Monday, March 9, 1964 '

Urban Areas Are Stretching Out

North Carolinians, accustomed to rural ex- ties, subdivisions have been developed. Gradually, pauses that separate their cities and towns, find as the cities and towns have spread over more area, it difficult to visualize an urbanized area of the the mileage between them has been diminished, state stretching across the Piedmont into eastern The distance from downtown Greenville to the

section. heart of Winterville is still just as many miles a^

Not onlv do the experts forsee a Piedmont it was a couple of decades ago. But the distance City as the development of such places as Char- between the Greenville and Winterville corporate lotte, Greensboro, Winston-Salem and Raleigh con- n^its have been reduced considerably in recent tinues. They see the urbanized area reaching over year.s. The same is true with almost every city and much of the area that now constitutes the agricul- town in this part of the state.

tural east. With the growth of the communities have comt

Difficult a.s it is to imagine such a thing, one that each individually must solve. But

has onlv to look back over the la.st two decades to ^ grow^th also, the communiti^ are brought

realize how much the face of the state alreadv has together We come closer to the t,me when

changed. In the Piedmont, where the larger citfes Jomt planning for development of utilities, streets, have mu.shroomed. the chang has been more ap- ^hools, recreation facilities and other things which parent than in the East. But even in this part of the municipalities must be considered,

state considerable area that once was farmland has 01* _ _ Jf been converted into urban areas. tdXlOjTO w 0 AjLCTlVlXy

As Greenville, Kinston, Goldsboro, Wilson . ^

Rocky Mount and other smaller communities of this Tq TyATTT

part of the state have grown, thousands of acres ^ Y dwVi/HlC

of land has been removed from farming for urban ^

purposes. Where tobacco, corn, cotton and other We are happy to see a little activity the

crop.s once grew on the outskirts of the communi- Drive Redevelopment area. We are refrring,

of course, to removal of a building on Second Street.

You'll Have To Pay For It Someday

Comoelled To

Position

By WU.LIAM A. SHIRES STAJ^D It comes as no really startling developm e n t that the State Highway Commission feels compelled to take a stand in the political debate raging about cosily highw a y projects and bond financing.

It Is true, however, that some top highway officials and perhaps a majority of highway commissioners would prefer not to get involved. It t tantamount to walking into a blistering policical crossfire.

Whatever It says is certain to bring charges of political pressure, Influence and favoritism.

But In this respect the Ice Is already broken. The politically-appointed Highway Commission traditionally a political football and this year Is no exception.

WOUNDS Furthermore a tand by the Highway Commission Is certain to tear open old political wounds some of them inflicted as recently as a year ago when the 1963 General Assembly tried to find out how the Highway Commission felt about a $200 million hlghw a y bond issue.

Many legislators, expecially the principal sponsors of the highway bond bill, felt they received a classic runaround for mysterious and vacillating political reasons. The reasons were never entirely clear.

The bond bill Itself sank Into a quicksand of conflicting views confusion and suddenly withdrawn support. It died quietly, but its ghost has come back.

CANDIDATES - A big highway bond issue from $200 million up is being talked up mightily in the current gubernatorial campaign.

The highway bond issue, an Ea.st-West superhighway, four-ianlng of U, S. 17 and other major projects for this area and that have actually dominated a large part of the campaign tbu.s far.

Each of the three major candidates has been having a great deal to say about these things. They have diffei*ed on, or have been vague about, certain details. Some of the points are those on which the proposed 1963 highway bond 1 s s e bill was impaled.

The political discussion, however, has reached a point at which the welter of pronoeals and promises could hardly be evrrlnoked and further ignored bv the body In charge of hlehwav policy making STUDY - So It happened that individual highway com mtjKioners. with Gen. Paul Younts of Charlotte in the forefront, asked point blank that the Highway Commission have

its say,

'Sooner or later, said Younts, we are going to have to make a recommendation on a road bond issue.

Should It be $2fX) million, $300 mUlion or $400 million? I dont think we should wait too long to make our view known. How about It? Younts was asking, in effect. Where do we .stand? .

There was no immediate answer from chairman "M e r.cJLlX Evans.

Is It your idea that the staff gather information leading to

It Is being demolished to make way for a new office building which will house the Rivers and Associates engineering ilrm.

The new building and another service station structure next to it, while they are being developed by the proptrty owners, will conform to the Shore Drive plan.

