Thuriday, October 20, 1966

Still Many People Who Need Jobs

The low rate of unemployment claims in Pitt that a consderable part of the increase in employ-County during this month reflects improved em- ment in the county compared with a year ago ployment conditions compared with a year ago. is due to new year-round jobs that have been October traditionally has been the month of created. While unemployment in the county will highest employment in Pitt County. As a usual go up during the months ahead, there is ^ eve?T thing unemployment claims in the county hit their reason to believe the number of unemployed in Pitt lowest point during this month. Jobs are more will be less than in the same period a year earlier, plentiful than at other seasons and the pace of

For the month ending with the first week In Taken For Granted

October this year the local employment office

found its unemployment compensation claims atan^ _ 1 1 * _

all-time low. There were only 77 new and continued KV J; ITO l6Ct0L 1; UIJ311C

claims for compensati^ compared with 124 during 1

the corresponding period a year earlier. Death of a dozen firemen, crushed in a

While this reflects fuller employment this year collapsing building in downtown Manhattan, than at the same time last year, it does not mean vividly portrays the hazards firemen must face as there are no unemployed people in Pitt. To the ^ routine part of their job.

contrary, there are many people in the county in Firemen, like policemen, are taken for granted

need of jobs. There are many others for whom a ^jy public they protect. The public never really

relatively short season of employment will soon appreciates the potential danger a fireman or a nd. , , , , . policeman faces in his daily routine until a sudden

Even so, the figures of the local employment tragedy occurs. Then for a few days there is a office are a barometer to local employment con- great outpouring of public conscience. Those men ditions, and this fall it is evident that employment pound the dark alleys and those who man the

PRE-ELEaiON RASH

is up over last year.

On the basis of business activity in the county In recent months. It is not unrealistic to suspect

Significant Anc. Stormy Tenure

^ By WILLIAM A SHIRES TRIBBLE -- The 16 years In which Harold W. Tribble has served as president of Wake Forest College have been stormy ones but also certainly the most si^cant in history of the institution.

Dr. Tribble himself, now 67 and retiring next June 30, was at the center of the storms which beset and bothered the Baptist-supported school. But strong-willed and proving his determination, he weathered thenL Under his administration, Wake Forest grew. Its enrollment nearly doubled. Its programs, its faculty and its resources were strengthened. And it was moved from the wooded little town of Wake Forest, N. C., near Raleigh to a splendid, new |27 million campus in 9hnston^alem.

SHIRES

night in robe and pajamas to speak to the students.

There were panty raids, unbefitting a Baptist institution, and snake dancing around the old red-brick buildings at Wake Forest PROTESTS Even after the campus was moved to Winston-Salem, students danced to rock-and-roll in protest against a firm no dancing edict by the controlling Baptist State Convention.

Tribble weathered protests about reports of athletic deemphasis, about the resigning of popular football coaches and an athletic director. He stood firm against opposition many points ranging from athletics to charges of liberalization of Baptist doctrine and religious teaching.

There were those who opposed moving of the campus to Winston-Salem, and those OT.f jATw who charged that Tribble was dictatorial and that faculty morale was low.

In 1955-56, things had reached such a state of affairs that trustees voted for an investigation of the Wake Forest administration. This was called off after a few weeks. Later, the trustees voted not to fire Dr. Tribble and the following Baptist State Convention gave him a vote of confidence. Again in 1964, a motion to fire Tribble was voted down by the Baptist

hoses in flaming buildings are given brief recognition.

Soon the vision of tragedy dims and the public falls back into its routine of taking for granted those of its civil servants whose jobs involve the greatest personal risk.

The loss of one fireman or a dozen firemen Is a tragedy.

But the greater tragedy Is that they probably never received a personal word of praise or appreciation from a fellow citizen for the hundreds of previous times they risked their lives to save others' lives and property. '

That Final Bil.

Fickles Memory

By EDMOND LE BRETON two chambers, starting separ-WASHINGTON (AP) You ately, will produce different

By JAMES KILPATRICK

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read that the House passed a compromise bill to do so and so and you have a curious feeling that you read this story before, not long ago.

If you are a consistent reader of national news, you may be having that little tickle of memory oftener and oftener as the House and Senate plow through the remaining business to end a Congress, two-year work this week.

Your memory is not tricking you. You have read something very similar, not long ago. What you are reading now is, technically, action on reports of conference committees.

