Thursday, September 1, 1966

A Starting Point For Lawmakers

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From the host of recommendations made by presented to Gov. Moore it does not represent the North Carolinas tax study commission there are nal answer to the problems of North Carolinas certain to come many debates, considerable contro- tax structure. Rather it represents a starting point versy and perhaps some far-reaching revamping of from which the 1967 General Assembly session and the states tax structure. subsequent sessions may seek to effect basic changes

There will be few citizens or legislators who in that tax structure.

: ALLING BEHIND!

are likely to be in accord with all the recommendations of the committee. Some recommendations such as the proposal for a tobacco tax, local taxes, reduction of personal income tax exemptions are certain to become hot state-wide issues. There are some citizens who will take strong exception to proposals to reduce corporate taxes as an inducement to new industry. There will be others who will object to sales taxes not being refunded to local governments.

The report must be viewed for what it is. As

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By WILLUM A. SHIRES POLITICS It is true that the states new director of Purchase and Contract, Es-ton Y. Brickhouse, holds his $14,500 a year post in Raleigh by political appointment.

And there have been cries of politics involved in a recent shakeup and reorganization of the states surplus property section and removal of a veteran career employe, P. H. (Shorty) Barnes as surplus property o ficer, at Brick-houses direction.

But the extend to which-top-drawer politics is involved either in Brickhouses appointment or Barnes ouster is open to question and debate. Administration sources claim it is highly exaggerated, and the governor insists he knows of no political implications in the Barnes case.

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Canfords home county of Cumberland who was appointed P&C director by Sanford. And Henley succeeded a leader in Sanfords 1960 political campaign, W. H. (Bill) White of Jacksonville, when White resigned to return to private business interests.

Henley resigned shortly after Moore took office and has since won nomination for a term in the 1967 State 'Jenate as a member of the so-called loyal opposition forces.

FILLED Moore was in no hurry to fill the P & C position with a new political appointee.

In fact, he offered the job first to Willis Holding Jr., a long time career emplo y e who served as acting P&C di-ector from February, 1965, until Brinkhouses appoint -ment on April 1, 1966.

Holding declined, however, because of his career st-*.tus

Although many of the recommendations would effect far-reaching changes, officials have estimated that all the changes would increase the states general fund net revenues by only $1.1 million a year. While this is a large sum of money, it is a relatively small figure when one considers the total cost of operating North Carolinas government for a year. Yet to be explained in detail are the factors in the proposed changes which would help the state to meet its growing need for revenue in future years as greater demands are made on state government.

There will be suggestions, of course, that the recommendations be considered as a package by the legislature and by the people of the state. It will be suggested that a decision be made on an alPbr-nothing basis. It appears to us, however, that North Carolina will have to weigh the merits of each proposal and its effect upon the state and its people. These proposals, after all, represent only a part of the total tax structure of the state. To consider them as a package rather than as individual items may build in more rather than less inequities in the overall tax structure of North Carolina.

The Last Long Holiday Weekend Of Summer

'The big political question

SHIRES

The last long holiday weekend of the summer begins tomorrow and with it highways across the

nation will carry more than their usual heavy load By ART BUCHWALD of fun-seeking families. Over the holiday weekend, too, the highways are likely to take a heavier-than-usual toll of life and limb.

During the first eight months of this year traffic deaths and injuries have been higher than for the same period of a year ago. Almost without

exception the holiday weekends have seen a heavier everyone Is * asking in Wash-death toll than their counterparts of previous years, ington this week is: Will In spite of hopes to the contrary, there is little Bobby Kennedy try for the likelihood that the Labor Day weekend will not Presidency in 1968? likewise chalk up a record number of traffic deaths. . ^ reveal for the

Decause or nis career si-ius not a pleasant thing to contemplate on the time that, according to

rthe depa^^^^^^^^ eve of a holiday. Yet those who plan to travel during

istration. Moore and director the holiday should face up to the grim facts. A safe Nixon who has be-

of administration E. L. Rank- journey requires this weekend more than the normal intPrPstpH in Dem

amount of care and caution in driving. K requires eratic politics lately than he a greater diligence in watching out for the other jg the Republicans, sug-fellow. It requires a closer observance of the written and unwritten rules of highway safety.

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BRICKHOUSE-Brickhouse, a Tyrell County farmer, landowner and businessman, readily acknowledges that he was active in politics. But he was a latecomer in joining the successful campaign of Gov. Dan K. Moore in 1964.

