January 26, 196ft

Schools Needs Not Being Satisified

A survey by the Uepsrtment of Public Instruc- arc provided, lion on school classroom needs in North Carolina of- Through bond issues iii recent j ears fers another peg on which to hang a proposal for has helped' meet the need for school buildings year-round utilizatiou of public schools. throughout North Carolina. Some federal funds

The siirvev also points up the fact that in spite have likewise found their way into capital outlay le school construction going on, the need for programs for schools. At times there have been indi-a.Mi cHtion.s thnt local ffOvernmenUs have been too anxioui

of the

classrooms still is not being ^satisfied.

According to the survey, there are 5,087 mor classrooms needed in North Carolina than are scheduled for completion during this year. To make mat-worse, six per cent less classrooms are sched-

cations that local governmenUs to wait and see what the state or federal governments were going to do about meeting school construction needs before moving positively to provide local funds for school construction. In many eases the result has been long delays in meeting seliool

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nled for construction this year than last year. . . . it

Operation of North Carolina* schools on a 12- needs, and the ultimate investment of more local

h basi.s would not, of course, eliminate the need funds than would have been required had the ta>K

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for additional classrooms. It would m time, however. reduce the total number of classrooms needed. Over a period of years it would mean less investment required in buildings to meet the neds of \ oung people of the state.

Be that as it may, it will he some time before North Carolina goes to a year-round .school operation even on an experimental basis. In the meantime. giTHter efforta must be put forth at both the local and state levels to see that additional classrooms

been undertaken earlier.

If the building needs of public .^chools are to belnet. more funds from both state and local .government sources must be directed into school construction. When local povemment wait on the state and vice versa, usually everyone suffers . . . particularly tho.ie youngsters who want and need a good public school education.

Gains Made

Nuclear Bomber Crash "yi Bound To Be Dangerous

FROM LB..V STATE OF the UNION' SPEECH-

AN INTERESTING POINT-

?ercy

Avoids 3attle

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK CHICAGOAfter months of indecision and debate in his own camp, Senator Charles H. Percy has all but decided against an attempt to make Illinoiss 58 delegates to the Republican National Convention unmistakably his own.

That means Percys favorite son candidacy will rest on a delegation selected not by him but essentially by the regular party organization, whose first loyalties are distinctly not to Percy. Thus, Percy is sidestej^lng an outright battle, testing his popular appeal against the creaky party organization.

Moreover, the significance of this tentative decision transcends Percys position here. Just as he chooses not to struggle for the Illinois delegation, so is he less likely to enter the Oregon primary on May 24. As a Presidential dark horse, Percy is now in low gear.

. This signifies a victory for

the softs among Percys advisors, members of Percys own staff in Washington and Chicago who want Percy to be a passive candidate who could become the choice of the moderates only after both Governors George Romney and Nelson Rockefeller had a shot at it. The hards. principally friends outside his staff, have urged him actively, though not openly, to pursue the nomination.

The clearest focus for this struggle has been back home in Rlinois, where the Bourbons who run the regular party organization have always regarded Chuck Percy as an over-liberal upstartand always will. Beginning last f in rtomp spring, Percy discussed with

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seem to get the ball rolling, sibility of putting up Percy-Their strategy has been iist-(Continued On Page S)

CONGRESS CAN REPEAL THE SURTAN

WHEN the: need is FVv,G5ED

umberton Area

Bv WILLIAM A. SHIRES Reflector Raleigh Bureau

LUMBERTONA network of good, smooth roads sweeps across the gentle, piney-acent-ed hills and fertile, winter-browned fields south of t h e Cape Fear and an Interst ate highway .speeds the travel e r toward South Carolina.

But, here a few miles north of the border, lies the thriving and growing seat of robust Robeson County a neat, clean and busy community of many new homes, church e s. stores, banks, shopping centers, restaurants and motels Lumber ton.

It is the financial and trading hub of a large, puls i n g area covering parts of both stales lying between FaycUe-vilVe and Florence, S. C.

Still pnmarily rural m makeup, Robeson County alone has a population of 100,-. OOO and in addition to Lumber-ton there are more than a dozen smaller towns in the covm-t\.

C D Meeting

The Importance of Lumber-ton itself as a financial and trading renter, as a place to work and shop, as a nucleus of an expanding almost exploding economy is evident.

ft was seen first hand this week by the states Board of Conservation and Development which held its winter' meeting here. C&D members artl offlcials shuttled between fine headquarters motels on the outskirts to the complex of spacious new buildings in the downtown area and looked at Lumber ton closeup.

