Thursday, December 22, 1966

Might As Well Publish The Book

If the late president John F. Kennedy belongs portions of it have appeared in the press, to the ages so does any factual information which Tnere can ue litue doubt that even if the book

enterprising authors can assemble about his life end tragic death.

Thus we feel that it would be a mistake if William Manchesters book based in large part on Mrs. Kennedys recollections were withheld from the public.

We can understand and sympathize with the former first lady in not wishing to have her innermost feelings during those tragic hours divulged to the world. She handled herself and her family with the greatest of dignity as the world looked on following the assassination.

Now, however, The Death of a President should be published.

It i.s not for us to say what agreements Manchester had with the Kennedy family concerning use of material furnished to him.

At this point, though, any court order barring publishing of the book would be futile. Already too many people have read it and already some

The Changes In Assembly Seats

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

RALEIGH - Its 0 f f i cial now not only will there be many new names and faces in the 1967 General Assembly but seating arrangements of members and delegations also have undergone sweeping change.

Secretary of State Thad Eure has unveiled his completed list of 1967 seat assignments f o r both House and Senate drawn up, Eure says, according to legislative resolution of 1 o n g standing, ru.stom and insofar s possible according to members wishes.

Later on, when the Assembly convenes on Feb. 8. the Legislative Building Govern i n g Commission will assign legislative offices. This, too. may bring about some early ses.sion confusion especially if many returning members want to claim new office space.

SHIRES

Mobl of the new ,eating shakcup, as expected, is in the House. But Eure insists hes done as well as could be under the circumstances.

Delegations Together For example, Eure has sue ceeded in seating delegations from the bigger, multi-reprc-aentative districts together.

To do this, however, the biggest delegation of all seven House members from Mecklenburg had to give up Mecklenburgs traditional second row section and move to tho second and third rows from the rear. The dean of the delegation and senior Hou.se member In point of service, Rep. James B. Vogler, had to give up his second row aisle seat, No. 11, end move to seat No. 91.

But in the back, Voglcr will be seated precisely in the midst of his delegtin, flanked on either side by two Democrat newcomers and with two

Mecklenburg Republicans right behind him.

Eure Follows Wishes This is the way they wanted it, Eure said of the Mecklenburg delegation, p o i n ting out that the Meek 1 e n b u r g group had voted to request adjacent seat assignments. The only way to do it was to leave that second row section whicn Mecklenburg has had as long as I can remember.

Of course, Eure also succeeded in putting an almost unprecedented number of Republicans in both House and Senate on the back rows.

The only back row House seal not assigned to a GOP member was the vacant seat. No 120, which was assigned to Rep. David M. Britt of Robeson, the man expected to be 1967 House Speaker. The speakers .seat in the 120 member House always is left vacant.

Senate Front Row

In the Senate, relurnie Dallas Alford of Nash has a front row scat directly ahead of his 8th district colleague, new Sen. Je.sse H. Austin Jr. of lolms-ton. Other front row seats in the Senate are those of Sens. Thomas J. White, Robert B. Morgan. Martha Evans, Claude Currie and Julian Alls-brook. all veterans who had them in 1965.

Along with Alford, Sens. Jack 11. White of Cleveland aiid Voit Gilmore of Moore moven up to front row seats held by Lim Ilollnwell of Gaston and k'rank Forsyth of Cherokee who did not return. Allsbrook took Forsyth.s scat, Alls-brooks went to Alford and White moved from the b a c k row to take Hollowells.

University Status?

Mrs. Dan K. Moore, wife of the governor, is a m e m her of the board of trustees of Western Carolina College at (ullowhee and has been aclive in the boards activities. But. recognizing the controversial nature of the subject, she did not vote on the recent recnm-mendation to study elevating WCC to a separate regional university.

She was named to the board by former Governor Sanford.

is baiiiied by the courts, its contents will become the object o the greatest underground traffic this nation has ever seen, s

We cannot help but feel the public will read the book with understanding. It has long been known there were controversies concerning the turning over of presidential power to Lyndon Johnson. The death of Kennedy was too sudden for it to have been otherwise.

Let the book be published. At this point its sLirpression would do more harm to the Kennedy image than laying the book before the public for its appraisal.

