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Tuesday, May 16, 1967

New Look For Gubernatorial Race ?

There is much tu suppurt the contention that a candidate could receive next year North Carolina may see something eii- the east to hope lor a good showing.

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lirely new in its gubernatorial campaign.

It is quite possible, that, following a bitter Democratic primary four years ago, this state will find itself looking not at the primary but at the November election as the big show.

It mav well be that Lt. Gov. Robert Scott will have no major challengers for the Democratic nomination. Scott, son of the late governor Kerr Scott whose name, brings fond recollections to Eastern North Carolinians, has carefully avoided alliances with various partv factions. Thus while he is not considered in the Sanford camp, he miglif be acceptable enough! so that wing of the party would not

run its own candidate.*;.

Tt is obvious with feeling running high in the east about the ECU issue, that Scott would not welcome an endor.*;ement by Gov. IMoore.^ Perhaps Moore might endorse some other candidate but, carrying the Moore label, it is highly unlikely such

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By STACTE SIMS Reflector Raleigh Bureau RALEIGH Mild opposition to a bill to increase fringe benefits for state employes and teachers was given at a recent public hearing on the proposed legislation.

Opposition to the bill in general has let up, but two sections of the bill have come under heavy criticism.

State Budget Officer G. Andrew Jones, blasted a particular section of the bill which allows credit for war time military service to a person who enters military service from state or public service if he returns within two years or returns and stay^s^n State service for not less man 10 years.

An amendment to the section provides that a student who enters military service during a national emergency

ers meeting the costs of matching funds.

Other opponents of the bill were members of the North Carolina Association of Life Insurance Companies, who objected to the bills proposal to give a state employes family at least one Years pay in case of death, (but said the death benefit could be provided more efficiently and economically through the group insurance plan.

Insurance companies called the move to give more benefits to the employe and attempt to go into the insurance business.

The Republican lady from PMrsvth County has introduced a'^bill to give the Governor of the State veto power on the bills passed in the General Assembly.

This bill would be advan-

iSo it could be that the big battle will be in the fall with the November election. In a situation like this who would the Republicans run James Gardner of Rocky Mount? Perhaps. Gardner, who un-.seated Harold Cooley just last year is about to find himself in an entirely new district. Thus he will have to face Rep. L.ll. Fountain, who is firmly entrenched, or perhaps move his residence to Raleigh and take on the young and popular Rep. Nick Galifianaki.s. .

Gardner, of cour.^c, gives no indication that he does not intend to seek to remain in Congress as one of the states three Republican congressmen. He will not until the Congressional District changes | are actually made and he and his advisors have carefully studied the situation.

There i.s the strong possibility that Gardner will eventually decide to run for governor next year. He has a good state-wide reputation among his party faithful and would probably make a good showing with the growing number of Republican voter.*; in Piedmont.

Here in the Ea.st he would have a ready made issue in tho East Carolina College separate university fight; that along with the argument that he, too, is an ca.sterncr.

One can be sure all of these points are being mulled over even today as both Republicans and Democrats plot for the fast approaching election year. When the situation jells things could work out entirely different. Like it or not, however, the ECU i.ssue is very^much on the minds of those who seek to gain tlie governors mansion next year.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) -The war is wrapped in gloom like

a shawl at night. .No end in

view. No break visible, either. The chance of a bigger war always in the b a c k-

ground. An the American

days in Asia looking endless.

this picture, unhappy b u t realistic, is patched together

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within 150 days after leaving Ugeous to which ever party is geography and

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m e n t System within three years after first becoming eligible for discharge from military service and devotes not less than 10 years of service to the state, will be entitled to credit for the military service.

This section Is discriminatory. an unwarranted granting of privilege and would unfairly cost the other members, Jones said.

Why give any class of veterans these benefits without giving them to all others? he asked.

Another section of the bill which was criticized by Jones was one which provides more time for payment of contributions to this retirement system by a member who transfers from service covered by the Local Government Employees Retirement System to a State positon covered by this system.

Jones maintains that this lection would require t h e gystem to pay out members

elected, he would be completely governed by the democratic legislature for two years before a Republican majority could be gotten in either the House or Senate.

Mrs. Neilson explained that under the present system, the Governor has no responsibility for the laws enacted in the General Assembly. He should have this responsibility-

North Carolina is the only State in the Nation where the Governor does not have this power, consequently, this States legislative body is one of the most powerful in the country, Mrs. Nielson pointed out.

