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Tuesday, August 8, 1967

Avoid Certain Sales Holidays Now

Rejection of a proposal to curtail sales on tobacco auction marKets nas done notning to resolve tile certain prblem oi more tobacco moving from the warehouse floors than the redrying plants of the industry can handle.

Unless the industry-wide flue cured tobacco marketing committee reconsiders the limiting of sales to less than the present five days a week, market holidays are certain to be necessary within the next few weeks. Such holidays will lead to confusion in the industry and unrest in all segments of the industry. Unless the situation is different from the past, the suspension of sales during the regular course of the season will cause ill feelings between the various segments of the industry ... an influence deterimental to the entire industry. The sales holidays will work to the detriment of the farmers and the warehousemen. They will be the least satisfactory method of handling a serious situation so far as the leaf processing plants are concerned.

At the outset of this sales season, it would appear much wiser for the marketing committee to authorize four-day weeks when necessary in order to avoid the disrupting influence of sales holidays. The 1967 crop is expected to be the largest tobacco crop in several years. When several belts are in operation a few weeks from now, sales holidays will have to be either more frequent or longer than in past years when there was less total tobacco to be purchased and processed.

Knowing that it is only a matter of time before

the emergency faces the industry, why not plan now to prevent the emergency rather than waiting until it exists and then trying to hammer out a solution ?

By holding weekly sales of auction markets within the capacity of the processing plants, an orderly sales schedule could be followed on all markets in the various belts. At the same time processing plants could operate at capacity and keep up with the flow of leaf. The demand of tobacco would remain strong on the various markets, and prices would not be depressed as is the case when the backlog of tobacco grows too large. Farmers could prepare their tobacco for marketing on an orderly basis, knowing they would be able to sell their crop without having the markets closed for several days from time to time during the sales season.

It would be in the interest of each segment of the tobacco industry for the marketing committee to carefully reconsider the proposals for preventing this year the necessity for sale holidays that have been necessary in past years.

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES Reflector Raleigh Bureau RALEIGH It was the consensus opinion of any of the states newspaper editors and publishers gathered in Asheville the other day that Robert W. Scott almost certainly will have opposition in bidding for the governorship nommation next May.

Beyond this, however, they agree the picture is quite dim and vague. The question who will it be goes unanswered.

Voices trail off from conversation about a Democratic primary campaign for governor next Spring and there is only quiet ttiou^t. Predictions about just who might come out to oppose Scott are virtually non-existent at this point, and appiwently ttie public simply must wait through more weeks and months until the veil of this particular political mystery is lifted.

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Ttea b ome speculation, course, that Scott as the only clearly identified Democratic hopeful at present may get by without primary opposition.

But most of tiie newspaper fficiab representing large and email papers, dailies and weeklies, doubt this. It is not only unlikely, in their opinion, but ebo would foe quite unus-al.

It b recalled ttiat Scotts fa-the late Gov.-Sen. W. Kerr Scott was involved in such a tituation both in when he won . md again in

1952 when hb choice in the primary lost.

In 1947-48 it appeared that Charles M. Johnson had a clear, wide-open field in seeking the governorship. But in early 1948, Kerr Scott decided this should not be and walked to the State Board of Elections to pay his filing fee.

And when Kerr Scott was leaving -the governors office four years later, it appeared that William B. Umstead of Dm ham might be the only primary candidate to succeed him. Scott tipped newsmen that there would be a contest and, rather belatedly, backed Hubert Olive of Lexington against Umstead.

No Clear Track Whether political situations have changed in 15 to 20 years remains to be seen. But the closest anyone has come to a clear track to the governors mansion in that period was in 1956 when Luther H. Hodges, already in the office for two years following Un-steads death, was a shoo-in for a full term.

The Democratic primary fields for governor were fairly crowded both in 1960 and again in 1964 and second, runoff primaries were needed each time.

Meanwhile, Bob Scott and his friends and supporters are listening. Names are dropped and rumors make the round about next Spring.

At any rate, Scott and virtually every other Democrat in North Carolina know that matter what happens in

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May, perhaps the most formidable ob^acle to retaining a Democratic administration in Raleigh will come in November. The Republican party is growing and has been gaining strength rapidly in all parts of the state. It vows to put up candidates and campaign vigorously from start to finish next year.

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By JAMES Marlow

WASHINGTON (AP)-Tr(m-bles are piling up on President Johnson thecloserbe com^ to the 1968 election, now only 15 months away. He is a political master but he is headed for bis toughest workout.

