Thvftiy# A|>rU 6, 1967

Waterways May Greatly Benefit

IN GOOD COMPANY!

We T>elieve that much good can come from a vast study of major streams in Eastern North Caro-hm by the . S. Army Corps of Engineers.

The study has been underway since 1965 and has now reached the stage where public hearings will be held. Once the study is complete, the Corps of Engineers will be in a position to make project recommendations to Congress. This could bring about great changes in the Easts waterways. It could also make available the huge amounts of water that some industries need for production.

Included in the studies are such matters as navigation; flood control; drainage; irrigation; recreation: fsh and wildlife; municipal; industrial and agricultural water supply; water quality, forests and land stabilization trealments.

Those of us who live here in the eastern coastal area seldom stop to think just what a great asset we have in our water ways and our underground water supplies. Water is abundant and relatively unpolluted.

We often read of areas where water shortages

are a great problem to municipalities and industries that must be solved by pumping water in from miles away.

The recreational potential for the huge areas of protected waters in North Carolinas coastal rivers and sounds is almost beyond belief. However a steadily growing national population, made up soon of a high percentage of young adults with more leisure time than any previous generation, assures the future of any recreational area.

Water may prove to be a natural resource of greater value to Eastern North Carolina than even oil could be. It is studies such as the one curently underway by the Corps of Engineers that will mean the states waterways will be adequately developed and protected for future generations.

It is our hope that organizations and individuals who have an interest in proper development of the northeastern waterways will make themselves heard as public hearings are held.

Speedy Action Misleadinq?

! Rebuffed At An Awkward Time

By WnJJAM A. SHIRES Reflector Rakigh Bureau RALEIGH - The startling q>eed with which a House committee approved an en-tirdy rewritten brown bagging liquor NU was probab-^ misleiKhng.

Of coune, chairman Jack M. Euliss ^ the House Propositions and Grievances committee, clad In a light blue sport coat for the occasion, sighed with relief to get tiie bill reported favorsbly and into the flotn* after only a 20 minute morning meeting.

Hit bill, drafted by Rep.

after the House finished amending the bill. He and his conunittee fully e]q>ected some House amendmeiits and changes but apparently not die rewriting idch Euliss and Johnson undertocA.

Warn Of Troolda

Members of Henkels c o m-mittee made plain they were unhappy about the House committee actton ami warned of trouble for the Euliss Johnson version even if tt should survive on the House

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHGTON (AP)-> The earth not cmly didnt shake, it didnt even tremble. What happened Monday may not mean much in the long view of history. Bat President Johnson was rebuffed, and at an awkward time for hhn.

The Senate Foreign Rda-tions Cknmnittee singly questioned fais Judgment and leadership in foreign affairs, and put a brake on it. That this could happen, in the way it did, shows Johnson no longer waves a ma^ wand over Congress, '

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8am Jdms(m (tf Wake at Eu-lias* request, was unveiled as a **new House committee substitute the ni^ before. Then Euliss called Ms committee sharply divkfed between dr^ and wets bade Into session within 12 hours to pass it This raised hopes of those legislators and others who want to see some brown bag^ng legislation enacted and out of tiie Assemblys hands just as soon as possible. These hopes apparently are to be dadied.

Rouitii Sledding Ahead There is rough sledding ahead, and in fact indications are that a stalemate may develop on the over all liquor question.

Unfortnnately for those hoping for a quick solutkm, the new House bill do not meet unanimous approval by any means, either in the House or in the Senate.

The Senate passed its ver-tion of a broad, statewidr brown bag^ng bill two weeks ago, heeding the request of Senate P&G chairman C. V. Henkel to send it ffarou^ without amendment Henkel promised at the time that *1t wiU be bade

The House committee substitute strikes out the Senate bills provision to aUow brown bag^n^* statewide and would prohibit such possession of legal Uqoor outside the home in counties whidi do not have ABC store outlets. It would, however, allow brown bagfi^ in counfay clubs and prtvale locker clubs even in dry counties on grounds, Johnson said, that this is an ex-toision of a private home. Critics immediately attacked this provision as making it a rich mans bill.

