Wdi^cJty, April 6, 1966

its Their Tax Policies,- Not Ours

North Carolina has been the object of unreason- example by 6ther s^^^ in their tax policies. Able and unjustfled criticism from several northern Neither'* does it mean that North Carolina is en-It has not impoaed^an exorbitant tax cburaging citizens of other s^tes to vioTate any law, on cigarettes. _ _ Those states which- are looking for the cause

New York, Maryland and a few other states of increased bootlegging of cigarettes have only to have asserted North Carolina is the source of their look at their unrealistic tax schedules on tobacco problem with bootleg cigarettes. They claim they products. In New York City, for example, cigarettes are losing millions ot dollars annually in revenue are selling for 45 cents a pack. But of this sales price, because of illegal cigarettes coming into their bor- a total of 22 cents is represented in taxes, ders from North Carolina . without having paid local Officials of New York and other states have and taxes. tried to make cigarettes carry far more of the tax

Tliese states further assert that North Carolina burden than the traffic will bear. Their own citizens could and should eliminate the problem of bootleg- not the citizens of North Carolinahave turned ging cigarettes by imposing an exorbitant tax as to bootlegging to avoid the unreasonably high taxes, other states have done. A few officials have gone Those states which want to end the bootlegging so far as to imply that North Carolina is encourag- of cigarettes should seek the causes and the reme-ing the bootleg trade in cigarettes because of the dies within their own borders rather that casting importance of the tobacco industry to this state. the blame in the direction of North Carolina.

* The tobacco industry is important to North. _ ,

Carolina. Cigarettes sell for considerably less in *iv pN t-n y

North Carolina where no state or local taxes are im- \

posed than is the case in other states which are try- J, N V-/ -L J. J.1 J.

ing to tax cigarettes to death. But that does not mean that North Carolina should follow the poor

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!VIVD Changes

By V ILLIAM A. SHIRES

RALEIGH - Reporters notebook;

Insiders are predicting that more changes may be coming In the department of motor vehicles, although not necessarily in the state highway patrol.

Two veteran DMV officials are said to be leaving, voluntarily or otherwise, in the next few weeks.

Meanwhile, newsmen inquiring into reasons for the recent demotion of highway patrol Lt. Lloyd Burchette, trooi executive officer at Greensboro, were given brusque brush-offs by the patrol commander, Col. Charles Speed. Speed appeared annoyed and was too busy to discuss the case. Also, there was no comment from DMV commissioner A. PilstoL Godwin, the overall patrol boss.

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Instead, reporters were referred to a brand new DMV apointee, Ralph Howland, in the Burchette matter. H o w-lands announced position in the department, strangely enough, is deputy commissioner for traffic safety. But his duties have the earmarks of departen tal public relations, especially involving dissension and unrest in highway patrol ranks.

It was Howland who told newsmen that Burchette had aiqpealed his demotion order to Godwin, without success. Burchette was an aide to former governors Hodges and Sanford.

POLITICAL Govern o r Moore told reporters that Bur-diette case was a patrol matter bandied within the patrol.

He knew nothing at all about H until he read about the de-motioo in die newspapers, Moore said. It was non-polit

ical, he insisted.

1 knew nothing at all about it, the governor said. Certainly there was no political involved.

CLOSED Keeping the record straight. The State Banking Commission does not vote behind closed doors.

But what it does, by a policy of holding executive sessions for purposes of discussion of banking matters and pending application, bears striking similarity to the secrecy of the joint Appropriations subcommittee in the legislature. Whereas no final votes are taken, vital decisions affecting the pubtte are reached behing closed doors.

In fairness, it may be argued that the Banking Commission has more justification for such a policy than the legislatures powerful money committee. The banking commission must discuss pnvate busi-nesses and private individuals. State law specifically pro-fflLLiAM hibits public discussion of matters affecting the solvency of a banking institution or of the character and integrity of individuals involved in bank management.

THOMPSON - Banking commissioner .*aul H. Thompson

opposing

tive sessions, says this just doesnt look right.!

Thompson has attempted on two occasions in the past few months to get the Banking Commission to abolish its sev-ret sessions. Both times he failed.

He conceded last week, in making such a motion again, that he favors respecting, the law requiring discussion of solvency and management character in private, but insisted that all other matters

'By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - It would be some comfort to the United States if it could say the crisis in American-backed Viet Nam was Communist-rigged or that the Vietnamese were limiting ^their venom to one another.

