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Wednesday, April 18, 1962 ;

Few Can Escape Decision Effects

Few state legislatures within the nexf two spread misgiving in'some sections of the state over years will escape dealing with the problem of the manner in which the representation is now ap-apportionment of representation in their bodies be-, portioned. It was evident, last year and for several cause of the recent court decision. ' prior sessions of the legislature that while some

Already several states have l?egun to feel di- wanted representation reapportionment without rectly the impact of the court decision on legislative changing the method of alloting representation or apportionment. At least one is under a court order ihe total number of members of the legislature, to reapportion its representation or have the job there were others who felt chapges in the structure done by the court prior to the next election. In at legislature should be made,

least one other consideration is being given to call- period between now' and next February

ing a special legislative session to handle the matter, when the legislature again convenes, careful con-North Carolina, while its legislature reappor- sideration should be given to the matter of reapportioned membership in the House of Representatives tionment in North Carolina, particularly as it applies last year, may expect to face the problem again in Senate. At the same time another evaluation

1963, at least so far as the Senate is concerned, should be made of legislative representation as a and possibly in both the House and the Senate! whole, considering the Senate and the House collec-While North Carolina has not neglected the matter lively, as well as separately.

of reappbrtioning legislative representation to the The time between now and when the legisla-extent some other states have, there is still wide- ture convenes couJd prove valuable in 'updating

previous studies that have been made on the matter

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Valued Manual For Reference

By LYNN NISBET

BIRTHDAY - The old man had a birthday last Friday. The number was entirely too high for bragging about youth, and not quite high enough to justlfv pride In old age. Also it feil this year on Friday the 13th. For these reasons not much had been said about the occasion. So there was considerable surprise when early in the morning telegrams began ani\1ng wishing many happy returns, and all through the day came phiHie calls, personal v-isits and maU greetingis. The mystery of how these folks found out about the events was not cleared up until late In the afternoon. And for that story we need to go back a tdt.

SMitetlme ago my niece, Jane, heard me say that I desperately wanted a copy of the 1929 editiwi of the North Carolina Manual to complete the

lina Manual of 1874. On the flyleaf of that volume appears the text of a resolution adopted on February 10, 1874, as follows: Resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring. That the' Secretary of State shall cause to be printed at once and again next winter and biennially thereafter, 'A Manual of North Carolina, containing the constitution of the United States, the constitution of North Carolina, with the names of all the Governors and other executive officers of the' State, Judges of the Supreme and Superior Courts, members and officers of the two Houses of the General Assembly, with such other chronological and. statistical information as he'may deem useful. .

The 1874 resolution goes on to set out how' the Manual should be distributed, and pro-

flle Iroin 1925 to date. Other/' except for the first

cdlticms seemed plentiful but '1929 was apparently very rare. Jane thought it would be'a nice birthday present, and she set out to find the book. In the course of her search she visited or called nearly every State office around Raleigh, many law offices and the homes of some politically-minded folks. She found a copy and it was presented with scane pride ^.acd accepted with very deep appre-ciatlra. The long existing gap In the reference book shelf has been filled. And a lot of people found out that Uncle Lj-nn was having a birthday on Friday. 13th, Hence the avalanche of greetings.

Many thanks to Jane for the bo(rfi, to the dozens of people who aided her in her search for It. and to everyone who sent a cheering message. Let me know when your birthday is nexi irear and Ill send you a card.

MANUALThe North Carolina Manual is one of the most valuable publications sponsored by the State of North Carolina. Each edition contains in succinct form information about the State, its government and bistituticms, which otherwise would require much investigation in many different sources. In this one volume will be found a list of all the Governors from beginning of State history, with biographic sketches of the Governor and other State officers now in office. Also biographies of Incumbent U. S. Senators and Representatives, elected and appointed high level State officials and members of the General Assembly. Names of members of all important boards and commissions, including institutional trustees and examining-licensing boards, and a full roster of all county officials. And texts of the con-atitutions of the United -States and North Carolina: plforms , and plans of organization of the pdltlcal parties, elections returns and many other items of Information about the state.

The search for the 1929 volume discovered an equally valu-aWe copy of the North Caro-

edition there should be no repetition of names except those actually in office.

