Wednesday, January 25, 1967

Plan Now For AgrlculLura Chan-ge

With the new niiiijM')7i wa>rc icK^^htlions being aplicd to agriculture, Pitt aii-ci other ^tobacco proiJucing counties should >rejiare lor another major shift in their economic structure.

The minimum wage law, of course, will not mean the end to toljacco production or an end to profita farmer* will make on that important cash (Ti)p. There is every indication, however, that the iiew/minimum wage on farm labor is going to mean the mechanization of tohaccn production and har-vestijig in much tlie same manner as cotton, peanut and corn production and hancsling have been mechanized in recent years.

As mechanization is ai))lie(l to loiiacco harvC't-ing. the number of laborers on th(; farm will be greatly I'cduced. As mechanization is applied to to-bacco farming, the number of small farms will be further reduced and the size of tobacco allotments o))eraled under one management will further in-crea.-e. Less labor will be rcciuired on tlie farms of

!Right Man For Highway Safety

By WILLIAM A. SHIRLS

RALP:iCdl - It appears that Lt. Gov. Robert W. (Bob) Scott had been doing his homework when he named Sen. Sam Whitehurst of Craven chairman of the Highway Safety committee for the 1967 Senate.

For example, Scott undoubtedly had r ead that highway accidents in North Carolina last year claimed 1,686 lives at last count, an all-time record fatality toll.

Also he knew of plans being drawn for legislation tu tighten and beef up the states traffic laws and highway safety enforcement programs. These have been largely in the background lately, subordinated by other, newer and more Immediate legislative programs and issues such as liquor, a proposed tax cut, re-districting and the like.

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But as usual, highway safety is going to be a field of major ;e>e^rnand importance in the coming session.

Whitehurst I Veteran Scott himself attaches nun-h importance to the problem is demostratcd by his first a;)-pointment of a 1967 committee chairrnan-AVhitehurst to head Highway Safety.

Whitehurst, a New Bern in-suranceman, has conside.-able legislative seniority having served eight consecutive terms in the General Assembly. This will be his second term in the Senate,

In 1957, Whitehurst was cosponsor of the act creating a driver training safety program in the schools. He introducen major changes in this program through legislation in 1965.

Scott, making the announcement in Whitehursts home town, said his legislative record clearly demonstrates his efforts in behalf of highway safety...he has consistently supported highway safety measures.

Bills Are Coming A package of new highway

safety bills are coming durng the 1967 session. Their details have been hinted at but as yet not disclosed fully.

Motor Vehicles Commissioner A. Pilston Godwin, assistant commissioner Ralph Howland and other officials have been conferring recently with Gov. Dan K, Moore on legislative items they will request and most, apparently, will go in with Moores backing as an administration program.

In 1965, when the Senate Highway Safety committee was headed by Sen. Irwin Belk of Mecklenburg, the administration rolled up an impressive record for enacting legislation asked by Moore in a special Highway safety address to a joint session,

1965 Record Cited

Foremost on the 1965 list was enactment of a new motor vehicles inspection law covering brakes, lights, steering mechanism, horn, windshield wipers and directional signals.

Whitehurst played a prominent role in support of the inspection program, the first time it had succeeded since the 1949 legislature wiped out an inspection law after only two years.

The 1965 session also authorized an additional 100 state highway patrolmen, appropriated $4 million to expand the driver education program, set up a traffic safety authority to coordinate efforts of all state agencies, established a highway safety research ccn ter at the University ana authorized reflectorizcd r'CT.se plates.

Stricter Laws

Sources believe the coming highway safety program will center largely on stricter laws providing more severe penalties, that a stricter system of driver licensing and revocation and suspension of licenses will be proposed.

In addition, its ex p e c t e d that the present inspection law will be broadened to cover such items as tires.

Motor vehicles officials believe their highway safety efforts have been helped greatly by the 1965 laws including inspection, despite a continuing high toll of wrecks, lives, injuries and property damage. Even more is needed, they say.

Eastern North CarMina and another exodus from the iarm.s must be e.xpected. It may not be as great as the one of the pa.-t decade when there were drastic reduction.-^ in tobacco acreage allotments, but it will be significant.

The eastern area of the state should begin now to make plans for this change. Those who will remain on the farms, of course, must begin thinking in terms of mechanizing their operations. The communities and counties of the area mu.st think in terms of providing new job opportunities for those whose jobs on the farms will disappear in this new wave of mechanization.

if new jobs are not provided, those who are fon ed off Ihc farms v ill either move to areas where job opixjrtimitic'i are more plentiful or swell the ranks of the unemployed in this eastern area.

