Friday, November 24, 1961

Problm Is

No^'

More Complicated

Dont Mind Me, Jack

By postponing the announcement of his decision fleeted i^ot so much opposition to meeting the needs on whether or not to call a special session of the legis- of mental institutions; colleges and other things, but lature in the wake of the defeated bond issue. Gov. rather an objection to the method proposed for meet-Sanford has heightened speculation on what course ing these needs. This, plus the fact that many voters his administration will decide to follow. may want to wait and see what the fiscal condition of

There was considerable speculation that the the state is at the end of the first year^of the Sanford governor was going to announce his intentions con- administration may have heavily influenced the out-cerning a special session of the legislature at his news come of the referendum.

conference Wednesday afternoon. When ^ he side- Certainly the outcome of the referendum, plus

stepped the question at that time with the assertion these other factors mentioned, paramount the ques-the final decision had not been reached, eyes naturally tion of whether the legislature would approve another turned to his scheduled state-wide address Monday bond election in the near future even if the governor evening. called a special session. They also paramount the

It is generally accepted that the rejection-of the question of whether the publicin the wake of rejec-bond issue by the voters earlier this month was a tion of the bond proposalswould have given approv-serious set-back for the Sanford administration and al even to a smaller amount of bonds for a more limit-its program. It is also generally accepted that the ed number of uses. It could well be that the calling voters spoke forcefully by their ballots on the ques- of another bond election would brin-i^ to the fore strong tion of issuing the proposed $61.6 million in bonds. ------------

The margin by which the proposals were defeated, plus the unexpectedly large number of voters who went to the polls leaves no loophole for asserting the referendum perhaps did not reflect the wishes of the public at that\ moment.

At the s^e time, we believe there is a general recognition throughout the state that many of the items included in the bond proposals are urgently needed

active opposition to the proposals, whereas in the recent referendum there apparently was only widespread latent opposition to the proposals.

If another bond election is ruled out, even if the legislature is called into special session, there arises the question of whether the General Assembly might find other sources of fundsperhaps year-end sur

plusesto be used for emergency capital improvement items, and even if they could, would they be willing irthp'state i'ato keep 'pa'cVwi'th"its own prgreVsT'^t provide for such use in the face of the vote on the

could be that the vote against the bond proposals re- bond issues. .

The problem of if and how the capital improvement needs will be met is much more complicated now than was the case before Tar Heels went to the polls on Nov. 7. ,

3ombina

'i^ange Draws In Udal.

By.LVNN NISBET

PLYKRS Delayed report Is that Stewart Udall, Secretary of the Interior, has Intervened in proteats againat the Air Force establiahing a target bombing range in Hyde county. The Interior Department embraces the fiah and wildlife service, the national park service and other agencies that might be affected by the practice bombing.

Secretary Udall points out that the intended bombing area Is right in the middle of some of the moat important waterfowl refuges in the nation, as well as near the Halteras Seashore Recreation Areaa major activity of the national park service. The added support of the Department of the Interior will help the North Carolina folks who are protesting the bomb range. There is another element which your reporter had not seen Injected until this week, but which might be significant.

That Is that the concentration of migrant waterfowl in the air above Lake Mattamuskeet, Currituck and Pamlico sounds during the flying season constitutes a major hazard to airplane operations. The ducks and geese are not subject to orders from the military, nor susceptible to radar control as to their movements. So the Air Force pilots would have to do the maneuvering to avoid collision, and that obviously would mess-up their flying formations.

The military presently contends that its projected operations will not seriously Interfere with the natural birds, their normal habits of resting and feeding along our coast or the busines.s which has been developed around the organized shoot-Ing.s. However, if the duck.s and geese get in the way of the planes, the next logical step will be for the military to rid the area of the birds entirely.

CANDIDATE (?) The name of David S. Coltrane has been added to the list of prospective candidates for Governor in 1%4. This nomination comes by way of the column written by Clifton Blue for hl.s own two or three weekly newspapers and a dozen r so more in the central part of the state.

The current column ha.s this paragraph: Some feel that David S Coltrane, Director of Ad-ministraion, may resign soon and begin to set his pegs towards a four-year stay in the Governors Man.sion Coltrane gave serious consideration to running for Lieutenant Governor in 1%0

There is an old saying that anybody can see as far into a mill stone as the man who chips

it. That observation is almost as true with respect to political prognostications. At the same time, it must be admitted that Cliff Blue has some contacts and information sources not open to everybody.