Neither was Brickhouse the governors first choice for the P&C job which had been filled in an acting capacity since the resignation of John T. Henlty 14 months earlier.

Brickhouse was a staunch supporter of Dr. I. Beverly Lake in Lakes campaigns for governor in 1960 and again in the first primary of 1964. After Lake was eliminated in May, 1964, Moores eastern regional campaign manager, I. T. (Tim) Valentine Jr., approached Brickhouse and invited him to join the Moore campain in the East.

FOLLOWS - Brickhouse did, but with no idea that he later would be offered a high post in Moores administration.

If the pattern of the past Is followed, Brickhouse will leave P&C when the Moore administration ends. That was the case with Henley, a former legislator from Gov. Terry

kin Jr. than turned to Brick-hou.e whose background both in private industry and logistics, liaison and personnel work as a U. S. Naval officer qualified him for the post.

In World War II, Brickhouse was executive officer on a landing craft and was awarded citations for five major campaigns in the European-African theater. He served as liaison officer between U. S. and British naval forces in preparations for the D-Day landings in 1945, and after the war was Naval assistant industrial manager at Wilmington, N.C. and Jacksonville, Fla., dealing with shipyards and shipping firms.

In 1950-52, he was personnel officer in the New York Navy yard.

FUNDS Approval by the Council of State of the transfer of $500,000 to funds available to construct a new Archives and History-S t a t e Library building was a courtesy gesture.

It wa.snt necessary, since the governor as director of the budget and the Budget Bureau have legal authority to approve transfers of capital improvement appropriations.

But because the transfer was a sizable one and for a major state building project, governor Moore felt it would be appropriate to submit it to the Council of State for its concurrence.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) -Former President Harry S. Trumans troubles with Congressand those of President Franklin D. Roosevelt before himwere a lesson for chief executives who followed him.

The lesson was simple: Try to avoid public brawls with the man in the Capitol.

The three next presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B.

This Date-40 Years Ago Today

By JOHN G. DUNCAN Sept. 1, 1926

North Carolina Public

Schools Much Improved

RALEIGH, Sept. 1- T h e academic status and the financial status of North Carolina public schools improved from the term 1923-24 to that of 1924-25 is shown in the State School Facts, an issue of the Department of Public Instruction, which came from the press here today.

Brawls

a Johnson-Kennedy ticket in 1968. The suggestion was scoffed at by both President Johnson and Sen. Kennedy, but for different reasons. It would be too embarrassing for President Johnson to accept Bobby

as his running mate, and it would be too dangerous for Mr. Kennedy to become Vice President where ev e r y o ne would forget about him for four years.

Also, the arrangement would be impractical because its hard to imagine these two strong minds working together.

Lets suppose Bobby accepted the Vice Presidency on the Johnson ticket and was elected.

A few months after the election President Johnson calls Vice President Kennedy into his office.

Bobby, Bill Moyers tells

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But their political instincts apparently were diffe rent anyway.

Instead of the head-banging that 'Truman went through, all three tried to get along with Congress in public, at least, even when frustrated and no matter how they felt privately.

But then none of them ever had to endure what Truman encountered. He had the opposition partyin his case, the Republicanson his back almost from the start of his presidency.

And some of the Republicans, like Sens. Joseph R. McCarthy and Robert A. Taft baited and attacked h i m endlessly. Truman let them push him into s h o u t ing matches.

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Education Dept.

Issues Booklet RALEIGH, Sept. 1 attractive booklet protraying the progress of public education in North Carolina is being issued by the State Department of Education for distribution at the Sesqui-Cen-tennial Exposition in Philadelphia . . . The booklet contains 18 pages and handsome illustrations with full page and handsome illustrations with full page half-tones of representative North Carolina school buildings. On the cover appears the state flag in colors.

Mrs. Gaylord Entertains

Mrs. I. W. Gaylord was hostess to her bride clutj^yes-terday afternoon at the sijill Horn Drug Store Company. As decorations cut flowers were used ... As the guests arrived they were served coca colas and cheese wafers . . . Mrs. Richard Speight, making top score, was awarded a bunch of peafowl feathers.

Hon. Lindsay Warren and Herbert Bonner of Washington were here yesterday.

Miss Helene Higgs is visiting friends in High Point and Danville.

