W**B<U7, Wovember"28. 1&62

Tor River Is Not A Dumping Ground

Uie relegated to fishing and' boating. Snags would have to be

the river may ap^ft^haTe few oth^ "y removed, a few sand bars dredged and more atten-

Tt m. L to have few other possibilities, tion given to stocking it with fish But if these and

L tL Lver IS'*"''? the rh^^c^uld be changed

twopte ^he^Ji Rv-r'** ^f^thep"tentw'oi iU riier. and'streamJ^

ehinit I? i. k" f 'S n<^erging an important even for recreationshould not be overlooked change. It is being cleaned up, not in outward ap- VVith more attention the Tar could be develoned

Con*struetion the content of its water, into an ven greater asset than it now is to this

Construction of sewage disposal plants by cities immediate area, and towns along the Tar is eliminating much of the

pollution and contamination that for many years T\ ^

characterized the waters of the Tar. Heavy rain.-; W111161 DriVlIla CallS still make it overflow its banks and take on a yellow ^

muddy appearance at times. But this condition pre. J.

v^ils only a few times during each year and for * Of CiXtFa It rOCaUtlOIlS

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short periods. Otherwise its waters are most'v placid and dark as befits a river in Eastern North Carolina.

There are many changes which come with winter, and not the least of these is the change in driving^ conditions faced by the average motorist.

Now that the content of its winter is being- clean- itr* * * ----------------

ed up, further steps could be taken to make the snow and sleet, brings

Tar in this immediate area a better river for both w'orse driving conditions than motorists

a ueiier ri\er lor Doth face during other seasons of the year. With winter

T T. 1 Ty -T comes shorter period of daylight hours and

T. W"Q. V \ OOC S darknps in each 24, adding to the

Are Mounting

highway hazards and the frequency of accidents.

The death toll on Pitt Countys highways this year already has surpassed the 1961 total . . . and we still have a month to go in 1962. In addition to the more hazardous driving conditions brought on by winter weather, there is also the additional hazards provided by more travel during the peak

business and holiday season of the year which come

during December.

We urge Pitt motorists to take extra precautions with their driving during the winter weeks ______ Which lie ahead. We urge them to mak

iwe frSSfW-delay. hazardous conditions under

m^tly needed bridge ed to the project and has ar- '''ich they Wlll be operating their automobiles and

1.-----. . . trucks.

Even under the best driving conditions, Pitt

seems to have more than its share of both minor and serious traffic accidents. It Is the responsibility of each motorists to do all he can to see that the accident rate doesnt increase in the county during

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES HKIHWAYS Anyone who doubts that North Carolinas highway probjems are multi-plying seeds <mly to review the record of hearings on major mattera by the State Highway Cotnxnisaion this year.

These ed and

projects at Morehead aty and Wilmington to requests for speed-qp of interstate highway construction in the west, from the issue of locating a coastal route to carry traffic from the CSieaapeake Bay bridge-tunnel to locating of Interstate 26 when it reaches northward from the South Cardina line near Tryon.

Each and every major highway matter involves economic and pditical factors and usually sharp difference of opinion.

And. all told, these needed and (feairabte highway projects Involve vast sums of m<Kiey running into the hundred.s of milUons of dollars. Together with increasing needs and higher costs of COTstruction and maintenance on both primary and secwidary systems there is ample evidence to support the warning that the state Is falling further behind in its highway program and that more money will be needed to catch up.

HEARINGYet another in this years long series of hearing on important highway proMeras faces the State Highway Commission this week.

This Is a hearing scheduled Wednesday <i the status of programming the missing link of Interstate 85, a gap of about 40 miles between Hendereon and Durham. It is not now on the priority construcUoi schedule.

ft *Io 1 the only scctton of this nofth-aouth trans-Ptedmont superhighway which is not either cwnpleted or under caistruc-tlon. Work is beginning on another segment of I, the Kannapolis bypass from south of China Grove in Cabarrus County.

