Friday, August IS, 1961

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Civil Defense Is Gaining Momentum

The organized efforts for better Civil Defense preparedness in Pitt County has gained significant momentum in recent weeks, and there is every indication that this momentum will continue to mount as programs now in planning stages are moved into high

gear. . ,

Earlier this month the County Commissioners gave approval to a proposal of the countys Civil Defense Council for completing an emergency radio network which would include every section of the county. They also approved the construction of an emergency shelter at the courthouse which will be constructed by the Greenville Junior Chamber of Commerce for use as a ner\^e center for Civil Defense operatons in

an emergency.

The Greenville Moose Lodge this week launched its own special effort to boost the Civil Defense pr^ *^redness of the county by giving approval to recohi-* m^dations of a special study committee for carrying out an educational program to alert the people of the county of the many things that can be done for self-preservation in case of a nuclear attack on this country. The organization likewise called for fuller utilization in the county of federal assistance which is being offered to local Civil Defense efforts.

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rde That Pays Tribute To N.C.

By LYNN NISBET

PUBLIC SERVICE Secretary of Commerce Luther Hodges gets a big kick out of telling this story. He was talking the other day with Abraham Ribicoff, secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. The men have been friends a long time, and besides being colleagues in the Cabinet they worked together in the National Governors Conference. Ribicoff was Governor of Connecticut while Hodges was Governor of North Carolina.

While they were chatting John M. Bailey, national Democratic chairman, came up. He also is from Connecticut and a personal and political Mend of Rlbcoff. All appointments to Important positions in government are cleared through Uie national committee, and Chairman Bailey had Just spent several strenuous hours going over applications and credentials.

Seems like one out of every four or five applicants has a North Carolina address. he said. and a lot of thm are being approved. He wanted to know wl^ Tar Heelia rated so high. Before Hodges could answer Ribicoff came up with this explanation:

To greater degree than in most other states the people of North Carolina have a zest for public service as distinguished from Just plain Job-holding. Wealthy men, who are not the least bit concerned about the compensation, devote times and energy to public service. Many others who hsve to earn their livelihood accept less money than they could get in private enterprise because of their desire to contribute something to the public good.

Governor Hodges ttiought tiat was about as fine tribute as could be paid his State, and he was particularly pleased that It came from a Connecticut Yan*^ kee.

REASONABLE Senators Sam Ervin and Everett Jmxlan and others in key departmental positions at Washington with whom your reporter talked the other night, are not greaUy concerned about the delay In getting White House ai^roval of recommendations for Federal Judges and attorneys.

New Judgeships created by the current Congress, plus the usual number of vacancies occasioned by death and retirement put responsibility on the President to i^point more than 100 Judges. For these positions more than a thousand persons have been proposed. Each of these names require* checking by several agencies.

The political party turnover in the administration makes available more than 300 new appointments for district attorney. Here again more than a thousand

recommendations must be checked out. That takes time and delay is understandable.

Three of the new Federal Judgeships come to North Carolina, and this state has a chance at a vacancy on the Fourth Circuit court. Several months ago Senators Ervin and Jordan recommended John Larkins for eastern district Judge, Malcolm Seawell for the middle district and Braxton Craven for the western. Craven has been appointed and he passed the first hurdle on the route ot confirmation Tuesday when the Judiciary subcommittee approved him. Seawell has not been appointed but Senators Ervin and Jordan are standing firm in their support of him.

The senators recommended three district attorney posts Robert Cowen In the east, William Murdock in the middle and William Medford In the west None of these names have been fully cleared, but those in position to know have no doubt about final confirmation.

CONFIRMATION Confirmation by the Senate Is just as vital as original appointment by the President In filling Federal Judicial positions. North., Carol-llnlans will not forget that the votes of two or three senators kept Judge John J. Parker off the Supreme Court. It also is remembered that the statements by Sen. Kerr Scott that he would raise personal obnoxious objection kept Ed McMahan off the Interstate Commerce Commission.

A little story going the rounds of Senate office building gossip is that someone asked who will be appointed to such and such post. T dont know," quipped one Senator. But I know one who will not be confirmed.

Legislative confirmation, either by the Senate or by Jqint session of both branches, is required for many executive appointments in North Carolina. Except for members of the State Board of Education this confirmation Is usually a perfunctory and post facto incident. A confirmation session wUl be set for a certain day and a list of names read out. Somebody makes motion that the appointments be confirmedand that Is It, In many instances the appointees have been on the Jobs for months after having taken the oath of office, and the confirmation is a meaningless gesture.

