Saturday, April 10, 1965

OpE>ortunity Awaits Local Efforts

North Carolina has approached the problem of find themselves far behind those counties which low per capita income in some of its areas from the forage ahead with their own efforts to pull them-standpoint of stimulating agriculture, creating more selves up by the bootstraps.

industrial jobs, and encouraging local development As one spokesman has pointed out, there are efforts to provide better opportunity for its people, a lot of plots in the so-called poverty counties which

The fact tharxirrsapproach ialpMraTnTirccept- are powm|pup of ^iTOis. There

ed in North Carolina is reflected in the atatementa are millions of fish in the rivers which are not threat-of surpriseand even indignationfrom some of ened by fishermens nets. There are opportunities the counties listed among the states poverty for employment for many people who will make the areas. effort to qualify themselves to fill those jobs.

We question whether any Tar Heel counties There are many opportunities for new Indus-which find themselves eligible for special as.sis- triesboth home-grown and importedif the effort tance under federal anti-poverty programs will is made by local leadership in the various counties turn down offers made to them. At the same time to take advantage of these opportunities, we trust that North Carolinas low income counties The fact that a county has a low per capita will not back away from their own local develop- income at the moment doesnt necessarily make it ment efforts and wait for Uncle to move in and poor. The county that is really in trouble is the one .solve their problems. in which people are willing to wait for Uncle Sam

Those who .sit back and wait for the hand- or someone else to increase per capita income with out will only perpetuate their poverty. They will hand-outs in the place of local and individual

initiative.

ion S Shore Of End Of Controversy Is

Sevenue Boost a welcome Measure

fviidonliir(Wichers*_ ^I^:T.^AMKSE DOVEHAVi K |

Under proper conditions | it may Jje oliservcd f holding au olive branch i and calling Coo, J

B.Va WILLIAM A. SHIRES

INCOME Corporate income taxp.s, reflectlnii near-record profits by firms ba.sed in and dotnR business in North Carotin JL accounted for the lion.s of a fat $10.3 mil

lion Increavse In the states general fund revenue la.st month.

State officials were highly pleased and encouraged about the fiscal outlook.

They noted, however, that while income taxes accounted for $7.7 million of the $19.3 general fund increase, .sales and use tax collections showed only a modest $500,000 increase.

Thus it may be too early to tell whether the revenue picture for the remainder of the fiscal year will be as bright as that for March.

The monthly report by acting Revenue Commissioner I. L. Clayton showed a healthy 16.R5 per cent Increase In general fund revenues over March, 1964. This is subtan-tlally above the 11.17 per cent increase for the first nine months of the current fiscal year ~ and sources said the Jump was due almost entirely to corporate income tax payments.

!VILLIAM

SHIRES

Insurance tax receipts showed a $1.8 million increase over March. 1964.

FIGURES Income taxes In March amounted to $41 million wrich brought Income tax collections for the fiscal year to $151 million.

At the same time, last months sales and use taxes amounted to only $12 million but this brought the total for tWs schedule thus far to $125.5 million.

Insurance taxes, the third largest general fund schedule, amounted to $14.4 million in March by far the largest monthly tally for these taxes and reached $18.4 million for the fiscal year. Beverage taxes for March were down by about $100,000.

Sources Indicated some disappointment in the .sales and use tax slump, but blamed a late Spring and generally bad weather which dLscouraged buying last month. They felt this category may be helped by the Easter shopping season in April.

PLANE The department of administration hopes to get the

state's surplus twin - engined Bcachcraft airplane on the auction block for sale next week.

But what the state will realize from sale of the plane is going to be a mere fraction of Its value. Most of the proceeds will go to the federal government which gave the airplane to North Carolina in the first place for the civil defense program. Under an agreement at the time, the federal government must be reimbursed in event the plane is sold as Gov, Dan K. Moore ordered

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There is suestion as to how much money the state will realize." .says Ed Rankin, director of administration who is handling details of the .sale. The state is entitled to recover any money spent on maintenance, repairs, overhauling and upkeep .so Rankin sa.vs we wont be taking a loss.

An appraisal and survey of expenditures was made this week according the prescribed procedures for disposal of the property.

In ordering sale of the plane. Governor Moore estimated It would bring a sale price of $15,-000 to $20,000 which could be u.sed to make up an $8,000 de-ficit in the states cent ral pool operation.

