Saturday, May 9, 1964

I Seem To Lost The

Recognition For Fire Departments

Community volunteer fire companies throughout Pitt County have fought an up hill battle for many y^ars seeking official recognition that would help give permanent status to the departments and Improve fire protection in rural areas of the county Slowdy but surely this official recognition has been forthcoming. Action by the Pitt Couty Com-. missioners Monday in moving to help set up a central organization for rural fire bepartments of the cotinty is another important step in this direction.

The new organization will help the rural de-

"nhartments in meeting the standards of the Fire Insurance Rating Bureau. It will pave the way not only for better fire protection in rural areas, blit for eventually more favorable fire insurance rates for property in the rural areas of the county.

Pitt County is jstilT some time away from the clay when every section of its rural area will have fire protection. In the past decade, however, giant steps have been taken in that direction. For the most part the progress has been made because of initiative on the part of individual volunteer fire departments. The county government has moved slowly extremely so in our opinion in giving

r actors In

official status to the building of an adequate fire protection system for*the rural areas.

The action by the Board of Comissioners on Monday suggesLs that the governing officials may now be ready to lend greater support to the efforts of the volunteer fire departments. Hopefully, the action by the Commissioners this week is but the first of several steps* that the county's governing board will take in the coming months to help provide better fire protection for the rural areas of Pitt. '

f" Choice For Visit

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES PLACE Anyone who listens closely In this heartiftnd of ^Eastern North Carolina might hear various versUms of why Rocky Mount was picked as a place for President Johnson to inspect poverty at Its aeurce.

The question Is a natural ene and it is dlfflcult to aort out tOe varlmui versions clrculaUing here to obtain an entirely clear picture of the presidents purpose.

Most likely, observers agree, the real reason behind choice ef Rocky Mount for the LBJ vistt Bee fai a combination of factors, some practiesi and others pertiaps political.

LOCALE The countryside hereabouts la lush and green, dotted with prosperous farms and rich baronial plantations. The area has good highways, bypasses and Is on the Interstate system.

R Is a railroad center, and Rocky Mount is thriving Industrially. Its school system Is excellent.

Yet It is true also that there are pockets of poverty In tobacco - growing, agricultural Eastern North Carolinas rural areas snd in Its small towns and medium - sized ci-ties, just as bleak In places as in mountainous Appalachia.

Ths president may have intended to show by his visit here that he la aware that eo-onomic proMems and poverty ^^exlst in areas other than depressed Appalachia.

If so, he succeeded In bringing the niessage to Eastern North Carolina that his federal anti poverty program would extend also into this region vexed by low farm Income. out-mlgraUon and concerned with the future of a tobacco economy.

NAME This was reassur-.,lng.^U) Eastern North Carolina, but was it Intended that the rest of the country get the same message One report was that a reason for the White House choosing Rocky Mount was that the name of the town itself would convey the image of a struggling Am>alachian town down in North Carolina via the dateline aa news dispatches.

This assumed, of course, that most erf the nation isnt familiar with the nixnenclat-urr snd geograirfiy of North Carolina.

Gov. Terry Sanford, according to reports, felt that Johnson might get a better look at rural poverty In Greens County,-which Is much closer to Goldsboros Seymour - Johnson APB where the presidents big silver and blue fso-Jet Air Fofce 1 landed.

And s Greene County dateline from Snow Hill, N.C. might have been Just ss Im-sge-strlklng.

PROJECTS Another reason cited for Rocky Mount and Nash County, however, was the fact that a pilot^program on government food stamps

for the needy has been carried out In Nash. The food stamp plan Is Is a feature of Jackson's anti - poverty program now before Congres.s.

It was this plan primarily, according to the report, that the president wanted especially to call attention U>. Also, Rocky Mount and Nash afforded a chance to point out a recently - approved poverty project selected by the governors North Carolina Fund. This was oBi?ortunity for the president to emphasize the value of both federal, state and local attacks on poverty.

stop in Goldsboro, dictated by the practical reason that the Seymour - Johns o n runways are the wily ones In the area long enough for the presidential jet, also afforded opportunity to cite community and even neighborhood efforts to cwmbat the causes of poverty.

The entire Eastern North Carolina area. Incldenta 11 y, has been seeking for years a way to secure a large, modem commercial airport facil i t y but no agreement has b e e n reached to end local rivalries as to location. Landing at Seymour Johnson wta purely a practical matter.

POLITICS Politically - oriented versions of the presl-

Almost Overwhelming Construction Program

New construction slated for the college campus in the next few months is almost overwhelming.

