Thuriday, May 25, 1967

Raises Questions Needing Answers

While he does not necessarily oppose the proposed new Utilities office building, City Manager Harry Hagerty has raised some questions that need answering.

The Utilities Commission has unveiled plans for a 20,000 square foot structure to be built in the Shore Drive area adjacent to the present Utilities plant property.

City Manager Hagerty pointed out that he has reservations about niioving the Utilities offices away from the municipal offices. He cited problems of cooperation and coordination resulting from such a move.

The city manager has also pointed out that the city does not have need for all the office space which would be vacated if the Utilities moves out of City Hall. This he coupled with the fact that considerable space will become available when the city court ceases operations after court reform measures are instituted in Pitt County.

Of course the municipal operations can use more space. There also is no doubt that the rapidly

Kid Gloves On jiauor Measure

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES Reflector Raleigh Bureau RALEIGH Like a weary and winded but determined distance runner, liquor-by-the-drink legislation somehow keeps tumbling along in the General Assembly.

Whether it can manage to make the finish line is doubtful. But if it keeps going picking itself up after every fall it could slip in under the wire.

It wont be statewide local option on sale of liquor-by-the-drink which its sponsors suggested at first.

Opposition to this proved too great. Then disagreement on a practical substitute approach almost killed the proposition before it got off the starting blocks. Finally, a plan emerged and was introduced last week to allow local option elections on liquor-by - the - drink only in a few, selected places perhaps only one county or a couple of Sandhill resort townshipsand this has gained some added support.

Careful Handling

Those legislators and others favoring liquor -by - the-drink on a limited, experimental basis is selected areas have learned by experience as they went along.

WILLIAM

SHIRES

They realize that in order to succeed, even for one county, the bill will require careful handling. A mistake now would kill the whole thing for tiiis session.

And they feel it would be a mistake to try to make the bill too broad to bring too many counties and localities into the picture.

limited Extent For this reason there is quiet but firm opposition to tying to extend the legislative

proposal beyond, say, Mecklenburg County, and the resorts at Pinehurst and Southern Pines.

There are certain other resort and convention area interests anxious to be included. But the beach areas near Wilmington and the hotel and convention centers at Asheville and Raleigh are being asked to wait wait for another tw'o years.

The feeling is that if too many people try to climb in with amendments or similar liquor - by - the - drink bills at this time, they will swamp the boat.

Public Projects

A couple of the states public officials Governor Moore and Sen. B. Everett .lorden-have had quite a bit to say lately on public projects.

The governors remarks came at dedication of the new $3.5 million Administration Building in Raleigh which flanks the State Legislative Building.

This structure, Moore said, is the first step in the development of a complex of state government buildings as proposed by the Capital Planning Commission. The commission, established by the 19-65 Czvneral Assembly, is charged with formulating a long-range capital improvements program for state government.

A companion office building to be situated on the same block as the new Administration building has jeen proposed and funds for that structure are included in the 1967-69 capital improvements budget.

Jordans Report

Meanwhile, Senator Jordan says he and Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr. have asked that Congress provide $12,425,000 during the next fiscal year for 22 separate public works projects in North Carolina.

The amount requested is considerably more than the $7,730,000 included in the Presidents budget for North Carolina. Of the 2 projects, 11 of them are not included in the recommendeu budget and funds asked for two others are greater thent he amounts recommended.

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growing Utilities Commi.ssion is already at the stage where it must liiid more office space.

There are problems with the arrangement of office space in the City Hall building.

Access from the east to w'est side of the building on $econd and third floors is difficult, for instance, and the lone elevator in the building does not serve the upper floors well.

It may w'ell be that construction of a separate Utilities office building is feasible and desireable. However, we would prefer that no further steps be taken until the City Council and the Utilities Commission jointly make a thorough study of long-range space needs for both organizations.

The East Hasnt Been Allowed Such Worries

Unless people of Eastern North Carolina are concerned about driving conditions they might find in other sections of North Carolina or what happens to state highways in other areas, they have little to worry about in the new twin trailer bill.

The measure passed by the House and sent to the Senate would allow tandem trailers up to 65 feet in length on the states highways.

