4The Daily Reflector. Greenville, N. Wednesday. June 10.1070

Growth Is Short Of Estimate

STILL IN THERE!

While Greenville has shown a good growth from 1960 to 1970, according to preliminary U.S. Census figures, the 29,916 population for the city fell short of estimates which had been used.

The preliminary figures released by Jerry Scott, district manager of the Census Burear, indicated that Greenville had a 26.9 percent increase over the 22,860 population of 1960. This increase of 7,056, while it is a healthy growth, could almost be accounted for in increased student enrollment and increase in faculty and staff at East Carolina University.

Smokestacks Won't Smoke

By BRY.V.N HAISLIP RALEIGH - The puffing smokestack as a symbol of progress in on the way out in North Carolina,

Air quality standards adopted by the State Board of Water and Air Resources which become effective July I will make it obsolete The standards set limits on the discharge of smoke, sulphur oxides, and suspended particulate matter into the atmospheri*

.\ wholesale change won't 1k' immediately apparent but the effect of the standards will be a cleaner atmosphere for North Carolina, said W Everette Knight, chief of the Board s air pollution control di vision 1 would be very disap [xunted if we couldn't tell a definite improvement within five years, " he said ' In fact, " he added, gesturing through his office window m the direction of the state's central heating plant, we already can tell a difference m Raleigh"

The healing plant smokestack. just off Raleigh's busy Downtown Boulevard, belched out quantities of black smoke until a few weeks ago Conversion from coal to natural gas as fuel ended the plant's contribution to air pollution The step was a part of state government's recognition

that its role in air pollution abatement is that of par ticipant as well as policeman Governor Bob Scott has promised that the state wilt act to control sources of environmental pollution within its agencies and institutions As far as air pollution is concerned. Knight said, this generally involves fuel conversion as in the case of the central heating plant. A number of state institutions, including universities and hospitals, use coal for heating with the accompanying dark clouds of smoke. Conversion costs money on two counts; capital outlay for the conversion, and operating costs for use of the more expensive but cleaner fuel.

Surveys are being made and plans drawn. Where funds are available corrective procedures will be followed. The Governor has indicated he will ask the 1971 General Assembly to provide the money where necessary.

Tar Heel industry has shown an equal readiness to comply with air quality standards. The law enacted by the 1967 legislature makes provision for voluntary action to curb air pollution. Prior to the adoption of standards, a business or industry may apply for approval of pollution abatement equip ment or techniques.

So far. we have issued 40 approval documents representing an investment

cost of $22.600.508 which will result in the removal of 181.208 pounds of pollutants per hour from the atmosphere, " Knight reported This is a very gratifying response on the part of industry, and an indication of an attitude of compliance "

The big task right now is preparing notices of the effective date of the first air quality standards and application forms for tem-{Kirary permits to fx* mailed to all affected industries, municipal governments, and institutions. The size of the mailing is uncertain, Knight said, but a first run of 10,000 has beim made for the application form

The letters will go out by certified mail beginning July 1 Approximately 90 days will be allowed for a reply, setting forth the degree of activity involving air pollution, proposed steps to come within compliance, and a time .schedule for pollution abatement action

The timetable is important, because many of those affected will not be able to immediately meet the standards. For example, a municipal government will have to arrange financing to make the transition from burning in an open dump to a landfill or incinerator opt'ration. In all likelihood, a bond issue election will be necessary

The important thing will be the demonstration of good faith in meeting the standards, and prompt action to initiate abatement of pollution A field force of inspectors, armed with .sampling devices, will check on compliance with the standards.

The North Carolina statute sets forth as the policy of the state a pollution control program which will protect health, property and plant and animal life. Air quality standards have been fixed w'ith this policy in mind. The standards are placed at levels significantly below those at which adverse effects occur, Knight pointed out.

The State Board of Water and Air Resources and its Air Control Advisory Council have coordinated closely with federal activity in the pollution field Before air quality standards are set, federal criteria documents dealing with the particular pollutant involved are studied thoroughly.

The standards effective July 1 apply only to open burning and emissions of dark smoke, sulfur oxides and suspended particulate matter. Control of chemical emissions is limited initially to sulfur oxides because these are the only contaminants for which federal air quality criteria have been issued.

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The Chamber of Commerce - Merchants Association had been estimating the population at 33,000.

A growth rate of almost 27 percent over a ten year period is entirely adequate, particularly when we recognize that there is more growth ahead for Greenville because of industrial expansions now underway.

