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Liquor Issue Sees 3 Alternatives

A DEMANDING GODl

Legislative hearings this week on the question of how 10 deal with North Carolinas liquor situation brought firm reaction by at least three distinct groups.

Represented at the hearings were by-the-bag forces, by-the-drink forces and the not-at-all forces in the state. Based on assertions by those who appeared at the hearing, legislators can find ample reason to follow either of the three alternatives in modifying existing liquor laws.

It is evident, we think, that the laws as presently interpreted are impractical and unrealistic. The interpretation conflicts with what has been accepted practice in the state for many years. The liquor laws as now interpreted by the state courts are not being enforced, and while many citizens are voluntarily abiding by the present interpretation, many others are ignoring it. Without some change by the legislature, the states liquor laws will be ignored by many more citizens in the months to come . . . and we seriously question whether there will be a more serious effort to enforce the laws if they remain unchanged.

Restaurant owners and representatives of the resort areas make a strong case for liquor-by-the-drink on a restricted basis. They say it can be controlled much better than liquor can under brown bagging practices. They assert that liquor by the drink will not mean open bars in North Carolina, but merely that by-the-drink sales will be confined to the better restaurants. While this argument may have appeal, we seriously question whether liquor-by-the-drink, once authorized, would not lead to

Bills Advancing Rather Rapidly

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

RALEIGH Bills dealing with capital punishment and creating a new intermediate state court of appeals appear likely to become the first pieces of full blown, major legislation to reach the 1967 General Assembly floors.

They have advanced rather rapidly through committee. And debate and voting on tiiese bills perhaps several of them may come up in either House or Senate within the next few days.

The courts bill is expected to come out of a joint committee by late this week or early next A couple of capital punishment measures already have a committee green light and, in fact, the first one was on the House calendar for Thiffsday.

WILLIAM

SHIRES

Apint)val of the appellate court bill, drafted by the Courts Commission and already studied at length by the courts and judicial districts committees, is almost certain, More CoDtrovmial But there is more question and a great deal more controversy about the capital punishment bills.

Several bills, each ap-proadiing the problem in a different way, are under legislative consideration. None of them proposes to abolish the death penalty altogether, but the idea of relaxing and giv

ing more leeway to judges, juries and prosecutors in deciding whether to impose it is plain in each one.

Under present state law, pronouncing of the death sentence upon a person convicted of a capital crime first-degree murder, rape, arson and first degree buglary is mandatory unless the jury recommends mercy.

A presiding judge in feuch cases has no discretion. A solicitor (prosecutor) has limited discretion he may accept a plea of guilty which then carries an automotic sentence of life imprisonment.

Make More Flexible

The several bills pertaining to imposition of sentence of capital punishment, death in the lethal gas chamber, all contain the idea of reserving extreme punishment .ind re-districting it to the most brutal, heinous crimes.

They would amend the law in various ways to put death sentence discretion in the hands of the judge or to allow a solicitor himself to judge the degree of punishment and recommend to a jury that it be merciful.

Each of the measures stops short of complete abolition of the death penalty in North Carolina, a proposition which has never won legislative approval and which is even now opposed by the governor and, apparently, a majority of 1967 legislators.

The question of capital punishment has been and remains among the most controversial social issues. In North Carolina, althou^ nearly half a dozen men nave awaited execution on death row at Central Prison in recent years, no one has been executed by the state in more than four years.

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open bars across North Carolina.

Difficult as it may be to write a law which would legalize brown bagging as it has been practiced in North Carolina for years, it is most practical and in the long run the wisest course for the 1967 legislature. While the legislative wheels must of necessity move slowly on an issue as controversial as this, the sooner the matter can be resolved in the current session, the better off the state will be.

Congress Should See Standards Practiced

As investigators have looked into the records of members of Congress in recent weeks, it has become increasingly evident that the standards of Congressional ethics expected by the public and the standards practiced by some members of Congress are not quite the same.

The case of Adam Clayton Powell and his use of government funds is fresh in the minds of the American people. Now attention is being focused oil the activities of Sen. Thomas J. Dodd of Connecticut and the personal funds he has accumulated through contributions of supporters.

