Fridty, June 24, 1966

Best Service To Safetys Cause

If federal engineers rather than those of the manufacturing companies set the specifications for building and equiping automobiles, the impact will be felt by the American people as well as by the Detroit industrial giants.

Federal investigation of present-day automobile manufacture has pointed to a number of vulnerable points in building safety into motor vehicles. The congressional probe has set in motion an effort to put manufacturers under jurisdiction of a federal department which would set forth minimum safety requirements for the manufacture of vehicles.

While we recognize the need for constant improvement in building safety into modem motor vehicles, we likewise have misgivings about the federal governments setting standards and specifications for automobile manufacturing.

At the moment it is envisioned that federal safety requirements would be so evident that only a handful of people could outline the specifications in a relatively short time. If federal operations have taught us anything, however, they have taught that seldom is it possible for a handful of people to handle a new federal function for more than a short

time. Once the new responsibility is handed to an agency, the requirements in personnel and money to carry out the functions grow by leaps and bounds.

How large a government agency would be required to design and engineer safety specifications for the automobile industry? And how much time, effort and money would be required to see that manufacturers compiled with the specifications once they were set?

Aside from the cost to the public through new federal expenditures, automobile purchasers will find higher price tags on the finished products. If federal engineers decide, for example, it is essential for safety for an outside rear view mirror to be adjustable from the inside of the car. the device will up the price of all new cars: The same thing would be true if government safety specifications required rear window defrosters as standard eqquipment.

The federal government, in our opinion, can best serve the public and the cause of highway safety by encouraging manufacturers to do a better job of safety engineering in their products than by undertaking to spell out through federal regulations how automobiles should be manufactured and what safety features they must have.

State' Economy Another Appointment

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES FISCAL - North Carolinas economy generally is so robust and healthy at present that the states general fund revenue Is spurting upward at a rate which amases and gratifies state officials.

A substantial, even surprising, cash surplus is building up in state treasury.

This tends to bear out the optimistic prediction of Gov. Dan K. Moore and top ad-

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FIGURES - As of today, an upsurge in the states financial condition, based on the economy and the present tax base, is evident and encouraging.

Two months ago, authoritative sources made an educated guess that the general fund surplus accumulate during the first nine months of the biennium was approximately $43 million.

In two months a period of about 60 days this has jumped by some $20 m i 1-lion.

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ministration officials s i x months ago. But even if continued and realized at the end of the current biennium, aiarge general fund surplus may not be enough to cover all of the increased budget demands to be placed on the 1967 General Assembly.

At least it will help considerably, and at this point administratioQ officials and state budget planners are counting hopefully on as sizable a surplus as possible.

SURPLUS - With returns in from not quite half of the 1968 67. fiscal biennium, the states general fund surplus at present is estimated at between |60 and $65 million.

Ofildal sources are unwilling to be quoted directly because revenues in excess of legislative budget estimates technically arent considered surplus in the strict sense of the word until the end of the biennium.

In this case, that date is still a year sway June 30, 1967. Offidab cautiously point out that the picture can cbmige drastically with i n %year.

At least, says a high official in the department of Ad-minbtration, we a r e nt broke nor in finandal troub-

The April estimate was based on the fact that act u a 1 percentage increase over legislative estimates was the difference between an actual 15.18 per cent increase and a 6.23 per cent estimate used by the General Assembly. Actual excess collections amounted to $54 million for the first nine months. By May 30 this figure had reached $77 million.

The percentage increase in General Fund collections had jumped to 15.83 per cent. The legblative estimate of 6.23 per cent of course remains stable it was the figure used in enacting a 1965-67 budget.

ACTUAL Cautioned by State Revenue commbsioner I. L. Clayton, state officials faithfully have made adjustment in the actual revenue collections increase to take into account the wiping out of a reserve fund for paying state income tax withholding refunds.

The 1965 legblative liquidated thb reserve and applied it to the current 1965-67 budget" upon Gov. Dan K. Moores recommendation.

