Thursday, June 1966

Untapped Treasure Off Oui* Coast

North Carolina has long dreamed of oil deposita along its shores which someday would make this a wealthy state.

There may be other treasures in the shallow offshore waters that would make the discovery of oil dull by comparison.

Just recently Duke University scientists reported a huge deposit of phosphate along the continental shelf.

The Christian Science Monitor elaborates on this to note that Duke scientist are seeking a treasure chest that the bullion-hunting pirate, Black-beard, overlooked.

The continental shelf under North Carolina waters where Blackbeard hoisted his skull and cross-bones is peppered with phosphate, radium, uranium, copper, cobalt and heavy mineral sands," the Monitor reports.

Some 100 miles offshore, where the upper continental shelf slopes down to a vast promontory called the Blake Plateau, lies a field of rich manganese deposits.

The nodules that dot the plateau are some 1,500 to 3,500 feet under waterperhaps the shal-

VIoore Denies Any Assurance

By waXUM A. SHIRES DENIES Governor Moore has flatly denied reports that he assured the states electric" cities that private power companies would continue a long-standing policy of selling facilities in an annexed area to an annexing city.

Such reports are untrue, Moore says. He told newsmen he could not and did not give eny assurance as to what the power compani e s would or would not do.

But spoke men for the electric citiesthose which own and operate municipal electric systemssay this was their understanding more than a year ago when the 1965 legislature enacted a territorial franchising agreement between private power companies and the states rural electric cooperatives.

The electric cities along with thf N. C. League of Musicipalities bitterly opposed the legislation, contending

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the agreement stripped them of traditional franchising authority and denied cities and towns the right to expand their electric systems into annexed areaa.

DISPUTE -But the agreement was anacted with Moores backing. Since then, eight or nlna "electric" cities have been rebuffed in effort! to purchase distribution fscil-ities in artas ttiiy hsvs annexed or want to annex.

Thus the dispute has flared again, and promises to be dropped back in the lap of the legislature early next year.

In many respects, ths slec-trtc utility agrsamant is considered a prims sccomplish-ment of Moore's admimstra-tioo. He points out rather proudly that it was ths first such territorial agreement ever raacl^d batwaan the

states private power interest and REA coops.

AGREEMENT - Even before taking office in January, 1965, Moore called officials of private power and the REA coops together and urged them to settle differences over territorial rights in the states rapidly growing suburb a n areaa.

The agreement which was reached added greatly to the new governors prestige and helped pave the way to success for much of Moores 1%5 legialtlve pro^am.

The electric cities and League of Municipalities continued to feel, however, that they were made a scrape-goat, and that the legislation was unfair and unjust.

Officials of the N. C. Municipally Owned Electric Systems (NCMOES) say they understood that the governor gave them assurances, at least verbally, that the policy in regard to annexed areas would be continued.

POLICY Asked to comment, Moore denied the reports. He pointed out that while the previous policy generally had been to sell distribution fsciUtles in annexed areas, he had no way of dictating policy.

And, apparently, be said, since enactment of the territorial agreement betwe e n private power and elect r i c co-ops the former policy has been changed.

REVERSE There is, of course, a reverse side to the coin. The electric" cities which realise municipal revenue guard their inter e s t zealouily.

It is a rare cai^ indeed when one of these apea and towns will agree to give up its electric business and sell its system to a private power company or REA co-op. Also, some of the electric" cities refuse to franch i $ e other, competing utility services such as natural gas.

In several instances recently, however, electric" cities have granted gas franchises in order to attract new industry or for other reasons and have found the resulting growth overcame any loss in electric revenue end, in fact, increased profits.

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lowest knowQ major mangatiese deposits in the world."

It is still far too early to determine how rich theee deposits are or how expensive the underwater mining would be. The fact that they are there, however, holds promise of a vast undeMhe-sea mining operation that would develop a great new industry for Coastal North Carolina. ^

This states future as a producer of mined minerals and metals may well be unlimited. Of course the next step is to accurately determine the extent of these deposits and then to interest private companies in the mining operations.

We hope that this will be done as rapidly as possible and that the appropriate state and federal agencies will lend as much assistance to the project as is necessary.

Much Satisfaction In Partnership Spirit

Greenville and Pitt County can be proud of sharing in the decision of Union Carbide Corporation to expand its local facilities.

