Wedneiday, Decembar 28, 1966

Eyes Turning To 1867 Legislature

Across North Carolina eyes are beginning to turn to the 1967 legislature and possible reaction of elected representatives to several key issues which are certain to dominate the forthcoming General Assembly session.

Topping the list will be the brown bagging item that involves revamping the states liquor laws. This matter is certain to involve not just the custom of brown bagging, but also the question of whether the .state will allow open bars on some basis. While majority opinion among observers appeals to be that brown bagging will be legalized and open bars rejected, there is certain to be a concerted effort for open bars from representatives of several of the states largest counties.

It may take weeks rather than days for the legislature* to agree on what changes, if any, will be made in the existing liquor laws of North Carolina.

Also near the top of the legislative agenda will be disposition of recommendations from Gov. Moore

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By WatlAM A. SHIRES RALEIGH ~ More of Gov. Dan K. Moores reports to the people are coming shortly.

There will be a series of these statewide broadcasts fimiiar to Moores rece n t Christmas message during the nest few weeks. 'Die content of all of tbam has not yet been ded^, oor has the exact format, but these matters are be-ini worked out.

It may be that the governor will uaa the broadcasts to be-fl9 spelling out in more and more detail certain parts of his IHT legislative program, attemptiaf to build up interest and public acceptance prior to the Feb. 8 convening of the Omera! Assembly.

Of course, broad outlines of fhe program already arc known and Moore has been saying repeatedly where he in-teqdi to place emphasis. But he wants to stress this even more.

Renew Political Drive The plain - spoken talks wl be much like Moore returning to the political campaign trail which, in effect, he is a campaign to get his legislative program enacted.

WILLIAM

SHIRES

There will be other tactics and methods of persuasion after the legislature comes to Raleigh. But the success or extent of success depends usually in the long run on how much public acceptance such a program is able to command.

Advisors Cheered

Moore and his advisors were ebeered and encouraged by reaction to his first message the Christmas broadcast.

They feel statewide reaction generally was highly favorable and that it was much more widespread than might have been expected in view of the timing.

It was broadcast two days before Christmas during the

last minute holiday rush and a time when thoughts usually turn from politics to home and hearth.

Signifkant Role Reports reaching Raleigh say Dan Moors role in the recent meeting between Democratic governors and President Johnson at the LBJ ranch was especially significant.

All of the governors, representing a broad cross-section of the nation, spoke quite frankly during their private session with the president. The president, obviously concerned about his ewi political image and that of the Johnson administration listened attentively.

But Johnson was not prepared to be put entirely on the defensive nor let criticism go u-^ answered.

He asked questions of the governors. Then he turned to his own top advisors attending the meeting and asked what they had to say about what the governors had said.

Pay Gosc Attention When Moores turn came, it appeared that the president paid particularly close atten tion.

He appeared to recognize that Moore represented a moderate state, one in which the Democratic party traditionally has been strong and loyal, and that Moore represented a moderate faction within the Demo cratic party in North Carolina.

Moore spoke frankly. Reports say his remarks were among the most frank and pointiS of any the president heard.

He pointed out areas ana programs in which he felt federal-state cooperation was desirable and necessary, but in which he thought it had failed. Largely, he said, federal administrative officials were to blame. They cither refused to work with state officials, to follow federal-state channels, ignored advice, bypassed state officials entirely or had resorted to other procedures.

Moore made point after point. In each case, the pres'-dents own advisors admitted he was right. This appeared to make quite an impression on Johnson and he switched to a more conciliatory attitude for the rest of the conference.

for changes in the states tax structure. This will bt tied in with recommendations of the tax study commission and with budget proposals for the coming biennium.

There will be the question of what changes, if any, are to be made in the states higher education statucture. The bid of East Carolina College for university status independent of the Consolidated University is expected to be a matter for legislative consideration. Recently a faculty committee of Western Carolina College recommended to trustees of that institution that it seek independent university status, and the trustees have taken the recommendation under consideration.

These are just a few of the knotty problems that await consideration by the 1967 General Assembly. It is evident that those who serve in the forthcoming legislature will have a busy and probably a long session.

Cease-Fire Brought Nothing Like Peace

The Christmas cease fire in Vietnam brought a halt to the war only in the sense that the shooting and bombing virtually stopped for the prescribed period.

