Wednesday, April 24, 1968

A Question Of Sufficient Concern

LANGUAGE BARRIER I

It is not surprising that 27 North Carolina counties were placed on the hunger list by the private organization which recently completed its survey of malnutrition and hunger in the United States.

The surprising thing is that more of the states 100 counties were not on the list.

Pockets of hunger exist almost everywhere in the American society, wealthy as it is. Hunger and

Although Pitt was not one of the 27 North Carolina coi|nties designated in the survey, there are those right here in this county who suffer from chronic malnutrition. There are children and adults in every community of this county who go to bed and get up hungry more days than they eat their fill.

The survey may serve to single out'particular states and counties for special emphasis, but the

malnutrition afflict individuals in the wealthy, pro- problem of poverty, hunger and need exists in every gressive cities of the north and midwest just as community across the nation. The survey may sti-people in rural areas of the south suffer from those muate some national effort to cope with this prob-afflictions. There is hunger in wealthy, sunny Cali- lem. but in the final analysis the problem must be fornia just as there is hunger in green, gaudy Florida, dealt with at the local level if the hunger and mailt is rather amazing that the organization known as nutrition are to be eliminated, the Board of Inquiry into Hunger and Malnutrition in Certainly those counties in North Carolina not the United States, listed only 256 hunger counties listed in the survey would be foolish to think they

in 20 states in its nation-wide survey.

Disputes Drawn Nearer Accorc.

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES Reflector Raleigh Bureau

RALEIGH It appears from all available indications that wide ranging disputes between the states commercial and sports fishermen, marine industrialists and ocean consvationists are being drawn nearer solution and agreement AcceptaWe comprom i s e may be worked out sometime this summer on the highly controversial issue of regulating and restricting so-called trash fishing.

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The fisheries committee of the State Board of Conserva-decided to hold a special meeting between now and August to hammer out a new regulation aimed at discouraging this illegal practice. By law, the intentional taking of the young of edible fish be-rfore they have attained size Sufficient to be of value as individual food flsh prohibited. The C&D board, its committees and adjuncts have been embroiled for several years in controversy about regulating the catch and disposition of under-sized food fish taken incidential to nOTmal commercial fish i n g pperati(is.

Limits Asked

The current controve r s y blew up when regulations limiting such catch and landings of trash fish to 25 standard fish boxes per vessel per day were suspended in October, 1966.

Since then, there has been no C&D regulation on quantity of so-called trash fish landings nor disposition beyond prohibiting any payment for them to crewmen of the vessel.

Sports fishermen and conservationists call this a spurious and devious regulat i o n which means nothing because the crewmen are salaried employes and the (praters and owners of the vessels have financial interest in the indus

trial fidi processing plants. These are the plants which process trash fish90 per cent of them undersized food ifshinto fish meal, f*tiliz-er cat food and other jm-o-ducts Kx* non-human consumption.

Landings Listed

So - called unclassified fish landii^s Jie quantity used in indiistrial Processing is estimated from six to 12 million pounds annually. In 1967, 5.5 million pounds was landed in Carteret County alone.

U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service figures show that for all of 1967, landings of fish and shellfish at North Carolina were valued at $8.8 million. Ninety-fve per cent of the volume of 219.6 million pounds of reported landings was menhaden, meaning ttiat approximately 26 million pounds was edible food fish. Apparently more than 20 per cent of this was so-called trash fish.

In the meantime, total fish landings were down by 11 per cent from 1966. Most of this, of course, was a decline in menhaden. Officials are blaming the decline in menhaden catch on overfishing.

Only three fish dehydrating (processing) plants were list-^ as licensed in 1967 in Carteret County. One of these. Seashore Packing Co., Beaufort, was licensed as a menhaden plant. The others were Clayton Fulcher Seafood Co., Atlantic, and John Wesley Smith, ^a Level.

Apparently these two plants received the bulk of nearly six million pounds of trash fish delivered to the Carteret industrial fishery.

Fulcher Is Oi^>osed

Gayton Fulcher of Atlantic has been and remains one of the most outspoken opponents of regulation and restiction on the catching of undersized food fish. He and other Carteret County commercial fishermen and (tealers spoke at length during a meeting of the C&D fisheries committee this week in Raleigh, uring that no restrictions nor regulations be imposed pending further study.

J. C. White of Fayetteville, president of the N. C. Salt Water Sports Fishermens Assn., cited a report indicating that scientific studies on the question of ultimate effect might require 20 years.

