Friday, February 15, 1963

Is Another Long Wc4^ Necessary?

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Over the past year there have been discussions from time to time within the Greenville and Pitt County education boards about possible legislation which could help alleviate some problems in connection with school district boundary lines in Pitt County.

The 1968 legislature is in session now, but the months of off-and-on discussion in ^he individual school boards has produced nothing in the way of a joint, concrete proposal on special legislation which might help with the situation.

If legislation is required to help overcome some of the district line problems that face the local .school administrative units, it must be enacted within the next six months or be delayed for at least another two years.

We seriously question the wisdom of the Greenville and Pitt County school boards delaying joint consideration of the school district line prob lems for another two years. In our opinion, they have shied away from the problem too long already. It would be better for them to face uj) to the fact that problems exist with the district boundaries even at this late datethan to procrastinate another two years just because it is a complex and potentially explosive problem.

The two education boards are not helping the situation by ignoring the problems in the hope that

Governor Lost

No Budaet Time

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

SPEED Governor Sanford ftent his tax relief proposals to the General Assembly with unusual speed and accompanied by an element of surpri.se.

It jerked the slack out of the administrations 1963-65 biennial budget proposals and it happened almo.st before the legislators collectively could settle In their seats.

The govemors budget me.s-nage and his call for tax cuts were separate and apart, but timed so clo.sely as to tie them together in the minds of the legislature and the public.

The governor, as director of the budget, traditionally has the first say about budget and tax matters. After this is done, however. what happens is In the hands of the lawmakers and the powerful Appropriations and Finance committees.

Sanford did not w'ant his tax proposals to become just another bill among at lea.st several that will pile up in Fintee pretty soon. This was one reason for the haste and swiftness.

DECISION Ostensibly. It was an action by the governor designed to prevent anyone else from sei2ng the initiative In an area that is particularly sensitive politically.

There is a loose but sizeable bloc in the legislature which favors tax cuts wherever possible. There Is a small group, mostly Republcans, who favor repeal of the food tax; various other tax cut bills may be presented.

Despite the considerable tax relief sentiment, Sanford appears' on safe ground with a majority of legislators In his position opposed to repeal of the food tax, or measures that would slice Into the present broad tax base that produced ft $104 million surplus.

Some speed on behalf of the chief executive apparently was necessary thought to beat a rush of tax biUsseveral of them from the Republican side. He thus decided against delay.

DISCLOSE Sanford included a bare mention of tax relief recommendations In his budget address of last Friday. That too contained an element of surprise. It was the first inkling to anyone except administration Insiders that the call for tax relief was coming.

There al^ was surprise in how quickly Sanford followed the brief mention with a special message Monday night spelling out details of tax relief proposals amounting to some eight mlUion dollars a year.

The psychological effect, however. was goodand Sanford

leaders were happy about the timing of the messages.

There are indications that the govciTiors decision wi the three specific categories was reached quickly and forthrightly apparently on the same weekend that budget experts estimated that the 1963-65 budget contained a $10 million safe adjustment figure.

RUSHSanfords decision apparently w^as that his administration should call the turn on any adjusting and that it should be tax relief.

Some .sources said it amounted to the first real tax relief recommended by a Tar Heel governor in 30 years.

Sanford put it this way: The finances of the state have never been in better condition, the budget is balanced^jjand we will have no serious problems in keeping it balanced.

And he added, we can have a tax reduction at this time. The specifice recommended: Increasing personal exemption for dependents in the individual state income tax law from $300 to $500, amounting to an estimated $7.5 million in revenue.

Repealing the newsboy sales tax, estimated at between $260,000 and $275,000, which Sanford said cannot be administered fairly.

exempting all medicies, including prepared medicine, from the sales tax, estimated at $250,000 to $300,000 a year, EVIDENT It was evident both that careful study had been given to specific items and that similar legislation was being prepared by various members of the General Assembly, on both sides of the political fence.

r Rep. Clyde Harrlss of Rowan. House Finance chairman, had the bl on dependent exemptions in his pocket and Sen. Lunsford Crew of Roanoke Rapids had prepared one to allow a $600 exemption. Crew and HaiTlss then combined their measures and introduced them simultaneously at the figure the governor suggested.

