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Thunday, Octobar 16, 1969

Farsighted In Service Area Plans

2 The Utilities Commission has taken a far " sighted outlook in defining the areas it will serve outside the city limits from the citys water system.

Commissioners Tuesday approved a service area as proposed by Director Charles Horne. The area extends to the Eastern Pines water system on the cast, beyond the-Hurroiagh Wellcome property on the north; to the Alcoholic Rehabilitation Center to the west and about midway to Winterville to the south.

It is true that providing water is not a money maker for the Utilities. However, at the same time double rates are charged to customers who reside . .^outside the city limits, which will offset a portion *'of the cost.

Special Session Not Ruled Out

The obvious advantage of deciding now the reas which Greenville will serve is to-avoid the development of independent systems^ within the area. The problem with independent systems is that they do not match up with th city system when the areas eventually come in the city and the Utilities Commission has,to serve them, a,

In much of the service area outlined by Home the city water lines have already been extended and presumably they have been planned to provide adequate seryice for many years.

There is, of cour^, more involved than just getting a water line to eacl house. The areas should be served with larp enough mains so that adequate water will be available for fire fighting purposes.

It makes sense to us to define the water service areas, just as electrical service areas are defined. The Utilities Commission has done this and we believe the area is practical for a city with Greenvilles growth potential.

B> WILLIAM A. SHIRES Reflector Raleigh Bureaa RALEIGH-Gov. Bob Scott and his top administration advisors have not ruled out the possibility of a special session of the legislahire next Spring. They^hope it can be avoided.

Iijically, if wie has to be called it most likely will be because of problems in a matter in which North Carolina has taken great pride public fchool bus tran^rtatiiHi.

WILLIAM

SfORES

R Is well known and has beeifpublidzed widely thati the state of North Carolina operates the largest school bus * fleetin the nation. And it is free Tor those pupils who ride the buses.

The problem is that sdiool transportation is not free to *11. - .

RuralThe existing state school bus program was set up some years ap when the state was predominantly rural, made up mostly of small towns and crossroads villages and farmhouses every f e w hundred yards down the

:,road.

But times and population ^patterns have cban^ while ^e school bus program has *not.

Time and again during the past decade the legislature has dodged facing the issue of whether to extend free schod transportation to all children who live two mili or more from the schools they attend.

And recently a federal court panel also dodged the issue, holdhtg only that the state could not extend free traps-,.p(H*tati(Hi to children in an-;^exed areas Srithout extending it to all within an urban area. The court agreed to a reasonable period of time to solve I the problem.

' MoneyThe problem boils down to the matter of money, In the neighborhood of at least

$3 million. The legislature and its all-powerful Appropriations committee has never been able to find the necessary sum, although several governors have requested it

If a special session is called, the question will be rather simple appropriations of the necessary funds, First they would have to be found. Tliere would be debate about wheth- . er the state can afford it.

Certainly those lawmakers opposed to the recent state tax levies and increases feel that there is a sufficient cushion in the credit balance or surplus. But other state fiscal officials do not ^ .

They point out that having , a credit balance is the way the state had maintained its traditions of a balanced bud- > get and high credit rating. They fear possible consequences of diopping into it ...Relactant There is no secret about toe fact that Scott and his advisors are reluctant to call a special sessionfor any reason.

The governor had rejected requests by Sen. Julian AIls-bro(^ of Halifax on two occa-siiHis for a..session ft* the purpose o! repealing the 1969 ^ tax program. On toe second occasion, Scott dispatched a four - page letter to Ails-brook reviewing the entire revenue structure and outlining his refons fisr asking for additional taxes.

At one point, Scott said that without toe new taxes on to? bacco and soft drinks the General Fund budgets of nearly two billion dollars would be out of balance by about million.

In any event, Scott said, it is inaccurate to say that amounts raised by the new taxes could have been offset by the increase in estimated credit balance.. The point Scott was making is toat the legislature ai^ropriated all of ' the existing credit' balance and, in fact, raised toe estimate of accniing revenues ifr order to balance a record, .state budget

Wrong-Scott'added, ratow pointedly, that be fdt the legislature would not, in my opinion, welcome the opportunity to dedare itself wrong. . . .

A legislature seldon does. Or wiU.

With All The Tragedy Comes Advancement

With all the tragedy that war brings on, it has * long been recognized that many of mankinds great- ; est scientific advances have come from research.i directed at winning wars. f

Thus much of the construction equipment and methods'that are used for civilian enterprises today were developed because of wartime needs. In the medical field antibiotics were developed during World War II and many of the treatments for burns "and wounds used now on auto accident vie-tims were developed on the battlefield.