Some but not all of his troubles: tte wm* in Vietnam, the city riots, his request last week to Ckingress to raba individual and corporate taxes. Befwe election day he will probably have more troubles. Two of the best thii^s that could happeo to him-^ end to the war and an unccmrinc-ing Republican oppcmentare (Mily dreams now: Its too soon to guess who the opponent will be and an end to the war is not in sight.

As for the riots: there may be more this year and worse ones in 1968.

The Washington Post poked around in Cc^ess, found uneasy spirits, particularly among Democrats, some of whom felt Johnson is hurting, and a belief that these are the most troubled times in this country evw.

Senate thinking wouldnt be complete without a word from Johnsons longtime friend and sometime critic, Everett M. Dirksen, the Senates Republican lea^ and definitely not a man of few words.

Said Dirksen: I have always gone on the thecuy that no political party is ever defeated by anotherit defeats

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itself. And that b whitt I think is happeining. Lyndon has exceptional skill but there Is always a first time.

While this was hardly pro-found political philosophy, Dirksen, asaRepublican ooifid hardly have been expected to say less, which makes it easier for Johnson to take, ce he is hypersensitive to pub-What isnt easy to take, sin-lic reactions to 'actlcally everything, is the accumulated mess he is wading through now and the unpredictability of things to come.

Perhaps the oty break he has had so far, getttog ready for 1968, is that the Republicans havent yet come up with a* towering presidential prospect who dominates the public imagination.

So, as of now, Johnsons political fate is in his (ywn hands.

Vietnam, with no solution visible, was bad enough. It split American thinking. Everything about the war is intangible except him. As President he is the symbol of American involvement.

Therefore, he has become the target lor the opponents blame. Then the riots mushroomed. He cant be blamed for ttiem directly but he is the symbol of American law and order and some of the pifi)lic concern will be dumped on him.

Worst of ail, from a political standpoint, is the fact the cost of the war forced him to ask for a tax increase which will affect nearly everybody, if Congress approves, and therefore create new antagonisms toward him.

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To The Editor:

I would like to advise all of my fellow citizens of Pitt Ck)im-ty to keq) faith in the law enforcement officers and not try to take the law in your own hands.

I am a living witness that justice can be obtained. I am a native of Pitt Chunty, an itinerate citizen. On Sunday, August 6, 1967 as I was coming to Greenville a youth dre'w a gun on me as he passed me. 1 notMed the Sheriffs Department of his action. In a short period of time the youth was found and put under arrest. The gun was confiscated. This is certaiidy proof that we may depend on our law of-3 to carry out their duty regardless to race, color or

Strength For Today

creed. We, fellow citizens must ke^ the kith in our law officers. We must not take or try to take the law in our own hands.

I wish to congratulate Mr. Ralph Tyson and his force for the way my case was handled.

Respectfully,

I. C. Payton Enfield, N. C., Route 2

Opinions

By EARL L. DOUGLASS PRESENT-DAY BLESSINGS

Archaeologists are uncovering all over the world the ruins of past civilization. A distinguished historian has assured us that wh^rt a civilization begins to lieglect the higher aspects of Jts lifeespecially the spiritual aspects that civilization is headed for the rocks.

We think of some of t h e great civilizations in the past, yet none, we can say with confidence, approaches our own in comfort or achievement. The modem world has been able to make greater scientific advances and to evolve a more helpful life for mankind than all the ages combined. Yet we must remember the atomic bomb, the ruined cities of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and the threat of the hydrogen bomb. Also, there have been geographic^ changes in the past which have left vast areas ard-and others submerged under depths of water. The Assyrians came and went, likewise the Babylonians, likewise Greece

In Brief

To arrive at your goals, one asset is patience. Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweetJean Jacques Rousseau.

Shoplifting has become such a big business that stores who previously did not prose-secute juveniles now simply cant afford not to prosecute. Crushing (Okla.) Citizen.

A man should never be tshamed to say he has been wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. Alexander Po|)tL

and Rome. We of the Western Hemisphere find ourselves living the most comfortable lives human beings have known probably in the history of the world. But the ancients believed the same of their civilization.

And when we look up into the starry sky at night and realize that in our galaxy alone there are millions stars with planetary systems probably revolving about them then what of aU this? What is going to be the end of it all?

Fortunately most of us hold no position of world - shaking importance. But we can think, and speak, and write and register our opinions. This is all part of the make - np of a civilization. We have something to say as to whether our civilization shall be great or desolate.