Adjusting for withholding refunds most of uddch have now been paid the actual increase of $77 million above legislative estimates b reduced to $71 million.

To arrive at the present paper surplus, the legblative estimate of percentage increase must be subtracted from the actual percentage increase and the result b nearly $65 million.

Pitt County citizens have one more appointment at the ballot box tomorrow when they decide which of two candidates will receive the Democratic nomination for County Commissioner from Greenville.

Incumbent Commissioner Vance Perkins and challenger D. Spruill Spain face each other in the only county-wide race in the run-off primary. The outcome of tomorrows election will determine which of the two candidates will serve on the countys governing board for the next four years.

With only one race on a county-wide basis it is difficult to generate a great deal of interest in a second primary. It is, nevertheless, important that citizens of the county cast their ballots tomorrow. At each of the countys 25 precincts holders will be waiting for voters tomorrow .

We urge every citizen to exercise his individual responsibilty by casting a ballot in tomorrows election.

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

Former Ambaseador to India John Keneth Galbraith has taken out after Secretary of State Dean Rusk for being terribly mbii^orm-cd about the extent of European support of the objectives of American foreign policy. The fact is, says Professor Galbraith, that not a single one of our European allies is willing to send a soldier to help us in VieU nam. Moreover, with the,, exception of Soutti Koref no Asian country is rushing to take part in the war against the Viet Cong. Australia and New Zealand have done something to help, but their direct military aid has been a matter of token detachments.

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By HAL BOYLE

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How To Please A Boss

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP)-Chief Justice Earl Warren has said a mans early life could not but affect his views on the court, which means the nine Supreme Court justices dont always reach their conclusions by sheer legal reasoning, if there is such a thing.

Behind the dccbions, although intended for the welfare of the nation, b the humanness of the men: Their prejudices, earlier experiences, idealbm, their individual sense of justice, and sometimes timidity, caution, or strength of will which has

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made this one of the most fascinating courts.

The term which ended Monday provided some examples, including statemente by some of the justices that some of the other justices were deciding more on private feelings than good law.

This month a majority of the justices, with Warren reading the opinion, banned forced confessions by police from criminal suspects. The four dissenters were Justices John M. Harlan, Potter Stewart, Bryon R. White and Tom C. Clay.

All four in their time had had a hand in dealing with criminal cases. Harlan and Stewart had been federal judges; Clark had been attorney general oi5 the United States; White had been a deputy attorney general.

NEW YORK (AP)- How do you get along with your boss?

There are dozois of newspaper columns that give advice to the lovelorn few that give advice to the work-worn.

This is odd. In a business-oriented civilization such as ours, there must be at least three people who are unhappy in their jobs for every one who is unhappy in love.

The key to success lies in being able to court your boss at least as successfully as you do your wife.

Here are a few tested formulas that should help any ambitious young junior executive to win over bis employer:

Try to inherit as much money as possible, A boss is always a bit in awe of any employe who has more mon

ey than he no matter how it was acquired.

When he leaves early for the day, dont take the next elevator down yourself. He may have forgotten something, come back and find you gone.

If you get a really creative new idea, avoid presenting it likei t was your own.

Now, Professor Galbrai t h could be quite right about his criticism of Rusks sourc c s of information if he is referring to governments. But when it comes to the secret beliefs of common people, who knows what they think? And even p^ive statesmen can be silently sympathetic. It is the very natuio of news, which pays attention to the most stridently vocal that it consisten 11 y plays up a foreign critic of America such as de Gaulle and says little about the leaders in twelve of fourteen NATO nations who, if they are not willing to send soldiers to help us in Asia, are not at all averse to seeing Communists defeated wherever th e y may choose to make trouble.

Even if Galbraith is right about Europeans in general,

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Tell him a^logecally, Chief, .hf U s!

