Thursday, January 18, 196f

Preserving The Historical Setting

PINNING HIS HOPES!

Deteigning the new Bath po.st oilice to match the re>iurcu i'almer-*Mar.sh lluube is a step in tiie right direction for preserving the rich historical heritage uf^that Eastern North Carolina community.

Tne Post Office Department has announced the special design for the $17,t) leased facility

in historical Bath.

The announcement said the post offices front exterior will closely resemble the Palmer-*Marsh house which was built in 1744. Windows will be identical and an aesthetic chimney will match the Palmcr-Marsh chimney, even to its cap. A white painted wood siding will be used with doors, windows and shutters painted a dark green. The roofing will he covriTd with wooden shakes.

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES Reflector Raleigh Bureau

HALEIGHPicture a political candidate, pink cheeked and bareheaded, striding purposefidly down a snow and i(T covered street on his way to make a campaign speech.

Imagine another waiting in shivery cold at the mill gates to shake hands with workers at the early morning change of shifts. *

And still another who trudges fo .r miles on treacherous snow-cousied ice to pay his filing fee for re-election after finding hi.s car won't start.

Apparently neither wintry fleet, snow nor freezing temperature in January deters a determined politician from making his self-appointed round.s.

Acthity Goo* On It slows them down of course, and if.s sometimes mighty inconvenient for the candidates, their campaign managers and workers.

But while much of the state was plunged into a deep freeze by last weeks icy bla.st. a lot of political activity went on. In fact, the early 1968 campaigning picked up steam.

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Almost everybody else was stalled. But somehow the major candidates were managing to get around asking folks to come out and vote for them when the weather is better and the flowers are blooming next May.

Roads were icy and dangerous, schools were closed, electric pow'er and telephones were out in many areas. Surprisingly, however, very little of a political nature was cancelled.

Few Cancellations There were formal announcements, press conferences, rallies, speeches, statements. handshaking tours and the like, despite the weather.

A few non-campnign political events wierc postponed.

The state Democratic Executive Committees scheduled meeting last Friday was recessed when only about 20 of the 198 committee members showed up in Raleigh. Also, a dinner honoring First District Rep. Walter Jones had to be postponed.

Taking Slands Of more .significance was the fact that the major candidal es for governor lx*gan stating views and= taking stands on important matters.

Two of the five now engaged in primary campaigning made their forma! announcements last week, Lt. Gov. Robert W. Scott and Negro dentist Dr. Reginald Hawking of Charlotte, both Democrats.

Hawkins, 44, is believed to he tlie first Negro candidate for governor since Reconstruction nearly 100 years ago. lie said he will stress greater opportunities for Negroes, equal housing opportunity, liquor by the drink and a tobacco tax.

Scott, at a posl-annouiicc-nient news c'onference, said he pt'rsonally opposed liquor by the drink but would not oppose local option referendums on the question if the legislature approves them.

Questioned Sharply Siott faced a series of barbed questions from students at UNC-Greensboro on the subjects of academic freedom, racial equality, higher education and instant universities.

In reply, Scott stres.sed the responsibility of the Univer-.sity administration and tru.s-tees to provide more guidance in on-campus activities and affairs and spoke of .self-discipline in university circles.

He said his policy toward Negroes is that Negroes are citizens of North Carolina, no more and no less. He said he would prefer a permissive law to allow local governments to act on open housing questions rather than a state law requiring open housing.

On the question of converting four-year colleges into universities without adeuate appropriations to make them universities in fact, Scott said it is not my intention to make higher education the crusade of Bob Scott. Public education at all levels needs help and he favors a balanced program of greater support.

tion will be muuntetl on a placiue in iroiit of the building wliii h will match the Historical piaiue in front of the Palmcr-Marsh house.

The Town of^ Bath/goes back "before the birth of llu* nation. It wa.s incorporated on March 8, 1705 and served as the meeting place for the General Assembly from 1744 to 1752. It wa.s the site of the Pomouik Indian town of Cotan at the time of Sir Walter Raleighs first expedition to Carolina.

A start has been made in retaining and restoring the invaluable historical sites in Bath. It is to be hoped that more wdll be done in the future and that some day Bath might rival Williamsburg *as an his* torical lourist attraction.

It is most desirable that the new post office to be constructed there is designed to harmonize with the historical atmosphere.

Its For' Boys, Though Adults Sharing Growth

{Something near 400 adults close to Scouting gathered in Greenville the other night. They came from 21 counties in eastern North Carolina: some from quite a distance.

The fact of the gathering wa.s, in the long view, a mighty tribute to the people who attended. Though it wasnt intended that way at all.

