Wednesday, Februtty 7, 1962

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All-Importaht Revenue Estimates

_ vtry two years when the North Carolina that for the first half of the first year of the bienni-Ganaral Assembly has to estimate the states revenue um, revenue estimates have proved fairly accurate in the succeeding biennium, there is the possibility when compared with actual revenue collections. If that the estimates will miss the mark by a wide anything, the estimates were slightly on the low side mar^n. , , . . rather than on the high side. In short, the state gov-

If the revenues during the biennium prove to ernment is able to operate about as expected with be higher than the estimates, it creates a rosy pic- revenues sufficient to offset jthe increased expendi-tore because the resulting surplus provides a com- tures approved by the legislature. The states opera-fortable cushion for state operations. If, on the other tions are continuing on a sound financial footing in hand, the estimates turn out to be higher than the spite of the increased expenditures, revenues, a serious problem results because spend- Changing .conditions in the remainder of the ing for the most part is geared to the revenue esti- biennium could alter the outlook for the states

financial position, but with one-fourth of the biennium now behind us, the revenue and expense fig-....... r adopted by the 1961 legislature do not appear

of 1961 in which significant increases in state spend- to be in need of readjustment to assure the states ing were approved for the two years ahead. The winding up the two-year period without going into estimates not only involved calculating the amount the red.

State officials should be careful, however, to look for danger signs if revenues would dip below the estimates. They should quickly make adjustments where possible to assure the state will end the biennium without deficit financing for its operations.

You May Live Longer On Piedmont Roads

From the planning division of the State Highway Commission have come interesting statistics which the experts say show chances of accidents on old-type highways of the state are one in every 303,000 miles while on a controlled access superhighway the rate is only one accident in every 1.6 million miles.

Interpreting the^ figures, the experts say they mean that on old typ^ highways each motorist may expect to have one or two accidents in his lifetime. On the superhighways the chances of having an accident is only one in every three lifetimes.

All that sounds good and makes us wish all our highways were of the super variety for safetys sake.

But we must live with the reality that for a good many years (maybe several lifetimes) most of the traveling in Eastern North Carolina will still be done on old-type highw^ays, unless our motorists

Another Move to Washington

mates.

Particularly are the revenue estimates of critical importance in such a legislative session as that

of revenue to be produced by existing levies, but also the amount which would be produced by proposed new levies which were enacted.

It"3rould be encouraging to North Caroliniana

?ridays Demo Meet In Raleigh

By LYNN NISBET

DEMOCRATS - The Dento-cratlc State Elxdcutlve Committee has been called to convene at Raleigh on Friday of next week. February 16. The committee at that time wiU fix the times and places for precinct meetings, county and state conventions, all of which will be held sometime in April or May.

The committee also will consider the revised Plan of Or-ganlzati<m prepared by a committee headed by Secretary of sute Thad Eure. This will be the first time since the original plan was adopted in 1918 that a cranplete re-write of the whole document has been offered, although it has been amended almost every two years since its adoption. Most significance previous changes pefhaps were those made in 1922 to comply with woman suffrage provisions. and those made in 1958 which for the first time recognized affiliation of the Democratic party in North Carolina with the National Democratic organization, and provided for appointment of a platform committee in advance of the convention date.

INFORMED Chairman Bert Bennett attached to his offlctal call of the committee meeting printed copies of the present Plan of Organization and full text of the proposed revision. This same information went to cmmty chairmen, members of the Cragress and the General Assembly, and other elective officers and party leaders The purp<e Is to have the men and women who come to the February 16 meeting as weD Inom^ as possible on all the proposed changes.

Party officials have expressed the hope that any Democrat who has a constructive sug-gestin to offer will see that it gets before the committee. At the same time, they have voiced the hcH;>e that ccmsideration can be held to essentials without caviUng over details of verbiage.

DIFFERENCES - About two-thirds oi the provisions of the present plan are carried forward without change, except In some Instances items have been placed at different positions In the whole text. For example, the old plan sUrted out with the sUte committee, although down In the body of the document It was set mit that the unit of party organization Is the precinct. The next text opens with the precinct organ-Imilon and woiiu up through county and districts to the tate.

Earlier texts of the plan had ahown such desire to protect women they eliminated all protect for men. For Instance, It was provided that at least two members of s<Mne committees and at least one official should be a woman. There was nothing to prevent all of em be

ing females. The new versloi says when tt^re must be at least two women there must also be at least two men.

