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More To Be Done For Local Airport

While some process has been made toward at the airport, a new fiscal year will begin in less improving Pitt-Greenville airport, the city and county than two months.

urgently need to move forward wfth a comprehen- As nw budgets are prepared, officials should ive program to bring the facility up to an accepts- give attention to the need for improving the airport, ble standard,! A forthright and positive prograifi should be taken

Funds have been authorized for a new admin- to upgrade the existing facility and provisions made istration building. A beacon has*, been installed. A for maintaining it in good condition, number of other improvements have been made in the past year. But from a realistic standpoint these arc at best only token improvements compared with what needs to be done.

For-a.-jiuinbiLQx^ars now the airport has been largely neglected by city and county officials. Relatively little attention has been given it and even less money spent to upgrade, repair and maintain the airport. It is time, we think, for officials to make a new assessment of the airport and its im-

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Mushroom Reminder Of Nuclear Spread

portance~now and in the futureto the'county and its communities.

Without scheduled air service, Pitt County

Explosion of another atomic test device by Communist China serves as a reminder that -the world must assume there will be a constantly growing number of nations with nuclear weapons.

It was just 18 months ago that Red China el-

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needs more than ever an adequate, well-kept air- j into the exclusive group of nations

port that may be used by private planes. Certainly ^*ch had successfully developed atomic power. Its an adequate, well-kept airport is essential to any ff^ond test device was e^xploded a year ago and now effort to obtain commercial air service. From the 1 thu*d test,

standpoint of size and lay-out, the Pitt-Greenville , j .: assumed that the Chinese

airport is more than adequate. From the standpoint refined the improved their new weapon be-

of its state of maintenance and repair, it is far from Although the most recent may still

well-kept.

be primitive compared with those possessed by

If something constructive is to be done about United States or the Soviet Union, it is another Improving the airportand in our opinion it is es- ^ toward making Red China a nation ^ith nu-ential to the future welfare of this countythere clear capabilities for peaceful or military purposes, is always the problem of money. Although there ^ ^ Other nations will follow in the footsteps of may be no money in present local government bud- China in developing their own nuclear capabili-geU to underUke an realistic upgrading program new nation joins the group of nuclear

powers, the possibility that such weapons may be loosed in a military conflict increases.

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1966, King Features

Syndicate, Inc.

Now is the season of the year when the tourist, despite-Secretary of the Treasury Fowlers warning about taking dollars abroad, is girdling up to dare the far comers ot the earth. And the Soviet Intourist travel agency, which is as avidly hungry for dollars as any other national tourist organization, is busy extolling the cultural attractions of the U.S.S.R. Says a writer in the Soviet Izvestia, somewhat wristfully: There is no more lucrative item in world trade at the moment than trade in impressions.

But to open up a trade in impressions some elementary decencies have to be ob

served. A Mexico, eyeiiu the inex-Pr

ly ALVIN TAYLOR

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

MEETINGS - The nearly 2,200 neighborhood precinct meetings held by North Carolinas Democrats last weekend were, in general, rather sparsely attended.

Most were very brief perfunctory affairs lasting only a few minutes and devoted simply to precinct organization and the naming of a committee to serve for the next two years. Some meetings were held on sidewalks, In parking lots or under picnic shelters, and few if any of them produced any-t^dng lively.

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This was not unexpected. It is an election year with party primaries later this month and general elections in the Fall. But with a few exceptions, there has been little to fan political heat on the local and precinct 1 e v-el.

DISAPPOINT - Unlike two years ago, which was both a presidential and gubernatorial election year, precinct turnouts this time were disappointing to party officials.

Only a handful of the party faithful showed up at most of the meetings. Even at some of the larger ones, the attendance was only about 40 or so.

Party officials felt this Indicates widespread apa t h y and lack of interest at the grassrots, despite efforts In,

recent months to sustain political interest and enthusiasm to wit, a new voter ^ registration drive this Spring.

COUNTY - On the other hand, Democratic offi c i a 1 s were hopeful of having good turnouts at county conventions next weekend.

Most of the states May 28 primary contests involve county and district offices, with only one major statewide contest of any consequence.

In the meantime, campaigning by various candidates for county offices, legislative posts, nominations to C o n-gress and judicial posts picked up noticeably this week. Barely two weeks remains before the primaries and this added tempo may generate greater interest in the county conventions.

