Bafurday, January 5, 1963

Islands Worth Th^ Cost Of Saving

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Prolonged talk, without positive action, will do nothing to stabilize the famed Outer Banks of North Carolina. And time is fast running out for the sand strips which form a barrier between North Carolinas mainland and the Atlantic.

There are too many people in the state who feel all the talk about preserving the Outer Banks is just so much jabbering. After all, they rnight reason, the banks have been with us for hundreds of years and they can be expected to sta-y-for another few hundred without spending millions to preseiwe them.

Truth of the matter is that the Ouster Banks are rapidly disappearing. With their disappearance North Carolina is losing much more than a couple hundred miles of sand. f Without th-e banks to separate the inland rounds of the state from the Atlantic, North Carolina would be deprived of a major part of its seafood and fishing'industries which put millions of dollars into Tar Heel pockets each year. If the banks are lost, with them will go the millions of dollars worth of summer homes, resort areas and public facilities already constructed on them. Gone too wtll be their present potential for further development

in future years.

Without the Outer Banks the thousands of jobs required to cater to the needs of tourists every year would be lost to the coastal area.

R.W. Scott And Governors Race

By HOWARD WHITE Editor, The Daily Times-Newa, Barlington SCOTT The decision undoubtedly will await adjournment of the 1963 General Assembly, but indications now are that Robert W. Scott of Haw-fields, master of the State Grange and son of the late sen-ator-govemor W. Kerr Scott,

Is moving more in prominence as a potential candidate for governor in 1964.

His name has been mentioned frequently in speculation mostly from Raleigh and Western North Carolina where it is seen that he has his strongest support.

It appears, however, that COTcentratlon on his ability and the possibility that he can be a compromise candidate within Democratic circles is increasing.

What does he have to say about It? He isnt commenting to any great degree.

If it is the decision of supporting groups that I should seek the nonilnatlon, 1 will not say that I will decline giving It consideration, he says, adding: the final decision, however. must await several future developments.

SUPPORT It has been known for a long time that Robert has political ambitions and also, he has been getting considerable encouragement from within the Democratic group usually referred to as the Scott Forces, meaning those who were in support of his father during many campaigns. . , V- ,

He has a good farming background and is looked to as doing a good job as head of the Kate Grange, a position his father held at one time and which started him. for all practical purposes, up on the statewide political ladder. His father, after the State Grange post, went on to become state Commissioner of Agriculture. Governor and then United States Senator.

CAREER Most people watching Roberts career have speculated that he would follow in his Dad's footsteps. He would hold the State Grange membership possibly until Stag Ballentlne decided to step down as a^culture commissioner, and then he would seek the office. After a period of service there, it would seen natural for him to seek the governorship.

Commissioner Ballen-tine doesnt show any definite signs of retiring from his office, however, and this prompts the

increased encoui-agement within various cii'cles for Robert to by-pass the agricultural post and head for the governor's chair now.

JORDANIt can be expected that combined interests of the Sanford-Scott forces will have much to do with the final decision. Some factions within both groups are known to favor Dr. Henry Jordan of Cedar Falls, while others are pushing State Democratic Chairman Bert Bennett. It is generally expected, too, that Dr. Beverly Lake will make a second bid for the nomination.

Knowing that most candidates in recent times give themselves as much as tw'o years to campaign, some pressure is going to start mounting.

Dr. Jordan has convincingly let it be known that should he decide to seek the nomination, he will not be a candidate for any single group, neither the Sanford, the Scott forces, nor those identified with hLs brother, U. S. Sen. B. Everett Jordan,

DECISION Some strong members of the Sanford team, however, have indicated that they are withholding a decision of support until Dr. Jordan makes up his mind. They also say that if he is delayed too long in his decision, they must move with another candidate.

The only other candidates with' W'hom the Sanford supporters w'ould support now\ we feel, are Bert Bennett and Robert Scott. Dr. Lake is not consistent" with their stand on education and numerous other matters of government.

At the time the decision is made, then, the Sanford-Scott supporters well could have Bert Bennett and Robert Scott as the only two under consideration, and it could be that both would run, with the aim toward a second primary. In this evaluation, they would be cqunting on either Bennett or Scott as winning, and either would be acceptable to meet the Republican nwni-nee in the November general vote.

POSITIONWith this in the background, Robert Scotts position as it relates to 1964 can beconr\e stronger.