HOW 4PNG? It has not been discovered how many editions of the Manual were produced under terms of the 1874 resolution. Apparently there were several gaps, A prefatory note in the 1929 volume says that similar manuals were issued by the Secretary of State in 1903. 1905 and 1907, and by the North Carolina Historical Commission, in 1909 and every two vears thereafter through 1927. The Historical Commission continued publication through 1933. 'The 1935, 1937 and 1939 editions, were published by the Legislative Reference Library. In 1941 responsibility for the Dublication went back to the Secretary of State where it has remained.

The 1935, 1937 and 1939 editions were published by the Legislative Reference Library. In 1941 responsibility for the publication went back to the Secretary of State where it has remained.

The impact of the Great Depression upon North Carolina is indicated by the file of Manuals. The 1874 edition contains^ a list of county officers and other information in a book of 380 pages. Manuals produced after the turn of the century ran 350 to more than 400 pages through 1929. Then for 1931 through 1939 a great deal of information was omitted and the little books ran 200 pages or

in order that the legislature will have in its hands when it meets all the information it needs to reach decisions on the matters.

As has been the case in the past several sessions of the General Assembly, reapportionment will be also an issue in the 1963 session.

Shouldnt Hesitate To Probe The Relationship

Congress should not hesitate to investigate fully the relationship between Texas financier Billie Sol Estes, under indictment on fraud charges, and officials of the federal government.

Already two officials have left the Department of Agriculture in recent days because of their links with Estes. It has also been-made public that a member of Congress also has had recent ties with

Estes in that the financier purchased on two occa- q WPMPV HOWAPFI sions stock in a coal mine owned by the congress- *^y llC'WArCLI

man and his relatives.

If any wrongdoing on the part of officials has taken place, congressional investigators should not hesitate to iake known their findings and let the

chips fall vvhcre they may. jj, Madison Avenue terms.

It would be a mistake for any faction to tte^mpt men with good ideas come to make a political football of the incident, b&t it only at a premium price, would be an even greater mistake for officials to Ttemrto'ha

shrug off the matter without ascertaining to what around, extent any officialselective or appointedhave But, just like everybody else been involved with Estes in the dealings for which in the same situation would he has been indicted. say. what is so premium about

good-idea men is that we have

Good Idea Gone Wrona

one of them. Yesslr,. right In our owm midst. Right In our newsroom.

To illustrate the existence of our good-idea man, theres a tale to tellj

Our newsroom, in at least one respect, is strikingly similar to any other newsroorn ypud find galloping alongside the March

Nfo Gomfort For other Editors Saying, The West Here To Cure More, Give More

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) The Red Chinese leadership has openly acknowledged what was generally known: that it jumped too far too fast and fell on its face.

There is no comfort for the West in this. There is not even a small sign the Communists are weakened or endangered.

In Premier Chou En-lai's r port of calamities there is no whine for pity. It seems clear -the Chinese Communists W'iU press the peoples noses to the grindstone even harder.

If the west "or Russia expected three years of disaster to soften Red Chinas attitude toward either of them, they gue.ss-ed wrong. The Red Chine.se are still defiant, still belligerent, still unbending. - .

Chou in a report to the high-

less, With the 1941 edition it -ly secret session of the Natlon-

went bac-k te flJ-4ze. -------

CURRENTExcept for listing the Governors and Lieuten-

tion in light and\iea\'y industry so that an mcreaTe of daily necessities can be realized.

Yet. almost immediately afterward, this same resolution calls for getting a lot of people put of the cities and back to^^lhe farms to turn out food.

There was no sign of even a little change in Red China." foreign policy. Its venom, outlined in Chous report, was still aimed at the West, particularly against American imperialism.

This has been the unvarying Red Chinese theme, repeated through the years, and with increasing pain to tk-* Russians who.se Premier Khruslicbev tried his new line of peaceful coexistence.

Anyone who* remembers the iron will and discipline of the

ant Governors the manuals for some years have dealt only with current information and incumbent officials. One exception was 1913. That edition listed all members of the Congress and the General Assembly from beginning of state history to that date. (Incidentally, this office has a standing offer of ten bucks for a copy of 1913.) There is considerable sentiment for an appropriation to provide continuing that composite story up to now. ,

-.al Peoples Congress- admittedbetween

the time Chiang Kai-shek drove

them into isolation in Chinas

northwest corner in the 1920s

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that Red China has suffered both natural calamities and a messed-up economy for the past three years.

The China mainland underwent severe food shortages in recent years and had to import wheat but Chou indicated this means the Chinese must work even harder.

