TaHdar. /uljr 16, 1963

Another Strand In The Fence

ax-Supported Program Is Reality

A tax supported rural fir^ protection program te now a reality in Pitt County with an aopropria-tion in the current budget for funds to be distributed among the volunteer rural fire departments of the county.

The lump sum of $11.200 appropriated for the purpose during the new fiscal year falls short of the minimum figure retjuested by the rural fire groups. Even so, the fact that rural fire protection is now a part of the countys operating budget is a significant step for the county.

In recent years volunteer firedepartments have been organized throughout the county, and for the most part they now afford fire protection for practically every section of the county. The work of these departments has substantially reduced fire losses in rural areas of Pitt. It has been evident that these volunteer departments could not operate indefinitely, depending solely upon financial contributions of property owners within their respective areas.

The appropriation included in this yeari-county budget will not underwrite all the xpenses of these rural fire departments, but it will provide sufficient funds with which to stabilize their operations. The appropriation also reflects the opinion

!tem For More ii^olitical Wars

By WILLIAM A. SfIIRE5

SYMBOL The gleaming new $6.2 million Legislative Building In Raleigh stands almost empty now and every-(me wonders whether It will become a symbol for future political wars. .

Chances are that it will that it already has, and that it was inevitable that it would.

By Its very nature, the Legislative Building 1^ political and a center of political activity. It is a political arena, belonging to the people of North Car-ol^a. Its estimated cost to etch citizen of the state was $1.25 In tax money.

The first of many political hatUes within its widls already have been waged.

ROLE Nevertheless, the prediction is niado by many that the use to which the building is put on a year-around basis will determine its roli as a political symbol.

This use will reflect directly upon the General Assembly Itr self, its leaders, its majority party, and iwrticularly upon the LegislaUve Building Commission composed entirely of legislators.

The present Legislative Building Commission issued the edict that the building is for exclusive use of the General Assembly. 11 was designed and built for this express purpose. Now. iuiw-ever, the rules and regulations implementing this edict have provoked criticism that the buUdlng 1s considered a "private club" and "private property" of the legislature.

STAFP - When the 1963 Genera] Assembly adjourned on June 28. the doors of the more than 200 prvate offices, clerical offices, committee rooms and service rooms were locked.

Members put the keys to their private offices in their pocket and left Raleigh

Rs r e d-carpeted chambers and paJm courts axe now quiet and cool. Parts of the building are open at certain times for tourists and sightseers and occasional visitors wander through Reoepttonlsts and guides are on duty.

House and SeniUe clerical staffs are atUl working on Journals and official papers of the 1963 session. Other legislative personnel ~ staffs of the sergeant-at-arms of House and Senate. Joe Warren and Brook.s W. Poole and maintenance crews have been engaged in cleaning up and taking inventory.

And a staff of stenographers remains on duty in the secretarial pool, transcribing reports and correspondence. Some have nothbig more to do than make iw:rapbook.s for their departed gBSSi

leglslator-bosses.

USE The fact that the huge legislative buUdlng stands spic and span, air-conditioned and largely idle the nearly 200 parking spaces in its basement garage unused is a sore subject elsewhere amund Capitol Square.

Already since the legislature adjourned, wje growing state agency the State Board of Higher Education has had to vacate lU space in the overcrowded Education Building annex, and move to costly rented offices in a building away from downtown Raleigh.

There is, however, virtually no chance that the Legislative Building Commission will permit other state agencies to move Into the building. Its members are firmly against encroachment.

CUSTODY In addition to the rules and regulation for u.se of the building itself laid down by the Legislative Building governing commission, all equipment, records and supplies belonging to the Legislative Building are now in custody of the new Interim Legislative Council.

No one has indicated how long the job of transcribing, preparing the Journals, invent-torylng and cleaning up the building wUl take, nor how long additl(mal persmtnel will be kept on the leglslatdve payroll.

It is already clean, however, that costs Involved are mounting daUy and that, combined with the regular session that equalled a record for length and a special session of the General Assembly probably in September legislative expense w'lll exceed any comparable period In the past.

DEDICATE Plans for a fomal dedication of the new Legislative Building fell by the wayside during the regular se.s-alon that lasted from early Peb-i-uary until late June.

Dedication of the building is to be planned and a date set by a special legislative committee. It may be held coincident with convening of the special session in September, or may be delayed until later.

ROOM Clean-up crews working In the Legislative Building since adjournment discovered a "no man's land."

