Wdndy, Mtreh 30, 1968

Fire Fighting Sees Big Progress

THERES SUCH A THING AS BEING TOO CASUAL

Rural fire fighting has come a long way since the days when farm families rang a big bell to ummon their neighbors in years gone by.

Next Sunday should see the culmination of an effort to provide county wide fire protection with the inauguration of a $28,000 county fire alarm system.

In a sense, the rural family will still be calling their neighbors when a fire erupts. Now, however, it will be done electronically through a central board. The neighbors will be the volunteer fire-

men who make up various departments around the county. Except now they will be trained and they will have modern equipment to quell the blaze.

The central system will have other advantages. A dispatcher at the court house can activate the alarm at any station throughout the county. When firemen arrive at the station he can give them directions to the fire. If the fire is a major one, the dispatcher can call in the next closest departments to provide sufficient men and equipment to handle

the situation. The system has the effect of providing 16 fire companies, 43 trucks and 521 men which should prove adequate for almost any fire emergency In the county.

Rural citizens outside the city limits of Greenville, Ayden, Farmville and Bethel can reach the

- central fire control office by dialing 752-5136. Those on a separate exchange can dial operator and ask for Zenith 151. Of course, citizens living within the city

^ limits of Ayden, Greenville, Bethel or Farmville vdll continue to call the telephone number of their municipal fire departments in the event of a fire.

The central fire control system will provide re-

GOP Votes In Western N.C.

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

Reflector Raleigh Bureau

RALEIGH Rep. James C. tJim) Gardner, young Re-pcdblican hc^ful running for governor of North Carolina, is ba^ where the GOP votes are again this week.

Gardner is campaigning in Pie<hnont and Western counties which, all told among tiiose 1 will visit this week, probably have a greater total regista:ed Republican than toy comparable number of

counties in his native East. It is more evidence that Gardner is convinced he must meet and counter his May 4 opponent, J(rfm L. (Jack) Stickley of Charlotte, on Stickleys home ground in the Piedmont.

Stickley meanwhile visited In the Eastern counties last week. He solicited voter support, stated his stand and lashed at the Democrats both in Raleigh and Washington.

But he also conceded that he may be unable to carry the Republican primary vote in eastern North Carolina against Gardner in May and the fact that does not particularly WOTry him. He does think he wUl win both in May and next November.

GOP Concentration

I dont expect to take the East (in the primary), but I expect to neutralize the East,

Stickley told a campaign fund raising dinner audience in Elizabeth City.

He wouldnt concede completely eiier, saying that it remains possible to defeat Gardner in the East Nevertheless, Stiddey explained, only 11 per cent of the states registered Republicans live in counties east of Raleigh, and he feels primary campaign efforts must be concenfrated where the Republican voters are.

But after the primary Ill be down here, he said. For a Republican candidate next Fall this (the East) is where the potential lies.

Stickley claims to have received several thousand pledges of support from Democrats in Eastern North Carolina if he wins the GOP primary.

Stickley Strategy

Stickley believes that next November Republicans can maintain the 44 per cent of the vote received by GOP gubernatorial candidate Robert L. Gavin in 1964. If there is a 12 to 15 per cent swing vote from the Democrats it would give us a very comfortable margin to win the gov-emship, he said.

He repeated that he expects either Lt. Gov. Robert W. Scott or J. Melville Broughton Jr. would be tough in the Fall campaign.

I believe Id have a better chance against Scott. Hes pretty liberal in his thinking. Broughton is more conservative.

Open Meetings Two more state legislative candidates have given firm pledges in favor of open meetings by legislative committees and state agencies. In statements to the Gastonia (Continued On Page 5

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liable service for all citizens of the county when they need fire fighting personnel and equipment. The control will be manned at all times by officers of the Sherifrs Department and callers will thus be assured of prompt attention.

Rural fire fighting has come far in Pitt County during recent years. Gradually rural departments have been organized until now the entire county is covered. Beginning Sunday the departments will be tied together with one central control system and at long last rural residents will benefit from reliable fire protection.

Other Half Of Job Is In Hands Of Courts

The past weekend saw North Carolina add 29 more fatalities to its highway toll; it was the worst weekend of the year.

Additionally, the states traffic accidents counted 150 injured . . . and, the odds being what they are, some of those may die or be crippled for life.

One bright spot:

There were no traffic deaths in Pitt, though the weather made driving extra hazardous, and only two traffic deaths in the other five counties in which the State Highway Patrol *wolfpacks were operating over the weekend.