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Dtsfribuftd by tha JSos Slnscles mcs SYN DICATE By JAMES KILPATRICK

Jhe Utter Frustration

So long as the present

ground rules obtain in Vietnam, this war will drag along its indecisive way. Military speaking, it ctnild go on forever. For all the encouraging words of General Westmoreland a few weeks ago, the condition is stalemate. Until some major change occurs, either in the ground rules or in the balance of forces, the U.S. will have to regard this miserable war as a per-man^t fact of life, like urban poverty or death on the highways.

These melancholy cmicIus-ions emerge from two weeks spent worth officers and men who are intimately involved, at the highest levels of com

mand, with the war in Vietnam. One is impressed first with their utter professionalism; second, with their utter frustration.

Doid)tles8 there arc some duds within the echelons of the U.S. Pacific command. No military organization is without them. But visiting correspondents have not encountered them here. Without expectation, the officers have impressed us as men of total dedication to the service strong men, keenly intelligent, well-intormed. They answ*ed our questions most of them candidaly and responsively. '

But we kept raising questions that drew evasive ans-

?orty Years Ago

By FOY H. DUNCAN Aug. 8, 1927

Laughinghouse Aggrieved Over Missing Reunion

The youngest captain in the service of the Confederacy and the only surviving captain in active service at the close of the war, Capt. J. J. Laughinghouse of Greenville, was sorely grieved last week he couldnt get to Raleigh for the twentieth reunion ^ the United Confederate Veterans.

Captain Laughinghouse is now 83 years old. He is the father of Lfr. C. 0 H. Laugb-inghouse. State health officer, and was farmally siq)erintend-

ent of State pris(m. When

the 17-year-old boys were ordered to report in March, 64, I lacked six months of being old enou^ to go. I was at Hornes Military School - entered there April 1, 1863, related Captain Laughinghouse at hiis home in Greenville while 500 survivors of the Con-fereracy were enjoying the reunion in Raleigh. . . . On

April 1, 1864, President Davis issued a circular letter to order all military schools in the South saying tiiat all boys well drilled enough for drill-master would be given lieutent-ants commission and assigned to duty, Captain Lau-j^nghouse cnntinued. Cadmus Capart, Samuel Sibly and myself were chosen, given letters of introduction to the Secretary of War, and sent to Richmond. I was just sent to Beasleys Battalion of 700 Junior Reserves. ... I went to hard work drilling the 700 boys and after three months of hard work we were organized into a regiment.... To my great surprise^ my regimental officers recommended me for captain of Co. H., composed of boys from Pitt, Wilson and Johnston Counties. . . . When my commission came four days before I was 17 years old, there was written upon the back of it, This is the youngest Captains commission issued during the war. . .

wers, unhappy answers, no anawers at aU. Sorry, sir, thats a political matter. I wish I could go into that, but its out of my area. Thus, as to targets in North Vietnam: We have great freedom to strike. Pause. Within a carefully selected list.

The <}uestion of surface to surface missiles came up. Why wouldnt it be possible, we inqulral, to provide offshore missile platforms that could lob high explosives far inland, at small cost and no risk? Uncomfortable silence. The question caromed around the green felt table. Well, ah, the use of such missiles is now prdiibited; that is, it is not authorized; we have never, ah, asked for such authori-missiles are not very accurate; they have little penetration power; and, uh, we just do not know much about their capability. Long pause. And could we have the next slide, please.

Inevitably, the ques t i 0 n came up of Hai}Aong. Somewhere between 60 to 90 per cent of the enemys vital supplies, including all petroleum, flow thi^h the pcirt. In any conventional war, Haiphong would be a target of top priority. This would come first. But Haiphong is untouched and apparently untouchable. Yes, it could be destroyed by bombs; yes, it could be rendered unusable by mines; yes, it would be feasiblethough tricky- to block the channel by sinking ships across it. But we are a little behind schedule in our briefings, gentlemen, and perhaps we could move along to other questions.

The enemy is making a tta-vesty of our interdiction efforts in Nortti Vietnam by running supplies and troops tiurough Laos. On a handsome (Continued On Page 5)

By ROWLAND EVJ ROBERT NOVJ

WASHINGTON - The evidence of how the crisis the Middle East is still deepening, just two months after the war, is the introduction of Israeli currency into the economy of the west bank of the Jordmi River.

