Monday, April 8, 1963

Needed Help In Planning Ahead

Conncil approval for'xjreenville to enter into with the C&D looking toward a contract for such* negotiations with the Department of Conservation assistance.

and Development for broad planning assistance is Greenville, as with any other city of corn-

a positive step which.is much needed by the city. parable size and potential, sound planning for order-Action by the Council last week does not mean ly future is essential. Not only will the propo^cid that the city will contract with the Department of study enable the planning and zoning commission Conservation and Development for planning assist- to do a better job with its work} it will enable the ance. It does mean, however, that the city manager city to better prepare to cope with long-range needs is authorized to begin negotiations looking toward in many areas of municipal government.

such a contract. It The kind of planning program offered through

indeed for the city the Comiiiunity Planning division of the Department

the door on such a proposition p^ g Conservation and Development offers many ad-

The Community Planning division of the C& ^^ntages for Greenville. We trust the Council will offers professional assistance to municipalities of advantage of the program if negoti i*

the state in planning problems. The service includes which it has authorized can be satisfactorily

such things as mipping, land use survey, communi- completed, ty facilities plan, public and capital improvement

studies, subdivision regulation studies, zoning ordi- ^ T T ____ 'L

nance revisions and similar items. ^^jTTLXJ ilOCinilCTS xO XlClv

In coping with problems of future growth, it is essential that Greenville continue sound long-range planning. The need for such work as proposed in the planning program is recognized by the local planning and zoning commission as evidenced by Hearings in Washington this week will largely

their request that the Council authorize negotiations largely determine whether the 10-year effort for

an area air facility in Eastern North Carolina has been in vain or whether quality commercial air service on an area basis will become a reality.

Automation Can Go Too Far!,

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Far-Reaching Effects

A $300 Million

3ond Issue Seen

By JOYCE WILLIAMS ' RALEIGH Proposals for a highway bond issue are getting to be a joke around the corridors of the*State Highway Com-missiwi.

With the current proposals, first for a $200 million bond issue and later for a $250 million one, opposed by the governor Robert Jackson, assistant to Highway Commissioner Merrill Evans quipped: The next

thing you know, well be talking about a $300 million issue.

WhUe no one took the quip seriously, it could have a basis In facts that will emerge only In the next session of the legislature.

Those facts are that there may riot be enough money on hand to continue the states highway building program at the current level, and that a bond issue may be required to supply the deficit.

Governor Sanford insists this Is not the case, and the highway commissions approval last week of 54 new highway projects totaling an estimated $40 million w'as intended to bear out the governors case.

Evans, who helped sound the death knell for the currently proposed bond issue, went along with the governor in saying there was money on hand to complete the whole roster of proposed new highway projects.

Evans conceded, however, that it might take some time possibly several years to raise the necessary money. He said a bond issue would permit the program to be stepped up considerably. j

It seems unlikely that Evans \vas thinking of any bond issue that might come out of the current legislature. The chances for It are too slim, despite the fact that the House Roads committee has given it a favorable report.

Sen. Robert Morgan of Qeve-land, one of two senators who Introduced the bill for the bond Issue, predicted the Senate roads committee also would give it a favorable report. But even with a favorable report from both roads cMnmittees, the bill stands to die on the floor If It is not first killed in the Finance Committee.

The fact is that without the governors backing, the legislature cannot hope to get a favorable vote on the bond issue In a popular referendum and political realists in the General Assembly know it.

The governor may have had several reasons for refusing to support the bill. One theory has It that he did not feel the voters would endorse the bond issue. and this may be tnie. But It could be, too. that the governor acted to kill the bond is

sue this session only to use it as a campaign issue.

The plan probably would be to sound out the views of the voters on^ the bond issue in the primaries* and then to let the next administration take what appears to be the popular stand on the issue.

Naturally, this plan to defer action on a bond issue to sample public opinion on it at the primaries would be most effective if there appears to he a shortage of money for roads at the time.

Whether this will, indeed, turn out to be the case, that money for already - approved highway projects will be in increasingly shorter supply before the primaries is open to conjecture. But Evans comment that a bond issue would step up the completion of the projects lends some credence to the suggestion that there may not be as much money for roads as the administration would have us believe.

It is entirely possible, then, that the motion of the highway commission seeking a $3(W million bond issue may be more than a joke in the next legislature.

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From the hearings will come a decision which will directly affect all of this section of North Carolina. If the CAB decides in favor of area service .at a central location, communities of this section will have a mandate from the aeronautics body to establish an area facility with centralized service.

