Friday, July 6, 1962*

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Progress Through Greater Efforts

When Did Ydu Notice Anything Unusual?

Industrial expansion in North Carolina for th^ first six hibnths of this year represents a major accomixlishment. At the same time it behooves Tar Heels to compare the figures for those of the same period last year.

Investment in new and expanded plants in the state during the first half of this year showed an increase of less than one half of one percent over the same perioi^for a year ago. Even so, the very fact !hat investments of $122,154,000 were made in Tar Heel industrial expansion during the first half of this year is significant.

In terms of payroll this new expenditure in industries of this state is expected to add some $45,399,000 annually to workers. The investment is calculated to create 14,085 new jobs in the state. Although the number of new jobs created by industrial expansion is some 600 more than for the same period last year, the ,total new axfded payroll annually is half million less than that added by the 13,444 new jobs created by industrial expansion during the first half of 1961.

Looking at these three factors for the comparative periods in this year and last, industrial investment went up slightly, the number of new jobs created went up, but the annual addition to the states industrial payroll went dowm. ^

In recent years North Carolina has moved forward rapidly in developing its industrial potential.

Enlisting Ally !-or Amen^imen

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES CX)tJRT REFORMS It always helps, cither in politics or dipl(nacy. to have & strong aUy. Especially when there are signs (rf a'hot fight ahead.

So supporters of court reform In North Carolina are enlisting an ally for the campaign to win approval of a liroposed ctm-8tituti(Mial amendment to be V(Aed on next November. The court reform amendment ooe to empower the General Assembly to establish a uniform system of district courts within the next 10 yearsis being linked closely to something that has wide, popular appeal and interest, traffic safety.

Gov. Terry Sanford has put himself (HI record in recnt statements supporting tte court reform amendment. And Sanford has been the teader in tying the matter of court reform and traffic safety closely together.

In a speech at Carolina Beach. Sanford said that effective traffic safety pnrams are dependent upon an efficient, statewide system of courts presided over by able, safety-minded judges.

POLICY The governor earlier underlined the uniform courts amendment in a speech outlining his traffic safety goals for the 1963 legislature.

A study of the administra-, tlon of jurtice also is one of the phases in the much-publicized traffic safety study being conducted on a concentrated basis in Project Impact.

Sanfords traffic safety speech was described as a major policy statement for his administration in the realm of traffic safety. It included these points:

more stringent driver licensing re<iulrements for teenagers.

legalizing chemical tests for intoxication in traffic cases, y increasing the strength of the state highway patrol.

providing more highway engineering persainel.

Each of these points was stressed in some detail. Almost every one of them has been the subject of debate in past sessions of t the legislature.

The governor omitted, at least for the present, an item of particular controversial nature which the department of motor vehicles has favored for a long time, compulsory motor vehicles inspection.

Inspection has not been able to get through a legislature or even very far in committee since the 1949 session killed an inspection law that " had met with widespread pub

lic disapproval.

PLUGS Almost simultaneous with the governoris plugging for court reforms, a Superior Court judge also was making note of public demand for uniform courts in the state.

Judge J- William Copeland, a former state senator and Sanford's legislative liaison man in the 1961 General Assembly, was presiding when a Gaston County man came up with an appeal of a 10 months sentence imposed by a justice of the peace for writing worthless checks.

Copeland ordered the defendant released, holding that the j-p court had jurisdi<^ion in only two of the 10 counts involving amounts of less than $50 and that the j-P court had issued only one judgment instead of 10. This, Copeland held, was contrary to law.

It is cases such as this that prompt many people who are interested in gciod administration of justice to say that we need court refdrms, CcHieland said.

OPPONENTS There wont be clear sailing for the uniform courts amendment. There is opposition. Neither would the amendment mean court reforms overnight, nor necessarily during 1963.

The uniform courts amendment represents a compromise which its supporters finally admitted was the best they could hope to get through the 1961 legislature.

A far-reaching court reforms bill, strongly supported by then Gov. Luther H. Hodges, was drawn up by a special committee of the North Carolina Bar Association back in 1959, and was defeated soundly.

The compromise in 1961 was between another court reform bl prepared by a committee headed by State Sen. Spencer Bell of Charlotte and a measure by the forces led by State Sen. Lindsay C. Warren which had defeated the 1959 bill.

The amendment would merely authorize the legislature to proceed with establishing uniform district courts. It might be 1969 before such a plan could be implemented on a statewide basis.

