Friday, May 15, 1964

Tourist Season Now Near At Hand

North Carolina, the Variety Vacationland, is caution on the highways of our state than they

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moving into the season of the year when its multimillion dollar tourist business reaches its peak.

On highways throughout the state an increasing number of automobiles are carrying happy vacationers. To these are added the thousands of families away from home on week-end trips that become increasingly frequent during the summer months. ' It all adds up to the fact that North Carolina

have in the past four months, the summer will also hold in store more tragedy, more deaths, more injuries on the highways of our state than in previous years.

Every family should be aware of the greater highway hazards that qoine with the summer months because of the increased traffic on our roads. Every driver should be aware of the increased toll that has

is moving into the period of the year when its high- been taken on our highways during the early part way traffic is the heaviest. of the year.

During the first four and one-half monthii_of -That extra precaution may well mean the dif-this year the death toll on the highways of the state ference between a happy holiday and a tragic sUndrat almost 100 more than the same period of accident.-last year. In the first four and one-half months of 1964 2,000 more people have been injured in highway accidents in the state than during the same pcroid a year ag>o.

What do the summer months hold in store?

Happy holidays at the beaches or in the mountains.^ Carefree days on the roads to visit family and friends. Quick trips to a lake, river or picnic area to escape the boiling heat of the every-day routine.

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES MANSION - A few details or 80 still must be ironed out before the state officially accepts the gift of a $53,000 niansl(Mi in the mountains as a western North Carolina headquarters for its governors.

For example, there Is the question of which agency or department will accept the un-Tisual fifr=^ the departmentisf Administration and the states housekeeping Property Control ofifce, the department of Conservation and Development which looks after state park and forests and certain other properties, or the governors office itself.

The matter apparently has not been brought before the Council of State as yet. although the Council of State has held several of Its regular. private meetings since the gift was announced last March.

It is felt likely that the mountalntop estate will go to the states Property Control Office an office In the department of administration directly under the governor.

RESIDENCE One thing appears clear. This te that mansion, perched 3,140 feet up on Patton Mountain, cannot be considered an (rfficial residence of go^mors of North Carolina. not in a tech

nical, legal sense.

Article 3. Section 5 of the state constitution speclflcal 1 y provides, under duties of the governor, that the governor shall reside at the seat of government of this state. .

To provide for an official, legal residence for governors except in the city of Raleigh presumably would req u 1 r e amending the constitution.

The Patton Mountain mansion. of course, may be considered as an unofficial headquarters, or summer retreat. But It may not be described In legal documents or acts, nor in transfer of title, as an official residence of the governor.

Thus there is the technical question of how to phj*ase the transfer descrlptioji to fit existing legal definitions Another matter, which Asheville folks are working on, is furnishing of the mansion. Gov. Terry Sanford told newsmen recently it doesnt have a stick of furniture in yet, and no place to make ham s a n d-wiches.

GIFT Gift of the particular estate on Patton Mountain, announced publicly on March 9. had its conception as long ago as last summer and the project was a well kept ecret.

There were rumblings that perhaps the timing of an-

nouncement of the gift of a mountain mansion might have had political significance, but if so it was not very clear and certainly slight in effect. Rumblings were based on the effect of tying the present state administration more closely to western North Carolina which is the political stronghold of gubemator 1 a I cancrrdare Dan K. MbsrerdP^^ posed to the Sanford administrations choice. L. Richardson Preyer of Greensboro.

But there appeared to be no political significance at all attached to identity of the firms and individuals who contributed funds to purchase the two-level mansion. Commitments for donaticMis were obtained in the summer of 1963 when the project itself was a closely guarded secret.

HOUSE The mountalntop house Itself had been up for sale after having served as a private residence for 16 years. It is a California ranch-style, three bedroom, four bath structure featuring glass-fronted living areas overlook 1 n g Asheville and a sweep of surrounding mountain range.s.

When advertised by an Asheville realty firm, It was offered at less than original cost of $85,000. The advertisement called it as secluded as if It were the only one on the mountain.

The main floor Includes a 34 X 27 foot living room flanked by two porches offer i n g spectacular views. There are also two bedrooms, a din i n g nocrft, kitchen, baths, several closets and a dressing room on the main floor.

The basement level has an additional bedroom, baths, a spacious recreation room, storage room, garage. boU c r room and deck.

