Monday, Marcn 26, 1063

Determination To Save The Area

The Truth Is Out!

The states Outer Banks Commission is moving positively to accomplish its primary purpose of saving the outer banks of North Carolina from eventual destruction by wind and water erosion.

The commissions recommendation this weekend that another large segment of^jthe banks become either-a state or national park reflects the commissions opinion that the goal can be reached only through the efforts of the state and federal government.

There are many people who probably would prefer that the additional section of Portsmouth .Island and Core Banks not become part of a state 'fii; national park. It is likely that some members of the Commission would prefer to see the area dc\ eloped and protected without the ^necessity of .tat'c or federal participation. From a practical

Silent On Bonds

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

WINDS-The poUtical winds are blowing in Raleigh about the proposed $200 to $250 million Highway Bond issue, but strangely not a mention was made of it by the State High-waifrCommisslon.

The Commission met for the second time this month last Thursday, and the meeting followed Chairman Merrill Evans second appearance before the Joint i toads Committee of the General Assembly. -This was the hearing at which Evans was asked point blank, are you for or against this B(md Issue?

Reference was to the $200 mllll<m Bond Issue bill introduced by Sens. Robert Morgan and William Saunders and Reps. J. Paul Wallace and Clyde Harrias.

I dont think this Is a workable bill In Its present form. Evans said.

WORKEvans thus placed the Sanford administration and, In effect, the Sanford-appointed Iflghway Commission against the bill as it now stands but not against the idea of a Highway Bond Issue.

A good number, possibly' a" majority of Highway Commls-idcxiers, are known to favor a Highway Bimd Issue.

In his earlier appearance, Evans suggested a j $250 milUmi B<d Issue. Pressed for specifics about his objections to the $200 millkm bUl, Evans cited the allocation formula, the limitation and spending only $40 mllUcm a year for five years, and various technicalities limiting use of funds on urban streets.

Sponsors of the $200 milll(m Bond Issue felt imme^itely that certain changes could be made to remove these objec-. tions, or at least reach a '^compromise agreement on them.

FINANCEEvans then tossed (Hit an additional point of possible objection which, on face of it, might wreck the whole Highway B(md Issue plan.

This, he said, is an opinion by the Attorney General that the one-cent gasoline tax earmarked for retiring the Scott Road Baids of 1949-51 wont be available in 1967 or 1968 as thought, but not a cent will be available until the Scott Bonds are paid off In 1972. The Gill plan for financing a Bond Issue of up to $200 million without additional taxes, advanced by State Treasurer Edwin Gill last September,

' Is based (m using excess from the (Hie-cent extra gasoline tax to pay interest and debt service on the new bonds before the Scott B(Hids are fully retired.

Evans did say this possibility still exists if something could be wotked out with the Bond Attorneys.

HUDDLEThere was much huddling between various people within a few hours after the hearing on the Highway Bond Issue.

The huddles Involved State Highway Officials, legislators, sponsors of the Bond Issue bill.

and Gill.

What information Was developed, and what further course of action was planned will be disclosed later.

GILL Gill expressed surprise. saying the matter of using the one cent gasoline tax proceeds had been cleared up months ago.

He pointed out to legislators, that the proceeds are pledged until all of the Scott bonds have been paid or provision for such payments shall be

made. ____

Not all of the so-called Scott road Bonds will have matured until 1970, and therefore cannot be paid until that time ' because these bonds are not callable, Gill said. But. ac-coring to most conservative estimates, provision vlll be made for their payment in 1967.

For this reason, Gill said, the spmisors of the Bond Issue bill upon our advice, have planned for the use of the proceeds of the one cent gasoline tax to service the new Bond Issue after 1967. This is perfectly legal because it complies completely with the letter and the spirit of the Scott Bond Issue law, and has the fidl approval of both the Attorney General and our Bond Attorneys In New York.

BRIDGElPrincipal item of business at the Highway Commission meeting was approval of a $10.5 million drawspan bridge over the Cape Fear River at Wilmington, a project firmly opposed by many Wilmington groups, shipping interests and city officials.

We are sony that the Highway Commission would try for an^hlng but a high-level bridge, said Wilmington Mayor O. O. AUsbrook.

Draw bridges in deepwa-ter seaports went out of style with the biplane, AUsbrook said. He predicted further delays, and said it now is doubtful that anything wiU be started on actual construction during Gov. Terry Sanfords term of office.

This wiU certainly be a disappointment, he said.