These new buildings, alongside the Dunn and Associates office building and the*new ABC building across the street will give a good idea of the benefit that will come as the Shore Drive plan is fully developed.

Unlike many of Greenvilles older business .Mtructures, these new buildings fully conform with the more modern municipal building code. They will By WINFRED L. GODWIN have adequate firewalls, off street parking and

they are all set back enough to allow ideal street T) rM

widths for a commercial area. ^ T 1 m ^ V )T) TTH

The Redevelopment Commission has recently L LAi- J.-LkJ X XIX V O LX X XVw^-L X

iiamed a negotiator and is ready to begin acquiring property in the Shore Drive area.

The Housing Authority has purchased a site

|lcNwiitetnidka^.le.

Younts said it was, and . wm ue

it ought to be ready for shortly, so within a year adequate housing will be nmlssions next meet- available for those in the Shore Drive area who

LkeTioTteWM. Md' f on.struction of 160 units and bids will be taken

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the commission

Ing. That will be on April 2 want it.

in Shelby which, incidental- ___-t* -n i .

ly. is the hometown of the prin- , i*oming months citizens will begin to see ^

cipal sponsor of the 1963 bond- >^um housing begin to fall in the area and,hope- taxable incomes, or

bill. Sen. Robert P. Morgan of fully, modern office and commercial buildings ^

'oueS^-Evans lert the Hlsh- "*1 me Privately owned high rent apart-

way Commission with the Im- oif*nts taking their places.

presslon that staff experts will We sincerely believe that every citizen re-

A score of Chattanooga, Tennessee, business executives are making an adventurous investment. anticipating blue chip returns.

Their Investment, the first of Its scope in the South, is in higher education. They are pledging one per cent of their

sity of their choice, on a continuing, annual basis.

Some 21 firms now compose the Chattanooga Plan, as it Is

undertake a new study of the gardless of whether he was for or ajrainst the nro-new eltuatlon, particularly in through the four-year fightwill wish for a

relation to highway bond financing.

The fact is that such a study was started some weeks ago. A good deal of data has been assembled. Much of this dates back a year or more when highway commission officials appai-ently were unable to unwilling to agree on what approach to recommend.

Fhittlng political consideration aside, Just what the Highway Commission may recommend now is anybodys guess.

CHANGE There have been indications of a change in thinking.

A year ago theiv was sub-.stantlal opposition to a big new highway bond Issue and there wa-s data to support a feeling that $200 million would be the maximum amount which could be issued without an increase in the states gasoline tax. Senate Finance chairman Jimmy V John.son of Statesville, testl-fvinc before the Senate Public Roads commltttee last April. said he opposed a highway IxMiri issue for political reasons,

I do not believe the people of our state would pass .such a proposal when presented to them. John.son said. He said it would be rejected and constitute repudiation of our Democratic leadership. . He added that he did not believe a crash pi*ogram" was needed for .secondary roads.

There was also substantial opoositlon in the Highway Commission to spreading the spend-ine of proceeds of a new bond i.ssup over a long period of vears. Tho.se officials .said such financing would be Inadequate.

better more prosperous and healthful Greenville because of it. _

per cent but not wishing their company's names publicized, We could easily total $400,-

Where WiL Money Be Used?

000 in contributions thi3 first year. estimated William S. Keese, president of a Chatta^

I nooga insurance firm and a

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By ROCiER BABSON

BABSON PARK. Mass., ~ Soon many millions of Americans will be receiving sizable amounts of extra cash as federal withholding taxes are cut. Some of my friends who own retail stores figure they are sure to get the lions share of this money. But I think these people may be counting their chickens before they are hatched. Here are ray reasons. CONSUMERS TODAY HAVE MORE FREEDOM OF CHOICE

During the 1950s and the early 1960s, fairly steady increases In personal income brought a great many of the nation's households up to an adequate standard of livi n g. Hence, the substantial additions to spending power which many families will get from the tax cut will represent discretion-. ar,y Incomd.

This means people will have more freedom of choice as to what they wUl buy than they have usually had. Their attitudes and their buying patterns may determine to what extent retail stores will benefit from the tax cut and from the economic grow-th that lies ahead.

