Friday, May 13, 1964

More Than An Ordinary Nuisance

Appearance of a large Soviet fishing fleet off Atlantic fishing grounds. Their appearance off the the Middle Atlantic coast is of understandable con- Mid-Atlantic states in such strength, however, is cern to people of the Carolinas and Virginia ... a new occurance. It represents new competition particularly those who recognize the importance for American fishermen in catching if not in mark-of the fishing industry to these states. eting fish. And as officials have pointed out, it

More than 60 Russian fishing ships have been offers the threat of rcdqcng future^ catches along reported off the East coast and this fleet is capable the Mid-Atlantic area.

of taking many tons of fish per day. Officials say Officials should, insofar as possible keep close that while no international fishing agreements have tabs on the Soviet fishermen near American waters, been violated, over-fishing of the area by the They, along with the American fishing industry, Soviets could severely reduce future fish popula- should be constantly alert for the first signs that tion in the area. the Soviet fishing activities are inflicting damage

Soviet fishing fleets have been fairly common to American interests in these watei-s whch off the West coast of this nation and in the North tradtionally have been considered the natural

grounds for American fishermen.

Sports Fishing Value Mounts

Apathy Is The Major Registration Problem

By WILJ^IAM A. SHIRES .

ASSET - Nearly half a million people a year fish for fun along North Carolinas 275 miles of coast and this number is increasing by about seven per cent annually.

They fish in foamy surf and blue ocean, and in 2,575 square miles of bays and sounds, inlets, tidal rivers and salt water creeks. They fish from boats, the beach, from bridges and from 32 ocean piers.

Approximately 80 per cent of these sports fishermen come from inland North Carolina counties or from other states and by best estimate they contrlbuB 'at least $7.5 to $10 million a year to the coastal economy.

This is a sizable economic asset derived directly from the sports fishing industry, one which in recent years has ihown phenomenal growth.

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POTENTIAL - It is estima-ted that the economic value of North Carolinas said water sports fishing already substantially exceeds the total dockslde worth of the catches of the states approximately 7,000 commercial fishermen.

Some sources estimate the true ratio in terms of economic impact between sports fishing and commercial fishing at six to one. In some cases, greater.

In Dare County, it is said that a big, lively copper-colored channel bass worth about fifty cents as a commercial catch is probably worth $100 to the countys overall economy when taken by a sports fisherman.

GROWTH Most experts say the potential for further growth of the states sports fishing iirfustry is great. North Carolina has good fishing grounds, many miles of coastiine, proximity to the Gulfstrcam, good harbors and facilities and an excellent system of coastal highways and bridges.

Nortli Carolina already has more ocean fishing piers than any state on the eastern seaboard, and a longer coast than any except Florida.

These briefly are dimensions of the industry which sports fishing enthusiasts say must be stressed in considering all matters of fishii^^ regulation and conservation in North Carolinas coastal waters.

FISHERIES - The commercial fishing industry, it^ self rich and thriving and of significant economic value and potential, is closely related to salt water sports fishing and yet the two are in conflict and at odds on many points

Recognizing this fact, the 1965 General Assembly enacted legislation designed to help solve as many coastal fisheries problems and differ-ences as possible through state regulation.

It rewrote the states fishing laws and repealed literally hundreds of local laws pertaining to coastal fishing, county by county. It set up a special advisory committee on commercial and sports fisheries to assist the State Board of Conservation and Development and its division of commercial and sports fisheries in promulgating regulations for the benefit of all.

PROBLEMS Immediate areas of conflict between .sports and commercial fishing interests include trawling, trash fishing and the protection of piers and nursery areas. Studies were begun and additional studies are planned.

A subcommittee of the advisory board recommended a regulation to prohibit trawling in and around any inlet, and within half a mile of the shore line or inside the inlet on the F unds. It compromised with a proposed 1,500 food limit south of Salter Path, on Bogue Banks, beca; e of rock and coral formations along fills part of the coast.

It also iM'oposed size limits on food fish native to North Carolina waters such as flounder grey and spotted trout, croaker, spot and Virginia mullet.

