Frjdar, April 20, 1982

Area Goal Backed By The Record

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Attorneys for the cities of Kinston, Goldsboro and Gxeenville was undertaken seeking service and Rocky Mount have pointed the accusing finger only for their own communities** rather than for at Greenville with the assertion that . . Green- the avowed purpose of acquiring an area air facility villc alone, under the pretepse of area needs as for this section of the state.

opposed to civic pride, seeks to delay vital air ser- Such a statement is, in our opinion, wholly

vice to her sister communities, without foundation.

The statement refers, of course, to the action Greenville, in the past decade, has participated

of Greenville in asking reconsideration of the recent in every effort in this area of the state pointed to-CAB decision in the Piedmont Airlines case in which ward an area airport, it should not be necessafjr air service was denied a joint Wilson-Greenvillc to remind the outspoken attorneys of the three cities request. that at one time or antther each of the c,ommunfties

Contrary to what the statement of these three they represent has given consideration to a joint other cities implies, there is nothing vindictive in air facility only to pull out of the effort to adopt action which Greenville has taken, and certainly a go-it-alone attitude. The decision not to cooperate there can be no justified criticism for the action of in seeking to^iying \ joint air facility to reality consideration of the decision. Otherwise was theira, not Greenvilles or Wilsons.

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asking reconsideration why would the CAB regulations provide for such a course following announcement of its decisions? It is obvious, we think, that had the shoe been on the other foot one or more of the cities that now so piously rap Greenvilles action would have asked for reconsideration.

The ^atement of Kinston, Goldsboro and Rocky Mount also asserts that the joint effort by Wilson

nusual Delay Distribution

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By LYNN NISBET

RECORDS C(uiderable complaint is being voiced around the state over the unusual delay in distribution (g the Journals of the 1961 General Assembly. The Journal is the only authoritative record of action taken by the Legislatureand in many instances that Information is Incomplete and unsatisfactory. As the campaign for nomination and election of members of the 1963 General Assembly warms up many of the 1961 readers as well as their opponents are anxious to have the Journal support for claims (rf how they voted <i key bills last time.

The 1961 session adjourned m June 22. almost ten months ago. Immediately after adjournment the principal clerks ai the House and Senate began to get the Journals, the day by day record of proceedings, in shape for the printers. After the main text had been page-numbered and proof-read there was 4he big Job of preparing the index. Usually that process takes fmir to six months. The 1961 Senate Jwimal came from the printers several weeks ago but the House Journal Is not yet available. Legislative candidates are getting restive.

Republican Chairman Bill Cobb, who is a candidate for the Senate in t Burke county district, was in Raleigh the other day clcking m ttie Journals. He indicated he would make partisan political capital out of the delay in publication, implying that it is a deliberate attempt to protect certain Democratic officials from their own records.

Hugh Cannon, director of ad-ministrati(Hi. who has taken a prominent part in preparing the case for the State, suggested fnn the start that the indi<^-ment should be for the misdemeanor counts, but that Solicitor Chalmers insisted on the felony chaise. The back-off from the more serious charge was announced some two weeks after Charles Hagan, former solicitor in the Guilford-Davidson district, had been employed to assist in the prosecuticxi.

This matter has followed unusual course from its beginning. News flrst brcdce on a Sunday afternoon when Governor Sanford announced that Robert^ A. Burch had been summarily" fired from his podtioD as a highway department engineer for being too closely associated with Kidd Brewer, who represented several signs material suppliers. Generally such announcements come from the affected agency.

FOLLOW UP Later the SBI investigated and it was stated that the information discovered had been turned over to the district solicitor and that the matter is now in the hands of ttie courts. But Hugh Cannon, director administration and one or more of his assistants made trips out of tie state seeking evidence supporting the States position. Meantime, Brewer and the Burches have insisted on speedy trial while the solicitor pleaded he was too busy with other cases to prepare for trial of this one. In most instances of delayed trial it is the defendant who asks deferment.

BACK UP ~ After nearly three months during which the defendants have sought to have their cases tried and the mUcI-tor baS' postponed actimi.'^ Solicitor Lester Chalnrs has asked for a nol pros in the felony charges against Kidd Brewer. Robert A. and Robert M. Burch In coonectiMi witi the highway signs matter. At the same time the solicitor oMained indictments of these three defendants and flve others on the lesser charge of a misdemeanor. The fact the misdemeanor charges are bndccn down into 12 separate casea is not important because essentially one offense is alleged.

tThe original felony charge was for cOTispiracy against the State. The new charges allege vlolatiOT of a law which forbids Influencing agents and servants In violating duties owed employers. This represents a substantial retreat for the State. Even 80, the defendants are having a hard time getting an early trial.