Col. George GiUette, Chairman of the Wilmington Waterways and Port Development Committee, said bluntly, its an error and youll regret it. SIGNSThe Highway Commission let its first contracts for signs in more than a year, dating back to the Burch-Brew-er highway signs scandal that broke in January, 1962.

Contracts for signing by four new highway projects were awarded to low bidders, none of which were Involved in the 1%2 sign case. Even so, the Highway Commission took a second look at the bids and cost estimates before it approved the contracts.

Chief engineer C. W. Lee noted that the bids were considerably higher than the estimates. One reascai, he said, was that sign costs have increased In the more than a year Intenirhr Sec-ondly, he said, these project contracts are very smaU In relation to some sign contracts awarded In the past.

standpoint, however, the Commission obviously has concluded that this is not possible.

North Carolina already owns approximately 75 per cent of the area and the Commission has recommended the state move to acquire the remaining 25 per cent. The commission also has recommended that if the state can not accomplish a comprehensive program of stabilizing and saving the banks, the property be deeded to the federal government in exchange for guarantees that banks will be stabilized.

As an extension of the (Sjape Hatteras National Park, Portsmouth Island and Core Banks would move from state to federal control. At the same time, however, there would be assurances that necessary conservation work woid^be done in the area. If this is the only altern^tivlb which would assure preservation of this additional strip of the Outer Banks, it is the only logical step for North Carolina to follow._________

The .state can ill afford fuidher destruction of the sandy banks which separates its inland sounds from the ocean. North Carolina has much more to gain by the area being preserved as a part of a national park than by sitting back and watching the banks gradually disappear.

The Outer Banks Commissions action reflects its determination to save the area by whatever means possible. That is what the people of the state expect of the commission.

No Doiibt, Now South America Is A Target

Meeting of Latin American communists in Brazil for the purpose of showing their solidarity in support of Cubas Castro should remove any lingering doubt about the Red bid to win South America.

How deeply the repercussions of the meeting will penetrate within the governments of Latin America or among the people of those nations re-^ mains to be seen. It is evident, however that the communists are stepping up their activity in Latin America in an effort to capitalize on their situation in Cuba. The communist beachhead in the Western Hemisphere has been established, and now further gains are being sought.

The United States, together with other governments dedicated to freedom and democracy, mu.rt meet this challenge headon. It will not be surt^^ for the U.S. or the Latin American governments to adopt a passive attitude. The threat is very real, and while this meeting may not amount to a great deal, it marks a beginning of new activity by the communists in this region so vital to the U.S. and the free world.

Brightest Spot

A Long

By HAL BOYLE

Brom These, Deliver Us

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NEW YORK <AP> Things wer could do without;

Gold identity tags for dogs that have even^hlng. Oldtimers who can remember a worse winter than the one just ending. Lipstick so pale it makes teenage girls look like zombies.

Pewle who, when you tell them your troubles, just reply, Well, that's life for you. The commercial spielers on television wha whisper their message for some reastm they are more annoying than thouse who shout. Polks who think its cute to send a city child a small live bunny for Easter.

Hatcheck girls who drop our hat to the floor when we put down 15 cents because we dont have a quarter change in our pocket. Telephones that ring just as we reach the punchline in ^ joke were telling the boss.

Hairdos that make a woman look like shed been frightened

out of her wits or that cause lost bees to confuse it with their home hive. Pigeons that make love outside a window where a middle-aged man is tndng to do his work. Office straw bosses who scribble endless suggestions to others just because somebody gave them a stack of fre memo padsi

Professional liberals who refer to the unfortunates of this world as the little people. Bartenders who sprinkle red pepper cm their bowl erf cheese wafers so youll buy more drinks to soothe your burning palate. After dinner speakers who speak so long you begin to yearn for breakfast.

Any meal cooked in a backyard between May and November. Wives who can fix with a hairpin a broken vaccum cleaner weve tinkered over for hours with pliers, monkey wrench and crowbar. Drugstore

cowboys who wear big - belted militar/raincoats to make them look more impressively masculine.

Mens hats that have brims so narrow they look as if theyd been gnawed away by hungry mice. Truckdrivers who honk their horns just to see the startled pedestrians jump. Rains that faU only on the days you put on a freshly pressed suit.

From all these, O Lord, deliver us, amen.

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By RALPH ROBEY

Business investment in plant and equipment will reach a new all-time high. This is the finding of the survey made periodically by the Security and Exchange Commission and the Department of Commerce. It is the only official estimate we get on this item.

For 1963 it is predicted that plant and equipment investment will be $39.1 billion. In 1962 the comparable figure w'as $37.3 billion. The increase amounts to 5 percent. Previous to last year the all - time high had been $37 blion in 1957.