Such is not the case. The United States, appare n 11 y, cant say either is true. And that makes the whole situation just that much more grim for this country,

The Communists do not seem to have inspired the demonstrations against the military government of Premier Nguyeh Cao Ky. In other words, its the discontented South Vietnamese who are supplying the main thrust.

And anti-American feeling is not only present throughout South Viet Nam, which this country is defending from the Communists at the cost of billions of dollars and many American lives, but is growing.

Secretary of State Dean Rusk testified Monday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in closed session. Later both he and the com-

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mittee chairman, Sen. J, W. Fulbright, D-Ark., talked to newsmen.

Fulbright said Rusk before the committee took the attitude that the demonstrators were not necessarily Communist-led or inspired. Rusk himself would not talk to newsmen about the Reds possible role in Viet Nam events.

Another committee member, Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho, said it would be a mistake to blame on Communists troubles which he said stem from the continuing and persistent divisions among the Vietnamese.

;\dexicQ Sees"" It' Calmly

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN Copyright, 1966, King Feature?

Syndicate, Inc.

MEXICO CITY - The U S Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtzs banishment of Mexi-can braceros ' (or a r m workers) from the lemon groves and tomato fields of America has caused considerable anguish;in California. Senator George Murphy, who has taken it upon^ himself to speak for Californias farmers, looses no opportunity to call attention to the hardships visited by the anti-bracers policy on his constituents. But here in Mexico, where they should be really angry about the deprivation of the bra<> eros livelihood and the ac^ companying loss of the braceros U. S. foreign ezchangt dollars to the Mexican tral bank, government offing ^mlss the Willard Wmpol icy with a shrug of toe ihouli^ ers. As toe Italian song layi, Que sera, sera.**

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By ALVIN TAYU...

The Stories Thev Tel,

Woody Peel, Daily Reflector sports editor, was overjoyed to find that he was due a $50 refund upon figuring his tax last week.

He promptly began dream

ing of ways to dispose of this And over in Goldsboro court

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The official enlanatlos Is that it would be oeneato the dignity of the Mexican government to try to for^ its nationals on Washii^tcm even though California and Ariz(Mia ranchers want very much to employ them. Dii^dad,is one of the more potent inheritances from Mericos

unexpected windfall.

It was decided for him Sunday. His wife broke her glasses. The bill: $42.

This Date-' 40 Years

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of Fayetteville, strenously A I

sing the policy of execu- i y

Rusk expressed the opinion that the civil strife stemmed at least in part from contending groups trying to carve out for themselves guarant ee d

ernment.

future Civilian gov- QtheF EdioFS Savmg

He mentioned Buddhists, Ro-

The Athletics Treadmi'

Open Program Eastern Carolina Exposition A Success American Legion and its auxiliary float awarded first prize. East Carolina Teachers College second prize. Participating in the parade were the marshalls. Will Rogers, the Queens, aty and Exposi-

man Catholics, and others. This has its own omino u s overt 0 ne s. These vari o u s groups and factions have been at odds for years.

If, in the midst of war, a civilian government took over and was made up of these contending groups, it is hard to see how the government would last long or how Viet Nam could avoid civil war.

The same goes if peace should suddenly be restored through defeat of the Viet

officials are still marveling over this one.

A juror, Cleo Westbrook, advised toe cou t that his father was critically ill and he would like to be excused. ITie judge obliged.

Monday, Westbrook called the Sheriffs Department. My father has shown improvement, he said. Ill be able to serve.

(The Raleigh Times) What makes a winning team in these days of big-time intercollegiate athletics? School spirit? Cheerleading? Card stunts? The band?

something which should occupy no better than second place on a campus.

Recruiting, and the need for it in todays frantic intercollegiate athletic situation is at

The answer to that one, ac-.^ the root of most of toe scandals which erupt perrodically

tion officials, commissioner o f Cong. Any way you look at Revenue Daughton, Lindsay it, toe whole Vietnamese pros-

^Warren and other distinguish- pect is dark and ugly,

cd guests. Its ironic that toe United

States should be a target of

ought to be kept in the open. Little Miss Jamie Mrett was the demonstrators all o v er

This concession almost certainly spelled the downfall of his motion.

Bankers on the commission immediately countered with toe argument that in such cases that the baking commission went into executive session the solvency of a certain bank or toe character and integrity of its management would become suspect.