While the Senate investigating committee may be some time in bringing in its report and making recommendations concerning Sen. Dodd and his activities, what has recently taken place on the House side cannot be ignored. And while the cases of Rep. Powell and Sen. Dodd are so much in the news, practices of some other members of Congress should not be ignored altogether.

Each house of the Congress has been looked upon as a self-regulating body. They have been relied upon to make and enforce their own rules for the conduct of their members. That they have been lax in doing so has forcefully been brought to public vipw in recent months.

The situation should cause members of both the House and the Senate to see to it that high ethical standards are practiced as well as preached by all members of Congress.

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By JAMES KILPATRICK

Fed Ud With Criminals

For Discontent

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - This is like a Sunday afternoon in the traffic jam of history. Theres no fire, no crisis, but theres a lot of discontent with the man up front, as if people felt they were racing their motors.

Three of the front men have bumped their heads French President Charles de Gaulle, President Johnson, and Red Chinas Mao Tse-tung but no one knows who is going to take their place, or who can.

De Gaulle, who has an irritating habit of insisting upon

This Date-' 40 Years Ago Today

By FOY H. DUNCAN March 16, 1927

Merchants Body Launches

Drive For New Members

In their desire and effort to increase the activities of the Greenville Merchants Association, the directors, in their regular monthly meeting held in the secretarys office last night, voted to put on a drive for additional members, and to this end a committee was at work today and will be tomorrow soliciting the various enterprises of this city that are eligible to member-ship. ...

the right of way, just got rebuffed by the French people in an election which gives the Gaullists a bare majority In the General Assembly.

France was a political mess when he took over nine years ago. Always convinced he was on times main highway, De Gaulle had long urged a sti*ong executive for the French people, and he became one.

JAMB

MABLOVf

Getting back to this business of crime: A very real possibility is growing that the 90th Congress, fed to the teeth with crime here in Washington, will undertake to beef up the Presidents safe streets legislation with some no-nonsence provisions on the interrogation of criminal suspects. In the process, the Congress could wind up eyeball to eyball with Chief Justice Warren, just across the stteet. It is a fascinating prospect.

There ought to be no mistaking the growing sense of anger in the Congress. Recent months have seen the issuance of two massive reports on crime; and not to put too fine a point upon it, these reports have laid two massive eggs. The first of them, a prolix two-volume affair on crime on the District of Columbia, was couched in the tapioca pudding prose of professional sociologists; it went unread. The second, on crime in the United States, was much bet

ter, but it too was largely concerned with long - range measures for uplifting the disadvantaged criminal and leading him back to salvation.

Members of the Senate, notably McClellan and Ervin, do not discount the need for long-range measures. These are all well and good. But their primary concern, just now, is for the adoption of immediate measures to offset the damage done by the high court in the line of cases that runs from Mallory to Miranda. They look about them, in Washington, and see an appalling contempt for law and order; and they find the cops hamstrung in trying to fight it.

Once specific example is worth a hundred generalizations. In the 13 months from January of 1966 through January of 1967, the Peoples Drug Stores in the D.C. metropolitan area experienced no few-e r than 31 armed robberies and 62 burglaries. More than $100,000 was stolen. One store

manager was rd)bed by three men at gun point in November. He was robbed again on January 22, still again on January 25. The manager and all employees tendered their resignations, said the president of Peoples, and it was necessary to close the store permanently.

JAMES J.

KILPATRICK

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Luther Hodges Elected Head Of Rotary District Wilmington, N. C., March 16 Luther Hodges of the Leaksville - Spring Club was elected district governor of the 57th district of Rotary Clubs today. . . .

Legion To Stage Indoor Circus An indoor circus will be staged here during the week of April 18th under the auspices of the Pitt County Post of American Legion, as a result of action taken last night at the regular monthly meeting in the Rotary building.

Rev. A. L. Stanford In Strong Sermon At Methodist Church

A large congregation heard Dr. A. L. Stanford of Charlotte at the revival meeting at Jarvis Memorial Church last night. Rev. Stanford srrived here late yesterday afternoon and preached his first sermon

last night Rev. Stanfords

text last night was Ask and it shall be given you, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.. . . .

BiiHi Aonoiincements

Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Kilgore announce the birth of a daughter on March 15, 1927.

Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Massey announce the birth of a daughter, Jane Foler on Monday. March 14, 1927.