SERVICE BUSINESSES WILL PROSPER

Retail stores should certainly do better in 1964 because of the tax cut. But it is not going to be the bonanza some storekeepers are expecting. Living standards are high and rising. -This means people are going to spend an Increasing percentage of their incomes for such things as Insurance, household and personal services. and recreation and travel. The old-line meichant W'ho expects customers will continue to fill their shopping ba.skets with the same types of goods they bought when they were not so well off may be In for an aw'akenlng.

I foi-ecast further growth in sei-vice businesses In 1964. Best gains will be In private educa-

Strength For Today

tion and research, foreign travel, and money-lending. I predict that private spending for educational purposes in 1964 will top 1963s figures.

WHAT CONSUMERS WILL BUY

Today food, shelter, and clothing take about one-third of all family Income; but the ration is declining every month. In another ten years, these items may use a much smaller share. From now on people wU be able to spend more for wants, instead of needs,. Cwisumers will become better educated, more choosy, and more spoiled.

They will still purchase food, shelter, and clothing items in good volume, but they will also buy a great many other things besides. These will mostly be comforts and semi-luxuri e s. The average work week in America has not shortened very much in the past twenty years, but emphasis on leisure time and making the most of it has increased. The desire to travel and to enjoy to the full holidays and vacations Is a powerful force influencing buyers' attitudes and behavior. I predict a good Increase in dollars spent for travel in 1964 versus 1963. In addition, I look for big boosts in spending for sports clothes, boats, fishing tackle, and many other recreational wants.

MARKETS OF TOMORROW

The amount (rf Installment debt contracted to help finance expensive vacations and other services, and to pay debts accumulated as people have .sought a higher ^andard living, is not yet large in relation to total income. But I forecast It will grow fast and that It will be Important In shaping the markets of tomorrow'

More liberal unemploj'ment and social security payments along with more generous pensions from private employ-(Continued On Page 5)

leader of the project which has been brewing for some 18 months. Single contributions may total as much as $70,000, he believes, though four figure donations from smaU compa-nnes are equally welcome.

Industrys support of higher education is ntrt new. Corporations and businesses gave $24 million to Southei-n universities and colleges in 1%1. But the difference in the Tennessee plan is that business firms are agreeing to give annually at least one per cent of their taxable income to higher education.

A 1962 national survey of some 701 companies by the Council for Financial Aid to Education revealed that only 63 gave higher education as much as one per cent of their net income before federal taxes.

The Chattanooga executives are quick to admit their plan is not original. They copied it from the Cleveland Compact, a successful program originated three years ago by industrial leaders of the Ohio City. That program now claims 32 large corporations including such big names as Republic Steel and Standard Oil of Ohio.

The Chattanooga business leaders have their sights on a 60-70 companies, including some in neighboring Tennessee towns. They hope to inspire other Southern cities to do likewise.

They, like the Clevelanders, may make their allotments In severiil forms to any school they choose, in the locality, the region or In another part of the country. They may earmark their gifts for special purposes like scholarships, faculty salaries, support of professorships or basic research.

For example, a firm may make its contribution by matching any contribution an employee makes to his alma mater. But the trend is toward the unrestricted gift, which col-

Other Editors Saying. Give Kerr-Mills A Try

(The Wilson Times)

We read with interest there may be a reversal of the stand taken by the State Board of Public Welfare on Kerr-Mills for needy recipients 65 or older, not on welfare. This is the real crux of the bill. For welfare patients have been cared for ail along.

Kerr-Mills w'as set up to take care of those w'ho need help but who are not on welfare. There is a great deal of difference in being a welfare patient and in being a citizen with enough income to care for yourself under normal living conditions but not with enough to be able to pay for a long illness.

And one of the major benefits of Kerr-Mills is that it will not require you to make a paupers oath and you can have an income of a certain amount and still i-eceive Kerr-M ills aid. And Kerr-Mills provides out patient care as well as dentistry.

The Welfare department, the department to handle the funds, contends the legislature passed the bill without adequate funds to finance it. This may prove true. The legislature did provide funds of $6.5 million, and this may not be enough. But

it certainly is a good start. We do not think the State Board of PubUc Welfare should fight the program all the way. but at least give it a try and this experience will be worth something and can be presented to the next legislature.'

We have never underst o o d the opposition to the Kerr-Mills bill, unless it stems from the fact that it Is local and requires local funds, although small by comparison with federal funds.

The argument continues to be for medical care under social security when this program wiU not do for the neediy nearly as much as Kerr-Mills can do. But the federal program will cost much more, and provide for medical care for those in need and for those who can afford to pay their doctor and hospital bills.

