Thursday, September 7, 1967

A Chance To Plan For Future City -THIS WAS FOR THE VIET ELECTION CAMPAIGN!

With approval of planning funds for Central JBusine8 DisLiict redevelopment Greenville now has the oppurtunity to develop a downtown business area wnich could become a model for the nation.

The planning phase will continue for approximately one year in the 2 acre area. Then following public hearings and any desirable revisions, the city will be able to begin the long needed downtown improvements.

Federal funds amounting to nearly $5 million aie already set aside to carry out the project. This will pay thrcc-fourths the cost with the city paying one-fourth.

At this point every imaginable idea for improving the downtown area should be considered, not only for todays conditions, but for those 50 years in the future. In short Greenvilles business district should be planned with a major city in mind and with ffdmiuate arei^lli^ilaWe for future .commercial ex-pansion.

Vast areas for off-street parking should be de-sigiK'd and they should be controlled by the city so that they will always be available for parking. It

GOP Debating

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES Reflector Raleigh Bureau

' ^ liALEIGH A struggle is going on within the states Republican Party over whether to stage a full - scale GOP pa; ly -primary in 1968.

Arguments pro and con are heard on the question of whetii-er to choose the GOPs nominee for governor in a statewide primary or abide by the partys traditional method of nominating in convention.

No decision has been reached and probably wont be until freshman Rep. James Gardner decides definitely whether he wants to try for the governorship or attempt to hold b s seat in Congress. At any -ate. the idea of a Republican party primary to select a condiclate for governor is being talked about as seriously and more so than at any time in many years.

Gardners most ardent supporters are urging that he cail for a primary and, if necessary. face John L. Stickley of Charlotte who, in the past two months, has become the front-runner nmong GOP gubernatorial possibles.

Stickley Is Opposed

Stckley, in an interview with tl:e Charlotte News, says he pre.'ers the convention method, at least at this time.

It is time for the Republicans to di.splay real unity in the fare of Democratic division. Stickley says. Beside;', primaries cost money and we would do better to spend the money on (he iTr^in event.

, In the same interview, Stickley describes Gardner as an intelligent and competent public servant with boundless energy. I would hope that he continues in Congress and avoids a primary. He adds he has campaigned for Rep. Gardner in the past and holds him in high esteem.

Talk About Primaries

Republican primaries in North Carolina are not entirely unprecedented, although they have been relatively infrequent and confined to a few Congressional districts or obscure races.

Gardners supporters particularly are arguing that per

haps the time has come for change.

In the past, the state party hierarchy that now looking favorably on the Stickey - for-governor boom has openly discouraged the idea of a statewide GOP primary. The reason, primarily, is that Republican registration which is required to participate ^ii a GOP primary is so thift that the primary vote totals in themselves would place the Republican nominees at a disadvantage psychologically in the general election campaign.

Gardners supporters and pro - primary spokesman contend that d flSBB statewide GOP primary would help ignite the Republican spark in the state, give Republican con-didates brighter exposure and favorable publicity and also increase Republican voter registration.

Figures Corrected

The correct ratio of Demo-

WILLIAM

SHIRES

is clear that if more off-street parking is needed today, the need will be much greater in the future.

Area.s large enough for major department Stores .should be assembled. At the same time sites for smaller shops which can take advantage of the walking traffic should be made available.

There is much to be done in downtown Greenville if it is to become the attractive area that a rapidly growing university city needs.

Every idea for improvement should be advanced and con.sidered. Then the best of these should be incorporated into a plan which looks far into the future and embraces Greenvilles vast growth potential.

It is not often that a city of Greenvilles size has the chance to completely redesign its business area. Greenville has the opportunity now. If the improvements are not adequately planned, there will most likely never be another chance.

State Zoo Would Be Big Asset To Locality

If North Carolina establishes a state zoo, it will be a bright feather in the cap of the city and county chosen as the location of the new facility.

Already the states Zoological Garden Study Commission appointed by Gov. Moore is in the pro-ce.ss of studying the feasibility of establishing a state zoo. Its report is scheduled for next year.

Ultimately the legislature will decide whether a zoo will be e.stablished by the state, and presumably the legislature will decide where the zoo should be located.

