Wednesday. October 10, 1962

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the state. ^ community m as the most valuable potential it has. Moat com-

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uatine classed noint .m fn^ v ^v. ^ commumes, however, too little attention ia

itreat lo7whirh ^ Carolinians the being given to keeping youngsters in school to take

svstem The tai!, school advantage of the better educational opportunities

by the fact that in that are being offered. > pponunuies

It is not exDf^rtPd thrf Avot-v * problem which will require the attention of all

enters the fifth grade or even the 12th grade in the progrLs'uTo bemad'' ^ substanUal

^fsfeasVwhot rolestro^t^So" ner nt a probirwhich has been too long ignored

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and when more than half the counties lose 60 per their students during this period, it is a problem which cannot be ignored.

North Carolina generally has recognized the need for better quality education to enable its young people to compete more effectively in the adult world in the years ahead. It has undertaken recently

a program to encourage young people to at lea.-t

fronf^the evident uimcuaiun m i>ortn uaroiina tnis week

from the report on the 1962 graduating classes, as airplanes were brought into play to assist in

apprehending offenders.

Now, in addition to keeping an eye on the road ahead for speed traps, an eye in the rear view mirror for patrol cars, drivers will have to find another eye to keep an overhead lookout for airplanes. For T- average driver, this, of course, will be difficult.

rf J I Til Introduction of the airplane in highway patrol wors

A A gives the traffic violator one more thing to worry

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The hope of officials is that the new air patrols will not only help in apprehending drivers who

Instituton Of Higher Education

One More Worry For The Traffic Violator

Enforcement of highway traffic regulations took on a new dimension in North Carolina this week

^Realizing That !Tuc

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

ATOMICIt wufi back in October, 1956, that four major power companies serving most of the Carolinas and Virginia announced plans for a piOr nuclear power project.

The target date then was Indefinite, but at least several years away. No site had been chosen.

About all that was naiied down at that time was that the four companies. Duke Power Co., Carolina Power and Light Co., South Carolina Electric and Gas Co. and Virginia Electric and Power Co., had organized a joint venture to be known as Caroljnas-Virginia Nuclear As'iociates Inc.

This was to begin engineering studies and research. It began discussion with the Atomic Enei-gy Commission.

It has taken six years for that beginning- to flower into a reality. but the unique atomic power plant that was talked then is about to be dedicated at Parr, S. C.

PROTOTYPEDedication of the Parr facility is scteduled in a few weeks, probably late October.

It is scheduled to beeln the complicated task of loading atomic fuel and "gomg critical ' Jn DecmbcF WlKffl 4iie last -wftehes 're thrown and the plant begins generating electric power for the fiist time. It is expected to be a first, for the South.

It would be the first privately-owned nuclear reactor designed for production of commercial power in the Southeast.

It will represent a different concept from other nuclear power reactors either in operation or proposed by 24 organizations throughout the United States similar to the CVNPA.

This concept lies in technical design. It wl utilize a cold U-tube core design. This was decided up(m after exhaustive studies (rf power reactor tteories.

It is described as a pressure heavy wa^jr, rop4erated and cooled design unit.

The Parr reactor, too. Is designed as a pilot plant, a prototype of a full scale larger reactor plant which could be designed and built later.

COSTThe atomic plant was more than two years in construction and will cost in excess of $45 mlUioji.

It is designed to produce 17.-000 kilowatts which will be fed Into the transmission system of South Carolina Electric and Gas Co., and through inter-connecticms into the systems of the other electric companies.

The full scale reactor plant which might be built later would be capable of turning out

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200,000 kilowatts or more. There Violate traffic regulations, but will have a greaterHKNRY HHWAPn n no estimate of the coat effect in Anronmorinir 4.__i vv ,rt.rily

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has been no estimate of the cost of this, but much depends uptm what is learned from the pilot plant operation.

SITEIt is. a spokesman said, a pioneer project in that the Parr facility has been built primarily to develop and study ways of pKiftg and usif nuclear power economically.

It is also unique in that the site of the facility on the Broad river also includes a still active hydroelectric plant and a steam plant,

A spokesman said it Is believed to be the only site in the world which includes the three major commercial methods of producing electricity waterpower, fossil fuel and nuclear fuel.