RIDDLE An Incorrect report of Mjpport in the Democratic primary campaign for governor Is being spiked by a legislative candidate in Buncombe County. The le p o r t which had circulated in Raleigh was to the effect that Robert E. Riddle of Asheville reportedly was a supporter of L. Richardson Preyer.

The report, says Riddle. Is completely Incorrect. I would like to make it known to the press that I have bei since early in the campaign and remain an active supporter of Dan K, Moore.

Riddle says he was offered several positions in the Moore campaign but that the reason he turned them dowTi was his own candidacy for the legislature and the possible reflection it might have had on Dan Moore since the other legislative incumbents from Buncombe ai-e reportedly Moore supporters.

Pitt Can Deliver The Knockout This Sunday

This Sunday Pitt Countians can deliver the knockout blow to one of mankind's great scourges.

Sunday afternoon at 33 feeding .stations throughout the copty the last of three doses Of Sabin polio vaccine will be administered by volunteer doctors, nurses, and pharmacist, with the assistance of others.

This final dose will immunize recipients against Type II polio, the dreaded type that leaves its victims paralyzed.

It is not necesvsary to explain to well over 50,000 Pitt Countians the procedure for obtaining - this last of three immunizations against polio. This majority of Pitt citizens already know the procedure because they have been to their respective feeding stations on two previous Sundays.

On these occasions they received a couple of drops of vaccine on a sugar cube to obtain lasting protection against contracting Type I and Type III polio. - -

It ca^n be anticipated that these thousands will By HAL BYL; snow-ttp agatn-fli, Sanctay for thjir final doans.

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For those who for some reason did not receive the first two doses, it is still not too late.

They may obtain the- Type H immunizatioi Sunday and then visit their personal physican for the other two doses, which mu.st be administered a month apart.

Because of this great health project Pitt County is virtually assured of wiping out the polio menace. All that is needed now is a turn-out Sunday at least equal to the number who received the sugar cubes on the previous two feeding Sundays.

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By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP)-About every 18 months scwnet h I n g happens to give Fidel Castro the miserie.s. It happened again on Wednesday and this time he got a double dose.

Brazil broke relations with him. And Cuban exiles, their oi*ganizatlon reported, raided the port of PUon in eastern Cuba, got ashore, burned a sugar mUl. and then ski p p e d back out to sea.

This was ju.st about 18 months after the Cuban missile crisis, which was just about 18 months after the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion.

In mid-April 1961. exile.s, with American backing, invaded their homeland at the Bay of Pigs but Ca.stro finally smashed them on the beach, to the great embarrassment of the United States.

This country had been willing to back them in getting to Cuba but was unwilling to support them when the going got rough. Never again has the United States tried anything like that.

But in October, 1962 ~ about 18 months after the Bay of Pigs Soviet Premier Khrushchev got the bright idea of shoving Russian missiles into CTuba, which was a big help to Castro but a great dismay to this country when it found out,

Tlie American government, w'hich caught on through its U2 planes, photographs of what was going on down in Castros Island, then told Khnishchev to get his missiles (Wit. or else. He agreed to remove them.

This country and Russia also agi-eed that an Intel-national inspection team would go into Cuba to make sure the mls.siles were gone. But Castro wouldnt let such outsiders in.

So the United States did the next best thing. It kept sending its picture-taking U2's over at speeds of 560 miles an hour and elevations of 90.000 feet.

While Russia had removed Its big missiles it left in Qiba batch of troops with powerful. antiaircraft missiles which could have shot dow-n the American U2s. but didnt.

I^ast month word leaked out the Russians were puHlng out the last of their ti-oop and just leaving behind several hundred advisers for Castro. This would mean tuming the antiaircraft missiles over to Castro. It raised a question.

Would Castro, now that he had control, shoot down the American U2s President Johnson said the plane flights would continue. Castro called the flights aggressive action. Russia said it would back up Castro if he was attacked.

But the United States hadnt talked of attacking. And Castro didnt quite say he would shoot down the planes. So all that died down a bit.

Then began rumors that Cuban exiles of whom there are thousands in this country were getting ready to bang at Cuba again, not in big waves, a sat the Bay of Pigs, but in small raids and harass-ments.

Since the United States long ago had told the exiles they could not make raids on their homeland from American land, it w'as to be assumed they were making their preparations in some Latin-Amerlcan country.

