Thunday October 1, 1968

Jonas Knows Well The Long Odds

Share My Flour With China?

With each passing day it becomes less likly . that Rep. Charles R. Jonas will bow to pressure of Tar Heel Republican leaders and become the GOP gubernatorial candidate in 1964.

In mid-September when speculation over whether Jonas would run for governor was high, the Congressman said he would announce his decision within a couple of weeks. The time limit he getat least in general termshas now passed and

N.C. On Edge

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

ROLE At one end of North Carolina, down In the pine flats of Pitt County, powerful Voice of America transmitters daily beam IT. S broadcasts beyond the Iron Curtain and around the globe.

This year-old VOA facUity plays a major' role In the spread of Information to all comers of the world, a vital task In the ideological struggle of the East-West cold war.

Its location and operation in North CaroUna helps bring the fact, and awareness of global problems close to home.

Now, North Carolina Is (mi the edge of entering Into still another role In the modem age of highly-complex electronics and Buck Rogera technology a role that goes far beyond the bounds of earth.

DISH At the other end of the state, tucked In the forested mountains of Transylvania County, a new and different electitmlcs Installation Is nearing completicm.

This Is the big dish tracking statlm of the Natlcxial Aeronautics and Space Admlnlstra-tlon an 85-fOot dish-shaped antenna pointed skyward, rotating slowly and listening for signals from space.

It Is to be a key station In NASAs advanced scientific satellite trackingnetwork, and it is the first major NASA in-stallatkHi directly related to space exploratl( to be located in North Carolina.

LOCATE The dish sta-ticHi, situated seven miles from the little town of Rosman, Is to beccxne operatlcmal this month ready to receive data fixan satellites and spacecraft ranging more than 60,000 miles from earth.

The site in Transylvania County, near the headwaters of the French Brt^ River and 35 miles southwest of Asheville, was chosen because (tf the absence of radio frequently noise In the area. This was an essentia fOT the antenna location be-cause transmiters aboard spacecraft operate on very low power, five watts or less.

There are no established ctHii-merical airline routes In the area, no clc high-voltage transmission lines, a natural bowl provides good terrain shielding and It is an protected lands of the Plsguh National Forest. It is also reasonably close, 400 air miles, to the Goddard Space Flight Center at Greenbelt, Md., where the space data will be lu'ocesed.

PROJECT Until completion of the Rosman dish, at a cost of ve million dollars. North Carolina had no acutal NASA space installatlcms.

Federal space spending in the state during fiscal 1963 amounts to slightly less than four mil-U(m dollars, most M It at Rosman. There is some other space-related spending, mostly about half a million dollars for

research projects In the state. But this is a dixH) In the bucket compared to more than $1.5 billi(Hi being spent In eight other southern states, principally Florida, Louisiana and Alabama.

And NASA spent annually another billion dollars in space projects in California.

STATION There are plans for another $5 million to be spent for additional facilities at the Rosman station in the next 18 mcmths.

These projects include a microwave link for remote opera^ tions. Coded command signals originating at Goddard will then be transmitted to Rosman and sent from the North Carolina station to operating satellites. The satellites will respond to command signals by transmitting data back to Rosman.

At the outset, the around-the-clock (^ration of the Rosman dish will require about 65 personnel. This will be increased when the second command antenna becomes operational. Most of the personnel will be engineers and technicians,

WORK Work on the Rosman station has ben in progress for about a year and a, half. A Charlotte firm, Boyd* and Goforth, was construction contractor for the project.

The North Carolina State Highway Commission cooperated by improving existing roads In the area, by paving all gravel and dirt roads to -the site which is about miles off U. S 64, and building anew brtdge over the French Broad river to premlt movement of heavy equipment to the site. The U. S. Forest Service assisted In site clearance and removal of timber.

ADDED A private research firm is ccmducting rocket tests for NASA at a site on the Outer Banks near Corolla, in Currituck County, and reports its project schedule is increasing.

But Uie Rosman dish represents the states first real iS^ip-the-door for., major InstaJlations.

Aside from these facilities, the states space-lndustry pro-grtun Is pritiiaiily eeutered cm supporting and supplnental projecta and on applications of scientific knowledge gained from the space effort.

The fact that the state may be severely limited in potential for such facilities as those at Rosman and Corolla led state officials and the legislature to establish a state board of science and technology earlier this year.

