Monday, June 25, 1962 ' ^

Proposal Merits Reconsideration .

Failure of the slate Jligh School Athletic made to keep postseason sports events for high Board of Control to sanction a postseason all-star schoolers, it seems to us the request for this addi-footbair game proposed to be held in Greenville tional postseason all-star game does not conflict does not mean, we trust, that members of the gov- with the policy which has been established or the erning body for stYite high school athletics have best interest of the school athletes, closed their minds to such a possibility. "The idea of the postseason game was con-

We urge members of the Board of Control to ccived some time ago and has been undertaken by give consideratjcn to the proposal between now and ihe North Carolina Junior Chamber of Commerce their next meeting and reconsider the matter as a statewide project. Proceeds from the annual officially then. event would go to the Lake Waccamaw Boys Home,

In recent years there has been a move toward an institution which has gained the support of prac-climinating postseason pTay by high school athletes tically every civic club in the state, in all sports. The move was necessary, for in sonu* The proposed alLstar football game would

instances, the athletic programs of individual feature players from the smaller high schools of schools obviouslv had gotten out of hand. Steps the eastenf section of the state who as a rule do taken in recent vears by the public schools have not have an.opportunity to participafe either in the urovided the framework for a more realistic ap- postseason Shrine Bowl game played in the fall in proach to the situation. ' Charlotte or in the state all-star game played in

Notwithstanding the moves which have been Greensboro in August. For the most part participation in these two events is limited to players from the larger high schools of the state.

In addition to this factor,! sponsors of the proposed new all-star game,say\the game would be scheduled not to interfereKvith regular school work of the participants and that* further only those high school athletes with a scholastic average of C or better would be eligible to be'chosen to play in the game.

The proposal for this new Eastern Carolina, all-star event has sufficient merit to warrant careful reconsideration by the Athletic Association Board of Control.

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Poor Alternative To Beaten Farm Program

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His 'Ballot .Always Stuffec.

Bt william a. shires

JONES It was one of those weeks when Grahain Jones figured be might catch up on his work, but never does.

One reason Is the ballot box which is always stuffed.

Tall, blaid and studious Graham Jones,. 35. is press secretary to Gov. Terry Sanford. He Is a student of people, politics, press relations, a former newspaper reporter and a Sanford man. He also Is a busy man.

The governor has been out of town for almost a weekabout as long as he*s ever away from the Capitol. But even so the worit for Jraes and the rest of the gubernatorial staff never ceases. Its more likely to pile up.

When Sanford goes off on trips, meeting people, making speeches, mendhig fences and keeping close to the public pulse he keeps In frequent touch by telephone and mail.

BOX He takes with him a large wooden box stuffed full rf papers and correspondence. He works on this in spare moments. A steady stream of memos and directives flow back to the executive offit^s.

Somecme In Asheville once noticed the governors wooden box, dubbed It the ballot box and the name stuck. It's been referred to that way ever since. Jones figures it's appropriate because in a way it helps in the job of keeping the governor in close touch with the people.

Of the hundreds of pieces of mail received and routed by the governors staff each day, a hca\T percentage receives personal attention by the governor. And the governor replies to a large amount of the daily mail, in one way or another.

UNUSUAL There are all sorts of unusual things in the povemors mail. Jones recalls that a man living in California whose parents living in Alabama celebrating their silver wedding anniversary w'rote to the governor of North Carolina asking if he would send his congratulations to the people. Sanford didnt quite get the connection, but he sent congratulations anyway.

And then there Is the pet peeve of perhaps all governors, the requests for designating a certain week to cmnmemorate or observe something. One that was turned down recently was a request to proclaim match-book week to North Carolina.

Some research Is Involved to deciding what should and should not be done. Por example, the governor received a request to designate a certain week for aomething on grounds that the North Carolina chapters of the particular organization would appreciate It very much. A check showed there were no North Carolina chapters of the organization. .

SUPPORTERS Jones^ a former political reporter for five years, says the job of pre.ss secretary to - a governor is about what he had anticipated.

And he looked forward to It with such relish that the day after Sanford asked him in March. 1960, he quit his job and went to work handling publicity for the Sanford campaign.