Several cities and counties already have indicated interest in being chosen as the site for the zoo. It is a foregone coclusion that a number of others will have their hats in the cage before a final decision is made on the proposal. If the legislature does decide to e.stablish a zoo, chances are it will ultimately be a multi-million dollar facility. Done properly, the state zoo will attract many thousands of visitors a year, probably from^all parts of North Carolina and perhaps surrounding states as well. It will be a distinct asset to the community in which the facility is located.

If the legislature reserves for itself the role of selecting the location of the zoo, the result itself will probably be the greatest exhibition of political log-rolling and animal trading that the state has ever seen in a legislative session.

Bluntina Trenc.

By JAMES KILPATRICK

Rally To Men In Blue

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crats to Republicans on voter registration books in Nort.h Carolina is approximately five to one, according to latest figures compiled by the State Board of Elections.

The boards figures are 1, 526,075 Democrats and 356,869 Republicans, and these are important in considering that party affiliation determines whether a registered voter may participate in a primary.

Actually, the Republican candidate for governor in 19-64, Robert L. Gavin, received 606,165 votes in the general election against a total of 790,-343 for Dan K. Moore, the Democrat.

This means simply that in the general election, a lot of registered Democrats pulled the Republican lever.

By JOHN BECKLER

WASHINGTON (AP)-House Republicans have blunted, if not reversed, the Johnson Administration trend toward granting federal aid directly to local communities.

By insisting that states be made the major channel for such aid, Republicans are giving impetus to a movement already under way that could revitalize slate governments

So far this session t h e House, with Republicans sup-

This Date--40 Years

plying the most votes, have overridden the administration and voted to put a new crime control program and an existing school aid program under state administration.

Although the Senate has not acted on the legislation, the House votes were so decisive it is unlikely they will be reversed.

Now Republicans are determined to enlarge the states role in the antipoverty program and it is hard to see how they can be defeated in the House.

.Administration forces warn that states are without the (Continued on Page Five)

This column comes from Miami. Under a larger dateline, it comes from the heart. The theme can be stated simply; The moment is at hand for the American people to rally to the support of their police as they have rallied in times past to the support of their schools.

For the past several days, some 2,000 members of the Fraternal Order of Police have been meeting in annual convention here. As delegates from lodges in 38 States, they represent 69,000 working cops. These are the career men men with badges, men with guns, men who walk beats or have walked them in the past.

They need help, these men in blue, and not merely financial help. The average police salary in the United States in 1966 was precisely $107.11 per week, and this for a work week that often ran to 50 hours or more. It is a pathetic figure, especially when it is related to risks that saw 57 officers slain and 24,000 as

saulted last year. But money is not the big trouble.

The overriding need, underlying every conversation here, -is for a public attitude of positive support. It is incredible when you think about it, that such a need should have to be expressed. These men are not philosophers; they do not profess to understand what has happened to American attitudes over the past 10 or 15 years. But they are baffled by experiences that have become commonplace; they are indignant at overblown charges of police brutality; and they wonder what has become of the days when an officer commanded respect as a symbol of law and order.

Yes, they acknowledge, the police have brought some of their troubles on themselves. They have made errors of judgment. If the rapist Mallory had not been interrogated for so many hours; if the slayer Escobedo had been permitted to' see his lawyer;

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By FOY H. DUNCAN Sept. 7, 1927 Greenville Tobacco Market Made An Average of $19.47 On Opening Sales Yesterday Market paid out tatal of $215,443.79 for 1,106,264 pounds of tobacco.

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Agriculture To Feature Plans are rapidly ta k i n g shape for the annual Pitt County fair which opens in this city, October 15, according to a statement made this morning by secretary Haywood Dail. . . This opening will witness one of the greatest agricultural exhibits so far, Mr. Dail said. People from virtually all sections of the country have signified their intentions of sending exhibits....

Miss Louise Atkinson left Tuesday to attend a three day teacher conference in Halifax.

Miss Mary Cousins spent the weekend in Virginia Beach.

Mattie Markins is visiting in Henderson.

Bert Moye and Fred Forbes Jr. spent the weekend at Virginia Beach.