It has been generally expected trat we would have a larger total for this item this year. This has been based upon the fact that business firms are ifrell supplied with funds and much of our equipment i sold and in need of replacing with more modem units.

Corporate profits are still under a squeeze, although it appears that in the final three months of 1962 they made a new high, according to preliminary_ figures. The adequacy of funds within business firms is from more generous depreciation allowances granted by the Internal Revenue Service last year. Our depreciation schedules still are well behind those found in all other major industrial nations, and they need still more liberalization. Thai, we are told, yean be done only by law. In \other words, the Internal Revenue Service says it went as far as it can go under present legal requirements.

It also must be remembered thrt the Congress last year enacted a credit against taxes for certain specified types of business investment. No one knows, or can know', how much effect this has had. The government has estimated that the tax credit plus the increased depreciation amounts to about $2.5 billion in corporate cash flow.

Along with their survey on capital Investment plans the SEC and the Department of

Commerce also ask for anticipations on sales, and the results are released at the same time. The latest survey indicatr es that manufacturers and trade firms expect sales in 1963 to be 4 percent above 1962, and utilities are anticipating a rise of

5 per cent.

Some of the details on capital investment are w'orthy of note. The largest percentage increase 13 is in railroads. Durable goods manufacturing anticipates an increase of 11 per cent, as compared with only 3 percent in nondurable goods industries. The only broad groups showing a decline are mining and transportation other than rail. The expected decreases are

6 and 11 percent respectively.

The over - all increase in capital investment in slightly less than $2 billion, and that is not enough to give great stimulus to the economy. But It is one of the really cheerful reports that have come out on 1963 prospects.

Other E(ditors Saying... Much Too Little

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The only way to save money nowadays is to have short arms and deep pockets. Cleveland (Ga.) Courier.

While there is no reason North Carolina cannot consider its system of apportionment, we fail to see the implied weakness in the system which the constitution prescribes. i^he Charlotte News.

(Washington Daily News)

A few days ago Senator Edgar Gurganus of Williamston announced that he would introduce a bill in the legislature calling for $1(X) million for school building purposes in North Carolina.

At the end of the week a representative from Ashe county introduced a bill calling for $25 millicm for school building purposes. While anyone viewing the matter with conmion sense win adhiit that every little bit of money will help, we cannot be as enthusiastic about this bill as we will be about the bUl to be Introduced by Senator Gurganus. .

The sum of $25 million is just too small to make much dent in the big school building program needed today In our state. On the^ basis of average daily attendance In our schols, and if passed this will be the basis for apportiwiing out the money, Beaufort county would gfet jtfbout $250,000. Then the two shool units in the county probably would divide the mtmey (Hi the per capita basis which would mean that the Beaufort County Board of education will get about $135,000 and the Washington unit would get about $113,-000.

Of course, both units could use the money. There are so many needs today In both edu-(jational houses that using it wisely will not be a question at all. But we have so many needs prevalent here that a big question will revolve around how to use it most wisely.

We are not against highway improvements in North Carolina. In fact, we strongly favor a highway bond Issue, But when

we look at both highway and school building needs today in our state, we feel that both needs are pressing and that common sense and wisdom dictate that whatever is spent for these two causes should be divided according to the needs. When we talk of a $250 million bond issue fund for roads and only a $35 million' for school building purposes, it seems to us that we are out of balance in our thinking.

We realize that the present $25 million being talked of In the bill now before the legislature is to be paid out of surplus. We also realize that the $250 miUion road bond issue would be paid back largely through the gasoline tax levy. At the same time when two needs are pressing, the challenge to us seems to be how to realize some practical measure of help in both fields.

If with the present surplus and with the anticipated road bond issue coming up, if the ma^c figure seems to be $250 miUicxi. it would seem to us to be most logical to think in terms of $100 million for school building purposes and $150 milli(Hi for road building purposes. It might even be that the wise course would be to divide^the money equally between school buildings and roads.

Our position, simply stated, is that we have pressing needs in both directi(His, and we believe we should accept the challenges in both directions.

We hope that Senator Gurganus will go ahead and Introduce his bill calling for $100 million for school building purposes.

TO THE EDITOR;

I hope youll publish the Public Forum column of your paper.

In answer to a letter in the editorial of March 6 from a teenager who has nothing to do after 11:00 pjn. It surely is time to go home at such an hour.