Still it would do no harm for the Chamber -Merchants Association to discuss with Census Bureau officials the methods of counting local citizens to make certain that everyone was counted.

Having a few thousand more people is not important as a local ego boosting matter so much, but it is important in other ways. State Powell Bill funds for street construction, for instance, are based on a formula which takes population into consideration.

If the local population is running less that was thought, it wont do any harm to double check behind the Census takers. It could mean additional funds for us from state and federal sources, where population is taken into account.

Taxpayers Should Be Of Primary Concern

County and municipal governing boards are now in the midst of preparing budgets for the 1970-71 fiscal year, and it is important that they keep in mind the need to hold tax increases in the absolute minimum.

Like everyone else, governments are finding they are caught in an inflation squeeze, with their employees needing increases to keep up with the cost of living and other cost of doing business steadily rising.

Governing boards have a responsibility to provide for the needs of their people, even if it does mean more taxes, as is often the case these days. Still there is no room for fat in municipal or county budgets and finding the unnecessary items often means hours ot poring over figures for commissioners or councilmen.

It takes toughness to cut out of budgets that which is not needed. This year as never before, however, is a time to see that tax payers get the most for their dollars.

Bold Goal In Middle East

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON - Despite rising political pressure from politicians of every ideological persuasion President Nixon has no intention of giving Israel a favorable decision on the request for 100 more U.S. warplanes.

Instead, what is being hammered out by Mr. Nixon and his foreign policy advisers is a major diplomatic initiative, coupled with a pledge to Israel to replace high - performance planes lost in combat.

This pledge will carry a condition, however, that Israel restrict its air activity to the Suez Canal area. Israel is expected to make just that commitment, so that the promise of more U.S. aircraft wont be used by Israel to enlarge the air war and risk combat with Soviet pilots now patrolling Egyptian skies west of the canal.

The form of the diplomatic move is still vague, but it will include two major steps. first, much strong pressure on the Israeli government of Prime Minister Golda Meir, now showing signs of internal tension between hawks and doves, to proclaim an Israeli willingness to evacuate most Israeli - conquered territories, such as the Egyptian Sinai; second, a new, high-level approach to President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt to agree to negotiations.

A direct channel to Nasser was opened by Assistant

Secretary of State Joseph Sisco in Cairo earlier this spring, but what Mr. Nixon's diplomatic advisers have in mind is a new contact w'ith Nasser at a higher level than Sisco. The political significance of Siscos trip to Ciaro was that, for the first jtime since the six - day war of 1967, a high - level U.S. official had direct talks with the Egyptians, without being filtered through the Russians.

Mr. Nixon has this bold goal: to use the gravest crisis in the Middle East since 1967 as a wedge to break the Arab - Israeli impasse open for a political solution. As the President sees it, that is the one and only way to stop the dangerous build - up of Soviet influence in the Arab world and the widening political divisions between the U.S. and the Arab states, on one hand, and the U.S. and its Western European allies on the other.

For example, Mr. Nixon has been privately warned that a break of diplomatic relations between the U.S. and several Arab states, including Libya, Kuwait, and possibly Jordan, would result if he agrees to sell Israel another 100 warplanes.

He has also been advised, through Secretary of State William P. Rogers, that several Western European countries, including France and Italy, fear that a major new U.S. arms deal with Israel would build dangerous political pressures between them and their oil - producing

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Strength For Today

VITAL FACTORS

Certainty and uncertainty, "niese two states of mind seem in every sense of the word to be opposites. Yet an intelligent examiniation of religion indicates that both certainity and uncertainty are definite factors in. a religious experience.

If we look at the negative approach first and ask how uncertainty becomes a factor in religion, we are soon brought to the realization that our knowledge of life, the responsibilities it involves and the factors which constitute life are frequently in conflict. TTiis very conflict may lead one to seek a certainty upon which he can rely. Nothing is more intellectually or spiritually devastating than the conviction that one knows all there is to know about religion and life-and thats that.

But 1^ core of religion is

certainty. We may not be certain about all the factors which constitute life and the part that religion plays in making life meaningful, but there must be some certainties embodied in our thinking and practice, else we cannot be said to have any religion at all.

Does not a created world indicate a Creator? It would appear so to most of us. Does it seem reasonable that the Creator after He had fashioned the world would turn his back on his creation and let it get along as best it can? '

Sound religion is the conviction both that God cares about his creation and has done something, and is continuing to do something, for its fulfillment. There are certainties in life and certainties in any sound religion that pretends to interpret and sigiport life.