Thus it is not only a proving ground for the future, but a museum and show-piece for the entire panorama of the age of commercial electric power, the spoke.sman said.

It also will be the first such . S. utility plant to use heavy water, the heavy-moleculed water which figured so prominently in the discoveries of nuclear energv and development of the atomic bomb. It will be

will be slightly enriched unran-ium dioxide. The heavv water will be used both as a coolant in the system and as a moderator. Both the uranium fuel and the heavy water have been supplied for the Parr reactor by the Atomic Energy Commission and the AEC waived use charges for the materials.

The heavy water alone be worth about $2.5 million dollars. Some 85,000 pounds of It will be used and the price of heavy water is $28 a pound.

PLANTThe physical plant itself includes a steel-lined concrete vapor container, 110 feet high and 60 feet in diameter which surrounds the reactor,

effect in encouraging drivers not to violate traffic laws.# Those responsible for highway safety in North Carolina have for years engaged in a war of nerves with habitual traffic violators. The risk of injury or death as a result of careless driviifg has not been sufficient to dissuade many drivers from the hahit. Tfie fear of arrest, tnrense suspension and fines, however, apparently has impressed many drivers.

Thus we havevseen the employment of speei

cars, cruising wolf packs a pape/St^North CwSnaI 01 oiiicers, unmarked patrol cars and a host of Civil War governor, Z e b u 1 o n other devices. Each new device cuts down the t u ,

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r.acn neu device tends to encourage the driver to served that Gov. Vance readily

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HISTORY, exploration of It that is. nftpn naji be. quite tedious; but its also quite frequently rewarding, and even at times delightful.

Kennedy Avoids Personal Knocks

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displayd an apt sense of humor, even when the going was rough.

As is most frequently the case, the students professor questioned the observation. What do you have to prove it? he demanded.

Digging into a bulky file representing hours-on-end In research, the student produced this documented tale:

A volunteer colonel in Hillsboro had hastily recruited a group of troops, a volunteer

brigade to aid North Carolinas early part in The Rebel cause.

Caught up in the atmosphere of the Impending Crisis, the well-intentioned colonel shot off a crackling telegram to Gov. Vance in Raleigh.

It contained a terse three-word message:

Ready in Hillsboro.

Gov. Vance, always equal to the occasiim, wired back this more-crackling reply:

Fire.

Professor agreed student had proved his point.

WADING into the subject for another moment:

Students left one of East Carolina Colleges history classes Monday night claiming they had been near-overawed by realism In presentation of a lecture about a famous battle.

Perhaps one factor In the vivid reconstruction of the battle scene related to theP pjo-

den Kennedy has been keeping ideas to a minimum in his campaigning to get a Democratic Congress elected in November.

The presidential presence the sight of him has been going over big, as usuaL Big crowds turn out to give him big cl^eers and big applause.

But what he has had to say sounds tired from repetition. This gives the impression that he feels if he can just stimulate his listeners into voting at all they will vote Democratic,

He blames the Republicans for most of his troubles with the present Congress, where Demo-ocrats far outnumber Republicans, and even for some of the

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The reactor core cwisists of 72 fuel assemblies contained In 36 pressure tubes suspended in a moderator tank. Drive mechanisms for 28 control rods are mounted above the tank. The tube walls are thermally insulated internally from the coolant and coolant flows

through the U-shaoed tubes.

A service building houses the complex control room and spent fuel building. When in operation. the plant should turn out electlcity to supply a town of 15,000 population.

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hasnt yet solved.

Since this is the usual tactic in a campaign. Kennedys efforts so far have no particular distinction. He may give it some unique quality of his own before the campaign ends. He hasnt yet.

One of the differences between Kennedy and former President Truman showed up In the weekend politicking.

Kennedy, unlike Truman, makes a studied effort to avoid getting people mad at him. While he attacked Republicans for blocking him in Congress, he didnt single them out by name Truman, trying to rally votes In Indiana for Birch E. Bagh Jr.. a Democrat running against Republican Sen. Homer C a p c-hart, attacked the latter so vigorously that Capehart threatened to sue him for slander.

