Thursday, October 27, 1966

Happy News For Our Growing City

MOTORSYCHOPATHS!

Announcement by Congressman Walter Jones that Greenville will soon have a new post office is good news to a growing city which is still using the main post office which was constructed 63 years ago.

The new, modern facility envisioned by postal officials will contain some 13,000 square feet of interior space, 1,250 square feet of platform space and 23,000 feet of parking and maneuvering area. Such a facility will be a great improvement over the present main post office building in the heart of the city.

Although the site for the new post office is yet to be determined, careful consideration should be given to keeping the main post office in the central business area. From a location in the main business section of the city, the new post office could render the most efficient and most effective service to the city and its surrounding area.

Shallcross Was A Sudden Entry

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

SHALLCROSS - John S. Shallcross of Smithfield made up his mind to enter the political arena a few hours before he drove to Raleigh last Spring and paid his filing fee as a Repub ican candidate for the U. S. Senate.

It was inconceivable to me that an office as important as that of U. S. senator should go uncontested and by default, Shallcross says.

He filed as a candidate to oppose incumbent Sen. B. Everett Jordan a few minutes before the filing deadline. It was my own decision, Shallcross says. I had been contacted a few days earlier about the idea, but I though that Fred Steele was going to run. G. Fred Steele of Durham decided earlier, however, to seek the Fifth District seat in the U. S. House of Representatives.

WILLI.AM SHIRES

Shallcross, a 46 year old Industrialist and businessman who moved his electronics plant from Pennsylvania to North Carolina in 1958, said he determined that if he became a candidate I was going to go all the way and make as good a contest of it as I could.

CAMPAIGN - At least Shallcross has made good that promise to himself. He has campaigned vigorously across the state, visiting almost every county in North Corolina.

I realize that to some extent I am still an unknown, he says. My opponent ha.s that advantage, and he would like for me to continue to be a political unknown.

But I have at least a fair degree of optimism, Shallcross says. I have a fair chance of winning. He feels much will depend on the final two weeks of the 1966 campaign.

REASONS Shallcross makes no bones about why he ^ is running against Jordan.

I am running because my opponent has rubber-stamped the LBJ administration and therefore has not served the best interests of the people of North Carolina and the United States, and because of his notorious whitewash of the Bobby Baker hearings.

He charges that Jordan, as chairman of the Senate investigating committee, knuckled under the White House demands that the Baker hearings be whitewashed and and the case closed, to avoid embarrassisg the president.

Just as importantly, Shallcross says, he is campaigning on the issues of galloping inflation and as escalating, unending war and drain on American lives and resources in Viet Nam.

INFLATION - Dollar stability and the curbing of inflation are the really vital issues, Shallcross says. He contends the only way to curb inflation is to reduce federal spending. Instead, he says, the president wants to increase taxes and spend more; billions of tax dollars on wasteful, unnecessary, politically-inspired projects.

He called for a quick end to such programs as the Job Corps which he said is wasting millions of dollars and not producing results.

In Viet Nam, Shallcross aid, the U. S. is deliberately hands of its military forces and isnt doing what it should to win the war.

REACTION - Shallcross concedes that he has found relatively little voter reaction at least on the surface about Senator Jordans role in the Baker hearings.

Of course, there are some Democrats who arent going to vote for Senator Jordan because of the Baker case. But on the average, it hasnt had very much voter impact.

By and large, Shallcross says, he feels the Fall campaign on most levels, statewide and local, has been quiet and that this may indicate voter apathy. There are some local exceptions.

I believe my chances may be hurt more by voters apathy than they might be helped, he says. It may not be apathy at all, and the voters may be more concerned than anyone realizes.

In spite of the fact that Greenville is growing in terms of geographic area, the large pait of its outgoing mail volume still is generated from the central business area of the city. A large part of the incoming mail is delivered in the central business area. The new postal facility which will replace the one now located in the central business district of the city should likewise be located in the central business area.

Only a couple of months ago it was announced that a contract postal station would be located in a shopping center in the southeastern section of the city. Efforts also have been underway for establishment of a subsidiary postal facility in the western section of the city. Just a few years ago a new post office was constructed just off the college campus on Tenth Street.

The logical place to locate this new post office is in the central business area of the city. FYom that location it would be able to serve efficiently and effectively the other postal facilities of the community and the postal patrons of the city and surrounding area.

Strange Conflicts Of A Legal Interpretation

The arrest and subsequent acquittal of two Pitt County ABC store clerks on charges of selling liquor to minors points up what is an apparent conflict in legal interpretation between State ABC authorities and local courts.

