Wednesday, December 6, 1967

Road Flans Could Become Obsolete

Greenville should take care that it does not plan a new bypass to span the Tar River on the eastern edge of the city that will be obsolete even before the planning is completed.

The County Commissioners this week approved use of $10,000 in secondary road lunds allocated to Pitt for survey and aciiuisition of right of way for aproposed road which would lead from the intersection of U. S. 264 bypass and 10th Street north across the Tar River to intersect with N. C. 30. Such a road was part of a major thoroughfare plan adopted by the city some years ago.

'while this may be a practical approach to gainihg a bypass access to the north side of the river, attention must be given to traffic problems that already erist on the present bypass. Plans are in the making for widening this bypass to four lanes from

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3y Broughton

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES Reflector Raleigh Bureau

and two o the three Brough-tcn children.

its intersection with Memorial Drive to Elm Street. There are no firm plans at present, however, for widening the bypass east and north of that point. Obviously another bridge across the Tar tying into the present bypass would ino^ase the already heavy load of traftic. The present two lanes is hardly adequate for the present vof'^e of traffic and would be grossly inadequate the additional traffic a new bridge would gern

Another point th^should be considered is the development which Jps taken place along the present 264 bypass. Sii>e it was constructed some years ago, both business and residential areas have sprung up all along the hygdiway. Rather than being on the edge of town, it now passes through some of the busiest commercial nd residential areas of the city. Rather than beihg a bvpass, it has become a major artery for movii^g traffic from one part of the city to another, carrying a huge volume of local traffic as well as thrcrfigh traffic.

If a new/i)ridge is to meet the need for which it is intejiulei^ attention must be given to the enti'e bypass route rather than just one small segment of it. To plan Tor a new bypass bridge across the Tar without pLanning an adequate bypass fo go with it will, in g^ir judgement, hardly solve the problem.

surprising to anyone that J. Melville (Mel) Broughton. Jr. stood before a ballroom podium, back by a Christmas tree twinkling with blue lights and silver tinsel, and announced, I am a ci,mdidate for governor of North Carolina.

Certainly it did not surprise Lt. Gov. Robert W. (Bob) Scott who was sitting at a desk two floors upstairs in the same downtown Raleigh hotel and who could have heard the applause w h ic h punctuated Brouchton's statement of candidacy.

Scott has not announced. But in comparison to the Lieutenant Governors unofficial, unannounced status as a candidate for governor next year. Broughton is a newcomer to field.

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**No, it didnt surprise us, Scott told reporters a few minutes later.

Certainly Mel has a lot of friends and supporters, and we had been looking for this and anticipated it, Scott said. Its not going to change our plans.

Brougbton Announces Two floors below, in the ballroom, nearly 100 friends, supporters and a score of newsmen gathered behind the cameras and hot bright lights for Broughtons formal announcement of entry.

Exactly on schedule, Broughton stepped forward wearing a dark suit, blue shirt and striped tie and the horn - rimmed glasses which may well become a trademark of his campaign.

Broughtons family was there which is usual for formal political announcements for major office. There was his mother, a former first lady of North Carolina; his wife. Mary Ann, fidgeting nervously with her bracelet and glowing with pride and admiration.

Cooper Broughton, the second son, four weeks old, who his father said was not especially interested in occasions of the sort and declined an invitation to attend.

No Strong Statements

There was formality, adherence to procedure and a certain amount of ceremony. But critics will say that Broughton did not come on strongly, that he spoke in generalities and 'dodged taking a positive stand on any specific issues.

And Broughton, by becoming the first officially announced candidate for the Democratic nomination, offered himself as a man to be analyzed and put under the political microscope.

Yes, he said, in all humility, I am confident that I do possess the qualifications. . . and that I am prepared in every way for the demands that go with this office.

He said he feels he has a depth of understanding of the needs of the state and of steps necessary to continue North Carolina on the road to greater and sounder progress. He said he has not and will not make commitments except to all the people of. North Carolina. North CaroliVia's people, he said, are proud and independent and he places full confidence in their judgment.

Throughout our history, our people have responded to leadership vvhicch challenged them and leadership which spoke, not to their fears but their hopes and aspirations. Will Take Stand

It probably is not fair to criticize Broughton for failure to be specific on certain issues on the occasion of a formal announcement. Few major political candidates are.