Approximately 40 Lumber-toa firms and organizat i o ns joined the local chan^r of commerce in sponsoring foclal events, tours and other activities. The weather wm per* feet for golf, and the hosts explained that mild. temj)er-ati cUmate even in January is not unusual in southeast-ere North Carolina.

This is one reason, al o n g with mlltble labor and water supply, plentiful hous I n g and capital that industry is moving in and expanding in Bill section of the state.

Remarkable Gains

'Hiere have been remarkable industrial gams in Lum-berton and the immediate area in a relatively short time.

Hector MacLean, who Is president of Lumberton's burgeoning Southern Nat I o n al Bank and a state senator, says we are very pleas e a and encouraged by substantial economic growth. He cites instances of fantastic success on the part of Industries which have chosen good locations and found necessary labor and applied skilled knowhow to manufacturing and marketing.

One example is a nati o n a 1 rubber and automotive products concern which has' employed a high percentage of Robeson County Indians in its work force here because of their dexterity and man u a I and mechanical skills.

WFXtAM

It is uncerUin how much the crash of an American bomber loaded with nuclear weapons influenced voters in this \veeks defeat of the pro-American Danish government.

It is certain that the accident on a Danish possession carried considerable impact. Demonstrations liy young Danes in front of the American Embassy, comment from the governments opposition, and the Soviet Unions description of the incident as a dan- u ai ROYLE

gerous accident, bear this out. ^

Despite the Pentagons assurance that there i.s no danger of a nuclear explosion from the lost H-Bombs, such accidents are, indeed, dangerous.

Not only does there remain the chance, however remote, of nuclear explosion, but the United States may have lost much in the way of international accord.

When In Doubt-Punt

Can Only Guess Korea Motives

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Another outstanding example of growth is that of a firm here which makes bags and has developed a process f o r covering them with woven synthetic material. Such waterproof and not resistant bags are in great demand by the military forces in Viet Nam and eisewhtre for sandbagging, bulkheadUig and other uses.

Regional Meetings

The Lumberton meeting of the C & board completed a series of sessions held in each of the various geographic regios of the state in which CSrD established regional industrial development offic e s in 1%5.

The schedule has included ses'^ions in .Asheville, High Point. Salisbury. Gastonia, Goldsboro, Morehead City and the Spring meeting, in April will be in Raleigh.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (.\P)-Trying to guess at this moment what the North Koreans and the North Viet n a m e s e Communists are up to is like trying to guess why Santa Clause always looks fat. Its a bit of a fantasy.

The reason is simple; Nothing positive has been disclosed yet about the motives behind their most rece.it actions.

This week the Nortli Kor-eons captured the USS Pueblo, a Navy intelligence-fathering ship loaded with electronics, and her crew of 81 plus two civilians off the Korean coast. You really need a crystal ball on this one.

One idea comes to mind Immediately: That the rapture was part of a plot worked out with North Vietnam to add to the pressure on this country to make jirare in Vietnam, for otherwise it might be faced with a war in Korea, too.

But before any guess is sensible one question has to be answered beyond dispute, and that hasnt happened yet: Was the American ship in international waters, where she would have a right to be, or was she in Korc'in t( rrito-rlal waters, spying on Koren** Theres not much ri o u bt about the spying. The ship was equipped for that The North Koreans sa' liie Pueblo was in their tc -iior-ial waters and 's-ucl what they say is a .'onfes'-ion' by the American skinper, C UKlr Lloyd Mark Bucher, fidmit-ting his ship was .snyi.ig within Korean territorial waters.

'The Defense Departm e n t quickly called the al'e,.^ e d

confession a travesty on the facts and that, judging by the kind of language used, Bucher couldnt have written the kind of statement attributed to him.

But at the White House President Johnsons press secretary, George Christian, was something less than positive about where the ship was.

To the best of our information. Christian said, it was in international waters. He refihsed to be more positive.

This brings up the memory of the American U-2 spy plane shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960 during the od-ministration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. This government ot first denied the plane was on a spy mission, tried to say it was simply fathering weather informotion.

The Soviets had too much evidence and a few days later the United States admitted the plane had been spy i n g. But the guessing on this Korean episode is peanuts compared with some of the guessing about North Vietnam.

For weeks, perhaps months, there has been this kind of guessing:

North Vietnam believes public feeling in this country is so intensely antiwar that Johnson Is bound to be aefe iled in this years election and that then maybe business can be done with his Republican .successor.

