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^^iedmont And East Stand To Gain

There should be considerable interest in Pitt and quate to handle the traffic of today. They are by no , other Eastern counties in the suggested four-laning means the kind of highway ^ka^^with the rest of the o highway 264 eastward from Raleigh. state that encourage industnal and other economic

It is a major highway link that is sorely needed, development.

It is one which would enhance present travel and While better highways in the East would help encourage further economic development in the this section, they would likewise provide secondary area East of Raleigh. benefits to the Piedmont of the state also. With bet-

For all practical purposes the East-West four- ter highways in the Eastsjtarting with he four-lane highways of North Carolina do not push east- laning of 264more of the commerce which now ward from Raleigh. The coastal plain area of the moves north and south would be encouraged to move state still has to manage largely with the old two- west. It would result in more North Carolina busi-lane highways which in many instances are not ade- ness being, done in North Carolina rather than in

South Carolina and Virginia.

The suggestion ^hat highway 264 should be four-laned east of Raleigh should not be shrugged off by the State Highway Commission. It should be pushed by the interested counties in this part of the state, and the merits of the move pointed out repeatedly.

Visualizing A -!?load Of Future

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES PARKWAY - Gov. Dan K. Moore began the sec o n d iummer of his term in office by donning a jaunty, knit sports shirt and going out for a walk on the misty, wooded slopes of Grandfather Mountain.

It was a cool, blue - sky morning in late May. Moore left the rustic timbered lodge in Linville and motored the distance of a few miles to the mountain.

Above him. Grandfathers craggy, 5,964-foot heights were sharp and clear, looming as large as the public announcement the governor was to make that day.

Halfway up the mountain road, Moore stopped and strolled down the wooded slopes with Hugh Morton to the shores of a sapphire-watered mountain lake. There,

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fte two men shook hands and gazed off into the distance-visualizing in their minds the route of a road, the route of the Blue Ridge Parkway, traversing the scenic mountain just below the peaks which crown its bulk.

ANNOUNCE The meeting of the two men, Moore ai^ Morton, on that May morning was mostly ceremonial.

Back in Raleigh, the governors office was preparing a news release a brief, one-page announcement that the governor and Interior Secretary Stewart L. Ud a 11 had reached agreement on *the general location of the section of the Blue Ridge Parkway around Grandfather Mountain.

The considerable significance of this was grasped quickly. It meant, in effect, that the end of a long, bitter dispute over location of the final, missing link of the Blue Ridge Parkway might be in sight FINISH - It meant, in effect, that the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads could begin construction surveys and engineering work and the U.S. Park Service finally had agreed to finish the 479-mile length of the mountaintop Parkway begun 30 years ago.

It meant, apparently, the end of a controversy of more than a decade between Morton, the owner of Grandfather Mountain, and the Park Service about location of the last six mile link that across the heights of Mortons mountain.

The Park Service heretofore insisted the road should be routed across the top the heights of Grandfather, in keeping with the overall plan and design of the Parkway which skims the crest of the Blue Ridge from the Shenandoah National Park and it Skyline drive in Virginia to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park west of Asheville, N. C.

Morton, however, fought to preserve the beauty of t h e crags and peaks of Grandfather, opposing the so - called high route. COMPROMISE-The agreement announced by Moore and Udall is in reality a compromise on the order of which the Moore administration has become well known.

In this case, however, the only role of the Moore administration was to push for acceptance of the compromise. It was already proposed when Moore took office as governor.

Actually, less than a week before Moores predecessor, Terry Sanford, left the governors office the Sanf o r d Highway Commission agreed to accept right-of-way to a compromise middle route below the crest of the mountain. This became the basis of negotiation after Moore became governor and more than a year later, the Park Service agreed.

Some months earlier, Moore acknowledged that negotiations were going on. But at that time he said the Park Service was not enthusiastic about the middle route.

CLAIM As of today, no timetable has been set for completion of the missing Grandfather Mountain link of the Parkway. There is a lot of Washington red tape, surveying, construction planning and the like.