If the decision favors the present basis of service at individual community airports, the area facility idea' will be out of the picture for many years, and perhaps pertnanently.

Greenville and Pitt County have persisted in By JOHN ABNEY their assertion that an area air facility is the best answer to obtaining high quality commercial air f service for Eastern North Carolina. Other communities have persisted in their contention that local service on a community-by-community basis is the most practical answer to providing adequate air service to the area.

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The Lady Who Is 10'.

MEXICO CITY Just about every time you turn around somebody who is 99 or 100 years old is giving the public their for-There is, of course, no way to know m advance mula for living to such an age. how the CAB will decide upon a question of this One persro says he made It

sort. It is a matter of record, however, that the *tal5Sg"tat verTS

federal agencies which deal with aviation policies Martinis and the next one

have declared that joint facilities and service, where claims he never touched a drop

possible, provide the most practical means of assur- block

ing good service on an economical basis for the of people who used tobacco.

airlines, for communities and for the federal gov- And a feUow I met down in n n f the Isthmus of Tehuantepec once

ernmenc. didnt know how old he

This factor, plus the information contained in SiThe^wS" a^ro^^

briefs already presented in the current case, offers man when they were kids so encouragement that the forthcoming deci.sion will everybody had him pegged for favor the idea of area air service for Eastern North ^ tSs^ teUow^said the reason

Carolina.

Quality education note: Someone in the governors office flunked spelling.

The prepared text of Gov. Terry Sanfords special message on Highway safety called for periodic checks of safety equipment and listed such items as breaks, horn, tires. . .

he lived so long was because he spent his evenings with gallant ladies and put away enough moonshine to fill a medium size lake and he had sm(rfced atrocious smelling cigars since he was a child.

Now we have a lady of 101 years (and she admits it) who Is all the rage In Mexico and people are trying to discover her secret of Ufe.

So Mrs. Severlana Puentes Castillo, who was bom February 28, 1862, celebrated her birthday with a huge cake that had a pound and a half of candles on it.

All the newshounds around town traveled down to Ixcateo-pan for her party and began prying into her perswial history.

One elderly scribe asked Mrs. Fuentes Castillo what w'as the formula for hanging around so long anij she grinned at him and said. Why ask me? You lo(^ like you have it.

Then she told about having sixteen chdren and said her husband was only a child of 45 when he died (and small wonder). Two of the children are living and between them she has seven grandchildren and nineteen great-grandchildren.

And yet the governor, referring to an editorial in a Raleigh newspaper which consisted entirely of a three word Latin idiom, is reported to have quipped:

It shows quality education is taking hold.

Unemploy men

Nutshell Other Editors Saying..,

A Question Of Morale

issue in

There is interest in western North Carolina too about establishing the proposed Hls-toryland Trail along the general route of U. S. 17 through Eastern North Carolina, and about an appropriate name.

A reader in Hendersonville. Fred R. Dorsey, has suggested The Wright Trail as a possible alternate name.

Yaupon tea, by the way. may become the mark of political campaigning in the future.

Wally McCown of Manteo brewed tangy yaupon tea from Buxton at headquarters of his campaign for election as district governor of Rotary International last week at Wilson. He called it a yaupon tea party.

McCown is a transplanted Outer Banker hes really a mountaineer from Tennessee.

By GEORGE HAGEDORN

There is one critical phase of the economic picture on which no one is especially optimistic at present. Unemployment remains at approximately six percent of the labor force. Informed observers dont expect it to improve much in the near future and some think it may approach seven percent by the end of 1963.

The problem in a nutshell is this: during the past five years we have been adding to our labor force the number of people able and willing to work at the rate of about 780,(X)0 per year. But we have been creating new jobs at a net rate of only about 570,000 per year.

What is really alarming is that we are on the threshold of a much more rapid increase in the labor force. The post-war babies will be coming on the job market in increasing numbers and the labor force will Increase by about 1,400,000 persons annually during the rest of this decade.

Li other words, the process (rf job creation has been unable to keep up ,wlth labor force growth of one percent a year, and now/ we are faced with a period when the rate wiU rise to about two percent,.

Yet when the problem is put In historical perspective there is no real cause to view it as hopeless. During the latter dee-ades of the nineteenth century, when immigration was at its height, the labor force increased at a still faster rate about three percent annually. Although there W'ere intermittent periods of unmployment in this era, by and large we were able to make-jobs for these people.

