Thursday, December 1, I960

Pitt Tech's Growth'Makes Impact

Lon:-range plans for Pitt Technical Institute outlined this week by architects were certain to cause comment if not controversy in this county.

From a realistic standpoint, there are not many people in Pitt who have been thinking in terms of capital improvements in the five million dollar range at the Institute in the years ahead. There are not many people in the county who have been thinking of the future of the Institute in terms of seven new buildings in addition to the one now occupied on the campus between Greenville and Winterville.

There is littl doubt, therefore, that the plana presented by planning architects caused some raised '>yebrows throughout the county.

A glance at the growth of the institute in the few year? since it opened should be sufficient to indicate the increasing demand which may be expected for its services. A look at the growth of Technical Institutes in other parta of the state

An Indication ;3udaet Readiec.

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

RALEIGH - Gov. Dan K. Moores announcement that he will recommend a tax cut by ttie 1967 legislature is almost certain indication that t h e governors 1967-69 budget is ready.

It means that Moore and the seven-member Advis o r y Budget Commission apparently are in essential agreement on principle points and most tpecifics as to how appropriations should be passed out during the next two fiscal years.

And they probably have a good idea at this point just now much they feel state taxes can be reduced and still provide for the appropriations they will recommend.

WILLIAM

SHIRES

Tou may be sure the governor wouM have made his announcement without full approval of the Advisory Budget Commission, says a liigh-ly placed administration official.

Wait And See

Of course, certain deta i 11 may remain to be filled in and finishing touches applied. But the big hurdles in biennial budget planning have been cleared and any major changes now are unlikely.

This is about on deadline for sending the bulky, line item budget documents to the printer in order to have them ready when the General Assembly convenes in Febru-ry.

Untfl then, everyone outside the governors small circle of advisers will just have to wait and see. State budget recommendations traditionally are kept secret until presented to the lawmakers.

The governor himself may choose to disclose more details of his tax cut plan between now and February. But as usual, its expected that 1967-

69 budget specifics will remain under wraps.

Stirs Speculation Speculation was stirred immediately on a number of points how much of a tax reduction will Moore demand? In what areas? How much have budget requests for schools, higher educat 1 o n, mental hospitals and ot h s r services been cut?

Moores word that he plans to recommend a general and broad tax reduction appeared to point at the states two biggest and broadest tax schedules sales and income taxes because they are the most general.

One way to effect such a tax reduction would be to increase individual income tax exemptions. Such a plan was introduced in the 1965 legislature but was sidetracked and died in committee late in the session. The governor opposed it at the time.

Estimates Boosted An important factor in attempting to guess the size of a recommended tax cut will be the amount of general fund surplus during this biennium. Estimates of this are going up.

State Treasurer Edwin Gill says that as far back as the uncertain days of last August he predicted a surplus of $150 million, and now feels it will be substantilaly more than that.

GUI Elated While he did not participate directly in the decision. Gill was elated by the governors tax cut announcement and says he concurs in it.

Its the biggest news in state government this year, says Gill. Theres no doubt about it

Gill said he feels the good news of the governors tax cut proposal will be a boon to industry and the states economy. Certainly with the federal government thinking about increasing taxes next year its good news when a state decides to try to do something for the people. It goes against the trend.

He said North Carolina possibly is the only state in the union considering a tax reduction at this time. It has to be looked at favorably, he said.

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which have been estaulished^longer than Pitt Tech should have given an idea ot wnat to anticipate.

These tacLoi,^ coupled with tne increasing need for education and tecnnical training beyond the public school level point clearly to the development of a major institution at Pitt Tech.

When the planning architects talk in terms of seven buildings for Pitt Tech instead of the present one building, they are not being overly optimistic. In all probability the next two decades will prove their projections conservative.

If the growth of institutions in recent years has proved anything, jt has proved that even the most optimistic of estimates of a couple of decades ago were far too conservative. Few, if any supporters of East Carolina College would have imagined a nine-fold increase in enrollment of that institution in the twenty years betw'een the mid-1940s and the mid-1960s.