The new plan provides for disciplinary procedure against party officials who defect, but there is nothing to suggest imposition of a loyalty oath on rank and file party members. Discipline of officials extends onlj' ot office in the party organization, not to the ballot box.

Other major changes Include elimination of proxy voting at any committee meeting, and establishment of 30 per cent membership attendance as a quorum for committees.

Another important change Is provision for county chairmen and vice chairmen in each congressional district to name one man and one woman from each district to comprise a state campaign committee Heretofore such committee has been named by the state chairman. and could possibly all come from <Mie county.

MINOR There are numerous less significant changes, such as reduction in convention voting strength of precincts and counties and earlier fixing of convention dates. The old plan accords one vote in the county convention for every 25 votes cast in the precinct for the E>emocratic Governor in the last election: and allows one county vote in the state convention for every 150 votes cast in the county for the Democratic Governor. The new plan cuts this representation in half, giving the precinct (me vote for every 50 and the county one for every 300 votes cast for Governor.

The old plan requires a meeting of the state committee on or before March 10 of each election year to fix time and place for party meetings. The new text moves that deadline back to JBUiuary 15,

The old plan gives full authority to the executive committee for adopting and amending the Plan of Organization. The new text leaves that original authority in the committee, but adds a proviso that all changes shall be submitted to the state convention for appropriate action. Any rules adopted by the committee will hold until the convention meets. Then if the conventipd^ so de-icr or

By ALVIN TAYLOR

aJglit SyidkAta,'

A Visit To Yesteryear

A newspapers main concern Is with the Immediate

, . , , .r-r. , ^ happenings of the day but

stop going anywhere, or unless the Highway Com- frequently, through its fea-

mission decides to put as much emphasis on super- it takes a look back-

highways in the Eastern section as they have been *sehstiHeT

est to younger readers who

according the Piedmont part of the state.

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in travel tours

can amen(T or repeal the committees ac-

sires it any of tions.

'THOROUGH - Opinion generally expressed hereabouts is that the committee did a very thorough job on revamping the Plan. Members of the committee, In addition to Chairman Thad Eure, are: L. J. Phipps, Chapel Hill: Robert E (Fleet) WUliams, Raleigh: T. Wade Bruton, attorney general: John Warren, Charlotte: Mrs. O. Max Gardner. Shelby, and Mrs. Leonard Lloyd of RobbindsvtUe.

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By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) - President Kennedy has picked up what President Elisenhower startedthe Informal, personal, and even family touch In foreign affairs and added some touches of his own.

His most glittering addition has been the decision to let his wife, Jaccjueline Kennedy, make a goodwill trip to India and Pakistan next month.

Even Premier Khrushchev seems taken' by the idea of making use of somebody besides ambassadors in foreign dealings.

He sent his son-in-law. Alexei ,.,was a stay-

Adzhubei, editor of Izvestla, his wartime

over here last November to interview Kennedy, Last week Adzhubei came back for a three-hour luncheon at -the White House,

President Truman, except at the beginning of his presidency, stayed pretty much to home, as did most of his predecessors except for the trips of Presidents Roosevelt and Wilson as a result of war.

Eisenhower in his first year traveled to Canada. Mexico and Bermuda on official business.

Kennedy traveled even more in his first 12 months: to Canada, Bermuda, England,

France, Austria to see Khrushchev, Colombia, and Venezuela.*

Eisenhower did much more traveling later in his presidency. Kennedy is a cinch to do more too.

In his first year teisenhower used his family in foreign affairs, sending his brother, Dr.

Milton Eisenhower, to Latin America on a fact-finding mission.

Also in 1953 he sent Vice President Richard M. Nixon oa a goodwill visit to Asia.

Kennedy in his first year sent Vice President Lyndon B.

Johnson on a goodwill journey to Asia. Now the presidents brother, Atty.. Gen. Robert P.

Kennedy, is making a 26-day goodwill trip through Asia and Europe.

This month the Wesldents youngest brother, Edward M.

Kennedy, is to go to Poland.

But this has been described as a private trip with no arrangements for meetUig the Communist leaders there Earlier last year the Presi

dent sent both brothers, Edward and Robert, to Africa on separate missions. His brother-in-law, Sargent Shrlver, visited South America in behalf of the Peace Corps he heads.

Sisters Jean Smith and Eunice Shriver took a vacation behind the lT(Mi Curtain but managed to have tea with the wife of Yugoslavias President Tito.

The Kennedy family is a big one and before the Presidents term is up the various members of it ought to cover a lot of international real estate.

