Wednesday, AprH 8, 1964

Wouldn't You Even Bury Me?

Theres A Reason For Not Delaying

An extensive, county-wide survejr of all aspects of school operations, proposed by the Pitt Board Education this week, can prove ^a tremendous asset to the* county and its educational systena.

It is, ia our opinion, one of tfie most significant long - range steps to improve the quality of the county* public schools that has been taken by the Pitt Board of Education in many years. It will take time to make a thorough evaluation of the long-range needs of the county so far as public schools are concerned. It will take time, too, to outline a program through which those needs can be met. It will take even^more time to implement such a program and transform it into tangible results; that will be obvious in the countys public school systena. ..

But there must be a start somewhere, and it is far better that the Board of Education start now rather than putting off longer the first step in the undertaking.

Although the Board has indicated it may take

action may be needed in effecting whatever recommendations are made and accepted by the county. If that proves to be the case, it will be important that the 1965 General Assembly, which will be in session the early part of next year, have before it whatever legislation is necessary to implement the recommendations made concerning public schools in Pitt County. Otherwise the county may find it faces a delay of at least two years in carrying out parts of the program it decides upon*

This undertaking by the Pitt Board of Education involves directly and indirectly every citizen of'the county, for the future of this county and its people is closely tied to the progress of our public schools. We Wge citizens of Pitt to take a personaje

in ^ Airo lit An r\t*Annonn on/l

as long as a year to complete the evaluation and make recommendations to the people of th county, every effort should be made to complete the first phase in less time. It is not unlikely that legislative

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interest in thi^ evaluation program and to lend to school officials every assistance possible in making the evaluation and formulating the recommendations for improving the public 8cJhqols_throughout the county. '

The project outlined by the Board of Education this week has long been needed in Pitt. If offers for the county and its people an unprecedented opportunity to take a gigantic step forward in providing better educational opportunities for evevrv child in Pitt.

One Of Area's Larger .?6nny TqX industrial Benefits

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES .

DATE It vas exactly six months before outbreak of bloody conflict In Korea. The calendar finally turned its last pase of the frightful decade <A the 1940a.

You may have forgotten the date but it was on Jan. 1. 1950. that North Carolina motorists began paying an extra penny per gallon gasoline tax. W. Kerr Scott was governor.

The new tax went into effect quieUy and painlessly. In fact, probably few people who stopped by a service station that New YearsDay even noticed the change in price.

XI they did. Uiey may have thought the penny wouldn't^ make much difference.

Fourteen years later it turns out that it did make a difference a great deal of difference In many respects. In tax money altme, it has brought in nearly $250 million. In another 15 years, the total may be well above half a billion dollars.

ROADS - What makes that one cent per gallon increase significant today is that the extra penny was earmarked by the 1949 legislature to pay off $200 million In state highway bond Indebtedness.

The people had voted to shoulder that debt -- which then appeared daggering in sise. The mwiey wa.s to be used for paving the states huge secondary rwd system.

Scott called it "getting the farmer out of the mud. The newly hlack-topped roads become known as Scott roads.

North Carolina had embarked on its most ambitious and far-reaching highway program. In a few years, the state had achieved a national reputation as a "good roads state.

BONDS That was the beginning of a good, roads era In North Carolina.

In another 18 to 24 months, sometime In 1966, the last of the Scott secondary road bonds will be paid and the debt, principal and Inter e s t. wiped out.

What happens to the additional penny per gallon tax then?

The law under which the tax was levied does ntrt provide for Its expiration. Even when the Scott bids are paid off, the tax will continue to come into the state's highway fund. Presumably this mwiey may then be used for other highway purposes and the purpose most observers forsee is another big state highway bond issue. It is generally predicted that the 1965 General Assembly will call for a new vote of the people on such a bond issue from $200 to $300 million to be floated to finance a new spurt of road-

building on both the primary and secondary systems, and to be paid off witti that extra little penny per gallwi during the next 15 to 20 years.

LAW In 1949, when the Scott-dominated legislat u r e was debating the addltlmial tax and pr(HX>sed bond issue tax attorneys pointed out that two separate acts were required. The tax could not be conditioned upon approval of the' bond issue in a referendum.

The l\nTnakers got around this technicality by levy! n g the tax to be imposed on Jan.

I, 1950, and providing that if the bond issue were defeated the tax law would be null and f no effect.