The administration and trustees of Pitt Technical Institute are making what to some may appear to be overly elaborate and farfetched plans for the growth of that institution. If Pitt Tech is to meet the needs of the area and the demands that are made upon it in future years, its long-range planning must reflect thinking beyond the scope of present needs and capabilities.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) -After the Republican gains in this months elections in Congress and in the states the party naturally perked up and began dreaming of the possibility of winning the presidency in 1968.

With the Democrats in a bit of disarray, with President Johnson losing popularity, and with the chance the war in Viet Nam might last two years more, Republicans began thinking big about that next election.

It could be their best chance in years. But even the sunniest among them knew that any real chance depended on melting the antagonism between the right wing and the moderate and liberal Republicans.

The opposite has just happened.

The Presidential try of the right wings hero, Sen. Barry Goldwater, was a disaster in 1964. Now Michigans Gov. George Romney, elected to a third term this month, was the Republican front - runner in the polls.

But Romney had refused to support Goldwater in 1964 and

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40 Years Ago Today

By FOY H. DUNCAN Dec. 1, 1926 Application For Charter For Drilling Company Made Application for a charter for the Westbrook Drilling Company was drawn up by attorneys here yesterday and today was carried to the Secretary of State W. N, Everett at Raleigh. The name of Mrs. Walter J. Warda, Mr. Jack L. Westbrook and Mrs. Jack L. Westbrook are given in the incorporators.,.. Contracts for drilling to be let as soon as Westbrook Corporation is chartered.

this left a wound in the party. Without full Republican support in 1968 his prospects would look dim, even if he got the presidential nomination.

How could it be healed? By some salve, perhaps, plus a lot of political maneuvering, political conviction, and perhaps large doses of political expediency.

But with the Republican nominating convention still more than a year and a half away, the Republicans seemed to have plenty of time to doctor themselves.

Then a little more than two weeks ago Goldwater said that, while he wasnt closing the door on Romney, the Michigan governor had a lot of homework to do with party leaders to atone for not endorsing Goldwater in 1964.

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Tell Me, 0 M^ise ManK They Can Stop the Killing for a Few Days, MTiy Can They Not, Indeed, Stop it Forever?

By JAMES KILPATRICK

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The hottest thing on the Hill just now (which may not be saying very much) is an idea that has been simmering on the back of congressional stoves for at least a dozen years. This is a scheme known to modern-day federalists as the stringless grant. It has suddenly come to a boil.

If memory serves, the plan first was offered to Mr. Eisen

hower during the 1952 campaign. Federal grant-in-aid programs were increasing, both in number and in size. In terms of tax revenues, the Federal government was grazing in high clover, while the States were nibbling on sand. So a fresh idea was passed up the line: Why not devise a plan by which a certain percentage if the lush re-

Laxity Of Parents And TTic Automobile Cause Girls Down-Fall

Denver, Dec. 1 Laxity of parents and the automobile are the causes of the downfall of most girls in this modern age, is the opinion of Adjutant Maude Lee of the Salvation Army.... The automobile is, in my opinion, the chief contributing cause for delinquency among modern girls, Adjutant Lee said. Modern girls, too, mature earlier than their mothers did and that is of course a result of the times. Life for the modern generation is infinitely more free than ever was for the former generation....

Miscellaneous Shower Miss Lena Dey Humber, who will be married to Mr. Ludley Dawson Smith Thursday morning, was guest of honor at a delightful party given by members of the F^hil-athea Class of the Memorial Baptist Sunday School at the home of Miss Margaret Fleming on Green^^ Street.

Letter to Santa Gause

Good old Santa Clause:

I want you to bring me a cap pistol and .some caps, and an air rifle, 4 boxes of sliots and plenty of fire eraekers. I love you Santa Clause. 1 am 9 years old.

Dactor E. Stokes Greenville, Rt. No. 2

But on the same day Romney said, I am not interested in going back and taking a look at the past. Then this week the past caught up with both men, but hardly in a way to take the pain out of that wound of two years ago.

The New York Times published a letter Ronmey sent Goldwater six weeks after the 1964 election, although no one so far among the Republicans has admitted being the one who gave the Times the letter.

Goldwater accused someone of leaking it, saying that does not serve the best interests of our party. The Romney forces denied they did it, the Goldwater forces denied thev did.

