Saturday, August 15, 1964

Fishing Interests Need Guideline

Harvesters Of The Sea

The running battle that has been going on between commercial and sports fishermen along North Carolinas coast should be ended by the adoption of reasonable regulations'that will serve the long-range interests of both these groups. ^ ^

Bitter complaints in increasing numbers are being leveled against commercial fishermen by the sports fisherman who visit the coastal waters. Commercial fishermen, on the other had, are standing firm on their position that the sports fishermen are trying to put them out of business by proposing unrealistic regulations.

It is understandable that the commercial fishermen prefer that they be regulated as little as possible in going about their work. Fishing, after all, is their livelihood, as contrasted with the pleasure aspect of the sports fishermans quest for marine

Coincidence In

mat estimate

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES ESTIMATE - There is at least interesting coincidence in the fact that during the heat of the primary campaign last SiMing Oan K. Moore con-aervatively estimated a forthcoming state credit balance of 159 million.

That was last April 8. The prediction was contained and a IM^jected balance sheet included in what Moore camiMiign headquarters labelled an important statement by the then-embattled candidate for

govemw.

The exact figures cited by Moore In support of his surplus prediction were perhaps overlooked and almost forgotten until a couple of days ago when a new surplus statement rang a bell.

The coincidence is this: Budget bureau officials did some figuring and announced that the state did, in fact, close the 1963-64 fiscal year with a credit balance.

And that credit balance was 159 million.

SURPLUS Mowes campaign prediction was for a credit balance at the end (g the

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ed commitments.

Conceivably, according to budget officials, aU of the $19.5 million in 1963-64 reversions could be brought forward and spent during 1964-65.

IMPORTANT WhUe it is true that the amount of reversions or turning back of unspent appropriations because of savings and economies will ultimately determine the exact amount of 1963-65 sur p 1 u s. there is a more important factor in determining its size.

This is the rate of revenue collections above estimates and it is this factor which is most encourging and pleasing to budget-pianners and fiscal officials.

Moore, in his statement of April 8, referred specifically to this in saying estimating revenues, of course, is not an exact science but that he felt his figures could be relied upon and that they were on the conservative side.

He pegged his estimate on $30 million in revenue in excess of estimates and added, as a footnote, that this might be nearer $50 million for the biennium.

Moore also said he felt that savings from unspent appropriations could be in excess of $27 million, which was the amount of reversions which went into a surplus of $lli million in 1961-63. The $27 mUUon savings figure also had been cited by Gov. Terry Sanford as the amount he expected his admin-

1963-65 biennium, a year from now not for the fiscal year just ended.

Thus neither Moore nor his suppoi-ters can claim hav i n g made an uncanny prophesy. Nor have they attempted to. The fact that the $59 mill i o n figures match is regarded as mere coincidence at this point, and only an encouraging indicator for next year.

The $59 million credit balance accrued as of last June 30 is no lr(Hi-clad guarantee that it will be that much or more in mid. 1965.

istration to realize in savings for the present biennium.

GILL In effect, Moores prediction of a credit balgnce was more conservative of that of State Treasurer Edwin Gill who, using the same $27 million estimate of savings furnished by Sanford, placed his prediction at between $75 and $80 million.

Gill obviously used the higher figure on revenue in excess of estimates.

The veteran state treasurer says he is sticking by his gun.s and secs no reason to alter his estimate.

, It must be regarded simply -as a progress report a good Indication that, on the basis of Increased revenues and some savings, a suiplus is accumulating.

SHRINKAGE - The fact is that since June 30 the credit balance has suffered some shrinkage.

It included some $19.5 mil-lio.T in reversions, funds appropriated for fiscal 1963-64 but not spent. *

This has shrunk at little over $10 million because between $8 and $9 million has been brought forward for possible expenditure by state agencies, departments and Instltuti o n s during this year. These funds may be brought forward and spent in the second year of a biennium for legitimate purposes. incumbencies and postpon-

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life. On the other hand, one cannot overlook the fact that sport fishing on the Carolina coast has become as big a business as commercial fishing. It pumps literally millions of dollars annually into th eeconomy of the coasral areas. Like commercial fishing, it provides jobs, payrolls, requires equipment and capital expenditures.