Many Democrats will plan to go to see and shake hands with the candidates, if nothing else.

STEPS Precinct meetings of the past weekend and forthcoming county conventions, of course, are steps

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prescribed in the state party

ty plan of organization leading up to the biennial state convention May 19.

A hew state executive committee, the body which actually governs party affairs in North Carolina, is to be elected on May 19. In addit i o n, the party faces possible sweeping revisions in its plan of organization made necessary by recent one man-one vote redistricting.

These are matters which undoubtedly will weigh heavily on political developments in the state during the next two yearsthe years in which new gubernatorial and presidential election campaigns will take shape.

. By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP)-So far in 1966 the two biggest arguments are over the war in Viet Nam and the danger of inflation. They are not unrelated.

The more the government# spends on war, the more profits, prices and wages are affected. Without the war, inflation might seem more remote.

President Johnson, trying to play cautious on how far to go with the war and how far to go to prevent inflation, is making people sore in both cases.

Instead of asking for a tax boost as a major anti-inflation move, he has asked labor and business to take it easy.

Easy means keeping down prices and big wage demands. These are his guidelines, voluntary action, requested of both sides.

But there are arguments on all sides: 'There should be direct government controls on prices and wages; there should be a tax increase without other controls; neither controls nor taxes are needed.

A few things that happened last week show the divided thinking, if not confusion.

Gardner Ackley, chairman of the Presidents Council of Economic Advisers, asked whether it wasnt time for business to pant a little less about profits.

He asked: Does anyone imagine that labor will continue to show moderation in its wage demands when prices and profit margins are continually rising?

Butmany recent wage settlements have substantially

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exceeded the guideline suggested for labor, that wage increases should be limited to 3.2 percent a year. Labor spokesmen are not satisfi e d with the guideline idea.

One complaint they make: The guideline puts a suggested lid on workers while leaving the gate open for business profits, stock dividends and corporation executives, salaries.

Businessmen complain Johnsons guideline for them is federal interference in free enterprise. Some have expressed fear the temporary restraint might become permanent.

Right behind Ackley came William McChesney Martin Jr. chairman of the Federal Reserve Board which is not under Johnsons thumb like the Council of Economic Advisers.

Martin didnt plead for restraint. He said a tax increase on corporations and individuals is needed now as an anti-inflationary weapon.

Then right behind came the secretary of the treasury, Henry H. Fowler, a member of Johnsons Cabinet. He raised a blinker light against Martins call for a tax increase now.

His argument: The economic trends are still so unclear that a tax increase might be an overcure, at least now.

For weeks the Johnson administration has been hemming and hawing about the need for a tax boost, putting off any thought of action on it until inflation seems more ominously close, if it gets closer.

Since this is a congressional elect i 0 n year John son doesnt have to have a political psychologist tell him that a tax increase is not likely to make voters happy.

Reflector News Editor Don Schlienz and his family are Catholic. So last week when East Carolina was meet i n g Ursuline College in televisions College Bowl, Don, Jr., age 11, wanted to know about Ursuline.

Don, Sr. explained that Ursuline was a Catholic girls school in Louisville, Ky.

East Carolina .. Ursuline, Don, Jr. mused. Then he brightened. No matter which way it goes we win, dont we? he declared.

pretty blonde sitting at a nearby table exclaimed.

She explained she had married a southerner and recently moved to Greenville.

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ty Commissioners meeting recently. She ambled up to chairman Vernon White who was conducting the meeting.

Is......in jail? she

asked.

The surprised chairman told her he didnt know and directed her to the jail office in the court house annex.

Then the meeting resumed.

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Judge Dink James was telling in Biggs Drug Store about some people he had met who were from Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan.

Thats my hometown, a

When I left she was chatting happily with the judge about Sault Sainte Marie.

A lady shuffled into the Coun-

Dont know whether to believe the old story about the man who was stopped by a patrolman for throwing out a paper cup.

But officer, the motorist protested. The signs say its fine up to $50.

