Tuesday, March 21, 1967

Tar Heels Should Keep In Step

North Carolinas legislators should settle this week once and for all the matter of the states joining the rest of the nation in observance of daylight saving time.

Assertions of drive-in theatre owners notwithstanding, there is no good reason why North Carolina should not conform to the nation-wide *practice of observing daylight saving time from April to October, The legislature should resolve the matter this week by rejecting the proposal which exclude the state from the federal law providing for uniform daylight saving time observance.

In recent years this state has become more and more out of step with the rest of the nation because it has chosen to remain on standard time the year round. Even with the states which did not choose to join the majority in observance of daylight time, there has been no uniformity. With^ the passage of federal legislation calling for uniform observance of daylight time, there will be few if any states that remain on standard time during the coming summer months.

If North Carolina were to choose to do so, It would be an island of slow time in a sea of fast time. Besides that, however, most Ntnth Carolinians, we think, look forward to the extra hour of daylight from April until October. In this state which has a large recreation industry, the daylight time will be of economic importance. In a state which is becoming increasingly industrialized, it will afford many people an extra hour of daylight

On Threshold Of A Solution

By WILLIAM A SHIRES RALEIGH The problem of legalizing Inrown bagging which has plagued North Carolina for nearly a year finally appears on the threshhold of a solution.

If things go well, legislation lib^aUzing the states liquor laws may whip through this week. Legislative leaders and rank-an<Lfile members of the General Assembly are hopeful they can dispose of the issue witiUn a few days now that a hrown bagging bill has come out of committee.

It crald, of course, hit snags. Hard questioning and hectic debate is certain, and there may be last-ditch efforts for a showdown on local option li-quor-by-the-drink.

Over the weekend, however, legislative sentiment appeared strongly in favor of trying to settle the controversy for the present and f(Hr this session at least with a broad *brown bagging NIL Debate Begins Wednesday Debate begins Wednesday on this bill, product of a subcommittee of the Senate Proposi-tinns and Grievances (P&G) committee headed by Sen. C. V. Henkel of IredeU.

In effect, it would make le-the practice which almost everyone thought had been legal in North Carolina anyway for the past 35 years.

Question about the legality of teown bagging arose in court case in Charlotte a year ago, and last November

the State Supreme Court held it was in violation of the law.

This dropped the matter in the lap of the 1967 General Assembly. It was apparent immediately that reusing and updating liquor laws would be one of the toughest and most controversial tasks of the session.

Bflls Provlsioiit The Senate P&G committees brown bagging bill would allow any person of legal age to possess and transport up to a gallon of hard spirits anywhere in the state, in either wet or dry counties, and to consume it in certain restaurants, clubs and other places.

Under the Supreme Court ruling of last Fall, present law forbids consumption of liquor anywhere except in private homes.

The proposed legislation now ready for debate would legalize possession and consumption in lockers, bottle clubs, cocktail parties in public places. It would forbid drinking at athletic contest, on ABC store premises or on the public highways.

Also, it would restrict and prohibit brown bagging in certain other places including establishments in which the owner displays a notice that he prohibits it.

Amendments Planned Certain amendments are being prepared. Various lawmakers plan to suggest changes either on the floors or in a House committee.

One or more of these almost certainly will attempt to introduce a local option liquor-by-the drink feature for certain localities in lieu of brown bagging.

Other legislators are committed to oppose and vote against either brown bagging or liquor by the drink. Some may ask for a state wide referendum.

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away from the jobs. And so far as farmers of the state are concerned, daylight time will pose no hardships.

The state needs to move into the mainstream of the nations time pace by joining in daylight time beginning the last Sunday in April. The legislature should remove any question of North Carolinas courae this week by rejecting the proposal it cling to standard time throughout the year.

Judge J. Spencer Bell Played Important Role

When North Carolina completes the giant task of modernizing and streamlining its court system, there will be many men who will have played an important role in this important undertaking.

None of them, however, will have rendered a greater service than the late federal judge J. Spencer Bell who headed the study commission a decade ago which spearheaded the present reform movement.

It was under the leadership of Judge Bell, then a senator from Mecklenburg County, that the committee carefully reviewed and evaluated North Carolinas court system. Out of the study and recommendations of the committee which Bell headed there came the movement to replace the conglomeration of lower courts of the state with a uniform system. Although North Carolina is just beginning to see the effect of this reform effort on its courts, it is an outgrowth of the work of the late Judge Bell and other members of his original committee as well as those who have followed In similar capacities in more recent yearse.

