in an effort to secure a joint airport for the two cities. The interest of the Wilson commissioners in promoting: this project is evident. At the same time it appears to us that there should be an interest on the part of officials and citizens of every community in this sectiott of the state in seeking: the

Tuesday, September 18, 1962

Will They Keer> Eyes, Ears Closed?

We find it difficult to understand the long- best possible method of assuring adequate com-range logic behind the assertion of Wilsons City mercial air service for Eastern North Carolina. Commissioners that they will not support a regional The purpose of the Civil Aeronautics Board inairport for Eastern Carolina even if the forthcoming vestigation is to help the section of the state detei-Civil Aeronautics Board investigation shows the mine whether it has more to gain through a system feasibility of such an undertaking. of individual community airports with limited com-

Wilson, of course, is linked with Rocky Mourt "i^rcial ^rvice, or a regional facility at which ser-

vice could be consolidated. It would appear that the Wilson commissioners have answered the ques-Ijon for themselves and are not interested in con-fiicting facts or findings which might result iron the investigation ,

Similar semiihent may prevail in other communities in this section of the state. It would seem to us, however, that wisdom demands that the findings of the forthcoming investigation be givmn careful and open-minded consideration by all of the cties, towns and counties in the area involved bi the investigation. The CAB may find from its investigation that the long-range interest of the ar< a might best be sensed by a series of individual community airports, each with its own commercial service. If such is the case, the move in that direction should be continued.

If, on the other hand, the investigation poinl to a regional airport as the best long-range answer to the problem for this section of the state, the communitie.s involved would be foolish to ignore the CABs findings and recommendations.

The need for better commercial air service in Eastern North Carolina is recognized as one of ths keys to this areas realizing its economic potential. The primary consideration should be reaching this goal in the manner in which the CAB suggests would be most practical.

First Scattered Returns

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

GUM NECK. N. C.-Spend a day in the deep woods of Dare, Tyrrell and Hyde counties, \isit-Ing with the state's lai'gest private landowners.

Here Is a vast wilderness, virtually untouched and undevelopedhundreds of square miles of scrub abd brush, gnarled, knotted and fire-blackened trees, dwise undergrowthbut a land with a potential.

Whats here now is here in spite of hell and high water, says Bill Crumpacker of Manns Harbor. North Carolina manager for the West .Virginia Pulp and Paper Co.

And his statement is almost literally true. The land, lyhig barely four feet above sea level, has a high water table and moisture cont^t. It has been drowned by poor drainage, salted by storm and hurricane, and ravaged again and again by fire,

Its been burned and drowned, says Crumpacker. Its been terribly abused. It's sorry land now. Just a wasteland. PROJECTThe West Virginia COTipany now owns 309.000 acres of this land and for the Ist 10 years has been putting men, machines and millions of dollars into a project to reclaim the wilderness, to turn it eventually into land that is u.se-ful, productive and profitable.

It may take 50 years, but the firm envisions the day when this vast wilderness will be redeemed and grow a steady, annual crop believed to be best suited to the landtrees and timber.

Westvaco Is pioneering In a project of this type, never attempted before on such a scale, nor with such methods of re-clamatiw and land management.

For example, huge tractors and draglines developed for timbering In the snow country of Canada have been adapted for working in the bogs and muck, in beds of peat which often are 30 feet deep.

Westvaco has cleared and cut more than 200 miles of roads and 300 miles of canals and secondary drainage ditches in Its first stepto make the land accessible and to drain it Some 30.000 acres now is under controlled drainage.

W00E5In the controlled areas under land management practices, there are stands of the money tree planned for the area, p<md pine. This species flourishes here. White cedar or juniper also has been Introduced and is reproducing. There is loblolly and slash pine. There are some stands of hardwoods, maple and black gum, and cypress In the swamps and bogs.

As yet little of the timber if ctKnmerclal. Logging is on a small scale. There are few pulp mills and sawmills, but more win come.

The project Is 'long range.

It takes 25 years to grow a pulp-wood tree and 50 years for a saw log. Westvaco Is removing the stunted, crooked timber and replacing It, using modem forestry practices on managed land. It plans to replace as much as It takes out.

PRACTICESEvcntuaUy. 1.-000 miles of road will be cut

through the forestsin this vaM area embracing almost all of the Dare mainland, roost of TjTrell from east to Columbia and Lake Phelps to the Alligator river and parts of nortt-western Hyde.