This board is charged with encouraging and promoting expansion of research facilities and programs in technical areas. In application of results of space research and technology to Industrial processes and products and to greater application of the stales industrial capacity to requirements of national programs.

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ous threat to having a Democrat in the governor's chair for the next four years. *

But if Jonas is a capable politician, he is likewise a smart politician" ^He recognizes the odds will be against his winning in spite of gains made by the Republican party in North Carolina in recent /ears. He recognizes the many problems with which he would be confronted as a Republican- governorif, indeed he should winwith a Council of State com-

Rep. Jonas has said only that he is continuing to consider the matter. There is also, we believe, significance in the fact that he has called for a halt in the draft Jonas movement by some Republicans to get his name on the gubernatorial ticket.

Few people dispute the fact that Rep. Jonas is the most likely prospect the Republicans have for successful candidate for governor next year. He is seen by Republicans as the strongest candidate they could put forward in an effort to win the top post in North Carolina. He is seen by Democrats as the GOP candidate who would pose the most seri-

posed of Democrats and a General Assembly top-heavy with members of the opposition party.

It is hardly likely that a four-year term of office could be either pleasant or successful under such circumstances. The Jonas image at the end of such a term would be far different from what it is now with his party trying to get him into the race for governor.

Rep. Jonas may decide to b()w to the wishes of the leaders of his party who are' urging him to for governor. But the longer he delays in announcing that he has accepted their offer, the less likely it is, in our opinion, that he will allow himself to become a candidate for gov?.ernor in next years election.

Plugging Loophole On Considerable Revenue

Greenvilles City Council and its Utilities Commission are to be commended for moving swiftly to plug the loophole through which the city, was missing out on building permit fees or the Utilities Commission was missing out on double outside-city tapping fees for utilities services.

Moves by the two boards to plug the loophole represents the kind of close coordination between the bodies which will be of tremendous benefit to Greenvilles municipal operations.

The loophole was plugged by the Utilities Commissions adoption of the policy that it would charge in-city tapping fees for new structures only upon presentation of a ^ity building permit for the structures. Otherwise it would charge the double out-of-city tapping fees.

To some citizens this question of tapping fees and building permits may appear a relatively unimportant matter. But from information uncovered by City Manager Harry Hagerty in checking into the situation, it is immediately evident that considerable potential revenue is involved.

The City Manager has pointed out that his check into the matter shows that 140 new houses for which no city building permits were issued have been tapped on to city utility lines within the past two years at in-city rates. It has not been officially estimated how much the building permit fees on these houses might have meant to the city in revenue. Had the Utilities Commission charged its out-of-city tapping fees for these homes, however, it would have received an additional $10,210 in tapping fees.

Had the loophole remained opened, it could have caused a considerable loss in municipal or utility revenues in years to come.

Private

Growth

by JOHN CHAMBERjLAIN

By CELESTINE SIBLEY

Poo Late To Drop Santo

Copyright. 1963, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

After many months spent in surveying the state of U. S. public school educatlOTi. James B. Conant, former presii^nt of Harvard University, has finally arrived t the conclusion that many of our grammar school and high school deficiencies are bound up with a basic inade-^ quacy in prevailing methods of teacher training. The burden of Dr. Conants most recent re- port is that our tethers colleges tuni out a human product that, however conversant it may be with the most advanced me- w toods of putting a subject across Is seldom In command of the details and meaning of the subject itself. .

The irony of Dr. Conants criticism is that it adds up to a left - handed commendation of private schools. Coming from Dr. Conant, this Is indeed curious. For not so many years ago Dr. Conant was urging that private schools should be abou-Ished on the ground that they were undemocratic Institutions. No, wlttwut quite saying so.

Dr. Conant has recognized that private schools which arc free to hire teachers who arc masters of their subjects rather than masters of a prescribed teachers college ritual of methodology. are often In a position to give their pupils a better eduction than can be had In many public schools.

The Conant criticism of cut teacher training is not exactly original, for It comes after a decade of similar objecti(ms on the part of such organizations as the Council for Basic Education. Indeed, Sterling M. Mc-

BY CELESTINE SlBLET

Te-Exomining ...le ..ax-Cut

Rep. Adam Clayton Powell came out against Santa Claus the other day and after the first sense of shock at his audacity passed, I suddenly found myself wishing somebody more likely to be followed by the masses of American people had done it years ago.

Of all the facets of our Chrismas celebration, the Saff-ta Caus one seems to me to be one we could best do without The jolly old elf, the generous old saint who goes around rewarding good children on the night of the Christ Childs birth, was a delightful character to read and sing about.

