Monday, October 4, 1965 . j .

Action On Citys Growth Problems.

' The proposed annexatipn of broad a,reas adja- these subdivisions will be, taken in without curb and cent to and, in some cases, surrounded by the city gutter, for instance, and perhaps with.inadequately limits will do much to solve some of the growth prepared streets.

problems that are plaguing the cHy. This must cause subdividers who have develop-

At the same time, however, it will create ad- ed their properties according,1^ the subdivision

ditioilal problems. regulations to wonder if they took the right course.

For one thing, the annexation includes several The annexation, while eliminajting some troublesome aubdivisions WMch w ere not developed according* to islands surrounded by the I city limits, could also the citys subdivision ordinance. This means that spell the end of the citys subdivision ordinance.

Even now subdividers are opening areas some distance from the city limits. Of course, as Greenville grows these areas^ too, will become incorporated into the city. Then the taxpayers may eventually find themselvjBs helping bear the cost of installing curb and gutter.

There is, of course, no pat answer to this problem since areas which become surrounded by / the city must eventually be incorporated into the

have unloaded $233,000''worth city. It is simply one of the problems of a growing,

of swordfish during the past 'municipality.

Under state law, however, Greenville has control over street patterns in areas which develop up to one mile beyond the city limits,.-We would suggest that city officials work with developers to see that. such subdivisions conform as nearly as possible to the existing ordinances, even though immediate annexation is not anticipated.

Blit It's Embarrassing To Have'To Use . A Capitalistic Stink-Pot!"

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

FISHERIES There are rosy predictions that 1965 is going to turn out to be the most valuable year wi record doUarwise for the overall commercial fisheries interests in North Carolina.

At the same time it ts a year in which the states fi*hr 'cries ructure-4aws, regulations. jMWJtlces, and proced-ures-48 undergoing a striking change.

The changes being wrought range from complete revision and rewriting of the states fisheries laws by the 1965 General Assembly to first slgnifl-caat catches in histmr of such peciea as awordflsh and sea callops to North Carolina watws.

VALUES The first six months 1965 proved very fovorable for the states com-^ merdal flthermen. If the trend holds, the year will be the most valuute Qo record.

Dodc^ value of catches through June was $1.216,400 m<wa than that for the cn--parable period to 1964, according to the bureau of commercial fisheries.

Landtoga of nearly all tpe-tles were up or aboto the same as during the previous year with biggest gains in flounder, shrimp, scallops and blue crabs. For these four apedes, poundage was increased by more than a million pounds to the six months period and value Jumped from $941.130 to $1.948.020.

Fisheries totals reached 75.006,010 pounds for a value of $3.938,850 as compared with 78457,800 pounds and a value of $3.711.430 for the six months peried to 1964.

SCALLOPS ' The Increase in seaDops, more than 400,000 pounds, was due primarily to Calico scallops; from the ocean which have not been harvested . in commercial quantities aince 1961.

It was nearly mid-August

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yearanother previously untapped fisheries resource and proflt-maker.

State fisheries officials 9ay the developments in .scallops and swordfish auei evidence that there probably are other valuable seafood species, .such as lobster, in commerlcal concentrations in offshore waters.

The division is now ki final stages of planning to build* an expioratory fishing vessel which will be used to try to locate new fishing grounds and to develop better fishing methods. Advice of commercial fishermen themselves Is ^l^in^used in planning various features the vessle which is scheduled to go Into operation 1967.

LAWS While of far-reaching extent, the 1965 revision of North Carolinas commercial fishery laws Is not being applied suddenly. Actually, statutory changes enacted by the legislature do not become effective until Jan. 1, The'' major aspects of the revision include abolishing of all local and county fisheries laws to eliminate confusion, changes to license requlrmenta of vessels, dealers and fishermen, provisions for automatic suspension of licenses' following certain convictions. cha.iges in seafood tax requirements, registration, expkration and

An Orchard Of Money Trees Is Next Oh List

The Great Society session of Congress now nearing adjournment has initiated so many programs for improving and enriching the life of the American people, the list reads like a shelf of patent medicines in a country store.