These, undoubtedly, will be developed as the campaign progresses. By announcing at this date, four weeks before Christmas, Broughton left plenty of time both for handshaking and a getting-acquainted toiM and for deliving jfito the issues in detail. First, he said, he is going to organize and get his campaign headquarters staffed and then set out on a statewide handshak-ingt our. He plans a hard-hit-tiri'(, vigorous and aggressive campaign between now and next May.

New Job Proves Value Of Commission

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Pitt Countians should take particular note of the report to the County Commissioners this week, l)v Dr. Sylvester Green, director of the Countys Development Commission.

During the past 12 months. Dr. Green reported, the commission was directly involved in helping business and industry exjiamloii programs which resulted in 272 new jobs being created in Pitt County. While this represents only a portion of the new jobs that have come into being in the county during the pai^t 12 months, the jobs are a significant contribution to Pitts economic progress.

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imnovtant not just to the businesses and industries columns were being Irans-which it assists, and to the people xvho are ernployed Japanese. The Tok-

in those new jobs. The work of the Commission is yo Observer has been using im.nortnn.f to the economic future of evdry citizen them on a weekly basis, a n d

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since I happened to be in Japan, I was curious to know how they read in the translation.

A friend of mine was kind enough to re-translate one of the articles back into English, word for word as if appeared in Japanese. It happened to be the article on the U. S. government report encouraging families to drink together

in a homelike setting. This is how the readers of the Observer saw it.

PROHIBIT SAKE MAKE THOROUGH METHOD U. S- government suggestion carry out alcohol poisoning of study and research results made public.

This study announcement according sake - drinking society national policy must be, it is said. Children, sake drink home possible much more effective, report say.

In France where long time live I. this expected result deliver confidence I do not have. French cliildren grape sa k drink with results of greatest alcohol pijiisoning. In France,

calvados is thing of recall. Here greatest apple brandy produce. Mothers in the morning. children brandy one cup sake make. Attending scho o 1 thousands birds feet of children stagger along. Therefore teachers protest has happened.

If announced study results correct, lets see family inside how drinking sake en couraged is.

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BLCHWALD

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP)- Hes been in politics 30 years and he learned young one of the very besf ways to miss being the No. 1 man is to catch foot-immouth disease.

His mouth has been constantly open for 30 years but he has been very sanitary

Strength ^-or Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS LET US BE READY

It may or may not be true that history repeals itself, but certainly there are recurring patterns in national and world events which may well put us in a thoughtful mood.

One of the lessons of history certainly is that we cannot perpetrate injustice and get away with it fur all tiice. Eventually we are caught up short and have to pay. The figure the Bible uses is that of sowing and reaping. Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap (Gal. 6: 7). Nineteen separate civilizations have disappeared during recorded history, and an authority on history tells us that the reason is that these civilizations lost diieir spiritual capacities. They did not draw a sharp line between right and wrong, justice and injustice. Evcnlually they had to recognize the line that ihe Almighty drew.

These are situations happening today that are almost detailed repetitions of thpi-that have happened in the past. The universe which God made is governed by principles, and these principles operate in every era of nunjan history. Truth crushed to the earth rises again. Diligence pays big wages. Injustice hap-|)( IS in every generation, '.ul somel)ody has to foot tin* bill at last.

Our age is an age ol stjohi.s-tication and eomfort. To be living under a fr(!C gove-n-rnent in tlie middle of the twentieth century. Ls a privilege of inde.scribab!;'. popor-tio.r-. Ihif let iH watch eur manners

There are i.ome who be'- v'e that the next tew decades will confort us with unpri'efioi <if ed challenge, lad us he reedy.

about it. He kept his feet away.

In time he became the No.

1 man. And in his early White House days President Johnsons mouth was constantly open, on television, in speeches, or in one way or another, always saying something.

He seemed to have a compulsion to say something in those early days on Pennsylvania Avenue until he was reminded often enough! he was not a hit on television or as a public speaker.

He was too stiff, to often what he was spontaneously or from a prepared text was a just corn. His televisujn appearances grew less frequent and so did his wide-open news conferences.

Meanwhile he continued io see White House reporters frequently by calling them into his office Ijo make a statement or answer questions. Then at a big news confer- ence last Nov." 17 he found a method that really clicked.