If he were real in history or merely a folk legend like Paul Bunyan or John Henry, he deserves our affectionate Interest and attention.

But has his contribution to our Chrlstimas celebration been all good? Of course, it hasnt.

Santa Claus, we tell our children, wUl come to see you if youre good, which is, of course, a fond fib. He will come to see all the children whose parents can scrounge up the mwiey, go

into debt, put stuff on the laya-way, beg, borrow or steal something for Santa to bring.

Good or bad, these children will be rewarded by Santa Claus But there have been and probably always wUl be children In the world who are equally deserving, equally yearning, who are bypassed completely by the Good St. Nick. They dont know

why.

Eveiywhere they turn at school, in the stores, even in Sunday school, heaven help us they hear that if youre good and mind your parents, the old man in the whiskers and red suit will come whipping in from the North Pole and bring you goodies.

When he doesnt, maybe they arent' permanently scarred. Maybe they just am a little earlier than most that their poor, dumb, hardluck parents either couldnt or wouldnt make it.

'The pressures to be an adequate Santa Claus to ones children are terrific on alT parents. The old Idea of giving something to the children. In remembrance Of the gifts taken to

By GEORGE HAGEDORN

, The Hcmse of Representatives has passed a tax reduction bill. It now goes to the Senate where it should be subject to a searching reexamination. Let us hope that the reexaminara wi* start from a basic analysis of the objectives which the tax cut is expected to serve.

It might seem that the fact of a tax cut is more important than whatever aims may be in the minds of the legislators who pass it. But their conception of what it is they are tr^g to accomplish will certainly affect the kind of tax cut we eventually get. It can also Influence the subsequent climate for government spending.

One view is that the objective of the tax cut should be to stimulate economic activity by raising the level of total demands. If this is accepted, it seems to follow that the very purpose of the tax cut would be defeated If there were corresponding economy on the government spending side. In a recent speech, Dr. John P. Lewis, of the Presidents Council of Economic Advisers, said: . . .the needed demand-boosting job cannot be done by matching tax cuts and expenditure cuts.

Clearly, If the purpose of tax reform is conceived in these terms, a climate will have been created which encourages, rather than represses, increased spending and bigger deficits.

The demand - boosting approach however, ignores the fact that levels cf economic activity are determined not by demand alone but by the interplay of many complex forces In the marketplace. A sounder conception of the aim of tax revision la that it should remove the tax impediments to efficient performance and long

term growth of the private economy. This would involve both mitigatog, the incentive - depressing rise in the graduated rates, and freeing funds previously absorbed by the government for investment in private business.

the Baby Jesus, long ago got out of bounds. A gift wr two, offered In love, even offered anonymously in the name of the Mythical St. Nick, was a tender way to observe the H(^ Day.

Bet somehow the whole thing got away from us. Children started making lists and writing letters detailing their wants. The stores abound in Santas, hired for the iMirpoee d encouraging the young ones in their exercise of the gimmes..

Parents not only give to please their children but to make certain that the range and cost of the Christmas morning haul is extensive enough not to shame the child before his peers.

I heard of a 16 - year - old the other day who is already warning her parents that all the girls in her class are getting convertibles for Christmas.

Meanwhile, the agencies which could be concentrating on long-range problems of health and education, gird themselves for the December toy drives for the community - wide effort to make sure that Santa leaves not a single stocking empty. I hate to be caught seconding Rep. Powell, but some-tinies I wonder If we havent created for ourselves a monster and called his name Santa Gaus.

Other Editors Saying Send CARE PaRages? ODinions

When the objective of tax reform is understood from this point of view there is nothing inconsistent in advocating simultaneous reduction of government expenditures. On the contrary, tax cuts and control of goverament spending serve the same purpose of releasing the growth forces inherent in the private ecimomy.

Most of our leading statesmen have declared themselves in favor of the strictest possible control of federal spending. Thus, by implication at least, they have disaissociated themselves from the demand-boosting theory in its pure form.

This Is encouraging. However, the House bill would have been better if it had dealt more adequately with one of the chief obstacles to business growth the steep rise In rates through the middle brackets of income. Also, the meagemess of the cut in the corporate rate does not do the job that is needed in releasing funds for business Investment.