Gossip hereabouts is that

DOUBLE DUTY ~ D. O. Bell, unopposed candidate for the House of Representatives from Carteret county, is presently expected to r^ign from the Highway Commissiix] around the first of September. It is not a new rtory for Bell. He was appointed to the Board at Ccm-servation and Development after t 1959 Legislature adjourned, but resigned from that board to serve again In the 1961 session. Soon after adjournment of that session be was appointed to the highway commission, thus vacating his legislative seat. Governor Ssmford has said he would like for Bell to stay wtth the highway Job until the current work seasra Is about over.

There have been numerous other Instances of men rotating in and out of the Legislature to take other official posts in State Government. To an outsider who didnt know better this might look like North Carolina did not have enough good men to fill the offices without requiring double duty from some of them.

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Greenville in the past has not undertaken any effort for area air service under false pretense, and it is not doing so now.

Pitt Products Could Well Get Emphasis

The' state-wide promotion by the C & D to attract attention to North Carolina products is an undertaking in which most communities of the state could profitably participate.

During the week set aside for the event, stores, restaurants and other business places are being asked to give the red carpet treatment to items produced in North Carolina. It affords an opportunity for each community and county to emphasize at the same time products which are produced in its immediate area.

'The program is pointed toward making Tar He^s more aware of the items produced in their own state with the idea that the greater the volume

of sales items, the more the economy of the state p i'lOM TirMV

will be strengthned. It follows also, that the great-er the volume of sales of an item produced in a x T community or a county, the greater the economy of that smaller area is also strengthened.

Pitt County should exert every possible effort to generate participation of local business concerns in the state-wide project. In doing so it would be only natural to give proper emphasis to items produced in this county. *

Hero Of An Anniversary

No, these tired old eyes do not deceive me.

A publicity kit pertaining to observance of the tobacco industrys 350th anniversary

The broad array of items which would bear se?ond^tree?^Ne'w^ the made in Pitt County label would probably ^

surprise many people who consider themselves thoroughly familiar with the economy of the county and what is produced here. It may take considerable effort on the part of many citizens to arrange a number of creditable displays of items produced in transporting, and co^umption

Pitt, but it would be a worthwhile undertaking. ^{tention'from New* York.

We are confident the Pitt Development Com- North

ijfji.i.j'-i i. it* Carolma. Not South Carolina;

mission would find the development groups of m- ot Georgia.

dividual communities as well as manufacturers and still and all, the presenta-

producers most cooperative in arranging such dis- tion is good and a reader is

bound to find something of particular interest.

Commemorative ceremonies are scheduled in May, at

The postmark confirms all this ... an occasion of historical significance to the multitude sharing in the production. selling, processing.

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Jamestown, Va.

You might, and might not, know that John Rolfe is the hero; and he must have been quite a guy.

English colonisation efforts failed at Roanoke Island, Newfoundland, Elizabeths Island in present Massachusetts. and at the mouth of the Kennebec River in Maine.

Jamestown marked the turning of the tide; and Jamestown survived only because John Rolfe developed tobacco as a marketable product.

John is best known for marrying Pocahontas the Indian maid, but his first shipment of tobacco to England in 1612 spelled the difference between a dying colony and one that would last.

That first shipment consisted of only a few hundred

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Other Editors Foot In The

Saying... Door

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) Day to day living in America seems as broad as American life and yet one event after another demonstrates how much this life is shaped by forces far beyond America.

One example was President Kennedys news conference Wednesday when so many wide-ranghig questions seemed unrelatedsteei, business, disarmament, labor, prices, "profits, Berlin, nuclear tests, campaign costs.

Yet, almost all were Interlocked and hinged on the cold war with communism even when there seemed no connection and communism wasnt mentioned.

The same holds true in one after another of these meetings between the President and the press.

He started off Wednesdays session by saying a npw American disarmament plan had Just been outlined to the Russians at Geneva. Here the cold war connectiwi was direct and obvious.

