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Wdnsdy, March 23, 1966

REFUGEE PROBLEM!

Well Need To Elect Strong Leaders

Spring weather of the past few days has sent as it has been in the past. The more heavily popu-candidates scurrying to pay filing fees, voters to talk- lated Piedmont section of the state will have coning about candidates and political observers to siderably more strength in future legislatures wnile writing about the outcome of the May primaries, the eastern and western sections of the state will In truth, it is a long time until the latter part have fewer seats in the House and Senate, of May, and the weather as well as the political Because they are losing strength in campaigns will get much warmer before the voters in the legislature, the eastern and w^tern secti are called to the polls for their verdicts. of the state should make every effort to see that

It is too early to tell, of course, what the prin- those men who do occupy their seats m the legis-cipal issues will be in the various races. In many lature are the strongest possible leaders of the contests the outcome may hinge on personal- respective sections and for the state as a ities rather than issues.

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From a state-wide standpoint, however, the most significant change that is likely to take place during this election year is the shift of representation in the state legislature. The voice of small counties and rural areas of North Carolina will not be nearly as strong in future legislative decisions

Impact Of Pressure

issues Calling -or Attention

By WILLUM A. SHIRES

ISSUES When the 1965 General Assembly adjourned . its regular session last sum-er, it was criticized for failing to act in four major areas.

These were:

Meeting capital improve-C ments needs of state institutions.

Tax relief and tax revision.

, Legislative r e a p p o r-tionment

Amending or repealing the . 1963 Speaker Ban law. ^ t Since then, the latter two t Items have been dealt with ^in separate special sessicxis of * the legislature. The first two ^remain as clearly-defined ma-^ jor issues confronting the next General Assembly that which convenes next Febru-* ^ary and, in the meantime, ' " the state administration.

Pressure on the administration to come up with definite ^ programs on these is grow-6ig. It is likely to increase tvi more in the next few months.

provements bond issue for $75 to $100 million at the same time voters were asked to approve a $300 million highway bond issue and just a year after the people okay^ a $100 million school bond issue.

Primarily, however, Moore thought both matters were so complex, so far-reaching and important that careful, deliberate study was needed. And both are now under study.

Moore called for a special tax study commission which was created by the General Assembly and directed to submit a report by September, 1966 barely six months away. This commission, head-

The announcement that three New York newspaper publishing companies intend to merge and reduce by one the number of newspapers in the nations largest city did not come as a complete sur-

prise. ^ II..-

For several years there has been speculation in

enwspaper and business circles that at least one of the existing dailies in that city would cease publication. In recent weeks there have been rumors of a merger such as the one which now has been announced.

The proposed merger is another in a series of developments in recent years that have seen the number of metropolitan newspapers decrease. Without exception, the reason for the mergers or the demise of some of the nations largest newspapers has been economic pressure and the high cost of producing daily newspapers.

Unless the Justice Department prohibits the

proposed merger, it will put into one company the aix/ikTtavi Herald Tribune, the Journal-American and the By ALViiN IMTLUK World-Telegram and Sun. The combination will mean the loss of one afternoon newspaper in New

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York and one Sunday newspaper. It will leave Man- Once Around

hattan with five newspapers of general circulation two afternoon newspapers, three morning newspapersand three Sunday newspapers.

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Awright, Awright. Enoughs

, It was less than three years ago that New York enough. First it was that

ed by Thomas H Alexander, which had more than a million daily circula- blasted chipmunk that made

has conducted public hearings publication in the nations largest cty. lite miserable for we t o 1 ks

gen bomb off the coast of Spain. Ought to get a decoration for that.

Ah well, that excuse was so far out, it must be true.

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN Copyright, 1966, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

The organization of t h e United Nations was set up rt San Francisco in 1945 in hopes that it would provide a forum where the peoples of ^ t h e world could talk together. But what we really need today is not a forum but a new international dictionary. All of the great words human rights, freedom, peace, equality have become rubbery to the point where they are absolutely useless to conv e y universal meaning.

