Friday, Januaiy 4, 1963*

Rightly Asked Disqualify Selves

Primary Target

Gov. Sanford properly raised the question of conflict of interest in asking that lawjners on the General Statutes Commission who have utility firms as clients disqualify themselves from voting on the final draft of recommendations to revise the state utility laws.

The recommehdations finally adopted by the Commission will be forwarded to the legislature for action. But the recommendations of the commission in themselves will carry considerable weight.

We presume that members of the Commission with and without possible conflicts of interests so far as the utility laws are concernedhave participated in considering the proposed recommendations. We also presume that members of the legislature who are connected with utility companies, rural electric co-ops or cities which operate utilities will participate in consideration of the recommendations once they reach the General Assembly.

Their weight of numbers and influence as members of the General Assembly, however, prob

ably will be considerably less than their relative gth

strength' as members of a nine-man commission makes final recommendations to the legislature. ^ The request made by the governor can by no stretch of the imagination be construed as an indictment of the integrity of members of the General Statutes Commission who may be connected with a utility. If they comply with the governors request, however, it will remove grounds for possible charges later that the final recommendations were designed with favoritism in mindr

Laws governing operations of utilities are important^ to the utilities directly affected by those laws. Citizens of the stateboth corporate and individualshould have an opportunity to be heard

Cost In Battle

in connection-with any proposed changes in the utility laws. The question which arises in this particular case, however, is whether persons employed directly by affected firms should vote on the final draft of recommendations which go to the legislative draft of recommendations which go to the legislature.

The position taken by Gov. Sanford is, in our opinion, in the best interest of both the utilities and other citizens of the state.

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

COSTThe cost in the never-ending battle between man and the sea on the Outer Banks of North Carolina just in the past eight yirs is calculated at nearly $400 million.

This is the monetary cost of public and private property damage Inflected by Btorms and hurricanes.

It does not count lives lost, auffering and hardship nor does It reflect the full economic impact upon the section, the re-' gion and the state. The $400 million, which is almost enough to run the state government including schools and highways for a full year, was lost during and from the effects of eight mighty storms. The count includes three hurricanes which struck in quick succession in August and September of 1955 and which were lumped together in figuring damage.

Private property damage since. Hurricane Hazel in October* 1954, is estimated at $300 millionand officials concede this is a conservative figure. Public property damage estimates are $86 million and this will be pegged higher. In fact, damages from the Nov. 25-Dec. ,2, 1962, storm placed previously at one million dollars to public property have increased by 50 percent, by half a million dollars, in the past few weeks.

REPORT The report on damage costs was presented to the special committee for protection of the seashore appointed by Gov. Terry Sanford.

The estimates of cost are based on surveys by local officials, civil defense, the U. S. department of agriculture, state highway engineers, federal housing and home administration and other surveys.

The report, submitted by State civil defense director Edwin F. Griffin, said the figures were the consensus of such surveys and are reasonably accurate.

It was further reported that In the eight year period some

$6V2 million in federal funds

has been spent for emergency, temporary repairs in the Outer Banks area. The State Highway department has spent more than a million dollars on similar emergency projects and local governments have spent at least that much more.

The figures, Griffin said, reflect the devastating blow which the economy of Eastern North Carolina and especially the properties on the Outer Banks have suffered since the summer of 1954.

We must, he concluded, take remedial action without further delay, if we are to preserve the Outer Banks. PRESERVEGriffins report was even more striking in its forecast of what could and might happen. -

They should and must be protected and preserved if we are to guarantee the safety and continuatiwi of many of our coastal counties and communities. The very economy of Eastern North Carolina depends greatly upon preservation of the Outer Banks. . .attd, of course, the economy of this vast area greatly affects the economy of the state as a whole.

Many authorities, he warned, believe that if the protective sand reef barrier of the Banks is destroyed, the Atlantic ocean soon would threaten many coastal towns and cit-ics ^

URGENTThe urgency of the task of formulating a plan to protect the Outer Banks was underscored by Sanford, telling the committee the problem is very serious.

If we dont do something '^now, somebody in the future is going to have to take more drastic and more expensive steps, the governor said. He urgid a comprehensive program of doing something. __

The committee, meanwhile, told the governor it is well along in its work and hopes to formulate definite recommendations after a public hearing scheduled Jan. 19 in New Bern.

