l^hut^day, February 15, 1962

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An End To Carteret Bridge Delays

Active participation by Gov. Sanford in aeekinjr point of view becoming the official point of view of to settle the long controversy over locating the pro- the present Highway Commission, posed highway bridge between Morehead City and The matter has been kicked around long enough Beaufort offers new hope that the dispute may be without any concrete decision being made. Now that resolved even though many Carteret citizens obvi- Gov. Sanford has stepped in personally to try to ously will not be satisfied with whatever decision resolve differences, it is to be hoped that some defi-is finally reached. nite action can be taken in order that consl^ction

For many months now, the proposed new bridge undertaken. . 4. j

^ , Sufficient time has elapsed for thorough study

of the situation by highway officials. The progress

of the section of the state to be served by the new

bridge is not being enhanced by the continued delay

in reaching a decision on where the bridge should

be located. *

, State officials liave an obligation to the people

of Carteret County and the rest of the citizens of

the state to settle the matter without further delay

and get on with construction.

That City Girl

between those communities has been stalled because of the inability of the Highway Commission to firmly ^cide on its location. During thelatter part of the Hodges administration the Highway Commission gave its approval to one of the proposed locations of the bridge. Subsequently the new Highway Commission appointed by Gov. Sanford renewed consideration of the location and has not yet made a firm decision on the proposed bridges location.

In the meantime this important project has been stalemated while opposing forces in the Carteret area have continued to press for their particular

Military Installations icons To bolster Our Economy

By LYNN NISBET

REPUBLICANS Repbll-eans do not anticipate anything lU as widespread revision of their party plan of organization as do the Democrats, but information is there may be a real fight (m one proposed change at the State conventi(m next week. The present plan provi<te8 that two delegates to the National Cmiventi(3 shall be named from each congres-akmal district.

The Republican plan, like the Demomitlc. provides for the election of two delegates to the national cravention for each member tn Congressfour elected at large for the senators and two from each district for the representatives. It is proposed to reduce the regular allotment to one delegate for each district and select the others more in ac<rdancc with Repablican voting strraigth cross the state.

Del^ates to county and state eonventkms In both parties are now ai^inted on basis of votes cast for the partys candidates for Governor in the latest election, but when it --tjonnar' to national delegates the ai^rticoiment Is entirely geographic. That means a congressional district which has never voted Republican, and In which the candidate for-President cannot hope for much, has as much voice in his nomination as one where the party majority is heavy. The proposed change would seem to make a lot of sense and faimeM, but the sparse counties which have e n-Ing In the past may be expected to resist.

So far as has been learned there will be no real contest for chairman or other officers tn the party oiganization. Except possibly for vice chairman. A renewal of the scrap of two years between Miss Stella Ruthledge of Charlotte (who won then) and Miss Frances Ratcliff oi Pantego for vice chairman Is expected.

Issue

Six counties in North Carolina Cumberland, Forsyth. Guilford. Mecklenburg, Wake and Wilsonhave a permanent reg-lstrati(m system under which books are open all the time at the courthouse, except for a few days Immediately before elections. The other 94 counties require voters to register tn their honfje precincts (snly during the period of two weeks before an election. This makes it necessary for the workers to keep on the alert.

Ther permanent registration system is relatively Inexpensive and it affords much better opportunity for citizens to get in positi(xi to v(^ and to participate in party affairs as fully qualified voters. A further advantage is it gives an opportunity to register before the heat of t campaign interferes with orderly thinking and planning.

PAY DAY - Wide pubUcity has be?n given the fact that Judge Richardson Preyer has been confirmed by the Senate as judge of the Middle District N.C. Federal Court. He was appointed last fall too late to have the matter handled by the Senate before adjournment, and it came through just last week. What the news stories did not tell is that the confirmation meant a happy pay day for the judge. Under the rules be assumed the duties of the judgeship and began holding court immediately after his appointment. But he could not draw any pay until confirmed by the Senate. Once amflnned. the pay is retroactive to the beginning of his service. So last week Judge Preyer became eligible to collect at the rate of $22.-500 a year for judicial services rendered since early October. Incidentally, if he had not been confirmed he cmild not have drawn any pay but his judicial acts would have remained in full force and effect.

