^Utardsy^Deember 8, 1962 ' ' . '

Positioned To Meet Future Needs

-And Still Growing

Mecklenburg Countys Board of Education has taken a^p in long-range school construction planning whicli should be commended to the governing board of every school administrative unit of the state.

After careful study, the school board has set forth a plan to meet its school construction needs for the six-year period ending in 1970. The plan probably will have to be revised from time to time during the period, but at least there is a tentative blue-print whicH^^dicates to citizens of that county what may be expected in the way of specific school needs between now and 1970.

The board estimates, for example, that by the end of the decade there will be between 86,000 and 94,000 students enrolled in public schools of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg system. In order to provide facilities to serve that number of students, new an 1 additional facilities costing between $28 million and $36.4 million will have to be provided in the county by 1970.

The report points out . . if each unit of government establishes now some long-range goals and decides to work toward them, there <^n be little doubt that the entire communityand especially its taxpayerswill benefit. It also points that those making budget decisions can see current

issue Is Drawn

i-or Legislators

By WUXIAM A. SHIRES

ISSUEThe issue has beoi drawn for the 1963 General Assembly to decide whether Nwth Carolina should use tax-exempt revenue Ixxid financing to Ixiild and lease plants for new industry.

It is a questi(xi that has been bothering state officials, business and financial leaders, industrial develca>ment advocates <and legislatore for more than a decade. But throughout this time. North Carolina has adhered to a firm, conservative policy that resisted tax concessions. rent-free sites and other giveaways to induce new industry.

Now, however, a governors Ktutbr coounlttee on Industrial financing has recommended a contndled revenue bond plan, something whidi it cmcedes cannot meet the tax concessions granted by at least two neigh-b(Hlng states. South Carolina and Tennessee.

The committee does say, however, that the recommenda-tloD for revenue bond financing Is *ln large part the reaction of the znakHil^ of the committee to the total competitive thrust (rf other statestax cot-cessions. the use of public funds for land gifts to private concerns, and public financing plans.

COBPETE It argues that such a plan, which it says is unique and which no other state has, which was developed to meet North Carolinas needs and traditims is both feasible, practical and necessary to meet competition for industry.

It says the plan was developed to meet the very real competition for Industry with the least damage to our present govenunoital structure.

Further, it says. North Carolina already has revenue bonds _a local financing program ad<ted by the dty of Rocky

And unless legislation is passed, any dty or county in our state can do just as Rocky Mount has done, the committee said.

One state dficial commented that only the powers of persuasion are now preventing local units fnxn issuing industrial aid brads on a revenue basis. And the committee said, for a state that prides Itself upon the full disclosure of its financial affairs, secrecy such as that which surrounded the Rocky Mmmt financing and which might possibly surround future transactions is underslrable.*

OPENThe committee called far getting this type of financing into the open and under

'strict cratrol.

. R recommended establishing a State Building Authority compos of numbers appointed by the governor and including, selected members of the Council of State, all of whom would have a background tn private financial institutions.

This Authority would pass on and have to awHt>ve local revenue brad plans. No other industrial revenue brad financing would be permitted by either state or local units.

The craunittee, in presenting its plan, said it felt that if blue-chip industries want revenue bond financing and if quality investment bankers are willing to underwrite the bonds for sale to quality investors then our state is in a poor position to argue.

OPPOSEBattle lines for the revenue brad financing plan were quick to form.

In the first place, three of the 18 committee members dissented, saying flatly that it is wrrag. It wl, they said, involve government In the financing of private business and will cast away North Carolinas hard-earaed reputatira for sound government, just to take advantage of a tax gimmick.

The dissenters were Mrs. Da-vetta L. I^eed, Alex McMahon and John daytra Smith, the first two representing municipal and county governments. Their positlra drew swift support from such men as State Treasurer Edwin Gill, State Revenue Craimissiraer William Johnson and APLrCIO leader Millard Barbee.

The dissenters contended that revenue brad financing is not needed, that it violates fundamental principles of the state constitution. They add that they are convinced that Cra-gress will wipe out the federal income tax loophole that makes surh financing attractive.

DRAWBACKS The argument is made that, for example, if a small town should issue revenue brads and attract an industry and new residents, more mjuiicipal services would be reqiuredsewerage, water, schools and streets, and that additiraal bonded indebtedness would have to be incurred.

And what then if the industry should fail?