Another factor that must be considered is the sca.sonal jobs in agriculture that will also disappear with the mechanization of tobacco production a#id harvesting. In addition to affecting those who now live on farm:, it will affect other thousands who live in towns but find employment a.s day laborers on farms during the busy planting and harvest season.

It would be a serious mistake for the Eastern area to fail to recognize it is on the threshold of another transitional period. The better the area as a whole plans to meet the changes which come in this period, the better it and its people will be able to cope with them,

nrealistic Anc. Vague Strategy

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - Like Socrates of old, Sen. J. W. Ful-bright tries to be a gadfly on the conscience of the community.

But sometimes there seems to be more buzz than bite.

The Arkansas Democrat, chairman of the Senates For-Relations Committee, has been President Johnsons .steadiest critic on foreign affairs. He failed Johnson for his liandling of the crisis in the Dominican Republic.

He has never let up on Johnsons handling of the war in Vietnam. Now he has put his ideas together in a just-pub-lised book, The Arrogance of Power. Its an enlarged ve r s i 0 n of his lectures at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies last year.

But Fulbright as a critic has been sometimes vague and. to this writer, unrealistic. This shows up in his book, too.

As an example of some of his past unrealism: More than a year ago the Red Chinese outlined a plan for the conquest of the world. Commu-ist revolutionaries in underdeveloped countries could be used to encircle and defeat capitalist nations.

Nevertheless, Fulbright suggested trying to make a deal with Red China under which this country would withdraw

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its forces from southeast Asia if the Chinese would let their neighbors alone.

The trouble with this is that the Chinese, while proclaiming innocence, could help in a concealed way the Communists in a backward country, particularly one bordering Red China, to take it over. And so on, step by step.

Now in his book Fulbright outlines a plan for restoring peace in Vietnam although, if you follow him to the end, it's a plan which could wind up solving nothing and leave the United States completly baffled.

Boiled down, this is his idea:

The United States, South Vietnam, the Viet Cong and Communist North Vietnam should try to work out peace. The American side would first seek a cease - fire and stop the bombing of North Vietnam.

In this arrangement F u 1-bright seems to put the Viet Cong on the same plane of power with North Vietnam, although the Johnson administration considers North Vietnam the main adversary.

And, Fulbright suggests, the United States should pledge to remove its forces from South Vietnam. That is what Johnson did at the Manila Con-f e r e n c e last fall, provided peace was resto/ed.

Then there ^ould be an international conferencewhich would have to include Red China to guarantee an agreement on self - determination for the Vietnamese, plus a plan for a referendum and re-(Continued On Page 5)

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By FOY H. DUNCAN Jan. 25, 1927 Post Office Here to be Made First Class Next Juiy The local postoffice vvili become a first class office on tlie first day of next July. The laial receipts of the office for this year ending December 31, 1926 were $43,231.16 or an increase of approximately $6,000 over the previous year. Receipts of $40,-000 are necessary for the office to attain full class rank and the local office has passed the required figure by mere than $3,000.

High School Faculty And High School to Meet in Game Of Basket Bail

Has anyone heard about the feature of the basket ball season? VVe rather think so, but just as a gentle reminderit comes off Wednesday night at Gormans new warehouse. The game is called at eight o'clock standing room not reserved. The Greenville Hi Lasses will play a picked team from the faculty. This ought to interest anyone and dont forget to be on time.

Community Theatre Playcns To Appear in Two Blocks Away

The community Theatre Players will appear in the college auditorium Wednesday evening at eight oclock, Jan. 26, in an Aaron Hoffmans great New York comedy success, Two' Blocks Away... According to the press reports the comedy is an unusual performance, affording great pleasure, and is a good, clean, wholesome comedy, leaving with the audience the truth of the homely bit of philosopy, It isnt what you have in your pocket that counts, but what you have in your head, Admission $L00.

!"or Today

By EARL L. DIUGLASS

THE INCOME PROBLEM

Modem life has become so expensive that the desire for dollars has increased to an almost hysterical degree. In a large percentage of instances both parents work, and during summer vacation all members of the family work.