As he said, however, there are several future developments that must be considered.

And hanging heavy over those who are considering his chances Ls his age. At 33 years old. supporters wonder if voters of the state w'ill give him their blessings.

And who can say what long-term effects it would have on the mainland of the state if the harrier reef between the Atlantic and the sounds disappeared? What would happen to the agricultural economy of Eastern North Carolina of the western shore of the Atlantic moved one to 40 miles farther westward on the Tar Heel coast?

There is much more involved in saving the Outer Banks than merely preserving a historic strip that attracts summer tourists and sport fishermen.

It will cost literally millions of dollars to take steps necessary to preserve the Outer Banks. If they are not preserved, North Carolina will eventually lose many more millions in terms of jobs, payrolls and income made possible by the presence of the unique series o^ sand islands.

As Of Now, Taxes Up By Another $2 Billion

While many eyes have been focused on prospective income tax reductions during this a

tax increase tapped every paycheck in the country with the beginning of the new year.

Social Security taxes increased with the first of the year by one per cent for the combined em-ployer-employee contribution. It now stands at 7Vi per cent of the first $4,800 of earnings for each person covered by the social security program.

In terms of dollars, it means during the current year approximately $2 billion more in taxes being paid into the program by individuals and their employers during the current year. It also means that ai^y reduction in income taxes this year will have to pass the $2 billion mark before taxpayers are back even with the board.

What, if any, income tax reductions will be forthcoming duriiig the year is still a matter of conjecture. Sentiment for reduction has gained week-by-week, but at the same time sentiment for overcoming greater deficits in federal government operations likewise has grown stronger. Even if the tax reductions are granted, it is highly doubtful they will be made retroactive to January 1, 1-963.

And that, of course, brings us back to a net tax increaserather than decreaseof some $2 billion this year from the paychecks of American people. ^

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By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON jAP' The Red Chinese are practicing ancestor worship in what may be the graveyard of Soviet-Chinese unity.

The ancestors are Marx and Lenin.

The Russians and Red Chinese- have become like two separate priesthoods, each claiming it alone knows the correct meaning of the dt^ma handed down by the two partriarchs of communism.

This schism looks simple but is instead profound: CajjAq^-munism live in the same wond with the West without war? The Russians say yes, the Chinese no.

The Chinese in effect accuse the Russians, for thinking yes. of having betrayed the basic teachings of Marx and Lenin. In return Premier Khrushchev accuses his allies of madness. This is where their dispute stands at the moment. It has turned the growing spUt between them into a bleeding sore. It seems certain to get worse. AH the West can do is hope it gets fatally worse.

It began some time back with Red Chinese criticism of Khrushchev fY suggesting peaceful coexistence with the West is possible. It became savage when the Chinese denounced him for backing do\\Ti in the Cuban crisis.

And now the Chinese have plastered him with a word which is unbearable in both the Com-mimist and Western worlds. They have called his withdrawal from Cuba appeasement.

In a 10,000-word editorial Dec. 31. in their newspaper, the People's Daily, the Red Chinese have made their fiercest and

most public attack on the Russians and Khrushchev.

It was on Dec. 12 that Khrushchev, who said he pulled his missiles out of Cuba to avoid nuclear war, used the word madness to describe the Chinese complaint that he shouldnt have budged.

There hasn't been time for him or the Russian Communist party to reply to the attack in the Peoples Daily last Monday. This should show whether the split will become a Communist disaster.

The editorial in the People's Daily will remain not only an hi.storic document but a blueprint for anyone in the West who is apt to forget, in the years ahead, what the Red Chinese said their real intentions arie.

Their racking dispute with Russia can be put another way: They blame the Soviets for looking upon the Marx - Lenin teachings as being outmoded as demonstrated by their various accommodations with the West and their suggestion that the two sides can hve peacefully together.

The Chinese put a rigid construction on Marxism - Leninism but the mind spins in trying to follow their tortured'reasoning where up is dowm, in is out, and nothing is really as it is or was:

They insist the source of modem war is Western imperialism and that the United States "imperialist bloc is menacing world peace.

But it was the Red Chinese who Invaded India and gobbled up Tibet. And it was Khrushchev who almost started war over Cuba.

By HAL BOYLE

Salvador Dali, Himself

NEW YORK (AP) You can get an argument over whether Salvador Dali, the eccentric artist, is an obsessed genius or merely a talented poseur.