Then it recommended that so-called trash fish, undersized food fish, taken incidental to bona fide shrimping be limited to 10 per cent of a totel catch. The present limit is 25 per cent, which is a regulation Fisherica commissioner David Adams described as unrealistic and difficult to enforce.

The conflict was joined, however, when commerlcial fishing interests opposed each of the proposed regulations and succeeded In defeating each one.

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Saturday is the final day of the current registration period bforc the May 28 Democratic primary.

In recent months Pitt County citizens have had ample opportunity to get their names on the countys voting rolls. In addition to their regular registration period which ends Saturday, there have been two special registration periods in the past six months. Even so, come election day there will be some local resiiients who discover they havent taken time to register. They will not be eligible to vote.

Certainly the right a citizen to register and vote in elections carries with it the responsibilty to take tme to register and vote.

The greatest stumbling block to more registered voters and more participants in elections is not discrimination against some citizens, but continued apathy on the part of some citizens toward their citizenship responsibilities.

Saturday is one last opportunity for citizens to get their names on the books.^e urge local residents who are not registered to do Saturday by going to the polling place in the precinct in which they live.

"J/iMik at It This Way, Jtj \ON-iNFTATIONARYr

By HAL BOYLE

ncertainty is ?art Of Season Nobody

ise lo Listen

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) There is some uncertainty about all of them: weather, dollars, barbs and bullets.

In this trange spring of hot and cold. President Johnson has avoided a shouting match with his critics about the war in Viet Nam. But Wednesday he unloosed a few rather mild barbs of his own.

But, having done this much, there is no indication he intends doing much more in this field himself. He has let others state most of the case for him, like the secretaries of state and defense.

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But when Dean Rusk and Robert S. McNamara go before the Senates Foreign Relations Committee, their statements get scrambled in arguments between them and the senators.

What Johnson did Wednesday was to take a sort of sideswipe at Sen. J. W. Ful-

clined to go beyond that kind of answer, limited as it was.

He may believe Fulbright and those who agree with him are only a small percentage of the population and therefore dont need any stronger answers than they are getting, which for some critics of the critics isnt enough.

So what lies ahead in this field is uncertain.

But it Is not more uncertain than what Johnson will think it necessary to do to stop inflation if only because the inflation question itself is full of uncertainty at this moment.

Johnson is known to believe that whether or not the government feels It must take actionlike a tax increase to drain off spendable dollars depend <Jn these main factors:

Will Congress wind up vetting to spend far more money than Johnson asked for I 8

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self with limited wage demands? And will business be satisfied not to boost prices?

And at this point, despite the increasing buildup of American forces in South Viet Nam, there is spme uncertainty about what may happen since there is uncertainty about what the Vietnamese (Continued On Page 5)

NEW YORK (AP) Curb- ter of social necessity, stone comments by a Pave- The reason that more peo-

ment Plato:

Do you talk to yourself?

There was a time when only the very young and the very old talked to themselves. The practice was regarded as a sign of either childishness or senility. That is no longer true.

Talking to ones self is so universal now that it can hardly be classified as an indication of mental disturbance.

The habit simply Is a mat-

ple are talking to themselves is that nobody else will listen to them.

Listening is at least half the art of converstatlon; conversation has died out as a modem art simply because there are no good listeners left.

If you try to give a waiter a menu order in a restaurant, he is off to tell it to the chef before you can finish uttering it. He wont wait to hear you through. That is why he returns from the kitchen with a

Other Editors Saying

Consumers AI,

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things is good for the economy? Will labor content it-

sideswipe at Sen. J. W. Ful- *pN ^ i. _

bright, the critical chairman I QIS L/Q.lS"''

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mittee, without once naming \r

him. 40 Years

In answer to Fulbright, who had thrown words like arro- TJ gance of power at Johnson, O X OCICI y

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the President

The exercise of power in this century has meant for the United States not arrogance but agony.

Johnson doesnt seem in-

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By JOHN G. DUNCAN May 13, 1926 D.O.K.K. Takes Greenville By Storm Dokies Stage Big Seremonial In City Today

(Christian Science Monitor)

One hears little these days of a proposal much in the news some years ago to establish a Department of Consumers in the United States Government. Discussion of this subject might well be revived.