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By EARL L. DOUGLASS REFLECTION CALLED FOR

A great preacher remarked recently that when he came down from the pulpit and someone shook hands with liiiii and congratulated him on preaching such a spiritual sermon he was made very sad. 1 know, said the preacher, rthdt "1 havent' come within a mile of his poc-ketbook.

How ardently the people of

wFenthey prophesied pleasing things. How bitterly they opposed and denounced them when they really touched upon individual and national sins. And all this is proof of the fact that basically t i m es never change. The people who praise what we believe are, in our sight, great leaders and penetrating thinkers. The people who denounce the policies we hold and the things we do are trouble - makers and radicals who would undermine the whole of society if they had a chance.

To say this is not to pass unjust judgement upon ourselves and our oentemporaries. We all love the truth when it is pleasant and make a wry face when we have to listen to what dnes not particularly please us. The preacher preaches too much about moneyalthough most of our Lords paVables were on t h e subject of money. Why doesnt the minister preach the gospel and let social questions settle themselves? Most of my neighbors are crazy on some point. How can people keep on making such f 0 o lish mistakes? And so we go along with the prophets on one side and we, the object of their denunciation, on the oth-

(Charleston News & Courier) While the rise in the crim.e rate usually is attributed to sociological causes everything from loss of religion to failure to spank youngsters one British scientist believes that it may be the result of widespread use of insecticides. Prof. E. N. Willmer, a spec- ^ ialist in plant and animal lis-' sues at Cambridge University in England, recently conupentj ed in The London Observer: Who. knows that the crime wave and moral deterioration which is said to be affecting Britain and the world at the present time is not, in fact, the direct result of the widespread use of insecticides,

ly active agents, used in connection with food production and store, such as selective weed-killers and food preservatives?

The professor pointed out

that insect poisons act in the same way as alcohol and narcotics in releasing inhibitions and impairing judgment. Some of the insecticides such as DDT, he reported, even in minute quantities have enormous influence on the mental and psychological make-up.

Some years ago, the American biologist Rachel Carson charged that the whole environment was being polluted by insecticides. She warned that animal life would be destroyed in the process. Now Prof. Willmer has suggested a further danger to mankind. Sheep, cattle and hogs absorb poisons in the grass, and man eats these animals.

correct m his analysis, we cannot say. But he creates a grim spectre of man systematically poisoning himself and thereby creating disturbance in the human mind.

if the robber Miranda had been advised of admitted constitutional rightsif the police work in these cases had been better, the landmark in Mallory, Escobedo and Miranda might not have been so sweeping. It is acknowledged, too, that almost every large department has a handful bad copsbullies, petty tyrants, men who abuse their authority and dishonor the badge.

Yet over the country, the number of bad cops is a tiny fraction of the whole. A task force of the Presidents Crime Commission recently demol-Isheri the notion that police Iwutality is widespread. In a study of 850 eight-hour patrols, ^ involving 5,339 encounters with citizens, only 20 instances were found of unnecessary force by police. That is a record of satisfactory performance in 99.63 per cent of the sample under study. What other occupation or profession boasts a better record?

Even so the police image suffers. And the officers who are stoically aggrieved by public indifference or hostility are inclined to ask what the public expects of them. Todays police officer has to be r psychologist, sociologist, criminologist, constitution a 1 lawyer, and judo expert; he must be marksman, diplomat, skilled technician, and public relations man. And he must summon all of these talents, when the occasion arises, in a single violent second.

They were telling the story, and chuckling over it, of an officer who recently arrested an armed robber just as he emerged, gun in hand from a liquor store. The two wrestled to the sidewalks With his prisoner fmaly caught in scissors hold and armlock, the officer managed to extract a worn card from his pocket. He began reaciing: You have

an attorney to bfe present at this time or at any time hereafter, you are entitled to such counsel. . .

TTiat is part of the new po-

(Continaed On Page Five)

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By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK WASHINGTON - On signi-ficant but shrouded reason why the Vietnamese election campaign has come off free of Communist subversion goes back to some of the fiercest fighting of the war in Operation Cedar Falls conducted by U, S. troops early last spring.

In those bloody battles covering several months, the U. S. Armys First Dirtsidri made a rich haul of secret Vietcong documents from the headquarters of War Zone 4, the Vietcong designation for a large region just northwest of Saigon.