Dali himself says the question has been settled to his owm satisfaction.

A French doctor spent seven years studying whether I am crazy or not, he remarked. He find I 'ave one of the best organized brains that exist in the world.

The 58-year-old Spanish - bom painter, accompanied by his wife. Gala, is here for the publication of a book o( his art and to make his second lecture tour in a decade.

The last time I speak no Englishan. it was a tremen-dou.s success, he said.

Now that my speech is a little too much goodmaybe

not so much a success. People like mystery.^

The mystery of life, always has fascinated Dali, who, for all his Bamum - like showunanship stunts, is regarded by some critics as probably the greatest religious artistt'Of the 20th century.

Everything in life leads to one idea faith, he said. At first I was interested in psychoanalysis. then in the theory of relativity and nuclear physics.

Now 1 am obsessed with biology; moleculear structure, cybernetics. thinking machines. But every science is connected by art.

Since the French Revolution every generation ave been skeptical it believe only in materialism. But today everything is au contraire.

Public Forum

ODinions In Brief

Each local community, however prosperous, must wage war on poverty of spirit. Many skills are important, but without healthfor individuals and as a community there can be no chance of success.The Sanford Herald.

Men fundamentally can no more get along without direi> tioji than they can without eating, prinking or sleeping. Charles de Gaulle.

In the days when laws in Kansas and 'tah forbade the sale of cigarettes, they were bootlegged, just as liquor was during prohibition. Its almost impossible to force people to give up a pleasure even when they know its harmful.The Rocky Mount Telegram.

Nobody appreciates autumn more than the fellow who has no leaves to rake. Camden County (Ga.) Tribune.

Stricter laws and stricter enforcement means safer highways. The Raleigh Times

One wife cured her hu.sband of his I have to work late at the office routine by asking him if she could depend on it. Lamar (Mo.) Democrat.

Sparky says:

How long does It take to earn $10 million? An asw'er to this question has been given by a California millionaire, but it is entirely unsatisfactory. It takes nine days a week and 28 hours a day, said industrialist Homer R. Rhoads when asked the question by a los Angeles judge. Thats disappointing. It esems take that long sometimes just to keep up with a five-day. 40-hour a week job. Jacksonville (Fla.) Times-Unlon.

Theyll play safe when left with a trained sitter

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The hardest thing about teaching young Americans what Communism and capitalism stand for may turn out tn be the long-prevailing attitude that it isnt necessary for them to learn itthat they get it by a kind of osmosis that comes of being Americans St. Louis Post-Dis-patch.

A PERSONAL THANKS TO YOU I wLsh to take this method to personally thank everyone who helped in the making of Our Emancipation Centenial Celebration a success.

God gave me a dream that burned in my Soul so much so, that I could not keep it to myself: and during the month of June, 1962, I joined the United Pitt County Citizens League. 'At the September board meeting, I presented this portion of that dream <An Emancipation Celebration ) that would embrace a parade and program.

These good people accepted it, even though they knew that a program of this sort had never been sponsored in this area, and as a result of this I was appointed overall Chairman of the planning committees. The committee set out toward our goal, with the help of God for a successful program on the 1st. day of January, 1963.

History has stated that the Jews were in Egyptian bondage, they cried unto Jehovah. He heard them and sent Moses to lead them out. The night before their deliverance, God had them to kill and eat the pass-over ( a Lamb and Unleavened bread), they were to eat it in haste, with bitter herbs, and they were to mark their houses with the blood of the lamb.

That night God, passed through the land and in the morning the first (1st.) bom of every Egyptian home lay dead. Jehovah had passed over the Jews, and he led them out of Egypt safely, which was thousand of years ago; yet the Jws still show their thankfulness by celebrating the Passover.

The Anglo American people (U.S.A.), after nearly two hundred (200) years, are still cele-

Commu

By ELMER ROESSNER I object! writes J. C, Smith about a recent column in which it was said that cities provide commuters with police, fire, health and scores of other services and getting only a dribble of taxes in return.

True, we commuters pay little in direct taxes, Smith went on, "but, boy, do we pay indirect taxes! In fact, we are paying for much of the services that the city fellows get.

Of every dollar we country mice spend, a big bite goes to pay the city rats taxes.