Can we wait 20 years? White asked.

do not have some citizens who go hungry day after day. They would be short-sighted indeed if on a local level they did not seek out these people and give them assistance to overcome their prsent plight.

This applies to Pitt, which was not listed as a hunger county, just as it applies to its neighbors Greene, Martin, Beaufort and Wayne which were included in the list.

To adopt the attitude that this is not a problem is to ignore facts which exist almost universally across the nation. The real question is whether, on a local basis, citizens will be sufficiently concerned to do something to alleviate the problem.

Greenville Gathering Is A Special Occasion

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It is a rather unusual occasion for Greenville to be the site for a meeting of the national sales force of a major manufacturing concern. That is happening here this week, however, and it should ARJ BUCHWALD not go unnoticed.

Members of the sales division of Empire Brushes, Inc. gathering in Greenville the next couple of days for a sales meeting and conferences at the local plant of the company. For many of these people, it is their first visit to Greenville although they are familiar with the Greenville products they have been selling for several years.

Empire Brushes has been a corporate citizen of Greenville for some time. Since the plant was

Nelson And The Draft

WASHINGTONThe Republican Draft Board is now in sessiwi. Whose case are we hearing today?

tiHvc 3 fellow by the

constructed here a few years aeo. the number of name of Nelson RockefeUer." hmpire employes and the size of its payroll in Pitt Send him in.

Countv has constantiv increased. So too has the num- Mr. Rockefeller, I see by ber of product line items of Empire Brushes which our records that you are reare being produced in the local plant. In recent months a major expansion program has been undertaken at the Greenville plant.

It is a oleasure for us to join with others in welcoming to Greenville officials and nersnnnel of the marketincr division of Emnir* Tn/ Ive a

questing your draft status be reclassified from 4-F to 1-A. Were curious about why you want to be classified 1-A at

marketing division of Empire Brushes, Inc.

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By BARRY SCHWEID

WASHINGTON (AP) - Just last May the Supreme Court made chopmeat of the idea that juvenile court judges are a sort of substitute parent, entitled to punish or condone as they see fit.

Juveniles accused of crime, the court said, are entitled to be judged by the same constitutional ground - rules as adults are.

Neither the Bill of Rights nor the U. S, Constitution is for adults only, Justice Abe Fortas said then.

On Monday, however, the court turned around and assigned a parental role to the states in deciding what juveniles may read or see.

The 6^ decision, written by Justice William J. Brennan Jr., amounts to a clear victory tor the censors and an utter rout for civil libertarians. It puts government in the business of deciding what is moral and gives government the right to declare illegal what it finds immoral.

Bren n a ns pronouncement for the court reaches this end by building on the proposition that the well - being of its children is of course a subject within the states constitutional power to regulate.

Since society and constitutional interpretation have recognized the authority of parents to direct the rearing of their children, the next step was that parents and

always wanted to serve my country, sir, but when I asked to be 4-F, did it because I didnt want to split the Republican Army. But Ive decided now that with all my friends going in, I would be considered a draft dodger.

Thats very interesting, and we certainly admire your change of heart, but we see in your folder that you have said that you dont want to fight in the primaries. How could you be a good Republi

can soldier if you dont want to fight?

I do want to fight, but I believe in just wars against the Democrats. If I fought in the primaries I wouid be trying to kill my brothers, and this is a matter of conscience with me.

Nelson, we had classified you 4-F because you had been married twice, you were a member of the Eastern Establishment and you refused to campaign for our dearly beloved Gen. Barry Gold waiter in the Battle of 64. We still consider you a security risk.

Im a loyal Republican and I would do anything to be drafted. Give me a rhance. Weve got a tough battle ahead, and you know the Republican Army cant win it with Richard Nixwi.

.Nixon is an experienced soldier. Hes fought in many campaigns. Its true hes lost a few of them, but I would

like to remind you that old soldiers never die. at least not as far as the Republicans are concerned.

I didnt come here to beg, but if you dont draft me, Ill never be able to face my grandchildren. Im a poor man, but Ill sacrifice everything if you give me this one chance.

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teachers are entitled to the support of laws designed to help them do the job.

All this means that states have a green light from the Superme Court to suppr ess sales to nnnors of whatever books and magazines a majority of the legislators decide

are to, rich for young blood. ^ 'Pq RemeiTlber

Other Editors Saying

The same probably holds true for movies, though the decision in a New York case wasnt explicit.

Since the same Supreme Court decided last term that girlie magazines cant be kept from adults, the result is two sets of rules, or what is called variably obscenity. 'The reach of the First Amendment depends on the age of the reader.