Until then., as this particular guess sees it. the North Vietnamese have decided they must continue the war doggedly. But theres a s o f t spot in this thinking.

Of the four Republic a ns talked of as possible presld-(Continued On Page 5)

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WASHINGTON - Well, ladies and gentlemen, this has been quite a football game.

The heavily favored Johnson Regulars are leading the Democratic Dissenters 56 to 12, and although were still in the lirst quarter, there d o e snt seem to be much chance of the Dissenters overcom i n g the Johnson Regulars lead.

As you know, the winner of this ball game gets to play in the Presidential Super Bowl in November, 1968, and all eyes are focused on what is BUCHWALD happening here today.

Leading the attack for the Dissenters is second - string quarterback Gene McCart h y of Minnesota. The first-string quarterback, Bobby Kennedy, a transfer student from Massachusetts to New York, is suited up but is sitting on the bench. A doubtful starter because he was afriad of being permanently injured, Bobby has been working out with the team in practice, but no one knows if hell get into the game.

That cheering you near in the background comes from the Dissenter fans section of the stadium. In case you cant understand what theyre chanting, its We want Bobby, We want Bobby. Bobby has a blanket around his head as if to drown out the chant.

BUT IT CAN'T REPEAL , INFLATION !

Regulars doesnt seec to be to bothered by the McCartny offense. As a matter of fact, during the game he substituted the regular defense captain, Bob McNamara, and put in Clark Clifford to repl ace him.

While Clifford has n e v er played defense before, he got a rousing cheer when he came into the contest.

There havent been too

During the first qucfter, every time Gene McCort h y was thrown for a loss, he got up and looked over at the bench as if to inquire if Bobby were going to come into the game. But so far these has been no indication that Bobby is goi.ng to play.

Coach Lyn Johnson of the

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Other Editors Saying Medical Center Propose

(Spring Hope Enterprise)

Eastern North Carolinn-in-deed, the whole state, niigiit well listen to what a family doctor from this section <a past president of the State Medical Society! has to say about establishing a medical center at East Carolina University.

It is a fact that the pressed medical school at ECU would be a tremendous under* Ukiog. oDt oostiog more than a million in dollars andr 15 in length of years before Its first graduating class could be turned out. That'd bo v e r y well for the future, but wliat about now?

Dr. Amos Johnson of Garland proposes that a medical center, rather than a medical school, be organized at ECU.

There, post - graduate medical stvKients could take advantage of existing medical facilities in Greenville f o r their residency and internship.

Also^ as Dr. Johnson suggests, they could enga^ in the family - type practice of medicine so needed in the eastern part of the state.

In addition to preparing young men and women for the medical profession, this would bring new citizens into our section of the sUte. For if we, sell ourselves as w-e should, these doctors wi 11 want to set their roots here, so hoR can we lose

Let's forget the EC U has-vsle and work together to improve both East Carolina Uni-wrsity and the lot of our peoples by working toward this medical center.

By FOY H. DUNCAN

Jan. 28, 1828 Health Men To Speak In Greenville

On next Tuesday night, Jan. in the court house at 8 o'clock, a public meeting will be held in Pitt County for the purpose of explaining to the people of this community the pressing need for hospital attention for colored people. Dr. C. OH. Laughing-house. secretary of the State Board of Health or Dr. C. H. Byerly of the State Sanitor-ium will make an address. . . The purpose of these addresses will be to show the needs of hospital attention for many indigent colored people of this section. . . .The Duke Foundation is ready and willing to assist in building and equipping a first class hospital for the colored people in this part of the state. Some philanthropist in the north are ready to help in a financial way toward establishing a hospital for the colored people. . .

Billy Sunday Coming Here During April

Plans for the evangelistic

campaign to be conducted in this city by Rev. William Sunday, widely known evangelist, continued to assume more concrete form today with the announcement of the coming of Mr. Sunday not later than the week of April 22nd. . . .

Marvin Sugg In Hospital

Fridnds of Marvin Sugg will be glad to learn that he is getting along nicely following an operation for appendicitis which he underwent this morning in the local hospital.

Miss Windham Undergoes Tonsil Operation Miss Bonnie B. Windham underwent a tonsil operation at Pitt Community Hospital this morning. Her friends will be glad to learn that she is getting along nicely

Celebrates Twelfth Birthday

Louis Campbell Boyd, son, of J. M. Boyd, was host to an enjoyable party yesterday at Parkersons Dining room where he celebrated his twelffli birthday. . . .There were twelve guests and Master Boyd received a number of useful gifts.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS WE CAN ALL MAKE OUR GIFTS

For the artist Raphael, lifes greatest pleasure consisted in painting pictures depicting religious themes. Just before his last illness he finished his famous painting. The Transfiguration. As he lay dying he requested that it be brought in and hung above his bed. His body lay in state with this magnificent piece keeping guard, as it were, above his bier.

