.Wfidnesday, May 3^ 1967_

More Than Talk About Proposal

Sen. J. F. Allen of^Biscoe has proposed that North Carolina do more than just talk aboat the matter of year-rau4id operation of public schools, [e has introduced a Senate resolution calling for (pointment of a special study group to look care-into the matter and make recommendations to 1969 General Assembly.

While there is always a danger of developing too many study committees between General Assembly sessions, we feel Sen. Allens proposal has merit and should be followed.

For several years there has been talk about the possibility of operating the states public schools on a year-round basis, perhaps on a quarterly system as Sen. Allen has proposed be studied.

To many citizens, the idea sounds good on the

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES ..

Reflector Raleigh Bureau

RALEIGH After so long and for some perhaps, thirsty a time, the custom of brown bagging and drinking outside the home in North Carolina is about to become legally acceptable.

Not statewide, because a newly enacted law permitting brown bagging does not apply to the states 34 (at last count) bone dry counties.

But for almost anyone wanting to bend an elbow socially outside his home, there should be a nearby oasis fairly soon lomewhere in the state.

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And this time ie custom of bringing your own bottle and pouring your own, a widespread, common practice in much of the state for 35 years apparently will be entirely legal.

Almost everyone thought it was earlier but, according to the State Supreme Court, it wasnt. The legislature had to act and finally, after much wrangling, did.

In A Few Days

Now at precisely 3:28 p.m. on May 5, the new law will allow the State Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) board to receive applications and issue permits for legalized on - premise brown bagging.

As soon as permits are issued and properly displayed in restaurants, clubs and social establishments, tippling of hard liquor in public may begin.

By hurrying, this conceivably could happen in a few places by the weekend, nearly six months to the day after the Supreme Courts ruling tbet brown bagging was illegal.

Bound With Restrictions

While brown bagging becomes legal under the new law, it isnt likely that booze will flow openly nor even very freely.

Actually it will be bound with tighter restrictions and c o n-trols than in the past, because the practice now comes under strict supervision and regula-

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tions of the state ABC board.

.Already the board has adopted and filed three sets of detailed regulations and restrictions for on - premise brown bagging permits. Tliese were adopted April 25 and clock -stamped in the office of the Secretary of State at 3:28 p.m. that same day. The law requires them to be on file 10 days before permits are issued.

ProvisiMis Spelled Out

In accordance with the law, the ABC boards regulations spell out just what controls are required and what supervision will be imposed.

For example, in its regulations governing restaurants and related places the board says:

alcoholic beverages must be inconspicuously displayed when not in private dining facilities.

The permitee and his employes are prohibited from mixing alcoholic beverages for customers; however, this does not prevent selling and distributing of ice and set - ups.

persons in restaurants and related places shall at all tinfs retain the exclusive possession of their alcoholic beverages.

The same set of regulations requires separate and detailed records of beer and wine purchases by customers in places with on - premise brown bagging permits, and that such sales of beer and wine cannot be considered meals for purpose of meeting permit requirements.

Conduct Supervised

Possessing gambling devices or engaging in gambling on premises is forbidden.

Each set of regulations spells out strict rules of conduct for both the permit holder, his

face of it. It could lead to a greater utilization of the school buildings the state now has, and possibly reduce the future construction needs for public schools. It may enable the state to employ teachers on a year-round basis, perhaps helping to relieve the teacher shortage and at the same time increasing the annual salaries for teachers.

There is no doubt that year-round operation of public schools would present many problems and bring to light many difficulties which would have to be carefully evaluated. But North Carolina cannot really weigh the pros and cons of year-round public school operations without first making a careful study of what might be involved.

The proposal by Sen. Allen would be an important start in that direction. Certainly the state has spent money on various studies which were of much less importance and less value to the state and its future than the one Sen. Allen has proposed.

There Is An Impact^ Being Felt In East

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Governor Moore is obviously interested in reassuring himself and others that the battle to deny university status to East Carolina College wdll not have any serious political impact in the Eastern section of the state.