But the other two bills were not ready on Monday night and in fact, some members conceded they caught them by surprise. First reaction, however, was favorableand that in it^^ was distinct accomplishmenfT The quickness and fast pace was in keeping ^^dth the starting rush of the 1963 General Assembly. The legislature, despite some turmoil in its new home, has waded into waiting major legislation faster than any previous session in memory.

The governor had to step lively to keep up.

by some miracle they may disappear^ If they wait another two years before making an effort to dea: with the problem of district lines, a solution may be even more difficult to reach than it is now.

At the very least, the two boards should carefully evaluate now the steps involved in altering school district lines, and what machinery is available for making future changes thajt may be in the best interest of public education in Pitt as a whole.

Such action is essential to adequate planning for future development of educational facilities and programs under the direct jurisdiction of both the Greenville and the Pitt County Boards of Education.

If legislation is necessary to set up any machinery which may be needed to cope with the problem, an effort should be made to get that Jegislation now rather than waiting two more years.

Water Survey Plan Moves Nearer Reality

A comprehensive ground-water survey of Pitt County moved one step nearer reality this week as the town boards of Ayden and Grifton formally approved financial participation in the undertaking.

So far as the county as a whole is concerned, the main factor in initiating the project is underwriting the $34,000 in local funds which would be necessary to set the $104,000, four-year project in motion. The remainder of the overall cost wouln be defrayed by funds from .state and federal agencies.

Securing the local share of funds to carry out the project has been set as a joint effort between the county government and municipal governments within the county. A formula has been worked out whereby each municipality would be asked over the four-period, to assume as its share an amount equal to approximately 50 cents for each of its residents. The remainder of the local funds would be provided by the county government.

Earmvilles governing board already have given formal approval to its financial participation in the program. Other of the municipalities of^the county have indicated their willingness to assume their pro-rate share of the cost although official action is still to come. The County Commissioners have officially endorsed the program and have indicated funds would be included in the budget for the next fiscal year to initiate the project.

Through the cooperative efforts of local governments within the county, it appears certain now that the survey will be undertaken. Had there not been a cooperate effort between the various local governments, however, ft is likely that this important survey -^vould still loom far in the future so far as Pitt is concerned.

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Conditioning Will Tel.

Statistics are usually an awful bore, but surveying game scores of a recent tri-state bowling tournament lends weight to an old adage about sports; winners are in better physical conditions than losers.

There were 27 teams. Each team played three games: and on reading the score sheet one could see in many of the teams effect of the physical strain.

Fourteen teams had their best scores in the first game and nine of these saw their scores slip with each succeeding game.

Even the heightening of concentrated effort and stimulation of tensions in the last game failed to overcome that physical letdown.

Seven teams posted their top scores in the second game; and of the three top teams two were strongest in that second game.

There were only 21 points

separating the first and third-place teams. The fourth place team was only one point out of the running, and the fifth team trailed by but four points.

So it was a tight race. . .one of the most closely matched touiTiaments you could expect to find. The players were all lx)wling enthusia.sts with a lot of mileage behind them in experience and endurance of the lanes.

All other things being equal though, physical .stamina figured to decide the winners. Which adds up to a thought for the also-rans: prepare early in advance of future tourneys with the kind of conditioning that will spell those extra two or three points per man, per game. It's enough to make the difference between winning and losing.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) The Kennedy administrations re-examination of its foreign policy is like a doctor, wdth some ailments of his own, trying to prescribe for patients with everything from w'hooping cough to paranoia.

This re-examination is only one of many which must be made, not only during President Kennedys time but long afterward, because the problems vary from nationalism and communism to fanaticism and pauperism.

The immediate look, because it is the most immediate problem, is at this country's policy in Europe where President de Gaulle, a French nationalist above everything else, is baffling the Atlantic alliance and the Common Market.

His obstructionism is a dii'ect product of his nationalism.

But it is also nationalism which has made a farce of the Marxists idea that communism eliminates nationalism with a special glue which keeps Communist nations together,

The Russians are as nationalistic as the French, or the Americans, although they talk in big brother language.

The Russians have gone through the usual period of fanaticism of early crusaders and revolutionaries. Stalin. Lenin, and other early bolsheviks were fanatics.

Their fanaticism was stoked by poverty. But they built up fast.

