Tuesday, April 26, 196^

Larger Economic Strides Needed

It is significant that North Carolinas per capita The per capita income of North Carolina ad-income topped $2,000 for the first time last year, vanced $105 during 1965, a five per cent increase and in the process North Carolina dropped two over the previous year. But while this w as happening notehes in its relative standing, with other states in in North Carolina, the nation-wide picture was this important figure. showing a gain of six per cent compared with the

The statistics on personal income for 1965 clear- per capita of the previous year, ly show that while North Carolina continues to make Both Kentucky and South Dakota moved ahead progress, it must accelerate its rate of economic prog* of North Carolina in per capita " ipcome. In *part, ress if it is to keep pace with the rest of the nation, at least, the reason may have been that South Dakota If North Carolina is to improve its relative posi- enjoyed a 40 per cent increase in farm income last tionand indeed it mustthe state will have to year and farm income advanced 25 per cent in.Ken-show considerably larger economic strides than it tucky. For North Carolina, form income during the

year showed a decline of 18 per cent.

Whatever the reason for the change. North Carolina should at the same time be gratified and concerned that its per capita income went up and its relative standing in the list of states dropped. Although it enjoyed last year the highest per capilla income in ite history. North Carolina now ranks 44th rather than 42nd in per capita income.

It should be evident to every citizen of the ^te-; that North Carolina must run just to keep up with the economic growth of other states. It must run faster than it has in the past if it is to move ahead in relative standing with the other states.

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iNew LOOK in

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

HOUSED The really new look in state legislative primary elections this Spring is found in the lineup of candidates for the 120 seats of the House of Representatives.

There are scores of c o n- tests in brand new House districts which umler one man-one vote redistricting have replaced the old system in which each of the states 100 counties was allotted at least one seat In fact, this years alignment is a far cry from that old House apportionment system.

Many under - populated counties now will be without direct representation in the House.

For example, in the first two districts in the northeast

Sart of the state only four ouse seats are allotted to 11 counties. The new look is Illustrated by the fact that 14 candidates are running for these four seats and must campaign across districts of ,fivt and six counties.

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cumbent Rep. Mack S. Isaac of Newland.

Nevertheless, in this district the GOP will be losi n g two legislators under redistricting including their minority party leader and new state Republican chairman, James M. Holshouser of Watauga.

Also, while there are fewer Republican primary contests next month this is explained by the fact that there are fewer Rpublican candidates by far. Republican candidates failed to offer for 54 of the 120 House seats including quite a few in districts in which they appeared to have an excellent chance.

LINE-UP Only one Republican candidate filed for a House seat in Guilford County which now has six seais and where in 1961 a GOP slate made a clean sweep of Guilford offices in a surprising upset.

Only three Republic a n candidates came forth for the seven House seats allotted to populous Mecklenburg County. No GOP candidate filed for any of three seats allotted to Alleghany, Ashe, Stokes and Surry counti e s. Only one filed for the two seats in Haywood, Madison and Yancey counties.

PRIMARIES - As predicted and expected, redistricting of the House will take a

Constant Critic ?rom Oreaon

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP)- Sen. Wayne Morse never stops belaboring President Johnson, especially for his Viet Nam policy. The two men .get along well. Johnson is always finding speical missions for Morse.

If it hadnt been for Morse or his vote in 1955 Johnson might not now be in the White House. At least his road there would have been tougher. But that isnt enough to explain the relationship between the two men.

Morse has been a critic of all the presidents since he came to the Senate in 1945.

He started out as a Republican but the Democratic presidents from Harry S. Truman through John F. Kennedy and Johnson and Democrats in general have given Morse far more professional and political understanding and appreciation than President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Republicans

CONTESTS There are rela^el^ tew of the new House ^stricts in which there are no contests either in the primaries on May 28 or in the general elect! o n s next Fall.

And there are quite a few more Democratic primary contests than Republican. Fifty-six Republican candidates for House seats have been certified as GOP nominees next Fall without primary opposition, which is . something of a record for Republicans in North Carolina:

By contrast, only half as many, 28, Democrats have been certified as nominees although Democratic candidates have offered for all but jpne of the 120 seats.

DEFAULT - A single House seat which apparently will go to a Republican by default is that for the 44th House district, Avery,

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the sharpest primary con- AC k V"rC tests have shaped up. Many vy i. O

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cape primary opposition and even fewer have neither primary opposition nor Republican challenges in the Fall.