At the University Jones became an ardent admirer of Dr. FYank P. Graham, and perhaps his most vivid memory to politics is of the day he drove Dr. Graham from Chapel Hill to Raleigh to 'see then Gov. W. Kerr Scott the day after Grahams defeat to the second Senate primary of 1949. There was not one single word of bitterness after all that he had been through, he says,

Jones cast his first vote for Sanford by proxy back in 1949 when he was active in the Young Democrats at the U^ni-versity in Chapel Hill and Sanford was a candidate for state YDC president. Jones Intended to attend the convention and vote for Sanford, but says his sister had a wedding rehearsal Instead and the women had their way that day. O. Max

Our Doctors Do Good

Defeat of the administration farm program which would have combined rigid production con- p r* T? C17V

trols with price supports leaves the nations farm oUKULioxvi

program in a precarious position.

It keeps the door open for a continuous bu up of already staggering surplusesparticular grainwhich sooner or later may cause the entire

agricultural program as it is now known to collapse, copyright. 1962. King Features The administration program would have left .Svrndicate, Lie. it up to producers of individual commodities to When l read a paragraph

choose between price supports and production con- ed^andViirrLed^ trols, or no production controls and no price sup- There is no sense in yeam-

ports. Either choice would have reduced the costly hig for a long--dead world of

tide of commodities going into storage under the homes in which, genera-

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Gardner Jr cast the nroxv . A. " i lived under one roof, in

JoTes later wi presSt'of 8'0^ei'iiment s program. It would have offered for which American women ha0 not

the UNC chapter of the YDC farm commodities the common-sense, sound yet entered business and indus-

and became an admirer both of approach to production and price supports that

have worked so effectively for tobacco without imposing a heavy financial burden upon taxpayers.

On the heels of defeat of the new farm program there has come the stop-gap measure of continuing the present feed grain programs for another year to avoid return to the unsound Benson program of several years ago. While this alternate proposal is much le.ss sound than the proposals which were defeated, 'it is much to be preferred to the old Benson program.

try, and devoted themselves to housework and care of the aged, simply to avoid the current problems of medical care of the aged. If we returned to that world, then the doctors would have to return to the era of dedicated doctors who cared for the aged in their homes via house calls at modest feesT Not one doctor would sacrifice his

Sanford and the late Kerr Scott. Jones was a machine gun section leader In the 3rd Infantry division to Korea and recalls he scratehed up enfiugh from his GI pay to send Sanford a modest contribution to Scotts cam-paig:n for the U. S. Senate in 1954.

WORK It Isn't an easy job being press secretary to a governor, but neither is being gov-em(|r, Jones says. Im 10 years younger than he is, but my tongue is usually hanging out trying to keep up with the pace he sets.

When I have to work nights and on Saturdays and Sundays too. I realize that the man Im working for still has worked more hours thatweek than I have. he says.

Generally. Jones feels that the press of North Carolina has been extremely favorable to the Sanford administration. Also making the job easier, he say.;. is the respect which North Carolina holds In the press elsewhere in the country. This isnt because of one adrtnis-tration, but it has been true apparently ever since Aycock, Jones says.

Jones winced the other day at a press conference when the governor, in a petulant mood, said some reporters are obnoxious. WTien the conference was over, and Jones with some trepidation followed Sanford out of the room he says the governor turned to him with tho.se innocent blue eyes and said, was I too.rough on them?

I told hint, yes, Jones said.

'There wa,s some breath-holding on Jones part to see what the editorial reaction would be. When the reaction came In, though. Jones breathed easier. It was all very fair,

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For months there has been an obvious growing dissatisfaction within the* Administration oii the manner in which the Federal Bcdget Is presented and analyzed. Ftoally, President Kennedy in his June 11th Commencement Address at Yale University met the issue head-on and what he said is of utmost importance.

The displeasure is with the Administrative budget. This is the onesubmitted in January of each year by the President to the Congress and estimates total revenues for the period covered and expenditures for each department, agency, and so forth. Tliis also is the budget upon which estimates are made as to whether the government will have a surplus of a deficit.