Why then do we seem to find so much difficulty providing jobs for a one percent annual

vestment, a much larger part of our national income than at present.

After aU, people cant be put to work and paid wages imless their output is great enough to make the arrangeipent worthwhile to their employers. This means that they must be well equipped with tools, machinery, and all the other things they need to work efficiently. All these things are capital and they must be paid for out of the savings of the population.

It is a surprising but well documented fact that the rate of net saving is now much lower than it was three-quarters of a century ago. According to statistics of the National Bureau of Economic Research, in the period 1869 to 1888 the share of our national output which was saved (and therefore appeared as a net increase in the nations store of capital) was 14.6 percent. In the period 1946 to 1955 the percentage had sunk to 7.0 per cent.

This is astonishing, since usually as an individuals income increases he tends to save a largei; percentage of it. Apparently as a nation we have been doing the reverse. Here is on important clue to the difficulties we are experiencing in making enough new jobs..

The problem of job creation will be one of the central issues of our time. Future columns will return to the subject.

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Even ' though there Is nothing, in the final analysis, that schools and teachers can

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

A question has been raised concerning the morale of North Carolinas Highway Patrol members. Rep. George Uzzel of Rowan claims the morale of the Highway Patrolmen who talked to me is at a very low ebb. Commissioner of Motor Vehicles Ed Scheldt declares that, on the contrary, morale

high number of arrests, however.

But the one consistent thread running through most such con-versatiMis is that a preponderance of patrolmen are satisfied with their jobs and their fine organizationrated among the best in the nation for five years in a row. The Highway Patrol and its morale questiwi threat-

of the patrol is The highest itens to grow into a poUUcal foot-

increase in the working popu- -do to prevent boys or girls

has ever been in the history of the patrol.

Who is right? Perhaps neither; a simple black-and-white ans-were to a complex question of this sort isnt forthcoming,.. Even a quary of teh patrolmen themselves leaves nothing definitely ansewred. Such a survey was made across the state by the Charlotte Observer, Its efforts turned up some interestingbut not conclusivean

swers.

For example, the Observer quoted one patrolman in a western Piedmont county: First time we knew that were supposed to be unhappy in our work was when we read it in the paper. But another patrolman insisted Morale is at its lowest ebb.

What are the reasons given by some of the patrolmen? Many cited the fact that patrolmen must spend too much of their time doing administrative work like tracking down car-owners whose insurance has expired.

Another reason given was the gripe against the merit promotion system based on efficiency reports. Many patrolmen declared they have had no pressure no quotaabout the number of arrests they make; they did feel they were expected to make a,

ball as Scheldt and some members of the Legislature draw battle lines.

Scheldt is not overly popular with some legislators; as regular as clock work Scheldt proposes a batch of highway safety measures (most of which are soundly based and much needed) at every session of the General Assembly. And just as regularly the legislators turn them down. This rejection is a theme The Telegram has turned to many times in its support of highway safety proposals. ..

Rep. Uzzel has proposed a bill that would remove the Highway Patrol from the Motor Vehicles Commission, and from Scheldts authority. It should be noted here that the Highway Patrol has gained national*recognition for its efficiency under Ed Schide. Uzzel denies he wants to remove the Highway Patrol merely as a means of getting Scheldt. He says its because of the morale question.

But since there isnt anything conclusive on the morale ques-tl(m it is difficult to get excited about such a bill. Legislative energy should be aimed in directions most likely to get results in highway safety, not in making a political football out of one of the states finest or-ganizaUMis.

She said this a little sadly, like maybe she had expected at least sixty four grandchildren and four or five hundred greatgrandchildren. But it was heartening to hear the part about her husband being a child of 45 because a 47-year-old-boy like myself has a lot to look forward to.

After a whUe the reporter pinned her down to an answer and she said the whole thing was absurdly simple. All you do Is stay in a good humor and laugh a lot, eat everything and work hard. I can go for the laughter and eating but if wortc is Involved Id just as soot settle things a little earlier.

So in the midst of the festivities this elderly lady sort <rf waddled up and asked politely, "Mama, can I go down to the store and get a few things we need?

And Mrs. Puentes Castillo said, Go eat your cake and get back to.work. You kids are alwaya bothering me about things.

Then she got up and the music started and she danced the Mexican Hat Dance but after ten or fifteen minutes she sat down again and said she guessed she wasnt as young as she used to be.

