Thursday, November 3, 1966

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Confusion, But A Good Leaf Season

In spite of confusion that occurred during the being enjoyed by tobacco producers. At the same tobacco marketing season which is now coming to time, producers obviously have taken greater pains a close, it must be recorded as one of the'^most sue- in the past two years to try to market the quality cessful seasons for farmers in this Eastern Carolina of tobacco that is most in demand by the purchasing

area.

Record prices were paid for the crop which in quantity and quality appeared to suit purchasing companies, domestic and foreign. The amount of leaf going to Stabilization ^as one of the lowest in recent years, assuring that next years tobacco crop will not be jeopardized by a staggering stockpile of surplus leaf already in storage.

While it is not possible to discount weather conditions during the growing season for the quality and marketability of the 1966 tobacco crop, there is no escaping the fact that the acreage-poundage controls also influenced the successful year that is

Point System To Be Re-Done

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

BOTHER Among the first big problems to bother Edwin 8. Lanier when he became commissioner ofinsurance back in 1962 was the states then-new safe driver reward plan.

More than four years and two regultf sessions of the legislature later, its still bothering him. Laier feels the system, weakened by a 1963 amendment to the law, isnt nearly what it should be. Many insurance industry officials agree.

R lsn*t likely to be easy but Lanier and officials of the N. C. Automobile Rate Administrative office hope the 1967 General Assemby will enact more effective and realistic ftatutory authority for the plan.

They want the point system ftrengthened, made more flexible and placed under administrative (xmtrol of some state

agtney.

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CONFUSION - At present, Lanier says, the safe driver point system is inconsistent, virtually ineffective and out of balance.

Also, he feels there is still a great deal of public confus-10 n and misunderstanding about it.

Lanier recalls that tiie very day he took the oath to succeed the late Charles F. Gold and went to his office he found his desk staked high with files of complaints about the point systenL There were plenty of complaints, Lanier says. I saw at once the public didnt understand what was going on. 1 knew I didnt understand it. POINTS The safe driver plan was written by commissioner Gold at the direction of the 1961 legislature. The 1961 law prescribed that a point system be established to peg compulsory auto liability insurance rates on a sliding fcale.

Safe drivers, those with

no points charged against them for traffic violations, would be eligible for an automatic 10 per cent premium reduction.

Lanier finds no fault with the plan Gold promulgatel. It was the best he could do under the autliority given him, Lanier says. Charlie Gold would have had it fixed by now.

PADDING Lanier, wading into the stack of com-plaiirts, immediately uncovered a scandal in the business of finandng auto liability premiums under the point system, a practice of point padding.

Points were being added to the applications of persons anxious to finance tiieir insurance iH*emiums on an installment plan. In some cases, the padding increased the premium costs by $150 to $200 a year. The investigation of insurance premium financing and point padding took months, and the 1963 legislature had convened.

In addition, there were widespread complaints about points assigned for minor traffice violations and the legislature stripped these out of the plan.

INCONSISTENT - Inconsistency of the present plan was pointed out in hearings on a requested liability insurance rate increase a couple of months ago.

It was brought out that 72 per cent of the more than $269,000 liability policyholders in the assigned risk plan qualify for the safe driver insurance discount. This, according to Rate Office spokesman Paul L. Mize, is entirely misleading.

Right now, said Mize, you dont have to have a clean driving record to get the safe driver discount. The safe driver plan is very loose and lax. You can have any number of convictions for certain traffic violations any number of speeding convictions not over 55 miles per hour improper use of traffic lane, driving on the wrong side of the road, improper passing, following too closely, and not be charged insurance points,

A much stricter point system, having nothing to do with liability insurance rates, is administered by the department of motor vehicles. Under the DMV plan, accumulation of points on a drivers record may lead to suspension and revocation of his drivers license.

companies.

The 1966 crop is the second grown under the acreage-poundage system of controls. There was understandable misunderstandijig with the new control system the first year, accompanied by unrest among producers. In this second year, however, the system has worked smoother and many who were skeptical about the method of production control are recognizing the wisdom of the change.

The tobacco industry still has problems. There is need for resolving the problem created by tobacco being marketed at a more rapid rate than processing plants are able to handle it. Steps must be taken to avoid the stop-and-go sales pattern of recent years. There is need for closer cooperation between producer, warehouseman and purchaser.

