Wednesday, October 12,1966

Improvements - - And, Shortcomings

During this, National Newspaper Week, per-/ make reading your daily newspaper more enjoyable, haps we should recall that The Daily Reflector has If we may say a word in our own defense, let made great strides in improving its news content this year

As all readers know the newspaper has begun a Sunday edition? This brought the addition of ex

panded wire service, color comics, and Family Weekly magazine. New features have been added, both daily and Sunday including Gorens Bridge Column, Dear Abby, James Kilpatrick and Rowland Evans and Robert Novak. Wirephoto has been added this year to give up-to-the-minute pictures from throughout the world.

But all these improvements we realize we still have shortcomingsand one of our lady readers hit

us point out that each line of type is made up of eight lines and each line is made up of an average of 30 characters. In the Lin-o-type each of these characters falls seperately into an assembler to form a line. Then this line is cast into a solid slug" of metal. Once a column of type is assembled it is proofed. The proof is read, con'ect lines are set for the incorrect ones and they are inserted into the stories.

One column of type includes 168 lines and 5,040 characters. If a solid page were made up of body type without headlines or pictures it would include 41,120 letters or characters. A typical days Daily Reflector might include 240,000 characters in the body type alone, not including headlines and

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us in a vulnerable spot the other day. She called to point out that one story she was reading was gar- such,

bled. ^ ^ This is done every day and to this . . . well.

Well, we accept criticism with a smile, al- you get the idea. Its a pretty big job, but we pledge

though a forced one at times. We realize that de- to do everything we can to eliminate that infermal

mon of the newspaper industry, the typographical pest, the typo,

error, creeps in far too often. All we can sav is we

work constantly on ways to eliminate errors a-d thus DigcOIlteilt IS GrOWng

AppQlQchQn Among Leaf Producers

The sales holiday on tobacco markets last week may have alleviated the congestion in redrying plants, but it has created a state of confusion and congestion in auction warehouse seldom seen in this tobacco region.

Throughout the area trucks are lined up in front of warehouse doors waiting to unload leaf that will be sold sometime within the next several days. Most warehouses are having to turn away farmers who are anxious to market the remainder of their crop. Many farmers are driving considerable distance from their homes and usual market places in an effort to get their leaf on a warehouse floor.

In spite of continued high prices being paid for tobacco, there appears to be growing discontent among producers.

Certainly the segments of the tobacco industry should face up to the fact that the disruption of sales is a serious problem that must be dealt with. If it is not dealt with soon and effectively, it will produce another serious division wdthin the industry and lead to other problems for the industry which has too many already.

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

DREAM It has been a very old dream of the Appalachian region a modem and direct, heavy-duty highway through the mountains from the Great Lakes to Florida.

As the crow flies and as any map will show, such a route would penetrate and pass through the heart of the rugged Appalachians. But it has remained largely a dream. Highways are not and never have been built that way in such terrain.

Everyone who has written about the Appalachians, their people and way of life, their neritage and traditions, for hundreds of years has followed a theme the mountains are beautiful, scenic and in-apiring; their people poor, proud and fiercely independent; their greatest problem isolation, and their greatest need, roads.

WILLIAM

SHIRES

DEVELOP Lite by little now, road by road, adequate highways are being built, are entering and cutting through the mountains which have hemmed in and isolated a region including parts of seven or eight Eastern states, from Pennsylvania to Alabama.

Step by step, a transportation system for the Appalachian region has develped slowly over nearly a century.

It began with the railroads which were real pioneers into the mountain country, lured by coal and timber for which the railroads themselves were among the best customers. The railroads oushed lines into the coal fields, down the rivers and through the gorges, blasting solid rock where necessary.

ROADS Improved roads came later. In some cases

much later, and in some mountain areas improved roads yet to come.

The old dream of a direct highway system still is far far from being a complete reality. But Appalachia does, finally, have cause to be encouraged.

During the past decade or so, there have been some engineering marvels in accomplished mountain roadbuilding the Pennsylvania Pike, the West Virginia Turnpike, the Old Fort to Ridgecrest road in North Carolina and, more recently, first fingers of the Interstate system reaching to cross the Appalachians in several states.

Even more recently has come the federally - sponsored Appalachia program which lists adequate highways as a major goal to lift the regions economy and which giv e s more promise than anything else of final realization of the old dream of a direct north-south transmountain highway system.