The latter include Reps, Thorne Gregory of Halifax^ W. R. Britt of Johnston, J. E. Paschall of Wilson, Donald M. Stanford of Orange. 'Those without primary opposition but who will he opposed in November include Hugh S. Johnson of Duplin, Jack M. Euliss and Glenn Pickard of Alamance, Earl Vaughn of Rockingham, J. Paul W a 1-lacc of Montgomery, T. Qyde Auman of Moore, Clyde H. Harriss and George Uzzell of Rowan, Dwight Quinn of Ba-

By JOHN G. DUNCAN April 26, 1926 Democrats of County To Meet Here Saturday Delegates to the State Convention to be held in' Raleigh on April 29, was. the main business transacted by the Pitt County Democratic Convention held in the Court House Saturday afternoon.

M. K. Blount, was reelect:, ed chairman of the Executive Committee.

Mitchell and Watauga coun- barms, J. Henry Hill of Ca-

ties.

No DenK)crat offered in the 44th to oppose the winner of a Republican primary contest between George M. Harmon of Beech Creek and-ln^

tawba, Sam J. Ervin HI of Burke, Earl H. Tate of Lenoir, Fred B. York of Alexander; Wiley A. McGlamery of Clay.

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Kiwanians Enjoy Health Program The program dealth with health conditions, and progress in health education in Pitt County. The speakers were Dr. Laughinghouse and Dr. Oatland.

Next meeting of the club In Greenville teachers will be entertained. Program will be in charge of Bob Fitgerald.

The Daily Reflector

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Two Injured In Automobile Accident Sunday

Leo Conway is suffering from painful injuries which he received yesterday when he was caught under a Ford roadster when it was struck by another car and overturned in a ditch on the Greenvi 11 e-Farmville road. Conway was riding on the running board while Miss Ethel Cavenaugh and Mr. William Wainwright were occupants of the other car. The car which struck the roadster was driven by Abe Baker.

in general.

Morse, who had been dean of the law school at the University of Oregon, had a background in constitutional and labor law before going to the Senate. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had appointed Republican Morse an arbitrator of labor disputes for seven years on the West Coast and then a member of the War Labor Board for two. Then Morse went into the Senate as a Republican, ^

- Democrats were late to make use of that background but not the Republicans.

His first clash with Truman came in 1946 when the president, going before Congress to . ask special measures to stop the railway strike, was suddenly interrupted quietly and then announced the strike was over. Morse later publicly derided this as ham acting. This infuriated Truman and many others.

In a relatively short time Morse publicly apologized and the following year publicly praised the president for vetoing the Taft-Hartley Labor Act and fought to sustain tils veto. Later Mores revealed Truman had offered him a high government job. Some sources said it was the post of attorney general.

And in his memoirs Truman spoke of his high regard for the Oregonian.

Morse poisoned himself with the Republicans when, after first supporting Eisenhowers candidacy in 1952, he did a reverse, quit the party, backed Adlai E. Stevenson, called Eisenhower a puppet of reactionaries. Morse considered himself an independent Republican. The Senate election results were close.

In deciding which party should control the Senate, Morse sided with the Republicans although Vice President Richard M. Nixon said they didnt need him or want him. Republicans paid him back for his desertion Morse called it horsewhipping by stripping him of all his important committee assignments. He was without them two years.

In the 1954 elections," although still an independent, he plugged for a Democratic victory. The result in the Senate:

48 Democrats, 47 Republicans. This time, if Morse had joined the Republicans, making the score 48-48, the vote of Nixon would have given control to the Republicans.

One result: Johnson would not have been majority leader, the job which gave him^ national prominence in a hurry, and he was a man in a hurry.

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By HAL BOYLF

Learned From The Mai^.

NEW YORK (AP)-Things a columnist might never know if he didnt open his mail:

To remain norma! yourself, one of the best things you can do is marry someone normal. That seems to be the message of a recent study of 38 well - adjusted husbands. The study found they all had mentally healthy wives.

We think of the air we breathe as free, butair pollution is now estimated to cost $11 billion a year in wasted fuel and damage to health and property.