Because a Secretary of Consumers is lacking in the Presidents Cabinet, Orville L. Freeman, Secretary of Agriculture, has felt called upon to fill a very difficult dual role. He has tried to represent the interests of producers (of agricultural goods) and consumers of them at the same time. Many farm people were unahppy when they read a headline recently stating Freeman Elated Over Price Drops. Secretaries of agriculture arent supposed to react that way. His defense was that the lower prices would not only benefit the consumer but would,by expanding markets, be good for farmers in the long run.

He sees no conflict as a result of including consumer interests in the range of the

Greenville was the scene for departments concern. In the Dokies of Eastern Carolina to- preface to the Department for

To the Editor:

Henry Lawson is a man of the people and for the people, and if his position was an elective one, I know he would be a man selected by the people. He has been and is, a friend to all people, regardless of race, creed, color, rich or poor. He has extended kindness, consideration^ cooperation and compassion to everyone. People like h i m are numbered among the very few.

Henry Lawson was trained in his work and duties as Chief of Police by City Manag^er' Harry Hagerty and I feel that Mr. Hagerty has done a good, complete and very thorough jb in hii teaching^ $0(j instructions to him. ^e hai helped to make Chit! Lawson a man now able to qua-'' lify as one of the best chiefs of police our city has or will have.

W. R. Bill Griffin 2801 Jefferson Drive

day. When hundreds gathered for the annual spring ceremonial of Ziza Temple No.

Jliamatic dr Kfiorasgaff. TCeys"Io Uh e

Agricultures latest Year

Book entitled Consum e r s All, he wrote:Though a primary objective of the Department is service to United States fanners and ranchers, the real beneficiary of agricultural productivity and abundance has been, is now, and will continue to be the American consumer.

This is a sound statement. But the prime responsibility of the department continues to be to the farmer just as the Labor Departments main concern is the working man.

Some helpful moves have been made to protect consumers, such as appointment of an adviser to the President on consumer problems. Also an unusual number of bills to protect the buyer await action in (ingress. 'This is fine. But protecting consumer interests calls for more than laws for fair packaging and high tire standards. It means bringing the voice of the consumer into labor disputes, antitrust debates and other major controversies, The efforts of the Secretary of Agriculture to speak up for the consumer point to need for a strong consumer agency.

boiled eel instead of the broiled veal you wanted.

You absent-mindedly g r e et an acquaintance with the con-V e n t i 0 n a 1 query, Whats new? He absently replies, Just fine. How art filings with you?

The absurdity of this response doesnt strike either of you, because he didnt hear your question and you didnt hear his answer.

Wives complain that h u s-bands never listen, but how many wives listen to husbands any more? You come home from work and surprise your wife standing in the middle of the living room with the tubing from the vacuum cleaner wrapped around her like a giant anaconda.

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your office problems, she barks. Ive had nothing but

trouble all day myself.

See what I mean? It is like everyone on earth had gone deaf.

But talk is the escape valve of the human mind. Man, if his own kind wont listen to him, will talk to toees, dogs, stones, cats, his tools, the wind, the waves upon the sea. He talks because he simply must.

There are, of course, certain advantages in talking to yourself. You are able to pon-(Continued On Page 5)

city were turned over to the visitors.

Rev. E. L. Hillman preaches tonight at the Jarvis Memorial Methodist Church on The Elder Son. Large crowd attending.

Typhoid Qinic To Be Held Here On May 14th Summertime is typhoid time. For the past several years typhoid fever has been on the wane, but there are still too many cases. In 1924 there were 100 cases and 1925 there were 40 cases. In each case it was found that they had never taken the trtatme n t which is practically a sure preventative.

Pitt County Health Dept..

A delightful representation of E. A. Thomas play, Come

Out of The Kitchen' was given in the auditorium of the Teachers. College Thur^d a y evening.

By ELMER ROESSNER Many businessmen are missing an opportunity in not offering ready-packed parcels under five pounds for servicemen in Viet Nam. Postage rates are reasonable and such parcels are flown from the West Coast to Viet Nam.

Many GIs are far beyond PXs and goodies are a treat. Canned tasties wont spoil. Many GIs want to share windfalls with Vietnam ese, who need food, soap, needles, thread, buttons.

prepacked parcels within the weight limit, if well advertised, should sell fast and help moffle in the monsoon season.

