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The Legislative Date Is Involved

n* school officials of Greenville and take any action, necessary.

Pitt County look toward the beginning of another Already there are areas within the corporate terin in September, it is evident there will be more limits of the city 6f Greenville that lie within the students enrolled in schools this fall than last, and Winterville school district. As Greenville continues the enrollment is expected to continue its upward to grow and its corporate limits continue to expand, course m subsequent years. the problem will become more complicated. Cer-

It is also evident, on the basis of this increase thinly it is logical to expect continued growth of

in enrollment, that in some areasand particularly i^y i*^ fke years immediately ahead. And it fti

in Greenvilleadditional classrooms are going to just as certain that construction of new school ' be needed to house these students. facilities cannot be delayed for several years if

Attempts to make adequate plaM for future increasing numbers of students are to have class-expansion of physical facilities for public schools room space.

in Greenville have been hampered bv the problems best interest of the school systems is to

which exists over the countys school district -lines soned. it is imperative that the school boards find the bonded indebtedness of the individualschooT ^**^^^^^^^ give their attention to the problems districts. Until some satisfactory method is found Pr^'ented by school district lines.' to resolve this problem, it will be almost impossible

truction to be doife.

planning for sehoorcon^Qj.g XhOll A CaSUOl

In all probability any adequate solution to the XN problem that may be arrival at by local officials L/aV vJl CJOSSerVClllCe

will require coiicurrance by the states legislature ^

^because of the

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. , ^ general statutes governing school

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School official? and the boards of education of Greenville and Pitt County should give serious and concerted attention to the problem of school district lines and come up with some solution to the problem before the legislature convenes. The

Tomorrow is Flag Day, but it isnt just a date pluciked out of the calendar and set aside as another special day. It is a day of special significance for Americans everywhere because of its two-fold historical importance.

On June IJ, 1775 the authorization was given for creation of 10 companies of infantry from Penn-

problem is, without question, complex. It involves sylvania, .Maryland and Virginia, andwith the aii-many complicated questions to which answers must thorizatioii the fledgling colonies, struggling for a be found before any solution can be ettected. Thi new and independent wav of life crave birth to

will not be done in a few weeks. It will require months of careful study and evaluation.

For this reason we feel that the two school boards should imniediatcly begin intensive studv of the problem in an attempt to work out some reasonable solution.

Ignoring the problem will not make it go away. The only way it can be solved i^ by facing squarely the issues and resolving them. If a solution is not reached in time for it to be ratified by the legislature next winter, there will be a delay of two years before the legislature would again be in session to

Governor Wil.

3e With TroODs

By HENRY HOWARD

By WILLIAM A. SHJRLS

GUARDGov. Terry Sanford plans to spend a fuU day in the field at Ft Bragg next week with 10.000 Tar Heel National Guardsmen.

His schedule permitting. San ford will spent Wednesday June 3 with the uni*\s of tl>e .*iOth (Old Hickory) Infantry' Division of which he is commander in-chief.

There are 10.000 North Carolina guardsmen in summer encampment at Ft. Bragg. The division's annual summer training at Bragg began June 10.

A number of artillery and other units spent two week.s earlier in summer traming at Ft. Stewart, Ga. w

If Sanford's plans go through for the day in the field, it will be the first time in recent years a Tar Heel chief executiveMias spent a full day with the clvilian-soldlers in the field. Until recently, the 30th division was shared Jointly by North Carolina and Tennessee, but is now an all-North Carolina outfit.

CUTSSanford has said there re no plans whatever for eliminating any of the North Caro Una National Guards present units. The Pentagon had asked that two units be eliminated as part of the National Guard re-oi^anization and cutback in strength.

Most other governors also

have refused to go along with the National Guard bureaus requests for cutbacks. The governors, in peacetime, have the say-so about guard strength although 90 per cent of National Guard funds come from the federal government. '

* BUDGET TOUR-The advisory budget commission has

scheduled its biennial * tour ' of state institutions across the

state for next month. The exact

itinerary hasn't been worked out. But plans call for the tour by budget-planning officials to begin in early July and to be

in at least two parts.

After, one week of the tour, it would bi' halted for a week to assemble and catch up on (late and reports received,-Then the or v ou.lcl be i|resumed in another part of the state.