MEAOTIME In the meantime. however, supporters point out that a pilot project could be started.

These supporters, including Sanford and the man expected to spearhead the court reform, amendment campaign, former Sen. Cutiar Moore, fear that unless a start Is made now, the fe4Bg^of public support might be greatly diminished and reduce chances later on.

From the standpoint of the overall economy of the state, however, it is evident that the state still ha^ much to do to put itself in an economic position comparable witli that of many other states. The industrial development field is becoming increasingly competitive, between states and between communities within the state. The fact that North Carolina has been successful in the past in securing new industries does not automatically ntean that its rate of success will continue in the future.

North Carolina and its individual communities must realize that in spite of the higher investment figure for the first half of this year, compared with last, the increase was small. In spite of the fact that some 600 more new ^industrial jobs were created during the first six months this year than in the same period last year, the additional annual payroll Is expected to be less than that created in the first half of 1962.

The state and its communities cannot afford to sit back on past accomplishments in industrial development if they expect North Carolinas economy to continue to move upward.

Development efforts must be intensified at both tfie state and local levels. Otherwise our pace of development will decrease.

Time Is Best iGauge Of Area Crop Losses

It will take some time yet to accurately evaluate crop losses in Eastern North Carolina as a result of heavy rains that have fallen during the past-week.

It is evident even now, however, that the loss- -has been heavy.

In Pitt,as in other counties, almost all sections have suffered damage to the chief money crop . , . tobacco. Some farmers have been harder hit than others and some counties have suffered greater losses than others. There are vry few who have escaped some damage to the tobacco crop.

At the moment estimates of the total crop , damage in this and other counties vary widely. Even pi, chriSopher Columbu^S in Pitt County losses in some sections of the county Dajaiel Boone had one thing in are expected to run much heavier than in others.

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The very fact that a number of counties in this sectionPitt includedhave been recommended for federal benefits as^ disaster areas is indicative of considerable crop damage. Just how much the economy will suffer because <)f the extreme weather conditions is a question that will only be answered in time.

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?Ks Proposal. Not A New Idea

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON <AP> President Kennedys Fourth of July proposal partnership with Western Europe was not new with him although it will get more attention in the years ahead.'

Kennedy dipped away back, as far back as the 1960 campaign, for some of the words and phrases he used Wednesday at Philadelphia.

Nevertheless, he left the idea of Americjui partnership with a united Western Europe deliberately vague, as he has in the past. There were three understandable reasons for this:

1. At this moment no one can predict w-hat kind of unity the West Europeans will work out among themselves. Theyre just talking of it now,

2. What kind of partnership this country will consider, 'if any, will depend on what European unity turns out to be.

3. Before there is any partnership at all the w'hole idea will become a national discussion and get a long going over in Congress.

At least twice in the 1960 campaign Kennedy, dwelling on the magic attractiveness of independence and freedom, quoted Thomas Jeffersons phrase about the infectiousness of the disease of liberty.

The President, who clings to phrases which catch his fancy, used the Jefferson phrase again Wednesday. And again he emphasized the appeal of freedom and independence.

In Britain, the Times of London. reacting favorably to Kennedys talk, called his reference to intPi'dependence betw'een the United Sates and Europe an imaginative idea, typical of his sense of style and history.

But even this word interdependence - wasn't new' with Kennedy Wednesday. He used it at least once before; In a joint statement with West Germany's Chancellor Ailtnauer last year after the two men mel.

If the President ever u.sed the word pertnership in reference to F'uj\^ne in the 19V) carnpai"n. this writer is not aw'are of it and" cotdd find

no record of it.

But since 1960 after becoming president Kennedy has talked a number of times about the idea of partnership, not only with Europe but with the new naticms.

Never Wednesday or beforehas he spelled out what he means by partnership.

At this moment in Europe French President Charles de Gaulle seems to have in mind a unity based on a confederation of European nations, with each retaining its own, full sovereignty.

This would mean theyd have some arrangement for w'orking together but each would remain its own boss.

This is a long way from the kind of greater unity which might be achieved if the West Europeans, for the sake of greater combined strength and common purpose, were w'illing to yield some sovereignty in a closer merger.

Since the Europeans still havent worked out the final details of their own common trading market, any realization of greater political unity, even though the idea is cooking, still Geems distant.

When Kennedy in the past has talked of partnership with other countries, he has submerged it more or less in whatever else he w'as saying at the time.