There is an entirely different situation with respect to Federal Presidential appointments. Most of them must be confirmed by the Senate before the apooint-ees can exercise any authority of the office.

That Is why the Senators have almost as much power over-as>-polntments of persons from their home states as does the President.

In large and small communities tlroughout the county there has been a rapid t mounting of efforts to inform citizens of the need for civil defense preparedness at the family level as well dl at the county and community level. The town of Winterville, for example, has mailed some 400 letters to its citizens informing them of Civil Defense information which is available at the town hall, and is moving ahead with plans for offering speia training courses in home nursing and first aid. Winterville also expects to have its Civil Defense communications system ready for operation within the next few weeks.

The scope of these and other activities in connection with Civil Defense preparedness throughout the county will mean a great deal should the people of this section ever face an emergency. It is important, however, that the action taken on a county or community level is only a part of the task of bringing Civil Defen.se preparedness to a reasonable state of readiness. The individual families must make provisions for themselves in cases of emergency.

Home preparedness is a key to a well-organized and effective Civil Defense organization. In spite of the educational programs carried out in a community, the communications systems which are established, and other efforts which are made, the key to total success of the undertakings will be reflected in the response of individual families to the plea to join in the preparedness program.

It is to be hoped that the efforts are now beginning in Pitt County to bring about a more effective Civil Defense program will bring a positive response from citizens throughout the county to join in the overall effort at the family level.

Mere Words May Be Taken As A Weakness

Mayor Willy Brandt of West Berlin and the people of that sector of the divided city are not the only ones who expect the Western powers to reply in more than words to the closing of the boundaries between East and West Berlin.

The view expressed by the Mayor of West Berlin, we would guess, is shared by a good many people in the United States, France and Great Britain as'well as those in many other nations of the free world.

There is every reason to believe that the mere employment of words by the Western Powers in response to the latest Soviet provacation in Berlin will be taken as a sign of weakness on the part of the Allied nations. It could undermine Western prestige throughout the world and it could encourage the Soviets to take other steps to carry out their threats to throw the Allies out of Berlin.

Few people, we would guess, advocate the use of military force by the Western nations in Berlin in response to the closing of the borders of the city by the c.ommunists. On the other hand, if there is no action at all by the Western powers, one might draw the conclusion the choice is either do nothing or start shooting. Obviously the West Berlin Mayor didnt mean for the West to start shooting when he called for more than words in the response of the United States, France and Great Britain. He probably had in mind some economic moves against East Berlin or East Germany which the Allies could effectively bring to bear.

There is the further factor that the United States and its Allies have within recent weeks said flatly they will defend their legal rights in West Berlin against any acts of the communists. And in their notes to the Soviets regarding the closing of the borders, say ''they consider the East German action illegal.

Somehowshort of warour words and our actions in Berlin should appear to follow the same course . not opposite courses.

Allies Seemingly U'nDreDarec.

Niugfat SyadkftU, Int.

By HAL BOYLE

Child Gone,

nome Lmpty

NEW YORK (AP) Nothing empties a hrane more than an absent child.

Our home Is in that plight now.

Tracy Ann. our 8-year-old daughter. Is spending a week In the suburbs visiting her two god-sisters, Nina and Leila Palmer.

A vacation from us will do her goodand maybe us too, my wife, Pranoes, said cheerfully when we left her. Like most mothers this time of summer. Prances can hardly wait for the school year to stari again.

The first day of our vacation from our daughter wasnH^bad at all.

Isnt It restful? said Frances.

I had to admit It was restful that first day.

But every waking hour In our home since then has brought a growing restlessness, a feeling of tension, a sense of something lacking.

Usually the apartment rings with sound from morning to night as Tracy and her playmates storm from one room to another. You can trail them by the ta*ead crumbs they drop. They are laughing, weeping, feuding fiercely at their games one moment, plasdng happily together the next.

Now it is t-angely silent. You can hear the clock ticking on the wall. You can hear water

Other Editors Saying... ail Deaths And TheiiLaw

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) -Premier Khru.shchev apparwitly caught the Western Allies ilat-foltedly unprepared when over ihe weekend he suddenly sealed off East Berlin by stopping the flight of East Germans to West Berlin.