Officials of various institutions visited by the budget -planners present their detailed requests for funds for operating e.vpense and capital improve-rrcnts. The tour a}:o affords a chance for the officials to inspect the Institutiofts and see the needs first-hand. '

Some weeks after the 'arotmd-the-state tour, the advisory budget commission begins hearings in Raleigh for state departments and agencies located in the capital. At the conclusion the commission, budget officials and the governor begin the biennial task df'NJreparing budget recommendations for the General Assembly.

These .recommendations, in several thick volumes, go to the printer several weeks be-foie the legislature convenes.

ndopendent way of life gave birth to what is now the U.S. Army.

Twoyears later on the same date the Continental Congress adopted resolution declaring:

The the flag of the United State.? shall be of thirteen stripes of alternate red and white, with a union of thirteen stars of white in a blue field, representing the new constellation.

Those who established the 10 companies of infantry 187 years ago could" not envision the U.S.

Army of today. Those who officially adopted the 13 stars and stripes for the flag of the neiv cons-' tellation could not envision the growth of the constellation to 50 stars, or the growth of the new and shaky nation to the most powerful known to man.

Flag Day is far more than just acknowledging the colorful piece of cloth that has become the symbol of the United States. It is a day which commends An>ericans to meditate upon the words of Woodrow Wilson who termed the flag . . . the emldem of our unity, our power, our thought and ^ several draw-

I)ijrpose as a nation. It ha.s no other characters than that which we give it from generation to generation. The choice is ours ...

Weiir Know

oter

Vacation Sto.ry Hazards

They say columnists generally are under some sort of obligation to describe at least moderately the vacation upon retuniing to the saltmine. > But theres a damper to be Imposed upon any such Ideas. In

'Backtracking As To Medicare

backs.

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For instance, a cohort Tuesdaythe very morning after the return from a week or so of leisure asked a biting question :

Tell me now, what good is a used-up vacation?

With that in mind, the going gets tough'When the same old typewriter feels the urge to describe merry vacation bits.

Then another fellow-worker used this device as a precaution:

Oh no. Don't write a-bout your vacation. Your creditors will read it and hound you for spending THEIR money on such a spree.

That suggestion creates something of a guilt complex. " But what seems to dampen enthuslartlc spirits most is the knack people have for asking about the vacation W'hich, incidentally, had been longed for during preceding months.

When a well-known and popular vacation spot has been visited. there are always friends br.ck home, who have been there

CAMERONThe name of Dan Cameron of Wilmington has been mentioned prominently in speculation in the event that .Svate conservation and development director Hargrove W Bowles Jr. leaves the state government.-Talk that Bowles may .soon resign from his post -as CA'D Director has been going around for a number of weeks, and the renewed speculation was. as one source put it. on the third time around. Bowles has not .said anjlhing about it.

Cameron presently is chairman of, the Mineral Resources committee the C&D board and the word is that Gov. Sanford has been pica.sed with the way he tackled the job,

Cameron, however, like Bowles, has extensive pri\ate business interests which occupy a large part of his time.

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By JA.MES M.ARLOW

WASHLNGTON (AP> - The Kennedy administration, which put out 'word months ago that It would make an all-out fight for medical care for the aged, Is backtracking. If any re'al fight was made it hasnt very obvious.

Secretary of Welfare Abra-harn Ribicoff opened the way Monday to compromrte at a meeting behind closed doors with the House Ways and Means Committee.

He is reported to have said President Kennedy is standing firm on only one pointthat, whatever a compromise program turns out to be. it must be tied into the Social Security Sy.stcm.

Last March White House sources let out w ord the administration was coordinating a massive grass roots efforts. This coordinating was supposed to be done with outside organizations backihg Kennedys program.

Kennedy himself, aside frcrn pre.ss conference statements, made one big public appeal for support. Thi? was in a speech nationally broadcast from Madison Square Garden May 20.

The administrations efforts at least to this writerhave always looked less than all-out.

There was .some fighting. Kennedy got into an arguing match with the American Medical A. soCiatlon which has opposed his program.

But there has been very little evidence of any real fighting in thp one place where it counts most; with Congress.

The big obstacle there was with the Ways and Means Committee, headed by Rep. Wilbur Mills, Arkansas Democrat. In that 25-man committee, where Democrats outnumber Republicans 15 to 10, the majority has l>een consistently opposed to Kennedys program.

Leading the opposition is Mills. As chairman, he is a vei-y important man to the administration since his committee al- so handles tax problems, foreign trade and other matters dear to Kennedy.