He may wish that were the case, but most observers whq know the East and its people much better than he are inclined to disagree.

Gov. Moores assertions about the ECU issue not having any future effect on the Democratic party in North Carolina sound like the whistling of a. scared little boy walking past a graveyard at night.

Only in this case, the fears are fully justified.

Bleeding

In 1968

Issue

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP)-There isn't any doubt now, despite the Republican support for President Johnson on V i e t-nam, that the war will be a bleeding issue in the 1968 presidential race. Worse than that. It will be a sack of confusion.

The voters will be drenched in an argument over details and, since very few people are equipped with a chronology of events to help them analyze the arguments themselves, they will be looking at the speakers left, right, left, right, like watching a tennis game.

It comes down to this: while the Republicans back Johnson on fighting and trying to win the war,'-they are preparing to try to tear him to pieces for the way the war has b e e n fought. But the Republicafis will probably be arguing among themselves on what to find fault with or whether they should.

Last September, a few weeks before the 1966 congressional elections, the Republican leaders in the House issued a White Papper, an updated s!u-

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employes and customers and,

in the case of private clubs, T'Vio

members. 1 illo LyU.Lt?"*

These include forbidding intoxicated persons from loiter-

ing or drinking; from permitee HLVy I t?Ul O or employes drinking on the

premises; from anyone engaging in indecent conduct, or using loud, profance or indecent language, engaging in affrays or disorderly conduct.

One rule is aimed at making certain there is no bootlegging or sale of alcoholic beverages on the premises by providing for revocation of the permit held by any person, association or corporation who procures or possesses a federal retail liquor dealers stamp.

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Birthday Party Mr. Gordon Lee delightfully entertained a number of hi.s friends at his home on Second Street last Monday evening, honoring his fourteenth birthday. . . .

Cotton Queens

Pactolus Miss Nina Fleming.

Greenville Misses Louise Winslow, Margaret Cook, Catherine Smith, Elizabeth Jones, Margaret Fleming, Bet Dixon, Lillian Hooker, Lorraine Skinner, Mamie Ruth Fleming, Elizabeth Ferguson, Mary Forbes, Martha Moye, Mabel Menetree, Blanche Cherry Starter, Mary Ra-cheal Teel, Francis Taft, May Jamison lerritt. Mesdames Frances Bowen, Bruce Warren, Graham Flanagan, Tom Gorman, Lee Hannah, Water Harrington, Blanche D. Gaskins, James Ficklen, Mark Stuart James, Jack Overman, Knott Proctor.

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dy of a similar White Paper of the year before, criticizing Johnson on Vietnam.

Now the Senate Republican Policy Committee has released a lengthy staff study pretty much paralleling the one put out by the House GOP leaders.

Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon, no longer a member of House or Senate but a very active prosp^t for the Republican nomination next year, recently gave a taste of things to come.

In March, while in Paris on a fact-finding world tour, he said the bulk of the American home front stands behind the Democratic administrations policies and actions in Vietnam.

In April in Saigon he said he did not think the war would be an issue in 1968 but that U. S. tactics in prosecuting the war

such as the bombing of North Vietnam and manpower

would be.

This gives Nixon and it appears to be Republican policy as it shapes up freedom to talk in two directions at once. He said he thought the Democrats would be more divided over the war than the Republicans.

Whether another likely Republican presidential prospect, Michigans Gov. George Rom-ney, will follow the Nixon technique isnt clear jet although, in his recent but carefully prepared statement supporting the war effort, Romney gave himself plenty of room if the thinks he needs it to criticize.

Monday in the South Romney spoke out against actions that might weaken the effort to end the war or help the Communists.

I dont think, he said, we should pursue a way that will weaken the President as long as he is President. And 1 dont think we should pur s u e a course that would help the enemy.

But he regretted American involvement in Vietnam, saying, If we had followed the invisible hand of God in Vietnam we would not now be involved. He didn't explain that.

He left the door open for himself for almost any kind of criticism later by saying I do not just agree with everything that is being done.