An interesting feature for the psychiatrists was revealed when she told about getting married. It seems that when Miss Sev-eriana was 17 a couple of friends came to see her father (the cus-tmn) and said young Jose Giles wanted to marry her so how about It?

And Miss Severiana was so frightened that she sobbed, Oh Papa, that isnt true. I dcmt have a boy friend and I dont want to get married for anything in the world.

Then she added that her father understood and she and Jose got married shortly after.

Apparently women have always been like that and they get mad if you believe what* they say.

Opinions Brief

If a truck is going to speed as many do, and even havp Its limits stepped up, how about equalizing law enforcement by applying minimum speed requirements to trucks' as well as other motor vehicles on the states highwajrs? Greensboro DaUy News.

PT-109, the Hollywood film based on the presidents World War n experiences, probably will be big at the box office. At least it contains one characteristic Kennedy touch. Budgeted at $1 million, it has now cost the producer $7 blUlcm. Daily Oklahoman.

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1963, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

The other night, visiting an . ardent TV buff, I had my first glimpse of a remote control gadget in action. Whenever there was a pause for anything dear to a sponsors heart, the owner pointed her deadly electronic gun at the program and, pouf!, another, advertisement bit the dust. Blotto for ie plug, silence for the singing commercial.

Now, I have nothing against advertising (where would writers by without It?), but I believe In EmersOTs Law of Cwnpen-sation, and the remote centred gadgetalso known as a blab-offis a perfect example of ^at law In operation. More than fifteen years ago one company devised a way of permitting the entertainment Industry to put a box office Into TV without having to sell the program to a sponsor. Called phone vision, the Invention, which would have us ed a post-paid telepbOTe signal to provide an audience with TV fare for small fees, was perfectly practical. But the PCC which,..in the Thirties, had delayed the advent of television itself for four years In order to protect the owners of radio setssaid nix. It has taken a long time for ie FCC to relax its ogreish surveillance to the point of permitting a few pay-as-you-see TV tests. But the FCC was originally created to assign.wave lengths to broadcasting stations. How come It assumes the power to tell a station how it shall finance Itself?

Through Its chairman, Newton Minow, the FCC has been complaining about the culr tural aridity of TV and blaming the big sponsors of shows. Well, the person who pays the bUls certainly has some right to call the tune. If the FCC really wanted variety on TV, It did exactly the wnmg thing when It put the pay-as-you-see Idea on ice for the better part of two decades.

The Law oi Compensation may yet force the FCC to let the audience decide what sort of TV programs it wants, and how those programs shall be financed. Meanwhile otc company. stymied In Its hopes for pay-as-you-see TV, has had its revenge. The blab-off Is eliminating the advertisers damned reiterativeness from the home at the will of the TV viewerand nobody can do a thing about It without violating the Constitutional law against mireasOTable searches and seizures.

Speaking of TV fare, the official claim that sin. In the average western or gang-buster program, alwa3^ gets Its come-cppance, may be statisticallv true. But the come-uppance is seldom as exciting as the crime that leads to It. The other day a Mafia mobster who had been'seized in the raid at Apalachin, New York, and sub sequently imprteoned on another charge, put In a request for a transfer from Leavenworth Pri^ on the ground that staring at the dull grey walls (rf a Federal pen was too much for for anybody to take. When the wages of sin are boredom, bow can you make TV drama out that?

If this colunon seems to be following Newtwi Minow to applying unduly strict standards to TV. let me hasten to establish my impartiality by paying my respects to the current crop of magazines. The televi.s-lon commercial Is at least kept apart from the entertahufient itself. But in some of the monthly magazines I defy anybodb^ to separate the advertisoaients from the articles and stories vdthout calling in a trained in-vesUgator from the FBI. Everything bleeds into everything else, the authors by-llnes cant be found without the aid (tf a microscope, an the eye reacts to the wbrie assembly | it wOTld to a salvo of Roman candles discharged against a background of pinwheels on in old-fashioned Fourth <rf July,^ In some magazines thab do manage to keep the advertisements typographically separa t-ed from the articles, a stndige presumption Is eetabllshed by the maintenance of off-beat article departments called by variations of the phrase Bpeifing Out. Are we to unden^d

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from this that nothing elM In the magazines in quewon speaks out? Obviously ;%ot. But what Is the sense In mak (Continued on page O

lation when we were once able to take a three percent increase in stride? There 5s one fact which, in this columns opinion, is central to the explanation. In the latter part of the nineteenth

growing up in ignorance if said individuals heads are set in that ambition, it is proper and possible to insist that they do so quietly. Memphis Commercial Appeal.