Long time member of the Leg-Lslature from Moore -county, chairman of the House finance committee in 1959 and by virtue of that a member of the advisory budget commission for two years, where he was closely associated with Coltrane. and as publisher of a chain of weekly newspapers, Blue has acce.ss to Information not available to the rank and file of citizens.

But there are factors over which neither Blue nor Coltrane or anybody else has control which might distort the picture. A major factor is the calendar. Time has a way of running out. and unlike most race contestants the farther it runs the faster it moves. Maybe the timing should not be considered, but fact is North Carolina has never had an elected Governor as much as 70 years old.

DROP OUTSA good and loyal friend of the whole educational program in North Carolina called the other day to register complaint and ask for additional information. She was concerned and disturbed about the published reports of the high ratio of drop outs in college enrollment between matriculation and graduation. And she wanted some further information, which the published reports did not give.

Where did the drop-outs come from: What percentage them were out of state students, what percentage came from urban and rural schools, what was the ratio of boys and girls?

The woman who was calling a.vumed that most of the dropouts w'ere In-state .students, since the out-of-state applicants are much more closely screened before acceptance. She was insistent iipon one point, that the curricula for the colleges should be arranged to accommodate the greatest need of the most students. She wondered if maybe the schedules had been so arranged that really .smart students could not pass them, while mediocre students could make good grades.

It would help a lot, if it Ls

passible to get it. to have a

breakdown as to the fall outs" in collegewhether they came mostly from in or out of North Carolina, whether they came from rural or urban schools,

whether they were boys or girls This detailed information will be very helpful in planning courses for school classes for

next year and the time after.

Outcry By Cuba And Soviet Was Expected

By HENRY HOWARD

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Thanksgiving was a big day their appreciation.

The fact that Cuba and the Soviet Union have charged the United States with intervention in internal affair.s of the Dominican Republic should not cause the United States to alter its position with regard to the new government in that country or to withdraw the naval forces it has on call if the Dominican president requests U.S. help.

It w^as to be expected that the Sovietsan'd the J^deed ior high ^hooi football Cubans as their puppetswould make such charges noon^^^w^^s over^ Rose against the U.S. for sending ships into the Caribbean Phantoms had climbed to the to answer a possible call for help. It is also evident, terminal top of the Eastern however that the American ship,.! took up their posi- thhii

tions in the Caribbean in response to a request from for player and coach alike. But the President of the Dominican Republic. It is also Coach Bud Phillips and his

evident that the move is one to offer protection to the means corner-

j . , ,. . T-v the market of elation at local

fledging democratic government in the Dominican Re- football accompiishment.s.

public and to prevent another dictatorship from tak- Greenville fans joined the spirit ing shape.

The United States should make it clear that it viiie the^Easte'rn 3^-a champTon-intends to keep its ships at the call of the Dominican ship trophy, the throng of some president as long as he feels it is necessary. It should ^.ooo Phantom rooters sounded akso clearkv indicate to the Soviets and the Cubans

that the United States does not intend to pull back coach Phillips and his com-its ships just because the communists have set up a Patent charges had reached the

howl in an effort to make the incident a big issue. Thsd1y^*WumXover^n;

This country is spending billions a year to fords tough Yellow jackets ap-

strenglhen the bulwarks of democracy and freedom pHeci the finishing touch to a

throughout the w'orld. Certainly it would be foolish brought

l auTA T> i_i- - A - t c ^ Greenville an end to a long

to deny the Deminican Republic aid in the form of drought of football ireis.

ships in close proximity which ma.v mean the differ- The fans, at the top of their

ence between protecting a democratic government or voice, acknowledged

forfeiting it to a tyrranical regime.

A Very Big Thanksgiving

With only 20 second.s of playing time remaining on the .scoreboard clock, the Rose High band suddenly began to play Taps as an apparent signal to the Sanford delegation that the Yellow Jackets sun Was setting fast.

And it appeared that the Jackets w'ere headed unavoidably into a 15-7 beating at the hands of the Phantoms. At the time, Greenville was in possession with a fourth dowm and long yardage situation deep In Sanford territory.

The next 20 seconds, though, were action-packed. The fourth dowm pass was snared on the Sanford 20 yard line by a lineman who scampered the 80 yards to paydirt to bring the Jackets to within two point.s.

It ju.st serves to show how fast things actually can happen In a football game. But, more noticeable than that, it was utterly amazing how abruptly the bands ominously loud strains of Taps died away.

