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Gaza Strip Act MW *p i' timr Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinion Of One Man -*——-—■ ''j -And He May Be W'rong vrjy usd\v War or Bluster Egyptian Dictator liamei Nasser is faced jclilemma of dictat ors. He has an economy on the verge of collapse, that would have fallen long ago hut for transfusions of Russian and American money, and for the past five years Nasser<f Jra (been supporting a republican eff^'w^dpstroy the mon archy of a.tinyolawir called Yemen. The shakin«sr*ef"tH8 domestic situa tion and the-unpopularity of his effort in Yemen, whew^w*aws pinned down 70,000 Egyptian troops at heavy cost to his domestic efforts have combined to force him to anotheKiextreme measure on the international irent against Israel. | It i$'e$dlptr-fluk jpasyep, despite Ms poviet&rHis.'JldaS'/wt Mvfe the ^illjtf the ability to defeat tiny Israel bjMum self. So he has tried to-idly all of Islam in a holy war. But holyflivars are iot so “popular today as fK'dy %ere & fieft Juries ago. So mo§t <j|Jhe rallying .1# consisted of ringing 'declarations arid damned little fighting. Nasser and ms other Arabian chief tains have more problems at home than they could possibly solve in a very long life time. But it has been the way of dic tators ever since dictators were invented to turn outward for their exploits when their internal efforts have failed. But in a world hovering with under standably terror beneath the umbrella of nuclear projection — or destruction — there is not much maneuvering room for such pint-sized potentates as Colonel Nasser. So it is our prediction that he will bluster and boast and strut upon the in ternational stage for a while, and then retire to his official hut in Cairo, to ■Oieet about the same fate as Sukarno, :wh® .triad. to take Indopesia’s mind off its terrible internal problems' lby~“figftl ing” jui unpopular war withu^Jgdayaw , Thfeisjtte quickest jwajTfd lgetT>ack? 4Hfettfe\Jfn|ted States ^eign-aMband-j \yagqn; » £ palace coup jn Cairo wffPbe’ the next order of event! in that neck of the woods. Issue Must Be Faced Those of us who support the need for a new hospital to serve Lenoir County cannot help the effort by ignoring some vitally important facts that now stare this issue coldly in the eye. Foremosfly the apparent death of the effort in the general assembly to make possible a local Option one-cent sales tax that could'havi bdeh used to amor tize the cost of th» expensive facility. In'the absence of this ability to levy this additional sales tax the voters of Lenoir County are confronted by the ap parition of a 35 .to,40 cent increase in the ad valorem tax rate. The sales tax approach had the dis tinct advantage of collecting part of the cost of this hospital from people living outside the county, who will use the fa cility, but not help pay for it if the pay ment has' to come from «n ad valorem tax. Now the issue is whether the property owners of the county will support a hos pital issue that is going to lay such a heavy burden against their property for at least a 20-year period. And it must be kept in mind that a majority of the 12,000 families in Lenoir County fall into the category of. property owners, who are confronted annually with the ad va lorem tax. In the final analysis the only decided advantages of the sales tax were that it would collect some out-of-county money and be collected oh a day-to-day basis and not have the fierce impact of that big once-a-year ad valorem tax bill. The average family woutd pay more through a one-cent sales tax than through a 35-cent increase in the ad va lorem tax rate, but the family would be less conscious of this payment. This is one aspect of this problem that cannot this Cap and Gown season to remind those scholars-in-a-hurry that there are still a few basic toola- that are more im portant to their future happiness than even their exposure to education. Among these are such everyday items as courtesy, industry and loyalty. All of these have been covered many times before by more clever writers than we, but if every young man and woman going out into the cold business world were to seriously etch deeply into his conscience these three key words the road, would be easier and happier no mat ter which direction they1 decide to travel. Ability: is important, but the junkpile of humanity is littered vyith able men and women who were never capable of applying that ability, Loyalty to one’s employer, or to one’s clients may seem trite in an age that worships the cynical, and the willing, ness to Work hard may cause many dip loma toterS to shudder with the thought that they got all that education so they wouldn’t have to work hard. But even those who think it old-fash ioned to be loyal and industrious ought to be able to understand the value of courtesy; since good manners are the difference between civilization and sav agery. • ' Courtesy costs little and pays the greatest dividends of any social grace one can practice. T After accepting the fact that Eastern North Carolina weather has always had the reputation for being “unusual”; there is no reasonable excuse for the dryness pf the spring nor the shortness of the “summer”. Anyone who doubts that air travel has taken over the major part of all long distance transportation