Thursday, April 18, 1968

Aura C8 Mismanagement Prevails gouath may be in for trouble aga^ DqIsY

Troubles in North Carolinas prison system have finally erupted in Central Prison violence that took the lives of five inmates and left more than 75 people wounded or injured.

Whatever the reasons for the violence, it is the kind of thing that should not happen in a prison system; one which smacks of mismanagement on the part of officials and their failure to properly discharge their duties and responsibilities.

What happened Tuesday night at Central Prison in Raleigh must not be passed off as one of those

an accounting to the people of the state by the Moore administration for the circumstances which have brought what at one time was said to be an excellent prison system to this sort of explosion.

The slaying of five prisoners and the wounding of more than three-score others may have been unavoidable at the height of violence in the prison yard. But the circumstances which led up to that point could have and should have been better controlled by those responsible for the prison system of the state. The situation should never have come to

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unfortunate things which sometime occur in pri- the point where the order had to be given to fire sons. There should be a thorough investigation into on prisoners en masse in order to protect the lives the operations of the states entire prison system of guards.

under its present leadership. There should be a de- We do not fnd fault with bringing the out-termined effort to find the underlying causes of burst under control. The fault we find is that the events which led to this shocking climax of troubles situation was allowed o develop to the point that in the states prison system. Finally, there should be it was uncontrollable without the wholesale use of

firearms turned on the prisoners.

There has appeared to be a steady deterioration of the states prison operations under the administration of Gov. Moore. Crimes of violence amng prisoners themselves have seemed to increase. There have been instances in which it appeared that the prisoners rather than those responsible for the prison system, were deciding what would go on within the prison system of this state.

As chief executive of North Carolina, Gov. Moore shares the responsibility for what happened at Central Prison Tuesday night. As the states chief executive, he must shoulder the responsibility to see that swift and effective measures are taken to correct the states prison problems at their source, not again with guns in the prison yard.

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

RALEIGH Chronologically. J. Melville Broughton Jr. announced first as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for fiovemor this year. He announced first, officially, on a day back in early December but knew even then that he was late and running behind.

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It was and had been a well and widely known open secret that Lt. Gov. Robert W. (Bob) Scott would be a candidate for the governorship in 1958 and, althoL-gh unannounced. was already running.

It may be recalled that a prime political question last Fall was whether Scott would be opposed in the primary in May.

Two opponents came forth Broughton and Negro dentist Reginald Hawkins of Charlotte. Finally, in February and without altering his campaign schedule, Scott made his formal, official announcement.

Catching Up

The 1968 Spring primary campaign thus began on a rather strange, unusual turn of events.

Twenty years earlier, Scott's father, the late Sen. - Gov. W. Kerr Scott, announced late and somewhat surprisingly. He went on to win, defeating Charles M. Johnson ii the primary of 1948. and was elected governor. Many politic! strategists feel that there is some psychological advantage in such late announcements. If so, the advantage this time may be Broughton's.

It is true Scott v.aited. But there w'as no element of suspense nor surprise. His intentions were known.

Brou^ton was the late comer, and since his decision his campaign has been basea on catching up with Scott and hopefully forging ahead by primary election day, May 4.

Making Strides

Apparently he has made strides in this direction. Poli

tical observers agree almost unanimously that Broughton is running well and has made gains.

In some areas of the state it is oelieved that Broughton is ahead and is likely to lead the ticket in a number of counties on election night. But the worry in the Broughton camp is simply, will this be enough? There appears^to be no thought at the moment to the idea of a second primary but this could change if it appears that conditions are right for such a move. It is recalled that Scott went into a second primary run-off in 1964 against H. Ciifton Blue of Aberdeen and Blue gained substantially during the second primary campaign.

At present, however, Broughton strategy appears confined almost entirely to winning on May 4 and looking no further. Broughton's strategists hope to win with a coalition of moderate and conservative Democrats similar to that which gave the present governor, Dan Moore, a landslide victory in a second primary in 1964. In the first primary, Moore ran second to L. Richardson Preyer of Greensboro and Dr. I. Beverly Lake was third. The Lake support went to Moore in the run-off.

Rotation Ignored

The word rotation' is missing from conversations about this years political campaigns in North Carolina. It used to be quite important. Xow\ most observers feel it is fading from the scene.