The airplane was tran.sfer-red from the state office of Civil Defense to the mot o r pool s<wne months ago.

buy While officials were arranging sale of this airplane, a bill was introduced in t h e legislature for purchase of another state aircraft.

Sen. Fred Mills of Anson proposed supplement appropriations of $23,000 for the com-

By ending the long and bitter controversy over the name of what used to be State College, the legislature huvs made a genuine contribution to progress and unity in higher education in North Carolina.

The longer the controversy raged, the closer the Consolidated University moved toward becoming a house divided again.st itself. This prospect w'as not in the interest of the university system or any of its branches. It was not in the interest of higher education in North Carolina.

With the harmonious action by the legislature Thursday, the Consolidated University and supporters of it& varQua branches^ should now be able to put behind them the family fight that has gone on for more than two years. It is now time for all supporters of the states Consolidated University to move harmoniously together to combine their energies and give this state the calibre of university , *nT Biiru\A/Air\ system needed to meet the present and future prob- ^ ' dULMWAi.U

lems of North Carolina.

The kind of energy expended in the name-change fight, if properly channeled, could go a long way toward strengthening the university system and higher education in the state.

Cant Afford Tax Relief

A Softer Line On Peace Talks

By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON <AP) The J oh n s 0 n administration's

switch to a softer line on how to start peace talks in Viet Nam raises a question about how thoroughly the problem was thought through in the first place.

ing fiscal year and $9,500 for The switch President John-

1966-67 to buy and operate an airplane for forest fire control work In the Rockingham district.

In the past, the forestry division has home rather heavy expense in leasing forest firefighting aircraft in periods of wide.spread forest fires.

PENALIZE Penalizing of drivers involved In unavoidable accidents is one argument being used * against a bill to exempt accident - free motorists from examinations for driver license renewals.

The measure Introduced by Rep. Joseph Horton of Greene County also has drawn frowns from the motor vehicles department.

Hortons bill would exe m p t from renewal exams all motorists who have not been convicted of a traffic law violation and have not been Involved In an accident In four years. Opponents aie saying this would discriminate against drivens wro are Involved In accidents which are not their fault.

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son made thi w^eek in his nationwide talk leaves the door open to an impression some of the U.S. policy is being made up as it goes along, except for the basic, original determination.

That part of the policy has always been clear; to save South Viet Nam from a Communist takeover.

But Johnson started out with a hard - nosed policy when, immediately after the Red guerrillas attacked an American air base, on Feb. 7 he ordered Communist North Viet Nam bombed.

And the White House explained: what was wanted w'as a clear indication from t h e Reds that they were ready to stop attacking the South. Later Johnson said he want e d peace talks conducted under conditions that would be productive." And so on.

Meanwhile, Secretary of State Dean Rusk was echoing this line, almost to the point of banality, even though the repeated American bombing of North Viet Nam put no visible dent in the guerrillas. They kept on fighting.

As time passed the administrations tactics and position, as Johnson outlined It, w^ere being criticized at home and abroad, by friends, neutrals Rus.sla and Red China.

Its understandable that in the beginning the administration must have felt the hard line on peace talks was nec-e.s.sary to convince the Reds that American policy and bombings were not Just ge.s-tures to save face.

Two month.s of bombings brought no cries for peace from the Communists, And the criticism Increased. 'Then Wed-ne.sday night John.son abandoned the policy of la.ving down conditions before discussions could start.

Johnson, however. .said plainly the American bombing.s wouldnt stop and the United States wouldn't pull out un

der the cloak of a meaningless agreement.

But the switch on the peace talk, slight as it was, brought praise at home and abroad. Johnson also got criticism, not only from the Red Chinese w'ho called his talk lies and deception, but from Republicans, too.

Its hard to believe this new' policy coulnt have been the policy from the beginning since the continued bombings, in the past as In the future, would if anything could, convince the Reds of American determination.

The very fact that John.son finally made his broadcast explanation was also, in effect, a switch. He had been under pressurevfor weeks to m a k e such a taiJL But he and Rusk relied on dkyptic, repetitious statements,

Its possible that by eliminating preconditions to a peace discussion John.son now lias put the burden on the Communist world to start negotiations. But thats probably sheer optimism.

The Chinese not oiiJy quickly repudiated Johnson's talk but the North Vietname.ae, bs usual, have nothing. Whats lacking is a knowledge of whats going on In the Communists heads.