This was the press room on the flrS$ floor. The press room had not been cleaned since the session started. "It hadnt been touched." Senate sergeant-at-arms Brook.s Poole said. "No one bothered to tell anybody to clean it. It really was a mess. We sent a crew in and cleaned in and cleaned it up." And the doors to the press room also have been locked now.

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of our county commis*ioners that fire protection for people in rural areas is a justifiable essential function of the county government.

Action by the county commissioners with respect to this matter Is an important step for the county and particularly for residenU-of its rural areas. It will probably take years for the program to be fully effective, and for a permanent arrangement to be worked out for financial support of these rural fire departments. But at least Pitt is now on the way toward a permanept fire protection program for its rural properties.

More Changes Likely In The Soviet Picture

Conltmpoiai> history rather conelutively poinl.s to communism acquiring a nationalLst per-.spective (vastly contrary to its founders preachingH), _

And Red Chinas leadership has definitely more than a good ca.se in charging Moscow has deviated from Marx and Lenin with the co-existence line Chairman Khrushchev is selling today.

Couple that with scattered instances of economic incentives adapted by the Russians, and the increasingly important factor of Russian wealth and well-being; and it becomes increasingly probable that Peking and Moscow will not mend their ideological differences in the near futureand perhaps never.

W[estern analysts are more fi'equently writing of Soviet adaptation of capitalistic practice.s and even predicting^reater strides in that direction.

The c4^t systems greater efficiencies may be regardeci a^a big reason for this; because the needs of more and more productivity are being yearly impre.ssed on Mr. Khrushchev . . . and in many ways the Chairman is a most logical man.

Though his country and people are poor by We.stern standards, the average Russian reportedly is enjoying comforts and conveniences never before known. To accomplish this, Mr. Khrushchev has borrowed idea.s from abroad.

Today he is unwilling to sacrifice these gains in a major conflict of uncertain profit . . . whicli is conservative-capitalist thinking if we ever heard

It seems very probable that observers of Soviet Russia are going to see still greater change < in the Mo.cow design if Khrushchevs thinking prevails for the next two decades.

COPE

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By ALVIN TAYLOR

Ehe Accent On Playtime

Writing Fcr 1 he Histcry Becks

By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) The effort* of the Russians and Red Chinese to explain their split would look like a farce in the luse of language if the split itself did not have such Immense significance for the future.

In their attacks on each other both sides were obviously writing for the history books to justify their positions. This was still no excuse for their long-wlndednesa.

On June 14 the Chinese banged the Russlnasparcularly Premiere Khrushchevin a statement which took up four full pages when reprinted In an American newspaper. It was a scathing criticism ol the Soviet Union.

Yet. It hardly mentioned the Soviet Union by name. Instead, it turned It* scorn on "certain pcrswis.

It ridiculed the Russians for accepting Western notions, condemned them as unrealistic, accused them of long and repeated hostility to Red China, and, in short, accused them of undermining the world communism.

Over this past weekend the Russians replied in a 3.5.006-word open letter to "all Communist party to the world." The Russians indicated the Red Chinese directly, thus demonstrating how much the split has widened.

This was a savage answer which accused the Red Chinese of bebig anti-white racists, of ialslflcations and distortions, of ingratitude for Soviet help and of undermining the unity of world communism.

In between the two documents the Russians and Chhiese on July 5 opened talks in Moscow to settle their differences. The weekend publication of Soviet statement said the Chinese delegates to the Ulks were making the split worse.

If that split as it appears on the surface could be summarized In a few paragraphs, this would be It:

1. Khrikshchev, realizing the United States and Russia are so advanced In nuclear weapons that a war between them would eliminate both and much of th world besides, insists

peaceful coexistence with the West is possible.

The Red Chinese say it Is impossible and that qapUallsm is aggreaalve and must be overcome by force. The Russians say the Chinese dont seem to have any idea what a nuclear war means.

2. Khrushchev isnt giving up hope of communizing the rest of the world. But he says this can be brought about peacefully. For Instance: through internal efforts In individual countries and even through such devices as elections.

To this the Red Chinese say: nonsense. They Insist that only revolutions can achieve world communism because the West wouldnt permit peaceful takeovers.

Actually, lU-wlU between the Russian and Chinese Communist parties go back into the 1920s when Stalin dominated the Red Chinese20 years before they took controland almost got them wiped out by Chiang Kai-shek.

Other tensions have built up since the Chinese Reds drove Chiang out of mainland China in 1949 and took over the country. In addition, there is the ancient problem of nationalism ^of rivalrybetween the two forces.

On top of this, and perhaps as vital as anything in the split, is the fact that the Russians and Chinese are In tow different stages of communism, the former far advanced, the latter Just in the beginning stages.