For example, U Thant, the Secretary-General of the UN, has, with a perfectly straight face, given what amounts to UN sanction to a seminar on human rights in Budapest, of all places. The seminar will be held on June 14-27 to dis- ^ cuss such topics as tte right and opportunity ot citizens to participate in local administration, including the extent of this partidpat i o n. The agenda of the seminar h a s been drawn by tiie UN secretariat in coosultati o n with the Hungarian government. But the United States, which is a member of the UN, will not be asked to participate. Only European coun-ires will be invited.

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DELAY Both of these is-ues, capital improvements ^ and taxes, involve huge sums oi public money. Both are broad complex fields and full of controversy.

I. Both matters ranked high on Gov. Dan K. Moores list of plans and programs for his administration when he ran * for governor. He promised action.

But Moore decided about a year ago that he was not ready to tackle either one in the 1965 session. Beyond recommending some budget ad-i justment to meet the most pressing capital improve-, ments needs, be put them off.

STUDY Moore turned <k)wn pleas to recommend a capital improvements bond issue and to push for certain relief and tax revision measures.

Politically, administration leaders decided it would be unwise to submit a capital im-

and is hard at work.

BONDS The governor himself disclosed a few weeks ago that the matter of a capital improvements bond issue for higher education is under active consideration.

No decision has been reached, and its unlikely that one will be prior to the final stages of preparing 1967-69 budget recommendations next Fall. This will follow the biennial tour of state institutions by the Advisory Budget Commission this summer and the filing of formal budget requests by the institutions and by the Board of Higher Education.

A great deal also depends on whether the states general fund revenues produce a surplus in 1965-67. A sizable general fund surplus would go far toward meeting so-called C budget or capital improvements requests for the next two years.

TAXES Of the two big issues, tax revision and tax relief is the more complex and will require more decision - making than whether or not to recommend a capital improvements bond issue.

Moore, in his campaign for governor, favored tax relief if possible. But in the 19f legislature, he opposed bills to increase individual state income tax exemptions from $300 to $600 per dependent and to give cities and counties a bigger slice of franchise Uxes. He felt the two bills would cost the state approximately $35 million in 1965-67 revenue and throw the budget out of kilter. He said it would be a departure from traditional fiscal responsibility.

DeGaulle Knows Game Is Safe

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP)-In the Western world there could hardly be two men more different than President Johnson and French President Charles de Gaulle. Each has a strong will. How they use it makes the difference.

Johnson is a symbol of soothing syrup, De Gaulle of sandpaper. Johnsons idea of getting people to go along with him is persuasion of one kind or another. De Gaulles is to belt them with a mallet.

eur about himself and France he seems to have lost touch with reality: not only in World War II but in World War I France would have i^rished if the Allies had not bailed her out.

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named Alvin. Now its a submarine named Alvin. Not a full sized sub, mind you, but an itsy bitsy two-man submarine.

Why couldnt the navy, in its infinite wisdom, have chosen the name Alvin for an aircraft carrier. Just answer me that.

Oh well, the mighty sub Alvin was enterprising enough to find that long missing hydro-

Dr. Henry C. Ferrell of the ECC History Department says a coed gave him a new excuse for wanting to drop his course.

Seems Ferrell reminded Hhe young lady of the man she was divorcing.

He wondered If her coming in the course had anything to do with the marriage breaking up.

No, she told him. It all started before that.

Penny Clark, Miss North Carolina, confided in her audience at the Miss Pitt County Pageant last week that she had a ball of gum between her fingers.

She explained that she had to have the gum in her mouth when she danced or else I get dry.

Whats more she said, she couldnt get any of the Jay-cees backstage to look after it for her.

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The President was the greatest Senate majority leader in this century because, in a chamber full of independent and temj>eramental spirits, he was able to accomplish so mudi.

He persuaded, cajoled, did favors, persisted, kept his voice down. The Frenchman would have been a disaster in Johnsons Senate job since he seems to regard himself as the man on the mountain giving orders on stone tablets.

When the French faced chaos in the 1950s, the need for a strong man to keep the country together was only one of the reasons for calling De Gaulle from retirement.

There was this one, too: in his lifetime he had become a legend representing the spirit of France, its refusal to be crushed, and perhaps a bridge between a golden past and a possible golden future.

