Tuesday, December 15, 1964

Mittissippi Justice

New Tax Rate Is Next Big Problem

Fomal .prov.l by the JPitt_^Board of^C^ prXe nt*mor7

misaionera of a 60 per cent governmenta. If there is a weakness >" the

d valorem to* purposes will put Pitt on t lies in the temptation for officials to

equitable basis with other forward-looking counties syste loweringi the tax rate without pointing

of the state. ' out whether the rate is lowered sufficiently to keep

In recent years Pitt has followed the ru e relatively the same level. * ^

that for tax purposes property has h^n put on ^yhat officials will do with the tax rate when

the books at one-third ite actual value. Thus prop- become effective will depend upon

erty with an actual value of $800 was put on the ^ pymber of things. One, of course, is the total tex tax books at $100. Under the new PJPR^J value of property within the county or municipality

with an actual value of $800 will be reflated by new valuation figures are completed,

a tax value of $150. The net effect of the n^ ,ttle doubt that the revaluation which has

system is to increase the tax value of property underway for many months will produce a

within the county by 50 per cent. higher total value of property than local govern-

Recause of the agreement between the county ents have shown in the past. Another factor will veveram^t and tL municipalities of the county, be the needs of the respective ft wm mean that tax valuations for the respective that are reflected in budgets adopted for the fiscal

incorporated towns of the county will increase ^!^ich begn ne^^

paying more or less tax on the same amount of property will depend on whether the increases in tex valuation are compensated for by corresponding decreases in the tax rates. Officials as well as citizens must keep in mind that the tax rate alone means very little. It is the amount of money the tax rate produces, and that is determined by both the rate and the tax value of property against which the rate is levied.

The most important thing is not whether the tax valuation is one-third, one-half or two-thirds the actual value of property to be taxed. The important thing is that local governments be operated in the most efficient manner possible, that the needs of the citizens be met, the total tax burden be kept as light as possible, and that full value is received for each tax dollar collected.

corr^Q^ygjj ^jfg^gajne actual property valuation and

Medical Care On Outer Banks

By WnXIAM A. SHIRES CLINIC Plans approved by the Medical Care Commls-lion will make modern medical facilities avaUable to residents and visitors on once-isolated portions of the Outer Banks for the first time.

The plans call for establishing a OTiall, eight to 10 bed clinic in the Hatteras-Ocrar coke area where summer tourist volume Is growing by leaps and bounds.

The cost of approximately $125,000 required for the building and equipment is ^ing borne by undisclosed private sources, the commission was told.

Also, arrangements have been made for a resident physician to move to the Outer Banks from Norfolk, Va., to staff the facility.

In the past, emergency cases on the Outer Banks frequently have had to be flown by Coast Guard aircraft or helicopter to mainland hospitals as much as 125 mHes distant.

POWER - Carolina Power and Light Co.s recently approved $118 million construction budget Is the lar^pst in the utility ccmp'nvs history. Nearlv hal^ of the total. $56 million, is budgeted for 1*65.

CP&L president LouLs V. Sutton said the big construction program represents our plans to meet the growing power needs of the entire region

The announced program include.*; comoietlon of a million-kilowatt steam generating plant now under construction near Roxboro. N.C.. in 1966 and 1968. and a 315 mile network of 230,000 volt transmission lines.

food Gov. Terry Sanford startled his audience at ground breaking exercises for a $2.3 million Pood Science facility at North Carolina State by predicting It eventually would be worth more than a billion dobtrs.

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Investment in such a facility, he said, can, in due sear son, be more valuable to North Carolina than all the crops planted on all the farm acreage of our state last Spring. Sanford went on to say he didnt think he was exaggerating. In the first place, he said, there is not a building on this campus that has not returned the capital invested In it by a hundredfold. And in teaching and research and

In showing how food products

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can be processed, packag c d and sold, he said the new facility will show farmers how they can make more money.

ROADS Gov .-elect Dan K. Moore has again promised careful and detailed study of the matter of mrare private contract work in state highway construction.

