IMajr, jAiiuary 12, 1962

Unlikely Sanford Can Stay Away

Wert it Gov. Sanford or most any other gover- Sanford, moreover, has not only recently moved into nor of North Carolina, it would come as a surprise to politics as was the case of Luther Hodges who didnt the people of the state for the Chief Executive to get into politics until after his retirement as an in-aasert that he has no intention of seeking public dustrial executive. Gov. Sanford has been active in office after leaving the governors mansion. poiiticaf affairs in North Carolina for most of his

Although one could cite exceptions, it has be- a<^ult life. If one bothers to count, it was 14 years come more or less tradition in North Carolina to that he moved into state-level polics as a major xpect a governor to set his sights on a Senate seat campaign machinery. Prior to and

when his four years in the top state executive post subsequent to the Scott era he was moving into the have ended. Barring that, he normally is expected state s political circles in his own right, as was the case with Gov. Hodgesto continue in , . leaves his present post as

public life in some elective or appointive capacity. executive of^Nor^ Carolina, he will still be

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expected to have many years of public serviceand state, three later served in the U.S. Senate, one died

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SCANDAL At time this Is written there is still a lot of mystery aboia just what hap-peiMd in tl% Robert Burch and KWd Brewer deal which led Govemm* Sanford to summarily fire Burch and blacklist four firms from doing business In this state.

Burch was and had been for many years assistant engineer In charge of traffic in the highway, department. Part of his Job was to design and ai^rove traffic signs. Brewer is a Raleigh business man with <fiverse interests. Be set up a paper corporatk'* In 1958 to bandle signs and sign-making materials for the State. Governor Sanfords original statement said that since its formation this company had received scone $80,000 from four out-of-state sign companies, and had passed along about $40.000 of to Robert Burch's smi. a student at Duke.

The chief reascoi given by the Governor for the dismissal was that Burch has been too closely' associated with Kidd Brewer. Brewer azui Burch were both cmt of town for several days following the break of the story. Meantime, the SBI was on the job and Chief Walter Anderttm announced Tuesday he was seeking facts to estbil^ connection between the two men.

The story created a lot of atir around Raleigh mid throughout the state. Anything savoring of scandal in State govem-mei^ is news in North Carolina. The attention given tds Incident is testinMxiy to its rarity. There have been frequent instmices of little petty thievery amwig State employees and a few cases where higher ups were involved in sertous offenses.

OTHERSBack in the early 1930s &iperior Court Judge John Harwood was relieved of his duties as a judge and his daughter ecrved a term In prison for mls-handUng mcmey in the revenue department and destroying records.

A few years later Bob Ward, a top echelon official in the revenue departn^t, also drew a prison sentence for misappropri-tting funds.

* Dr. Leca R. Meadows president of East Carolina College, was convicted of an>ropriatli to his own use certain moneys and pnt>erty <A the college and went to priscm. Later there were incidents involving fiscal officers of AdeT Ctollege at Greensboro and Winstcm-Salem Teachers College. Oat reason for the promtoence given the crurrent episode is the fact North Carolina has boasted through the years that in all the multiple hundreds of mllllcas of dollars spent on roads there had never been any scandal surrounding transactions. In other states highway money was sometimes regarded as free game for any-

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body srtio could g^ it In any way possible.

The public now is waiting for fuller informatlcm on the Brew-er-Burch affair before making up its composito mind about its seriousness. Already enough positive information in in hand to indicate it is not a nice situation. But so far only oat side has been heard.

INSPECTION TOURS-Anoth-er big news story the first of this week was the inspection tour by Rhode Island c^cials (A the North Carolina prison system. The New Englmid officials were looking for facts as to conditions in the prisons here to aid Governor Notte in deciding whether to hcmor extradition requests for two escaped prisoners claimed they had been brutally mistreated in dungeons of hcU* in North Carolina.

T1 official inspection was made by Asst. Attorney General F. T. O-Halleran and State Police Capt. Arthur Newsome. They were accompanied by the lawTcr for the escaped men who are resisting return to this state and by a tv news reporter. The party was guided through he prisons by George Randall, llrector of prisons, and other *i. C. officials. It was evident rom the firrt that the Rhode Island party was not of one mind about what It wanted. The of-ncials were anximis to discover racts about prisons, facilities and admlnlrtratioo. The lawyer and newsmen were totercsted only In material that would support their contentions of mistreatment.