In our own county, the Highway Patrol made 17 drunk driving charges Friday and Saturday night and 40 tickets were Issued for faulty automotive equipment.

We can only assume tjiis concentrated effort accomplished some good. Statistically, there is reason to believe this. But this weekend was just one of many throughout the year and the Highway Patrol cannot saturate Pitt County roads every weekend . , nor can they continue such intensive campaigns in the other five counties where they were concentrated. So how much lasting effect can we count on?

Only half the job of enforcing highway safety is in the hands of the Highway Patrol; the other half is in the hands of the courts where the cases will be heard.

How well will they meet that responsibility?

By ART BUCHWALD

'Reassessment By Bobby

Some-Still See Neaotiated Ene.

By LEWIS GULICK

WASHINGTON (AP) -Debite the surge in Vietnam fighting, one school of thought in Washington still sees the war as likely to end in a negotiated settlement.

Accwding to this thinking, the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong will find that whatever their other successes they cannot push the U.S. armed forces out of South Vietnam by military attacks and thus the enemy will try to oust the Americans via the pohtical route.

Washington has long avowed its desire to go to +he conference table in the name of peace. Not emphasized, but nonetheless real, is a fear in some U. S. quarters of t h e tremendous cost in American men and money should the war go on several more years.

Thus both sides are pictured as headed sooner or later for a formal peacemakingas

distinguished frMn the ot h e r school of Washington opinion which figures the fighting will fade away with gradual triumph over the insurgents.

Just when real peace talks may come seems to depend on the moment when each side thinks it can gain more from a political deal than from more use of fwce.

The United States is reported to have been ready with fairly specific settlement terms in December 1966only to find Hanoi was not intere-ested enough in talks then to get into serious discussions.

On other occasions North Vietnamese feelers have been turned down by U.S. strategists on grounds that Hanois approaches were no: sincere.

The enemy is expected to avoid serious discussions at least until after they see what happens in the U. S. presidential election.

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WASHINGTON As soon as Sen. Eugene McCarthy won 42 percent of tiie votes in New Han^hire, he received a telephone call from Sen. Robert Kennedy of New York.

* We won, said Bobby.

Huh? Sen. McCarthy said.

We really gave it to them. Gene, and I want you to know Ill never fix-get the role you played.*

Gee, thanks, Bobby. Dont thank me. Ethel and I ware sitting around the living room reassessingwe always reassess on Tuesday, because thats the nurses day offand suddenly Ethel turned to me and said, Why dont you call Gene McCarthy? You havent spoken to him in a long time. On reassessment, it occurred to me that she was right. So I just picked up the p^ne and here I am.

Its good to talk to you, Bobby, Sen. McCarthy said.

Not as good as it is to talk to you. Gene. Tell me

what your plans are now.

1 thought I would run in the primaries in Wisconsin, Oregon, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Minnesota.

Good idea, Gene. I knew Ethel was wrong.

What do you mean, Ethel was wrwig?

She said you looked very tired, and she thou^ the strain of the primaries was getting to you. I told her you were in great health for a man of your age, and you woulcbfl want to give up now. R was probably the television lights that made you look so bad.

Im not tired at ah, Bobby, As a matter of fact, Pm elated. I think I can take Johnson at the convention in August.

That *8 what you think, huh?

Youre dam tootin. And I want you to know, Bobby, if I make it, you can be my attorney general.

Thats nice. Now lets be serious a minute, Gene. If you go after the nomination

Other Editors Soying Prison Needs Real

-orty Years Ago

By FOY H.UNCAN March 20, 1928 Eight Residences Being Built Here

The building of residences in Greenville is continuing at a rapid rate, according to information given out today by George (Jlark, building inspector df the city. Among the house at present under construction in various parts of the city are: C. B. Rowlett, ppurth Street; Hogan Gaskins, Fourth Street; Wal t e r Harrington, Fourth Street; J. J. Perkins, Fifth Street; Sam Haskins, Tenth Street; E. J. Garrett, Elizabeth Street; Mrs. Edward Batchelor, Tenth Street; C. A. Bowen, College View.

Bith Anoouncements

Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Perkins

announce the birth of a son on Monday, March 19th, 1928.

Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Peed announce the birth of a son, Ralph Robert Peed Jr., on Monday, March 19th, 1928.

The Mocking Bird

Once as I sat in a ledar tree, A little bird flew by.

He cried out to me,

Little girl, little girl.

Dont you cry!