I really stole this one from build iU .'sian policy

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By JOHN G. DUNCAN Jane 24, 1926 Second Primary To Be

Held Hero Saturday Week

The second primary for the election of candidates who failed to poll a majority in the recent state - wide primary will be held in Pitt County Saturday week.

Possibly the greatest interest in and around GreenviUe centers about the election of a SoUdtor of the Fifth Judicial District This interest is due largely to the fact that a Greenville man, Mayor D. M. Clark, is a candidate for the office.

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(Henderson Dispatch)

Passage by both houses of Congress of a bill giving the people the right to know what government agencies are doing strikes boldly and directly at the practice of some Federal bodies in operating as a power to themselves and in many instances in secrecy so far as the public is concerned. The haWt which has developed is detrimental to good government and smacks of autocracy as it exists in some countries, where the people are kept in ignorance and allowed to know only what authorities want them to know. The President is expected to sign the measure into law, since it had already passed the Senate before the House acted.

gave her pledge of honor. The court now threatens to try her on a contempt charge.

If reporters, along with ministers, doctors and others are to be denied this protective right, then the public will be deprived of information obtained from confidential investigations, and hence kept Jn^orance of existing conditions.

you, but who dont we If he breaks down and gives his secretary a $1.50 box of candy on her birthday, let him think hes just a sentimental old pirate. Thats how all bosses Uke to regard themselves.

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Leaves for Niagara Falls To Attend Convention J. B. KittreU left today for Niagara Falls, N. Y. to ak tend the annual convention of the National Hay Association. Mr. Kittrell will s pe n d some time visiting his hay connections in New York State and Pennsylvania. He plans to stay over at P h i 1-adelphia on his' return trip and take in the Sesqui-Cen-tennial.

Entertains at Bridge

The home of Miss Elizabeth Bost on Eighth St. was the scene of a very enjoyable party last evening when, Miss Bost and MiSs Agness Campbell entertained at bridge in honor of Miss Ester How-anj of Morganton. There were six tables of bridge with Miss Hennie Long makiag top score. Low score prize, a book on bridge, went to Miss Rosamond Flanagah.

But none of the nine had the first-hand ex{^ience of Warren in prosecuting crimin -al cases. He had been a district attorney in California.

Harlan flushed, pounded the bench, said this was new doctrine and dont be fooled by it. He called it a hazardous experiment at a time when the crime rate was going up.

And White warned rapists and killers would be freed to rape and kill again.

A week later the cou*t decided that police, when they arrested a drunken driving su-pect, could take a sample of his blood to test whether he was really drunk.

This time the majority was made up of Harlan White, Stewart, CHark and Justice William J. Brman Jr., who had voted a week before against permitting forced confessions. His switch made this decision possible. Wairen ,was against it.

It required some very thin legal reasoning since the court in one case said a forced confessions violates the Fifth Amendments guarantee against selfiincrimination bqt taking blaod from a man against hia will doesnt.

A situation somewhat akin to this regulatory statue about government is the case of a woman reporter at the University of Oregon. She interviewed a number of students about their habits in the use of marijuana, a highly effective narcotic. The court ordered her to reveal identity of those interviewed, which she refused to do, on the ground that it was her right to protect those to whom she

Government has a way of arrogating to itself functions which it denies to individuals and those without official connections. The action in Congress to compel departments, boards, commissions and the like to allow the public to know the facts about their activities is a step toward freedom and better government These officials need to learn that they are the servants of the people, not their masters, and that they are dealing with public business, not specifical- % their own.

The same can be said of the woman reporter in Oregon. The court should rcspwt the confidence she gave. While no one wants to go to jail, it is hoped that she will go to extremes in fidelity to her pledges.