During Eisenhowers time there was no one around in either partyexcept for the fading McCarthywho tried to take on this immensely popular national hero.

Eisenhower always act e d like a man above the fray, avoiding all personal embroilments.

It paid off for him with the public which twice elected him overwhelmingly, while giving the Democrats, not his Republicans, control of Congress for six of his eight White House years.

One of the best breaks Eisenhower got was to have Johnson run the Senate as leader of the Democrats. Johnson, perhaps the best Seale lea(ier in history, not only didnt try to frustrate Eisenhower but cooperated with him.

Kennedy ran into disappointment with Congress, even though his own D e m o-crats were running the show. But he played it cool and charming all the way through and built up his own popularity enormously.

He could hope his party would win so overwhelmingly in 1964when hed run for a second termthat then he could get what he wanted from Congress. He was assassinated before he had a (Continued On Page 5)

(Greensboro Daily News)

While immediate emphasis is being placed on North Carolinas capital outlay for the next biennium, due largely to the fact that the touring Advisory Budget C o m-mission has been receivi n g and discussing building requests, the large subject in the total revenue picture confronting the 1967 General Assembly is yet to be presented and analyzed.

That is an operating budget of a billion dollars or more.

Here the commission, the legislature and the p e o p le must face up to the priority of needs, the states ability to pay and the resources upon which our econom i c and fiscal structure rests.

Bonds mean interest hi 11 s and sinking funds for retirement. Capital outlay clear 1 y implies money for operation, putting to public use the physical facilities which may be provided. That, in turn, revolves around staff and personnel which in several major instances are already in critical shortage.

Perhaps nowhere is this shortage more widespr e a d than in education, ranging from the elementary grades to the university level. Right now concern centers around the public school system which is opening this fall with a shortage of around 2,000 teachers; in quite a few instanc

es schools are having to fall back upon B certificate teachers.

Agreement is general that salary is the single biggest item in the teacher shortage. There are other factors to be sure; but first of all the teaching profession must stay in successful competition with business and other professions or steadily lose in the attraction of bright, capab 1 e young people and even retention of existing staffs.

The truth is that North Carolina, which took a great step forward under Governor Sanford when a 22 per cent hike in teacher pay moved the state from 39th to 32nd among all the other states, has been slipping backward ever since. Despite a 5 per cent increase in 1963 and 10 per cent in 1965, last year found the Old North State back in 40th place in the nat i o n al standings.

To halt and hopefully reverse the trend the United Forces for Education proposes a $95 million teacher pay increase, averaging around 20 per cent, for the next biennium. The state and its leadership must ask most seriously whether North Carolina can afford to turn down this proposal.

Amidst the complicat ed fiscal outlook, one guideline is clear and simple enough

for all to see: North Carolina dent. There nothing she likes can possibly go forward it to do better than to plant a must first hold its own. t

Business Worries In

me youve been playing touch football on the ^nt lawn of the White House again. Yes, sir, Mr. President. We beat the White House press corps 14 to 7. Is ther( anything wrong

Did you have to play at the very moment I called a press conference

Oh, is that why Merriman Smith of the U. P. couldnt play?

I thought I asked you to go to the comonation of the King of Swazland this week. What are you still doing in Washington?

I told Teddy to go. They wont know the difference. When I was Vice President and I was told to go to Swaziland I went, the President said angrily.

Yes, sir. We were all surprised at that. You certainly gave in easily.

Bobby, being the President of the United States is a big job and we all have to work together.

I agree, sir.

Well, look at the fro nt pages on these newspapers. What do you see?

A picture of me goi n g down the rapids of the Colorado River.

Now do you see a picture of me anywhere?

No, sir.

Weil, turn to page 34. Why here you are. Its a very good picutre too.

Do you know what Im doing in that picture?

The caption says you are giving your State of the Union speech to Congress. Exactly. Did you have to go down the rapids on the day of my State of the Union speech?

I guess that was a mistake, but I didnt know any reporters would be there. Then why did you say you had some reservations alwut my legislative program? Those rema'ks were off the record. I dont know how they got into print.

Do you know vhat Id do to Hubert Humphrey ' he ever pulled a stunt like thaf You did it.

Well, that's neither here nor there. And one more thing. Whats all this stuff about Ethel starting a beautification program^

You know Ethel, Mr. Presi-

Seeing

Decline

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1966, King Feature Syndicate, Inc.

