fkmmr, Aufust 29, 1992

Fo7>Reaching Step On Long Effort

Dit Civil Aeronautics Board has taken a far- possible calibre of air service in the area* aiflitea move in the interest ot better commeraal .Now that the GAB has officially called for air aervice lor JSastern North Carolina by ordering the investigation, it behooves all of the communities an olcial investigation into the feasibility of a in this area to lend their full cooperation in pro-regional airport for this area. * viding information necessary for the investigation

^ " Thf questio^Of ..the investigation has been The findings which come out of the investigation pending since Jdne when it was requested by the will influence the future of air service in this area Pitt-Greenville Airport Commission, supported by for years to come, and those findings should be a recommendation by the CABs Bureau of Economic based on the most complete information possible. Regulation. The recommendations that come as a Ordering of the investigation by the CAB, in result of the investigation are certain to have a our opinion, is one of the most significant steps to long range influence on efforts of Eastern Carolina come in a decade of effort to upgrade the quality to obtain better commercial air service. of commercial air service to this part of North

FundamenUHy, theMnvestigation will look into Carolina. It is one of the most far-reaching steps the question of whether Eastern Carolina can be yet taken to put Eastern North Carolina in a posi-better served by one or more joint area airports tion to compete favorably with other areas for the or by limited service to a number of individual calibre of air service which is essential to the future

economic development of this region.

We salute the CAB for ordering the investigation and 'we urge every community in the area to lend to the effort its full cooperation.

communities within the area.

It is a question which has been debated for a decade by the communities of the area as one after another unsuccessful effort has been made to establish a mafor air facility which could serve much of the area. In rendering its decision to con> * m

duct the investigation, the CAB pointed out that ipf QlT JFAVT ^^CLVS

arrangements for joint area airports usually can *

be solved only through the cooperation of federal agencies. The findings of the CAB investigation will point the way for Eastern Carolina communities, individually and collectively, to obtain the best

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tourism Eniovs

A Record Year

By WILLIAM A. SH1RE8 RECX)RD This Is a record year for the flatland tourister. Theres never been a season like r In these hills and the end la not in sight.

From all over the United States and from foreign countries they come to the Great Smoides. crowding the highways. the byways and the Parkways.

Better aUU. they crowd the tourist resorts, motels and restaurants.

The volume of tourists pouring into the Southern Appalachian region has been increasing each summer, and is now at an all-Ume peak. And this flood-tide, along with its dollars, presents its problems.

TOURISTS They come in never-ending numbers and dont seem to mind a few inconveniences.

They take to the trails for hiking and camping, or get no cios-er to nature than the porch of a hotel with a view.

They snap pictures by the mU-lims. shcH> in the gt shops, craft centers and at the souvenir counteis. They ri(te sky-lifts and inclines, splash in motel oools. They fish in the trout streams and gawk at the bears on the roadside in the National Park.

They dont mind* the inconvenience of delays because of blasting by roadbuilders, trafUc jams and bottlenecks, unsightly areas, gouging and overpricing In some places, and second rate facilities and poor service or do they?

PLACES There are many fine, first-class establishments and attraciiotis. restaurants with good food, service and reasonable prices.

And their operators believe that these places, wisely managed and careful to give real value and service lor the tour-is dollar, will survive when the boom is over and the tmveler to the mountains becomes choosy.

The other places, the tourist traps, gyp joints and frauds that are acepted now as part of the boom, will fold up and vanish, or be driven out.

Right now. wftreotly, the blight that comes from ignorance or avarice exists because there are relatively few protests and the tourists Jam every available motel space and restauraot table, regardless of quality.

BOOM The boom is cm and the harvest Is rich. Tourist at-traeticms and facilities are being added, although there ap

pears to have bem a slowdown 4n motel constructoii. There are still too few good restaurants in parts of the Great Smoky region.

The mountains have became a great summer playground with a variety of ai^al, in the aesthetic, the unusual, the unique and the commercial. The tourist - crowded towns of Cherokee, N. C.. and Gatlingburg, Tenn., at the foot of the Great Smoky Paric are like circus towns, loud, gay and gaudy.

CXher resort centers also have grown rapidly. Each appears to have its special appeal and at-tracUcm, designed to enhance the beckoning beauty of the mountains themselves or to capitalize on it.

ROADS Transportation, almost entirely by highway, has made the boom possible.

And now. it Is evident that the floodtide of tourists and travelers is almost too much for the highways. Governor Sanford, speaking in Asheville, bad Western North Carolina In mind when he spoke erf the states lag in meeting lis highway needs.

