4The Dlly Renector, Greenville, N.C.Wednesday, April 18, 1976

Environmental Impact Report

FOR SUCH A BIG GUY THEY SURE UPSET HIM!

The impact of the National Environmental Research Center on the Raleigh-Durham Chapel Hill area was brought home in an environmental impact statement.

The report said that the population of Wake, Durham and Orange Counties will be boosted by 105,000 if the research facility is completed by the end of the caitury.

Only a fraction of that number of people will actually be working in the center. Some 12,000 persons and the families are expected. Related jobs and services created by the new payroll would bring about the remainder of the growUi.

The center was initiated in 1965 with an appropriation from Congress of $l million. Congress has now appropriated *25 million for the facilities and eventually $64 million will be needed. The proposed center will be built on a 500-acre tract of

land in the Research Triangle Park.

It is not difficult to see that the National Environmental Research Center will have a tremendous impact on the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area. Not only will it mean a vast new payroll, and its corresponding boost to the area economy, but it also means big expenditures for roads, transportation, water and sewer facilities and schools.

The three counties could grow from 450,000 population to 796,000 populaticm, to become one of the nations major population centers.

We hope our neighbors will plan carefully for all this growth, for what happens in the Raleigh-Chapel Hill Durham area is going to affect all of us down this way.

Some planning now can eliminate some kingsize problems of the future.

Unhappy Start By Reorganized Board

Tuesday, April 20, the Pitt Memorial Hospital board of trustees expressed its concern over the proposed cut of $3.8 from the ECU medical school funds, which was to finance a bed tower addition to the hospital.

The trustees called for a meeting with area legislators and set the time tentatively for 4 pm. Mraiday, ^ril 26.

The meeting was held all right. Unfortunately it

THIS AFTERNOON

was held on Thursday night, April 22and without any public notice.

Thats a bad way for the newly re-organized board, that now includes representatives recom-maided by the UNC board of governors, to get started.

Meetings should be open to the public, which means letting the public know when they will be held.

By ART BUCHWALD

Foreign Trade Zone Plans

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ByBILLNOBLITT RALEIGH - Coupled with the recent passage by Tar Heel voters of industrial revenue bond aid to incoming or expanding industry, experts are now launching a push for Foreign Trade Zone legislation in North Carolina.

That move, say the backers, would allow the state to compete strongly for foreign trade.

The big payoff would be in jobs, for North Carolinians, as foreign firms (or domestic ones engaged in foreign trade) took advantage of the breaks provided by the proposal.

A Documentation Seminar for International Trade being held this week in Charlotte (Wednesday, April 28) is the scene of the kickoff of the campaign.

While billed as a discussion of various regulations and documents required in

foreign trade, the seminar features a key-note talk by John J. DaPonte, executive secretary of the Foreign Trade Zones Board in Washington.

The Push City officiais in Chariotte,

the Chariotte Chamber of Commerce, Central Piedmont Community College, and the Metrolina World Trade Council have already done the groundwork to push Foreign Trade Zone legislation in North Carolina.

Officials of the State Department of Natural and Economic Resources and the State Ports Authority have been invoived in discussions, and proposed legislation is written and ready for introduction in the special session of the General Assembly next week.

Just what is a Foreign Trade Zone, a term unfamiliar to most North Carolinians?

Basically, it provides for a specific area in which firms dealing in foreign goods can receive and handle in whatever way the particular business requires, imported materials without having to pay duty on receipt.

North Carolina has five Ports of Entry through which foreign goods can be imported, processed, and duties paid: Wilmington and

Morehead City seaports.

Charlotte and the Greensboro-High Point-Winston-Salem area, and Reidsville.

The push is on for speedy action in this state because Georgia has already passed legislation permitting Foreign Trade Zones, and South Carolina is on track to do so shortly.

The zone proposal reaches far beyond the simple idea of importing, warehousing, and selling foreign goods, to embrace manufacturing, assembly, processing, storage, and distribution.

No Duty

Within the Foreign Trade Zone, goods can be imported and exported duty free. Duty must be paid only when foreign goo^ are released on the United States Market. For assembly, sale, or manufacture, goods can be warehoused indefinitely, and assembled or converted into finished products.