Now. compared with the early bolshevik days, the Russians are an affluent society. With that affluence that is, possessions comes a degree of conservatism and some loss of the early crusading zeal because now they have something to lose by taking lisks.

The Red . Chines*_. whose leaders still alive were the original leaders of their revolution and therefore are comparable to the early bolsheviks, are in exactly the same eco

nomic condition as the Russians at the time of their revolution.

The Red Chinese leaders are making up for lost time with efforts to give their people a pride in nation and a sense of purpose, both basic parts of a necessary philosophy if the Chinese masses are to submit to discipline and sacrifices.

Thus, in China as in Russia, communism is piled on top of nationalism. But it is because of the nationalism, not communism, that a separateness between Russia and Red China was Inevitable.

In Japan, a highly efficient society with a cohesiveness that their long island Isolation turned into cement, nationalism is intense. India has it, less intense but growing. No nation in Europe is without it.

It )vill grow' in Africa, although it may take another generation to cause the trouble it is almost certain to cause in that conglomeration of new nations. And if communism gets in there the confusion will be cpmpounded.

On top of all this is the poverty of Africa and Latin America, too. The latter, while it has its ow'n various forms of nationalism, is a land acutely divided between the rich and the very poor.

This fact may cause the Kennedy administration to make profound re-examinations of policy if the Southern Hemisphere is to be saved from communism because, unless the Latin American masses quickly begin to share in the worlds wealth, the quick promises of communism will be unanswerable.

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Governor Rockefeller has made a valiant attempt to solve the problem at the heart of the current difficulty with the NATO allies.

In a nutshell the problem Is this:

The United States wants to keep an efficient, unified command of the nuclear deterrent so it cannot be hobbled in time of crisis by last-minute dissension between allies. Some of the major allies, meanwhile, want a.s much control as povssible over their own destinies. They would like nuclear arms of their own. control over their use and an important say in the alliance.

The two aims seem mutually exclusive. One critic, with a considerable show of logic, simply says the problem is insoluble. The Kennedy administration has resorted to ambiguity and doubletalk, sometimes sounding generous toward the allies on this point, sometimes denouoc-ing allied nuclear forces, and often making statements which ju.st blur the Issue.

Governor Rockefeller leans toward giving the allies a more active role in nuclear strategy. But he also leaves the ultimate, simple questions unanswered. He would permit other allies to build their own national nuclear arsenals. But these would be incorporated in a real -nuclear defense partnership with Europe. The internal organization of this (he does not say control should be left to the Europeans. As to controlwho decides whether to use nuclear weapons in a crisis and wheth-er the United States should go it alone he says. Our goal .should be to coordinate such a European force with ours

through the establishment of a political control body within NATO deaJng with nuclear matters for the alliance as a whole.

This does not say whether Governor Rockefeller would subordinate American nuclear control. as it now exists, to a vote < and a veto by the United States allies. It does not say whether he would ask Congress to amend the American 1 a w vesting final control of American nuclear weapons solely in the President. It does not explain how a nuclear deterrent could work efficiently in time of crisis, especially If the United States was confronting an aggression like the seizure of Berlin and the allies were hanging back.

Until the.se que.stions are answered and dealt with, the alliance wll be unable to agree on the centi'al Issue which now understandably divides them. The problem will remain in the ifk^oluble category, and the United States will continue to dominate the deterrent and stand ready to act on its own, for the alliance, when the need becomes urgent.

We favor the utmost in advance collective policymaking and coordination by NATO. Surely guidelines can be laid down in advance of a crisis which will all but bind the allies as a group. But we cannot deny the key importance of ultimate control because this is what the argument is really about. For the present we see no course but to leave this final say with the United States as the possessor of what Mr. Rockefeller calls 95 percent of the deterrent. Not even his very considerable effort has yet found a workable alternative.

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You can drive a certain route, morning after morning, for several years in a row. . .and get to recognize the other drivers whom you regularly encounter as almost old friends.

On the going-to-wx)rk route, for example. Id know almost anywhere the school bus driver I meet ... if he was sitting stiffly erect behind the wheel of an orange-painted bus and refused to smile.