Moore said during the political campaign last Spring he believes a higher percentage of this work should go to private contractors. In the 15 months period ending Dec.

31. 1962. about $25 million. OT 7d..per cent of funds used cm secondary roads went to projects completed by state forces. Only about $10 million was let to private contractors.

The governor-elect cited a study by the U.S. Bureau of Pubc Roads about 12 years ago comparing road construction costs. He said it showed costs were 19 per cent less on projects completed by private companies. There was a 7.7 per cent reduction in actual construction costs and an 11.3 per cent gain in various taxes paid by the contractors.

If we could save this kind of money by using private contractors in 1953. then it would seem reasonable that similar savings can be effected today, he said. Moore spoke to an A.ssociated General Contractors convention in Boca Raton. Fla.

DEFENDER There are no hard and fast figures to go by, but Rep. HolUs Owens beUev-es a fiUitewide public defender system in North Carolina would cast an additional $1 mimoD a year.

The state already is bearing a cost of about $500,000 a year for court - appointed public defenders in felony cases.

Owens, who has conducted a study for the State Legislative Council, believes that eventually the state will be required to extend the public defender system throughout Its courte system. A number of states already have such a system m fulltime operation, he said.

He said his estimate of additional cost would cover Investigative aid and clerical assistance.

NOTEBOOK - State Sen. TtKxnss J. White Jr. has relinquished the post of county attorney for Lenoir County which he held for 25 years, longer than any other county attorney in Lenoirs history. A successor was named by the Lenoir County commissioners.

The state civil defense agency says civil defense In Duplin County was operational last month when a freight car containing 25 tons of <1*^ ly chlorine gas was derailed in an accident near Wallace.

Carteret County civil defense went on alert twice during October because of hurricane threats.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP)President Johnson has a favorite word, frugality. Since Secretary of Defense Robert S, McNamara takes it seriously, as he showed again over the weekend, they get along.

McNamaras grand of frugality, like plans for closing military and naval bases and merging the Army Reserve with the Natiraial Guard, wont win him a popularity con t e s t with the people and places af-

This is true with some members of Congress, where there are some of the tallest cries for economy, either because they are In the reserves or their states lose Income when bases are closed.

But McNamaras thrift, which he was practicing before Johnson moved into the White House, endears him to the President. Its a case of just what the doctor ordered.

Johnson was in office less then three weeks when he said the Defense Department must make the largest effort to-

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Red Chinese had tb^ first nuclear explosltion, McNamara said neither will mean any significant increase in next years budget.

Speaking of American nuclear power, be eaid: These forces are adequate to survive a surprise attack upon this country and survive with sufficient power to strike back in such a way as to assure the simultaneous destruction of the Communist ChiDese and the Soviet societies.

If there should be any indication of slgniftcant increases in Soviet forces or Soviet military budgets, for example/ we shall be able to take the necessary steps to counter these increases befcnre they become effective.

It seems a good guess that in the budget Johnson offers Congress next month McNamaras Defense Department may ask for evoi less than this year.

This is b^iind the guess: On Nov. 19 McNamara announced plans for closing 95 military

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By JOHN CHABSBERLAIN

Copyright. 1964, King Fcaturee Syndicate, Inc. in spite of the fact that Stir. ttn sent him to mine gold in the northeast comer of Slberw la under not very pleasant dr-cunagtanceSj Vladimir Petrov, a Yale Umvenity lecturer tai Roaaian. beam the vwld no grudges. So. when Alexander Chakovidcy, the editor of a Moscow literary gaaette who has been In tbls country on a cultural exchange, esBed Professor Petrov a traitor for having had the temerity to escape from Stalins clutches after six years In a priscal camp. It evoked nothing more from the V alleged miscreant than a smile. Petrov thinks hia aln consisted merely of being prematurely against Stalin's cult of personality.