REGISTRATION The law books set out in some detail the qualifications for voting OQ part of citizens. Actually, there is only requisite for voting. That is proper registration. No matter how well qualified by age. education, residence and all the other items, no per-scm can vote unless his or her name is properly entered on the registration books of his home predDC^.

To encourage and facilitate registoation of all eligible voters Democratic Chairman Bert Bennett has set up a Statewide Donocratic Registration Committee with John R. Jenkins, Jr.. 0 Aulander as chairman. The plan is to have a committee in every congressional district and then in every county to search out unregistered voters, eq?ecially the young ones, and get their names on the bodes as Democrats.

DAVIS When Archie K. Davis announced the other day that he would not seek reelec-tlon to U State Senate from Forsyth county he threw the local politicians in a tlzzj. Also occasioned some concern througiwut the state. Men of his capability and moderate conservatism are needed in the General Assembly and other places of leadership now more than ever. His retirement caught the citizens of Forsyth by surprise and there has been some fancy political footwork in lining up an acceptable successor.

Forsyth has reason to be proud and jealous of its past representation in the Senate. The fact often has been noted that the big counties have not furnished their proper share of legislative leadership. Forsyth is an exception to that rule, so far as the Senate is concerned. Just a few picked at random Gordon Gray, Robert M. Hanes, Irving Carlyle. Calvin Graves, Archie Davis.

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Eastern North Carolina often fails to realize that it has one of its larger industries in military installations scattered throughout the area.

It is generally recognized, we think, that the Marine Air Station at Cherry Ppint is one of the foremost economic influences iD^fhe life of Craven County; that Fort Bragg is the mainstay of the Fayetteville economy today; that Camp Lejeune is the economic giant in the Jacksonville area; and that Seymour-Johnson Air Force Base has made the economy of Goldsboro blossom in recent years. To a much lesser degree it is recognized that these military installaiions spread their economic influence throughout the entire eastern section of the state.

Without them. Eastern Carolina as a whole would be in much poorer shape from an economic standpoint than it is today.

It is of significance that the Defense Depart- -> tii?xio\7 ur\vt7 a Tyr\ ment has asked Congress to authorize construction y xliliJNKl llC'WAKLi projects totaling more than $10 million for military bases in this part of North Carolina during the coming fiscal year. While, in terms of total military

spending by the federal government, this is not con

sidered a large amount, it will be sufficient to have added impact upon the economy of Eastern North Carolina.

Aside from spending for construction on the military bases, however, Eastern Carolina cannot aU know, it's America's fail to recognize the millions of dollars monthly economic mainspring,

pumped into the economy of the section through A good example:

payrolls of military personnel and civilian employes Theres a service station out of these military bases. ^^t has enjoyed semi-

Although miliUry installations were not initial- SlSror''s^ver^5fars"t?SI ly a planned part of the economic development of there were others in the general this area, they have become an important factor in vicinity, there was no compe-the economy of the region. within a half-mile.

Like we said, things rolled smoothly along for several years. Then, just recently, another service station went up right next door.

The new service station, embarking upon its competitive career beside the older business, installed as a part of Its newer design a tremendous umbrella

McN*u|ht Syndictte, Inc.

The ComDetitioh Is Met

COMPETITION, that is the opportunity for it. still is the basis for the spice of life. Things could get pretty drab and lifeless without it. And, as

"n Comparison, Js Easy Going

The great red-and-white-panel-ed shelter was so large a rope-and-puUey rig was necessary to open it. Being perhaps the largest umbrella in Greenville and certainly the largest at any Greenville service station, the tremendous and colorful canopy naturally drew attention of passers-by. '

Naturally the senior service station took note of the huge umbrella. Its operator began to seek a competitive means.

For motorists in the vicinity, his answer to the huge parasol was apt indeed. Shortly after the new service station was open for business with umbrella spread above the gasoline pumps, the elder establishment was adorned with its own umbrella.

Posted above one pair of gas pumps and centered among the beams of several spotlights

was a regular-sized, red-and-black-paneled umbrella.

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) President Kennedy is hip-deep in dilemmas but, compared with some of the other top mens difficulties, he is operating in an atmosphere almost as calm as his own rocking chair.