POLICYThis has raised the question of w^hethcr it was wise or aanart to invite them. Governor Sanford advised Governor Notte that he would be proud and happy to have his agents look over the North Carolina prison setup. A similar invitation was extended William G. Grande, the lawyer. The tv man was not Invited but was accorded every courtesy on the tour. That the lawyer and newsman were n(X interested in facts but in slanted propaganda was illustrated by the fact they declined to go to the Jackson county prison camp from which the men escaped and where they charged brutality.

It appears from the Rhode Island record that Grande is a disgruntled politician who has failed in several efforts for elective office, and that he may be now seeking sensational ma-teriiJ to boost his own standing tmmig people who dont know the facts and to embarrass Governor Notte.

Such a lawyer and newsman should be allowed to come to North Carolina any time, as our folks should be allowed to go to Rhode Island, to get information. The wisdom of according them the prestige of State sponsorship is doubtful, to say the least.

in office, one accepted a cabinet post in the national administration, and only one of the six left the political arena. .

Another Opportunity To Help Pitts Needy

A little more than two weeks ago, the land was filled with the spirit of Christmas and many gifts of food, fuel, clothing and other items were distributed to needy families in this and other counties throughout the state.

Recent days have brought to Pitt County one of the most bitter cold snaps in recent years. Without doubt there are many families in this country today in need of food, fuel, and clothing to help them in the struggle with the bitter weather. As By ALVIN TAYLOR temperatures plunged near all-time lows, many

families have watched their limited supply of coal ^ . 'V ^

and wood dwindleperhaps become exhausted | W 1 ^

completely-as they huddled in poorly heated -L XXXv^

houses. Youngsters, poorly clothed even for the re-

latively mild winter weather normal to Pitt County, Se Simty Develop-

have insufficient clothing to keep them warm in ment commissions brochure this bitter cold. which describes Pitts mild

At the same time most families in Pitt County as the basic ingredi-

have tucked away in a closet, or in the attic many condittonsattractive

articles of clothing which they meant to give away. abundance of sunshine

bomehow they just-haven t gotten around to getting has proven to be the major them out and delivering them to the Salvation blessing for both residents and Army or some other agency for distribution, visitors. the brochure goes on

There are other families who intended to give mroXut m'/ cash to some agency at Christmas time to help great stimulus to recreation needy people of the community, but in the rush and pleasant living hours. of the holidays the chore never got done. Your columnist re-read that

These last few days have brought another ideal looking up at First

opportunity for people of Pitt who desire to help ^"fround rotS'Test! their fellow citizens in a time of need to do so. The day afternoon. The tempera-cold days and colder nights have in many cases ture at that time stood at 19 greatly intensified the need for food, clothing and fuel.

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Anyway the brochure goes on to prove Its point with a data table.

Average temperature for April is 60 degrees; July, 79 degrees: October, 63 degrees and good old January, 44 degrees. That last one brought back a mental picture of the First Federal sign.

The brochure admits with Its figures that there are extremes "though. The absolute minimum it gives as zero degrees which was recorded Jan. 4, 1918.

Absolute maximum for Pitt County was the 106 degrees recorded July 24, 1952. Most folks would gladly take 40 or

so If those degrees right now.

The brochure also tells that yearly average sunshine here is 60 percent. There are 130 clear days In an average year, 120 partly cloudy days and 115 plain old cloudy days.

One other thing the brochure tells that is of particular interest right at this time. Average annual snowfall Is seven inches.

That leaves five to go this year. As you huddle around the hot air duct, dear reader, you might ponder that!

No Change In Past 8 Years

Other Editors Saying... Species Of. Payola?

By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) Eight years without change and no change in sight.

The world around President Kennedy, as he gave Congress

ship of Nikita Khrushchev, Russian policy became imaginative,' far-reaching, more aggressive.

But Khrushchev, on that day in 1954 when Elsehhower talk-

hls second State of the Union - ed to Congress, was still pret-

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Message, looked much the same as the one he saw when he first took office a year ago.

