Thurtday# April 30, 19S9

Thursday, April 80, 1969 *

We Dont Know, But Optimistic

Does the United States have missile bases over- Iheir own peace of mind, they dt-aw the conclusion

eat ready to go or doesnt it? ^ that everything is being taken care of.

1 the United State, capable of lepclling an enemy I" uch matter, as military .trench, however, it attack and launching iU own effective retaliatory at- mu.t be remembered that individua! opmion. may vary tflrk nr isnt it? Widely on what in adequate" ni'Ht a given situa-

lacK or isn I jv evaluating conflicting individual opinions, one

About all the American people can do to an- understand the iifdividuars view-

gwer these questions is guess. And w.ien it comes right

down to it. the .ame apparently t, true of member, of diapute. over the relative degree of

Congress and other high oiuciais. readiness of Americas defenses probably will continue

Sen. Stuart Symington has declared he found no ]ong as we have a democratic form of government.

U.S. missile bases in Britain ready for operations in American people may not know^ for sure

his recent inspection trip over.seas He has likewise whether their nation is ready lo meet this emergency asserted that 10 weeks before he made his tnp Con- that, but they may find some satisfaction in the as-gre.Hs was.told the United States hal missile bases in that such disputes will keep both our civilian

Britain ready to go." military leaders on their toes to see that short

This, of course, is not the first time such a thing comings in our military power are quickly corrected, has happened. Military leaders assert this or that and

sooner or later their statements ar- c. ntradicted either If

by other military leaders or high ofiicials in the civilian XjHiI iTXClVClIlXvlMO iH realm of government. Conversely, one member of Con-cf gress may say one thing about our military capabilities,

and another may say exactly the opposite. 1IIQI %3 ailUQry JL/Uie

There is little reason for the General Assembly to again change its convening date to the traditional time of January instead of February.

This is the first year in which the legislature has departed from its traditional January date, and from our observations, it seems the February date for beginning the legislative ses.sion offers advantages over the old date.

When the legislature convened this year practically all the special study commisfJonR appointed by the previous session had done their work, their reports had been made and their recommendations were waiting when the legislators got to Raleigh. In most cases, the reports and recommendations were made before the legislature convened, and the legislators had time to get an idea of how the folks back home felt about certain changes being proposed.

Another item to consider is ih^i fact that cities and counties throughout the state had time to get essential local legislation prepared and ready for their representatives earlier in the session than ucually had been the case.

It may be true that if the withholding tax measure passes it will not be necessary fir the legislature to wait for income tax reports before eyaluating the state's financial situation, but the later convening date will at least afford time for the lgmtors to evaluate the first quarter of a new year before finally setting budget figures, in many years, this could be as important as how much money the state renUy gets from last years income tax payments.

All-irrall the February convening date for the legislature has offered a number of advantages over the old January beginning time. Certainly it has not provided any serious handicaps to the General Assem-i)ly in carrying out its husinej.(

The General Assembly would bo wise to stick to its present program of convening in February because of the advantages it offers over the traditional convening date followed prior to this year.

Even At The Summit-

.rresh

The situation has existed over a period of years, but particularly has it been evident in the recent rush to build our missile strength. The American people, hearing such opposing views from high ranking officials have about come to the conclusion they don'^ know what to believe about our military atrength and our degree of readiness.

For the most part, however, Americans are optimistic, they have confidence in the ability of our nation lo adequately defend itself, so for tha sake of

Womans Story Of Leaislature

By ALVIN TAYLOR

By LYNN NLSBET

THEN AND NOW Mrs. C W. Covfr of Cherokcp Is si-rvlng hor third term In the Hoiise of Represents lives. The other times were ll>43 and lf)43, It was dlf-ferent then. Mrs, Cover was the only woman in the House each time She had Mrs. F., I. McKee in the Senate for her first term Now there are three women representatives.

Only twelve women have served in the (leneral As.sembly of North Carolina, most of them only one term Mrs. F L. <Cier-trudei McKee of .Jackson came to the Senate ihiee times - 15131, 1H37 and 143. Rotation agree-menti allowed her county to have the seal only once In six years Mrs, R 8, tSue Ramsey i Ferguson of Alexander came to I he Senate In 1947. Both Mrs McKee and Mrs Ferguson later served on the State Board of Educstlon.

