Tuesday, October S, 967

Today, A Year-Round Tourist State

There was a time not many years ago when a few short months of summer were looked upon as tiie tourist season in North Carolina.

Now this is a year-round tourist state, largely through the efforts of the tourist industry to promote for outsiders and for Tar Heels the attractions that North Carolina offers every month of the year.

Just a few years ago the vacation places of the mountain and coastal areas saw tourists in appreciable numbers only in June, July and August. Now tourists flock to these areas almost all through the year. The summer months, to be sure, are still the busy months. But on the coast and in the mountain.-, the season has been extended from early spring

. jess Talk Of A Rival To Sco

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

Redactor Raleigh Bureau

RALEIGH - Talk about bringing forth a strong, well-heeled Democratic primary opponent against Lt. Gov. Robert W. (Bob) Scott in the governors race next Spring is tapering off.

This may be misleading and It probably is too early for anyone to conclude that Scott, whose candidacy is unannounced but certain, will escape major primary opposition.

More likely it is only a temporary lull in public di.s-cussion and speculation about possible opposition candidates while serious consideration is going on privately and behind thf scenes.

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the view that Scott will be opposed. Scott himself believes someone will come out to give him a rousing contc.-( and is making plans accordingly.

On the other hand. Scott'-suppoi'ters are cheered by the discovery that there is .lot.a-ing nicer in politics than to have a clear, unopposed field.

Chief Concern

The chief concern in the Scott camp right now is not primary oppositio.n next May 4 but the surge of Republican strength which is sure to challenge any and all Democratic office seekers a year from now.

In fact, Scotts chief critics latelyhis only recent taste of public criticismhave been Republicans. There have been several exchanges between Scott and Republican figures.

Meanwhile, all of this has engendered a feeling in political circles that North Carolina may be swinging around to a more evident two-party axis.

This, the observers say, would involve shifting emphasis from the Spring primaries where, in the past," the real fights have occurred. Many

believe that the states Democratic party can ill afford such bitter factionalism and i.itra-party feuding as occurred in 1960 and 1964.

Earlier Primary Date

The fact that the General Assembly voted to advance the primary date by several weeks, from late May to early May, is looming bigger and bigger.

Some say this is going to help staunch the "bloodletting of previous primary years in at least two ways.

For one thing, ca.ididates will have to tighten up their campaign timetable. They will have to concentrate on travel, visiting voters and making public annearances in as many counties as possible instead of dealing in personalities and in hurling and answering charges which tend to divide Democratic factions.

A.iother thing is already evidentthe time in which to make a decision about running and organizing a full-scale. statewide campaign is growing short.

Cert.ainly, a.iy 1968 statewide primary contest won't cannotequal the length of (hat record long campaign of four years ago when two of the principal Democratic candidates an.iounced official!} in early September and had their organizations cranked up in a few weeks.

Bowing Out

To some extent recently, political news in the slate has been dominated more by those bowing out of consideration than those announcing.

One of the latest to bow out is State Sen. John Henley of Cumberland who had decided against trying for the Seventh District nomination for Congress against Rep. Alton A. Lennon of Wilmington. Reports persist however that Cumberland County Democrats may yet come up with a primary candidate to oppose Lennon. Cumberland and New Hanover counties, the biggest population centers of the Seventh, are on opposite ends of the district geographically. Lennon has been in Congress 10 years.

Robert L. Gavin of Sanford, twice the Republican nominee for governor, bowed out several days ago as a possible candidate for Congress in the newly formed Eighth District which had no incumbent representative.

through late autumn. In yome parts oi the mountains winter resorts are being establisheti, and these are enjoying a rapid growth in popularity. Along the coast also there are a lew places that attract tourist even during the coldest months of the year.

Grawth in leisure time of the average family in North Carolina and elsewhere has been an important factor in the growth of the tourist industry in this state. The tact that the state is on a direct route between more noiThern state.s and popular resort areas farther south is another factor in the growth of the tourist indu, try in North Carolina.

The single greatest factor in North Carolinas tourist industry growth, however, i.s the effort put forth by the industry itself. The indu.stry has invested many millions in developing attractions. It has invested many millions in promoting the attractions which the state has both natural and man-made. It has taken advantage of every opportunity interest people in the recreational opportun-ties that are available in North Carolina.

With the size of the tourist industry in this slate, new opportunities are developing every year for additional communities to become a part of this growing tourist bonanza. In the mountains, along the coast, and in the area between, there is still much potential to be developed by North Carolina, so far as its tourist industry is concerned.