Unlike so many other French leaders in World War II, he refused to yield to the Nazis and from England led the opposition to the Nazis. He would have been a ludicrous nothing if he hadnt had the Allies on which to rely.

But in his dreams of grand-

By JOHN G. DUNCAN March 23, 1926 Greenville Rotes. Entertain Washington Club Here Last Night Greenville Rotarians f o r-feit barbecue dinner for losing attendance contest.

R. H. Wright of the local club delivered the address of welcome to the visitors and N. 0. Fletcher of the Washington Club responded.

Grimesland and Bethel Winners Will take part in the County Athletic meet in the City on March 29th.

The winners of the Bethel School are: Mary F. Whitehurst, Jasper Whitehurst, Rachel Manning, W i 11 i am Burrayes, Evelyn C 1 ar k, Re-ba Stanley, Thelma Toler of the Grimesland School, and Mildred Porter of the Simpson School.

Mr. and Mrs. James S. Fick-len have returned from a visit in Norfolk.

Miss Jane Lyerly spent the weekend in Raleigh.

Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Timber-lake and little daughter, of La Grange, spent yesterday with Mrs. J. Conrad Lanier.

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The balloon has been hoisted on the proposal to give university status to East Carolina college.

And anytime such a balloon is sent up, there are always pros and cons heard around the country.

As arguments on both sides continue, somewhere along the line we can expect people to begin taking sides one way or the other. And when sides are chosen, then strategy becomes prevalent.

What will be the strategy behind the efforts both to give ECC university status and the other side which is against the ECC university position? That is an interesting question.

First of all, many statistics are involved by way of explanation as to why ECC should be a university. Perhaps one main consideration is the determination which must be made of whether or not youth can better be served with college or university status. Apparently, college officials there feel very sincerely that youth and better educational opportunity will be served more completely by university status.

But on the other side of the coin we might look at what could happen. In the next session of the legislature there

well might be a bill introduced to give ECC university status but have it placed as a part of the Greater university. This would mean that if university status is given, it would come under the direction of President William Friday and take its place along side UNC at Chapel Hill, Greensboro, Charlotte, and N. C. State University in Raleigh.

To a lot of people, it hardly makes much difference about the designation so long as university status is realized. To people living here in this area of North Carolina, it might mean a great deal.

What is proposed is university statusseparate status. The idea right now is not that of being a part of the Greater university but of being a separate university.

If and when such a bill is introduced, we shall all wonder if it is being introduced to kill the separate university status or if it is a sincere effort to resolve the issue. In the minds of many people such a bill is very likely to be looked upon as a diversionary tacticone designed to destroy the separate university status.

Such a bill is likely to be before the next session of the North Carolina General assembly. And a lot of debate is prophesized if it does come forward.

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TAYLOR

At any rate. Penny said, If I can get it unstuck from my fingers Ill be back out to perform for your.

One man didnt have any trouble being excused from jury duty in the trial of Robert Rogers for the death of Farmville police officer Lyman Eason.

He was wearing a hearing aid and the solicitor asked him, What is your name.

Yes, the man replied pleasantly, I can hear you fine.

He was excused.

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No matter what happens whether the policy in Viet Nam turns out to be an asset or a liabilityat least half of the Democrats will have been right half of the time is pretty g(^ going and by no means an accident. Charleston (W. Va.) Daily Mail.

Weve got the Japs beat at imitating one thing, at least; a balanced budget.

Meanwhile, U Thant has also accepted an invitation for European UN members to attend a 1967 seminar in Poland on the realization of economic and social rights contained in the universal declaration of human rights.

What makes U Thants -and the UNs behavior in endorsing these seminars so hypocritical is the attitude of the host countries toward any and all individuals who are in actual need of protection in their human rights. The whole thing is positively Orwell ian in its contempt for the values of words. For even as t h e Hungarian government was asking U Thant to help promote the Budapest human rights seminar, arrests were piling up in Hungary. U Thants attention has been called to the fact that a jittery Kadar regime in Budapest has rearrested practically all the political prisoners who were amnestied in April of 1963, These prisoners were originally guilty of having participated in the revolution of 1956, and it is doubtful that any of them bear much love for the regime that Khrushchev succeeded In imposing on Hungary by force of Soviet arms. But it is equally doubtful that even a small majority of them have been actively conniving to start a new revolution in Hungary. Com- | mon sense would be enough i to keep most of them in line.