The act .specifically earmarked the tax proceeds for retiring the Scott bonds and not a dollar of it has been used for any other purpose.

Now the situation is that the tax will continue in effect,and be collected until such time that as succeeding legislature repeals it. The resource for another bond Issue is already In the tax law and this Is what political candidates are talking about when they say the new bond issue can be financed "without new taxes.

ALLSBROOK A veteran of four terms In the State Sen-^^ ate in the past has entered the Democratic primary for the Eighth senatorial district seat and turned it into a three-way contest.

Julian R. AUsbrook of Roanoke Rapids announced last week. Two other candidates, R. M. (Dick) Taylor and L. Taylor Oakes, both of Roan(^e Rapids, announced ,earl 1 e r. B<rth are political novices although Taylor ran against Sen, W. Lunsford Crew In 1962. Crew, now state Democratic chairman, is not seeking re-election.

The eighth ..district Is composed of Halifax and Warren counties with Halifax Democrats nominating a sena tor this time under a rotat I o n agreement.

MCGEACHY - Still another former state senator who did not serve in 1963 Is seeking the new fulltime Senate seat from Cumberland County. He is Fayetteville attorney N. H. McGcachy. As a freshman senator In 1961-, McGea-chy introduced the court re-foiTO bill which was approved as an amendment to the state constitution in a statewide referendum In 1962.

A third former senator bidding In return to the upper chamber after an absence is J. E. Winslow of Hertf o r d. There likely wlU be other veterans among the long list of "Newcomers" to the 1965 Senate.

Decision of Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. to develop a $45 million pho.sphate mining oper^ion in Beaufort County represents a major iftdustrial step for that county and for its surrounding area in Eastern North Carolina.

The company has said it expects to employ some 300 persons by 1966 when its operations are fully underway. This, of course, is not a Jarge number of employes when one considers large industries. But the presence of the major mining operation in Beaufort County is certain to create many additional new jobs in allied operations. Obviously there will be additional jobs in transportation to. move the phosphate which is scheduled to be mined at the rate of three million tons a year. It is almost certain that the phosphate mining in Beaufort will attract to this area other industries which use the raw material In the manufacture of other products.

A further projection of the possibilities would be incomplete if consideration were not given to the fact that other companies w'hich for several years have shown interest in the Beaufort phosphate deposits may likewise begin minirig operations in the area.

By ALVIN TAYLOR

Nuggets, But Not News

It is impossible to deterrriine at this moment exactly what the phosphate mining industry will mean to Beaufort and neighboring counties in terms of jobs, payrolls and new busine.ss activity. It is safe to say, however, that it probably is the beginning of the largest industrial development program in the history of Beaufort County, anti certainly one of the largest in this section of North Carolina. In future years the economic benefits of the project will be felt over a broad area of this part of the state as well as in Beaufort County itself.

One little boy at the Preyer rally held in Greenville a couple of weeks ago lost interest in the speech making.

He turned his attention to the boards which had been set up for the barbecue that \#ould follow the ceremonies.

The two boards set side-by-side left just enough space for , a small boy to stick his head through, so he figured.

He was right. There was Just enough room to stick his head through, but not enough to wriggle out. It took three adults to free him.

man ask him how he gained admittance.

"I knocked three times, the

first msui repUed. -------

Then the employees heard three measured knocks on the front door. No one moved. Next came three knocks on the back door. Still no action. Then there were three knocks wi a window. Finally, a puzz 1 e d would-be customer gave up and went away.

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Saw Intrigue

And In the Washington Post there was a headline: "Business Study Glue Lswsr- That was glue, not blue, as has become so familiar to North Carolinians.

Seems the district now has laws cwitroUing the sale of glue because of the glue sniffing problem.

say in a wild and wooly campaign to decide whether or not legal sale of liquor should be allowed.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - Gen. Douglas MacArthur was not a simple man. He was romantic, but tough: eloquent, but sentimental; charming, but austere; but suspicious.

He felt some people, besides Communists, were his enemies conspliing against him. Because he so often wished his views to prevail, he was some times hard to get along with.

One writer, Richard Rovere, said MacArthur was a true believer in himself and found it necesvsary to ascribe his disappointments. . .to base intrigues.

Although Gen. John J. Pershing, MacArthurs top commander in World War I. decorated him. the New York Times says Pershing told him: "Young man, I do not like your attitude.