Greenville City Court Solicitor Eli Bloom called the violation technical and recmnrnended acquittal.

. . . And in fairness to everyone, I think a verdict of not guilty is in order, he told Judge Charles H. Whedbee.

It is reasonable to assume the two clerks involved did not realize they had illegally sold liquor to minors. It is reasonable to assess the case as one of oversight. The two clerks simply did not check their customers to determine age.

What is puzzling, however, i.s the actions of State ABC officers and the courts. If there was not conclusive evidence that the ABC employees violated the law, why were charges filed? If the evidence presented to the courts was sufficient, why the

acquittal by the courts?

The affair has served to embarrass the two men concerned and cast a reflection upon the intentions of the State ABC authorities and local courts. It possesses all the earmarks of general confusion.

If such a situation should arise in the future, those concerned would be well advised to determine first what constitutes a violation of the law and then set about the task of handling such a situation with legal propriety.

Chewing Over Wage Guideline

By JAMES KILPATRICK

The Laraest Naval Base

Any man who loves the Navy, and goes to sea by armchair in the lore of fighting ships, could not do bdtter than to make a small pilgrimage to this histcnic old luu*^ bor city in tribute to Navy Day. San Diego or Philadelphia might qualify as alternates, or even New York or Charleston or Boston, but -Hamp-ton Roads has a special meaning to Navy buffs. This is the largest naval base in the world; and here, in March of 1882, Monitor met Merrimac, and modem naval warfare began.

Today one glances over a crowded harbor that has moved ahead by light - years from those small and cl|msy ships. On any given day, the sumarine pens may house a bluntnosed Polaris, black as a whale, sinister, deadly. The Forrestal is now in port;

nearby, motionless, is the oni-inous, incredible bulk of America; close at hand, the new amphibious assault vessel, Guadalcanal, lies at anchor. Norfolks docks are a constantly changing forest of masts and yard - arms beneath a canopy of radar domes. And around and about the waterfront, busy as water spiders, a flotilla of tugs and small craft churn the dark water into foam.

A naval base ought to be visited by dawn or by sunset, when the great ships, silhouetted against a pale light, take on a romance they sometimes lose by day. On a cool, gray autumn morning, when fog slips along the piers, the ships emerge from the darkness with a sudden, vivid power. The ghostly dawn is a dawn of gulls^ wings and wet lines and a waiting silence.

Then crews appear, blue -jacketed against the chill; there comes a bustling and a stirring as men check instinctively for wind and tide. An early breeze that carries the cry of gulls carries the bo* suns pipe and bullhorn. At 0800, with morsing colors, the forust suddenly rippies with flowering flags. And the lay has begun.

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By NEIL GILBRIDE WASHINGTON (AP)-White House economists appear to be shadow boxing with the illusion that President Johnsons thoroughly shattered 3.2 per cent wage guideline is still

This Date-40 Years Ago Today

By FOY H. DUNCAN Oct 27, 1926 Revival Services Scheduled To close Thursday Night Announcement was made at last nights services held in the Immanuel Baptist Church that the meeting would close on Thursday night. The revival began on Monday night of last week with Rev. Hermon T. Stevens of High Point as evangelist and each day Rev. Stevens has brought his message to hundreds of people in the schools of the city, the college and at the church....

He made his own Wine, Drank 10 Gallons, Died Winona, Minn. Oct. 27 Frank Wroblewskin, 37 of Winona, who made 10 gallons of wine at his house here and then preceded to drink one gallon of it each day for ten days, is dead. An autopsy disclosed no poison.

For Safetys Sake The move toward getting the next legislature to enact a measure requiring the licensing of all automobile drivers in the State is certainly a step in the direction of safety....

(From the editorial page.)

MAY-POLLARD

The Presbyterian Church of Farmville was fiie scene of a pretty wedding this morning at nine-thifty oclock, when Miss Sarah Pollard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Pollard, became the bride of Mr. E. W. May.

Misscf Higgs EntertaiD Misses Madeline and Elizabeth Higgs entertained on Tuesday when a large sumber of friends enjoyed their hospitality at an informal buffet luncheon, honoring Mi.ss Emily Moye, bride-elect.

alive.

And organized labor, which trampled the guideline with several recent major wage hikes of 5 per cent or more, in angry that the old figure is still even a conversation piece in high government circles.

The old guideline, designed as a weapon against inflation, was based on estimates that the amount of production per man hour in U. S. industry rises an average of 3.2 per cent a year.