The dissenters contend that revenue brad financing would reduce the ability of local government to issue regular bonds, and would risk the credit rating.

Any reflection on credit will be mirrored In higher interest rates and greater tax burdens for existing taxpayers, it said.

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need.s in relation to long-range needs and . . . see current tax rates in relation to probable future tax rates. It also has the distinct advantage of reminding all taxpayers each year that government and government financing are continuing processes, not matters of chance that arise suddenly each year.

With such a study before them, citizens of Mecklenburg, as well as school and other official.^ of the county, have a good idea of what will be required in the'next few years in terms of capital improvements for schools. They are in a better position to set out in an orderly fashion to implement the program year-by-year in order to meet the needs that are anticipated.

If each school administrative unit in the state would carefully study and project its needsas well as financial requirements to meet those needs betw'een now and 1970, the citizens would have a mor specific idea of what will be required. Such a study and plan likewise have the advantage of eliminating possible waste, thereby assuring the greatest possible value for every tax dollar spent for school construction.

It would be most helpful to citizens- of Pitt County and Greenville, for the two school administrative units in Pitt to come forth with their own long-range programs for meeting,our local school needs.

What new or additional school facilities can we expect to need in the Pitt County school system or the Greenville school system between now' and 1968, or 1970, or 1972? What can local citizens expect the cost of these facilities to be? What can be done now, or in the immediate future, to begin planning to meet our needs a few years from now?

If citizens can be provided more than a vague idea of what will be needed in the way of school facilities, they will be in a better position to meet the challenge set forth by their local school needs.

By JOHN ABNEY

The Adlai Incident Lady AlwayS WinS

May Bring Shakeup

There remains little room now* for speculation that Adlai Stevenson is on his way out as U.S. ambassador to. the United Nations or as a close advisor to the President on international affairs.

Such speculation peaked last week with the appearance of a magazine article which said Stevenson dissented from the position taken by the administration on Cuba and was not in accord with policies set by the administration to deal wdth the crisis.

Subsequently the statements w'ere denied by the White House and by Stevenson. The letter from President Kennedy to Stevenson this w'eek, underscoring the presidents confidence in the ambassador teethe United Nations, clearly indicates that Stevenson is secure in his present position.

The whole sequence of eventsbeginning with the article w'ritten by men supposedly close to the Presidenthas given rise to suggestions that someone in the administration or the State Department was. after Stevensons scalp. Who that someone might be, has not been publicly stated. It is clear now, however, that it is ndt the President.

It appears logical to assume that if Stevenson has full support of the President, then the person or persons who^wzere gnning for Stevenson might find their own politieal heads rolling. Should a shake-up come in the administration or in the State Department within the next few months, it may well be an after-effect of the recent Stevenson episode.

jittle Chanae

MEXKX) crry Every once in a while the Lady from Puebla gets out the dress that still fits her and starts checking the length and width in the mirror and of course you know what this means.

Naturally, I do the only intelligent thing which is to hide all the money except maybe five pesos and then hold my breath until I get purple in the face and collapse in the doorway of the bedroom.

Maybe gasp a little and mutter, Call the doctor. I think Im having a heart attack. Well, the other night when I did this she looked amused and said, You mean call the number you gave me last time when I asked for Dr. Henri-quez?

And I gasped, Thats him. She just nodded and said, I saw Dr. Henriquez in the butcher shop where the bum works so dont think you can pull that again just because he putg on a clean white coat to come ov

er and tell you to stay quiet. He is only working his way through medical school, I said. Any outside employment he might have is Incidental and a means to an end.

So the Lady said that was the end of shoveling off a butchers assistant as a doctor and to get up and put on my suit that wasnt patched because we were going somewhere. Just short and choppy.

It always happens when I get home from a vicious day at the office and any hardworking man likes to have his slippers brought around and supper served him on the couch and then light up a good cigar and hear Marshal Dillon speak Spanish on television.

But just mention this and you get snide answers like, Oh those bar st(X)ls at the club must be terribly uncomfortable and You must be terribly tired from pushing chess pieces around the board all afternoon. Anyhow, she sat on me and

Other

Editors Saying... Social Security Tx Up

n Man Himsel::

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) What has changed since Pearl Harbor?

In those 21 years man has had some moments of isolated splendor.

He shook the pull of earth and soared into space. He stood on the threshold of the unknown: a journey to the moon. He made great progress against forces that shorten his life, like disease.