Here is a rundown on the operation of such committees, made necessary by the makeup of Congress a coequal House of Representatives and Senate.

Obviously there will be times when a bill that started in one chamber will be amended by the other, or when the

During the past few years, the more violent storms -those directed at Tribble per-aonally - subsided, and he stood firm.

EVENTFUL These have been eventful years,

Dr. Tribble told the trustees, in announcing his resignation.

They have been exacting uirougn ii au ne nas ciung lo

but exhilarating, controvers- his goals and ambitions for 1(J j 00.10

ial, yet constructive. Wake Forest.

He said when he became

versions of legislation on the same subject.

When this happens, the originating chamber, House or Senate, has the choice of accepting the changes made by its opposite number, w asking for a conference to try to adjust the differences.

Most major bills and most minor ones that are at all controversial go through the conference process. It follows from this that most of the important laws are written, in their final form at least, by a relatively small group of senior congressmen and senators.

A conference committee traditionally is made up of senior members of both parties, from the Senate and the House committees that handled the legislation. The majority party, at present the Democrats, has a majority of the conferees.

Conferences can be long and

The President was fully entitled to do a little crowing a few days ago, when he signed the bill creating a new Cabinet - level Department of Transportation. The act, said, was one more coonskin nailed to tiie wall. Subject to a couple of serious reser-

the President and confirmed by the Senate. These will include a Federal Aviation Administration, a Federal Railroad Administration, and a Federal Highway Administration (which, incidentally, will mean one more FHA to accompany the Fam e r s

vations, most convervaties Home Administration and the will join in acclaiming this ex- Federal Housing Administra-

ecutive reorganization among the few useful achievements of the 89th Congress.

When it gets into actual operation, soon after the first of the year, the new department will become the fifth largest in the Federal government Some 90,000 employees, now scattered among half a dozen agencies, will be brough under one administrative roof. The Secretary of Transportation will have a budget of more than $6 billion a year.

The act contemplates three major divisions within the reorganized department, each of them to be headed by an administrator appointed by

tionl.

As Floridas Spessard Holland remarked in the Senate, the department emerges as a three - legged stool instead of a four - legged chair. If the Senates view had prevailed, a Federal Maritime Administration also would have been created, to take over the present Maritime Administration that operates within the Department of CJommerce. The House adamantly refused to accept this logical regrouping, but the act gives the new Secretary some persuasive powers, nonetheless, in the field of internal navigation.

Each of the new administra

tions has some great opportunities ahead. Perhaps none of these is more important than the task of achieving a major break - through in urban mass transportation. Given adequate financing and energetic direction, the highway and railroad divisions, working together, may be able to come up with some joint answers that begin to make sense. There must be ways to make effective use of the railways vast potential for hauling passengers in and out of our central cities. It will be up to this department to find them.

State Convention. __ .

ADVANCE - In his resign- T^hlC ation statement last week, Dr. L J-IO Tribble made clear that through it all he has clung to

Conferences can be long and rn Tx

frustrating. The amendment ,0.11018 OaVlIlQ

made by one chamber to an- j.

Progress In Southland.

Among those events and controversies. Dr. Tribble must have id^ed and held many memories of those 16 years-from the nights in Wake Forest when he was burned in effigy, and students marched arotmd bonfires with placards reading Tribble Must Go and Were Big Time.

Dr. Tribble walked out on the lawn of his home that

Wake Forest president in 1960 that eventual university status for the school, then with an enrollment of only 1,600, was inescapably implicit in the removal and enlargement program.

He repeated this last week, saying Wake Forest should now advance to university rank and name. Its enrollment is more than 3,000.

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By FOY H. DUNCAN Oct. 20, 1926 American Legion Entertained by Ladiei Auxiliary An unusually large audience of the Pitt County Post of the American Le^on featured their regular monthly meeting held Tuesday evening at t h e Country Club, where they were delightfully entertained by ttie members of the Auxiliary . . . Mrs. H. L. Bowling, president of the Auxiliary, in a few happy words, welcomed the members of the Legion and their guests after which Rev. J. N. Bynun of Belhaven said grace . . .From two large tables, the hundred present were served buffet style by members of the Auxiliary fried chicken, hot dogs, potato salad, rolls, crackers, pickles, and hot coffee. . . At the close of the supper while ice cream was being served, Master Sam Carrico entertained the guests by dancing the (3iarleston.

others bill frequently is a total amendment everything after the formal enacting clause is replaced by an en-tirely different legislative draft. The Senate, or the House, may limit its conferees, freedom to negotiate by voting to instruct them not to give in on this or that point.