So far there are 21 such zones in the nation, allowed by federal legislation dating back to 1934, but only recently being seen as a major boost to the iocal economy.

State legislation would

allow various ways in which the zones could be established, either through private action or by public bodies.

Following previous experience, the likelihood would be that a Charlotte group is prepared to establish such a zone of considerable size in which some existing firms would locate, while space is maintained for future development in warehousing, sales, assembly, and manufacture.

Similar operations would be possible within reasonable distance of any official port of entry, and the law permits satellite zones" in close proximity to the major Foreign Trade Zone,

The attraction of the device is apparent, for instance, in a brief review of a foreign auto maker: the equipment and machinery, and the continued flow of parts and materials, would enter the plant without duty being paid. If and when a finished car is sold in this country, the duty would then be paid; if the auto were instead exported to another foreign country for sale, there would be no duty fee.

3 Letters To The Editor

To the editor

At a time when there is much critcism of the Greenville Board (rf Education, I feel strongly that the people of Greenville should know that this board is not a rubber stamp for the City Council ex' to the School Administration. True, this board serves at the pleasure of the City Council, but we function under the Law of the Land and North Carolina Laws to serve all the children of the Greenville City School District

Today the City Council is being pressured by some for an elected school board. Serving as a board member for five years, I feel compelled to inform you, the public, that boardmanship is no' pie in the sky position. During the first four months of 1976 the Greenville Board of Education has lagged 348 night man hours meeting with the County Commissioners, the City Council, making decisions on the Budget the new middle school, pe^ sonnel and the problems of redistricting. No decision or policy is a fly-by-night one This board debates, debates and debate again on all issues. We dont always agree, but when a decision is made the board is united in support of that decisioa

My hat is off to the City Council as they have done an outstanding job in making appointments to the Board of Education. The present nine members w?re appointed from nine locations

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within the city. The board is made up of lay and professional people - a college dean, a dentist, a car dealer, a house wife, a salesman, an industrial supervisor, a postmaster, and two realtors. Regardless of the action that will be taken by the Council, elected versus appointed board, it will be difncult to find superior dedication than that of those who are presently serving, especially when their services are rendered free!!

Henry Dunn Jr.

Greenville

To the editor;

It is a shocking fact to learn that Great Britain is starting to lose skilled workers and talented individuals. They are finding they dont like the great socialistic society that taxes away so much of their income They are moving elsewhere, where they are better paid for their talents.

According to the New York Times, a British worker earning 10,000 a year pays $3,000 in taxes. In West Germany he would pay only $2,000 in taxes and inFrance, less than$1,000. In some Middle Eastern countries, salaries are often tax-free

An executive who makes $40,000 a year in Britain pays about $33,000 in taxes, leaving him the same aftertax income as a worker making$10,000. So why work hard, why try to get ahead, why take responsibility? A number of talented people seem to be deciding its better to get out of the country.

With our present tax structure; beccuning even more pressing with the increased taxation resulting from our inflationary economy where a man earns more to buy less, and consequently pays more tax dollars, will the unhappy situation existing in Britain begin to become a reality in the United Stated I must believe this will not occur, but I am concerned!

M. W. Aldridge, DDS

I Continued on page 5)Strength For Today

STAY AWAKE A little boy fell out of bed one night. When his mother asked him how it happened, his reply was, I guess I went to sleep too close to the place where I got in."

The New Testament has much to say about sleeping Christiansthe foolish virgins who fell asleep while the bridegroom tarried; the disciples who, on the Mount of Transfiguration and in Gethsemane, dropped off to sleep while their Master .struggled in prayer.

Much of the weakness of

the church today is due to the pronounced disposition of so many members to drop off to sleepnot just during the sermon but unfortunately during the rest of the week. Every year the church receives thousands of new members, but many of them fall asleep so close to the place they got in that they soon fall out.

What the church needs are members who are constantly awake to their responsibility to make it a force for good in society.

by Elisha Douglass

WASHINGTON - One of the most important legal decisions of the last 50 years was made in Washington, D.C., last week. U.S. Dist. Judge Charles Richey ruled that employees whose continued employment is conditioned on submission to the sexual advances of their supervisors may sue their bosses for sex discrimination.