The peoples communes, set up under Chou, Mao Tze-tung Euid other Red Chinese leaders, have been severely criticized in the West<i on seve- groundsthat they demoralized Chinese family life, had reduced the Chinese to a harsher peasantry than they ever had had, and that, Mao and his friends had far overextended themselves.

There are indications in Chous report that the leadership thinks it may have^^^made some mistakes in handling the communes. But the report shows no thought" Tif'^ahandoning them, just improving them.

A resolution approved by the congress suggests that there will be some changes in the communes but the emphasis will be on even greater effort to produce food to meet Chinas needs.

Some concessions may be made to give the masses some of the necessities of living.

The resolution. Involving a 10-point brogram. spoke of rational arrangement of produc-

(Washington Daily News) The Americam Cancer Society has added to its slogan, fight cancer with a checkup and a check.' a new' and meaningful phrase to cure more, give more,

It has every reason to do so. Twenty-five years ago there w'ere only 160,000 people alive cured of cancer. Today, there are at least 1,100,000 alive and cured of cancer. And the figure is going up each year.

Twent.v-five years ago, it was stated that one out of seven were being cured of cancer. Today, it is one out of three. And tomorrow", if every one had an annual health checkup, it could be one out of two.

Today, some 87,000 Americans die needlessly of cancer each year. They are lost because they did not receive early diagnosis and prompt treatment.

The American Cancer Society says that the possibility of preventing deaths from cancer -are-greater than for aay other

and the time they returned in .1949 to drive him to Formosa could not realistically have expected any softening just because they ran into some setbacks while trying too hard.

chronic disease and that more can be done against cancer than against any other disease.

That is why the Society de

veloped the theme to cure more, give* more, The public must leam what it can do to protect itself against cancer.

This requires a big and costly educational effort,. Statistics show' that about 40 per cent of the population of the country do not know cancers seven danger signals signals that may mean the difference between life and death

Also the Society wants to step up its re.search program. Already a drug has been found effective against one very rare type of cancer. The Society has great hope that in the next few years much can be achieved in the field of immunology prevention of cancer through vaccination. Until research supplies the answer, w'e cannot hope to save more than one out of two of those who develop cancer.

As President Kennedys Conference on Heart Disea.se and Cancer said, this is no time" to sit - still on. research A good w'ay to advance research is to heed the Society's 1%2 theme to cure more, give more.

I^ublic Forum

Ooinions

TO THE EDITOR:,

I am "asking for any assistance you might be able to give me in locating a long lost rela-

dren who could contact me.

I was very young, but It seem.s* my mother mentioned something about being a little

3rief

\ tive. Her maiden name wa^ girl and living in Bethel, and

Congressmen must have shaken their heads in disbelief. Here was the Shah of Iran, the head of a foreign countrya country right next to Ru.ssiaand he was not threatening to join the Soviet Union unless we airmailed packets of foreign aid.Richmond News Leader,

The Wall Street Journal notes that while labor leaders are happy enough about seeing big companies taking their licks, its plain that they have mixed feelings. One of 'tfiei^ tommented: Kennedy is obviously committed to being just as tough on us, if the occasion arises, as he was on the steel companies. And that, undoubtedly, is true. Greensboro Daily News.

Myrtle Moorq. She and her only sister, my mother, was Pearl Moore. After their separation, they never saw each other again. My mother died in 1935, when r was six years old.

It is quite possible that Myrtle Moore has died. She probably married and has living children. If so, I would like to know this, who they are and where are living.

It may be that some person in the vicinity of Greenville will either know- Myrtle Moore or remember something that would bring her whereabouts to my attention, or evep if she is dead, she might have chil-

that is near Greenville. My mother received a postcard from her sister a short time before her death, and it was postmarked Morehead City, North Carolina. Jf my aunt is living she is approximately in her early sixties.

I have tried the Census Bureau. but I did not have suffl- ^ cient information for them to search their records.

Thanking you for any help you can give me in this matter;. I am .

Very truly yours (Mrs. Marvin) DoUie Johnson,

, 800 East Morris Circle

Dunn, North Carolina

of News. Any newsroom that gallops any at all has at least one city directory. We got ours.

And our newsroom, in at least one more respect, resembles the other members of the Clan. That is, the city directory so helpful in helping identify people tangled into the tramping March of Newscan never be found when it is needed.