This Is indicated by Washington stories these* last few days on conferences among representatives of the Big Four Western ^ AlliesUnited States. Britain, France, West Germany.

At first they agreed countermeasure would have to be taken. And In West Germany Chancellor Konrad Adenauer talked of cancellation of trade agreements with Communist East Germany.

The Reds responded fast with a threat to shut off Berlin from the West altogether. The two BerlinsEast and Westlie 110 miles Inside Communist East Germany.

This seemed to cool off Adenauer. And by Wednesday the same representatives of the four Western powers couldn't agree on what to do besides sending a note of protest to Moscow today.

Meanwhile, perhaps as a sub

stitute for action, top U.S. officials labeled the Communist seal-off of East Berlin as a heavy Red defeat strengthening the West in the struggle over Germany.

At the moment this looks like wishful thinking. The fact that the Communists, who preach the wonders of their system, had to stop with guns the hordes of East Germans trying to get away from it makes'^good propaganda for the West.

But its highly questionable what has happened strengthens the West one bit in the struggle over Germany. The simple fact is that the Communists hold East Germany and East Berlin and the West shows no si#i of trying to stop that.

The Allies have been planning for a showdown for months on Khrushchevs threat of last June to shake the Allies links with West Berlin.,But nothing shows they were prepared to cope with the surprise Khrushchev pulled in refusing to let East Germans cross over into West Berlin.

On Monday The Associated Press reported out of Washlng-(ContiDueo on page five

(Greensbvro Daily Newt)

Two jail deaths, occurring almost simultaneously in High Point and Raleigh, focus attention once more on the mounting toll of those who succumb, under questiwiable circumstances, while they are in the custody of the state or one of its subdivisions and have only the protection which responsible authorities provide them.

Lets take a look at the Raleigh case first.

Elred E. Young, 39, was arrested Saturday, August 5, on charges of assault dhd damage to property. He was released on bond of $300 about an hour after his arrest, according to the ^ Raleigh News and Observer, but was retiHned^, jail Monday by his bondsman. He died in his cell Friday night after. Wake County Sheriff Robert J. Pleasants is quoted as saying, he had requested and twice been given aspirin. After his Friday night attack, discovered by Jail personnel, he was taken to a Raleigh hospital but pronounced dead on arrival. Death was attributed by the sheriff, after conversing with a hospital pathologist, to acute alcoholism.

But the incident has taken another posthumous twist. District Solicitor L.V. Chalmers has raised the question of why an autopsy was not called to determine cause of death. County Coroner Marshall W. Bennett is also quoted as saying that he felt that an autopsy should be held, that he twice called Sheriff Pleasants about the prisoners death and that each time the sheriff asserted that he thought an autopsy unnecessary. Without condoning the sheriffs attitude, one still wonders why the coroner, if he felt that way about it, did not move in and

order an aut(H)6y.

As for the High Point incident, Sanford E. Snuggs, 47-year-old Negro, was found dead in his cell Sunday, the victim of what the area medical examiner termed a heart attack* Snuggs had been arrested on a public drunkenness charge early Friday afternoon and unable to post $50 bond, had been held in Jail over the we^end for trial Monday,

Both these deaths raise questions of official callousness, indifference and irresponsibility. A law ehorcement officer is not a physician. .Too often he takes drunkenness for panted when the person in custody may be sick or, even if drunk, suffering from complications which may prove fatal when they are not recognized and treated. Prisoners are at the complete mercy of their jailers. And jailers, in turn, are acting for all of us who constitute organized society, functioning as the state, a county or a municipality. It is up to the public conscience to let officialdom know its pangs and to insist that prisoners be treated as human beings under any and all circumstances.

There is a statute on the books which expressly states that all prisoners shall be examined within 48 hours after their Incarceration. How well is this statute observed? How many lives might be spared through rigid application? Who is responsible for seeing that it is observed and for cracking down on officials who violate their oath of office when they fail to meet its requirement?

A helpless indivdiual, dying in a Jail cell without benefit of medical attention, a searing, sobering mattey to think about.

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drip from the air conditioner of our neighbor above down on the air conditioner outside our window. You can hear the^wind pulse the door.

I miss our mouse, says Prances. Its so quiet it makes me nervous.

It makes me nervous, too. I walk into Tracys room. It is too orderly. Her stuffed brown bear, Filigree, has that fixed look of loneliness all toys wear when they arent in childrens hands. Toys come to life only when they are picked up and held.