One of the Kennedys favorite weekend themes was a call for helpmeaning election of more Democrats to Congress in moving this country forward. He didnt spend much time mentlwilng the huge majorities his Democrats have in C o n-gress, where they outnumber Republicans 261 to 174 in the House and 64 to 36 in the Senate.

Instead, Kennedy said the Republicans have madet>"no a political program but I believe in the word yes,

But the "no votes of the Republicans would have been

they did not is good reas(m his asktog for more Democrats.

This is Uke getting mixed up in a number game since Kennedys plea for even more Democrats raises the question of just how many Democrats does he need to win if he cant get his programs through in a Con-gress where Republicans are already in the minority. The truth is that too often for his owti -good, enough o his Democrats teamed up with Republicans to put the rest of the Democrats In a minority. Another truth is that some Republicans went along with him better than some of his own Democrats.

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probably the main reason Kennedy is sticking to just a few ideas that can be easily absorbed by his listeners like his central theme: I hold the view in 1962 that it is vitally important tht we have an executive branch of the government and a House and a Senate that is committed to progress.

g Oth^r Editors Saying... Statesman In Private Life

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We all want tax reduction. And we want a tax system that will encourage, not handicap, this countrys growth and strength. But. with this, there must be the most rigid kind of government economy in every non-es.sential field. Industrial News Review.

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(Henderson Dispatch)

Lynn Nisbet was perhaps as well versed on affairs of the State as any man in or out of . government in North Carolina. He was truly a w'alking encyclopedia of information about political events and trends in the State in the last half century or more. His death in Raleigh Saturday carried away probably the best known news-man in the profession.

^ Msbr irnmht '^lurig' can^'^ cer surgery two years ago and was supposed to have recovered completely, only to ex-perierxe a further and final flare-up last spring which forced him to relinquish his duties. His courage in struggling against the disease, even to the last bitter end, was amazing to his friends and acquaintances. His outlook was clear and his interest unabated until a few days before nis death.

For nearly a quarter of a century, he was manager and correspondent in the Raleigh bureau of the North Carolina Association of Afternoon Dallies. The twenty-eight evening newspaper members of the association have a combiiied circulation of about 475,000 daily, which provided for him the greatest audience of readers of any one WTiter in the State, now or previously. The Henderson Daiy Dispatch is one of only two newspapers that have continuously been members of the group since it was organized back In the nineteen twenties, and Nisbets column has appeared in this paper regularly for twenty-two years during that period of thirty-five years or more. His reports from the State

capital w'ere an Important feature and asset to this publication.

When Nisbet was forced to give up his work last spring, he W'as the honor guest at a testimonial dinner for him at the Sir Walter Hotel in May. About 200 newspapermen, public officials and others from across the State gathered in tribute to his services and to _hh^as a inan .antj citizen. Jt waran c^nt""wTt6bt* "preceT^ dent for a North Carolina journalist or for one in any walk of life.

Nisbets uncanny Interpretation of political movements in the State seldom missed the mark and was relied upon by men in and out of public office and by readers generally. He wrote without bias or vindictiveness and was respected by leaders and their supporters in all phases of the political life of the State.

Death was not unexpected. From the date of his enforced retirement, every one knew it was only a matter of time.

His passing leaves a void In the newspaper profession in North Carolina. It is given to but few to reach the pi^acle of service that he achieved. The thousands who knew Nisbet and held him In the deepest affection mourn his death and the loss of a friend and a distinguished citizen. He was an honor to his family, to 4he newspaper fraternity and to his State. He was a personality of whom It can truly be said that his like will not soon be seen again. Since there are statesmen in public activity. Lynn Nisbet was equally as much a statesman In private life.

fessors handling of the subject material;

But outside forces, too, were at w'ork. And at the outset the students admittedly wondered if the extraneous elements had been planned as a part of the lecture.

As the good professor was reaching the climax of the intense battle, his discourse was suddenly joined by a loud and continuing round of explosions. It was ironic Indeed that the bombardment followed on the heels of the professors: . .

and fired the short heard round the world.

Students ears perked. No(Jdlng heads Jerked upright. Even the professors ears twitched.