First woman in the General Assembly was Miss Exum Clement of Buncombe in 1921, The woman suffrage amendment was not ratified until after the 1920 primary. Miss (Yemeni was named by the executive committee to fill s vacancy before the general election. Next tn order came Mu* Julia Alexander of Meck-- ietsh-Hrt nrs <:accia*

McLean of the same county in 1927. Mrs. Frank B. iLilly MT Mehane of Rockingham was here In 19SI and 1993. Mrs, Charles Hutchins of Yancey followed her hiuband as representative in mv

Then came Mrs. Cover for 194.1 and 194.*). and again in tum. The 1949 seaaion saw two women from Mecklenburg. Mrs, Walter

0 Craven and Mrs. Joe F.r-vin. There were no women leg-Islatnra In 1951. but tn 195.1 Mrs. Grace Taylor Rodenbough of Stokes began tenure which has continued until now. In her fotir-th term she holds the record among women and in her own county for continuous tenure. Finally this year came Dr, Rachel Davis of Lenoir, first womsn ever to be elected from the eastern half of the State.

REMINISCENCES - Your re-porter asked Mrs. Cover to contrast some of her experiences 15 .years sgo and now. with special attention to peraonal matters rather than poUllca or government finance,

From here on let Mrs. Cover tell the atory:

May I say first of all, that

1 conatder having had the privilege of serving in tha General Assembly of North Carolina one of the fine experiences of m.v^ life,

"I came to the Hottse of

Representatives first In 1943, next in 1945, and now In 1959. That, as you know, wm war lime. We were all serious, troubled, and only trying to do our very best,

"My! What a contrast, then and now. Everything was rationed in those days. I had a ration shoe ticket, but one of the children in the family wore llicir shoes out completely, so my ticket went for them. There I was, getting ready to come to Raleigh to the General Assembly with only one pair of shoes. I knew 1 would walk them out tn a short time, as gasoline too was rationed, snd not much riding, and I begsn to think maybe barefoot I might be. What a predicament,

"A friend from Knoxville came by lo see me, generously gave me her ticket, to help keep up the reputation of the mountains. After getUng the shoes, there was the question of hose We didnt have nylons then, rayon and silk. Rayon was so ugly, felt 1 Just had to have some silk ones. Where to get them m as the Question. Went to Chtttanrwga where my friend. Col. Richard Moore, owned a department store. I appealed to him. He called his son. gave him s key, told him to the safe in the basement bring me a box of ho^. ^,

ed wm aa-mucb as ir1h>3?'w gold. Think how different it now.

"If I attained any bit of popularity that Session, it was not the interest In the nine months school bill or the North Carolina Symphony that I wa.s so interested In, it was because the girls at home would mall me butter that I could divide with my friends It was rationed and almost Impossible to gel. Food Just did not taste good without seasoning. I remember so well, one day Mrs. B. M. Griffin, who was the beloved founder of the Sir Walter Cabinet, had a birthday. The chef baked her a birthday cake. For days we did not have sugar on our tables in the hotel, but not one word of complaint was ever heard

"It is hard to believe, Unt it. when we think of the plenty, and to apare, that we have now. It is an entirely different pic-turiMi. People do not change, though. Wltb Very few exceptions, Just as they were then, everyone in the House is I n earnest, working for what they think Is best for North Carolina snd their cotmty. I may not agree with their thinking at times, but everlastingly respect their right to ihelr own opinion.

"The friendships one forms here are a joy ihrottgh life, and once you serve here, you want lo come again -TTirTi-Tani aBsaamasm

Back From The Front

Thlnga are rough at Henderson to hear some of the people who have been to that strife-torn N-irth Carobna industrial town teU It.

The bitterness brought on by the Harriet - Henderson strike, which has been underway since last November grows deeper by the day, so it Is said.

It has turned friend against friend and many people not directly connected with the strike walk a narrow line as they find their acquaintances on both sides.

A highway patrolman was talk

ing a local drug store the other day. He had spent considerable time in Henderson as a part of the patrol force sent in to help police the town.

He told of a man who operated a store rear Henderson. The store operator was a former patrolman himself and he had gone to work at the mlUs as a non-unionman.

Some of the patrolmen traded at the workers store, the local trooper stated.

"His wife who ran the store wore a pistol strapped to her

side Just like mine, the patrolman said. "And behind the ccmn-ter was a sawed-off shotgun.

However, eventually they dynamited the building the patrolman added.

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By BAMKS MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP> - Two tart tongues tangled but still unsettled is who htd the last word: Sen, Wayne Morse, Oregon Democrat, or Republican Clare Boothe Luce?

When these two came up against each other their abandoned ord-er.y argument and fell back on peraonal attacks that queationed each others sanity.

The result: Morse, who lost a battle In trying to prevent Ben-ate approval of Mrs. Luca aa ambassador to Brarll, may have won the war l>ecause now her husband. Henry Luce, editor-in-chief of time magastne, says ha hat asked her to resign.