There is another budget which is .not submitted for action to the Congress. This Is the so-called Cash Budget. This give.s a picture of the actual flow of funds into and out of the gov-cniment. including tnist accounts, Many per.son.s believe this gives a much better measure of the impact of government taxing and spending upon the economic system than does the regular budget. And while this cash budget is not presented to the Congress it is published by the Budget Bureau, and kept up^ to date in the montfily publication of the Pres^ idents Council of Economic Advisers. The Cash Budget is sonie ?2.> billion higher than the Admini.strative Budget.

There i.s still another accounting which is made and i.s prefened in some quarters. This is compiled by the Dcjiait-ment of Commerce and is ba.s-ed iinou an estiniatf* of tax ac-cnials. rather tbiin actual tax paymenis Th's iu/countln also exclide.s all capital, land, and

credit transactions, on the assumption that these are mere exchanges of exLsting_ assets.

On these Various budgets, or accounts covering national income and outgo, the President is most concerned ;bver the Administrative Budget. At Yale he had this to say: "It omits our special tnist funds and the effect they have on our economy. It neglects changes in assets and inventories. It cannot tell a loan from a .straight expenditure. And w*orst of all it cannot distinguish between operating expenditures uid long-term investments. The Administrative Budget, he said, in relation to the great problems of federal fiscal policy, which are basic to our country in 1962, is not simply irrelevant; it can be actively misleading. And he insisted that too much present-day analysis of the budget is based upon "fiscal myths. One of these myths, apparently, is that deficits are necessarily dangerous, and inflationary.

Never before has a President of the United States condemned a federal budget, to such strong words. Unquekionably our budgetary process could be improved. And many suggestions have been made for so doing. But it would not be improved by the creation of a capital budget, which it appcar.s the President would like. Such a change would be ruinous, just as it has been in country after country which has tried it.

The Admini.strative Budget has defects of course. One of these i.s. that a program Is Introduced at small cost, add then year after year keeps on growing in size and otitlays. But this, and other defects, would not 1)0 cnrrerted by anv of the Idea.s advanced by Pre.sid(*nl Kennedy,

K'oiyjnned on ])age six)

The Supreme Coui t of Florida delivered itself on June 6 of one of the most refreshing judicial opinions to come our wa^ in many month,s. Its author is Justice Millard F. Caldwell, onetime Govemor and former national director of civil defense, who joined the Florida cd|irt in Pebniary. Excerpts trom the opinion appear at right.

The case at bar was one of those high-flown forays into constitutional law beloved of civil libertarians. An agnostic, a Jew, and, a Unitarian in Miami sought to enjoin all religious activitie.s in the Dade County public schools. They especially objected to a Florida statute that requires the daily reading of a brief passage from the Bible, but they also wanted to put an end to the, occasional singing of hymns Mn music classes, the painting of pictures on religious themes, the decoration of school rooms at Chri.st-mas time, the saying of grace or other prayers at school functions. and the holding of baccalaureate ceremonies at com mencement. In brief, they warned to wipe out every vestige pf religioug affirmation^ in the pim-lic school system, even thoiifeh the Florida law specifically ex-4iuses those children who do not . wish to listen to the Bible ver.se or to participate in other ac-* Tlvitles'bf a religioas nature.

The plaintiffs contention was tl'.at the very act of excusing certain children at their pai-cnts request tends to .single out these children and to discriminate ^against them. This affects their'minds and'hearts, it was argued, in a manner unhkely ever to be undone. It puts them through a "traumatic experience, and bmiscs'their little psyches.

Justice Caldwells tart dismissal of tHis line of argument carries the belMike ring of common sense. The constitutional prohibition against .state support

-of an establishment of religion, he says, never on earth was intended to obliterate all references to divine power from public activities in which the state has a part. In a part of his opinion not quoted at right, he noted that Congre.ss itself has;

-Provided chaplains for both houses of Congress, who daily invoke divine blessings

Goinmi.ssioned chaplains in the armed forces.

Approved Bible reading and the recital of the Lords Prayer in opening activities of the District of Columbia's public schools.

Required compulsory chapel attendance on the part of cadets at the service academies.