A few tense moments elapsed before a student recalled aJoud the Pitt County Fair and its

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Opinions

Brief

A headline told us that the national debt passed the $300 billion mark for the first time in history. Uncle Sam had better make some other arrangements for his debts. Most of us are up to our neck in our personal debts, too. Landrum (S.C.) Leader.

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enough business problems without trying to sell electricity. The yearly postoffice deficit is just one example. Pond du Lac (Wisconsin) Commercial Reporter.

What your ancestors did Is not what counts. Its not what they w'ere, but what you are, Hardy (Arkansas) Independent.

Bores wont bother you if you monopolize the conversation yourself. Worchester (Mass.) Telegram.

An Augusta, Ga., doctor has reported that the drug chlordiazepodixide has proved helpful in overcoming childrens fear of going to school. Undoubtedly^ any child would be frightened at the prospect of going to school if he knew it involved learning how to spell chlordiazepodixide.. Jacksonville (Fla.) Tlmes-Unlon,

After youve heard two eyewitness accounts of an auto accident, you begin to wonder about history, Wichita (Kansas) Morning Eagle,

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Strength For

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY Copyright, 1963, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

I MW an item in which a columnist condemns those who review sltuatl(His from hindsight. Were his judgement correct no history could be written, no errors could be corrected. The function' of the press is not to assume that what has been d<ie about anything

Is necessarily correct because it haa been done. Rather we need to review the consequences. In the United States, it is always necessary to be sure that officials, from the President down to a process server, do not use power to violate the law.

Therefore such a statement as the following is, in my opin-Icm, nonsense:

Mimday morning (juarter-backs, who have 1^20 vision after the game is over, come a dime a dozen.

What happened In Oxford. Mississippi, may be viewed from many standpoints:

1. To the older, pro-segregationist Southerners, it is an outrage that the Federal Oov-crnment should Intervene in a strictly local matter and the regulations of a university are local. Harvard does not admit every student who wishet to enter. There are many disquallfi-catl(xis, some unjust.

2. The progressive Southern-ers are chagrined that the South should again be pilloried by a pre-determlned arrangement to place one student in a segregationist university. Some feel that gradualism was getting good results in the South and that inter-racial relations can be improved without the use of

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3. Negro leaders have generally been silent with regard to Mississippi but it cannot be denied that they have won a great political victory. The real victory lies in the foreboding that Federal troops having been.used in Oxford, Mississippi, to put one student into a university, such Federal troops, border control guards and Improvised Marshals can be used to prevent Southern state officials from preventing Negroes from voting in the 1962 and 1964 elections.

4. The Solid South no longer exists in the sense that white folks, who are traditional Democrats, will not vote according to Civil War traditions in the next election. There will be a Republican ticket in most Southern states. Of course- Democratic Senators and Represen-

tatSvM w4ii iraai i& be "d biftnmrW TiaXe to do It ^ on their own. Some of them will be expressly anti - Administration.

5. The use of Marshals tn this operation was clearly a mistake. The public is not accustomed to them. A United States Marshal, as the citizen generally knows him, is a fat. middle-aged politician who hangs around a Federal Court House, who Issues summonses, seizes private property of those in default, and smokes a smelly cigar.

Where did these young men come from? They did not look good with their masks and tear gas. Are they to be recruited into a nati(Mial police force?

A, ^ yffensive concept too much like Storm Troopers.

If the Federal Govermnent has to send troops anywhere, send soldiers and marines. They know their business and Americans generally respect them.

6. Students usually riot where there is anjdhlng to riot about.

Wise college administrators usually do not make much of a fuss about it because they know, from experience, that the boys will settle down to work and.

In due course, it all ends in teen-age fun. Anyone who has been to a college knows this to be true, except perhaps in the larger colleges which no longer have room for a campus. It Is not necessary to shoot at American boys and girls, even with tear gas, because they throw a Coca-Cola bottle at a cop. The cop should dodge the bottle and spank the student.

7. It Is impossible to impose virtue by force. Prohibition should have taught us that. After Prohibition was abolished, the saloon was not restored: instead, the bar was move(l to a thing called a Cafe where not only men but women can sit and guzzle.