Because of the huge crowds jamming the highways, travel in the mountains isn't roses by any means.

They pour into the reglcm from all directions. The Asheville area, a center for the mountain travel, is an example DB. 70, the Smoky Mountain Parkway, badly overcrowded. The governor last week urged four-lanlng of this highway from Black Mountain to Asheville.

The Asheville Elxpressway helps handle the masses of cars and trucks pouring off the Interstate roads, improved primary h^hways and the Blue Ridge Parkway, but the expressway is choked and cwigest-ed at each end Beaucatcher tunnel to Black Mountain, and 'from West Asheville to the Smokies.

TRAFFIC While the tourist volumes has never been as great, traffic problems have increased in proporti(i and the lag in meeting existing needs is vividly in evidence here.

In Haywood County, there was a significant increase in the traffic accident rate last month despite the all-out enforcement, educational and engineering effort of Project Impact. Haywood has perplexing bottlenecks at the town of Canton, but is hoolng to relieve its winding, two-lane roads with completion in a year or two of the Pigeon River Intnsate route.

By PATRICIA MOORE

Subject: Animals; In par-

Opening sales on Eastern Belt tobacco market were, at best, confusing for the experts and even more confusing for the laymen who have followed opening day sales for years.

Averages, as expected, were generally lower than those of opening sales in recent years. One factor, of course, was the differential in price for tied and untied tobacco, with the latter being sold for the first time Tuesday on Eastern Belt markets.

Another factor was the considerably poorer quality of offerings on most markets on opening day this year compared with other years.

It is difficult to compare the opening day sales on Eastern markets this year with those of previous years because of the wide variance in circumstances under which the tobacco is being sold. A comparison of opening day averages this year and last would ________

make it appear that tobacco prices were off sharp- pianned parenth^ ^d

ly. But when one considers the difference in quality clothing program, of offerings between the two opening# days, the Sve^te3od''that heavy predominence of extremely poor tobacco there are some 33 million pup-which was on warehouse floors this year, overall ries and kittens maturing every

price averages for this year and last mean little. avatfe fo"r

It is likely that this confusing condition will them, prevail throughout the first five selling days of the ^ ^ terrible crisis and

season while the experiment with untied tobacco StoS^d. sales on the Eastern Belt is underway. It will be hood for tnimals. They say to difficult to compare prices and averages until after Jet the situation go i^checked next Tuesday when the Eastern Belt returns to the by^home"

sale of tied tobacco with price supports and copdi- less dogs, or to shoot the home-tions comparable with those of last season. Even things: which costs money, then, the difference in quality between this years crop and that of last year will influence the price averages.

All things considered, opening sales on the togs and'eftss

Eastern markets this year appeared satisfactory to nized by Catholic humanitarians, most farmers in spite of the confusion which Schmid, founder of

existed.

Animals Get Into News

Thats what we were told.

We are also Informed that the Nati(Hial Catholic Society for Animal Welfare Bulletin has

i^nooting Down Those Balloons

Friends of Animals Lie., so Informed newspapers of the above through the'medium of a letter.

So much for that.

Clothing for pets and animals seems to be a newer program. It includes any kind of animal from cat to cow. And horses eventually may wear some sort of bathing suit.

Out West, somewhere, some kind of organization called 8INA is Interested in clothing nude animals as they call them. They propose that eventually this will be a national program and that Congress will make it a law that pets have to be clothed.

In the not-too-distant future, their members are supposed to have parades In which they sing the societys song about clothing the undressed animals.

We are looking forward to that with great anticipation. We do certainly hope it occurs here.

Furthermore, we would like to see someone putting an animal bathing suit on a Brahma bull from a distance. Think how cute your canary will look in a frilly yellow skirt.

Though It was our understanding that pets are the focal point of this campaign, one of

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans and Russians, in their proposals to each other about banning nuclear tests, are like two men with an endless supply of balloons in a shooting gallery.

When one gets shot down, theyre not surprised. Tly send up another. Theyve been doing it for years. The United States is about to send up another.

This time, an authoritative source here said Tuesday, the United States is ready to propose a ban on nuclear tests in the atmosphere. This ought to pop fast, since the Russiaiis have already derided such an idea.

All the maneuvering between the two powers is based on what each side says it wants and doesnt want. This has been repeated so often it sounds scratchy.