The Oregonian fought in the Ser.ata Porelgn Relations Committee against President Klsen-howera appointment of the sty-llsrj Mrs. Luce, a one-time con-iiras-woman from Connecticut and a former ambassador to Italy.

Morse lost there on a vote of 15-1, Then it was up to the full Senate to aay yes or no. Morse, who once held the Senates endurance-talking record, talked against Mra. Luce for hours Monday.

Nothing like H haa been heard in recent years One Republican .senator, Pre.scott Bush of Connecticut. said there had never been a more bitter attack on a presidential nominee

Morse not only sccused Mra. Luce of being Incompetent as a diplomat but said ahe was in-lellertuall.v dishonest. He recalled that in 1944 she ssld President Roosevelt had "lied ua i.nlo war "

The senaior went further and attacked her husband and his magsstnes - Time. Life. Fortune - calling the Luce publications the "ioost" publicationa

were the No. I the Elsenhower

which ha aald spokesman for administration.

To make Mrs, Luce amba.ssa-dor to Brazil, Morse said, would be paying off a political hack. He said the Luce magazines had done a better "cover-up Job for the ELsenhower administration than the Soviet newspaper Prav-da had done for Khrushchev

A handful of .senators, all Democrats, Joined Morse in disapproving Mrs, Luce but when roll-called came the vote was 79 II in her favor. '

But after she had won. Mrs. I uce did something extraordinary for an ambas.sador whose performance in Brazil would be urder Senate scrutiny.

She issued a statement which raid: "We must now wait until Ine dirt settles. My difficulties, of course, go some years back and began when Sen. Wayne Morse was kicked in the head by a hor.se.** He was kicked in the lace at a horse show in 19.51.

Morse replied by sugge.4ting Mrs Luce was a mental case. He said: "Thia la part of an old pattern of menUl insttbiUty on her part."

Aa might have been expected - at least by anyone as ex-p'rleneed in Congreis and diplomacy as Mrs Luce her statement had a sour effect in the Senate.

Sen. Frank J. Lauache <D* Ohloi, who had voted for Mra. l/tce, expressed regret that he had and said her atatement de-nionairated an "absence of ra-thTallsm Several other sena-tora also said they were sorry they had voted for her.

Not long afterwards her husband tn New York Lsaued a sUte-inent aaylng he had asked her to resign becsuse Senate criticism had compromised her usefulness in tha new position.

(New York Timet)

Over the more than twenty-five years of its existence the Tennessee Valley Authority has been criticized by its natural enemia aa battening on the taxpayer's money and competing unfairly w'ith private utilities. As far as the taxpayers money is concerned. T V,A. has had the use of about $1.2 billion, of which about $300 million ha.s been paid back into the Treasury. T V A. has also benefited by cheap credit and its payments, In lieu of taxe.s, have been somewhat lower than the prevailing rate in the southeastern part of the United Statea.

At the moment, however, T.V . A. Is not asking to borrow money from the Federal Government. It is proposing, as it has done before, to'issue revenue bonds expanding its power facilities and mainly lu steam-power ficl-lities, since the water power of the Tenneasee Valley has been pretty well developed.

At present the situation Is that a bill has been introduced into the House, and approved by the House Public Works Committee, to permit T.V.A. to raise $750 million and spend the proceeds on new steam-generating equipment, There Is not much change th.-it the iitmand for power in the Tennessee Valley will faU off. T.V A.'a spokesmen have pointed out that this demand is Increasing by 10 to 12 per cent a year, and that new conatruc-tion, coating about 1190 mUllon a year, Is necessary to keep up with the demand.

In this great power market there are farms and homes that have benefited immeasurably by new sources of energy, but

more than half of all the kilowatt-hours sold goes to Federal agencies, among them the Atomic Energy Commission. T.V A. helped save the nation during a secoiul World War. by producing airplane materials and by its help in developing the atomic weapon and atomic energy. The wars, we hope, are over, but T.V.A. still works for defense and still works for the Improvement of living conditions everywhere.

The way in which T.V.A. shall do this needful work is a practical issue, not an ethical one. ThLs newspaper believes that the authority should continue to function Uke any other going concern within the area it now serves that Is to say, the familiar butter fly pattern that comes around in a great sw'eep from the Kentucky Dam on the west to the dams on the tributaries of the Tennessee, coming down out of the northeastern mountains. We do not believe this service area should be explained, or needs to be. There ahould be ample space outside thia pattern for private enterprise to profit by what T.V.A. can teach and to leach lesaona from which T.V.A. may gain. ThU ought not to be a war between public and private power. It ahould be a friendly competition with cooperation wherever cooperation will be maturally beneficial.