STEPSSuch a program in fact already is assuming shape and was contained in various reports, one of which was from Col. Harry Brown, director of the Department of Water Resources.

Brown concluded flatly that extensive and costly works of improvement must be undertaken to halt wave erosion and restore the beaches.

He recommended construction of a continuous dune and high beach berm line extending along the ocean front for the entire length of the Outer Banks, together with an annual program of beach nourishment to obtain dune-stabilizing vegetation.

Brown said it is essential that a distance of at least 200 feet separate the high-water mark and the berm line, making necessary the acquisition of certain property. The state also will need to purchase a 16-inch pipeline dredge costing up to $1.2 million.

, LEGISLATION Legislation is being prepared to appropriate state state funds of $500,-000 a year to assist localities in meeting non-federal costs <rf shore-protective works and to supplement local funds for civil works projects in which the federal government does not participate.

All in all, however, the local-state-federal projects which may be approved this year are considered only short-term, emergency steps. A long-range program to accomplish what eventually is necessary would be vastly more expensive.

New Five-Cent Stai^p Wont Erase Red Ink

When Monday comes, the four-cent postage stamp will be as out-of-date as its three-cent cousin of yesteryear.

The number-one stamp of the country win become the new five-center that will be required for ordinary first class postage. It is the big item in a revision of postage rates authorized by Congress last year in an effort to remove a portion of the red figures from the nations postal operations.

In spite of the millions In additional revenue the post office department will receive because of the higher'*^ rates, the departments operational deficit is expected, to continue. The increases in postage rates approved by Congress'do not measure up to the increases in operation costs of the department also approved by Congress last year.

The effective date of the neV, higher postage rates should serve as a reminder to citizens there have been significant increases in the cost of government services just as there have been other increases in the cost of living in recent years.

While many government leaders have expressed serious concern from tim' to time over the increase in cost of living, they have not exhibited nearly as much concern over the increase in the cost of government services which likewise has to be borne by citizens.

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By PATRICIA MOORE

A Boon For The Women

'President Not

7oo Aggressive

The most amazing thing weve learned since the beginning of the New Year is that there is a way for w^omen to put worms on Tishing lines without touching the worm and without wearing gloves or disturbing their busy husbands. ^

One of our very charming friends, whose husband is an avid fisherman in summer and hunter in winter, has a special pair of common, everyday tweezers.

She takes them along on fishing excursions. When time comes to bait her hook, she shakes the w^orm container until a little head pokes up, then clasps It with her tweezers.

Then she slaps the worm on the hook by way of the tweezers and never comes close to touching it.

The only thing we regret about the worm - tweezer system is that we didnt think of it first.

housewives are having a little problem with the water.

One of them called up Mrs. Nannie Smith, the town clerk, and complained that her water was too soft.

One of thb qualities of soft water aw>arently is that it takes very IttUe soap to bubble. Seems some of the housewives there, using water from the towns recwitly completed new well, have found that using the normal amount of soap for dishes causes soap bubbles to multiply all out of pngwrtion.

Nannies solution is less soap.

Sinners. about reporters etc.. and promptly decided the femme fatale reporter was definitely not realistic. And some of the plots bothered us.

Then, as we got used to it, and our associates began to w^atch it, we devel<^d a certain taste for the program. By the time we were really enjoying it and holding round table* discussions, off the air it went.

So. we wont criticize that kind of TV program anjunorc. If there are any more like it.

, Happy New Year.

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By JAMES MARLOW ... WASHINGTON (AP) - President Kennedy seems much more sure of himself in handling the Allies in 1963 than in handling Congress.

Before he has offered the new Congress, run by his own Democrats, a single program hes already compromising. He doing this on a tax cut.

And before Congress even returns it doesnt come back until next week he appedrs ready to accept defeat on two of his major programs, medical care and aid to education.

If this seems a startling attitude there is at least one explanation for it: Kennedy doesnt want to fight with Congress.

On New Years Day In 1962 and now again in 1963, from Florida, where Kennedy is vacationing, have come a bundle of Identical stories from newsmen covering him.

Then and now the stories said flatly what the President is thinking about his problems.' Then and now they said the information came from sources close to Kennedy, from well-placed sources, or from the highest authority.

This doesnt leave much doubt about their origin. And, since this collective presidential mind-reading has now happened two years In a row, it looks like an annual custom.

And since neither last year nor this has Kennedy challenged what was reported to be on his mind the stories can be considered both accurate and reliable.