Yet, his life became more uncertain than ever.

His primitive inability to work out reasonably a peaceful existence on this limited earth didnt improve. His deep hostilities toward his neighbor havent changed. They just took new directions.

These have been a distressed, distracted, groping 21 years.

They have been so full of talk of war, fear of war and war itself. of invasions, killings, tyrannies, treacheries and assassinations man seemed to learn nothing from the massacres that ended temporarily in 1945.

The examples come to mind easily enough: was in Korea, China. India, Viet Nam, Laos. North Africa, the British-Prench - Israeli invasion of Egypt, the assassinations in Algeria, revolutions in Asia and Latin America, the slaughter in the Congo. Moslem-Hindu blood-baths, the -American-Rasslan missile crisis in Cuba.

To us, involved in the daily doings, this may have seerned like a time of motion. '

But historians, looking back 5(X) years from now, may conclude the only real change in these 21 years in mans dealing 'with man was his discovery of how better to make war worse.

World War II produced rockets and atomic bombs. AU man had to do then was leam how to attach the bombs to the rockets. He learned easily and made previous wars look old-fashioned and humane.

While this had a frightening effect on man for obvious rea-srasthe more the number of nations with the bomb, the less everybodys life-expectancy it didnt deter him a moment.

He went on making bigger bombs as if hypnotized by fright into thinking that if he trighten-ed himself enough hed become

too frightened to use what frightened him.

To future generatiras, if there are any, this may look like simple jungle witchcraft, especially since man is now so deep in his own atomic trance he has been unable to come out of it.

But to mankind today it all seems so normal and practical that he is pouring into bombs he hopes he never uses vast resources and treasure which, if employed for the good of mankind, could make Hie better and richer.

Historians may decide World War II didnt change things basically but only rearranged them in a way just as grisly.

By eliminating Nazism-Fas-cism as a third and ambitious world force, it quickened the inevitable confrontation between the western and Communist concept of life and progress.

The war didnt lessen this problem. It intensified it. Communism, which was limited to Russia and felt held within its borders, expanded jubilantly after the war in Europe and Asia,

As pari of the rearrangements of World War II, old enemies became new alUes, old allies became new enemies.

The deep roots of ancient agonies remain as fresh as ever: racial and religious hate, national cupidities, enormous chasms between rich and poor around the world, intolerance, and even new nationalisms.

The old colonial powers, stretched on the rack of poverty. liad to disgorge their possessions in Asia and Africa, Hundreds of millions of people have freedom, or freedom of a kind, at last.

They're still struggling to learn how to u.se it. When they increase in .strength, and in their ambitions and confllcLs, there will be new problems undreamed of now.

There are signs hi Western Europe, the product of need, that nations may be beginning to work together in order to live a little Irager. This is only in its formative stage.

Perhaps in time, around the, world, man, out of need and fear, will choose to live peacefully for reasons of common sense. He has not shown much of It In the past 21 years.

(Rocky Moun^ Telegram)

While much has been said about the possibility of a large tax cut next year by the Kennedy administration, little mention has been made of the Plan for a big tax increase that is already in the works. Social security taxes, covering some 75 million Americans, are taking an increase on Jan. 1,

The increase is not tied to any corresprading boost in Social Security benefits, either. It is part of a long range plan to try to build up funds in the program. The Social Security tax hike is only one of three such increases already on the books. And another increase will come in 1966, and still another in 1968.

The upcoming increase means of course that for a person covered by Social Security, his deduction from wages will increase. An example is seen in a salary of *$4,800 which will have an extra $24 taken from it annually by the Social Security people. The amount now taken from a salary of $4,800 is $150. It will jump to $174.

Social Security tax boosts arent the only increase to be noted either. The new postal rate increase approved by Congress this year is also scheduL ed to become effective next month. This means that it will cost a nickel instead of four cents to send a one-ounce first cla.s.s letter.

Tied in with this big hike in postal rates was a boost for postal workers pay. A postcard, which once cost a penny, will

ndw cost four cents. Airmail letters will be eight cents.

To soften the blow of all this extra cost in taxes and postage rates the administration is talking in terms of a $5 billion to $19 billion tax cut. So far this is only talk. President Kennedy hasnt made up his mind. Officials explain that the tax hike and the postage rate boost will partially offset any benefits to be expected in tax cuts, if such cuts are forthcoming.