Since none of the states which border North Carolina allow such vehicles on their highways, we will be concerned only with those used exclusively in North Carolina. And since the bill provides that such vehicles could be used only on four-lane and interstate highways, the East would have nothing to fear.

There is no interstate highway which connects the Eastern area with the Piedmont and there certainly are not enough miles of four-lane highways in the East to make it worthwhile for one of those huge contraptions to try to pick its way down here.

Maybe one day the East will have the kind of highways that will make it eligible for such worries. But as of now, the problem is exclusively one for the Piedmont and Western Carolina. The East has not been allowed the calibre highway system to qualify for such worries.

Critical Over

Thant Move

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP)- Nothing better illustrtes the gravity of the Middle East crisis than President Johnsons un-preceden t e d attack on U Thant, secretary-general of the United Nations.

U Thant, not one of th strong men in that job, is a gentle Burmen whose prompt obedience to the demand of Egyptian Pres i d e n t Gamal Abdel Nasser has intensified

This Date-40 Years Ago Today

By FOY H. DUNCAN May 25, 1927 Lindberghs description of his flight suggests a mountain climbers experience: I

struck clouds and decided to get over them. After a while I succeeded at a height of 10,-000 feet. . . . went under some clouds and over others. There was sleet in all these clouds and the sleet began to cling to the plane.

He climbed over, and climbed under, with wonderful judgment, perfect success.

(From TODAY by Arthur Bis-bane)

Piano Recital

A piano recital will be given in the auditorium of the Evans Street School, Thursday evening, May 26th at eight oclock, by the pupils of the city schools.

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Vandemere Man Bringts In Big Irish Potato

The Reflector this morning was presented with two large Irish potatoes by J. A. Mc-Cotter, of Vandemere. The large potato weighed one pound and slightly over two ounces, while the smaller weighed eleven ounces. Mr. McCotter started digging yesterday. His yield was 35 to 40 barrels per acre. The production is unusually good considering that this section has not had but two good showers since the big snow in March.

French Club Presents La Faim Est Grand Inventeur

La Faim Est Un Gra n d Inventeur was presented by the French Club o' the Greenville High School at White's Theater, Friday morning, May 20 at twelve o'clock. The cast as as follows: Monsieur Cra-bricket, an inn keeper Sam Underwood, Madame Crabric-ket, his wife Louise Jones. Marie, French maid Loura Overton. Colette, French maid Elizabeth Norman. Bob and Dick, soldiers Lillian Hardee and Jonnie Gray Ciirrin, Pierre, French peasant, Clara Cozart. . . .

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By JAMES KILPATRICK

oauent Bold Venture

the crisis and was the reason for Johnsons attack.

The two former secretaries-general-Trygve Lie of Norway and Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden operated from strength, but U Thant, who succeeded the Swede in 1961, seems to rely mostly on indignation.

lie has repeatedly been indignant, for instance, at the American role in Vietnam and he apparently has such a distaste for the mixed-up condition of the nations that when his term ended last year he wanted to retire.

But the U.N. members, including this country and the Soviet Union, voted to reappoint him. This was done probably more to keep peace in the United Nations than to keep U Thant. He was about the only one the United States and Moscow could agree on.

Ever since the Israeli-Egyn-tian war of 1956, brief though (Continued On Page 8)

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS AHEAD

What are we coming to with the computer to guide us? We feed certain material into a machine and this marvelous device begins handing out conclusions with a speed and accuracy that amazes us. It is claimed that results can sometimes be obtained by the use of the computer within five minutes which with,>ut the computer would ta'-e several years for a number of individuals to produce. And this is only the beginning. Undoubtedly this machine will be enlarged and refined until it produces results that we can only regard as little less than miraculoLis.

Will this be a good thing? Yes. All advances in knowledge turn out in the end to be a good thing. Sometimes they are hard to take. Frequently they require us to tear up our little schemes, crumple our pattern and design of living and start all over again. Columbus was regarded as a dangerous lunatic, and Pasteur the same. The law shook its fist at Pasteur and warned him that they would have him up for murder if he didnt let up on the crazy theories he was advancing. Those of us who can remember back over a number of decades recall the days when Einstein with his theory of relativity wa.s largely looked upon as a crackpot.

Let u.s get awake to the fact that miraculous and creative processes are taking place right under our noses today. They will serve good or evil depending upon whether they are under the control of good or evil persons.