As a summary carried in the Daily;JRefleetor .showed, $9,566,750 in-new construction will be completed or underway prior to the opening of the .school next fall.

' Included in thi.s figure a huge amount of construction for a city the size of Greenville are facilities for the expansion and improvement of many of the colleges program.s.

There is the ojjtdoor track, for in.stance, and the>new gymnasium. A $1.4 million building, which is to be a campus showpiece^ will house the cblleges rapidly growirvg nwtsic-ichool.-------- _ _

Stredm Of Olc.

Stories

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

CopjTight, 1964, King Features Syndicate. Inc.

Someone In the Pentagon has it In for the memory of General Douglas MacArtiiur.

For, out of "hitherto not declassified files, there l.s coming a stream of material designed to prove that Mac-Anhur, by wantonly pumilna the North Koreans to the Yalu River, brought the Red Chinese into the Korean War in .spite of warnings from Washington that this would happen if he baited them.

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- Two new classroom buildings are included, an addition to the library and an addition to the student union in Wri^W .Building,

One dorm for women has just been completed. Another womens dorm and a fourth mens dorm will get underway this sumer.

All these multi-million dollar projects are not simply propo.^als. They are already approved by the state arid funds have been appropriated, or otherwise provided through^federal loans.

Architects are right now drawing plan.s for these new buildings and before summer's end con tracLs are to be let for all of them and actual con-structTfTn wTTl Be u rider way.

It is the most extensive expansion program

By HATTBOYLE

Moreover, the same Pentagon source has claimed that MacArthurs plan to spread a i-adloactive belt across Korea, as outlined to reporter Bob Considine, was both Impractical and Impossible, and that_ there simply werent eno ugh atom bombs In the U.S. armory to permit their use by MaiS-Arthur against Red Chin ese concentratiMi points If any such points could be found.

The ridiculous aspect of these latest attempts to dis-ciedlt a great general is that they are mainly a replay of a controversy that was pretty much settled ten years ago.

It will be recalled by anyone with a long memory that MacArthur, both before and after President Tniman had relieved him of his command. W'as under severe criticism for ^hsg"Te North "TCofeans n>

Self-ADDioval Imoortant

dent^ Eastern North Carolina ^It, however, center on

Rocky Mount and Nash County.

These verslwis deal with politics 1^ almost every level from Johnsons bidding to enhance his personal standing with North Carolina Democrats, to tossing an accolade to Gov. Terry Sanford and. by influence, to Sanfords choice in the state's steaming gubernatorial campaign, to signifying that all la well between the man In the White House and the governor, although S a n-ford backed John F. Kennedy instead of Johnson at Los Angeles In 1960.

In event of the latter interpretation, observers felt Johnsons visit might have an In-flence upon Eastern North Carolinas vote in the gubernatorial primary on May 30.

It was also pointed out that Rocky Mount itself has a strcmg conservative flavor politically. It W81S In Rocky Mount that candidate I. Beverly Lake made his first speech of the current campaign. It was in Rocky Mount that (Hily this week, a p r o-Sanford mayor, Billy Harrison, was defeated by^ a^onserva-tive candidate.' '

There were also political overtones In connection with the May 30 primary contest facing Rep. Harold Cooley in tne Fourth District, since Nash County is Cooleys home.

Cooley, a veteran of 30 years and chairman of the powerful House Agriculture committee, is under attack not only by his primary opponent. R. Mayne Albright of Rale I g h. but by a vigorous young Republican challenger from Rocky Mount itself, Jim Gardner.

that the colleje has ever carried out at one time. Construction of these Buildings wilH change the face of the college campus. But most important, the addition of the improved facilities will go far to carry the college toward national academic recognition.

npredictabie Side Of Debate

NEW YORK (AP) Curbstone comments of a Pavement Platon

Self-approval Is one of the greatest keys to successful living.

To enjoy life more, learn to pat yourself on the back when you deserve it. The chances are you deserve it more often than you realize.

We are all familiar with the big bore who can talk only of his own aims, activities and achievements. If somet h i n g did not happen to him, he feels Its a waste of time to bring it up. Conversation for him is insually just one long session of bragging.

Such a person is an example of egotism become rampant. He therefore assumes a comic quality, as most exaggerated things do, and we tell ourselves when not in his presence, Im glad Im not like that one. Hes really in love with him

self."

But there is this tb say on his behalf: He may bore others to death, but he wont bore himself to death. He probably will live to a ripe old age, because he has found a sure source 6f enthusiasm and excitement him.self. And it is thiough enthusiasm and excite-mehr that we stay young.