There is, of course, nothing wrong about this. In fact, it is better for young people to be employed in the summer than to be shuffling about aimlessly. And certainly one should try to make out of his business as much success as possible, which to some degree is measured by income. Very successful people often have small incomes, and people of large incomes are frequently not successful, so far as reputation and self - respect are concerned. But chasing the almighty dollar has become for the people of the Western Hemisphere a commitment that frequently pushes everything else to the sidelines.

In the case of the criminally minded this goes to sinister ends, which the law recognizes and tries to handle. But among the most honest of people the pressure of regular expenses mounts up until lliey are in a dither all day and frequently find it hard to get to sleep at night.

Yet there are millions of people who apparently have mastered the art of living within their incomes and doing so contentedly. These incomes may be very small. Moral victory and peace of heart arise from the fact that one accepts the unchangeable and with intelligence and a program based on common sense goes about handling a problem that can become terrific.

Out To

By HAL BOYLE

Ailina Dollar In Demanc.

NEW YORK (AP) - Whatever happened to the almighty dollar, which many foreigners claim that Americans worship?

If we do, we are bowing down to an anemic idol. For, like the Old Gray Mare, the almighty dollar ain't what it used to be. As a matter of fact, the almighty -loilar looks like a mighty sick buck. It has been suffering weakening relapses for a long time now, and it is unlikely that any miracle medicine will be found that can restore it completely to its youthful vigor.

Everything in life tends to lose strength as it passes its prime and begins to age. This

is as generally true of paper currencies as it is of people.

The dollar may still be a long way from the financial graveyard, but it wili probably never again be the big strong buck of yore.

Now and then an event occurs that forces us to realizo what inflationary malnutrition has done to the value of the dollar. Such a happening Last week was the disclosure that shoeshines in some areas here have gone up to 35 centsand that doesnt include tlie tip.

Thirty-five cents for a shoe-shine! The unbelieving cry went up. What can happen next?

Well, that is pretty easy to

Other Editors Saying The Economy Booms

(Christian Science Monitor)

The growth of Americas total output by 5.4 percent in 1966 (it was 8.5 percent if one uses inflated dollars) was sensational for a nation as rich and as highly developed as the United States. This is true even when one takes into account that some 40 percent of this was owed to Increased military purchases and to the upping of business inventories.

When military purchases and inventories are left out, America's gross national product last year still rose by some $22,0()Q,000,000 as figured in true or uninflated currency. This is clearly an immense yearly addition to any one nations national wealth. Furthermore, not all of the military and inventory purchases can be written off as unconnected with the expansion of wealth.

Although Americas current

economic growth rate docs not approach that of some of those lamb which might be said to occupy second-rank positions among the advanced nations (Japan, for example), it is gratifying in an economy already so far advanced and so complex as that of the United States, It is evidence of the immense forward thrust and self-generating power which such an economy contains within itself.

Last years real growth is also particularly heartening in view of the cost of the Vietnamese war. It would indicate that the national economy can support the war without major cuts in the rate at which the country as been meeting civilian needs. Thb is particularly 50 since the current Washington estimate is that miii-tary spending in 1967 will tend to level off rather than to rise as sharply as it did in the past twelvemonth.

Anyone who is over 50 and who has weathered a number of depressions and several hot and cold wars also has a nei-ancholy awareness of the various steps in the erosion of the dollar in hb lifetime.

About the only gadgets left that havent raised their prices in the last two generations are the penny gumball machine and the penny scales.

Yep, money gets tired. It doesnt travel as far a.s i: did when it was younger. Most of us have long realized that money isnt everything. What does dismay us, however, is the realization that money-isnt even what it used to be and in some future tomorrow wont be what it is today.

But ailing as the almighty dollar may be, no one wants to turn his back on it. Everybody still seems to be trying to get his bands on as many dollars as he can.

* Better a sick friend than none at all.

prophesy. The cost of shoeshines in time will go to 50 cents, then 75 cents, and then probably before man starts building real estate developments on the moon to one dollar.

There are babies being born right now who will even live to see the day when they will pay $2 for a shoeshine $l for each shoe.

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BOYLE

Homney

By ROWLAND EVANS and , , ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON - The right-wing Americans for Conaer-vative Action (ACA) b the secret organber of a clandestine campaign attempting to run down Gov. George Romney as a Republican w^esidential contender.

In recent weeks, influential Republicans have been receiN--ing anonymous anti-Romney propaganda in blank envelopes with a Washington postmark. For instance, one mailing contains reprints of unfavorable newspaper articles about Romney from the Washington Post and the Baltimore Sun with this comment added:

Romney off and running into Romneys anatomy of a self - ordained leader.

