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4The Daily Reflector, Greenville, X. C.Thursday, February 12, mg.

Dream Of A Boulevard System

FIVE SCORE AND SEVEN YEARS _ Qut Oo

Greenville will have a boulevard system such has long been dreamed of once State Highway Commission plan, as outlined by Commissioners Arthur Tripp, are carried out.

Already Memoriaf Drive on the west side of the city is six lane portions and five lane in sections. Greenville Boulevard is five lane from N.C. 11 to Elm Street. Now plans are unden^ay to continue the five laning of Greenville Boulevard fromElmto U.S. 264 and then riorthward by a dual lane bridge to the Pactolus highway; A link from there will continue to N.C. 11 at the Burroughs Wellcome plant.

There are^lso plans for widening to four or five lanes Tenth Street from Lawrence to GreenYille Boulevard and Charles Street will be widened from Greenville Boulevard to Tnth Street, perhaps to four or five lane. In addition Greenville Boulevard will be continued westward multi-laned from N.C. 11 to Frog Level. Outside the city, dual laning of N.C. 11 to Kinston is already underway and dual laning of either U.S. 264 or N.C. 30-33 to Washington is planned.

These are impressive plans and, as they are all carried out, Greenville will have a system of multi-laned boulevards that, not only help move the growing traffic load but also will add a degree of beautification to the city.

However, as old problems are solved new ones are created. Thus even before all the plans for Greenville Boulevard are completed, we can see a bad traffic problem building up in the area of its intersection with Charles Street

Already Pitt Plaza is there, which generates huge amounts of traffic. Soon King Plaza will be

open across the highway and another shopping center in the area is already under construction.

Add to this traffic generated by the university imagine a Saturday afternoon ball game sending

thousands ofrjutos to the area-^nd we can see that

this section of Greenville Boulevard will soon be one of the citys most congested areas.

The answers for handling all the traffic expected in this area are going to have to be found; otherwise this particular area will eventually be a bottle neck in a fine boulevard systmr"'^

Then on Greene Street heavy traffic is alr^dy feeding via a four lane drive into a two lane bridge and finally h narrow- section of Greene. A second bridge is going to be needed at Pitt and improvements made to both these streets, if we are ever to handle traffic which new industries now underway north of the river are going to generate.

We see relief ahead to the citys traffic problems in the highway system now being planned. However there are a number of bottlenecks for which planning is now needed if we are to avoid real traffic problems in the future.

Appears Real Bargain For Shore Drive Park

The Challenge

Of Journalism

(This guest column for the N.C. .Association of Afternoon Dailies was written by Harry .Abernathy, student in the --UNC School of Joiirnalism.)

By HARRY ABERN ATHY CHAPEL HILL - It was snowing late last month when many of the states top newspapermen were in town for the 45th annual Press Institute. The streets were icy and slick; the wintry wind blew the snowflakes under the coat collar; yet there was the air of serenity that always accompanies a snowfall.

Around mid-morning that Friday, the newspaper group gathered in a basement auditorium in Peabody Hall to hear three students ex-.press their dissatisfaction with the Establishment. Their w'ords were as biting as the chilling wind outside. Many in the audience. I think, TcivcT them To better than the frostbitten traveler outside receives the freezing temperatures.

1 hope that those ideas many alien and even seditious to somewere pondered in the minds of the states newspapermen.

A gentlemen sitting next to me leaned to a colleague and said Ive had enough of this. and when a black speaker referred to civil rights he turned again and said civil rights, hell, HEWs taken away all our civil rights.

One of the challenges that young men,* like myself, going into the newspaper business will have to face is the lack of understanding that gaps certain elements of our society. The task of bringing us together will hot be so much President Nixons as it will be that of the,* news media. The newspapers (as well as the broadcast journalists) are entrusted with the power to set the agenda; they determine what their readers (and listeners) are to deem significant^about the days events. Indeed, the reader may well be but a slave, unable to judge the

significance of ah event independently of his newspaper or television newscast. ( Or he may receive two conflicting judgements of the significance of a single event.) The fact that much of the days news is news that the reader really doesnt want to believe in part explains the publics loss of confidence in the media. Many respond with enthusiasm when a prominent figure like the Vice-President criticizes newspapers and television newscasters.

The newspaper, then, have this potential for exercising great power over the minds of readersreaders who are losing faith because they arent being told what they want to hear. Dr.. John B. Adams, dean of the School of Journalism at the University of North Carolina, contends

that no elemenibf societywTir stand to defend the media, other than those among its own. It may already be too late for my generation of journalists to regain the credibility lost by a previous generation.

