lomly. October 15, 1962

Federal Program To Benefit City

A cooperative move between the city of Green-

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ville and the Greenville Utilities Commission in advancing funds to the city government should put the city government in an excellent position to enhance its public works program on needed projects.

At tte request of City Manager Harry Hagerty, the Utilities Commission has agreed to advance 1he municipal government $50,000 against future turnover by the Utilities to the city government. With this additional $50,000 funnelled into public works programs, the city will be able to secure a like amount of matching federal funds under a special federal program designed to stimulate employment in certain areas. Pitt is one of 48 North Carolina counties which would have a priority status un-Jer the program because of its unemployment rate.

Under the agreement reached between the city manager and the Utilities Commission, the $50,00u advance would be deducted at the rate of $10.000 per year over the next five years from the normal utilities turnover to the citys general fund.

If a like amount of matching federal funds can be secured by Greenville, which appears likely at - this moment, it will enable Greenvilles municipal government to apply some $100,000perhaps more ^to stepping up its public works program.

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Specific projects outlined by City Manager Hagerty to be undertaken with the funds are sorely needed in Greenville. They include improvement of drainage in West Greenville, completion of paving projects which have remained after expenditure of funds from the last bond issue for paving, extensive sidewalk improvements, and investgatiou of whether such funds could be used for construction of a new fire station.

It was also pointed out by the city manager that additional federal funds may be available to match local paving funds provided by property owners' assessments for paving under the normal policy followed by the city in street paving projects.

In addition to the program of the municipal government, the Utilities Commission has moved to step up planning for some $500,000 worth of its own public works projects which would be eligible.under the special federal aid program. If the projects qualify and the Utilities application is accepted for federal aid, it would mean that half the cost of these projects likewise would be off-set by federal funds.

By moving promptly to take advantage of the special federal programs, available to them, the city government and the local utilies commission have put Greenville in a position to realize considerable benefits from this special federal program.

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^Rescue Business Demos

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

8N0W*LLThe ptMtralt of a member of a fire d^Mutmeot rescue squad isnt greatly different fnxn that of anybody else, usually a man with strong tauite and a big appetite.

We know because we had dinner the other night with about

300 tl these inoi and shook

' hands wtth a lot of them.

And there are things you

might not know or realize whoi you meet one d these men ai the stre^. If you think they sit around all day and nisy

cbedcera yoo^ ndstaken.

Rescue wcxic may be an avo-cafioD, but it requires hard work, dedication and acquired skills. B helps too to have an understanding wife.

There is a buOt-in desire on the part d these men to help peaplt in trouble.

IMPORTANTRescue squads have an inmortant part In the life of the small toaras and rural communities d Ncnth Car-dina.

This importance is being recognized and more and more rural and small town fire depart-mrats, most of th^ volunteer units, are organizing rescue squads and teams.

There are, at present, more than 125 d these across the statemost d them very good and recognized for proficiency and including the world's championship team in heavy duty res-

tltion In rescue problems which Involve minute details such as tying of knots, lashing and test-tag of a stretcher, lowering by ropes, first aid, regular equipment inspection.

In the state and international comp^tion, such things as alertness, clarity of the captains orders and even facial expression are Important.

The eight-man Greenville team became the first U. S. rescue squad to win first place in International competition at Montreal, Canada, in Augu^. it tg<^-4hrsfr yeare d hard^-w^^v

COMPETE The Greenville te^ entered first aid compe-titlcHi (m a spur of the moment decisKm at Salisbury back in 1960 and won first place. That gave the squad impe^ in training. The next year the team won first place in state rescue problem competition and went to tiie Intematioial com-petiticHi at Roanoke, Va.

It w(m tiiird place although it learned later it based its training (HI an outmoded manual. A judge at Roanoke advised the team to adopt a new manual based on Canadian methods. It did and under the leadership of team captain Claude Christopher captured the worlds championship at Montreal.

MEMBERSMembers of this team are Christopher, deputy captain Dawson Nethercutt Harold Ross. Stuart .|avjL6e,

Election of Dave ReM of Greenville as president of the State Young Democrats Club is another political feather in the cap of Pitt County.

It is fitting that this capable young man has been elected by the Young Democrats of North Carolina to lead the organization during the coming year. It is also fitting that the new president of By JOHN ABNEY the organization comes from one of the strongest Democratic counties of the state.

