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Humber 'Diagonal Meets A Need

The proposal for a new Interstate Highway 13 would provide for this area of eastern North Caro-triking a diagonal course across the northeastern lina an inprecedented highway route for moving its

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part of the state offers a logical and realistic approach to one of the great transportation needs of this section of North Carolina.

Sen. Robert Humber of Greenville, author of the plan and prime initiator for getting it into highway hopper for consideration, is to be commended for focusing attention on this much needed facility.

Such a hlgh(way artery striking across the northeastern section connecting the Chesapeake Brid^-Tunnel complex with T-95 near Fayetteville and Fort Bragg could do more to open this area to further agricultural, industrial and tourist development than any one thing undertaken in decades.

From the standpoint of the nations defense needs, always a factor in consideration of interstate highways, the proposed major artery would connect Fort Bragg and Seymour Johnson Air Force

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

EAST Under terlou consideration by state officials is a new proposal that North Carolinas next formal request for Snterstats highway mileagt Include a diagonal through -the -^art of-^ states agricultur-^al East. "

This would be an Interstate artery zigglng frwn the newly-()ened Chesapeake Ray bridge-tunnel at Norfolk. Va., to the Payettevllle-Port Bragg area. B would connect there. with Interstate 95.

Source and prime mover of this top level consideration la Sen. Robert Lee Humber of QreenviUe, spokesman for Eastern North Carolina and advocate of economic aids for U)e region.

It was Humber who originated the Idea of such an Interstate highway routing which, with apologies to the Piedmont Crescent, might be called the Eastern Diagonal.

INTEREST - It was Humber who mapped the tentative routing and drew up a dossier which he has taken to Gov. Terry Sanford, Highway chairman Merrill Evans, Hlghw a y director BUI Babcock and to Worth Joyner, chairman of the Intntate roads eonuntttee of the State HIgbWiar Commission.

In each case, Humber says, the proposal has sparked Interes and even enthualssm.

The governor has written Evans recommending that the proposal be Induded In the states requests for future Interstate mileage allocation.

The next stop, however, will be formal presentation of the Eastern Dlagmal Ides at public hearings by Joyner's Highway CommlssiMi committee. These hearings are expected to be held In June.

Humber says the govemcur, during several cmferences on the Idea, studied It thoroughly and said It Is something of far - reaching slgnlcanoe. Sanford pledged to go the wtudo way for it, Hum b e r says.

ACCESS itoughly and tentatively. Humber proposes a limited access. Interstate superhighway coming off the new brldgo-tunnel and across the northeastern comer (tf the state Into the WUUamstoo area.

This is at the western end of the Albemarle Sound where the Highway Commlaslm already has given a go ahead for a new Roanoke river bridge at nymouth. The bridge wUl brtng the southern Albemarle into easy access to the Windsor - WUUamston Eden-ton area.

In addition, plans were disclosed this week for still another RoantAe river bridge project in the Oak City-LewLst(Mi area along the border of Martin and Bertie counties, tying the once - Isolated Roano ke-Chowan even closer to direct highway routes, east and west

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LOCATION These developing projects have a bearing <m the proposed new interstate routing as a part ^of the overall picture. But Humber goes further.

The "Diagonal would extend from WlUiamston by way of the Oreenville-Bethel area. Snow Hill, Goldsboro and thence to the PayetteviUe-Fort Bragg area and 1-95, already an established major north-south route.

The Diagonal. In effect, would open up a relatively large area of the East, both for east-west and north-south traffic needs, Humber says. Eventual four - lanlng of U S 17 and extending four - lanlng of . S. 64 from Rocky Mount to the WlUiamston area figure Into this overall p i c-ture.

The entire East Is an area that right now needs an economic hypodermic. Humber says. It is undergoing a definite transition.

REASON Humbers dossier in favor of the JDiagonal contains four major points: 1. Enabling diversification of agriculture by providing more rapid transit to markjsits. 2. Promoting industrial development. 3. Fostering development and growth of the Easts tourist potential. 4. Strategic value In national defense.

Humber advances strong arguments on each point. The matter of national defense requirements, a primary factor in allocating Interstates. Is striking,

Humber points out that such a highway would connect the great U. 8. Naval Base at Norfolk directly with the huge mUltary complex at Ft. Bragg and also with the major Strategic Air Command (SAC) base at Seymour Johnson AFB, Ck>ldsboro.