I noticed as he flew away He had a broken wing I cried, Please, little bird stay,

You can sing and sing! (By Mary Cole, Cannon Swamp School, Third Grade)

(Sanloild Herald)

Prisons Director Lee Bounds request for a renovated State Prison appears to be based on need substantiated by facts.

No building in constant use for 98 years, as is true in the case of Central Prison in Ra-eligh, could fail to need changes. Among Bounds wroposals is that the main cell block be tom away and replaced with individual cells. We plan too transform the prison into a correctional hospital which would be the keystone to our correctional system, said Bounds when making the announcement the Prisons System will seek funds for such a renovation.

His announcement fits his often - declared statem e n t that the North Carolina prison system is designed to be an instrument for crinrinal correction, rather than a place of detainment wherein prisoners

often learn sophisticated crime techniques which t h ey sometimes employ after being released from l^hind bars. Of course, much more than improved buildings is needed to implement Bounds philosophy, but better use of space and more facilities might further his goal. As Bounds has so dramtically reported before, some of the nighttime sexual attacks and other assaults can be blamed chiefly on the multiple cell block. There is also need of more space to give prisoners proper exercise and additional work opportunities, Bounds noted. He has said such would go far in the promotion of healthy attitudes and discipline.

Most North Carolin i a n s would be glad to see the gloomy look of the front of Central Prison improved, but such a gigantic project may have to be accomplished in steps, not in one biennium.

after your showing in New Hampshire, people arc going to accuse you of being opportunistic aid ruthless. Theyll also accuse you of splitting the party. I dont want people to say thing like that about you.

I dont want people to say that, either.

My people have been reassessing what we coukl do to help you/and I believe weve come up with a solution. If 1 run in the primaries as a smoke screen for you, I will get all the flack, and at the same time if I do well I could turn my delegates over to you in Ccago.

Gosh, Bobby, youd do that for me?

Why not? Everyone knows I have no interest in the election except to see that the best man gets the job. Im one of the few politicians in this country who can take the Presidency or leave it alone. But Bobby, I Jfas looking forward to running in the primaries. It gave me an excuse to get away from those Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings.

Gene, Im not forcing you to do anything you dont want to do. Its not as if Im begging you to step aside. You can do what you damn please, for all I care.

You dont have to get sore, Bobby.

Whos sore? All I say is that if Im man enough to reassess my position, you should have the decency to reassess yours.

Ill reassess it if you want me to, Bobby. But I still want to run.

I told Ethel there was no sense calling you, Bobby said. I should have reassessed this call in the first place.

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State troopers are referring to highway crashes as failures these days, rather than accidents. Failure on someones part to do the proper thing at the proper time. It is just that simple.Rockland (Me.) Courier-Gazette.

.Power

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON - From the first moment last week that Senator Robert F. Kennedy suggested he might run for President after all, supporters of Senator Eugene McCarthy who wily hours before had cheered his gallant victory in New Hampshire began dropping away.

Key members of McCarthys organization in vital California let it be known they would switch their loyalty to Kennedy at the snap of a finger. One national McCarthy leader who on Wednesday said he would stick with him forever by Friday evening was hinting that ht might give way to Kennedy. Even members of McCarthys staff confided that a daal would have to be made with Kennedy sooner or later.

In brief, McCarthy, thwigh incomparably the more heroic figure of the two in the eyes of anti-Johnswi Democrats, is being bowled over by Kennedy power. For all his lack of finesse and style in finally announcing as a cancfidate, Kennedy has what McCarthy does not have and probably can never have: suppwrt in the Democratic party big enough to possibly topple the PresTdent.

Actually, the last few days have seen Bobby Kennedy at his worst as a politician. His own iieutoiants adm i t that if he had just waited a few days to let McCarthy savor the aroma of his New Hampshire victoi7, the impact of his candidacy would have been less abrasive.

Moreover, a politican more skilled in dealing with bis peers than Kennedy would have at least tried to reach some compact with Mc(}ar-thy last week.

Instead, the 20 -minute meeting between the two on Wednesday accomplished nothing, consisting largely of embmrassing pauses dur i n g which neither tpoka Kennedy bluntly informed MoC a r t h y that be could win the nomination from President Johnson (implying that McC^thy could not) but never propcaed a plan whereby the two might wwlc together. Nor, contrary to published repiwt, did Kennedy try to reach McCarthy the rest of the week.