The meeting of the East Carolina Council (BSA) was designed to review accomplishments of the past year and to lay the ground for more accomplish-menl.s in 1008, Their field of work lies in the mind.s and liodies of Ihou.sands of boys.

For each adult attending the rouncils annual meeting there were many who con Id not.

The honors that were accorded could only scratfb the surface of devotion to service to boyhood,

\\'hat Scouting does for a boy is .something special; .])iit what it does for a man must be very special, too.

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NEW YORK AP) -Since (hi.s is the most dangerous of centuries, youd think that as a .safety measure every baby today would be born with a button in its lip.

This would help ft to avoid that greatest of human perilsa big open mouth.

Most woes dont |pst happen to people. They are made to happen. People talk themselves into trouble because they dont keep their traps shut. They insist on saying the wrong things at the wrong

This Date--40 Years Ago Today

By FOY H. DUNCAN Jan. 18, 1928 Tobacco Market To Close Here On January 27

H. B. McGinnis Attends Chapel Hill Conf?rence

Registrar H. B. McGinnis of East Carolina Teachers College, is in Greensboro and Chapel Hill in conference with the administration of the University of North Carolina and the North Carolina College for Women.

timesas if they had an inborn appetite for diaster.

For example, if you really wish to enjoy a carefree 1968, here are a few remarks to avoid that can lead only to trouble:

Let me skate across the lake first and see if the ice is thick enough to hold us. Its only 10 miles moje. Im sure theres enough gas in the tank to get us that far.

You dont scare me one little bit, Buster. My motto is, the bigger they are the harder they fall.

All right, lets take it to court. If you dont like it. so sue me.

If you burn your draft card, ill burn mine. We can always tell tlie government we were just kidding.

Well, Madge, this is Leap Year. Who have you picked out to be your victim? If theres anything else you want done, boss call on me first. If theres anythinf^ I hate, its just sitting around twiddling my thumbs.

Lets put an announcement on the bulletin board telling our employes right now that if business continues this gold we expect to de-(Continued On Page 6)

Strength Today

They, buried Charlie Settle last Wednesday at the Baptist Church in Woodville. He was the last man on earth you would hive picked as a prospect for heart attack, but it hit him on Sunday and that was it. He came from a vanishing breed, Charlie did, a whooping crane of a man, and I write of his death in sorrow.

Charlie was an Independent American. They are rare birds in our time. He stood just under six feet tali, slim as a snap - bean, with a long sad face that always looked as if hed slept in it. His teeth were terrible, half of them missing and those left dark - stained, but you forgot all that when he smiled. It was the happiest smile you ever saw.

We first met Charlie in the spring of 1966, when so m e work had to be done on the place. The problem was pre

sented to Mr. Burke, the patriarch of Scrabble Dlstr i c t, who runs the store and Esso station at Woodville. He gave us our first lesson in country manners. We had said respectfully that we w'anted to hire someone to get a few things done.

You look up Charlie Settle, said Mr. Burke. He's working on a wall down the Slate Mills road. But dont > ou say you want to hire him. You ask if hell help you.

So we drove down the Slate Mills road, sun - drenched in an April morning, the uog-woods white and the streams cut-crystal, and sure enough, Charlie was working on the wall. He didnt look up, just kept laying stones. It took twenty minutes of irrelevant conversation the w i n t e r past, the spring present, the art of building wails, the hopes of the Baltimore Orioles

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Pitt County Woman Called Back To China Missionary FTclds Miss Venetia Cox, daughter of Dr. and Mr.s. B. T. Cox of Wintcrville, has been called back to her missionary work in China. She has been studying this winter in New York City, having been furloiighed home until political conditions in Ciiina Ix'came manageable. She will sail for Hankw, China, from Seattle, Washington, February 13th.

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Honor Roll Of (ireenville High School

St'iiiors; Lillian Hardee. Lo-i.s Herring, Eloise Hyde, Ruby Jenkins, Margeret Patrick, Rebecca Scoville, Mary Washington, Loui.se Winslow, Evelyn Wright.

Juniors; Thelma Cherry Rosa Dail, Louisa Hooker. L(> ui.s Skinner, Edna Strou(ie. , iviphomores Joe Dix'on. Lala Brantley, Louise Clarke. Frances Harvev, Minpi.e Horne, Laura iornon. Ca-tlierine Utley, J. D. Swain, Warren Scoville.

Freshmen: .Margaret Clay, Helen Clark, Dmry Settle, Joseph Walker. .Margaret Tll)-

By EARL L. DOUGLAS

WHERE DO YOU LIVE?