At any rate there are new signs out now. They read, Max. Fine $50. . . To litter.

tourist dollar, puts an ex-rresi-dent of the country at the head of its tourist bureau and lets peoi^e come in merely by signing a travel card. Nobody compels them to take guides. But the Rusiiane dont make Khrushchev their Intourist head. Moreover^ when an obviously harmless Princeton, New Jersey, book salesman named Newcomb Mott wanders over the Soviet border without a visa up in the muskeg or tundra belt, where there is nothing of importance to be seen anyway, tiie impression meted out to the poor fellow is death. Mott is officially represented in t h e Soviet books as a suicide, but since he c^e to a violent end on a traiK that was taking him into a gloomy captivity for the crime of failing to obtain an ink sp<k on a piece of paper, the suicide, if any, was at least the result of a provocation.

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To the Editor:

Now theres a way your members can help the USO without contributing a cent of their own money.

All they have to do is flip their lids.

The Lids in this case are not hats, but plastic lids from cans of Maxwell House Coffee. To help the USO, your members simply toss the lids into special display bins set up in local grocery stores and supermarkets.

For every bin filled between May 9 and May 28, Maxwell House will contribute $50 to 4h<^-4iSQ-~and4hei:a~ar#-ihQii=^

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sands of bins throughout the country.

Starting May 9, WNCT TV will broadcast a heavy schedule of announcements in which that likeable Marine, Gomer Pyle, explains how lidflipping can help the USO.

The touch of home that the USO provides can be a real comfort to the lonely GI, especially in places like Vietnam, Korea and Okinawa. Last year 700 entertainers from the USO gave 4,000 performances to a military audience of 2,500,000.

Andthe USO receives no financial support from the government. It Is wholly dependent on voluntary contributions.

Yom- lielp in this campaign will be greatly

Very truly yours M. K. Blount USQ Chairman PiU County

By JOHN G. DUNCAN May 11, 1926 Other Women To Run Against . Ma For Texas Job Fort Worth, Texas Ma Furgeson has started something. When Texas first woman governor announc e d her candidacy for office two years ago, other Texas women simply looked on with idle curosity. But when the woman executive announced her-

To the Editor:

The newly formed newspaper World-Journal-Tribune, comprising three merged New York City dailies, is entering its third week of nonpublication.

Twice in the past four years, strikes have shut down and crippled New York newspapers. During one of those strikes, it forced the N. Y. Mirror to close.

It has long been known that of the New York papers only the Times and the Daily News are making m o n ey. In an effort to cut down on their overhead, the other threeall on the verge of bankruptcyhave sought to merge.

As of this writing and in the face of adamant union demands, it appears that if the current strike is p r o-longed, it may well force the embryo World - Journal -Tribune to collapse before it has had a chance to go into operation.

Admittedly, such a merger will throw some 2000 employes out of work. But, if the papers concerned cease to operate, all of their employes, instead of only some of them, will lose their jobs.

The newspapers of New York City have the most expensive union contracts in the country. The unions are among the strongest and best - paid in the United States newspap

er business. Nevertheless, the , unions have shown no signs . T*m

of compromising their stiff- JL vJx ULllX arm demands insisting only on the highest possible sev- To the Editor:

erance pay and dismissal of Concerning the recent arti-

employes on a basis of strict cle by Mr. George F. Gar-

seniority. ^rett:

The publishers have char- Mr. Garret, no Negro could

acterized union demands as justly say that you were wrong

extortionate; the unions called the publishers off e r peanuts.

Meanwhile, the entire government, including the Congress of the U n i t e d States, stands by apparently afraid for political reasons to intervene.

The law of the land is strict when one company threatens any action that could be construed as putting another company out of business. No business is permitted a monopoly. Restraint of trade is denounced. Yet, in this case, the union is actually preventing a company from going into business.

I question the unions judgment in bringing about t h c ir own destruction. And I wish somebody would explain to me the philosophy behind the unions present policy.

Should a small group of individuals assert the right to determine when or if a newspaper shall be published? Does not our restraint of trade laws have any application to labor unions?

Joseph W. Romita May 7, 1966

in your attempt to march for the grievances that you and your organization started. I must congratulate you and your organization for calling off the demonstration but not because there were outsiders in the march but because of the article which appeared in this paper on either the 29th or 30th by the NAACP.

I say not because of t h e outsiders because in our struggle there are no outsiders, just as Negroes are not considered as outsiders in Viet Nam with other Americans, they arc fighting for freedom there because the people of South Viet Nam are not able to fight the battle alone. Such is the case in Greenville, we cannot carry out the struggle alone.