Even though he officially became "judge Bell only in recent years with his appointment to the federal circuit court of appeals, J. Spencer Bell will take his place among those men who have made important and far-reaching contributions to the courts of this state. Though he never eat on the bench as a judge in a North Carolina court, his efforts at court reform will Influence the system of state courts in North Carolina for decades to come.

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iranoi Dashes By JAMES KILPATRICK

Talk Of Peace Plotting Russian Chaos

By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP)-Peace hopes for Vietnam look as bleak as a flag at half-mast.

Just as President Johnson was flying to Guam for a war conference with his t<^ advisors, the North Vietnamese once more doused peace talk in a cold bath.

In doing so, they gave support to Johnsons critics at home although without the slightest hint they themselves will make one move toward discussion.

Not that Johnson Is on a peace mission to Guam. The belief seems general the conference will produce an in-t^isified war.

This Date-40 Years Ago Today

By FOY H. DUNCAN March 21, 1927 President Coolidge expects another good-size cut in taxes. Good management by Secre-tay Mellon and good times finds Uncle Sam with an enormous surplus, and five hundred million, at least, will be cut from taxes this coming year. That will be an agreeable present for the 1928 convention year.

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Our Gang Gab Holds Very Enjoyable Meeting Misses Margaret Hardee and Dorothy Tillett delightfully entertained Our Gang Gub Friday evening at the home of Miss Tillet on Evans Street. . . . In keeping with St Patrick's Day, a number of Irish contests and games were enjoyed. In a contest, Pat and His Pig, Miss Laurene Skinner was awarded an attractive purse. In a hunt fwr a four leaf Shamrock, Miss Mattie Moye Gaylord was awarded a similar prize. Much merriment was caused by kissing the Blarney Stone. Attractive novety pencils were given as

favors. . .

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Birfii Announcements Mr. and Mrs. David J. Whi-chard, Jr. announce the birth of a son, David J. Whichard HI, Sunday, Mardi 20, 1927.

Bom to Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Moss, a son, Jones Pryor Moss, Jr. on Sunday, March 20, 1927.

Mrs. J. P. Mills I Prize Winner Saturday afternoon J. P. Mills of Chicod, Route One, was showing a jar of pickled beets which were put up by Mrs. Mills. They won First prize last fall at the Pitt County Fair here in this city and at the Coastal Plains Fair held in Tarboro.

But at home he has been drenched in suggestions for getting talks started. He has spoken endlessly about this countrys willingness to talk, on one condition.

This Is it: This country will ease up on tiie war if the North Vietnamese will oidy give a sign they are willing to do likewise. They ridiculed this proposal Sunday in a broadcast.

Their foreign ministry rejected any peace talks, milita de-escalation, or ceasefire unless the United States abandons what Hanoi calls its policy of aggression. What does that mean? The broadcast didnt say.

But it did say: To demand de - escalation and cease-fire at a time when half a million American troops are occupying South "Nfletnam is to demand that the Vietnamese people surrender to aggress.on. (Continued On Page 5)

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS STRANGE TURNS AND POWERS

Is there such a thing as good luck? Ortainly there appears to be. Some days everything goes well, and at other times everything goes badly. Some people appear to get all the breaks whereas others go througih Hie getting a raw deal at every turn.

Good luck or bad? So many factors are at work on our lives every day that we would find it almost impossible to analyze what we are and why we act at we do. We may talk all we want to about being captains of our souls, masters of our destiny. As a matter of fact, we are nothing of the sort Birth and natural endowment have a lot to do with whether we are successful or unsuccessful. We can change the course of our lives a great deal, but after all, there is a channel prescribed for us through which we have to travel vdiether we like it or not We may refer to good luck or bad luck as the factors which make us prosperous or poor, happy or unhappy. As a matter of. fact, patterns of birth, circumstances, physical and mental endowments, diligence, laziness, ambition or indifferice these are the principal factors which have much to say as to how our lives will turn out Better not put much reliance on luck. Because we do not understand the strange turns that the events of our lives often take is no reason for disregarding the fact that the turns are strange indeed.

We can become very unhappy trying to figure out why our lives are as they actually art.