Whether construction will be started during M o o r es term of office is still in doubt. But the agreement announced in May is at least a ihilestone, and the state administration recognizes it as such. Administration officials have been quick to add settlement of the Blue Ridge Parkway dispute to t h e ir list of Moore administration accomplishments for public relations value.

President Of France Grasping At A Vision

President deGaulles effort to create a modern Europe in which France is the dominant nation ia like rrasping: for a dream which vanished decade ago.

Yet that appears to be the goal of the elderly and vigorous French leader who this week entered a round of formal conferences with Soviet leaders on the future of Europe. In deGaulles view Europes problems should be settled by continental powers, not under the deciding influence of the United States and England. In an effort to achieve this end, de-Gaulle has turned to the Soviet leaders.

Certainly there is no suggestion that deGaulee shares any communist beliefs, nor that he desire.s for France to come under the influence of the Soviet Union. It is evident that he somehow believes he can use the Soviets in his plans for a French-dominated Europe without increasing Soviet influence on the continent.

President deGaulle has proved himself a determined and durable leader. He has done for France in terms of leadership what no other man in almost a generation has been able to do. In his effort to

re-establish France in a place of power and influence By ALVIN TAYLOk he is taking risks that could seriously threaten the ^ freedom of Western Europe and France itself.

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Historic term

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) -The Supreme Court gave some historic decisions in the 1965-66 term which ended Monday even though this was not its most spectacular session.

Its major actions, following the liberal direction of a dozen years, were in the field of rights.

The court extended and protected an individuals rights against the power and machinery of government; the right to a fair trial; to keep quiet and have a lawyer in a police station; and to free speech.

The court not only knocked out the poll tax payment as a requirement for voting but, in upholding sections of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, open-

This Date-40 Years Ago Today

By JOHN G. DUNCAN June 22, 1926 Play For Golf Cup Has Begun at Country Club The third annual tournament for the presidents cup of t h e Greenv i! 1 e Country Cub was begun today with practically all men golfers engaging in play. This is the third time the cup has been played for. It was previously won by J. S. Ficklen and W. W. Lee.

ed the way for more thousands to vote, particularly Negroes.

In this the court supported President Johnson, who called for the 1965 law, and Congress which passed it.

Nevertheless, these decisions, far - reaching as they were, were not as sensational as some others these past 12 years: the ban on public school segregation; reapportionment of state legislatures; separation of church and state by banning compulsory school prayers.

Although a majority of five

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A tremendous steel frame is being erected on the ground at the site of the East Carolina Colleges new Minges Coliseum. It is the framework for the roof of the building. It is being built on the ground some sort of gigantic flying

and will be raised with hydraulic jacks.

Sitting on the ground as it is, the steel frame looks like it might be the makings of machine with a 300 foot wing span.

That ought to open the way

Other Editors Saying The People Are Silent

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Cyclone McLendon Good at Hunting Foxes Cyclone McLendon is not only a good preacher, but he is mightly good when it comes to chasing foxes. In company with Gus Forbes and H. F. Jones, pastor of Memorial Baptist Church, the visiting evangelist went on a successful hunt yesterday. They bagged one fox and chased other six hours.

Peed Whichard

Mrs. Maggie Whichard was married to Mr. Raplh R. Peed at the parsonage of the Memorial Baptist Church this morning at ten-thmty the Rev.

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ed the ceremony.

of the nine justices usually are considered liberal and the other four more conservative, some of the decisions looked' upon as liberal would have been impossible without some of the conservatives because now and again a liberal justice said no.

This year the Ckiurt went further than ever in protecting a person arrested as a crime suspect against forced confessions by ruling he must be told by police he doesnt have to answer questions and must be given a lawyer if he wants one but cant afford one.

The court then said this strict limit on the use of confessions at trials applies only to cases where the trial began after the decision, which was on June 13.

And the court put a flat responsibility on trial judges everywhere to conduct fair trials when it ruled Dr. Samuel Sheppard, who had served nine years for the bludgon-slaying of his wife, didnt get one.

The court said the judge in Sheppards case let newsmen turn the trial into a carnival.