?Not All Soeak

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Other Editors Saying... No Longer 'Wo'

Looking backward to the announcement that Thursdays match would be played in Greenville, we remembered a prime reason given for selecting East Carolinas College Stadium was the availability of adequate facilities for players and spectators here.

It occurred to us during ye.s-terdays game how ver^ well equipped indeed in the local setup. There was ample room for the 4.500 spectators; adequate dre.ssing room space for players; availability of concessions at half-time: etc.

But. the crowning touch to the Thanksgiving Day match: There was even a K-9 Corps. The fir.st play from .icrimmage was delayed to allow the squads apparent sergeant to be shooed to the sidelines. Then, at one point in the third quarter, there were no less than three dogs on the field at one time.

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By Bi n SPRUNGER

NEW YORK <AP)-A stranger in thLs town can run into trouble trying to order breakfast.

FYiend of mine from the Southwest couldnt get a doughnut. They kept handing him something with jelly in the middlewhere the hole Is supposed to be. Flnally he found out that In this spot the word for doughnut i.s crueller.

Arriving from San Francisco, I made the mistake ot_jjisking for a snail with my coffee. The dudes turned sort of green before I corrected that to butter-horn. They figured that out but told me in the future to ask for Danish

Other translafion.s are not quite a.s difficult Almo.st nny tourist can figure that hotcakes on the menu are pancakes.

But you can get mixed up in the names of meals In the Midwest, Southwe.st. West and South We .;ay .upper for the last meal of the day. but around here it i.s dinner. And so lh y wont get confused, they say lunch when they mean dinner

And, oh ye.s. around here they call a waitre.ss Miss, not Mam, as in the Southwest

By and large the.se folk.s .spent Englisli pretty well, hut they do have a lot of trouble with the word bring They hand you .^omethiiHi and .sav bring it over there Apparently the teach-er.s around here dont drill their kids on the verb take

NW Yorkeis go to l)ii.sinr.s.s, while the rest of n.s go to work, Mavhe thev just don't work as hard liere. I dont know.

You iie\er hear of tliem going

to the city, either. Just about everybody in Northern California goes to San Francisco, which they pronounce San Frencisco. But here suburbanites say they are going to New York, and those that live in boroughs other than Manhattan say they are going to town.

Clothing can cause you trouble, too. I wanted a pair of Levis the other day and some clerk was trying to be helpful. After I had tried out overall pants and jeans on him, he finally convinced me that what I wanted was a pair of dungarees. Turned out he was right.

Maybe the trouble here is the schools. The kids around here dont get grades. No. sir. What they get are marks.

And although that bring and (Continued on page five)

Fighf TB

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

The prompt and decisive show of strength by the U, S. Navy, plus the U. S. announcement that it was willing to send in troops if requested had as much to do with halting the revolt plot in the Dominican Republic as any other factor. At the same time the U S. managed to keep the other Latin American nations from viewing the action as internal interference in other Caribbean nations.

The result of this latest adventure- m the banana republic area is a strengthening of democratic ties in the Dominican Republic, plus a stronger footing for the U. S. in backing such a government in preference to another dictatorship such as that which Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo had before his assassination.

The Incident came to a head last week when the two brothers of the slain dictator ended their exile to return to their native land. Their presence was a signal for renewed trouble and potential revolution against the American-backed government of Joaquin Balaguer. Decisive action by Balaguer. who had the backing of the Dominican air force and navy, forced the two brothers. Gen. Hector Trujillo, a former president, and Gen. Jase Trujillo, an army chief with

a large military fgllowing. to agree to leave again, thus thwarting restoration of a Trujillo dictatorship.

Deployment of U. S. ships was descj'ibed as a precautionary measure so the U. S. would be in a position to strike quickly if Balaguer called for help. Fortunately he did not have to. Although Latin Americans ordinarily are extremely sensitive to any suggestion of U. S. interference or intervention in the affairs of its southern neighbors, the U. S. policy in this case was accepted calmly by Latin officials.

It appeared that most felt if a bona fide appeal were made by the head of a recognized government. the U. S. would be within its rights to intervene and would be serving hemisphere Interests in doing so. Another significant factor: Latins are growing weary of dictatorships; they recognized an old danger in the latest Dominican trouble. U. S. willingness to put down such action before it began was welcomed for a change. It shows which way the political wind^ are blowing to the South. In any event, the U. S. for once wa.snt depicted as the big bad wolf. Rather, it was viewed as the benevolent neighbor keeping an eye out for unwanted jackals.

About the hardest work for a man 1s looking pleasant while his wife introduces him to a fellow to whom she was once engaged.Los Angeles Times.