The companys decision, doubtless based primarily on operational advantages, was significant because the Greenville Plant was selected and not another.

The decision to expand the Greenville Plant was based to a large extent on the loyalty and efficiency of our employes here, coupled with excellent community relations," said W. N. Leitch, plant manager.

The reasons are obvious, but not necessairy simple. Greenville and Pitt County have demonstrated to Uuion Carbide since 1948 that there Is a desire for economic progress with people willing to push the extra measure for achievement.

The partnership between company, county and city is not unique, but significant. There is a collective desire to move ahead and a genuine spirit, born of years of cooperation and mutual concern.

There should be appreciation for Union Carbides confidence in the community. There should be, as well, a sense of inner satisfaction for the citizenry of Greenville and Pitt County.

1*111 Trvipg Real Hard lo Pull Mviielf To^ellier**

By ART BUCHWALD

Europe Seeing An Easy Way For Nato

tension Lessen

Member Audit BurtiU el Ciroulatiou,

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP)~Red (Tiinas a problem, the war in Viet Nam is a mess, Africa is unpredictable, this country bubbles and boils over civil rights, but tensions in Europe recently have eased greatly.

The best proof is the Brussels meeting of 14 North Atlantic Treaty Organizat i o n countries foreign ministers. If the heat was on they wouldnt have the time for the kind of debating and postponing theyre doing now.

This Date-' 40 Years Ago Today

By JOHN G. DUNCAN June 9, 1926 Pitt Attracting Wide AtteoUon On The Outside The Eastern Carolijui Chamber of Commerce Tells World of Pitt Countys Advantages Pitt now boasts more than

50.000 inhabitants. It is one of the richest agricultural counties in the South. The county has'13 banks with the following resources: Cap i tal, surplus and undivided profits $1,108,277.86. Deposits $8,474,-

142.79, Total resources $8,298,-333.88.

The steady increase in population is shown by the fact that in 1850, Pitt had only 13,400 inhabitants. In 1900 there were 30.000. The gain in 26 years has been approximately 20,000.

The highway system embraces 90.5 milee of hard surfaced roads. There are 500 miles of serviceable highways, paved and unpeved.

The lehools are among the best in the section, including total enrollment of more than total enroilmtnt of more than

15.000 and U high schools. A state teachers college is located in the county.

There are three branch lines of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and the main line of the Norfolk and Southern crosses the county. The Tar river provides water transportation. The value of the crops"in a single year exceeds $21,400,000.

Greenville is the county seat with a population in the

10.000 bracket. Other thriving i places are Ayden, Fountain, FarmviUe, Grimesland and Bethel.

The best weathervane is French President Charles de Gaulle, who wasnt there.

Tall De Gaulle, always fidgety about the image of French greatness, decided earlier this year Europe a n conditions have imp roved vastly since the NATO allies first teamed up in 1949 against a possible Soviet attack.

He didnt like the idea of French troops under all i e d commandintegrated forces, they were called and he couldnt endure the thought of NATO bases, mostly American, on French soil.

Out with the bases, he told NATO, feeling he could say so now in a safer Europe. He announced he would pull French forces out of the integrated set. meaning France and no one else would have any say over French troops.

NATO has its headquarters in France. Out with that, too,

Now that France is pulling out of NATO, there is room for another country to come in. Several nations have been proposed for membership but, for one reason or another, their applications have been rejected. For example, in the case of Spain, the members have vetoed Francos application on the grounds that the Spanish still condone bull fighting, which is against everything NATO stands for.

The most obvious candidate for membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is the Soviet Union. The So-vie tUnion is strategically located, has a large standing army, which could cover Europes northern and eastern flanks, and it has several ports that could easily be used for

supply depots.

NATOs main role in the past has been to contain the Soviet Union. But if the Soviet Union was permitted to join NATO, this would become a minor role," and our financial and military commitment could be cut in half without endangering European security.

Another advantage of having the Soviet Union in NATO is that the Russians already have nuclear weapons, so we wouldnt have to supply them with any. This would solve the major problem that the United States has had in dealing with its North Atlantic allies.