Naturally, the reason for Its consistent absence in time of need is bred and maintained by the people in its habitat. Though theres still ample space on the shelf for city directories, the current volume is never there.

It may be found under masses of old newspapers, in the photo darkroom, behind the mi-. crofilm reader, even beneath the clutter on a cluttered desk occasionally. Wherever its hiding, theres always a 10-mlnute search involved in re-discovering the city directory.

Repetition has nearly developed the search into a kind of ceremonial: everybody in the newsroom slows to a trot and combs through the premises in a systematic fashion until somebody hollers: Okay. Here it is.

The search always is conducted on the basis of this profound axiom uttered one day by one of our more philosophical members: The city directory will be found somewhere beneath the point of its last previous usage. Strangely, this system works.

But the elaborate, systematic and fruitful method of searching is now wasted. And all because of our good-idea man. We prided ourselves 4a -the eificl-ent manner we displayed in fulfilling Arnold Toynbees prophesy that we would respond properly to the challenge.

Our good-idea man rendered our response null and void, and useless, too. He'was just too logical, this good-idea man.

He cleaned the two-year-old cobwebs from rthe slot at the end of the Old-City-Directory shelf. Into that fateful slot he slid the current city directory. There it sat, in its proper place.

But it found its rightful home before its retirement and now, nobody can find it.

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If atomic power becomes economically competitive, even in the high cost areas, its advantage over conventional power-will be marginal. It ^ill have Achieved success under the forced draft of government aid.Christian Science Monitor.

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

I recently wrote an articl denying that there was any plan in the Department of Justice to rembve the Director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover. The reason for that article was to nip In the bud rumors spread by both the Left Wing and the Ultra-Right Wing that such^ a plan was in the making. Both sides have been taking advantage of the Attorney Generals speeches. In my own account, I quoted from a press clipping which surprisingly left out pertinent sentences, the omission of which may have helped start the rumors.

The position of the Attorney General,- Robert Kennedy,, is this;

The Communist Party has no political power in the United States and has no political fol-low'ing. The Communist Party has been rejected by the American people due to the work of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Congressional committees and the press. So, from a political -standpoint the Communist Party is not a threat.

However, there Is a second paragraph which was over-condensed but which is very much more important:

The Communist Party hi the United States does represent a danger to the extent that it is dominated, controlled and financed by the Soviet Union. I have pointed out that it is possible for the 8,000 to 10,000 members of the Communist Party to aggravate a specific situation and, of course, I recognize that a minority sometimes, operating through a front organization, can wield Influence and power out of proportion to Its numerical strength. However, I have said that this is a matter for the FBI; that the FBI has done a superb job, and is continuing to' operate effectively in this field. So, I believe that the way to deal with this problem is through the FBI and I also believe that Congressional committees and the press can be of great assistance/

Surely, this is a correct position and it does give full credit to the magnificent services of the FBI under the directorship of J. Edgar Hoover and to the Congressional Committees on which the Attorney General cut his legal eye-teeth.

I am glad that I made inquiry as to the Attorney Generals position because those who down-grade the services of J. Edgar Hoover are not helping the United States in its present crisis. Furthermore, those, on Left or Right, W'ho for political reason or personal pique, are stinlng up a whispering campaign about quarrels between Bobby Kennedy and J. Edgar Hoover, -simply do not know what they are talking about. '

It must be remembered that the FBI is a department in the Attorney Generals office. It is not an independent agency. Hoover, who developed the FBI and has been its chief for 38 years, could have gone to Congress and requested another form of organization. He has served under Presidents Cool-

itigtj, riuij V cr, Xvuoscvciiy j. ru-man, Eisenhower and Kennedy, a rare record for a public official. Since he has headed the FBI, that agency has been untainted by scandal, although it has often been attacked by Communists and fellow-travellers. Why the Ultra-Right Wingers now seek to give the impression that a qdarrel exists between Hoover and Kennedy Is difficult to understand.