If some of the methods used by commercial fishermen are needlessly killing small fish, these practices pose a threat to the future of commercial fishing along the states coast just as they pose a threat to the future of sports fishing gin the area.

There may be many points on which the views of commercial and sports fishermen differ. On one point, however, they should be in agreement. That is their desire to insure that the coastal waters of the state will continue indefinitely to yield an abundance of fish and marine life for both the men who fishes for pleausre and the men who fishe.s for a living.

The squabble between commercial and sports fishermen has gone unresolved to long. It is time the state took positive steps to assure in realistic terms the continued productivity of our coastal waters. In the long run, such steps will be in the best interest of both the commercial fisherman and the sports fishermen of North Carolina.

Role Of Pawns Played By Greece And Turkey

One begins to appreciate the Cyprus mistake more and more as the tangled skein of its makeup threatens to explode into an unwanted and needless war.

The loyalties of its people were not, and have never been, to Cyprus itself. Old ties between the two poples and their motherlands predominate.

Ancient animosities between Greeks and Turks were not erased among Cypriots with the arrival of self-rule. The make.shift constitution imposed on the islanders solved none of their native problems, only invited more problems.

The Turkish minority looks to Turkey for their very survival; the Greek Cypriots look to Greece for succor in the event Ankara steps in.

As members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization both Greece and Turkey are full aware of the significance should they be joined in Avar; but their chances of avoiding conflict rest largely on decisions and actions taken by people whose first allegiance should be to Cyprus and to each other.

In effect, Athens and Ankara are the pawns in a deadly game being played by people of a

By JOHN ABNEY

3arbecue And Haircuts

MEXICO CITY - Sunday morning is barbecue and haircut time around our neighborhood. Very early Sunday morning.

-ront-Runners

Shortly after daylight creeps in, the impromptu barbers arrive in a royal procession. Soap boxes, orange crates and cane bottom chairs for equipment.

Consequently, their clients are from the bean and tortilla set.

For two pesos (16 cents U. S.) they face the chair toward the street so you can watch the local talent swish by. For one-fifty you can face the wall of a big. ugly fence around a vacant lot.

Are Old Friends

This is strictly a proletariat operation. Mechanics, brick-fayers and truck drivers with a reluctant talent for clipping.

Scenery costs, these thriving days.

By the time the first customers are seated and scissors are snipping at a steady rhythm, ladies and gentlemen flock In with steaming trays of

No one familiar with the situation is venturing a estimate of 's much as $100 million or more.

BUDGET The budget Ixi-reau has asked all state departments and agencies to submit their B Budget requests for 1965-67 no later than August 30.

The* "B budgets are those providing for new services and expanded programs be y o n d present levels.

Budget officer G. And r e w Jones said the Advisory Budget Commission plans to begin considering B budget requests next month and that hearings will be arranged for those desiring to make presentations, and to complete hearings on C budget requests. Items In C requests arc for physical facilities, buildings and other permanent Improvements.

By JOE hall

WASHINGTON (AP) By an unusual twist, two Ion g-time political comrades-in-

arms and personal friends

have been thi'own into the roles of front-runners for the Democratic vice president i a 1 nomination.

Minnesota's Sens. Hubert H. Humphrey, 53. and Eugene J. McCarthy, 48, may find the roles a bit uncomfortable but they are carrying them

through with good humor and grace as the time for a choice nears.

President Johnson, who will select the man for the No. 2 spot on the ticket, has not pointed a finger at either Minnesotan.

His choice may tuni out to be someone else.

But Johnson's high regard for Humphrey and McCart h y has been voiced so often that speculation inevitably centered on them once the President eliminated Atty, Gen. Robert F. Kennedy and several other possibilities.

The two senators remain on the best of terms and continue to match their votes on almost every issue as the 1964 session grinds to an end.

Both will be delegates from Minnesota to the Atlantic City convention with opens Aug. 24 They even are able to kid about their predicament, as they did at a fund-raising dinner for McCarthy easlier in the year. McCarthy is a candidate for re-election to the Sen a t e this fall.

Humphrey served as chairman for the dinner, which attracted John-son and an unusual number of oier top figures in the party.

