Monday, October 7, 1963

Breath Of Revolt

Set Back Line Planning* Is Overdue

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An ordinance now under consideration by the City Council to establish set back lines in Greenvilles business district is long over-due. The need for such an ordinance has existed for years and has been given passing consideration from time to time. But the citys governing board has never taken the necessary step to establish such set back lines*

The establishment of set back lines such as those proposed w'ould eventually reduce by 10 feet the depth of buildings facing business streets in the city. So far as owners of those buildings are concerned, the move would eventually represent a +^'ioss of 10 feet in the size of their buildings Ip the process, however, the width of the street on which those business buildings face would be increased by 20 feet. '

TIhe wider street would greatly enhance the citys business district and in turn would enhance the value of property facing on those business streets.

Over a period of years Greenville has sought to cope with the problems created by narrow streets in its business district. Several years ago it was necessary to establish one-way streets in an effort to handle the greater volume of automotive traffic

in the downtown*" area'. But even with one-way streets, there is a limit to the volume of traffic that can be handled.

If the proposed ordinance is enacted by the City Council it will not mean that streets will immediately be widened. It will not mean that in two or three yearsor even in a decadethe downtown area will enjoy the benefits of streets some 20 feet wider than they aie today. It will mean, however, that at some, future date as the old buildings disappear and new ones are constructed the way would be opened for widening streets in the citys business district.

The propo.sed ordinance is another step in preparing Greenville to cope with one of the obvious problems of continued growth. It is, in our opinion, a proposal that will be in the best interest Of the city in future years, and in the best interest of its business di.strict. ^

Reoraanizinq

Beains At Top

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

MOVE Reorganization of the states commercial fisheries division began at the top.

It is being viewed both as a bid for greater support by the coastal fishing industry and a move to take the agency out of the political arena.

The decision came from top echelwis In the Sanford admin-istraticMi. It was based on conclusions that the divisions seafood promotion and development program was slipping badly and that it had been politically vulnerable.

Twenty four hours after the surprise removal of veteral state fisheries commissioner C. Geh-rmann Holland, the governors office issued a detailed explanation of the reorganizatl(Mi alms.

Political aspects were not mentioned. But removal of the division from poliUos was implicit in the fact that the governors choice for a new commissioner is a career scientist and unlike Holland, neither a politician nor a law enforcement man.

UPGRADE Governor Sanford caUed the move an upgrading of the fisheries division In the department of Con-sei-vation and Development.

This involves a major policy change, Sanford said. We are changing tWe prime approach from enforcement to promotion and development.

There have been demands that the division be stripped of both its function as a law enforcement agency and as a collector of license fees and revenues, Sanford conceded that, until now, the basic functiMi has been enforcement and commercial fishing laws and regulations.

Law enforcement will continue to be an important activity of the division, Sanford said, but added it must be supplemented by an expanded program of research. education, advertising, Indua&dizUion. and maricet development.

EMPHASIS The governor called for emphasis tm research and biological studies pertaining to seafood production, conservation and harvesting. Under the outlined reorganization, such studies will be conducted in cooperation with the Institute of Fisheries Research and other marine laboratories and intensified.

Sanford pointed to other problems relating to the commercial fishing industry which he felt were not getting full attention.

Much more needs to be done In the way of processing, shipping, marketing and advertising, he said. We need to at tract more seafood processing and freezing industries. We need to devise more attractive and efficient means of preparing our product for the consumer, and

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we need to impress the housewife with the economy and nutrition of seafood products.

In this connection. Sanf o r d proposed a closer liaison and working relationship between commercial fisheries and CDs commerce and industry division.

ACCEPT Further, Sanford said, no program of sound management and regulation can succeed without support and cooperation of the peo^e concerned, the commercial fisWermen themselves.

Thus an Important aspect of the divisons new look will be public relations.

Sanford said the Industry must have acce.ss tn and en-gaage in discussion of the findings of biological and economic research, and that these findings must be accepted as valid.

There must be Increased PiFStmal contact between rtivlr Sion personnel and the fishermen themselves, Sanford said. Only when they become convinced that the division of commercial fisheries is ^cerely working for their best Interests and Is basing its policies upon sound factual data will they be willing to support our program.

THOROUGH While the proposed reorganization of the division began at the top and was decided upon almost exclusively by higher-ups in CD, the governor and CD director Robert L. Stallings, there are indications it will be thorough.