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as far as he should go.

This decision has roots be-ginning in August j964, when North Vietnamese PT boats attadced American destroyers in the Gulf of Toiddn and U. S. planes retaliated by bombing coastal bases M North VietnaUL

Johnson asked Congress tiien to back him up by approving a resolution givi^ him a congressional go-ahead beforehand for whatever' steps he thought necessary to repel. . .aggression.

Both houses approved overwhelmingly but not before somn of the members expressed misgivings about such a blai&et endorsement fm* toe future.

The resolution said toe pow-er it authorized for the dent would last until he had decided peace was restored to Southeast Asia. On toe strength of this, and without any formal declaration of war, Johnson intensified the war.

Mends

Fences

By ROBIAND EVANS add ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON - Shortly after undergoing minor surgery last fall, President Johnson received a handwritten get well letter from Senator Vance Hartke of fediana, one of his sharpest critttt over the war in Viet Nam. .

Whether by intention or oversiit, the letter was neither acknowledged m ans-

This hit of backffo^ is vital to understan&ig the change of dirtotion represented by Me. Johnsons

latest efforts t9 JWndJpp tha >ing . wounds in toe oemo-

gaping,. -cratic party brougJdifon 1^

the bitter dispute ovar hie

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By JAMES KILPATRICK

A Good Peaceful Gome

A Aumber of senators and others also criticized the lir censing provisions written into the House committee substitute, requhing restaurants, chibs, convention centers and the like to obtain licenses costing from $200 to $500 for the privilege of allowing Mown bagging on their prenoises. There were argu-m^ts that this could not be equttably dforoed, and would give the State ABC board too much power.

Senators H<dd Meeting

Even while Euliss* committee was Considering the rewritten substitute in a room jampacked with spectators, members of Heidials committee held an infonxud mert-iog to study tiie measure carefully m advance of whatever actum the House might take^

We didnt like It, said Sen. Jack White of Cleveland, member of a subcommlttea which drafted toe Siate-ap-]Ht>ved brown bagging version. Its going to have trouble if it comes back in our committee.

Nezt week he is going to a summit meeting of Latin-Ame-rican leaders at Punta del Este, Uruguay. As an encouragement to them in creating a common mar k e t, Johnson wanted to take ^rith him a congressional pledge of U. S. aid.

He wanted to avdd being vague; he wanted to be a little definite. But the committee, headed by Sen. J.W. Fid-bright, Arkansas Democrat, decided that being vague was

As time passed, and the United StMes got more iteeply involved, some of toe misgivings in Ckmgress ^ew, pmtt-cularly among critics tbe war, like FuUaigbt and Sen. Wayne Morse, Oregon Democrat

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By FOY H. DUNCAN Aprfl S, 1827 Some seem to be prosperous. In 14, 75 citizens told Uncle Sam they had incomes of a million dollars a year or more. This year 207 announced $1,000,000 or more yearly. Eighty - two per cent of the people pay no income tax, and fewer than one in a hundred pay 95 per cent of the total tax. They feel badly about it, but many that pay no tax would change {daces.

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finally, in 1966 Morse tried to get the Smate to rescind the Gulf of Tonkin resolution which Fuiforight had helped push through. In 1966 Ful-Might said he regretted the 1964 resolution and opposed kflling the Morse proposal But the Senate did kiU it, 95 to 5.

In niQ>aration for his Latin-Amoican trip Johnson on Mardi 13 sent Congress a message asking a resolution to strengtoen his hand at Punta del Este. He spoke of $1.5 billion additional aid to Latin America over the next five (Continued On Page 5)

Even when you love baseball, you tend to for^ in between seasons, how good and peaceful a game it is. If racing is the sport of kings, basel^ is the spent of cenn-moDffs but more than this: tbe sport of conservatives and ceninoisseurs. R is a sport that engages tbe energies, if you please, of the genuinely indolent man.