REALISTIC - When Humber took his plans and arguments to highway director Babcock and outlined them, the usually taciturn Babcock broke into a big smUe and exclaimed. youve got everything you need to get It. Im for It.

Humber and the other officials are realistic In recognizing that making the Diagonal a reality will take time. The federal government, which pays 90 per cent of Interstate highway costs, will not cran-plete Its first phase of the Interstate program before the early 1970s. No additional mileage allocations are being made at this time.

The situation at present Is this. States are being Invited to submit requests for additional interstate mileage for a possible second phase of the Interstate highway building program during the 1970s. And study and discussion of needs and advantages is being encouraged.

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agricultural commodities and its manufactured products into the major metropolitan areas to the north. At the same time it would open to tourists jfrom northern areas a straight shot into the heart of the south which is gaining popularity as a vacation area. -

Endorsement of the proposed route by Governor Sanford and by leading members of the State Highway Commission attest to the wisd^om of the proposal. Such support, along with that which we are confident will be forthcoming from this area of th estate, offers encouragement that the route ultimately will be undertaken as a federal-state project in adding to the interstate highway system in North Carolina. . -

It may take years for the proposal to move through the necessary channels that will transform it from a plan to a reality. It will require considerable effort and widespread support throughout the area to see that it gains final,approval as an addition to the interstate system. But from the standpoint of the northeastern section of the state, the proposal offers advantages which more than justify ""whatever support and effort is required to follow^ through.

Startling Report On Pitts Social Security

Its a little startling to realize that almost one

out of every 10 people in Pitt County is receiving gncfal iiciTritynpayments of one kind or another each month.

It is also startling to learn that these social security payments are pumping almost four million dollars annually into the economy of this country.

Throughout the country there are some 19 million people receiving social security benefits at the pre.sent time. This, of course, represents about 10 per cent of the nations population. It shouldnt be surprising, therefore, that almost 10 per cent of Pitt Countys population also is receiving direct payments from the social security program. It shouldnt be, but somehow it is.

In Pitt, the number of recipients of social security benefits has advanced sharply in recent years. To a large extent, this growth is probably due to the fact that the county government several years ago undertook a program to help eligible local citizens qualify for social security benefits. During the period thi.s program wa.s being carried out literally hundreds of new names were added to the list of Pitt citizens who qqualified for social security benefits. In addition to this factor, the changes in elgibility requirements brought about by amendments to the socal security act in recent years have increased the number of local citizens eligible for benefits.

Pitt County is probably receiving no more or no less than what could be termed its fair share of the social security pie that is being sliced the nation as a whole. But when one looks at the social security payment figures for Pitt Countyin terms of dollars and in terms of the number of recipientsit is evident that the program is becoming increasingly important in the lives of citizens of the county as well as in the countys economy.

By ART BUCHWALD

!i^eady To Tell Our AL

Congressman Steven B. Der-ounlan, a Republican from New York, has just Introduced a bill in Congress that could have very Interest i n g ramifications. Mr. Derouians bill require* public disclosure of all business dealings and financial statements by newsmen, editors, TV station owners, government officials and employees, judges, members of Congress, lobbyists and their families.

Mr. Derounian insists on including the press and television because, he says, these people have the power to mould public opinion and so divldually can manipulate the Federal government.

We first met the good Con-gresi^nan in December. 1959, in Paris at the Hotel George V where he had been flown over with his wife on a free airline junket. Even at that time Mr. Derounian t(rid us how w'orried he was about persons in positions of Influence accepting gifts from out

siders.

Were happy to see he has finally decided to do something about it.

As a moulder of public opinion and one who is constantly manipulating the Federad goveiTiment, we are in favor of the Derounian bill and rather than wait for it to be passed we feel we should make a full disclosure of our financial dealings with members of the government. We hope other newspapermen follow-suit so there will be no shade of so^lcion against our profession and everyone can say, I dont care what they say about Congress at least the press Is clean.

First we would like to list our expenditures.

We gave $45.50 to Pierre Salinger In a poker game on Jan. 6, 1964. The reason we gave it to him is that he had a pair of aces and we had a pair of kings.

On Jan. 14 we gave Robert Manning. Deputy Secretary of

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'ViacArthur Line Scholarships Needed

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON <AP) - In 1950 Secretary of State Dean Acheson talked on the American defense lino in the Pacific and got denounced for years afterwards. Republicans made him a punching bag.

It was (Mie of the twists of history or politics that Gen. Douglas MacArthur 10 months before drew exactly the same defense line but this went unmentioned by Achesons critics and defenders.