What, then, is the challenge for iournalism? I see it as a responsibilitya responsibility to ourselves and to our readers to excise the restraint necessary to balance rights: The rights of the press, those of our sources and subjects, and those of our readers. To do this, we may have to aban-dom those traditional concepts which gave the prize to whoever was firstest with the mostest. The new breed of journalist must, as a Charlotte editor told me, be ' able to hold his own emotions in check while working in clouds of propaganda and self-seeking, all the while having to sift and weigh a tremendous amount of information.

It is my generation of newspapermen who must bring us together. This is no politicians slogan; but it should be creedit is challenge-to journalists and ^readers alike.

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We are glad that the Redevelopment Commission has made an agreement with City Planning and Architectural Associates to prepare a master landscaping plan for the Shore Drive park area.

It also seems logical to us that the city pay the $3,500 planning cost for this project, particularly if this will free redevelopment funds for actually carrying out landscaping work in this exceptional riverside park.

Strange

Limbs

By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) - Jumping to conclusions:

The best way for a husband to patch things up with his wife after a quarrel is to ask her to sew on a button for him. This reminds her that after all he is just a helpless little boy who isnt quite responsible for what he does, and therefore its her duty to take care of him.

You always feel youre off to a head start any morning you rumma^ through the pockets

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By ART BUCHWALD

For this and $6,500 for mapping and other materials the city could have given to it a fully developed park which is badly heeded. This seems a real bargain.

U.S. PayifrgThetr^ftts

of a suit to be sent to the cleaners and come across an ov'er-looked $5 bill.

\ Two out of three office secretaries who say they hate their boss are secretly in love with him. They are simply angry because he treats them like any other piece of office furniture.

A conscientious employe is one who waits until Saturday to

Arabs Would

Kick Out U.S.

R> ELIAS ANTAR \ss(Katcd Press Writer BEIRUT (AP) - The Arabs shoulil kick out .American oil companies unless the United States stops helping Israel, said five Arab countries at their minisummit conference in Cairo, but nobody knows better than the Arabs that they would be hurt most.

The communique issued by Egypt. Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Sudan after their meeting over the weekend declared: The Arab nation refuses to see its resources and wealth being exploited Und eon'erteduitb assistance ~ and weapons for Israel. The continuation of such exploi-|ation should be considered an act of imperialism which must be liquiduted by the Arab countries.

After the 1967 Arab-lsraeli war. the Arabs decided to cut off oil shipments to Britain, the United States and West Germany. The Arabs soon realized they were suffering more than anyone else, and oil started flowing again.

The three Arab states that have most of the oil did not attend the Cairo conference. Saudi Arabia and Kuwait already have made it clear that they do not intend to cut their own economic throats, and even the new "nevoiutToHary governm

porter and does most of it all on its own with some help from Russian experts.

Egypts growing oil production depends heavily on the know how and investment of independent American oil companies in partnership with government concerns. Thanks to fields the Americans are developing, Egypt hopes to double its present production by 1975, probably b(iComing an important exporter in the process.

It probably is futile even to raise tl^ question, for the United Nations still twines our national reason in its morning glory sweetness, but isnt it time for the United States, in this field. toTstop playing Uncle Sucker?

Tucked away in the Presidents budget for the coming fiscal year are his requests for tax funds to be paid ouL tp the UN and its progeny. It will come as no surprise to anyone to learn that the items are up, up, up. And it may well be that short of withdrawing from the UN altogether, there, .is nothing.

the Congress can do about it.

Even so, permit a slow burn;

In the 1%9 fiscal year, the United States put up $41 million in dues to the United Nationsr^For fiscal 71, the bill will be $50,379-,000, a tidy increase of 23 per cent in a span of two years.

In the World Health Organization, our contribution, as it is euphemistically descril^, will jump from $18 million tc $21.7 million. In fiscal 69, we turned over to the UNs Food and Agriculture Organization some $8.7 million. Next year.

we get hit for $10.1 million. All told, the taxpayers in the coming fiscal year will fork over $109,116,000 as our assessed share of the expenses of the UN and its satellite agencies.

One hates to appear picayune or captious. But at a time, when a hard-pressed President is reduced tc terminating the jobs of four tea-tasters in the Food and Drug Administration, in an effort to save every possible dollar, some hard questions ought to be asked about our continued support of the Great East River Debating

If the Arab go\'ernments will not or cannot strike out at the American oil interests - that produce most of their wealth, who was the call really aimed at?