He Intends to follow up his Cuba success by asserting stronger leadership over the Wests cold war policies even at the risk of offending sensitive AUies.

He believes if Western problems are tobe met and solved the United States must assume forceful leadership and discard all thought of winning an international popularity contest.

You can search all the other things he is reported to be thinking and you will find nothing so positive or forceful as his attitude about dealing with the Allies.

Theres an extraordinary contrast between that and how he plans to show leadership with Congress. Its difficult to see any real difference between his attitude toward Congress and President Eisenhowers.

Eisenhower never roughed up the legislators, even though it might mean getting far less-than he said was necessary. At the end of each year the man in the White House and the men in the Capitol were <m best of terms.

Down Grifton way, some of the

For some years now it has been our personal custom not to bother with New Years reso-lutlcms.

However, we can hardly Ignore the fact that there arc some areas in which we could stand some improvement.

It wasnt long ago that we watched the first episode of the television program Saints and

Strength For Today

Kennedy followed exactly that policy last year and apparently intends to do the same In 1963, even though it means some of his biggest problems will be cut to pieces or cast aside altogether.

Although some of his supporters have urged him to get tougher, he wont. As a result, before he even has a chance to welcome the new Congress to Washington, he seems gloomy and in some cases full of despair.

For example: He thinks a big tax cut Is necessary for the economy. But hes run into opposition from some of the powerful men in Congress. They argue a tax cut reduces revenue and will mean a deficit.

So Kennedy, before a shot Is fired, is already willing to compromise for less than the cut he says is needed.

He has ordered the Treasury to prepare a tax bill that would bring about the reduction in several carefully spaced steps.

But hes even gloomier about something else although h i s Democrats this year, like last, overwhelmingly outnumber the Republicans.

Its this:

Other Editors Saying... State Reflects Many Hues

(The Charlotte Observer)

Californias emergence as the most populous state in the union disturbs nobody but New Yorkers.

But the fact that Californias congressional delegation is larger than that of any other state must be a mite unsettling to eastern and mldwestem conservatives.

He concedes his entire program Is lost if the House fails to prevent a handful of conservatives from dominating the Rules Committee which can, but only if the rest of the House doesnt object, bottle up legis-latim.

But it will be difficult to convince close observers of Congress a presidential program must live or fall chi the Rules Committee. A really tough presidential effort would make a world of difference.

The Florida stories make the President look even gloomier about any chance this year for his much talked - about programs of aid to education and njedlcal care. This is like quitting before you start.

All in all the Florida stories dont make Kennedy look very aggressive about what he says is needed. But he can hardly object to that sine he hasnt denied them.

The Golden State has long had a reputation for unorthodoxy and brashness, qualities that are suspect In less sunny climes. Hollywood and all its glittering nonsense, San Francisco with its nihilistic beatniks and Catalina with its blue-ringed escapism reflect the soul of California, many think, and all these things are both bizarre and suspicious.

Certainly John P. Marquands novels could never have been written in California, and everyone knows that the Townsend Plan, the most utopian tax scheme ever caicocted in America, could never have been devised anywhere else.

What sort of sinister Influence, then, will a giant and still growing group of California congressmen exercise on the Constitutiwi, the laws, the very way of life in the rest of America?

Before somecme draws up a plan for the forceful secession of the Colossus of the West, let us remember that in th midst of its lush nonconformity, California has sired some of Americas foremost practitioners of

political reluctance.

If Gov. Pat Brown is a little an the side of liberality, it was no foregone conclusicMi that he would defeat Californias chief contribution to the national stage in recent years, Richard Nixon, who was an expcHient of n(^-ing that would conceivably rupture the nati(xial mores.

If Sen, Thomas Kuchel is a Republican bird with plumage that is too exotic for members of the eastern flock, William Knowland, the dour eagle who was too conservative for Elsen- hower, once found great favor in California,

Alongside the liberal Rep. Chet HolifiekI California voters sent two reiwesentatives to the House In 1960 who were John Birchers.

And the starry - eyed young Californians who stompwl up and down the conventi(n hall for Adlai Stevenson in 1960 must coexist dally with a group of metropolitan newspapers that rank with any in the country in the ccmsistency of their support for conservative caused.

Therefore we read with interest a UPI story about the G<>ld-en States delegation, which said, On crucial House votes, the White House expects m(re solid support fw Kennedys liberal proposals from California Democrats than from New York members of the party.