The administration attitude toward Mills has been thi.s: he may be against us on medical care but he hai been a great help on other things in the past and wilL be a great help on more In the future.

As a result, the administration has been extremely careful never to say anything which might offend or anger Mills, the chJBf bo^^tleneck of the medical bill.

Rirther, Mills, along with

Sen.' Robert Kerr. Oklahoma Democrat, was cosponsor two years ago of the Kerr-Mills bill Which became law and provides medical care for aged people but on a very limited basis.

This Kcrr-Mills Act has been one of the biggest headaches to the administrations hopes of getting through its own new medical care bill. It has a lot of supporters in Congress.

Its biggest outside supporter is the AMA, which says the Kerr-Mills Act is just fine although the Kennedy administration takes the position it cant be fine because it doe.sn't provide coverage for enough aged people.

Nevertheless, the administration has shied away from being harsh about the Kerr-Mills Act. At all times the Kennedy administration has limited itself to a gentlemanly skirmish while avoiding all-out war.

Even from the beginning the administration talked this way: if we can't get it^ passed this year, then we'll t%v next year. Some administration critics can ^interpret this attitude as de-'featist from the start.

Democratic politicians on the Kennedy side in support of his medical cave bill may feel that its defeat in thi.s Congress will make an excellent campaign issue in Aove|n|jer s congressional elections.

Ifs hard to see'why. In the first place, this Congress is run by Democrats who have a heavy majority over the Republicans. In the Ways and Means Committee Democrats have teamed up with Republicans to block it.

Mills, one of the most powerful Democrats in tlie House because he is chairman of the very powerful Ways and Means Committee, is a chief obstacle and opponent.

Kennedy is not in a very good position to blame the wreckage of his bill on the Republicans many of whom have also been trying to shoot it to pieces when the Republicans are so badly outnumbered by the Democrats.

It all raises a nice question: If he can't get what he wants with all these Democrats, how many more does he need to help him get through the legislation he asks for?

It also involves a question of Kennedys leadership of how much he is willing to take full charge of his important pro-gram.s and how much fighting he IS really^ willing to do for the programs he says he w'ants.

Other

Editors Saying. Aid To Tito, Gomulka

on occasions. Upon the return these persons express more than casual Interest in the trip. Naturally this interest is appreciated and short conversations about the vacation spot Invariably develop. There are common pointssuch as major highw'ays, oceans, entire states, etc.that every visitor to particular vacation spot encounters. ^

But. Its the specific, microscopio details of the resort that seem to count most In those conversations. After relating a list of spot5-off-the-beaten-track viste^ these interested per-sonsyreIate a separate list and then( question:

Certainly you went to those places. . .Didnt you?

The answer always seems to be a simple No.

(Christian Science Monitor)

The debate over aid to Poland and Yugoslavia is some^ times considered an issue between the soft and hard attitudes toward communism. This Is an election year. Enough voters differ strongly with the Truman - Eisenhower - Kennedy policy to produce a Senate vote which would halt this kind of aid. A later amendment exempted surplus food but left the ban otherwise intact.

The margin of victory on the main vote was narrow. More than a dozen Democrats who were ready to support the administration switched sides, oncedt was clear that the vote was lost. The final tally57 votes to 24looked like overwhelming disapproval which in fact it was not.

Nor is this an issue of soft-ne.ss toward communism.

The only difference between thosfc\who favor aid to Poland and Jugoslavia and those who do not. is the question of how best to restrain communism. And how ultimately to supplant it.

What successive presidents have^asked is the flexibility to give or withhold aid, at any given time, as best it suited the aims of the United States ' in the cold war.

We are convinced that if those who want to withdraw this option could go to Washington and sit in on the day-to-day making of foreign policy, they would change fheir positions. They would not wish to be deprived of this weapon in the cold war. They would not wish to be compelled to take one line of action, ''and one line only.

For example. Recent American policy has been aimed at encouraging the opponents of Stalinism within the Communist coalition. This is not to argue that pleaders like Khiushchev,

Gomulka, and Tito are not Communist or not enemies of freedom. They are both of these. But the extremists of the Soviet Union and of Peking, if' they took command of the Soviet nuclear arsenal, are considered much more likely to use it. More specifically, they would be likely to start the types of local aggrssion which could easily trigger a nuclear War.

If maximum pressure were exerted on the Communist bloc from the outside this would give the more implacable and violent Communists the motive and excuse to seize power. It would play into their hands.