Humphrey recalled there had been discussion tn Congress of a constitutional amendment to provide for two vice presidents, and said that McCarthy had told him: Hubert, dont be so downcast. When that constitutional amendment comes up taking care of Adlai Stevenson and me, we're going to amend It to provide for three vice presidents. We think there should be somebody who ju.st

I accept, Humphrey replied.

At that dinner, incidentally, Johnson termecl McCarthy one of the greatest men in public life. But he was generous in praise of Humphrey then and on occasions.

Humphrey and McCarthy began to build their political careers as youthful idealists after World War II in the battle to mold a new liberal party in Minnesota from Democratic and Farm - Labor elements. Both entered politics from college teaching. Humphrey became mayor of Minneapolis.

In 1948, both defeated Republicans to win places in C o n-gress and came to Washington. Humphrey as a senator and McCarthy as a House member.

When McCarthy decided to move over to the Senate in 1958, Humphrey campaig n e d for him all over the state. McCarthy has reciprocated in Humphreys races.

Both Senators are alike In their views on political questions and both are excellent speakers, although they differ sharply in style.

Humphrey is bouncy, vibrant, full of his subject, and his range of subjects is inex- haustible. McCarthy is m u c h quieter, apt to use wit and irony; but he can be powerful. as hLs impressive nominating speech for Stevenson at the 1960 Los Angeles Democratic con^ntion showed.

Senate friends of the two men size up their chances in the vice presidential con t e s t this way:

Humphi'ey is better known nationally and to Democrat i c politicians. He appears to have support of more party leaders and stands far higher in polls.

Johnson might well select him for this standing, for his broad knowledge of public affairs, his energy and zest, and his proven ability as a cam-paigiir r.

McC.*,thy is a bit more of a Johnson protege, a graceful and attractive figure whose Roman Catholic faith might (Continued on page ft

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barbecue set on charcoal burners. The ladies crouch before the burners and fan the coals.

A couple of times I wandered around the corner to the back street to study the operation. The early morning sun slanting through the fumes of barbecue that smelled like it used to say, Ba-a-a-a.

So there was Elpidlo who works in a lumber yard during the week. His relentless ambition is to be a barber. This requires a certain amount of schooling or operating as an apprentice.

Therefore, he apprentices <m his own.

rhose Stamp Vencdors

(Wichita Falls, Texas, Record News)

What this country may need is not a good five-cent cigar but a five-cent stamp a five-cent stamp, that is, that can be purchased from a vending machine for a nickel, not three for 20 cents a mark-up of a third.

It could also use an eight-cent air mail stamp costing eight cents, not 10 cents a 25 per cent mark-up.

That, at least, is the opinion of Rep. Roland V. Libona-ti of Illinois, who points out that the United States is the only nation in the world that allows its stamps to be sold at a premium.

nonprofit vending machines by every one of the nations 323,-771 corner mailboxes and indoor mail chute receivers and small boxes so that postage is available 24 hours a day.

The Post Office Department has not been resting on its deficit, however. As early as 1962 it commissioned the Trin e r Scale and Manufacturing Co. to develop a weatherproof, foolproof and theftproof stamp vending machine.

Eight of the first models are now in operation outside the new post office at the New York Worlds Fair to test public reaction.

Not only that. He sees no. reason why people caught stampless after post off i c e hours with an urgent letter should be forced to go hunting for an open drugstore with a vending machine; or, even during hours, should have to stand in line waiting while others insure parcels and take care of other post office business.

In England, for instance, one can buy stamps from dispensers outside post offices at any lime of day or night at face value.

The congressman wants to go one better than that by placing

Last year the post office sold 14.7 billion sheet stamps of all denominations (exclusive of commemoratives) for $714 million. Rep. Libonati estimates that if vending machines were installed at every mail box they would handle 42 per cent of all first-class and air mail stamps.

He also predicts it would lead to a 10 per cent increase in such sales, or a potential market of $380 million.

Private vending mach I n e companies, of which there are less than 10. would continue to dispense stamps for a premium at Indoor nongovernment locations for those willing to pay for the convenience.