Geography apparently is no longer a factor. The present governor, Dan Moore, is from western North Carolina and he succeeded Terry Sanford of Fayetteville. The old rotation rule would dictate that the ne.xt governor be from the East but no one has made much reference to such a rule, nor tried to impose it. Two of the five major candidates contending for gubernatorial nomination on May 4 are Easterners, Mel Broughton of Raleigh and Republican Jim Gardner of Rocky Mount. Lt. Gov. Bob Scott is from Haw River, in Alamance County, which is as much East as West. Two others, Jack Stick-ley and Dr. Reginald Hawkins are from Mecklenburg County which is Piedmont, and neither East nor West. Politically, however. Mecklenburg would be considered west.

Airport Improvements Are Bringing Results

We are pleased to see that industrial aircraft are making use of the improved facilities at Pitt-Greenville Airport.

A Lear Jet set down at the airport Tuesday afternoon on a business call. Airport officials say aircraft traffic is building so that eight to 20 planes are landing each day.

There have been considerable improvements made at the airport in recent months. A new administration building is in use. Improvements are being made to the runway approaches, a new lighting sy.stem is being installed along with a new revolving beacon. Equipment is being installed which will make instrument approaches possible.

Someday, we are certain. Greenville will have scheduled air line service at Pitt-Greenville. In the meantime more and more use of aircraft is being made by busine,s and indu.stry and it is good that the airport is being improved to handle them.

Mergers Pose New Questions

By JAMES KILPATRICK

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The U. S. antitrust laws were based on the simple concept that competition is in the public interest.

So if there are two banks or grocery stores, or newspapers, or whatever in a town and one buys out the other, government the theory ran has a right to look over t h e deal and perhaps intervene.

The world is more complicated today. What should government do when conircnted with the conglomeratae merge now so characteristic of economic life?

Suppose a distillery, for example, buys a copper tubirg plant, a chemical firm, a textile mill and finally some raw, wooded land to hedge against inflation. Is competition diminished? Is a dangerous economic concentrad o n created? Is it any of governments business?

Congress is moving, though not too rapidly, to consider these problems. R.s concern came to the surface in t h e Senate - House Econom i c Committees annual report.

The majority report urged the Federal Trade Commission and the Presidents Council of Economic Advisers to probe deeply into the ramifications of the growing concentration of econoinic power flowing from the increasing conglomerate mergers.

The Econoinic Committee has no power to produce legislation but serves as a sort of front - runner for the legislative committees. Its jQb is to pinpoint issues on which they may decide to act.

The report noted that some of the provisions of pres e n t tax law actively encourage mergers.

For example, a company that has been running deep in the red may be an attractive buy for one that has beer, piling up profits and expecdJ to continue to do so. Losses can be carried forward and offset against gains, significantly reducing taxes.

Then again, a string of subsidiaries, each enjoying t h e lower corporate tax rate on its first earnings, mav pay less tax than a single company earning the same total amount.

There is also the problem of family-owned enterprises. The principal owner dies and the government claims its estate taxes. Sometimes the h e i rs, pressed for cash, find the best solution is to sell out to a large firm.

In a supplementary report, an old enemy of mergers, Rep. Wright Patman, D-Tex., went further than the majority. He urged that the Cabinet Committee on Price Stability join the Federal Trade Commission and Securities and

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It may come as a terrible shock to white liberals and to anxious politicians, but the new Civi! Rights Act of 1968 has won them no ap^auae from important elements of the black jommunity. Floyd McKissick, James For man and Hosea Williams, all of whom stand high in the blade power movement, ^>peared on a television program. Each of them denounced the law.

In a sense, that makes it unanimous, for sizable elements of the white community are equally critical, if for different reasons. McKiaaick, Forman and WilUama were especially incensed by the anti - riot section of tie act, but they seemed almoat as furious at the open housing provisions- Their ^ry was for black power in wholly bl a ck communities; the prohibiton upon discrimination in housing struck them as an insulting manifestation of the white liberals belief that the way to make a Negro happy is to provide him a house next to a white man. That angry view needs to be understood.

McKissick, Forman and Williams are militants. Their antipathy to the new law may

not be shared by moderate elements of the Negro community. Nevertheless, McKissick heads the Congress of Racial Eiquallty; Forman is the leader of what remains of the Student Non - Violent Coordinating Committee; and Williams is one of the top inheritors of Martin Luther King s Southern CTiristian Leadership Conference. When they join in a diatribe against the act, and warn that this peanut of a bill, in Wittiams description, will not begin to satisfy black demands, they are voicing a passionate dinent Let us keep it in mind.

Meanwhile, conservatives object on other grounds. This clumsy, ambiguous and overblown act is the paste pot product of politics In the Senate and something close to panic in the House. The bw gives the Constitution another twisting. The circumstances of the House vote will serve to encourage rioters. The refusal of the House to subject this long and complex bill to orderly committee stu<h* is a travesty upon the legislat i v e |H*inces8.