So those who have made policy. those who had all the facts in their hands during the past three administrations, Republicans and Democrats alike, have needed and used flexible instruments of policy. In order to keep the most effective pressure on communism without at the same time causing it and its nuclear weapons to blow up, they have used small safety valves here and there, and have altemated types and intensities of pres- / sure.

This is a dangerous operation, containing a resourceful and now very powerful opponent within tight boundaries, and it has to be managed with skill and wisely.

We will agree with anyone Who argues there should be no idological softness in the control rooms. We will join anyone in examining particular applications of policy at particular times. Aid to Yugoslavia has already been greatly reduced and there might be a case at some point for a cut off. But we cannot believe that responsible citizens. if they knew all the facts and problems, would cut off the ability to take useful steps at the right moment.

In spite of dampened spirits, though, theres still an ui^e to say at least a word or two about our excursion to the Yankee South.

While its a long, long haul by motor-car, its worth all the wear and tear.

Briefly, during the off-season (including little more than the month of June) when rates for vacationers are at least below ^the clouds, Miami Beach is the place to go.

A nation deprived of liberty may win it, a nation divided may .reunite, but a nation whose natural resources are destroyed must inevitably pay the penalty of poverty, degradation and decay, Gifford Pinchot.

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY

Copyright, 1962, King Features Syndicate. Inc.

What has happened in the stock market cannot be understood fully until the Christmas season of 1962. That begins In the month of August when the manufacturer and wholesaler must make a final projection as to what he can sell to the stores. And the buyei^ for the stores must make a final and irretrievable guess as to what the consumer will take.

It is this that worries the businessman and the labor unions. Consumer goods includes everything, steel, aluminum, wood, glass, paper, as well as the contents of containers. It naturally affects the workers in all industries. The height of consumer goods purchasing in this country is what is known as the Christmas season which runs from approximately Labor Day to Christmas and Is followed by the White Goods Sales In January (textiles of various kinds).

Business to be prosperous must have a good third and fourth quarter. Unless these periods show a turn-over of capital at l^ast 40 times (in a city like New York, It runs very much higher), the revenue for the government from Income taxes will fall below expectations. The flow of cunency can only be maintained ic there is confidence in the present and the future. When there is fear -of a depression people hold on to their money.

The Kennedy Adinlnlstration has committed an errci'l-i prfp posing a tax cut In 1963 before the 1062 tax bill has l)een passed. To relieve the consumer. from the fears e.ngendered by the stock market debacle, If It is possible to make a tax cut In 1963, it should be made in 1%2." But a tax cut, to be accepted as sound, must be accompanied by a .sharp cut in government expenditures. The housekeeping operations of tb.a government are out o Une with current conditions. A tax cut should be accompanied by a balanced budget.

It is this which caused tlia Senate to Insist on cutting Yugoslavia and Poland fiom the foreign aid program. Every Item in that program ought to scrutinized sharply' to make sure that the aid Is absolutely justified. Aid to build up competitors is like Glmbel supplying Macy with money tc run a sale to put Gimbel out of business.

President Kennedy surely -ought bo tell the Giinmon Market that their member countrie* have had all the aid from Ais that thjtvWlU g^t yptll they remove every barrier to the sale of American goode in their markets. Otherwise, we shall put a tariff on everything they sell. It is from thh- position of strength that we ought to negotiate. Negotiating with Europeans frorn weakness will produce such unemployment here as the nation has not yet wit-nessed.

President Kennedy has Inherited a tough situation, but it can be met by rough handling. It is no advantage to the nited States as a country or to the Kennedy Administration to be sorry for the verj/ prosperous Western Europeans, It Is their turn to be sorry for us.

Another point that President Kennedy must note: while it is true that he has inherited mo<st . (Continued on page five)

Strength For Tcixday

By EARL L. DOUGLASS

BIG QUESTION MARKS

Extrasensory perception. This is a word which has copie into use only in recent years. It is also called parapsychology. Dr. J. B. Rhine, of Duke University, is the outstanding authority of the world in this field. Extrasensory perception consists of telepathy dnfonnation received from other peoples thoughts), clairvoy ance t information received from distances or hidden things), and precognition (information received concerning an event which has not yet happened).