Some months ago the dead body of a woman was discovered in the basement of a palatial home. It was her home, for she was very wealthy. Upstairs the closet in her dressing room was filled with the most exquisite garments which had been purchased at great cost. Her home was beautifully furnished. Yet for years she had been a recluse. She had not lived in the upper part of her home during all these years, but had a pallet in the basement. Of course slie had never worn any of the fine clothes. She was in rags when they found her.

All this is highly symbolic of the way many people live in fact, it casts reflections 0.1 the way we all live. For we all have opportunities of which we never take advantage. We have all missed qiit to a certain extent hi t le living of our lives at higher levels. Multitudes of people live, morally, in the basement. although they were taught right from wrong in their childhood and have fine backgrounds. A beautiful mansion with gorgeous appointments awaits them, but they never live in tliat mansion They live in the basement.

Evervone who is not liv-

Dcar Citizens of Pitt County:

Words can never adequately express to you our deep and abiding gratitude in making the 1867 Pitt County Operation Santa Claus campaign a tremendous success.

Because of your genero u s giving, the mentally ill and retarded patients at Cherry Hospital in Goldsboro and Caswell Center in Kinston received more than 6,000 gifts.

Too, a special Thank You goes to Phelps Chevrolet for the use of a truck in delivering the gifts to the .hospitals before Christmas morning and to volunteers who helped collect the gifts, count them and pack them in boxes and bags.

While the Pitt County Mental Heath Association is endeavoring to send thank - you notes to all who gave of their time, energies, gifts and money in making Operation Santa Claus the huge success that it was, we are sure that many names have failed to reach our list and many have given who prefer to remain anonymous.

We are taking this means of communication to say Thank You again. Because of your unselfish efforts to

help others, we know the joys experience(i by the recipients of your gifts will complement the work toward improv e d care and treatment of the mentally ill.

Most sincerely, Mrs. Charles Kavanaugh, Chairman 1967 Operation Santa Claus Pitt County Mental Health Association

To The Editor:

First, let me commend the valiant and efficient efforts made recently by the employees of the Greenville Utilities Commission to prov i d e service to the residents of Greenville during the inclement weather.

Second, I should simply like to state that recent a(lversiti-es should convince the City of Greenville of the advisability of starting a concerted and sustained effort to put all power and telephone lines underground. Though such an effort would be expensive, it would improve service and do much toward improving the appearance of the towns ageing and less attractive areas.

Yours trulv, John S. Fletcher, II Greenville

before the delicate subject of employment could be approached. But finally, yep, said Charlie, he would come on a Tuesday and see what he could do.

As it turned out, Char 1 i e could do anything. He c o :i Id paint a house, frame a ooor, pour concrete, patch a r o n f. He could lay bricks, spread linoleum, run a wire, prune a tree. He could plow a garden, build a fence, ditch a road. There is an art to splitt i n g logs; Charlie knew it. There is a way of rolling stones, using the weight of the rock against itself; Charlie knew it. He could kill a hog, te.nd bees, set a trap, put poison in a groundhog hole. He c o u Id spread gravel, move dirt, mow weeds, make a motor run. He was a master at building walls of stone. But where he had taken his Ph.D. was in springs.

A city boy has no real measure of his ignorance until he undertakes to fathom the working of a spring. You have to have a sixth sense of how water moves, deep in the earth; how it finds a spring rock, and how it lies under the spring rock; and then you have to know carefully, carefully just how to free the water, guide it to a re.ser-voir. bring it to a pump. Now in winter, and the fields frozen, the minds eye turns to Charlie in the summer, shin deep in mud, his shovel like a magic wand, gazing with pure intensity at the slow trickle that became a steady stream., thick as your wrist. Theah she is, he would say. Tlieah she is.

Charlie fixed his own wages: Two dollars an hour, flat. It was too low, we said. He would not be budged. If he made more money, hed start to worry about it; hed get tied down to property; pretty soon hed be borrowing and get in debt. Then hed have to work. Damned if that was any life for a man. So Charlie fixed his hours, too. He would show up for three or four days, then go fishing, or putter around his own place, or work for someone else in greater need. He was a free man.

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Nixon Weak" Ground

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

LINCOLN, Neb.Even in this Republican heartland state, where Richard M. Nixon won his largest single majority in the 1960 Presidential election, his 1968 Presidential campaign rests on a far from solid political foundation.

A Nixon - for - President committee, headed by a hardworking political amateur, insurance executive George Cook, is now filling out i campaign organization for the May 14 primary that divides the state into ten areas and will have a Nixon chairman in each of the 93 counties.

But the outcome of that primary is a foregone conclusion: Nixon will win, and probably win big. That is not Nixon problem at all.

Nixons problem is that even here the question js being asked with embarrassing persistence can he beat President Johnson next November, no matter how well he does in Nebraska and the other Presidential primary slates this spring?