Title VIII of the act, a 21-page section patched together

Other E(ditors Saying Welfare Proposals

Strength For Today

(Kinstan Free Press i

Dr. Ellen Winston, former Commissiooer of Welbre in NcwTh Carolina and the first U. S. Commissioner of Public Welfare who retired from that post last year, has (^fered a proposal for welfare legislation reform which merits a cloeer study by the Congress and the varite states.

She wants to relax the restrictions on earning to the print that a m(x*e nearly adequate income can be assured for recipients of welfare. She is also on record as favoring measures which would encourage the recipients to earn their way out of t'ne dole as rapidly as possible.

Her proposals are not drastic (M* new. The late Senator Robert Taft had similar ideas, and both of our most recent presidents have advocated similar legislation.

There is need to make the complex system work better. Her plan seems to be one to cut red tape and permit more incentive efforts within the program. Whether her plan can be enacted into legislation in an elcctimi year in which politicians are more sensitive to votes than to reforms, we do not know. What we do know is that Dr. Winston has had as much experience in the field as anyone now in the public eye, and she has no axe to grind. Her contributions, if approved by the Congress, coiild crown a significant career of public service with the machinery for greater gains to the taxpayers and th>se whom welfare serves in every state, county and dty in America.

It is at least worthy of a closer look by the politic ant and the public.

on the Senate floor, opens with this statement: It is the policy of the United States to provide, within constitutional limitations, for fair housing throughout the United States. The phrase, within c(mstitu-tional limitations, is a curious phrase. Did the framers of the act have some doubt of their authority under the Constitution?

They certainly should have had such doubts. Title VIII is predicated, presumably, upon the commerce clause and the Fourteenth Amendment; but the commerce clause never on this earth was intended to convert the local sale of local real property into a form of commerce among the several States. The Fourteenth Amendment prohibits acts of racial discrimination by States, their agencies and subdivisions. It never was intended to prohibi acts of ra c i a I discrimination by private citizens.

Put the constitutional questions to one side. That is where they seem to wind up anyhow. The House aelcd under t!-. heat of emotions brought to a boil by L e death of Martin Luther King. Such an event, however tragic, however deplorable, ought to play no part the writing of sta-tut7 law. The House acted .jiat four days after an oui-rageous orgy of looting and burning in the capital. Ten thousand pious disclaime r s from cmigressional lead e r s will not overcome the impression of ' iory thus ki. ' ... ;r. the rioters minds. Was this what it too to get a fair housing law? A little looting, a little burning' Well, Mr. Speaker, what shall we bwn in May?

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Guess were old-fashioned, naive, and everything else that isnt modern; but it is hard for us to understand why anyone who is an American, who has spent hit life here, who has read and seen conditions in other countries can, for even a minute, give in to the civil disobedience occurring across the land. Childress (Tex.) Reporter

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By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK CHICAGO Behind a facade of neutrality, Mayor Richard J. Daleys Chicago Democratic organization and oer-hapi Daley himself would lika nothing better than handi n g the Presidential nomination to Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey at Sen. Robert F. Kennedys expense.

Daley, who practices politics with oriental inscrutability, gives few public clues of his intentions and has ordered his lieutenants to maintatn the same neutrality until the national convention here in August. But based on chanca remarks by the Mayor to fellow Democrats, nis attitu d a may be described in this way: He still does not rega r d Sen. Eugene McCarthv as a serious contender and loo ks upon the nomination as a Humohrey-vs.-Kennedy struggle. By implication, he tends to favor Humphrey over Kennedy but would support him only if he looks str<r.ig enough not only to win Illinois against Richard M. Nixon but carry in a lackluster state Democratic ticket (whose weakness is partly Daleys responsibility).

That, in effect, req u i r e s Humphrey to keep up with Kennedy in the polls which now seems a long shot. B u t even a long shot possibility that Kingmaker Dickk Daley would throw to Humphrey his support and with it almost all of Illinois's 118 delegate votes is enough to chill Kennedy's national strategists.

These strategists, privately contemptuous of many paity leaders presiding wer decaying organizations, have maintained a wary respect for Daley. Realizing that D a 1 e y's choice could be the conventions nominee, Kennedv keeps in close contact with the Mayor. Moreover, he tells friends he believes Daley now regards his candidacy favorabiv.