OTHER IDEAS FOR BUSINESS

Kelly Services, formerly Kelly Girl l^rvices, hat put a Call Kelly game on the market. It is imaginative and

it reminds playr^at every

roll of the dice of the temporary help service.

There may be profits in waste. By reducing the moisture content of its waste, the A. Smith Bowman distillery converted It into poultry and livestock feed.

a way of detecting trouble in the future. Product Engineering magazine reports that manufacturers are working on plans to attach aromatic cap-

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By JOHN CHAMBERLUN Copyright, 1966, King Fea 2s Syndicate, Inc.

The intellectuals are at it again, signing an appeal for another big march on Washington to vote on on the Vietnam War. The names are, in many instances, familiar; they include novelists such as John Hersey, historians such as H. Stuart Hughes and Rich a r d HofsUdter, clerics such as the Rev. William Sloane Coffin, poets such as Mark Van Doren and Louis Untermeyer, econ

omista such as Stuart Chase, and doctors such as pedia* i-clan Benjamin Spock. These are respectable people, no hacks who can be assembled at wUl to do the bidding of our enemies. And their abstract cause, which Is peace, must be respected by ill men of good will.

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Thats a cute house dress you got on, baby, you mumble.

Dont whine to me about

But if It paaoa in the concrete that t^ would be getting If, as they hope, they art su^estful in eacouragiDg negotiations with all concerned partiea Including the Viet-cong. The Vietcong Is Com-munist, and Ck)mmumst8 regard interludes of peace as merely tactical, to be used Is springboards for future ward of liberation. Moreover, as intellectuals, the vote no on the Vietnam War group is encouraging negotiations with the exponents of a system that has absolutely no use for the free intellect.

Even as our intellectuals propose what would be a deal with the Vietname.?e Communists the news comes from Red CJhina that Peking has disgraced its most famous literary figure, Kuo Mo-jo, who has been president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Kuo has been against the Mao-Tse-tung regimes expansion-is policy. Now seventy-four years old, Kuo is nearing the end of a career in which he has written and translated millions of words. He is the Chinese translater of Tolstoys War and Peace. In 1959, just before the brert in Sino-So-viet relations began, Kuo was honored with the Stalin Peace Prize.

Now, despite his many services to the Chinese Revolution, Kuo has been forced to a tj^ of self-abasement that was all too familiar in Soviet Russia at the height of the Stalinist purge trials. He has admitted his lack of sufficient understanding of Mao Tse-tungs writings, he has apologized for his failurp to give whole-hearted service to workers and peasants, and he has said, Although I am over 70, I want to roll in the mud and receive on my body the stigmata of oil and blood . . All that I have written should be burned as useless.

To return to our own Intellectuals: they (tont seem to care what happens to their kind under Ckinununism. If a mere columnist who has also written some books can aspire to the name of intellectual for himself, let this column stand as a protes by one intellectual against the absea-ment of our breed by American novelists, poets and his-torians who should know better.

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GUARD AGAINST EXTENDED WEEKENDS Many employers are checking on Friday tod Monday illnesses by employees. 'Those frequently ill on those days are asked to bring statements from doctors. Employers suspect employees lU^ to stretch weeHends by reporting ill on Fridays or Mondays.

Wie there is a great fush to hire Jqne grads, many employers are looking for dropouts. Aetudentwho cant return for a fourth year because ht naairied may work like blazes at a job to support his wife and progeny.

Many companies are claiming accelerated depreciation on tax returns because of overtime use of machines. If records show that machines are being used more than normal, larger depreciation rales may be claimed. It makes sense, since a m a c h i ne will wear out twice as fast at-16 hours a day than at 8.

WB MAY HAVE WON RACE FOB TRANSISTORS WITH JAPAN General Electric has announ ced a process for mass pro-(luctjop of high performance, plfitic aocapsulated transistors for as low as 15 cents each.

Until twjfy, Japan, with iU low waaea, hes been products hand - made traosislort far cheaper than tha Unitad Sues, thereby gaining a Urae part of the U. 8. radio, tolV vision and electronic market.

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