Your correspondent, feeling tiie Wariiington miasmas, turned up a few days ago in Florida, ostensibly to propound toe sound doctrine to tiie Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association, in conclave assmnbl-ed at Boca Raton. A greater therapy than all thek wonder dn^s was beii% prescribed a few miles south: The Yankees and tito Twins were there convened, and tbe ailing kfickey

Mantle was badi on first base.

To understand the lure ci Lauderdale, this balmy afternoon, you must imdmtand that the baseball fan is a hibernating man. With the last out of the World Series, he crawls in his cave. To be sure, he follows football by the tube on Sunday aftanoons, but his heart is not in it; he understands dimly that tii^e are two leagues, whidi seems rea-sonaMe, but be never can remember who is in which, and the mysteries of the modiiied-T are mysteries not worth learning. In the same dqll way, he follows golf, a game devoid of subtlety. Basketball is beyond him, bowling a bore, the typical track meet an exercise in tedium.

Then comes toe spring. Ev-

Other Editors Saying Warnings And Trends

en if his club is toe Senators, the drowsy fan awakes. The sports pages once again absorb his hun^ eye. Baseball! Who cares whether Jrim-son has signed the consular treaty? An infinitely larger ques^n lo<ns: Has Maricbal signed his contract?

The p^sKm who is puzzled by baseball is heard to complain that the game is too slow that often it plods along, inning after inning, for long stretch^ in which nothing ever happens. Precisely so. The charge is not diied.t And this is part of baseballs ineffable charm. For baseball is like a good diimer; it was not meant to be gul^, but' rather to be sipped and ^ vored;^il is' for nton

who lovei io ungCT over "coffee and c^ars. One does^nM baiL park' .loi' tiie game aI6ne, Itot lik^conversa-tion ami cathamiB.'

Strength For Today

Seniors Entertained By

Sophomores at WinterviDe

Friday evening, April 1, at t:40 oclodc, the sophomores of tbe Winterville High School delightfully entertained the seniors with a surprise April Fool party. The saiiors and toadiers were assemMed in the auditorium for the purpose ot practicing the senior play, Deacon Dubbs. The sophomores entered, each placing on the bead of a guest, a dunce cap, which was blue trimmed with silver, that carried out the senior class colors. Also each guest was presented with a carnation, the senior class flower. Each sophomore wore a rose, which was their class flower. . . .The games and stunts in charge of Hermon Nobles, a member of t h e aophomore class, were very entertaining. . . .After the stunts and games, the guests were served Russian tea in soup bowls with large spoons to carry out the Am*1 Fool idea. Following the tea, delio-ious chicken salad sandwiches were passed and ice cream served. . .

See Deacon Dnbbs

You face it bane put on badrwards. How 'boot

By EARL L. DOUGLASS VARIETIES OF SIN

There are two kinds of sins by which we are tempted as we go through life. The flrst are the sins of tbe flesh sensuality, anger, viMence, dishonesty. There are also spiritual sins envy, Jeal-lousy, hatred, bitterness, toe unforgiving spirit, deceit. Strangely ooough, Jesus more often emphasized the spirttual sins than he did tbe sMs of the flesh.

These sins of the flesh were then and still are almost poiectly apparent We do not need to be tdd that violence, dishonesty and sensuality are wrong. 'They involve the world in uMiappiness and Ming lives to destruction. But tbe sidritual sins are different Many of them resemble virtues to sucli an extent that they are often, indeed, mistaken for virtues. Covetousness is a spirttual sin. Yet very often tt looks like meticulous business care and a legitimate de-ske for success. There is rl^iteous anger and unrighteous anger, and we can easi^ excuse ourselves every time we blow our tops. It may not appear particularly wrong that we bitterly dislike certain people because of obvious quaUties which are disgusting and r^ulsive, but it is. Every time we allow jealously, envy, or the severe criticism of our fellows to get the better of us we are oommitting sins of the spkii And the teaching of Christ was that toese sins of the spirit devastate the soul

(WUton Times)

You read that cigarettes will be safer in the future. The. president of the American^ Cancer Society predicts that through filters and reductions in tar - nicotine content, the really dangerous cigarette will become as extinct as the spittoon. These are strong words from the president of the American Cancer Society. This organization was so opposed to smoking, at one time, it was difficult to get contributions because of the strang stand toe organization took at that time. Now the president is moderating his views based on recent discoveries and ]actices of toe cigarette companies.