Barbering is a notable profession, he said, snipping artistically. With a wife and seven children one must have good work. Later, I will open my own shop and wear a white coat just like a doctor.

He paused briefly to haggle for a meaty rib of barbecue with one of the vendors. The client offered no objections for his 50 centavos of extra scenery was abundant at the moment.

I must say Elpidio is a man of considerable talent. He can clip with one hand and eat barbecue with the other. Customers stacked up like they were waiting to get in the World Series.

This is a regular practice in various sections of the city. The Sunday snippers turn out at dawn and everyone gets an early clip. First outdoor shop I have seen with a portable restaurant, however.

The restaurant ladles do a flourishing business, too. One tray of sizzling goat or whatever it is disappears and another is brought by a small child. Mothers little helper.

So just as the sun was cutting patters through the big pepper trees Elpidio finished his barbecue and his client.

He stood back to see If everything w'as level. Then gave the gentleman a rousing massage with barbecue grease that had stuck to his hands. Sprinkled him with something that smelled like Eau de Egyptian Belly Dancer and combed him (Continued on page 5)

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1964, King Feature# Syndicate, Inc.

This Is going to be the darnedest political campaign ''to dope. The cross-overs seem.i^ ready to have begun on 'a large, though numerically an* certain, scale. A poll in Meriden, Conn.. a town which sometimes elects a Republican mayor, shows Johnson leading Goldwater by seven to one. But in West Texas, son 40,000 persons on the polTulx list in nineteen counties have indicated to Rejmblican C(xi-greasman Ed Foreman that they are 53.5 per cent for Goldwater and 30.1 per cent for Johnson, with others wishing they could be for some<me else.

No polls can be taken as indicative of a final result at this date, fob there will ,lMb backlashes against backlashes, and backlashes againsL the backlashes to tte backlashes. Parleys Law," which holde that campaigns are decided by Labor Day, will not bold for this year.

The imcertaintles will be compounded by the fact that higUy-placed politicians In both camps keep feeding ,ifc , sues to their enemies, take Democratic Senator Wayne Morse of Oregra, for le ex-Goldwater stands for must be. anathema to Morse, but the Oregonian rebel ploughs ahead nonetheless with attacks on the Democratic Adminjetrationn foreign aid bill in a way that must delight Republicans. Foreign aid," says Wayne Morse, is unproductive because much of it goes for usee that neither build nor develop; and it Is misrepresented because in spite of all the official hand-wringing pleas that we help the underprivileged and deprived people of the world, not more than forty per cent of It goes for that puin-pose." Morses criticism of the way Dictator Sukarno of Indonesia has flouted the U.S. after accepting its aid will surely turn up this autumn In more than one Republican campaign speech.

Then there is Democratic Senator Tom Dodds criticism

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of our failure to make us dt the Asiatic members of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) In the effort to keep Red China from seizing the Southeast Asian rice bowl. SEATO wajs formed in 1954 under Secretary of State J. Poster Dulles, who hoped that the members the U.S., Britain, France, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Pakistan, and Thailand would all contribute their share of force to prevent Communist infiltration and takeover of free countries. But, says Tom Dodd, our own primacy in SEATO was used as a brake to prevent the Aslan members from taking the measures of collective self-defense which they considered essential. The result is that in South Vietnam we have been going it alone, fighting what often seems a white mans war" when that is the last thing that we have Intended to do. Republicans will certainly use Tom Dodds words against his own Administration if the war in Southeast Asia is widened without any jelp coming from other SEATO members.

On the other hand. Republicans have fed the Democrats with the issue of Goldwaters alleged trigger happiness.* The phony Issue of White House control of tactical nuclear weapons was hashed nd rehashed at San Francisco without any regard to elementary logic. Clearly, no Commandcr-(Contlnued On Page 11)

Criss-Crossing Beef Shipments

B.V ELMER ROESSNER The United States is importing and exporting beef. Some of the exports are at five-away prices. Behind this crisscross operation are the theories that the United States has too much beef and that the U. S. has too Uttle.

and lamb being imported Into the United States is from Australia and New Zealand, allies In a sector of the globe In which we need friends now. Furthermore, most of the dollars gained by the sale of meat here is used to buy American

Strength For Today

By EARL L.. DOUGLASS WHEN SKIES ARE OVERCAST A man who owns and operates a private plane told me recently that the reason flying is so dangerous is because It Is so easy. He went on to say that he had taught his nlne-year-old granddaughter to fly a plane. As long as the sky Is clear and the weather favorable, nothing, he said, is more easy than piloting a plane, but when vtslbtllty becomes zero then one is really in for trouble.