If your family isnt at least $6,000 in debtcounting auto loans and home mortgages you are below the national average. ^

Few famous philosophers have come up with a more sensible personal credo than that of the great Negro base ball pitcher, Satchel Paige: Avoid fried meats, which anger up the blood. If your

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To The Editor:

The Pitt County Mental Health Association, which, with the helpful coperation of the Alcohol Information and Service Center, spearheaded the drive for the establishment in Pitt County of the Eastern Area Alcoholic Rehabilitation Center, would like to publicly thank every individual and organization which had any part in the promotion of this vast enterprise.

Our ^ecial and sincere appreciation we extend to East Carolina College, and t h e Chamber of Commerce and Merchants Association who worked day and night including Easter holidays to prepare the outstandingly informative and attractive brochures, to Dr. Earl Trevathan and Clifton Everett who so effectively and knowledgeably presented the petition to the Governors Committee on the

stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move. Go very light on the vicessuch as carrying on in society. The social ramble just aint restful. Avoid running at all times. Dont look back, something may be gaining on you.

How they got started: Charles Dickens and Ernest Hemingway were, newspaper reportis. Thomas A. Edison sold refreshments on trains. Somerset Maugham was a doctor; James Joyce set out to be one but quit the study of medicine after six weeks. Dwight D. Eisenhower worked for a dairy.

You think we have inflation? Pity the poor Greeks. In Athens, well-to-do housewives are complaining be-because slecp-in maids now demand $50 a month. Where will it all end?

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Establishment of Alcohol I c rehabilitation Centers in North Carolina, to the Daily Reflector for its progressive coverage of the undertaking, to Dr. Ray Minges who chaired the project and gave so unstintingly of his time and talents in the organization and bringing to fruition of this most worthwhile endeavor, and to B. B. Sugg and his committee who located available and appropriate sites for the location of the Alcoholic Rehabilitation Center in Pitt County.

If the Alcoholic Rehabilitation Center is located in Pitt County, it will be through the dedicated and concerted f-forts of these and all the other fellow men to take concrete steps to alleviate human suffering.

Edward N. Warren, President

Pitt County Mental Health

Association

Know your language: In medieval days when bread chunks were dipped in the broth of meat stews, the treat was called sop. Today we call it soup, whether we still sop it up.

Worth remembering: Some pMple use religion only as a fire escape.

History lesson: What is the origin of the 21-gun salute for U.S. presidents One theory is that it commemorates the year of 1776, whos digits add up to 21. That is why the salute guns are often fired tiius: one, pause; seven, pause; seven, pause; six.

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Today, delegates representing ten percent of the total population of U.N. members, and only five percent of contributions to the world bodys budget, could form a two-third voting bloc in the General Assembly. Fulton Lewis, Jr.

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The Rolling Stones, pdp singing group, note that no matter how far money goes, it still cant go as far as next payday.

It has been estimated that the average American 70 years old has spent 6 years eating, 15 working, 8 amusing himself 22 sleeping, 4 washing and dressing, 3 talking himself, 22 sleeping, 4 The other 11 years 9 months he must have spent listening to his wife, daydreaming, laughing at his bosss jokes, and figuring out his income taxes.

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Of War

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN Copyright, 1966, King Feature;

Syndicate, Inc.

The way to get a good line oQ^tbe type ot war we aie now fighting in __Vietnam is to try to imagine what the late Bernard Baruch would have had to say about it. He could only have expressed wild surprise. To Baruch, war meant industrial mobilization. It meant the conversion, of factories and allocation of men and materials to the production of mountains of military hardware. It meant piling board on board in Washington, to the end of controlling prices and wages by force and discouraging the normal propensity for fun and games.

But this war is different. In Detroit, they are still making millions of cars and even calling in old models for reconditioning that will improve their safety factors. Chrysler is preoccupied with the Dodge rebellion, not with the production of tanks. Nobody is ripping up the prairie to create new Willow Runs. The production of missiles and atomic airmanent goes on, but atomic explosives are for the stockpile, not for the current warand, accordingly, there is no industrial escalation here. The shipyard stocks perform in narrow ranges, there is no Victory ship program to engage the ingenuities of a latter-day Henry Kafeer, and nobody is talking about turning out landing craft. True enough, the helicopter plants are busy, and plywood factories have been making boards for G. I. foot lockers and ammunition boxes instead of material for new i civilian housing starts. But, taking things on balance, it is very definitely not Bernard Baruchs type of war emergency.

