Tuesday, May 8, 1962

Ample Grounds For Estes Inquiry

Vhy Are You Still Here?

prompt anc> thorough and conducted Aoiii?,?*. between officials of the Department of forthrightly without partisan bickering between the Airnculture and Texas financier Billie Sol Estes, political parties, but any such investigration should not be undertaken

with a preconceived political party viewpoint. ^ k i T If

Sufficient questions regarding Estes dealings dOlU0lJlilHO JLS ^>IU1SS with the Department of Agric^ulture have been raised to warrant a complete and unbiased investi- *1 1

gation. The citizens ,are entitled to know whether UdX XX ^#\JLIX XIiSCCti?6'

any favoritism was shown Estes or his associates

in his wid.ekpread agricultural activities. Regardless Something obviously is amiss when 11 prisoners

of party affiliation, members of Congress who may both the equipment and the time to saw their

be called on to make the investigation should do .so forthrightly and let the chips fall where they may.

w'y out of a prison camp and escape during the night.

The incident which occurred at the Pitt Countv

Already the matter of a full investigation into Prison camp Sunday night or early Monday morning the Estes relationship with the Department of Agri- ^ matter which should have the careful attention culture has begun to take on partisan political over-. prison Tuthorities of the state, as well as local tones. Unfortunate as that is. these political, over- Piison camp officers.

tones should not pave the way for an investigation In recent months there have been a number of

purely on political grounds. escapes by prisoners assigned to the Pitt County

It seems to us officials on both sides of the camp. Although most of those prior to Sunday night

political fence should want to Tuiowjust as the have occurred while the prisoners were on work

average citizen wants to knowwhether there was

any improper or unwise conduct on the part of any officials within the Department of Agriculture.** They should also want to know how Estes was able to carry out the deals which he apparently did. If such infcrmarion is not brought to light fully, how are safeguards to be taken against similar occur-ances :n the future?

The investigation of the matter, it seems to us,

Money Problem is Not Solvec.

assignments, it appears to us that the frequency of escapes has been higher than might l^e expected.

Certainly it is not unreasonable for the people of this county to look forward to some explanation of how the prisoners were able to obtain the .saw with which they were able to cut the iron bars that opened the way for their escape. Neither is it unreasonable for the people of this immediate area to expect a sati.sfactory explanation of how the prisoners were without surveilence for sufficient timeeven at nightto complete the job of saw-

By GLEW KEEVER

Raleigh Times Writer Goest Writer *

NOTE TO PROSPECTIVE LEGISLATORS: Forget any Ideas you may have that the mraey problems of the 1963 General Assembly uHl be tame ones.

In one area aloneeducation the problems are apt to be very bit as pressing as they were in 1961.

Impossible. you say. They have the food tax.

They have that, but despite all the food tax publicity, it hasnt satisfied all of educations problems or quenched its thirst for betterment.

The United Forces for Education-main education lobby is already booming the drums with the comment it will take $90 million during the next biennium if North Carolina is to hold the relative national position gained with the $102 million Increase for the current biennium.

Some contend it's a cover-up campaign to try and keep what they haveand it, may be partially that but definite improvements will be requested once again.

And Governor Sanford has already said he doubts the state could foot the bill for an additional $90 million under the present revenue structure.

Hes not going to ask for ad^ ditlonal sources, either, he claims.

But. public education isn't going to present the only educational money problem in 63. Higher education lost some $31 million when the state 'ond issue was defeated last November 7, and. most of that $31 million Is going to find its way Into budget requests for the coming session.

Reports have already circulated that higher education units have asked the state to run cost estimates for them on capital outlay projects that total somewhere between $80 and

$100 -----------------

This doesnt mean all the ttioncy will be requested, but much of it will.

Then theres the matter of , possible new colleges in the state. Charlotte, Wilmington

That's good for the state, but its going to cost money.

And it should make for some lively sessions.

ing through the bars.

The public expect.*; that prisoners will escape from time to time even under the most rigid security conditions, bn llie incident which occurred at the Pitt County camp this weekend appears to us far more serious than the routine escape in which a man manage.s to slip away from a road gang.

NEWSMEN Capitol newsmen w'ill have to wait until the General Assembly session begins next Febraury to find, out if they will be allowed on the floor of the House or Senate. *

.In the old Capitol, newsmen circulated at will, collaring legislators to get his latest \1ews on the state of the state or his explanation of a complex bill.