The United States says it wants disarmament Including a ban on nuclear tests but in a world as sinful as this (me it wants to be sure theres no cheating. So it insists on sn inspection system to make sure.

The Soviets say they want disarmament including a ban on nuclear tests but theyre even more distmstful than the United States. They say inspection is Just as American spy trick. They want none of it.

This sums up years of talking between the two giants. Back in 1958. without any formal agreement, the United States. Russia and Britain voluntarily agreed to suspend nuclear tests.

That lasted three years but It would be getting ahead of the story to eay what happened then because scxnething elst happened In between times.

In 1959 while the voluntary ban was on the Eisenhower admlnMraiion proposed a for-

sume tests so fast meant they had been preparing for months. Khrushchevs excuse was that Russia couldnt let the United States develop muclear euperi-ority.

Immediately President Kennedy and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan made him a proposition; Lets ban all tests which take place in the atmosphere and cause adioactive fallout.

This would seem to leave the door open for plenty of atmospheric tests, so long as they didnt produce fallout. Thats exactly what Khrushchev said his interpretation was. He wouldnt buy.

He noted that the Kennedy -Macmillan proposal didnt cover a ban on tests underground or In outer space. He said the solution was complete disarmament. He went on testing in the atmosphere.

Almost at once the United States resumed underground testing, which would indicate it was prepared for just such an event. It wasnt prepared for atmospheric tests and took months to get ready.

Then this country, In the spring of 1952, began its tests over the Pacific firing one at a high altitude on July 9. Not to be outd(Hie, Khrushchev announced Russia would have some more tests, and tested again.

Then recently the United States, while still insisting on some l^d of inspecti(X) inside Russia, offered a new nuclear test ban plan, this time with fewer inspectors.

Russia said no on that one. Now the United States is about to propose an atmospheric test ban, although Khrushchev has already said no soap on that one.

(Greensboro Daily News)

With an agreement worked out between Duke Power Co. and the State Depailment of Conservation and Development, creation of a new lakeside state park is assured to serve the fast - growing Piedmont whose residents are within easy driving distance of what is hailed as North Carolinas largest artificial lake.

The huge body of water, already forming behind the newly completed Cowans Ford power company dam, will extend into Iredell, Lincoln and Catawba counties. The dam itself is located in Mecklenburg, about 16 miles north of Charlotte.

Its completion means that the Catawba is harnessed all the way from Its mountain source to its fall line in upper South Carolina. That assures not only full utilization of hydroelectric power as a factor in the growth and industrialization of the territory served by Duke but effective flood control. In contrast to the heavy damage which the rampant Catawba used to take almost annually. It also shows that river basin development may be done by private no less than public agencies.

It is needless to say that rec

reation swimming, boating, fishing, camping and water sports is a valuable asset and that it pays off in a happy, more contented, physically fit and wholesomely engaged citizenry.

In line with tliis need, trend and worth, we cite the potentialities of the proposed Cape Fear River development under the plan recommended by the Army Engineers. While the power factor is negligible, flood control, water conservation and storage and recreation would all be state and particularly area gains. The populous Northern Piedmont, clustering around the tri-cities, has no nearby recreation center. High Rock, Hanging Rock State Park and Kerr Reservoir are some distance away from population centers. New Hope, Raodleman and Howards Mill dams would bring similar facilities much closer to the surrounding territory and fi a need which is in line with popular trends and outdoor activities.

These are gains which would be largely, perhaps wholly, lost under the vague proposal which the Soil Conservation Service has for construction of no-one-seems-to-know-how-many small dams.

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Hay fever sufferers will get little comfort from the fact that the Illinois Department of Public Health this week began Its annual daily count of ragweed pollen, which lets hay fever victims know just how miserable they really are.^Mattoon (111.) Journal-Gazette.

our cohorts understood it was for all the animals. Presumably this includes the wild birds, deer, horses, rats and whatnot.

What do we do about our goldfish?

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS GOOD NEWS

We speak glibly of tho gospel. Pour bo(^ of the New Testament axe designated as Gospels. The word gospel Is an Anglo - Saxon word meaning good news. Specifically It is the good news concerning CJhrist, the kingdom of God, and the salvation, which God offers us through Jesus Christ. The Greek word for gospel is evangeUtm from which we get the English words evangelical and evangelism.