Let us take the instruction from the wisest man who ever lived. King Solom(Hi. in Ecclesiastes 11:9, 10: 12:1 Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let the heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine eyes; but know thou that for all these things God will bring these into judgment, Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh, for childhood and youth are vanity. Remember how thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days <iome not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou Shalt say, I have no pleasure in them.

Sol(Hnon had all this world had to offer; riches, women, liquor, and etc., but finally he recognized that All is vanity of vanity. Ecclesiates 12:13, 14.

It has been just a little over a detjade since I was a teenager. Since then Ive worked with youth groups and there certainly is enough to stay busy if you want to. I wholeheartly agree with P. A. Taylor, Jr., and Miss Pat Worsley.

Prayerfully,

Mrs. Lois Wagner

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Pull publicity of crime is a far better curb of criminal activity than concealment. Justice has no place for the nameless accuser and neither the individual nor society is served by secrecy. Raleigh (N.C.) News and Olwerver.

B^ JOHN CHAMBERLAIN.. Copyright. 1963, King Features Syndicate, Inc. 3 Chinas Mao Tse-tung seems fo be a man of cxxisiderable' sardonic humor Triiich he Is currently using to give his supposed ally, Nikita Khrushchev, the screaming meemles.

The great Mao Is not remarkable ftN* his consistency: at one period he announces that he will let a hundred flowers bloom, meaning that people are to feel free to write as they think; at another period he chops the heads off those who presume to iHffer with him. He InviMles Jh* dia and then halts the Invasion; he twits Khrushchev for Cowardice over Cuba, but he has not himself summoned the nerve to attack BriUsh-held Hong Kong . or Portuguese Macao or the smaU islands held by Chiang Kai-shek between Taiwan and the Chinese mainland. He Is just as Invulnerable to the sardonic thrust as Khrushchev but It Is the Soviet dictator, not Mao Tse-tung, who is obviously doing the winciing these days.

The Mao technl(jue is devilish. He floats rumors that the Chhiese are not at all satisfied with certain nineteenth - cen-tinry treaties which ceded to Russia a corridor from the Lake Baikal reglOTi of Siberia to the port of Vladivost(^ and gave the Russians other Pacific maritime territory. He calls Into question the ancient Russian annexation of Chinese Turkestan. Then, when it is suggested by c(Micil-lators that Mao and Khrushchev talk things over, the Chinese dictator agrees to a meeting in Peiping, to which Khrushchev could n(^ go without losing face.

The twitting of Khrushchev goes on against an ominous geographical and demographlcal background. B Is often said that the longest unfortified land frontier in the world is the one that divides the United States and Canada, But the land frontier between CTiina and Soviet Russia is longer by a fourth as much again. It, too, is unforti-fied. Th'pdgKatton of China is said to be around 7(X) million. That of Soviet Russia is a mere 220 millicHi and the Russian birthrate has been going down. What if the 700 mlUion Chinese started to move north?

When, during the Korean War, General MacArthur pleaded with Washington to permit him to bomb the privileged sanctuary of the Red Chinese in Manchuria, the request was turned do^Mi for fear that it might bring Soviet Russia into the conflict. Whereuptm General Citarles WUloughhy^ MacArtfaurs^ chief of intelligence, pointed out that a single txmib placed on a strategic portion of the Trans-Siberian Railway would effectively isolate the Russians from their Red Cidnese allies. The Russians, so General Willoughby i-ecalled, couldnt defeat the Japanese back in the early years ol this century because of the Siberian distances Involved. General Willoughby had obviously been looking at the map of inner Asia, where the Trans-Siberian tracks parallel the Mongolian and the Manchurian borders for some three thousand miles. This stretch, which is roughly the distance between Portland, Maine, and Portland, Oregon, shows how tenuous Is the linkage between the two ends of the Soviet Asiatic empire. To get off the ho(dc of this tenuousness the Russians are now making surveys ior a second line.

All of this must be on Khrushchevs mind as he listens to Maos taunts. All of this .^must be darkening his dreams when he considers that the Red Chinese may someday be able to explode an atomic bomb of their own. For a period Khrushchev traded taunts with Mao, ccHitrasting the Red Chinese unwillingness to attack Portuguese Macao with Nehrus bold seizure of Portuguese Goa. But Mao bad the last word here when he dismissed Khrushchevs remarics as a fig leaf tq hide a disgraceful performance in the Caribbean crisis.

True enough, in any Russo-CTilnese war, the jSoviets would { have the advantage of an Indus- t triallzed nation. But the Red ; Chinese might negate tttat with ' their willingness to die. Once before, in history, a nervy chieftain with little advantage save that of a ferocious manpower erupted from inner China to (Continued on Pago f)

The one important fact about the current battle over managed news is that it will not, and should not, come to an end Christian Science Monitor.