Stallings and Sanford will outline the proposals to the commercial fisheries committee of CD at a meeting next week, and report to the full policymaking board later this month at the Fall meeting at Asheville.

Sanford mentioned several inadequacies in existing fishing regulations and said continued improvement is needed.

He said the regulations need to be accepted as just and necessary by local fishermen and need to be enforced fairly and efficiently. He called for further training and supervisen of the divisnos enforcement personnel through an in-service training program to be expanded and strengthened.

ADAMS The new fisheries commi.ssloner will be Dr. David A. Adams. 31 a career biologist w'hose doctorate field work was done in the states coastal waters. Adams, a native of Charlotte, is presently curator of the state museum of natural history.

Headquarters of the commercial fisherie.s division is now located at Morehead City. It is the only dlvison of CD which does not operate from headquarters in the CD department in Raleigh. A decision on w'hether to move the headquarters to Raleigh will be made later.

One week out of the year the public is asked to give special attention to fire prevention by removing possible fire hazards from their own premises.

It is not too much to ask of any Tamily in a community. It is not too much to ask of any business firm. For removal of those fire hazards may well be the ounce of prevention that prevents thousands of dollars worth of fire losses to individual families and to the community.

Throughout Pitt County this week fire departments are asking the cooperation of citizens in seeking out and eliminating fire hazards which exists in seeking out and eliminating fire hazards which exi.'its in individual homes. It may be a stack of old papers put up in some forgotten corner of an attic, a stock of combustable materials tucked away in a .storage room, faulty wiring, a faulty flue on a heating plant or any one of hundreds of other things which jeopardize the safety of a home.

It is a physical impossibility for firemen to visit each home in the county to help families make iri-.spections for fire hazards. It is possibleand practicalfor each family to make its own inspection

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of its home to remove fire hazards which may exist.

Th^e appeal being made by local firemem during this fire prevention week de.serves the cooperation of families throughout Pitt County.

Consumers Pose

One Barometer

By ROGER BABSON BABSON PARK, Mass. There are many methods used to deteiTnine what business hi general is going to do next, but none of them are surefire, as those of us in the forecasting business know so well. However, one barometer of business weather that I always watch with interest Is consumer buying intentions. This is published each quarter by the Census Bureau.

POPULAR BUSINESS PULSE When you come right down to it, public sentiment is very quick to reflect economic tendencies, even sometimes to direct them. If, for instance, people simply do not feel like buying them, it is pretty difficulty to make them buy. And if they do not buy, stores are caught with top - heavy Inventories, orders die down, production has to be cut back, and unemployment begins to rise. Thus the scene is set for a possible recession, or perhaps even for a depression.

Fortunately, however, the opposite is true if the nations shoppers really want (and are able) to buy. When the future looks comfortingly secure, this desire to buy can carry consumer resistance almost to the disappearing point. The more buying increases, the more inventories are used up. Then comes new orders for salesmen, for wholesalers, for manufacturers. Production starts to climb, employment expands, and chances of an early recession or depression practically vanish for the time being.

HOW DO SHOPPERS FEEL NOW?

This seems like a good time to take a look at the latest estimates of consumer buying httentions, just recently released. Over the next twelve months, more people intend to buy neV automobiles than planned to in the previous year. In fact, the Census Department says that 8.4 percent of households reporting to it plan to purchase a new car. That Is the highest level for this time of the year in the history of this statLstical series.

I find this situation optimistic becaiKse a great many people are more inclined to pick

up a second - hand auto than a new car unless the future looks relatively serene and prosperous. But, right now intentions to purchase used cars show practically no change from a year ago. The emphasis is on new cars, a good sign for business generally in the months ahead.

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HOUSEHOLD GOODS The picture in household goods may not be quite so rosy as that in automobiles, but it reflects a trend in the same optimistic dlrectiwi. Consumers intend to buy somewhat more household equipment over the next six months than was the case for the same period a year ago. Many families also expect their incomes will be higher. This is comforting, inasmuch as figures show that people have stepped up their bujdng during the past year faster than they have been Increasing their disposable income.

Of course, I realize that & sudden international or financial debacle could make the public pull in its horns very quickly. However, even such an occurrence could not for very long prevent a fundamentally secure - feeling populace from extending its bu^g again. As an example: Even the threat of war with Russia over her Cuba - planted missiles did not keep peoples purse strings closed for any great length of time.