The only clue to the source of the propaganda was tiie designation of postage meter 346648 on the postmark. That happens to belong to no political group but to a Wasning-ton, D. C. firm which handles mass mailing City Duplicating Center, Inc.

We have learned that tlie ACA brought the anti-Komney material and its mailing list to City Duplicating Center with instructions that it be mailed not in ACA envelopes but in plain white envelopes to disguise the senders Identity.

Til is does not violate the letter of federal law, but it certainly goes against its spirit. A federal statute makes it a crime to send out unsigned campaign literature about any person who has publicly declared his intention to seek the office of President."

Thus, ACA is not guilty of breaking the law only because Romney has not yet formally announced for the White House. But unsigned propaganda definitely falls in the category of dirty politics.

A footnote: Republican eyebrows are being raised in Washington by a hookup between the ACA and the Young Republican National Federation, whose leaders do not disguise their hostility to Romney.

Charles McManus, the ACAs aggressive young executive director, has been handling press and other arrangements for the YRs National Leadership Training School in Washington Feb. 14-19. He has been indiscreet enough to transact YR business on ACA stationery.

McCormack's Bluncb'r

House Democrats feel Speaker John McCormack blundered badly in his well - intentioned efforts to avoid a fight for a Democratic vacancy on t h c tax - writing House Ways and Means Committee.

McCormack didnt want to choose sides between Rep. Jacob Gilbert of New York, a Great Society man, and Rep. Omar Burleson of Texas, a rigidly conservative Southerner. So, he suggested that the committee be expanded to include Gilbert and Burleson plus another Republican.

Chairman Wilbur Mills of Arkansas, who doesnt want his committee enlarged, shot down the idea by pointing out it would mean a net loss of one vote for President Johnson on the committee.

But MciJormack didnt give up. He suggested that Ohios Rep. Charles Vanik, o* some other administration stalwart, transfer from Ways and Means to the Rules Committee so (Continued On Page 5)

Three Budgets Used In Govmt

By ELMER ROESSNER

The budget President Johnson is offering is actually one of three United States budgets, ail of which use different figures, all of which have different totals, and all of which tell different things.

The three budgets are the administrative budget, which is the one President Johnson talks to Congress about and which keeps much in the headlines; the cash budget, and the national income accounts budget.

Politicians like to talk most about the administrative budget, since that runs about $30 billion less than the other two. Voters might be unhappy if they realized the government takes in and spends more than $140 billion a year instead of the administrative budget of $111 billion, which it is in the current fiscal year.

Bankers Trust Company of New York has issued a memorandum on the subj e c t, which is one of the clearest

explanations of the three budgets I have seen, even clearer than the one I wrote a few years ago.

Budget By Budget The a(hninistrative budget is the one the President delivers to Congress, the one that keeps favorite TV shows off the air, and the one most Congressmen and other people talk about. Some are unaware that thre are any other budgets.

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This budget covers the receipts and expenditures of the

federal government and the federal agencies for wh i c h Congress makes regular appropriations. It includes tax

es, generally as received by the Treasury, and expenditures, usually as g o V e rnment checks are issued.

'This is the budget which usually shows a deficit an average of more than $7 billion a year for the last five years usually made up by borrowing, which increases the federal debt, the interest on which leads to more deficits.

This budget does not include Social Security funds, highway funds, and federal financial agencies such as the Federal Home Loan Banks and the Federal National Mortgage Associaftioo. Its the budget most people read about, usually in articles illustrated with pie charts.

The Other Badgets

As government finances became more complicated, other budgets were devised.

The cash budget shows the flow of current cash transactions, except borrowing, between the government and the public. It includes the

Social Security and other so-called trust funds, although eliminates intra - government transfers of money.

The national income ac-cotiTrts budget is a cuckoo bird out of another nest. It excludes those activites of the federal government in spending and taxing which do not have a direct impact on the flow (A current income and output in the economy. Loans and sales of existing assets arent counted. And while the administrative and cash budgets count tax receipts as they accrue on the general theory that when a man or company makes a profit, the taxes due are Inunediately Immobilized.

Similarly, this budget records government purchases when deliveries are made.

The administrative budget for the year to end June 30, 1967, is $111 biflion; the cash budget, $145.5 bUUon, and the national Income accounts budget, $142.2 billion.

So now you know.