Sixty More Days To Adopt Ambulance Plan

During the next 60 days the Pitt County Board of Commissioners must come up with some means of assuring continued ambulance service in the county after funeral directors discontinue the service they have rendered for many years.

The funeral directors have readily agreed to the request of the Commissioners to continue the sendee for another 60 days while the county continues to seek a .solution to the problem. This in itself indicates the desire of the funeral directors not to leave the county in an emergency situation when they discontinue the sendee.

Some months ago the-iuneral directors informed the Commissioners of their intention to discontinue ambulance service this fall. At that time a committee was appointed to seek a means by which ambulance senice in the county could be assured after that provided by the funeral directors was discontinued. The time which has elapsed without a firm alternative being found .uggests the difficulty of the problem.

The Pitt Commissioncrs, we are confident, will exert exery effort in the next 60 days to come up with reasonable moans of assuring continued am-hnlanee service. Other counties have faced similar sit nations and ha\ e found workable solutions.

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"To the Coniplele and Total Destruction

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By JAMES KILPATRICK

Role Of Federal Govmt

Statement of Ownership Management and Circulation

(Act of October 23.1962; Section 4369, TiUe 39. United SUtei Code)

Date of ruing: October 1, 1967 | Greenville, N. C.

THE DAILY REFLECTOR

Frequency of issue: Evenings Monday through Friday and Sunday morning.

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The Daily fleilccior, Inc.,

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Avprage No. Copies Each Issue During Preceding 12 Months

A. Total no. copies printed

(Net press rum ................. 11,5.3;)

Single Issue Nearest To Filing Date

11.925

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2. Mail subscriptions .......... 608

C. Total paid circulation ........ 11.061

D. Free distribution (including

samples) by maU, carrier or other means ............ 372

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(Sum of C and D)..... 11,4.3.3

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. Total (Sum of E & F should equal net press run shovtTi in A) .................... 11,5.3;)

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DAVID JULIAN WHICHARD Board Chairman

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON AP -"Irresponsible, the senator said of President Johnson. The President could have replied, with a lot of senators mind: Look whos talking. Two things have happened. The war in Vietnam has become unpopular with many people. And a number of senators, who voted Johnson a go-ahead to make war if he thought it necessary, have become his severest critics.

Out of this senatorial unhappiness has come a move led by Sen. J. W. Fullbright, D-Ark., to put more restraint on the President in foreign relations than has ever happened and more than the Constitution calls for.

This all had its roots in the summer of 1964 when, after North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked U. S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin, Congress overwhelmingly approved a resolution. The House vote, 416 to 0; the Senate vote, 88 to 2.

The Tonkin resolution approved, beforehand, any action Johnson thought necessary to take to repel attack on the U. S. armed forces or to prevent aggression in South Vietnam.

Fulbright was in charge nt steering the resolution through the Senate. He explained it, answered questions, made thi.s statement:^ The Communi.sts should know their aggressive ambitions will meet precisely that degree of .American opposition which is necessary to frus-trade them.

.A.sked if the resolution would give the President authority to use such force as might lead to war. Fulbright said: "That is the way I would interpret it.

.Now Fulbright and other., say they didnt realize the full implications of the resolutions or that Johnson has abused the authority it gave^ra.

Last week Sen. Clifford P. Case. R - N.J., complained Johnson had misused the Tonkin resolutionwhich Case voted forand added: "For the President to take advantage of the restraint and responsibility of Congress in this situation, I think, has been highly irresponsible.

"We dealt with it. he said, "in terms of how we thought it would be used by the man who occupied the presidency.

Our judgment turned out to be wrong. . . .

"Our consent to so sweeping a grant of power was not only a mistake but a failure of responsibility on the part of Congress.

From this opposite side of the fence Sen. Everett .M. Dirksen of Illinois, the Re-^ publicans, Senate leader, defending Johnson, said the same thing.

"How, he asked, "couid-. . . members of the House and Senate be kidded or deceived with respect to the (Continued On Page 5)

Strength

The longer a reporter hangs around this town, pondering the proper role of the Federal government, the more per-pexed he gets. A fellow spends a lot of time just shuf-flng papers at the press table, trying to make up his mind.