But Bobby Kennedy w o u !d not be the first politiaan to b misled by Daleys old fashioned courtesy and garbleo syntax into thinking that he was city balls beloved. Indeed, Daleys comments to colleagues in the organization indicate less than rapture for Ken-nedey.

Daleys involvement in the strange confrontation in early March between Kennedy and President Johnson over a proposed commission on Vietnam is a case in point. The Kennedy camp believes Daley, who first thought up the commission idea, is upset with the White House for leaking the story. That may be true, but Daley is even more upset with Kennedy.

In conversations with friends, the Mayor complains that Kennedy publicly reore tented the commission idea as Eialeys and that Kennedy proposed possible commiss i o o members to the President which, Daley protests, was not his plan at all.

To avoid offe.nding the Mayor by seeming to pressura him, both the Kennedy a n d Humphrey camps have adcpt-ed a strategy of discounging Illinois endorsements. One important Democrat here was cont*mnlatfn an endorsement of Kennedy when Profess o r Richard Wade of the University of (Chicago, a veteran political activist helping run Kennedys Illinois campaign, asked him not to.

But the high pressure that always accompanies Kennedy politics somehow has '.mothered th^ Since K e n-

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By EARL L. DOUGLASS CLERGY AND LAITY

Nehemiah stands out as one of the great characters of the Old Testament. One of t h e books of the Old Testament bears his name. He was a layman who in a day of confusion and strife rebuilt t h e walls of Jerusalem which had been destroyed when the Babylonians carried the Jewish people into captivity.

In the seventy years which the Jews spent in their Babylonian exile many of them rose to positions of importance, first under Babylonian rulers and afterwards under those who succeeded the Babylonians. Nehemiah was cupbearer to King Artaxerxes. One day as he served the king the royal master noticed that his valued servant was sad to the point of melancholy. U> on inquiry he found that it was because his beloved Jerusa

lem lay unprotected to the assault of enemies who were determined to wi{^ it out of existence. Nehemiah theref ore requested that he be allowed to return to his beloved city, rebuild the walls and establish the life of its people in safety.

The scribe Ezra had been there twelve years before Nehemiah arrived. Ezra doing the work of a priest, and Nehemiah the work of an energetic and far - sighted layman, put walls about the city and led the people into a knowledge of Gods providence which they had previously not possessed.

They both constitute fine examples of how the clergy and the Iglty may work together in every age to upbuild the Church, to protect the basic requirements of morality, to lead their fellowmen out of darkness and into the light of stability and progress.

Beware Those Chinchilla Claims

By ELMER ROESSNER Suddenly youre offered a chance to bec(ne rich. You answer an ad or a ring at your doorbell and are told that if you raise chinchillas in your spare time you can make a fortune. Chinchillas, of course! One of the most expensive furs in the world, the super-soft, super-luxury skin of that helpful Utile animal, the chinchilla! You can be chinchilla king or queen of your neighborhood and youll have no more financial worriei, except about paying taxes on your lush, lupb income I Bqt when the eloper, the man assigned to get your name on the dotted line, comes around, you can tell him;

It is not commercially feasible to raise chinchillas in your basement, garage or spare room. Unless such pea

ces have the necessary environmental conditions, it is not practical to bred chin-chillaf on a commercial bases.

Breeding chinchillas requires specialized knowledge obtained through actual experience.

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Faulty Multiplication Tables

An initial breeding stock o: four females and four males will not produce 16 live off

spring the first year, 64 the second, 208 the third, 640 the fourth and 1,936 the fifth year.

These progeny will not produce pelts selling for an average price of 125. Some wont sell at all; others will sell lor substantially less than $20.

Chinchillas are not hardy animals and are susceptible to pneumonia and other diseases.

You can quote the Federal Trade Commission as your authority. The FTC made these findings in accepting a provisional consent order by which William N. Beesley Jr., of Springfield, III. ggpeed to stop using faipe clalmi in advertising his chlncbifi# breeding stock, although he did not not concede he had broken the law.

Other Charges Made

The FTCs complaint was not confined to these general

observations on the care and feeding of chinchillas, but added that Beesleys stock did not have a market value ol up to $350 each; that his females would usually produce less than four young a year; that a starting stock of eight chinchillas would not produce a gross income of $12,000 at the end of the fifth year; that his stock was not unconditionally warranted to live for three years and reproduce; that buyers did not r^jve in-spectimi service three nmes a yegr, that purchapefs wer* giveo little fitfdgnct, and that hli bMpiitops waa not a fUlld or aspoclgtion, aa tdvertlsed.

The FTC did not go into problem of the purchaser who just couldnt send her darling chinchies to slaughter at any price.