Then there's the mother driving her brood (maybe theyre all hers* to school; sCarf knotted over her head (and curlers showing). I suspect every schoolday morning is a hurried ordeal for her.

And it must be a teacher I meet, on her way to work, pretty as a picture and giving a friendly smile as we pass.

Fathers on the car-pool nin are generally glum. Unle.ss there is a fellow - adult male in the front seat with them, they look unsmiling and half-awake . . . much the way I feel for that fir.st hour after stumbling through the ritual of going to work.

But the car I always look forward to meeting is a little blue sports job with two young ladies in it. That sports car goes va-roo-oom when it passes.

And if there was ever anything I wanted besides a wife, children and a home . . .

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ODinions

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Congress couldnt do It. The President of the United States couldnt do it. Even the courts cant do it. Only a striking union abetted by other unions can close down the newspapers in the nations largest city, not to mention the newspapers in the nations eighth largest city, Cleveland. Melrose (Mass.) Free press.

About one-third of the total fresh water supply Is found in the Great Lakes region and there must be at least this much more on the fre.sh vegetables in the supermarket.- Washington Purchaster.

Last week a presidential study group came up with a typical bureaucratic .solution to conflicts among 58 independent agenciescreate another to supervise the others. Washington (D.C.) National Observer.

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright. 1963. King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Yes, said the student, but Batista was corrupt.

The statement, delivered with an air of assurance, was a vai-iatiMi on a familiar theme. Fifteen years ago it was Chiang Kai-shek who was corrupt. And before that it was the government of the Czar.

Well, one can hardly deny that the followers of Batista made a good thing for themselves out of Cuba, or that Chiangs officials had their methods of exacting squeeze, or that Rasputin had an unholy Influence at the Russian Imperial court. But the truly Interesting thhig about the students pronouncement on Batista was its Implied narrow definition of the word comipUon.

In almost any older dictionary you will find that corruption means (a) decay, or (b) depravity, or (c) Impurity, or (d) bribery. But modem political usage has pretty much eliminated the first, second and third meanings of the word. To the present-day student of political science, cormption means only one thing: It is what happens in capltali.st countries when insiders use bribery or pressure to feather their own nests. It Is neveror hardly everused to describe What happens in a nation <mco Marxist or totalitarian Statists of one sort or another get control of a government in the name of the pewle.

The student who took off on the subject of Batistas corruption was by no means a supporter of Hdelismo. But It had obviously never occiu rcd to him that, under the older, wider definition of corruption, Castro is far more reprehensible than the dictator he has ."iupplanted. When the CXiban Information Seiwice reports that Castros firing squads have killed 6.(XX) since last August, it i.s certainly corruption In the sen.se that it represents depravity and impurity. That is. it represents depravity if the Mosaic injunction against murder has the same force as the other prohibitions enumerated in the Ten Commandments. It also represents decay, for the nation that cant handle political dissidents without killing them has suffered an egregious lapse from all civ'ilized standards of debate.

In Mao Tse-tungs China, the corruption of bribery may no longer be an issue. But when peasant families are deprived of their bits of land and herded into agricultural communes. It certainly comes under the heading of theft. Again, tWs Is corruption In the sense that it represents a decay of civilized standards. MoreovTr, Mao Tse-tungs government has not been sparing of human life. Artificially induced starvation is surely a form of murder, and this comes under the heading of depravity or impurity.

The popular Image of dictators like Castro and Mao Tse-tung is that, whatever else you may say about them, they aro Puritanical when it comes to rejecting bribes. But so wa.s that bloody monster of the French revolutionary epoch. Robespierre. who was called the sea-green incorruptible by Thoma.s Carlyle. Robe.spierre climbed to power over mountainous piles of corpses. He was just about as depraved and Impure a political monster as the world has ever known. Thus he was corrupt in the wider, older meaning of the term, even though he may have been a Puritan when it came to money temptations. Castro and Mao Tse-tung are Robesplerres of the modem age and in comparison to them the corrupt Batista and the corrupt Chiang Kai-shek are almost lily-white.

In the annals of the Russian Revolution you will not find descriptions of a corrupt Stalin. Yet this man who robbed banks to raise money for the Communist revolutionary cause was corrupt under every meaning of the word. When he ordered the elimination of three million peasants In order to saddle the Soviet nation with a collectivized agriculture, he was acting in a depraved and Impure manner. Con-ruptlon? The business stank to high heaven.