Many people look upon religion as something restrictive. There is a measure in which it is restrictive. Religion calls certain thingx evil and forbids us to do these evil things. But this is only a small part of the gospel the negative aspect of it. The good news is that God is offering us a great Gift. That Gift is a Man who has within him the full grace (rf God for mans salvati(m. Jesus of Hax-areth came preaching the good news. It was that God in His mercy forgives human sin, that He has prepared for us an eternal destiny, that He will sustain and guide us while we are upon the Mu:ih. and will save us eventually for eternal fellowship with Him.

To a race of men hopeless in their sin and held captive, this was indeed good news. It Is good news for you and me.

The gospel is light and life. The gospel is encouragement. The gospel .is hope and pnmi-ise. In the Christian gospel the world finds the fulfUlment of those things which the human mind most deeply desires.

Relie:: Might 3e Cut

By GEORGE E. 8OK0LSKY Copyright. INL Kiag Featurea Syndicate, lac.

Who) we need to cut expenses, why not look Into re

lief. Senator Robert C. Byrd of Wt Virginia recently called attention to the fact that relief checks are sent to job-holders and Uy folks In jail in the DlMrict of Columbia.

In many large cities, especially in New Yorit, relief encourages Illegitimacy the more children a woman has the

more relief she gets.

There is a street in my

neighborhood which might be called a relief block and it hsjB had the most surprising pcqoulati(m explosion imaginable. If these relicf-taldng parents are taking care of their children, it must be by some remcrfe method because the chil-ditm are on the sidewalks, rain or shine. These women could earn a Uvlng, particularly at household services which are, these days, profitable.

One question that arises is who Is physically handicapped. The definition can be made very tight. A physically handicig)ped person is one who by no means and under no circumstancs can earn a living. When one realizes that Beethoven was t(^ally deaf when he wrote his greatest symphony and that he lived at a time when there were no hearing aids. It is impossible to say that a deaf man is physically incapacitated. Bernard Baruch, Herbert Hoover and,^ I believe, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt wear hearing aids and they certainly do a days work every day.

The PresldiMit carries hlf heavy load with a broken back; Franklin D. Roosevelt suffere(l from the effects of polio. My friwid, Victor Rldder, one of the great publishers of this (XHmtry, has had about all the serious illnesses a man can have and he goes his merry, even Joyous way. Every (ice-In-a-whlle, he gets knocked out , by something that kills most, but he soon gets up and goes to work.

Of course, I know some who when they reach their 60s believe that they should be physically Incapacitated. They assume that their time has come. They first become grumpy: then their back aches; then their feet hurt and finally they become a pain in the neck. Some such think that they have outlived their usefulness and that they ought to be supported.

Other of this type try to be useful by hating everybody, by cursing those who are younger and more alert. About such I do not write. They will never go (Ml relief but they might end up in a strait jacket because hatred Is a pois(m which harms only those who hate.

Senator Byrd complained that relief money was sent to alcoholics, some of wh(Mn were in jail. An alcoholic la a sick man with an allcivy for alcohol. Ho Is not exactly a drunk, although, so far as the rest of us are concerned, there is no difference. An alcoholic and a drunk can make the same nuisances of themselves. Surely while a feUow Is in jaU, dftr-Ing out, as the expression is. he needs no relief money. I have, from time to time, env ployed alcoholics and when sober, they can work like anybody else. There 1 no telling when they will go off. Give an alcoholic cash money and he will go on a spree. Alcoholics Anonymous has plenty of proof that I am wrong; my check-book Is evidence that I am right.

What happens to relief when unemployment increases? Whenever I get a questionnaire to fill out about somebody, I tell the precise truth. In at least one case that I recall, relief was refused because my reply Indicated that there could be no question but that the person could get a Job if she wanted to. If she had no job, it was because she preferred not to work.

Now that we talk about cutting down on the cost of government, It might be useful to look Into the entire question of relief and see whether it has done good or harm. The so-(Contlnued on page 8)

Opportunity In Export Market

and in the sea

This was suggested at the first step m a step-by-step ban on all tests, including underground ones. Russia promptly denounced the very thought of It.

Premier Khrushchev got out the Soviet record and played it over agtiii a deman(} for a ban on ail Kinds of tests everywhere and suggested that under the American propbsals It wouldn't be all right to test less than 31 miles up but would be all right to blast off at 50.

He said no. Then suddenly last Aug. 31 although American authorities had thought something was cooking ~ Khrushchev called off that voluntary ban which started in 1958 and announced Russia would begin testing. R did, right away.

The Russians ability to re-

mtl ban on nuclear tests In the

lower atmosphere which ( 1 Q

would be about 31 miles up xO

In

Brief

It is a conviction If you' have it, and it Is a prejudice if the other fellow has it."- Anderson (B.C.) Independent.