R. R. Roberts

Mott or no Mott, the Soviet Union hardly deserves any tourists. Boris P. Rogal, in an analysis of the Russian press made for the Institute for the Study of the U.S.S.R. in Munich, comes up with some juicy items that should be enough to scare anyone away. Mr. Rogal quotes a series of articles by V. Khomen-ko in Pravda Ukrainy dealing with the work of Soviet customs officials at airports and seaports, particularly Odessa. Tourists, to V. Khomenko, are overseas junk m e r-chants and predators of the capitalist world. The frontier police and customs offic-i a 1 s, writes Khomenko, stand in the front line of the quiet war, so to speak. Their weapon is vigilance. Thousands of watchful eyes. But vigilance is necessary too in the rear. This is axiomatic. Let us therefore learn from those who toil on the Soviet frontiers, let us tirelessly Intensify our watchfulness.

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The furor over long hair for boys is dying out, whidi proves that Americans can adapt to any catastrophe. Fort Myers (Fla.) News-Press.

This Is Just to make you, apart from your dollars, feel wanted.

In short, the tourist in Russia Is regarded strictly as a Typhoid the time of the trial of the writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel, the Russian press denounced the tourist Helene Peltier-Zamoyskaya for smuggling the works of the two authors abroad. It did not matter that Helene Peltier-Zamoyskayas father was the French Naval Attache in Mos -cow; she was a tourist merely because she had indulged in something that, ex post facto, has been judged by a Soviet court to be reprehensible.

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year, two other Texas women said that they, too, would seek the office.

By ELMER ROESSNER Here are more look-aheads in business:

Revival Services at M. E.

Church Now In Progress

Rev. E, L. Hillman, will preach tonight on Prayei)i The musical program which was in charge of Mr. J. C. Custon was beautifully rendered.

The Presidential guidelines are not holding (more about that next week) and more inflation daily seems more certain un-

- l^ss the brake of higher taxes

Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Earn- is stepped on. est announce the engagement - Cangja windfall: The Tariff of their daughter, Priscilla to Commisiiona action in increas-

are appearing, supermarkets and other grocers are cutting down on the number of competitive brands to make shelf room. A store, for instance, eral income taxes, personal cut its canned bean lin-

and corporate, will be raised?' es from three to one. The

Tax increase: Each day increases the likelihood that fed-

Mr. Raymond Valker Johnson of Holden Mass. on June 2nd.

ing the Cheddar cheese import

problem is so serious that it will get full attention at the U. S. Wholesale Grocers Association meeting at Bal Harbour, Fla., starting May 15.

TIGHTENING CREDIT SCREWS

Cton^umer credit 11 m 11 s: Washington observers say

Brakes on speculators: To

beat Congress to the punch, stock exchanges may continue to tighten margins to slow down speculation. However, they will move slowly. Suppose prices should drop?

The Auxiliary of the Pitt County post of the American I^egion will meet loniorrow afternoon at 3:3U oclock with Mrs. X. T. Wilson In Hober-sonville.

quote will be a boon to Canada, congress is ready to give the ;^lrt will get an allocation of Reserve Board of the

200,000 pounds this year and

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Solicitor Jesse Davis was a Greenville visitor today.

President |xiwer to imp ose linihs on consumer credit be-cauM^ it tlireatens to add to inflation. Controls would be much like those in World War II, which required higher down Brand disappearance: Be^ , payments and shorter terms cause so many new products on instalment deals.

more next year. Fui llierniore, because other nations may not be able to supply suffi(leiit aged Cheddar, ttie Canadian allotment may be Increased.

Rail equipment boom: While tlie effects of new rail mergers will not be felt immediately, they will eventually lead to a substantial rise in orders for new equipment, especially freight cars. In fact, if railroads dont increase freight

car supplies and speed turnarounds, look for government action to keep materiel moving to West Coast ports. VACATION PLANE SHORTAGE

Confirm and reconl i r m summer plane reservations . to Europe: Increasing demands for airlifts to Saigon are diverting many planes from Atlantic runs and many European flighte may be cancelled.

Pigs fly: Pork prices will stay up there. The hog population ii down and wont begin to increase until fall. Pork will be cheaper next year, unless inflation pushes prices sUII higher.

Olive prospectt: That may be an olive, not a radio bug, in your martini after all. The Mediterranean crop is good and there will be plenty of olives this year.

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