Tlursday, February 15, 196^

Work Projects Require Extra Care

We can sec much street and hifrhway constru-tion work in Greenville and ?itt County during the coming months.

Crews are now working in the Shore Drive area ir;stalling underground facilities and improving reeks.

The Highway Commission is calling for bids on Greene Street and Mumford Road improvements. Ihds have also been requested on improvements to X. C. 11 in the Grifton and Ayden area.

^^'ork will soon be underway on improvements to U. S. 258 in F'armville and Fountain. ^

Bids are expected this year on widening of Greenville Boulevard from U, S. 13-N.C. 11 to Elm Street. Finally bids are expected this summer on the last link in X. (\ 11 improvements from Ayden north to Greenville.

construction imposes.

Those who are in charge t)l the construction should make every effort to keep the thoroughfares open to traffic whenever possiljle. They should see that vehicles are directed around dangerous situations, as the work progresses.

Motorists, in the meantime, should drive carefully where they see the construction underway. Those who travel on the construction routes daily should look for alternate routes until the projcits are completed.

There may well be more road construction uir derw'ay in the near future than ever before in this area. It i.s welcome. But iel's try to make it a safe a time as possible.

Such projects arc a sign of progrc.ss and, while oy will inconvenience the motoring public, most

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Ten Day Perioc.

R> WILLIAM A. SHIRKS

Rollcctor Raleigh Bureau

KALKIGII- Less than 10 d<i\s now remain before the deadline for filing by candidates in the statewide and dis-tri' t primaries this Spriiii.

T ie clock IS running it is likely to be a suspcnscful 10 da\ period.

But to get a complete picture of the May 4 primary lineups, it will be necessary to wait and see whal happtms before high noon on Feb. 23. The scene of action will be the newly decorated, panelled of-fires of the State Board of Flections in downtown Ral-high about a block from the Capitol. It cai. be predicted that a sizable crowd will be on hand along with late filing candidates at the appointed hour.

This IS an c.vrfting time At mo'^t an\thing can happen a? the deadline for politic <1 filings - and usu.dly docs.

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T.iCie have been numTous fxamples of late, spur ot tlic r omenl sort of decisions to ri-n for ofnre from legi.s-1 Aurc to ( ongress and gover-E T in recent years.

In faot, ob.servers believe these last-minute filings have D c nic m ore numerous in re-ele^" n years and thev a'en t wiilmc to predict what n d. hapf>tn on or before h'eb.

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and a subsequent one for the U. S. Senate in 1949 are still felt.

Record Lists

Already there appears to be a record list of primai'V candidates either filed or announced in both the Derhocrat and Republican primary columns.

('ertainly this list will be swelled by Feb. 23 and no one will be surorLsed if major opposition developes in almost all of the principal executive and legislative branch posts which are at stake this year.

In addition to candidates who show up in person at the Flections Board office, others may mail completed applications and checks in the necessary amount to get on the ballot. But the mail applications must realll Raleigh at the prcscrihed time

Furtlicr Delay A fuller delay has been granted by a judge in Wake C ounty Superior Court in a suit seeking to force Uie State Board of Consei vation and Development to regulate the taking of small, immature fish of edible species by commercial traw Icrs,

All regulations in this regard have been .suspend e d since last No.v 1 on grounds that a limitation woull be a hardship on commercial fishermen.

The suit, brought by a nonprofit organization of Salt Water sports fishermen, contends that the taking of such fish, so . called trash fishing is illegal by statute, and that disposition of any such undersized fish taken incidentally to regular and normal fishing operations must be so regulated as to discourage the practice. The plaintiffs contend that suspension of all regulations as to quantity of such fish vio-atps the law and intent of the trash fishing legislation. Without regulation or enforcement, unlimited quantit-:os of small fisH gray trout,

. iser, spot, flounler and r valuable species are -t ov irawl nets and sold I proce.s.sing plants which ' anuf.r'ture fish meal fertilizer pel food and similar pro-

If reflec tori zed Iclmksc platea being uaed by Xorth Carolina prevented 1,000 accidents last year as estimated l>y oHicials, they are well worth the additional money they cost the taxpayers.

A study by the Highway Safety Research Center indicates that rear-end collisions on the states highways at night were reduced by 1,000 or almost 14 per cent last year. The major reason for the reduction, they said, was the reflectorized license plates in use for the first time in 1967. On the basis of that information, the higher cost license plates have more than justified themselves.