DEDICATE This week, a few miles north of Asheville, federal and state officials will gather for official dedication of the first completed stretch of projected Appalachian highways to be built under the program.

It is a short stretch, as highways go, only 6.8 miles from just north of Asheville to near the town of Weaverville. But it is a four - lane, controlled access thoroughfare, the likes of which are rare anywhere in the mountains.

And just as importantly, it is the first part of a section of such super - highway which - _ _

ultimately will link up with 1C) I AflT'S a modern north - south high- O way to the Great Lakes.

HEART This north -south highway is planned as part of a system of roads which will be the heart of the Appalachia program. In North Carolina, the overall plan calls for the network to serve 29 mountain counties.

It will lead into Virginia,

Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Georgia and Alabama and, of course, tie in with the interstate highway system.

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WhalU We Hit Today, Diok? "Johnsons War or London's Appeasement? LBJs Inflation' or ^\liile House Recession?

Summing It Up:

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By ART BUCHWALD

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By WALTER R. MEARS

WASHINGTON (AP) In sum, the latest prescription offered by Republican policymakers to deal with the war in Viet Nam adds up to two words: fight harder.

It was offered with congres-s i 0 n a 1 elections a month away, and with GOP pollsters reporting that the war is the No. 1 concern of American voter:.

Republicans clearly have

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St. Louis took Series by defeating New York Yankees three to two score yesterday.

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Tremendous crowds attend Opening of Pitt County Fair

With tremendous crowds filling the grandstand and other spaces about the grounds, the Pitt County Fair formally got under way here this afternoon with what is believed will be the most successful fair ever staged here. Long before the time set for the official opening, races and other attractions, thousands of persons of all ages had thronged the grounds and each was finding something to attract his or her interest. . . .

Actual drilling for oil here expected to get underway soon

Oil was the chief topic of conservation here today and inquiries flowed in from all directions regarding the announcement yesterday of the belief that oil had been discovered here on the property of Mr. and Mrs. L. Westbrook estate. All was quiet on the Westbrook estate, however, except for a few visitors who called to take a look at the bubbling springs. A passerby would not have designate(i that place as the spot that might mean much to Greenville and to an extent change the entire history of its future.

Within the Westbrook home, however, all was not quiet, for the owner ws busily carrying on her plans for the future and endeavor to ascerlain the next step to take to bring to the surface, ttie large quaniti-ty of oil believed at present to be entombed beneath her property. State officials are expected here tomorrow to make a survey . . .

concluded that concern can be translated into votes on Nov. 8.

Their polls indicate a substantial bloc of undecided voters. And their strategy indicates they believe that pronouncements calling for victory in a frustrating Asian war could help GOP candidates attract some of those voters.

Some GOP strategists believe that voter frustration over the complex war situation will work against incumbents in the coming election, regardless of their party.

If t h a t is the outcome, comeback - seeking Republicans will benefit, simply because they have fewer incumbents than the Democrats.

One major unknown factor; The impact of President Johnsons 2^ - week Asian tour which will end only six days before the election.

It will include the two - day

Manila summit conf e r-ence where Johnson will meet the leaders of six nations helping to fight Communist forces in Viet Nam. The Republican coordinating committee tempered its hawk - like pronouncement on the war by endorsing that conference as a potential avenue toward peace.

But Senate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen served notice that the GOP expects an accounting of that mission

and we expect results.

Dirksen said he thinks the

voters will expect results, too.

Having endorsed the Manila conference and .noted that Republicans weeks ago urged an all - Asian conference on Viet Nam the coordinating committee declared: We insist that every practicable step toward winning the war be taken in support of the thousands now engaged in deadly combat.

The committees last major pronouncement on Viet Nam

issued on Dec. 13, 1965 included some specific advice to Johnson. It called for imposition of a naval quarantine, like that once imposed against Cuba, to bar supplies from .North Viet Nam. And it urged greater use of air and sea power against military targets in the Communist North, to lessen the need for more U. S. ground forces in the South.

This time, the Republicans offered only general counsel, not specific steps.

WASHINGTON - Rep. Samuel Stratton, Democrat of upstate New York, charged that President De Gaulle was trying to undermine the United States Economy, and he urged Americans to stop buying French wine.