If this bill is passed, 1 think it will not only give the Governor more responsibility, but it will make clearer delineation between the three branches of the Gov e r n-ment, she said.

In this State Mrs. Nielson said that the Executive, Leg-

and know what theyre talking of.

And the words provide no light at the tunnels end, al-through if they did it would be balm for President Johnson.

And end to the war before the 1968 elections, a break, a time - table he would lay out for American withdrawal from Asia would do no end of good for his chances of re-election.

But he himself has been grim, mostly, speaking of the necessity for doing whats being done without buttering it over with forecasts of happy tomorrows.

First, there was U Thant, secretary - general of the United Nations, a distressed Burmese made fidgety by the war from the beginning. He has rooted around endles.s-ly f 0 r solutions, always wound up baffled.

In brief, what he said was that, at the present rate of

things, war between the United States and Red China looks sure.

This is how he put it; In niy view, if the present trend By JAMES KILPATRICK continues so I am afraid direct confrontation first of all between Washington and Peking is inevitable. I hope 1 am wrong. 1 am afraid we are witnessing the initial phase of World War III.

Then, without saying how, he indicated he knew what he was talking about.

If this was an attempt to scare the United States into hacking down a bit with North Vietnam, Washington didnt buy it, at least not officially or publicly. Officials here said they saw no increased likelihood of such a war.

But then w'ord came from (Continued On Page 5)

Even Smut Is Wearying

This Date-' 40 Years

For the past ten years,

since the famous Roth case of 1957, the U. S. Supreme Court has been wobbling back and forth on smut. Most of the time, the court has appeared to support the proposition that just about anything goes; even Fanny Hill was not obscene. Other times, the court has tended

to protect community sensi

bilities; Ralph Ginzburg was a dirty panderer, and had to go to jail.

This past week the cou-'t looked wearily at this whole field of the law, and then turned its glance away. In a brief per curiam opinion.

probably composed by Justice Brennan, the court brushed aside three cases with an air of go away, boys, you bother me. The effect, this time, was to suggest that prosecutors forget about obscenity charges unless they have a truly flagrant case, possibly involving juveniles, to bring into court.

The three cases Came up from .Arkansas, Kentucky and New York. Each of them originally was thought to em-embody some significant point of obscenity law. That was why the court agreed to hear them in the first place. In the Arkansas case, t h e

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Obviously State employes cannot be benefited by this, he said. The need to bring these non - members into the system is apparent and worthy, but it should be met by a special act with the taxpay-

might be, expecially between the legislative and executive.

Explaining the procedure of the veto, Mrs. Nielson said the procedure would be similar to the one followed in the federal government.

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By EARL. L. DOUGLASS KEEP RINGING THE BELL

After the war between the states, the College of William and Mary was unable to reopen because of a lack ol funds. There were neither teachers nor students on the campus, cl every day the plucky prc.*-;ident of that college rang the bell, just as it had been rung for generations to announce the change of dusses and to call the students to convocation. .And he kept on doing this until sufficient funds were collected to start the college on, a normal basis.

Here is a grad lesson for all oT us. Keep the bell ringing when good causes seem hopeless. The prophet Elijah asked God to take away bis life because he believed the cause of true religion was lost in Israel and he was alone in his support of it. But God rcbul;-ed Elijah, told him there was a host of others who still believed, and sent the prophet back to his job. In other words. He told Elijah to keep ringing the belt for what a[>-peared a lost cause.

Ring the bell for the cau^e of world peace. Its far from a lost cause in spite of what some may think. Ring t h e bell for the need of spiritual revival in our own land. Ring the bell for Christian home lifethat rebukes juvenile delinquency and increasing divorce rate.