There is a cure for almost every conceivable ill. There are cures for all th^ combinations of ills that may beset our society Md cures for ills that we are not quite sure exist.^

About the only thing Congress has really overlooked in its race with the presidential beagles at its heels is how the United States is going to pay for all the programs that have been initiated.

In response to recommendations from the White House it has obediently initiated a program with a couple of billion dollars here (many more billions to be required as the program develops^ a By ART BUCHWLD few hundred millions there as a starter, and occas-fisheiT^*rlghto^ and diminished slightly the prospect of a -pv . ^

lea,eV and new requlrem^nU SirTn 1 Fl Q C PrPlDOTlV

Without exception, the new programs are - K-/J. J.XJ. J. X

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tneir sppropriat ons appear more than king-sized, so pleased with the way Con-

About the only thing Congress and the admin- ares has been passing his

u. u ... u . istration have overlooked is the invention of an lately that he has

in which the atate board of orchard of mnnpv trnga xv, ceremony out

Conservation and Develop- ^*^^nara ot money trees to go in the midst of the of the signing of the bUis.

to the holding and leasing of public bottwn for commercial oystering.

In addiU(Hi, there are s(xne new restrictions of fishing and fisheries and the law re-pr^ents the bounds and limits

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when a llO-foca scallop drifter out of Wsnchese, N. C., reached port with a weeks catch of 10,500 pounds o processed scallops which brought . 62 cents per pound at the dodc.

This catch was from a recently discovered bed of sea scaOops to water lOO feet ds9, some 40 miles off the Dart county eoast R to described M one of the richest beds ever dlsoovered along the Atlantic coast.

At last report, some 80 ves-els-moet <rf them from New England portswere working the scallop bed area. Catches have ran^ from $15.000 to $33,000 per trip.

Bay scallop landings were About the same at Itat year for Ifwth Carolina commercial firiiermen.

SPECIES Ftohtof boats ut of Wsnchese. meanwhile,

ment may mreecribe rules and 'i?Brden of the Great Society, regulations.

RULES Beginning this Fall, the states rules and regulations for fishery operations in coastalwaters wiU be adopted only once a year--at the Fall meeting of the C A D board.

A series of public meetings on pn^)osed rules and regtila-tlons was held recently at three locations. Manteo, Morehead City, and Wilminjrton.

PLANS- Several additional local school units to; North Carolina have been notified that their compliance plans under the QvU Rights Act are unacceptable and must be revised.

These include plans submit' ted the Cleveland County and Concord city boards, both of which are based on a .so-called "freedom of choice blueprint. In each case, the compliance plans are being reviewed by local school c^floiato and attorneys.

The CtAcord plan apparently was rejected because it was drawn up under a preliminary court order rather than a final court order. About $30,000 in federal funds for the Concord city echools system to Involved.

The Cleveland County plan, atoo based on freedom of choice, included geographic lines as a guide to parents which federal officials found objectlwiable. They are also objected to wording oi county boards plan for school bus routes.

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Not

only are Congressmen and Senators and the press invited to bill-signing ceremonies, but tel^rams are sent out all over the country asking interested citizens to come to Washington to see a bill signed.

I met a friend of mine from California the other day who had been invited to the White House for Just such an occas-

sion and he sad. I asked trouble was,

I was minding my own business, he said, when I got this telegram from the White House telling me I was invited to watch the President sign the mass pedestrian bl. I wasnt going to pay any attention to it, but my wife said, You have to go.'

I said, Why?

Because if you dont, she said, hell think youre agatost his policy in Viet.Nam. Arthur Miller turned' down his invitation to watch him sign

ure to spend a sufficiently large share of taxes on education. The basic problem, however, is not the share of the tax dollar* which to spent <ki education, but the amount of tax dollars available tp all public services.

The per capita amount spent by the South on highways is only slightly below the national average, while the per capita amount spent on education is almost 20 per cent less than the national average.