Authorized the flying of the church flag above the national flag during services at sea by navy chaplains^

Required the Piesident, members of Congress, and Federal judges to .subscribe to an oath invoking the aid of the Diety. -_______ ____________

Inscribed In God We Trust uDon the nation's currency.

Designated a national anthem which proclaims the Diety.

-Sanctioned the bailiff'straditional God save this honorable couit" as Federal courts are opened daily.

In the light of all this, as the Florida court pointed out. it is absurd to urge an intei'pretation of the Constitution by which all religious feeling would be expunged from the schools. An objecting minority of parents have rights that must be respected; they cannot be compelled to engage in religious activitie.s offensive to thenr---But the majority of paientsf and taxpayers have rights as well, and it is time to rid ourselves of the notion that in every case, in the name of some frivolous assertion of liberty. a mino-, rity tail has the/ right to wag the majority dog.'' *

big fat Income In the modem world for the life pf the old-fashioned doctor to whom human lives were more important than money. , .

My owm experience forces me to come to the defense of the medical profession. I live and, to the surprise of some, write my copy seven days a week and do many other chores, because doctors have kept me alive. I have had such illnesses as meant certain death a few' years ago; as a re.sult of medication, operations, blood transfusions and constant care, I have doubled my working time. May I say that I feel about 20 ycais younger than '20 years ago I know that only a few years hark, anyone with my combination of lllne.sses, died.

That I live is due to a large number of causes, the most important of which is research in the functions of various parts of the body and in bloOd chemistry. This research costs millions of dollars and thou.sands of^ maiv liours for which I did not pay. In fact, I could not pay for tliis preliminary work done in nearby and di.slanl laboratories and on operating tables in thousands of hospitals.

The hoii.se call at mbdest fees" i.s not an ideal to be .nought for the prolongation of life. Even the Common Cold, when a cure Is found for it. and there is not one yet. will be tlie lesult of long and heart-break ing research in biochemical and blood laboratories.

We need not fewer but more hospitals. It u.sed to be tliai appendicitis was a dread dis->, ea.se. The other day. a small boy friend of mine, wiio had to riiaw trhrappendix taken ewt went into the hospital on a Sunday aftemoon; w'as operated on Monday moTningr was up on 'Tuesday: went home on Thurs-flay: has already forgotten that there had been some pain before the operation. Li my childhood. children died of appendic-lis or of most internal opera-tion.s. @

I know about iny heart doc tor who .scr\c,s a free dmic in his hospital, docs spccii work ill a Wtcrans Hospitol ar.d generally Is on tap from aboyt 8 to 8 any day. There is no 40 hour week for him.

Wc use a doctor in the country where we have a faini. He is a darn good general practitioner, the- kind who makes house calls, doing about 100 miles of driving every .'^umm ir day. The neai*e.st hospital is about 18 miles from his house afid if thtMc is no other way. he drives a patient to the hos pital During many Winters, he goes to nearby universities Tor a refresher course. I regard him as an heroic character, not on-IContinued on Page 6>

ror me

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By ROGER BABSON BABSON PARK, Mass. In

my column which appeared during the week of May 17th, I referred to the new corporations which are being formed by the Bangor Sf Aroostook and the Kansas City Southern railroads.

(I think this Release was No* 2050, which hieans that I have written this number of columns for a similar number of weeks over the yeare.

EVERY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE SHOLT.D WAKE UP These business corporations which are gradually being fonm-ed do not change the operations of the railroad passing through your city. Such a business corporation, however, gives the railroad an opportunity to use its right-of-w^ay. Its stations, and its opportunities for business in more profitable ways. Every Chamber of Commerce should now take this matter up with the railroad passing through its city. Said railroad enlarging its facilities means a profit, which should mean an advantage to your city as well as to the stockholders of the railroad.

The railroad passenger busi-nes.s is dead and every community should recognize this as soon as possible. Otherwise, the railroad stockholder perhaps should consider alternatives in other transportation fields. SUGGESTIONS TO CHAMBERS.

OF COM.MERCE Every Chamber of Commerce; at its next Directors meeting should appoint a Railroad Committee. This Railroad Committee should meet and carefully go over the property of the one or more railroads pas.sing through its city. It further should ask the city tax assessors for a rough map of the property which these one or more railroads owm in said city.