The organization of county commissioners has fought Kerr-Mills from the beginning because it will bring on more work and cost the count i e s. But it can do a better job for those who really need medical assistance than medic a 1 care under social security. We certainly hope the State Board of Public Welfare will set up the new' category for those who are not on welfaiT.

leges and universities find to be the most useful kind.

In their pledge to Increase giving, leaders of the Chattanooga Plan frankly acknowledged their dependence on higher education:

Business and Industry, as major beneficiaries of American higher education, should, in their own self - interest, assume a responsibility to contribute their fair share of the cost of higher education. The overwhelming percentage of senior management of major companies is college - educated.

Business concerns benefit from research carried on in university laboratories. Tliey advance through new knowledge nurtured by our colleges and universities. Higher education has helped importantly to rise the standard of living in America and to increase the demand for industrys products.

We believe that business corporations should begin to pay a greater share of the cost. Over the years, American business and industry have received far more from higher education than they have given in return,

It is time now to balance the account, and to increase our investment in the future.

Opinions '.n Brief

Considering the number of juvenile marriage, were not sure thi.s item had a typographical error; Miss Jones w'as accompanied by her sitter as matron of honor. Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel.

We are, apparently so w'rapped up in the Great Wrestle of making a living, we overlook what good a little compliment will do. Try It today, and see what happens. Laurel (Miss.) Leader-Call.

Many candidates act like they are W'aiting for a draft and then create their own windstorm. Belleville (Kans.) Telescope,

The man with good old plain horse sense knows you cant get left by turning right, which makes him something of a hazard at a superhighway cloverleaf. Mattoon (IlJ.) Journal-Gazette.

When it takes you twice as long to rest and half as long to get tired, youre getting old. Lexington Leader.

Nothing is so disconcerting as to have someone repeat word for word what you shouldnt have said. Mattoon (111.) Journal-Ga ette.

.-earful

Of Our

?ower.

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN Copyright 1964 King Features Syndicate, lac.

So we have a new secret jet aircraft that can fly t w o thousand miles an hour at 70,000 feet. But does thrt make Khrushchev, Mao Tse-tung, Fidel Castro or Sukarno sbaka in his boots? How could it?

The fact ia that the m'ora formidable our armaments become, the more powerless we are. The reaswi Is that we ara desperately afraid of our own strength. We are fearful of uu-dertakhig even the smallest o military operations lest wa escalate the skirmiah into something which might require the use of a couple of our big sticks. So we continue, as the saying goes, to be niUded to death by two-bit countries that can hardly offer an airforce of DC-3S to counter our n e w three-times-the-speed - of-sound plane.

It is a fantasy world in which a military budget of fifty bii-Hem dollars a year cant cope with the likes of Zanzlb a r. North Vietnam, and Cuba. Fidel Castro laughs at o u r atom armory and our mighty air fleet. What would really cause him^to flip would be the news that we had sold some old condemned planes and some sawed-off shotguns to antti-Castroites In Nicaragua, meanwhile granting belligerent rights to a democratic Cuban council situated somewhere in the Caribbean.

We live in an age In which all of the old military axioms are neglected. In the old days a power such as Soviet Russia would think twice before committing some twity thousand of its trained military men to an island that could be blockaded by a great naval power with bases only a few miles away. But today, islands are all the rage. The Communists have moved In on Cuba and Zanzibar, and are making eyes at Cyprus. And this despite the fact that they control the seas nowhere. The late Admiral Mahan, the great American theoretician <rf sea power, would turn in his grave if he could know what is going on.

Since the Investigating cwn-mittee of the Organization of American States has authenticated the report that Fidel Castro landed a cargo of submachine guns and automatic rifles in Venezuela In an attempt to disrupt the rec e n t presidential election in t h a t country, there would be perfect reason for the imposition of a total inter-American blockage of Cuba that would diy up all commerce with the Island. Maybe such countries as Mexico and Brazil w'ouldnt oom-mit their ships and air force to the blockade. But if some of the Latin American countries are willing to follow the lead of Venezuelas Betancourt In promoting a quarantine of Cuba, why should Washlngt o n desiM? It would not be a matter of unilateral action by the possessor of the biggest armory of atom bombs and the fastest jet plane in the world.