Some of the issues are easy. The Federal government has no business whatever subsidizing the collection of local garbage. The Federal government has no power, under the Constitution, to hand out tax funds to hungry poets. You come to these conclusions, and wow, zap, bang; theres an end tc it. But what do you do about a bill proposing the Federal licensing of cUni c al laboratories?

ago, one recalls, the typical

physician relied largely on some humble tools of diagnosis: How high the fever? How red the throat? What came over the stethoscope? That day of medicine is gone. Everything now revoles around

The bill passed the H o u . 3 on September 20. A subcommittee of Senate Labor and Public Welfare held hearings on it last week. All one mor-ing, witnesses marched back and forth, and Alabam. s Senator Lister Hill, the soul of courtesy, thanked each of them three times. But when the parade had ended, the perplexity remained.

Obviously, there is a problem here that affects the public health. Not so very long the laboratory test. The bio-

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By; EARL L. DOUGLASS SUPREME

The greatest of all religious doctrines is the doctrine of God. Does He really exist? Does the world simply operate on the basis of impersonal force or is there a Personality behind the whole of the creation and a holy purpose dominating it all?

If there is not, then life is pretty grim. Justice is never fully satisfied on this planet. Everything is incomplete, and life is haunted by a grim sense of dissatisfaction unless a God of love and power . behind the universe.

Men first believed in God as Creator. The realization that God was still in his creatiai persisted across the centuries. But still this was not enoign. Men had to be lifted up to something higher and more hopeful, and Jesus did that when he presented to them the concept of God as Father. The human heart longs for and finds its satisfaction in the concept of a heavenly Father. Our daily prayer begins. "Our Father which art in heaven. This is the beginning of all. This is the end of all. This is the fullness of human satisfaction. Without this t h e heart is left cold, the mind is confused and overwhelmed. In a God Who is a Father wc find the security that children long for and need. There can be nothing greater thon this.

Religious faith bids us work as far as faith will carry us that we may see the ultimate of all a supreme God Who is a Father.

By FOY H. DUNCAN Oct. 3, 1927 Annual S. S. Convention Oct. 15-16th

It is announced by officers of the Pitt County Sunday School Association that t h e annual County Sunday School Convention will be held| on Saturday and Sunday October 1.5 and 16, in the Reedy Branch Freewill Baptist Church near Winterville. . .The convention is interdenominational and workers from all Sunday Schools in the county are invited to participate in the work. . . .Each of tlie hundred counties in the State is now organized into a County Sunday School Association. . . In charge of the arrangements for the convention are J. C. Galloway and Mack G. Smith, president and secretary of the County Sunday School Association. . .

Pirates and Yanks To Play World Series

President Wright Talks Before Student Body

President Robert H. Wright made his annual talk to the students Saturday on "Church Going and other phases of college. . . .He statec* that there was a notion aboard that the State Schools were non-denominational. "This is a mistake, he said, "they are multi denominational, they are made up of all denominations. The Bible is not taught in them, but as 1 see it, no reason why it should be taught. It is the basis of our State and Federal governments, and for one to be a good citizen he ought to know the Bible in order to understand the background of h i s government, and the institutions that regulate the life of its citizens. . .The purpose of this institution, ne said, is to train teachers for the public schools of the State, but it hopes to do more. It hopes to give every student an opportunity to live l full and well rounded spiritual life. . . .He called attention to the Bible courses that are conducted by the Y. W. C. A.. . .

analyst, the microbiologi s t, the medical technologist, the clinical chemist have ta k e n on enormous importance. The doubtful doctor depends upon them; he is forever waiting on the lab reports.

But suppose the lab reports are wrong? Suppose the blood or urine or tissue samples are examined by some incompetent who doesnt know B. coli from the common cold? The dismaying fact appears to be that erroneous reports occur in shocking numbers. A Public Health Service off i c i a 1 has testified that one out of four lab tests made b> independent laboratories are inaccurate.

Testifying before Senator Hill's committee. Dr. Morris Schaeffer painted an even darker picture. He is director of laboratories for the New York City Department of Health. He proved a good it-ness, peppery, full of fire and facts. In New York he said, a four - year study indicated that only 47 of 321 laboratories were able "consistently to is-locate and identify bacteria present in common infections. Only 42 were rated consistently satisfactory in tests of blood and urine.

"There were no tricky specimens or exotic ingredients, he added, "and no laboratory as deemed unsatiBfactory unless 50 to 75 per cent of its reports were inaccurate.

