Thuriday, March 30, 1967

Important Step To Courts Reform

KEEPING A LOT OF PEOPLE WAITIN6I

North Carolinas new Intermediate Court of Appeals which was created by the legislature last week marks an important new step in the states judicial system.

The new appeals court will take a portion of the heavy work load from the states Supreme Court and at the same time open the way for all persons to appeal cases from the Superior Court level. By creating this new level in the states judicial system, the legislature has made that system more efficient and has at the same time provided for review of a greater number of cases by a court above the Superior Court level than otherwise would have been possible.

It is also evident that the new appeals court is designed to meet both the present and future

School Dropout Answer Ready

By WILLIAM A S Reflector RaMgh Barean RALBIGH ~ A freshman state senator is sponsoring legislation which he feds may put North Carolina in the fore-nont in eomhatting the scliod dropout problem.

Essentially, a MR m>ared by Sen. Mvshall A Rauch of Gaston, would require any teen - ager under 18 to stay in school in order to obtain

and ke^ a drivers Ikense.

If he or die quits school be-fore graduation or readdng age 18, whichever comes first, tiieir tepaporary drivers license now issued to youngsters between 16 and 18 who have completed driver training would be revoked.

WILLIAM

SHIRES

This is important to a youngster, says Rauch who direct a boys club for 15 to 18 year olds for 17 years.

*Qne of the most important things, perhaps the most important thing to tile boys was their wheels, he says.

Many Qidt School By his own knowledge, Rauch says, msny itiio quit school at 16 do it to get a job in order to get a car.

Under his bill, the requirement of staying in school would make it useless to quit because they wont be able to get a license. State law already requires completion driver training courses in high school in order for a 16 year old or 17 year old to get a license, so the element of control already exists, Rauch says.

Discourage Dropouts Rauch feels fals Nil would have a direct and perhaps dramatic effect on the increasing problem of hi^ school #opouts in the state.

He cites statistics showing that 58 per cent of Nortii Cs^ olinas school dropouts occur after the pupil reaches age 16, the age limit under the states compulsory school attendance act. This is also the age when t youngster becomes eligible for a temporary divers li

cense.

This biU is designed to keep youngsters in school by making it a prerequisite of having a temporary drivers license that he be in high sNiool, trade schoN or atate-approved vocational or private school until graduation or reaching age 18, he says.

May Awnune Leadership

It is my understanding tiiat no other state has auch a law, Rauch says.

If we can show that It works in North Carolina, it is certain to be adopted elsewhere as an effective measure. North Carolina may well be able to assume leadership in the nation in combatting dropouts if it is successful.

Prior to introducing the bill, Rauch says be studied the matter at length and <hscussed it with school principals, superintendents, state education officials and many concerned wHh the school dropout problem.

It is the general feeling that it has a great deal of merit, he says.

Extenuating Circumstances

Rauchs bin makes provision for local authorities to waive the stay-in-school requirement in extenuating circumstances.

It allows local school boards to decide in cases In which individual pupils can progress no further in school or in which there are compelling outside circumstances, such as family hardship and the like.

Austin Protests

Sen. Jesse H. Austin Jr. of Johnston is upset because when his co^tuents ask him what the le^lature is doing about congressional redistrict-ing be doesnt know.

Austin suspects pn^ of the reason may be because hes a freshman in the General Assembly. But he doesnt like it. Hes told the chairman of the Senate committee on Congres-, sional Redistricting, Ed Kemp of Guilford, 80 in a letter.

I very weU understand that a freshman should not question the actkms of a senior senator, but I do question the amount of time the congressional redlstileUng committee has let pass wltiiout a meeting, Austin wrote.

Kemps committee, of which Austin is a member, has held (Hily one formal meeting, a brief, perfunctory session, al-thou^ It has four rectistrict-ing bins.

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needs of North Carolina. It will be composed of three panels of three judges each, with tihe t^ee panels serving various areas of the state. In effect, there will be three courts of appeal operating within the state at the same level, thus providing review for far more cases than the Supreme Court could possibly consider.

In addition to the importance of this new appeals court in itself, it implements another important step in North Carolinas careful court reform pro* gram. Still in the process Is implementation of the reform measures for the lower <muit levels. TTie machinery alxeady has been set up for forming this uniform system of courts and it is only a marter of time before they will be established throughout the state.

By establishing the appeals court between the Superior Court and Supreme Court, the 1967 legislature has followed the precedent set by previous General Assembly sessions in continuing a logical court reform program.

The overwhelming support this measure received in both the House and the Senate is a tribute to those who have worked in recent years to implement court reform through study and planning. The support is also evidence of the general recognition of the fact that court reform k one of the states great needs.