Until Westvaco moved in. there were only forest trails and pathsfew people had ever seen, or cared about, the wasteland. What small logging operations were attempted soon gave up.

It took modem machinery and 1(^ of money. Mighty machines now dig canals and ditches through the land and throw up road dirt at the same time.

Ihe effect of drainage is illustrated gnq>hically along the canal roads. Already, where the land is drained there is a striking difference in tree growth, in size and in color and density of foliage.

It is believed too that lowering the water table will reduce the very heavy undergrowth, brush, reeds and switchcane.

FIREFire is the chief enemy of the woodsand of this project.

Along the paved highways that skirt the great wilderness area. Westvaco has billboards which read. Millions of tomorrow's trees are growing on these lands. Be careful with fire. Fire, from all causes, is an ever-present, constant threat. And it takes its toll repeated-Ij', raging unchecked over thousands C acres. In the past 10 year, fire has burned over 140,-000 acres of this land.

Westvaco stays on the alert.

It has built two landing strips, bought two water bomber planes, has invested in me-long portable pumping and spray system, great plow tractors and other firefighting equipment.

It is a superhuman job to stop a fire in this sort of land. Fire races explosively through the dry brush, switchcane and waxy-leaf bushes, burrowing Into the combustible peat bogs, spreading overhead and in the ground itself.

A piece of hot carbon from the exhaust of a tractor last year touched off a conflagration which burned over 10.000 acres in 27 hours, taking two lives and destroying $250,000 worth of timber.

RANGEWestvaco flatly opposes the idea of an Air Force practice bombing range anywhere in Dare, Tyrrell or Hyde for this one reasonfire. Prom its standpoing. it believes the reason is good and sufficient.

There is dispute, of course, as to the degree of additional danger which might be created by the smoke-and-flash simulated bombs on such a range. The Air Force says it would be negligible and It assures fire protection. Westvaco argues, on basis of its experience, that here there can be no such guarantee. It is still too Inaccessible and too difficult to control fire.

And it argues such a fire can wipe out in a few hours everything it has taken man and nature working together decades to accomplish. If Westvacos project fails, this vast area Is likely to be swallowed up again in water and wilderness.

State Acts In Keeping With Responsibilities

McN'auifht SyTHiiutc, Inc

By ALVIN TAYLOR

'Stadium For

now. The steel frame for the stadium has become an excellent perch for hundreds of starlings.

The birds fill the air with screeches and sail off as humans approach, but when the coast is clear they fly back to the steel frame landing on the runners which will even

away since,

Heres hoping they give way to people when the first game is played in the anxiously awaited stadium.

The state has acted in keeping with its responsibilities to taxpayers by holding up Powell Bill payments to at least three incorporated communities while it checks into taxation or assessment

procedures in two resort municipalities, and the East Caroima Colleges new nandiing of past allotments by another municipality. lootbaii stadium is for the

In theory, the Powell Bill method of distribut- speaking literally

ing a portion of the state gasoline tax to municipalities for street improvement and maintenance, i.^ sound. For the most part it has worked well m North Carolina. It is important, however, to all taxpayers that the funds which come from the Powell Bill are handled by the respective municipalities in the manner prescribed under the law.

lortncoming session, review carefully the w^ording the press box frame and even ot the law in the light of allocations which in tlie center post which wui

p^ast have been made to some resort developmenL-..

There has been criticismand justifiably so, we on the playing field in front tnink of some payments to resort communities stands. They were ap-

which have technically qualified under the Pow^e l attracted there when

BiJl for a share in the fund The legislature should ifr

make sure that allocations being made are in keep- has been able to run them mg with the original intent of the act.

The Powell Bill is of great importance t) O *

municipalities throughout the state because of the wlnSI JljQltOrS oQVinQ ..

fjndssome i^7.6 millions this yearwhich it pu*^s ^ '

into local budgets of 413 cities and towns. It is al.,o If

of importance to the people of the state who pav ^ VQlO 1 OWf..i .UO i .

the additional gasoline tax that goes to make up the funds that are distributed. Questionable allocations under the act, or questionable use of allocated funds by individual communities, could place jeopardy the entire program.

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. Frank Diener, a baker by trade, is re;aU^ a misguided circus man. Tne tented show's fascinate Frank, so it is not surprising that he was appointed chairman when the Christiani-Wallace Bros. Circus was booked by the Jay-cees to show here.

Prank went to work immediately lining up Jaycees to sell tickets, handle parking and other chores which befell the club.