Instead of staying glued, as he had so often in the past, to a fixed microphone on a fixed podium behind which he stood as fixes and stiff as a cigar-store Indian, he decided to put a microphone around his neck.

He was a new man, free to roam around, twist nis head or wave his hands to -nake a point. Congratulatory tele grams poured in. He was delighted. This is probably how Johf^on will do much of his talking in the future.

He talks fast but .ne has learned from his 30 years of public life not to be care'e.ss with the language which, through a clumsy or <,fien-sive word, could turn him into a laughing-stock or a political corpse.

But this long training in being careful is one cason why some of his news conferences could be done without, for some of them havent meant much. Playing he cards close to your chest is not the best way to give information.

good example was llie sudden conference Monday with White llou.se reporter.s. He called them into the Cab-int t Hoorn to announce he had nafjK'd a new Marine Corps.,, ((iium.aiidant, Lt. Gen. Leo-iia-(! 1'. Chapman Jr.

.\ftcr revenling fliat he sat h.K'k to give very unreveal-iiig answers to reportcvs (Continued On Page 6)

?orty Years Ago

By FOY H. DUNCAN Dec. , 1927 Local High School Band Leads Exposition Parade At Ahoskie

The Greenville High School Band, under the direction of Mr. Eugene T. Roberson, went over to Ahoskie last night and led the opening parade of the Peanut Exposition. The band numbered forty and made the hit of the evening, leading the admirable parade down the brightly lighted streets. There was a lot of applause as they swung down the street. A number of favorable comments were heard concerning both their appearance and the quality of the music. ..The band is doing quite a bit for Greenville. Wherever they go. they advertise the city. And in order to make their appearance more effective the bonetr,atmovmeeenw I and advertise the town better, a movement is now on foot to secure real up-to-date uniforms for the members of the band.

The Salvation Army is planning to give a dinner to the poor at Christmas, it was staled this morning, and those desiring to contribute to this cause are urged to get in touch with members of the or ganization. . . .Anyone having clothing, toys, food, or money which they wish to contribute to the poor during the holiday season are requested to telephone 456-J and members of the Salvation Army will call for them- . . .Boxes will be placed in stores of the city so anyone wishing to give anything may do so. . .

Entertainment Xt FYog Level School

On Friday night. December 9lh, at seven-thirty oclock, there will be presented at Fr^ Level school The Wom-anless Wedding. An 0 1 d Sweetheart of Mine, and a bkick face comedy. Admission will be 25 cents to all.

Salvation Army To Give Dinner To The Poor At Christmas

Move To Greenville

Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Ward of Farmville have moved to Greenville and are living on Fifth Street.

Piare: Thomson house.

Time: Evening-six oclock.

Thomson Mr., ten generation of son George big voice call:

George: Martini one cup make want me?

George: Not necessary Papa. Milk drink want.

Thomson Mr.: Right away come down martini drink. Otherwise evening meal not give-

George: Understand Papa. But Mama lunch box put white grape sake, not yet intoxica-tion-wake up.

Thomson Mr.: Martini, about one glass drink, harm not. Moreover, drink alcohol and poisoning suffer not.

George second story from down come. Thomson Mrs. kitchen from appear, fourteen year of daughter - Karen also room come in.

Karen; Back again. This evening of meal wh- a- t?

Thomson Mrs.: Sherry sake inside turtle soup with cow meat of Burgundy sauce boil, and white grape sake dressing of salad. Eat after of des-

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By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK * WASHINGTON - The evolution of President Johnsons tax disagreements with Representative Wilbur D. Mills of Arkansas into full-blown vendetta is evident in the obscure fact that a widow from Monticello, Ark., may lose her government sinecure.

She is Catherine Norrell,

6, widow of a Jongressman from Arkansas named W. F. Norrell, When he died in 1961, Mrs. Norrell won his Congressional seat in a special election. But it was clear she could not hold it long, and Millsfriend and colleague of her late husbandsecured for her a political appointment to a State Department post in Honolulu.

Now, however. Mrs. Nor-rells job is being quietly eliminated, and she may soon be off the government payroll. To Mills, this looks like part of a Presidential vendetta against him.

. It is no isolated incident. Mills has confided to fellow Congressmen that Presidential economy shears have been sharper in his district than elsewhere, slashing public works of all kinds.