No Escaping Realism Of Holiday Dangers

Although it is not a pleasant thought, there is no escaping the realism of danger and tragedy w hich lurks on the highways at this holiday season.

Literally millions of motorists will be traveling. With the increased traffic, the road hazards will likewise increase.

No amount of writing, warning or even coercion will prevent the accidents, injuries and deaths that will be a part of the story on our highways during the next several days. The vast majority of drivers will exercise more than the usual amount of care on the highways. They will try to prevent accidents.

Even so, there will be split seconds in which the most careful driver will suffer a lapse of his careful driving habits. These seconds will provide sufficient time for an accident to occur. There will also be, unfortunately, those drivers who throw caution to the wind and endanger their own lives and the lives of others on the highways during the holiday. These drivers become accidents looking for someplace to happen, and all too often they involve other people.

To all the other reminders about highw^ay safety at this holiday season, we add just three words:

Please Drive Carefully!

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It Jiiil MIGHT Halrf. Into Something

By JAMES KILPATRICK

Of Florence, Con Amore

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP)-More and more the attention of the country is being focused on the strange new world of President Johnson, a world of silence and withdrawal, to see what emerges from it in 1967.

He cant go on like this if he hopes to run for the presidency again in 1968 although up to this time he hasnt said he will.

Today a group of governors confer with him at his Texas ranch. But anyone who knows him can be sure the criticism

This Date-40 Years Ago Today

By FOY H. DUNCAN Dec. 22, 1926

The Chinese cant under-.stand why anybody should walk anywhere if there is any way to ride. Americans are coming to feel the same way about it. ^

Yes, the air is still free, but theres more and m or e carbon monoxide in it.

(From the editorial page)

he got from Democratic governors last week has stung him bitterly.

Some of them blamed h i s domestic policies and political operations for the gains the Republicans made in the November elections.

That they should have made such an attack in him, probably unprecedented, s h ows the depth of dissatisfaction within the Democratic party with his leadership or rather lack of It.

iAMM

V1ARLOVT

It is impossible, of course, to sit at a desk in Virginia and to begin a dispatch with dateline: Florence. The rules of the game do not permit it. Yet in these few days before Christmas, with political wars suspended, perhaps a column of personal prayer and reminiscence may not be out of place.

Let me write of Florence, con amore. The phrase cannot be adequately translated simply as with love. 'The English love is a Grcshoms coin, worn down to moon-Junc-spoon. To write con amore is to confess an affection that abides, deep and enduring, at the very center of ones heart. To one who has fallen in love with Florence, no other city ever really competes.

Oh, Rome is grander, more exciting, more imbued with history. Venice by moon-llght Is more beautiful. Paris is more sophisticated, Leningrad more mysterious. To the receptive traveler, almost every unfamiliar city has its special appeal. Yet Florence has a grace and charm and agelessness that lifts the heart and intoxicates the spirit. And no man who has thus fallen in love with Florence can read of her agony this winter without askings moment to plead her cause.

She is old, this best beloved city, perhaps as old as the tiny, smiling Etruscans who setted the hill towns to the south. Three centuries before Christ, she was. Here In these

narrow streets, the Guclphs and Ghibellines fought their papal wars. Here stood that dark reformer, Savanarola, his face twisted in the passions of virtue. Here the Medicis unleashed their opulence. This was the city of Michelangelo. Giotto, Donatello, della Robbia. They rank among the resident ghosts of two millenia yet not as ghosts in any macabre sense: They dwell here, mingle in the crowds, sip wine at a sidewalk table, haggle Int he markets.

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White Christmas is Observed At Immanuel Baptist (Tiurcli The Immanuel Baptist Church will have a White Christmas tonight at 7:30 oclock. An appropriate program has been arranged and a 11 gifts except those of a perishable nature will be acceptable.

Christmas Tree At

Memorial Baptist Church

The primary and intermediate classes of the Memorial Baptist Sunday .Scliool will be given a Christmas tree at the church tonight at 7:30 oclock. All the little people are urged to be on hand and a jolly time awaits you.

Preston Tyson Returns

Preston T y s o n, who has been in Shanghai, China, f o r the past year and a half, arrived this morning to spend some time with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Tvson.

