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Million-Dollar Investment In .C

A milliooi dollafs is a lot of money to spend ecoiidmy of this state. Somehow the thousnds of on seven strategically located centers to welcome jobs created by tourism in restaurants, motels, 5? to North Carolina. service stations, shops, supj^y houses and other

The announcement by Director Dan E. Stewart businesses across the state dont seem to attract the u Conservation and Development public eye as would comparable jobs in some other

that he will ask the 1967 General Assembly for industry. The tourist business is sort of taken for that amount to finance the welcome centers is granted by too many people who fail to "ecognize certain to bring protests from some Tar Heels. the increasing com*petitio^ between states for the It should be recognized, however, that Stewart tourist dollars, is talking about an undertaking which is designed Spend a million to welcome tourists to North

and expected to appreciably enhance development Carolina?

of the states third largest industry . . . tourism. It could be one of the wisest millions North

If the proposal were for a million dollar undertaking Carolina ever spent, to promote agriculture, chances are it would be favorably received by most North Carolinians. UT

Farming is recognized as a tangible and important J^O lYlOf 0 JK0CISOI1 JMO^V segment of the states economy, and efforts to improve it also improve the economy of the state as^ ^ ^ _

For Repeal Of 14-B

There is no more reason now for Congress to prohibit right-to-work laws in individual states than there was a few months ago when the Presidents proposal died in the Senate.

The Johnson proposal for repeal of section 14-B of the Taft-Hartley Act should be killed by the Senate in this session just as was during the session last fall.

Repeal of section 14-B has been put at the head of the list of Johnson objectives for this senion of Congress. The bill will be called up in the Senate this week and that move will signal the beginning of another filibuster that should be as successful as the one last fall in killing the measure.

It is evident, we think, that repeal of this important provision of the Taft-Hartley Act has no*more support in the Senate now than it did last fall. If anjdihing, opposition to repeal of the measure has strengthened. The administration has not won additional votes to its position on the matter since Congress adjourned last fall; and there are indications that opposition to the proposal may have gained one or two votes.

Members of the Senate who vigorously opposed this unwise and unsound proposal of the administration should not abandon their position during this session of Congress. They will be subjected to heavy administration pressure, to be sure: but they will be serving the best interest of the nation by retaining section 14-B in the Taft-Hartley Act

a whole.

Were someone to come up with an idea to promote the development of more industries in North Carolina, it is likely the legislature would not hesitate to authorize a million dollars for a sound, new undertaking.

But when it comes to talking about the states great tourist industry, too many people plainly fail to recognizze what it means to the

3ig Stake For independents

By WILLIAM A SHIRES BA?KS The small, independoit hometown banks of North Carolina, many of which have been hard put to remain independent anyway, have a big stake in any forthcoming study of the states banking laws.

These small, local institutions realise they would be virtually affected by changes In the law on branching end mergers, and no doubt they win be beard from. It wu the plight of the

changes in state banking laws in 1963, the small independents felt they were about to be gobbled up by a trend toward what their spokesmen called doorstep banking by the giant branch banks.

Mergers were at an all-time high in 1961 and 1962 and new branches were springing up almost overnight.

The situation came to a head when strong {H'otests and opposition arose in a couple of western Piedmont cities, Shelby and Hickory, to the

small Independent banks which stablishing of proposed new led to a 1962 study of branch branches. The showdown came

By HAL BOYLE

Oiii! I Think Everyoi Should Go on a Diet

banking and subsequent amending of the state banking laws by the 1963 legislature. Now they feel strongly that their interests must not be overlooked or Ignored In a new study called for by Gov. Dan K. Moore.

before the State Banking Commission and resulted in a study by a committee headed by the late former banking commission chairman, Charles M. Johnson.

This committee, in i ts study, also took cognizance of the importance of permitting the large, state-chartar-WILL1A.W ^ ^bain banks to grow and expand and keep pace with the national banks.

MOORE Moore took note of this again last week when he appeared before the State Banldng Commission shortly after the governors ousting of state banking commissioner F. Shelby Cullom.