The President, while struggling with a decision on resuming nuclear testing, had to try to draft an adroit answer rejecting Premier Khrushchevs call for an 18-nation summit meeting on disarmament.

He couldnt afford to brush off the summit proposal lightly since any embarrassment to Khrushchev would ruin his present agreeableness; he couldnt let Khrushchev have a propaganda edge; and he had to leave the door open to a summitmeeting later.

Thats a big order. But at home the President is getting only a little criticism from the Republicans, most busy criticizing tlmselves, and practically none from his own Democrats. Its different with Khrushchev.

He doesnt have that kind of domestic quietness while trying to concentrate on out-maneuvering Kennedy abroad. He has had to wrestle with his Red Chinese allies and even Russian Stalinists who wont buy his soft-sell on communism.

Even Kennedys two biggest allies. British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and French President Charles de Gaulle, are in trouble at home and abroad,

Macmillan, working with Kennedy on dealing with Khruschev, has been under .sharp criticism in Britain. De Gaulle, trying to bring peace to Algeria in Africa, faces the possibility of civil wa' at home be*^ween left and right.

ihere are some solid reasons for Kennedys not dashing off to a summit meeting, just because Khrushchev wants one next month.

Kennedy, like President Ei-.senhower before him. takes the po.sition that before the top

men go to all the trouble of meeting their representatives ought to iron out most of the details.

In the first place, if 18 heads of state went to Geneva March 14 theyd waste days just making speeches before they got down to business at all. That would be inevitable.

In the second pl^ce, an International audience such as Khrushchev has in mind would give him a chance to perform. Its not unfair to think thats exactly what hed do. just as he did when he went to the United Nations.

In the third place, the only thing that counts is the big powers, earnestness or lack of it in wanting to reach a disarmament agreement. In the more than 16 years since the war they havent done it.

If they are earnest now, they can Instruct their regular negotiators to get. down to cases. If the earnestness is demonstrated but the negotiators bog down, Kennedy, Khrushchev and others can have a summit to settle the deal.

Sparky says:

Other E(ditors Saying... The Juvenile Problem

They'll play safe when left with a trained sitter

Charleston (S. C.) News and Courier

The problem of treating juvenile delinquents in Charleston seems about to receive a long overdue airing. This is an issue of national extent. It has provoked violent controversy between those who regard the principal, if not only, concern as the wayward child, and citizens who on the other hand maintain thai society as a whole has prior consideration.

The first group has by and large taken control of the machinery for dealing with juvenile problems. Their rise to power has coincided with the worst outbreak of youthful crime in American history. There is even evidence that methods of the social worker approach to controlling juvenile delinquency has aggravated the problem. The sociologist Hobbs cites studies showing that young people receiving help were less likely to mend their ways than were the uncounselled.

Most arguments on the subject seem to get lost in generalizations about rehabilitation and prevention and understanding. Sentiment sometimes spills all over the place, as when a certain occupant of the U. S. Supreme Court bench tenderly referred to a confessed rapist as this 19-year-old lad.

All thoughtful Americans want troublemakers rehabilitated, whether young ones or old. And these Americans genuinely rejoice when any crime

prevented. They also make allowances for youthful spirits and incomplete social education and training.

But such people are far from convinced that firmness (translated get tough by the bleeding hearts) is incompatible with returning errant young feet to the right path. Nor does it appear likely that adequate punishment is without preventive effect. Few burglaries are committed by those undergoing detention, for example.

As for sympathy and under-.standing, it is the rare adult in our experience unwilling to give the child or young person the benefit of doubt and a second chance. Few parents have not had occasion to say, There but for the grace of God. .

But there Is a point at which the aggressive lad becomes the vicious brute, when the neighborhood gang becomes a pack of marauding young toughs. All the difference in the world exists between the boy casually picking a couple of peaches from a neighbors tree, and the organized raid that strips the orchard and threatens bodily harm to the owner should he try to interfere.

We often feel that both sides in the controversy lose sight of these vital distinctions. Rage as well as softness of heart and head can blur judgment. Clear vision as well as determination will be needed if the problem of the youthful offender is to be brought under control.