Miss Frances Moseley returned home today from New York for the Christmas holidays.

Howard Moye, who is attending tlie University of Chapel Hill, is spending the Christmas holidays with hi.s father, Mr. J. G. Moye.

Mrs. K. B. Pace and Mrs. David Whichard Jr. spent today in Goldsboro.

Mrs. I. S. Fleming of Pac-tolus was here today

Mr. and Mrs. C. M Warren and children and Master Tom Phells spent today in Tai'bu#

They were thinking, of course, of the meoger campaigning he did for his party in the last election, an extraordinary neglect for a man who is so totally political as Johnson.

One shrewd political observer tried to explain that performance to this writer: Johnson is unfamiliar with Northern politics and politicians, was therefore unsure of himself, and thought it better to stay out.

This doesn't add up. His job in the campaigns wasnt the nuts and bolts task of putting political machines together. His job simply was to help candidates by appearing in their areas and speaking for them.

But this he backed away from and his reason has never been explained by him.

But his whole performance ih recent months has almost had an air of mystery about it. He has wrapped himself ip silence while criticism of him increases and his popularity goes down.

Just try tq remember when you heard him make one full speech explaining to the American people this countrys position in Vietnam: the problems, the progress, the reasons for being there. Why the reluctance to do even this?

Yet, his critics in this past year have talked so rpuch, and at such length now at year's end they seem worn out. "Yet the war in Vietnam is one of the main sources of complaint against Johnson.

He may feel that he is misunderstood, that his Ideas are being rejected or not listened to, but any failures of this kind may be more of his own doing than of any one else.

He has a habit of jumbling, of throwing a whole raft of subjects into one speech so that the net effect is a blur, instead of devoting one whole speech to one subject so that the point and effect he wishes (Continued On Paga 5)

(diristian Science Monitor) It isnt just peanuts, the quantity of goobers (groundnuts, monkey nuts, or whatever you call the crunchy seeds) which government statisticians expect us to eat this year.

Eight pounds per person (or six pounds if you in.sist upon removing the shell) is the estimate. This is a big gain over a decade ago. It means that kids are devouring more peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, baseball fans are buying more of what the Department of Agriculture calls the ball park type of clean roasting stock, and the salted peanut machines are pouring out more of the small Spanish variety popular with pigeons.

All this Is in addition to larger quantities being crushed for oil, meal, and other uses. It surely will be a great peanut year.

The rise of the peanut has

been steady since it was discovered in South America by early explorers. In India, China, East Africa, and southern United States it has become a major crop. In India done it is grown on nearly 14 million acres.

It doesnt seem fair that so important a product should continue to be a symbol of smallness. Unthinkingly we accept Peanuts as an appropriate nickname for a little ^y, like the urchin in the comic strip. Peanut politics is a phrase used to describe petty maneuvering.

When we stop to think of the millions of tons of the crop that move in international trade and the vast amount of it consumed domestically for oil, peanut butter sandwiches and such, we are convinced the peanut should be treated with more respect. Vive the peanut!

JAMES J.

KILPATRICK

The past is intensely a part of the present in Florence, but never darkly, never oppressively. The great David stands as casually by the Palazzo Vecchio as any baseball player awaiting his turn at bat. One may wander at length length through the great museums, and seldom see a guard. In Florence the past is loved, but the past is not exalted. Florentines live with the centuries as they live with aging and amusing uncles. They would no more destroy their past say, in the name of urban renewal or a Pan-Am Building then they would destroy granpapa. Over on the east side of town, off the Via Vincenzo Gioberti, they widened some streets a few years ago. Some magnificent trees stood in the way. But the Florentines did not cut them down; they simply widened around them; and today one parks in their shade.

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River

Of Our

ives

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP) - Memory is the river of life.

It keeps open the channel between the past and tlie present and links them together. The more memories one has, the mightier is that river that finally winds us all to the sea.

Your own memory stream is pretty broad if you can look back and remember when --Monday was laundry day in the basement, but no one had heard of a detergent. The magic ingredient was old fashioned yellow soap.

The nearest thing to perpetual motion was a mother with a houseful of kids.

The favorite candy of children was a penny jawbreaker.