For the sake of argument, i however, let us admit that a government must be the Judge of its own security. What is not subject to excuse is the behavior of the Hungari a n Communist government toward political prisoners after (Continued On Page 6)

Cash And Checks To Disappear?

Mrs. Frank Diener left today for Petersburg to visit her mother.

Miss Frances Crisp of Kinston and Mr. Jack Marcus will be married on Wednesday, March 31st.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS TWO GREAT GENIUSES Cervantes, believed by many to be the greatest prose writer that ever lived, was a contemporary of Shakespeare. Cervantes was a Spaniard and Shakespeare an Englishman. In Spain, Cervantes went about collecting money to equip the great Armada which Philip II sent out to destroy England. Young Shakespeare in England lived under terror with his fellow Englishman as the Armada approached the English Chores. One of the singular things about tiie lives of these two men is that they died on the same date. They did not die on the same day for Cervantes in Spain

lived under the Gregorian calendar, whereas Shakespeare in Engl and lived under the Julian calendar, and there was a difference in the calendars of about ten days.

It is doubtful that either ever knew of the existence of the other, for Cervantes did not speak English and Shakespeare did not speak Spanish. Here were two men who looked at religion from different points of view.

Behind the scenes the God of all power and wisdom ar-^ ranges affairs as He would have them and sets down his geniuses in parts of tlie e^th whidi please Him. His understanding is beyond human grasp.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Checks and hard cash for money transactions may largely disappear in the future, George W. Mitchell, a Federal Reserve governor, beli e v es.

If he is right, it will be a welcome development for the U. S. Treasury, struggling with a coin shortage, and for the nations banks, blanketed by a blizzard of checks and other paper.

Mitchell said receivabl e s some day will be paid by bank computer bookkeeping systems instead of by checks and cash. He envisions three major banking changes which will bring this about.

The first is eliminating payroll checks by dep<iting employees salaries directly into their bank accounts. This service already is being offered by some ^anks.

' The second change is issuing bank credit cards which permit liolUers to buy goods or services and repay the bank within the same month, or through Installment or revolving credit arrangements. The

system is convenient for the consumer and benefits businesses because cash is credited to their accounts almost immediately. And they arent bothered by accounting or collection problems.

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Broader use of credit cards could benefit small retailers in another way. One bank using a credit card system found it can extend revolving credit at 1 per cent a month compared with the normal rate of per cent.

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Quite a few banks have been entering the credit card business. The two most notable examples are First National City Banks purchase of Carte Blanche and Chase Manhat

tans efforts to buy Diners Club.

The third change Mitchell envisions is the establishment of a giro system of some 250 interconnected computer centers across the country. Through the network,, an individual could settle any bill anywhere simply by notifying his bank whom to pay, how much, and when.

At present, Mr, Consumer buys goods from Mr. Merchant and gives him a check. Mr. Merchant puts it in his bank. His bank tentatively credits his account with the money and sends the check to Consumers bank, which deducts the amount from Consumers account. Then, through a complex system, it sends the money to Merchants bank. The check itself, goes through numerous processes and handlers during all this.

But with a computer neb* work, electrical impuses would add ttie amount to Merchants account and deduct it fr o m Cons u m ers. All' acc o u n t functions would he bandl e d

at the same instnat. Tedious paper work would be eliminated.

DIAL-A-DEBT

Carrying the idea a visionary step further, Mitchell suggests a system whereby a credit card could b inserted in a telephone attachment and the billing conveying directly to the computer by dialing a code series. He concedes the giro system would require a tremendous amoqnt of ex

pensive electronic gear but believes it can be a reality

within a decade.

The idea of eliminating, or drastically reducing, the use of checks and cash is interesting. As a stunt, one credit card issuer game a yo u n g woman a credit card and asked her to try to live for several weeks with no cash at all. The bank picked up the tab so she had a royal time, llowe ver, she found s h r couldnt buy a newspaper erost a toll bridge or call from a public phone witli t credit card.