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MIDDLE - The idea be-hind the study suggested by the governor will be to determine vdiether changes in present state banking laws are needed to allow state banks to compete fairly with national banks.

Moon referred to an unfortunate conflict between national and state banks which be fears may lead eventually to a breakdown of the dual banking system.

But the competition and the conlUci in this respect plainly is between the states chain banks and the national banks. The local, independent home-' town banks have felt all along they were caught in the middle and likely to be trampled In the cmsh.

CHANGES Before the

By WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST WASHINGTON (AP)President Johnsons honeym o o n with Congress, marked by last years unprecedented leglsla-ve accomplishments may come to an end this year.

Some of the Presidents own top leaders are worried about the outlook.

Publicly they predict that oner r. oneioy ^uiiom. the President will get pretty A r \r

He indicated strongly that much what he wants from the 41 U 1 GQTS

he beUeves the big state banks top-h e a v y Democrac Con-

President as they were last year. The cost of the war in Viet Nam is mounting and its hard to cut war appropriations. So the economy drives will be aimed at nonwar (Continued On Page 5)

This Date-

NEW YORK (AP)~We have a new office boy in the place where 1 earn a dollar.

He is neat and blond and tidy, and the only apparent

difference between him and

the boss are those of height, age and income.

I wonder how long he will last.

Other Editors Saying

The Point Is Debatable

should have more freedom to expand and Mtabliih new branches. National banki, which are regulated by the . S. Comptroller, James Saxon, merely file applications with Saxon when they want to expand or set up a new branch and Saxon has approved almost every application, many without further ado or hearings.

Moore said there is serious question as to whether or not state banks are in a legal position to compete fakly with the national banks under this system.

Moore said later he did not advocate any particular change, but that it was his idea that the situation perhaps ought to be re-examined.

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gress he helped elect two b years ago. Their private views are not so rosy.

Its going to be a long and a tough session, one of them commented privately. The Presidents program includes some really controversial proposals which would be diffi-(Uilt enough to shove through in a nonelection year.

The reference was to the fact 1966 is the year in which all 435 seats in the House and about 35 in the Senate will be filled by the voters.

Members of Congress seeking re-election will have to run on their own reciords, which are made on the floors of the Senate and the House.

Many of the 293 House Democrats believe they will have to defend themselves against Republican campaign charges of fiscal irresponsibility and lack of independence.

GOP leaders have indicated that they will stress their charge that most incumbent Democrats were rubber stamps for the President In their support of costly Great Society p r ograms ena c ted last year.

Some Democrats seeking re-clection think perhaps this is the year to be economy-minded when it comes to financing domestic programs. They have a built-in excuse for not being as cooperative with the

Ago Today

By JOHN G. DUNCAN Jan. 25, 1926 MADAME SNOW PAYS SECOND VISIT TO STATE Fleecy downpour continues through morning hours, fall ranges from three to four inches.

GREENVILLE HIGH WINS FROM WILSON The undefeated quint of the Greenville High School add another victory to their string Saturday by defeating the fast team of Wilson High. The final count being 15 to 13.

Line-ups Greenville pos. Wilson

West (4) r.f. Forbes F. Forbes (5) l.f. Smith (2) Brown (2) c Adams (81 Curry (3i r.g. Fysel (1) Jones (1) l.g. Daniel

Referee: Dr. Massey

Mrs. D. E. Taylor and Mrs. W. T. Brown left Sunday morning to visit in Danville,

Va.

Mr, and Mrs. E. E. Rawl and son Matt Phillips and Mrs. R. T. Burnette have returned from Batesburg, South Carolina.

(Durham Herald)..

The first sparks are being struck for a potentially fiery debate over when and how to strengthen the tax bases fr North Carolinas cities and counties.

City and county representatives have worked up somewhat conflicting proposals for the Tax Study Commission established by the 1965 General Assembly. Before the commission is through next September and certainly before the next General As-s e m b 1 y finishes with the commission report, differences will be more than somewhat. The proposals offered for local government can stir objections simply because they involve new or increased tax levies.

County representatives want the present 3 per cent state sales hiked to 4 per cent with the additional inc o m e kicked back to cities and counties on a per-capita basis. They also favor a gross receipts sales tax to be divided among local governments.