One supposes, however, that we are too fearful of our own strength to lend or lease a bit of it to a small nation like Venezuela. In South Vietnam we have not dared to train a counter-guerilla force capable of giving the Communists a dose of their own medicine in North Vietnam, We act neither by the old military axioms nor by the new mes. And the mice continue to nibble us to death everywhere around the Cold War periphery.

Just recently I dipped back into the history of the Cuban crisis (tf the late Eight e e n Nineties. Even before we became formally embroiled with Spain over the sinking of the battleship Maine we recognized the belligerency of the exUe government of the Cuban patriot Jose Marti. We permitted him. as a legaJly Jusled belligerent, to buy arms, to recruit volunteer troope, and to do wherever they are. shchev always permits his recognized forces of liberatlcm to do whereever they are. The Spaniards, knowing that we had the preponderance of naval strength In the Western hemisphere, did nothing by way of retaliation untU we declared war on them.

^Headlines In The Days To Come

Bv KARL L. DOUGLA.SS INACTION

Inaction Is. in the "case of some people, a chronic and . stultifying state of existence which drives them to melancholy and despair. Most of the population are kept busy to the very day of retirement and sometimes after, but there are people In the world ~ the very wealthy, widows and widowers, retired persons and without definite responsibility for whom inaction is a continuous and agonizing reality. Radio and TV have relieved the situation to some extent, but if one has been active and suddelnly becomes inactive, the shck Is sometimes so pi'eat that out-.'dei'i rimply cannot under-.^tand what the person involved has tnf, pxjierience

As for the very rich, they had better awaken fast to the

realization that there are so many useful things In the world to be done that there Is no excuse for their sitting about and moping. Wealth-even inherited wealth can be a blessing if we make it so. More often it Is a liability, while one is passing through the active period of his life or hers, and a real factor of agony as old age approaches and deepens.

Inaction Is every largely inexcusable. Some of the most handicapped people in the world carry on active and yse-, ful careers. If you are Inactive and growing dally more unhappy over you state, shake voureelf free of your lethargy begin to use your brain. look alxmt at the hundreds of Interesting things in the world to be done. You will find happiness in doing them.

By ELMER ROESSNKR

Todays look - aheads c o n-slsUs of headlines you will see in coming days this year.

Cut this column out and check off each headline as it appears. If any fail to appear before Christmas, send them to me in care of this newspaper and I will eat them. The predicted headlines:

Retail sales rise. Consumer price Index goes up.

Auto production continues to rise.

Increase In state taxes proposed,

City acts to increa.se taxes.

THE SAME THE OLD WORLD OVER

Local school boards insist on more levonue

New hike In Blue Cross rates ,ioiiRht,

"Meat prices rise as cuil

cut imports from Aiustra 11 a. New Zealand and Ireland. "Cost of living index up again.

Purchasing power of dollar slides again.

Reuther makes record demand for Autowor)ters, Retail sales In new in-crea.se.

"Consumer credit reaches peak.

Rise in Social Security benefits proposed.

Increase in Social Security taxes asked.

Candidates calls for tougher attitude toward Cuba.

AND ON TOWARD MID-YEAR "Corporate Incomes Increase.

"Automakers say wage demands impossible; strike thi'caton.s

'New boost in state taxes proposed.

Medicare called answer to oldsters' W'orsening poverty. New (or higher) sales tax called neces.sary to finance schools.

Ctmsumer price index reaches another new high. Stock market reaches another new peak.

Congress asked to lift debt ceiling again.

Union demands 35 - hour week.

UniiMi demands 32-h our week.

Union says 30 hour week or strike

MORE PROJECTIONS

Over - road rates rise because of teamsters pay increase.

Citing LBJ, union demands double pay for overtime. Federar ieficit at new high

White Hou.se denies U. S. la new piral of inflation.

Gross National Product up again, in 1947 dollar*.

"De Gaulle toughens attitude toward Americans.

. S. travel to Parts seta new high mark.

Milk prices rise.

Strike threats Increase. Consumer price Index at another high.

Cigarette sales, after lac, start up again.

Corporation earnings at new peak.

Wage rates at new peak. Rents at new peak. Ehnployment rises; so does unemployment.

"Income, cost of living, U.8. delA all up again.

You'll see all those hetfi-lines in the next nine months. The phra.seology may vary from newspaper to newspaper, iiut the substances will bs the sama.