For example, lunch in a good restaurant costs me $4 and a 60-cent tip. I can get an-equally good lunch in any suburban shopping center for $1.50 hd if I left a 60-cent tip the waitress would sing tlie fourth verse of The Star Spangled Banner.

MEAL WITH* TAX GRAVY

Part of the difference in price pays for the city restaurateurs taxe.s. Another part helps to pay his rent, which i.s high because of the excessive property tax. Part is becausa

brating their Independence on July fourth of each year; they too are thankful.

It is to be noted that many of our American Negroes, after just one 1100 hundred years, have ceased to be thankful.

Since coming into this area to make it my home. I began inquiring of the people in this area. as to whether or not there was a joint effort on behalf of the people to show their thanks by having an Emancipation program : and it was to my great surpri.se that this Great Document issued and signed by President Abraham Lincoln, had not been celebrated at any time by the people in show'ing their thankfulness.

This lack of interest shown from my talking to many people caused me to seek the support and help Of the United Pitt County Citizens League, which supported my sugge.stion 100 percent.

The work on behalf of the U. P.C.C.L.. which helped to make the program a great success, in bringing to the attention of the people, the showing of thanks by celebrating the Emancipation Celebration on Januai*y 1. 1963.

The United Pitt County Citizens League, dedicated the program to the Rev. K. T, Kail, founder, builder and minister of Emanuel Temple Independ e n t Methodist Church.

I challenge all men and women of our race in Greenville, Pitt County and state of North Carolina, to continue this celebration till time shall cease to be. and let us ever remain thankful to our God, and ever remain thankful for our Freedom.

REV. K. T. HALL 410 Howell Street Greenville, N. C.

Scientific people Ix-lieve In God. and realize that matter Is only enei*gy.

Material things disappear. We live now in a crisis of mysticism. Everything is metaphysical. We are in a new renaissance of religion and a reunification of religions.

Why does Dali indulge in stunts .such as delivering a lecture in a diving suit?

I am ver> exhibitionistic. he admitted. But it 'ave help me tremendously. Everyb o d y think of me day and night an without interruption."

Then he explained that his w eird actions were the result of a complex arising from the death at the age of 7 of a brilliant older brother, also named Salvador.

It produce in me a tremendous anguish to prove that I am not my dead brother but mi -self he said.

Strength For To(day

Bv EARL L. DOUGLASS A PRIVILEGE IT IS

Why should I go to church Can I not be just as good a Christian if I worship God amid the beauties and wonders of nature? Does going to church make people any better? Why does God have to be told of our love and devotion to Him if we live the right kind of lives?

The answer to all these questions is that the .Bible assures us that the gathering of believers together Ls a (juty imposed upon each and all and that wor-ship Ls the lifting up of the heart in such a way that God can give us precious gifts otherwise unattainable. It Ls true that we should worship pod where we are. God can be worshipped in the home, in the store, in the office, on the highway, on sea and mountain range. Yes, Gods greater temple Is not made with hands. True worship can take place anywhere.

But It is also true that unless people have regular habits of worship, the impiilse to worship seems to die down in their hearts. Our association with others who believe as we do, who are striving as we are to live good lives, .strengthens us- and makes our striving more hopeful.

Sermons are good. Hymn singing is good. Public prayer Ls good. Worship with high ritual, br with low', is good if our hearts are open to receive its benefits.

Church attendance Is a duty but it is more than that It is a privilege.

Detroit Outlook Is Gooc.

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright. 1963, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

In 1955 Detroit sold more than 7.1 milliim cars. The following year the automobile hiarket dropped way offand the motor manufacturers have been shellshocked every since.

So battle-weary and cautious have they been that, when the car sales figures for 1962 prom-Lsed to reach sevn million for the first timq-.in seven years, the immediate response.to such unaccustomed good fortune was to predict a drop-back for 1963. Just recently, however, some of the more adventurous Detroit bigwigs have dared to veer to the side of optimism. American Motors President Roy Aber-nethy has predicted that seven million cars will be sold in 1963 making the first two back-to-back seven-million-car years in history. And Chairman Frederick Dmner of General Motors has also put on some rase-color-ed spectacles when looking at the sales prospects for the new year.