Included in the haul were planning papers of the Viet-congs National Libera t i 0 n Front preparing for sabotaging the presidential election through political tactics. This subversion would be conducted by an NLF apparatus called the Intellectual Proselytizing Organization of War Zone 4.

This apparatus, one of the most successful in the vast substructure of NLF-front organizations, operated clades-tinely in Saigcm. Its job was to undermine the Saigon regime by proselytizing the intellectual elite of the capital mainly writers and artists.

The object for this summer was to line up impressive backing for a far left presidential candidate not actually an NLF member. The campaign of that candidate was to become a political assault on the government of Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, reaching such an extreme that the Ky government would be forced to retaliate and thereby get a black eye in the U. S. and the world.

The culmination was to be a series of mass rallies in Saigon, reminiscent of the 1966 Buddhist demonstra t i o n s, broken up by government police amid world headlines. Charges of military interference in the campaign would follow, and the election would be discounted in advance.

But captured last spring along with this political battle plan were the names of several leaders of the Intellectual Proselytizing Organizationthe cadres who would carry it out. Given this inside information, the organization was penetrated and cracked open by widespread arrests in Saigon.

Thus, instead of carrying on effective political subversion of the election campaign, the Vietcong had to resort to self-defeating violence, including the shelling of provincial and district capitals, in an effort to intimidate voters.

Probing the Riots On the evening of Sunday, August 20, a small distinguished gentleman checked into a downtown Detroit hotel under the name of Chambers. His real name was Representative William McCulloch, the straitlaced and highly respected Republican Congressman from Ohio.

His reason for being in Detroit: an on4he^spot Iook rt the riot area for the Presidents Commission on Civil Disorders.

McCulloch and other members of the Commission have

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groups of two to ^ve, often registering in hotels under an assumed name to avoid attention.

No advance announcements (Continued on Page Five)

Maybe The Dam Hasn't Burst

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Stop examine, and ponder.

By ELMER ROESSNER

There has been a wave, a rash, an epizootic of price rises in recent days. liiere will be more, as there always is when inflation threatens.

But lets not run to the hills yet. Maybe the dam hasnt burst.

Maybe the increases are hedges, trial ballons, or whats your favorite metaphor mix?

There are tremendous pressures for higher prices at the moment. There is a round of wage increases pending which can force costs, hence prices, higher. The administration is pitching a tax surcharge which can bring on higher prices two ways: corporations will try to offset their loss of profits with higher prices; organized workers will toughen their contract demands to compensate for higher taxes. The old cry of no cut in take-h 0 m e pay will be raised

again. And the greatest |x*es-sure of all is the administrations willingness to embark on more inflation. Mcwe inflation means that if nices are not increased now, they will be eventually.

Prudent Policy

Under those, pressures, any prudent management must prepare to increase prices. And so in the past few days and weeks, there have been announcements of price increases in steel, in scrap iron, in aluminum, in carpets, in furniture, in color TV sets, in appliances, in many chemicals and dozens of other industrial and consumer goods. And ^ere will be more to come.

But prudent management has another obligation: to back away from price increases if the customers, industrial or consumer, wont or cant pay them. There is no use in offering the most expensive tiara in town if the grande

dames wont buy tiaras.

So it may be noticed that all the increases in the last few weeks have been in list prices, in asking prices.

Almost every price increase announced has been sort 0: iffy: IF the price level rises; IF there is more inflation; IF our customers will meet it.

That hasnt been stated the announcement.s. To have said it would have been defeating. But the feeling in the market place is that all the recent increases have been tentative; they are all asking prices.

Do Your Best

If the inflation swells more, of labor unions become more demanding, if personal and corporate income keeps on rising, the new, higher prices will become firm. But if inflation is held reasonably in check, if money becomes less free and easy, and if both corporate and consumer buyer re-sistence toughens the new

prices will be found to be only bases on which discounts may be figured.

Obviously, it will pay buyers of industrail products to bargain, to shop around, and to ask discounts. They may be able to flush out suppliers eager to sell at less tnan posted prices. The increases may not be as announced.

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ROESSNER

The samfe is true for consumers. By shopping around, by asking discounts and by letting retailers know that they are prepared to live on beans unless beans go up), they too may win lower prices.