There had been some changes for instance, in overcoming the domestic recession but not in the Wggest problems, all of them overseas. Nor had there been in the past eight years.

In that time the world has moved into a period when the truly great dilemmas are likely to remain the same for years to come: The balance of power between the United States and Russia and their maneuvering.

This period was already under way, although perhaps not fully discernible. Just eight years ago when President Elsenhower (Ml Jan. 7, 1954 journeyed to the Capitol to deliver his second State of the Union Message.

For him, too, there had been scHne changes In his first year in office. The Korean War, for instance, had ended in 1%3.

Eisenhower talked about the usual things in 1954-4axes, foreign aid, some improvement in American social problems a lot of things which were the same, more or less, as those confronting Kennedy,

Two events of 1953 were to shape and freeze the future for both Eisenhower and Kennedy: Stalins death and Russia's development of the hydrogen bomb.

The full impact of those events was not clearly seen even in 1954:

1. With Stalins death his limited and stolid policies ended. Slowly, under the leader-

ty much an unknown, slowly working his way to the top to become Stalins heir and the new general of communism.

2. Until that day in August 1953, when Russia had its first hydrogen explosion, the United States was indisputably the worlds No. 1 power and, because It had the bomb, able to keep Russia in check.

The full meaning of this didnt seem to be realized in 1954.

For, while Russia rushed ahead with intercontinental missile development, Eisenhower, although all for developing American atomic power, was still talking in terms of cutting defense spending.

Even so, American expenses were going up and Elsenhower asked Congress to raise the limit on the national debt. Those expenses are still climbing and Kennedy now is talking of raising the debt limit.

But in those pa^t eight years

so phenomenal Jtos been Russian missile and space developmentthat now this country Is in a race for Its Ule. And America is no longer the unchallenged No. 1 power.

All the problems, which will remain problems as far Into the future as any man now aUve can see, can be boiled down to these two:

How can the United States and Russia, with tlair terrible weapons, avoid destroying each other while each struggles for the allegiance of mens minds around the earth at a time when most of mankind is unschooled and hungry and anxious above all for a better life.

(Dothan (Ala.) Eagle)

A long list of prizes to newspaper writers appearing in recent issues of Editor & Publisher, a trade magazine, indicates to us that a kind of payola which recently existed in TV is creeping into the editorial and news columns of newspapers. These listing are described as being journalistic achievements for which prizes are given.

In one instance prizes totaling $7,500 are offered for articles or editorials making outstanding contributions to improvement of highways or a better understanding of highway transportation problems. The awards were named in honor of Ted V. Rodgers, founder of the American Trucking Association, with the ATA Foundation, Inc., and Trailmobile, Inc., as sponsors.

Distinguished journalistic endeavor in the home furnishings industries is rewarded by the American Furniture Mart of Chicago. Articles In the home laundry field bring awards from the National Home Laundry Conference. Dissemination of information and support of programs and fund drives win notice from the National Association of Mental Health.

The American Osteopathic Association provides cash for regularly employed editors and reporters who turn out prize winning articles. The National Association. of Real Estate Editors posts certificates and cash gifts on real estate news features. The American Machine A Foundry Co.. puts up awards to focus, attention on areas where physical recreation services are

needed. The Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation has bronze plaques for outstanding articles.

Prizes totaling $2,000 are offered by the Cigar Institute of America for the best pictures no gag photos) showing a man smoking a cigar with enjoyment and relaxation. Two awards for newspaper coverage of the national bicycle races and for writing on the subject of cycling are made by the Amateur Bicycle League of America. Cash totaling $1,000 may be won in the dog photo contest sponsored by Gaines Dog Research Center. Any farm or garden writer may be considered for a statuette and $150 honorarium for work contributing to higher standards in that field of writing with the American Seed Trade Association the sponsor. An editors award plaque is given for excellence of fashion editorials In a contest sponsored by the Fur Information and Fashion Council, Inc. And there are lots of others.