Other Editors Say Regional Concept

The answer would seem to be the Palestine guerrillas who can operate as free agents teeeause they ane responsibleTbr ho one and to no government. But if they start sabotaging American oil installations, they are not only going to hurt the oil countries, they are going to hurt the three biggest have-nots of the Arab world Egypt, Jordan and the guerrillas themselves.

From their oil wealth, Saudi Arabia. Kuwait and Libya are contributing $228 million a year to Egypt and $96 million to Jordan. And at

( Washington Daily News) More regional cooperation

people in Eastern North Carolina than ever before. We are talking.jight now, about a regional airport to serve Beaufort, Martin, and* Pitt counties. County and town governing bodies are in the process of naming leaders to serve on such an Airpcx't authority. And while there is a long ways to go before success is realized, the very fact that we have the wheels in motion is a healthy sign. ' And we now learp that Pasquotank, Perquimans, and Camden counties are engaged in discussions which might lead to a regional jail to serve the three counties. The commissioners of each county are taking a good look

jail can be built, and there is more chance to get state and federal funHs for such a project The big drawback to a regional jail, as we see it, would be the traveling involved for law enforcement officers taking those arrested to the jail.

We have been told that several counties in our state have jails today which are outmoded and inferior to an extent which labels them as actually dangerous. In the pure sense, a jail is not a facility in any county which necessarily is pointed out as a measure of progress. In fact, a lot of people look at jails as only necessary evils.

However, a great deal (rf stre^ today is being placed on adequate and safe jails. And counties which have sub-

and Flim-Flam Society.

Henry J. Taylor, former ambassador to Switeerland, is a cogent student of these matters. In a recent column, he pointed to the absurdity that has resulted from the admission of mini-nations by the dozen. Within the UNs General Assembly, a two-

Libya is not likely to choke off the goose that lays golden egg worth a billion a year.

Of the countries at the confrontation summit-so called be-cause the five nations are those with troops actively engaged against Israelonly Iraq, is a big oil exporter. American interests comprise about 23 per cent of the Western-owned Iraq Pi'lruleuin Co.. which produces Iraqs oil.

It would be impossible to hit the U.S. holdings without affecting the whole operation. This in turn would jeopardize an annual income to Iraq of $5(M) million.

Svria is a minor oil ex-

the Arab summit conference in Morocco in December the oil states agoeed to give the guerrillas Palestine Liberation Organization $19 million

at the proptKition, and bft' standard facilities are going

thirds majority now can be mustered by nations with less than 10 per cent of the worlds population an' these nations pay less than 5 per cent of the UNs budget.

At tbe Assemblys last session, by Taylors count, these come - and - get - it boys introduced no fewer than 61 proposals for money to go tc themselves the bill to be footed by the Unile(| States. They raid our U. S. Treasury like Mongols. Taylor added, with a sort of special zeal which is'inborn and absolutely unquenchable.

Of the UNs 126 members, 77 have failed to pay their dues or assessments. In any ...mellrmD- ,gentlemfin!&. jdub^

have a tooth pulled because he hates to miss a days work. But you just dont hardly find many like that any more.

Youre middle-aged if you can walk across a field of new snow without feeling an urge to make a snowball and fling it at something or somebody:

If everyone were to get one hour more sleep a night and spend one hour every day writing poetrv-, tlie number of murders, ulcers, and nervous breakdowns would be cut in half.

Guys who keep safety pins in their office desks rarely w in the top jobs A man that prepared to meet a minor emergency is too,cautious to deal with a major one.

You can usually expect to get a raw deal if you go to the complaint window of a department store and see a sign on it saying, Keep smiling

A salesman is a fellow who can tell his friends how he got a black eye and finally come to believe his ow n storv .

The quickest way to create in American life would be

chao^r

for mosUfitms simply to change payday from Friday to Monday Heres another difference between the sexes. When a husband occasionally looks at the contents of his wifes purse on

the sly, hes probably unly in search of a $5 he can borrow; when a wife goes through her husbands pants, its usually in search of evidence of the hanky panky she suspects hes been up to,

A pessimist counts his wrinkles and feels depressed; art-op-i timist counts them and is cheered by the thought that at least there is still room for several more.