For example;

He talked of such a partnership in his foreign aid message of 1960 and his foreign trade message this year. In the latter he was talking of a trading partnership. If he has anything broader in mind he hasnt aid.

Wednesday, however, by maki* ing partnership pretty much the main point In his talk, he gave it a prominence which Is necessary to get-consideration of it started in this country.

Congre.ss has been peipetu-ally wary of an.vthing which W'ould require tliis country to yield any of its right or ability to do as it pleased. This wa.s one of the sticking points before the United States joined . , (Continued on Paee 6>

(Greensboro Daily News)

North Carolina, committed to quality education, striving to get the most out'of its education dollars and beset by a complex hassle over its higher education structure, has special reason for following the new trimester system which will be tried experimentally at Florida State University.

There is further Tar Heel relationship in that Florida State President Gordon Blackwell left the Womans College chancelor-ship for his present post.

Florida State, dispatches from Tallahassee relate, had to find some way to meet increasing enrollment demands. It could not meet them by a continuing capital outlay program; and ev-, en though funds might have been* available, construction is at best slow and these demands are waiting to met right now,

Officials at Florida State have figured their new schedule down to a fine point. Under the trimester system, which will replace the traditional two-semes-ters-a-year schedule, length of class periods will be increased seven minutes, for a 55-minute total. Under that timing work which was previously covered in 16 weeks will be accomplished in 14 weeks and three rather than two semesters will be crowded into the school year. In sum, graduation will be possible in three years.

The new plan, which Florida State spokesmen say will call for a 20 per cent increase in work outside the classroom and admittedly cause some sacrifice and inconvenience to students who have campus jobs, is being put into operation on a voluntary basis. About one-fifth of the student body is expected to participate at the start.

North Carolina, which has heard suggestion that educational physical facilities be put to greater or even continuous usage, should welcome this experiment in another state. Results will count for most. Yet as they are evaluated there must always be kept in mind the danger of converting education into an assembly line procevss and simply grinding out graduates for mere numbers or graduation's sak.

Not for a moment, however, is this to be construed as saying that anyone who genuinely wants an education should not be willing to accept sacrifice

and Inconvenience In order to get it.

Heavy Losses ^

(Henderson Daily Dispatch)

Eastern North Carolini^. tobacco farmers have suffel^d the loss of thousands of dollars as a result of a terrific wind and rain storm which struck wide areas in that major tobacco belt last weekend. Always it iig^possible that first estimates are exaggerated, though not necessarily deliberately. Even if the damage is sharply below the fears expressed at first, many growers have been hard hit, according to reports.

"What has happened, and at the time when the crop is at its peak in maturity, stresses anew the uncertainties of the weather, a factor that canpot be avoided and which is ever present in determining the fortunes of producers.

Presumably most growers are insured against such losses as have occurred, especially in a six-county area. But that will not entirely compensate for the heavy damage. It never does. Just as insurance generally is not a complete backlog in any sort of major disaster.

Heavy rains which swept large sections of the eastern belt were nothing like so great a threat to the Middle Belt crop. There was enough precipitation, however, to cause concern even here, and additional generous showers could begin to reflect in the condition of plants in the growing fields. Fortunately, overcast skies prevailed long enough to allow for excess water to drain away before clear skies and scorching sunshine return.

Though fortunate lin escaping the worst of the week-end devastation in the east, our section, or any section, is not , immime from here on out until the crop Is fully matured and harvested. Vagaries of the weather have appeared often-er than usual during the spring and early summer. They could yet become a menace to what hitherto has held the promise of a good crop of flue-cured leaf this season. ,

There Is consolation In the assurance of crop insuianoe

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vels saying; thpe." Sure here.

That was a tremendous advantage. It left their minds free to enjoy their journeys.

The post card today has become Americas most widespread art form, it outranks even the popularity of the credit card.

In some, the mere sight of a post card brings out the mute, inglorious Milton, the hidden Shakespeare. Their hands begin to shake when they see one. They are post card addicts.

They never really get to drink in the splendors of their travels. They are too busy writing from 20 to 30 post cards^a day back home. They nev'*er come back with a tan from a trip to Florida or a Caribbean cruise but they do have a fine case of writers cramp.

Post cards generally fall Into four classes the lyrical, the obligatory, the humorous and the practical.

The lyrical writer is a frustrated author. Whatever he sees, he is stunned by the wonder of It all. He feels a compulsion to record his impressions in 1,000 words of lush prose so crowded you have to read it through a magnifying glass.