Before the cease fire period had ended, however, American planes were taking off from their bases to be over targets when the time for shooting and bombing was on again. Troops of both sides used the cease fiie period of move into position for new attacks and new defenses, and their shooting began again shortly after the official cease fire ended.

In similar situations in the past there has seemed to be a hope on the part of both sides that a brief cease fire would be prolonged beyond the period originally agreed upon. There has seemed to be the hope that an extended cease fire periodeven unofficialcould set the stage for negotiation. Such was not the case this year, however. There seems a new urgency to get on with the war in the hope of bringing it to a close.

Whether the forthcoming cease fire over New Years day will be followed by a period of semiquiet on the fighting front remains to be seen.

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By JOHN BECKLER

WASHINGTON (AP) -Rep. Adam Clayton Powells pride appears to be is greater danger than his scat in Congress from the challenge being readied to bar him from the House when Congress convenes Jan. 10.

Even if he 1 denied the right to be sworn in with his 434 colleagues as seems most likely there is almost no chance he will actually be excluded from membership at that time and his Harlem dis trict declared vacant.

This Date-40 Years Ago Today

By FOY H. DUNCAN Dec. 28, 1926 Dodging Our Hospitality

Americans are friendly but primitive creatures, says George Bernard Shaw. Literature is so wonderful to them that they will cross the ocean to see a man who has written a book. If I were to cross the ocean to gratify their hem worship, they would shake my hands off, daze me with uplift and kill me with kindness.

So Shaw has a better way. He has discovered how to be seen and heard by the American people without being entertained and mobbed to death. He will let this country see his face and hear his voice by means of the new phono film, or speaking movie ...

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Birth Announcement

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Batchelor annoucp the birth of a son. F^dward Batchelor Jr. on Tuesday morning, Dec. 28, 19-26.

Hardee-Waltcrs

Miss Sallie Walters and Mr. L. Ray Hardee were quietly married at the Immanuel Baptist Church pastorium by Rev. L. R. OBrian Christmas morning at eight oclock....

Tncker-Oodley Mf- lh<3 Mrs. William S. God-lay rtquest the honor of your prt^fiwe at tht marriage of their daughter, Ethel Elizabeth to Mr. Cecil Edward Tucker on Dec. 29th in the Christian Church of Grimes-land. N.C....

Hathaway-Harris

Just before Christmas a quiet and simple wedding was celebrated in Belvoir township, when Miss Estelle Harris became the bride of Mr. Fenton Hathaway

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By ART BUCHWALD

Some Other Solution?

Not since the Civil War, when three border state representatives were expelled for treason, has a member been kicked out of Congress. In 19(X) a polygamous member-elect from Utah was denied a seat and in 1919 a member charged with favoring Germany in World War I was excluded, but eventually seated when his district twice re-elected him. And that is about the extent to which Congress has used its power to judge the fitness of its members.

What is expected to happen Jan. 10 is that Powell will be asked to stand aside until a special committee investigates the case against him and makes a recommendation. Thats what was done in the case of the much-m a r r i e d Mormon, and Rep. Lionel Van Deerlia, D-Calif., who plans to make, the, Jan. 10 challenge, says he is thinking of following the same course.

It could take six months or a year for such a committee to complete its work. Meantime Powell would be legally a member of the 90th Congress, entitled to his $30,000-a-year salary, his office staff and his free mailing privileges.

All he would lose is his right to vote.

If the committee should recommend that Powell be barred, approval by the H o u s e would cut off his salary and vacate his seat. But by that time Powell may h^ve purged himself of the contempt of court in New York that is largely responsible for his current difficulties.

Because history, tradition and precedent all tend to blunt the effectiveness of the challenge to Powells scat, some of his opponents also plan to try to take away his chairmanship of the Education and Labor Committee.

This could be accomplishod by a majority of the Democratic members at their caucus Jan. 9. Rep. Sam Gibbons, D- Fla., who led the fight to reduce Powells powers as chairman last session, is planning the strategy for having him ousted.

A major weapon in the move will be the forthcoming report of a House Administration subcommittee that investigated the payroll and travel expenditures of Powells committee and found that somewhere between 75 and 100 airline trips, paid for as official trips by staff members, were taken by someone else,

Powells preference for lolling in the sun in the Bahamas instead of facing the subcommittees questioning will be used to support the charge that he is unfit to continue as chairman.