Word got out the roaming would not be allowed in the new X/Cgislative Building, now under construction here. Seems the legislators at least some of themdidnt think it was dignified to have such goings on.

So the plans call for a pneumatic tufcie from the press g? lery down to the speakers stand, in the House and another in the Senate.

Presumably, copies of bills introduced could be Shot upstairs to the reporters w ho could then file their stories. But. somebody would have to keep the tubes hot if all the bills got explained properly.

Whether to allow the press on the flopr will be decided early in the 1963 session w'hen the aolons adopt rules for the session.

A ruling keepii^g the press in their crows nest would hurt afternoon reporters raofe than those working for moraing papers.

Its the aitemoon boys who have early deadlines with which to contend, and its the.se reporters who need a fast and short explanation of the bills introduced.

And its doubtful they could get it through a tube.

Nothing In This

Constructive r IIG Legislation .

by ALVIN TAYLOR

Across

7he Wafer

]Members of the Senate tomorrow will vote on whether to clo.se off debate of the proposed legislation that would set a sixth-grade education as the only literacy requirement for voting.

If the move to end debate is successful the Senate will go On to decide the issue. If it is unsuccessful, the matter, in all probability, will be shelved for the rest of the current session.

Such legi.lation would be another major .step in taking away from the states one of their traditional powers of setting qualifications for participating in elections. Moreover, it would not eliminate the possibility that some registrars in a few scattered precincts would try to bar from registering persons who should be qualified to cast their ballots.

The legislation offers nothing truly constructive in the broad effort to prevent discrimination against potential voters. If anything, it will provide a device which could be used for greater discrimina- Rames began to disappear. On-tion against individual potential voters than the system of state laws now in use.

Congre.ss and the states should insist that their laws governing qualification of voters be administered fairly to all citizens, but this proposed legislation, it .seems to us, is moving at the problem from the wrong direction.

The Senate would do welTto kill the bill which has held it.s attention for the past two weeks with

A big fire acro.ss the .sound from Atlantic Beach early in the morning is a rather awesome sight but there it was as I awoke in the cottage where I stayed this weekend.

A huge column of smoke arose from it and. high in the sky it gradually dispersed as it floated lazily towards the sea.

The blaze itself was surprisingly vivid considering the distance across the sound waters to the main^nd. As with all extremely bol fires a great yellow ball of fire would occasionally belch .skyward and then disappear into the dense smoke.

I speculated on what it could be as I watched it through the window. It was obviously west of Morehead but it was al.so east of the Morehead-Biltmore Hotel which I could plainly see on the far shore.

Apparently firemen were on the job for after a time the

ly an orange tongue would oc-casionaly lick upward. Then this, too, ceased.

After that, the huge column of smoke turned blacker still, a sure reminder that something had been destroyed.

Later in the day I rose across the bridge to Morehead and then out U.S. 70 to see what it w'as all about. I found the scene of the fire. The Rex Restaurant had burned to the ground.

Jaycees mo.st of us know as young men between the ages of 21 and 36 who carry on an unusually large number of projects in the community. As a club they are sometimes brash and often go against the established order of things in a com?^ munity. ( i

How many of us know^ what et Jaycee is statistically, however?

Well, according to a publica

tion I recently came across, the North Carolina Jaycee is statistically 30 years old. Eighty-seven percent of them are married. One of each three Jaycees is in business for himself and 82 percent have served in the armed forces. The average Jay-cees income is $5,633. He owns 1.22 cars, trading every three years j and more than likely spoils of*one kind or another is his hobby.

Of every 100 Jaycees. 65 are college graduates and nearly 90 attended college. The typical Jaycee has been in his club just over four years and he gives an average of six hours of his own time each week to his clubs civic service projects.

Other Editors Saying. Chopping Constitution

Strength ?or Today

the long debate.

Jrormer UelD Is

Quote Mever Recallec.

and Asheville want them. Surveys indicate Charlotte College if expanded to a four-year in-atitution could expect 10,000

students by 1970.

Its great not to have to worry, anymore^about L1?. and Eddie 'drifting apart. Weve been on pins-andiieedles s long that a lean break is ,a welcome relief. Now we can go back to worrying^ about more timeless things, such a.s whatever happened to Helen Twelvetrees, Ramon Navarros future, and whether Grant was tipsy at Appomatox. Louisville *Ky.i Courier-Journal.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON <APiWhat Jiav4mu-done for me lately?

This is something neither labor nDr,busines& mentions when they howl in protest against government interference w i t h their freedom, particularly their freedom to deal with each other.