In still another case the

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It is becoming increasingly clear that when the next North Carolina legislat u r e convenes, efforts will be made seriously to have the state do something about helping out wi'' the tax picture for the 100 counties of our state.

The most formidable suggestion made to date is that the legislature should ra i s e the present sales tax f r om three to four percent and give the individual countje^ the monies derived froih the extra one percent colle c t-ed.

Then there are some who say that our state should impose a tobacco tax and give the money derived there to the counties. And we re sure that there will be other suggestions on how to help the counties as time goes along.

We realize that the counties of our state are hard-pressed right now in this . matter of levying sufficient taxes to meet the demands. The present main source of county taxation is thro ugh the property taxes. If it comes to a choice between increasing property taxes and levying an additional one percent sales tax, then we suspect that property owners all over the state will favor the sales tax increase.

The truth is that over our state so many people are constantly demanding more services all the time w h i le

consistently demanding that the state not increase its tax base. Somewhere and sometime something must give. We cannot keep on demanding more services unless we are willing to pay for them. 'We cannot hold the line in t h e field of taxation while in-creasingour expenditures for additional serdces. That is a simple fact of economics. Count' commissioner groups overJhe state have talked about su(m help on many occasions. At every county commissioner rroeting on a "'te-wide basis in recent tim e s, the subject h been discussed thoroughly. Many state officials hav" been made aware of the plea for tax help to the counties.

Throughout it all the people of the state have been strangely silent. We have hardly heard an express i on from the people in this regard. Just how do the people feel about this? Just what is the states responsibility in the field of helping individual counties in this matter of getting enough tax money to operate? Should .he state enter into this field of taxation?

These are important and far-reaching questions. They deserve better answers than have yet been given. Surely, the people are not indif-frent.

It is an issue which must be met face to face. - It will be met, but we caanot presage the result.

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1966, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Long years ago it was the Left that was dumb when it came to putting over its views. It was committed to the soapbox approach, the blanket denunciation, the Comes the Revolution, youll eat strawberries and like it psychology. It ran out-and-out- Marxists for office, and its Norman Thomases spoke menacingly of taking over the commanding heights of industry. Then the Left made a great discovery, that it was possible to subvert a society and move it toward collectivist goals by taking it on the flank,

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80 to speak. Deserting traditional positions on such topics as the nationalization-of basic industries, the Left concentrated on fostering the idea that technical ownership was unimportant and th a t what counted was control. The euthanasia of the rentier, John Maynard Keynes called it. Gradually, in the Nineteen Thirties and after the devotees of control took over in the universities. They could be called Keynesians, or Fair Dealers, or even New Left activists, but they were agreed on the fundamental proposition that a powerful central government in Washington must take responsibility for running the show.

All of this flummoxed the Right, which reacted in the same primitive manner that had once been the hallmark of the Left when crowds in Union Square ritualistically denounced the New York police as Cossacks. The Right ALVIN began to see Communist manipulation whenever a loc a 1 womens club invited a One TAYLOR World character to expound

upon the virtues of Unesco. It equated Keynesianism with orthodox Marxism, and it refused to see the profound difference between a world union of states that would include Communist Russia, and a North Atlantic Federation that would be aimed at a more perfect defense against Soviet conniving.

Particularly as regards the universities, the Old Grads of the Right took out after socialistic professors. Their frustrations were understandable, for it wasnt pleasant to discover that they were paying college tuition for sons who returned home at Christmas to dismiss their businessmen fathers as reactionaries. But blanket denunciation of college economics and history departments got nowhere On First Street last Thurs- in a nation that has been inday a Volkswagen was creep- doctrinated with the need for

for the first wag to come by, study it for a time and inform the workmen, Itll never fly.

This years ho, ho, ho awards goes to the computer which called up 53 reservists and assigned them to a Wisconsin National Guard unit.

It was all a mistake, the army admitted, somebody just pushed a wrong button.

Its well known you cant argue with a computer, but no doubt 53 reservists are delighted to know they can be wrong at times.

Young man carrying a rifle came into the news room, the other day. After everyone had crawled out from under the desks, he explained he was invited down in connection with a story.