Demands for moving the Dur-ham-to-Henderson segment up <m the priority schedule have been increasing since last Spring. Rep. Horace Komegay, D-N. C., spearheaded a rcMind-up of political support for the Wt)ject last summer and sent telegrams signed by a number of North Carolinas members of Congress. This, however, lost otrae <rf its mwnentum when two of the signers. Reps. Hugh Q. Alexander and A. Paul Kitchln, discovered that if the 1-85 link were moved up some projects to their districts might be delayed, to their political ^vantage, and requested th^ their names be removed irtTO the Komegay petition.

As It turned out, both Kitchin

and Alexander were defeated for re-electi(m anyw&y.

DELEGATIONSLarge and probably vocal delegations will come to Raleigh for the 1-85 hearing.

The Durham Chamber of

ranged for support from groups in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill triangle area, from Hen-dcreoo and Vance County, frcan Oxford and GranvUle County and elsewhere along the entire 1-85 length.

The purpose of the hearing, as in most of tl hearings by me Highway Commission, will be two-fold. One purpose is to get informatkm and the second IS to explain the Highway Com-niissions position on the matter. The Ihnitations will be outlined.

COMMITTEE Any recommendation Ml the 1-85 question would be drafted first by a special Interstate highway scheduling committee. This cMnmit-tee was named several months ago when it became apparent that CMitroveraies and pressures over interstate highway programming would be Increasing.

The committee, headed by D. Worth Joyner of Rocky Mount.

IS charged with continuing study and updating of the existing priority schedule for these highways.

B reported In September that it had completed an analysis of the existing schedule in tcnns of which projects should be considered for revision in construction scheduling. But it made no recommendations for changing the schedule, reserving the right to do this later. What it submitted in SeptMnber was merely an interfan report.

SCHEDULE Since then there have been several other hearings and further study.

There has been a heavy demand from Western North Carolina for stepping up interstate construction in the mountain region, and this was supported by a large delegation which traveled from the West to Raleigh for just such a hearing as the one on 1-85.

There have been some indications too that the Joyner committee may approve some changes. It has not been decided which projects nor when.

The priority schedule at present, which the committee reaffirmed in September, includes two projects on 1-26, frcnn the South Carolina line to near Trywi and from south of Hendersonville to junction of 1-40 south of Asheville; two projects on 1-40 both west of AshevUlc: the Elkin bypass m 1-77 and from 1-40 at Statesville to Mooresville on 1-77; Uie Kannapolis bypass mi 1-85 and an 1-95 project in Halifax County.

1^M<vnnim By HENRY HOWARD

McNatiglit SjradKste,

Story Of Cluck-Cluck

Most folks around town know

the season when more hazardous driving conditions standing athlete, as a^uccess-

are prevalent.

Nehru Caught In Own Isms

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By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP)India's Prime Minister Nehru is caught in some of his own isms.

This aristocratic but democratic man has picked his precarious way between idealism and realism, passivism and activism. natMialism and internationalism, neutralism and isolationism. socialism, capitalism and communism.

Now at 73, a philosophic agnostic. his road has been twisted out of shape by the Red Chinese. He must try to find a Mie at the very momcnf when he seems to be aging rapidly.

Nehru, educatd at Cambridge and far more at home in the English language than in any Indian tongue, moved most of his life in the shadow of two dominant men: his father. Mo-tilal, a rich lawyer, and Mohandas Gandhi.

Yet, wl^n they were gone and he felt most alone, he emerged as dominant as either. He became the father of India as it began its independence in the 1940s with problems of poverty and illitei-acy as appalling as any in history.

He could have been a rich lawyer, too. But he went with Gandhi. NationalismIndian independence became his life.

To fulfill it he spent nine years in British jails for political activity and passive resistance.

He studied capitalism, socialism, Marxism. He rejected communism and for india sought a middle way between capitalism and socialism under democracy because of his dedication to freedom, personal and political.

For this the Red Chinese re-vUed him. He sought their friendship. They called him the running dog of imperialism.

He ignored this and made excuses for their excesses, hoping theyd change.

They didnt, as their invasion of India showed. They just soft-pedaled their public cMitemirt

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Hindus, living side by side, have slaughtered one another sought and achieved a secular state where all men are to be considered equally free and freely equal.

This, according to his best biographer, Michael Brecher, was Nehrus most notable accomplishment, although Brecher criticizes him for poor administration, lack of decision and a wide gap between words and deeds.

