Thursday, November 16, 1967

Local Govmts Must ITeet Needs

' afford to iirnore the developlnjt trend and its ulti- dollars needed. At the same time, the state must

BUT THEY DO WHAT COMES NATURALLYI

afford to ignore the developing mate consequences.

William A. Shires, writing in Sunday^s edition of this newspaper, pointed out that in recent months voters in 16 of 21 localities in North Carolina have rejected proposals to increase local school supplements by increasing property taxes. In spite of the

likewise increase its support of public education.

The crux of the problem, in our judgement, is that each of these levels of government has been too much inclined to wait to see what the other would do to meet the school needs. Local govero-ments, bard pressed to meet other needs and wi^

have found time and agin

increases in appropriations for public schools made limited revenue sources, have tound time

by the recent General Assembly, North Carolina that voters are unwilling to increase property taxes

continues to rank low among the states in per capita to supplement school state-

exnenditure and public support for schools. In Raleigh, on the other hand, mounting state

Although the increase in school appropriations wide needs on every hand, plus a determinafaon Mt bv the recent leSaSe amounted to a huge sum, to increase taxes, has meant less or the public school it' barely enabled the state to keep pace with what program than otherwise might have been made

t?Z"^oVnd.7 ;:7Th:W way

local government funds going into the school program. Greater support for public schools at the grass roots level around the state will surely be reflected in greater support to schools from the state level in Raleight.

gram, and with local funds for similar purposes increasingly difficult to come by, the other source to which to look is the federal government. And here, most North Carolinians are unwilling to accept more federal aid in needed areas because of the increasing federal control which goes with the funds. T *j.

If North Carolina is to meet its public school lSH t

needs from its own resources, it must do so with ITOaIIIwUI state and local government^ funds. Local govern- ^

ments must make greater strides in financially sup- Til l^OVl StS

Campaign Costs

It doesn't come as a surprise that Shirley Temple Black plans to retake on her bid for political

after the votes were counted, I will be back . ^

Before the cameras the stars have several

chances if the scene doesn't come off exactly as ^ irii oATDiri^

planned. For Shirley Temple and other Hollywood By JAMES KILPATRICn

By WILLIAM A SHIRES Reflector Raleigh Bareao RAUSIGH The perennial problem of financing political campaigns has cropped up again and this time the pinch may be even tighter.

There are reports that several would be candidates for itatewide and Congressional offices have ^countered difficulty getting promises of fin micial suK>ort for 1968 and as a result may give up the idea cf nmning.

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The fact is that few if any either announced or potential candidates are free from worry about campaign finances at this point. As usual, there is money available but thus far little is being contributed or pledged in definite amounts. And the matter of adequate financing is a paramount con* sideration which political hopefuls must take into account before taking the plunge.

More Expensive It is generally assumed that iriien a candidate announces for office that he already 1^ fcasonable assurance of being to finance his campaign.

upon how the campaign progresses and the chances of candidate to be elected. Confributors Waiting Its reported now that certain of the heaviest, most substantial contributors to political campaigns in North Carolina in the past have decided to wait and see what devele^.

For one thing, they foresee 1968 as a year in which phasis will be on the elections in the Fall with precedented spending by both parties and their respect i v c nomines m a number of races.

They feel that large contii butions will be called for as the year progresses and as a result they prefer to wait. If the primaries are quiet, rather briet affairs more political money will be available for tiie Fall campaigns. 1 But this situation isnt helping those would - be primary with making a hard, firm decision shortly on whether to run and whether they can afford to run.

Costs Increasing

stars past and present, the political stage may not T T *

work exactly that way. The retake may not be as

How Do YOU rlX

good as the original, and in any event the script ^ almost certain to be different even if the setting is

the same. it has been truly said, from

Somehow the idea that a Hollywood career pro- Tacitus to Burke, that the es-5 an excellent background for high elective of- ggnce of wise civil government lies in finding a tolerable balance between liberty and order. The search pre-

vides _____ _

fice apparently is accepted by voters of San Mateo County as it isnt by many other voters across the nation.

loresee

iS A Man With An

; Incurable Itch

might one day present a problem of constitutional dimensions. But across the country, hippies have been showing up at airports, barefoot, beaded,

_____^ and unbathed. The regular

sents a thousand aspects. For passengers take their seats;

a small slice of what this and such is mans instinctive

By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) - If anyone has an incurable presidential itch, its Harold Stas-sen. Hes been scratching for years, and he is not through yet although most people thought he was year? ago.

Hope for Stassen is like a rubber band. Hes been stretching it all his life.