President Kennedys troubles with labor and business are piling up just when, luckily for him. his troubles with Premier Khrushchev are quieting down a bit.

His hope of persuading labor and management to keep wages and prices down to avoid inflation got another jolt Sunday from Walter Reuther, president of the AFL-CIO Auto Workers.

In a report to the UAW convention Reuther rejected Kennedys hope sometimes called a formula, although its pretty vague as a long-term goal. He called for higher wages than Kennedy has in mind.

The "free enterpri.se sy.stem hasnt been completely free-real freedom must also include freedonl"^from depending on the government for help since the first Congress pas.sed the first tariff act to protect American producers- from foreign competition.

The desire for this kind of povemrnent help, or protection, is still there. La.st week a .strong group at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce meeting tried to undercut the chambei s limited support of Kennedys proposals for federar aid to companies and workers damaged by rising impoit.s under the pending trade expansion proeram.

Various segments of bu.sine.s.s just like the faimers who want government price supports, are glad to get govemment sub.'-i-dies. tax benefit.s or other hehx Labor, which always /talks vigorou.^ly about freedoim in u^.'.Llrc management, was, delighted with the 1935 Waaier Act which interfered in labor-management relation,s by saying employers must bargain with a union.

Labor wants all the ben''fits it can get, like govemment in sistence upon a minimum " age, a 40-hour woilc week- or Jess * Add up all Jhst bofli sides.^ want in the w'ay of government help which invapably mean.-government intru.sion in their affairs and they are not talk

ing about the principle of absolute freedom.

TheyTe Talking about not wanting to give up any more freedom than ^hcY' can help, without govemment intru.sion. Very often this is a myth, too.

'There hasnt been a steel labor settlement for years without the governments having to take some part in it because the union and the industry couldnt leach solutions themselves.

Last Feb. 28 a presidential railroad commLssion made up of labor, management and public members Issued a report

after studying for many months niOn-raflroad troubles. The mimisii

uni

coiiimisjlon blasted both sides for their failure to get along, u.se their heads and modernize themselves.

This board, incidentally, sug-suggested eliminating 35,000 to 45,000 jobs as unnecessary, although the railroad unions have wanted no part of that.

Last week a Kennedy-appoint

ed three-man board, w'hile recommending a pay raise of about 10 cents an hour for 450.000 railroad employes who dont work on trains, also criticized both .sides for their failure to settle their own problems without involving the aid of outsiders.

Also last week an advisory committee appointed by Kennedy - made up of labor, management and public members figured it w'as about time the government .Should butt into la-bor-management relations a little more by creating fact-finding boards to recommend settlements.

Last month Kennedy had to get a court order to halt if only temporarily a mai'itime .strike. He angered, th stLeljJ'-du.sirv by the pressure he asserted to force a rollback in VI i lenlv ioise<i .steel piices.

This apparenfly angered a lot of bu.sinessmen. a.s' indicated by / Imports on_jhe__reaCtion Kennedy eot when he atdressed the U. S Qhamber of Commerce 'a.st week.

Kennedy facc-s more . troublr with other unions in the montir; ahead

The various reports from om mittres and commissions are building up/he impre.s.sion that labor air! lanageme^t are dragging their feet when it comes to settling their problems intel-Hscntly. -

(Richmond News I^eader)

Id be astounded if mor than one-half of one percent of the people of this country even know its being debated. said the Senator taking part in the literacy test bill filibuster. It Is not the bill alone that is being debated: the whole structure

of State and Federal powers awaits the liberals wrecking crewk

The administration says that Negroes ar being denied the right to vote through improper administration of State literacy tests: its Alice-in-Wonderland

logic requires that the tests be

ed improper administration, ^his ehop-logie chops off the Constitution.

The Fifteenth Amendment is es.sentially a negative precaution; it prevents the abridgment of the right to vote? because of race,-color, or previous condition of servitude. It does not give a right that any race might not otherwise have. But the literacy test bill sanguinely reaches out into the positive qualifications which are specifically left to the decision of the individual States in Article I, Section 2, and reinforced in the Seventeenth Amendment. In the declaration that persons who have completed six pil-mary grades are literate, the bill sets up a positive /standard. To take away from the States the power of defining the qualifications which they are Consti-tutipnally allowed to _ set up . ijnakes these qualifications meaningless.