That is in Itself a nuisance, but the worst trouble with getting lyrical post cards Is that when you have read one amateur description of Niagara Falls or the Grand -CanycMi, youve read em all.

'The obligatory post card is written through a transparent sense of duty. It usually says something Immortal, such as:

"Hi, there folks! See you in two weeks.

The humorous post card demonstrates the forced labor of remembrance. It often shows a picture in color of a snake den or a cage of monkeys. On the back is waggishly inscribed:

Hows the old office gang? Everybody up to the same old tricks?

The practical post card gets down to the bare essentials. It has a photo of a motel and a terse, hurriedly scribbled message, such as:

Had one flat tire so far. Made 650 miles today. Should make 675 tomorrow with luck.

There is a fifth type of post card which Is the most disheartening of all to get. It announces: Lost my wallet with all my dough and identification. Stuck here. Please wire me $200 soonest. The kids and wife join me In sending you our deepest love.

Scan S)elayln !i^olitics

By GEORGE K. 80K0LSKT Copyright, 1962. King Featurti Syndicate. Inc. Unfortunately, time, tidet ud politics wait for no man. The entire House of Representatives, a third of the Senate or more, and a number of Oovei> nors will be elected in 1962. The politk^ canuMdgn has al^ ' ready started and bothers a> plrants more than great affalra. The Kennedy Admlnlstratloa must concern Itself with this political sltuatlon,^ for sh(mld Uie next Ccmgress be Republican, 1$ might be very embarrassing.

When a President Is popular, it is generally assumed that he is brUliant, litUe short of a genius. When his popularity begins to wane, be ts regarded as d fine person surrounded by crooks, nincompooi. if not idiots. When his popularity is gone, he is presumed to be a fool. But he is the same man whose IQ was indicative of genius. The answer to this paradox really Is that the President is what he always was; two years in the White House does nol change fundamental character.

Even his best frien(is must admit that President Kennedys popularity has suffered severely since May 28. The President did manage to overcome ths worst effects of the Cuban fiasco. In spite of all the indignation aroused over the Battle of the Bay of Pigs, President Kennedy was not blamed as much as the CIA and Allen Dulles was permitted to resign.

The steel imbrc^Uo and ths stock market debacle did hurt the President. These events gave the impression that ths President did not understand ths economy of the country, that he was badly advised and that ths businessmen whom he ccmsult^ ed were not representative. This criticism could be made of any President who must depend experts and advisors of ' iulown choice.

I never measure a mans abilities by his advisors because, first of all, each man Is responsible for his own actions, and secondly, (me never really knows whose advice is taken. The simple fact is that whoever loses his own m(mey is sore, particularly when he believes that the President could have taken some acti(m8 to save him. About 17,000,0(X) Americans have lost c(msiderable money since May 28 and all of them are annoyed that the President did not intervene to rescue them.

The impression among .woiic-ing businessmen is that this Administration Is tougher on business than the Roosevelt, Truman or Eisenhower Administrations were. Certainly, the last years of the Eisenhower Administration were years of numerous anti-trust suits.

However, the business (immunity believes that the Kennedy Administration is anti-business: that the Attorney

General's office is particularly unfriendly: and that local prosecuting attorneys engage in en-trapments and offers of immunity to Improper persons with a view to catching bigger fish.

I do not hold to the view that Robert Kennedy is that sort of person, but as long as businessmen feel that local prosecuting attorneys commit injustices ia order to entrap businessmen, they grow antogonistic to tht one person in the Administrar tion who can help them.

The Republicans suffer from having no platform and few personalities. Since the Ehsenhower Administration, only Senator Barry Goldwater has emerged as a new Presidential possibility. The old names, Nx(hi and Rockefeller, are not especially inspiring. But much depends upon the 1962 Congressional eleo-tions. If the people vote In a Republican Congress, many candidates will appear for the 1964 Presidential ele(ttlon. That is the way of men.

In this country, most ci the people are neither Liberal nor Conservative. They are Just people and they vote by their llkei and dislikes about men. Often history has shown they vote badly, but they always vote ao-cording to their own private ! terests. It Is not to be expected that men and women will vote against what they believe ,to be their private interests, Americans do not live by tbeo-(Continued on Page 6)

A Look At Local Govm't Budgets

StrengtHTor Today

By EARL l>. DOL'ilLASS WHERE DOES THE FAULT LIE?