On Wednesday, March 1, a special House sub-committee released its rQ)ort on the Italian Fiat plant now under construction in Russia. In Friday, March 10, Senator Mundt of >uth Dakota called public attentiop to a long of

Items decontrolled for export to the Soviet Union and other Ck)mmunist countries. If this column seems a bit belated in its analysis of these matters, it is only because It takes us slow thinkers a little time to see the beauty of the Prcsi-

Other Editors Saying Must Set An Example

(The Sanford Herald)

It simply makes sense from the standpoint of successful coordination that integrated schools must have integrated teacher associations.

Thus, merger of the North Carolina Education Association and the North Carolina Teacher Association is sound.

Directors of both associa-tional boards have approved plans to effect this, but membership of the all-Negro NCTTA meeting in annual session this week In Durham sent back to an in-organization liaison committee an objection. It reportedly centered on unequal representation for the Negro teachers on the proposed single organizations executive level.

The NCEA, whose membership is made up predominantly of white teadiers, will meet in Asheville on April 6-8.

Of course no advantage should be given either race in the makeup of the planned North Carolina Education Association Inc. In fact, color cannot be acknowledged or the whole effort is doomed to failure.

Under the single-association plan, the president would come from tiie NCEA during the first year of operation. The

vice-president would come from the NCTA. At the next election, the organization membership would select the top officers.

The plan proposes that for a period of five years, member-sMp on the board of directors would be based on the ratio of membership of the two present organizations. This ratio is presently about three to one. With a proposed new board of 20 members, this would mean that the NCEA would elect 15 directors and the NCTA five. At the end of five years, members of the board and members of committees and commissions would be elected and appointed without regard to race.

Local units of the two associations would be encouraged to merge during the year after the merger of the state organizations. An executive secretary is provided for in the new organization, with one or more associate executive secretaries on the provision one of the latter is from the NCTA.

Certainly, those who are regarded the most professional of the iM^fessionals, teachers, must work out a pattern of racial cooperation which will prove exemplary.

dents course of action.

Plainly, a plot unfolds. It is a plot of sudi splendid deviousness and such apparent innocence that (mly Mr. Johnson could have contrived it To be sure, both the siflKommittee and the Senator confessed to having talked witii the tral Intelligence Agaicy in reference to the administrations pdicy vis-a-vis the Soviet Un-i(m, but DO one should imagine that the QA devised either Operation Fiat or Operation Grape-Nuts. The credit for this conspiracy is Mr. Johnsons own.

First, as to Operation Fiat. On the surface, it has been made to appear that nothing more is afoot than a guarantee by the U. S. Export-In^)ort Bank of a $50 million credit for the Soviet Union. By this process, American taxpayers ostensibly will help the Soriets to build and fmance a plant capable of producing 600,000 Fiats a year. Those who fail to think this venture through may imagine that the idea is to demonstrate Americas good intentions to engage, as the President has said, in bridge-building.

Nothing could be farther from the truth. The object is not to succor the Soviets. The object is to launch them into debt and chaos.

As every visitor to Russia surely knows, the conditions that govern automobile ownership and (^>eration in the Soviet Union are. In a word, primitive. Thisis not to say that there are few automobiles there. The broad streets of Moscow are full of them big ugly Zims, medium ugly Mos-kevitcfaes, little ugly Tatras.

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By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK WASHINGTON In the late 1950s, the then CIA Director, Allen W. Dulles, journeyed to Capitol ffiU to tiy and persuade four Congressmen that certain Central Intelligence Agency funds should be lifU ed out of the secret category and put into the State Departments regular but^et.

Dulles ran into a stonewall In the form of Rep. John Rooney, tile tight-fisted Brooklyn Democrat and powerful diair-man of the State Department Appropriations Subcommittee. Flanking Rooney were fUdi other Ckingresslonal money powers as Rep. Frank Bow oi ^ Ohio, the senior Republican on the House Appropriations Committee.

Rooney Bow, and company flatly refused to gwitdi tlrn secret funds into thu open, for one main reaaaa: prmid -of their success in cbij^ing away nual request for fimds to run nual request for dunds to run the State Department, they would not be put in a podttoa where budget would suddenly be swollen by mlllioiiS' of dollars of new funds.

In other words, the transfer would make economy - minded Congressmen look bad. Despite an hour and a half of hard sen, Dulles returned to bis desk at tiie CIA cmpty-haiided.

