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Worid opinion hu quickfy mounted against the ^..iet Union on the heels of its announcement that it is resuming tests of nuclear weapons. Representatives of uncommitted nations throughout the world have expressed shock and surprise at the Soviet step, and even some of those who have leaned toward the communist camp have denounced the step as move to push the world closed to war. "

The United States now faces the choice of basking in the favorable reaction of^orld opinion it might enjoy if it does not follow suit In resuming its nuclear tests; or handing the Soviets by forfeit an opportunity through testing to further their nuclear weapons program while we deny ourselves the same advantage.

The decision must be made at the very top echelon of government in the United States. It is one which must be made only after careful evaluation of all the factors involved, and one which ^ultimately must be decided in the interest of all of the free nations of the world. '

It would, of course, be easy for the United States

to denounce the Soviet resumption of nuclear weapons and to decline to follow suit. Even in the short period since the Soviet announcement there remains little doubt that the United States by this course would enhance its international prestige. On the other hand, if those charged with the responsibility of developing our store of nuclear weapons feel that tests are vital to this continued devielpment, would we not be foolish to hand the Soviets an advantage by not testing our own developments which have been made in the past three years?

Resumption of nuclear testing by both the Soviet Union and the United States would involve real dangers not only for these two nations, but for the rest of the world as well. It will increase international tension. It will increase the danger of harm being done somewhere in the world through nuclear fallout. It will increase the possibility that a mistake on someone's part might set off World War III inadvertently. If the United States resumes its tests it is likely to forfeit the chance of ^substantial increase in favorable international opinion.

Most Time For

Policy Matters

By LTNN N1SBET

raOHWAY POUCY The State Highway Commission &t ita mcmthly meeting here Tues day hreeaed through approval of construction contracts in the amount of about six million dollars, tentatively allocated $18 million sec(HidT road money to be spent during the next year and devoted most of its time to discussion of policy. Or rather proposed changes In policy established by the previous com-mlssipfi. The items attracting most aUenUtm were ferries and the formula for improving secondary roads.

The Hodges commission had fixed a rule that ferry service would be toll-free in all cases where the ferry repreoented the only means of getting to and from a area. Where there was other means, and the ferry service would be simply a convenience to users, tolls would be charged at sufficient rate to pay cost of the operation.

The discussion was kicked off by the item on the agen.da calling for authorisation of ferry service between the mainland and Emerald Isle in Carteret county. Sentiment of a majority of the members seemed to be that the ferry should carry tolls Imt tiiere was substantial objection. When a motion was made that the' ferry be established under existing policy, two or three members insisted that this commission has not fixed any policy. Apparently they did not like the thought of being bound by rules which their predecessors had adopted. It was explained that the commission can amend or revise the policy at any time, but it should not be placed in the embarrassing position of haying no policy. So the ferry was authM-lzed "under existing policy and Uie matter of suggesting new policy was referred to an apiMvpriate committee to report at next meeting.

PAVINO FORMULA There was general and animated discussion of the classification and priority formula for improvement of secondary roads. Here again the policy adopted by the previous cwnmission was Junked and a'different approach made to the problemsome of the details of which perhaps will not be worked out for several weeks.

One point all the commis.<sions for many years have insisted upon is that before roads are added to the State secondary system they must be In acceptable state of repair and with rights of way wide wnough to Insure safe traffic. The main difference between the new and old priority formula Is that the old plan depended almost entirely on need for the road, while the new plan takes into account the ratio of paved and unpaved mileage in the county and tends to equalize these factors.

MILES AND MONEY -Chairman Merrill Evans announced that there will be avail

able for seoondiry road Improv-ment between now and December 31. 1962, the sum ot $34 million. This is more money than we have ever had tor this purpose, he said, and we are going to ^nd it wisely.

Increasing mileage of the secondary road system along with rising costs for construction and maintenance, presents a very serious problem. Every mile of road added means from $2,000 to $6,000 a year Increase in maintenance costs.

Highway, commissions In the Scott and Umstead regimes sought to hold down additions to 75 mile* a year. The Hodges commission exceeded that, and It was announced this week that since January 1, this year, there have been added 225.77 miles. Strangely enough, this total mileage accrued from individual additions of road sections ranging from one-tenth of a mile to about two miles.