The House has a strict rule of germaneness an amendment must relate clearly to the subject of the bill. The Senate has no effective rule of this sort. So the Senate has learned to hitch an entirely different bill as an amendment to an unrelated bill that has fallen into the hands of an unfriendly committee or is otherwise held up at some procedural roadblock.

Somehow, conferences usually result in agreement and in reports which in turn are approved by the House and Senate a process ordinarily spoken of as passing a compromise bill.

(Atlanta Constitotion)

In his weekly letter to constituents, Sen. Herman Tal-madge reviews the progress of the 11 Southern states on the economic front and the statistics show this has been considerable. In fact, the South has been progressing economically at a greater pace than the rest of tiie nation. In the past 10 years, here are the figures;

Employment in the South has increased ^ per cent compared to 15 per cent na-tion^de.

Factory jobs have gone up 27 per cent while there was only a 2 per cent overall increase for the rest of the country.

Personal income is up 21 per cent against 16 per cent for the remainder of the nation.

Retail sales have risen 56 per cent compared to 41 per

cent in other parts of the country.

Factory output gained 103 per cent against a 50 per cent rise for the balance of the country.

Sen. Talmadge concludes that this great advancement is only just beginning, a story that needs to be told and retold and well understood throughout the entire United States. It cannot be said, he declared, that Georgia and the South are lagging in the area of economic progress which . . . benefits all citizens . . . Neither can it be said that the South lags in seeking meaningful solutions to its social problems and tremendous progress has been made in this area also.

In spite of the senators optimism and the fine record of the South, there is much still to be done such as raising the per capita income to a level of the national average.

JAMES J.

KILPATRICK

But if opportunities exist for imaginative public service, opportunities also exist for new and oppressive bureaucracy. Unless the new bossman of the Federal Highway Administration exerts an iron hand, his domain could turn into a vast swamp of conflicting and overlapping programs.

Within this new FHA, one will find a National Traffic Safety Bureau, charged with carrying out the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966. Just down the hall, one will find an entirely separate agency, the National Highway Safety Bureau, charged with carrying out the Highway Safety Act of 1966.

Ultimately, one assumes, these two agencies will have to be combined or at least closely coordinated. If the 89th Congress had not been in such a mad rush to legislate, all of the proliferating programs of highway safety might have been combined in a single act. As it is, the two new bureaus, plus the old Bureau of Public Roads, will be in a .*on-stant scramble to promote essentially complementary efforts in safety research.

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Senator Seeing ; Decline

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

fahifield, hi. - with

Sen. Paul Douglas seated behind him on the platform here, a Democratic state legislator named Bert Ba ke r made this plea that made up for in sincerity what it lacked in taste:

Please dont let sympathy affect your vote. It hasnt changed his (Charles H. Percys) opinions one bit. Ha has opposed everything that the common people like yon and I are for.

Baker was merely articulating the fear voiced privately by Democratic politicians during a lugubrious day of airplane campaigning by Douglas though Southern D-linois. Their fear: the brut* al murder of Percya daughV er may have further atrengtb-ened the Republican aenata candidate In these rural down-state counties. And even ba-fore the tragedy, Dougltf was running far below par downstate whara Wtherto ha has displayed itrangth equalled by any other Dam^ crat.

What makes tills so ariticdl Is that Douglas desperately needs a strong showing In Ra-publican downstate Illinois ta offset Percys inroads in D^ mocratic ciook (bounty (Chicago). Even Mayor Richard J. Daley, Chicagos Democratic boss, publicly predict! a sub-par majority of 200,000 in Cook Ounty. Linked with the senators downstate problems, this points to a narrow Percy victory as of today.

This was hardly thinkabla early this year. Illinois Bourbon Republicans, who had helped sabotage liberal-leaning Percys unsuccessful nm for governor in 1964, seeiu-ed to have lured him to political annihilation against Douglas greatest Blinoii vote - getter of his generation. Douglas men talked about a proforma campaign, relying on the muscle of Daley! machine.

Delayed by MiwatMlam Now, trailing in the final weeks of the campaign and delayed by the political moratorium following the Percy tragedy, Douglas must put together a campaign from scratch. Longtime aide Howard Shuman and son John Douglas (who resigned as a U. S. assistant attorney general) have come West to tak# over tiie campaign. Septugen-arian Douglas, showing an iron constitution, is putting in 16-hour days of downs tata campaigning.