-We are confident Dave Reid will give forceful leadership to the State YDC during his year as head of this organization which is* continuing to grow in political importance in North Carolina. His successful candidacy for the office, and the support hi^ candidacy - received from Pitt as wel} other countteB

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By GEORGE E. 80K0USKY Copyright. 1962. King Pegtures SyndU^, Inc.

Bartering Replaces Cash

PATZCUARO, Mexico It takes about a week to properly inspect the territory around Lake PatzctMtfo.

reflects a great deal of credit upon Reid as weli one evening to

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These men are always ready when a trouble call comes.

READYTragedy may strike at any time. Disaster may be just mcHnents away.

A furniture store blows up In the downtown secticm man dty. Llghtohig strikes a t(*acco barn. A workman suffers a heart attack atop a tall building.

Tornadoes, hurricanes, fires and natural disasters of all types, trame accidents, water tragediesin all of these a rescue s(iuad stands ready to help save human life.

The Greenville scjuad. for example, gets between 300 and 350 calls a year. It has trucks apedally outfitted to carry the team, first aid equipment oxygen, litters, ropes, metal and woodworking tools, lights, power and anything that might be needed In an emergency.

There yrere no doctors within 25 miles of Trenton, N.C., when the rescue squad was organized there. Within a month the team was credited with saving the lives of two heart attack victims.

TEAMThe first class rescue S(iuad stresses training and teamwork. It thrives on compe-

ert Briley, Tony Bramum and altematev Billy Wooliolk.

One is a highway department employe, (me a newspaper reporter. one an optometrist, one a utility worker. Others are members of the fire department. 'Their ages range from 22 to 39 and all of the team members are married. They wear khaki uniforms with the Stars and Bars (m their shirts, along with the proud championship badges.

The team undergoes training for several grueling hours at least ooce a week. It put on a skillful demonstration at the Eastern N. C. Firemens Association meeting in Snow Hill as A hfehlight of- the program.

SAFETYChristopher feels that the rescue squad makes its c(Hiimunity safety conscious and his group carries on an Intensive safety instruction program. This includes classes at East Carolina College and lectures In the schools, lessons in farm safety and water safety.

It works closely with the local medical society in first aid measures, with civil defense, other fire units and law enforcement people. It helps organize and train other rescue squads teams.

B.Y RALPH ROBEY

It is now being predicted that our international deficit for this year will be about $1.5 billion. That is a vast improvement over what we have been experiencing, but still leaes much to be desired.

The international deficit or credit, is the difference between all we sell. Invest, spend and

and gives to us. Necessarily. the number of items entering the totl run into the millKHis, but these are normally grouped into a relatively few categories. By far the largest category is trade, or imports and exports. Recently we have been selling about $5 billion more goods abroad than we have been buying.

But even this favorable export balance has not been adequate to offset various other items. The upshot has been that foreign holdings of short-term par per have been Increasing, and billions of dollars have been converted into gold. In 1957 we had just short of $23 billion of gold; at present it is about $16 billion.

The Kennedy administration, just as the Eisenhower admln-

ident Kennedy nor President Eisenhower has been willing to do this. But both have taken the positi(Hi that such aid ts the best means at our disposal for preventing a further extensi(m of communism; although they have been well aware of the (xmstant stream of examples of the misuse of such aid.

The gold loss tWs year has

the same period of 1961 but we still have well over $4billion above the amount required to meet our legal reserve requirements. It should be noted, too, that (Hily foreign central banks and nternational institutions have the privilege of converting their balances into gold. It should also be noted that the U. S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve System have made widespread agreements with foreign central banks to prevent raids up(Hi any natitms currency and, at least up tot he present, these arrangements have worked well. Onee ffect of these agreements has been no run-ups in the,price of gold in the London market, such as happened in 1960.

ly there has been tuFor aetnv r no general loss of confidence in the dollar, and the talk of possi-

E1 Gordos restaurant. It takes a couple of days to study the ancient buildings and cobblestone streets in the town of Pat-zcuaro.

Then you have to count on plenty of siesta time at the Posada de Don Vasco, where youll probably stay. And everybody takes a boat to the island of Janitzlo to watch the Indian gentlemen in dugout canoes fishing for supper with big butterfly nets.

A,few minutes down the road from Patzcuaro is the village of

Santa Clara. Here, you see them operate the copper mines. Everything from processing the ore to hammering out antique looking skillets which you can acquire for a modest price.