Arthur Schlesinger Jr.. in his history of the New Deal, says President Franklin D. Roosevelt thought MacArthur dangerous. If so, he nevertheless made him his chief of staff. c(xn-mander In the Pacific, and gave him the Medal of Honor.

The Washington Post's military editor, John G. Norris, reports that when Maj. Dwight D. Eisenhower served und e r MacArthur In the Philippines In 1935 they had differences of opinion and Eisenhower returned home.

President Harry S. Truman dismissed MacArthur from his Korean command In 1951 for what he ctwisldered insubordination by publicly airing his views on how to wi the war, ccmtrary to Trumans orders and policies. The final straw was when MacArthur wrote to a congressman.

But Norris points out MacArthur fought general h e a d-quarters when he was a hero of World War I in Europe. When Pershing crossed him. Norris says, word "was gotten back to interested cimgress-men and Gen. Pershings plans were killed.

When the sec(md volume of Trumans memoirs appeafed In 1956, explaining w'hy he fired MacArthur, the general said the former president "did violence to the truth" and was "vengeful.

But MaoArthur saw intrigue in his dismissal. He said it happened after he had demanded prosecution of a spy ring which was getting top secret military plans sent to Washington from his Korean command.

He said he thought Gen. George C. Marshall, then secretary of defen.se, and Gen. Omar Bradley, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were personally hostile to .^me and-that-the nmlty went back some time.

Yet, Trumans record of liis

conversations with MacArthur at Wake Island six months before his dismissal quotes the general as saying: "No com-, mander In the history of war ever had more complete and adequate support from all agencies in Washington than I have.

When a local bank received a call from a man who wanted to see someone in the bank after hours, they told him to knock three times to gain entrance.

He did so and was duly admitted. A short time later he was let out the locked front door.

Employees heard a n o t he r

It Is not the first time the Issue has been before the voters in dry Wayne County. In the past, however, they have turned thumbs down on the Issue. Saturday they rever sed themselves. ABC stores will soon be opened In that neighboring county.

A friend telte us that somehow the bootleggers, who traditionally operate in the deep woods, must have gotten some inside dope wi how the referendum was coming out.

On the day of the electicm signs appeared along the roads which were bordered by w'oods. They pointed into the forests and read: "Sale.

By EARL L. DOUGLASS STILL ON THE INCREASE Into the midst of an era when the whole of human events seemed to be on the decline a solitary and apparently insignificant figure arose. This figure was Jesus of Nazareth, a carpenter by trade, who work-, ed with his hands until he was about thirty, then went out and preached and healed the afflicted. His life ended dismally on the cross. There was explosive excitement among his few and scattered followers because they claimed that this Jesus had actually arisen from the dead. But the great mass of the world population put practically no stock In such an assertiwi. To all appearances Christianity was headed for oblivion.

But it was Maj. Gen. Courtney Whitney, MacArthurs aide and confidant for more Jhan 20 years, who did the biggest job of rounding up the various intrigues suMPosedly worki n g against the general.

Whitney, who was with MacArthur when he died last Sunday, put together a 547-page justification of what MacArthur did or didn't do in a book called: "MacArthur: His Rendezvous With History.

He said "Communists and their dupes found an ally in the Europe-first clique in the War and State Departments at the outbreak of World War II In an attempt to diacredit the general "in every way and thwart his efforts against the enemy.

Other Editors Saymg.

Genocide Convention

In 1932 MacArthur was widely criticized for leading in full uniform and on a white horse regular troops and tanks ordered by President Herbert Hoover to oust the "bonus army" veterans of World War I who had holed up in shacks on the outskirts of* Washington.

Whitneys explanatlim: The veterans were infiltrated with Cwnmunists who wanted to create jnob violence against the government. He writes of a "captured secret document in which the Communists planned to hang high government officials, with MacArthur heading the list.

(The N. Y. Times)

At a moment in history when the horrors of Nazi exterminations are again before the bar of West German and world opinion, the United Nations convention outlawing genocide should be in the forefront of national and International policy in many lands. Yet a number of countries, including ours, have failed to ratify It.

The convention was drafted in 1948, largely with United States encouragement. It recognized that "at all periods of hikory genocide has inflicted great losses on humanity. It declared that genocide murder with Intent to de.stroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group: imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; forcibly transferring children of the group to anirther group is a crime In International law.

