Tuesday, December 6, i966

Something Wrong In Intimidation

KIND MAKES FLLA NERVOUS!

When a school system has to suspend any part of its normal activities because of reports of sabotage by any group, something is terribly wrong.

Suspension of the use of a school activity bus in Franklinton for three weeks because of reports of Ku Klux Klan threats to damage the bus should be of concern to every school official and every other citizen in North Carolina.

In suspending use of the bus, school officials were acting to prevent possible danger to children who would be riding the bus. In taking the action without at the same time making the reasons known to law enforcement officials and to the public, it seems to us, the school board allowed itelf to be intimidated by report of a conpiracy on the part of the Klan.

Had the school board known its reasons for

New Faces For N. C. Assembly

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES CHAPEL HILL - In 1963 when the legislature convened in Raleigh it moved into a splendid new building. In 1965 when the legislature convened there was a new governor.

And now next Feb. 8 when the 1967 General Assembly convenes, perhaps the most striking thing will be the multitude, a near record number, of fresh, new faces.

This fact was readily ap-

{)arent at a two-day weekend egisUtive orientation conference sponsored by the Institute of Government and by Gov. Dan K. Moore. This was the first gathering as a group of the newly elected lawmakers.

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SHIRES

First sessions of the conference were planned primarily for newcomers to the General Assembly those without prior legislative experience and practically all of these attended.

Vouthfulness Noted It might easily have been mistaken for a class of gradute students at the University. They wore ivy league .suits and horn-rimmed gla.^ses and many were making notes.

It is obvious that the average age of members of the 1967 General Assembly more than a third of them newcomers to legislative halls Is lower than in the past.

Except for green and while name tags, it was difficult to tell the new legislators from the young lawyers of the Institute of Government staff. There was only a sprinkling of gray haired veterans and few balding heads.

The orientation program was designed to give new members an idea of what to expect in Raleigh. Secretary of State Thad Eure who has conducted a school for legislators during every session since 1931 praised the idea of a pre -session orientation.

Intricacies E.xplained Beginning with 1965 House

Speaker H. P. (Pat Taylor and the veteran principle clerks' of both House and Senate, Mrs. Annie Cooper and S.

Ray Byerly, briefings went on all day.

Taylor ranged all the way from tips on how to get along with lobbyists and suggesting polite, gentlemanly conduct during debate to a request repeated by all House Speakers that members get their bills in early.

He also urged lawmakers to be frank with the press and news media but to be careful about what they say. He said the Raleigh legislative press corps is excellent and dedicated to the task of informing the public.

Byerly and Miss Annie

Cooper explained the functions of their offices, including the disbursing office which sun-plies lawmakers with their normal $15 per day salary and .$20 per day subsistence checks plus travel expenses. Lawmakers must pay their postage and most long distance telephone bills themselves.

Legislative Building

Because many of the newcomers may never have been inside the states $6.2 million State Legislative Building,

Sen. Thomas J. White of Lenoir, chairman of the Legislative Building governing commission told about it.

He reviewed history leading up to completion of the unique new structure in 1963 and the years in which the legislature occupied crowded, cramped quarters in the State Capitol and had to hold committee meetings all around Raleigh.

Looking back upon it I am astounded at what we were able to accomplish, White said.

There was disgruntlement ACj among the press and criticism ^ ^vJ.1 O of the building at first, White said, but this has abated.

You dont read about this in the newspapers very much but there are excellent facilities for news media, among the best afforded anywhere in the country. But because space for news media was not included on the floors of the two legislative chambers, he said, there was criticism by the press.

Actually, White said, the building has proved to be very functional and has won public acceptance.

suspending the bus use, its action may not have been necessary.

Certainly North Carolina had the resources with which to provide protection to school property and school youngsters anywhere in the tate. Certainly the state has the desire to see that its school programsincluding use of its activity busesis not interrupted by those who would damage property and endanger the lives and limbs of school youngsters to serve their own purposes.

While school officials act to insure the safety of youngsters in all school-related activities, they must also act to insure that normal school functions are not brought to a halt by threats of unscrupulous groups or individuals.

If the Klan finds it can stop the use of school activity buses through report of threats and intimidation, it will only be encouraged to attempt similar means to achieve other of its unworthy goals.