The new Social Security tax increase alone will result in new revenues totaling $2.3 billion, The postal rate increase will bring in about $600 million in new revenue. And if the Presidents proposed hospital care for the aged program is enacted by Congress next year it will result in still higher Socihl Security taxes, and this will apply whether people wants or need the medical pri^am.

Big government costs a lot of money. The military alone takes the lions share of the annual budget. Other such schemes as foreign aid, farm subsidy. welfare and the like take another large chunk. All this is not counting the ever-present waste and duplication in most government spending programs.

Economy is something that, government, is not merely a word. It isnt practiced much any more. It would be a good thing for the taxpayers, however, if someone decided to run oh a ticket that pledged an honest effort to seek economy in government. It would ra something of a switch^ to say the least.

It is significant that apart from commimism, which is a kind of religion in reverse, the great religions of the world are the only forces that have succeeded in uniting men beyond the ancient boundaries of race and the newer confines of nationalism, TTie Adelaide (Australia) Advertiser.

took off the shoe I had my money in. I dont know how she does it bu^ she never misses. And then she pulled out my unpatched suit and tossed'it to me and said, Now youre going to take me places like other husbands do.

Well, it was only an Idea so I said, Gee, I didnt know other husbands took you places. Probably would have been better if I hadnt said it because she got upset and said it wasnt at all funny and that she was simply demanding her rights about going to nice places and having a pleasant time.

_So I said, What about last week when I took you through the Tiger Cement Plant? And last mrath I showed you all around the slaughter house? Oh sure, she said in such a nasty tone. Next thing youll offer me is a picnic at the glue factory,

She always keeps you on such a spot you dont know what to^ do but finally she said she didnt* feel like fixing supper. She wanted somebodys elses food and to hear music.

Okay, Ill got get some tacos at the comer and we can play a few Louis Armstrong records.

But no, she shouted that she wanted to go to exotic places and see strange sights.

So I said. I thought you were tired of strange sights after growing up watching your relatives sit in trees and peel bananas with their feet.

All I got was a look,

And what about the other day when we walked in your aunts house and she was hang- -ing from the curtain rod scratching her ribs?

Well, the Lady from Puebla blew up. You leave my family out of this and put on that suit. And remember I got the money now.

We wound up in a place where the waiters are dressed like ambassadors and Ill he on dime cigars for a month. She always wins.

Opinions "n Brief .

Talk is cheap because the supply is so much greater than the demand. Virginia Methodist Advocate.

An Age

njoyec

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY

Copyright. 1962, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Nineteenth Century England was full of poverty and fun. of pomp and circumstances, of* ra-(Mmous wealth fnnn the Indus* trial Revolura and the c<flra* ies, of a keen sense (tf the ridiculous. Its wit was a marie of breeding and it could even employ satire, which is now a dead art except among cartoonists.

It never feared the controversial.

The Mikado*- which I saw the DOyly Carte Company do this year, as In many other years, Is a classlh not only because it lives and is cherished but because it is a masterpiece of satire. It is given the decor of Japan, but it Is as bdster-ous as Rex Harris()n in *My Fair Lady, and the British when they are gay and boisterous although they expect everyone "else to be (julet and mannerly. Arthur Sullivan, naturally an Irishman, wrote not only The Mikado but Onward Christian Soldiers, rae of the best military marches of aljl,., time and sung religiously for* peace. The Salvation Army goes to war against vice with * It.

Satire is a difficult art because the unknowing take it seriously. They believe every word of the nonsense and enjoy none of it. Gilbert and Sullivan loved to write nonsense and never forgot what they were doing. Chesterton^ understood them best when he wrote:

It meant a real Victorian talent; that of exploding unex-pecte(liy and almost, as it seemed. unintentionally. Gilbert made good jokes by the thousand; but he never (in his best days) made the joke that could possibly h^ve been expected of him. TWs^ the last essential of the Victorian. Laugh at him as a limited man, a moralist, conventionalist, an (iportunlst, a formalist. But remember also that he was really a humorist; and may still be laughing at you.

There is not a vulgar word in The Mikado but every one has a very good time and there are plenty of laughs, much more than in a most popular Broadway musical through which I sat with profound austerity, as I had heard it aU, j(^es and music, in the Thalia Theater on . the Bowery more than 50 years ago,

Gilberts words are sheer sar tire, taxing the wit of the author but not the listener; Sullivans music is of the lightness of British tradition and never permits itself to become grand opera.