Early this year Senator Scott of Pennsylvania and nine other Senators urged the President to support their effort to have the United States ratify the genocide convention. The legislators received an equivocal re

ply from an Assistant Secretary of State, who declared, in general terms, that "it is the Intention of the Administration to ratify upon "receiving "the advice and consent of the Senate, That put matters back where they were without a strong White House endorsement.

Since the convention was drafted, no real drive has been put behind it. Senator Pulbright has^said that the situation in "Ihe^nate has not yet developed to the point where a two-thirds vote is likely.

Yet almost two thousand years after this man was crucified and after he did indeed rise from the dead, his influence is greater than it has ever been. Even non - Chris-ttan people adntt the greatness of Jesus. Looking back now upon his career and reading of the events which characterized his career as they are recorded In a few brief books which we call the New Testament, we can see w*hy this Jesus has so gained in stature that he stands like a colossus Priding the world. There Is every indication that his influence will grow, not diminish. Why all this? Because he was truly the person he said he was, namely Gods only begotten Son, He taught truths which the illiterate can understand but that even the most erudite ponder and about which they write books.

The greatness of Jesus fits In with human needs. His influence continues to grow.

The genocide conventiim deserves approval. It does not take away any sovereignty: it does advance the principles of the United Nations and the United States. Most of all, it IS a moral commitment to international decency wi a matter that has immediacy for many people around the world, It would be a bitter irony if^ in 1946, when the Auschwitz' killers are on trial, the United States permitted the genocide convention to fade into oblivion.

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"Citizens deserw protection from the venders of pornography. But they also need protection from those who would set themselves up as judges of literature and the arts.Miami (Florida) Herald.

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Agains

Sanity

- By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN OH>yribt, 1964, King Featuies--Syndicate, Inc.

When isolated instances tend to create a pattern, the temp- tatlon is to see a cwispiracy at work. But the pattern may not be the result of a con-piracy; it may merely indicate the presence of a contagion'.

The latest ciwitagion, which' threatens to. have its adverse * effects on . S. foreign wid military policy, Is to see in ded- < ica<xi to the safety of the nation nothing more than a form of madness. Item: the popularity of the allegedly funny picture about the atom bomb. "Dr. Strangelove. Item: the enormous sales of the novel about push - button - war-gone-wrong, "Pall - Safe." Item; the acclaim for that bit of fictlim - made . into - movie, "Seven Days in May, whic^

Is about a military subversion of U. S. democracy. Item: Stanford University Professor Arnold Rogows recent attempt to explain the career of James Forrestal, our flret Secretary of Defense, in terms of Freudian fixations.

The common denomfaiator of this sort of literary and dramatic output is a resentment, whether open or latent, of anybody and everybody who has tried to rise a few degrees above self - Interest In the period of the Cold War. The nuclear bomb, according to this particular school of thinking, has been pushed not to provide an umbrella of safety for the numerically Inferior West but merely as a form of grim gamesmanship that te of career * advantage to psychopatie generals and scientists. Tragically, the contagion of this sort of thinking coincides with the drive to put over the view that Communism Is changing its spots, at least Insofar as Europe, Africa and South America are c(cemed. A compound contagion, so to speak. Communism may Indeed change its spots, as Is prophesied, but if It does It will be because of our strength, not our weakness.

The Rogow biography of James Forrestal, which Is being currently advertised with a picture of an almost Upless man with haunted eyes. Is probably the most dangerous example of the current cwita-gl(m, for, unlike Uic "Pail-Safe" - t3T>e novels and movies, It purports to take off from hard, indisputable fact. What Professor Rogow does is to try to prove a ccmnection between certain .events of Jamep Fom^tala childhood and early career In business and his later Insitence, voiced at the time of Yalta, that Soviet Russia might become the enemy of the West after Fascism and Jaixuiese Imper-ialsim had been liquidated. The Implication is that a feeling of inferiority acquired in his youth created a necessity for For-restal to turn Russia Into a bogey man. So, with Forrest-als help, we got th bogey man.