It is for this reason that the Johnson Administration is more than a little perplexed about .establishing a wartiq^e economic policy. The war costs money, but it is money that is, almost literally, swallowed up by the Southeast Asian jungles. It goes to pay South Vietnams bills, and for the maintenance of G. I.s 8,000 miles away from the U. S. economic scene. There is considerable attrition of old-fashioned military hardware, but Secretary of Defense McNamara doesnt issue the orders for a replacement of old-fashioned bomber and fighter planes. He is living off the military nut of yesteryear, meanwhile paying the increased expenses of the men who use the old equipment.

The big question is: how do you control the inflation called forth by Such a war without sowing the seeds for a depression that will hit sometime before the next presidential election? ^

The production of the car makers of Detroit cant be cut back, for It is the taxes on Buicks and Fords that are paying the bills for transporting and maintaining our forces overseas. And if people are to buy the cars that produce the taxes, they must be left with some cash or some access to credit. By thli token they must have civilian jobs producing for a civilian economy. So how do you Improve things by slapping on taxes that will discourage the civilian economy^which is the only economy we happen to have iq this strange war that requires no factory conversion for military ends?

By EARL L. DOUGLASS ACCORDING TO THE CONSTITUTION In free nations, citiz e ns and subjects live under constitutions. Sometimes this is a written constitution as in the case of the United States of . America. The British people have what they term an unwritten constitut io n, or a i^dy of laws and precedents'by which they are guided.

The old despot sitting on his throne and handing out orders that suit his fancy is practically a thing of the past except in areas of the world still inhabited by savages. We want something we ean stand on and be pretty sure of our balance.

We may grow furious and indeed shouldat th e way criminals and other unworthy persons invoke t h e

Fifth Amendment which provides that a person may not be compelled to give evidence against himself. But this Fifth Amendment is good, nevertheless.- It is basic. Also, the fact that a person may not twice be placed in jeopardy for the same crime is a standard right among free people.

Two hundred years ago there were not many* nations which had constitutions or cared much about such instruments. They were either under the rule of tryants or Shuffled along as best they could from day to day taking issus as they arose and trying to settle them.

But the constitqtin is a sensible and sacred matter. Let us preserve it > and lt us become increasingly aware that its provisions apply to all people, goodv and bad aliKa.

By ELMER ROESSNER Here are more bu s i n e s s prospects, based on analyses of developing trends: Silver, aluminum boom: Higher copper prices will increase demand for aluminum as a substitute and, in special purposes, for silver. Chiles 20-cents-a-pound pushup may push up prices elsewhere.

Smaller french-fried portions: Youll get fewer potatoes with your steaks. Future prices have reached the highest mark in history. Incidentally, french - fried potatoes were not invented in France; they ar so-called because frenching means ta slice.

Costiier eggs: Egg prices in mid-March were *11 cents a dozen over a year earlier and heading upward because miliUry requirements,

smaller production, shipments abroad and larger use by hatcheries.

GETTING AWAY FROM IT . ALL

Travel boom: More people than ever before will travel abroad this year, reviving proposals for a head tax on eyery foreign travel-

TextUes y$r: Th boqm: is on the textile tedustey. Rising demand for militiry clothing, plus wild new styles, pliis plenty of spending money in

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Uie hands of consumers, guarantee a year as never before.

More expensive summer: Aluminum outdoor furniture will cost more this year, because of upward pressure on aluminum prices and high consumer demand. However, at the moment, there are fine bargains in hold over items from last year.

Tax exempts to blossom: There are bargains in muni-ciptal bonds and other tax-exempts now, but demand, will increase because of fears of a rise in income tax rates, which would make tax-exempt even grater btr-,Note, howevr, bontj vqlqu do net incres with inflation, emmon itcks

often do.

BRAKES ON INSTALLMENTS

Credit controls likely: Be-

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Congress is likely to authorize limits on consumer credit. It would be more palatable than an income tax rise, though not a$ effective.

Steel demand to level off: Unless the Viet Nam war is escalated, demand for steel will continue on the present plateau. While military requirements are still high, they arc partially offset by cutbacks in construction.

Container war flnring: Competition in the container industry is at an all - time high and rising. Alumi n u m cans, improved tin-coated caiis, nnrturnable bottles', wax() cartons an<f a fw other contAtearB tra in intensa compaction: Note: If war es-c$late$, the gOvamment will ^ frown on nonreturnable bot^ ties, aluminum cans and possibly" other containers.