Diverting these funds to education is no answer to the regions problem of educational support. The.s<rtution ligs in a larger volume of funds from w'hlch such support may be drawn.

The problem is commanding more and more attention of Southern political leaders and their constituents, a fact under-iConttoued on iwge 5l

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The South spends at least a fifth less per capita on education than does Uie rest of the nation. Even so, a larger share of her tax money goes to education than does that of the nation.

These facts are revealed in a study of last years state and local government finances, recently reto^j^ by the U.S.

Departr^jtt I^FCommerce.

Only^ree Southern states,

Louisiana, Oklahoma and Kentucky equal or exceed the nations per capita expenditure on higher education. Only one state in the region exceeds the U. S. per capita expenditure for local schools Maryland, which spends $108.

These figures are understandable when one realizes that per capita state and local government expenditures are one - fourth lower in the South than in the nati(m. For specific functions, they range from 4 per cent less on sewerage IJ ) I disposal to 2 per cent less on public welfare. These figures reflect a general lag in Southern resources the South spends less because her state and local revenues are lower.

The average share. of state and local expenditures going to all educational levels is 36 per cent in the U. S. and 37 per cent to the region. On higher educaton, both the regional and national per capita expenditure is 8 per cent of total expenditure. However, this average conceals a range of emphasis from 6 per cent at one extreme to 11 per cent at the other, which can largely be explained by the fact that some states are providing greater educational opportunity than others and in addition, some states have more private colleges and imiversities than .do other states.

Frequently supporters of education are under the Imiuesslon that the Souths educational deficiencies stem from a fail-

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To the Editor:

I liked William P. Carrols letter of September 18 in your paper, and consider his ideas very good.

I think we have a rich heritage. and with Gods help we should want to keep it so b> trsdng to check the ever-growing Communistic Influence in this country and their efforts to indoctrinate the youth of this nation to their cause. I Is. a matter about which we all should be concerned. I believe this growing menace of <?ommuniHi. coupled with fanales who are being allowed to do things freely and create disturbances in the name of civil rights, might well become the greatest evil forces of our time,

Mrs. W. A. Tucker Greenville

(Richmmid News I.eader)

The latest victim of the cun-fused American policy In Viet Nam over the past year may be one of our countrys staunchest friends in Asia the Philippine Islands. The trouble in the Republic of the Philippines today is a combination of a growing anti-American nationalism on one side and a revival of Communist terrorist activity on the othef. Both are, in fact, distressing side effects of the war in Viet Nam.

The protracted conflict in Viet Nam has raised increasing doubts in many Filipinos minds about the determination of the United States to resist Communist aggression. Our policy vacillates, and the consequences in the Philippine Islands follow a familiar pattern: There to a growing anti-Araericantem, more frequent demonstrations against American bases, a demand that the Islands become more neutral. The reaction of the Filipinos to understandable. To the north lie 700 million Chinese Communists; to the south are 100 million pro-Chinese Indonesian American failure to win the war-.to save the free government in Saigonwould only lead the Islanders to feel that quite possibly, they would be next to be written off by Washington.

Obviously, such fears are being fueled b: an active Communist underground in the

Philippines. In recent weeks, there has been a noticeable revival of activity by Huk terrorists. The Huks were a Com-munist-inspii-ed revolutionary, force that threatened the island immediately after World War n but were wiped out .by former Philippine President Ra-non Magsaysay. Now, in a copy of the Viet Congs tactics, the Huks are collecting taxes by force in certain rice provinces of the Islands. These taxes then are used to finance the political campaigns of politicians willing to espouse the Communist Huk line: more neutralism, withdrawal of the Phillippines from SEAT, repeal of military agreements with the United States.

It has been, after all, more than 20 years since the Japanese invasion of the islands. The heroic memories of Bataan and Corregidor are largely unknown to a new generation of Filipinos. American teachers that taught previous Filipino generations are gone; the anti-Japanese sentiment of the Forties has faded. Thus, it is hardly surprising that so much Filipino reaction stems from American Involvement in Viet Nam. It Is the contemporary test of American commitment. Many have commented that to lose there, quite simply, is to lose the faith of Asia. If the U. S. fails in Viet Nam, it will be futile to speak to the Filipinos of going back to Bataan.

tl arts bill because o( Viet Nam, and Millers been getting criticized for it ever since.