(Richmond News Leader)

Some dyspeptic editorial writer on the Chicago Tribune toe* a backhanded slap at the selection of Miss Donna, Axum of Arkansas as the fourth Miss America to be chosen from the South in the past six years. The reason that so many Southern girls win, he said sourly, is because they find it easy to diet. And the reason they find it easy to diet is that they cant stand Southern cooking, especially Southern-fried chicken.

We wonder what he means by the term, Southern cooking. This under-privileged fellow cant be talking about Virginia ham, crab Maryland, barbecued spareribs. candied sweet potatoes, or black-eyed peas served with stewed tomatoes. He cant be thinking of turnip greens cooked with a streak o lean, spoonbread, cornbread. or any of the other delicacies that experienced Southern cook* deliver to the table. He couldnt have had Creole cooking in mind either; everyone knows that in the culinary race, shrimp Creole and jambalaya left Boston scrod and boiled New England dinners behind at the pier.

Evidently our Chicago friend, at some time or another, had the misfortune of ordering Southern-fried chicken on La Salle Street in the Loop, (Mily to be faced with a soggy piece of fowl, dirty brown in color, looking as If it might creep off the

plate iSnd 'bite him. That was not Southern-fried chicken, but a crude Imposter. It was more French-fried chicken, prepared by a fryer who believed in total immersion. A real piece of Southern-fried chicken is crisp, brown, and succulent. It is a work of art.

Having been subjected a number of times to the over-priced field rations that pass for food in most Northern restaurants, we wonder why Southern representatives in Congress, fed up with constant insults to their regicmal cooking, havent Introduced long ago a bill to require that all food purporting to be Southern cooking, served north of the Mason-Dixon Line, be labeled clearly, Imitation Southern Cooking. Senator Douglas, an old friend of fair labels, might sponsor the measure. Such a bill should provide for a Southern Duncan Hines to be appointed to travel from restaurant to restaurant to restaurant, approving or disapproving foods bearing the Southern label.

That falling, the South always could Inltltate a public relations program by sending food packages, through the CARE program, to the North. After eating authentic Southern cooking, and recalling the Southern beauties who have been crowned Miss America, the Yankees might be tempted to wonder who won The War, anjrway.

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The 50-ccnt dollar, once regarded as the ultimate evil fruit of inflation, would now be welcomed back with open arms, according to a study released by the National Industrial Conference Board. For the dollar is now, by the boards calculation, worth 40 cents or less In pre-war buying power. Chicago Daily News.

Poverty seldom Is a reflection on a mans honesty, but extended over a lifetime it may cast a shadow on his industry.Matador (Tex.) Tribune.

The field of music is the only one to which neither the newspaper .nor tv can claim to excell the radio. The Publishers Auxiliary.

Another PoDulotion

The growing of trees is an operation in which man is only a partner with nature. If a forest is to produce top quality and quantity, man must understand how trees use the soil, moisture, air and sunshine, and how they may be protected frcfm disease, Insects and vrildlife which are out of balance with environment. Everett (Wa^.) Herald.

Murrin, the former U. S. Commissioner of Education, anticipated the Conant report several statements following up<Ni his resignation of the top education post in the federal government.

As for the parents In the United ^ates, many of them have been voting for the Conant Ideas with their dollars for some time now. One of the most interesting things on the American educationa horizon is the sudden spurt In the number of children being sent to private grammar and college preparatory schools. Ten years ago there were some 14,0(X) private elementary and secondary schools; today, the figure exceeds 17,000. Out of some 50 miUiini grammar and high school students in the country, approximately seven million are in private schools.

Contrary to what Is popularly supposed, the growth ^ the private school movement has very little connecticm with the integration problem. In certain SDuthem states parents are receiving state grants which allow them to send their children to schools of their choice. But the big development of the private school has come outside the South, and the reason for It, generally speaking, is parent distrust of prevailing methods of., teaching In such things as elementary English.

In Oakland, Calif., for example. parents put up the money last year to start a school, called the Mae Carden Ceitter School, with four grades. Tha idea was to provide a school that would make use of the Mao Carden system of phonics reading instruction in a region which, according to critics, had been turning out poor spellers and slow readers. The Oakltmd parents 'had become depressed with reading education provided In big, heterogeneous public school classes which, inevitably, tend to hold the higher I. Q. students to the pace of the slow.