Fortunately, we approach Thank.sgiving with a fatness of material things; unfortunately, there is much evlnence that we have a leanness of soulWil-liamston Enterprise.

Nothing can foul up an antigambling effort faster than misplaced public .sympathy for bookmakers or a confused public belief that bookmaking is actually good, clean fun. The sharpsters who stack the odds in their favor and drain off literally millions of dollars every week in this country are just plain crooks.The Durham Morning Herald.

When all is said. It may be that the ancients had a better look at life than we do. Enjoyment of beauty in nature, art and religion do bring deep .satisfactions.Richmond News Leader.

It is now p>ossible to believe that both Americans and Ras-sians are giving themselves room for maneuver and that each new crisis will not necessarily bring with it the automatic threat of nuclear war." The Times (Great Britain),

Politics

Abhors

Divorce

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY Copyright, 1961, King Feature* Syndi(jate. Inc.

The United States has an astonishing divorpe rate but when we find our public men doing as we do. we tear their eyes out. Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York was, up to this week, the leading aspirant for the Republican nomination for the Presidency in 1964. Then his wife started action for divorce and tho puritanical attitude of our people asserted itself.

Up to the moment of ths announced divorce, Rockefeller was regarded as an extraordinarily devout Baptist, the son and grandson of extraonlinarUy devout Baptists, although actually we know nothing about the private lives of any of these persons or of any others unless we are members of their families or extremely Intimato friends.

It used to be customary In this country for the husband to drive his wife into the biting cold and snow when she sinned. The husband was expected to sin and If he misbehaved too overtly, hU wife sued for divorce: it was unmannerly for a man to denounce the morals of his wife. Now, either one asserts moral superiority and turns to the courts to demand righteous treatment. Usually. both are to blame.

The public generally assumes that there are two causes for divorce: adultery and miserliness. Actually, all sorts of abuses occur in a family which lead to its collapse. The word, incompatibility, Is often used to dover a multitude of errors.

It is a little hard to understand why a man and woman who have been married 31 years, should want to be divorced. It seems a waste of time. If incompatibility is the reason, the intervening period has been too long for any novel misunderstanding. If it is adultery, the likelihood is that no sudden discovery is the motive. In the case of the Rockefellers, it cannot be miserliness or excessive expenditures. There is no advantage in speculation and the conclusion must be reached that there is some miserable pride In all this.

But the public is likely to inarch for hidden motives and this search, rather than the unavailable truth, will damage Nelson Rockefellers political career. The divorce comes at a moment when he is to run for his second term for Governor and upon this election depends his prospects for the Presidency. No divorced man has been elected President of the United States, although there is no law against it. Grover Cleveland was chosen for the Presidency despite a generally accepted illicit parenthood on his part.

Woodrow Wilson suffered a mass of rumors of an improper relationship with the W'ife of a colleague at Princeton. Actually a Congres.sional committee indirectly investigated this matter when Justice Brandis confirmation came before the Senate.

I have learned who helped Wilson over this tough spot but am pledged to silence which I shall keep, as the matter is of no personal or historic importance.

There were always tales about Franklin D. Roosevelt, most of which sounded impossible and ridiculous. Adlal Stevenson was divorced when he was Governor of Illinois and this led to a series of rumors, most of them too vile to repeat. The public jumps at every pos.sibility of moral turpitude, since as a matter of fact, these personal tragedies are not anything that the public knows and they leave a sad memory that lasts through life. Anthony Eldens career .was nearly wrecked by a divorce"; the Duke of Windsor was forced to give up his crown because he married a divorced woman.

There is considerable unfairness in all this because it, is not known which is the guilty party. For instance. Princess Margaret was not permitted to marry Peter Townsend because he was a divorced man, although admittedly innocent.

I have no inside dope on the Rockefeller situatioii. Cholly Knickerbocker, the society coi-umnist, who is more reliable than most in his trade, has written about it. but he apparently knows no more than any (Continued on Page 6) ,

Americans Go Alona With Crowe.

Use Christmas Seals

For Today'

Hy K.\KL I,. DorCI.AS.S OlR NA.ME ON 11

Why ua.s I born?

Thus wa.s the plaintive cry of a woman recently arre.sted and charged with a serious crime. She might well a.vk the qm.s-llon. The pity is that she did not ask it several decades ago.