Romneys letter was in response to one from Goldwater plainly expressing the letters irritation, if not anger, over Romneys failure to endorse him.

Where were you, George, Goldwater asked, when the chips were down and the going was hard?

Romneys letter was a 12-page explanation of his position and, in the process, was a complaint and a criticism of Goldwater and of extremism.

When Goldwater found out about publication of the Rom- ney letter, he was irritated all over again. And no wonder. It implied Goldwater didnt know what was going on around him in 1964. *

But perhaps the most devastating Romney criticism of Goldwater, who had often been accu.^ed of shooting from the hip. was the complaint that Goldwater didnt read the Republican party platform in 1964.

You were apparently leaving many vital things up to others, Romney said.

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A tall, stately girl is merely a long, lanky girl with money. Portland Oregonian

Other Editors Saying Jails Need Attention

venues collected by the Federal Treasury would be rebated to the States, with no strings attached, for the States to spend ts they pleased?

The novelty of the idea is said to have staggered Mr. Eisenhower; he lay down until it went away. When he arose, it was to advocate an alternative by which the Federal government would repeal certain of its taxes, notably on telephone service, provided the States would reimpose these levies on their own. Nothing came of that idea, either, and the whole matter subsided.

(The Durham Herald)

To the man who knows them best, too many of the jails operated by the States counties and cities constitute a public shame and disgrace. And to make matters worse, present statutes have no provisions for enforci n g minimum standards prescril> ed by law.

Leslie D. Smith, State inspector of correctional institutions, paints a grim picture that demands attention. Of some 100 jails in the State, he finds only about 25 adequate from the standpoi n t of physical plant and administration, with 25 need i n g improvement and enla r g e-ment, 25 rapidly deteriorating, and the remaining 25 in such degree of inadequacy that they should be replaced immediately.

Those cities and count i es maintaining jails that meet or exceed standards deserve commendation. Those operating Jails with defects . eithei minor or major should remedy the situation. Mr. Smith makes no blanket indictment against jails, but points out that the worst reflects against the best.

There are jails, he reports,

in which prisoners lie in revolting filth, with inadequate toilet and bathing facilities. He cites cases where prisoners, through oversight of the jailer, may not be fed for more than a day. He points to inhuman conditions revolting to him and to the public if the public visited the offending jails.

Through the years, too many governing boards admittedly have pinched pennies in jail operations, often to the detriment of both justice and punishment. To coddle prisoners is one thing, to subject them to cruel and inhuman conditions is another. Those persons unfortuna t e enough to be prisoners deserve, by any standards, decent shelter, adequate food and proper attention by qualified jailers.

The jail situation should be brought to attention of the General Assembly, as Sen. Robert B. Morgan of Harnett proposes to do. Armed with modernized statutes carrying enforcement powe r s, the State could step in, if necessary, and help correct conditions some local uni t s have refused or neglected to give proper attention.

JAMES J.

KILPATRICK

In 1958, Wisconsins Congressman Melvin Laird revived the stringless grant, but his bill wandered off to Ways and Means to be put humanely to sleep. In 1964, not long before he resigned as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, Walter Heller trotted out a variation on the scheme and this time it almost caught on. President Johnson, yielding to a horrified bureaucracy, wouldnt buy the plan, but it began to be talked up in conferences of Governors, Mayors, and political scientists.

Now, in the three weeks since snoozing Republicanism abruptly came to life, the stringless grant has started to bubble and th;ow off steam. Laird made it the subject of (Continued On Page 8)

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By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

SAIGON A note of quiet ^ desperation is creeping into the top echelons of the united States mission charged with winning the war in Viet Nam.

It grows partly out of trus-tration with what one top embassy official privately describes as the hot blue torch on our rear ends that comes from Washington and, particularly, from the White House in search of ever - new victory formulas.

Most responsible officials here, for example, believe that a negotiated settlement would risk more for the future than it would gain for the present on both the military and political side of tti# mission. The more realistic hope of a satisfactory end of the war is siinply more of what is now going on: Finding and killing the mais force military units of the Communist enemy, breaking up this political control In tha hamlets and nurturing tha tender shoots of political da

In confidential conrersia velopment.

tions top officials here do nol conceal their dismay at tha U. S. pledge made in Manila to withdraw our forces witla in six months after infiltration stops from the north pro* ided that Ho Chi Minhs la gions are withdrawn and tha level of violence in tiia south subsides.