This bill sets up a recipe for the Federal government to follow wheneveii- it finds racial dis-. crimination In fact even though not in /intent. For New York, this means that Spanish-speaking Puerto Ricans are being

discriminated agatesT^lecause State registration laws require the registrant to be literate in English; one provision of the Senate bill already says that the States rnust accept literacy in Spanish. Furthermore, it is plain that New York further discriminates against this group with its residence requirement. Many States require only six months, but New York asks a whole year; obviously, this intolerable burden is aimed maliciously at the poor Puerto Ricans who predomiilate among the new arrivals in New York.

And so the pattern goes among all -the IStatear

South Dakota requires not only U. S. citizenship, but residence in the U. S. for five years. Florida proscribes those interested in any election wager; 'Virginia, anyone convicted of dueling. And little Rhode Island petulantly denies- the franchise to those residing on lands ceded by Rhode Island to the U. S. Any sociologist worth his salt could prove that these qualifications in fact were aimed at some particular race any race. .

The literacy test is not confined to the South. Twenty States in other directions would have their rights defined away, including the two States with the most recent constitutions: Hawaii and Alaska. California and New York would lose out, most of the New England States, many of the plains States.

All men .should be able to enjoy the rights granted to them in the Constitution. One of these rights is for the citizens of each State to set voter qualifications. It is no gain for anybody to advance some civil rights at the e.xpense of others. Any other logic is devious - or it is not logic at all.

By EARL L. DOUGLASS WHATS THE RUSH?

We are accustomed to the warning, Stop, look and listen. At railroad crossings we give it some attention, but as a general admonition regarding our everyday activities we pay slight attention to it.

In other words, we are all too likely to make hasty decisions and to plunge precipitant-ly into courses of action. There are occasions when we have only a little time perhaps a split second to make a decision. But in most decisions we can take a reasonable amount of time to mull things over.

We speak of hasty marriages. Such relationships entered into hastily frequently lead to the divorce court. We can all remember times in our lives when w'e made a hasty business decision, or decided upon some course of action which we later regretted. There is such a thing, of course, as spending too much time in thinking about an issue, until we become introverted and morbid. But more often we err on the side of too hasty a decision.

Whats the rush anyway? Is it not true that in making most of our decisions we can at lea.st take a little time? If this is true, then let us not make the mistake of precipitant, or perhaps reckless, action. An extra hour, an extra day, an extra year given to reflection on some vital issiie may someday pay big dividends.

A little reflection and self-restraint DOW may 'save a lot of trouble later on.

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

I dropped in to a luncheon which Mary Lasker gives an-' nually to award prizes to some who write about medical matters. Mary Laskers luncheons are interesting because those who are there are often doctors, of 8<Mne sort or other. Sfid the table conversation can be rich. The medical sciences and arts, and their associated disciplines. are achieving wonders not only In prolonging life but in making life more comfortable. As evidence, I offer myself, who, during the past six years, has had all major illnesses and has only missed four days of work.

Even half a century ago, this would have been impossible. I should surely have died by now. Alive, even gay, I laugh at those who these days live iq fear. Feeling very cheerful after Mrs. Laskers lunch, I bought myself a pretty necktie, went up to my doctors and got a B-12 shot, just for fun.

And that is really the whole point of the luncheon and all the speeches that were made except by the politicianas he himself said Abraham ,Ribi-coff, who wanted us all to favor his Ideas about attaching old-age health care to social security. which I do not like, because I have no faith in social security.

It is. of course, tough not to have the money to pay the doctor or the hospital or the undertaker. But then, poverty is always tough and intolerable and is, in many instances, due to shiftlessness and profligacy and an unwillingness to be thrifty and to work hard, and to push along. It is preferable to save for a rainy day as Albert Lasker did.

Nevertheless, it must be noted that as old folks grow older and as children do not like to be burdened with aging parents. something must be devised to safeguard these individuals. This is one of the few countries where there are no beggars; on the other hand, it is also a .-iign of moral decadence. that children do not honor their parents by protecting them from dependence on govemment.

The general cry is that hospitals charge too much, which is true, if one does not have the money to pay the going rates. On the other hand, how much is too much about anything? For instance, when my life was saved from a cancer, I regarded the cost veiy small indeed, becau.se I enjoy living. It is an extremely pleasant episode.

For one who does not enjoy remaining alive but w^ho hopes to take a trip to Hong Kong rather than to pay a doctor, the price is too high. But it is not so long ago that nobody survived certain illnesses which are today handleable by capable doctors an surgeons. This Is what the Lasker Foundation luncheon seeks^ to make known by stimulating interest in medical reporting.