They may still feel, 11 they stick It out. they can gobble all South Viet Nam where half the population is not supporting either side.

This indifference of the South Vietnamese Is good evidence that the United States, although it has been helping South Viet Nam for years, has done a miserably poor job of trying to convince the majority of t h e people they should be anticommunist.

Perhaps the answer is that the United States for all the.se years put too much time. ef. fort and money into worrjdng about w'hoever w'as running the government at the moment and not worrying enough about he people.

It W'as very heartening to discover the other day that President Johnson had to borrow money to pay his income taxes for 1964. I wish the President no ill will and my heart goes out to anyone who has to borrow money to pay taxes, particularly myself, but in this case the President started all the trouble, and he has only himself to blame.

As I see it, everyones troubles began because of the cut the President instituted. Before he started talking cull, most Americans were so numb . paying taxes that they didn't even think about It. Every time their wives said they wanted to buy something, the husbands w'buld baric, 0 u cant. Were in terrible trouble on taxes.

All of us had made up our minds there was no out, and we were getting used to 0 u r standard of living, no matter

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what it was.

Then, writh the election coming along, the Pi'esident in an impassioned plea asked Congress to give the American people tax relief. He said that if taxes were reduced the economy would be given a great impetus. He promis e d that people would sp e n d more money, the gross national product would soar, Jobs would be created, and Anieri-ca would be a better country for us all.

Congre.ss responded, a.s It \isually does when the President speaks, and after only a moderate job of ann - twisting. the Presidents tax - cut bill was passed.

The President W'as overjoyed and he signed the bill while cameras turned and pho t o bulbs flashed.

The ink was hardly dry on the paper when American wives went berserk. They started

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I see by the papers that the Ministerial Association has asked that the Ku Klux Klan hold no more rallies in Pitt County. This sounds like a good idea, for there are many of us that do not believe In any kind of violence. How'ever. this is a little like closing the bam door after the hor.se Is out. The.se same ministers, along with the vast majority of their fellow clergytpen, are greatly responsible for the Klan holding a rally here, or anywhere else. In the first place.

You never hear a protest from these self - righteous, do good, ministers condemning the demonsti-ation or the violence they bring. You never hear of them cordemning Dr. Martin Luther King, the man that has cau.sed more violence than any man living today. You dont hear them raising their voices In protest again.st the growing danger of communism, although it's a known fact that they have infiltrated all civil rights groups. You dont hear them protesting again.st the call to Alabama. by Martin Luther King, of their fellow misguided ministers, knowing full well it would cau.se violence. T h 1 .s call was by the same Martin

Luther King that J, Ed g a r Hoover called the Mast notorious liar in the country". You dont hear them prote.st the fact that attractive Mrs. Luizzo W'as having a ball in Alabama, when .she should have been at home with her husband and children. . .who now have no mother. You don't hear a word from these ministers condemning the sex orgies that took place during the march from Selma to Mont^ Romery, The.se same ministers better pray for forgiveness for they, condemn the same act that they themselves help e d bring about. Except for John.son, King and fellow travelers, the National Council of Churches has done more to encourage violence than any group in America.

Time after time In history, the clergy has blindly followed a corrupt govrniment dowTi the road to ruination. There are more communists in this country today than there were in Rus.sla at the time they took over the Soviet Union, These communists have no care about the racial Issue, they only want to cau.se violence and to split the South from the rest of the nation. So far. they have!

Sincerely.

Carr F. Williams Greenville, N.C.

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*rhe cry of thp idle aerd and retired is not for jnedi-rare, Its not for amu.soment -most of them wniild not know how to go about It it i.s for .something to do."Marietta (Oa.T Dally JdiirrinT,

looking for new homes, new furniture, they ordered new draperies, new automobil e s, they took their kids ot of public schools and put them In private, schopls.

Many wives decided go to Europe, other wives gave large black - tie dinner parties. The economy zoomed as the President predicted. The gros.s national product increas e d, employment weM up, and everyone at the white House .said, Mr. President, youve done it again.

But no one ever bothered to check how much the tax cut W'ould mean to each individual. All we kept reading about was an $11,500.000 tax cut, and so every wife in American thought each husband was entitled to the $11,.'>00,0(H).

No one Iwthered to pro-rate it. When they finally did, they discovered their tax cut came to about $18.90.