In fact, it might be well to have the Chairman of the Tax Assessment Committee pre,sent at the jiext mepting of the ^ Railroad Committee. I fear that the railroad would hesitate to give a Chamber of Commerce a list of all its land holdings, even in .said city; hence ^ch a list must CQpie from the tax asses.sors.

One of the fiist things for this Railroad Committee to consider is the amount of idle track which now exists. Certainly the railroads will want nc^ m o ) tracks, and probably much of its present track could be abandoned. enabling land to be u--iiized for other purposes. If the railroad company refuses t .ell or ii.se such land, then t!, a.s.se.ssoi's should feel free to raise the tax assessments thereon. The Railroad Committee can explain to the railroad company authorities that it wish-e to provide .come additional earnings for the railroad rather than handicap them by higher taxes.

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. RAILROAD As suggested above, there aro many tlng5i wdiich a raiirond company can do without any additional legl^ilation. The Be --ton k Albany Railroad, wh \ runs through Wellesley. Ma.-' has two beautiful stone static s built during prosperous tim* {. One of these it has rented n a clothes cleaning e.stablishmr .

with a small waitihg room for passengers. The other railro *1 .Ration, one mile beyond, is Iv -inp demolished by the raTTroa 1 company which w ill .=cll the land

for various purposes -------,

In almost every cominunitv there Is a .^horiage of pool parking spaces, at ihe prese i iime. There are sccvions of t -cam land which the railrc I company ha.s which could ^ ' lentrd tor parking lots. Tlii ' would be both a contribution i the conunuiiity. a'nd also givf i constantly increasing rc\enui > tl)e railrbhd' confpanirs ' frcrT- ' whom it would lollecl mono..'*

\ throneh the lea.se.s of pio-perly.

LMPORTANt i; OI i:\ LRA KAlLRO\D ((>'U*\NV GLTTIN<.. Il UMI.sSIDN FROM THL IM ? RSTA?.

{ () M MI: I a I ( <) Md* II .k S () N TO GO INTO* O! TSIDL BFSINLSS Such "putsidc bu.siuc.^^M's" \ h-ry- irom the operation of bu;-?s to ttie kasing ef sltpermarket.s and small, factories' This is a real opportunity for railro;ns to discover what can be dci'e.

Ilf the case of the Bangor k. (Continued on Page 6)

Cr(dit Picture Looks A , Bit Dim

Strerigth For Today

Bv LARI. I.. DOK.LASS

R\HF BI T INFI.FLNTI M,

"Ht an exceptional child That man is one in a thou-.'Und Jack i.-i the be.st man we have in our departmeni ' "T I'egard Geoige as the best student I ever taught." i We often hear such remarks. The e.xceptional person stands out in everybodyls mind. 'There are a few peopi? in the world Thon we cal geniuses - ilial to. people who have sel the feet of humanity in new pathways. The word eenlus C'lymc.s.froni a word which means-"to Iweei. Geniuses aie flin>e rare por-son-i, like Oahleo .ijid Sir Done Nt'wlon and Di Alln rt Einstein, who uslu'r liunuuiity into nevv aira.'; of learning liegat new eras rf hi.story.

Bu Hie .so-called exceptiuna! person Js not ,necesixarily a gen

ius-. I!.' i.- ii.- iially just a boy or girt, man or woman, who slund.s nut as uuustinlly good and gift ed Most parents con.slil, i tlieir 'chikln'ii exceptional 'and thev should, for It is in just such love and eonfidente that ehil-(iren find their deepe.st security. Hut after all allowance hi.s be('n marie for parental love, for irie.nd.:hip. and for the admiration neopte have for .skill along certain line.s. the exceptional pcr.son remains considerable of a rarity.

If >oti have an exeeptinual child try to cultivate his ability. althmich l)e careful that you do not drive him into distrae-timi. If you Jiave .some iinn.sual rift or.alnlity yourself, bo ibod-pst about it d)iit cherish arid do velnp it, 'D

The rxerptjfHi^i! person Is an "uupoitunl pei'i.oa to the world * lo.