'The empty room gives me an empty feeling.

No one there to remind, Cant you ever learn to pick up your things? This room is a mess. No one to put a bandage on and say to, Dont cry, honey, itll feel better in a moment."

But the one most restless of all is Lady DotUe, our cat. She mopes around the place saying meow." She rubs against my legs. She leaps up into my wljfes lap, pauses, then leaps down.

When none of us can stand It any longer, I go to the phone and call the suburbs and ask for Tracy.

Lady Dottle says its awfully lonesome here without you, I tell her craftily. Dont you think its about time

I miss her, too, breaks in Tracy breathlessly. And. I miss you and Mommy, but, please, cant I stay a couple more days? Im having a lot of fun, and WeU, if you really want to," and I hang up reluctantly.

Tracy isnt homesick. We art sick at home without her.-But I guess the experience is a kind of necessary growing-up ordeal for us, a prelude to the longer time of emptiness when the c^ild becomes an adult and goes away for good.

How do parents ever learn to endura that?

Opinions In Brief

Schooling is a serious business. It can be fun, but fun is not Its primary purpose. And while it can and should yield its extra-curricular pleasures, it Is not the function of the school system to sponsor or provide them. Charleston (W.Va.) Dally MftU.

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Castro or m oclat** r* undoubtedly having a baU owmc . the kidnaping ol Ameriean airplanes. Stated in yo|Ae terms, this amounts to piracy iii-^ air, to the kidnaiH>ing ol American citizens. Thus ter, ae one has been murdered in a pirated plane. but that does not leeeen the crime.

No one would engage ki such a perilous activity unless the rewards were suffleleiitly large to . justify tile rtek and someone must be paying those rewards and (rffering them eougiieaously. Nevertheless, no public announcement has been made of a reward offered or received.

The attitude the Kennedy Administration and of the Dem- , ocratie leadership in Congress has not been satisfackHy to the Amodcan people and tte ose of outrage is swelling. Oraated that it is iK^y not to originate World War m over Oiba; it nevertheless is impossible for our people to aooept the indignity and ridicule that arises from these acts of piracy. The gen-iral sentiment seems to be that the Administratton ought to have ways of eurbing this piracy, of stopping the piracy, of forcing the return of the planes and, if necessary, of going into Cuba not only to get the planes but to get the pirates.

It is true that the result of such a program could be Soviet interference. Khrushchev has publicly warned that he will protect Chiba from American intervention and the word intervention can be broa^ interpreted. But can it be interpreted to mean that the United States can do nothing, not even to defend itself against piracy, not even protect life and property seized in American or international air? If we have fallen so low, what is the purpose of all our activity? We might Just as well give up without a battle and submit to Khrushchevs dictatorship.

This then bec(nes the issue rather than piracy. Survival involves self-respect and dignity _and an administration must recognize these qualities as essential to the morale of a nation.

A country that is ashamed of itself cannot go forward. The will for achievement can be vitiated by the incapacity of a people to be proud of the conduct of its government. National pride is essential to national self-re*|>ect without which a people cannot survive.

It is true that Castro, has a great advantage because of the unwillingness of most Americans to go to war and because of the Administratkms unwilling-nese to make Chiba the issue. But his advantage eannot long jx^e-vail without damaging the morale of the American people. Castro and his associates thumb their noses at us and ridicule us, and othw countries, particularly Canada, take advantage of our softriess to establish that our bigness is meaningless. It is not bigness that is important to us: it is dignity and respect and these we shall demand.

A few more plane piracies and the President will be forced to act by oturaged public opinion. Editorials and articles may be written to advise the pe<^le to ignore the shame of non-resistance, but they do not serve. A headline bearig the saga, Another Plane Hijacked, Is all that need appear. The rest i* commentary; the shame hae been established. And Americans do not enjoy being ashamed.

One wondere whether Castros purpose is to tease us Into a war 0 that Soviet Russia or Red China might make war upon the United States. R could even be that his Chinese advisors have put such an idea into his head. He has notiiing much to lose even in defeat whereas we lose prestige evT day.