Do you like people? That is, do you really like them? Oh, you may get along with the boss because you have to. It is easier to smile and be pleasant wdth other next door neighbors than to be quarreling with them. But thi.s is not the point. Do you like people'?

It would nc quite understandable, of cotuse, if yoi^ .said .vovi did not. Tlicre is lot dbeut homo saptnus wliiqh i;^ qiUwC unllkablc. Everybody gels moan at times. The most dependable characters waver .,:d sometimes break down. Fiiend.ship i.s often outraged. We get a gofd

der such circumstances people that we liked and tnjsted take a noe dive in our estimation.

Yet people are indeed worthy of being liked worthy, in facw, of being loved. Go(^quite evidently thinks so. as the W'hole or revealed tinith Indicates. And if you will check back over your life you will see that as a matter of fact your contacts with people more often please you thai^dlsplca.sc you.

If Thi-, Is not true. It might be- well for you to ask Whether .the fault may not be in yoiir--self. You can be sure that the whole of humanity is not out of .step with you. but you may well bo out of .step with humanity. If you don't like pcopV, may-

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idea of the character of most/ b(^ tine i.% .omethlnp the mat-people if w'c meet them in ter with you rather than with a situation in which money Is them.

Involved. And all too often un- Think it over.

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By ELMER ROESSNER

The biggest growth Industry in America today is government. Government i.s not an indiistry or even industiiou.s, you say? All right. Its not an indu-stry.

But whatever it is in the ag-. gregate, Federal, slate and local government spends more money and hires more people than any other institution or* any industry.

Most people relate government taxing, spending and hiring to the Federal government. As every child In the seventh grade .sliould know', in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1962, the Federal govcniment spent $88 billion.

But stale and local governments .spent more than $50 billion.

BOOMINt; MARKET

Furthermore, .state and local co\;crnments arc increasing outlays faster than the Federal government. And their expendlture.s have been Inereasin" almost twice a.s fasl a.s the tolal production ol goods and 'services

have been Increasing since World War II.

Prentlce-Hall calculates that stale and local govemment spending rose 9 per cent la.st .year and will increase the same percentage this year, making the 1962 total $.56 billion. This would be about 10 per cent of the gross national product.

These fast-rising expenditures point to two opportunities;

1. State and local governments offer an expanding market for goods and services.

2. They offer Increasing opportunities for employment.

The market is big, sprawling and often honeycombed with graft and favoritism. Neverthc-le.ss, it is becoming more of a profcs.sional market. State and sub.'^idiary buying Is more and more being conducted like the purchasing departments . of large corporation.s. PREQUALIFICATION

Most states and local'itir.s require that sellers qualify them-.srive.s before bidding. Thi.s Involves submi.saion of financial , statement, invrstlgation. .submission of performance bond.

tests of products, references, etc.

Companies interested in selling this market may be interested in the National Institute of Govemmental Purchasing in Chicago in September. DetaUs are available from the N.I.G.P., 101 Connectlcpt Ave., N. W. , Washington 6, D.C.

Employment opportunities in state and local governments are growing as fast as spending. Again, most people think of Federal employees when govemment workers are mentioned. But, as of thCjApiil count, there are 2,277,(X)0 Federal employees and 6.868,0(X) state and local govemment employees.

CIVIL SERVICE LEGIONS

The figures show how fa.st total -Rovemment employment N growing. Ten years ago, gov-eramcnt employees totaled 6.-602.0(W. In May of this year, there were 9.168,000.

In 10 years the number In-crea.sed 2..566.000', In percentage of the labor force, government rmployees Increased from 10.5 to 12.7 per cent.

Government employees and

their lamllies, especially on state and local levels, an becoming an increasingly slgnlflcant political force. At the present rate of growth, they will soon exceed farmers, organized labor and penetonters in voting strength and may abready have exceeded the voting strength of the Negroes.

As voting strength increases, govemment employees pay, fringe benefits and tipmre wUl tend to increase and hours of work will tend to lessen, even If the employees. do n(A demand them.

COMMUNIST FUMBLING AIDING U.S. FARMERS Red Chinas mismanagement of its food supplies is benefiting American growers of soy-i^eans. China used to be the second largest exporter of soybeans to Europe. Exports are now being curtailed and sales ot U. S. soybeans to Europe set a new record in the first half (rf the current marketing season. Italy alone increased Its buying of U. S. beans by 6.5 million bushels.