There is a w'orse fate in this world than boring others and that is to bore ourselves.

Too many of us as we grow older tend to lose our good opinion of ourselves. We let our goals grow rusty, permit our jobs to become ruts, and abandon in ourselves the faith that alone can sustain us.

For others to like us we must first learn self-approbation to find some basic satisfaction in who we are and what we are trying to do with our lives. It is surprising how many people lose this essential

satisfaction and wind up with an actual sense of self-dislike.

Most of the mental and emotional troubles that beset middle-aged or elderly peo p 1 e arise from a loss in them of a feeling that they are worthwhile members of worthwhile groups engaged In worthwhile enterprises.

Time erodes^ their seiise of personal value. Their pursuits come to seem meaningless.

to their owm home territory. He had. so it was said at ths time, done this tn "reckless defiance of superior authority"; he had been victimized by "faulty intelligence relating to the Red Chinese build - up: and he had chosen to Ignore a telecon message from Washington, dated October 4, 1950, that the potential exists for Chinese Communist forces to openly intervene. . .if U. N. forces cross the thirty-eighth parallel.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON ( AP Shortly before his death President John F. Kennedy said he w'ould take on his Republican opponent In the 1964 presidential race in television-radio debates. So far President Johnson has declined to say what'he will do.

It would have been easy for Kennedy, an old hand at it after his four debates with Vice President Richard M. Nixon in 1960. All of them dtd-Kennedy good. And no Repuiv llcan then in sight seemed likely to outdo him.

Johnson, with no experience In this kind of national encounter, gave this answer when asked about the debate at his Dec, 18 news conference.

"I will make those decisions at the time I am the nominee and in the light of the circumstances existing then. For the present, I am not going to discuss any political matter."

He didnt stick to that absolutely. He has made some cracks about Republicans and practically everything he has^ done since has been a political matter in the sense of building up his voter appeal.

He's been so homey and down-to-earth and folksy and reassuring to so many people in .so many people in so many field.s of interest that he has created a picture of himself as a sojt of national big daddy.

The public opinion polls indicate the people are eating it up, If he doesnt overdo it. no Republican candidate could possibly match him In public exposui-e since he's President and everything he does is new

That raises the first question: Why. with this adv a n t a g e, should he let an ppponent, in one leap before the cameras and with one turn of the dial, enjoy the same spotlight with and perhaps do him damage by

outdoing him ?

The same question could have been asked about Kennedy, although not in 1960. Then Nixon was the national figure who had spent eight years as vice president building him.self up. Kennedy was just a senat o r from Massachusetts.

But after the very first debate, in which many felt he had bettered Nixon,^ had to be

equated in the * public mind with the vice president.

As President, by debating a Republican contender, Kennedy would have been granting his opponent the same kind of exposure he himself got in his setto with Nixon. Why do it, then?

One guess Is that Kennedy felt supremely confident about handling anyone the Republicans sent agaln.st him. If only for lack of experience. Johnson cant be sure hed make out as well.

Through the fresh insights theyd get into Johnson and his opposition arguing the issues in 1964, voters would be able to reach more Intelligent decisions about both of them.

But John.s(Mi, like Kennedy, is a politician with a race to win and the main problem of how. That would be the primary consideration for both. Thats a practical reason for Johnson wanting to w'ait till he sees what he's up against.

For instance:

To restore public acceptance through .serious discu.s.sion if by then he has made some gools in the presidency or suffered di.sfavor by too much running around and too much talking off the cuff.

Besides, he Is thin-skinned. If he says he wont debate, the Republicans )io doubt would try to needle him into changing his mind by attacking his reluctance to face his opponent.

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Other E(ditors Saying

?eace Not Their Goa.

"Sympathy for a man displaced by modern equipment i-s one thing. Sympathy for his demands to be paid for .sitting, or sleeping, at his old post Is quite another.Montgomery (Ala.) Journal.

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

The Soviet Union and the Communist bloc nations of Eastern Europe have launched a vigorous propaganda campaign for good will and w'orld peace in recent months. The dangerous thing about this offensive is that the West may succumb to the siren call of the dove with the olive branch, behind which lurks the real enemy, a hostile Soviet force.

Thus, we should be wary of this effort. These nations, regardless of what they say in the w'ay of peace and good will, are our declared enemies. The record supports this fact; over and over they have said, for a number of years, that capitalism and democracy are their inherent enemies.