He calmed his country, solidified it, and gave it a sense of direction although that may turn out to have been only a breathing spell, a pause between shambles.

By this time the French must realize that De Gaulles occur only occasionally in history and that when he finally steps down, or dies, there is no one like him on the French (Continued On Page 5)

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS AND I COMPLAIN I received a letter from a minister friend recently which set me back on my heels. We had been associated together many years ago. Suddenly he was stricken with tuberculosis. A valiant struggle of several years resulted in his return to fulltime work. Then deafness complete deafness came upon him so that he has to follow conversation by lip reading alone. Yet in spite of all this, he is as cheerful as a lark, has done fine work as a pastor, and refusing to be retired has, in his declining years, given up a large congregation where he was greatly love and sought out a smaller congregation where he could continue to be useful.

Just after receiving this letter from my friend, I was standing on a busy street corner waiting for a On the other side of the street I noticed a young man pulling a tittle express wagon filled witii groceries. He was blind and was being led by a faithful dog trained for that purpose.

Yesterday I received word that a young friend, just past forty, was dying with an incurable disease. He had only recently reached busin ess goals for which he had been striving lor twenty years.

Three words overwhelmed me the rest of the day with an awful sense of guilt: And I complain.

Other Editors Saying Tourist Diplomats

(Christian Science Mwiitoir)

This is the season when families read travel folders and dream. They also get out pencils and paper and figure. Many are finding tiiat this summer they can become Marco Polos in their own right, thanks to the package offers and timesaving schedules of transportation companies serving strange and distant lands.

It is pleasant to learn that by accepting such offers ordinary citizens can feel they are helping international relations. They are participating in International Travel Year, a project of the United Nations.

The value of this project has been vividly stated by Arthur J. Goldberg, United States Ambassador to the United Nations, in a message to this newspaper. The project has brought many nations togetiier, he says, in an effort to simplify border regulations and make world travel easier. It is also striving to encour

age people to travel to developing countries, to leave the beaten (and crowded) paths of tourism for trips to less-known lands.

How rarely these countries are toured at present is shown by facts Mr. Goldberg cites-All African and Asian countries combined now get only about 5 percent as much tourist tiraffic as does Europe alone. Yet they are the ones that need the tourist money most and the understanding that comes from getting to know you.

Such travel is bound to increase and we expect much from it. True, some tourists drag along prejudiced views as excess baggage and do little to promote good will or to educate themselves. But for the majority, travel broadens sympathies. Both tourist and host benefit. To quote Mr. Goldbergs conclusion: Tourism is the diplomacy of every man. We agree with him f ti-e world can use a lot more of this kind of diplomacy.

It is not in Washington alone that public resentment is mounting, and it is not only the Washington police who are concerned at the limitations put upon them, ^nator McClellan last week took ten pages of the Congressional Record to publish letters from chiefs of police scattered from Binghamton, N.Y., to Lane County, Oregon. These were excellent letters, literate, knowledgeable, emphatic; they came from professional officers whose lives are spent in the dirty, ^ubby business of fighting crime.

One of the best of them came from Oklahoma Citys Chief Hilton Geer.

For too many years, he wrote, the psyche of social welfare has been allowed to supplant social responsibility, and one of the results is reflected in a growth of lawlessness that threatens the roots of this nation....Too often, the concern of society has been of the accused, including analyzing his subconscious, without regard for the rights of society or the victim of crime. If, as some say, the criminal is the product of his enviro-ment, then what of the other and much larger public that is of this same envioroment but respects the law?

Police Chief Harry W. Hird, of North Olmstead, Ohio, hypothecated a case in which a police officer hears a woman screaming. A male runs from behind her house. The (Continued On Page 5)

Feagan

Forces

Dream

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK SACRAMENTO, CaUf. -California oil millionaire Henry Salvatorl, a bountiful contributor to right - wing causes and one of the early financial angels of Barry Goldwater for President, was discoursing on his own political loyalties.

Sure, Fm still a good and old friend of Dick Nixon, he told us. But her No. 2 with me now. Ron Reagan is No. l for President or anything else he wants.