Judge Richey, in his opinion, said that, while the case before him involved a female subordinate employee and male boss, the situation could be reversed and a finding of discrimination could be made where a female supervisor made sexual advances to the male

However, Judge Richey ruled, sexual discrimination probably could not be raised as an issue if the supervisor was bisexual and made demands on employees of each sex.

The reason the ruling has such far-reaching implications is that it sets new guidelines for how bosses can behave during and after office hours all over the country. This is probably how things will go now.

"Miss Roseberry, thats a beautiful sweater youre wearing today.

Thank you, Mr. Novak." And thats a lovely shirt youre wearing, Mr.

Other Editors Say Beyond Perception

(GreensboroDally News)

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philoso{9iy, Hamlets tribute to the spirits, long a part of literary lore, has lately found some backing in scientific circles as well In Chapel Hill, a traveling exhibit on psychic phenomena has openedsponsored, no less, by the prestigious Smithsonian Insbtutioa The exhibit includes the first public display ever of information about psychic phenomena.

The stuff of ghost stones, psychic legends and seances has not always enjoyed such respectability. People who study psychic phenomenasuch as extrasensory perception (ESP), telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance and psychokinesis (the power to make objects move without touching them)have often been dismissed as crackpots and charlatans. But serious students of psychic power have endured, mainly at Duke Universitys parapsychology laboratory in Durham, established in 1930. Now other scientists are beginning to take their work more seriously.

The existence of some unseen human powerscientists now label isPsiis of course hardly a recent discovery. In earlier days such powers were usually attributed to spirits, not to thought patterns, but they were no less real or profound Just ask Hamlet

As if to underscore the new interest in parapsychology, news stories have also recently told of scientific investigation into the question of whether there is life after death The noted psychiatrist Dr. ElizabethKubler Ross has carefully stu- . d the dying processmostly through interviews with persons who have experienced clinically defined death, but were revived Though research has been limited those interviewed (rften report being bathed in beams of light or having "out-of-body experiences that include watching their bodies undergo resuscitative efforts. Dr. KublenRoss says she is convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is Ufe after death Very likely we will never fully understand the powers which lie behind such othen worldly perceptions and powers. The Rev. Eugene Kennedy, a well-known, CathoUc psychologist and author, believes such questions will remain an untameable mystery. And perhaps it is just as well

Callihan.

Thank you, Mr. Novak. "Would you mind staying late tonight and helping me with my report. Miss Roseberry?"

I-I-l-I guess 80, Mr. Novak.

You too, Callihan.

That night.

Well, that seems to do it. Miss Roseberry. We got the report finished. What say we go out for a nice dinner?

I don't know, Mr. Novak. I think Id better go home. Oh, let's relax. You know Ive got my eye on you, and there is a promotion coming up in the department and I think I know someone who might be getting it. Heh, Heh, Heh.

WeU, all right, as long as we make it an early evening.

You coming, Callihan? Gee, Mr. Novak, Ive got a date.

WeU, break it if you want to stay in this job.

Yes, sir."

A smaU French restaurant. "You know. Miss Roseberry, my wife doesnt understand me. Youre the only one who knows the pressure Im under.

I do, too, Mr. Novak. When 1 want your opinion Ill ask for it. Callihan. Just eat your soup and shut up. Yes, sir.

People think being a supervisor is aU peaches and cream. But under this tough exterior. Miss Roseberry, beats the heart of a man with all the same desires and needs for love and affection as anyone else.

If you hold my hand, Mr. Novak, I cant eat my soup. "Sorry about that, Callihan.

Two hours later.

Well, Miss Roseberry, here we are at your apartment. Can I come in for a drink?

Oh, it's so late, Mr. Novak.

Remember what I said about that promotion. Miss Roseberry.

All right, but just one drink.

Good night, Mr. Novak. Get in here, Callihan. You dont leave until I leave.

(Continued on page .5)Maine Easing Laws

By STEVEN P. ROSENFELD Associated Press Writer AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -Prostitutes in Maine wont have to worry about jail terms after. Saturday. Possessing a smail amount of marijuana will no longer be a serious crime. But a five-year prison sentence will mean just that no early release on parole.