Somewhere along the way, he learned that Gov. Sanford was to be in town for his school tour on the same day

as the circus.

Frank wrote to the circus for special passes which he could present to the governor and h party.

Back came the special passes. Along with them was a lifetime pass to the Christiani-Wallace Bros. Circus made out to the governor of North Carolina.

Sanford didnt use it, though. Frank mailed the pass to the governors office, but the governor had a busy schedule making his school tour. He returned to Raleigh before the evening show'.

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By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP) _ One of the great pleasures of middle age is the discovery that your memory is slipping.

From then on you can make your life even more enjoyable if you pretend it has slipped even further than it has. just as elderly people often pretend they are harder of hearing than they actually are.

Then you can remember only w'hat you want to just as old folks hear only what they choose to.

Loss of memory isnt so much a matter of physical aging in most men as it is a selective form of self-defense. It is affected by the kind of jobs they have, and how long they have been married.

In general it might be said that the more people there are who feel they have a right to tell you what t-o do. the earlier your memory begins to show signs of falling.

It is only by forgetting some of their insLstent demands that you can remember to do some of the things you want to get done yourself. This is W'hat is known as protective, or self-defensive. loss of memory.

'tSome people take an inordinate pride in their memories. They can remember all their past automobile lioense.s and can recall the name and room number ot every hotel they stayed in. What Ls worse, they

- like to show off this useless skill at cocktail parties after their second drink.

Such parrot - type memories are more of a nuisance than a ble.ssmg, and hardly show intelligence of a very high order. They result in a mind stuffed with nonessential lum-ber that should bore ones self and certainly is bound to bore others.

Many middle - aged people worry at any sF of loss of memory. The truth is loss of memory is normal, healthy, and essential.

It begins at birth and continues inexorably until death.

Every day, probably every hour, awake or asleep, our crowded brains forget something they no longer need to keep and if they didnt it is hard to see how we could go on living.

How Impossible life would be to the average man if he remembered every wrong or foolish thing he had done in hi.s long jouniey! Such a mountain of accumulated guilt and regret would break the stoutest back. He would have time only for remorse: none left for accomplishments.

The wise man of middle age feels a quiet sense of elation at the- discovery his memory isnt quite what it used to be.

What if he no longer can work a problem in high school (Continued on Page 6i

(Henderson Dispatch)

Dedication of its huge 340,-000 horsepower steam electric generating plant at Goldsboro on Wednesday gave the Carolina Power & Light Company a tremendous increase in electric current available for industrial and other uses in its territory. As Governor Sanford said at the time, this facility would not have been constructed at so tremendous a cost but for the need now and in the future for electric power and but for the companys faith in the area it serves so abundantly and so efficiently.

Power companies throughout the land are fully capable and ready and willing to meet all demands for this type of service, and are doing it except in regions where the Federal power zealots are barging in and preventing it.

The claim that the Federal government can produce and deliver power cheaper is a misnomer and is designed to further the desire for public ow'n-ership of all such Industry. Gov-eiTiment cannot produce power any cheaper than private companies, and probably at not even as low a cost to consumers after allowance is made for the multiplied millions of dollars the private companies pay In taxes. It is likely that private enterprise could undersell government generating plants if relieved of taxes. And wherever goveiTiment moves into the field that much property is lost to taxes. And wherever goveni-ment moves into the field that much property is lost to taxes, and deficits, when they occur, have to be made up by revenue furnished by the people generally. even many who in no W'ay benefit from these huge installations.

Public power advocates got the camels head in the door under the guise of building dams for so-called flood control. But that argument is largely nullified by supplementing of hydro-electric plants by steam plants, which certainly are in no sense related to flood control.

We doubt if there is a private pow'er company anywhere In the land that has had the vision and energy to look ahead and to erect generating plants to meet present and near-future requirements as has Carolina Power Si Light. It is directed by officials, under leadership of President Louis V. Sutton, who spare neither time nor money in their determination to serve their territory adequately and to supply every need of industry and of customers in general. No man in his field is better qualified for this type of leadership^ than Mr. Sutton.

The Goldsboro steam generating unit which was activated last Wednesday was the third largest installation on the Neuse river at that point. Its entire system is interlocked to provide normal service under practically all conditions and in times of emergency.

There is no demand for power In Carolinas territory that has not been met nor Is there likely to be. The company stays well ahead of demand by continued expansion, and in so doing has made probably far greater contribution to the de-velobment of Its territory than any corporation or agency, public or private. It is growing with the Carolinas and rendering a vital service to that region. It has repeatedly demonstrated that private power can do the job and do It better and more acceptably than bureaucrats in government.