The fact that all this may come too late is doe to many factors (which may or may not include a Percy sympathy vote). Douglas is hurt by the white backlash, rising food costs and the Viet Nara war. The Republican Bourbon County chairmen wha knifed Percy for governor ara supporting him for senator figiudng tiiat he can harm them less in Washingtcm thaa in Sprhigfield. ComparatiTa ages Douglas, 74, vs. Percy, 46, also hurts.

Yet, the heart of the Douf-las decline may be that Douglas, who as a pre - war alderman fought the machina and as a post - war senator defied Lyndon Johnson, is na longer the maverick. He has joined the establishment Unlike previous senate campaigns, Douglas now praises the staUuL-qua under Pres-(Contlnued On Page 6)

Opinions Consumer Credit Overextended

Local Guard Unit Football Team to Play Here Thursday

On Thursday Oct 21, the strong Battery E football team of this city will play the Colerain High School team at the Pitt County Fair grounds.

Betiiel Boy Scout Receives Star Rank ,

Harold Staton, son of J. A. Staton of Bethel, was made a Star Scout at the Court of Hon-, or last night at a meeting held in the Bethel Baptist church.

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Federal incentive money cannot save cities which have lethargic or incompetent leadership in city hall: but Congress has an obligation to help those cities that are willing to help themselves. New York Times.

Most folks will agree that nothing so needs reforming as other peoples habits. Mark Twain.

Business School Opens With Large Enrollment

The night business school operated by Mrs. C. M. Tolar and Mrs. J. B. Spillman opened Oct. 5th with a good number of young men and women enrolled for the several courses taught.

The threat of automation to the work force is largely a myth without foundation. In an expanding economy, the day of the worker is far from drawing to a close. Richmond News-I^ader.

Humanity has no address; you cannot send it a Christmas card.Bishop John J. Wright.

By ELMER ROESSNER

The failure of the Public Bank of Detroit once again raises the question of whether consumer credit is overextended.

Consumer loans that turned sour are reported to be an important factor in the banks condition, though just how important cant be determined until after audits.

Financing consumers, directly or indirectly, has become an increasing part of modern banking. TTie direct financing is through instalment loans, usually to buy autos; , indirect financing is by lending money to finance retailers credit, or buy retailers promissoriei5, v^ich amount to the same thing.

Total Consumer credit, not counting mortgage indebtedness, reached $91.5 billion by the end of August, a litt 1 e more than double the total outstanding in 1958. It was $8.2 billion more than at the

end of August, 1965.

WE OWE rr TO OURSELVES

A cliche seeming to minimize the danger of enormous credit has been, Well, we owe it to ourselves. That recalls the phrase in the calypso song, I don kill nobody but mah husban. We dont owe it to ourselves; some of us owe it to others, and if we dont meet the payme n t s, they will reposses the security, garnishee our wages, and sue us for deficiency judgments. They may force us into bankruptcy.

And many have been forced to the wall.

Commerce Clearing House reports that bankruptcy petitions in fiscal 1966 reached a new high of 192,345 cases, 6.7 per cent higher than In 1965 and 19 times as much as 1946.

Of the 1966 total, 175,924 mainly involved employees. That figure is misleading

since married coupled usually take the bath of bankruptcy together. But it does mean that about 90,(KX) families went broke in the 12 months ended June 30, this year.

CLMER

B0ES8NER

MOST COMMON CAUSE

Not all of the bankruptcies were caused by overextended consumer credit, of course. Some resulted from inability to meet mortgage payments (not generally included in consumer credit), some from the death or disappearance of the family breadwinner, and some from other causes,

such as costly accidents.

But almost all observer! say that the most common cause is commitments to pay too many instalment payments. The fault is that of the buyers, although the sellers share some blame. A weak* willed shopper may succumb to the bandishments of easy payments, a hungry credit department may overl o o k the fact that the shopper has already more payments than he or she can expect to meet, and another family is beaded to financial disaster.

Foolish use of credit If one of the niajor reasons why more than 186,000 people filed for bankruptcy in 1966, said E. Carl HaU, University of Wisconsin economist. People in the following year muat have been 6.7 per cent more foolish.

And people must ^ mo$t foolish in California^ which topped all other states with 34,949 bankruptcies in fiscal 1966.