Thus the Russians, with their developing prosperity, would have far more to lose Uian tiie Chinese who are still in the scratching stage. They can afford to be more venturesome than the Russians.

Because this is so, Khioish-chev has reason to be less reckless than the Chinese, although he was reckless enough last autumn when he slipped his ml.ssiles into Cuba and brought the United States and Russia to the edge of war.

He is no less a revolutionary than the Chinese. Hes just more sophlsltlcated. There can (Continued on page 6i

Charles Bissette, who says he plays golf about twice a year, recalls how he came into possession of a set of left handed golf clubs which he has been using all these years.

As a youth In Wilson, Blssette borrowed clubes to play <m the golf course there.

One day a thoroughly frustrated golfer with a set of left-handed club* stormed into the club house.

"Here." he told the pro, "Give them to anybody who wants them." With that he pitched the clubs Into the comer.

Blssette, standing nearby, wa.s quick to volunteer. "Ill take them," he said. The deal was quickly made and he has been playing with the cub* ever since.

A few years ago the bag became so tattered that Mrs. Bls-sette obtained a new <me, but the clubs are still the same.

minister answered. "I mean the ministry."

Peppermint Paik popped up in

a City Council discussion. If you dont know, Peppermint Park is located at 14th and Brownlea. Drive. It got its name from the kids, who observed the candy striped playground equipment installed there.

Councilmen have been considering using a portion of the park for construction of a sub fire station. The section they want to use Is now a small soft ball field while the remainder is for young children. The question has been whether or not the soft ball field is used enough to make un

wise us? of the area for the station.

Dr. Ralph Brimley noted he had visited the park on a recent Sunday with his grandchildren.

"Quite a number of small children at various ages and time.s use it, he reported. "I did not see very many using the softball field.

It was Dr. Brlmleys opinion that it is a park for small children. In fact, his own grandchildren "like to run me to death pushing the merry-go-round, he stated.

At this point Dr. Earl Tre-vathan asked Recreation Director Gordon Goodman, "Are there any other councilmen going over there playing?"

Ocinicns In Brief

Which all recalls the Joke about the minister who came off the course after a particularly trying golf day.

He held his head In anguish. "Im going to give it up." he moaned. "Im going to give it up.

"Why you cant give up golf," a friend protested.

"Oh I dont mean golf," the

Renewal of hopelessly devalued neighborhoods must go hand-in-hand with measures that prevent other neightbor-hoods from becoming tomor-row's .slums. The Durham Herald.

private rights .also must remember to remind all of us about states responsibilities, local represonbilities and private responsibilities. The Raleigh Times.

"Those who insi.st on reminding the world about

states rights, local rights and

Other Editors Saying... So Poor, Yet So Rich

"We are increasingly concerned about the excessive sensitivity of this and that group to any literary comment or reference. Soon we shall reach a point at which no literary allu.sion unles.s it is laudatory will be allowable.The Washington Post.

(Goldsboro News Argus)

Why is Eastern North Carolina so poor and undeveloped while it has unsurpassed natural resources?

Why are we so poor when we should be tops in the nation in swine productiwi?

Why are we so poor while we should be a national leader in livestock and dairy production?

Why are we so poor though we can become the. vegetable basket of the great and populous metropolitan seaboard. We are only a few hours from the nations principal concentrations of populati(Mi. And these people must eat. And we should be able to compete auccesslully with Calliomia 3,000 miles farther away, and Florida, a thousand miles farther from the consumer centers than we are?

Why is our average family income hi the rural areas of Eastern North Carolina so dlscoura-glngly low when our soil and our climate are unsurpassed? We have a growing season that is twice as long as that of many states which far outstrip us in farm income. We have a rich soil that is so easy to make bloom and blossom like the rose that many say we are bred to laziness by this fact. '

Why have we hardly touched the great <H>Portunlties in tree

farming when w^e can grow trees faster than practically any region In the whole nation?

Why have we left the tree farming opportunities almost entirely to the big operator and the big corporations? This is not to criticise big operators but to a.sk why cant the average farmer make money In tree farming as does the big operators?

Why have we so determinedly, in a way. neglected our magnificent resources of water in our streams and in our water tables? Why have we not capitalized our unexcelled water resources in our efforts to bring in more Industry?

Why has the Eastern part of the state failed to establish itself as a winter resort for the peoples of the frigid areas of Canada and the United States? When men from the cold pai-ts of the continent have discovered us they have been delighted but we have done little to tell this story in the right places to bring winter tourists?