for people and high-priority freight should spend an hour in any large airport in the nation. understandable concern: Whether the costs are in line with other hospitals now under construction , in our area. Lenoir Countians are being asked to vote for a 280-bed hospital with a price tag'Of $8,725,000; ;while our next-door neighbors in Wayne County are propos ing to spend $8,250,000 on a 344-bed hospital. The arithmetic of this cannot avoid being frustrating to Lenoir Countians. If Wayne County at the same time can expect to build i'ho^Htaffb1! $^00i) •per "be«Mnsr logical for. Lenoir Coun proposed ‘hospital iVgdmfWhCfst $31,^60 per bed'P° “C1 ^bymally, tfc&fef fs'^idefsprt'id :dfc *wWlfem*4mong Ijenoir Countians on!itlie’: proposal- to-pay: the owners df 'Parfoft' Memorial Hospital $300,000 for that fa cility. The sentiment most frequently voiced is that the taxpayers have no re sponsibility to bail out any private busi ness for any amount of money and espe cially not for a figure approaching a third of a million dollars. These, as we see it, are the cardinal points around which opposition now exists to the hospital issue. No one doubts the need for a bigger and better hospital to serve those in need of hospitalization and secondarily to attract new doctors and more nurses. Between now and June 20th those of us who sincerely desire a new hospital are going to have to find some reason able answers to these three basic ques tions; and simply saying that the Duke Endowment of the Medical Care Com mission recommended this and recom mended that will not suffice. CiyiTTrlU*'* ~ *V JACK RIDER 1 . It may not show fr^uently on me, but I am a terribly sentimental slob. .This will be if thiagSffo according, to plan'—the list column I chop out at our old address,,403 West Vernon Ave nue. W«t pi*U .to fnove this weekend into our new home at 605 Heritage Street, and despite all the inadequacies of this dusty, noisy, crowded old, home and the anticipation of private office, air-condi tioning and more room than we can pos sibly use, leave-taking is an exercise of sentiment to one of my nature. ? 1 I never wanted to leave any single place more desperately than a windy moor in England, called Bodney Aero drome by the British, where I spent the pest, Ay “worst” part of three years in that ancient Conflicf riow referred ■ tcf as World Waf Ttfo/But When I wbtgied the ugly Nis^en huts andtpfling sphce of that familiafr‘nightmare fade away* from the top.: gate 'of atf'pid sfet-byisfk'friick I almost died;' sinCe l 'khd^stti'itfTd!hot be likely to ever see it again or renew the friendships of that time. * - ! And it has been true. I often think a. bout returning to: England just toi see if any of that Bodney is left, and sin$e I left the services I have only seen three .of the 300 fellows I lived so closely with for so long in that faraway place of misery.' Now moving three-and a half blocks and staying almost within holler ing distance is not the same thing, I know. 'But 15 of the best years of . our lives have been spent in this old home. Ana aitnougn we u nave more, room, and a mortgage of our very own to show for it there are bound to be memories that cling to the old place. like having to go out on the sidewalk when we want ed to talk to soiqebody if all the presses were running, or hollering for the pressi es to be stopped if a long distance call came in. The somewhat shifty embarrass ment when some big shot stopped by to see what makes a country editor tick. But feeling rather smug about it after they had gone, since most of these big shots had offices that were furnished to them by us taxpayers, and I’d rather have a press sitting in my lap while I type than to become part of the intoler able machinery of either big business or big government. And thinking, too, that when we mov ed to 403 West Vernon Avenue our 'jfcefri sonal family included just tvto fit# daughters, aged one and four, and now they have grown beyond their mbthet’s height and the final addition to the family is trying to see how quickly he can grow to a height when he can literal ly look down on his old man. Only two of our employees who moved here with us in 1952 remain. Mrs. Felix (Clara) Turner, and.-she is recuperating from what’hpparjntlyJs an occupational disease Of print shops, $Ke and my wife have both had "carpal tunn# syn-. drome” bjjferntioh in the past year, innd. they infer that £f I worked as hard' as they I might also have to have this ex pensive, painful wrist-slicing job. The other is Carl Garner Jr., who is being caught by the middle-aged spread, and when we moved here in 1952 he had just reached voting age. Three of our “boys” have been caught by the draft in the past year. One of our oldest left us a couple of years ago to labor at the DuPont thfeadmill, but he still helps us out in pinches when our customers begin hollering for printing or the dead line for papers is hovering heavily about. ' Perhaps the worst part oL moving is deciding what to move and what' NOT to move. With me this involves books, papers, pictures, maps and hundreds of phamphlets that mean nothing to anyone else, and little to me, but fall in the category of those things that you just simply have to have two days after you toss them in the waste basket.
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