And all around the lake are the Tarascan Indian villages with unprounceable names. Hl-uatzio, Tzunurautaro, 'Tzentzen-guaro, Erongariquaro and places like that.

There is a passable road connecting the lake shore towns. And every evening, a shaggy little train hoots through on the swing around the big lake. Next day. It comes wheezing back from Uruapan and rattles up the hill to Mexico City.

From what I can see, the backbone of economy in this

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aware of the international deficit over-all, and each has taken various steps in attempts to bring about a balance, t is the present hopet hat this goal may be reached by the end of 1963.

Among the actions which have been taken are the reduction of the dollar amount which one of our citizens may bring in duty free from $500 to $100; trying to get foreign nations to carry a larger share of the load of helping under-developed nations to carry a larger share of the load of helping under-developed nations; encouraging foreign nations to bear greater proportions of their military defenses: tying foreign aid grants to purchases in this country to the maximum extent possible, and the same with the buying of military supplies used abroad: encouraging more foreigners to travel in the United States; using moral suasion to prevent unneccessary, and espe-. cially large units of private investment abroad; and encouraging larger exports through providing. information of foreign markets and offering guarantees against various kinds ^of losses.

It will be noted that in spite of the breadth and length of this list It does not include a reducing of foreign aid. Neither Pres-

Ing the price of gold has pretty well died down. This was quite notable at the recent annual meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

The credit for much of this Improvement must go to Robert V Rosa, the brilliant U,nder-Secretary of the Treasury. But, as he said in answer to a question a few days ago; although we have been making satisfactory progress in dealing with the balance of payments, we cannot afford any complacency.

At long last the foreign aid program of the United States is approaching the point where its friends can hope to give it wholehearted support.

May the day arrive soon. Up to now it has been necessary to apologize for its shortcomings. Many of its friends have glossed them over, or firmly shut their eyes and given blind support, because they knew its value was still greater than its drawbacks and that the program had to be got through Congress somehow.

This newspaper has tried to carry water on both shoulders being candid about the flaws and still urging the appropriation. But this has not been easy or comfortable.

The aid program in all honesty has faced huge problems not of its own making. It cannot be held responsible for causing much of the shortfall. But it can be held responsible for clear and intelligent analy-. sLs of the places where it is not succeeding or causing actual damage or being abused, and for vigorous steps to overcome them. This has far too often been lacking. The military priority was always there like a lash saying the fire is burning, get on with the job. The size of the obstacles has always been close to defeating the Intellect.

What are they? Giving to dictatorships the arms and police techniques and equipment with which to oppress their people. Sluicing goods onto a small countrys market in such volume as to defy control, encourage corruption, supply the rich and ignore the poorin order to get local currencies fast and in quantity for military programs. Dispersing economic aid in such random fashion, or subject to such special pres

sures. that it does not fit an ec(Miomic growth program and does not produce higher standards of living. Permitting local politics to frustrate econ(Hnic objectives. Applying an aid program which is out of phase with the stage of the countrys growth and the special needs of that stage, for extraneous political or military reasons. Allowing emergency measures to continue indefinitely.

As the King of Thailand sang, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. This is the type of flaw that ha* too often taken the spring out of the human material in the aid administration instead of tempering it. Plus the fact that a new economics of bootstrap development has not yet really been thought out, and much has to be done by hunch and poorly supported judgment even under the best of circumstances.

The reasons for these comments at this time are three. The foreign aid bill is passed and signed for the next year. A newly reorganized and staffed AID administration is straining its massive bulk to assault these problems. And Chester Bowles has prepared a remarkable analysis of different countries being aided, sorting them into categories both by economic and political stage of progress, and willingness or unwillingness to make an aid program effective. He asks separate treatment for each. This Is in many respects the most comprehensive. rational, and penetrating study of the aid program that has yet been made ad we wUl analyze it on another day.

This is one reason for hope that before too long, the ardent advocates of international aid will not have to blush so furiously, so often.

gorgeous place Is the market day industry. Every town has its market on a ditoeat day and the civilians 'luake a career of running artHind buying from each other.

Tourists go mad about hidian markets and msdce a career out of photographing them.

The market in Ercmgarlquaro is on Sunday. About 6 a.m., of all hours. And you can charter a boat to make the hour run across the lake to Erongariquaro, give you picture taking time there and bring you back for around $10 U. S. It also is possible to get there by road unless the rain is heavy.