SEATING -r- In the times from Hoey through Umstead when highway commissioners were appointed from dividlons, they were seated at the conference table in* numerical clockwise orderfirst division at head of the table on the right side, immediately to left of the chairman, and then around. When Governor Hodges busted the divisional appointments and reduced the membership from 14 to seven, the men usually sat at the same place each month but there was no particular rule of protocol.

The present commission of 18. plus a chairman, also ignore* the division line* as to appointments (but members indicated they regarded themselves as identified with my division), so the alphabet was called upon to establish protocol. The seating arrangement has the chariman at head of the table (without a seat, becau.se hes gotta stand up to be seen), the first two seats on each side of him assigned to departmental personnel. Beginning at the third seat and all around the table the name plates are arranged in alphabetical order. The name plate idea is an innovationas is the table set up on the side and earmarked for the newsmen.

There are also dangers in our failure to resume our tests. We might afford the Soviets an opportunity to intimidate neutral and uncommitted nations and coerce them into the commupist camp. We might af ford the Soviets an unchallenged opportunity to develop new weapons at a more rapid pace than we. We might give the world the impression that we are afraid to compete with the Soviets in a nuclear display that could indicate which nation might have superior weapons.

The United States has long since learned that in struggles with totalitarian nations we must negotiate from a position of strength rather than a position of weakness if war is to be avoided. Thus, it seems to us, top officials will have to make the final decision on our resumption of nuclear testing on the basis of whether in the long run it will strengthen or weaken the position of this nation and the entire free world in its struggle with communism.

A Little Caution Now Can Make Difference

By HAL BOYLE

Spike-Heel Controversy

The four-day Labor Day holiday weekend is only 24-hours old and already from around the nation the number of highway accidents, deaths and injuries is beginning to mount. From the standpoint of traffic and highway hazards, the worst is yet to come when the millions of motorists btgin their homeward jour-

nies.

In Pitt County and throughout North Carolina the State Highway Patrol is engaged in an all-out effort to prevent accidents during the holiday and is seeking the cooperation of motorists in making the highways safer. I^ey are striving to cut down the toll of 21 deaths and 304 injuries which were recorded in the state during Labor Day holiday period last year.

How successful the law enforcement officers are in their efforts during the current weekend will depend largely upon how cooperative the public is in exercising extreme caution while on the highways. The law enforcement officersregardless of how great an effort they put forthcannot eliminate all

NEW YORK (AP)How do you stand on the ^ike-heel issue?

TMs is developing into .quite a controversy.

In question are the high, almost needle-pointed steel heels now being worn by millions of American women ranging from teen-agers to grandmothers.

To the casual male eye a woman wobbling by on these stUtlike shoes is neither more or less ridiculous looking than the same woman was a few years back when she affected the sack look and resembled an unleashed blimp.

But critics of spike heels say they arent funny. They say the are , a private danger and a public menace.

The ladies U*ip and fa on their proud cold faces, and get

up and file damage tuits against anyone in sight.

Their heels get caught tn escalators, subway gradngs, rubber welcome mats, manhole covers, and sidewalk cracks-;rhelr heels rip expen^ve rugs to tatters, punch holes In airplanes, and scar and dent the strongest flooring.

As a recent magazine article pointed out, a woman poised on a pair oi these ambulant stilettos exerts a far greater weight per square Inch than does an elephant.

But despite the hue and cry being raised against this style of feminine footwear, I rathor favor itand Ill tell you why.

The other day a fat lady shopper loaded with bundles ;rtood in the street, perspring in the 90-plus degree heat as she waited lor the traffic hght to change.

It finally did chango, but still she stayed motionless. She tugged and tugged, but couldnt move.

GAMBLING? Chief Elngi-neer Cam Lee noted in reporting bids for highway construction Jobs that two firms had identical bids on one job. He said

the usual ocedure in such cases, which do not happen often, is for the bidders to match coins for the contract. It is recalled that the general statutes provide for candidates for municipal office who received tie votes In the electiim to cast

lots for the office.

Butthe average citizen, who did not bid on a State construction contract or run for office in a town election, can be arrested and penalized for gambling if caught matching coins for an ice cream cone.

the hazards of holiday travel. They cannot catch all the speeders, all the drunken drivers, or all the people who ignore the traffic laws and the common sense rules of driving. Indeed, they can apprehend only a small portion of the number of drivers who might ignore traffic regulations.