Castro would hardly believe that and it did not seem unlikely they were getting American help. And Wednesday they hit and scrambled away again, whether this was just a solitary attack or the first of a series is not clear.

The Cuban dictator Immediately .said this was a new' act of aggression by the American government. A State Department official .said it w-as nothing of the kind, that the United States knew nothing about it.

Meanw'hile, this country has been trying through the years to line up the 20-natlon Organization of American States solidly against Castro to freeze hiiq out in some way or other never quite clear.

This has been somet h 1 n g short of completely successful. For one thing, while.most OAS members broke off relations -with Castro these five refused to do so; Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Bolivia and Uruguay.

Brazil retained its relations so long as Joao Gouglart was president. But last March the Brazilian army threw out the left-leaning Goulart and set up a right-wing government that began throwing Brazilian Communists into jail.

It was expected that n o w Brazil would break with Castro. And Wednesday it did.

But where all this leads in stronger OAS action or exile raids is for the future."

NEW YORK (AP) - Things a columnist might never know if he didnt open his mail: Familiarity doesn't necessarily breed contempt. According to psychologists, marriages in which husband and wife share many mutual interests have less tension than those in which each partner ts more independent.

At least theres one commodity which doesnt seem to have gone up too much in price in recent yearsbuggy whips.

DIamixids were worn exclusively by men until a French woman named Agenes Sorel startled the Court of Versailles in 1444 by showiig up wearing a necklace of sparklers.

Theres a backlog of over 196,000 patent applications at

the U. S. Patent Office.

Apology: Sometime back we chronicled here that the dying request of frontiersman K i t Carson was for a plate of chili. A number of Western culinary experts have written in to say Kit had a low opinion of chili and that what he really asked for was a big chunk of buffalo steak.

Our quotable notable notables: A germ thlnJfes o a man only as the swamp in which he has to live Don Marquis.

One test of a civilization is how much water It needs. The per capita use of water in the United States has risen since 1900 from 600 gallims a day to 1,500. The figure is expected to double by 1980.

Imagine anything in Boston being wild. Well, theres a ra-

Other Editors Saying

Not A Private Problem

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

In education circles the accent for the past few years has been on giving the gifted students aH the breaks they needed to move ahead of the average. That is all well and good, but while we want these brilliant youngsters to have every opportunity to equip themselves for a complex age, we cannot forget those children who are not so fortunate.

The problem of mentally retarded children .is one North Carolina has been considering seriously for some time. As Gov. Sanford noted, w'e in the state are committed to giving all children the best possible chance in life. This Includes the average, the brilliant and those who have been caUed our forgotten children the mentally retarded.

Who are the mentally retarded? Not long ago the retarded were truly the forgotten children, the gover nor said. The retarded child, not too many years ago. was never more than tolerated by the school system. He could stay around if he didnt cause any trouble, but there was little effort to educate him.

But Gov. Sanford, along with many other North Carolina citizens, believes something can be done about the problem. And ghis problem has grown more" acute as the world has become a more complex place in which to live. It is difficult enough for the normal: it Is hopeless for the mentally retarded uni e s s he ha.s _________ __________

Fortunately, North Carolina

has started to meet its responsibilities toward these forgotten children. And there are some 140,000 of them in North Carolina, a fourth of whom are school age. Generally, their level of intelligence is less than three - fourths that of the average person.

Their minds will never fully develop, but the situation isnt hopeless. They can learn to lead happy and useful lives, with proper help. Some will always require complete care. Gov, Sanford points out that conscience and compass Ion, and sound econcnic reasons, have led us to provide special schools, better custod i a 1 care, research to find the causes and cures for their problems, and to encourage better public understand 1 n g. Still, we arent doing enough.

For example, we dont know how to prevent mental retardation. But the Important thing is that we know there is much hope for most retaitled children if they are given a chance early enough. It is clear the problem cannot remain a private one. For while 140,000 mentally retarded persons are only a fraction of the total state population, they alsor involve w'hole families.

And private means are not alw'ays adequate to cope with these problems. The public must realize it is good business as w'ell as good government to help the retarded become capable of self -care whenever possible. And c e r-tainly we cannot overlook the hiunane aspect of such a program. cr

dio station there WILD.