Why is there not a single cigarette. smoking tobacco, plug tobacco or snuff - making plant in all Eastern North Carolina, th? biggest producer of top grade flue-cured?

Why arent we more aroused over the 150,000 lagor surplus in our region?

Postmen are confused these days. It seems that more and more cook book are addressed to men and more and more golf book.s addressed to women. Carlsbad Current-Ar-gus.

"Liberalism and rugged individualism were originally synonymous but, .somewhere along the line they parted company and are now regarded as the antithesis of each other. Arizona Progress.

"These day.s a woman is considered truthful if she doesnt lie about her husbands .salary, her weight and age. Upson (Ga.) Independent News.

"The Kennedy clan is expecting three children this summer which will bring the total to 23. At least theyre doing what they can to help the next generation in shouldering the debt. Fort Myers News-Press.

"So far the Sixties here in the South, while marked by a great deal of change, much of it for the better, have belonged in the national headlines too little to the Governor Sanfords, talking responsibilities and law, and too nidch to the Ross Barnetts and George Wallaces and their polite sympathizers in the gospel of defiance." Greensboro Daily News.

in ihe Cities

BY JOHN CHAMBERLAIN Copyright, 1863, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Ip Republican circles the question is frequently asked. "How are we going to cope with COPE? COPE.of course, stands for the Committee on Political Education of the AFL-CIO, which has been extraordinarily successful in "educating voters to turn out for Left-Wing Democratic causes on election day.

To cope with COPE. the Republicans have needed an organization that can carry Republican ideas into the big cities of the nation. Bu^ this has been troublesome for two reasons. The first Is that, lacking a labor union base, the Republicans have not had a source of personnel recruitment in big city areas. The second has been the difficulties of raising "education" money, which has to come in small amounts from many people.

Lacking the means to crack the big cities, the Republicans have been Inclined in recent years to let In-town wards go by default while concentrating on the suburbs. "Why," so the argument has run, why bother with what we cant win anyway?

But big city majorities, particularly in the northeast-em states, have overbalanced the suburban voters and a few Republicans are facing up at last to the necessity of cutting down their urban v(^e deficits even though they cant hope to erase them entirely.

By losing by closer margins in the city, the Republicans might hope to triumph nationally.

The new Republican philosophy of vote-catching has had its trial run incidentally one of 13 years duration in southern California, where an organization known as the Republican Associates of Los Angeles County has run schools for candidates, collected money In small amounts from many people both in and outside the cities to pay for research, and done other things of a practical nature without getting mixed up In Intraparty feuding. So successful has been the Los Angeles experiment in coping with COPE" that Republicans of the Chicago area, organized as the Citizens League of Illinois, recently created an educative" body that managed to elect a Republican to the office of sheriff of Cook County,

The first man to bring the "cope with COPE idea to the populous East coast, w'here it is needed by Republicans more than elsewhere. Is, John Lupton of Connecticut,, ja.,;^publican candidate for Congress-at-large last Autumn who ran ahead of his ticket but still managed to lose because the city majorities were against him. As a conserv-tive, Lupton is looked upon askance by local Rockefeller Republicans as a possible "Gold-water man. This has hampered the development of his Connecticut Republican Citizen.s Com-ittee a bit but some of those who have been against the attempt to affect the city vote by raising "education" money ^ and personnel outside the cities for fear that it would be helping a "Goldwater mans" career have recently been having second tboughts. For Lupton has insisted that his organization which happens to be the first state-wide organization of its kind is at the disposal of any Republican who can get a nomination, and at least some of those who have attacked him for trying to create a "dual" Party apparatus are coming around to see that he has only a "service committee in mind.

Taking his tip from the Los Angeles and Cook County experience, Lupton plans to make suburban money and personnel available to Republican city bosses who have been both short of change and short of doorbell ringers. The Connecticut Republican Citizens Committee is being set up on joint stock company lines, "selling memberships for $2 a month, or $24 a year. The members are empowered to vote for trustees, and the trustees, in turn, are expected to select the executive committee to run the organization.

With a kitty from the $2-a-month memberships and other donations, Luptons Republican Citizens hope to take the Republican story into the heavily Democratic wards of Bridgeport, Hartford and other citie.s which have been tipping the scales for Democratic state and national candlklates. "If we can (Continued On Page 5)

Mere Fcreigners Visiting U.S.