By this time it was too late. Mortages bad been sig n e d, car financing had been arranged, department stores refused to take back the furniture. Everyones living standard had ri.sen and no one wanted to go back to the pre - tax - cut days.

So here W'e are In the mid.st of the biggest boom In American history and every one from the Pre,sldent of the United States down is eyeball-to-pyeball with his bank, all be-cau.se Lyndon Johnson wanted the American people to have a tax cut.

If he had ,ju.st left us alone, W'e could have all made our tax payments this year.

What worries me more than anything is that Sheldon Cohen, the Commissioner of Internal Revemie, has just promised tax relief to those w'ho can't make their payments on time. When my wife read about fhis. .-.he .said, Well, as long as they don't want the money right away. I think Ill buy a new rug."

PIra.sr, Mr. Pre.sident. don't talk about any more tax relief. None of us can afford It.

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Water ! Being

Fouled

By ROGER BAB80N 1 , BAB80N PARK, Mm..

Our witerwftya ra befeig ,

fouled and poiaoned at an al- , most Incredible rate. The pro hlem of how to fight thla pol- , lution of our moat valuable natural resouroe la becoming i complicated more orltloally ev- , ry day by the population ex- , ploalon. By the time pending , legialation at the federal level , becomee law. it will already , be obeolete if we lKg)c to re-store our lakea, ponds, rivers, and brooks to their ectglnal i beautiful and sparkling condition.

HOW BAD THB fITUAIION

Men of wisdom and foraaight have long been batthng against pollution, but political and public apathy have slowed down the move to purify our natural water systema. Cblef de- , spoilers of our lakes and streams are oonununlty aew- age and faiduatrlal waste. ] While considerable progress i has been made In the estiddish-ment of sewage treatment plants In our major dtlea, the population la growing so swiftly that most of these syst^s may be entirely Inadequate within a matter of a few years.

If the building of sewage treatment facilities should continue at its current rate, it Is estimated that by 1970 the equivalent of raw municipal waste from 85 million people would still have to be dlapos- ' ed of In <Hir waterways. And by 1980, given the same construction rate for facilities, the equivalent of untreated community waste from 114 million persons would be dumped Into our rivers. Unfortunately, sanitary municipal sewage Is only a part of the pollution problem. 'Vast despoilage of our waterways results from Industrial wastes and chemicals, plus the discharge of overflow .sewer .sy.stems.

DIRE FORECAST MADE Stream contamij^atlon from these industrial oi-ganlc wastea has been increasing at a much faster pace than that stemming from municipal sourc-e.s. At the tum of the century, water pollution from factories was equal to the raw waste of .some 15 million people. By 1960, it had risen to the equ!\ -alent of the raw waste of 160 million people. The U.S. Public Health Service has completed studies Which Indcate that within 5 years industrial pollution will be equal to the untreated wa.ste of the entire population of the country, or In the vicinity of 210 million persops.

NOW A FEDERAL FIGHT

Governor Rockefelier of New York has propo.sed an outlay of $1.7 billion to purify the mlsu.sed lakes and rivers of his state. Antl-pollutlon moves have been made in many other states as well. Greatest pre.ssure from now on, however, Is likely to come from the federal government. Recently, Health Secretary Cele-brezze has been conferring with anti - pollution force.s in an effort to intensify campaig'i.s to clean up Lake Michigan and other waterway.s seiwlng Chicago and its environ.s. Both local communities and Industrias are being urged to purify their wa.ste discharges themselves. .

If the plea.^ of the federal

authorities and the anti-pollution campaigners are ignored, the government will order offending communities and . or factories -- through tlie courts to arrange for proper treatment of waste before it Is rle-po.sited in waterways. President John.sons insl.stence on cleaning up our lake.s and streams we hope will have an imm'-dlate effect upon cltir.s and industrial e.stabllshments that have been dragging their feet In this important matter, Plan.s and programs that have bcr-n rilsrus.spd and trniivirarny pi-cron - holed will 1>e brought torth and pul into one ral,inn. WATERWAYS EVERVONF..S BfKTHRIGHT Every man. woman, and rhild in our coimtrv ha.s a stake in our waterways. Streams and pond.s must h- made .safe, not left as open .'Twers endangering health and even life Tlw rerreallonal value of our waterways also Is itAien.se. but ther can be lit-. (Continued on page 8)

Free advice on how to get ahead in this world: Start, even If you have to decide wliere youre going niter youre on your way."Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentlnel.