Even with all the problems that are still before it, the tobacco industry appears to be in a much better position now than it was a few years ago. It has found practical solutions for some of its most fundamental problems, and there is no doubt continued effort will bring soltions to other problems as tvell.

anguage Like

A Rubber Band

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - In the Vietnamese war, language is like a rubber band, and both sides stretch it until what may seem clear at first glance turns out not to be clear at all.

Yet, its just when the language is cloudy that one side or the other may be leaving the door open for event u a 1 negotiations. Its when the language is clearest that both sides seem to slam the door. ........

Both the North Vietnamese Communists and the Viet Cong guerrillas the United States insists that Viet Cong are simply North Viet Nams agents demand this country pull out its troops and abandon its bases in S o u tb Viet Nam.

Buttheyre vague on just when the pull - out must take place, never saying precisely whether this means before any negotiations can begin or after negotiations start but before there can be a final settlement.

In turn, President Johnson says the country is ready to begin talks about a settlement without any preconditions. But this doesnt say or mean the United Stat e s wouldnt lay down conditions for peace when talks begin.

And last month at Manila Johnson agreed the Unit e d States would pull out its troops, provided the other side does likewise, and provided the other side stops infiltrating the south, and as the level of violence subsid

es.

But in this seesaw neither side has said anything so flatly that talks of any kind would be impossible. Its when the language gets a little clearer that a solution seems as far off as ever.

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This Date-40 Years Ago Today

By FOY H. DUNCAN Nov. 3, 1926 Republicans Are Dealt Hard Blow At Ballot Boxes Entire Democratic ticket swept into power in several states with big gains in Senate and House.

Little Interest in The Election Here Yesterday

One of the smallest votes in recent years polled in Pitt County.

Nehi Winning Popularity

The Nehi drinks whi c h have been on the market only a short time are fast winning popularity. They are made by the Chera Cola Bottling Co. of which J. K. Spivey is manager.

Will Conduct Cooking School Beginning Monday, Nov. 8th, Mrs. Anna L. Grim e s, state nutrition specialist, will conduct a two weeks cooking school in the Dome Stic Science kitchen of the high school.

Miss Bonnie Howard Entertains

Friday evening, Oct. 30, Miss Bonnie Howard ent e i -tained her Sunday School class of the Immancel Baptist Church at a Halloween party at the Y.W.C.A hut. . . Several delightful games-were played which Miss Elkabeth Warren and Miss Elizl Hardee were winners.

The United States repeatedly has made two basic points plain about its position and its reason for being in the war: It wants a free, independent South Viet Nam and it wants to stop a Communist takeover of Southeast Asia.

The United States cannot retreat from those two points without admitting defeat or looking hypocritical.

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Crime

By JAMES KILPATRICK

A few days before they adjourned last month^ the House and Senate completed action on a compromise bill dealing with criminal procedures in the District of Columbia. The measure scarcely had been sent downtown to the White House before a monsoon set in.

Senator Tydings of Maryland delivered himself of a lachrymose statement (short). Senator Morse of Oregon followed with a lachrymose statement (long). Senat o r Kennedy of New York groaned piteously at the new prospect created of police abuse. Tom Wicker of 'Die New York Hines cried 50,0(XI gallons, and the Washington Post, which weeps easily, cried a hundred thou a and more. The American Civil Liberties Union went into orbit. Andrew KopUnd, writing in The New R^ublie, trembled like a man with the ague.

^Blessed Are The Peacemakers Are The Peacemakers. .

JAMBIi.

KILPATRM

By HAL BOYLE

JAMES

MARLOW

Done On Company Time

NEW YORK (AP) - What are you going to do when you retire?

That is the name of the game most popular in American business offices today. It

is being played on company time by everybody in the place from janitor to presiding genius.

Nobody seems to want to work anymore. Everybody

But the Viet Congs parent organization, the Natio n a 1 Liberation Front, has laid down what seems to be a very definite condition for a peace settlement. It says the NLF must have the decisive voice in any settlement.

But, according to the NLFs program outlined years ago, it says the government of South Viet Nam must be overthrown and a new one put in its place. This, of course, would be one under NLF control.