Compared with todays jet-traveling world leaders, Stalin

perhaps werent born during the times the stories discuss. They are of particular interest, however, to older readers who recall the days gone by.

Such was the case with a January 27 feature in the Daily Reflector by Marti Martin. This story told of the Bethel Academy which was operated in the Pitt County town at the turn of the century by Prof. Zack McWhorter.

The story brought back fond memories for my mothers brother, W. Llnwood Bailey of Nashville, He recalled in a letter to my mother that he and another sister, Daisy, attended school there.

In the letter, he said, I recall Daisy and a Herbert Salisbury from Hamiltotn in a commencement program had to sing a sing and then do a cakewalk together across the stage two or three times and it brought down the house . . .

I even remember the kind of hat Aunt Henrietta (who operated a millinery shop in Bethel) fixed for her for this CKicaslon. It was a wide brim with a ribbon that tied under her throat and it was beautiful,

"That same year I was on a debating team. John David Bryant was my partner and Judson Blount and Joe Bowers were on the other side, it was a split decision as I remember, but they were the good old days and I am going to keep all these pictures and thank you for sending them to me.

My Uncle Llnwood was born and raised near Bethel. Later he was in the general merchandising business in Hob-good. For the past 20 years he has been with the Cotton Growers Cooperative Warehouse, Inc., first as a manager of the warehouse in Nashville and now as a field manager to train and supervise warehouse managers.

Late in life he entered politics without even trying. He was elected to the town commission of Nashville on a write-in vote even though he was not a candidate.

Roosevelt ed Khrushchev who put the personal touch by personal visit into Soviet foreign affairs.

Maybe he got the traveling idea from Eisenhower. Perhaps he thought of it himself. But he became quite a traveler, although he didn't start moving around until 1955. Then he made up for lost time.

Kennedy and Khrushchev have used their press relations men to w'ork out some pretty important arrangements.

Last June 24 Pierre Salinger. Kennedys press secretary, appeared on a TV debate in New York with Adzhubei and Mikhail Kharlamov, press officer of the Soviet Foreign Ministry, discussing the role of the press.

All three then came to Washington and for a couple of days talked about ways to improve communications between the United States and Russia.

Out of this discussion, which was right after Khrushchev had given interviews to three American newsmen in Russia, came the Idea for Adzhubels interview with Kennedy in November, the text of which was printed in Russia

All this, of course, had Khrushchevs approval. There can hardly be any doubt he picked his son-in-law, who is also a member of the Soviet Communist partys Central Committee, to do the interviewing.

Last week, while Adzhubei was here to lunch with Kennedy, it was announced that Salinger has been Invited to visit Russia later this year. Hell go. with Kennedys full approval.

Ime conferences w Other Editors Saying...

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N.C. Highway Plans

(Wilson Times)

Is Eastern Carolina getting fair share of the highway funds? We are not interested in the dollar for dollar basis, we are interested in highways for this section of the state.

The members of the highway department were more than doubled. This was done in order to give the program back to the people, to enable the highway commission members to know the needs and allot roads on a priority basis.

From the story given to the Ass(x:iated Press by W.F. Babcock, State Highway Commissioner, the East gets about one-tenth of the $1(X) million to be spent on roads this year. The bulk of the money goes in the West.

The Piedmont has had its share. The money for road building in the Piedmont has been justified on the basis that the traffic is there, therefore there must be the roads to handle it.

This is all right as far as it goes. But there can never be any appreciable amount of increase in traffic without the roads. So the same old argument is with us, which comes first the chicken or the egg.

We would think that the highway commissioners from the Eastern part of the state would meet and go over highway

plans. The high priority needs would -be put first on the list and on down. In this way there would be some form and Justification for the requests.

There is an urgent need for an East-Wbst highway connecting the Piedmont with the ports at Wilmington and Morehead. This would also accommodate the growing traffic to our beaches.

Of the approximate 10 million tbis section of the state is to receive, four million is for the Oregon Inlet bridge. One point is clear, made so by Mr. Babcock. This is that the major interstate sections in the Piedmont are under construction. Then the West is to get the lions share of the highway money for this year.

Arc we optimistic when we hope that the East will get the larger piece of the highway pie the next time it is cut? One point is sure. 'This is that the East will have to show the need and we will have to do some real work. That is why we are suggesting that all the development councils get together and map some priority plans and then meet with the highway commissioners from this section.

If we Just sit back and wait, we will never get the traffic because we will not have the modem highways.

He is married to the former Eva Cherry of Bethel.