From the exercise he got, youd think hed be in won-Another point is the fact of erful political condition. Hes ever - increasing campa i g n running for something

costs. The day of running a campaign for a major state office on a shoestring is gone.

Todays candidates must get wide exposure through advertising and travel. They must develop huge mail i n g lists and often rim Up huge postage bills. There are tele-plKines, television and news-pjq) advertising, airp lane tickets, meals, salaries, and a thousand other expenses which

since he was 22. For a while he was so successful, back in the 1930s, he was called the Boy Wonder of American politics.

Hes not a boy anymore. Hes 60. But he never bung up his sweatshirt. He tried tor the Republican presidential nomination in 1948, again in 1952 and again in 1964. He never had a chance any of

Howcvr. seldom does he thousand other expenses wmcn

know precisely how much he must be paid -- most of it in

li to get from the prin- advance if you re a political gource contributions candidate.

-fior how much his campaign It isnt easy not even for

li gohifl to cost In most cas- the independently wealthy.

L the would - be candidate There have b^n cases in

li promised financial support the past in which when cam*

but witiioiit mention of exact paign funds ran low, a can-

fimaes. borrow on

And how much actually is his life insurance or mortgage

OflrUMited depends largely his home. _

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Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS HEALING

Is supernatural healing still possible in our modern scientific world?

It certainly is. Every physician will admit that once in a while patients recover when there is every indication that death is inevitable. There are millions of people in this and other countries whose religion is based primarily on the conviction that healing is possible. Miracles of healing occurred in antiquity, and there is every reason to believe that miracles continue to exist today.

those times.

Meanwhile, maybe just to keep in shpe for the big event later or because he was just anxious for something, he tried in 1958 for the gover norship of Pennsylvania and in 1959 for the mayors job in Philadelphia. He was drowned both times.

Tuesday he announced he would make another stab at the presidency in 1968.

Few men have outmatched his eagerness. William Jennings Bryan was a little more successful, at least in trying. He won the Democratic pres-(Continued on Page 6)

This Date--40 Years Ago Today

By FOY H. DUNCAN Nov. 16, 1927 Teachers to Gather Here Next Friday Everything is in readiness for the opening of the first conference of the Northeastern District of the North Carolina Educational Association, which begins here next Friday morning and continues through Saturday.... According to information about two thousand teachers of the district, which includes twenty counties in this section, will be in attendance.

pic quest is all about, consider, if you please, the Case of the Shoeless Hippies.

The story goes back about three years, to the time the airlines introduced youth ares. Under these authorized tariffs, applicable on certain days, young people may purchase tickets at discounts of up to 50 per cent for travel on a space available basis. After the full - tariff passengers go aboard, the youngsters pass through the gate. It has been a fine thing for the airlines; during the first six months of 1967, they took in $40 million from tiiese cutr rate tickets.

When the system was established, the flower people were barely in the bud. No one imagined the hipp i e s

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP) - Now m November the mihd of man\\a paunchy, mid41e-^e American goes back to tiie time 25 ye^s ago this month, when U.b. troops landed in force in Noi|th

Africa. ^ X

But it couldnt really hate been a full quarter of a centutv ago. It stUl stands so fresh apd green In the memory that 'it must have happened only ja dusty yeskrday ago. ,

War seemed so simple to the uninitiated then. All that had 0 be done was to whip that hystcr ical little man with the mifs-tache in Berlin. Then everybotjy could come marching hontc, stand outside the aeighborhopd pool hall, and start whirling at the pretty girls again.

The pessimists feared the whole job would take six montbs or more. They were right Jit took several more landin:^ and a full 30 months before the victory in Europe was fa^ oned.

Every man has his own recol-JiQSSdsisJn NaJh n to war.

Africa, our kmdergai As we plowed through sullen seas toward the iron coast of French Morocco, a grizzled colonel who had survived the first World War, turned tc me and said: >

So this is your first experience yilhw this kind of thing. An urhaf ' Well, what youll wonder about

fixes them. On ^ forever after is how these nien

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exist. We Fteeral AviaU the thin?.s

Agency, m ^ bureau jj ^ ^ cratic tradition, ill not tern ' ,v

its nose to the issue. The later that

f3*iutooritv "^''savT **^3 pwformed a bat-

&"make pasaen-gers bathe before boarding an Medal of Hoiwr. airliner, unless it cas be pro- Anyone whc) goes tough ven their (unwashed) pres- combat owes his life to the help ence has an adverse effect on of others. I owe my life, as a aviation safety. gawky war reporter, to two

Wnrr Trotp JucH, neiUicT of whose names I fWL A This settles nothing. Irnte onH neither of whoni I

Alas, they smell. Their feet pgj^ngers, full of respectabi- _ smell, it is said, and sometim- g^d outrage, are deman- ^ ^

es they smell all over. In the order.. The American Ci- f t incf

view of Aviation Daily, t^ Liberties Union, as you ^ darkened

hippies shock and oKencf- expect, has hurled it-

limits?

yearning to be left alone that ordinarOy they try to sit, in the three - abreast section, one by the window and one on the aisle. The hippies, waving their youth fares, sit down in the middle. Tableau.

the regular patrons; and Avl ation Daily, has no doubt about what should be done: Throw em off. The airlines should exercise their right to refuse passage to those not meeting cleanliness standards.

