Monday, Fbmaiy f, 1966

Full Confidence In New Congressman

In the election of Walter Jones as Congressman Jones has left for Washington to begin setting up from the First District, voters of the 15-county his offices in preparation to taking the oath of his

new office on Thursday.

We are confident he will be attentive to the needs of the people of this district and serve them well as their representative in Congress. We are confident, too, that his legislative ability will stand him and the people of ths district in good stead as he takes up his new and important duties in the nation's capital.

Senate Should Decide

DONT JUST STAND AND COMMISERATE!

of the 15-county area have named to Congress a man who will, in our opinion, prove himself an effective legislator in Washington just as he did in Raleigh.

The electon of Jones Saturday hardly came as a surprise to anyone in the district. The surprising thing about Saturday's balloting to most citizens and we suspect this includes the candidates themselveswas the closeness of the vote between Jones and his Republican opponent John East.

It was the first time in decades that a Republican nominee for Congress in this district has received nearly 40 per cent of the votes in a general election. Certainly it is the first time in more than __ __ , w*

half a cntury that Beaufort County^the home of TKa I QC110 niC lA# AAlT

this district's congressmen for decadeshas given a majority vote to the Republican rather than the Democratic nominee. The same thing is true of Washington County which was the other county of the district in which the Republican candidate received a majority vote Saturday.

And just for the record, it has been decades since as many as six of Pitt County's precinct gave a majority vote for GOP candidate as was the case Saturday.

But for now the campaign is over and the lection is a matter of record. Congressman-elect

Glowing Report Of N.C Gains

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES GROWTHGlowing official reports on the states accelerating industrial growth and expansion wUl be spotlighted when the State Board of Conservation and Development opens its winter meeting in Salisbury.

Of particular interest will be a documented report that North Carolina ranked second in the nation to California in actual jobs gained In manufacturing dui^ the past decade, 1955-1965.

In addition, C&D officials will r^rt that demonstrated , growth capacity of North Carolina located firms has become^ a strong selling point in promoting new industry for the state. In 1965, for ex-anople, of a total of 538 industrial projects 373 were expansions. In recent years, 55 to 60 per cent of the total projects reported have beta plant expansions.

GAINSCapital investment in new and expanded industry in North Carolina reached $482.4 million for a gain of 20.0 per cent over 1964.

The number of additional employes was 37,042 representing a gain of 25.3 per cent and additional annual payrolls totaled nearly $137 million for a gain of 30.2 per cent over 1964.

AH told, according to the Commerce and Mustry division report, the state's industrial development program sem^ several new all-time hi^hs. There also were several highly Interesting diversification trends.

R was the greatest growth

year for metalworking In the state, with capital Investments of $87.4 million, jobs for 8,543 employes and ad-' ditional annual payrolls of $84.8 million.

Chemicals industry growth was close behind with Investments of $85.9 million. Rubbo* and plastics moved up among the leaders with investments of $27.9 million.

Textiles again led all classifications with new and expanded investments of $176 million, 13,596 additional employes and added payrolls of more than $49 million.

The gains in added employes and payrolls during 1965 were the largest ever recorded for a single year in the states history.

OUTLOOKThe report says the industrial developm e n t outlook for the state is good. Barring unforeseen factors, it says *the coming year appears to hold even better prospects. . . "

Adding solidity to the 1965 report, C&I reported an impressive list*' of nationa 11 y-known firms scheduling manufacturing operations in North Carolina.

The list includes International Business Machines (IBM), Veeder Root Inc., Mallinck-rodt Chemical; Associated Springs; General Tire and Rubi>u; B. F. Goodrich; Rockwell Wire and Cable; Garlock Inc;Anaconda Wire and Cable; Rockwell Manufacturing Co.; Divco-Wayne Industries Inc. and Gilbert A Barker Manufacturing Co.

AIRPORTSThe Ckunmerce and Industry report to the C&D board will point out a glaring deficiency in the states industrial development efforttoo few adequate airports.

Of the SO states, 26 have more airports than North Carolina. Twenty have more registered aircraft But only 10 states have a larger population, Forty one states have a larger percentage of public aborts than North Carolina.