Uncle Llnwood carved a successful career with the Cotton Growers Cooperative Warehouse, Inc. after he had passed 50 years of age. The new career also came after he had suffered severe injuries in an auto wreck as he returned from a football game. 'The injuries left him partially crippled but today in his 70s, he travels to various Eastern North Carolina towns where the warehouses are located.

Active as he is, he is most proud of the fact that a son, grandson and a nephew have received Man of the Year Awards in three Eastern Carolina towns within the past few years.

The son, Herbert Bailey received the aw'ard in Tarboro. 'The grandson, Albert House Jr. received Man of the Year honors In Roanoke Rapids. The nephew, W. C. Taylor Jr., was so honored in Greenville in 1959.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS

GREAT WORLD FIGURES

Some years ago an Arab boy walking in the vicinity of the Dead Sea threw a stone into a small cave opening in the side of a mountain and to his amazement heard a distinct ping as if the pebble had struck crockery. It had. The Dead Sea Scrolls were thereafter discovered and the worlds best scholars are now working on them to find out their full significance.

Dr. Fleming, an English physician, once left a saucer of fluid on an upper shelf in a laboratory and to his annoyance later found that It had developed a coat of mold. But at the moment he discovered the mold he also discovered penicillin, as a result.

Some years ago Albert Einstein asked himself whether or not the conclusions of Sir Isaac Newton were all sound and correct. Thereupon followed one of the greatest discoveries in human thinking. Albert Einstein, an unknown person, went to the head of the class. He will always be recognized as one of the twelve greatest human beings that ever Uved.

The ping, the mold in the saucer, the I wonder attitude of a mathematician toward the findings of the great mathematical idol Newton before whom the world has prostrated itself for generations! God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform. And so often the greatest results from the most Inauspicious beginnings.

Nikita

Walks

Perl.

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY Copyright, 1962, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Nikita Khrushchev Is doing everything to woo the Kennedy Administration. It grows increasingly obvious that he goes as far as he dares. His son-in-law is not staying in these parts because he prefers the climate; what he seeks is a way to keep the lines of communications open.

Khrushchevs days are numbered and he knows it. He also knows that the United States and Great Britain knows that whoever follows Khrushchev will be an Albanian, which means that he will favpr immediate war upon the United States. Khrushchev also knows that in such a war, the combinations of states In Europe will be economically antagonistic to the United States.

The play, at the moment, is a big one and can easily be lost. If It Is lost by Khrushchev, it will not be won by the United States. It will be won by Mao Tze-tung and the old Stalinist gang. Khrushchev dares not indicate a pro-American policy lest he be accused of betraying the Communist Revolution. Khrushchevs daughter and son-in-law are not Important political figures; therefore they are being used to keep lines of communications opened. Anyone who knows CJommunlst techniques must realize that when Gromyko is by-passed, when the Embassy Is by-passed and an Izves-tia editor, married to Khrushchevs daughter, is employed to ke^ open lines of communi- cations, the political situation Inside Russia is bad and that trustworthiness Is measured carefully.

From Khrushchevs standpoint, there must be no errors, because the slightest wrong move and the Albanians will end Khrushchevs political career.

From an American standpoint, two questions cannot be ignored. These are: / ^

1. Either we make war or we avoid war. There is no way to miss the question of war and President Kennedy cannot evade this fact. Either he commands a war on Russia or he avoids one. Therefore both Khrushchev and Kennedy face the same problem war. Either they fight or they come to terms.

2. From an American standpoint, if we do not want war, are we better off with Khrushchev, with Molotov, Suzlov, or Mao Tze-tung. Here a decision has to be made. Recognizing that Khrushchev is a boor, we still have to ask ourselves if our peril Is not greater if one of the othere indicated above should manage to succeed him.

On the other hand. If we desire war, it makes little difference for us who is in control in Russia. But our problem nevertheless is to choose me and place without being forced by Soviet Russia to take a position where we cannot possibly win. This means calm and sure thinking, the cold calculations which marked the genius of Napoleons marshals.

While the position of our government must be anti-Commu-nist, we must make distinction between Khrushchev and the Albanians. It might be suggested with a good measure of correctness that every time trouble starts in Russia, we bail out the Russian leader as we did Stalin in 1939. On the other hand, there can be no doubt but that if Khrushchev falls, we shall have immediate war.

Suppose that hypothesis is wrong, the President risks his own political future. But if the hypothesis Is right, the President may by diplomatic steps, prevent the violently anti-American Albanians from taking control of the Soviet Universal State. In a word, if we amply oppose Khrushchev, we may bring Mao Tze-tung into tota.1 power In the Soviet Universal State.