Among the critics were Sens. Joseph McC?arthy and Robert A. Taft and Gen. Dwight D. Elsenhower. Even when MacArthur died April 5. what he said In 1949 must have been long-forgotten. This writer found no mention of It.

This was the background. In 1949 the Chinese Communists were smashing Chlang Kai-sheks Nationalists on the China mainland. Formosa, an island 100 miles off the coast, belonged to China.

On March 1. 1949. MacArthur

in an interview' with an English newspaperman. Ward Price

discussed the American defense perimeter in the Pacific. The Interview' was published In the New York Times March 3.

MacArthur said the Anglo-Saxon line of defense runs through the chain of islands fringing the coast of Asia. He listed them, from the Aleutians to the Philippines, through Japan. He left out Formosa.

In December 1949. Chiang and what was left of his army fled to Formosa. But by then the United States had given up on him and on Jan. 5. 19.50, President Harrv' S. Truman called In newsmen to make a statement.

He said the United States would lake no acU(i to defend Chiang and his forces on Formosa, that it was a Chinese Repeating what MacArthur had said 10 months bef o r e, Acheson put the American defense line in the Pacific off the Asia coast and in the strtag of islands from the Aleutians to the Philippines. He, too. omitted polled Truman and explained the decision in a talk at the National Press Club, problem. This was an administration policy decision.

On Jan-. 12, 1950. Acheson sup-Formosa.

He then went further than MacArthur and sought to answer the natural questitm raised by his statement: What about protecting other areas in the Pacific and Asia from attack.

Acheson said: It must be clear that no person can guarantee these areas against military attack.But it must be clear that such a guarantee is hardly sensible or necessary within the realm of practical relationships.

If such an attack did occur, he said, the initial reliance must be on the people attacked to resist it and then upon the CMnmitments of the entire civilized world under the charter of the United Nations which so far has not proved a weak reed to lean on by any people who are determined to protect their Independence against outside aggression.

While Acheson didn't commit the United States to the defense of any country attacked in A.s-ia. he didnt say the United States w'ouldnt try to defend it. He left the door open for an (Continued On Page 5)

(Greenville, Miss., Delta Times).

More hope for education? Yes, but not enough, Americass college-age population is rapidly Increasing and so is the ambition of this group to obtain a higher education. In fact it has become almost a necessity to have a college degree or at least a smattering of education above the high school level in order to obtain a job of any standing in our society.

Latest surveys by the Southern Regitmal Education Board showed that lack of funds each year prevents KW.OOO highly qualified and intelligent U. S. high school graduates from entering college. Why dont they work their way through? Because In many Instances campus or part-time jobs are not enough. It is estimated that $1,500 are required for a years total expenses at a public college as compared to $2.000 at a private school. The problem of financing even a year at these prices is especially prevalent hi the South where family Incomes are 25 per cent low'er than In the nailon and college costs are equally as high as elsewhere.

Fignies show that more than half the students enrolled in southern colleges and universities are earning at least part

of their school expenses. Figures also show that this is not sufficient to provide the necessary funds.

Although the number of scholarships available throughout the nation is increasing each year the South included the increase is not In propoiv tl(Hi to the Increase in students. The South has 25 per cent of the college enrollment but (xily 20 per cent of the nations scholarship functe, and of the top 50 institutions giving the largest amount of scholajrship aid, (xily 10 are hi the South

Reports show that state governments are beginning to play a bigger role each year in providing scholarships, including our neighboring states of Louisiana and Tennessee. Yet most state aid goes to students in specialized fields such as teaching, medicine and nursing ~ the critical professions. The National Merit Scholars h 1 p Corp. awards about 500 scholarships each year to Southern college students. That is ne, but there are over one million students attending Southern colleges.

Where does this leave us? With the need to somehow make a college education and hope for the future possible to more of our young people, thus insuring hope for the future of our entire country.

State In Charge of Public Affairs $16.85 in hopes he would be bluffed out of a hand in which we pretended to have a flush. Mr. Manning took the money and then raised us. We felt this was highly unethical for a member of the State Department, but we raised him. He raised us, so we dropped out. The next day we wrote a piece very unfavorable to Dean Rusk.

On Feb. 11, we lent five dollars to Rep. John Lindsay, interest-free, as he was taking our daughters to a movie and didnt have enough money, Mr. Lindsay returned the loan the following week.