Even those considerably less astute in the ways of Capitol Hill than Lyndon Johnson are aware that such treatment could not only stiffen the back of Wilbur Mills, proud chairman of the prou(i Ways and Means Committee and' the single most powerful man in Congress today. It insures that, for now, the Presidents tax bill will continue its long sleep in Millsi committee.

Nobodycertainly not Mills himselfsees these antagonistic moves as intended to coerce Mills into action. Nor has the President used his fabled powers of persuasion with Mills. Considering this strange treatment of Mr. Tax-increase.

There is, for instance, the much bruted-about matter of personal contacts between the President and Mills. The closest thing to a private meeting between the two men was in December, 1966, when Mr. Johnson and his advisors discus.sed tax increase plans with Mills and Senator Russell Long of Louisiana, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. Mills was icily non-committal.

Since then, Mr. Johnson has talked about taxes with Mills only twice: once on the telephone and the other time on Nov. 17 when Mills and other key House Democrats were summoned to the White House the day before British devaluation of the pound.

The Presidents Congressional lieutenants, includ i n g Speaker John McCormack, have repeatedly urged him to meet privately, head-to-head, with Mills. Instead, he has delegated McCormack and other House leaders on ceaseless, fruitless missions to Mills office.

Moreover, Mr. Johnson has made a great show of summoning his private secretary to give these Democratic leaders the dates of eight separate times he talked to Mills this year. When this was reported to a baffled Mills, he could only surmise that Mr. Johnson was counting mass Congressional receptions at the White House and rou-(Continued On Page 6)

Sooner Or Later, Taxes To Rise

By ELMER UOES.SNEIl

A sharp increase in federal taxes must come sooner or later. First, something must be done to bring rev'mues close to spcxiding to wipe out the inflationary gap, which is wasting away the values of savings, life insurance, pensions and annuities, and longterm loans to others. In'la-tion is a major cause of '-s-ing interest rates; lenders must get high rates to make up for the loss of their capital through inflation. Eventuallv higher rates will slow down business to the extent that another recession threatens.

Second, liiglier taxs are necessary to preserve the value of the dollar. By t.akmg a larger .share of its pe>.'ple's income, a government automatically makes what's left more precious.

The current iiropo.-.al to i;i-erease tax revenues u> levy a .surehaigc no present income taxes, both ,)'t .onal and corporate. Bui Iheqc is

another v;ay: by closing the tax loopholes.

The Tax On Bachelorhood The biggest loophole is not, as many suppose, the oil and gas depletion allowance. It is the splitincorqe provision for married people.

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The reason advanced for this was that it put residents of all other states on an equal footing with '.hose in the community property states.

In tho.se slates, all income to either husband or wile belongs equally to both by law, luuiee the total income of both was divided and each

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paid taxes on half, at the lower rates. By adopting the split-income provision. Congress gave all married couples the advantage of the lower rates.

This amounts to higher rates on incomes of single persons; in effect, a tax on the unmarried. It would be politic for any nation to tax bachelorhood if its death rate exceeded its .birtji rate. But, as a look about you wRl show, that is not true in the U. S.

It also amounts to a bridge to married couples to go along with higher tax rates and government spending.

The Depletion Allowance

The oil and gas depletion allowance is still a big loophole, costing the government several billion dollars a year in taxes. It allows oil and gas companies to deduct 27Vz per cent of their income as recompense for the dei'leted value of their pools of gas or oill In practice, a company may invest $1 million in de

veloping wells and then deduct several times the u lul.

In the recent campaign to repeal this allowance, little attention ha.s been paid to the fact that almost all minerals carry similar depletion allowances. In fact, one Westerner is trying to establish his right to a depletion allowance for water he pumps out of his wells. Another big loophole is the capital gains tax. This is of special benefit to the wealthy; wage earners' seldom have capital gains. It benefits stock speculators. In some cases, if a speculator postpones the sale of stock by a single day he may pay only the capital gains tax rate instead of a higher per sonal income rate.

Still another is the exemption of interest on state and municipal bonds. Again, ^his is a bounty for the wealthy. The poor rarely' can afford bonds, which are usually sold in $5,000 units, although there are now some mutual funds baed on tax-exempt bonds.

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