City spokesmen have a flexible set of possible new income sources. They would have the state grant cities authority to levy their own individual sales taxes with voter approval, to adopt payroll taxes, and to charge up to $10 for city auto licenses

(which are now $1). Both city and county would retain and strengthen their existing property tax resources.

There is plenty to debate in tiiis package beside the in-vitable objection to any tax hike. It would emphasize the regressive nature of North Carolinas over-all tax stru-ture, which already goes to the extent of putting a flat 3 per cent levy on essentials like groceries. It would drain sway potential sources of in-creased income for state needs.

Yet confused as the* issues promise to be, here is another point of debate that North Carolina cant avoid. However one feels about the city-county proposals; they spring from a genuine need to strengthen local tax bases in one way or another. The expensive demands of urban growth on local governments cant be met much longer with the revenues available from a tax base which relies almost entirely on property taxes.

Unless more and more of these demands are to be turned over to someone else, unless local responsibility is to become more and more an empty pretense, additional r e V e n ue sources must be found. Andy they must be found soon.

BOYLE

Almost 40 years ago I was an office boy myself, and I still remember those days as the only period of total freedom I ever knew.

Office boys in those days were slouchy, poorly dressed, and tousle-haired.

Now and then an important-pretending editor would make the mistake of yelling Hey, boy! This was an immediate blow to your dignity, and you put the offender in purgatory, and forever afterward (Continued On Page 5)

Offers

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Contest

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1966, King Features Syndicate, Inc The Seventeenth Congressional District in New York City is the communicat i ons center of the world. Here are the publishing companies, the radio-TV broadcasting studios, the advertising agencies and the magazine offices that set the styles, the tastes and the opinions of the nation. TJie District, up to the first cay of January in 1966, was represented in Washington by no less a person than John Vliet Lindsay, now the youthf u 1 Mayor of New York, f On February 8, the itizens of the Seventeenth District will go to the polls to cpoose a successor to Mr. Lindsay. The main candidates are Republican Theodore Kupferman, a City Councilman who is running as a Lindsay team man, and Democrat Orin Lehman, an enormously attractive veteran who hopes to follow in the distinguished footsteps of his uncle, the late Herbert Lehman, former govern o r

JOHN

CRAMBEKLAm

Office boys in our place

come and go like ripples in a lake or waves upon the sea. I dont know what happens to them. I suppose most of them become aptains of industry or something.

They all look like the first page of a book by Dale Carnegie sounds.

They are not really office boys b u t junior executives. Their shoes are shined, their suits are neatly pressed, and if they do something for you, they perform the act with a generous air of condescension.

In a way I admire todays office boys, and in a way I resent them. What I resent about them is that they look so respectable and efficient and I suspect they are neither.

HAL

and U. S. Senator. They are both Welfarist liberals, both anxious for a peace in Vietnam even if it is to be had on an inconclusive basis, both potential high spenders of other peoples money for purposes that could be good or bad, depending on the circumstances. In othei words, though Kupferman and L e h-man may be just what the Gallup Poll doctor has ordered for John Lindsays old bailiwick, the voters of the Seventeenth arent likely to be treated to a campaign that will discuss issues in any critical sense.

We could, however, have a lively and argumentative contest in the Seventeenth District if the communications center of the United States would only honor one of its own to the point of insisting that he be allowed to get in on the debate. The communications man who happens to be in the race against Kupferman and Lehman is Jeffrey St, John, a TV producer and moderator whose work has frequently been featured on Channel 13, St. John, a thirty-five-year-old joumali stand broadcaster who has covered both Capitol Hill and the State Department, is the Conservative Partys choice to succeed Lindsay in Congress. He is an effective TV personality, but to date he hasnt managed to stage a William Buckley type break-through. The two major candidates have been dismissing him, in a rather top-lofty manner, as an interloper who wants to act as a spoiler. They have been hesitant about meeting him in direct confrontation.

Mr. St. Johns argument is that there is nothing to spoil in the Congressional race, for the voters are going to get somebody who is quite acceptable to the New York Liberal Party no matter which major candidate wins. All he insists u^n is that the Seven-(Continued On Page 5)

Mrs. A. M. Mosely and Mrs. George Coope spent Saturday in Raleigh.