Once again, the subject of censorship fragmented the court, and the frayed nerves showed.

Justice Potter Stewart, who in some recent instances has taken a strong f r e e-speech stand, voted with the majority, saying there was no need for a doctrinaire, knee-jerk application of the First Amendment.

Some 35 states now have laws or provisions of laws designed to shield juveniles from sexy or violent reading matter or movies. Though the decision dealt only with New Yorks special law, apparently all the states have to do to pass the courts censorship test is to take a leaf out of New Yorks law books.

(Dnrham M<iiing Herald)

The end of the Liberty ship era draws nearer with sale of 22 more of the old freighters for scrap, and since all the vessels in the latest transaction lie at anchor in the layup basin a cross the Cape Fear River from Wilmington t n e announcement carries special interest for North Carolinian-s with a bent for nautical history.

Although the sale does not close out the Liberty era, which in a recent Maritime Administration report still had 187 vessels to go during the next three years, it does mark the end of the line insofar as North Carolina is concerned. The 22 are the last of the many that figured so prominently in the forest of masts at one time so numerous in tiie mothball fleet on the Cape Fear.

A few at a time they wili go under tow to the Port of New York for scrapping at Kearny, N. J., until the last has departed at an unannounced date. Their consignment to the scrap heap, with a price tag of approximately $45,000 each, also will remove

some famous names hev bear from the shipping roster, among them: Confederate

Gens. JcKeph E. Johnston and George E. Pickett; Adoiph S. Ochs, late publisher of The New York Times; Button Gwinnett, a signo- of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Hart Benton, the artist; Robert Fulton, the shipbuilder; Dwight W. Morrow, financier and diplomat; and Henry Ward Beecher, the Brodclyn clergyman and reformer.

The Liberty ship (2,684 were constructed) won her claim to fame in the World War II emergency. Simple in construction for mass production, she was slow in speed but good in capacity and served well. T.hc free world will long reme.m-ber her. Some of her sisters sold to other nations to help replenish their merchant fleets still sail the seas, even as the U. S. government.s last old Liberty ships await their fate. An era may be drawing near an end, but the Liberty ship role m keeping the free worlds supply lines open in a perilous age will be l(Mig remembered.

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By EARL L. DOUGLASS world? We do not have to be J- V V V L J. KJ

Nelson, a few months ago you were going to volunteer to fight for the Republican Army. Then, at the last moment, to everyones surprise, you burned your draft card and announced you were a conscientious objector. How do you square that witii what you've been telling us today? I had a change of hean. I was all ready to go in, but I was talked out of it by my friends. They -.aid, Dont volunteer and then theyll have to draft you. So I decided .not to go in. Bu: 1 didnt realize it was so hard to be drafted. I talked it ov er with my wife and she said. You'll never be happy if you dont get in the war. So thats why Ive come down here today. Nobodys more raring to go than I am. I even bought my own ammunition.

You still havent made a good case for wanting to be inducted.

I can beat the Democrats. With me leading the Republican Army we could get the liberals and the Democrats to surrender. I could end the war in Vietnam and bring law and order to the streets of America. I am a symbol of economic stability. Besides, no one knows what I really think about most of the issues of the day. You have to admit thats a plus Nelson, we will reconsider your case, though at this time we cant give you any assurance that youll be drafted. Go back to your home (Continaed On Page 5)

^Revolt

Savec. A Party

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON - A bidden, deeply significant political byproduct of the open housing fight was the first effective left - of - center Republican revolt against Rep. Gerald Ford of Michigan since he became his partys floor leader in Januray, 1965.

Had that revolt not succeeded, the civil rights bill and its open housing provision would not be law today. It picked up 77 badly - needed H o u se Republican votes in the key vote April 10 (against 106 who stuck with Fords leadership).

Apart from civil rigbts, the revolt was a landmark in the murky Republican Dolitics of the House. It was led not by badly out-numbered liberal Republican Congressmen, consistently though not effectively In revolt against the Ford leadership, but by Fords own kind of pragmatic conservatives, The ringlead-s were two erstwhile Fwd Ueutenanti: Reps. Charles Goodell, 42, of New York (himself a member of the partys regular House leadership) and Albert Quie, 44, of .Minnesota.

Their open defection broke the pattern of Lhe past decade. The House Republicans have been the Arabs of Capitol HJl, deposing leaders from time to time in lightning coups but maintaining a facade of unity. Under these ground rules, it has been acceptable to plot against the current leadership by night but the most heinciM crime to vote agamsi it by day.