Very well. That is plain speech that any man can understand. But what are these cleanliness standards? Who

Public Forum

Thursday Is Roll Call Day For Red Cross

The President of the United States who is also president of the Red Cross has issued an appeal for increased member-

TO the Editor:

Last Friday I was seated in a local theater about to view what turned out to be a fine movie of a Shakes-pherean comedy. Before the film began, however, I was a witess to a disgusting and horrifying preview of the coming attraction.

What the attraction is I cannot see. The plot is the murder of young girls for the purpose of feasting on their blood. The previewin full color-7-showed a close-up of a blonde victim lying prostrate, full face as her tongue was ripped from her then blood-filled mouth. I did not watch all of the remainder of the preview, but other mes, were of the murders spoon resting in a bowl of blood, and 'the partially expoL.^ from which the murderer ripped the blood-covered heart. Again in close-up and color. By this time tbe audience was laughing, mostly as a release.

The preview was preceded by a visual and spoken warning that children should not

rU*tte'u7pira"c'OTner. our aMult boats ^ A^U-s portion is t h a t eno^ to settle Ain-

barefooted man came into ca, aot just land there, his world, and barefooted he This is going to be a wetrfoot

may fly above it. The ACLU landing, he said. With all that wants liberty. And all that gear on youll go down like a has happened is that Eastern stone. Get rid of it.

Airlines, with approval of the i did. I got rid of everything Public Health Service, has except a pencil, a noteoook and laid down a rule tiiat all pas- a slender volume of Emily Difc -sengers must be wearing sho- kinsons poems, es when they board. It requir- Saviour No. 2 was a soles no Philadelphia lawyer to dier ahead of me who, after we foresee the next line of skir- had been dunked in the water mish, for many respectable gnd, i had reached a coral eut-passengers regularly get cropping too weak to climb up, down to their socks on 1 o g stretched down a wet hand of flights, having concluded that safety and pulled me from the such trips arc better with breaking surf, our shoes off. ^11 my life Ill wonder what

Liberties and masters are happened to those two soldiers, not easily combined, said That first morning in Africa I Tacitus. And such is the case, saw the body of a young lieuten-The U. S. Constitution, in its ant, his middle stained red.

doubtedly tempted by a come -on like that, none of the un-eseorfri '''''cn m tiie theater left. But the biggest flaw in the w .. w .s the failure to inclid all adults \rith the slightest traces of sen-

ina "toecy* wi^sWt minds preamble, reflects the abid- being trundled back in the iuy

n..d to tesiA^ted tbese ing problem. Our Constitu- of a peasants cart. Oaiy a fe-y

driails ^eyfn t^^^ ion was established not only hours before 1 had seen him in

cimcal details, ana even ey, ^ blcssinga of U- the ships wardroom, bis arms

berty but also to insure dom- on the shoulders of a couple of

estic tranquility. The hippips other junior officers, singing

and the squares stand equal* Auld Lang Syne.

ly in tills case, they s i t That first afternoon in Africa, equally before the law. I remember, Gen. George Pat*

XU- XU XU Up to a point, the hippies ton came roaring up in a tank,

plain it as anything other than ^ ht to smell his famed pistols strapped to ms

fnr ciiph TTiitirts. ^ j j g jjc SEW 8 coloacl Standing

something else. Non-contag- there, wearing his green dress

ious dirt lies beyond the sani- uniform that had row after row

tation laws. The airlines, for of award ribbons on it.

their part, have a duty to What the hell are you, dehaul any sober and non-vio- manded Patton, a Christmas lent passenger who pays the tree? . xu

fare. They are common car- I remember camping with the riers, operating under certifi- armor in cactus patches, sleep-

cate, and have no choice in ing on the desert under a cano-

the matter. But the respect- py of unbelievably bright st *rs,

able squares, caught inescap- seeing a German prisoner and ably in the confines o an air- being surprised because he (Continued On Page ) (Continued On Page )

certainly, do not need such visual aids. But to offer this as entertainment!