When the Congress completed action a few weeks ago on what is known as the Bolsa Island Project, the story made big headlines on the W^est Coast but received astonish-ly little notice elsewhere. Yet ten or twenty years hence, the approval of Bolsa Island will be seen as one of the most valuable acts of the 90th Congress.

This is to be the largest water desalinization plant in the world, but the projected output 150 million gallons a day by 1977 is only one of the elements of this exciting story. The whole bold venture speaks eloquently of what can be achieved by science, pri

vate capital and government, working together. The project holds great promise for mankind everywhere. And not to get philosophical about it. Bolsa Island offers an example of conservatism at its best.

Briefly, the plan calls f o r construction of a 40-acre island in the sea, 25 miles south of Los Angeles. No such island ever has been built before, but engineers are convinced they can build this one and build it to withstand the shock of earthquakes. Two nuclear power plants, capable of producing 1.8 million kilowatts of power will be built on the island. Larger than Hoover Dam, in terms of generating

Other Editors Soying The Peking Panther

(Richmond News Leader)

Anybody with the sense to get out of a shower of rain which, alas, doesnt include all editors and politicians would consider that J. Edgar Hoover was only remark i n g the obvious in citing the Communist connections of Stokely Carmichael. What has not been clear until now is that Carmichael looks to Pe k i n g rather than Moscow.

It has now been reveal e d that Mr. Hoover offered the FBI testimony last February to a House Appropriations Subcommittee in secret session. Mr. Hoover said:

It has been Communi s t policy to charge police brutality in a calculated c a m-paign to discredit law enforcement and to accentuate racial issues. The riots and disorders of the past three years clearly highlight the success of this Communist smear campaign in popularizing the cry of police brutality to the point where it has been

accepted by many individuals having no affiliation with or sympathy for the Com mun-ist movement.

Mr. Hoover said Mr. Carmichael in espousing his philosophy of black power has been in frequent contact with Max Stanford, field chairman of the Revolutionary Ac t i on Movement, a highly secret, all - Negro, Marxist-Leninist, Chinese - Cimmunist oriented organization which advocates guerrilla warfare to attain its goal.

There would be a civil rights movement in this country if no Communist P a rty existed since the Negro in the aftermath of slavery has legitimate grievances. But it is nonetheless true that the Communists have seen a good thing and hooked on to it, bending and shaping it in undetermined measure to serve their interests throughout the world. We can follow Mr. Carmichael better now that Mr. Hoover has revealed his Peking card.

capacity, they will p r o d u ce enough electricity to serve a city of two million persons.

The nuclear plant also will produce steamenough steam to run the desalinization process. If all goes well (and some large ifs will have to be taken into account), three giant evaporator trains will suck up a billion and a half gallons of salt water a day. Nine - tenths of this will be used for cooling; the remaining one - tenth will be put through an essentially simple distillation process. The water will be boiled, the vapor condensed, and the salt particles returned to the sea. Aristotle knew all about it. You wind up with pure water in t h e end.

The biggest if is price. If the engineers are correct. Bolsa Island will produce this pure water at 21.9 cents per thousand gallons at the plant. The plan is to blend Bolsa Island s output with water received from the Colorado River water that is high in mineral content and to hit a delivered price of 7 cents. That would be competitive with present - day costs for drinking water.

The project will cost an estimated $444 million, but this is one of the pleasant aspects: Only $72 million will come throL'gh Federal appropriation. The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California will put up $17 million. The balance, representing the cost of the two nuclear generating plants, will be provided by two private utilities and by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.

Federal taxpayers will be buying a bargain with their $7 million. Admittedly, Bolsa Island is a gamble. A number of desalinization plants now are producing one or two million gallons a day, but the projected out put of 150 million gallons a day is a breathtaking forward leap. But even (Continued On Page 8)

Worry

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON - With concern in Congress rising to a new height over the probability of big - city Negro riots this summer, the Johnson administration is doing mora than ever before to apply a damper before the flames break out.

Unlike the last three years, however, the new cry of black power is now far more accepted as a program by Negro militants.