Keep on ringing the bell

By FOY H. DUNCAN May 16, 1927 Young Women Of Slantonburg In Services Here

kederation prayer services were conducted in Woodmen Hall last Saturday evening at 7:45. Th' services were attended by members of this community and several visitors from Stantonburg and Conetoe. . . .The Young Womens Federation of Stantonburg conducted the meeting. Miss Ruth Skinner acted as le^er. She brought a helpful message on Use of Our Talents. The Federation was recently organized and t h e teachers have considerable experience in the field of religious service. .Meetings are held every Saturday'evening at 7:45 and the publics extended a cordial invitation too attend

Local Men Honored At Convention

T'he State Convention T. P. AN (Travelers Protective .Association I of .America adjourned Saturday, May 14th, at Wilmington, where the meeting had been in session for three days. , . .The North Carolina Division won the great honor of leading the entire United States in increased membership during the past year. This is a record of which the Old North State should be proud for the fact that there are thirty - five state divisions and North Carolina is one of the youngest divisions. . . .The Traverlers Protective .Association is 36 years old, having a total of 3.50 posts and a nnbined membership of aboui 140,000 1osf EE, which was organized here in .November 1926. has to its credit a national record. This post was organized with a char ter mcnibersbip of 60, which is the lafffest charter membership of any past organizaHon of date.....As recognition

(Christian Science Monitor)

The people running the National' Aeronautics and Space Agency must feel that Congressman William F. Ryan is harrying them like a terrier. They have only themselves to blame.

What it boils down to is that NASA Administrator James Webb has not been able to dispel the widespread suspicion that somewhere somebody is covering up-covering up at least sloppiness and carelessness, if not influence peddling, in the building of that Apollo capsule which caught on fire and killed three astronauts last January, Congressman Ryan has led the pack in trying to ferret out all that went on before, during, and after NASA had awarded the contract to North American Aviation. And it was Congressman Ryan who in the end got hold of and published the Phillips Report on North Americans performance up to the end of 1965.

General Phillips, who draft

ed the report, wrote of North American at the time: T

could not find a substantive basis for confidence in future performance. Mr. Webb cannot dispel the consequent public doubts simply by telling a congressional subcommittee; I am satisfied that since April, 1966, a great deal of progress has been made by North American.

Indeed, changes in personnel at the management level in North American at the beginning of this month and the recent bringing of Boeing in to check out Apollo construction deepen rather than remove the suspicion that there were culpable lapses prior to the January tragedy. Further, there was an apparent and disturbing incon-sistencv in the testimony given byMr. '' bb during the Apollo in O'I W'hettn r.-uressman 1>' a is pokNeiang or not, surely all this amounts to prima facie justification for his remand for an investigation fuller than anything with which the public has been fobbed off hitherto.

(juestion was whether t h e .State could proceed 'in rem against a flock of girlie magazines, and have the magazines destroyed as obscene. The cases from Kentucky and New York were accepted because they involved the criminal liability of booksellers and newsstand clerks for the sale of off - color books.

But on Monday the high court was in one of its Olympian humors. The points _ of law that had been fully briefed and argued now seemed immaterial. It was enough that the particular magazines and books in question were not obscene as a matter of law. So ho-hum, and the convictions were reversed. Harlan and Clark dissented, but their hearts werent in it.

This was a disservice on the court's part. The questions, of large importance to local prosecutors and to those engaged in the retail sale of books and magazines. The concept of an in rem approach. in which the offending book itself is ti ied, rather than its author, publisher, or distributor, at one t im e commanded a considerable support within the bar. The Arkansas law of 1961 reflected this legal opinion. It would be useful to learn from the Supreme Court, as the ultimate authority, whether this approach has validity; it is the courts duty to instruct us. But on Monday the court was out to lunch or gone fishing. It would not say.

Similarly, the operators of drug stores, newsstands, and bookshops would like to know where they stand. Seven years ago, in Smith v. California, the court laid down the legal rule that in obscenity prosecutions, an element of scienter had to be proved. That is, no one could be convicted of selling an obscene book unless it were (Continued On Page 5)

By ROWLAND EVANS nd ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON Indisputable signs now point to an early end of the long, acrimonious personality feud between Senator Bircli Bayh of of Indiana and a top Administration foreign aid official whose scalp Bayh wants but probably wont gel.

Bayh has erected a strong, anti-Administration front, button-holing senators and using stalling devices to prevent the nomination of Rutherford Poats from coming to a vole in the Senate.

Poats, now in charge of the Vietnam aid program, w a i nominated last fall to the No.

2 foreign aid spot. Since August, foreign aid boss Wi'liain S. Gaud has been operating without a deputy, even though Poatss nomination by the President has twice been ai> proved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee wUhout a single recorded dissent.