On March 3, 1964, w'e took Commissioner Mortimer Caplin of the Internal Rev e n u e Service to lunch which cost $4.40 including the trip. We had hoped to persuade him to forget about our income tax return, but Mr. Caplin said It was out of his hands. He was on a diet at the time, so we handed him an extra piece of pie as a bribe, and although he slipped the pie into his pocket he still refused to promise anything.

Now for some payoffs. Sen. Hugh Scott took us to lunch at the Senate dining room to secure our influence in helping to make the American rose the national flower. The lunch cost $6.00.

Sen. Barry Goldwater sent us a book, retail value $4.50, concerning the things ,he believed in.

Gov. Rockefeller sent us his book, retail value $6.95, covering his philosophy.

A paid lobbjdst for the cigar industry gave us a box of Tampa cigars in regard to a column we had written against cigarette smoking.

The Barbie Doll people-gave us Barbie and Ken dolls completely outfitted. The value of the gift was $1.565.80.

That just about does it. But from now on, for Mr^ p^rjHt nlwiS' sake, wefe ' going to keep records.

Our only fear Is that if the bill passes there may be some disgruntled editors who feel the Congressman Is interfering with the freedom of the press. And these people can be very vindictive. The ftrst thing theyd probably do Is spell Mr. di Roonians name wrong.

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN C(pyriilit. 1964. King Feature* Syndicate, Icnot 1

At a time when tb*

poverty campaigner* in Washington are pondering ways of providing vocational education in secondary schools for kids who dcmt seem to be able to make connections with the working economy of the country, the Russians are apparently discovering that such educa^ tlon can be mighty disappoint iag, ^ -

It was just six years abo that Premier Khrushchev, who Is willing to try anything once, decided that kids might as well combine their high school education with work. This sort of thing Is done on the c o 11 e g e level in the United'States, notably at Antioch College in Ohio, and at Bennington and Goddard Colleges In Vermont. These progressive colleges excuse their students from class for a couple of mcxiths each winter to take jobs In Industry..The rationale is that when education and life are thus brought closer together, the student will learn more about adjustl n g theory to reality In getting on in this world.

Adapting the Antloch-Benning^* ton idea to the Russian scene, the Soviet government decreed in 1958 that students in t h e upper high school years should spend two days each week working In factories or on farms. This practical exposure to labor was designed to supplement both theoretical Instruction and actual vocational training In the high schools. But apparently it hasnt had any good results. It has. according to a spate of articles in the Soviet press, served to weaken the educational level of t h e high schools, postponed student access to higher education, and contributed virtually nothing to the working skills of the younger Soviet generations.

Because the Soviet farms and factories arent set up to make room for high school students on a two-day-per-week basis, Soviet boys and gjrls have found themselves spending most of the time on their industry days standing around while the full-time adult workers go about their normal busln ess. What the kids get is contemptuously referred to as over-the-shoulder practice. Instead of teaching them real skills, this shoulder work has actually encouraged a distaste for any toil that involves sweat. Moreover, It has wasted two days in each week that might have gone into solid training in mathematics, physics and other intellectual fundamentals that would be of great use to students In later life.

Soviet pedagogical magazine say that the program of shoulder practice Is Intolerable. But the problem Is how' to get the news through to Khrushchev,

The collapse of Khrushchevs 1958 hopes for a successf u 1 new form of education for Soviet children has gone hand in hand w'ith the failure of other progressive exper i m e n t s which the Iragmatic Nikita which the pragmatic Nikita project for raising wheat in the arid regions of Central Asia has been a great disappointment. His attempt to domesticate the culture of Iowa com or maize in an unfavorable climate belt has not added appreciably to the Russian larder. The good thing about Khrushchevs pragmatism however, is that it can contemplate the abandonment of unsuccessful projects in favor of other ideas, whether old or new. The educators-Should not toe difficult to get Khrushchev to listen to them.

Who knows, maybe the boss of the Kremlin will one day discover that Communism Is in itself a failure. He seems to be trembling on the verge of such discovery in several areas. In eastern Europe, according to a Budapest dispatch by the Wall Street Journals Ray Vick e r, industries are being told to subordinate pure communism to the needs for making a profit in a supply-and-demand market. Certain east European industries have evert been permitted to lay off unnecessary workers.

Since Khrushchev wants to (Continued on Page 5)

More Teen Vandalism, Stealing

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS NATURE OF SIN

What, Is sin? Sin has been defined as that inner cornipilcm which causes men to disobey God or to come short of what He weuttr haw S be or rtir "

This rebellion against God must be something local in character. We cannot imagine that it extends to other planets and to the limits of our galaxy. If this wer(x true, the very heavens would be on fire all the'time, for It is mans sin here on this planet which causes most of our suffering, violence, and destruction.