One other tiling about the circus; The owners bought an elephant while they were In Greenville, Frank tells me.

This one had me scratching my head. I wouldnt know where to begin buying an elephant in Greenville.

Frank explained that actually the animal was purchased from another show in Charlotte. The operators went to the Queen City and brought the elephant back to Greenville during the day.

That was sort of interesting, .says Frank. You dont get many elephant purcha.ses consummated in Greenville.

I agree.

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If you re the head of a family of four^ and you earned one million silver dollars in one year, .something like 8.56,910 of them would go for federal income taxes. What we would like to see in this country is an exhibit of a single dollar that amounted to something. _ Tulsa tOkla ) World.

It s a good thing in more ways than one to learn that soon well have In God We Trust on all our bills. We no longer have enough gold in Fort Knox to back up ou-paper money. Memphis Press-Scimitar.

Maybe theres room for vet one more alphabetical agency which perhaps would come to be known as the BBBB* the Burean for Battered and Bewildered Businessmen.Wall Street Journal.

Tt will be a great annoyance, in future times, when the traveler arrives on the moon only to learn that his baggage was sent by mistake to Venus. Decatur (111.) Herald.

.S. Is Curbed. By Act

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY Copyright, 1962, King Features Syndicate, Inc. Yesterday, I gave the history of the Monroe Doctrine up to the Act of Havana in 1940 which led to the Organization of American States and the vitiation of the Doctrine.

Fripr jo this President Theodore RooseveU extended the Monroe Doctrine to an instrument of moral sanction and police power:

Chronic wrongdoing, or an Impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society, may in America, as elsewhere, ultimately require Intervention by some civilized nation, and in the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrongdoing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power.

The Act of Havana was a war measure designed to establish a barrier to German and Japanese activities in Latin America. When World War II was over, the Act stood and the United States was no longer free to pursue its own initiative. It had ' partners with whom It needed I to consult. 'The Act of Havana was foUowed by Conferences at Rio de Janeiro, Bogota and other places, each of which reduced the American initiative.

The Rio de Janeiro Conference took place between January 15 and 28, 1942. Its ostensible object was to recommend to all 21 American Republics that they break off relations with all Axis powers. The Republics were encouraged to form a hemispheric defensive policy.

The two basic documents which altered the relationship of the United States and Latin America are the Charter of Bogota and the Treaty of Rio. The Chapultepec Meeting occurred in 1945: Rio in 1947; Bogota in 1948. These documents must l3e read together to understand what happened. The Charter of the Organization of American States (May 2, 1948) says in its first article:

Tlie American States e.stab-lish by this Charter the intenia-tional organization that they have developed to achieve an order of peace and justice, to promote their solidarity, to strengthen their coUaboration, and to defend their sovereignty, their territorial integrity and their independence. . .

A. A. Berle summarizes its essential objectives as follows: a. To strengthen the peace and security of the continent; b. To prevent possible causes of difficulties and to ensure the pacific settlement of disputes that may arise among the Member States:

c. To provide for common action on the part of those States in the event of aggression;

d. To seek the solution of political, juridical and economic problems that may arise among them; and e. To promote, by cooperative action, their economic, social and cultural development. The Monroe Doctrine is knocked out by the Charter;

No state or group of States has the right to intervene, directly or indirectly, for any reason whatever, in the intenial or external affairs of any other State. The foregoing principle prohibits not only armed fore* but also any other form of in-terlerence or attempted threat against the personality of the State or against its political, economic and cultural elements * The Treaty of Rio de Janciio does not affect the situation in Cuba. The article reads;

The High Contracting Parties agree that an armed attack by any State against an American State shatl bp cnnridered as an attack again.st all the Amfr-ican States and, consequently, each one of the said Contraet-ing Parties undertakes to assist in meeting the attack in the exercise of the inherent right of individual or collective self -defense recognized by Article .51 of the Charter of the United Nation.s.

The Russians have not invaded Cuba; they were invited In by a Communist gnvernmeut. This is the technique which Soviet Russia has employed In Red China, Korea. Vietnam p' i many European countries. Tt is noi-maJ Communist technique.

The West has always failed (o meet the Communist use of thi.s method for conquest because the West is bound by legalisms, W'hich Soviet,Ru.ssia Isrnore.s. In (Continued on Page 8)

Gold Coins And Drain On U.S.