Senate action this week should end for this session of Congress the administration threat to nullify the right-to-work laws of ttie individual states.

On Tuesday and again on Thursday proponents of repeal of section 14 (b) of the Taft-Hartley Act will seek to shut off debate on the matter. But even the staunchest supporters of the repeal effort see little hope of mustering the necessary two-thirds vote in the Senate to accomplish their aim.

Certainly the Senate is to be commended for its effort in blocking this unwise move that the administration has insisted on. Surveys throughout the nation clearly indicate that the vast majority of the people do not want section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley act repealed. They believe the states should have, as the act provides, the right to prohibit the rquirement that a person must belong to a labor, union in order to hold a job.

A First-Hand,

By ART BUCHWALD

Renort On Gout Some Look To The Knee

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP)-Do You laugh at a man who has gout? Well, maybe youd better envy

him.

Science has come up with new evidence that sufferers from gout, the disease of kings, probably are abler than their fellow men.

The more uric acid in your blood, the more likely that you are an outstanding performer in your job, reports an article in the current issue of the journal of the American Medical Association.

It summarized a study of 117 University of Michigan professors which found that those with more uric acid in their blood generally showed greater drive, professional achievement and higher leadership qualities.

scorn of commoners, gout victims themselves have long recognized their malady is the price of deep thinking rather than high li^g. They simply work their brains so hard their big toe gets sore.

After they lie down and rest their minds a while, the pain goes away. Then they can arise and again start thinking, achieving, and leading the goutless masses toward a better world.

Among gouts rollcall of honor are such celebrated names as Galileo, Sir Francis Bacon, Samuel Johnson, Christopher Columbus, and Benjamin Franklin. Legend also has it that Sitting Bull was plagued with goutotherwise hed be call^ Standing Bull but this hasnt been historically proven.

Another fact often cited as proof that gout is a disease of the intelligent is that it strikes 20 times as often among men as among women.

Some 200,000 to 500,000 Americans have it

A few weeks ago I wrote about the bosom and how the fashion designers had moved it from the front to the side. It appears that, while this had caused some raisedy eyebrows, the big battle going on now In the fashion world is what to do about a womans knees.

The Paris designers have moved the hemline above the knee, some as high as two and three inches, and the American dress manufacturers are not sure it will sell. I went out to speak to the man on the street the other day and asked him what he thought about this controversy.

The first person I talked to said, Im a knee man myself. I could sit for hours and look at a womans knees. What makes a woman's knees so interesting to you? Well, a bosom is a bosom, but a womans knees are con

stantly changing. Every time she moves her legs, the knees take on a new expression. Do you prefer a womans knees when she is sitting or standing?

I tlnk if youre a knee man it doesnt make that much difference. I like a knee thats firm and strong and stands on its own.

A second man I interviewed said, I think its dangerous to allow women to show their knees in public. There are some women who have very attractive knees, but many women might resort to subterfuge.

You mean they might wear false knees?

They fooled us with other parts of their bodies. Suppose a man was very attracted to a woman, particularly to her knees, and she married him. Then he discovered that instead of the nice round firm knees he thought she had it

turned out she had thin knobbly knees. That wouldnt be fair, would it?

No, it wouldnt, I agreed. Shed probably have to get down on her knees and ask your forgiveness.

Exactly, he said, and that wouldnt do much good for her knees either.

The third man I talked to was not even aware that a controversy was raging. I thought with all those new detergents the dresses had shrunk. I didnt think it was planned that way.

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The uric acid, a waste product of the bodys metabolism, apparently peps up brain action. It al^, unfortunately, afflicts many people with the pangs of gout.

The study was made by George W. Brooks, and Ernst Mueller. They suggested that experiments now be made to determine whether serum urates can be given to people as stimulants to better performance.

For years people have honored ulcers as the penalty of fretful intelligence and jeered at gout as the punishment for eating too much and boozing to hard.

Actually, it is the other way around. Any moron can worry and drink himself Into an idcer. But your brain has to be in high gear for you to come down with the gout.

Gout is one of the oldest diseases known to man. It strikes the profligate, true, but it also strikes the ascetic. It is found In the fasting monks cell as well as in the throne rooms of monarchs and the manor houses of lords.