We-can be sure that we are all born with a purpose in view. The Creator does everything ac-cordlna to a pre-arranged plan We may scatter our energies recklessly and without purpose, but the Grand Architect who started everything in the beginning and sustains it to this very second does not so act. He had and still has a purpose in view. How do w* know? Because everything In nature points to this

fact; and the revelation of the Bible, the wusdoni of the Church, the experience of the race al-.so bear it out. God ha.s a plan, Ye.s. a plan for the life of even the most Insignificant per.son on the planet.

Can I find the reason for my existence? Of course. This does not mean that we shall know

everything It only means that we shall know enough to light us along an otherwise dark

pathway If we could all just remember that a good, a loving, and an all-powerful God put us in the wo.-ld and put us here for a purpo.se, it would cause life to take on a new and more glorious a.spect Gods great plan will not be carried out unless you and I carry out the little

plan which has our name on it.

By EI.MKR ROES.SNER

America, once a nation of In-div ulualisls, tends mure and more to go along with the crowd.

The tendency to watch spurts en ni.'i.s.NP Instead of participating, joimng tlie masses to see loutbali. baseball and boxing, has lung been manifest So, too. has the tendency for all America to l:.slen to the same radio show.s and wateh the .vame television or/ering .

Now the goalong-with-thP-crowd trend Ls fast spreading so fa.st that some fear it is changing the character of the American theater Before a show opens, producers try to sell all seats or at least all good oens- for single nights to societies, clubs, charties. etc. In this way. producers insure full houses for a long lime to come But the general public has little chance to see the show until the original cast is tired or replaced.

BROKER FED UP

Although Noel Cowards S.iil Away" received some unfavorable reviews when it opened in New' York, it is assured of a long run because of more than II million in advance sales to theater parties.

Ticket brokers are frozen out of commissions by these bloc purchases unless they, too, sell them. One. Louis Schonceit, has propased that theater parties be limited to Monday. Tuesday and Thursday evenings and Wednesday matinees.

The party idea is fast spreading to the larger ni^ht clubs in manv E.i.-^lern cltie.s. Chariiies and bu.^lnesses take over all or large part.s of the tables for one or more night club shows. The entire Latin Quarter In New York was reserved for three successive New Years Eves for RCA dealers. Some night clubs have put on matinee performances to entertain convention guests and wives. Hotels special room.' are also sharing in this bonanza.

Club and charity dinners are aUo tending to be larger and more expansive. Some Eastern and" southern hotela,Jiave been booked ss much as ten years ahead. In some cities, it is impassible to arranpp for a large dinner in a dc.sirable hotel or .cluh on a de.slrahle dat^ than six months ahead. And the prices are rising, too.

BAI.LS .Ml'LTIPI.Y

Society bails are also increas

ing in size and number. F^ve years ago in New York there were about 40 lop-society balls given during the social season at socially-accepted hotels. In the .season, 120 charity

bnll.s ure being given, with tickets up to $150 apiece. Mast of the proceeds go to charity.

Attendance Ls swelling as people more and more try to have their fun en masse. The 1%0 April in Paris ball was so popular that 1,171 persons (obviously including at least one stag) attended. No hotel could handle the mass, so the dinner was held and the dancers twisted in Ne\C Yorks Seveflth Regiment Armory.

ThLs tendency toward mob enjoyment might seem to discourage visitors to New York. Washington and other tourist me-tropoles. Why go If you cant get into the show you want to .*>ce. the night club youve dreamed about, the ball youve always wanted to ,peck at, or the hotel you have In mind?

The promoter of Jole en masse have solved that problem, too They have created new ma.sM's: groups who will take ma.ss lours. For a single price, they offer transportation to the big city, hotel reserva-

tlon.s (though lusually not at the Plaza I. tickets to a hit show, a one-drink run-through at one or more night clubs, and possibly a stop at a beatnik spot. Some may include tours past the swankiest hotels jast as top society leaders are descending from their limousines for the ball of the yeai\

Does an Individual have fun on these mass forays on pleasure? Well, just as at a ball game, everybody around him Ls cheering and emoting, so If he Isnt, the fault must be his.

SHORT Si SIGNIFICANT BlSINESS NEWS NO'TES Tuna is being packed experimentally In aluminum cans by Van Camp Sea Food Co., at Long Beach, Calif. . Instalment credit delinquencies rose in September. the American Bankers A.s-soclation noted. . .Government financing of retraining, migration and severance pay of laid-off workers is being urged by Melvin W. Rcder. SUnford Um-versity economtst. . .A rise in ^ales of mft wrappings indicates larger Clir.-stma.s spending than .ever before, says Jascph M. Katz, president of Papercraft Corp.