Besides infuriating McCai^ thy, this performance enraged the circle of Stevensonlan Democratic reformers in New York, who never have trusted Kennedy anyway and had been supplying the brains and bankroll for McCarthy. Much more worrisome to Kennedy personally is the bitter dlsaffectioD of the thousands of Eastern seaboard college students whe worked for McCarthy in New Hampshire and now view K^edy as a ruthless opportunist

In addition are anti-Bobby liberals who will stick with McCarthy no matter what the political power realities. lo that category Is former Federal Power Commissioner Howard Morgan of Oregon, who will continue to back McCarthy in his states May 28 primary. Bobby may cet a rudo surprise in Oregon,* Morgaci told us.

But other members of the Democratic establishment in Oregon were drifting to Kennedy even before hfs announcement Saturday. Just before the New Hampshire primary, Kennedy received a (CoDtimed On Page I)

Strength For Today Diet Industry Earning Millions

By EARL L. DOUGLASS

KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM

We have had occasion to remind ourselves frequently that wisdom consists in the right use of information. On the whole well - informed, educated people are upright, happy and useful. Occasionally, however, someone uses his knowledge to sinister ends. He becomes the slickest operator in town. He can show you how to add two and two together and get as much as seventeen. He can devise ways and means for putting everyone under obligation to him to be used later as pawns.

But people who so use their information or knowledge, if we care to designate it thus are rare. Most able and educated people use their knowledge to good ends. They are successful in business. They practice professions to the toeit of their contemporar

ies. They organize movements, they write or (X)mpose they teach. They are first-class citizens and the world is a better place because of them.

But we should always remember that there is a vast difference between knowledge and wisdom Knowledge means accuihulation of facts. Knowledge means acquaintance of facts in a certain specialized field. But wisdom is different. Wisdom consists in the right use of what we know. Abraham Lincoln knew very few facts because of a meagre educati(m, but he became a leader in world history. George Washington was by no means a well-educated man, but he could use what he knew to infinite advantage.

Seek knowledge, information. Get ail of it you can. But remember that it only becomes wisdom if you use your information to right and benfi-cial ends.

By ELMER ROESSNER (ke of the biggest and fastest growing industries today is the diet industry. It involves weight -reducing, weight-increasing, ulcer, diabetic, acne, maternity, nail - hardening, sexual potency, salt-free, heart - saving, vegetarian, athletic and tone up diets. The variety can be multiplied by combinations of vitamins A to Z, and aormones M and F.

The greater number of diets are fw weight reduction Americans are too damn fat Furthermore, they have been scared stiff by talk of fat around the heart, chlores-terol clogging their ^rteries, shortness of breath jnd evtry-thihg up to and including sudden death.

And so they buy low -calorie foods, sugar i;ubstitutes, polyunsaturated fats, sugar-less chocolate bars, dietetic fruits and todays low-calorie

special at some of the more expensice restaurants.

MUlioiis More For Pills

In addition, Americans buy millions of dollars worth of diet -depressant, dehydrating and other pills, cathartics, and snacks to dull the appetite fore more substantial foods.

In fact, Americans are so fearful of fat rolling them into their grave that they will do anything to lose weight except, of course, eat less.

Some psychologist once reasoned that Eat! vas the most powerful selling message in America today, and he may have been right. But the second most powerful message must be, Eat all you want and lose five pounds a week.

That slogan has and will continue to sell all kinds of pills and formulas, even though it is not strictly honest unless the consumer cuts off a leg or swallows a gaggle of taperworms.

MUlions In It

The selling of nostrums, low - calorie foixis, unsaturat-ed fats, uncalorie drinks, other nonfattening foods and get-thin cookbooks must total more than $1 million a day. In addition, various gyms, seat - it-off emporiums, nigh-quackdoctors, health camps

and fat-removing surgeons must swell the total.

There are countless diet books and, more recently, clubs for fatties patterned after Alcoholics Anonymous to help weight shedders. Jean

Nidetch, little mother of t ll f Weight Watchers Clubs, Is reported to be on her way to her first million lost pounds, her first million dollars and her first hundred imitators.

Curiously enough, while people are spending milUons to get rid of their grease, many of the same people are spending more millions to put it on.

For some reason, humans crave fat as much as t h e y fear it. So some sellers are as busy adding fats to foods as others are Ixisy sellkig dietetics.

Almost every restaurant keeps a bowl of melted butter in the kitchen and butter is ladled over each steak and chop. Men think restaurant steaks are much better than those they get at home, usually because their wives dont know enough or are too afraid to pour butter over their grilled meat.