He followed this with a statement on his conflict with the steel Industrya conflict he won when steel backed down on its prl^ increaseand how he has no ill-will toward the men responsible for the short-lived price boost.

He acknowledged the need of American business to make profits and sai(l^There can be no room on either side in this country at this time for any feelings of hostility or vlndlc-liveness.

But his reasons for not wanting a price spiral to start at this time, when hes trying to keep the economy on an even keel, are rooted in the cold w^ar. The United States is up to its neck in spending on armaments.

A genera] increase in living costs, meaning also Increased defense costs, would jeopardize the economy and boost govern

ment expenses, at a time when the United States must stay financially sound to cope with communism and meet its commitments around the world.

Further, higher prices would cripple this countrys ability to sell abroad, particularly to its allies or in competition with them elsewhere, at the very moment it wants closer trade ties with them.

Greater Western prosperity, particularly American prosperity, is vital In discouraging the ambitions of communism and in stiff-arming it in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

This Is an endless chain.

There was. of course, a direct cold war link when Kennedy said this country now seems to have no alternative ,to nuclear testing since Russia wouldnt agree to an effective test ban treaty. The implications here were more grim than his simple statement showed.

Because there is no agreement not to test there is no reason to think txrth sides wont just go on testing and talking about not testing.

France came into the questioning but here, too, it was cold war stuff: How did he feel about sharing nuclear weapons with France? He Indicated he was still against it.

West Germany also got Into the questioning. This, too. involved the cold war. It was on the problem of reaching a settlement with the Russians on Berlin.

EvexL KennedyJ!fi_fc announcement of forgiveness for a couple of Army reservists who were critical of his calling them to active duty had a connection with Russia.

It was after talking with Premier Khrushchev, and listening to his warnings about Berlin, that Kennedy called up Reservists to show the Russian this country didnt intend to knuckle under.

(The Wilson Times)

The position the Department of Agriculture takes on selling united tobacco on the South Carolina and Border belts will be more far reaching than many realize. The Wilson Tobacco Board of Trade resolution opposes the sale of the untied tobacco. The request now is for the first five days of the market. 1

With a foot in the door, it could mean eventually all tobacco will be sold loose and this could revolutionize the entire tobacco industry as it is now knovro,if carried-to its ultimate conclusion.

All tobacco sold on the Georgia and Florida markets is untied. We are told that the buying companies cannot handle any more of the untied tobacco unless they mechanize to handle it.

If the buying companies install the machinery to handle the untied tobacco it would be good business to buy it all at $6 a hundred cheaper. This Ls the differential between the tied and untied tobacco. And it covers the labor cost of tying we are told.

Lets carry this a step further. If all tobacco is sold untied, consider the loss in wages to a group that has no skills. This was said to be in excess of $51.000.000 in 1961 the equivalent of several major industries.

We were discussing the subject with a tobacconist and he remarked it flightens you to contemplate it.* He went m to say that America is having a

hard time holding Its foreign trade in tobacco now and that the foreign trade Is not ready for loose leaf tobacco.

Rhodesia ties and grades the tobacco raised In that country. It is sold in bales. We are told a good job Is done of grading and tying.

We know that many farmers favor the selling of loose leaf tobacco. Their contention is that it saves labor, time and effort. This is true, but this labor is paid for in the $6 differential in the prices paid between type' 14 as sold on the Georgia and Florida belts and types 12 as sold on the Eastern markets.

Think of the leaf dealers it would put out of business, the many who work for the warehouses, the ones who tie tobacco. It could change our' economy.

If the day comes when tobacco is bought directly from the producer you are eliminating the major competition, as represented under the auction system. Competition in this instance holds up prices.

The USDA wUl make the decision as to whether South Carolina and the Border belt are to be granted five days of sale of the untied tobacco. The eastern markets oppose the request. The opposition comes from all quarters of the industry, the exporters, manufacturers, the warehousemen, and the thousands that depend on tobacco for Jobs in the fall.

All this may come, but when it does wp will have much adjusting to do. For it will change the--ent4re tobacco economy as it is now known. ^

pounds but six years later the colony shipped more than 40,-000 pounds. Historians - say cleared land was so scarce the people were growing to-bsicco in Jamestowns muddy streets.

About Rolfe himself, no one knows what he looked like. There are no sketches or illustrations.

Something about his life, aside from his tobacco and Indian interests, are known.