Maybe thats the way It will be. But If history is any guide, California Republicans will be leading the attacks cm those proposals in no time at all.

By EARL L. DOUGLASS DAGGER IN THE HEART Charles Edward Montague, a writer who flourished at the turn of the century, wrote on (me occasion. A lie may easily get you out of a scrape: and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

There is no end to a lie, let us be sure of that. We may try to flee from it but it will pursue us. We may lock our doors against it, but we shall find it living in the house with usi We may tell it for a good purpose, but in the end it will ruin that purpose. Lying is a serious offense, a miserable habit, a dagger in the heart of the person lied about and a consuming disease in the mind, heart, and spirit of the one who tells a lie.

And why is this all true? Because we live in a universe which is built upon truth. Everything has to proceed n sound and straight lines in Gods universe else the universe would go to pieces. There can be no pillar of Gods creation weakened with untruthfulness. The word of God Is truthful. The work of God is also truthful. Ood is Truth. We are not only commanded, but privileged, to live in the divine heritage of truth, if we would live In fellowship with God.

Truth is the foundation Which supports all that God has created.

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Those in need of help are not just cases*. These are people. Our people. They need our help. We cannot do the job by sitting down and waiting for them to come to us. Reach out. Find them. Seek them out. Dont miss one." Gov. Terry Sanford.

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN Copyright, 1962. King Features Syndicate, Inc.

The big federal interstate road buUdlng project, which is inching its way toward comple-tl(Hi in some places, may be needed to tie the nation together in the automobile age. But, paradoxically, it means that travellers will henceforward be seeing less of the country.

The loss has already been felt in the travel books written by perambulathig authors. In 1962 John Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize for literature. Financially, this was an extra lucky break for him, for it advertised his recently published diary of a jaunt from Long Island to California and back, Travels With Charlie in Search of America. The Nobel Prize, however, could * not hav gone to Mr. Steinbeck for his travelogue which, though it was written with some charm, told his readers more about truck drivers, gas sta-ticms and motels than it did about any of the country that lay within a mUe or so on either side of the express highways. The faster Mr. Steinbeck went, the less he saw. This was also true of another literary traveUcr in 1%2, Mr. T. S. Mat-thews, who wrote something called 0 My America! Returning to the United States after Uvlng for several years In England, Mr. Matthews carried an adopted Londixiers prejudices with him as he went west from New York. The prejudices were never corrected, for Mr. Matthews * found few ccmversationlsts in the motels he so minutely described.

My own travelling for the year Included a trip to Maine. In the old days a motor trip to Maine frwn southern New England normally Included a slow-motlon progression through little towns around Boston. One would see the rude bridge that arched the flood in Concord, where the first shots of the American Revoluti(xi were fired. Or one would go through tradition-encrusted seaports on the North Shore of Massachusetts, which would give the children opportunity to exclaim over th witches houses in old Salem. Then there was Cape Ann to look at, with the Gloucester fishing fleet and the clam flats at Ipswich. Today, however, the temptation is to slide quickly around Bostcxi and Into Maine by way of Route 128. True enough, Route 128 Is interesting as a linear city consisting of a high-speed highway running past a blur of new elec-tnmlc plants. But there is no past history clinging to a superhighway, and at sixty miles an hour you can absorb few details.

In times gone by it was always a visual pleasure to drive west through New York State to Buffalo. One cduld study the rise and fall of American architecture If one chose the Cherry Valley Route: the old houses built in the day of the Greek Revival In central New York still keep their spacious and dignified Unes, but further west, the classically proportioned homes give way to the haphazard construction of the unlettered carpenter-bulkier period, when good yodels were considered an affectation.

In the old days of slower travel I remember eating In Rochester, where I was Introduced to the Irondiquott melcxi and a delicious salad made of the local John Baer tomato. But the last time I drove through New York State, bringing a daughter hcxne from a summer Ice skating session in Ontario, we slid past Rochester without even seeing It. And what we had for dessert in every Howard Johnsonor, as the kids call It, a Ho-Jorestaurant was, as I recall it, a peppermint stick ice cream of a kind served in every Howard Johnson everywhere. I am not knocking peppermint as a not knocking peppermint as a flavor, and I admire the Howard Johnscxi brand of efficiency, but it would have been nice to try one of Rochesters special melons again. My daughter will probably never taste one in a lifetime of driving on super-highways.