If the same situation obtains elsewhere, an intolerable condition exists. What to do about it? One answer it is the answer that jjiomes most readily to the conservative view is to leave a solution t,. the States. No constitution-1 problem here. The States plainly have power to act in this field, and 13 of them have acted; they have adopted laws fixing standards for laboratory operations or fixing qualifications for medical technologists. Another 13 States considered regulatory bills this year, but temporized be-(Continued On Page 5)

Steiger '.n Bac. Faste

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVyVK WASHINGTON -Senior members *of the House, exceedingly edgy about even justified criticism of Congress from outside observers, have been in a white heat the past week over some clearly unjustified attacks by one of their own members.

This anger has been particularly sharp because the critical Congressman is a freshman Republican with n ' n e months experience on Capitol Hill: Representative Sam Steiger, 38, a clean cut conservative from Arizona.

His performance on the nationally syndicated Joe Pyna interview show made him chief topic of cloakroom gos.^ip all week, subjected him to tongue - lashings from his own party leadership, and nearly prompted a hearing by the newly - formed House Ethics Cnmmittee,

What particularly riled up House leaders was Steigers charge that I have seen members (of the House) drunk. . .during the business day. I can think of at least two occasions on which I have seen members assisted to their office in the morning.

That wasnt all. There is almost a horror and a disappointment at the caliber of some of these people who are making some of these decisions on Capitol Hill said Steiger. He called some Congressmen a tremendous disappointment as to their qualifications and their capabilities. Agreeing with interview e r Pyne that some Congressmen are just plain dumb clucks, Steiger added: I think there are members of Congress that you would not hire to wheel a wheelbarrow.

Members of both parties wanted to hail Steiger before the Ethics (^mmittee to name names and substantiate h i s drunkenness charges. But highly - placed Republicans, convinced that public embarrassment of Steiger would only further damage the Houses sagging prestige and endanger Steigers re - election next year, were able to stave off any such investigation.

The biggest problem was Representative Wayne Havs, the fiery Democrat from Ohio, who toyed with the idea of a sarcastic speech on the House floor saying that he would offer Steiger a job wheeling his wheelbarrow any day.

Speaker John McCormack of Massachusetts, seeking to avoid a fuss, called Hays into his office. Present was the House Republican Lea d e r. Representative Gerald Ford of Michigan, who promis e d Hays that he and other GOP leaders would give Steiger a thorough scolding. While less than fully convinced. Hays deferred the speech.

A footnote: the Pyne show was not the first time Steiger has shown bad taste. Aft c r attending a White House social function earlier this year, Steiger wrote in his newsletter to constituents about t h e Presidents protruding stomach.

Reagans Credibility Gao

The cover story put out by Governor Ronald Reagan of California to explain the abrupt resignation in late August of key aide P h i 1 i p Battaglia, the most liber a 1 member of Reagans inner circle, has opened a modest credibility gap in Sacramento.

According to Reagans office, a major reason for Rai-taglias quick departure was insistent demands by his old (Continued On Page 5)

Danger In Fear Of Inflation

By ELMER ROESSNER The fear of more inflation is proving as bad as inflation itself.

The probability of more and serious inflation has been one of the most publicized disasters of the year. It has gained more attention than Beulah

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the air and in the press and even in this column.

All this has created a great rush, even a stampede, to protect savings from being wasted away by inflation, and to profit, if possible, on inflation.

These have been the consequences;

Stock prices have been bid up. While savers can get 5 per cent or a little more on their savings, many stocks have been bid up so high that at present dividend rates they yield only 3, 2 or even fewer percentage points.

Wild, Wild, Real Estate

Speculation or hedging has pushed up real estate prices. Some of the buying and selling has made those early Florida land booms seem like penny ante. There are many areas in which realty

has gone up five-and tenfold in price in a year or two.

Prices are being raised by producers and manufacturers who want to establish price levels that will be profitable in event of more inflation, and that will be profitable in event of a price freeze, which may be possible if inflation gallops faster. However, because no one can successfully push prices higher than customers will pay, buyers fear of inflation makes price rises possible.

In fact, some price increases appear to have stimulated buying. Both industrial and consumer customers see price increases as foreshadowing still more rises. Their fear of inflation causes them to build inventories or to buy ahead as a shelter against further increases.

Labor demands are mounting. Workers are seeking pa> rises not only to meet previous rises In the cost of living but also to meet rises their economists assure them are bound to come, DoublO'Headed Problem

Thus, the nation has two problems: inflation and the fear of more inflation. Solving the first can solve the second.

The fault iies mostly with Congress. If Congress should quickly resolve the problem of government ipending, trimming the budget as far as it will, and then increase taxes as much as It darei, much of the fear can be wiped away.

Such action will not end inflation or prevent more, but at least it will give the public some idea of just ho(w much inflation to expect.