EMPLOYMENT WILL Even though unemployment is giving the Administration a headache, employment totals are climbing steadily, carrying Incomes up with them. Except in the relatively few centers of real work scarcity, people expect to hold their jobs indefinitely, to add to their family incomes from time to time, and to be able to afford more luxuries. Beftter homes, second (and even third) cars per household, brand-new labor-saving devices, are all popular expectations for many households today. Fundamentally, business Is good: money and credit are plentiful: Russia does not want war: 1964 Is an election year, which Is always favorable for business. Given co-operation by the w'eather. It all adds up to good production and trade in the months to come.

Director, Southern Regional Education Board

The U. S. government buys $613 million worth of basic research a year from the universities of the nation. One hundred of these universities each perform $1 million or more in federally epensered Fosearcb aa-nually, and of this number, 31 are Southern institutions.

At present, government research imposes its heaviest demands upon the physical sciences, which contribute vitally to defense rfforts. Next in line are the biological or life sciences, whose contributions battle disease of all kinds and open the way for man to explore space, the bottom of the oceans and the core of the earth.

The biggest buyers of research are the National Institutes of Health, the Department of De-Defense, the Nationala Science Foundation, the Atomic Energy Commission, the Department of Agriculture, the Public Health Service and the National Aeronautics and Space

Administration.

More often than not, these departmental giants go outside of the South to get their research done. They tend to do their shopping for research where there are the best research staffs, facilities and re-sovaces in the technical iiaJds. in which research is demanded.

For the most part, research Is assigned to professors, rather than to the institution, and today top research producing institutions boast concentrations of scientific scholars all too rare in the South.

John Hopkins University and the University of Texas receive the Irgest sums of federal money for research among institutions of the South, and they even outstrip such long-established scientific centers as Yale, Princeton and Cal Tech.

Southern institutions following behind the first two are the University, of Maryland and Duke University, each of which re-ceive a little more in federal funds for research than the Uni

versity of Southern California, Purdue or Indiana University.

In spite of the few outstanding examples of Southern institutions doing research, as a whole our region is lagging behind the top producers. Of 25 institutions which do 60 per cent .of the tot^ basic rBsearch,.onlY three are located in the South,

Some 50 per cent of the total research is done in 15 institutions and none of these is a Southern university. Some are located in the West, in N e w England, in the Middle Atlantic states and in the Midwest, but none bi the South.

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Size does not always determine the amount of research located to an institution. Among the top 15 performers of basic research are the University of California and the University of Minnesota, larger than any Southern university. But M. I. T., with an enrollment of 6,000, Harvard with 12,000 and the University of Chicago with 9,000 are also included smaller institutions, but long established centers of excellence.

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(Dallas (Tex.) News) Remember the story of the labyrinth? It was a complex, confusing maze of corridors out of which it was almost impossible to find a way. To make it more interesting, a monster named the Minotaur lived there and devoured any tourists that it could catch. The owner. King Minos, used to say. It is a ixior thing, but Minoan.

We Americans have a labyrinth of our own and once a year stagger through it like broken-field runners. Ours is the huge, complex structure called the federal income-tax law with its mass of ever-shifting rulings, regulations and interpretations.

Making a wrong turn is easy to do. No one is ever certain what the government will decide on'-taxes at any given time. To prove this, a newspaper sent stx reporters to the ERS headquarters. The reporters presented identical salary and expense items to six different experts and asked how much the tax would be. They got six different ans-W'ers.

What the law means depends on Who is interpreting it. This caught on IRS man whose return was audited. He defended a deduction under a new regulation by saying, I know my expenses are deductible under that regulation. I helped write the regulation myself. The auditor threw his deduction out

anyway.

With the experts being forced to play it by ear, it's small wonder that the layman does not know whether an item is deductible or not. Many taxpayers just take return in hand and give it the old college try. One such was the postal employe who deducted as a medical expense $593 spent for dancing lesson^. He explained that he had prescribed this treatment to cure his varicose veins.

Another was the Fort Worth woman who deducted the co^ of an African tour as a business expense. She said the purpose of the tour was to gain publicity to help her sell real estate back home. Both these deductions were disallowed, but tomorrow is another day and a later ruling may change the ground rules to make these deductions acceptable.

The committee-approved tax cut in the House brings all of this to public aatention again. The weU-being of this republic needs more than tax cuts and cuts in spending. It needs, equally well, tax simplification.