Strength For Today

Bv EARL L. DOUGLASS WARSCOIJ) AND OTHERWISE

W* hear a great deal these days a-bout the cold war. Only a few years ago we were hearing about a very hot war. Yet both the hot war and the cold war sink into Insignificance compared with the bickering and quarreling which goes on In the world every dayhusbands and wives complaining about each other, children and parenti making thlnga hot tor aaeh otMtr. desk pounding on the part ot high txtcuUvaa, gossip (fra-quently malicious) in Uttka groups which gather, quite oa-tenaibly, for some <^r purpose.

If we could settle the little wars in the world the big war* would lake care of theiii.selvea. Furthermore, even coslderlng the terrible tragedy of the big warn and the permanent son-ows they brought into counties*

homes, the little squabbles as a matter of fact when all added together cause more trouble thn the big international con-fUcts.

And It Is all 80 futile. Ninety-five per cent of such quarreling c(mslst.H in getting off ones chest stMiiething probably In no way connected with the issue at hand. Little misunderstandings in the home grow into permanent hoetillty. People seldom pound the desk and shout over matters of principle. Usually somebody la In a bad mood, la feelini below par, and takes it out on those round about him, or her.

Count ten before apeakiiif. Is tliat the way to handle it? Ever>boUy has to figure out his uwu way or hers. But half Uie misery of the world would be clrsicd up if we could find a way.

By EIJHER ROESSNKR

The American tourist corh-plete with loud sports shirt, dark glasses and ever-present came- * ra no longer mwiopolizes the transoceanic jets, the beaches of Spains Sun Coast or the gaming tables on the French Rivl-ra.

In places where he was one* the center of attention, the American traveler finds himself jolted out of the way by prosperous Germans, far - ranging Canadians and peripatetic Danes. It is not that there are fewer American* traveling lesa, but people of other eountrle* are traveling more.

. S. pendlng on foreign trtr vel last year was approximately $2.9 billion. But total, worldwide fareigu tourist spendlug was near $7 bitlioii, And the 1 3 million Americans who went overseas in 1962 were easily outnumbered by the 8 million Ger-nian.s who alsited abroad. In We.item Euripe, where tounsl

earnings mounted to $3.7 billion lor the year. Americans account for only one-sixth of the total.

Tourism is not only big busi-ne.s8 but It Is sUll growing fa.st. New records are already in the making this year.

USTS SCORES ............

The most startling development. however, 1* the emergence of the U. S. as a tourist attraction, Americans, accustomed to going abroad to gaw'k at beautiful vista* and strange peoples, are now finding them-elvM being appraised here at home by visitors from overseas.

A great deal of this new business can be attributed to the U. S. Travel Service, established In 1961 to encourage visits from other countries. The USTS iia.s spent an average of less than $3 mlliloo a year to promote the U.S. as a travel destination, In 1962, partly due to USTSs efforts, 6(11,715 pvcrsea.s vlsitoi-.s, rxrluding Cajiada and Mexico, *r*ent mor t.hTi

million here.

This was an Increase of 87,-563 visitors over 1961 and an increase of $25 million in spending. And while 6.6 million Americana were journeying to Canada and Mexico last year, some 5.5 million Canadians and Mexicans visited the States.

TREND CONTINUES

During the flrst five months of 1963, more than 250,000 overseas visitors came to the U.S. This was an increase of 23.7 per cent over the same 1962 period and an Increase of 45.6 per cent over the 1961 period.

The most significant increase was from Japan with 8.958 Japanese traveling here In the five month period, a rise of 44.1 per cent over the 1963 period.

For the month of May, the following lncrea.ses in visitor.'? to America over]$l%2, were registered: Columbians, (A) per cent: Frenchmen. 50 per cent; Italians, 35 per cent: Brazilians, 27 per cent; Britons. 20 per cent, and CenTians, 20 per cent.

THp tyrnw-fh nt

tourisn will continue. It wll help the flow of money from th< rich nations to the less rich. I will stimulate the economies o the countries involved. And 1 may even result in better lui derstanding between the people of the world.

TAX BITE AWAITS EVEN THE TOURIST

Vacationers In the U. 8. an paying more taxes, new taxe and higher taxes this year Commerce Gearing House re p<^.

Travelers face a 5 per cen Pennsylvania sales tax; 4 pc cent in six states; and lese amounts In 30 other states. Nev York Gty. a tourist favortt*, ha 1 4 per cent sales tax.

Gasoline taxes are In effect I every state, ranging from cents a gallon in Alaska dowi to it cents a gallon in Wyuni lag, Kansas, Texas, Mlatum and Illinois.

Cigarrette taxes range from cents a pack In four .state.s t no tax In Colorado, Nortl^ai