If we stopped buying French wines and bought New York State wines, De Gaulle would be on his knees in a short time.

If what Congressman Stratton says is true, I wouldnt like to be in the French presidents shoes.

Suppose President De Gaulle is working at the Elysee Palace and an aide barges in.

Monsieur le President, it has just come over the radio that the American people have stopped buying French wines and are going to drink New York wine instead.

Zut alors. There go my plans for an independent France.

The Bordeaux people are in the outer office, and they wish to speak with you. Send them in.

Monsieur le President, as member of the Bordeauz Wine Association, we have come to ask you to do something about the crisis.

Monsieurs, I did not dream when I asked the American troops to leave France that they would stop drinking our wine.

Monsieur le President, we winegrowers feel you have gone too far. It is one thmg to bring grandeur and glory to France, but at what a price! We feel you must ask the Americans to forgive you for everything youve done. There must be some other way, DeGaulle says. Perhaps we could offer to sell back all the gold we bought from them.

I dont believe it would satisfy them. A people who

Other Editors Saying Value Of A Wife

(Ocala, Fla., Star-Banner)

Whats a wife worth? Economists of the Chase Manhattan Bank in New York recently checked on the tasks of the average housewife, the number of hours she devotes to each, and the going rate of pay for each task in the New York area.

Ck)lurinist Sylvia Porter took issue with the results and added a few other tasks overlooked by the economists. At any rate, following the Chase Manhattan guidelines, she up-dated the figures the other day with this result: The average housewife works 99.6 hours a week, and her value for this work amounts to $172.96. However, she is paid precisely $0.00.

Obviously the housewife has

the most demanding job in the country. While her pay is low, her fringe ben e f i t s are Great. At least in the eyes of her family. The Chase -Porter figures do not take into account the hours a wife devotes to being a hostess. Since the rate for hostesses is $1.75 an hour, then the housewife ought to have another $7 a week added to her non - existent salary.

What are the 12 major tasks performed by the housewife that are included in the survey? Nursemaid, housekeeper, cook, dishwasher, laundress, food buyer, gardener, chauffeur, maintenance man, seamstress, dietician, and practical nurse. A housewife is a most valuable person to have around.

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are willing to drink nothing but New York wine for the rest of their lives are a tough people to deal with.

I could call off the testing of the atomic bomb. That might be helpful. At least its worth a try.

De Gaulle calls the American ambassador and speaks to him. He then hangs up. The ambassador says hell pass on my thoughts, but it may be too late. They started shipping out the New York State wines to the supermarkets last week.

A winegrower says, and to think we thought the American people were paper tigers.

Another winegrower says, We must make more of a gesture. Couldnt we agree to pay the United Nations the money we owe them?

That might cost us more than what our French wine brings in, De Gaulle says.

Perhaps we could switch our policy on the Vietnam war?

Its worth a try. At least It wont cost us anything, De Gaulle says.

The phone rings and De Gaulle speaks. Yes, sir. Im sorry, sir. Yes, sir, Ill do my best. he hangs up. That was the president of the Burgundy Wine Tasters Association. Hes hopping mad.

A bordeaux winegrower says, To hell with Burgundy! What opera is that from? De Gaulle asks.

Enough of this nonsense. Monsieur le President. We want to know what youre going to do.

I have no choice. I must get down on my knees. Send in the photographers.

As De Gaulle kneels on the floor, one of the winegrowers whispers to another. Hes so tall youd never even know it.

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By ROWLAND EVANS and

ROBERT NOVAK NEW YORK, N. Y. New York City (Council President Frank OConnor the Democratic nominee for governor against Nelson Rockefeller, wasted six precious months waiting until his inevitable nomination at Buffalo last month before organizing his campaign.

Glaring examples of the cost of this delay are the talk of New York.

Two weeks ago, on an upstate jaunt to Oneida, OConnors caravan arrived to find no crowd at all. Frantic efforts failed to locate the all-important advance man who had been sent in ahead of time to shape up interest and should have been on the scene. In desperation, a telephone call was made* to the advance mans wife in New York (Xty on the theory she would know where her husband was itay-ing in Oneida.

The climax (in tha words of an OConnor adviser) was Mack Sennett Comedy.