EXCHANGITES in the Greenville club are dealing this week with a serious problem.

In spcMisorlng Crime Prevention Week, the Exchange Club has taken the approach that crlmffial activity must be attacked with a positive program and at a proper level.

Reasoning of the Exchange program is primarily based upon the assumpticm that our next generation can be better prepared than the present generation can be cured.

This seems to be sound reasoning. Their contention that proper influence upon youth can direct the next generation away from criminal involvement Is nothing more than a common sense deduction.

Greenville Is fortunate to have among its civic clubs an organization such as the Exchange Club to make an active effort to exert influence toward better individual character among our young people.

While cltlren* of our community cooperate with the Ex-changltes in Crime Prevention Week emphasis, however, it should be remembered that the task they are calling attention to is not merely a one-week job. It lasts all year long, every year.

ODinions

Underlying the fundamental problems of our time is the fateful fact that science and technology have narrowed the world to a neighborhood before man has broadened it to a brotherhood. David Sarnoff.

We have a Bill of Rights in America, and it is the Magna Carta of our privileges. We have no comparable BUI of Responsibilities, for such cannot be written into our laws. It can only be written in the conscience of each one of us.Nelson D. Recke-feller.

Happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens, George Washington.

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By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY Copyright, 1962, King Features

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I receive a critical mall that infers that anymie who believes that Prcskfent Kenned la not doing badly has In some manner lost all his prkiclples and has become a slave to this young man. tt is an absurd concluslcHi reached by those ^ recognize the diffkmlty of our times.

For the first time in decades we are having a debate on

S the people de-

cl^. If the President Is Incap-

iSif li he

.^lefeated. And nobody is called upon to agree with everything that the President says and proposes. No citizen K opon to be a syco-

Pht. We are a free nation and the President Is our servant but he Is entlUed to respect as long as his conduct deserves respect. Some assume that the President needs to be opposed because he belongs to an opposition party. That Is, In the United States, too narrow a reason for oppositions which must be based upon moral criticism.

To date It Is difficult to find a justifiable cause for opposition to President Kennedy. There are some who are bound to find his attitude towards Negroes Is excessively friendly. It Is impossible, however, at this time to complain about a man who recognizes the 14th Amm^dment as binding upon him when he has sworn to uphold the entire Constitution of the United Statea There may be many who resent President Kennedys attitude toward the policies of the Roman Catholic Church. This is a very complex matter, first because the President Is himself a Roman Catholic and secondly because many oppose federal participation In education altogether. There may be some who object to the Presidents position on tariffs. This Is a matter that must be discussed in Congress and it is impossible to assume other than a partisan position on the question, based upon self-interest. For Instance, whereas I can accept most of President Kennedys program, I cannot at all go along with him on the tariff question and what is more, the labor and liberal groups who basically support him, wlU increasingly oppose him on the thriff question. In our system, a Presl-*dent cannot be regarded as altogether unfit unless his broad attitude toward the American system Is antagonistic.

For instance, it was Impossible to be neutral about Franklin D. Roosevelt. He attempted to introduce a novel and different social and political system in the United States, offensive to American traditionalism. Many people favored Roosevelts approaijh to public problems. Many opposed him. He has been dead too Icmg for anyone to take a personal view of the Roosevelt policy.

On the other hand, John Kennedy is just starting and it is not necessary to love or to hate him. It Is much wiser to see what he can do with the exceedingly complex situation that he has to handle.

Those who expect President Kennedy to achieve perfection Immediately are generidly among those who voted against him. Those who favored him, recognize that the President Is a competent administrator who Is building a doctrine of government which may give to younger people a program of government for their generation. This will result In a very interesting intellectual struggle between conservatives and liberals. In the course of the next few years, American youth because they are dlssatisned with the radicalism of the 1930s and 1940s must se^ a new doctrine. The Extreme Right really have no leadership and no program, and therefore cannot be taken too seriously. But the Conservative Right should not be Ignored because they express a notable Intellectual assertion of thought which cannot be Ignored. It is not impossible that before long Attorney-General Bob Kennedy will assume a leadership of the younger generation which will be based upon traditional American Idealism.

The young people who are seeking a Rightist leadership find the Extremists distressing because they represent no (Continued on Page >

I^J Dont im tire a place to start!