Vlore Look-Ahead For Business

Strength For Today

By EARI> I.. DOUGLASS DON'T WORRY

He has no background

Sometimes we say that about a person and usually when we do it it is an unkind thrust. Most of what we arc was handed to us by the Cirator when we were born. So far as we know we had no previous chol-ce.s in such matters. We came into the world .surrounded by certain advantages and disadvantages. We had strong fralt.s of character and certain deva.statlng wpakne.s.scs. Now life cnsists not .so much In achieving certain ends but In conducting ounselves in an honest. couragcou.s and kindly spirit a.s we try to work out the problems of life and prot c c t ourselves against persons and clreutn.stancps which might lead us to riilu.

It would appear that a per-aon Is bom with ba/ckground or is born without background. This is In a measure true, but not entirely so, for we can create background. Beginning with us a new and higher variety of life may come into the family circle of which we are a part and riescendents will think of us with ,:ratitude br-cau.se we started .something new and noble In the family line. Thi.s doe.s not nece.s.sarily mean that we made a great financial sueces-s. It means thr,. we led a noble life, People just had to admire what we did b-cau.se of the wonderful, loving and .sacrificial spirit In which we did it.

Are yo\i lacking in background? Dom't worry you can rI rate background In whole.sale quantities.

By EIJVfKR RDK.S.SNE'.R

Here are more look - aheads In buslnes.s;

Drug ad controls tightening: The Food and Drug Administration is planning some crackdowns on dnig advertising. It is checking on printed matter to make sure generic names are at least half as large as brand names.

Capital rhemical outi ays rising: Capital spend 1 n g by by chemical companies may reach $2.3 billion this year, a 24 per cent Increase over 1964, Reason: expected continuation of the rise In demand for chemicals.

Foreign travel crackdown:. Passport application.s and foreign reservation indicate that Presidont Johnson's plea to stopper the gold drain la falling on rich, deaf ears. Many people seem to be advancing foreign travel plans to complete trips before the boom is lowered. However, their rush may lower the boom sooner. Dont be ..iirprlsed at a sudden move tu tax traveiaj goiag

abroad or even to limit funds they may take.

MORE NONFOOD ITKM.S Supermarket diversification:. Supermarkets will add more nonfood Items this year. Family expenditures for food will rise only little; competition will narrow food margins, and the only major hope of Increasing profits Is by adding new nonfood Items.

ELMER

-:=^ ROESSNER

Tuna' lor klda: The f.sh -canning industry la discovering that young.sters like tuna as much as or more thaji adults. The bland flavor appeals to un-jadcfl tastes more than more .strongly flavored fish; Its handy for snack* tad youoMcr*

can prepare it themselves. Bo expect heavy* new ad campaigns dr,signed to .sell more tuna for kid.s.

Note; Kids sold on tuna can remain sold all their lives* WHIRLED WURI.D

New name for bulgur: Bulgur. cooked whole - grain wheat, has long been a flavored food In the Middle Ea.st, and if Americans would like It. wheat farmers would be happier. But Americans balk at the name: It suggests vulgar and Bulgaria, a communist country. So the Department of Agriculture Is trying to popularlize the name "Wurld Wheat. named for the Wc,stern Utilization Research Lalwratory (plus a D). Albany Calif., where a n(*w peeling proce.s.s ha.s been devised. The whirled wheat Is also said to be a world product because so tnanv peoples use It.

Inventories go on upi Manufacturers will Increase their Irivetjlorles by almost a billion dollars In the April - June quajtui-, compared wlLb $700

million in the Janiiarv - March quarter, pear of a steel strike is not the only rati.se manufacturers expert a 4 per Tent sales rise in the quarter.

OLD PROMOTER REA.SON.S RED.S LA( K ME.S.SY GAS

"If I weren't a red - blooded, patriotic, four - square American- Uie Old Promo-ter began when he walked In

today,

Youre .square, all right, I Interrupted. Whats your problem?

If I wanted to make a hot million.* he resumed. Id start marking up-chuck gas and iell It to the communists. Judging from the clamor they are making over the use of the gas In Viet Nam, they must be desperqtely short of tre stuff. But my patrlotI*m wont let me do business with t h Reds, besides I dont know how to make the gas.

My drawex for medali was ^mpty. so I gave him a dtar Instead.