A handful of Republican Congressmen who balked at this voting discipline (nostly. but not exclusively. liberals) formed the Wednesday Group. But most ambitious young members, like AI Quie and Charley Goodell, played the game. While maintaming vci-ing records of party -egulari-ty, they helped 'ngineer the coup that gave Ford the leadership.

However, Fords brarxi of leadership, while sufficiently partisan and aggressive to forestall any coups, had quietly grown less satisfying to Congressmen desiring a new national Republican image including Quie and Goodell. Over the past year, they have been producing their own alternatives to Democratic proposals ideas that became labelled collectively in the House Republican cloakroom as the Quie - Dell approach.

That approach collided head - on with Ford last December on the poverty bill when the Quie - Goodell poverty package was scrapped in favor of a bare bones approach. But the point of revolt was not reached until this year when Ford decided against accepting the Senate-passed open housing scheme.

Ford was backed by the entire leadership, including the powerful Rep. Melvin Laird of Wisconsin except for Goodell. Their support was overwhelming among rank-and-file Republican Congressmen, reflecting their own lily-white small - town and rural constituencies.

With this backdrop, Quie and Goodell quietly put together a team of Republican Congressmen to fight the leadership. Rep. Bradford Morse of Massachusets, driving force of the Wednesday Group, was the only member of tne original Quie - Dell cadre with a conservative voting record less than 50 percent.

The others were Clark MacGregor of Minnesota, Howard (Continaed Ob Page S)

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SELF - RESPECT

There is no attitude more necessary to the upbuilding of a satisfact^fry life than seli-respect One may be praised by community and nation, but if down in his heart he does not believe that he is worthy of at least some portion of that praise, then he is in a bad state of mind, capable of attracting to hismself every conceivable form of calamity.

The basis of self-respect is honesty, and especially honesty with ourselves. Do w have ourselves figured out. and if so, is the estimate at which we arrive fairly accurate? Are we sincere? Do people take us at our word and do we speak and act with the conviction that we are definitely on the square with ourselves and the whole

decorated heroes to be courageous. Many a humble woman and many a teenager and many an old person trying to rise above weaknesses of advancing age are just as great heroes as the armed soldiers who lunge acros.s a piece of terrain which some enemy has rendered indescribably dangerous.

We all need to become aware of the heroism by which we are surrounded every day. Think of the people who have to fight back tears every waking hour as they remember the passing of a loved one. Think of the men who are uncompromising 1 y honest when all the time compromise beckons th e m from afar.

If we cans respect ourselves, we can be pretty sure that we are not too widely respected by others.

By ELMER ROESSNER

While everybody was watching hippies put flowers in their hair, a different kind of flower thing has grown into a multi-million dollar business. Its the making of artificial flowers at home.

These flowers are not made by unwashed teens, but by grown women. They are not psychedelic, but made in imitation of, or more lustrous than, real flowers.

They are made of paper, tissue - thin metal, yarns, velvets, feathers, heads, wire and rhinestones. Demonstrationi Draw Crowds

The Hobby Industry Association of America points out that a flower - making demonstration school, no v on a tour of 37 cities, is draw i n g great crowds. In its first 18 stops it attracted more than

150,000 women. In Pasadena, (ialif., more than 10,000 came to the five - day sessions; in St. Louis 10,000 and in Dallas, 4,000; all to see how they could easily make flowers out

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of most anything in the house, including slices of bread which when mixed with tacky glue became simulated unbreakable ceramic j)etals; or out of macaroni or the paper mache of an empty egg carton.

No one is quite sure how

this hobby suddenly took hold, although there may be a press agent in the woodpile. Psychological Explanation

Dr. Alber Freeman, a Beverly Hills psychologist, quipped, Mothers were literally the necessity for this invention.

He observed that women are basically productive creatures, with a constant inner need to be doing. This is especially true of motiers.

Now with instant this and instant that, with home-baked pies like mother used to make stacked at the super - markets; with kitchens as efficient as jet airplane galleys, mother has time on her hands, too much time, according to the psychologist.

For a woman to feel fulfilled, said Dr. Freeman, this time must be put to produc

tive use, perferably in creating something to be proud of and which receives her familys approval.

He said the mother today enjoys the same feeling <rf elation and inner - security whert awarded family applause for the beautiful flowers she made to decorate the living room as her mother felt when cheers greeted the beautiful roast or towering creamy layer cake she carried into the (fining room from the hot kitchen of yesterday.

USDA Says Vitamin C Keeps Cured Pork Longer Cured pork keeps high quality four times longer in frozen storage with double the amount of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) now permitted, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has found. Regulations may be changed.