This column has no business trying to functiwi as a maricet tip sheet, but it would like to go on record right now in saying that, barring a drastic political - cum - mUitary disaster, Detroit will never sell fewer than 7 million cars in any year of the future. The seven-miUion floor is implicit in the statistics. It is also implicit in the new way of life of the American people, who have spread out in a suburban pattern of living that makes two cars to the middle-income family a virtual necessity.

First, let us look at the sta-tlsUcs. With more than 70 million cars on the roads. Detroit has only to tap the replacement market to sell seven million in a year. Some automobiles may last longer than a decade, but when they do they usually gravitate into the hands of teen-age tinkerers who. with a genius for cannibalization, keep old jalopies going by fleshing them out with stuff from the junkyard. The ten-year-old car may not be a candidate for a scrappage .statistic in every case, but in being pas.sed on to junior It is virtually certain to be replaced by mom and dad for adult use, .so it need not figure in a dLs-cussion of new car sales prospects.

Thus the auto replacement floor would seem to be guaranteed at seven million, which is something that should normally be reached without aggressive salesmanship. Even bey(d the seven-mllMwi figure the dealers shouldnt have very much trouble in the near future. For the big war and post-war baby boom seems about to pay off, with an expanded rush of young couples in their earliest twenties coming into the maricet for cars. The population statistics wont permit a drop-back for the Detroit of the middle and late Nineteen Sbcties.

Admittedly, It Ls no longer a matter of keeping up with the Joneses in aut(Hnoblles: pecgile are wUling to drive anjlhing that will move, which mean.s that old cars are kept going for a long time. Any look at a commuter stcg) (m any railroad that feeds working males into a metropolLs w1U show a most ramshackle collection of automotive junk whose sole virtue is that it still moves. But you may be sure that for evcr>' jalopy that is parked all day while the male member of the family i.s busy working in the city, another and newer car Ls taking the housewife to the shopping center or the children to music lessons or rehearsals for the .school play. Nor is the second car the property of the affluent few. The fact is that at least half of all non-farm families in America have disposable or after-taxincomes of $5.-000 to $10.000 a year. Since pm)-ple will notoriously go without other things to achieve the utmost in personal mobility, this means that about 20 million families can take two cars in their stride with help from a little Judicious financing. Tlie opportunity to upgrade the $5,000-$10.000 familys second car into something newer and better beckons the aggressive dealer, and if the promised federal tax cut materializes Detroit might find itself with a record eight million car year to its credit. This could happen in 1963 If Congress would only hurry up its schedule on tax reform.

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the re.staurant owner has to fend off 15 kinds of city inspectors and dollar bills are his rapiei;.

When I buy a suit in town and I have to because the suburban tailors are usually closed when I am homethe price Ls higher because I have to meet the tailors taxes. I also have to help pay his workers. He has to pay them more than a suburban tailor simply because it costs journeyman tailors more to work in the city than in the suburbs.

At the bar nearest the station, I pay 80 or 85 cents for a cocktail, depending on whether I want an olive or an onion, and then I leave a tip. At the neighborhood bar in my suburb I get the same drink, with both olive and onion, for 65 cents and if I left money on the bar. the bartender would ask what horse I wanted it put on.

EVERYBODY ElSE GETS RICH

Furthermore, I spend a good part of my salary in the city. That enriches the merchants as

rban Taxes

well as helps pay their taxes. Look, Roessner, its not the commuters who are demanding subsidies for trains and busses. Its the merchants, who want to make it easier for ourselves and our families to come into the city and spend money.

Dont get me wrong, I like . living in the suburbs where my kids have room to breathe and play. I dont mind the cost or the time of going back and forth. As you said, I can make a lot more money In the city than checking in a supermarket in my suburban home town. But please dont say Im not paying my share of the costs of mnning the city. I sometimes feel that I alone am supporting some city farhily on relief.

J. C. 'for commuter?), Smith makes his point. I should have known that fleeing to thq suburbs does not escape taxes. And, since the new Federal tax law went into effect this week, neither does fleeing- to Switzerland, Lichtenstein or the Bahamas.

BUSINESS NEWS ITEMS Ronson has filed patent infringement suits against American importers of six butane lighters manufactured in Japan, Austria and Germany. The six Ughters alleged to Infringe on Ronson lighters are th Bentley, CoUbri, Chelsea, Maru-man, Nichlka and Rowenta. . . Norge is Investing $250,000 in a trading stamp venture to boost business at 2,500 establishments using its coin-operated dry-cleaning machines.

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