Dont blame the IRS because of the present complexities; government collectors dont like them any more than the payers. What is serious are the high rate and the uncertainty of regulation which encourage evasion and almost any other resort to escape. This is unhealthy in a nation which wants to respect its laws.

Although government research contracts are not lucrative to a university, they are desirable for many reasons. Institutions which have found that contracts and grants coming with federal research projects do not meet the total expense which they cause the university, have also found other rewards in the in- terest of outstanding scientists anad students.

Raising Southern Institutions to nationally comparable levels of excellence is a,n uphill battle because excellence attracts excellence. But they must be raised, for the effect of excellence is cumulative and when Southern Institutions develop the quality to attract more first-rate corps of scientific manpower they wiU be on their way to measuring up to national standards.

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A nation that has produced the finest free education system the world has known is endangering its strength by neglecting the vital traditional role of a free people-passing along their wisdom to their progeny, Grove City (Ohio) Record.

Wood isnt just wood any more. We know and use it^in myriad forms, some unrecognizable, made possible by research and the miracles of chemistry. Waste is virtually nonexistent. Just about every last ounce and inch of every tree cut serves a worthwhile purpose of some kind.Industrial News Review,

BY JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1963, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

So the West and this will probably Include the U. S. before these words are In print is going to ball out an enemy by selling its wheat surplus ta Khrushchev, the man who is sworn to bury capitalism. Where does this leave us?

The only honest answer Is that nobody reaUy knows.-The history of trading with the enemy Is full of ironies, and sometimes the seemingly stupid move has turned out to be the wise one, and vice versa.

Once upon a time the United States or at least the northern half of It saved itself by selling wheat to its enemy of the moment. This occurred during the Ciyil War. Everyone expected Great Britain to intervene in the war on behalf of the South, the theory being that the textile mills of Manchester just had to have that Alabama cotton. But it so happened that Britain, in the early Eighteen Sixties, had three years of crop failure. The U.S., or Abe Lincolns half of it, contrary to all. predictions* had an enormous grain surplus throughout the whole CJivil War, due largely to the new McCor-mic reapers and mechanical improvements In plowing. So we sold the surplus to a needy Britain and thereby kept her from taking active part in the war on the Southern side.

In Napoleonic times Great Britain herself was pledged to keep an expanding France from controlling the world. But the British manufacturers and merchants, as befitted a nation of shopkeepers, insisted on trading with Napoleonic Europe anyway. This seemed Idiotic to those who Insisted that the correct policy would have been to make Europe suffer because of its willingness to put up with Napoleon but actually it served to build Englands manufacturing and financial strength to such a point that the rest of the world had to foilbw Brtt-^ ish leadership for a hundred years.

Contrariwise, President Thomas Jeffersons embargo of U.

S. trade with Britain In the early Napoleonic years deprived maritime New England of tis Uving, yet failed to hurt Britain seriously.

In this question of selling wheat to Russia, the elements are crazily mixed. The short view advantage is that the sales, in effect, tend to ball out capitalism even more than Communism. Early In August the conomic prognasti-cators were worried lest West Europes heavy duties on U.S. frozen poultry might be extended to U. S. grain. There were doleful predictions thaA our wheat shipments would shrink for the rest of 1963. But now, with the Soviets buying Canadian wheat that might have gone to Europe, our traders have moved into the vacuum by selling four million bushels of grain to West Germany, Belgium, the . Nettherlands and Britain for quick autumn shipment.

If this sort of thing continues, our total farm exports for the cureent marketing year that runs, from July to July will reach just short of $6 billion, which will make a new record, This could reduce our stored wheat surplus \jy as much as two hundred .million bushels, leaving us with less than a billion bushels to dver-hang the market. The surplus would still be slightly appaUing

but, who knows, maybe further crop failures In Russia will someday trim the overhang down to practically nothing.

The chief worry in the whole business is that Khrushchev, unlike the Great Britain of the Civil War period, wUl not cease to be our enemy merely because we have coflsentcd to save him. But we could. If we had any brains, u.se wheat sales as a lever to pry political con-cessions out of the Soviets that would put us In a position to survive in the same world with a revivified Russian Communism. For every bushel of wheat that goes behind the Iron Qir-taln we could exact somethlnf that would help us out in the Caribbean, or in the buffer region of central Europe.