'Hi' the second year of President Kennedys first term, he is beginning to discover that popularity takes Its toll." Now the NAACP, the Negro defen.se organization, complains that he is dragging his feet! Precisely how much more he can do to satisfy Negro aspirations in a short time, it Is Impossible to say. So Newsweek publlsh-CvS' a story that the Liberals have become cool to the Kennedy Administration. The A, D. A. apparently expected to take over. Ja?ertl Rauh, the A. D. A. leader, is quoted to say. Compared to the high hopes* we had, hes a bitter dis- (Continued on page five)

Shelter Business On The Rocks

Strength For Today

By EARI. L. DOIGLASS QUIET HOURS

There is riq record of any of our Lords activities on Wednesday of Holy Week. No doubt he spent it in sclusion. Perhaps he was in the home of one of the disciples, or in the home of Mary, the mother of Mark, ^or perhaps he wandered alone over some quiet countryside facing the doom \^'hich he knew to be approaching and preparing his soul to meet the ordeal. This day should impress us with the nece.ssity for times of quiet, retirement, and reflection in our everyday life. Our generation loves ^ction. We have ac-.complished more than any generation in history, but we are also in danger of losing certain important values. For it cannot * be denied that in hour* of quiet

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and in, places of seclusion God often speaks to men certain important messages which He does not utter amid the clamor of everyday living.

In other words, we need our daily period of quiet and prayer. We need times when we, close the ^oor of our hearts and minds to the world and reach up to see if we can more perfectly apprehend the presence of God and come more perfectly to understand His holy purpose.

Je.sus himself had to have a quiet day, a period of solemn reflection, before he could confront the cros.s. Perhaps we fail often in life. becaa.'se we try too hard because too inifre-quently do we listen for Gods word of guidance and reflect upon His truth,

By ELMER ROESSNER The fall-out shelter business, once haUed as a potential bil-lioq-dollar-a-year industry, has become a puling, sickly thing.

Many small companies organized to ride the wave of demand for shelters, are quietly folding. Some are going broke. A California company sold out . its shelter units for a few cents - on the dollar the other day. Many of the larger industrial corporations, which set up sub^ Eidlaries to produce shelters and equipment for them, are gently liquidating the subsidiaries or trying to find something else for them to make,

- Some companies, when new, had bursts of sales when the Administration was warning the families of the nation to protect themselves against possible . fall-out.-Then came the quick fading of sales and, with it, suspension of activities.

CANNED "WATER AS MIXER

into new buildings. Some of those making accessories are surviving. Canned water, devised to provide uncontaminated water in \ shelters, is finding a steady market as a drink mixer, especially in areas where tap water is heavily chlorinated or otherwise unpleasant to the taste^

Why so many businessmen got into the shelter business is no mys^ry. Washington started a flap of press-agentry; it looked as if the Administration would pound away until it got a large part of America underground. But the propaganda became diluted.

As families became skeptical, the government itself seemed to be confirming their doubts.

The government kept putting up post offices and other Federal buildings without extensive anti-blast and anti-fall-out systems. Some are reported to have them, but if they have, few people know about it.

Some of the shelters companies are carrying on. A few are -WHERE ARE THE making steady sales, especially SHELTERS? those who incorporate shelters Large blocks of apartments '"area there

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were started with government funds, but as far as sidewalk superintendents could see, there were no enormous shelters built into the foundations. And in getting government guarantee of a mortgage, there are many prerequisites but not one of them fequires a family shelter with self-su.staining ventilation systems.

There is a large bloc of employed, but me government has taken no steps to put them to work digging shelters for schools, universities, museums, apartment houses or critical industries. I can figure this out for myself, Is the natural reaction of a " father wondering whether he should build a family shelter.

It has been reported that there is an extensive shelter system for the White House but, since Jacqueline Kennedy has not taken the nation on a television tour of it, the public has no knowledge of it.

buried deep in a mountainside. But these are just rumors to the average American family.

If there is no evidence that the Kennedys have dug a shelter for Caroline and John Junior, " why should the Doakes dig a backyard shelter for Debra and Derek? , ^

And there are certain traits in the American which restrain him from crawling into' the earth.

NOT GAMES OF CHANCE.

BUT TAXABLE ANYWAY

The Internal Revenue Service, in its wisdom, has decided that skee ball alleys and pokerino tables which depend upon the skill of the player, are coin-operated amusement devises, despite the fact th^t prizes are awarded for cer-, tain high scores. Accordingly,' anyone maintaining su^h devic

es is liable for a $lO-a-year tax on each device. Operators have little if any complaint. If the There are rumors that there -* IRS found they wqre games of Is a vast shelter for the Con* - chance instead of games*- of 'gress, arid that in some isolated skill, the gambling taxes would another Pentagon, be heavier. i