His passive resistance against the British in India was not a way of life with him. It his only a means to an end, his only weapon, when the British had all the weapons. He prefers non-violence but will use force when it helps.

This implies contradiction in him. There is There is also has preached ments to others uses naked force when It serves him. as in grabbing Goa from the Portuguese in India.

All his life he has denounced colonialism and imperialism but has practiced both when it suited his purpose. For instance: in seizing the Kashmir territory, with his troops although the people might want to be part of Pakistan.

Thus Nehru, who talks broth-dlas interests are involved, erhood and internationalism, is a strict nationalist when India's interests are involved.

He told an American Congress in 1949 there is no room for isolationism. But, by remaining neutral in the struggle beween the Wert and communism, he has become the world's No. 1 isolationist.

Nehru sought to avoid foreign entanglement and the expense that went with it. In this way he could pour most of Indias resources into its own development. This explains why he kept down the size_J>f his armed forces. This was where his idealism got the better of his

ful baseball coach or as dean of men at East Carolina College.

Few may realize, though, that Jim apparently also possesses an amazing instinct for the practice of medicine, particularly when chickens are the patients.

Declaring absolute truth. Jim who has also gained renown as a story-tellerrelates this brief history: Impecting the premises of his home one morning some time ago, Jim spied a mangled bundle of red-stained white feathers near the curb in front of his house.

He went into the street, hoisted by one leg the jumble of chicken from the pavement and tossed what he considered a hit-and-run victim into the garbage can.

Within the next hour Jims son ran into the house blurting the big news: That chickens not dead. Daddy.

So Jim gallantly removed the mass of hen and feathers from the garbage and reached for the mercurochrome bottle. He added more red stains and set the

chicken on her feet. She walked.

The Mallorys watched as the fowl i-edeveloped fine white feathers. They named her Cluck-Cluck and the bird became as fine a pet as could be expected of a chicken.

But, alas, there were more rough day ahead for Cluck-Cluck. Jim recalls that abmit once a week the neighborhood canine corps used Cluck-Cluck's neck for vigorous teething maneuvers.

Again and again the mercurochrome bottle came to her rescue. Time and time Cluck-Cluck quickly recovered from her weekly engagements with the neighboi-s dogs and stalked back into her quarters, beneath the Mallory home.

Cluck-Cluck showed her appreciation for Jims prowess with the mercurochrome brttle. In fact, at one haul, Jim and his tw^o sons retrieved from Cluck-Clucks nest no less than 13 fresh eggs. Her offerings were consistently on the Mallory breakfast menu.

This pattern continued for some months until the feathers on the pet fowls neck wore thinner and thinner. As her frazzled-neck troubles grew worse, Jim decided Cluck-Cluck

would be happier and much healthier if deleted from the jaws of the weekly canine circle meeting. So the pet hen became a gift to the family maid.

The youngest Mallory son still contends that Cluck-Cluck was soon thereafter lituffed and baked. Jim ends the story:. . . and $he lived happily everafter in the country.

At any rate and incidentally, the Mallorys, soon after their pet hen left, moved into a new neighborhood.

Whether the Cluck - Cluck episode revealed any special healing powers in Jims constitution may be open to question. But, in that case, doubters must regard as merely coincidental the professions of the neighbors since Jim and family moved into their new home.

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Neutral Nehru was a menacing challenge. If India prospered under freedom It ould make a farce of the acrifces the Chhiese people, also In search of a good life, had to endure under communism.

Nehru rejected organized religion with a skepticism that began early. But Gandhi said fondly of his agnostic disciple: He is nearer God than many who profess to be worshippers of God.

Yet this man \\1thout a creed in India where Moslems and

vaslon demonstrated. He now wryly admits: We are getting out of touch with reality in the modem world. We are living in an artificial atmosphere of our own creaticm and we have been shaken out of it.

Has he? Perhaps not. A fatal, final clash with Red China now seems inevitable. He may be too (^d, too tired to drive India Into a new direction with Western alliances and enormous sums for armaments.

After Nehru, what? No one knows. Perhaps chaos and a turn to the far right.

(Greensboro Daily News)

Already talk is going the rounds about the size of the budget under which the state government will operate, in all of its responsibilities, during the next fiscal period. No official figures on the recommendations of the Advisory Budget Commission, now engaged in drafting its report, will be available until the 1963 General Assembly COTivenes next February.