WASHINGTON - The Soviet Union and the United States are reportedly meeting in secret to discuss ways of not spending vast sums of money on anti - missile missile systems. The Russians claim to have developed such a system and in the next few months Sec, Robert McNamara has to decide whether the United States will build a system of its own which would cost billions of dollars.

There is hope that some compromise can be worked out.

I happened to be in a Washington restaurant and over

heard one of the discussions.

The American diplomat said, You must understand, Mr. Sergivich, that my country is prepared to go ahead with our anti - missile program if your country goes ahead with yours.

Aha, Comrade Smith, the Russian replied, you cannot threaten us, because if you go ahead with your anti-missile missile program, then we will proceed with our anli-anti-missile missile plan, which will knock any anti-missile missile you develop out of the sky.

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I cannot give you the details, Smith said, but we now have on the drawing boards an anti-anti - anti-missile missile missile, which could destroy your anti - anti-missle missile before it even left the pad.

The Russian said, FI! see your three anti - missile missiles and raise you one. We have a four anti - missile missile that can knock a mosquito out of the sky.

ART

BUCHWALD

(The Wilson Times) Those who desire a college education and are prepared to work for it, can have it. This is a promise which is being fulfilled.

The director of Student A at the University of North Carolina says that any student who is academically prepared and can maintain a good record can come to the University, whether he has financial resources or not.

This is reassuring, in a day when a college education is essential to success. And to prove the statement, financial aid at the University for the 1965-66 term came to $1.75 million and went to 25 per cent of the student body.

Aid included scholarships, loans and self-help work. Scholarships alone totaled $350,(X)0 and benefitted 1,108 students. This does not include the More-head Scholarships, which arc not administered by the University.

Then, if a student goes to the University and lo.ses bis resources, he can stay as long

as he is doing good academic work. For there are 2,188 scholarships at the University alone.

Many of the scholarships go to students who are from families with an average income of less than $9,000 a year. Student loans were distributed this year to 1.165 students for a total of $884,392. We could go on and on proving that those who are ambitious can obtain a college education.

And add the assistance available at the University to the scholarships, grants and loans available at the other colleges in the state and you see the educational advantages which are here.

We hear and read so much about what North Carolina does not do, in the field of education for its youth, it is time we begin to realize what is being done and on all levels.

Education is not free to anyone, but those who desire and who are willing and ready to work for it, can have a college education in any field they desire.

The American looked at the Russians poker face. I think youre bluffing. Ill see your four anti-missile missiles and raise you two anti - missile missiles ,making it a total of six altogether.

The Russian started to perspire. Now, let me get this straight. Youre betting six antis and seven missiles against my four antis and five missiles?

T h a tl correct, Smith said.

What if I told you we had an anti - anti - anti - anti-anti - anti - anti - missile-missile - missile - missile -missile - missile missile now in production? the Russian said.

And what if I told you that it doesnt bother us because we have an answer to it? Smith said.

Youre cheating. You didnt say what it was.

All right, Ill say it. Our answer is an - anti - anti-anti - anti - anti - anti - antimissile - missile - missile-mis (Continued On Page 5)

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By ROWLAND EVANS and '

ROBERT NOVAK WASHINGTON Under circumstances that C0UI4, ubiiost be described as conspiratorial, a small but glittering group of top-level Republicans met several months ago, pledged it^ self to total secrecy and discussed the Presidential pc-sibilities of Gen. William Westmoreland, now commanding all U.S troops in Vietnam.

The purpose of the discussion, which was held before Gov. George Romney of Michigan swept to a record third-term victory in Michigan, was simple and to the point: If Romney came out poorly la the 1966 election, or if he stumbled in his prc-conventioo build-up of 1967 and early 19* 68, to whom should the Republican Party turn for a man to beat President Johnson?

The participants, in 01 h e r words, were first and f 0 r e-most Romney* men. Their common concern was that if Romney couldnt get nominate ed in 1988, the party might wind Dp in the kind of vidous, bitter-end struggle that broka It in two In 1964, when many liberal Republicans refused to accept Barry Goldwater as the party Presidential nominee.