This movie does not fall into the category of the usual horror movie. I cannot ex-

a sick movie for such minds.

Aside from the ethics involved, it seems to me a very serious business error on the part of this theater to preview its fourth-class movies before the audience at a first-class film. But perhaps enough letters of protest from this particular theater .and thereby Improve ther business.

Sincerely, Mrs. Marilyn Lucht

*'r say this is not to criticize sh^^tw year in the Red ^ pNT- C^" gp'ttO \/ nCTUtS

tie modern scienceo f medi' Cross ..Mrs. Hortense Moye, V^J. xv^-L V--? x xVL L v-X Vm^X XvXx xLkJ

ine. Physicians stand out in president of the King Daugh-

Advertislng rates and deadlines available upon MapPlw Audit Bureau of Circulation. ^ ^_

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human society as necessary and valiant servants of t h e ir fellows. The cessation of medical treatment for ont week would plunge every city in the civilized world into chaos. Physicians are a self-sacrificing, as well as a highly trained group of men. Their health often breaks under the pressure of their committed service. No group in human society serves any more unselfishly than do the doctors.

' But this does not in the least preclude^ the fact that supernatural "healings frequently occur. God is not tied down to any one method of procedure. The revelation of truth He has made through scientific medicine is utterly amazing. Without this we would languish and die. But God frequently heals the sick and afflicted in ways that are outside all scientific categories.

We are foolish indeed if we scoff at supernatural healing. It has occurred through the ages and is continuing today.

ters, is acting in the capacity of director, assisted by members of the organizations and the committee of local business and professional men....

Indianian Candidate For Rhodes Scholarship

An article in the Muncie Indiana paper, stated that five University Of Indiana graduates were candidates for the Rhodes Scholarship. Among them were William Taft Lesh son of Mr. and Mrs. L. Lesh of Muncie. He is the grandson of the late Dr. John Taft of this city. Mrs. Lesh was formally Miss Emagene Taft of city.... Young Taft is twenty years old and graduated the past year at the University of Indiana.

Satin Smart For Fall

Among the many new styles are the bolero and fitted hip, uneven skirt line, diagonal trimming treatments... Colors stressed black, navy and the lively new tans and browns....

By ELMER ROESSNER

Mrs. Leslie Midgley, better known as Betty Furness, has courage.

President Johnsons special assistant for consumer affairs had the guts to tell a Washington panel that all ghetto merchants were not robbing customers. Many, she said, had to pay exorbitant insurance rates and had to pass the charges along.

It has become fashionable in Washington and elsewhere to blame merchants for slum conditioni. Teams of shoppers have been comparing prices in ghettos and middle-class neighborhoods and finding them higher in ghettos. They have also found that some stores raise prices on days when welfare checks are received. Congressmen, columnists and others have been characterizing storekeepers as unarmed robbers.

But aa Miss Furness said,

risking expulsion from the do-gooders club: Visions of poor people being gouged by unscrupulous merchants are not always accurate.

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ROESSNER

Wants Insurance Pool

Miss Furness was testifying before the Presidents advisory panel on insurance in riotaffected areas, and was limited to that subject. She approved of proposals for an insurance pool by which large insurers would share the risks and, perhaps, get tax concessions and government subsidies, (In this way taxpayers, not the merchants or their

customers, would stand the costs of riot damage.)

Miss Furness pointed out that in the riot-ravaged Hough district of Cleveland, insurance companies not only boosted rates to prohibitive levels! but some stopped selling policies at any price. Some stores were forced to close down.

As has been pointed out in this column, there have been unconscionable charges in slum areas, notably on instalment deals. But there are other factors in the ghetto price problem. In instalment deals, there is a higher likelihood that the buyers will lose employment or extend buying beyond ability to pay, or disappear with the purchased article.

And in food, there is the big factor of shoplifting. Losses, quite expectedly, run higher in poor areas.

Theft Is Recognized

Because the subject was

insurance, Miss Furness did not go into these factors, out another of President Johxi-sons girls, Commissioner Mary Gardiner Jones of the Federal Trade Commission, did recently when she addressed the National Association of Food (Plains.

While she urged the chains to establish more stores in slum areas , she conceded there were obstacles, including high land and insurance costs.

Pilferage and vandalism and the fears of white employees working in neighborhoods with which they are unfamiliar are other realities which I know you must face, she said. Will the gene-al community hostility against defrauding merchants spill over on all retailers regardless of tiieir performance?

And as Miss Furness told the Presidents panel, People cannot be expe(ifed to live in an area without stores.

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