The worst thing about balling Khrushchev out by selling him wheat Is that It deprives (Continued on Page 5)

Activity During Rest Of Year

Strength For Todoy

By EARL L. DOUGLASS NEW BIBLE TRANSLATIONS

The book market is flooded today with what are designated Bible translation.s. Most of thes<? are not translation at all. They are paraphrase.s. A tran.slation consists of changing the spoken or written words of one language into the spoken or written words of anther language. To paraphra.se. however, means simply to restate written or .spoken word.s into another form .so that they can be more easily understood.

Do you lo.se patience when yon attend religious services and ILsten to the reading of Bible .passagc.s entirely different in form from anything vnn have been familiar with? The King Jame.- Ver.sion of the Bible is magnificent, but it is conceivable that something vastly bel

ter for our age could be produced. The point Is that nothing better has so far been produced. Most of the modern translations do liltle more than rob the old translations of their beauty. The translators are certainly hone.st men, but they apparently cannot avoid reading into the translations they make their own ideas of theology, .sociology, and pliilo.sophy. What results is a flat and unpalatable piece of prose havin')? not the simplicity of art but the simplicity of the telephone book.

We pray the day may conic when groups of fine scholars will produce translation.s which will make the King James Version appear outdated and Inferi! The sari but quite evident truth, however, is that no such translators have put in their ap-peaiance as yet.

By ELMER ROESSNER Construction and industrial production will continue good for the rest of this year and into 1964.

Construction costs will remain fairly stable, even if some wage rates trend upward. There may be some Increases hi steel, but on the whole materials prices will continue steady.

Industrial production dipped in August and when the figures are in they may show a decline in September, too. But prospects for the rest of the year are good e.specially with the expected upswing in auto and truck output.

Here are other look-aheads in business:

Little emjploynient iimprove-iiient; Business expansion during the next three months will not be great enough td change emploMuent much over seasonal pattenis. There will be the usual slowdown In October, the normal rise .starting late in No-venrbrr, the sharp increase dur^ ing the Christmas anad po'^tal peaks, and the Inevitable let-. down in January.

TUCKING HEAD UNDER WING

Chicken compromise: Al

though the U.S. is still maintaining a firm attitude in the chicken argument with the Common Market, insisting that it will raise taariffs unless the Market lowers duties on U.S. chickens, reports from Washington are that a compromise will result. Higher tariffs, originally scheduled for October 15, will be postponed until November 1 to allow time to work out a deal.

Auto boom: Upswing in auto Iiroduction, predicted above' will be based on good accept a nee of 1964 cars. It is a uriouf thing that Volkswagen, in conditioning the American public agajnst annual design changes has conditioned it to buy more American care.

Costlier glasa: Wage increas es grEinged in the hand glass industry make it certain that PVi^es in products will rise next year if not before. If similai increases are won in the machine glass field, all glass will cast more.

Honce, mlrrorii: The coiniqg

rise in glass prices will be reflected in mirror prices. Pittsburgh Plate Glass has already announced a rise in mirror-type plate glass,

PLANT TO COST MORE

Titanium oxfle to rise: Increasing demand threatens a shortage of titanium oxide, or rutile, used in paint, welding and other Industrial products and processes. This Is likely to increase the price of paints to widen the market for plastic-based paints.

Real long: A new stereophonic record that plays for more than two hours is about to be introduced. It turns at 16 2-3 revolutions a minute.

Travel switch: Growing French coldness toward Anglo-Saxons and economic bits on travelers by the De Gaulle government will change travel patterns, with Britain, Germany, Spain and Italy benefltting most Prance is ending discounts on payments in dollars and d i s-counts on gasoline.

Higher noii'ferrous metals: Prici s of .some nonferroiis metals have been rising aAd indi

cations are that almost all wlH Increase, although the Increases will be mild. U. S. demonetization of silver, however, will keep prices at present levels.

TAILOR GIVES UP THE OLD PROMOTER Im humiliated, the Old Promoter remarked when he dropped In for his usual raU killing visit today. I got a brochure from a tailor I never heard of.

And whats the humillatioof I asked. ^

Dont you know about tailors? he asked. They keep their lists of customers secret until they give the customer up, either for n(mpayment <rf bills or for nonpurchase erf suits. Then they sell their lists to other tailors. Since I got a mall-Ing-piece from another tailor. 1 know my old tailor has turned me over and in this case to aa unknown, an upstart.

And wa.s youp name sold for nonpurchase or nonpayment? I asked. " ;

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