The Truce Can 3e Complicatec.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP)-There was a streak ol unrealism in the proposal fay U Thant, secretary general of the United Nati(Hi8, for restoring peace to Vietnam. Ihe United States apparently told him so, but in a gentle way. ^

In short, a truce can be more complicated than he seems to imagine.

Originally Thant, a nld Burmese Buddhist, i^oposed three steps to end the war: a halt ot U. S. bomWng of North Vietnam; scaled down fighting by all sides; negotiations among the parties Involved, including the Viet Cong.

JAMB

MAKLOW

The United States position was this: It would not halt the bombing unless North Vietnam gave some kidication it was willing to tone down Its side of the war. The United States had had some bombing pauses with no response from Hanoi.

At the same time this country had expressed willingness to discuss or negotitate without prior condition.

But Nortii Vietnam took, and

stm does, the position tiiat the way to restore peace is for the United States to stop its aggression. So Thants original prc^iosil came to nothing.

Ihoi Tuesday he' unveiled his new proposal akhou^ it had somriiow been leaked and was known befos he addressed his Tuesday news conference. He made his new suggestion in one-tw(Hthree order.

There were the three proposals: a general stand - still truce, preliminary talks, and an li^mational conference to return Vl^am to peace.

The Jolmson administratlan promptly announced it had been informed by Thant previously about his three new proposals and had answered him, saying the United States welcomed his suggestions and was consulting its allies.

But buried in the middle of tiie American answer was this paragrai*: The United States believes it would be desirable and contributory to serious negotiati(is if an effective cessation of hostilities, as the first element in the tiu-ee-point proposal, could be promptly negotiated.

This seemed to tell him, without being harsh about It, that a truce Is fine but In order to get a truce the two sides have to discuss it first.

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This Date-' 40 Years

By NADEANE WALKER

A Moustache For Rent?

LONDON (AP)-False mou-stadies for men may soon be as commtm as false eyelashes for women if the sell-out success of a Chelsea shop it any indication.

YouU have to get up early in the morning if you want to buy one, though. Every day Simon Shop gets a fre^ supply theyre sold otrt in about two hours.

Admittedly, the shop can only get alrut 20 at a time, !(* the wig men who make moustaches of real hair (no joke) shop stuff, werait geared for the unexpected demand. They only turned out a few for film stars and actors, and never dreamed that a wider market existed.

Then Simon Boyle, 26, got the bright idea of putting a few on sale along with his mod gear for men.

The Idea was a sleeper, according to Simon. It first occurred to me two years ago, after I made a false moustache for George Harrison. His beatle friend has since

grown hia own Up adornment, but at that time he just wanted to disguise himself so be could have quiet holiday in FYance without the screaming fans and thickets of autograph books.

Simon made the moustache, George wore it, and nobody knew one of the Beaties was in Paris.

Simon didnt do anything about it until two weeks ago, when be brought a few to bis shop as a giminidc. They sold, a Sunday paper mentioned it, and the rush was on. Along with eager customers, stacks of mail orders poured in.

ItS fantastic; says Simon, stiU looking a bit dazed. 1 reckon it may not last more than a few months though.

He could be wrong, according to the barbers. The Ng attraction, aside from the faddy one, is that the sfidi-on moustaches dont need the daily trim and grooming the real thing requires. A lot of men who had a secret yen to adorn their upper Up found it

Other Editors Saying The Real Liquor Issue

Strength Ago Today For Today

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By EARL L. DOUGLASS THE DIVINE ENTERPRISE

Are there other worlds and other beinga inhabiting the heavenly bodies?

Harlow Sbapley, former head of tiie department of astronomy of Harvard University, declares that in his opinion number of heavenly bodies in our galaxy is ten raUd to the the twentieth power, wUch meras one hundred tiiousand mUlkm billion. If tiiere are that many heavenly bodies, is anyone so naive as to believe that this insignificant little planet of ours is the only one tiiat has live, intelligrot beings upon it?

Our planet is so small and insignificant in the vast heavens that we era believe tiiere are other spheres vastly more significant than ours, older, and more mature In their ci-vilizatiras. Some of us believe that flying saucws (which undoubtedly exist because thousands of people have seen them) have something to do witti our position and communication In this cluster of heavenly bodies.

As we look up into the heavens each night we are filled with a tense of awe, and when we think of the insigilicance of our planet and our own

Sirsonal insigiiiflcrace in its we may be filled with something akin to dtipair. But snap out of such a BK>od. (jod woitid not have created us had. He hid some loving purpose in view. We have to start where He placed us with and opportunity at our disposal. Every individual life is a divine ent^prise.

Existence, intelligence, purpose these things are undoubtedly to be found throughout the whole of the living universe.

