Thursday* August 26* 1965

U.S. Military Has A Spacie Rdle

"By Gemini! Things Are Still Lucking UP!

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President Johnsons announcement of a go-ahead to the Defense Department o a manned orbital laboratory mx Jltlp muffk aoine^critics.

eaiClid eomi^lahrts

that this country was not putting enough military research into the space field. Russia, tome say, is conceKtrating on the military aspects of space research.

Maybe Russia is, and maybe Russia isnt. Weie in no position to know.

3ut there are some things of which we are aware, and the principal Drought Is this: the military use of space must rest on purely scientific research

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such as thafi^now pursued by the NaDonal Aero-naujUcs and Spa<^ Administration.

An example? _ .

Ifhi CUrrehf^^ flight is as* important to

the military field as it is to peaceful utilization of space exploraton. Effects (or 4ack' of them) of prolonged stays outside the pull of gravity were a basic need-to-know item. So too was the degree of visibility, the development of sufficiently-powered boosters, the learning of just what there was to learn in a foreign environment.

As to applying knowledge, equipment and hardware we had on hand to military uses ... we can be sure it has been done.

Is The Big Item

Rv WOtlAM A. SHIRES WAfER Were not going to turn this area into * Cea-ert, ssn the project chief of tht wodd's largest phosphate ndtolag opersUons.

Dr. Leo MiUer of Texas Gulf Suli^ur CO., repenting to the State Board of Water Resources, setd the water resources of coastal Beaufort County are unsurpassed" anywhere in the country.

Beaufort's water suftply is vlrtiaiSy unlinted. Miller said. No matter how much is removed for industrial purposes the supply is constantly replenished.

One of the greatest assets that Beaufort County has is its water resources," MU 1 e r sid. Re minlmlaed tie possi-biUty thst Texse Gulfs m mUlkm mining operations will seriously lower the underground water table or result !n sik water intrusion from the sea.

drUl new deep weUa and install new pumps for farmers on an estimated 625 farms affected by the drop in underground water ixnessure.

Miller said this unforeseen prtMem had slowed the dewatering" of the mkiing pit for about a nuxith. but that the program of installing more powerful pumps should be com-lUeted In about three more weeks.

As to whether this sttoation may restUt In salt water intrusion Into the so called CtsUe Hayne formation. Miller skid "we feel It will not." He said Texts CKilf Sulphurs engineers beUeve such fears are unfounded, and that even If they are wrong there would be a period of SO to 100 years to correct the situation.

You will remember that U.S. intelligence sources felt no dismay over shelving of the U2 spy plane. They had families of picture-taking satellites coming up.

For obvious reasons there has been no further public discussion of these highly specialized instruments circling the earth; but you can be reasonably certain there have been a respectable number of them put into orbit and are functioning as you read this.

Theres another family of satellites designed to signal when rockets are launched, another to signal detection of nuclear explosions, another to chart weather conditions.

From the record, despite complaints of critics, wed say military exploitation of space has advanced as rapidly as knowledge would permit.

Judging from Wednesdays announcement, knowledge has reached a plateau permitting an even deeper military involvement.

Q^iestions Remain In

Appointing Dr. Lake

FEPLENBH - Despite the difficulty with

I really, frankly tee no danger in Texas GuU Sulphurs lifethne of salt water Intrusion," Miller told the bwuxl.

the wells which have produced wster with minimum pumping for yews. MUIer said the CasUe Hayne formation is "still saturated with water, still full of water even though the i^essure is lowered."

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SHIRES

FEARS On the ot h e r hand, landowners in largely-ag-rkailtural Beaufort fear that there is a real danger of salt water Uitruslon into underground water tables bmeath an area of more Uiun 1.000 square miles rich ooastal land.

And. says John A. Winfield, spokesman for a group of BeaufiKt fanners, if this Imp-pens it ki our oomfleld theory that well be ruined."

Already, the landowner*

pointed out. a number of Beaufort fanners are Chiding them-seivea without water. Wells which have jwoduced ample aupplies fresh, sweet, unpolluted water on low pump power for more than half a oeo-tury have suddenly quit.