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Saudi Arabia has warned its financial aid could not continue if its oil income was stopped, a warning prompted by three sabotage attacks by Arab guerrillas last year on the pipeline that carries Saudi oil to the Mediterranean, Like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Libya have no source of income but their oil, and Algeria and Iraq, the other Arab oil states, arent giving their oil money to anybody.

too much longer, we might read that these three counties have embarked upon such a project. ,

In talking of a jail to serve three counties, we might be talking good common sense in this case. Any one of these three counties might build a smaller jail which in many respects might be inadequate to meet the specifications which the state or federal government might set out.

But working together, a much bigger and much finer

to have to bring their facilities .up to standard.

In addition to the airport to serve three counties and a jail to serve three other counties, both of which are signs of wholesome cooperation, there is also talk from time to time of other bicounty projects. And in many ways such talk is good. If a county is unable to do something alone, then it becomes advantageous to combine with others to realize the project at hand.

the deadbeats would have been posted for 60 days and then expelled. But this is not how things are done at the United Nations. No one ever is booted out. The expense is simply shouldered off to dear old Uncle Sam. We now pay one-third of the UNs regular budget, and about 70 per cent of its spending, over-all.

Taylor makes the point that ought to be made by critics on Capitol Hill. The United States gains nothing ab-

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on our past misfortunes, of which all men have some.Charles Dickens.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is; Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.Elbert Hubbard.

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True valor lies halfway between cowardice and rashness.Cervantes.

A Torrent Of New Products

Strength For Today

The Problem of Equality

All men are created free and equal. They certainly are as regards legal and political matters; they certainly are not as regards almost everything else. The theory pf equality is perfectly sound as a legal and political dictum; it is utterly unsound in almost every other field.

All men are not equal mentally. People are not born with equally strong bodies. Some people have rich and charming personlities, others drab; Some have generations of culture behind them, others have nothing in their heredity but mediocrity and evil. Yet does this mean fatalism? Must people stay the way they are born? By no means, Life is intended to be

a matter of heroic ascent. There will always be basic inequalities among men, but we are cap>able of going from the minus side of the line to the plus. We can rise from mediocrity to distinction, from ignorance to learning, from physical inadequacy to health, from poverty to financial comfort and perhaps wealth. Being politically free helps make this ascent possible, but it does not assure it. In the last analysis, its up to us.

By ELMER ROESSNER As an old new-product watcher, I can report that we ar now in the midst of a torrent of new products. I have not seen so many releases, announcements, disclosures, photos and press conferences about new

be redesigned for civilian sales.

Reasons Why The present wave of new products appears to be generated by these situations:

ELMER

ILOESSNER

God regards all men alike. The state regards all men alike. But mans equipment is diverse in quality and quantity and this creates inequality in life.

By Earl L. Douglass

products since the period immediately following World War II.

The postwar flood of new products was capsed by the fact that thousands of new ideas had been held back by the shortages of money,, materials and manpower, and by the fact that military production had resulted in thousands of ideas that could

Many manufacturers are rushing new products to counteract the dip in sales resulting from ,the anti - inflation drive.

Many corporations, seeing the price of their stocks slipping in the exchanges, are pushing out new products tO| enha^ the desirability of their shares.

# Many technical advances for the military and industry

. are.now ready for other markets. i

^The time is simply ripe for new ideas that have been months and years in .^developing.

The Torrent The rise in crime has brought scores of

products: alai*ms, locks and other devices. The current

concern about polluti(i of water and air has caused the development of many waste disposal systems, garbage compressors, air and water purifiers and many others.

The popularity of boating has resulted in a flood of new boats and accessories. In the construction industry there are dozens of new tools, new fabricating methods and other devices and systems, and the number of new electronic, calculating, comjxiting and house entertainment devices is beyond count.

clarificarion to both industrial and consumer markets.

Many new ways to clean air. Many improved devices have been rushed to market. Parr Mfg. Co., Des Moines, has announced a device to filter and wash office air. Johns-Manville has announced a new high-energy air filter for plants.

new

Among new pipducts pushed on to the market are: Two methods of producing cleaner water by Aqua -Chemt Inc., of Milwaukee. Several,other companies are rushing filtering and other new systems of* water

Nudged and needled by the government, Ralph Nader and coughing victims of pollution, auto companies and others are speeding work on systems to suppress smog and auto pollution. United International Research, New York, has develt^ed a way to prepare minute quantities of platiunum to make catalysts to oxidize wastes in autot| exhausts. Dozens of other research and auto companies are working on the saipe problem.