For instance, there was an interesting discussion about retarded children, for which Rolf Hertsgaard of WBAL-TV of Baltimore won a prize. One constantly meets retarded children and even retarded adults. The slow-witted, as they used to be called, are part of our citizenry and have a vote. Apart from the sufferings of their parents and kinfolk, they only too often become bad citizens. The witless often lack _^memoryL or^ey possess lop-sided memories, being blocked on all subjects but one, and that one is sometimes self-preservation which forces them to be liars and cheats.

I can recall, in my childhood, how we used to make fun of such children, but today apparently much can be done for them. The psychologist plays a great role in this reconstruction of children. If only t'^^y could reconstruct some adu 3!

Medicine is no longer, slick your tongue out! The application of every science to the preservation and prolongation of life gives us new responsibilities. For in.stance, the problems of the oldsters grow more serious and numerous every day, particularly as employment rules are made to conform with life insurance company attitudes that are often

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Be careful as you make footprints in the sands, of time, lest you leave only the marks of a heel.Stuttgart lArk.) Leader,

Unrealistic. The problems -aris^ ing from our better knowledge foods are numrous. for we Socially inherit tastes which l)ave been proved medically to be damaging.

iBut the greatest problem today is the unwillingness of the layman to understand that, dur-(Ccntmued on Page 8)

lge CorDorations Earninas

By KL.MER lOE.S.S.N^lR

Each quarter flip Fust Ni-tioiial City Bank of New York compile.s .statistic.s on earnings of large corporations. The fig-_nf ures for the fiist quarter of ^ -

l!t(!2 .show that 44 iron and steel companies had earnings 168 per cent higher than in the fir.st quarter of 1%1.

Profits in the first quarter of 19W were $7052;(HK); in the first quarter of 1962, tltcy were

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At fir.st glance the figures

quarter as users built up in-\ entoiles to protect themselves in event of a strike. Demand caused the industry to operate at a rate of 124 million tons a year, whereas it operated at a rate of only 80 million tons in the first quarter of 1961.

For another, the profits in the fir.st quarter of this year were dowu ;58 per cent from the fir.st quarter of 1960 and dow'n :i3 per cent from the fir.st quarter of

e.ein to sid .stantiate President Kenr.cdys cl-nree that tlie steel companies ido not need a price increase t(^ meet hivher labor costs. But I a closer look shows the figure.s do not nece.ssarily support that,

BEHIND THE FIGl RES

For oncileason, as the bank pointed out, there wa.s--a rush to buy steel during- the first.

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And for still another, profits in the first quarter of 1962 were down 11 per cent from the last quarter of li*61.

De.spite the stCbl companys showingand it was a good showing, despite comparisqn.s-it paled in cpmparj^ion to that 0 40 railroads, whose profits rose from $6.3,57,000 in the first quarter of 1961 to $69.641,000 in the first quarter of 1962, a gain

of more than 1,000 per cent.

Of the 967 corporations in the tabulation, the aggregate gain from the first quarter of 1961 to the first quarter of 1962 was 29 per cent, but the: Change from, the fourth quarter of 1%1 to the first quarter of 1962 was a decline of 9 per cent.

In. the comparison of the first quarter of 1961 to the first quarter of 1962, a group of 77 auto and parts companies showed increased earnings of 137 per cent, and 30 textile and apparel corporations increa.sed

gas and related corporations reported an aggregate gain of 28 per cent, and 40 trade and wholesale corporations reported a gain of 21 per cent.

All other groups showed no gains or shai-p declines. The 40 railroads showed a drop of 62 per cent.

profits by 92 per cent.

Tw'cnty-four nonferrous metal co.rpbrations had increased earnings of 50 per cent. All other groups made lesser gains and none showed losses.

However, in the comparison of the 'last quarter of 1961 to the fii-^t quarter of 1962, all but two groups showed le.sser profits. One group, 59 electric power.

SHORT & SIGNIFICANT , BUSINESS NEWS BULLETINS A new spiral frankfurter is called thq twisterter, . .The Federal Trade Commission has cited a Hollywood company for claiming that Its instant wills'' will solve all inheritance problems. . .A California supermarket Invites each customer to pick her owm special, taking 5 per cent off the price of the item she selects. . .The world cattle and buffalo population Increased 20 million during the last year. rthe Foriegn Agricultural Service reports.

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