The reason, they say. la the drawdown in water table ihws-aure in the porous Umeetone of the Hayns formatkxi

which underlies the Pamlico area oooaskmed by Texas Gulf Sulphurs drawing w^er frcm Its imoiphate minhig pits along Lees Oweic n^ Auro-ra.

WEXL8 Dr. MUler oon-eeded there were unfweseen

roi^ems with water weUa the arta surrounding the phosphate mining site and a miscalculation" of prsssurs reduetioii.

But he contended this !s< a temporary problem and one W'hlch the phosi^te mto i n g firm !s moving raphSly to correct Texas Gulf Sulphur is spending more than 1200,00 to

e

The drop in pressure Is cmly two feet at Belhaven, some 20 miles from the Lee Creek site, hi said, ud there Is "no further effect beyond Belhaven." He added thatthe formation is coosiantly being replenished and rechuged with a flow of the fresh water drawn frwn the swamp lands above Washington, N.C., and in the Vanceboro, B.C.. fed by 53 inches of rain a year.

This, Miller said, represents a flow of fresh water "now being wasted to the ocean." Engineers estimate this flow tt fresh water at a rate of a billion gaflons per minute.

REQUEST - ..The delefatien <rf Beaufort landowners, however. asked the board of Water Resources to take "Immediate aetioo" to prevent possible salt water Intrusion because of the multi - ml I on dollar mining operations.

A statement by Winfield said "we make this request re-gardlesi of how drastic the steps you might find necessary in accomplishing this objective."

He cited a February report by the states dlvladon of gipund water on the subject of sak water encroachment. "The conclusions disturb us and we believe tt would be Im-. possible to estiiMite the damage that could be done." Winfield said.

Walter Puller, director of the board of Water Resiwrccs, said that his department and Tfotaa Gulf SuliAur hydrolo-glsts have agreed that "furth-gists have agreed that "further study" on the matter affecting Beaufort County and the Pamlico region la necessary.

REPORT The reappointed chs^rman of the board, J, R. Townsend of Durham asked Dr. Miller to submit a "comprehensive written rep<wt" on Tetxas Gulf Sulphurs conclusions and the company's skated precautions.

Miller said the firm is establishing a "sentinel system" (Oonttmitd on page f>

We must confess to serious reservations concerning Gov. Dan Moores appointment of Dr. I Beverly Lake to the State Supreme Court.

It may be that the governor conducted a thorough search for qualified men before making ihe appointement. And It may be that Dr. Lake will be able to make open minded judgements of cases that come before him, without regard to the vast segregationist following he has built up in two 'gubernatorial campaigns.

Nevertheless there will always be some question in the minds of the average North Carolinian that Gov. Moore was not repaying Dr Lake for throwing his support to the governor in last years second primary. And when matters concerning race come before Dr. Lake, his decisions will always be subject to question because of the image he has built in his two campaigns for govevmor.

It is acknowledged, even by his political enemies, that Dr. Lake has a keen legal mind. Still in politics every man who seeks office is shaped in his thinking by his following. .

Dr, Lake, we are certain, is fully aware of the great honor and responsibility that has been bestowed upon him in his appointment to the Supreme Court bench. We are confident that he will give ample and open minded thought to every case he is called upon to consider. Nevertheless, because of ts political background, the questions will remain.

By ART BUCHWALD

A Rescue By Enchilada

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) -After U.S. Marine shattered the Viet Cong at Ohu Li last week the Johnson administration reportedly had hope the North Vietnamese might now like to talk peace. The proepect still looks dismal.

In Moscow Tuesday the North Vietnamese Embassy laid down a condition that the United States mutt agree to a troop withdrawal from Viet Nam before there can by any negotiations.

Because of the dlplomttic shadow-boxinf on both side in this struggle it is possible the Communists were not tn-

istlng upon a troop withdrawal before talks g(A into negotla-

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That seems beside ihe point since the North Vietnsmese contended they had not switched from the four points they laid down last April for any peace talks. The United States had rejected those condiUons.

A timetable shows how the Viet Nam peaee train has been running in a circle.

and able to shape its own relationships to ail others free from outside interferencetied to no aHiance a military Iwisc for no other country."