This curious attempt to explain the Wests reaction to the Cold War In terms of men tal illness is in itself a sick manlfestatlim. Suppose that Forrestal did have a harsh childhood (though Rogow hardly proves the point). Suppose that he did strive to make a good club at Princeton, and later sought to succeed in Wall Street. Suppose, even, that his marriage was as unhappy and unsuccessful as Professor Rogow says it was. Even If all these things are true, do any of them change the objective reality of James Forrestal's times and his public career? The fact, as the professor does not deny, I that Porrestals work on procurement re<wgan-ization gave us the powerful navy that drove the Japanese back to their home islands while most of our military strength was being deployed in Europe. The fact Is that Por-restal. in common Bill

Bullitt, General ' "thur

and a few others, e 1 the probable course of Cold War events before the more shortsighted statesmen and military men of 1945 - 1948 realized what was up.

Freud, smeud! If It took a tough mother and a Immigrant fafnlly father to produce a For-(Contlnucd On Page 5)

Not Satisfied By B

Jriigh Profits

MacArthur, when the storm broke over him, said the "mob was a bad-looking mob. It was animated by the essence of revolution.

Sabin On Sunday

April 19

By ELMER ROESSNER

Corporate profits reached a new record high in 1963.

That was the year In which Congress voted for a cut in corporation tax rates. This is the year in which they become effective and nobody knows yet how much they will stimulate business and swell profits.

The First NaUonal City Bank, in Its annual recapitulation, found that 3.934 leading corporations reported $26.4 billion in profits last year, compared with $24.2 billion in 1962, a gain of 9 per cent,

But even this never-beforeequalled total did not make the banks economists happy. Writing In Its April economic letter. they said. "W^en related to business volume and equity Investment, however, prof 11 s are only part of the way back to the levels of the late Forties and early Fifties. . . .Though over-all profits reached a new record, the Improved showing primarily reflected growth In sales and increased Investment. and only a limited improvement in profitability.

Well, banks are seldom happy anyway. _

.AVIATION SOARS

The largest percentage gain last year was that of 24 air transport companies which increased profits 111 per cent, ed .by 52 amusement comwm-ies, whose net profits after taxes showed a gain of 37 per cent, and 83 Iron and steel com;;_^ panics, up 35 per cent.

Of the almost 4,000 corporations. only seven groups showed declines in profits. That, mind, is Just a decline in profits. the profits , L each case were reasonably substantial.

The biggest drop was reported by 52 amusement c<wnapn-les with a decline of 52 per cent. The drop cut their profits from $35.5 million In 1962 to a paltry $17.1 million last year.

Other declines were a group ^f 92 miscellaneous manufacturing companies, down 21 per , cgnt to $140.9 million; 22 shoe and ieather corporations down-15 per cent: 19 cement com-panle.s. down 7 per cent: and 12 miscellaneous mining and Quarrying copipanles; 33 con-

structicm companies, and 83 real estate companies, each group down 3 per cent. .PRINTING, PUBLISHING UP

Of other groups that made gains last year. 82 printing and publishing companies increased their net 26 per cent; 53 makers of farm, construction and handling equipment, up 23 per cent; 14 railroad equipm e n t companies, up 20 per cent, and 17 metal and mining companies up 20 per cent.

All others tabulated ranged from 19 per cent up to approximately level with 1962. .

Despite First National Citys alarms, the companies did pretty well on net worth, too. The Increase was about $10 billion over the year, a rise of from 9 to 9.5 per cent. The margin on sales rose from 3.7 per cent to 5.9 per cent In 1963.

So the typical U. S. corporation Ihcreased its profit'margin from 5.7 to 5.9 per cent of sales last year; it Increased its return on its net worth from 9.0 to 9.5 pe.r cent and it increased it.s profits over 9 per oenL And stiU First National

City Bank is unhappy about the year. Big deal.

.HERES A POSSIBLE EXPLANATION FOR PESSIMISM

First National City Bank has a line of reasoning why an increase of $2 billion In profits in a year is unsatisfactory. But there is another reason why mwiy corporation executives are unhappy about the figures.

That Is; they know labor leaders study the figures too. And that Increase right now is causing many lahck: leaders to sharpen their pencils to figure out how earnings this year, further sweetened by the cor-poraUoD tax cat, can provide wage Increases.

A THOUGHT FOR NEXT 1.AB0R NEGOTIATIONS Labor negotiators, deall n g with profitable corporat ions, stllThave this argument; "Why worry about a mllllcwi dollars in wage increases? The government willpay about half of it as you have less profits to be taxed." ^

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