Hostess Saturday to Members of the G. T. Club.

In absence of president. Miss Julie Gaylord presided. Next meeting will be held with Miss Florence Moye.

An invitation extended of the D. A. R. Chapter of Halifax to the Greenville Chapter to be present at, their celebration on April 18th.

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Miss Louis Spain who has been spending the Easter holidays with her p^ents, Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Spain, returned to Kenley this afternoon where she is teaching.

(Jentry Galloway has returned to Randolph-Macon Acada-my after spending toe Easter holidays with his parents Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Galloway.

Viet Nam. It doesnt seem to oc(?ur to them that if the United States cleared out tomorrow they couldnt last five minutes against the Viet Cong which already controls most of the country anyway. .

In Saigon 500 school Ix) y s swirled through the streets, demanding Kys ouster and an end to American support for him. They'battled police and burned a U. S. Army Jeep.

At Qui Nhon, 260 miles north-east of Saigon, a march of 3,000 persons reflected toe anti-American trend. They carried placards saying: foreign countries have no right to set up military bases on Vietnamese land.

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cording to a longtime observer of the sports scene, Dick Herbert, sports editor of The News and Observer, is:

Any successful coach who is honest will admit recruiting is about 80 per cent of winning. There is no genius who can have a championship team with ordinary talent.

Unfortunately, Herbert is correct. If a coach cant recruit the very best of the high school graduates each year, he is apt to be in trouble when the win-lost records are posted at the end of the season.

The fierce competition which has sprung up during recruiting of outstanding high school athletes is both comic and tragic. It is funny to see grown men representing outstanding institutions of higher education prostrating themselves before 17 and 18 year old boys who are possessed of excellent muscles and even better (xxirdina-tion. It is tragic for toe same reason, for this recruiting scramble puts proud institutions into a hea<ilong race for

on the collegiate sports scene. An institution will recruit more athletes than it can legally have, because it feels that _some of them will fail thus leaving place for the extra scholarship holders. Or, a coach or perhaps over-eager alumni might make under-the-table offers to athletes they especially want. If news of those offers leak out, a scandal is the result.

Whats the answer to recruiting and its problems? Thats like asking when will the squirrel on the little treadmill come to toe end of toe line. As long as coaches must fill big stadiums and big coliseums, they must have winning teams. To have winning teams, they must recruit the very best players available. To do that kind of recruiting, they must have toe scholarship money. To have the scholarship money, they must have a big-time teams to play before big-time crowds. And thats where the treadmill begins again.

Housing Authority Chairman Jim Sutton told a story during a lull in the meeting Monday night.

It concerned a drunk who wrapped his auto around a telephone pole in a Pitt County town.

He was indignant when a patrolman arrived! This is the only town I know wluch puts the telephone poles in the middle of the street, he declared.

Director A E Dubber had a drunk story too. It concerned the driver who splashed in toe river, but was saved by other motorists.

It wasnt my fault, asserted toe dripping wet tipsy driver. I saw this bridge coming down the road at me and I did toe only thing I could (Continued On Page 5)

Spanish background, and when dignidad is allied to the incredible patience of the Indian toe courteous silence of toe Mexican government about the bracero issue is easily understandable.

Nevertheless, toe U. S. anti-bracero policy is a bit of rank ingratitude. An authority on Mexican history calls my attention to the year 1942, when the United States, then fighting for its life against Japan and Nazi Germany, was desperate for manpower. In its extremity Washington negotiated an agreement with the pro-U. S. Avila Camacho government which allowed Mexi-cnas to cross toe border in large numbers to work on U.S. farms and on the U. S. railroads. Since the agreem e n t was not signed until the late summer of 1942, only 4,200 ALVIN braceros were contracted for that first year. But in 1943 TAYLOR thousand braceros

were at work in toe U. S., and in 1944 the number jumped to approximately six t y thousand. Meanwhile, by the end of the war, more than eighty thousand Mexi cans were helping to run toe U.S. railroad system. All of this helped to release able-bodied young Americans for toe armed forces.

The present Mexican government of President Dial Ordaz is manifestly too proud to mention the day utoen Franklin Roosevelt and Avfla Camacho made common causa against the Axis.