If one goes by numbers the past couple of years have been disastrous for the Communists. A U. S. State De-partment report notes signi-ficant declines in the membership of the Communist parties of West Germany (where there has been a loss of 40,000), Mexico (a 44. 000 shrinkage), and Iraq (

13.000 decline). The outlawed party in West Germany limps along with an estimated membership of 10,000, which is paltry, and the badly split Mexican party is down to 5. 000.

The biggest setback 1$ the Communists, of course, has been the almost total obliteration of any organised movement in Indonesia, when the party was outlawed in early 1966 after meral months of large-ieak kffihg of party membera and a wholesale execntioo of party leaders. In Africa, tba ludan, ese Communist Party was outlawed in 1965, Ghana rid itself of the Nknmiah incubus, and the Algerian Com. munists lost face and tnflu. ence with the fall of Ben Bel-las government The Communists still maintain n position of strength in the Gongo-Brazzaville, where 700 Cuban soldiers, the gift of Fidel Castro, have turned up to help train a peoples mill-tia. But Maoist (Communism, which is a close relative to the Fidel Castro variety in spite of official differerw-es in their relations with Moscow, has not been doing very well in Africa of late.

Altogether, according to the State Departments report, official Communist Party losses in non-(Ilom m u n i st countries have been close to two million in a single year, The decline comes to 42 percent, which reduces a 1965 membership of 4,500,0(X) to 2,-

600.000 in 1966.

No doubt all this can be taken as an extremely encouraging developmerrt in the Cold War. But the West should be warned that a numbers game estimation of Communist effectiveness can be just as deceptive now as it was in the early days of the collapse of the Romanoff regime in Russia. When Lenin and Trotsky returned to Russia, they had few numbers. Lenin, it should be recalled, was never a proponent of mass parties; he depended on a rigorously trained inner core of dedicated professionals who were willing to wait for decades If necessary to take advantage of a collapse in law and order.

TTie relative unimportancf of numbers has been astutely underlined by Cubas Fidel Castro, whose recent twenty-sixth of July speech set the tone of the Fairth Congress of Latin American Students that has been holding its sessions this summer in Havana. The point of Castros speech was toat both official Communist numbers and explicit Marxist Ideology must come last, not first, in any successful revolution. For the visiting stud e n t s, Castro set forth tte proposition that the first order of business for radical Intellectuals is to spread disaffection with capitalist establishments. Castro called for an action that might help prepare the soil for revolutionary awareness.

Sen

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By ELMER ROESSNER 'The typical businessman will be worrying a lot in the month ahead. He will be asking, Does the weakness in the stock market portend a decline ahead? Will higher interest rates slow down business much? Will strikes disrupt business? Will higher food prices leave consumers with less to spend for other products and services? Will creditors be snaping at my heels? And thre will be many mor itchy - scratchy questionsy^

While there may be a few bumps in September, on the whole business will do well. There will be few economic droops, no busts.

These are the reasons for this guarded optimism: Production of 1967 model cars will be in full swing, unless slowdown or wildcat

strikees prevent. If the industry can produce the cars, it can sell them, because the demand is there.

THE FALL PERK-UP

The normal September surge will take place. There will be back-to-school sales, introduction of fall and winter fashions, the activation of business decisions postponed over summer, and the increased business temp caused by cooler weather.

Unemployment will diminish as thousands of young men return to college or go into the armed forces.

Personal income will continue to rise, partly because of the scarcity of skilled men, resulting in more overtime; partly berase of continued inflation; partly because of pay increases built into union contracts; and partly because cor

porate dividends will continue high, based on second - quarter profits.

ELMER

ROESSNER

Inflation will continue producing, as it always does before it gets critical, a feeling of economic euphoria. OTHER GOOD SIGNS Steel production will increase, with the auto industry, Viet Nam contracts and other Industries demanding more.

Government contracts will increase as they always do, for some mysterious reason, just before elections.

Campaign spending in itseli will pour millions of dollars into the stream of business.

Higher interest rates, of course, will tend to slow down business, which was what the: were intended to do. Retail sales will be affected but the stimulants noted above will more than offset higher interest rates.

It should be noted that higher interest rates do not suddenly wreak their effect on business. It takes some time for sellers to adjust prices and fees to repay tiieir higher interest payments, and then even longer for consumers to realize that prices are up and credit terms are stiffer, and still longer for consumers to do anything about it. All this, incidentally, is why a buyers strike is unlikely in September.