A juvenile delinquent was a small boy who tried to fudge his knuckles across the drcle while playing marbles for keeps.

Every little airl who could sing or dance hoped to grow up to be another Deanna Durbin or Shirley Temple.

One of the hottest sports arguments was whether Jack Dempsey could have whipped John L. Sullivan in his prime.

Men would have hooted at the idea that husbands and wives would ever have their names printed on the Mme checkbook.

A modem hotel was one that could brag it had a bath for every other room.

A man wasnt really a tycoon until he had a private railway car of his own.

If you still ate peas with a knife, everyone else at the table knew Instantly you were a country boy and hadnt yet learned city ways.

Women never planned much else on the day they washed their hair, since it took all afternoon to dry, even with the help of a hot sun.

Parents hated the thought of their daughters working in offices, because It was well -known that such jobs placed them in great moral peril.

Airplane pilots wouldnt think of going up without their helmet and goggles.

Everybody looked forward all week to the fun hed hava on Saturday night. Yob couldnt have much fun on Friday night, because you didn't get paid until the following day.

Many folks were so afraid of banks they hid their money at home and the first places a sneak thief looked for it was under the mattresses and under the rugs.

It was token as a fact of life by every young bride that sooner or later during her marriage shed have to fight bedbugs. But she hoped that when it happened she could at least keep it a secret from her neighbors.

A teen - age girl looked forward hopefully for getting parental permission to attend her first dance when she was 16. Now a girl thinks shes an old maid if she hasnt been to a dance by the time shes 12.

A henpecked husband was one who appeared In public helping his wife carry home the weekend groceries.

The filling station attendant had to pump the gas for the family auto by hand.

The federal government spent less In a year than it now does in a month.

.i^ise In State And Local Taxes

By ELMER ROESSNER

State and local taxes will rise sharply in 1967, it was fairly wdl established here yesterday.

The money is coming from you, of course. But how are the tax assessors going to get it?

There will be, of course, increases in property assessments. Part of this will be in higher evaluations because of inflation. This is gut t i n g robbery of many families; they are being robbed of gains they will never realize. But thats another column.

Even today, I can show you suburban areas, without sewers, without city water and with only volunteer firemen, where taxes are 10 per cent of assessed valuation. In other words, taxpayers must pay for their homes over again every ^0 years. With higher taxr.s, tVicy will have to buy liicir hurncs back every five

years. And while inflation keeps increasing the assessed volues, the actual values shrink with aging and wear.

ELMER

ROESSNER

WHERE TO TURN

In consequence, many political subdivisions have neared the limit of tax levies on property. Increase can only approach confiscation.

Whence, then, the money?

In seven states, cities have turned to income taxes. Since Philadelphia imposed an income tax in 1939, other Pennsylvania cities and cities in Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New York and

Ohio have levied income taxes. By Jan. 1, Gommerce Clearing House reports, all of Ohios eight major cities will be levying corporate and personal income taxes.

New York City, under a Republican governor and its Republican Mayor, now imposes a graduated tax on residents, an earnings tax on nonresidents, a 5 per cent cor-porftion income tax and ? 4 per cent unincofporfted business tax. This in addition to state And federal income taxes.

One of these days, some city or state is going to hit upon the True, or 24-Karat tax. It win simply take all the citizens* money and give thm back what they need, perhaps as a guaranteed annual income, if they meet the color test. OTHER MILKABLE SOUR CES

State taxes have been rising, as your tax accountant may have told you. In fiscal

1965, which ended last June 30, state tax takes increased $3.2 billion, 12.4 per cent higher than in the previous year.

The largest increases came from sales and gross receipt taxes, up $1,162 million, or 17.3 per cent. State Income taxes on individuals rose $4.3 million, or 17.7 per cent. Corporation net income taxes rose $2 mUJion, or only 5.6 per cent. The corporations have good lobbyists.

Motor fuels taxes brought in $4.6 million; cigarette and other tobacco taxes, $1.5 million, and alcoholic Average

taxes, $965 million. Thus, the best way to save on taxes is to swear off.

California and New York were the largest tax-caters,

the former taking $S,4SI mlk lion from dtizena and 0 ter $3,450 millkA

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