His way of praising God was by painting pictures. Few people have this gift. Raphael used his natural endowment in a magnificent fashion and we can believe that God rejoiced in the beautiful offering which the great artist was able to make. But He rejoices also in the self-effacing life of some humble, hard - working woman who pours forty years of love and toil into the lives of children and grandchildren* That father whose one ambition has been to establish and maintain a home in which his children will grow up to be sons and daughters of the living God has not made as note-worty a gift to God as did Raphael, but he has made just as good a gift.

Yesterday there died a very young child, and everyone said she had passed away before she had a chance even to get life started. But in the wide end overarching providence of God, we can well believe that she too made some gift, and that it was pleasing to God.

pledged candidates for every convention delegate to be selected in the June 11 primary-

Admittedly a gamble, the Percy offensive would have had a fair chance of success. Tlie creaky Bourbon machine turned out less than half the 1964 primary vote for Barry Goldwater and is oadly out of touch with grass roots Republican thinking. Furthermore, a Percy victory would have asserted once and for all both his independence from and superiority over the Bourbons.

But it would have been a blood bath, Percys soft-line advisors emphasized, insuring everlasting war with the Bourbons. As time has passed with no preparations made to form a Percy delegation, the decision is being made by the calendar (though, at least theoretically, the effort is still possible).

Working behind the scenes, Percy forces will still fight the election of blatantly anti-Percy delegates notably Phyllis Schlafly, the notori-ious right - wing pamphleteer. But in the absence of a state* wide Percy drive, Mrs. Schlafly is odds-on favorite to win (despite opposition from the regular organization as well as Percy).

Since the Bourbons who will be selected for delegates through the party process will do Percy no favors, his favorite son candidacy now rests solely on the good favor of Senator Everett McKinley D4rksen and on support from the man likely to be nominated for Governor Ric-chard Ogilvie, now president of the Cook county (Chicago) board.

As we have reported, Ogilvie is a pragmatist more in tune with Percy than ttie Bourbons. But he consideri (Continued On Pagel)

The Gold Drain Isnt Endec.

By ELMER ROESSNER Some discontent is rumbling over President Johnson's program to halt the gold drain. Most Of the business community is going along with it Some executives are unhappy, but almost all agree that something must be dow. Many travelers and their agencies are unhappy. The travelers dont want to be restricted or taxed, and the agents fear a cut in profits.

Many opposed to the Vietnam war, perhaps calculating that if LBJs program f a i Is, .'\merica will have to abandon the South Vietnamese to the communists. One n()ted cartoonist has drawn Pres i d ent Johnson acting like a lunatic and labeled "balance of payments obsession,

Obsession Lets see what might happen ii nothing were

done to check the outflow of gold.

In 1948, the United Sta t e s held $24.5 billion in gold and today holds $12.4 billion. At that rate of decline, the U. S. would hold zero goW in 1886. Decliae WeaW Be Faster

However, if our gold stocks remained on a come-and-get-it basis, the decline might be much faster. If foreign holders of dollars saw the goW backing disappearing, they would rush to convert their paper into metal.

Without gold to back the do lar, the dollar abroad yrould be<X>Tne just what it is at home, a bit off paper. Its buying power abroad w o u Id decline just as fast as it has in the U. S.

This would make everytiiing wt exported bring less in stronger foreign currencies. It

would make everything we imported cost more in terms of dollars.

We might come to the point where we were exporting shirts and transistors to Japan and making suits for

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Hong Kong businessmen. Hiat al least would bring back a little gold.

The U. S. would have to reduce foreign commitments. We could no longer help Euro^ defend itself against Red aggression nor aid the i r e e

people of Asia. Vast a r e a s might fall under communist domination.

International Effects 'The weakening of the dollar would also cause a weakening of many foreim cunenci-es. The loss of gnM backing would be an automatic devaluation of the dbflir. Other nations would race oi in devaluing their own currencies. The situation ml^t become similar to that in Europe a!-.ter World War I, when the tapj rencies of the hnpoveritdiM terms. Figure out what that nations beceme worthless or almost so.

Even worst, because Russia appears to have a htige stock of gokl all the Western nations would have to deal with the Soviet under its terma> FtpRW out whalt hat would lead to.

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