Most of the market operation appears to be conducted by island Indians vs. the shore Indians. Island dwellers load up the family dugout witlvfish and head for the market.

In Erongariquaro. everything is solid barter since neither side Is floating in ready cash.

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canoe up on the lAke shore and tips his hat to one of the market ladies.

Mornin, maam, he says politely. A bucket of fish for a load of fire wood.

You smoking loco weed again? the lady asks. Its two buckets of fish for a half a load of wood.

The island Indian gets furious at this remark. Thats piracy he shouts. Last week my canoe almost sank from the wood I got off one bucket. That was last week. So go back and set fire to your fish.

Awright, yells the Indian, put some salt on your wood and eat it.

Naturally, they eventually make a deal because everyb(xly has what the other person needs. Islanders spend their time fishing, there being no wood around to chop. And the shore folks get tired of eating turnips and bananas,

Patzcuaros market day Is on Friday. It is a money town and the transacting is more along Wall Street lines than In Erongariquaro. But with the lake Indians, you have to barter anywhere because they are in the shorts for spending money.

A fish for a banana. Five fish for a cabbage. Maybe a bucket for a pair of pants and a shirt. Everything gets traded because wjio wants to take home a load of sour fish?

The beauty of all this Is, you dont need a credit card and there are no carrying charges nor taxes. Frankly, I dont know how we ever got Involved with our complex system.

^ This Earth has been M war for 48 years. We might calll t

The Long War. Sooner or la-jOl of mankind wffl again be tovolved In a final battle which no side can win. A of this war, called World War n, ended In general failure. There were victors, but they not those who were militarily victorious. To grasp our essential probl^, let us anal-

- yze which countries benefited as a result of that war:

1. The Enemy Countries: West Geni^y was reconstructed ^prtacipally with American aid and iHx>tectlon and Is now economically stronger than the whole of Germany was prior to World War IL The alliance between West Germany and France is historically the most Important recrat development In Europe;

Japan Is, with American re-m^ctton and aid, the most eoooomlcally sound nation In Asia, cert^my (m a better basis than In 1931 when she set out to conquer C3ilna; s 2. Soviet Russia expanded her territory to Include all of the Balkan States and East Germany, with a hegemcRiy over Po^(l and Hungary and with a virtual overlordship of Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Bulgaria. In Asia, Soviet Russia organized China as a Communist state ai^ia established an overlord&hlp over Mongolia and Afghanistan.

- These are the principal vlc-tors of World War H. 'The United States gained a point In the establishment of the United Na-tl(His, but that body Is now dom-toaled by Afrtean and Asiatic Nations and the United States Is more In the position of a suppliant for favors than a masterful voice for universal peace and social Justice.

From the standpoint of tangible gains, the United States can point to very little. The principal loss to the United States grows out of the world-wide encirclement policy of Soviet Russia aimed at destroying the United States as a capitalist bulwark. The central point of this policy Is Cuba.

Before Soviet Russia actually achieved Its goal In Cuba, efforts were made to accomplish the same ends In Mexico, British, Guiana, Guatemala, and other places. The efforts failed partially or wholly. Cuba la one of the greatest successes for International Communism because it could, if not arrested. Isolate

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Anything one man can Imagine, other men can make

real. Jules Verne.

The proof of this statement lies in several facts which are lndlcati(His of more trouble to come:

1. Canada: Although Canada Is locked in with the United States economically, demogra-phlcally and militarily, Canada set out to profit by the Cuban Communist anti-American policy and has continued to profit by shipping goods to Cuba, by busing Cuban products for export and by maintaining banking relations with Cuba. In fact, Canada has no antl-Communlst commercial policy and therefore is a source of embarrassment to the United States.

2. 'The Organization of American States; This body succeeded to the authority of the Monroe Doctrine but has been timid as regards Cuba because each Latin American country Is fearful of its own Communisto and of its student bodies. This fear Is realistic because these subversive groups disturb political relations. A combination of students, workers, and soldiers could take control of any government.

3. Our own Allies have shown, by their shipping goods to Cu-b, that profits mean more than the alliance and that they risk self-lmperilment for a slight profit. This conforms to Lenins notion that the capitalists will win the Revolution for the Communists.

The question now arlsss as to what we can do. Obviously, we can fight our way out of i?uch a situation. Some say that if we take a strong stand, i the Russians will back down. What Is a stroi^ stand? Log- 1 Ically, It Is war. Others say. Blockade CTuba. The fact is that our own Allies have betrayed us and what cannot be shipped can be flown. Besides, all such steps lead to war.