The Labor Departments percentages stem from figures collected by government /statisticians. The productivity increases presumabley stem from better techniques and machines. If, for example, these factors netted a 3.2 per cent increase, a button facory worker who was turning out 100 buttons an hour last year would now be averaging 103.2 per hours.

Under the guideline theory formulated by the Presidents Council of Economic Advisers, wages could go up 3.2 per cent yearly without price hikes.

Labor never liked the idea, but became infuriated last year when the governments own figures showed productivity increasing at 3.6 per cent a year while the council clung to the 3.2 per cent figure.

We slapped them hard, recalls a high AFL-CIO official of the big labor federations criticism at the time. Labor then set out to crack the guideline at every opportunity, and succeeded in big contracts affecting airline machinists, telephone equipment installers and electrical workers.

Now comes Secretary of Labor W. Willard Writz, saying productivity is up even higher to 3.8 per cent.

Where did he get the higher figure?

From Gardner Ackley, chairman of the Presidents Council of Economic Advisers and chief proponent of the now defeated effort to hold a 3.2 per cent lid on wage hikes.

A spokesman for the council said Ackley did use the 3.8 per cent figure in recent congressional testimony, based on revised, higher estimates of the gross national product.

But, the spokesman said, the 3.8 per cent figure didnt take into account later revised man-hour estimates from (Continued On Page 5)

Other Etditors Saying Entitled To Fair Play

(The Hendmon Dispatch)

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is only being fair in making pay concessions to tobacco graders and inspectors who operate on flue-cured markets during the auction season. This year, the department had ordered that the men be paid only for the time they worked, whereas in previous years they were paid for eight to nine months.

Manifestly, if the government requires official inspection of leaf on warehouse floors prolr to sale, it must have experts who are qualified to interpret proper grades before the auctions proceed. Cecil Faulkner of Henderson, secretary-treasurer of the Federal Tobacco Inspectors Mutual Association, said recently that more than half the ^ders would quit their jobs if no salary relief were granted. He said ten percent bad already quit and forty percent more would be forced to seek other employment* without relief. Certainly they C(Mild not live for twelve months on salaries paid for only three to four months of the auction

season.

In arranging to train the graders for hurley work before that crop moves to market, the department was merely being fair to these leaf inspectors. Faulkner had said that chaos would reign if we to grade a crop with only fifty percent trained men.

Federal grading has been in effect for some years. It is carried on in connection with the price support and loan program. Graders visit warehouses before the sales start and indicate on a card what the grade Is, so that the extent of price supports can be applied. This determines what the grower is paid for a pile of tobacco if tile auction bid is rejected and the leaf consigned to the Stabilization Oirporation.

Satisfactory pay to these experts will keep them on the job. The whole system, as Mr. Faulkner said, could de-teriate into chaos in the marketing process if grading were not properly done. If the government is to employ them, it certainly owes them a living salary.

JAMES J.

KILPATRICK

This is home for the U. S. Atlantic Fleet five hundred ships, 2,500 aircraft, 230,-000 officers and men. It is coming and going port for Enterprise, Intrepid, for scores of destroyer? and amphibious vessels. Here the days of greeting, days of parting; the skyline changes as ships drop anchor or head out. Behind them and beyond them lie the lonely and the changeless seas.

These are busy times In Hampton Roads, as they are at other naval bases. In the nature of things, most of the news from Viet Nam focuses upon the ground action and upon missions of the Air Force. No one would minimize the importance of these actions or .the hereoism of the men. Yet on Navy Day, it is perhaps not amiss to observe that upwards of 70,000 seamen and 140 ships are now engaged in the war in Viet Nam. More than 96 per cent of all the materials and supplies f<M* Viet Nam, and two-thirds of the troops, have moved to the war zone by tea. Since January, naval guns have firen some 220,000 rounds of pinpoint fire in ground su^v port and naval bombardment; naval pilots have flown 80,000 sorties over Viet Nam; the Seatees are engaged in $700 million of crash construction.

The figures may remind us that the Navy is much more than a fleet of massive ships (Continued On Page 5)

Grocery Strike Is Sure

Shriver

Versus

Morey

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON - The real and widely misunderstood reason why poverty czar Sargent Shriver cut off federal funds to the Child Development Group of Mississippi (CDGM) can be found in the double life of a young man named R. Hunter Morey.

Morey is a key policymaker for CDGM , which has been running Head-Start kindergartens throughout Mississippi. But simultaneously, he has been a leading activist in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and its parent organization, the Student Nonviolent Co-ordinating Commit-tee (SNICK). At one point, Hunter*$ business cards listed both CDGM and SNICK affiliations.