Withdrawal Presents CsmpS cations

The fear is palpable hcra tiiat Ho Chi Minh just mi^ try to negotiate such an end to the conflict exposing tba U.S. to the possibility losing everything it has spent so much blood and treasura to gain because there is not the slightest doubt here that if the United States were in fact to withdraw the field might well be open to later conquest by the (Jommunists.

Dont worry about that language, one official her# told us. Hanoi will never accept those terms without leaving us some loophole. But the words did not carry overwhelming conviction. Moreover, as viewed by official! here, the mere offer at Manila was simply another vivid signal to Hanoi that President Johnson will do almost anything to extricate the U.S from the war before the 1968 election.

This may well be grossly unfair to Mr. Johnson but nonetheless his top agents here in Saigon, as well as the Washington watchers in Hanoi, are fully aware of the pol i t i c a 1 realities of 1968. What would put an end to such fears would be a candid presidential speech laying out in all its stark reality the true measure of the job ahead and his fixed determination to see it through regardless of 1968. Otherwise as seen here. Ho Chi Minh is simply encouraged to wait B patiently for the presidential campaign in the hope, no matter how misplaced, that the U. S. will pile more and more bargaining counters on the table for him to scoop up. Hanoi Doubts our Credibility

It is a strange fact, but a fact nonetheless, that despite all the forceful steps the President has taken to commit the U. S. in Viet Nam Hanoi still doubts our credibility. If the Manila not as a sign of U.S. strength but of U.S. weakness Iww must it have been regarded in Hanoi? Likewise, endless pres-(Continued On Page 8)

Gonsumer Gredit Is Stretching

Silk stockings were first worn by ladie in the 13th century, but they werent seen until the 20th. Elberton (Ga.) Star.

By EI31ER ROESSNER

Outstanding instalment loans may total $100 billion and consumer credit could go as high as $125 billion by 1970.

Thomas G. Gies, who made the forecasts, candidly points out that only six years ago he, among other economists, estimated total consumer credit wouldnt reach even the $100 billion level by 1980. It now totals about $92 billion.

The University of Michigan professors original estimates were made on an anticipated instalment credit growth rate of 5 to 6 per cent arinualy. In fact, the growth rate averaged more than twice that

Giess prediction will be right if the trend in the ti'sl half of this decade continues. However, the latest Federal Reserve figures indicate consumer credit growth has slow

ed recently.

Instalment credit accounts for about three-quarters of all consumer credit. It stood at $72.8 billion at the end of the third quarter. This was a gain of $547 million over the previous quarter, well below the $689 million gain a year earlier.

TIGHT MONEY

Loan money was in shorter supply this year. If the war in Viet Nam continues at the present or an increased level, if the United States is drawn into other conflicts, if heavy governmental domestic spending continues, or if similar developments depress money availability, Giess prediction may be too high.

But the tightening money situation is balanced somewhat by two other factors; inflation and population.

Continuing inflation will automatically increase consumer

credit figures simply by currency devaluation. It also could stimulate credit purchases despite higher interest rates.

ELMER

ROESSNER

When more inflation seems likely in coming years, many people buy at todays prices to pay back with tomorrows fhea|)er dollar. Even high interest charges wont deter such customers because the savings gained from cheaper money help make up for increased borrowing costs. DOUBLE GAIN Not only is the principal

paid off with cheaper money, so is the high interest.

The vast number of new families expected between now and 1970 also will affect consumer credit. The sharp population rise right after World War II will affect family formations now, according to Census Bureau figures. On average, 850,000 to one million households will be fbnn-ed yearly during the rest of this decade.

And young families are borrowing families. They need cars, stoves, refrigerators, clothes, cribs you name it. Because their average income is low, they tend to borrow, borrow and burrow.

Wlpi tight money on one side and inflation and the population on the other, it is a toss-up at this point whether consumer credit will reach the $125 billion level in 1970 as predicted.