The fact that Henry Salva-tori is pung Governor Ronald Reagan for President reflects two important changes on the RepimUcan right. First, the more militant conservative elements vastly prefer Reagan to N i x o n (though they may temporarily give Nixon some help as in the case of Salva-toris financial contributions to Nixon last fall). Second, and more important, Reagans inner circle is ac- tively running him fw Preii-' dent. '

Salvatori who along with other conservative CaMfomla businessmen frequently makes unpublicized trips to Sacramento to confer with Reagan, must be classified as a Reagan insider. But this undisguised lust for the White House extends also to Reagans personal staff. Even today, they are running their boss for President.

None of this means an avowed bid for the White House by the f(rmer Hollywood actor with less than three months in (rffice. Nor has any grand strategy! for winning the Presidency been concocted by the Reagan in-^ ner circle. It has not yet even consulted Spencer - Roberts Associates, the political man-agement firm which so ably handled Reagans bid for Governor, about putting together a Presidential organization.

Rather, they see the nomination going to Reagan by a natural process as the front-runners fail. In privacy, Reagan and his aides share a contempt for Michigans Governor George Romney and feel he may be out of tps picture come copventic-' time next year.

Although their estee^^ for Nixon is considerably higher, thCTe is little warmth. One reason Reagan does not make greater use of the substantial capabilities of Lt. Gov. Robert Finch is that Pin^h was assistant and is theref ore suspect. Even Sandy Quinn, Reagans assistant executive secretary, is not quite fuly accepted by virtue of his background as a former Nixon preis secretary and Finch lieutenant. In any event, Nixon is regarded as a sure loser by t h e Reagan high command.

And if Romney and Nixon wipe each other out, Reagans men feel he would have the highest ca^ds in a convention poker game. With the foundation of Cali^''^nias 9 p ls delegates, he could enter the convention with 200 or more as a non - announced candidate (particularly if Nixon stumbles in the primaries).

All he need do now is make carefully selected party ao-pearances such as his enormously successful speech before a $500 - a - plate grla in Washington (although he was disappointing at last weekends prestig i o u s Gridiron Dinner).

Its not quite that simple-even in the case of rmtrol-(Continued On Page 5)

!!^ilferaae Scare Based On Facts

By ELMER ROESSNER

About once a month some publicist sends me a story to warn businesssmen tiiat employee pilferage can be one of the greatest drains of profits; that if inside thefts amount to as much as 3 per cent of sales they can be a greater drain than taxes, and that the thieves may be getting more than the stodchold-ers.

It always tufns opt that these stories originate with some system of internal security. They mention shoplifting only to passing. SiopUft-tog may be an even greater drain, but most stores have already bought some system to protect them from shoplifting.

However, these scare -mongertog releases about pilferage arc based on facts, some painful, and since the Easter season is second only

to Christmas in employee liberation of goods, it may be worth while to pass on a few ideas.

ELMKR

ROESSNER

.Check The Tempos

Cardully check temporary help. Vacationing scholars and housewives rank high in honesty, but because of that fact, the light - fingered operators often try to pass themselves off as college students or housewives in good neighborhoods.

Consider closed circuit television cameras to monitor sensitive areas. If costs ara

too high, dummy cameras can be almost as discouraging.

Require employees to wear a badge to aid security men, who keeps forgetting her and suspect the employee who keeps forgetting her badge.

Check both shortages and overages at cash registers. An overage may suggest tam-pering more often than a shortage.

Require employees to check cash registers at the start and at the close of the business day; hold eadh responsible for shortages.

Watch Far Funny Fignm

Check register tapes. Gaps in number sequences, a large number of no sale punc^ es, and sales that do not correspond with prices common in the department are all suspicious.

Check registers shortly be-iora the end of the day. A

common sleight Is to total and tear off tapes a half hour before closing and purloin all cash taken after that.

Alert supwvisors and others to one of the most - difficult - to - detect schemes in which employees sell goods to confederates for a fraction of their price. Store managers will hate me for mentioning that one because it is so bard to foil. Only vigilance can beat it.

Supplemental Medicare Payments Deductible

*ie Internal Revenue Service has cleared up a debated point: Those $3 - a -month, payments to 1966 for supplemental medical care by persons over 66 are repeat are deductible to reporting income fOT taxes. This was was clear to Announcement 67-12. It also refers to persons ovw as smdoT citizens, a term ntitoy diiUkad.