Each of these contests with awards, recognition, etc., may be laudable and innocuous, per se. but newspaper editors and reporters ought to handle these subjects adequately and on a basis of merit instead of being tempted to overdo the treatment by the possibility of getting a plaque or monetary award. One way to discourage this is not to enter the competitions. If the smart publicity people who conceive and operate these contests didnt get any participants they would abandon this type of free space grabbing, which includes the space of the also-rans as well as that of the winners.

Redevelopment Commissioner Bancroft Mosely pondered an expenditure lor a trip to Raleigh by Executive Director William I. Cochran.

He questioned the payment not for being too much, but rather for being too littlel

The payment ran $5.

Cochran told the commission that the budget was running low for that particular item so he simply took a smaller-than-normal amount.

I thought maybe you drove to Wilson and then thumbed the rest of the way, Mosely quipped.

Other commissioners had their theories on the low expenses for the auto trip. Chairman Badger Johnson pointed out Cochran owned a compact car.

Any way the commissioners left the subject without offering to increase the amount.

Opinions

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Its a safe bet that any man who ever laughed at womens hats never paid the bill for one.Salt Lake Tribune.

Secretary of Commerce Hodges says foreign visitors would have a better time if hotel employees and policemen spoke foreign languages. It wouldnt hurt If they could speak English, too.Chicago Tribune.

Hell, Mich., now has a post office, and is there some way we could consign to it all the junk mail we get? Denver Post.

j-ooas ;i^ole in China

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY Copyright, 1962. King Features

^ Syndicate, Inc.

' As far back as one can go

In the story of China, the problem has been population and food. The Chinese in the Yangtze Valley and in the South are over-populated and they are short of food. In North China, the people live on a mixed wheat and green vegetable diet; In South China, rice is the principal food. In both areas, the soy bean and its enormous varieties is essential.

Rice grows with difficulty In paddy fields. When analyzed in terms of protein and carbohydrates, rice is an extremely expensive food and a lack of rice can swiftly turn into a famine. The Chinese suffer from faunine not because there is a shortage of food but because the means of communication are inadequate. In the North wheat and soya bean grow more than in the South. Beef and'mUk are not used at all although pork, chicken and fish are acceptable foods in both areas.

The food problem In China has always been a matter d serious politics. Famines have led to revolution and to the overthrow of dynasties. China, during the past few years, has suffered from severe famines. The only solutions the Red Chinese have found has been the purchase of wheat from Canada and Australia, which has left Red China without adequate foreign exchange. The principal solution has been war war against the countries to the south of China which are rich rice lands but if China imported rice from Siam, and all the countries which were formerly called French Indo-Chlna, there would still not be enough of this food. The principal advantage of war is the accumulation of rice without paying for it. In a word, the production of rice by slave labor. Thus far, this has not been successful.

This winter has been a very difficult one and although Canada and Australia have helped some, their aid has been insufficient and too costly.,The Red Chinese have turned from economics to war and the intensification of the conflict between Soviet Russia and Red China is in a large measure due to Russias Inability or unwillingness to help.

Moscow has, since 1948, hoped to squeeze Red China into the position of a satellite. This Red Oiina has consistentlyTre-sisted, taking the position that China has a larger population, a longer history, a finer culture and a superior response to Marxism-Leninism than Soviet Russia. When Stalin died, Mao Tze-tung looked forward to be recognized as the leader of the Communist Universal State. In this ambition, Mao failed although in the Communist world he is generally more resTCcted than Khrushchev. Mao an Intellectual, a professor "^i-losophy; Khrushchev Is a peasant and a miner who nas pushed his way up through the party organization.

Red China has turned to birth control as a solution of the problem of food. Until very recently, plural marriage was not unusual in China and the population grew enormously because of this social custom. To what extent the Communists have succeeded in wiping out plural marriage Is not known The resort to birth control is a recognition of the need for population control In that country.

Politically, population control Indicates an inability to solve the food problem. In the West; those who advocate birth control are not so much concerned with population control as they are with rise in the standard of living. In the East, where plural marriage has been usual, birth control can only be r .-vocated with an aim to accomplish population control.