Besides its geographic location and its ability to field hundreds of thousands of troops, the Soviet Union could

Other Editors Saying Eull Steam Aheac,

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MARLOW

Fishing Good At Pamlico Beach

Mr. end Mrs. N. 0. War-re and Major and Mrs. B. L. Wilson of Washington, . C. spent yesterday at Pamlico Beach and returned with :12 fish with an aver age weight of nore than a pound each.

he said. At the same time he said he wouldnt pull France out of the NATO alliance. This was really having it both ways.

France, militarily, would no longer be part of the common NATO defense. But if the Soviet Union attacked, France would depend on NATO allies to defend her. De Gaulle is a man who has played it both ways lor quita a while.

He was lo jealous of French authority over ail things French he bad withdrawn its Mediterranean and Atlantic fleeta from NATO; assigned NATO only small air and ground lorcaa of about 00,000 men; refused to permit non-French naval personnel from certain high command posts. And he did other similar things.

In fairness it should be refused to permit non-French membered France stood beside the United States in the Berlin crises and the Cuban missile crisis.

In view of De Gaulles demands the remaining NATO nations had to arrange to take their headquarters out of France and re-cement the organisation which his actions had badly shattered. They had to remove the NATO Council, political arm of the organisation, from Paris, too, although De Gaulle d 1 d nt demand that and, instead, in-dted the council to remdin.

This week the 14 NATO countries foreign minister met, including rijan Rusk, U.'IS. sep-

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(Whiteville News-Reporter)

The rest of North Carolina ought to take note and give the movement the boost it deserves. A renaissance in higher education is taking place Down Elast with East Carolina College as the hub and, as of the year ending now, with some 8,000 students and more to come being the evidence.

Twenty years ago East Carolina Teachers College was , ust that and nobody believed t would be much more than that in the foreseeable future.

But daring leadership plus desire of boys and girls for a little learning to smooth the path onward and upward has changed otherwise complace-ment thinking. East Carolina College ia going places and opening a new world to thousands of students who otherwise may never have looked upon a college classroom.

Draw a line from north lo south through Raldgh border to south through Raleigh border to border and east of that line this bustling center of ed-

also make a large contribution to NATO in the field of intelligence. The Western allies have been spending billions of dollars trying to find out what the Russians are up to. If they joined the NATO pact, we would have the right to ask them, and this would save us a tremendous amount of time and money.

Some critics argue that the Soviet Union already belongs to the Warsaw Pact made up of the Iron Curtain countries and it would be hard for the Soviets to withdraw from that pact to join ours.

But NATO has far piore standing in the world than Warsaw, and it is believed the Soviets would not hesitate to jump over to our pact if somebody asked them.

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ucation at Greenville dominates the whole horizon.

Governor Dan K. Moore says, and he admires him for it, that ECCs President Leo Jenkins h ambitious for his college but the good Governor looks with askance on ECCs bid for University status.

The Board of Higher Education, responsible for such study and recommendation, is working on a 10-year plan for state supported schools but what it will propose for East Carolina is a moot question at this moment.

S t i 11 it is an inescapable fact that the growing institution is spreading its wings over a great potential in a section of the state which in large measure has been overlooked.

Dr. Jenkins is ambitious for East Carolina and rightfu 11 y is so. Let no roadblocks be thrown up to impede his realism for University status for the institution he is leading to bigger and better service to Down East and North Carolina.

Of course, if you took in the Soviet Union as a partner in NATO, you would have to change the strategy of the alliance. NATO would have to have a new military threat or it would disintegrate.

That new threat could be France, and NATOs new role could be to contain Gen. Charles de Gaulle.

It is believed that with the Soviet Union in NATO de Gaulle wouldnt dare try anything in Europe and he would be convinced that any adventure on his part could mean instant retaliation, not only from the West but also from the East.

De Gaulle is going to Russia soon, and one of the things hes expected to do is to try to persuade the Soviets not to join NATO. But the Soviets are expected to turn a deaf (Continued on page 5)

Hard ines In Russia

By JOHN CHAMBRLAIN

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The difference between the U. S. State Department and the Soviet Foreign Ministry is that our officials, at least below the level of the steadfast Dean Rusk, tend to be softies while their Russi a n opposite numbers are i r o n-hard.

The story of the suicide" of Newcomb Mott, a book salesman for the Van N o s-trand Company of Princeton. New Jersey, who happened to stray over the Soviet border last summer without a visa, illustrates the custard - pia consistency of our diplomacy when it comes to protecting American citizens. For t h e fact is that we happened to have a stray Russian in custody at the very time when Mott was being tried in a Soviet court for the crime of illegal entry," yet, out of an absurd consideration for convention, we refused to hold the Russian even for talk about an exchange.