Stage Carefully Set For Johnson Decision

Along with arriving at his decision on whether or not taxes will be increased next year, President Johnson has followed his own familiar pattern of making the mot of political considerations associated with a major administration decison.

In recent weeks the stage has been carefully set for the President to recommend to Congress a sizable increase in federal taxes. When the recommendation comesif it does^the increase will be declared necessary to stem the tide of inflation and to meet increasing commitments in the Viet Nam conflict.

If the recommendation is for a substantial Increase in taxes, the public will have been conditioned for it.

The past few days have brought developments that have whetted the publics interest in the Presidents decision. Each day President Johnson has conferred with officials on next years budget. And each day there has been a somewhat less than casual no-decision-yet announcement about the possible tax increase.

Awaiting the announcement from day to day is taking on the aspects of a suspense thriller.

It is not altogether out of the realm of possibility, however, that the final announcement will be that no new tax increase will be recommended next year. There is the distinct possibility that the Prevsident may recommend to Congress a tax increase that is considerably less than the public ha been led to believe is in the making.

In either event, the President !s made Into a hero by the publicity that has accompanied the prolonged decision making.

Iron

Curtain

By JAMES KILPATRICK

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Memorial Baptist Church to Have Educational Secretary The Memorial Baptist Church has recently employed Miss Mary Winborne of Como, N. C. to be Educa-t i 0 Ti a 1 Secretary to Rev. Frederick Jones, pastor. Miss Winborne comes very highly recommended and will assume her duties on January first.

Some he creates himself. Some of it lies in wait for him.

He went to Stockholm Sunday to deliver a lecture and was met at the alport by a bunch of hard-nosed Swedish newsmen who quizzed him on foreign affairs and civil rights. It was hardly an illuminating session.

The Arkansas Democrat was widely known before he arrived, not only as chairman of the Senates Foreign Relations Committee but as one of President Johnsons most persistent critics on American involvement in Viet Nam and in the Dominican Republics crisis of 1965.

JAME

MARLOW

Just before the Congress adjourned in October, Senih tor Thomas J. Dodd (D.-Conn.) introduced a bill proposing a system of Federal ^aranteea on motor vehicle insurance. His purpose was to toss up the plan for public discussion. He expects to reintrod u c e his bill next month, and to press for early hearings.

If history repeats (and history constantly repeats), Dodd can expect the auto insurance industry to rise up honking in dismay. This was the story when Congress launched into Federal insurance of bank deposits and savings and loan associations. Today the bankers boast of their FDIC as if it were something they invented and the companion FSLIC is embraced with equal rapture.

The automobile insur e r s would be well advised to fall in line behind the Dodd proposal. Thus far, in a country still madly in love with mot

or cars, they have managed to stave off any national outcry against their rates, their profits, their insurance practices, and their scandalous failures, but their public image is not cspec i a 11 y bright. They could use the comforting respectability that Dodds modest plan might provide.

In a statement accompanying his draft bill, Dodd recalled the shocking testimony turned up by the Senate Antitrust and Monopoly S u b-committe in May of 1965. In the preceding five years, no fewer than 65 compa n i e s writing motor vehicle insurance had been placed in liquidation or receivership. These Insolvencies left $100 million in unpaid claims, and struck a cruel blow at 300,000 policy-holders and injured parties.

As Lester Velie has written In Readers Digest, such statistics barely hint at the des

perate human tragedies produced by the failure of these companies. Hundreds of families discovered, after an accident, that their policies were worthless. Other familes lost homes and went heavily irv to debt. Mangled victims, confined to hospitals for months, could collect no damages. It is not enough to blame this appalling record on a handful of rackette r s who operated a maze of companies out of Minneapolis. Many of the auto insurance failures of recent years have resulted from poor management and indifferent or inadequate supervision at the State level.

Other E(ditors Saying The Political Balance

Elaborate Luncheon at Rotary Club One of the most elaborate social functions of the season was given at the Rotary Club on Saturday at one oclock when Mrs. J. K. Young and Mrs. \V. R, Minshew were hostesses at a luncheon and miscellaneous shower in honor of Miss Adelaide Taft who on December 18th will be married to Mr. Bruce Sigmon A regular turkey

dinner followed by an ice course was served by Mrs. C. B. West, Misses Elizabeth Hardee, Mary Sheppard Keel and Charlotte Summerell. . .