The danger Is that these plane Incidents will precipitate military action and no matter what else happens, (hiba and the Cuban people will pay the full bill. Cuba is too small to engage in more than a few minutes of modem warfare if that is wImU can come of this. And whether the United States or Soviet Russia wins such an engagement, there will be no Cuba and there will be no Castro regime. The bewiskered ones are playing only for the destruction of ther country. Soviet Russia uses Cuba to tease the United States and It takes a (Continued on pece Dvt)

'rletail Giants Are Battlina Hare.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS MOMENTOUS ANNIVERSARY Nineteen sixty-one marks the three hundred and fifleth anniversary of the publlcetlon of the so-called Authorized Version of the Bible, more familiarly known as the King James Version.

Many translations of the Bible have been made, beginning with Wycliffes In 1378. Some of these have been good and some not so good. One which aroused considerable amusement was the so-called Breeches Bible which declared in Genesis 3:7 that Adam and Eve sewed fig trees leaves together and made themselves breeches. King James furthermore was greatly Incensed by certain maiginal notes In some of these translations on which he detected a distinct odor of treason.

When Dr. Reynolds and his fellow clergymen suggested to

King James that a translation of scripture be made under royai patronage having no marginal notes save such as were necessary to explain the meaning of Hebrew and Greek words the proposal pleased the conceited monarch Immensely. After some years the learned man issued this wonderful literary masterpiece.

U was produced at a time when the English language had reached its full maturity and vigor. Shakespeare was still living although, of course, he was in no way connected with the translation. But the terse and vigorous language of the Authorized Version was destined to bethe fouhdation of the^ best English literature thereafter produced.

Next to the original composition of the scripture Itself, nothing more inspiring has appeared than the King James Veraion of the Bihla.

By ELMER ROESSNER The battle of the discount department stores is reaching a feverish high, with discount chains expanding rapidly, and the traditional department stores and variety chains opening up their own discount outlets.

Discount department stores are being opened by such giants of retailing as Woolworths, Kresge, Allied Stores Corporation and Federated Department big stores like L. S. Ayres Sc Co. of Indianapolis.

Some of the other downtown department stores around the country, while not opening separate discount branches, are converting some departments to discount operation.

In St Louis, Famous-Barr and Stix, Baer it Puller are convert-Ung several departments to self-service and checkout, as Is Hechts In Baltimore. City Stores Corporation is transforming several stores to discount operation. Other department stores and Independent retailera are simply Cutting prices on

those items usually featured by discount stores.

TWO DOORS

The action of the traditional department stores is a defensive measure against the proliferation of discount chains. These are taking two forms: closed door discount department stores which cater to a particular segment of a community, and open door discount stores who sell to anybody.

For example, tlie GEX and GEM stores located in a number of cities throughout the Mid-^ West and South sell only to Government employees (thats what the G Stands for). Of course, as In most closed-door operations, the interpretation of who gets a card is rather broad. In this version, "Government Employees" not only includes Federal, state, city and county workers, but also employees of companies who do a substantial amount ol work for the government. The Ped-Mart stores out West recently announced they will include "home owners In

their group of eligible members.

Another group of closed-door stores spreading throughout the West, especially, caters cmly to union employees, another wide slice of people.

ECONOMY IS KEY

The head of one appliance chain, Samuel S. Wurtzel, quoted In Home Furnishings Daily as an astute observer of retailing trends, said the reason for the expansion of membership discount 'Stores is that they have certain operating economies.

Their selection of merchandise is narrower because they are not appealing to all segments of population, Wurtzel said. Also, since they sell only Government employees, or unionized workers as the case may be, they have selected at least a moderately well-paid group of customers who are relatively good credit risks

However, there is at least one influential dissenter. Earl Llf-shcjr, Furnishings Daily

eolumnist, considers the aiH>eal of the membership stores is "status seeking. He compares them to the key clulw which have been opening up in New York, Qcago and elsewhere. These reotaurants clubs give yom your own key so you can im press your customers or friends when you unlock the door. Besides, Earl asks, who Imt a discount i^ore theee days?

Tomorrow, well discuss what smaller stores can adapt from these merchandising techniques to help them sunrive. and even expand, while retailing fiants battle it out.

U^. INSECTICIDE MAY SAVE EGYPTIAN COTTON

Two milli(Hi pounds of an insecticide is being airlifted to the United Arab Republic In a dramatic effort to save the Egyptian cotton crop. The crop la threatened by army worms,.the larvae of moths. An American-made chemical Is considered m specific killer and the UAR op> dered the heavy shipment#

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