When the telephone rang, it was answered by the advance man himself.

As a result of this ladi of advance planning, Jerry Bruno, Sen. Robert Kennedys upstate political agent and# veteran Kennedy advance Specialist himself, started an emergency training school for half a dozen advance men. The mistake wont be repeate<i But the lack of planning extends beyond the crucial work of advance men. Until the middle of last week, OConnors team did not have a single television commericafl ready for airing, although Rockefeller has been saturating the air - waves since July.

PAID POLITICAL OPERATIVE The TV scripts were assigned to William Haddad, a paid political operative with ties to the Kennedy Camp. Haddad was not brought into the OConnor camp until after the nomination, when Stephen E. Smith, Kennedys brother - inlaw and top political adviser, agreed to become campaigr coordinator. Haddad, whose approach to politics is original and sometimes bizarre, failed to caputure the essential OConnor in his first filming of commercials. His second effort results in OConnors approval of five one - minute spots which will start running this week. Its not one minute too soon.

Haddad is also struggling with a full - scale documentary to make the former district attorney of Queens come alive to voters upstate, where he is simply not known.

Much of this lack of reparation could be passed off as typical of most campaigns and not particularly signifi cant were it not for two things: the fact that Rockefellers campaign is the most efficient in New Yorks history, and has built up to juggernaut proportions; and the fact that Ftank-lin D. Roosevelt Jr., the Liberal Partys candidate, is almost certain to cut into OConnor by at least several hundred thousand votes.

Thus, what looked like an absolutely sure thing s i x months ago for tiie Draocra-tic nominee for governor is no longer a sure filing. And when two candidates are running neck - and - neck, the best organization wins.

NO CONSISTENT THEME There is, moreover, a more basic defecit in OConnors cam-aign, he has not yet developed a consistent theme as tlu centerpiece of his campaign. That these will probably turn (Continued On Page 5)

Then There Are The Small Leaks

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An executive is a man who goes from his air-conditioned office in an air-conditioned car to his air-conditioned club to take a steam bath. Excelsior (Minn.) Rotonkio.

By ELMER ROESSNER There are many small leaks of gold as well as the big drains discussed here yesterday. Either because they are too small, or because the bu-raucrats are too busy with the big ones, Washington has said little alx)ut them.

Here are some of them: The government allows foreign ships to run vacation tours from American ports. While some of the travelers* spending does remain in the U. S., most of it goes to the promoters, the foreign seamen, operators of tourist traps in foreign ports, foreign ship suppliers, etc, The tart that some of these stilps do not have to meet tough U. S. standards, sometimes resulting in loss of lives, has nothing to do with the gold drain. FOREIGN FLAGS COSTLY There is a broader matter.

that of the toleration of American - owned ships flying flags of foreign countries, especially these of Panama, Honduras and Liberia. Payments are made to these governments, seamen spend wages in for-eigh ports, and profits escape untaxed.

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Lo.ss of dollars by tourist speuding abroad is likely to increase because the Civil Aeronautics Board has authorized 11 supplemental airlines to operate foreign charter flights and package tours to various

parts of the world.

Major airlines, of course, in carrying millions of Americans abroad, contribute to the dollar drain. But these new authorizations will simply increase it by making it easier to spend bucks in foreign countries.

Social security payments abroad. An oldster cannot get medicare payments outside the U. S., but he can get social security abroad. Thousands have moved to foreign countries, some to return to the land of their birth, others to seek cheaper living, and the U. S., in mailing them che(ks, adds to the dollar drain. OIHFH I HFXKS AHRAOD

Note that as social security payments rise, so do payments sent overseas.

Other pensions, including corporate and military, go to people abroad. They are en

titled to them, but the system drains away U. S. gold.

Thousands of Americans of foreign descent send remittances to relatives in the old country. There is no way to tell just how many dollars go abroad this way.

There are many lesser leaks, such as Customs payments to tipsters abroad, government spending in foreign countries, and so on.

Contrary to popular belief, foreign aid is not a large draii on our gold - dollar supply Maintenance of staffs abroad dues cost dollars, but food and equipment sent abrua(j dues nut. 'I'he dollars are paid <u American farmers and suppliers. The beneficiaries get gu(d but not dollars.

Our aid programs help Americans first, bnighted foreigners later.