The population of China Is cs-' timated to be 600,000,000. Such an estimate may or may not be realistic as there has not been a proper census. It is not possible to make a scientific comparative study of population as the usual method of taking a census in old times was to count the chimneys and (Continued on Page 6)

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Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS set the Hebrew people aside FAITH IN THAT SUFFICIENCY that through them He might re-

At the time of the crucifixion of Jesus, the veil of the temple was rent in twain. This veil concealed the holy of holies, that most sacred point of worship for aU believing Jews. Behind tbl* veil no one ever went except th$ high priest, and he only once a year. Suddenly as Christ expired on the cross the veil of the temple was rent in twain from top to bottom. Christian believers of that day took this to mean and we believers of a later century would for the most part agree with themthat this rending of the veil meant the opening of Gods full and revealed religion to the whole world. For certain special and very definite reasons God had

veal Himself and serve the souls of men in a particular fashion.

Now there was to be no further separationno setting aside. The religion of Jesus CTirist was now to become a great world force. Its power would go among all nations. There would be no race or people anywhere excluded from its benefits. Furthermore, this disclosure ol God through Jesus Christ was complete and final. All we could know of God and all we could use of His bmiefits had come to the race through Jesus Christ.

Let us always think of faith In him in the completeness, the Buffioiency, the overwhelming power of God.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Those nagging little fees you pay banks for each check cashed, each deposit made and other services may soon be revised. Most of the revisions will be upward.

The Department of Justice has acted against two groups of banks on the complaint that they got together and agreed on charges contrary to the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. This has sent banks in every city in the country scurrying to their lawyers to determine whether they too have broken the law.

The first action was an antitrust suit against the CUnUm National Bank, the First National Bank of CUnUm and the Hunterdon County Trust Co.. ^ Calif on, all New Jersey. The government' alleged that the banks conspired to make uniform charges for financial services.

The strange part of this case is that the banks walked Into Attorney General Bob Kennedys punch.

The three banks Issued a pamphlet listing identical charges at all three , banks for the same Mrvices. This might have passe<y unnoticed if two of

the banks, in applying for permission to merge, had not included the pamphlet as part of the evidence as to why the merger should be approved in Washington. Some law-wise bureaucrat spotted it and the Department of Justice brought civil action.

A few days later the Department of Justice asked seven Dallas banks to produce records and documents bearing on the question of whether they had conspired to fix charges for bank services.

No complaint has been filed yet, but it looks as if the Kennedy boys are readying another action.

And that may not be the end, because comparable, if not uniform service charges are In effect throughout the country.

The fear of prosecution has been thrown into almost every bank executive in the United States. *

If there is a flash of grey In your hair, you can remember when banks never charged for minor services. But the rising cost of personnel and the growing intricacies of conducting business has forced all except a few country banks to levy

activity charges on customers. For Instance, one bank was offered a commercial account in which there was always a minimum balance of $25,000. Analysis showed that, because of the number of checks and deposits handled each month, the bank would lose mwiey on the account unless it levied a service

fee. _

COMPETITION RULES

Almost all banks must levy these fees. Furthermore, every bank must charge approximately the same as its competitors. If Chase Manhattan cuts its charges in half. National City would have to do the sameor lose customers to Chase Manhattan.

In cities smaller than New York, a slight difference In a service charge would enrich one bank, impoverish another.

Banks, to survive, must make charges closely the same. They can do this by getting together on a schedule. Or, as seems to be done in many cities, they can let the leading bank work'out a schedule based on a costly analysis, and then adopt It.

On the other hand, they can embark on competition, each one charging different fees, un

til the bank with the least economical charges loses business.

NEW BASES EXPECTED

Now that bankers have turned their problem over to lawyers, they will probably be advised to prepare new schedules of charges, based on actual costs.

For the more efficient banks, these charges may be less than those charged under the presen! system. For othersand that may include a majority the charges may trend upward. Salary and other costs have been rising, and the fees will probably reflect this.

Furthermore, unless fees do pay costs, banks may find themselves entangled in another section of the anti-trust laws one that prohibits unfair competition.

There is another reason for expecting a rise in fees; Many anti-trust actions end up in higher chargers. When the government forced Kodak to separate color film and developing services, the cost per roll rose. And ever since the government busted the Standard Oil monopoly, gas and oil prices have been rising.