There are so many situa-dons in life of which we can nake the observation that everything is fine as Ic.ig as the skies are clear. It is easy enough to stay optimistic when there is no circumstance In one's experience to make him

particularly downcast. It Is easy enough to keep ones faith as long as faith does not have to be exercised in the solving of an overpowering situation. But when the weather gets bad then look out for trouble. That which was easy before now becomes difficult.

It i.s no doubt a blessing that private planes are so expensive and that the flying of them under adverse conditions i?r so-dangerous, otharwise we., might have the sky' full of them. Suppose they cost no more than low-priced cars!

Ponder carefully those situations in life whlch on the surface appear so easy. Overcast skies can make the going difficult and dangerous. But praise the Lord for that. Life has its ups and downs.

The other day the Senate voted to put an import quota on foreign beef and other meat. It was a strange action. The Senate took a bill that the House had passed admitting elephants, tigers, lions and monkeys duty free, added a section putting a quota on meats, and then struck out the section that admitted the wild animals without duty. Senators from the cattle states, plus pres.su re of the cattlemens lobby, were Vesponslble for this curious bit of legislation.

If the House approves the changes, or a House-Senate conference committee works out a compromise that limits "meat imports. President Johnson is likely to veto the bill. The White House has shown strong opposition to import quotas on meal.

distribution to the poor. On July 23 it announced the pur-canned and frozen beef at up chsise of 6.6 million pounds of domestically to help the cattle growers. It is buying enormous amounts of canned and frozen beef for school lunches and of American goods.

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While the Administration is fighting against restrictions on the Import of Down Under beef, it Is also busy exporting U. S.-grown beef.

products.

Second, most of the beef shipped in Ls hamburger and frankfurter grades. It does not compete with graln-fttened American steaks and roasts, and it helps keep the cost of living down.

However, the meat lobby complains that the imports also tend to keep the price of American - fattened steaks and roasts down, too.

CRANK AT DOWN-UNDER FRIENDS

The White House has three main reasons for its oppasl-tloD. First, most of the beef

Third, Australia and New Zealand have agreed to limit meat exports to the U. S. If quotas cut sales further, they are likely to enact retaliatory legislation limiting importatloa

The Department <rf Agriculture is promoting American carcass beef at the Hamburg Trade Pair opening today, with hamburgers and roast beef sandwiches for prospects and thus the hamburger returns to Hamburg!

The U. S. has made agreements with Chile to sell Its 6.6 million pounds of beef, and with Israel to sell il 10 million pounds, all on long-term credit.

The U. S. is also selling more than 26 million pounds of beef to Egypt at about 44 cents g pound. The price is worse than it seems, because the U. S. is accepting Eyptian currency. which can only be spent in Egypt, perhaps by junketing Congressmen.

BITK THAT BURGER,

CHEW THAT FRANK!

Meanwhile, the Department of Agriculture is doing its best to 71 cents a pound.

The Department is aLso trying to sell more beef by propaganda. tts Report to Consumers" gaily announces that Americans will eat more red meat than the 170 pounds per person they ate last year, and at cheaper prices. It also tells* consumers that this is a good time to serve beef often.

So, as any fool can plainly see, we must import beef to keep the domestic prices down, and we must export it at bargain prices to keep the prices up.

SHORT & SIGNIFICANT BUSINESS NEWS ITEMS The Federal Trade Commission has ruled that only the skin of the Alpine antelope or sheepskin fleshers which hte been oil-tanned after removal from the grain layer may be sold as chamois.. . .Sales of

room gif conditioners gained ; 10

almost 10 per cent in the first half of this year, the National Electrical Manuifacturers A> sociatlon reports. To the question, What would more moiv ey mean to you? most families would reply, New clothes and a car. says the National Consumer Finance Association.a