So great is American power that we can do for Mao Tzen tung vls-a-vis Khrushchev what we did for Castro vis-a-vis Batista. The President has to make a final decision with regard to this. In the year 1962, any decision he makes will ha\'e about It a dangerous finality. Each decision may be an error and each error must lead to war.

It is easy for the critic to decide what Is best in each situation at each moment, but the critic possesses neither the authority nor the responsibility, nor do his words of wisdom af-(Continued on page five)

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Quirks Make World Go Rounc.

TO THE EDITOR:

Urban Renewal and Urban Redevelopment are the most controversial issues ever of this community. Urban Redevelopment entails absolute demolition and reconstruction.

The elderly citizens proposed compulsive loss of home, the ashes of their fathers and the temples of their Gods,^ were fanned into deepest emotions.

By virtue of power of The New Deal, deeds have lost their fcymer gignificance and Seal of State ceases to seal and guarantee security of real estate investments. The solidity of everything seems upset.

While the stage of insecurity shuffles in suspense, many of the best citizens, living in the target area, awaiting transit out into a colony (at undisclosed location) against

their will or consent, to start life all over again, many have under pressure recently succumbed to hypertension, heart attacks and heartbreak. What is offered in recompense for our homes and our suffering?

We are reminded that man cannot live by bread or material substances alone. He is made of mind and matter.

In my opinion, the greater need is progress in moral and spiritual Ideology preserving a healthy State of the Union ~ a nation indivisible. Eliminating violent internal combustions which blast open avenues for infiltrations of tsms aild revolutions which plague other lands. .

Let us keep our Beloved United States truly united in brotherly consideration with freedom and justice for aD MRS. ELLEN BOYD HUSSEY

By ELMER ROESSNER

Lifes a funny proposition after all and, as George Michael, Cohan might have added, so is American business. Witness:

A Long Island market. Instead of trading stamps. Is offering churches 1 per cent of what they spend in the store.

Advertising Age photographing 34 guests at an advertising party, showed 15 with beverages in their hands. Now you know where advertising Insplratlcm comes from.

A new carpet sweeper Is coming out In blue and grey to tie In with the centennial of the Civil War.

SWING TO BALL POINTS

The Joseph DlxoiT Crucible Co., one of the nations pioneer pencil manufacturers, has bowed to the inevitable and introduced a line of ball point pens.

The Food k Drug Administration has warned advertisera

that it will slap down those who advertise household air purifiers as effective In aiding respiratory ailments, sinus troubles or allergies.

Mistakes In buying the wrong office machines and equipment will cost American business $100 million this year, says Arthur Kallet, president of Buyers Laboratory, Inc., which testa such accessories.

Visit the Virgins, says the headline in a current magazine advertisement by the Virgin Islands chamber of commerce.

The Federal Trade Commission has charged the Around-the-World Shoppers Club with making deceptive pricing, savings and free claims for foreign merchandise sold to club members.

British researchers have developed a synthetic chamois. STRAIGHTENING tHINGS OUT

Business is so confused about Federal trade practice regula

tions that the American Management Ass<x;iation has prepared a one-weeks seminar In regulation wrestling for executives, to be held at Saranac Lake, N.Y., Feb. 12 through 16.

A cutting board of rubbers and plastics has been approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for use wherever food is served.

Magicure, Inc., of Columbus, Ohio, has agreed not to advertise that its concoction will not cure bedwetting, by magic or otherwise.

Farmers* markets and auctions are fast disappearing, Home Furnishings Dally reports.

A combination blender and coffee-grinder is about to burst upon the market.

CLEAN MEDICINE CHEST DRIVE REPEATED AGAIN For the fourth year, the Bauer it Black Division of the Ken-

'dall Co. Is conducting its Clean Out Your Medicine Chest campaign.

Bauer & Black is urging all parents to:

1. Put all drugs and remedies out of reach of children.

2. Make sure all medicines are properly labeled.

3. Flush away all unlabeled or stale medicines.

4. Store all household preparations away from children.

5. Teach children never to et^ or drink substances found in homes or outside.

Bauer gi Black does not make ordinary household medicines,

*0 the annual clcan-out benefits It only In good-wlU. It has been highly commended by health authorities who have pointed out that the cost of the campaign is justified If the life of only one child is saved. *So clean out all stale, undated and unlabeled medicines from your cabinet now. Dont wait for to- ^ morrow.