When the political climate operates to eliminate Investor incentive and capital risk no one sliould be puzzled by a dearth of employment opportunity. Many unions disregard the plain relation between job opportunity and profit! when they demand wages and benefits that steadily advance production cost.s. Government Is equally blind in the imposition of . staggering taxes. Roanoke (Va.) Tim.

By ELMER ROESSNER

You may not have been listening, but the Depariment of Commerce, through Democratic and Republican adminlstrations, has been saying that there are golden opportunities for American manufacturers in the export market.

Today, when export sales are so important a means of checking the outflow of gold, the Departments efforts assume more significance. It's publication, International C o m m e r c e, printed weekly lists of opportunities in the foreign field.

Here are some leads from the August 6 and August 13 issues of the magazine;

BEEHIVES, OARS AND R1ML0CK8

A Cyprus Importer wants to buy beehives and bee equipment. An Australian importer is seeking oars of ash and ax handles of hickory. Another Australian firm wants ships rlmlocks. Why have American rlmlock makers been neglect Ing M. J. Meehan Pty, Ltd., 2.)7 City Rd., Melbourne?

Irving Industries, Southern Rhodesia, wants to buy fabrics .suitable for folding steel furniture. It's spilng there now. A company in Salvador wants a

million white envelopes. The New Great Wall Co. of Singapore is mterested in cosmetics. So is Ghandi Medical Hall, Dar es Salaam. Tanganyika.

A West German company Is interested in plastic sliding parts, and If that puzzles you as much as it docs me, write to Cleitshoff Gsellscbaft, Dipl. Ing. Schueder Si Co., 18 Bach-str., Duesseldorf. My Personal guess is that Bachstr. means Johann Sebastian Bach Street, not some backway.

WASTE WASTE

Sterling Plywood Products, of Quaid - e- Millat Rd.. Chita-gong, Pakistan, is interested in all-bright electrolytic tinplate waste waste, 18 x 24 inches and larger but not exceeding 34 x 34 Inches assorted to size and gage, basis weights, about two-thirds of quantity in 95 pounds and about one-third in ino pounds: no sheets with sample holes, crinkled, welded, buckled. or matte finish to be shipped. So if you have any tinplate waste waste laying around, get busy!

This waste waste is not a gag. Waste waste is Industry's name for Unplate that cannot be used by the can-making In-dihstry. Pieces are used for making toys and, In some poorer

countries, pieces are soldered together to make containers.

A British company is interested in magnetic separators of all types. A German corporation wants globe, gate valves and cocks for petroleum. A Rhodesia - Nyasaland company wants some electrostatic spray guns. RPRECHEN glE DEUTSCH?

A Germany company wants jewelry, but can handle offers written in German only, A Swiss company will buy ski, tennis and golf sporting goods. The Tanaka Pur & Skin Co.. Osaka, Japan, would buy hlgh-quaUty goatskins, winter chilled; new winter doe goatskins without scratches, cuts or scars, with white, straight hair from 2 to 2.5 inches, with hair tops not worn out. soft or pliable after tanning or dressing, and air-dried, applied with antiseptics.

A company in the Congo Republic wants to import baby food. Amethist a Cyprus company, wants to import a complete line of wines and spirits. A Swedish firm is looking for novelties in lining) padding and filling materials for ready-made clothing and furs. And a Mozambique company wants to buy tea-processing machln^H. amI.

bly to get in on the many-sided teabag Industry.

There are hundreds of other export opportunities. Please dont write to me about them. Write to the Department of Commerce, Washington 25. D.C., and ask for specific information about any Item, or subscribe to International Commerce, at $16 a year. In which the Department wimps up all this information.

SHORT SIGNIFICANT BUSINESS NEWS ITEMS.

The A ft P has gone into the discount store business, reports Discount Store News. The first store is lU CoraopoUs, Pa., It says. . .Corporations are having trouble flUlng $50.000-a-year Jobs, Duns Review says in its August issue. . .Calm about cancer are the Swiss, whose import of tobacco In 1961 has just been estimated at 8.5 per cent larger than a year earlier. . . Argentina has reimposed Its 150 per cent surcharge (mi Imported cigarettes. . .Australia shipped 14 million pounds of beef to the U. S. in the second and third weeks of July. . .Tie Greek fig crop this year wUl be equal to last years, and above the 1QS5-59 average.

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