By Earl L. Douglass

By ART BUCHWALD

The Study Of Feng Sui

WASHINGTON - People who have been wondering why things have been unraveling so badly in Washington these days may be interested in the ex planation of a distingui.slied Chinese scholar who visited the Capitol last week. Dr. Chun Ling is :m expert in Feng Sui, o'.nerwise known as the study of things in relation to where they are placed.

Americans, Dr. Chun Ling said, do not put much significance into what is in good harmony and bad harmony, but if buildings are not in harmony with each

other, it is impossible for people to be in harmony

Dr. Chun Ling said that the most striking example of this could be illustrated by the fact that the White House faces north and the Capitol of the nation faces east, and both have their backs to the Washington Monument. When buildings face in different directions, they do not have common goals.

The Supreme Court faces Lincoln and that is good, but Lincoln from his tomb must look at the back of the Senate and House of Representatives, and this is bad"

Other Editors Say How Freedom Used

(Washirgion Daily .News)

Freedom is a wonderful thing for any of us, but too many fail to appreciate its true meaning.

Too few realize that the very freedom under which they operate to criticize our government and to damn the system has been handed to us on a silver platter. But those who did the handing so often died in the efforts. For 200 years we have seen each generation called upon to defend freedom.

If freedom for one group means loss of freedom for another group, then the use of the word freedom is incorrect. And such wordage is wrong and incorrect.

Here in America today we see left wing groups using freedoms to talk about the very destruction of democracy. If democracy is destroyed, the very freedoms they use to destroy it will themselves be lost, too. Is that what some want?

We have no patience with those who use the freedoms of democracy to destroy the system. While none of us says that democracy is perfect, all of us should realize that it is the best we can do now.

Twenty years ago, America was caught in the era of McCarthyism. It was a rather violent reaction stemming from the far right. One day. Senator McCarthy was put in his rightful place, and he sort of faded into oblivion. Today

we have sort of the same situation in reverse. The ugliness is coming from the far left, and whereas one man funnelled the fire 20 years ago, today the fire is coming from many fronts.

The picture today seems to bewilder our leadership, and timid souls seem afraid to tread the waters in search of the necessary answers. Yet. we seem to keep going from bad to worse, and unless some better answers are found some time soon, we could find ourselves in an untenable position.

Colleges are out now for Summer vacations, but what will happen next September when they start up again' That answer challenges all of us, and if the youngsters seem more bent upon social revolution than on learning, then we are in for severe trouble.

We also hear talk about a hot Summer, but let us hope that cool heads will prevail and that reason and right will guide us.

Those who wish to engage in demonstrations and wild protests ought to remember now and in the future that Democracy belongs as much to them as to the rest of us. If we destroy democracy, we also destroy their fight to dissent and their right to demonstrate.

Is that what the ultra-left wingers are seeking? We wonder.

Dr. Chun Ling also said, It is very sad the Presidents office is located in the west wing of the White House, because thus puts him on the side of the Pentagon and away from Health. Education and Welfare.

The Feng Sui expert said it is no accident that the Pentagon is as strong as it is in Washington. The Pentagon is much larger than the Capitol and White House, and the two smaller buildings cannot control the bigger one. Not only that, but the Pentagon has too many faces and too many entrances directed in all directions. This milti -faceted design has forced the Pentagon to get involved in every direction it faces.

Dr. Chun Ling pointed something out to me that I had never noticed before, which shows you how important the study of Feng Sui can be.

The Pentagon is across the Potomac River and that is why the State Department. Capitol and even the WTiite House have no control over it.

One of the most interesting things that Dr. Chun Ling said was that because the White House faces north, it looks on Lafayette Park. In the center of Lafayette Park is the Jackson Memorial, consisting of four giant antique guns. These guns have dominated every Presidents thinking. When the President is trying to think, its inevitable that the guns in Lafayette Park can suggest military solutions to world problems. Dr. Chun Ling believes the guns should be removed at once and replaced with flowers.

When studying the science of Feng Sui, Dr. Chun Ling says that it is very important to know on what axis our nations leaders sleep. If they dont sleep on the same geographic poles, they can disrupt the flow of the earths magnetism.