But If Vlacfimlr Petrov la understandably mellow (he la now the happy father of six American children). It Is still reasonable to ask Just why It Is considered cultural exchange to Invite Soviet hard liners to this country to Insult American citizens. To be called a traitor Is Ubelous. yet we permit the visiting edW tor of the Soviet Literatus naya Oazeta to get away with using a term that no American could use without risking a fine of a hundred thousand dollars.

Charles A. Moser, a teacher of Slavic languages who is a colleague of Professor Petrovs, Is less forgiving than his

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Teenage-ologlsts, the experts who spend their time studying the habits and mores of teenagers, have just cmme up with swne mwre frightening information.

It appears the female of the species is taking over more and more as tiie head of the tribe, and teenage-ism is fast develoiitng into a ms^riarchy.

A recent study by Lester Rand of the Youth Research Institute of New York reveals that the female teenager is

slowly getting control of the purse strings of the teenage male. Rands survey revealed that teenage boys were turning over their allowances and earnings to their steady girls. Teenage girls seem to have convinced their boy friends they can manage their money better and make it go farther.

I have discovered, Mr. Rand said, that some teenagers even have joint bank accounts.

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ward economy and achieve the biggest savings.

He patted McNamara ahead of time by saying; This country has never had an abler or more dedicated secretary of defense, and I have known them all.

All this paid off. Early this year Johnson, facing an election and therefore doubly concerned about spending, was able to produce a budget under $100 billion. It was $97.9 billion.

The Defense Department s share of this was $51.2 billion a cut of $1.1 billion from last year.

Last April. McNamara, writ-kig about his job. said that when he took office he could have adopted either of two broad philosophies of manage-m^t.

He could be passive, meaning he could make the decisions on recommendations made to him; or he could be aggressive by "questioning, suggesting alternatives, proposing objectives, and stimulating progress.

He said this active role represents nny own philosophy of management."

He hustled around, visiting bases that he thought could be eliminated, reducing the Defense Department payroll.

And last October, after the KremUn leaders threw out Premier Khrushchev and the

abroad to save $477 million.

The same day Johnson said he estimates that the level of defense spending will remain constant or even be less If there is no slgniftcant change in the threat we face.

Then last week Moscow announced a 4 per cent cut in Soviet defense >ending. This might be a coincidence. Or it could mean both big powers are slowing down the arms race.

Over this past weekend, McNamara said he plans to eliminate all unnecessary Army Reserve units and merge the others with the states National Guard. He figured this would eliminate about 150.000 men from the rolls and save $150 millioD a year.

Opinions

n Brie:

"Looking at the imaginary halo over your head will only result in a pain in the neck. Kingfisher (Okla.) Free Press.

Most of us are in favor of reform. But what bums us up Is being reformed by somebody no better than we are."

Carlsbad (N.M.) Current-Argus.

When a caterpillars feet and tummy hurt simultaneously, hes in pain all under, Bartow (Oa.) Herald.

(Goldsboro News-Argus)

The 100 men who beard John Batchelor of Wilson County near Elm caty tell how to solve the mounting farm crisis came away more cheerful. That ditch bank farmer of 500 acres made it seem aU so simple and easy.

Batchelor put imagination and hard work and experimentation together to become a farmer who can get along splendidly without a tobacco allotment even though he had 45 acres last year.

Batchelors piYscrip t i o n; Grow top quality vegetables in the quantity the atlper ma^ kets require. Deliver these vegetaMes when they are required.

Increase the income by cleaning, grading and packaging the crops, such as coUards and greens, to give them eye appeal.

Capitalize on todays housewife who wants fresh vegetables for the deep freeze. Let the consumer ft* a fair price pick his own.

Batchelor sees a great future for truck crops growing for specific markets. But the quantity must be great. The quality must be A-1. The delivery to the buyer must be when he requires it.

As Batchelor showed how he had come to great success by work and application of new principles. I recalled a conversation with a super market manager.

I had asked him why his

store did not feature homegrown produce.

We just cant get it like we must have It. he said. Deliveries to us must be regular and dependable. We cant afford to be left without produce some dajrs.