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Opinions Time For Action

In Brief

Sometimes as we gaze Into the collection plate on Sunday we get the feeling a lot of folks are under the impression the church is coin-operated. Chattanooga (Tenn.) News-Free Press.

I dont like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything. Henry Ward Beecher.

There was a time when you were regarded as widely traveled If you knew more than three people in a neighboring county. Now if you dont know most of the short cuts in the adjoining states you havent been around. Unadilla (Ga.) Observer.

Shaggy dog jokes long have stock American

humor. In these days of beat-nicks, shaggy people jokes are more in tune with the times. Charleston (S. C.) News and C!ourier.

(Raleigh News & Observer)

Both producers and buyers of tobacco made it clear at a meeting in Raleigh last month that they favored immediate action to set up an industrywide market control committee so that advance planning for the 1966 season could begin without delay. It was pointed out that many export buyers would be going overseas during March on their annual selling trips and that their customers would be asking them what steps had been ts^en to alleviate the chaotic and costly conditions which prevailed on the markets in 1965.

It is true, as the managing director of the warehouse association said, that there are only so many hours in a day. Yet this association has shown in the past that it can act quickly when the need arises.

There Is need for quick action now. Farmers want assurance that the auction sales of their commodity will be planned and conducted In an orderly manner so that they

can receive maximum returns for their crop. Buying interests want assurance tiiat everything possible is being done to prevent expensive shutdowns and delays and to provide for a smootii flow of tobacco from farm to processing plant.

The problems involved are serious and they arent going to disappear of their own accord. They need to be tackled with the best brains and the best intentions that can be mustered from the three industry segments most directly affectedgrowers, warehousemen and buyers. And the time to get the job started is right now.

The industry is looking to Fred Royster to call his study group and his board of governors together to establish an industn^de market control committee at the earliest possible date. If that is not done, the growers and buyer groups would be fully justified in taking matters into their own hands and proceeding on their own initiative.

A fourth man said, Look, mister, I dont want to get involved. I mind my own business.

But as a citizen you must have some opinion on this. I pay my taxes and I do as Im told.

An elderly man I talked to said, When I was a boy the ankle was the sexiest part of a womans body. I guess were moving up in the world. Do you think the knee will ever replace the ankle? He looked at me sadly and said, Why would I care? I asked the final man I talked to if he thought American women should wear shirts above the knees,

I think thats for the President to decide. He knows whats best for the country. How would he decide? He would ask Dean Rusk and McNamara and leaders of Congress. Then he would take a poll. If the majority of the people are in favor of short hemlines, then I believe its to the national interest to support the FTesi-dents Knee Policy. Wouldnt this be a form of escalation? I asked.

It would be. But what other choice do we have?

Policy Of New

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1966, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Nikita Khrushchev was no bargain. He used the most blatant and ugly sort of naked power to crush th Hungarian revolution. And when he thought he had President John F. Kennedy on the run, he let no scruples stand in the way of shipping offensive missiles into Cuba. He would have used them for blackmail if Kennedy hadnt turned strong.

Amid the cold winds of the present, however, we could be almost nostalgic about Khrushchevs memory. NUcita could roll with the punch when he found himself In a ticUlsh situation. Simply because he had emotions and was willing to give them free play, the West knew where it stood with him.

JOHN

CHAMBERLAIN

Not so with Brezhnev and Kosygin, the faceless men who are now In charge of Soviet policy. If they have emotions, they display them only by calculated deed. They are again jailing writers who displease them. And Soviet intentions toward the West seem to have taken a coldly malevolent turn.

How else are we to interpret the death under duress of Newcomb Mott, the young American who offended the Soviet by walking across the border from Scandinavia at a place so far north that all he could possibly have spied Ufwn was the love life of the reindeer? Whether Mott was murdered or whether he committed suicide while being shipped to a prison camp, the fact that the Kremlin chose to make a federal case of h i s failure to get a visa argues a complete indifference on the part of Brezhnev and Kosygin to western opinion. There was no spirit of co-existence in the punishment meted out to Mott

It doesnt take any advanced degree in Kremlinology to connect the treatment received by Newcomb Mott with the decisions reached at the Communist Tri-Continental Conference of Subversion held in Havana in early January. They were two aspects of the same thing, a spirit of uncompromising struggle with the West.