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Strength For Toddy

By EARL L. DOUGLASS THIS DO

Thou hast answered right; this do, and thou shalt live. Nobody appreciated more fully than did Jesus the Importance of a right answer. There Is a type of shallow theology largely advctcatcd today which holds that belief is an Inconsequential matter. It is supposed to be of little concern what a mans theology Is provided that his conduct in gentle and Christ-like. But measured by the standards of the Word of God such a conception is shallow and worse than shallow, A man must have a right philosophy of life in Older to have a right life, and he must have a sound theology If he is going to have a helpful,and transforming religious experience.

But the declaration of Jesus quoted above indicates that what concerned the Master most was the fact that he had observed that there is often a fatal breakdown between what men Believe and what they do; between their theology and their righteousness; between their profession of faith and their everyday living. Here was a man whose theology was sound. But Jesus was painfully conscious of the fact that this Is never enough. A mans faith Is never sound until a sound theology Is seriously used every day as a man confronts his little faults and his great weaknesses of character, his mistakes and his sins.

This do not just affirm or reflect upon, but do. All truly significant thought results In action.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Pressure for a cut in tax rates is becoming tremendous. It is being demanded by capitalists, Industry, organized labor. consumer groups and, well, just about everybody else. The President has all but promised a cut in rates as of January 1, 1963, and if any Ckin-gressmen comes out against revisions before Election Day, November 6, this year, he has more guts than common sense.

A host of unions has called for cuts in tax rates, mostly in the lower brackets.

The First National City Bank of New York, in Its current letter. came out strongly for revisions, adding, Foreign observers wonder why people in the United Statesthe fabled land of opportunityshould be so unmindful of the shackles

U. S. HIT HARDEST The bank presents charts and tables showing that Americans are taxed heavier than central Western powers. The U. S. government (as of 1960) gets 83.4 percent of its revenues from taxes on Income. New Ziealand, a runner up, takes only 66.5 per cent from income. The Netherlands takes 64.6 percent, followed by Canada, Japvan, Germany, Australia, the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Sweden, and Norway with 37.5 per cent.

which our tax system places on productive enterprises. Nikita Khrushchev, on his visit in 1959, taunted President Eisenhower about It. Speaking of incentive, he said, you people stifle it.

Fully comparable data are not available for the U.S.S.R.. but it Is generally conceded that the Russians would occupy the lowest rank of all in such an international c(nnparison, the bank pointed out. The Russians get most of their revenue from a turnover tax, a hidden sales tax, and by paying workers less

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than they earn.

It is interesting to note that those countries that are expanding industry at faster rates than the U.S.Japan, Germany and

Prancehave lower levies on incomes. In Sweden, Krister Wickman, Finance Secretary, said his country felt that workers are now getting such high pay thatthe old Socialistic philosophy of using Income taxes as a means of redistributing wealth is out of date.

DANES LEVY HEAVILY ON SALES

Denmark recently shifted tax burdens from in<tome to consumption. They have levied a 9 percent sales tax at the wholesale level to prepare for an Income tax cut.

The bank- added: It is strange indeed that the United States, long a champi(Mi of thrift, effort and enterprise, has fashioned a fiscal system that Is unmatched in the degree to which these fundamental virtues are discouraged.

Meanwhile, Dr. Charles E. Walkeiv executive vice president of the American Bankers Association, declared that a ma-,ior reduction in federal income tax rates is the proper medl-

ctoe for our lagging economy, but only If such a reduction is structured properly, appUed within bounds of fiscal and monetary prudence.

The government, having sow-^ eyeMilgher rates over the last 4f years, Is about to reap a whirlwind. Business, labor Md the rest of us are restlees. The administrators should bo happy that so far demands have been limited to reductions of rates. Li other places .In other ^es, tax rebels have been all for lancing and quartertog tax collectors.

HERES WHERE VOLUME REALLY TURNS OVER In a single day, the U. S. Department of Agriculture announced the purchase of 2,626.-(X)0 pounds of frozen gnxind beef and 1,968.810 pounds of canned pork for school lunches: 7,450.000 pounds of fnHn turkeys. 2.003.850 pounds of canped chopped meat and 9,950.000 pounds of fresh cranberries for other purposes. Including food for needy families.

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