Walking out of the theater, which was sold out, I heard an unmistakable wife say to her spouse:

They didnt have enough mikes especially for the womens voices.

So low have we fallen that onRt^oes to an opera to listen to music via the microphone and hearing natures loveliness, turns upon it in disdain. That lady wanted Yum-Yum to belt out her sad refrain perhaps after the fashion of Ethel Merman. And there was a girl be- hind me who, 'looking at the program, was startled to see such names as Nanki-poo. She said, it reminded her of Winnie the Poo, a book for infants written with all the seriousness of a tailored job.

I think, not being a professional critic and paying for my seats, that the current performances of the D(Dyly Carte Com- -pany are the best ths^ I have seen in the half century that I have been enjoying Gilbert and Sullivan. Actors and actresses come and go but the standards' are high and the cravratlons retained and nothing is done to modernize the beautiful. I no more expect Gilbert and Sullivan to turn Into a Broadway . musical than I would the Taj Mahal into a neon sign a blinking one at that. In The Mikado. the motif must be carried by Nankl-poo and Ko-Ko, played by Thraias Round and John Reed. Ko-Ko, In particular. must. In this play, be as great a mimic as Charlie Chaplin and as graceful a dancer as Fred Astaire or. perhaps Nijinsky. John Reed Is equal to them and thoroughly English in tone , and manner.

?rices Outdraw Trading Stamps

By ELMER ROESSNEK More about trading stamps; Prices still outdraw trading _ stamps, according to a limited' survey by Audits and Surveys Co.. for Pood Enterprises, Inc., New York food brokers.

A telephone survey of 200 shoppers showed that 9 out of every 10 save trading stamps. However, given a choice between one store offering stamps and another without stamps offering prices 2 or 3 cents lo^ er on the dollar, 56 percent said they w'ould choose the store with the lower piices. Another 27 percent said they were unsure, showing that many shoppers have no understanding of the ii#>st and purchasing power of stamps. This left 17 percent W'ho prefer stamps to lower prices.

Incidentally, when asked what they liked least about supermarkets, 57 percent said waiting and the crowds.

Third - gr^ers in a Valley Stream. N. Y., public school get, 20 trading stamps for every A on their report card. The

idea appears to have started in Miami, Fla., and when the Valley Streamers heard about it, 20 of the 31 pupils wrote to five .supermarkets in the area. One of them came through.

Each A costs the supermarket 2 cents and 31 young-/, .sters get no more than 100 As a period, so for $2 a period the market gets several thousand dollars worth of publicity.

BOOKS AS GIFTS

One of the attractions of trading stamps at this tinte of year is that they provide savers with a means of obtaining Christmas gifts for more friends than they would otheiwise.

Several reports at hand indicate that shoppers. Instead of using stamps to get gifts for friends, are .sending the filled books themselves. ThLs enables the recipients to pick their own gifts.

So far. this departments friend and advtsor. the Old Promoter, has received no encouragement in his campaign to make it mandatory for all re

tail establishments to give trading stamps. Only when every store Is requli ed to give stamp.s will the housewife be saved from endless chasing around the neighborhood to find out what store is giving double stamps each day.

NO WORSE THAN A REPEAT PROGRAM

the use of closed-circuit television in industry is spreading. Each week some new luses for such systems are devised, shice they can monitor dangerous processes or situations difficult to observ'e with the human eye.

One of the newer uses is to inspect sewers and other un-dergrountLconduits. A television camera, quipped with its own lighting, can be dragged through a drain. Each leak or other defect (n be observed on a remote receiver.

The National Power Rodding Corp. of Chicago recently televised two .sewers In Sturgeon Bay. Wls. The city wanted to know' exactly where' the sewers weic defective so they could be

repaired without digging up the entire line. The TV show wa not as good as the Untouchables. but it showed exactly where repairs were needed.

In New York, a diver employed by Intematiraal Under-w'ater Contractors carried a television camera under the East River for an hour, televising a block of pilings and a retaining wall, while city engineers ra dry land above spotted places needing repair.

NOW ITS FILING CABINET SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

New apartment and office buildings have been characterized here as examples of the packing case or penitentiary school of architecture. Perci-val Goodman, associate professor of the School of Architecture. at Columbia University, has come up with an even more apt descriptira a series of bulky filing cabinets designed for the part-time storage of servo-mechanical devices called, in the good old days, human beings.

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