The additional 1,000 accidents, had they occurred, would have resulted in considerable property damage. Worse than that, they would have added to the toll of injured and probably to the toll of dead on the states highways last year.

Any innovation ivhleh can reduce by 14 per cent the number of accidents in a particular category sbows clearly it has merit. What the state needs in more relatively simple improvements like the reflectorized license plates.

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By EDMOND LeBRETON

WASHINGTON (AP) - Liberals in Congress and the executive branch are being' forced by unyielding economic pressures to sivarcli their souls on the possioilily of changing .sides on a deeply-felt issue.

The question is whether in-lerest-rate ceiling.s written into some laws can be maintained although inflation and credit demand have pushed much higher the returns that investors car. expect.

President Johnson, certainly not a high-lnterest man by past performance, signaled he had made a painful derision when he recommended in lus economic report that Congress lift the 6 per cent limit on interest charged for loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration and Veterans Administration.

The reaction in Congress was swiftand discouraging to some administration strategists who were reported hoping that at least a temporary lifting of the ceiling could be passed quickly. If Congress does act, there is every in dication it will be only after long, agonizing debate.

The other principal federal provision on interest rates applies to government borrcAv-ing. It siiecifies that longterm government securit'e.s may not carry a rate higher than 4'4 per cent. For more than a decade, secretaries ot the Treasury of both parfies have been recommending in vain that this limit be raised. At present, the government simply can't raise money at 4H per rent.

But the 4'i |)r cent lunit has long been a rallving cr\ fo^ those who believe mi government action to keep interest rates down.

Congress last year relaxed the rule indirectly. It allowca Treasury notes to be issued for terms up to seven years instead of five. Notes are not subject to the ceiling.

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So now what actually are medium-term Treasury securities are selling for more than >4'4 per cent, while the limit remains on the statute books for whatever symbolic valu it may have. The Treasury still cant sell longer-term securities because of the ceiling.

The private market long ago found a way around the FHA interest limitation. This is the almost universal practice of charging a discount, e.xpressed in points or percentages of the amount provided for a loan. Most of this burden usually falls on the Teller. so that in effect he receives less than the nominal cost of a house sold.

Gne of the arguments advanced for allowing FHA !o insure mortgages carrying more than 6 per cent interest is that this would eliminate or at least reduce the use of points.

Opinions in Brief

"One man's word is no mans word; we should quietly hear both sides. Johann Goethe.

You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. George Bernard Shaw.

While the people retain Iheir virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years. Abraham Lincoln.

Late hours, according to a doctor are never good for one. Swell for two, though. Myers (Fla 1 News-Pres.

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HANDS AND FINGERS

Animals differ from humans in man\ respects, e.s-pecially as regards miMital and spiritual capacities. Man also has two appendages called rooms, at the end of which are hands containing five fingers each. These arms and hands have, next to the grace of God Himself, been ! h c greatest of all influences up on human life.

For it is by these little hands and these ten fingers that men build cities. wTite books, conduct laboratory experiments. sail the seas a n d build vast machines which travel through the air Of course, hehipd it all is a brain, and even belnnd t h e brain is a soul, but a r ni s. hands .and fiiigeis have a jilace ine signilname of

which we sometimes fail to recognl/.e.

Look at the Parthenon In Athens, the work of man s hands. Look at the huge cities rising up at the water's edge and at the center of continents. Men made tliesc. To be sure they had to make machines first, but it was their hands that did this those little hands and insignificant-looking fingers which it wo'uld liardl> seem could account tor so much creation. The hands of .Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, inventors and scienti.st.s in all fields these have, under God, made the world 111 which we live

We can cr> out in wondt'r ovt't* tire huge monuments of civilization which now rise up on every continent. But' mans fingers made all this great

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Cleans Up New York

By JAMES KILPATRICK

That, Arnheiter Affair

The Navy has begun to return fire in the Arnheiter case, and a good thing, too for it suggests that the top , brass who have closed ranks in this sad affair are feeling pressures that may yet produce the full public airing that is urgently needed.

For those who just came in: Lieutenant Commander Marcus Aurelius Arnheiter, 42, is the gung-ho naval officer who took command of the U. S. S. Vance, an aging destroyer-picket ship, in December of 1965. It was his first command, after. a brilliant performance as executive officer of the Lf. S. S. Ingersoll. It was also hi.s last command. Ninety-nine days

later, when his ship arrived at Subic from comoat patrol off Vietnam, Arnheiter was summarily removed from command. He has since been beached in San Francisco, and passed over for promotion. His career has been utterly destroyed.