After the second committee vote of confidence in Poats, Bavh went to Senator J. W . Fuibright of Arkansas, committee chairman, with an ingenious scene. Fuibright, he said, simply should not let the Poats nomination come to a vote until an investigation of the foreign aid program in Vietnam has been completed by the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee.

What Bayh didnt say was that that inquiry, under t h e chairmanship of Arkansas Senator John McClellan, may last most of this year. 'Ihui Fuibright. who at first privately a*;kcd Senator Mike Mansfield of Montana, the majority leader, to hold off Senate action until McClellan ended his probe, is now ready for an early decision.

That means the collap.se of Bayhs rear and the loss of his sharpest weapon Ful-brights support for delay.

The dangers of running lor-eign aid without any one in the vital No. 2 spot does not seem to worry Bayh. Even if Mansfield makes good on his commitment to hr ing the nomination to the floor at the first chance, Bayh will continue the fight. He c a n move to recommit the nomination to Poreign Relations, on grounds that the McClellan investigation may turn up new material on Poats.

If Mansfield holds h i s ground, that motion ought to be smothered. To refuse to confirm a Presidential appointee on vague suspicion that some new derogatory material unkiiovxn to the committee may Ix; turned up by some other committee is to make a mockery of 1 h t Senates confirming power.

The best that could happen would be for Bayh to make a speech attacking Poats for his alleged deficiencies, then bring the nomination to a quick voice vote. Considering the fact Poats, though twice blest by the F'orcign Relations Committee, has been kept hanging on the hook of Bayhs personal hostility f o r more than half a year, this would be the best solution.

A footnote; Bayh went to to see Pres i d c n t Johnson on Wednesday evening (May 10) for an unannounced chat, giving Mr. Johnson a chance to apply a . little heat f o r Poatss ^nfirmation.

Lankier to Agnew Alexander (Sandy) Lankier, a Rockefeller agent in 1964, has been called in by (Continued On Page 5)

Auto Salesmen Are Being Pushed

for the exceptional record of when "your wn"'Spintuai - life- " Post EE, President *E. H. Wil--seems hopeless. God, who son was selected as the fifth

supports causes apparently lost, is still in his heaven, and hi.s mercy is great toward those who trust Him.

Sta-^e vice - president anCl J, B. Kitrell wns elected a a delegate to the national convention. . . ,

By ELMER ROESSNER

Remember the good o I d days when auto salesmen used to woo you? They used to call you up evenings and ask if they could take you for a spin yes, a spin in a new Hupmobile, or theyd drop around Sunday afternoon to show you and your family a Peerless.

Those days passed with the easy sales, when prospects asked to have their names put on the waiting list, and they didnt come back in those seven, eight and nine million car years.

But they may yet return. The first sign to this effect appears in the latest issue of NADA- Magazine, - published by the National Automobile Dealers Association.

In an article entitled Improving Used Car Prospecting Techniques, it suggests

the revolutionary procedure of going out and selling used cars. Its only another step to going out and selling new ones.

The Old Hat Trick

Among the suggestions are:

Call past customers periodically for names of relatives and friends who might be interested in another car.

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Review old prosuccts and customer files.

Centaet wilh scivlee sta

tions, garage owners, parts wholesalers, fleet operators, auto specialty salesmen, bankers and officials of in s u r-ance and fiance companies who can give valuable tips on prospects.

Participante in community and civic affairs.

Check service employees for prospects.

Watch newspapers and other local publications for new areas of business adtivity. Cultivate The Jockies

Check parking lots. Attendants may provide names of owners whose cars are in poor condition.

Canvas military instela-tions. Many servicemen re-jrning from overseas are interested in a new car. Military credit unions can sometimes provide names.

And there are lots more suggestiou*.

So if your piione rings, answer it. You may hear again the voice of the auto salesman.

Paper Apparel Here To S^ay Big Textile Company Bets Hartford Textile Corp. is making a large bet that pa[)-er apparel will grow mor popular than ever. It has turned over a major portion of its plant capacity to the production of embossed and treated paper for use in garments and home furnishings.

Although paper is now y^cd mostly in womens and chil-drenswear, Robert P. Mag-id, Hartford president, sees growing demands for it in mens wear, outerwear and home furnishings. Pepsico has just ordered one million surf .shirts from James Sterling Paper Fashions, to be offered Lur bottle caps and $1.