Some 65 per cent of people w'ho suffer chrcMiic headaches have one eye located higher in their head that the others.

Folklore: A girl who mops the floor crossw'ays of t he boards wl have a drunkai'd for a husband. Anybody who tips a chair over Imckward wont marry that. year. A girl who marries a man whose last name begins with the same letter as her last name will be worse off than when she was single.

Worth remembering: Its called the mother tongue because father seldom gets to use it Arnold H. Glasow,

Famous last words: Voltaire remarked. Do let me die In peace. Daniel Webster muttered, Life, life! death, death! how curious It is! The Emperor Vespasian commented, I suppose I am now becoming a god.

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Khru.shchev insists that our grandchildren will all be Socialists. Hes smart to skip over our present generation of children, because judging by the way they pursue their fees for grass-cutting, dish-w'ashing and baby-sitting, they are unshakeable capitalists. Fairfax (Minn.) Standard.

Tourism has become a booming industry. Its the safest of bets that more Americans wall travel abroad this year than ever before. And the number of people from other lands w'ho visit our country is steadily increasing. Industrial News Review.

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May 17

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN Copyright, 1964, King Features Sjmdicate, Inc.

SOMERSET, Pa. President Lyndon B. Johnson gets hijjh visibility as he skips by air about Appalachia proclaiming its poverty and defilement. But a low visibility lo<* at Somerset County, in this south-western comer of Pennsylvanias porticto of Appalachia. tcUs a much more meouragln g story.

I came out to this comer of Appalachia because I had heard they were about to dedicate a golf c(Minse made out of a back-fUled strip coal mine. Inasmuch as golf greens have to be manicured to the last inch, and fairways have to show at least reasonable smoothness, this seemed alxMit the ultimate that could be demanded of restoration work in ravaged coun-try. WeU, the golf course a nine-holer that will eventually beren-larged to eighteen holes, was there, the creati(m of the Mer-riU brothers, Charles and Howard. The fairways were still a little hard on the feet, for southwest Pennsylvania has had a drought. an(3 the new grass was just getting a grip on the restored surface of what was an ugly gash in the earth just a few months ago. The greens, however, were already soft and lovely to the touch.

" The Idea of tuming a worked-out coal seam into a g o 1 f-CQurse. spectacular though^ it te. happens merely to be the io ing on the cake so far as Somerset County is concerned. The baking of the cake is another story. This is an important center of strip mine activity, for several coal seams lie close enough to the surface on either side of the Penrusylvania Turnpike to permit mining by the easy method of scraping off the topsoll and overburden of rock to get at the coal as it lies exposed to open air. Mors than golf is involved in making use of the gutted land. -Strip mining got Its big impetus here during World Wai II, when bituminous coal was at a premium and no one worried about what fly-by-night slash-and-strip methods did to make the earth look like a replica of the surface of the moon. Big contractors who had been working on the Ixiilding of the Pennsylvania Turnpike happened to have their bulldozers and mechanical hoists in the neighborhood when Pearl Harbor came, and they stayed on to strip out the coal. After the way they left, leaving much of the land an esthetic horror.

Local people who had gotten Into strip mining In 1940 and 1941, however, had to live on In the place.

It seemed senseless to Charles Merrill, whose family had been in Somerset County coal since the Eighteen Eighties, to see so much good potential farm, forei^ and recreation land ruined by stripping. So Mr. Merrill, though it cost him a bit to backfill and regrade the land to contour as he moved along a coal seam, began restoration on his own. The dividends were large In term.s of beauty. But, surprisingly, the restoration also began to pay off In money terms, for farmers discovered that strip mine digging had some of the virtues of deep plowing. It broke up hard pan that had hitherto been impenetrable to alfalfa roots, and it made mineral nutrients available to plant that had not been available before.

Land that had not even been good for pasturage before strip mining had churned It up is now yielding money-making crops of corn and wheat in Somerset. And one fanner, Cloyd Saylor, who w'anted some of his coal-veined acreage filled In to make for himself a private airstrip, decided he could be better served by putting the reclaimed earth Into alfalfa and clover. The tax roUs, of coui-se, benefit every Ume, some stripped-out waste la returned to use.