We bring this up because of a recent news story. It said that a silent airplane has been designed to glide noiselessly over enemy lines at night fo^ close observation.

Just suppose we could apply THAT to civiliar i aviation!

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By. ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOCAK *

JACKSON, Miss. Cautious but unmistakable gestures of friendship by the Mississippi Dixiecrat establishment toward President Nixon are typified by some extraordinary ticket purchases for next Monday nights Republican fund - raising dinner in Jackson to be addressed by Vice President l^iro T. Agnew.

One high state offcial dose to Dixiecrat Gov. John BeR Williams has secretly pledged to buy an entire table (price tag: $1,000) for the Agnew dinner. The man respnsible f(HT planning advertising in Williamss 1967 campaip also has pledged a $1,000 table. Several figures close to the Gov-^ emor are buying tickets for themselves and their wives at $100 apiece.

This represents a specta-culariy quick turnabout by Mississippis regular Democrats, toe states overwhelmingly dominant power, from George Wallace to Richard M. 'Nixon. Nor is this necessarily a transitory ^velop* ment Younger Dixiecrat poli-tidans view a Mississippi pol? arized between black Democrats and white Republicans with Wallaceism fading away rapidly.

Thus, Atty. Gen. John Mitcbells grand design of a Repttolican majority combining toe Wallace and Nixon voters of 1968 may not be so fanciful as it once seemed. In nine months as President, Mr. Nixon has gone far toward winning over the Deep South without offending the rest of toe country.

For toe fOTeseeable future, ^toe Dixiecrats will maintain a public posture aligned nationally with neither Democrats nor ecstatic about Mr. Nixon and disenchanted with Wal

lace. Plans by Wallace to challenge Gov. Albert Brewer of Alabama, his onetime protege, for Governor in 1970 art not the way toe Mississippi regulars play the game.

Because a few fiery speeches by Wallace down in the pin-ey woods could quickly lire up toe Mississippi rednecks, Dixiecrat politicians shrink from taking him on. But in Wallaces abs^ice, they believe Mr. Nixon-who got only 13.5 percent of the state vote while running a poor third in 1968actually could nose out Wallace today.

The Presidents boom hers was climaxed by his visit to Mississippis hurricane ravaged Gulf Coast. But the adulation accorded him then was preceded by a solid ground-woric of conduct in Washington ingratiating to toe Deep South. The Administrations delay in forced Integration of school districts pmcularly convinced Mississippians toat, for once, they had a filend in the White House. '

Contrary to our column from Washington several weeks ago, Mississippi does not confuse desegregation efforts activities by middle-eche-Irni officals in toe Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) with Mr. Nixons more friendly policies. Even when invitafole desegregation is forced here, it is probable that nameless HEW bureau-crats-DOt Mr. Nixon-will be blamed. For implanting toat impression, Republican State Chairman Clarke Reed gets much credit.

Indeed, the hard - driving Reeds ^erprints are found all over toe Nixon boom here. Commuting to Washington much of this year, Reed nagged the White House into leniency on racial questions, hfr.

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It is as if they were 'anging Danny Deever in the morning. You can hear the dead-march play. Frmn one end of the country to the other, drums are rolling for the head of Richard Nixon and for surrender to Hanoi.

This last, of course, will be denied. The students, profes-s(H*s, non-resident intellectuals war moms and full-time politicians vtoo promoted this weeks **moratorimn day** profess only the purest moti

vations. They deny even t trace of political purpose in toe proposals they advance. I am sure, said the President at his recent i*ess conference, they were made with toe best of intentions.** Well: 1 am so sure. In talking with young people at campuses across the nation,

1 am impressed with the students sincerityand with their inmiaturity as well. The more aggressive professors leaVe me cold; they are a

Other Editors Say A Different Moratorium

(Goldsboro Newa-Argns)

Seventy-nine cdlege presidents urge a faster withdrawal of U.S. troq fir(Hn Vietnam.

Professora and chancellors tsdce part in toe moratorium against the war. ^

Across the nation thousands of students prepare for another massive demonstration that gives moral support and i encouragement to the enemies of freedom. ^

Has a single one of these involved in todays peace at any uTce movement been involved in one incident of protest against the atrocities committee against toe crew of the USS Pueblo? Has one of them been involved in any , demonstration in toe past against the ^^ig of South 'Vietnamese cities Mowing a demonstrated de - escalation of the war by the United States?