Christmas Seals Make Longer Life

Seven years have been added to the duration of the average man's life since the development of the Christmas seal only eighteen years ago, according to a stare-ment prepared by the committee on tuberculosis and public health of the State Charities Aid Association on broadcast last night from WGY.

Round Tal^ Club to Meet The Round Table Club will meet Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 oclock with Mrs. R, G. Fitzgerald.

The Swedes even knew his record on civil rights. The Swedish press had described him as a liberal on foreign policy who i strongly conservative on the civil rights issue.

Fulbright refused to answer most questions on Viet Nam but on civil rights said there has been great misunderstanding abroad, here and else, where, on this very matter, which is an internal matter of the United States.

He suggested a solution should begin with efforts to improve educational, health and sodal conditions for the Negro and pointed out that my state has never had any riots like those in Watts Los Angeles or Chicago'.

But, if one of the Swedish newsmen had been up on recent American history, he could have pointed out that, while Arkansas had no riots, in 19S7 it provided the first great civil rights crisis.

This was a test between the federal government and Southern states in carrying out the Supreme Courts 1951 decision banning public school segregation. In 1957 Gov. Orval Fau-bus used National Guardsmen to keep Negro children from entering Central High School,

Then President Dwight D. Fhsenhower had to use federal troops to back up a court or-(Continu*^ Pao^ 6'

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Conservatives make a mistake if they conclude that the Republican resurgence at the polls heralds a grass-roots movement to their side of the political spectrum and a reversal of national direction.

The fact is that Americans have always been conservative in their politics in that they eventually redres$ any alignment of power representing an extreme, whether of the right or of the left. If nature abhors any long-sustained imbalance in the relative strength of its two major parties.

Thus the election results of Nov. 8 represent not so much a swing toward the right as they do a strategic withdrawal from the left an instinctive attempt to regroup nearer the center, which has historically been the ideological home base from which politicians of both parties have operated.

In 1966, what, for want of a more precise term, we call liberalism seemed a little too strongly in control of the nations affairs, was a little too enthusiastically concoting too many nostrums for the nations manifold Ills.

And all this had come about because of another instinctive reaction, perhaps an over-reaction, tw'o years before that time to a rigid conservatism that seemed dangerously out of touch with modern realities.

Trimming the Democrats to size in the congressional elections of 1966 no more guarantees a Republican victory in the presidential elections two years hence than did the elections of 1946. In 1968, as in 1948, Americans will be looking for the man and the party they deem best able to lead the nation in the direction historical necessity dictates.

America in the 20th century is like a man wolking into new and uncertain terrain striking out with one foot and then the other, now vigorously and now more cautiously, pausing occasionally to take his bearings.

But because he has a left foot and a right foot does not mean that one is for advancing and the other for retreating. Both are needed to carry him forward and to give him balance.

This years elections have simply restored that balance between strides.

JAMES J.

KILPATRICK

Most of the companies exposed by the Senate investigation were engaged In writing high risk iMurance on drivers with bad accld e n t records. They charged high rates and they took large chances. But the basic cause of Insolvency, says Dodd, is the human frailty that manifests itself in faulty judgment and this cannot always be caught before a company goes under.

Under his plan, the Congress first would appropriate $50 million (later to be repaid) to a Federal motor vehicle Insurance guaranty fund. In time, the fund would be made self-supporting through a charge of one-eighth of one per cent on each companys direct premium writings. Such a fee would amount to an annual charge of 37% cents to 75 cents on the average auto insurance policy. Once the fund reached and held a satisfactory level, the annual charge would be waived. Out of this fund, the Federal corporation would adjust and settle policy claims left by an insolvent Insurer.

The Dodd plan has been Inspired partly by the governments excellent experience with FDIC and FSLIC, and partly by the good experience of New York, New (Continued On Page 8)

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By ROWLAND EVANS and

ROBERT NOVAK WASHINGTON Among the scores o! carefree congressional junkets between now and Jan. 1, one leaves today to probe the Iron Curtain on a deadly serious mission that could have a profound Impact on East - West trade prospects.