But there are certain figures which can be cited now with reasonable justification.

Last years general fund appropriations totaled $778,000.000 and this years expenditures within A budget framework are expected to be about 5 per cent higher. On the basis of the present biennium. A budgets would run around $820,000,000. State agencies have asked for about $93,000.000 in B budget requests which would go largely for Improvement and enrichment programs. Capital outlay requests have soared to $155,-060,000.

One of the toughest questions is what the Advisory Budget Commission will recommend in this area which was hard hit by last year's ill-fated bond election. Will it recommend another bond issue? Win the states soaring surplus be drained off in capital outlays, plus whatev

er bonds the Legislature may issue without a vote of the people? If the surplus is put to such purpose, where will funds come from for the increased A and especially B budgets?

A bright spot for all concerned Is the steadily increasing revenue collection. While a large part of the surplus may be attributed to the sales tax on food, plugging of revenue act loopholes and other levies, along with an expanding economy and availability of funds set aside for caring for bonds which the electorate rejected, must also be credited with contributing to the states overflowing treasury.

Students of the budgetary picture estimate now that the new budget may reach $1,500,000,000 In contrast to the present l^ien-niums $1,260.000,000 budget, by far the largest that the state has evef known.

One central observation Is generally accepted. The 1963 General Assembly will not vote any new taxes. Whatever the budget may be, It wUl be worked out within the limits of present revenue sources, with perhaps some curtailment or alterations to meet both fiscal and political realities. And if that is conservatism, the most will be made of it.

At the very least there is now not one Communist bloc but two. And though one of these bases still shouts defiance at the nuclear lightning, the danger to the world is less. Christian Science Monitor.

The railroads have, almost literally, been studied to death. But next to nothing has come from all the studies, and, to compound the gravity of affairs, the unions have shown a suicidal refusal to bring the work rules into keeping with the conditions of today. Time is running out. Industrial News Review.

So long as a judge must seek re-election if he wishes to remain on the bench, he Is under strong temptation to retain political ties and in some cases impartial judgment may be very difficult for him to attain.Washington Post,

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By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKT Copyright, 1962, King Features Syndicate, Inc. Teieviaira grows Increasingly important because it is the best medium for entertainment and leisure for* thfe next generation. Of course, the shows are usually put on by oldsters, who sometimes do not understand their successors. The old-stere must be pleased too, for they buy the heavier and more expensive matters advertised. And, from an economic stand-pdnt. T. V. is essentially an advertising medium, which means that the artists, who write, direct and play in most of the shows, have to struggle against bad taste. They sometimes prevail.

Nevertheless, a knob-tumer can usually find what he wants. I, for instance, having reached a fairly advanced age, cannot get too excited about a sexy picture. In fact, most of the kids I know laugh at the imitative antics of elderly actors (in their 30s etc.) acting like the kids no longer do. Each generation has its own approach to sex. The Theda Bara concept of sex is not for this age. James T. Quirk, ' Publisher of TV Guide, makes the point:

Ever since the first j^ve man began chiseling violence and sex have cepted as essential ingrecRents in story-telling. The question is, and always has been, how much of these ingredients is important or necesrory? You think you know, and I think I know, and Newtcm Mlnw thinks he knows. And while each of us might uphold a differing viewpoint about a specific situation, we would all agree that blatant, out-of-cwitext sex or violence, prc^rammed for its ovTi sake, is abhorrent. ' Much that I see on T. V, Is not as abhorrent as It is boring. So I turn the knob. I. for one, would prefer pay television, because Ihe a^ are not for me. They interrupt the continuity of the story. Just when I warm up to want to punch the villain on the nose, up comes a detergent. I never bought a detergent in my life, not being a housewife. I want to See and hear a relaxing story.

I turn the knob and somebody is selling destinking medication. I shut the thing off and go back to my books.

.Maybe I would not mind the ads if they were interesting. For instance, I will listen to a Dash ad; even though it deals with a detergent, because the amazing monotone of the actor is almost musical. Commercials SP0 every rtory No: .jne. To have a deeply tragic scene interrupted by a cheerful, smiling girl, with brilliantly white teeth, selling me a cigarette breaks into a tragic story.