Has a one of them been involved in any demonstration against the crushing of the

spirit of freedom in Czechoslovakia? Has wie of them expressed any public concern over the treatment of U. S. prisoners of war in North Vietnam?

Lets have a nationwide moratorium against the atrocities the c(mnunists have committed against mankindagainst the mass murders in Russia and China and North Vietnam, against toe purges in nations they have abs(xbed, against deception used on those who live under communism. * ^

Lets have a nationwide moratorium against the subvert sion exported by tiie communists to independent nations in Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, Souto Americaand to the United Slates itself.

Lets have a moratorium of this kind and see how many of these same peace-loving campus zealots bestir themselves in behalf of suffering humanity, human dignity and toe right of self-determination.

doctrinaire lot, most of them grandstand matadmrs, howling in the bleachers for blood on the sand. As f(H* the politicians, I observe the oellow-ings of Oklahomas Fred Harris and cannot get it out of my head that the gentleman, among other distinctions, is national Democratic chairman.

There comes a momentI just passed the inoment in that last paragraphwhen a mans gorge rises at the vainglorious irresponsibility of toose vriio would lead toeir country down the bug-init trail. I mean to head the list with New Yorks Charles Go-' odell, that Clausewitz of the sponsor the Disengagement Act of 1969. He would set an absolute deadline of Dec. 1,1970, to have all U.^. troops both combat and non-combat "^removed from Vietnam. If he should succeed, the date would live in infamy forever.

Goodell is not alone. He is getting help, in varying degrees, from CSiurch of Idaho, Eaglettxi of Missouri, Mc-Young of Ohio, Muskie of Govern of South Dakota, Mainethe whole membership of the Hills Bear-Bait-mg, Marching, and Tlnhcum S(iety. And fluttering about ' the firing^, like a hand-rubbing mortician at a high-class interment, is- the old Arkansas undertaker himself. Sen-ajw Fulbri^t is purring for futher hearings. .

They are insatiable. Nothing that Nixon might do, short of absolute and precipitate withdraw, would cool thefr fevers. Since he took office in January, the President has made one constructive overture after another. He has reduced the level of U.S. forces and stepped up the Viet-' (Continued On Page I)

By WILLIAM L. RYAN

AP Special Correspondent

Whatever the merit, or lack of it, of Moratorium Day, with Its outpouring of protest against the Vitenam war, it has focused attention on some <rf the toughest questions facing Americans today.

One of. the most important questions seems to be this: Having long since conceded tiiat military victwy is not tiie U;S. goal, must toe United States now face the possibility that political victory is equally unlikely?

Why Is the United States In Vietnam? The question has been answered by four wesidenis, ut the answers still leave fha average American wondering what it all means to him irson-ally. Is his way of life directly threatened? Is the threat of communism, so widely accepted only a relatively short time ago, less credible now? Just what, specifically, are U.S. interests?

If there is now going to be a recapitulation of the reas<ms for Vietnam, it may be necessary for (rfficials to be much more specific, to spell things out in detail. The whys in the past have been presented in broad generalities. They go ba<* to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, directly after toe 1954 Geneva accords divided Vietnam at the 17to parallel, following the defeat of French colonial power. Eisenhower pledged .S. Md to Saigon in devel(^g a itrong, viable* state capable of resisting attempted subversion or aggression through military means.'*

The United .^States had just gone through the Korean War^ Washington and much of Western Ekirope seemed cwivinced that a Communist tide would seep over Asia unless a dam was built. The Americans decided the dam had to be at the-point of imminent danger: in Vietnam, to protect all South-

*^In 1961, President John F. Kennedy deepened the Anaeri-can commitment. Ite promised that the United States would help the Republic of Vietnam to protect its people and to preserve its independence. He ordered increased military aid To Saigon at a time when the Viet Congs National Liberation Front had just come into being and the Viet Cong were entering a new phase of their guerrilla war. i

In Aiigust 1964 the U.S. Congress gave President Lyndon B. Johnson aulhwity to talte whatever steps he deemed necessai y to hold back what Was regarded as an imminent threat in Vietnam to all Southeast Asia-The vote for that Tonkin Gulf resolution was >98-2 in tot Senate, 416-0 in the House.