The discovery of a cache of arms in Grand Rapids, Mich., the outbreak of gunfire from the dormitory of a Negro college in Houston, Texas, and the fact that the civil rights movement has failed to match the expectations of the Negroes all point to another summer of turbulence in the big cities.

In Congress, even 1 i b eral Democrats are now demanding action on President Johnsons crime in the streets bill. One New York City liberal remarked privately the other day that his mother was afraid to walk to church. Turning to an Administration leader, this Congressman said that passage of the anti-crimf bill was the single most important business of the present Congress.

But in fact, the anti - crime bill containing a packet of Federal aids fM* beleaguered city police forces would have no effect on the long hot summer of 1927. The demands of the liberals that it be passed quickly are based on political reality. With the middle class growing more skeptical about President Jo h n-sons Great Society domestic program, and more concerned about continuing escalat'on of the civil rights issue, the anti - crime bill is a vital political offset, something to be bragged about in the 1968 campaign.

The read work to fend off the work of devastating riots this summer that have swept the country each year since 1964 is being done by an informal cabal led by President Johnson. It includes Federal officials, urban experts, and Negro leaders ranging fr o m Bayard Rustin, the militant philosopher of the civil rights movement, to Roy Wilkins, head of the NAACP.

Mr. Johnson is meeting quietly in separate off-the-record sessions with W i 1 k i ns, Whitney Young of the Urban League, and others. His message: isolate the black power extremists, led by Stokely Carmichael. The President is also pushing a special $75 million summer fund through Congress for use in the most critical cities.

The Presidents spear-point in developing summer employment and recreation programs for impatient youth in the Negro slums is Vice President Humphrey. Humphrey has now talked summer strategy with a dozen big - city mayors.

But one trouble Humphrey has discovered is that t h # Federal government cant dictate to mayors how to arrange their affairs so as o reduce the potential for disaster. Thus in Cleveland, where Mayor Ralph Locher is regarded as one of the least effective big - city mayors in the country, even the offer of substantial Federal funds to meet summer emergencies Ml)uldnt guarantee the w i s e spending of the money. Cleveland is simply not organized (Continued On Page 8)

'Diamonds Now Mined From Sea

By ELMER ROESSNER

The youngster who writes on an examination paper that diamonds come from the bottom of the sea would probably get a zero and a crisp, marginal note instructing him to look up the difference between diamonds and pearls.

But diamonds are being mined at the bottom of the sea.

A fleet of eight vessels is now digging diamonds from sea bottom off the coast of South West Africa, reports the Surveyor, published by the American Bureau of Shipping.

In 1961 Vernon Sam Collins, a Texan, organized the Marine Diamond Corp., which obtained the first off-shore diamond mining concession from the South West African government. The corporation ha:-; become part of the DcBecrs

Group, the international diamond syndicate.

Rockeater Heads Fleet

The principal ship is the Rockeater, a converted cargo ship with a drill rig operating forward of the bridge. It is assisted by the support vessel Cypress. These vessels sail precise courses at right angles to the shore. The Rockeater lowers its drill to the bottom, water at high pressure is pumped down forcing water and sediment up through the hollow drill stem to the deck.

When diamonds appear in the sediment, the spot is noted on a map. Three mining barges are moved to proven spots by two tugs, the Collin-sea and the Aunty Lil. The Barge 177, mainly used as a water and fueling vessel, also has recovery apparatus. The H.M. Chan and the Cortes are

used as communication craft.

The Rockeater makes courses about one and half miles long, about a mile apart. It takes about 10 samplings on a traverse.

ELMER

ROESSNER

Whense The Diamonds?

The diamonds, averging a half carat each, are usually found in bedrock, sometimes under 10 feet of silt. On one r2-hour shift, more than GOO stones were recovered, weighing a total of 300 carats and worth more than $250,000 on

the retail market.

Some geologists theorize that the diamonds were carried down African rivers millions of years ago, and then carried along the coast by currents until they settled in pockets. Some of these pockets have been found on land that was once below the sea.

Others believe that the diamonds developed in volcanic action under the sea, just like those on land, and that the action of the waves and currents ground away the associated minerals.

Three crews work the vessels. Two are on 12-hours shifts, the third crew is off. Each man works two weeks and then has a week o^. At the start of weeks off, workers are flown to their familiq^ at Cape Town.