Now, it may seem strange, at a time when so much is going on, for a columnist to return to the Arnheiter case. But if a gross injustice has been done to even one career officerand a great many responsible persons are convinced that Arnheiter is a pethetic victim of cumulative blunder^the story of this one man ought not to be buried in topical news.

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By JOHN CUNNIFF

NEW YORK (AP) - As the symbol of our abundance, as the cornucopia for more than 8.000 farm, factory and laboratory items that 200 million persons need in one degree or another, one might think that supermarket owners were reaping profits.

This they deny. Profit.:; on each dollar of sales range in the area of one cent, says George Koch, president of the Grocery Manufacturers Association.

The 25-cent tip you give the boy for taking your groceries to the car is more profit than the store gets on a $10 order, Koch will tell you, assured that the simple contrast will cause shoppers to consider the unfairness of it.

But, ask why do supermarkets make such a low return and you receive an outpouring of answers outnumbered barely by the variety of products on the shelves. Ask why the marketir g bill is so high and the answers are equally voluminous.

Supermarkets make such a small return, Koch maintains, because of competition. This may be so, for new supermarket construction is more than 1.200 stores a year, and the numoer of households for each supermarket has dropped from 2,300 in 1960 to around 1,800 now.

Nevertheless, the rate or return varies greatly from one supermarket chain to another. TTiis return has ranged from less than one-half of one per cent to more than 2 per cent.

This suggests efficiency may be a factor. Ask the grocery people if supermarkets are efficient and you might receive a reply similar to Kochs, that President Johnson described our distribution system from farm to table as a modern miracle.

Yet, as many shoppers have come to know, this miracle of productivity seems to have

Forty Years Ago

By FOY H. DUNCAN

Feb. 15, 1928 Discuss Child Raising Theory At Capital City

Raleigh, Feb. 15 Development of personality of children, cooperation betw e e n parent and physician, educating parents as well as children and other kindred topics held the second days interest of the North Carolma Institute on parental education, today as prominent educators, phychologists and physiologists, propounded theories tor raising the race a little higher level next generation. . .

Honors Birthday Miss Myrtle Lee delightfully entertained Tuesday afternoon from 3:30 to 5 oclock, fifteen of her little friends at her birthday party. The guests were invited into the dining room which was beautifu 11 y decorated in pink and yellow. . .Valentines were given as favors. . .The guests were

Until this past weiik, the Navy had preserved a stony silence on the Arnheiter case. Secretary Paul Ignatius

was suggesting, deadpan, that dumped its products helter-skel-there was no direct relation- ter on shelves and aisles. In ship between the Arnheiter some stores confusion couldnt case and the abrupt resig- be greater. Prices are stamped nation of Arnheiters articul- illegibly. Products are careless-ate defender. Captain Richard ly displayed. Narrow aisles art G. Alexander, as prospective blocked by brown cartons, skipper of the battleship New Checkout counters are jammed. Jersey. For two months, the And, unforgiveably, shopping official line was that since carts are unavailable.

Arnheiter had filed certain The first rejoinder is to re-legal proceedings in Califor- mind shoppers that whereat nia, the Navy could say norh- they spent 23 per cent of take-ing. home pay on food in 1950, the

Now the Navy is insisting figure today is around 18 per publicly that Arnheiter had cent, or that it takes an Ameri-his day in court, that the can manufacturing worker only verdict against him was im- three minutes to pay for a pressively reviewed, and that pound of sugar, compared with his derelictions abundant- 47 minutes for a Russian work-ly justified the decision to cr.

deny him further command Stores, manufacturers and assignments. Without ques- distributors can take some cred-tioning the sincerity cf these it for this, but not as much as gentlemen, it has to be said they would like. The real expla-that many an outside critic, naticin for this is the growth of after searching review of the earning power in America, case, will flatly disagree. Workers have done as much as

________________ If Arnheiter were so com- supermarkets very likely

ley, Geraldine Harris, Edith pletely in the wrong as the R^uch more to bring this per-Forrest, Francii Stallings, Navy now contendsif the centage down. It isnt necessari-and Marjorie Stampley. The case were all that black lysuj^rmarket efficiency.