The point about Somers e t County is that the restoration of the landscape has been done by local initiative. It started long before Pennsylvania had any effective law to compel (Continued on Page 5)

Some Common 'MythsSDefloted

Strength For Today

By EARl. I.. DOl'GI.ASS RESIST THE SHELF

There is a disposition today to chuck the oldsters up on the shelf. In past, generations we had the spectacle of doddering ,old j|iefficinlfe. holding on to jobs long afUii they we|e Capable of handling them. But today we find hale, hearty and experienced men compelled to retire before, there appears to l>e any real reason for their doing vso.

ff you retire early enough, ju.st reiiKMnlx'r that on have, a ' delHihtfuI p(M i(Kl or leariiing tx'fore you, Prof Thorndiki of Cnlninbia University discovered by a srnc.s of tests tliat older rx'oplr really hani belter ' tlian the young Di-ople. One of

his most ingenious tests involved the ability to learn to write, with the wrong hand. To everybody's amazement, the oldsters learned more quickly than the youngsters. This led the Professor to declare. We have, discovered that mature people can leaipi* practically anything they want to. In every m e n I a 1 function, they are throughly plastic and teachable. In fact the leaniing ability of young people at the highly favorable ages ,qi 17, 18 and 19. Sq cheer up fellow citizrns for I happen to be amonu your numbi'r and just remrmlKM' that It has been demonstrated that we re not so had aflei all III taft ue can eivr the vonng-fcters a run for theijr money.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Speeding economic growth will not automatically Increase employment, A.W. Ze-lomek, noted economist, told the University of Virginia Alumni Association this week.

He said the idea . that the nation can solve the unemployment problem by spurring economic growth w'hich is what the present Administration is trying to do is a myth.

Zelomek, who is president of the International Statistic a 1 Bureau and a visiting profes-vsor at the University's school of business administration, said:

Increased economic growth does not imply a proportionate gain in employment. Even with the growth we will not absorb the increased number of potential workers, based on popuiartion growth, nor wijl w solve the problerp of the aged or those of the small biusin^ssman. which will aggra-Mite the unemployment problem

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tor of the economy is quite different than growth in the production sector. The increase in employment in the latter cannot be absorbed by the service sector, and 'thus the problem of unemployment becomes that much more.

However, the persistence of unemployment will not lead to an immediate dowmtum, in Zelomeks view'. There are no indications that general bu.si-ness wUl turn down not only during the rest of the year but also through early 1965,

The economists also labeled myths several other common beliefs.

They are;

1. That we must have a sharp increase in inventories in a period of rising economic activity, especially In a period of more than adequate capacity. With price .stability, there is no need to build inventories. he said..

2. That the American pub-' lie is overly" in debt. He said that the public is in a good pn.sition to absorb even more drbt. and that the high rate of ecoiioniic activity during the

last 25 years must be associated with the publics w'illing-ness to go into debt.

3. That the American family is increasing in size. History shows that the larger the income, the smaller the family.

SEES NO INFLATION

Zielomek .said that despite the duration of the recovery, there is no evidence of inflation. There is little likelihood of sharper higher prices for goods, the most important indicator of inflationary tendencies. The wholesale price index has shown little change from 1958 throcgh 1963.

Zelomeks previous predictions have shown him a sound economist Nevertheless, two of his points are at variance with points made in this column ;

1. The consumer priec index riijfis almost every m o n t h, which look'' like ciceping Inflation Wh'.*'e dof\s Zelmi^k buy hl.s bread?

2. In llir la.sf tiscat year, more Miaji KU.iHX) person', took the bath'"of bankruptcy. Many

pereons may be in a good position to assume more debt, but those thousands w'erent.

SHORT & SIGNIFICANT BUSINESS NEWS ITEMS Contracts for future construction in March were 18 per cent above a year earlier, the F. W. Dodge Co., reports. . . Of 16 states with state liquor stores. Pennsylvania took in the largest amount last year . . Indiana has forbidden the advertisement of whiskey on curbsides of buses, but not on the other side. . .The average American used 135 jars, jugs and bottles in 1963. the Census Bureau would have you know. . .When people write Chrysler for Information about its rumored new Barracuda sports car, the company .sends them a picture of the fish. . . I/ess than half of Americas 61 mUon adult worker.s from 22 to 64 have had any formal job trgj[ning. Commerce Clearing House reports. . . .The International Organization for Stauriardizatlon is trying to standardize typewriter k t y-boards ai'ound ihe world.