And North Viet Nam, in its four - point program for peace, backs up the NLF by insisting in one of its points that:

The internal affairs of South Viet Nam must be settled by the South Vietnamese people themselves in accordance with the program of the NLF, a program just explained above.

And, to make it doubly plain, North Viet Nam later said the NLF must have the decisive voice in any settlement. That really opens a bag of obstacles.

Since the United States says the NLF is just the stooge of the North Vietnamese Reds, then the NLF program for setting up its own kind of government in South Viet Nam is really North Viet Nams program.

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To The Editor:

Today, when all of Eastern North Carolina is concerned with University Status for East Carolina College, it is with deep concern that I write about the radio coverage of the Fighting Pirates. I have listened to all the out-of-town games and without exception, when E.C. lost, the commentators made many disparaging and derogatory statements about individual players and also the team as a whole. This is unfortunate and also humiliat-ing.

No team likes to lose. I am sure that each player does not play to lose. There can be dignity in the loss of a game. This can be observed in the reports of the U. N. C. and Duke games. Hiese team| can lose by 40 points, yet to the listeners, their mer i t s and good points are emphasized, not their shortcomings. If their own announc e r s criticize the teams efforts in a bad light, how can the Pirates expect interest and enthusiasm from a supporting public?

Sincerely Yours, Paul C. Kent, Route 1, Rocky Mount ^

To The Editor:

Im quite sure there has been much discussion, pro and con, concerning the mini skirt. No one could help but observe it, if they take your paper.

Id like to express the conviction of my heart and what the Bible says concerning It, realizing every one of us will be judged by the Bible at the judgment bar of Almighty God.

In Genesis we read wh-e Adam and Eve were naked in their state of innocenc^. When tiiey sinned they realized this and God made them coats of skins and clothed them in Genesis 3:21. As well as the blood being shed as a covering for their sins, the skins covered their naked bodies.

Luke 8:27 tells us of a man who was possessed with devils who wore no clothes and lived in a graveyard. In verse 35 we read about him after he had an encounter with the-Lord Jesus. It tells us that after the devils departed, he was sitting at the feet of Jesus and in his right mind and clothed.

I Timothy 2:9 teRs us In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broi(d hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array. According to Websters Dictionary, modest and not modem means decent or not extreme. Shamefacedness means bashful or shame. Sobriety means calmness or seriousne^. Can we say those who dress in mini skirts and like apparel are dressing in modest apparel with shamefacedness and sobriety?

In Matthew 5:27, 28 we read the words of Jesus, Thou shalt not commit adultery; but I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on a women to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. Lets reason a little and realize that if a woman dresses in such a manner as to attract men she is as guilty as they are. No wonder women have lost their respect among men. I Corinthians 6:9 tells us that the adulterers will not inhmt the kingdom of God.

In the light of Gods Ww-d, how can we be in favor of the mini skirt or short clothing in this America whose motto on our coin is In God we trust.

Also I read in Abbys column where some guys in a car pool were in favor of the short skirts amidst all this conflict, gloom and frustration. Id like to point them to One who changed my life almost nine years ago that can give them new directions, new desires, new motives^ and joy and peace that cannot be comprehended. That One is none other than the Lord Jesus Christ, the Saviour of whosoever will turn from their sins to Him.

Isaiah 36:3, 4 tells us Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trustel in thee. Trust ye in the Lord for ever; for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength.

What is our nation coming to? Let us remember, Just one life, twill soon be past, only whats done for Christ, will last.

Prayerfully, Lois Wagner

wants to retire. The daily job

is just something you mark time on for 40 years until you can quit with a pensioo and really start living.

Not very long ago, people didnt worry much about retirement until they were 60 or over. Now, when a 21-year-old college graduate is begged by a firm to honor it vdth his presence from 9 to 6:80 oclock, he asks, What Is your pension program?

Since then, the fobbiiif hai ubsided, but probably no t for long. In the relative quiet, it may not be amiss to take a look at a bill which the Post described as amtemptp ous, insulting, vengeful, confused, contradictory, Inconsiderate, defiant, absurd, provincial, regressive, and negative among other things because a showdown is approaching between the Congress and the Supreme Court on the whole question of crime and punishment. The

act that triggered all the alie

hysterics applies only to the District of Columbia, but it speaks with powerful eloquence of a public concei'n that mounts from coast to coast.