Hunter was not alone. The CDGM staff was packed with so many SNICK operatives that field investigators from Shrivers Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) became convinced montfaa ago that it was a front for Um radical civil rights organization, propagating SRICXs dangerous doctrines of black separatism as well as teaching kindergarten.

Ibis, contrary to sharp and unjustified attacks by liberals, Shriver was not knuckling under to Mississippi segregationists in the CTXjM affair. Rather, he was coolly deciding that a government comnrtitted to bi-racilism had no business subsidizing black racialism. Thus, the Shriver decision transcended Mississippi and the poverty program.

HELPED NEGRO CHILDREN

What makes the apparent death of CDGM a matter to be mourned Is the fact that it did a valuable service in providing pre-school training to some 10,000 impoverished Negro children in a state where a less militant organization might have been buried by segregationist pressure.

Moreover, tbera is an element of truth in charges by Shivers critics that be never would have moved against CDGM had It not been for the violent attacks against it by influential segregationist Sen. John Stennis of Mississippi. OEO can ill afiord political assaults on Head-Start, the only program of the war on poverty that has not been hounded by criticism.

But along with Stennif, racial moderates also were deeply concerned with such aspects of EDGM as Hunter Moreys rote. A young Princeton graduate who at one time was the most Important white man in SNICK, Morey had come to Mississippi during the famed summer project of 1964 and stayed. Clad in the SNIC3C uniform of denim overalls, Morey was the key strategist In a nearly successful SNICK attempt to seize control of the Mississippi Young Democrats from moderates.

Thus, it was with some consternation that these moderates noted that Morey had exchanged overalls for a business suit and attache case and was drawing a federally-subsidized slary at CDGM.

Indeed, the CDGM payroll was a Whos Who of Mississippi SNICK: Jesse Harris, a former SNICK field Representative; Susie Jones, who along with her husband was on the SNICK staff; UniU (Continued On Page 5)

By ELMER ROE8SNER

W B.. Murphy is largely right, of course. Murphy, president of Campbell Soup Co., declared the housewives boycott of high grocery prices is sure to fall, and that food retailers are not to blame for high prices.

However, the strike will have short-term effects. It ha salready brought prices down an inch in Denver and other cities wher housewives have boycotted supermarket chains.

A national boycott, largely spontaneous, in the early 1920s succeeded in forcing retail prices down, especially in clothing. Women and men bought overalls instead of more fashionable wear..

Prices tumbled momentarily, more because people had run out of money tiian because of organized boycotts. Income simply had qpt risen as fast as prices during World War I inflation. Eveft^ily ihoppcrt

forgot about the boycott as prices were adjusted to income. Then prices started up again, along with income, until we ran intq the Depression of the 1930s.

ELMER BOESSNER

WHO IS TO BLAME

Mqrphy is on sound ground when he says retailers are not to blame. He said profits of food retailers were little more than 1 per cent on food. So they are. But profits of large foods chains average 12 per cent on invested capital.

Two major reasons for high food prices are inflation and shoppers insistance on frills and servicff. A third reason.

closely linked to inflation, is the government program to rush up farm prices. This is done by limiting farm acreage, restricting imports of Australian and New Zealand ineat, taxing sugar imports, rigging milk prices and using other means. Taxes, too, play a part.

And the government has constantly inflated money, making the dollar constantly worth less and causing prices to rise, usually faster than income. EVERYBODY WANTS SERVICE

Housewives, bless their stupid little hearts, the

cost of food by insisting on frills and services. They want food in fancy packages, cut in slices or servings put in dispenser cans, frozen, made ready to eat, accompanied with trading stamps or bingo tickets, and carried to their cars by boys.

Only minutes age

lo Jrail

darhng brought home a eight-ounce wedge of chees n gilded, embossed foil mai ket 65 cents. I can buy a ha pound of cheese, just as goot m as sharp, cut from wheel for 45 cents.

In Denver, some boycotter demanded tiiat stores elim nate trading stamps, bing pron^ions and other stunti Jo bring prices down. So fa four chains have balked; on Cham sAid it would dispens with boys who carry bags t autos.

But most housewives wai the caddiM, tradin Stamps, prizes, cooked an deveined shrimp sliced brea( potato salad in cups, TV dii Dera, shucked and cut con fileted fish, truffles from Fri nee and caviar from Iran.

'They forget their grandmoi hers bought food, but thi wives today buy food pin labor. Labor, as their husl ands make certain, costs lot.