Enough to make a newsman nervous.

ing through the 15 inches of water which covered the street due to the heavy rains.

It met a truck. The big vehicle ploughing through the water sent up a wave which washed completely over the Volkswagen. The little car kept going, however.

Residents of , First Street say the water was so deep that one car stalled. When other vehicles came by, their wake, rocked the stalled car.

academic freedom.

The primitivism of the Right is still with us, but there are increasing Indications that conservatives are tumbling to the fact that society is not moved by frontal^, denunciations. An alumnus of Cornell University in New York State, J. D. Tuller, who has been searching for worthy aims for his Tuller Foundation, has noticed that Harvard University, for instance, (Continued On Page 6)

Will Medicare Generate A Mess;

Miss Whichard !s the oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Whichard. She was educated at the Greenville High School and Draughans Business College, Atlantia, Ga. She was engaged as book-keej^er at the National Bank.

Presbyterians Will Hold Picnic

The Presbyterian S ii nday .SchiHil will liuld its aun u a 1 pi(iiic Thursday aftern o o n. Every member of the church is invited and requested to meet at the church at 12:30 oclodl>

not waive his clients constitutional right to plead innocent, to have a trial, and to cross-examine witnesses.

And a ban was put on any sentence over six months for criminal contempt in federal court unless the defendant gets a jury trial or waives it.

Payment of a poll tax as a prerequisite for voting in federal elections was outlawed by the (anstilutious 24(li Aniend-uieiil, adopted iu 1%4. But the Court banued it iu stale elections, too.

It didnt use the 24th Amendment but the 14th, saying poll (Continued On Page 6)

By ELMER ROESSNER I predict that medi care, which becomes effective a week from Friday, will generate the darndest domestic mess of the Johnson administration.

It may even take a lot of minds off Viet Nam.

This is what will haplen:

1. There will be a terrific jam at hospitals which, in most sections of the country, ar*e already overcrowded. The vast number of people, running into the ni i 1-lions, entitled to free-less-$40 hospital care, will overburden existing facilities. Some just wont get it.

2. The hospital rush will be worsened by over-65ers who have been postponing opera-tion.s lot' a long list ot nonurgent a i 1 in e a t s: polyps, chronic appendicitis, gall stones, hernias, corns and warts, skin lesions, diverticula, galucomas and scores of other covered discomforts.

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3. Medicare provision.s will attract countless n u m-bers of hypochondriacs. Many, of course, need psychiatric aid. But first they will demand hospital treatment for imagained or psychosomat i c illnesses, adding to the jam at admittance offices.

4. Medicare will tempt those willing to embark on a career of hospitalization. There are limits, of course. After 90 days of hospital benefits and 100 more days of extended care, at a total cost of $40, a patient must wait 60 days before returning to a hospital. And while doctors will be alerted to malingering, (he luiiuan being is an inventive cp .s, able to siinulaliVendless 4'inplums witbuut aetectiun.,

Doctors, too, always recommend surgery, which is a great way to get a malingerer out of bed.

5. There will be a shortage of nurses and hospital technicians and attendants. In fact, the shortage is already here. The sharp increase of over-65 patients, which are not the most patient patients in the

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world, w'ill not only worsen the shortage but also make recruiting more difficult. DTIIKIl .SHORTAGKS, HIGHER (OSTS 6, Ttie scarcity of nurses and the greater burdens will lesull in dciiiaiuls for higher wages, sliorter hours and other benefitsdemands such as New York City has just been

through.

7. Demands by employees, plus requirements by the federal government for high standards in equipment, superior maintenance, integration and other cost - requiring refinements, will force rises in hospital costs, not only for those covered by medicare, but by the younger age group.

What Blue Cross and Blue Shield have done to increase the prices of medical assistance is likely to be repeated in medicare.

8. The existing shortage of visiting nurses will either mul-t i p 1 y government costs for home nursing services, or make these services financially yiipossible. Yet the gov* enmieiil is promising tlie old-stei-t part-time nui sing care, phy sk*al, occupational or speech tlieiapy; services of home health aids; medical supplies except drugs, and use of medical. apDliances.