According to the American Security Council, a fight i n g organization which is trying its best to get a private 1 y endowed Freedom Academy started, the U. S. had only to

give the Soviet border f ro m Norway In the far north, two Russians, Peter Kalitenko and Gregorky Sarapushkin, were driven ashore in Alaska in a leaky skin boat while lost in a fog in Bering Strait The U. S., unlike the Soviet KGB in the case of Mott, took the Russians' word for it that they had not intentionally violated the U. S. passport requirements. One of the Russians, Peter Kalitenko, decided he would like to stay in the U. S. the other, Sarapushkin, after a couple of months shilly-shallying, finally decided he wanted to go home. The Soviet KGB had meanwhile been wigwagging, through a paragraph planted by suggestion In a Mott letter to the U. S. Embassy in Moscow, that it would like to trade Mott for Igor Ivanov, who had been sentenced In the U. S. to a prison term for spying. We refused to make this exchange, which, in view of the fact that Mott was not a spy, is understandable. But at the same time we 1 e t Sarapushkin, who was directly comparable to Mott, go because he said he was innocent of intentional wrongdoing.

Mott, after his conviction for illegally crossing the Soviet frontier, died on a prison train that was taking hirn to Siberia. The Rusians ex' plained that he had committed suicide by cutting his throat with a safety razor blade. But Francis W. H. Adams, a former New York City Police Commissioner who is the lawyer from Newcomb Motts fanly, saya it wasn't suicide.

Mr. Adams bases his opin-ion on an examination of Motts repatriated body that was made by Dr. E. J. Fel-derman of Woodmere, Long Island. There were almost seventy unexplained wounds on Motts body besides the slashed throat. Dr. Felder-(Ck)ntinued On Paga 5)

iVtonetary Freedom Is A Rarity

By ELMER ROESSNER

Of the worlds 3.6 billion population, only the 20 ^ million living in Canada and Lebanon enjoy complete mone-t a r y freedom, the 1966 Picks Currency Yearbook will state when published this fall.

In every other country, some form of legislation prohibited or reduced the full enjoyment of at least some currency transactions," Franz Pick will report.

In Switierland. popular 1 y regarded as a free monetary country, as of March,, this year, nonresidents could n o t acquire domestic securities or real estate. Germany discriminated i^ainst nonresident owners of German bonds with a 25 per cent coupon tax.

And in the pnited States

the interest equalization tax and the voluntary restraint on foreign investments and bank loans were added to the black market - provoking prohibition against any from of monetary gold ownership," Dr. Pick states.

102 BLACK MARKETS

Pick might have added that in the U. 6. it is increasingly difficult to get silver for silver certificates, silver coins have been debased with copper, and the Federal Reserve notes can be redeemed only for other Federal Reservre notes.

The Yearbook will list 102 black markets operating on March 31. This list of 102 monetary systems which are unable to prevent their residents from wanting to have better than national currencies is far from pleasant reading " Pick itaUa.

Naturally, wherever thera is a currency law, thera is a black market.

It is hard to understand

why in the age of space nevi-gaiion and success io the <lif covery of new medlcfl wolkk er drugs, eliminatini lUCh dileases as poiiomelltli or dipb-teria, humanity hai been unable to master currency systems or prevent their abuse."

The U. S. dollar, despite its continuing elide in purchasing power, still commanded pre-miun^ ia tba black marketa

of the world at the end of March, ha reported.

The dollar conimands a premium of 0.2 per cent in Uie black markets of Saudi Arabia and 0.7 per cent in Australia. The premium keeps on rising to 10.8 per cent in Sy-r i a; 23.9 per cent in Argentine; 56.8 per cent in Chile; 103.3 per cent in Red China where they hate us; 142.9 per cent In Cambodia, where we are sot loved; 216.7 per cent In South Viet Nam. where they Jove us on Mondays. Wedsifdays and Fridays; 244^ per cent In North Viet Nam; 2,100 per cent in Cuba and 2,778 per cent in Poland.

And even in the black marked of Russia, thf Yankee buck commands a pramium of 338.9 per cent.

We must be doing something right