When Dr. Ccmant was busy criticizing the private school on the basis that it was undemocratic, he could not have meant to imply that democra-cy must Insist that every student, whether brilliant or stupid should be compelled to go at the same pace. Naturally, since every person In a democracy benefits from living In a literate community, it is right for the state to provide tax -supported public schools paid for by everybody. But shice every person In a democracy also benefits from the excellence of a few students who graduate from school to provide such necessary qualities as diversity, in-ventiveness, Ingenuity, and leadership, it Is also light that small, individuall^d private schools should be encouraged. The case ii clear that nobody (Continued on Pace f)

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By ELMER ROESSNER

Strength For Today

BY. EARL L. DOUGLASS

GOD OF ALL There is an Interesting account in the twentieth chapter of I Kings of how a prophet appeared before the king of Israel and said; Thus saith Jehovah, Because the Syrains have said Jehovah Is the god'of of the hills but he is not the god of the valleys: therefore will I deliver this great multitude into thy hand, <hd ye shall know that I am Jehovah (I Kings 20:28).

Jehovah, the God of the hills the Sunday God, that Being who lifted us up and fUled us .with gladness as our prayers seemed to go straight to heaven and register, ^he God of the hillsthe God of triumph, the God who healed our loved

ones, the God who has guided our nation.

But how about God coming down into the valley, for this is where you and I spend most of our time? We plod alcmg day after day. Only,once in a very long time do we go up into the hills. Most of the tme we are In the valley.'

There are some people who save their God for certain great and thrilling occasions of life for certain periods such as Sunday and for certain places such as the sanctuary. But God is everywhere. God is the God of the valleys as well as the God of the hills. He is as present in the details of life as He is In Its stupendous issues.

Jehovah is the God of the hills, and He is also the God of the valleys.

A new American population explosion may be building up.

New regulations exempting maxried men from the draft wUl certainly increase the number of teen marriages. And this is equally certain to increase the population at accelerated rates.

In recent years, the draft has tended to delay marriages and hence slow down the population rise. An uncountable number 4>f young people have been* postponing marriage* until after the man completes military duty.

In fact', the total births this year are likely to be lower than in the last seven years. Monthly births have been below year-earlier totals In 19 of the last 20 m(Hiths.

Births were from 4,200.000 to 4,300.000 a year from 1957 through 1961. Then in 1962 they droiH)ed to 4,167,000 and this* year, based on figures for the first eight months, the total

will be even less. MARRU0E8 PICKING UP -

During the rst lew years after World War n, the ninnber of marriages shot up to an average of 1357,000 a year. In 1950 they settled down to around 1,500,000, the highest figum since 1956, and they seem to be heading to 1,620,-000 this year.

Tbe^ rise in marriages In 1961, 1962 and early this year, no less than the draft exemption for married men, will tend to increase the. number <rf children bom In 1964, 1965 and so on through the century.

These figures are of deep significance to the economy and to many businessmeni A resurgence of the populaticm explosion will mean constantly new customers for producers o countless produces and servlo- es.

OTHER CHANGING RATIOS

Also . Significant to businessmen is the changing ratio o

dependents In the total popula-tlon. Dependents are generally the very young and the very old; those who must depend ci others or the state for support.

In 1900, for Instance, for every 100 people between 18 and 64, there were 80 persons under 18 and over 64. By 1930, the ratio was 100 to 68; by 1940, it was 100 to 60. Then in 1950. with the increase in births and the extension of life through miracle drugs, the ratio went to 100 to 64.

As these influences Increased, the ratio went to 100 to 81 In 1962 and last year the

0 businessman, whether he runs a department store or a peanut stand, can afford to Ignore the ln>llcati(xis these changes have for his enterprise.

ratio was estimated at 100 to 83. "

With further advances in medicine and with the coming in the number of blitlia. the ratio may approach to 100 to 100. One half of the population would be supporting tito other half.

Tjiese changes also indicate great changes in demands for goods, in housing, in food and other sectors of the econcnny.

SHORT & SIGNIFICANT BUSINESS NEWS ITEMS The J. Henry Schroder Bank-ing Corp. reproduced a page of Japanese stock market tables in an ad in the New York Times. It was unintelligible to almost all readers. The underline: The second! easiest way to gather authenUc informa-tk>n. . .on financial developments in Japan 1* to talk to a sailor officer of Schroder. . . It may be the easiest. . . . Retaers sales of gold-plated electrto table lamps are subject to the retailers tax, but retailers sales of gold-plated electric celling and wall fixtui^ ee are not. Internal Revenue rules. . JMagazines gained 7 per cent In advertising during the first half of this year, Printers Ink reports.

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