I had my doubts about Dr. Chun Lings last statement, and so I did some Feng Sui research on my own. It appeared there was a lot to what he said. For example, I discovered that Sen. Fulbright sleeps south to

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Over

Forty

Clues

By HAL BOYLE NEWYORK(AP)-DearPoor Man's Philosopher;

Lately I have been going steady with a nice man who makes something of a mystery of his age. He likes to give the impression that he is under 33, but I have a feeling he is nearer 45.

Personally, I dont care how-old he is, as he has a good job and, of course. Im not getting any younger myself and a girl of 31thats a iaugh-can * always pick and choose But I would like to knov if he's kidding me about his real age Can you help me* Curious

Certainly, my dear. No one can hide his actual age for long. His attitudes and conduct inevitably give him away.

Your boyfriend is certaintly well over 40 if

His wig is beginning to shed but he blames the falling hairs on his dog.

He begins to fidget if you look longingly at the a la carte side of a restaurant menue instead of ordering the price-fixed din ner.

On Saturday nights he'd rather listen to Lawrence Web: than take you out dancing.

His medicine cabinet contains two kinds of sleeping pills, three kinds of antacid tablets and four bottles of tranquilizers.

Any small talk he gives you that any day now he's going to take up jogging to get in better shape is just thatsmall talk.

Miniskirts on other girls look good to him, but he hates to have you wear one.

If he is considering marrying you. he keeps asking you pointed questions about your financial background and whether he would have to support any of your insolvent relatives,

A World War II uniform is still hanging in his closet.

Wlien he is in an amorous mood, he cant chase you twice around the sofa without getting short of wind.

Now and then he forgets himself and starts bragging about how soon all his life insurance will be paid up.

He never forgets your anni versaries. because he is now old and smart enough to know how important they are to a woman When he goes without shaving for a day, his 5 o'clock shadow has a Civil War motifa tinge of gray as well as blue If the price of anything goes up, he worries about whether the nation is heading again into a major depression.

If you exclaim, Cool it, man! he thinks you are asking for another ice cube in your drink.

Should these things be true of your boyfriend, lady, you can bet hes over 40-so give him all the help you can.

Opinions n Brief

Much of the more raucous preaching on social, economic and environmental problems is beginning to sound like the fire alarm that keeps ringing long after the fire engines have arrived on the scene. It is an-ticlimactic" - Industrial News Review

Where there is no incentive, the only thing produced in abundance is scarcity Expecting people to produce with no incentive is no different than expecting a car to run with no gas. R D Hofer.

Answer Lies In The Hard Sell

By ELMER ROESSNER The decline in business activity and the rise in unemployment is complicated by the fact that all surveys show a decline in consumers intentions to buy. The only solution available

ELMER

ROESSNER

to retailers; the hard sell,

The hard sell can not only restore health to individual businesses but it can invigorate the entire ec(xiomy.

Here, from everywhere, are some hard sell ideas, suggestions and approaches: # Make quick, sharp price cuts on goods that are slow to

sell. Slow, undramatic cuts are rarely effective; unsold goods can be a deadly drain on profits. Dramatic cuts can swell store traffic.

^ Pep up staff morale. Cheerful employees sell more. Get over the massage : Your job may depend on your smile.

Incentives 0 Dont stop there. Establish an incentive system: prizes for the highest sales total of the day, commissions on sales over fixed amounts, more spiffs. Note that quick ay-offs enhance incoitives; payments each day or each week are more effective than those that come later.

0 Consider instant premiums, such as a small, unexpected gift with each

purchase.

*Use a bargain window to promote cut-price merchandise, last-of-a-kind items, other clearance goods. Use highly visible prices, indicating cuts.

Keep alert for distress merchandise from suppliers. Below manufacturers cost is a powerful hard-sell line.

Freshen Up

# Brighten the store. Its a good time for painting, inside and out. Improve lighting. Check cleanliness. Looking prosperous is a major step toward being prosperous.

9Freshen advertising. Its a good time to try new approaches, new art, new typography. But resist any temptation to scream.

# If unsold goods pile up, or if you want to avoid a

bargain-basement ap pearance. consider an outlet store, perhaps with sawhorse and board tables.

^ Step up .shopping of competitors. Keep topping their ideas

# Examine records of past special Mies; repeat those that worked best.

All of these suggestions have been or are being used.

Japanese Capturing South Vietnam Market The Electronic Industries Association reports that Japan is capturing the South Vietnamese market for electronic goods Japanese exports to that country were - $908,000 in 1965. By 1969. exports were $.52,57l.(H)0. making the five-year total $157.62:1.000. .