By FIAIFR ROKSSNFK

The credit pictun* liegm.s to look a little ilim Of course, ii ha.s been looking dim to .soine oi),server,s <ver since the end of WprUI War, II. Hut now it i.s looking a little dim. tiim.

A National liuiU.sliial .('onfer-enet^ Hoard .sliuty itdea.setl tu* day .s'liovvs Dial of liiit ninuufac-luiers urvevHl, many arc fae-in-g increa.se<i pie.ssme fo ti-nance' cu.stomei.s piuclia.'cs. Customers ai< lareely wholesalers and large retailrr.>.

' While lh' manufacturers don I like the iilea of increasing rred it to customers, many indicate tlipy have softened considerat)-' ly in the last two years. Tlieir customers say they are being .'qiieezed, in profits and wpik-ing (apital, aiid '.they have;, to have financing

Imvv ( ITOM FILS ARE I AURII I)

The study .Iifiw.s that nearly all manufacturers extend some credit to eu.sionfrs Hirouuli standard .sales ternw Many arc usiito les.v dirpct nicMiod.s. .such a.s catj-ying iuventtn ii ,s, e.rant lug (lab'fl billing.s consigning shipmeni.s ,'in/l Ica-ing producto or equiiniieu All of ihe&e

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tenn.s add up to; *lake deliv-trv now, pay later."

Deeply ..significiiut is this .sentence from the Conference Hoard rt'pori; i

Many executives surveyed .say their fiinis have involuntaii-ly taken on adilitinnal financiiig burdens becau.se some eustoui-(us hav not met payment Uuui.s. Also: a number of

companies reixii t that their customers are t)u.ssin', more of tlieir inventory pioblt'tns back to the manufacturer by riUic-iiig their own .stocks, w'hich torces the manufacturer to carry largf I invcntoides of finished products.

Dated billings and consignment stiipmento are commonly .ijsed by a number of respon-ikuiLs. but few. say tlyise practices have tx'cn Increasing recently." the Board adds. Dated billings are tho.se dated for, so .Soptemlxu' 25 when the kkks am shipiH'd June '2.V; the manufacturer "(arries the di.stribu-t.or fwr three montli.s. Cojisivrn-nrivt slilpment.H aie shlpment.s seiU to (It.strlhutorR with the nn-dei.stoiulltig tliH* the dlstiibu-tur pays only lUlir the goods^

LOANS TO CUSTOMERS

The textbooks .say that loan.s to customers are generally poisonous,to the lender. Neverthe-le.s,s, the Board reports that wtiile only a small number of inamifacturer.s make direct loans, more than half of those that do report an increase in amounts.

Many firms reported that financing customer.s wa.s not .suund practice, ,yet competition forced them to do it. Others .^aid that financing and credit policies can build strong customer lelations, and that a customer saved to a financial stringency is a customer won.

Also significant in this conclusion; Many firms agreed that while they are manufacturers first and creditprs .second, they must combine the two roles to maintain their competitive positions.

The growth of the pi*actlce of financing manufacturers customers has been paralleled in th'' consumer credit field. For as long a.s ob.servri*s have been decrying" loose and dangerous credit practices amiong manu-. facturers, ob.scrvers have been bewailing the fis^ oi consumer

criHt. ,

Total consumer credit wa.s $27..5 billion in 19.52. In April of this year, it was $.)6.6 billion. In .short, consumer credit mere than doubled to the last It) years. Retailers, lenders and manufacturers are carrx'ii^ consumers ju.st as manufactpr-ers are carrying their customers.

So far. to both fields, buyers have' been meeting their o'bli-' gations. But unanswered Is the question of what would happen if an upsurge of unemployment, a more climactic stock slide, or some other economic situation binds the economy. Can we fight our way out of the bag of paper credit?

SHORT & SIGNIFICANT BUSINESS NWS NOTES A St. Petersburg store attracted attention by selling liOOO 17. S. dollars at 88 cents each. CMt: $120 . . . The practice of wealthy travelers can-ylng beat-up luggage ha.s the luggage Industry In a tizzy, ...Glass tableware sales will Increase 5 per cent this year, predicts Maurice' L. Stonehlll, leading manufacturer. - .