Strength For Today

By EAKL L. DOtGI.ASS

I .NDKK 'I'HE HEAVENLY LAW

Our countjy ha.s certain laws by which we are governed. We all aclinit this. But in the physical realm there are law even more inflexible and powerful than laws passed by legisla tujes. And what most people fail to realize is that law also obtains in the moral and spiritual world. There are certain things that are wrong and there are certain things that are i*ght. That system of principles governing morality is stronger and more significant than any constitution that has ever appeared 'among men. Park at a fire plug and you get a ticket Steal funds cntrtwted to your care and you go to jail. Kill and you get the gallows, the ga.s chamber, or the cJecUic chair.

Thi.s Ls all in the realm of government and .social arrangt -ment. But there Ls an unseen spiritual order in which law and principle prevail to an even greutej extent than they do in th^ field of govenwnent. We break the law of God and we get something worse than a ticliet, or a. fine, or a jail sentence. We may not be consciou.s of the fact that we have been apprehended at aU. or that we are being disciplined and punished. but^e live in a moral universe in which we can get away withing nothing. We may beat the parking meter or squirm out of a jail sentence, but we cannot .squirm out of the moral con.sequence.s of any evil we practice.

Eaj'thly laws can be changed. Heavenly law.s are eternal. Sue-cc.ss in llfp coasisLs in learning live under heavenly law.

By KL.HER ROESSNER

Americans abroad are indignant l>ecause President Kennedy has ordered them to turn In all gold coins by January 1, 196:i.

Foreigners and stateside Atnericans can buy gold coins, they point out, demanding to know why they shouldnt have the same right.

Besides, the iemales say, gold coins are a fashion accessory this year on the continent. Why, they ask, should American women be denied the right to be stylish?

The answer to this question is curious: the purchase of gold coins by Americans abroad Is drain on the U. S, gold supply.

In the U. S.. it is legal to purchase gold coins for collections. and. by legal definition, any gold coined before iy;]3 is a collector's item.

NO GOLD DRAIN

So gold coins arc sold freely, at much above the face value.

A S5 gold piece costs $17.50 or more, depending on its condition. But when an American in this town buys a gold piece, there is no effect on foreign exchange. A gives $20 to B and B gives a $5 gold piece to A. Nothing Is lost from Port Knox.

But suppose an American In Europe buys a $20 gold piece. At the $:)5-an-ounce official rate, it would cost about $3.5. but most coins are sold at a premium and he may pay $45 or $50. Then the $45 or 50 he pays for it in American currency can be exchanged, through a central bank, for American gold. Central banks can get gold for American currency, although Americans cannot. And Fort Knox loses $45 more gold.

The same thing happens when people abroad use American,currency to buy foreign gold coins or gold ba^s.

Prosid.mt Kennedy is not fearful that sequln.v of half-eagle.s on Continental gown will outdazzlc his unoutdazz-

able wife, but he must be concerned over the fact that the American gold supply could be bled by American gold pur-(hn.ser.s abroad.

WHEN IN MEXICO CITY,

SEE SIGHTS, NOT .('ABARETS

As the fall and winter vacation season starts. Variety, the theatrical weekly, issues a warning to all travelers: check the prices before entering a Mexico City hot spot.

Today you cant get a Scotch highball in a top luxury spot for less than $2.80 or $3.20. And its not always for a generous tw'o ounces. Nor is there any assurance that label ordered is authentic. says Variety.

ONE OF THE LITTLE JOYS YOUR TAXES PAY FOR

Michael Torto.so, brought Into a Brookl.vn, N.Y., court of petty larceny and possession of burglar's tools, heard the Judge

ask $250 cash bail and set a Wednesday for hearing. Tprtovso peeled 25 $10 bills from a thick roll and thanked the judge for not setting his case for Tuesday.

On Tuesday Ive got to go to the unemployment office to get my check, he explained.

SHORT & SIGNIFICANT BITS OF BUSINESS NEWS

Sales of cigarettes in Thailand increased 3.4 per cent during the first half of 1962. War nerves, probably. . . .The United States exported almost 900 billion cigarettes to Hong Kong in the first half of this year. War serves. There, not here. . . During the first seven mcmths of this year, the U. S. Imported almost half a billion pounds of beef, veal, pork, mutton and lamb. . . .The flavor in whlske.v is due to olfactory perception. rather than taste, according to a Schenley study. In other words, you smell whiskey, n o t taste IL