This was saying that, white there didnt have to be conditions fw starting peace talks, there could be no peace thst let the North Vietnamese Communists gobble up South Viet Nam.

On April 11 an editorial In the official Hanoi newspaper bluntly said: We fight to the end. And on April 18 the North Vietnamese Reds m*o-duced their own program as a basis for negotiations:

1. Withdrawal of all . S. forces from South Viet Nam, an end to attacks on North Viet Nam, and recognition of the territorial integrity of all Viet Nam.

2. Pending peaceful reunification of North and South Viet Nam, all foreign tro<H>s had to

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President Emmanuel El Finco, of the Central American country o EncMlada. announced today he was landing a battalion ci Enchiladan marines in the city of Los Angeles to protect the lives and property / of Enchlladans who have been caught there in the recent riots.

The President, in a televised , interview, told his country. My decision to send Enchila-^ dan troops into Los Angeles is based solely on humanitarian reasons. The Mayor of Los Angeles has admitted that there is an insurrection taking place and, while we refuse to take sides in what we consld cr an Internal affair, our reports Indicate that the rioters have been infiltrated by Communist and left wing elements who hope to take over the government.

I have Instructed the Enchiladan general in command to take all precautions to guar rajitec the safety of not only Enchiladan citizens, but all other foreign nationals in Los Angeles. I have the approval of the Enchiladan senate and I am notifying the Organiza

tion of American States of my actions.

In a press conference after president El Ftocos aanotmce-ment he was asked if the sending of Enchiladan troops into Los Angeles meant that he thought the Angetenos could not govern themselves.

Our information is that there Is' complete anarchy there," the President replied. We will with draw our troops as soon as the altuation stabi-liaes."

How long do you think that will be? a correspondent asked.

I am not sure. We plan to set up a nine-mile perimeter in the cwiter of town to evacuate our people as well as keep the various factions separated. It is my hope that the Organization of AmericMi States wUl replace Enchiladan troops with soldiers from other Western hemisphere countries."

Why didnt you caU on the OAS before you sent troops into Los Angeles?

President El Finco replied, We didnt have time. My counsul general in Los Angeles who was under fire for three

days, telephoned and warned me that if Enchilada did not land troops, chaos would result. The Enchiladan Intelligence Agency, known as the EIA, confirmed the warning. I have a list here <4 SI U.S. rioters with CJcnnmunist or left wing backgrounds. Had we not Intervervened, Los Angeks might at this very moment have become a Cuban satellite.

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BUCHWALD

Strength For Today

This Date-40 Years

lAMEB Ago Today

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aU<m from tiM it is afgrsision

After {^resident Johnson last FVb. 7 ordered the bombing of North Viet Nam the White House issued a statement: The key to the situation remains the^ cassation of infiltration from North Viet Nam and the clear indicat the Hanoi regime prepared to cesse sgainst its neighbora'* PrwMire built up on John-sen to ssy mart. The pressure doubled when 17 nonaiifned nations on April 1 called for immediate negotiations without any precondition" for a solution.

Then on April 7 at Baltimore Johnson made a speech In which the only precondition for peace talk was that there be no conditions:

There may be ways to find peace . . .we remain ready ... for unconditicma] discussions."

But in the same apPbch be had laid down conditions for t!w only kind of fial settle-mttii ttie United States Vould accept:

"An independent South Viet Nim securely narsnteed

By JOHN G. DUNCAN Aug. 26. IMS

EVER'VTHINO READY FOR OPENINQ CITY SCH00U5 MONDAY SEPTEMBER 7 School AdministratlMi bringing to the city the best equipped teaching force in history of School: First General teachers meeting will be held on Saturday September 5.

By EARL L. DOUGLASS BLANK PAGES

Someone has said that life is like a book with blank pages. Some people go year after year leaving the pages altogether blank. Some pecle write evil upon these pages. Others write wisdom. Still

others chew the ends of their pencils and wonder whether there is anything for them to w^rite on those blank pages, and If so, waat?

There is nothing so anmzing or interesting as the unfolding of life. God back over your own life and you will fkid that at cOTtain times there has come an event which changed the years, or a dlsclosiu'e which was precious beyond calculation.