But this columnist, who onca worked as a seventeen - year-old boy alongside Mexicans in packing houses in California and learned to appreciate their patience and courtesy (Continued On Paga 5)

Children always find it John Hill Paylor of Farm- easier to follow your lead than' ville was a Greenville visitor go" toe way you point. today. Lamar (Mo.) Daily Democrat.

Strength. For Today

A Taste Of Freedom Can Go Far

By EARL L. DOUGLASS WEDNESDAY OF

There is no record of any activity on our Lords part this day. Undoubtedly he remained in solitudeperhaps at the home of his fr i e n d Lazarus and his sisterspreparing himself for the ordeal which was ahead.

We sometimes have t h e foolish notion that after years of indifference we can suddenly turn on spiritual powers and cause them to operate in our behalf. This is not t r ue. God invites us to pray to Him continually, to ask for much and for many things, to ask, confident that we receive what we ask for or something better.

But too often we wait until some crisis is upon us before we start to pray. Jesus had

his temptation, and many times torou^

was betweenlumTmd^e Father a continual understanding and relationship, yet Jesus found it necessary to pray and to pray without ceasing.

How much more, therefore, do we need to pray! The soul must be fed precisely the same as the mind and body, and one of the great ways to feed toe soul is by regular, sincere, and continuous prayer. We all stumble and fall. Jesus himself was the only perfect person that has ever lived. Yet as we rise, God takes us by the hand and leads us on to whatever triumph we are capable of achieving.

Jesus was in seclusion on the Wednesday of Holy Week. Enter toy closet anid close thy door and pray to thy Father who seeth in secret, and thy Father who seeth in

been a praying man all his, secret shall reward thee open-life. He prayed at his baptism, ly' (Matthew 6:6).

By ELMER ROESSNER

Surprising changes can take place when some of toe fetters are removed in a communist economy. Con s i d er Yugoslavia, the first country to break away from Stalins -4im rule-a decade and ^ half ago.

Developments there are described by Mikhovil Skrobe in the Bulletin of the Institute of Marketing Communications. Skrobe came to the States under Ford Foundation auspices and later received a grant from the IMC.

He is chairman of the board of management of Oglas n i zavod ' Hrvatske (Ozeha) which is, of all things, an advertising agency. Obviously, an economy that harbors such capitalistic institutions as advertising agencies must have a fairly swinging mar k e t place.

In a cpntrolled market, the consumer can be coerced to use, buy or do something and there is no need for advertising. But if advertising exists, the consumer is not being coerced and must be per

suaded.

Yugoslavia, Skrobe notes, gave up on the state mange-ment system in 1950. It switched to decentralization and gradually abandoned state monopoly.

SELF=)ETERftmATION

This resulted in a system of management by workers councils and of self-governing local communities. Responsibility for planning was shifted to individual enterprises and a free market developed, according to Skobe.

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Under their own mangement, businesses no longer received orders from higher authorities but decided for themselves on price policy, income distribution, personal earnings, labor relations, and on the

quantity, variety and quality of goods to be produced. Ownership, however, remains public as in other communist countries.

Skobe cited several advertising" campaigns that:

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bu5^ canned soup instead of laboriously preparing soup at home. '

Succeeded in doubling book sales, permitting a 20 per cent price cut. ^

Converted conservative businesses^ to switch from expensive wooden packing to cardboard shipping containers.

Increased tourism almost fourfold in the past eight years.

Similarities between Yugo-

It boasts such niceties as laboratory testing, an Oscar* award for packaging design, and an industrial design center for (^'eating and improving new products.

In one area, Yugoslav adver^^ tising may^bir^dteadhiFiis. No commercials interrupt broadcast programs. Ads are grouped during natural breaks in toe programming. AGRICULTURE DEPART.. MENT touts NEW VARIETIES

Four new varieties of produce are available for spring gardeners as a result of Department of Agriculture development work. They are:

Dixie Savoy spinach, ipi-munc to blue mold and devel-

slav and Western advertising* oped for Eastern and South-methods are striking. Ozeha ern states.

uses newspapers, radio, television, business magazi n e s, billboard ''direct mail, transit, movie screen ads and fairs and exhibits. ,

FULL SERVICE The agency offers research, commercials, print ads, packaging design, store displays, market testing and publicity.

Yakima snap beans, isuited for home gardens.

Hood strawberries, with good yieldsH for jams and preserves, adapted for Pac i f i c Northwest. <

Darrow blueberries, with large, highly flavored b 1 u e-berries that neither crack nor drop in wet weather.