WASHLNGTON - There has been growing fear in Washington in the past few weeks that the Johnson administration is escalating its efforts to cut off all criticism of the way the President and his people are handling the Vietnam war.

This fear, of course, is groundless because President Johnson has said many times that this is a free country and he not only welcomes dissent, but seeks it out.

He also has said, though, that the dissenters are prolonging the war and the more his critics scream for peace the more encouraged Hanoi is to continue the fighting.

Therefore, the burden of ending the war is not on the administration any more, but on the critics. And in a free society it is a tough burden to carry.

I found my friend Polanski, who has been a cirtic of the war for some time, muttering to himself the other day.

Lets see, he said. If Im against the war and I say Im against the war, that means the war will continue. But if I say Im for the war,

even if Im against it, that means it will end.

Thats right, Polanski, I said. If you would just shut up, Hanoi would come to the conference table in 24 hours. But I dont like the way the war is going, he protested. No one likes the way the war is going, Polanski, but the more you say you don't like the way the war is going, the worse the war gets. At least thats what President Johnson aeys.

But if I dont say I don't like the way the war is going, how will President Johnson know I dont like it? President Johnson knows already that you dont like the way the war is going.

Who told him?

Probably the FBI. But the important thing is he doesnt care if he knows it. What worries him is that Ho Chi Minh knows it.

How would-Ho Chi Minh know it? Polanski wanted to know.

Because President Johnson keeps talking about his U. S. critics helping Ho Chi Minh all the time.

But if I shut up, then Presi

dent Johnson will think I'm for everything hes doing over there.

I dont think that would, bother President Johnson too much.

But it would bother me. After all, if we dont have any

ART

BUCHWALD

Public

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To The Editor;

Citizens of Eastern North Carolina, let us continue to vote the straight Democratic ticket!

If we stay faithful to the Democratic Party for 25 or 30 more years I feel sure we will get our just reward. Who knows? Dan Moore, Bob Scott, Walter Jones, or some other Great Democratic leader might even help make East Carolina College a University. I feel sure the News & Observer will help in anyway they can, if we voters will only stay faithful to the Party.

Dr. 1^0 Jenkins will, no doubt, have left us for one

reason or another, but we all can remember what the Democrats did for him in 1967. Tell your friends what the Democrats have done for Eastern North Carolina, but try not to let it get out that we are darned near the bottom in everything.

The Great Democratic leaders know what is best for us backward people in the East. Keep us backward and we will continue to vote that straight Democratic ticket, as did our fathers and our grandfathers.

I am well fed up! How about you?

Bill Carroll Greenville, N. C.

dissent in this country, then were no better than the Communists.

.Now that's ridiculous, Polanski, There will always be healthy dissent in this country. Why you could get up tomorrow and attack Lady Birds beautification program and you wouldnt hear a peep from the White House. You could also attack Sens. Ful-bright, Kennedy, McGov e r n and Church and even though theyre members of the Presidents own political party he would welcome your criticism. Thats the kind of man the President is.

Isnt there any way of telling President Johnson I dont approve of his policies without Hanoi finding out about it? Polanski said.

Its not easy, Polanski, particularly when youre wearing that sweat shirt which says MAKE IDVE NOT WAR.

0 k'h y, youve persuaded me. Ill make a new sweat shirt.

Polanski took out a brush and paint. .As I looked over his shoulder, he painted on his shirt BOMB HA.NOI BACK TO THE STONE AGE.

T h a ts wonderful, Polanski, I said. You may even win the Nobel Peace Prize for that one.

J: rench ^egacy

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

PARIS President Charles de Gaulles nationalistic foreign policy, far from merely reflecting the eccentricities of an old man as some U. S. officials claim, is instead likely the most permanent legac^of his long rule.

Just how long'the political system he has imposed here survives de Gaulle is n matter of considerable doubt and a subject fdr another column. But the basic tenets of his foreign policy will outlast him in France and, indeed, in ail of Eurqje.

