1 trade commission was on legal grounds in taking Borden into court on charges that Its sale of canned milk at different prices under its own name and under private brand names was a violation of the Rob-inson-Patman Act.

lower court will hear the case on its merits.

have held that if there is a tash with a certain percentage

WHAT NEXT If the court finds Borden is guilty, it will cast a shadon on many private brand deals, but it may not blot them out.

The FTC had brought Borden into court alleging that the sale of the identical milk under different names at different prices was an unf a i r trade practice. A y. S. Court of' Appeals ruled against the FTC but the FTC appealed to

However, FTC Chairman Paul Rand Dixon has ^ felt strongly against the dual pricing of private brands, and the commission is likely to push' to the fullest advantage any advantage it gets in the Court of Appeals.

, There are some escape hatch

real cost saving in volume sales, the savings might be reflected in price differentials. In the matter of auto tires, the courts have held that there was no price saving in sales of leu than two carloads.

While thats considerable volume, it could help some companies. However, If a manufacturer offered a ^private brand to a retailer on condition that he take, say, two caflogds, would have to offer the same price to retailers who took two carloads of the regular brand. RETAILERS' SPECIFICA-CATIONS

There may be another out. Many large retailers, such as Macys, Sears, Montgom--ery Ward, A&P, set their own specifications on their private brands. They aslt lor bids, for instance, on a toaster or a certain design, with cert a la

of limas.

In a(kiition, they seek several bids on each item.

'Then if a product is Identical with the suppliers own nationally advertised brand, 1 it is only coincidence. And if the supplier offers the private brand at leu than he sells his own brand, he is only meeting competition.

Later rulings, of course, may close these hatches.

But even then, time is on the side of the private-brand producers. It will take some months for the Court of Ap-^-^ peals to decide the Bo r d e n case and, even then, if not again appealed to the Supreme Court, the findings will affect' ' only those cases in which tha same conditions exist as in tha Borden case.

If private brands are on tha way out, you and I may not live to see their day of de-

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