Going south to Florida, the

Going south to Florida, the completion of new fe^al high ways will kill a few^ore de

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Conservatism In '63 Forecasts

ODinions In Brie:

Mechanization is taking or stands ready to take the jobs of hundreds of workers In loading or unloading ships. That It will' make jobs and wealth In the long run is of little moment to men who in the meantime will <walk the streets. -r Christian Science Monitor.

swap the Van Allen Belt for a pair of suspenders.Nashville Banner.

Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often, as intolerance.Henry Ward Beecher.

Safetj^Hjote: Drive care-fujly. The life you save may be that of an off^al and his death would call another election to replace him. Louisville (Ga.) News 4c Farmer.

Styles change, even In the realm of Nature- and space, and scientists now want to

Well know how well Wally Schiwa actually did when we find V out whether or not he gets invited to go water skiing. Tallahassee (Fla.) Democrat.

By ELMER ROESSNER There is a note of conservatism in some of the latest forecasts for 1963. The word however keeps cropping up. .

A ccmsensus of 13 prominent economists partlcipatiiig in the annual forum of the Naticmal In-, dustries Conference Board was that total production of goods and services this year would rise 3 per cent. i However, many of the problems adversely affecting natlcm-al growth, especially the persistently high rate of employment, have yet to be resolved. said the N.I.C.B. summary.

The National Associati(m of Purchasing Agents business survey committee ccmcluded, Ov-er-aU, business in 1963 will be better than in 1962, but the current treading water situation will continue into the first few months of> 1963. . .While our members look for improvement as the year progresses, they are^ not as optimistic as they were

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Business Week, which has a well-curried stable of McGraw-Hill economists to help it think, said. The United States ec(io-my is still moving up and promises to hold a steady upward course throughout 1963. Nevertheless. the ris will be a slow <ie, slower than 1962s. Business Week pointed out that while the eccmomy Improved In 1962, half of the apparent increase was due to higher prices.

this time last year. ,

The Purchasing Agents 'are hard - headed reaUsts in their forecasting.

STEADY UPWARD COURSE"

The magazine forecast a gross naticMiaJ product of $570 bUUon rto $573 billion in 1963; the N.I. C.B. economists predicted from $575 billion to $585 billion.

In summarizing the eccmo-mists opinicm, Martin R. Gains-brugh, vice president and chief economist for the N.I.C.B., said: ^For the opening half of 1963, our collective view is for little If any growth in naticmal ouqmt. Indeed, two participants expect a slight dec^e. By the thM quarter, the rate of eccm^nic growth is more maiiced and we are as one in believing that the economy will be in an expan*a< phase a year from now.

^RLEEMENT

But there are marked differences as to the extent of nej(t years expansion, depending only in part on whether a tax cut is assumed or not. . . .

Our experts thought that consumer outlays In the aggregate next year might rise by about 3 per cent. . . That is a rise of about $10 bilUcm or so in 1963, or cmly half that of this year. . . .Despite our emphasis cm th disturbing agenda of unresolved economic problems 1963 will Inherit, our ccmsensus is that 1963 be a good year, again better than 1962. but still not good enough to achieve this nations true economic potential."

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TELEPHONE STS-TEM USES LANGUAGE OF ITS OWN The Telcphon system has a language of its own. in fact two languages,-the latest Bell Telephone Magazine reports.

One (rf the langusgs Is based on initials. This is not new, since th use of initials goes bac^ to the earliest days of the phcme. For example, cH^erators have long used, among themselves, DA, to mean They JMOswar! AO," Ir-mmui

Try the call again; NC. to mean No circuit available, and NP, meaning Ne listing found.

Of the newer words In this language of Initials, some are pronounced as Initials, others as words. Dm, for direct inward dialing,. by which an outside call can be dialed directly without gc^ 'through a switchboard, is pronounced aa initials, while CAMA, meaning centralized autwnatic message accounting," which records customer. dialed long distance calls, is pronounced cam-a. TWX, ^ meaning teletypewriter exchange service, letters but

TWX, meaning th send a message by- TWX, is prtmounc-ed twlcks.

The other language consists of specialized terms, such as non-list, meaning tclep hone numbers not yet b th directories, nwi pub, meaning numbers unlisted because subscribers want them private.

Incidentally, huig up still standard In America

chough most phones are ____

led today. In Ehigland the gx praintao Is. .

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