The one man, they agreed, who could best unite all elements ci the Republican Party hi the event Romney fails was Westmoreland.

So secret was the meeting that no list of participants exists today. From well-teform-ed Republican sources, however, we have established that Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York was fully apprised of the discussion about Westmoreland and that one of his brothers. Chase Manhattaa Bank Cliairman David Rockefeller, is an activist in the affair.

Highly Impressed W General David Rockefeller personally went to Saigon last fall to open up the newest Chase branch office in Saigon. But his more important purpose was to discuss a w i d e range of affairs with the square-jawed, handsome, 52-year-old Westmoreland. And according to those who know. Rockefeller came away highly impressed with the general.

Furthermore, at tiie meeting of Republican governors ia Colorado Springs early this month. Gov. Rockefeller was discussing the Republican Presidential prospects of Romney with a few key staff aides in his hotel suite one night. Someone asked what would happen If Romney couldnt make the grade.

In that case, replied Rockefeller, youd have to think about Westmoreland. The remark fits neatly into the few facts that are known about the secret meeting last summer. The Westmoreland gambit is based on the assumption, regarded by realists here as virtually irrefutable, that the war in Vietnam will still be going strong throughout 1968. If that assumption if correct, Vietnam will be the overriding issue of the Presidential campaign, with President Johnson unavoidably on the defensive.

Knows More About The War Westmoreland, as the U. S. commander in the field, knows more about the war than any other American. Furthermore, he is also credited with having a sophisticated understanding of the political and social forces at work in South Vietnam that go beyond the ken of most military men. Nor has he allowed himself to get into a (Continued On Page 5)

Changing State Abbreviations

By ELMER ROEvSSNER For years the Post Office campaigned to get people to

use Calif. instead of Cal. as the abbreviation for California, and Colo. instead of Col. as the abbreviation for Colorado. Cal. and Col. were to easily confused, the Post (Wice said.

Now that the differentiating abbtieviatiofis are pretty well established in the minds of school children, letter writers and other users of mail, the Post Office is changing all state abbreviations to two-letter symbols. Calif. is now CA and Colo. i.s CO. Its all part of the new ZIP code business. Bulk mailers, required to use ZIP codes or pay higher rates, are supposed to u.se the new state abbreviations. Some post offices arc using them*on their can

cellations and presumably the public will eventually hie required to use them.

ELMER

ROESSNER

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Here are the new two-letter abbreviations for all states, the District of Columbia,' Guam, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico: Alabama, AL; Alaska, AK; Arizona, AZ; Arkansas, AR: California, CA; Colorado, CO; Connecticut, CT; Delaware, DE; District of Columbia, DC; Florida, FL; Georgia, GA;

Guam, GU; Hawaii, HI; Idaho, ID; Illinois, IL; Indiana, IN; Iowa, IA Kansas, KS; Kentucky, KY; Louisiana, LA; Maine, ME; Maryland, MD; Massachusetts, MA; M i c hi-gan, MI; Minnesota, MN; Mississippi, MS; Missouri, MO; Montana, MT; Nebraska, NB; Nevada, NV; New Hampshire, NH; New Jersey, NJ; New Mexico, NM; New York, NY; North Carolina, NC; North Dakota, ND; Ohio, OH; Oklahoma, OK; Oregon, OR; Pennsylvania, PA; Puerto Rico, PR; Rhode Island, RI; i^utb Carolina, SC; South Dakota, SD; Tennessee, TN; Texas, 'TX; Utah, UT; Vermont, VT; Virginia, VA; Virgin Islands, VI; Washington, WA; West Virginia, WV; Wisconsin, Wl; Wyoming, Wy.

Of course, the whola busi

ness is a little silly. The abbreviations are subject to confusion. Quick, now! What do VA, VI, WA, WV and WI stand for Futhermore, if the ZIP codes are correct, the state abbreviations are unnecessary. If the code numbers arent correct, the bulk mail wont he delivcrad anyway. AMERICAN TRADING STAMPS NOW IN SPANISH MARRET Spain has voted for a new constitution and now the nation is getting American trading stamps. Although trading stamps have been used in Spain since the beginning of the century, this is the first time an American firm has been in the market. Sperry & Hutchinson has acquired Unimarca, the second larggest stamp company there.