On the basis of what these congressmen see and feel may hinge the fate of President Johnscms proposal to permit for the first time the import of U.S. machine tools to the Soviet Union. And, in domestic politics, this congressional journey could be a start toward thawing a generation of Republican opposition to East - West trade.

Four members of thn House Banking Committee democrats Lud Ashley of Ohio and Thomas Rees of California and Republicans James Harvey of Michigan and Chester Mize of Kansas -> wifi meo some two weeks to four Communist countries: Yugoslavli, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and the Soviet Union Itself.

But the real unannouneed goal of the trip is to probe Soviet plans for a billion dollar auto plant that is supposed to produce an awesome 600,000 Italian FiaU a year. Not only would that create overnight a consumer automotive Industry In Russia but would break the cold war prohibition against importing U. S. machine tools to Russia. President Johnson on Oct. 7 announced approval of an export - import bank loan for Fiat to purchase Americas tools for its Russian plant. Thats where Congress comes In. If the liberal 89th Congress of 1966 was hostile to trading with the* Communists, it naturally follows that the considerably more conservative 90th Congress next year may kill the Flat loan unless counter - pressures develop on Capitol KIL The four man congressional mission may begin such counter-pressure If It likes what it tees and bears in Russia about the Fiat deal. When they return to Washington, Aahleys subcommittee will open hearings that could become a sounding board in favor of liberalized East West trade.

Particularly intereetlni to the presence on the mission of Michigans Harvey, a pragmatic Republican who often challenges party orthodoxy (such as his vote for rent su-plem e n 18 in the last Congress). Like many moderate Republicans, Harvey questions the wisdom of the partys longtime stand against East - West trade and to going to Russia with an open mind.

Rockys Secret Ally The secret role played by New Yorks Liberal Party in electing Republican Nelsoa Rockefeller to a tWrd term as governor was far greater than the states defeated Democrats realize to this day.

It was obvious to all that Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., the Liberal candidate for governor, took many votes that otherwise would have gone to Democrat Frank OC o n n o r But late in the campaign, Liberal strategists were panicked by polls that showed Roosevelt also cutting Into atements of the New York City Jewish vote that never would go for OConnor but might end up in Rockefellers corner.

An OConnor win would be the worit of all posilble worlds for the Uberali. It would show that a Democrat would win In New York without Libera] support thereby ending (Continued On Page I)

apan Expects Full Prosperity

By ELMER ROBSSNER

While the United States faces the coming year with some misgivings, Japanese businessmen are confident that full prosperity will return to their country.

Sixty-seven will be the year of recovery, Nabuo Matsum-ura, vice president of Japan Air Lines, told me after I arrived on the inaugural New York - to - Tokyo flight of the line. Hitherto, JAL had to stop at San Francisco and Los Angeles; next year the line will go on from New York to London and, if final details are worked out, on to Moscow, then Tokyo.

When I was last in Japan in May, 1965, Japan was in the midst of a recession.

Dividends are now being

resumed, Matsumura said. The balance of trade is very stable and in favor of Japan. Japan, short of raw materials, must import them and export a greater value of manufactured goods In order to survive.

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ROESSNER

JALs trans - Pacific export cargo increased 47 per cent in the six months from April to September, compared with the same period last ycgr, he said.

There is one cloud on tha business horizon or, as Mat-samura called It, a black mist. Thats the political situation, in which the present government is under attack. MORE BORROWING

Regardless of the outcome, there will probably be a new bank loan by the government in the current fiscal year. The Japanese budget, like the American budget, is rarely balanced.

The Japanese government must pay 7.34 per cent on its borrowings; the U.S. pays 4.76 per cent on its long - term bonds and 5.88 per cent on short - term binrowings.

However, the yen is strong at 360 to the dollar In Tokyo and 368 or 369 to the dollar

to Hong Kong. There appears to be little or no black market in dollars in Japan. Stores refuse to accept American currency, although the larger shoM, airports, hotels and banks exchange yen tor dollars at official rates. They atoo insist that tavelers* dieeks be exchanged at the exchange windows at official rates.

Throughout Tokyo new plants and buildtaigs are rising; skeletons of work in progress scar the skylines. I saw similar signs of growth in Osaka and Kyoto, and the Japanese say they exist in all the industrial areas. Japan boasts it doubled its output between 1954, when it regained its prewar economy, and 1981, and is till growing.