Late Decisions Due On Taxes

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS NEVER stop"HOPING

Will justice at last prevail upon the eai-th?

The answer is No and Yes. The negative answer arises from the realization that we are imperfect beings, that humanity is plagued by sin and selfishness, and that scattered through all nations there are millions of people ready to strip their fellow men of every advantage they may enjoy. ()n the other hand, the trend of history is in the dlrecti(Mi of justice. The common man in most civilized countries today can be confident that every social and political force is working to bring about universal justice.

' But we shall never succeed ultimately simply because of our ow'H effwtsv We shall Improve, and that improvement will lead us in the direction of triumph;

but triumph will be the gift of that Creator- God who made the world and life and who will bring them to their final consummation.

Perfect justice W'ill someday be established upon the earth. Mans growth will make a great contribution toward this final and abiding happiness. But because we are imperfect beings we can contribute just so much and no more. The final triumph will have to be given us by G<)d. But the assurance of our faith is that God can give us that triumph and that He has promised to do so. Perfect justice will at last prevail upcm the earth, but it will prevail because God has willed it so and brought it to pass. We can look for-waid to it with confidence, and we should not allow our Imperfection or the imperfection of the world to drive us to doubt and despair.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Action on both the Federal budget and the proposed tax cut will be delayed. While ev-erybodyr favors a tax cut, there is very little agreement on how much. Congressmen themselves are confused about how much to cut. Some now fear too much of a cut may do more harm than good.

Meanwhile, the budget has priority, since it must be shaped up before July 1.

Consequently, action on the tax cut may not come before October and possibly in early November. Then the budget total will have been agreed upon and Congress can calculate the deficit any tax cut will produce.

Pcrthermore, by that time Congress will know better whether the recessiosn President Kennedy has been predicting is real or simply a political apparition.

Here are more look-aheads, based on analyses of developing trends:

whiteconring: Blue and white is the dominant color combination house

wares and home accessories today, but trade sources say black and white seems to be on the way to being the next favorite.

U. S. aid to the blasted: Watch for a plan for government aid to families living near jelports. They will Include loans for remodelia^ or moving homes made unllvable by jet take-offs.

Anti-age discrimination: Now that racial discrimination is on th way to solution, expect a movement to prohibit discrimination because of age. It may become illegal to ask a job applicant his age. The'res one drawback; If such a restriction were imposed, employers, to be sure, would turn down everyone who looked over thirty.

HIGHER LUMBER PRICES

Lumber to rise: Part will be seasonal, since home ccmstruc-tion is resuming in northern areas. Part wlU be because of shortages resulting from unusually heavy wirttersin Canada, the Midwest and even Southern states. Home building costs will be iifched up again

in most regions.

Cheaper metals: The end of dock and mining strikes will make^ most nonferrous metals more plentiful and tend to keep prices at present levels. No serious shortages are foreseen.

Open oven coming: Ovens without front, back or aides have been developed by the American Gas Association. Heat is applied to food at higher rates, with less heat lost to the kitchen. In place of walls, alum-minum reflecting sheets drop down from above, concentrating heat on the food. In place of .the fr(Mit door there is an air screen to keep heat in, and overhead infrared, heaters speed the cooking. Ovens may be on the maricet next year.

ANOTHER MICHIGAN SURVEY MISSES BIG POINT

The University of Michigan Survey Research Center reported that a survey of about 2,-(X)0 adults in January and February showed no improvement in copsumer sentiment. However, the tmprovement noted in November still exists.

The Center again did not (Us-

criminate betwera those who expect a tax cut and those who dont, which might be the key point in the answers. T

Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve reports that department store sales from January 1 to March 9 are 3 per cent above a year ago. The New Yoric district, even with the newapa-per strike in New Yoric*Clty,~ showed a 3 per cent gain and the Cleveland district showed a 2 per cent loss,

OLD PROMOTER COULD BE OWN FHIST CUSTOMER

I am ptezmiog to go Into the hairpiece business. the Old Promoter announced when hi dropped In today.

And why? I asked.

It-K sure-fire, he "said. Both RK orcentage and the number of elderly workers is increasing. Social Security payments become less a(te<iuate every time the cost of living rises. Obviously, thousands more men of 65 are going to have to pretend they are 89. The means: hairpieces.

T looked at his pate. Mon vieux, I said. I have spotted the first -