The resolution permitted transformation American military aid from the status of advisoty**te combat. 'Again -in 1965, Jdinson stated American aid in broad strategic tenha and added, We cannot now diihbn-or our word or abandcm Our commitment. Americans were in Vietn^,^ he ^d, beciust their national sechrtty ims .at stake. Hp;,referred to toe deepening smidow 1)! . Communist Chiiia, ah^ held toat Americans had the same >esponribili-ty in Asia aS'toey had to defense of freedom in Europe. s i President Nixon basically embraces toe same Vietnam policy as Johnson wd Kennedy. like

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Taxes To Regulate Our Canduct

Strength For Today

THE ULTIMATE

The word gospel means good news. For many people toe word represents a bookone of the four in which too^ life^andfflMstity<rf Jesus are set forth. But the gdspel is more than S book. The gospel is good news, and the good news is that Gdd loves the human race, wants to save it and bring it to a glorious achievement. We'can eaMly fall into the habit pf thinking of God as a great and terrible Judge. Certainly we must give an account of ourselves in that day when the nations of the earth stand before The Divine Throne. But judgment is not the ultimate of human experience. The ultimate Is salvation. As individuals and nations we need to be saved from ourselves ind our sins. We peed

to have the chains taken off our wrists and especially off our minds.

Freedom is a reality. Divine freedom is the greatest of all realities. We can trust it and

and the wqrld. )

And what, as * inatter (jf fact, is more worth having than this peace and gpod WiU lupporttng our lives and directing our energies? '

Peace I leave with you, ,my peace I give unto you: not as toe world giveth, give I unto you. Let n(^ your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. There is a lot of bad news in the world. If we try to close our eyes and stop our ears and so escape bad news we shaU find ourselves in for plenty more.

Believe in good news. It is real.'

By Earl L Douglass

By ELMER ROESSNER

The Nixon administrations proposal to allow a spc^al tax deductions to banks and savings and loan assodatioiis for mridng socially desir-rabie loans is not a particularly new ida. Its just a variation on an old one, that of using taxa to regulate the Gontoict and morals of tax-payers.

(Under (h* proposal,' , wfak^ the Treasury miggats ^ an amendment {to to tax reform bill passed by the House, tiiea institutions would be grtnted. a special tax deduction of f per cent on groM interest income from specified kMuia, such as loans for eduation, home building and small business. It would also soften the impact of tougher tax levies On these institutions as provided in tax reform legislation.

There are di^ns of existing taxM. designed to make citizens wellb^ved, sinless moral characters.

THE LEVY ON SIN

The tis ofl ehaippagtte, lor

example, is $3.40 a wine gallon, while the tax on still wines of under 14 per cent alcohol is 17 cents a wine gallon. Rich, dissriate. playboys, you know, drink eham-' pagne out of chorus girls slippers and Congress would penalize them.

The tax on distilled liquors is heavy $10.50 a proof gallon. While tote is nimarily to raise money, it is also cal-, eulated to dteeourage drinking. As has long been known, people wfao drii^ heavily do not give their bossa a good days work. The tax is vat-ly higher than toat on'tea, for instance.

Taia on cigarettee, at federal, itate and local levels ar* high, partly to raise revenue but perhaps even iore m to * discourage the practice of smoking. There Is no similar tax on chewing ^m,

For a long time there was a tax on Sen-Sen. Evil men used to chew it so their loved ona wouldnt know they bad been drinking whiskey. But an enlightened Coj^ess repealed the tax foiff years ago.

WICKED GAMBLERS CHASTENED

Ctongrea also imposed i $50 a-year license tax on gamblers and a 10 per cent levy on toe amount each wager. This tax costs more to collect than It brings in, according to most estimates. But it punishes people for committing ^ the

wmsmm

WASP sin of gambling. It also lets federal officers arrest gamblers who have fixed things with the local police.

The income tax is loaded with measures to compel citizens to confmrm.

The spUt income tax provision for married couples penalizes the unmarried. It Is ourtous that tba lovern-

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ment spends millions trying to dampen toe population explosion, yet penalized those who do.nm (^oose to mory.

The govemtnent de a ballet cplit on religion. Thq Sup-rente Court , says that toe Constitotion says in to* fine print that' chddren cant tay prayeli in school, yet government giva tax detoro-ttons to parents who contri-, bute for donations to charity, educt iffld oth^ caus^ to encourage people to bq upright, unselfish and geti-qrous, ' , . ' y

Even Social Securityybf been rigged control conduct * People not retlriim before 72 are denied benefits. Soclil Security wu started during the Depressin and Congress wanted older people who had more yedrs of voting ahead of them.'

It has been said, The powe to tax is toe power to destroy. It inii^t I io be said, The power to tax is the power to fight sin, supprea the taxed and make people conform to the Ideas of fuddy-estabiishment-duddies.