The nature of those tenets

nationalism, caution in moving toward European uni-ty, and a strong dose of anti-Americanism contributes to the general mood of melancholia in Western Europe today. Even if it does not (as many fear) revive the dreaded specter of German nationalism, Gaullism is a step backward in international politics.

Nor is there any prospect of dilution in the strong anti-American content of Gaullist nationalism, as witness one decent incident.

When some 25 Communist toughs assaulted two U. S. Marines during Vice President Humphreys visit here while French policemen watched impassively, the U.S. issued a formal protest. At this writing, the French have made no official reply. Rather, one official French spokesman suggested to us privately in contradiction of all facts that the two Marine.s may have started the fight.

That is a surface indication of the strong anti - American offensive waged on many fronts by de Gaulle. France puts'pressure^jja the dollar by buying^^gokTrre^h and U. S. negotiators clash Vver tariffs and monetary refoWi, France maintains a -residual membership in NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) only in an effort to hamstring it.

The standard U. S. response has been that all this shall pass when de Gaulle is gone. French politicians, Gaullist and anti - Gaullist alike, disagree fundamentally.

In the first place, many of the Gaullist eggs simply cannot be unscrambled. No matter what kind of governmeat succeeds de Gaulle, .NATu headquarters never will return here. Nor is any successor government likely to participate as a full partner in N.ATO. Furthermore de Gaulles nationalistic nuclear force

the force de frappe can be neither integrated into the alliance nor dismantled.

More basically, however, de Gaulle as he always lias claimed does speak for France. A nation more accustomed during the last century to defeat than victory, F'rance has pplauded the Generals proud assertion of national independence. His anti-Americanism finds a responsive note among both the French masses and intelligentsia (particularly with nearly imanimous French opposition to Vietnam).

This was precisely the analysis of opinion surveys taK-en by opposition candidates before the recent National Assembly election. With Gaullist foreign policy quite popular. the Leftist coalition said nothing about it (though probably its Socialist and Communist partners couldnt have agreed anyway). Central candidates concealed their uni-(Continued On Page 5)

Keep Eye On Modest Little Bill

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School boards have a tough job these daysmonitoring the length of girls dresses and boys hair, fighting President Johnson for the

By ELMER ROESSNER There is a modest little bill in Congress which probably will not be passed but which, if it is, will remake the face of America.

It is the tax - incentive development bill introduced by Congressman Joe L. Evins,' D., Tenn., and sponsored by several otlier Representatives.

The bill proposes tax advantages to businesses that located in smaller communities. These are:

An added 7 per cent tax credit, in addition to tlfe suspended investment tax credit, for machinery and equipment investment in small cities.

Accelerated amortization of

riod, to industries locating new or branch plants in small towns and rural areas.

To The HiHs, Executives The impacts of such a law would be tremendous.

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Many corporations are at ready moving out of big cities to escape rising taxes, hold*. ups, muggings, Mafia, air and water pollution, graft and other inconveniences.

Many states, counties and communities are offering tax advantages to businesses that

.ettle in industrial parks. The most common is the construction of plants by the civic body by the sale of tax-exempt bonds, and the leasing of those facilities at rents that pay off the bonds. This sort of arrangement, in effect, gives the new business the advantage of tax - free rates on money needed for capital investment.

There is another great advantage in moving to smalltown and rural communities: There are often abundant supplies Of labor which is not or-ganizeo and, because they do not have to pay big - city tax-es and-Jiyjjjg costs, are happy to work moderate wages.

Mounting Advantages

These advantages, plus the tax credits proposed by Joe Evins, would make moving to

small - town or rural areas almost compulsory to a great number of businesses.

The 7 per cent tax credit is no .small item. When Congress suspended the tax credit for machinery and equipment investment, the big corporations quite naturally po.st-poned investments. This had the effects of a tax strike, and the administration and Congress were quick to call for an end to the supension.

With two 7 per cent tax benefits available, scarcely a company in American could afford not to study the possibilities of moving to a rustic settlement.

If the Evins bill $hould be passed, the end of the cities would be hastened and smokestacks and plants would rise on what is now quiet countrysides.