Time To Review Postal Outlays

Sfrength For Today

By FAKL L. DOl'GI.A.S.S IN THE .SANCTl'ARY

The seventy-third psalm deals with the prosperity of the wicked. The writer Ls hard pres.'eo to understand how God can allot). wicked men to prosper while good men often seern to fall and to experience trouble. When I thought to know this," he cries with lamentation, it wa.s too painful for me until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understand I their end.

Tliere are many things we never understand until we go into the sanctuary of God. We have failures when according to the requirrmonts of diligence honesty. Indiistry, and apparent worth we should have had success, We have sorrow.s and we cry out. How could this have

happened to me? We have temptations, yet for years we have been praying, Lead us into not temptation. We have in our lives .some circumstance which can never be changed, and every dav we feel frustrated and perhaps defeated because of this circumstance.

We are never going to know the full secret of human life and all its complexity here on earth, of that we can be sure. But we do get an Insight when we summon up all the religious faith we have and carry our dlstie.sslng situations into the sanctuary of God. This may not solve all our problems hut li will start us in the direction of solution. Rome things wil still he fiehlnd the veil, '^h^le must still be faith. But light will l>egin to shine in the sanctuary.

By ELMER ROES.SNER

The possibility of increases s in po.sta! rates makes it im-poriant lor all businesses to review mail operations. Even if increases are not voted by Congressa thin passiblllty review can result in savings at todays postal rates.

Congress Is considering an increase of 1 cent an ounce in first class and airmail postage, a 1-cent increase on post cards and second-class mall. There would be a cent Increase on the minimum third-class mail.

Robert Kaye, president of Agency Publishing Co., and a mail sales expert for more than twenty years, .suggests the following ;

1, A thorough check of mailing lists, eliminating wrong names and addresses and other nixies." and removing names of those nt interested In your offers, SavliiKK in printed matter. etc., may be many times tlw .savings in postane.

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2. Clirrk po.stal .schIp. An error as small as l-64lh of an

ounce can cost hundreds of dollars a year.

3. Consider using the third-class bulk rate for advertising Instead of first class, if the material qualifies.

4. If not, consider using un-.sealed envelopes for advertising, .saving a cent a letter.

5. Use certified mail Instead of registered mail when practical, saving more than 30 cents a letter.

6. Review use of airmail. Do not use it when first class Is faster, (First class between Newf York and Washington is up to 24 hours faster than air mall, for Instance.) Do not use domestic airmail late Thursdays or on Fridays unless you are sure the addressee will not get first-class mail on the following Monday.

WATCH .SPECIAL CHARGES

7. Do not send specisl delivery letters to post offices that do not provide this service, or to mall addressed to box numbers.

8. Plan now to move youi important 1962 promotions be

fore July 1, the tentative date for mall increases.

9. Consult your postmaster about your mail problems. You may find him knowledgeable and helpful.

10. Plan now to make all mail promotions (and Mr. Kaye says this is the most important of all) more effective than ever. A truly effective promotion always produces a profit on mail costs; a weak promotion rarely pays off. no matter what the ^tal rate.

The expert said that the proposed rates may make good promotions more profitable than ever. The higher rates will eliminate shoddy promotions and borderline offers, he said. Worthwhile offers w411 therefore get much more attention.

ments from natiopa largest foundation. A secretary telephoned the foundation suggesting that the duplications be eliminated. You will have to put that in writing, she was told. And the foundation mail, in. quintuplet, still cornea in.

THESE ARE BUTTONS THAT CAN BE USED AGAIN Twenty-four hours after tha government leaked the rtory that it was about to ask the Indictment of a big-shot Wall Street operator for tax finagling. a cigar stand offered buttons with the legend, It Aint Me for 15 cents.

ANOTHER WAY TO SAVE MONEY ON MAILINGS

The foregoing recalls the experience of a company that received five copies each of all publications, releases and state-

THERE ARE FORTUNES IN FORTUNE COOKIES.

Bakers Review reports that millions of dollars wUl be spent on 3(X) million fortune cooklM this year. These cookies, unknown in China, are largely made by machine by a half dozen bakeries In California and New York.