Segregation Is a moral and sociological question with historic overtones. Emotions on el-(Continued on page ten)

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By EARL L. DOUGLASS NEED OF RELIGIOUS FAITH

Some years ago I listened to a commencement address entitled "Insects and Men. By the time the young lady had finished her discourse, every person present was sure that It was only a matter of time until the insects took over the planet. This morning they are spraying my trees and I am groaning under the prospect of a good sized bill.

Bugs, bugs, bugs. The more civilized we become the buggier we seem to get. In certain parts of the world ants will go through a section of hundreds of square miles and in a few days eat every bit of foliage in sight. Speaking with the utmost seriousness. It might very well be that Insects could take over our planet. We would be helpless

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against them. They would be worse than all the atomic bombs man in his deviltry has been able to think up.

Most people do not realize the narrow margin of safety by which we continue to live. Every year on July 1 we are within thirty days of starvation. Natural catastrophes might Occur which would cause oceans, miles deep, to rush across continents. Insects as small as ants or as large as locusts could devour our world and devour us too.

Life is indeed fragile. We live only by the grace of God. There are certain things we can do for ourselves, but most of the necessities of life have to be furnlshed us by a Higher Power.

Therefore, let us have some kind of religion and stick to it and stick by it.

By ELMER ROESSNER Even if shes Incompetent, hire your wife if you own a business.

Of course, theres no advantage in income taxes. You and your wife already enjoy the split-income advantages, but there are other advantages that are loaded with loot.

Prentice - Halls Executive Tax Report cites these:

Sick pay: If your company has a sick-pay plan in effect, your wife can draw up to $100 a week tax free as long as she is out sick. If she is injured or in the hospital, it starts the first day shes out o work. If she is out because of Illness, and does not spend at least one day in a hospital.* there is a seven-day waiting period before $100 a week of her inpome escapes income taxes. Furthermore, absence because of pregnancy now qualifies for tax - free sick pay.

INEXPENSIVE PEN3I0

Social Security: If a wife becomes an employee, she mu ' be covered by Social Security. This is an inexpensive form of insurance and its made even less expensive because the company can deduct payments for the wife. Note: She cannot be covered by Social Security if she works for you and you are a sole proprietor, but she can be covered If your firm is a partnership or corporation.

Group life insurance: Your working wife can be included in such plans, but your nwiwork-Ing wife cant. And the business can deduct the premiums which are not income to your wife.

Stock option plans: Your wife qualifies for tax-favored stock-optlon plans If other employees share In such a plan.

FOR A TAX-SHELTERED MATE

Pension and profit-sharing plans: Your w'ife, as an employee. can share to these plans.

which come under some of the most favorable provisions of the # n corporation gets

full deduction for the amount it contributes but the wife (and other employees) are not taxed until they cash in on pension or fund. The fund Is tax free while being built up and when your wife collects her share, It will be taxed at the low cap-ital-galns rate.

Conventioit expenses: The

Internal Revenue Service looks askan(^ at deductions for expenses of taking wives to ctm-yentions as hostesses, secretaries or memo keepers. However, If she Is an employee, her expenses are deductible. In a re-cent ^ling the Tax Court (Merritt. TC Memo 1962-183) ruled that the wife of a companys president was truly an employee and that her expenses in attending a convention as a company hostess were fully deductible.

However, Prentice-HaU warna.

the husband better make sure she is an actual employee, that she actually works at her job, under supervision at specifically assigned duties. And on business trips, its best to keep a record of her expenses and of what she did for the business.

If the foregoing advantages iJe fully understood, the Instl-tutlcm of matrimony may return to popularity.

SHORT A SIGNIFICANT BUSINESS NEWS ITEMS Increasing carbon dioxide concentration in greenhouses speeds plant growth, says Chemetron Corp. . .A McCalls survey shows that 61 per cent of the in the West wear padded pras, while only 48.8 per cent to the East so modify nature . . Japan now buys one mll-uon t(is of U. s. potash a year for fertilizing. . . .Seaboard Finance has discontinued its credit card operation. Too many Slow pays, too much bad debt.

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