Rep. Edwin WUlis, chairman of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, warned recently in an address at Statesville, that Communist nations are making loud protestation.s of good will and claiming they want to sign various treaties and agreements with us in the interest of world peace.

But Willis warned that their only Interest is to conceal bad deeds with good words. As an example, Lenin once wrote, "Promises are like pie cru.st, made to be broken." This is the Russian belief now on ininternational relations, agreements and treaties.

The hlstorj' of Soviet rela-tion.s is a history of broken treaties and promises. The

history of the Soviet Union with all nations is the same. A Senate subcommittee has uncovered an interesting fact; the Soviet Union has broken its word on almost every one of about 1,000 treaties and agreements signed since 1917.

As a result of faculty teaching we have seen the development of the apathetic, indifferent, uncommitted citiz e n s, the political neutralist who exists in a vacuum as far as patriotism is concerned. For this reason Americans must study our own countrys history as well as Communism, its strategy and its advocates. Only in this way can we compare and draw valid conclusions.

In recent years we have seen the development o fthe actively disloyan anti -American citizen. An example of this can be found in the hearings held in Washington for 59 .students w'ho went to Cuba last year in violation of State Department re-gulationvs.

An indifferent country is an easy mark for Commim i s m. And today we fear that indifference Is a disease that has become the rule rather than the exception. And of course one of the dangers is that most of us simply do not recognize Communist tactics w'hen we see them: infiltration, propaganda, teaching, all aimed at students, impressionable group.*?, disgruntled minority groups and indifferenct citizens.

Surely there are better ways to cope with discrimination in employment than for the Federal government to forge chains for one segment of our society while pleading the need for more freedom for another." Detroit Free Press.

"The world would beat a Perth to the doorway of a person who invented a governor for cars that would keep all idiots from speeding, while still i^ermitting all other drivers to get a burst of power any time they wanted.Memphis Press-Scimitar.

"If we are to ever have true economy of operation in public agencies it must be pursued right dowm to tlie smallest local level of government." Industrial News Review.

Sabin On Sunday

May 17

The answer to all this was that tlie United Natlom Gen-eral Assembly, on October 6. 1950, had voted Its explicit approval of the crossing of the tiiirty-eighth parallel, and that the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington, in transmitt i n g orders to Tokyo, gave M a c-Arthur permission to go as far as the Manchurian border in pursuit of the demoralized enemy. What MacArthur was warned against was employing air or naval action against Manchui-ia itself or the Siberian territory of the .S.S.R.

As for the imputation that MacArthurs own intelligence about the warlike intentions of the Red Chinese wa.s at fault. General Willoughby. MacAr-thur's G-2 from Bataan to Tokyo, answered the charge way back in 1953 by submitting a random list taken from his daily intelligence summaries showed that a warning about the Red Chinese buildup had been foiivarded from Tokyo to Washington as early as June 6, 1950. On August 31, a Tokyo summary had it that "troop movementr from On-tral China to Manchuria over a considerable period suggest preliminary to entering the K(M-ean theatre. . rtotal C h 1-nese strength in Manchuria estimated to be 246,(H)0 Regular and 374,000 Military Sccur i t y forces."

The point Which Willoughby, in rebutting the slandeis of 1952 and 19.53. was careful to make was that MacArthur was briefed every day on what the Red Chinese W'ere doing. The warning of po.ssiblc Red Chinese interference that went from Washington to Tokyo was simply a relay of Tokyos owm stuff. MacArthur chose to risk the danger of bringing tn the Red Chinese because lie believed he could Isolate th*'m in North Korea by bombing the bridges over the Yalu River, thereby destroying -their avenues of supply. Howe v e r, when the "planned. . .alr-in-terdiction of the Yalu bridge.s wa.s countermanded by Washington, in fear that MacArthur's planes might violate Manchurian air space, the possibility of isolating the Red Chit nese forces was lost. M o r e-over, when the knowled'-e that MacArthur would not be permitted to bomb supply points inside Manchuria waa (Continued on Page S)

More Trade With Soviet Bloc

Strength For Today

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By FAHI. 1 l)(>rc,L.\SS IM)K1KNJ)KN('E

Independence might indeed lx called the mart coveted and iu'ces.sary factor in human liie. Good health is important. Financial ease Is also important. Fortunate is that pi'nson who is happily employed and doubly fortunate if his happy employment is also profitable.