The Fashion Touch Is All Yours

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS WE HAVE TO FACE IT The world appears to be full of handicapped people. This is only in a measure true. The group actua 11 y handicapped to such an extent that creative work is impossible consitiutes a very small percentage of the population. Yet there is a way in which we are all handicapped. We have weaknesses and certain tendencies which click in-

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AD edveitlsuit copf must bv received et least two days oafort pubUcaoo daSR

to operation when we begin striving to do our best. There is not a person in the world who does not realize that in some respects he is handicapped. The exb-emely handicapped, the partially and the slightly, are separated only by degree. Everyone has something holding him back.

Some of this is the result of inheritance. For others it Is due to" subnormal health.

For still others their handicap appears to arise from the fact that they either have not bestirred themselves fully in the past or are not bestirring themselves sufficiently in the present to overcome it.

And we should always remember . that everything in life counts either for us or against us. The slightest circumstance of our lives has an organic connection with the whole of our lives. We are made or triumph, and the progress of life is on the whole upward. But we have to go down into valleys. We have to scale high mountains. Wo find ourselves weak when we should be strong.

It may not be much of a comfort, but at least we sould face the fact that we are all in this thing together and that is a part of training and growth. -

in sandwiches. EVERYBODYS DOING IT

Look about you. T h u m b through ads in newspapers and magazines. Peek into store windows. Drop into a travel agency. Tune in radio

By ELMER ROESSNER

I dropped into Guss Delicatessen one night and ordered a corned beef sandwich on rye to go. Gus turns out a good sandwich with a slice of pickle, kosher or dill as you prefer. But last night he also laid a strip of pickled sweet red pepper across the top.

Whats that for, Gus? I asked.

Guss smiled. Thats the fashion touch, he said.

At that moment I realized Gus was wasting his time behind a sandwich counter. Gus should be on the board of a dozen retailing companies.

Gus knows that its the fashion touch that sells goods to-

. Theres fashion: in clothing,

Fashion, of course, has al-- in entertainment, in places to ways pulled sales. But the pub- go, in what to bell.eve.

fashion in everything.

You, too, can be a Gus.

Whatever a retailer sel 1 s today, whether he sells sump pumps, cough drops, toilet seats, air conditioners, refrigerators, back-scratchers, carriage lamps or wallpaper, it

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lie wants more than ever now. It wants fashion in apparel, in auto, in refrigerators, in interior decorating, in music, in dancing, in education, in art, in pills, in politics, in causes, In religion and

or television. Take a walk in , . . , .. - .

the park. Go tq a society ball ^ appeal.

Go to church. i J"

THERES A REASON

The reason is that people have more disposable income today than ever before in history. The average American cant eat any more, he cant wear any more layers of clothing, he cant drink any more without falling down. His main outlet for surplus spending, his chielF way of showing the world he is destinys tot, is fashion. Even if he determines to save h i s money by depositing it or investing it, he puts it into fashionable banks, or buys fashionable stocks, such as Xerox or Fairchild.

A merchant may profit by: 1. Stocking more heavilv on the more fashionable ends of

In was never more in; out was never deeper iq purgatory.

Theres a lesson for every businessman in this tremendous surge for fashion, fashion not only in garments, but

his lines.

2. Stressing the fashion aspects of nonapparel ite m s, Note that American Motors if using a houndstooth upholst ery pattern, Kelvinator is put ting pop art on refrigerate* doors, business machines an being offered in fashionabk colors, and Gus is putting i strip of pepper on his sand wiches.

3. Emphasizing fashion style, in-ness, glamor, higL acceptance antf creme de If creme in advertising and ii displ^.

4. Encourage salespeople to use the vocabulary of fashion in selling goods. Fashionable. in, de rigeur, pop, mod and mode are sales-packed words these days, dripping with profits.

And be alert to competition. The store across the street can ruin you by dropping hints that you are not quite fashionable these days, and, that you are not quite in.

This can be true if you sell plumbing fixtures.