Rolfe and his wife sailed from England in 1609 when he was 24 years old. They were shipwrecked at Bermuda, where a daughter was born and died; and reached Jamestown in May 1960 where Mrs. Rolfe soon afterward died.

John asked permission to wed Pocahontas in 1614, and two jrears later they went to London where Lady Rebecca (as she was known) died in 1617 as she was about to return to Virginia.

A son, Thomas, later followed his father to Virginia and married there. Through him many Americans can trace their ancestry to Pocahontas, Including such well-known names as the Bollings and Randolphs.

John Rolfe is believed to have died In an Indian massacre in 1622.

His accomplishments and the subsequen t role of tobacco in American history are logical subjects for a big party in Jamestown.

A program is planned, including re-enactment of the planting, packing and loading of the first tobacco crop, sailing a replica of the Susan Constant (one of the original Jamestown ships), unveiling a life-size statue of Queen Elizabeth I, and sundry other affairs.

It sounds tame as contrasted with the high drama qf Rolfes times.

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Are we too soft toward the drinking driver? In Sweden a driver with .04 per cent alcohol in his bloodstream is considered over the threshold of intoxication. A reading of .06 per cent costs him his license and a $250 fine and one with .15 per cent draws one to three months hard work behind prison walls. In some states, a reading between .05 and .15 per cent is regirded as only relevant in court and not an index that a man was too drunk to drive.aBetheJ^'(Ohio) Jour-, hal.

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By GEORGE E. 80K0LSKT

Copyright. 1962, King Featuret Syndicate. Inc.

In retrospect, the only real significance of the case of Kennedy vs Steel is that by a single act the President has expanded the power of his offica without legislation. This was attempted by Franklin D. Roosa* velt throughout his regime, but no matter where else Roosevelt succeeded, he never actually gained complete control of the economy. The National Recovery Act was an attempt in that direction but the NRA was declared unconstltuUdcial In the Sick Chicken Case.,It was be-yong question a fasclstic measure and it la interesting to note that its true nature was not generally recognized until It reached the Supreme Ctourt.

President Kennedy has been able to gain controLof the economy because the government is the principal customer of manufactured goods. Roosevelt

sought to establish a similar control by creating yardstick" businesses; that Is, companies engaged In manufacturing heavy goods in competition with existing companies. At first It was contemplated that the government would own such companles, but wiser

counsel prevailed and loans

were made through the Recon--^truction Finance Corporation

and other agencies to accomplish the same end. The various Kaiser enterprises started that way.

President Kennedy has developed a "different concept. The government will neither own nor operate these enterprises, but It will control prices. The United States Steel Corporation precipitated this by*4ts inept and inopportune. announcement that it would raise prices. Good public relations indicated that such an announcement would only have been sound after the new wage agreement had been In operation some time and the evidence was clear that the price was insufficient to maintain efficient plant and equipment. The President was able to Ignore this question because the industry faUed to make it clear to the people. Businessmen usually do not grasp the essence of public relations and therefore failed to prove their point or to have any sense of timing.

The President was able to mobilize his entire Cabinet, particularly the Departments of Justice and Defense to fight this battle which soon enough Involved the questions of inflation, of trusts, or cartels to control prices, of defense contracts. It was on the rock of defense contracts that the steel industry split, for if some companies did not receive defense contracts, their production would be trivial. After all, the steel industry was hardest hit during the Depression and was rescued by government contracts and by war.

A government control Is rarely beneficial for... any business, what with shifting sped-tions, whimsical controls, and re-negotlations long after the goods have been delivered. Nevertheless, when it is the best business available. It becomes prime. Today, the American steel Industry exports about as much steel as is imported. The peril is that we shall import so much steel as to endanger our home Industry. This the Department of Defense can hold over the head of the Industry. Therefore, companies largely or wholly dependent on government must function on the principle that the customer is always right.

The President has won a victory in the expansion of Presidential powers and has established the fact that his hold on his Cabinet and on Congress Is complete, but he has frightened privately-owned enterprise and the private Investor beyond anything that had heretofore been experienced. 'This Is a by-product of the Presidents press conference and his Implied attack on profits which did not go over well.