The drivers, therefore, individually and collectively, must depend upon themselves and their fellow motorists to help protect their own lives on the highways. With more vehicles on the highways during the holiday weekend and with the normal traffic hazards increased, motorists must travel with increased caution and extra care if their chances for a safe journey are not to be diminished. Extra caution on the highway this weekend may mean a few ejcJ^ra minutes on the road, but it also may mean the difference between a safe journey and tragedy.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP)Who* chicken?

To find out is the most obvious reason behind Premier Khrushchev's decision to resume nuclear tests and his talk of a superbomb. Three times in a few months he has tried to make the Allies chicken out in their determination to defend Berlin.

Twice he was the one who leld the egg. But this third trythe nuclear tests and the threat ot the mon.stcr bdmbis the truly savage one. It could work.

First, to test their mood, he threatened, as he had before, to get the Allies out of Berlin. But since he had done nothing before but talk, the Allies had nothing to lose by standing pat, until he did more than talk. And they did.

Next, he shocked them by sealing off East Berlin. This gave him a fiercer look than before, more determined. This seemed to scatter the AUie.*; wits. It took them a while to

let him know they were still solid. But they did nothing else.

Then this week came the an-Tvouncement on the reviving of nuclear tests and the superbomb. Actually, this was not the first time he had talked of having a monster.

The first time, in 1957, h* claimed to have a weapon so huge It would make the one he has In mind now look as destructive as an aspirin tablet. He said that one was too big to test at all. Its doubtful hell test this one, either.

Rep. Chet Holifield. California Democrat and an extremely well-informed man on nuclear w^eapons since hes chairman of the Joint Congressional Atomic Committee, said Khrushchev was talking nonsense.

(The Raleigh Times)

Where there is no vision, the people perish, and where there is violence and not law, the rights of all the people will just as surely perish.

In todays papers, there is this story from the Associated Press: Monroe (AP)A stem Superior Court judge warned an interracdal roup here Tuesday that in the light of the tense racial situation In this small town that further picketing would be at their own risk.

This means only one thing ; Because some people in Monroe turned to violence instead of to the law to secure what they felt were their rights, now all people in Monroe must be deprived of a basic right, the right of peaceful and orderly picketing without having to do so at their own risk The Associated Press said the judge was talking to an inter-racial group in that warning but he could have been talking to a Monroe group, or a Raleigh group, or to any group which wanted to do orderly picketing in Monroe.

There wasnt much else the Judge could say, though he must have hated to say it, for a judge above all people knows that appeals to the law could have prevented all the trouble Monroe now has. This judge is in Monroe and he knows how appeals to violence, and actual violence, on both sides of the racial fence have brought things to the point where the law's protection just isnt enough in cases of picketing.

It doesnt matter now from which direction the violence and the appeals to vilence came, whether they came from white

people or from Negroes. The fact is that the tq>peals came and the violence followed, and that now white men and black men have been charged with crimes which occurred during that violence.

Now the State and the Town of Monroe must work out of this unholy mess as best they can. The working will be long and bitter and the mess never will be completely cleaned up, for such messes never can be washed out by any action.

The only good which can ever come out of this mess now is a plain reading by all the profile of North Carolina of what has been written so legibly on the wall of the house in which all the people of the State must live. That message is simply the fact that the law is the only way any people can ever live and the only way in which any people can ever resolve their differences.

Any people who push through the barrier of the law to demand rights the law say they shall have destroy the very law which attempts to give them those rights. Any people who build an artificial barrier to deprive other people of the rights the law says they shall have Just as surely destroy the law which gives them their own rights.

The leaders of North Carolina have said time and time again during these troubled years of the past decade that North Car-oUna must live under the law, and that North Carolina will live under the law.

What has happened in Monroe has simply proved the wisdom and the value o that policy.

Ooihions

In Brief

There are so many things for people to worry about In this world that a person ought to pick something that really matters. Anderson (B.C.) Independent.

The only disagreement between China and Russia is over which is the quickest way to kiU us. Rep Judd (Minn.)

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Both her spike heels had become caught in the hot asi^ialt, and she was slowly sinking into the street. Looking around helplessly, she espied me.

Dont just stand there gawking. she said authoritatively. Do something.

Well, as a crowd gathered, I bent menfuUy to the task. In 15 mintstes, with the aid of three passing Boy Scouts, I finally managed to set her free.