By FOY H DUNCAN March 30, 1927 Young Woman Is Injur^ In Wreck Miss Virginia Boyd received a broken collar bone when the automobile in which she was riding with James Little crashed into the automoMle of Coroner E. S. Williams last night, while the latter was conducting an investigation into the wreck on Highway 91, three miles from GreenvlUe. . . . The wreck occurred at a filling station on a sharp cttrvt in the road. Mr. uniUams was endeavoring to re - enact a scene of the former wreck In which Rome Carr, GreenvUle Negro, sustained injuries firom which he died a short time later. The coroners car was parked in the position of that occupied by the dead man. Church Perkins, had driven around the bend at the coroners request to show the impossibility of seeing anyone on the road at that particular spot. Before he could return, tiie car driven by Mr. Little came along and crashed into the test car.

(Sanford Herald)

We can understand, we suppose, the drive by opponents of liquor to attempt to dry up its legal sources. We cannot understand, however, the attempt by many of them to sweep under the rug, so to speak, the efforts by the current General Assembly to come to grips realisticaUy with the liquor issue generally not only whether to liberalize its lawful use more but to determine how to control what already by law Is accessible.

The state Su{*eme Court last year ruled that so - called brown bagging the practice of concealing vdiisky while carrying it for use in certain restaurants and nightclubs was illegal and spelled out tiiat one can display rad use whisky legally only within the confines of ones home. All knew, however, that nobody was going to enforce seriously the nobrown bagging ruling pending the convening of the 1967 legislature. The people do expect the lawmakers to put In writ-

ting specifics about how Ihey can in their own discretion use whisky without the aura of criminality.

They do not in any respect, we submit, plan to use It less. They simply dont like the tacit agreement, heretofore generally observed, that heads wiU be turned when tiiey carry out the tradition of taking whisky to public restaurants or private clubs.

They cry of the prohibitionists in op^tion to any liberalization of present laws regarding tiie use of alcohoUc beverages in North Carolina serves only to smokescreen the Issue, we contend.

The real question is whether there wiU be Uquor by tbe drink served in select es- tablisfaments with tbe laws af^oval and supervision or brown bagging.

The people, we submit, art not going to be moralized to about what they consider an issue to be decided individually. They fully expect the legislature to keep whisky In the realm of legality.

too much botiier.

The mod moustadit of the moment is the Viva Zapata, a droopy Mexican villain style that a lot of young fashionables affect But there are 34 other styles available, including everything from the Htt-ler toothbrush to the Clark Gable hairline, the Dalvadore Dali twister and the RAF bristler.

They cost from $4.20, for timid minl-models, to $7 for flourishing Viva Zapatas and corns oc a transparent nylon net baddng that is glued to the lip witii spirit gum. They are far more convincing then false ^elasbes, too.

Some fellows buy them just to wear for parties, Simon says, just for a lau^, like.

But me pretty young lady assistant in his shop says that her best customers art not the long-balrfd youtiis.

Toud be surprised, but mostly its conventional midaged men who come in to atic f(nr false moustaches. We cut a lock of their hair to get an exact color match.

There seems little hope that moustaches are about to oust the long-hair fad. However, long bair, beard and moustache are considered too much. When fatiilonable hair-drenMT Midiael decided to wear a Viva Zapata, ha sacrificed his beard.

Some ci the Simon Shop cus-tomtt-s shaved off the real thing when tiicy discovered the false ones. Less trouble, and less expsnsivs In the end.

Opinions In Brief

Though through the ages man has progressed to the point where be walks upright, his eyes stiU swing from limb to limb. Plymouth (Wis.) Review.

Mouth: The grocers friend, the orators pride, the fools trap, and the dentists salvation.-.WrightsviUs (N. J.) Leader.

History, like a badly constructed concert haU, has occasional dead spots where music cant be heard.Archibald MacLeish.

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By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK :

WASHNGTON - It is now close to a certainty that Presided Jdinson will reappoint William McChesney Martin as chairman of tiie Federal Reserve Board, a decision many feet be could well rue in the not - so - distant future.

Mr. Johnson, his usual secretive self, has informed neither his own aides nor Martin of his intentions. He could still spring one d those sunnflses he dearly cherishes by naming somebocfy else. Those caveats aside, however, everybody here and in Wall Street expects that Martin whose IH*esent term as chairman expires FWday (March 81) will be named to continue 1970 as the nations ehiel csntral banks%

What makes this of special interest Is Martins" rigid fiscal othodoxy. Thou^^nomi-nally a Democrat first named chxfrmxn hy President Tm-man in 1951, Bfartin was mere at horns witii ths bosiiiess -Jdbnaim, ^ reappointm a a t coold ha compared to President Johnson appointing Ezra Taft Benson as Secretary of Agriculture.