This manager told how he had had sad experiences. Understandings for providing the preferred home grown quality produce had been entered into or agreed upon.

Then there would be a failure. The producer would fall to come in one day. Or he would come in late.

' To my question erf why the market did not feature locally grown tomatoes, I got the reply that quality tomatoes like the housewife demands were not available on a steady and reliable schedule. And everyone knows that a tomato pulled green and shipped a week or 10 days previously to being sold is no tomato worth puttr ink on the table.

Of course the pessimists usp ed to tell us Eastern North Car<rflna would never have a dairy Industry until scien c e perfected a cow that didnt have to be milked every day. They said down here we had to go hunting and fishing too much to operate a dairy and milk the cows daily.

But we fooled them. We are not that lazy. This harsh new cut In tobacco may bring us to our senses. We may take a leaf out of John Batchel o r * s book.

Mr. Rand also discovered that teenage girls were putting their boy friends on budgets and deciding what they should buy in the way of clothes as well as luxuries.

In many cases,* Mr. Rand said, the girls badger their boy friends into demanding larger idlowances and wage increases. Girls also seem to hound unemployed lads into getthig jobs so they can have more spending money.

The survey revealed that male taste ki clothes, hair^ cuts, and even automoWles was being dictated by the female teenager.

I dont know why, perhaps its parental Influence, Mr. Rand said, but the female teenager is in the saddle.

The extent of the influence can be sadly dramatized by what one youth told Rand in Boston. My girl wants me to be asleep by 11 and, since she Uves nert door, she checks my bedroom light to see if it is off.

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The teenage girl also plays an important role In deciding the education of her boy friend. One boy revealed he wanted to go to Tufts, but his girl wantr ed him to go to Boston College, her fathers school, so that is where he is going.

Mr. Rand also discovered that teenage girls actually select careers for their boy friends. One youth, who was on his way to becoming an accountant. changed over to law when his steady informed him she would never marry an accountant. Unfortunately, in this case, after he started law school, she got engaged to someone else.

The report also revealed that teenage young ladles make the decisions on what fthns their boy friends will see, what reconts they will hearK and (Continued On Pag I)

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suited friend. He points out that Mr. Chakovsky calls the New York Times a militant organ of American reaction. Robert Rozhdestvensky, another Soviet Uterary man who has recently been brining culture al exchange to America, seems to be as unmalleable as Chakovsky himself. According to Professor Moser, Rozhdes-tveni^ likes to refer to American interrogators as pike and carp. When he was busy exchanging culture with Californians, Rozhdestensky visited Disneyland. He promptly Identified hlmsell poetically with a group of American Indians, Imagining that he was joining them in a war dance. His poem reads in itHigh translation;

Weve stopped as we look astounded.

Oh what silken skin you

have!

Oh what hair your wives have!. . .

And what if we took a knife to that silken skin?!

What If, what If amidst the silence

We should once more hear the warpaths call

How the tomahawk could gUnt above the dew then!

What scalps would steam In our hands!

K this is' cultural exchange," it would seem that Americans are not getting their fair share of it. Putting the shoe on the other foot, can you hxiagine an American hard line anti-Communlst say like Bill Buckley, the editor of National Review being invited to visit Moscow In even-up cultural exehann for Alra-ander cniakovsky?

Just think of the uproar la Pravda if an American liten-ary man were to visit the Russian grave of John Reed, an American who preferred Communism to capitalism, and call him a traitor?

For that matter, what If an American poet, visiting in one of those Asiatic provinees that the Czars soldiers had wrested from the (Chinese or the Moogols. were to vdrte a poem suggesting that the descendants of Kubla Khan or Tamerlane might lo(* upon the silken skin of their Russian conquerors and think of taking a knife to it?