The crowd tot>ke into M>l^au8e the fat lady mumbled Thanks, and stomi^ offon her toes.

Well, I guess that applause and being publicly thanked by a womankind of went to my head.

La hmch hours now I hang around subway gratings, maidiole covers and office escalators. and so far have managed to rescue four men damsels, caught by the heel and struggling. Now I bow when the plause breaks out.

Tints why I am In favor ladies N>ike heels. When the inevitable emergency arises, it enablee a fellow to become a knight errant and prove that male gallantry Isnt as dead as vaudeville.

Every boy who has a dog should also have a mother, so the dog can be fed regularly." Wahpcton (ND.) Farmer-Olobc.

By GEORGE E. BOKOLBKT

Copyright 1961, King Fbaturea Syndicate, Inc.

The year 1961 will go down In Amerloan campus history u the conservative revolt. During

the 1930t tin CommunMe can*

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tured various students orgt

zatkHu over which they .held

pretty ttt^ control until 19S9 when tiie HUtiezHKalin AlUaoce shamed mai who bad joined CommuBlst front groups not because they accepted Marxiste doctrine but because they hated HRkr and the Nazi.

The war came and college er> ganloations were captured by eoKsalled LttMrals, that is by thoee who could see both sidea of a question and favored one side mildly but not obstinately. The Ubends have been, br the very nature of their ideas, <g>-portunietie, reaching eondusicDe without regard to baste philoeo

The 1961 States Nattoop

al Students Oonventkm. insw-Ing at Madison, Wieoonein. lomul Itself confronted by a (jcxnmit-tee for a ReeponsRde National Student Organteatioa, a oooser-vative groiQ). ekeely affiliated with the Young Americans for Freedom- Led by Howard Phil-

ly. recently presldeat of the Harvard Student Coimcil, Left

ists and Librale have Mooun-tered capable organization and articulate conservative thought. The National Student Aesoda-tion dAims to repreeent 1J(,-(X American students. The rea-eon for attempting to gain coa* trd of the National Student Aeeociation M e^plaiaed as follows;

We are attenipting to reiwb-flltate fbe prseent etnicture of N.S.A., rather than at fiawt make a fresh etart, beeause NB-A. exiets as the aemi-offidal. eelf-avowed. end imoiiallenged na-ti<xial union of etudents for the United States of i^nerica. H claims to ^;>eak for the Amerip can student at important Inter* national student meethigs; it ceives tbev informel coopera* tion of the UnMed States govero* ment; it has oonstderable strength and widespread campus contacts. In tamu of In-iluenoe it is one of the most significant, yet little known or-ganifttttons in tUs country.

The chaHengtDg Qumtloil le whether these studMts are really repreeeoted by their organ!-zatlon or has it come under the control of Leftiets who speak in heir name. Teetifyktg before a congreeriooal committee. Howard PbilUps. epeaUng for the Young Amerieane for Fteep dom. eaid::

It is our conviction that the B. in the 1900e ie at a orosa-roade betwera freedom and fedp eral domination. On the one hand, a oommttmratt of individual Ternxjoeomty, a beUM in certain absolute moral prlup ciplee and the relatively free choice of ones own destiny* On the other hand, federal donv Inance, characterized by weakness, apatiiy, false secaity. ss^ ceesive d^>endence and bttle re-epect for the kidividaellty ef every oiliBen.

These young peopls want the advantages of Ametioan life, the intelleotttal and epitiruai heritage that bee come down through the Dederatlon of In-depKNxlence and the Cooetitution. They decline to believe that Marxiem can driva as into ao-ottier way of Ma While they are reahstic in tbetr appraisal of current forces, they are xxor like the eoneervatlve basinese-man who le throwing w> the sponge beoeuee be le eoered by the euooesies of Boviet Ruarih. Ibeee young peopls say::

In ieet, we brtteva thM frae entevprMe M tbs beM way to get meet lbhn dcito. B M what hee made tito aumtoy graat.

and It to what baa cdven as the of heafo care tito

bast aystem nation or cy other nation ever laiown.