Criminals are people who do not want to work but who want to steal the fi-uit of the prudent. Mad dogs in the busiuess world want tp get rid of all competi

tors and competlllon. Sin in the family circle takes on all sorts of shapes all fundamentally based on selfishness. The worlds greatest sin, of course, is war.

~ hooksr up at stars anrf other heavenly bodies and then tni to some simple book , of astronomy and read what the scientists tell us. Everything appears to be moving along as if there were a great and good Pilot at the tiller. But a group of Gods creatures here on

By EI.MER ROESSNER

Teen rowdyism and vandalism is Increasing in supermarkets and shoplifting by youngsters is getting worse, the Shopping Center Reporter. published by Food Fair Properties. Inc.. warns.

The teen-age problem is serious not only because it exerts a direct effect on business and blurs the shopping center Image built up with blood and sweat and tears, says the newsletter.

It-is a, Ivigbtening ,^U9e--.

cause ali efforts to combat It have thus far failed. Internal policing has not helped enough to warrant .the fxpense and Item involved.

Publicity, . . .has not exerted a decisive Influence. . . . Shopping centers are hardlyJhe_

earth known as human baingz soi*-vieHmr-Thinflve oTcas-

rise up ai3 defy God. rebel against Him. and usually de*-troy themselves by so doing.

How can we be so stupid? Sin Is an Inner corruption. It leads men to disobey God or come short of ..what He would have 115 to iJT or do.

ual lawbreaking by teen-agers extends to schools, downtown, public buildings, city streets and even churches. The discouraging aspect is that the nuisance is prevalent in the very' insUtuUoos that would ordinarily be c4iJled upon to help st(^

it the schools and churches. SO THEYRE MONSTERS

Until recently, many of those who should have knwon better dismissed the depredations of these juvenile monsters as a passing phase. . . .

In older, more relaxed times when it was easier to pigeonhole human behavior, juvenile delinquency went hand In hand with slums, povCrty and drunken, dissolute parents. Not so today'. The youngsters come from all levels of society and from the suburbs as well as the 'Cttte5r-r=rfThe*^orsrtff^^ are of so-called good families of relatively high income levels. It has reached a point where vandalism is a w'ay of life rather than an a b b e r a tion; where shoplifting is a sport rather than a sei^us depariure-Jix)m-44ieHWsle'Te^sof honesty.

While the Reporter seems a bit on the hysterical side, it perhaps has its reasons. It goes on, It is no longer uncommon for hordes of juvenile shoplifters to descend on stores like locusts, for monsters in the guise of youngsters to invade

an eating place and m(Xiopo> lize the facilities without buying and to break up furniture when called to task, to annoy customers in stores on walks and malls.

SOLUTIONS The newsletter offers these solutions; more and better policing by constituted authorities; prosecution of offenders despite fear of boycotts by parents. and cooperation with community councils in actions to improve the problem.

It adds. The future of your business Is at stake.

It did not add that supermarket customers, in the end. pay for vandalism and shoplifting. The losses have to be added to prices or the stqce _go^-bfoke. ^ ^ .

hams, check* out and pays for the groceries. Outside, he turns over the cash register tape, the trading stamps and a list of the items to an accomplice.

The accomplice picks up identical groceries and starts to walk out without paying. When stopped, he displays the tape and trading stamps and no on* dares call copper.

HERES TRKTi TO WATCH IN SUPERMARKETS

The Shopping Onter Reporter warns supermarket operators of a new shoplifting play.

One member of a shoplifting team enters a supermarket, picks out a cart full of expensive foods, such as canned

SHORT & SIGNIFICANT

BUSINESS NEWS ITEMS New styles in shoes h a v caught ciMisumers* eyes and sales this year may rise 7 to 8 per cent above'1968 figures, the Value Line Investment Survey estimates. . . jK Checker Town Chiskxn limousine, built to order fojrA--ricb--eustomef xntrTlIsWayed at the New York Auto Show, has a vinyl cloth. 'top reading lamp, air-ccmdltion-ing, and porthole near window* for privacy. . . .The New York Telephone Co. boasts that New Yorkers use yellow pages 141 million times a year. . .Austra 11a Is cutting Its shipments of meat to the United States by 29 per cent, the U. S. Depart men of Agricultur* report*.