We therefore hope that the revenue bond proposal fUl pasa both houaea of thia present Congrega and become a law. New Yorkera, who are accuatomed to the way in which our own Port Authority and Trlborough Bridge Auihortty operate, will see nothing revolutionary In thia practical policy.

The^gs the problem of finding a place to eat in Henderson for the highway patrolmen on duty there. Wherever the state Irtopers c'ecide to buy their meals, there is a sudden drop In local trade. So the patrolmen find the prices charged them tor food ouUandish.

Another listener who had dropped in for a cup of coffee pointed out that he had been to Henderson the weekend before to visit his mother.

She told of a man who had a picture glass window blown out when night riders tossed stick* of dynamite in his front yard.

^ fSe nqxt day he now^ Ojit of the house and In with reiaUvea away from town. That night the dynamiters came even closer. They tossed dynamite through the open window destroying the furniture within.

The Henderson strike will go down In history as one of the saddest chapters In North Carolina industrial-labor relations.

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By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP)The big problem in America today Is how can the government live off everybody when everybody Is trying to live off the government?

Practically every government federal, state or localis running short of money. They also seem to be running out of ideas for new taxes.

The City Ouncil hre, for example, has Just voted a five per cent tax on restaurant checks over a dollar. The tax was voted in an atmosphere of apology to "the little man, a tacit admission that only a cigar store Indian could find a decent meal here for less than a buck.

This abject attitude of polite concern over the plight of the taxpayer, however, isnt going to enable any government to live in the style to which It wants to become accustomed.

What governments need la the courage to reach firmly into new and unplumbed areas of the public purse and pluck boldly therefrom the money it wants.

Here are a few tentative suggestions :

Why not tax pedestrUns? If drivers have to fork up money to get a license to use the city streets, why shouldnt pedestrian* be made to pay for the privilege of wearing out the city sidewalks?

The Issuance of $10 annual pedestrian licenses would not only add millions of dollars In revenue to most big municipalities. It would enable them to weed out reckless walkers unable to pass periodic inspection tests.

Why not also sell baby buggy licenses? Why should an Infant, at the very start of its existence, get the idea there are any free rittos la life?

It might even be a good Idea to put a $15 taxsplit equally between local, state and federal governmentson birth itself, payable at the hospital by the parents before they would be allowed to take their child home. A few other ideas:

Taxes on girl watching.

Taxes on park bench sitting. Philosophers such as Bernard Baruch might object to these, but those who use public services ought to pay at least part of the costs.

Taxes on umbrella carrying. The government might also consider compulsory liability insurance here for the victims of this vicious practice.

Taxes on the public wearlag of Phi Beta Kappa keys and Rotary Club lapel buttons.

Taxes on flower pots. The only danger here is that city dwellers might choose to let their pots lie fallow, and Insist on being cut in for btneflts under the federal soil bank program.

Special Ux stamps to b affixed to letter* written to Congress complaining about taxes, f Whea .you get right down to It, Inir field of taxation 1* practically limitless. Anyone who thinks he's seen the end of new taxes Just doesn't know what lies ahead.

Such as maybe a burial iax stamp. If you tax a guy for the privilege of going underground, isnt that really an Inducement to make him want to keep' on living?

Opinions In Brief

"There's one thing about cold wars. They outlast the shooting kind," Greensboro tOa.) Herald-Journal.

"Polish writers have been forbidden to sign contracts for publication of their books abroad, in line with a 'cultural offensive. It sounds more like a de-fen.slve olfenalve." Laurel (Miss.) Leader-Call.

paying ones own way. It simply means that we foot the whole bill for whatever we want and getand dont expect other people to pay a pert for us."Industrial News Review.

"So what it comes down to i.a that things are pretty good and they look better. But nobody is saying how far ahead they'll go on getting better or when weTl get ft genuine boom that will suck up our big pockets of unemployment. Theres till s little mist on the cryitel bftll,"Well-ston (Ohio) Septlnel.

"One of the oldeet of American principles has to do wiUi

Minuf Htalth Wttk April 26-Majr 2

Notes In The Reoorters Pocke

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOIIGLAM moNtrii'ANt R or

EVANGELISM

Someone has recently made the statement that the church is s field for evangelism rather I ban a force for evangeUsm. It seems sometimes as If the church is more interested in social reform than U la in evangelism that is, in the pioclamauon tf the gospel, or good news.