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on wHi^an inquiring reporter rnigm turn up in Oslo, Zurich or Bordeaux. For Europe, as Ole-Jacob Hoff, a distinqulshed young Norwegian visitor to America, has recently said, has a firmly entrenched inferiority complex when it looks at American achievements. Mr. Hoff, who happens to be the son the Norwegian publis be r Trygve Hoff, came to the United States not so long ago to do research in the field of aerospace. A graduate of Harvard, he is amazingly bilingual. He happens to Uke America, and is concerned to defend it against the raucous anti-American duet that comes from the combined throats of the left wing in Euro-

Smile appreciatively at his jokes, but dont give a belly laugh or a slap on the back. .... ,

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by hopeless underlings.

Avoid drinking with him at office pares when he is being a good feUow with the mob. If he wants to have a drink with you, let him take you to lunch or invite you to his home or club.

Never, never try to butter up your bosss wife. Thats a job for your own wife. And she probably knows how to do it better than you.

Should the old man have to go to a hospital dont send him a funny get-well card as soon as he comes out of the anesthetic. Bosses want to be missed. Make up an emergen-(Continued on page 5)

xenophobic and anachronistic hero, (Sreneral de GauUe. Ole-Jacob Hoff accuses his fellow Europeans of s c 1 f-delusion. They cond e m n Americans for materi a 1-ism, and stress Europes cultural superiority. But this cultural superior i t y. says Mr. Hoff, consists in the main of historical monuments, and it is simply not true that Europe has any intellectual alternative to offer the world of today. The fact is, he says, that the mass of people in Europe, including the politicians, are unreservedly striving to (Continued on page 5)

Why Taxes Always Must Go Up

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National Known Concert Singer and Victor Record Record Artist Coming Here Elsie Baker, nationally famous concert singer and Victor Record artist will appear in the Chautauqua program here June 30th.

Since Communist theoreticians have told us that the lie is a perfectly legitimate weapon of diplomacy we are uncertain whether Red Chinas accusation that Soviet Defense Minister Malinovsky is a liar is an insult qr a complimentManchester (N.H.) Unton-Leader.

By ELMER ROESSNER For years it has been surefire to predict that taxes were going up. Taxes have always gone up, even when President Johnson brought about a reduction in income and excise taxes. Not only were the cuts quickly offset by raises in state and local taxes, but some of the excises were reinstated before you could say Great Society.

The most frequently stated reason for tax increase^ is that people have been demanding more services and TLG from the government. And for you Republicans, TLC stands for tender loving care.

But there is another reason, more basic if not bigger. EVERYBOY SEEMS RICHER And that is that personal and corporate income has been rising.

No need for statistics. Readers of this column know that from almost any time in the past to any time in the re

cent future, total personal income has gone up, and that from any past quarter to any recent quarter, corporate profits have swelled.

Even without statistics, almost anybody can see that more people are at work, wng-es are higher, more money is being spent on autos and appliances, more people are going to Europe and the Orient, more luxurious hotels for Aniericans are rising around the world, more expensive so-ciety parties are being thrown, and the consumption of liquor is rising.

It is obvious that people have more money than ever and, in many instances, more than they know what to do with.

SHARING THE WEATH This puts sore temptation before every Congressman, every state legislator, every town councilman, every school board member.

On one hand, people are rollicking in more money than they ever had before, more money than their father ever had, more money than your father ever had, even on his best night at poker.

On the other hand, there are groups of people demanding more payments from the government, more new jobs, nigger schools, more public swimming pools, subsidized parking, more parks and more of everything else, including more gold leaf on the traffic stanchions.

There is another factor; The tfixed are always fewer than

the beneficiaries. The people on relief always outnumber the people who live in $50,-(X)0 houses.

And those are the conditions thit underlie the reasons and the easy predictions that taxes will keep on going up.

OVER 65-ERS SHOULD CHECK HEALTH, ACCTOENT POUCIES

Continental Casualty is warning persons coming under medicare that most private insurers will cancel present over-65 health and accident policies on July 1, when medicare goes into effect Most companies have policies that will supplement medicare protection, taking care of all or

gart of expenses not covered

y medicare.

However, to be enrolled under these new plans, policyholders must act tor eenroll. There usually will not be any automatic enrollment for policy holdcfs.