Mor eover, Mr. John s o ns closest economic advisers privately hold Martin responsible for the roller coaster ride that Administration economic policy has taken the last two years. Under Martins leadership, the Fed In December, 1965, defied the President by Fed). Even before that, Martin tightened up the money supply as an anti - Inflation device.

Although Martins tight money policy was less than effective in holding down prices. It did trigger a recession in housing which promptly spread to other parts of the economy. Yet, to talk Martin and Fed Into easing up on money this year, the President had to iM-opose his 6 percent surtax on income, the m e r proposing of which tended to dampen the economy.

Martin has been more cooperative with the President the last month or so, possibly because his reappoinhnent is in the balance. Contrary to published reports, Martin Is eager to continue on the Board until mandatory retirement three years bence. One high Administration official cracks, only partly in jest: *1 wish we could keep the reappointment hanging for three years to keep b3u behaving.

But why is It necessary to reappoint him at all? The conventional explanation, widely held hi Washington rad shared even by Secretray of the Treasury Henry H. Fowler, has to do with Martins position as a household god In banking circles, both foreign and domestic. The Wall Street cliche is that Martins reappointment is worth one billion dollars of gold In the U. S. balance of payments.

For this reason. Treasury officials advocate the reappointment of a man who opposes tiieir progressive polir cies. But inside Adnunls-tration are other, if perfiaps less influential, voices, that say now is tiie perfect time for Lyndoo Jofansra to be rid of Martin once and lor all.

To be sure, the sf^iointment of a new chairman would almost surely trigger his resignation from the Board itself* 'Ibat, In turn, would cause pal-pitattons among bankers from Slngapora to Zurich.

^ the economy is still relatively strong rad probably could withstand tiie shock. Furthermore, the Impact of Mar-(Continued On Page 5)

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Stokes Fanner Has Fine Tobacco Plants

The finest tobacco plants seen this season were brou^dtt in the Reflector office yesterday aftemooh by D. N. Nobles, Jr. of the Stokes community.

Round Table Ctab Meets

Miss Jesse Moye was hostess on Tuesday afternoon to the members of the Round Table Club. ... )

Sege Tea Keeps Your Bair Dark

Gray hair, however handsome, denotes advancing age. We all know the advantage of a youthful appearance. Your hair is your charm. When it lades, turns gray, and looks streaked, just a tew ai^lica-lions of Sage Tea and ^phur enhances its appearaoot a hundred fold. ...

By ELMER ROESSNER Personal income tax reports and payments are due 2 weeks from today.

But if you have a good reason for not grtting yours in <m time and a case of jitters is not h^pd reason you can get an extension. Get a copy Form 2688 from your bank or income tax office and flU It out, detailing reasons for tiie dalay. Or simply write a letter to the district director asking for an extension, telling why and stating whether your last three returns were filed on time. You must also say wheth*" ''m were required to file a deda ration of estimated tax to. xS-66 and, if so, whether instalments were [rld on time. quests for delay must be sent in before April 17.

If the reason is sound, such as illness, absense abroad, in-

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accessibility of records because of fire or law suit, extensions are usually granted for 60 days, but may be up to six months or longer if the taxpayer is abroad.

Bat Theres A Penalty

ELMER

ROBSSNER

However, even if the taxpayer gets a delay, it costs him. Interest of 6 per cent a year is added to the tax after April 17.

Suppose the district director refuses tiie extensicm? Then the taxpayer has 10 days

atfer the date of nftisaL The refusal should be attached to the return when It is filed.

And sui^iose you have tiie form ready, but cant scrape the ca^ together? File on time anyway. You will still have to pay tiie 6 per cent-a-year pemdty uhtil tbe money is paid. But if you file late without an authorised ex-tention, you may also be penalized 5 per cent a month thats 60 per cent a year rad usury.

Anotiier Tax Tip

People buying articles <hi time can dedua tntast even if tha interest is not spelled out to the instalment contract, Prentlce-Han points out. Under Sec. 163 (b) of the tax law. Instalment buyers may deduct a sum equal to 6 per cent of the average unpidd balance under the contiract

during the taxable year.

Some tostalment rad auto loan contracts do not mention Interest, but list only carrying charges or service charges. No matter what they are called, the law recognizes up to 6 per cent a year of the unpaid balance as interest

However, instalment buyers will be wise to insist that actual amounts of totorest be separated from other charges, and be stated to tiie contract Often charges todude interest at ratos of 18 per cant or higher. When it is qci-fied to the contract, the toll interest may be deducted; when it Is lumped as (toarg-es, only 6 per cent my be deducted.

These days a buyer has to keep one eye on the vendor, one ye on Uncle Sam. feet