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Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS WATCH OUT FOR lllTTERNKSS

The sour disposition is bad. The weakness of a tiigger temper is worse. But nothing is so bad as to be bitter through life and espt'cially to come to the end of one's career in bitter-ne.ss.

Fir.St of all, this bitteniess doe.s no good. It will right no Injustices. U will stab nobody through the heart. It will make the person who has such bitterness looked upon with disdain and perhaps hatred. Most significant of all. bitterness gets down Into the crevjces of a man's life or a womans and eats out all the ability ahd happiness which may be there.

President John Adams was .so angry over the election of 18(10 (hat he left the city beime his .successor. Thomas Jefferson,

wa.s Inaugurated. At that time Adams had for Jefferson nothing but bitterness and disdain. But later someone brought the two men together, and until the end of their lives they were the clo.sest of friends, writing each other- evei-y week and occasiOT-ally several times a week.

Finally. John Adams, just a year Ixifore his death, had the satisfaction of seeing his son. John Quincy Adams, elected President of the United States

If you detect a bitter taste in your mouth or particularly in your memory do something about it. It will get worse not better with the passing year.s, and it will hurt no one so much as It will hurt you.

Be good friends with yotir-sclf and rrmemher. no mip can l)T on friendly terms with a bitter man. ,

By ELMER ROESSNER

Easter sales this year may be dampened by two factors: the date of Easter, eight days earlier than last year, and the juxtaposition of Easter and income tax day. Fathers, facing heavy payments a week from Monday, may tend to hold down family spending. Last year, with Easter on April 22, after April 15 Dad may have been more inclined to say. Charge it! The rest of the year may be better. (It was, at least until May 19.

Earlier Easter this year simply means a week less of being teased by spiing into greater spending for fashions.

However, despite the Easter date, retail sales will continue to rise at least through the first half of this year.

TV RECORDER COMING Here are more look-ahead? in bnslne.vi:

Home TV reeordlng; This may come sooner than you think. The Armour Research

Foundation has develwed a prototype of a machine that wUl tape television programs and later play them back through sets, complete with sound Several electronic companies are developing similar systems. Costs: $500 to $1,-

000 for a recorder.

Sugar to go higher: Double pressures are nhw pushing sugar prices up. The world shortage Is onje: the beginning of scare buying by housewives Is another. Hoarders may save a few pennies but thats all; there will'be plenty of sugar, even at higher prices. Wheelers and dealers are now rushing to lease sugar beet land to cash in on higher prices.

Steel demand to be distorted: Steel orders have been perking up, but many ,of,tt)em appear to be hedges against a * steel strike this summer. If the strike doesnt occurand chanc-ea are that It wontcurrent Inventory may slow down orders later In the year.

WATERY MINES:

Cheaper nonferrovs meiato:

Manganese, nickel, cobalt and copper prices may be weaken^ ed by studies that show they can be recovered profitably from the ocean floor. Dr. Jtrtm L. Mero, University California researcher, gave the American Chemical , Society a gUmpse at the tremendous wealth of underseas minerals this week. Mining them may cut prices in half, he said.

Astrao inbrlcaiits; Greases being developed to resist the action of rockets fuels may have civilian uses in the not-too-dis-tant future. These lubricants resist many fuels and other chemicals and indicate that a single lubrication may be developed to last an auto a lifetime. \ Consumer revoH: There are signs that cOTSumers are angry at misleading packaging, mls-reprosented products and other sly devices. Congressmen, Better Business Bureau and other agencies note an Increase

In inntest mall. In CaUfcH^, OoveniOT Edmund O. Browh Is asking the state legislature to enact many laws to protect pon-sumers. This may InlluOTce other states to follow. T

END OF BOUX WEEVIL MAY BREAK THE COUNTRY 1 see that the Departz^ent of Agriculture has Invoited a machine that beats cotton weevils to death. the Old Promoter remarked during his usually boring visit today.

So I read. I said.

Think of what-that wUl mean to the country, he went on. Well all go broket** Huh? I eald.

Sure. Without the weffvUs, cottOT crcHpe will soar. The government will have to subiidlze more and more cotton, and to do that. It win have to have more and more money. H we eliminate flie weevil, we may also eliminate the taxpayer. ru have to think that one over.

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