Why cant I wire the President and tell him I support his mass pedestrian bill?

Because when you get invited to the White House you have to go. You dont want to' be known as another Robert Lowell.

So she went out and bought a $500 suit for the bill signing and I bought $400 worth of airplane tickets and three people gave us bon voyage parties and we left everything behind to come to Washington for this great event.

We were told to report to the Northwest - Gate where about 100 people were waiting with telegrams in their hands. All of the wives had on new $500 suits and all the husbands

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were muttering about being away from their, offices.

Finally they took us into the garden where there must have been 300 newspapermen and 50 newsreel cameras and we all stood around talking about what a fink Arthur Miller was and how nice it was for the President to invite us to watch him sign a bill.

Then the President^ walkd out, but I didnt get a chance to see him because all the photographers were around him taking pictures of him shaking hands with Congressmen and Senators. He made a short speech about the wonders of mass pedestrian and then he went over to a smaU table aiid signed the bill with a bunch of pe which he have away to the press.

What happened next? They took us back out the Northwest Gate and the guard thanked us for coming.

It sounds pretty moving to me, I said.

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By ROGER BABSON

BABSON PARK, Mass.. Now that peace of a sort has come to the sorely troubled Dominican Republic, our attention is focused more closely upon Asia and the subcontinent of India^r Yet the United States can no more disengage itself from Latin America than from Asia or Europe. Our stake in the nations to the south 6 us is high and our commitment there Is forever.

No one who has visited Latin America with open eyes could fail to be' deeply affected by the contrasts encountered. The great cities rival our own in their fine buil dings, their variety of enterprise and commerce, and their prosperity. Yet, hand in hand with these evidences of power and wealth, one sees poverty as distressing and dehumanizing as any experience to Asia or Africa.

Although rich in potential resources, the countriM of Latin American are for th most part poor. Thto to the result of deficiencies to government, in technological development, and to agricultural know-how. And these deficiencies stem' from deep-rooted injustices and Inequities as well as from educational limitations. Governments are at best unstable, frequently incompetent, and sometimes downright corrupt. Currencies are not readily convertible between the various Latin nations; their bonds are not easily salable in world markets; and credit is generally poor. Economic and social problems ars aggravated by haphazard official restrictions, which vary widely from country to country but which are simlliar In their harassment of business.

Of course, social and econ-mic reform to recognized as the long-term solution to Latin American ills. But the obstacles are many . . . ranging from dictatorial governments which generally tend to be inept rather than evil through wealthy landowners, to peasant leaders whose extreme nationalism too often defeats their worthy goals. The . S. must make Latins more fully aware of the need to halt the deteriora-ti(m of order in their countries but we must walk warily and persuade rather" than dictate. For Latin American distrust of democracy, and of the great colossus to the north, to strong.

The Communists have gained friends, and influence, and prestige in Latin America because with admirable singleness of purposethey have planned it that way. They have succeeded because they have, worked diligently to acquire a rapport with the masses; ctwt mostly because their agent are better equipp e d than we to sell the people a bill of goods. Most of the popular nationalist movements in Latin America are not Communist, or even Communist-inspired. But they are easily infiltrated by Red agents who subvert them- for their own ends.

We are losing ground against the Commimtot conspiracy in Latin America and we are losing ground against the competition of other nations for the markets of Latin America. Our lack of real success despite hard work and the expenditure of large sums of money can be laid directly to the language barrier.

Only a handful of top U.S. diplomats in Latin America * are really expert In the Spanish or the Portuguese language. Many of the men sent ' by U.S. companies that have large Investments there have only the barest smattering of the languages in which they must do business.