There is no reduction in the sale of cigarettes and there is no decrease in smoldng. The change comes in the ones smoltoig. The adults have* stopped or cut down on smoking, but tbe youngtf set, those in high school, up tiuou^ college are smc^ing more. T^ do not appear to fear the results.

Approximately 1.5 million American youtiis ,between the ages of 12 and 17 started smok

ing last year. And the president of the American Cancer l^ety says that many of these, in their 90*s, will have cancer of the lung or larynx due to smoking.

Now what ^1 be the reaction whep tbe hew ^vemment reports come out in the early summ? It is said toe report from Health, Education and Welfare will tie smoking closer to cancer, heart and lung diseases.

Part of the report will list tar and nicotine content by Mand. The list is being prepared. Both reports will be sensational. And what will the Congress do? Will there be touier labeling laws, and other ciarbs? Not this year but in time, it is feared.

And as we said, will it stop smoking? No, for the young people will keep on, they are not frightened by warnings. So cigarette salse will not drop, not for long at any rate. As to what course the government will take in the future remains to be seen.

And before tbe report comes out there may be a safe cigarette, by medical standards, on the market. For much progress is being made in this dkection.

And so it was this a^moon toe sun bright, the palm trees lading, the great clouds dritongf the infield a Florida red, toe otttfield a picture postcard green. From an ak-port Just behind the. Yankees statoum, S&all planes kept taking off, stru g g ling 'gainst ttie wiira that swept across left fie!d.^The bleachers were filled with Flwida types old gentlemen with canes and hearing aids, young bucks with pretty long-haired girls, a red-faced man and his wife from Minneapolis, a handful of drug manufacturers playing hooky from the sessions of the PMA.

It was, in its way, a perfect game, as every game is a perfect game, thou^ some are more perfect than others. In the top of the second, Kille-brew bomered. The man from Minneapolis was delirious. Oh, you Ifomebrew! he yelled. **You beautiful Homebrew!/ Everybody in the bleachers laughed, because that is the way it is with baseball. The Yankees got the run back in the fourth, when Whitaker walked, stole second, and scored on a single by Ch^lie Smith. Then Minnesota went ahead in the fifth, on a beautiful squeeze bunt play. Fritz Peterson, who had been pitching for the Y ank*, left the (Contimied On Page 5)

Nearly,

on Mar(h 22, one day after Hi) Clii kfinh rudely rejected the Presidents bid for peace talks, -Hartoe

handwritten letter to the President. In It he urged Mr. Johnson not to be dissuaded from contimiing earrii fOT negotiiftions. Wrote Hart-kc:

Since toe stalemate which now results revokes around who stops what first, I hope you will now ask U Thaitt (Secretary General of the UN) to arrange a limited cease - fire . , .My prayers are with you, Mr. President. This time jtoere was an anf-er. Thrite,walks later a twO-page re^ ifiTived from the White House Oval Office, si^ed 1^ ' Lyndon Johnson. As one of the clearest expressions of U. S. policy, a key pari^ra{to is worth reporting here. Mr. JMmson wrote: Tlanoi has never acknowledged that it is involved ia South Viet Nam or toat it has carried * acts of war against South Viet Nam or against us. Elach time we ask Hanoi, whether openly or in secret, to give us some indication of what they are willing to do in return for a lessening of the level of our actions, we get only the same well -groo^ ed propaganda record: stqp the bombing.