It to tbiae young paopto whs must flgh tito war hi whtob we are now engaged. TMr lives are already being dieordsrsd by the antldpatione of war. Toung men and young women talk to each oilier on the tolepbone by the hour about whether be should enli^ or take bto ciianesa on being drafted. Ther parents eay that the war wfll never come, that BO one wotid be so stupid as to hiwl a hydrogwn bomb or to shoot a irttoefli. The rtp jKf be too awful. The ycNBg people say that thto kind of taft to meanlnglese because, one way or nother, toetr Mves wlU bg torolved in war. When toey wuk of

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ook-Aheods In Business Work,

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS WORKERS Robert Louis Stevenson, that fine maker of apt phrasea. once remarked that II a* man loves the labor of any trade apart from the questioo df success or fame, the gods hive Indeed called him.

There Is a thrill which comes from a task well done which to to be surpassed by few satisfactions In life. To do something worth-while, to make something to start a movement which rolls along to fine completionthto to living Indeed. There are some poor, misguided persons who believe that having nothing to do to a prise abouve rubiea Such persons. If they have carried their philosophy to ttie limit and have absolutely stopped working

are either vagrants or parasites. The former are to be found waiting outside the soup kitchens. The latter are to be found in the dark cocktail rooms of the swank clubs. God niu.st look upon both these tueless classes with disdain. Mankind certainly does-

Jesus was a workeran up-standingman who worked with his hands He declared that his heavenly Father worked, and 1 work, he added. And he made the statement with pride. He was not bom in s kings house he was born to a humble car-

genter and his wife, and the irth actually took place in a stable.

Get on the side of the workers. They make the world go round. They ate Gods choice nokkmeg.

By' ELMER ROESSNER Here aie more look-aheads in biLsiness. based on analysis of developing trends, with a few bits of advance information: Japanese TV Invasion: Ja

pan's success in capturing a inurket m the United States is tempting it to bid for a chunk of the television market. One Japanese set now sold in the United States is testing American.s acceptance.

Sardine shortage: Franclcra

of Maine sardines face shortages ahead. The pack this year so far has been less than a third of the last nine-year average. Prices atre firming, but the abundance of California and foreign sardines and pilchards will prevent run-away rises.

New cigarettes: LorUlard to now testing York cigarettes in two markets areas and /Beach-Nut clgaretts In two other markets. They have no filter and are slightly longer (han the usual king-size smokes. The objective la to develop a brand to compete with Ameri

can Tobaccos big-selling Pall MaU.

HIGHER COMMODITIES Commodity prices going ap:

Most commodity prices have held fairly steady since the beginning of the latest Berlin crisis. but there will be an upward trend in the fall. This will be ftiost notable In metals and other materials required In the stepped-up defense program. ..Higher shipping rates: It will soon cost more to send goods by ship across the Pacific. The Japan-Atlantic and Gulf Freight Conference, meeting In Tokyo, agreed to a 10 per cent rise in rates November 1, and others shippers will largely fol-

The Securities and Excbangt Commission is planning to be tougher on brokers who violate ecrultles laws. So far, revocation of licenses has been the usual penalty. Now jail sentences may be demanded. One reason; of the many amateurs now in the market, some are certain to lose and the SEC wants It clear that the government to not to blame.

low.

Higher debt limit: The rise In government spending, with more to come, makes it certain that Congress will be asked again to lift the debt ceiling, BOW $298 billion. The only alternative is higher tax^. 'BLOW POISED FOR

manipulators CreckdowB ee shady brokers t

More proflt-eharleg demaads:. The agreement of American Motors to share profits with its workers will make profit-sharing a demand tn more and noore union negotiations. Furthermore, the demand will have the ira-pUclt support of the Administration. It fiU in with Presl-dent Kennedys and Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg ideas that there should be closer working realtlons between management and labor. Partnership la the word often used In^ Washington and profit-sharing Hg indeed a limited partnership.

OLD PI LADY CHAT LAUNDRY

I am constantly amazed at the lack ot opportuntom among American businessmen, the Old Promoter said. Everybody is talking about Lady Ciatterlys Lover, but I cant find that anyone . has taken advantage of It

As far as I can find, no* body has opened a Lady Chat-terlye laundry, brought out a line (Mt Lady Chatterlys garden tools, a Lady Chatterly rose. Lady Chatterlya lovelies or Lady Chatterlys pedal pushers.

Even our bartendm, generally considered great opportun-ists. have neglected to invent a Lady Oiatterly cocktailyou know, one sip and youre In love. *

I thought I saw a ray of hope in an announcement the other day but, on closer look,

I saw It was for Lady CharUeya Warmer. It turned out to be for a warming tray made in Cbart-ley. Mats.

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