You may be asking yourself what you arc-here for, or depreciating your powers and

saying that success was for the smart people, not for you. But some day you find there Is something you can do. Perhaps you find yourself needed and wanted by someone or in some situation. Life was a blank page before that. Now the page is covered with in-fCHrmati(m, disdoeure, wisdom, guidance, which you read with eagerness.

Stop Uiinking of life as a blank page to be left that way. R is. to be sure, a blank page but you are to vndte something significant thereon. Turn the page and you wiU find that somebodypeiliaps God or (Hie of his servanta-haa already filled the next page with wi-dom and encouragement.

Dont sit there chewing the end of a pencil and staring at a blank page. Its your Job to write thereon.

Sir, newspapermen on the spot have written that the rioters were mostly looters and wild youths and there is no indication that there was any political motive behind the insurrection.

I think the newspapermen have been talking to the wrong people. I may be criticized for my actions, but I believe I averted a much greater catastrophe."

"What kind of government would you like to see In Los Angeles?"

"The same kkid of government as we have in Enchila-da," President El Finco said. I would like to see a strong military Junta take over with a guarantee of free elections, once the Angelenos prove to us they will not go Communist.

Are you concerned with world oplnicm over your unprecedented action?"

"We always take world opinion into consideration. At the same time Enchilada is bound by the El Ptoco Doctrine. While helping the people of Los Angeles, we uk nothing for ourselves. We Just want them to be as happy as we are."

Thank you, Mr. President."

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Victory

By JOHN CHAMBERl^IN

Copyright, 1965, Kkig Features Syndicate, Inc. TEXARKANA, Ark.Its a bit ' early to be campaigning for governor when the 1966 elections are more than a year away. Yet here in Arkansas, where__ Wintbrop Rockefeller hopes on a second try Ixrbret the power monopoly held by the Democratic Party in general and six-term Governor Orval Faubus In particular, there is no escaping the duty laid upon the Republicans by a peculiar turn of fate.

The problem is to make use of the only a\^able symbol to build a party and, at the same time, to avoid tarnishing that symbols magic as a (suididate through over-exposure. After following Wlnthrop Rockefeller around for a bit as be hits a muted early campaign trail, one quickly grasps the complexity of the ticklish operation. The Republlcaaa of Arkansas gained a great deal of momentum fixm the (3old-water campaign. However, the not-so-bidden hope (4 some of the national Goldwaterites that a Goldwater-Paubus bipartisan conservatism might prevail in the state last November, with

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Win" Rockefeller being cast in a tadt role of fall guy, created many posribiUtles of continuing bad Wood. Surprisingly, however, the election amities in Arkansas seem to have subsided. The more fervent Ooldwaterttes, stunned by the fact that Rockefeller actually ran ahead of the national Republican ticket, seemingly lo(^ on Wlnthrop Rockefeller with new respect. And Rockefeller, if he holds any grudges because (rf the power play that came to nothtog when Faubus belatedly declared for Lyndon Johnson, does not show It.

Thus his unique availability as a healing symbol In a state that miglH have been wracked by the left-right dissensions that are still dogging Ray Bliss, the natiomd Republican chalrmaaqi, Jn Wash-ingt<m. Because pwticHi as pacifler, leader uid Re-publlcan-aar more-thon^i-dirtv word, Tmthrop RPdaMeller must hit the campaign trail in order to buUd an organization in the counties that will be ready by 1966. Ih 19S4 only two Arkansas counttes, those

which contained the cities of

Little Rock and Port ftnlth, had viable Republican oiganl-< zations. Now there are forty-five. TWs still leaves thirty counties to go and there isnt too much time to finish the job. But how is Rockefeller to get (Alt In front as the living symbol of organization Without peaking much too 8(xm as a candidate? Campaigns that run for eighteen months have a of fading.

However, Rockefeller seems to have solved his problem by a three-di^-a-month educational campaign to carry the message of regionM development to everi^ (jounty In the state. He has honesty eaimed the right to do th, fc' he was head of the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission for years, and W own complex of farms, with their breathtaking headquarters on Petit Jean Mountain high over the Arkansas River, is Just as much a symbol of agrlctiltural health as he Mmself is. the symbol of a reviving two-party system. By carrying the message throughout Arkansas that sage throughout Arkansas that counties with similar pmb-lems must group themselvee together for planning imrposes if they are not to be misused by Great Society thinkers who dont know local problems he gets maximum exposure of Ws earnest, humorous and attractive personality without prematurely forcing political issues.