There was, moreover, another obstacle bloddng Dullei* The Appropriations subcommittee that handled tbe top-secret, multi-biIli(nHk>IUff CIA account was also loath to xn^ the transfer. Ibe subcommittee wanted all CIA-connected money kept hi one acoount, not scattered tfarougbont several subcommittees.

In this particular case, the matter at issue was not dan-destine funding d such organ-izati<xi8 as ti National Students Association. It was the financing of what was tiMR known as tbe national Intelligence surveys, a fairly routine operation costing several millions of dollars e year.. , _ These surveys were up-to-date reports on every country in the world, kept current for quick inspection tai Ibe event of a sudden, unexpected political crisis.

Thus at least in &at one case, tk)ngress has itself to blame for continuing the top-secret handling of foreign expenditures that the Agency wanted to bring into the open.

Even if the government had tried to switch the financing of the student association from dummy foundations and CIA fronts into public appropriations. such as the State Department budget, the result on Capitol Hill could have been chaotic. CoDsaratives would have contested every nickel of the funds on grounds that they were going to left-wing outfits like the Students Association.

Footnote* The investigation ordered by President Johnson hito tiie extent of CIAs sub rosa financial support for allegedly private organizations is going much slower than planned.

Headed by th# hidiistrious Under Secretary of State, Nicholas Katzenbach, the probe was originally due oo the Presidents desk by mid-March. Esffly April is the new target date. Ezploring the endless catacombs GAs (Continued On Psge I)

l,abor Costs To Aid Automation

By ELMER ROESSNER

Automation will get its greatest stimulation this year.

It has been tremendously stimulated in the past by higher wages, higher Social Security taxes, hii^er pension and welfare demmids, the growing shortage of skilled labor, the competition ot cheap forei^ labor and competition within Industries.

All those factoFi will exert greater pressure this year.

Pressures for higher wages are increasing. Scales today have nev^ been as high; a year from now they will be higher.

Social Security taxes, which hit an employer of 100 men and 100 times as hard as they hi: each employee, will go up next year.

Pension and welfare demands rise with each union negotiation. Rising costs of living make demands for higher pensions and welfare payments reasonable.

Skills Are Scarcer v

The paradox that has persisted for mcu-e than a decade still persists: Despite increases in the number of unemployed, there are serious shortages of skilled workers. The U. S. is importing tailors from Italy, scientists from England, technicians from Germany, she^herders from Spain and ph3^iclsts from everywhere, and still jobs are b^ging.

As the industrial economy is stimulated by rising demands for Vietnam war material and by the 7 per cent tax incentive for industrial expansion, the shortage of skilled workers will increase, though the number of unemployables increases. The shortages will make labor more expensive.

The competition from cheap foreign lal^r is intensifying.' Steel, electronic parts, cottim goods, novelties and a hundred other items made b; labor that gets as little as 10 cents an hour keep pouring into this country, where the minimum wage, even f<Hr

warm bodies, went to $1.40 an hour on Feb. 1 and is scheduled to rise to $1.60 an hour next year.

ELMER

ROESSNER

The Fire Of Competition

And despite what tbe bureaucrats In Washington say about riiminishing competiticm, wfaat is left of it is still tilt greatest single stimulator for autcanation this year.

When one cQtnpany automates a signiflcaiti part of its production, it buys an advantage over its competitmn. When it can install a machine that will turn out widgets a half cent cheaper a widget than its competitor, it can crush competition more effectively than

mergers or cartds.

Only this wedc the Department of Agriculture rqrarted that butchers with sales <A more than $10,000 a week could save money with automatic meat-packaging, wdgb-ing and pridng machines. *nius small butdiers will be hamburgo^; automatinn will be increiBsed.

A Modern Jnggemaut

And vdiat the govermiMiit is advandng (with yoa tmqiay-ers money) is bdng done to countless otiier fields. Automation is xnardiiiig on.

Ihere is a signlflcaiit warning in this trm: Bustoesses that cannot afford to aiito> mate, and even maiQr d tfaoaa that can, are already being forced to re-exaxnina tiwir labor requirements. Jobs will have to be eliminated or consolidated, maddnes substituted for men wherevw possible*

As has been saM h^ this column so often hetera: Every increase in labor coste makw automation that mudi che^