Yet, no matter how frustrating our attempts may have been to keep Latin America from Communist enslavement, we cannot abandon our neighbors. TOi'do so would be to Invite our enemies to prepare, in safety, for our eventofd burial. For if we cannot win friends and influence people In Latin America, our statu as a world power is ultimately doomed and with it our advanced standard of living.

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One Result Of Turbulent Years

Strength For Today

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By EARL L. DOUGLASvS THE LIFE OF FAITH VICTORIOUS The only real joy that life can furnish the human heart (is the Joy that copies from God What a marvelous thing it to to be conscious of the fact that God to in the world and that we art to Hto hands. How inspiring to the communion we may have with Him, What real netMiess of spirit becwnes ours when we seek Him In prayer and find Him. And when, as we read Hto Word under the toapiratlim of t h e Holy Spirit, a new message comes out (rf the old book like a gracious angel clad in gar-^ ments of light, how blessed the human soul to with a new .sense of security and power. If we w'iU only allow ourselves to do so, we may be sustained erery day by power so vast

and majestic, so beneficlcnt, so suffused with the bright light of another world, that our hearts may be transformed and made new.

The ways of God are itost underatandtog. yet they are very simple ways. If w'c submit to His sRlrit, we understand these ways. If we begin to build Hto king(kn right where we live and to obey Him In lifes simplest duties and its most challenging circumstances, we come to know the peace that passeth all understanding and the power that will make us triumphant over .lifes circumstances.

Victory over life to not only possible, it is so sure of attainment that we are foolish Indeed if we allow ourselves to be defeated. We were inot created for defeat but for triumph.

By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) - The new immigration act may look like Just one more item in the Icmg list of accomplishments by the 1965 Congress, but it is more than that.

It to part and product of a turbulent time the past 20 years which future historians will probably consider the most revolutionary period in the history of man.

In those 20 years;

The great colonial powers, exhausted by war, surrendered their possessions and men ev- erywhere and of all races developed a sense of freedom,.or nationalism, or In many places, if not all, an appreciation for the dignity of man.

The United States was swei^ along in this global revolution in thinking and gradually and grudgingly, particularly in the South, began to undo centuries of segregated injustice to Negroes.

The immigration _ WU. passed hur.sday by both hoti.^e.s. ending 41 years of limiting immigration by nationality, to simply an cxtcnsiou of the new,, but

far from complete, American revolslon agatost discrimina-tiwi.

It has a Inore immediately practical side, of course, since it to hardly intelligent for the United States to discriminate among nations when it is trying to persuade as many as possible to be friends, if not allies.

The world itself had jtosscd

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beyond the himple primitive days of unsophisticated contests between nations. aithtJUgh they per.siiitrd. and now was in the great contest between Ideolo-gies. V

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through the United Nations for the first time truly. If not always, began to cooperate to preserve peace although they have yet to prove they can try it Indefinitely or achieve it absolutely.

It was to these 20 years that nations developed a weapon of war, the hydrogen bomb, so ghastly it may scare all of them out of making big war again, althoug this, too. has yet to be proved.

And if it to woved It will be more a tribute to fear than to reason.

Always, of course, the success of the new experiences and experiments depends upon the common sense of man, which unfortunately has been pitifully anthropoidal and even fiendish through all the centuries.

And since 1945. man has entered space and peeped around and no cme now on earth can predict where this will lead afoot, afloat or aloft in rela-tion.s between men or even worlds.

Any man now alive, "becau^

of what 20 years have wrought. Is hardly more than a rubber band stretching between the long pa$t and the infinite future, unable to imagine what lies ahead or whether It will snap and disappear.

In this time nations still Intervened in one anothers affair with troops and guns although learning to give aid to one another and to be indignant at intervention, always depending on who was doing it.

Ware were Just as terrible as ever but, because they wero better covered than ever before by the news media, they made men everywhere shudder more.

And in these 20 years. .the United States, like others, was having multiple revolutions within itself: to social welfare, political representation, automation, labor relations, education, religious tolerance, mecilcine and crime.

So, while the immigration act definitely leads Into the mainstream of the mid-century life of the United States and the world, it is still only one of many tributaries.