Moreover, said Mr. John--son, the question is not so much who stops what first.' He continued: ,

We have said we are prepared to act first provided the otiier side gives us assurance Of what it will do in response.

None of this is going to change the deepening concern of the Presidents w ak critics, including Hartke ( t* onetime LBJ aUy), wM>se friends emphasize toat his differences with Mr. JMm son are based wholly on policy, not personality.

But the ifero feet Mr. Johnson M now\ making an intensive effort to explain and elaborate his*'-'own private convictions aboctt (he war shows the d^ of his own worry about ids and the Democratic partys political decline.

One evening last week, for example, Mr. Johnson invited the chief aides of some 20 Democratic Senators for a full - scale White House briefing from his 1^ ,command on the . war in Viet Nam.

Was the first war briefing M his ver.sUpptied Cop-gressi(mal asteatants, and its high point, following a long redtel by Secretary of State Dean Rods; on. toe Presidents peace overtures, was an emotional appeal frtmi Mr. Johnson for undostanding of my problems.

Hes tiying to close the , credibility * gap with C o n-(CoQthiEed On Page I)

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By ELMER ROESSNER

Once more it looks as if it is up to Maisie Doakes to save the boom.

The situation, as reported by many analysts, economists and government officials, is critical. The indicators vary, but a frightening number point down. Auto sales are lagging, immntories are high, TV and a{H>lisDce sales have dropped apDnrrel sales have risen

reasons. And each time one of the most important reasons was Maisie Doakes and her husband Joe or, if you prefer, the average American family.. They didnt understand all those releases mimeographed in Washington, they didnt understand the analyses put out by bank economists, they did-

yonrs? Come and consult

Deacon Dubbs.

Coming! Deacon Darius Dubbs from Sorghum Center, West Vlrglnny. Time, 8 oclock p.m., Aprfl 8, 1927.

Place, Winterville High ScbMA

as much, and probably more, of tilt flesh.

than the sins The outward obvious sins of toe flesh, the hmer devastating sins of the spirit. They both have to be watched and the latter are especially deceiving.

less'toin expected.

R Is fair to say that, on average, business is moving ahead so slowly it is pretty dose to stagnating.

The economy has dipped several times since World War II. But all of tbe dips have been moda*ate and, in each case, business got moving again and went m to new high marks.

Maisie Did It Each time there were many

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onomic whammies. She kept on buying.

Sales topped from time to time. Joe Doakes didnt have all the spending money (disposable income, the economists call it) to satisfy bis familys wants. But the Doakes kept on spending for the things they needed, cash when they had it, credit when they didnt.

And every time business slumped, it was Maisie Doek-^ es ami her Joe and ho* family who pulled it out Thw simply went on buying, creatoog more demand, creating more , jo b $,

ued to increase. In Febraaty, at a seasonably adjusted mi-nual rate, it rose $2.5 and indications are that tMe March figure irill show a ooite parable gain. /

They have the credit. ^

Total consumer credit decreased $1.3 billion dollars In

JansMW, according to tha Federtoi

Resm-ve. And because

earnings have.lg^ireased slnqe V his

then, toe DoMies family rpse^ Vdto ..a^ddi to Pte tain more Instalment and cup gq aoceunte.

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nt dig the more down-to-earth reports here and in other pop columos.

Maisie and her family simply btoieved in the United States of America. She wasnt frightened by predictions of ec-

speetong up the plants and factories, swefling the g r o ss national product. UpTsMaltteAnlh With the present state of the economy, it is up to Malslc again.

The Doakes have the mon-

ofTifiiliimfe Survey Center has reported tiiat

steiit^tudes end expectattm

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haf#!ilciteaied p|idficanpr the first quarter of the yillr. In short. Mtele has the ey and orttot, end toe hit

the willingness to buy.. ^

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Persone! income has coottn-

Sbe, more^than anyone has toe |K>wer to restore ti|e btemnrtu tot huora.' /