The President does not hava Roosevelts gift of sarcasm. When Roosevelt employed this rhetorical device, it was like a piercing rapier. President Kennedy can display anger but no nastiness. Therefore, his refer--ence to pi^^its only frigbteaad.-^ (Continued on Page 9)

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Bight Ahead Over FTC

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASvS

THAT DIVINE PA-TTERN

Think of what a day Friday of Crucifixion must have been in our Lord's life. He knew hinrself to be the Son of Go<l. He was con.scious of the fact that he had lived a perfect lile. He had turned pain into rejoicing. He had healed the broken-hearted and lestored the sick to health. Best of all. he had led men with new power aiv unde 1 standing to the throne of God. And for all this he was to be not exalted; accepted, praised, crowned. Instead he was to have a crown of thorns pulled down upon his brow in derision of his kingly claims He was to be struek,fover the hear by soldiers who bowed before his alleged royalty jn mockery. He was'to be crucified ( a hill outside the city

No wonder he experienced what has come to be called the Agony of Geth.semane. He wa.s human enough to want to avoid this suffering and .shame 11 it could be don consistently with the w'ill of God. But his final words were, Neverthele.ss not mv will but hlne be done. No wonder there appeared unto him an angel from heaven strengthening him. When people meet life in that spirit God always sends the supporting angels

We do not know just how the shedding of Christs blood brings about the for'- enes.s of our sins, but the assurance of the gospel is that it does just this.

Crucifixion is a divine pattern to which God Himself conformed and to which we must conform if we enter into the fullness of His love.

By ELMER ROESSNER

One of the* most bitter fights in Congress will be over President Kennedys renewed insistence that a law be passed giving the Federal Trade Commission power to issue cease and desist orders again.st suspect business practices pending hearings and final decision.

The bitterness will be deepened by Pre.sident Kennedys action in forcing a rollback of steel prices. Opponents of Pre.sident Kennedy will charge that the hTC proposal Is part of an Administration program to strait jacket business. In addition, Congressmen will be under Inten.se pressure from bus-Ine.ss interests in their own areas who fear the FTC will abuse added powers.

And the coming scrap will not be softened by the fact that there are convincing arguments on both sides of the question

Under the present law the FTC, can bring action again.s a company or Individual suspected of unfair trade practices: for making false claims tor granting illegal discounts, for restraining trade and so on.

The accused is given a hearing and eventually is ordered to abandon questioned practice, or the complaint is dismissed. Decisions may be appealed to Federal courts.

Under the Kennedy proposal, wlien the FTC makes a complaint it would be allowed to order the accu.sed to cease the practices pending decision.

The arguments against this is that It makes the FTC prosecutoif judge and jury; that It applies penalities even before guilt. Is established, and that it gives dictatorial powers to the commission.

The loudest argument will be that the proposal would give the Kennedy Administration tremendously more power to shove business around.

It will be pointed out in Congress that if the proposal were broad enough and if it were in effect l^t week,, the FTC could have ordered the steel companies to desist (rom raising prices until after it had ruled on their legality, which might take a year or two.

WHAT OF LOSSES?

It will also be argued that

innocent companies could be penalized into bankruptcy by use of this power. A company might be ordered to cease a certain advertising claim. Months later the FTC might dismiss the complaint or the courts might set It aside. By that time the company might have lost incalculable sales and profits.

And there is no recourse. If a business loses a million dollars in* consequence of an Incorrect FTC complaint it would have only an income tax deduction at best.

On the other hand, the arguments for cease and desist powers are equally strong.

At present, many businesses go right ahead with questionable practices, knowing that It will take the FTC a year or two to halt them. By that time the practice will have gained its end, or the compahy wl be ready with a variation, PUBLIC FOOLED

A case in point 1s that television commercial in which sand appeared to be shaved from sandpaper after being lathered with a certain soap. After

months of Investigaticm and hearings, the FTC ordered the commercials be stopped because it was not sandpaper, but a plastic film, that has been shaved. But by the time the FTC order was issued, the campaign was at an end'.

There are scores of other cases, many of which will probably be cited in Congress. Claims for toothpastes, liver pills, other medicines, home accessories and various services have ranged from extravagant to downright dishonest. But by the time the FTC could force stoppage, the campaigns were over, the sales made, the profits banked.

In fact, if an old pnxnoter has a slick way of fooling the public about his product today, there is only conscience to prevent him from launching a tricky advertising campaign and get rich. By the time the FTC gets a cwnplaint, investigates it, holds hearings, reaches 4k. decision and sustitin an appeal to the courts, two years will have passed. And in two years, almost any old promoter can think up a new slick Idea.