HAL

BOYLE

The kid isnt kidding either. He means it. If the increasing interest in early retirement spreads much further, babies may be bom clutching in their tiny hands an aj^lica-tion for old age security benefits.

As it is now, two employes

riding up in the morning elevator, greet each other as follows:

I still have 12 years, six months, and two days to go.

Youre lucky. I still got 19 years, eight months, four days, seven hours and 58 minutes.

Glance around the average office in midaftemoon and you see the white collar slaves busily scribbling at their desks. It looks like heartening evidence of their devotion to duty.

But what are they scribbling? Well, about half of them are figuring out how much theyd get if they retired at 60 instead of 65, or at 55, or 50, or 38, or even younger.

Lemme see, if I quit right (Contmued On Page 6)

Under Title III of the act, a police officer in Washington is given authority temporarily to detain any person whom he has probable cause to believe is cxmimit-ting, or has committed a crime. The officer may demand of him his name, his address, and bis bus i n e s s abroad in the city. If the answers suggest a need for further interrogation, the officer may detain the suipect for up to four hours bef o r e releasing him or pladng a charge against him. This was the section of the law tiiat aroused the loudest h o w 1-

ing.

Two other provisions contributed to the flood. Under Titp le I, an accused person may be questioned by poUot for up to six hours, provided he is given advance notice of his ri^ to counsel, and of his right to remain silant Under Title II, the old Durtiam rule as to insanity is modified. This rule, v^ch made it easy for defendants to plead insanity, held that a person may not be punished for criminal conduct which results from a mental disease or defect The tighter language of tha act, drawn directly from re<!ommendations of the prestigious American Law Institute, adds a requirement that such a defendant must be unable to understand the difference betw e e o ' (Continued On Page )

Debatina Philosophical Merits

By JOHN CUNIFF NEW YORK (AP) - To hear bankers assembled at a convention argue about an issue on its philisophical or moral merits is not rare, but it really isnt the customary approach to banking.

Bankers, nevertheless, have been wrestling with a certain issue for 15 years now and it is no nearer to being resolved than it was in 1951. It will be reargued this winter at the usual sun - and - work conventions.

The problem is: Should a cial kind of bond an industrial development bond. But why should a bond cause an examination of consciencer The problem is: Should a town or a city use its privilege of borrowing cheaply to raise money for a private busi-nes.s? Should it float bonds, go Into debtito build a factory to

attract new business to town?

Generally speaking, a company that wishes to build in an area raises money and goes about building.vThe complication comes when the town needs the business more than the business needs the town.

A town has a great borrowing advantage over business. It can raise money a lot more cheaply. Why? Because a lot of people want to buy municipal bonds. Theyll accept a lower interest payment on them for a big privilege that of paying no income tax on the interest.

This makes it possible for towns to build economically municipal, nonprofit facilities such as schools, sewers, water systems. By having their bonds tax - exempt, towns can more easily market them.

But, ask some bankers, is a factory that will be used by

a private concern for a private profit a municipal facility?

Those in favor of this financing method reply: Yes, it is a municipal facility if it provides jobs, raises the purchasing power of the area, saves the town from impover-, ishment.

The issue is sociological,** says James F. Reilly, a partner in Goodbodv & Co. A town has the right to save itself. There have been abuses, sure, but it has done more good than harm.

The American Bankers Association, which In 1951 took a stand against such uses of bonds, feek that the practice is a misuse of a government right for a private purpose.

The heart the ABA ^gu-ment is that by going into debt for factories, a town r^ duces the amount of money it can spend for sewers, schools,

water systems. The practice also drains the amount of investment money available.

Beyond this there is a more complex argument thal the mixing of private and pub lie enterprise might result in abases of the rights of both: a factory dictating wages, a town telling a businesi how il ihould operate.

One of the biggest losers ir this practice, due to lost tax es, is the U. S. government And it is getting more concerned. Such financing is growing swiftly, spreading among more corporations anc more states.

Under present laws, the fed eral government can do litlU about it. Industrial develop ment bonds are perfectly lega in any state which has votec them into lawa law that er has been validated by it: courts.