That fertile land belonged to the Hashemite kingdom of Jordmi when the war started. In the six-day conflict, it fell intact to Israel and Israel has refused to consider returning it to Jordan, along with otha: occxipied land, until the Arab countries end their state of belligerency with Israel and accept Israels in-dq)endice.

Now, however, tiie unannounced decision to make Israeli currency legal tender in the west bank r^on is the strongest indicaticHi yet that Israel will never return thi west bank to Jordan, just as Israel has pubicly said it will never return Jerusalenu

This doesnt mean Israel intends to keep the west bank as part of Israel. That mgM happen of course, but a likelier conclusion is that the west will end up as a semiconnected part of Israel, with a relationship something like the Commonwealth of Rico and the United States. '\ The obvious implication of

tl^ currency move is that Israel wants to integrate the

economy there with its own. Other steps toward that |^sl have asbeady been taken by Jerusalem:

A footnote! The Soviet Union continues to replace Egypts lost military equ^ent. Almost 400 new MIG fighter planes, equal to 100 percent of the losses suffered by Egypt in the war, have now arrived in Egypt, bringing its air force back to full strength.

As for tanks, the Soviet replacements now equal about 50 percent of the Egyptiai tanks lost in the war.

Lindsays Concern

New York City Mayor Johi V. Lindsay, a R^ublican, and some other members of President Johnsons new Commission on Civil Disorders art concemded ov* evidence tiiat the White House intends to dominate ti^ oomiDS8i<t work.

Top staff aides to the commission were handpidced by the White House starting wlli David Ginsburg (the hard* working Washington lawyer who turned do^ra President Johnsons offer to become Um>" der Secretary of State for P<i-litical Affairs in 1966).

Neither Lindsay nor other members blame the WMti House for wanting a voice to staffing the commission, but theyre worried about todica-tions that the staff wifi find itself taking orders from the White House and not from the commissiwj.

Moreovw, Undsay aides say frankly they dont see how a fulltime mayor of the nations largest city can take a full two days a week off the job. Governor Otto Kerner of Illinois, the Democratic chairman of the committee, has the same problem but it is not nearly so acute.

Consequently, Lindsay is now looking for a (ieputy to sit in for him at commlssicm hearings in Washington when he cant attend. The commission plans to meet two full days this week, as it did last, and probably it wifi continu that schedule for sevw a I weeks.

Although Mr. Johnson cal-(Continued On Page 5)

Wrong In FTC Consent Orders'

By ELMER ROESSNER On the most outrageous, fasdrt processes in our weakly democratic govOTiment is the Federal Trade (Commissions use <rf consent orders.

In this process, an accused or suspected deviant from federal trade laws consents to a judgment prohibiting the alleged misconduct. Tl^n if the accused should be proved to have committed the offense in the future, he can be fined or jailed forthwith, not for the original offense but for contempt of court in failing to obey the consent order.

The FTC always unctic^ly announces: Tne agreed to order is for settlement purposes only and does not constitute an admission by the respondent that it has violated the law.

The FTC settles more than

a hundred cases a year with consent orders, always making that same statement. What Does It Mean?

In short, the accused con^ pany says it has not d<me anything wrong but i*omises not to do it agaiq,^

Now I speak good the English and the FTC announcement seems to say that one of thee alternates is true:

1. The accused company is as guilty as hell, but cops a plea in hope that it does not get caught again.

2. The FTC has brought so much pressure on the company that it is afraid to fight the case, and ccmsents to toe order because it doesnt dare hit back.

3. It costs so much to defend a company against FTC charges that some cant afford it an so consent to an injunction.

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They say you cant fight city hall. And it may be even less practical to fight the FTC. For example, if a company is accused of using less wool than advertises in a fabric blend, it may be forced to hire chemists to counteract ,the testimony on the content by goveniment perts, it may have to auditors to prove tiiat it brought as much wool as it says it used, it may have to hire lawyers specializing in bureaucratic practice to defend toe case, and It may have to lay out large sums for other costs, such as trips to Washington, hotels there and on.

I do not know that company cited by the PTC is guiltless. Even when the FTC

dismisses a case there is suspicion that the accused away with something.

do believe toat If a company is starkly innocent of an FTC allegation it mi^t be better to consent to a court order than to spend the money to fight the charges

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However, there are skeptics like me who, when hearing an accused person plead the Fifth Amendment, asusmes that h^ . is guilty, and when hearing that a company accepts a consent order, assumes the company is guilty because it didnt fight the case to the end.mm