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" Our Last (Seipnier Holiday

Todays half holiday marked the end of Wedne^y and half holiday for the present season and after this week the businesses of the city will be , open all day every weekday.

This summer is tl first time thst the business houses of this city have observed a weekly half holiday, but the pace has worked out very, satisfactorily according to opin-^ Ions expressed by businesa-'^ men of the city and no doubt the custom will be observed again next summer and in all future ^mmers.

By ELMER ROESSNER If national production pro-du(?ee happiness, then the J(d-llcst pe<^ in the world are the citlnns oi Kuwait, the oU-rieh Arab shiekdom. Judging from Picks W(Mrld Ckirrency Reports. In a global survey, the authoritative currency publication reports that the per capita share of the natlcmal income was $3,237.14 last year.

RUSSIA 14TH AFTER U.S.

Thli remember, is not average personal income but share of the total prosuitlon goods and services. However, the figures are not far apart and they rise and fall together. So It can be reckoned that half the people in the country make over $3,0(X) a year.

Why all the squabble over whether or not the word obey shall continue to be a part of the wedding ceremony? Whether or not it is a part of the marriage vow little need is paid to It there afte and it only furnishes another point for those who see ground for dlyprce.

There sre two things amiss with the calculation. The first, as Pick points out. is that the figure is for national inc(ne, hot national product. The second is thst the ruling families skim off most of the cream of the oil royalties. The average man in Kuwait cant afford a split-level with a swimming pool; hes lucky if he has a tent and a camel.

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The real leader in gross national productand probably in gross as national income an|l total p(rsonal income as wellIs the U.S.A. The ir capita share of the gross national product last year was $.1.221.07. or $12.884.28 for a famly of f(Jur.

The other nations and their shares of gross national jro-duct are, in t(H) order: Canada. ^.284.2?; Switzerland, $2,213. 09; Sweden. $2.162.83; Norwiy, $1,830.45; New Zealand. $1.817. 69; Icelanfi^ $1.787,03; West Germany, $1,773.62; Australia, $1.730.93; Britain, $1,688.51; Denmark, $1.658.90; Belgium. $1.623.40; Frande, $1.490.07;

Finland, $1,298.47.

Fourteenth after the U. S. was the Soviet Union, with a gross annual production averaging $1,253.28, a little more than one-third of the U. S. average.

ECONOMIC LE860NT

It may be significant tha^ Russia is 15th, or 16th If you count Kuwait. Fifure$ for Poland. Htnigary and ^Igaria were not published bcause authoritative dat$ ar not available, but they may be assumed to be somewhat under U.8BI. China, on a basis of 1960 figures, an annual gross national product of $74.18, ninth from the bottom of the list. Last was Ethiopia, with $46.

Norway Jumped from 13th to sixth in the last two years. Australia dropped from fifth to tenth position in the same time.

In Latin America, Venezuela ranked first, Haiti last. Israel led in Asia.

There is, of course, a high correUtlon between natural wealth and gross nilional pith duct, but there also seems to be a secondary correlation be

tween the amount of democracy and the ONP. The first 15 nations are democratic. Of the first 30, only two are ccsn-munist, Russia and <?uba(with $419.85 per capita per year as of 1959).

WORLD BUStlNQ OUT ALL OVER WITH SOY BEANS The Foreign Agriculture Ser-vic reports that a reeheck of world soybean production last year was l.i billion bushels, a 3 per cent rise over the previous record set in 1963.

And on t<^ of that. Prof. T, A. Heironymus of the University of Illinois predicts a larger soy bean crop this year. With good weather, he gaid, the .S. could produce 909 buahela this year.

BRIGHT LIGHT CURBS FUNGUS DISEASE Studies by the Department of Agriculture show that saff-lower seeds germinate and grown indoore resist damping-off If kept in a bright light cootinoualy for the first three weeks. SimUar results were observed with sesame seedUnga.