against himit is bewilder- maintains that stores

ing that so many respected efficient as the housewife

voices should have been rais- will permit them to be. With all ed in his behalf. Vice Admir- respect, however, this seems to al Thomas G. W. Settle, now confuse services with efficiency, retired after 51 years in the Certainly the shopper would Navy, reviewed the entire ^^'^e to pay more for services, Arnheiter file and gave the certainly should not pay

young officer complete sup- more efficiency, port. Rear Admiral Dan Gal- . the big bill. Since 8,000

lery has angrily described ilcms are available from a Arnheiters ordeal as t h e sicck of 40,000 in the ware-old story of big-shot profes- houses, shoppers these days sionals covering up each olh- have a tendency to load up. This ers mistakes. Vice Admir- Koch corrects undoubtedly al Lorenzo Sabin concurs. Ev- does lead to big bills, en more significant, perhaps, People also are upgrading is the eloquent testimony of their habits. No question about enlisted men who served on it. Per Capita consumption of the Vance under Arheiter. red meats is now somewhere They knew what Arnheiter around 170 pounds a person per (Continued On Page 5) (Continued On Page 5)

A Hie Lee Fleming , Edna Proctor, Argen Dudley, Mary Proctor, Rose feurganus, Margaret Harris, Marion Tyson, Viola Kuter, Evelyn Le-wis, Helen Powell, Ruth Dud-

guests departed wishing Miss Lee many more happy birthdays.

Mrs. S. T. White Entertains In Honor Of Mrs. Long

Mrs. S. T. White was hostess at a lovely bridge party Monday evening, honor i n g Mrs. J. Elmer Long of Durham, the guest of Mrs. Marvin Blount. . .Mrs. Ma r v i n Blount was given a blooming plant for high score. A crystal vase went to Mrs. James Ficklen for the consoiat i o n. The table prizes, attract v e silver flower holders, fill e d with pink flowers, were won by Mrs. L. C. Skinner. Mrs. P. H. Kasey, Mrs. E. B. Fer-uson and Miss Young. . .

Auto Insurance Plan Supportec.

By ELMER ROESSNER

The proposal to put auto insurance on the same basis as workmens compensation has won wide support.

In addition to President Johnson, whose call for re-examination of auto accident insurance gave it a hearty boost, and Sen. Warren G. Magnuson, D., Wash., and Rep. John E. ^oss, R. Calif., who are pushing it on Congress. several insurance companies. notably the Insurance Co. of North America, favor the idea.

Insurance companies support may be influenced by the fact that the Basic Protection plan would create a billion-dollar bonanza in sales of supplemental protection, just as Medicare has created a simi-hir market for supplemental private insurance Opposition .Also Strong

There is strong oppusitu.n.

The Kemper Insurance Group. Liberty Mutual, Allstate and Firemens Funtl have douots. many legal and insurance authorities condemn it.

Outspoken is Prof. David J. Sargent of Suffolk University, once an advisor to Prof. Robert F. Keeton of Harvard, and Jeffrey OConnell of Illinois University, who have drafted the current ''crsion of the plan.

In Trial, a magazine of the American Trial Lawyers Association, Sargent argued that the proposal would save considerable money for autoists only by giving them less protection. It's easy to cut insurance costs by reducing benefits, he wrote, and tfte cheapest insurance is no insurance at all.

'His basic argument is that the plan tends to deny the fn^ dividual the right to go to court to seek redress for in

juries inflicted on him by another.

Sargent declared: The system of justice under which our nation has existed from its earliest days requires that when a man is injured and seeks recovery for his injuries

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from another, he must prove the other person guiltv of ne-ligence, the claimant free rom contributory negligence and the injuries caused by the defendant. ...

This lysteni recognizes the philosophy that a m a ii

should not profit from his own wrong. Keeton and OConneil. . .would substitute the philosophy that it does not matter how you drive your car, you are entitled to recover.

No Balm For Injuries

Sargent also points out that in the Keeton - OConnell plan, a victim would never be allowed to collect for pain and suffering, for such things as the loss of an eye, a leg or facial disfigurement.

He wrote: The drunken driver, the criminal who crashes his car while fleeing from the police, the dope addict, the hot - rodder who participates in a drag race on a crowded highway, the man who intentionally runs through a r e d light or stop sign, all are entitled to recover under the Keeton - OConnell plan, even though they may have caused grievous injury to innorent persons.,