Nevertheless, there Is always the knob. On Thanksgiving Day,

I listened to the Boston Symphonys last concert of the 1962 season at Tanglewood. For the first time in 13 years, I saw -Charles Munchs face when he conducted Beethovens Ninth. This was worth all the foibles and nwisense on television. It is even possible to forgive the curious editorial comments occasionally 'heard.

In a word, television Is still finding its way to become a mature medium for all levels of populations, for all ages and all developments. It requires increasingly mature minds, particularly in its news departments. Jim Hagertys boo-boo in the Alger Hiss telecast on Nixon wiU not soon be repeated by anyone. But bo-boos WUl be made, as they are made in newspapers and magazines. more mature media.

The great advantage of television is the knob. I have a device to cut out what I dont want to hear, exercising one of the supreme privileges of freedomthe right not to listen. It IS a glorious right. Perhaps that Ls why Beethoven left u^*mch glorious music; he waJK^f His mind could not be JBflpt-ed by his ear.

However. Quirk over-does his apologia. He says:

And let there be an end to the persistent critical complaint that episodes involving violence

^ the im

pressionable minds of children. It is a simple matter to determine, in advance, the ftent of almost everything tnat appears on your set. . .

He admonished the parent for Vtgil^t. The same (Continued on page five)

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Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS

WHERE DO WE STAND?

The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament showeth his handiwork.

But w'hat do these dirtant bodies mean to ui? The nearest planets are many mUllons of miles away. The nearest star Is so far away that if we could reach it by jet it would take a life-time or more to do so.

Are any of these heavenly bodies inhabited? When we realize that w# are only an insignificant planet among a hundred thousand million billion heavenly bodies, it would certainly be naive to assume that we are the only planet upon which thinking beings live, capable of purposeful action. Surely there must be billions of other heavenly bodies capable

of sustaining life something like our own with creatures that can think and reason, with persons who have aspirations corresponding somewhat to the aspirations we cherish.

Shall we ever get together? Perhaps so in a remote fashion by the exchange of information. But w'e can be sure that the beings on other planets cannot live on oiu* planet, nor can we live on other planet. Races far older than oursand far advanced beyond us in knowledge perhaps look at us through their astronomical instruments, shake their heads sadly, and write us off as a dead loss.

Does that hurt our pride? We had better wake up and learn a few of the facts of cosmic life. We may not be as great as we think we areor we may be greater.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Private hidustry niay do what the government has failed: to make the civilian population aware of the need for civil defense.

One of the biggest flops of Big Brothcrlsm in America has been the governments effort to persuade people to provide themselves with shelters and other means of defense against an atomic attack. The government ha spent millions of dol- lars, given eager citizens arm bands and helmets, and taken many other steps. But the average family has looked upon all this coldly and unquiveringly.

But industrial establishments are deep into programs for defense. Their facilities, in many cases, may determine whether they are eligible for goveniment contracts.

So. as the Industrial Defense newsletter points out. As private industry expends both its techniques and facilities to secure disaster protection for per-souiiel and property, it Is automatically providing day-by-day

education in the Importance of safety and ways to achieve .t.

What influence this conditioning W'ill have on family fe and on political attitudes may not be quickly evident, but a new interest in the whole range of civil defense programming is certain to result from on-the-job training, the new'sletter says.

CRASH IN LUXURY: Ham-macher-Schlemmer, New York, is offering seat belts covered in ocelot, mink and chincliilla, at prices from $35 to $1(X).

CONFERENCES OVER THERE AS BAD AS ON THIS SIDE Let's call a meeting! i as dismal a phrase in England as it is in this country, according

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THERE ARE MORE THAN 52 WEEKS IN YEAR TODAY Stephen Foster Week begins Jan. J2 and there is scarcely a day during 1963 that does not start another week, ranging from Rhubarb Pie Week to

This publication, listing all the

to Eric Webster, British'r-poratloii director, wrlttag In tlon or for

Management Review. Few

phrases are more pregnant with possibilities for commercial suicide. he declared.

He said executives call meetings largely because, otherwise they might become person-

Premier Khrushchev recent-tLni the impor.

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