There canpot be the slightest doubt in the world that certain individuals have extiasensory perception. Why they have it we do not know. The full nature of these powers are as yet

hidden from us. But some people undoubtedly have powers and perceptions which others do not possess. Fifty yeai^ ago the world laughed at hypnosis mersmerism as it was c&Ued but today it is accepted, and even given a certain respectable standing, by science. Parapsychology, the study of extrasensory perception. Is also now being accepted into the circle of respectable scientific orthodoxy.

We have orbited the earth. We cannot keep our eyes away from the moon and certain of the planets which we feel may have amazing revelations for us. We may actually meet folks there.

What a strange world this Is in which we now live! Where is it going to end up? Or will It simply end before we get much further?

The 'Other Guys In A Ba(d Way

Oainions In Brie::

* In Unlondale, New York, newspaper reporters ran across a 106-year-old lady who. for a change, had no advice to others on how to achieve longevity.' Said Mrs, Josephine Werner. T didn't know*I was-going to make it myself.' Savannah <Ga.) Morning News.

doctor whose findings are that mental illness is so common among middle-aged women it can be considered almo.st normal "Columbia (S. C.) Record, '

By EI.MER ROESSNER

With Americans and the rest of the Free World getting a little up.set about the way capitalism and the free enterprise system is jouncing across a few rough spots, it might be a good time to see how' the other guys are doing.

Communist China has been suffering through several years of near starvation. To make, up for crop failures, floods and generally poor management they aie as quietly as possible abandoning the commune system and importing large quantities of grain, When the Bamboo Cur- ' tain was raised temporarily at Hong Kong, thousands of hungry Chinese fled to freedom.

The Russians have had to

paiticularly in meat and butter are becoming more severe. Khi'ushchev would like to get some assistance from the East European communist nations but they, too, are having their troubles.

Poland is importing large amountof American grain to meet demand. To make matters worse, the extent of aid from the United States is in doubt. East Germany and Czechos|bva-kia are vry short of dairy products. In general. East Europe is worse off agriculturally than it has been in a decade.

Still the East Europeans arc better off than their Russian comrades, though In no position to help them much.

And the Common Market

make toncepions to capitalistic troubles the communists a',great

I.S abnormality about become pcrmality? And /lormali-ty, abnormality? In a rPort from London, the " In-idcrs , Newsletter quotes a BritLh

Alcohol, taken in suffir cient, quantities, produce.s all the effecJts of intoxication; Oscar Wilde.

Triflc.s make perfection,, and perfection is no tra'lc. Michelangelo. , I '

incentives by offering higher prices to the collective farmers. They will pay the farmers but .of increased receipts from meat and butter prices, which Have l)een raised 30 to 25 per . cent, jespectlvely.^

AcriculuraJ output has lagged in Russia and food shortages,

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deal more than it does Americans. Jst last week a meeting of Bloc countries was called in Moscow. Its main purpose, Russia indicated, was what to do when the European Economic

The official government newspaper, Izvestia, indicated the Bloc nations would be called up on to co-operate directly on coordination and production plans on Common Market model in-' stead of just co-operating through forms of foreign trade. If It works out at all, theyll probably say they invented it. JOBLESS BENEFITS GENERALLY 6 MONTHS ^ Most states provide weekly -pay to jobless worker for a maximum of six months, according to a survey by Commerce Clearing Hoyse.

Of the 50 states, 36 provide benefits for that length of time. Nine pay for a longer period with Oklahoma tops at 39 weeks. Five states cover unem'ploy-pient for shorter periods: South Dakota and North Dakota. 24 weeks; South Carolina aftd Tennessee, 22 weeks; Virginia, 20 weeks.

The amount of weekly benefits varies widely fromstate to state. Arkansas and MissLssIppI

Community begins raifiing the* are lowest with $30 while Mass-tariffs. One possible solution: A achusetts benefits are based o

communist Common Market. c^ependents and wages and are

unlimited.

The District of Columbia has a maximum benefit period of 34 Weeks at $48 a week. ENGLISH DEVELOPING HYDROSTATIC AUTO

The British are working on a car that hs no gears, dutch or differential and can be controlled by single pedal. The car being tested has a conventional auto engine which pumps trti at high pressure into hydrostatic motors mounted in the trunk. These, in turn, drive the wheels. ,

Successful development could' mean completely new car designs because the hydrostatic motors can be mounted on the wheels. The engine can be put in the center of the car for optimum jveight distribution or anywhere else and the power pumped to the wheels through tubing.

TW'o advantages of the system, according to the designers, is that there is less power loss and the engine is always connected to the drive, so engine power tan be reversed to brake the car. - "