Cook himself conceded as much to us.

I know lots of Republicans who want to support (Gov. Nelson) Rockefeller because they think he can be elecied President, Cook said. We have to convince them Nixon can also beat Johnson.

Rockefeller wont be in the Nebraska primary. Even if he makes an early conversion from non - candidate to candidate, a strong possibility if Michigan Governor George Romney takes a pratfall in the March 12 New Hampshire primary against Nixon, Rockefellers first potential prim a r y contest would be in Oregon, not Nebra.ska.

Thus Nixons well - organized effort here, destined to cost $75,000, could turn out to be largely meaningless no matter how many votes he gets. A Romney loss in both New Hampshire and Wisconsin, the first two primaries, would lead to a Romney withdrawal. The only name on the ballot here other than N i x o :is would then be non - candidate Governor Ronald Reagan of California, who has flatly informed Nebraska Governor Norbert Tiemann that he will make no campaign at all.

So it is not the primary that can be blamed for Nixons shaky foundation here but the skepticism both of Republican rank - and - file and of party leaders.

Shrewd Charles Tone, for example, was one of che earliest Nebraska backers of Barry Goldwater. During his two-year stint as state party chairman in the early 60s, he pleaded with Goldwater to run for President in 1964. Thone, in short, is not unrepresentative of the power structure of the Republican party here, untainted by tie to the Eastern Establishment. And Thone today is absolutely uncommitted.

Moreover, several months ago, in a tete - a -tete with Leonard W. Hall, Romney's campaign manager, Thone made clear that one factor motivates him today election of a Repirt>lican President. Translated, that means he wouldnt have any trouble accepting Rockefeller.

Tiemann, who is a Republican liberal by Nebraska old-guard standards, is also uncommitted. In a 90-minute chat with Nixon in Nixons

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nhappY Over Policy Reaction

By ELMER ROESSNER

Neiman - Marcus of Dallas, perhaps the most famous and most expensive store in the world, is unhappy about the reaction to its public announcement that it would prefer doing business with suppliers that are actively a.nd' sincerely pursuing a policy of equal opportunity than to continue to do business with one which is not.

Those were the words of Stanley Marcus, president, in a letter to 2,000 resources.

Few suppliers stood up and cheered. Some, such as Martin B. Kohn. president of the National Retail Merchants Association and chairman of Hochschild, Kohn & Co., Balti-

ing up to his best self '{j^-fllore, said It has the anfor-living in the basement. Eve-"*' tnate implication of an en-

rv man or woman-^vho hesitates to renounce evil, to repent, to accord forgiveness to enemies. and to ^ accept (iirist's offer of better life. u> living in the basemertt.

forced boycott. . . .Business has no right to enter the area of policing.

Typical of smaller companies. Wally Pilzer, president of the-George Pitzer buying of

fice in New York, said: Tliis is an unwarranted interference with the internal affairs of producing companies. Marcus VP Disappofoled

Edward S. Marcus, executive vice president and brother of Stanley, told me, I am disappointed at the reactions of fellow retailers. Few were willing to go along with the Nieman - Marcus plan to ia-v()r suppliers who adopted a policy of equal opportunity, which in the vulgate means training and hiring,Negroes, Puerto, Ricans and Mexic:ina.

However, Marcus freres may be heartened by the statement of Joseph L. Hudson, Jr.. president of J. L. Hudson, Detroit, who told tne National Industrial Conf ere nee Board ihat merchants must provide more employment for Negroes, and by the warning of Charles Y. Lazarus, president of F & R. I.azarus Columbus. Ohio, to the N. H. M. A. that retailers are sit

ting on a volcano that can erupt unless more Negr oes are hired.

Humanitarian, Not Political Stanley Marcus told me that his firms aim was entirely sociological.

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I asked him if it planned to broaden its boycott to g o o ds from De Gaulles France because of its attack on the dollar. Will you keep your buyers out of Europe?

No, he said. Our purpose is not political. It is purely humanitarian. We want to encourage the employment of the under p r i v i 1 eged

groups.

I asked if this meant no boycotts of the Greeks, new gripped by a totalitarian junta, or of Sweden, Holland and other countries offering havens for American deserters.

Our effort is strictly humanitarian, not political, he repeated. We are trying to encourage the creation of opportunities for minorities. Then I threw him a curve. Mr. Marcus, will your policy extend to the few suppliers on New Yorks Seventh Avenue of whom it is said that no Christians can ever can gain top positions?

Ideologically,look at it the same way, be said. We believe that it is vitally important to extend opportunities to all undei^vileged groups, regardless of their race or religion. But I dont think that situati(m is critical here.

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