What the Russians did at the Havana meeting was to endorse the Mao Tse-tung theory that the road to New York and London lies through the jungles of t h e sub-tropical world.

T r ue , the Ru s s i ans had prepared for the Havana conference by weaning Fidel Castro away from the Red Chinese influence. But, with Moscow, it was another instance of killing Trotsky prior to taking over Trotskyism as the official line. Mao Tse-tung is evidently without personal influence in Cuba, but Maoism, directed by Moscow itself, is now the policy which Brezhnev and Kosygin have endorsed in their campaign to undermine the West through the multiplication of terror.

Medicare SuDDlement Policies

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By EARL. L. DOUGLASS PAY UP AND SHUT UP You hate to pay taxes, dont you. So does everybody. But how are we going toruna government without taxes?

Just keep this in mind, that to live in these free North American countries in the middle of the 20th century is the greatest privilege that ever came to any human bings in the history of the race. Go back over the bloody pages of the past and read of tyrannical kings and robber barons. We have political machines today and some of them are harmful to the government, but not all. Government is the biggest business in the world. It takes a host of people to run it. It takes untold millions of dollars to pay their salaries.

Yes, we could give up taxes. Wc could live, for in

stance, in the Workers Paradise where, as the late Alfred E. Smith once said, communism makes everybody equal by making everbody poor. If the common people cringing under the heel of communism could be given a tour through the United States and Canada and see what we really have here under capitalism, they would realize that capitalism is the only way business can be administered in a system of free enterprise. Furthermore, free enterprise is the only system consistent with human dignity and progress.

So lets pay our taxes and quit complaining about them. Let us go along whistling, and let us give the icy stare to anyone who says there is at present anything better than the benefits we enjoy.

By ELMER ROESSNER

If you cant lick em, join 'em, has been a political philosophy for many years. It is being adapted to the insurance business now. In (fonsequence, among the business futures will be a wave of medicare supplement insurance policies.

When medicare was signed into law by President Johnson, a tremor ran through insurance companies writing health and medical care policies. The first look seemed to indicate that the government was taking over the bulk of their health insurance business; Blue CJross, some feared, would soon become Red, White and Blue Cross.

They got a temporary break when many authorities began advising the elderly to continue with private health insurance policies, at least until it was found out how medicare would work. MOVING INTO THE GAPS

But to get a permanent break, the health insurance companies are now developing policies that will supplement, though not duplicate, the protection provided by the government.

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Aetna Life & Casualty has already come out with a new group Insurance plan specifically designed to supplement medicare. Other insura nee companies are beating the idea into shape, and soon there will be many group and individual policies filling in the chinks of government protection.

The insurance companies

will get a boost in sales from the government itself, since the social security administration is continuing to point out what medicare does not cover. The insurance companies are getting the equivalent of a million-dollar advertising campaip for nothing.

Here are more glimpses into the future of business:

Anto price rises: The lack of resistance by auto manufacturers assures restoration of the auto excise taxes. Consequently, there will be a buying rush until the excise is restored; new autos are now averaging $25 less than they will be later on. But walk, do not run, to the showrooms. Congress can easily make the tax retroactive to Jan. 1.

TRUTH MAY BE NEARER THAN YOU THINK

Tnith-in-advertising chances improve: The Presidents approval has been put on the truth-to-advertislna bill: labor

is demanding passage ai part of its pay-off for suppoiting tiie Democrats. The biU is so far unpackaged; that is, not put in final form In cellophane. Opponents may therefore first fight for easements and amendments; later for rejection of the bill. But, because of the LBJ approval, they had best act fast and fight hard.

Steel output to rise: Steel production, which has risen for five consecutive weeks, will make further gains. Users are continuing to build * inventories in preparation for (a) shortages caused by the Viet Nam step-up and (b) the possibilities of price increases, despite Johnsons jawbone price controls.

Firmer fuel oil priceit The one-two-three weat h t r punch on the Eastern Seaboard is stiffening fuel oil prices and, in many places, pushing them higher. Demand has skyrocketed and supplies have not increased.