Evangelism often manifests certain weaknesses and these wcAknrsaes loom so Urge in the t)es of same people that they Sit against evsngchsm per te. The quttllon is often asked. "Do ihe converts made I evan-gciUtic meetlng* really stick?" Mist of the time they do. si-though sometime* of course they do not. What we should face.

however, is the realisation thsi ihe church has grown only when it has been vigorously evsngw Itstle

Never in the history of the church ha* evangelism been earned on so intensely as it was during the first few eentunes. Tn those days, everybody wa,s an evingfhst Housewives converted other housewives Merchants talked to their customers. For almost .100 years after the founding of the Church at Pentecost, 1 itle groups of enthusiastic people all over the Romtn Empire kept taelifying to the reality and power of Christ, until ihe rotten old Roman Empire completely cuUapaed

Only tn periods of revival has the Church gone forward by leaps and bounds. More and saner evanglisrol

By ELMER ROEMNER Here are some notes scribbled 0!. scraps of paper found in a rep<M*ter * pocket, together with whit he may htvt been thinking kiwut when he wrote them!

Charlie Dooley. New York City is plastered with signs showing a man named Charlie Dooley druppint waste paper into a trash basket and aaylng, "The wa.r I look at it, if me and you dont keep the city clean, who isrifhi?" Somewhere there must be a professor named Unduly who roams the city writint "Speak decent IngUsh" on serspa ef paper and Uirowint them an the gldcwalk Unemployment Labor leadert ara demanding the government do something sbout unemployment. The concept that the gov-er.iment is responsible for provid-Inu work is not new. The pha-raijha of Egypt and the ruler* of the Middle Ages accepted it. Hence the pyramids; hence the iieal cathedrals.

IfiRtNG, TRUST.RlSTINO Jobs The Congrejus at the UnUed States showed the back

of its hand to free enterprisa when it foaiered a system of stxtc employment agencies to compete with private ageoclea. But theae state ageoclea must bt ouJy lor the boobllc. When a conffraaaman netda help he dota not aeem to go to a publlo agency. He turns to his relaUva*.

Auto rtpairi. It looks as if oon-suiTMt are about to be socked again. Btnca the government iified anumiat laws to break up tha Rockefeller oU trust, prica* of oil hava baen going up. Mora recently, after it broke Castman'e grip on color film development, t rices rosa. Now it is using the Robiason-Pafman Act to force Thcmpson Products. Inc.^ to charge the big three auto companies the same prices it charges &maUtr firms. Expect to pay more for your auto repairs

0.vps Th!.*i la the tinte of the year that Better Buslne.vt Bureaus work thenwehes into fien-Kles wimJng against phony termite exterminators, tree surgeons, humus peddlers, furnace In-fpectors and home repairmen. EBB blood pressure could bt

reduced and millions of dollars ttved U schools had a flfth-grade course In common sense, with blsckboards chalked by chalked by CTharUe Dooley: "You don't never get nothing for nothing nohow.

are we gUCKERg?

Copper. There is talk in Washington of rtleaalng stockpiled copper to avert a shortage that may result from a copper atrike. 1 he stockpiling program waa sold to the public ss a safaguard In event of war. To use the stock-pi>s to rig markets or bust ftiikes would make suckers out of the taxpayers, well, meyrt used to it.

Inflsuon. The French have knocked two tsros off their currency. Now a lOOdrsnc howNims become a 1 heavy-franc note. Wr are told by many economists that we wont have this gaUeg>* lug inflaUon here. Perhaps we can do the reverse then, adding a zero every time Inflationary pressure get* worse. If we did I now, a*orkers would get a loucfoid increase. At the. aama fiiue, prices would go up 900 pr

cent. Unlike current Inflation, this wouldn't rob pensioners, those on fixed incomes and those with savings.

And while it would seem like inflation. It actually would not be. Figure it out.

NOTE TO TAXPAYERR!

YOU CAN'T LOSE 'EM ALL!

Taxpayers were favored in five of nine recent ruUnga by the Internal Revenue Service. IRS held that a devlca used to unload pipe from a truck, a rrnmng knob for auto attiring wheels and a plastic cover that can be used on sutns are sU ts.table auto accessories. It also held that an oil addtUva used on food machinery was subject to the oil excise.

- On the other hand, the IRS held that a vioUn bow la not a taxed musical Instrument: a fishing rod blank is not a taxable sporting goods item: a manually

operated card-punching device ki .not a taxable busineas machine, and that badminton ataJkes are not taxable as sporting gooda wnen sold separately. Theae art Eck. Rul. 59-13X througli 13.t,