A new state Criminal Code, adopted last year and revised this year, takes effect Saturday. It is the first comprehensive rewriting of the criminal statutes since Maine became a state in 1820.

Most of the controversial provisions of the code pertain to the question of what areas of human behavior should be subjected to criminal law, says state Atty. Gen. Joseph E. Brennan. We tried to get a lot of junk off the codes to make more time available for police to concentrate on genuine antisocial behavior.

The code includes such stringent provisions as elimination of parole for sentenced prisoners, mandatory life imprisonment for murder under certain circumstances, and mandatory prison terms for repeat burglars and criminals who use firearms.

Homeowners would be allowed to take the life of any criminal intruder, even an unarmed one, who refuses to leave after being warned.

In eliminating indefinite sentences, the code makes Maine unique in the nation. Judges must fix a sentence at a specific number of years or months, not subject to early release for parole. Prisoners can still get some time off for good behavior, however,

Once a prisoner is released, hes released with no strings attached and no close supervision, said Brennan, who says parole has proven ineffective in Maine.

Among victimless crimes taken off the books are sexual acts between consenting, but unmarried, adults, such as adultery.

Brennan said prostitution is not a major concern of law enforcement officials in this mostly rural state of 1 million. He said he could recall prosecuting only one case in two years of service as county attorney in the area that includes Portland, Maines largest city.

Under Maine's old laws, prostitutes could be jailed for three years. The new law provides fines of $250 or twice the fee a prostitute receives. Those promoting prostitution or com-(Continued on page 5)

40 Years Ago Today

April 28. 1936 Adolf Hitler gave additional powers to his right hand man. General Herman Wilhelm Goering, today in a move to curb the power of Germanys economic leader, Dr. Hjalmar Scacht.

An official edict announced the Reich air minister and FTemier of Prussia would ' assume the post of supreme dictator over all raw material and foreign exchange questions of the economic problems previously supervised by Scacht.

This move was seen in certain quarters as the result of Scachts criticism of Nazi ideas and his failure to rally the support of industrial leaders.

James Kyle

How Some Are Saving Money

By JOHN CUNNffF AP Business Analyst NEW YORK (AP) - If the following items dont help you hold onto the money in your pocket they 11 at least explain wheresome erf it is going, and what some of your neighbors are doing about it Item One Many people are opening up Individual Retirement Accounts that enable them to save or invest for their retirements up to $1,500 a year. Those eligible are workers not covered by existing pension plans.

In an effort to attract these savings, many banks have advertised the amount of tax-free savings an individual can accumulate in a certain number of years at a specific interest rate. The totals are always impressive.

However, most of these p. ejections are made on the basis of today's interest rates

which by historical standards are unusually high

continuing for 20 or 30 years into the future. Nice If it happens, but it probably wont

A prediction is not a guac antee, cautions the Federal Trade Commission in a new advisory from its Bureau of Consumer protection.

Know if there are any risks that would affect the value or safety of the funds you place in your account Know what interest rate is actually guaranteed and not Just hope for.

Critics claim it took the FTC too long to act and that some people already are enrolled in such plans without really understanding that the amounts they think theyll get might fall far short of what they receive actually.

Item Two While many economic indicators show a

progressively stronger economy, one noticeable dawdler, says the First National City Bank, is the level of real spendable earnings af ten tax eao nings, that is.

Even though the real spendable earnings series is now 4.5 per cent above the April 1975 trough, it is still 6.4 per cent below the peak it established in October 1972, it observes.

Most of the improvement, the bank says, occurred in May 1975, when the federal government lowered withholding tax rates.

Since then the level of real spendable earnings has zigzagged, and currently is vin tually the same as it was last May.

Item Three For the past two months the stock market, as measured by the Dow Jones industrial average has

moved within a rather narrow range of 60 points or SO; despite many forecasts that it would move higher.

One reason given for the inability of the market to break through to higher ground is the attitude of professional investors and the institutions, and recent mutual fund figures undersocre that at-, titude

During March says the Investment Company Institute, of which most large funds are members, the industry was a net seller of portfolio securities Total purchases it said, were $1,44 billion, while sales totaled $1.58 billion The pressure to sell probably was put on the funds by their own investors most of whom qualify as that species commonly referred to as the small investor (Uontlnued on page .'>)