The moral Is: lets not shrink the usage of perfectly good words. It keeps us from making valid moral and political judgments about a host of corrupt enemies who have sworn to bury us

Condominium Idea In The U.S.

Strength For Today

By EAKL L. DOUGLASS EFFECTIVE PKAVFK

Pra.ver to be efficacious iiiu.st be regular. Some people never give God a thought until trouble comes upon them or they meet sorrow or experience loss. Then they nui to the church or to the preacher. They get the Bible down from the shelf, blow off the dust, begin with peiplexity and small understanding to examine its contents and then get down on their knees and begin to pray. Frequently they wonder why they are so tongue-tied. They utter words and nothing seems to happen.

The experience is quite different for one who is sci-upulous to observe, daily religious devotions. who experiences the loving kindness of God in the morning and His faithiulness every

night. In the hour of crisis such a person knows how to approach the Most High. In a season of .sorrow, he knows where to go for abiding consolation.

Religious faith is not something which comes and goes after the pattern of an emotion. There is plenty of emotion in a tnie religious experience, but it Is more than emotion. It is primarily commitment of ones life to Christ. It is purpose a determination to bring ones will into conformity with Gods will.

w To attain such a life we have to be regular in our devotional exercises. We have to commit our lives anew to Christ every day. We haveto get down on our knees and pray as if everything depended upon God, and then get up and work as if everything depended upon us.

By FF.MFR ROESSNFK

Condominium is a word Americans will hear more frequently in the next few years.

A condominium is an apartment owned outright. It is similar to but not identical with a co-operative apartment.

A co-operative apartment house is incorporated. Each tenant buys shares of stock and each is allocated an apartment in proportion to his stockholdings. The corporation operates the building and pays taxes. Each tenant pays the corporation his pro rata of expenses and taxes.

But each condominium apartment is owned completely by the buyer. He may mortgage it, sell it, rent it, give it away or bequeath it. Owmers of condominiums in each building form an association, which may or may not be incorporated.

The association maintains halls, entrances, central air conditioning, gaidens and other ar-

ea.s and facilities used In common. The association pays taxes on property used in common. Each apartment owner pays taxes on his apartment. Each ow'ner also pays his pro rata of the associations expense. NEW BUT OLD

Tlie condominium idea is fairly new in the United States. Special legislation is needed to make its operation legal, and this exists in only a few states.

However, since the public seems to like the idea, builders and real estate men are seeking enabling legislation in most of the rest of the states.

The basic idea Is old. In many foreign countries, notably in Latin America, it has been the custom for centuries for the head of a family to bequeath one or more roonxs in the family hoqse to each son and daughter. resulting in many condom-Iniunvs. Sometimes four children Will each own a room in a four room iiouM.

Many people prefer condominiums to co-operative apartments because of the human de-siie for physical possessions. The residents of a co-op do not owii the apartment; they own only a certificate. They are still tenants, although they areyalso landlords.

The residents of a condominium own the very walls, floors and ceilings that surround them. OTHER ADVANTAGES

In general, condominium owners have more independence than co-op .dwellers. Many cooperatives rhake rules as arbitrary as conventional landlords, prohibiting driving picture ho(rfi.s into walls, etc. Most of them required approval of purchasers when a tenant wishes to sell.

Some forbid the sale of a tenancy to anyone but the co-op itself. In one case, the tenant leaving town had an apartment worth about $7.500 but he had to turn it over to the co-op for $2,500, the original purchase

price. The co-op, under its rules, gave the apartment to the family at the top of its waiting list for the same price a $5,000 widall.

However, most co-ops now allow participants to gamer their owm profit on resales.

In both condominiums and coops, each apartment holder may deduct property taxes and interest on mortgages whether paid directly or through association or corporation.

IIADACOL, GERITOL IN THE NEWS AGAIN Those super-advertised patent medicines, Hadacol and Oeritol, are In the news again. The Federal Trade bmmission has'ordered Hadacol Inc., to discontinue false * therapeutic claims for New Super Hadacol." Meanwhile, the J. B. Williams Co., has denied FTC charges of making false therapeutic plaims for Gcritol liquid and tablets.