But independence without this life loses Us relish The word liberty, a we have often rlinindcd xiurselves. c o ui s originallv from a San.skrit word which means lo grow up. Li)>-crty 1.5 the opportunity to grow. Indrpeiidcnce mea;is the opportunity lo. u.se one's pbwers in the way he wants to use them, or Ihiiik.s thev can best lie u.sed. It involves also regard for ilio ciiKiuty of otJier.s and a demand that others lii then di'al-with U.5 take our di.mUy Uilu*coufidera(ioii. l.idepeiuleli

ce mean.s being a man, and insisting that one be treated avS such; or a woman, and requiring that respect and consideration be' part qi daily routine.

We love democracy because it allows us to have governments of our own choice, to participate in free elections, to choose our owm governmental administrators. Every law that restrains the beastly tMJe of person from attacking the w^ak and unprepared Is a good law. E\ery conn rieci-ion that un-, shackles the mind dears the' w ay for further human p ro-grrss.

Independence the dictionary defines it a.s "Freed o in from dtpt'ndcncc; exemption from rpliance on. or control by olher.** direction of onc.s-owp-affairs without inlcrforencc.

There is neither happi n e ,s ,s nor growth without indcprn-clciice.

By ELMER ROESSNER

If you are in business, you can .start making plans n o w for more trade with the Soviet and its satallites. In the ne.xi six months, trade with Red Europe will expand. Those who profit from it will be those who recognize this now.

It won t be unpatriotic lo try to beat others to .sales with the Soviet bloc. It may be suicidal not to.

The' United States effort to draw a cordon around the Red nations of Europe is no longer practical. In fact, such efforts may be contrary lo our new foreign policy as wtU as economic wcll-bt'ing.

Once it was both patriotic and practical to organize sanctions against the Red Bloc, except tor certain Innocuous materials. Our NATO allie,s went a.long uith us

LI RE OE qi U K POI .MIS, EUA.Ni \S

^ - But-t-raders^ in these nations \v(re mger for prolit.s, and .soon there weir many leaks in the dikes against trude with th(\ r/immunists. Tl>e Brilisii, tl) Fiicnch, llie West G e r-

mans and other.*? told themselves that the plants and raw materials were not useful in military pursuits, and .slipped them over borders. or through neutral nations.

Then We sold wheat to Russia. It was done, palpably, as a humanitarian gesture. We couldnt see women and chil* dren starve for the politi cal .*;ins of their husbands and fathers.

There was more to it than that. Some Americans held that we should have withheld grain. A starving popu lace might have risen against the communist masters in the Kremlin and overthrow them.

Perhaps. But apparently tlie;T was fear in Washington that if We.stern nations let the Ru.ssians starve to the point of rebellionthe Red Chinese would have swarmed in over tire starving Rus.sians and conquered to the gates of Berlin. ' And even more probable if the Rus.vian mas.srs faced starva-. tjou. tlirir ma.stens in the Kremlin wouldconvince them they * WTic victims of a Wf'st/' r n conspiracy (as well they

might have been) and ordered them to attack. Ixvying war on outside foe.s has been a method of unifying pt'asaiits for hundreds of years, WHEAT OVER THE DAM Once the U. S. began selling wheat to Russia, our allies felt that they had f u,l 1 right to sell other products. Wheat is food and food Is a military essential, therefore it wa.s meet and jiust to .sell oil refining plants, chemical fac-. tors in fact', everyt h *^1 g .short of Bofors guns and at(v miq bombs.

Now that our allies are .selling kitchen sinks to the Red Bloc nations, a demand for similar rights Is massing in the U. S: The U. S. Chamber of Commerce'.*? recornmendat i o n of prompt lowering of barriers against Red trade was not ,a startling departure. It was the outcome of a long, surging de-niand by Americiin corporations to sni>ir of the

bor.schi, i*" not the .g.iavv Th< U.S ( i t (. dt'l lot .suddrply turn frou'i cous''iva' ti " to hbrral It (lid w ii a t comes naluraliy in a situation

wliere all our friends are making profitable deals with the Red Bloc countries and when our basinesses are limited. ADMINLSTRATION APPROVES

Furthermore, the Administration has obviously been trying to achieve better relations with Moscow and environs. One purpose has been to strengthen the Muscovites against possible Chinese aggression; the other has been to breed a sort of peace that will enable us to cut our military expenditures.

Under these pressures will come the lifting of more and more restrictions on trade with Russia and her satellites.

Then, under parallel circumstances. there will come a softening of trade relations, with Red China. In Europe, If we dont .sell hard goods to Russia, France will; In Asia. If we don't sell hard goods to Red China, the Japanese will.

And then, by parallel pro-(Ussc.s, we may^ make peac# .with,Cuba.

One lump or two, LyndonI.

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