You get the idea. Personally,

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By EARL L. DOUGLASS HAVE PATIENCE

Disagreement. Bickering. Arguing and snarling over details. How frequently and completely do attitudes of this sort ruin the peace, tranquility and unity of homes, officM, shops. Get people clattering about and pointing an accusing finger at one another and you have a situation so sufe to bring evil that we can practically see his satanic majeir ty standing on the sidelines and grinning in satlsfacti(Mi.

There Is always room In every group for disagreement, dissent. A home in which nobody ever disagrees with anybody else 1 a home presided over by some burly tyr^ ant. "We never had a disagreement In all our life, is a statement that wives sometime make: yet if they really knew It, their Uves and the

Uie of their househcrfd would be better as the result of a few sharp arguments.

But argument is one thing and snarUng disagreement is something else again. Bear in mind that moat of the wortds great wart have started from little and apparently insignificant circumstances. Lexington and Concord was Uttk more than a stroM fight SBd a sniping party, yet it goes down as one of the most important battles in world history. assasslnatiOQ of the ArcMito of Austria started WorW War I. The firing on Port Sumter touched ott ths war bstwoen the states. H a drowsy scsien-tlst or a psyehotio abouM someday press the wrong button, an international bombliig and pertiapo the dlisolutioo of the planot would ensae.

Have patience. Certainly It is hard, but it Is also necessary.

By ELMER ROESSNER This year will see the most lavish Christmas and New Year celebrations in Amert(n history. By the time they are over, many of us will be ashamed. Some of us will (Ue.

Buying, according to all forecasts, will set new records. Income is at an all-time peak, confidence is extremely high, and the public is willing nay, eager to spend, spend, spend.

Two long weekends, beginning at middays Thursdays and lasting until Monday mornings, will encourage festivities. They will also set scenes for drinking and Increasing auto and other accidents.

Ih recent years, there has been a deoUne in company partios. Martinis unlofrfced too many inhibitions, too many supervisors kissed the wrong girls, and too many omptoyeo* threatened to sue management for having been humiUated, assaulted or worse.

MORE OFFICE PARTIES But this year there is a change. Business Management magaslne surveyed 986 com-

paules and found that for the first time in ten years the number of office parties will increase, by 9 per cent in fact. While only a third were held off premises last year, two thirds will be out of the office this year, preventing office wits from pouring shrimp dip in either the D or 8 flies.

Despite the &3st and who lacks money? Chrlstmna will bt one of the most laviah we have (nrer seen. Incwne, bonuses and dividends will be at an all-time high.

The value of gifts wUl be above any previous year; celebrations will be bigger ttann ever before. We will never have had It so good.

The New Years fcstivlttea will probably be an all-time saturnaUa. With New Years Eve on a Thursday, followed by three days off, parties are expected to be more festive than ever and, perhaps, longer.

In New York, several of the swankier hotels have decided to pass up New Year parties this year, partly because of high labor ooate. Howevar,

reservations in other places are high, and so are the luic-es, and new highs in spending are most certain. GOLDEN HOURS For five hours work New Years eve, a waiter, for instance. might claim a full days pay, doubled for working on a boUday and doubled again for working at night, and doubled (Mice more for working after midnight. The employers social security bite might be even more than the

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tive binges In history one that may make the old Rinnans seem Uke ascetics.

It will be a great we^eod for restaurants, hotels, taverns. caterara and undertakera.

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With personal income higher than ever before and three days to celebrate. It is likely that many Americana will be a eaa ( the Uggtrt aoUao-

EPOXY PAINT REPORTED DEVELOPED Rrtalling Home Furnlshlnga reporte tMU Macys has developed a woikhble, two . stag aerosol epoxy pahit system. Epoxy cementa, u most people knew, oooslat of two cbem-leals which Interact to form one of the tougheit bonds imaginable. It two ohemicale could bond themeelvee after being sprayed on a surface, n wall oovering might result that would be standing after the house burned down.

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<4; Do yon think eto^ market prioea will rise after tiw end-of-tha-yar shakedown? M. L., Hackenssik. NJ.

A; If I knew what the stock market waa going to do, do you think I would spend tim writing this column? - K. R*