Friday, May 3, 1968

23,000 Potential Voters For Pitt

Some 23,000 Pitt Countians will be eligible to cent weeAa laivcii ume iioxn iheir u&y bchedules to go to the polls tomorrow and cast their ballots in ,bee uiai tueir iiaines aie on me voung roiis, m ur-the Democratic and Republican primaries. ueiiCcaaL mey couiO vote toinonovv.

How many of that number actually cast votes in bpue o an unusually quiet guuernatorial pri-tomorrow will be a measure of the degree to which mary campaign, me people oi riit uounty ana iNortn local citizens feel their responsibility of good citizen- Carolina recognize tnat government at every level hip. ' faces serious problems in the '^ears immediately

There is no reason why Pjtt County should not ahead. The people likewise recognize that most of cast a record vote for the primary election. There those candidates selected in tomorrows primaries cn ^jji (jgcide the vital issues for state

and local governments in the months and years ahead. Notwithstanding the quiet campaigns, the election is of utmost importance to Pitt County and to all of North Carolina.

The decisions to be made at the ballot box are decisions which should reflect the collective opinion of the largest possible number of local and state citizens. The election results will be just as official if only a handful of people vote as if voters turn out in record numbers. The end result, however, would not be as i*epresentative of the collective opinion of the citizens of this state.

Every citizen has the right to join with others in deciding which of the candidates will receive the nominations or be elected to office. More than merely a right, it is a citizens individual responsibility to join with others at the ballot box to help determine the course of state and local government.

Those citizens of Pitt County who go to the polls tomorrow will be fulfilling their highest citizenship responsibility by helping to shape in the most effective way possible the course of government in this county and in this state. Those who neglect to go to the polls tomorrow will be failing themselves as well as their fellow citizens.

Reasonable To Think Of Pitts Own Senator

are more than 60 candidates on the ballot for a variety of state and local offices. Those voters who are eligible to participate in the election have in re-

!is Grievance Gets Nowhere

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

I^flector Raleigh Bureau

RALEIGH For several long, weary months now James P. (Pete) Bourke has walked from one state office in Raleigh to another and climbed the stairs to see newspapermen and editors, begging for a hearing and public airing of his complaint and grievance.

Bourke is a white haired veteran of many years of service in the State Highway Department. As recently as a year, ago there were commendations on his employe-ment record and he was recommended for promotion.

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But now, Bourke is virtually unemployed on tentative aick leave status which is rapidly running out at the rate of $25 a day and says I am fighting for my livelihood, in seeking a hearing ^fore the State Personnel 'Board. He claims that political pressure is being applied to make him resign and been demed a* fightful fiiiaflng

Makes Accusations

Bourke charges that the present set-up of a State Personnel Board appointed to hear grievances and complaints of state employes is a vicious circle. He claims he has been refused a hearing time and gain for years on complaints that he was subjected to political pressure, farced' to submit a resignation, later' reinstated but demoted. Now, Bourke claims, the political pressure is being applied again.

I have been trying to hang on trying to protect my means of livelihood, mj' 22 year career (I used my GI training to learn the work) and my accumulated benefits, Bourke says. But he adds, there is absolutely no place to go to get helo. Everything is as solid as a stone wall.

The public is under the impression that an employe can turn to the State Highway and Prison Employees Assn. for help. This is not true. They admit they cannot

give individual protection to an employe-even thougn they are incorporated. The Association, in my opinion, is nothing more than a sound i n g board for politicians. I've been there.

Eleven Years Ago Bourke says his trouble began 11 years ago. At the time he was head of a vis-ual-aids department in the Highway Commission and as a materials engineer - photographer made motion picture films which were used in a $1 million damage suite involving a prominent contracting ffrm and the Highway Commission. The suit involved work done on grading for an interstate highway near Fayetteville several years ago.

Ever since the court hearings, Bourke says, his life has been one hectic maneuver after another trying to save my career and means of livelihood.

He claims pressure w' a s brought to force him to resign shortly after he made the films. He says I was also on the verge of a nervous breakdown and under a doctors care, and submitted a resignation.

Sees Saoford Later, Bourke ^says, he saw Gov. Terry Sanford and told him part of my story. Sanford, according to Bourke, immediately called the 18tate Personnel Divisiim airf cancelled my resignation

resign again ii i nao any more trouble but to take sick leave and come back to see him. A gentleman in the Division of Purchase and Contract sent a gentleman named Sullivan Gibbs out to my home, I explained tbo situation to him and after .several visits he said that Governor Sanford would reinstate me if I would write a letter requesting such action. . .1 wrote the letter and I was reinstated.

However, reinstatement also-meant demotion, Bourke says. He was assigned to doing file

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We'll Defend You, Baby! NoIkkIv's Going to Push Our Gal Aroundr

Whether a Pitt County resident serves in the North Carolina Senate during the next two years will largely be determined tomorrow by how well this countys voters support Vernon White in his bid for the office.,

A former chairman of the Pitt County Board of BUCHWALD Commissioners, a successful farmer and business-

man, a member of the Board of Trustees of PittT\T^^___ "O i i 4-X-n 1 T T-

Technical Institute and a civic and business leader \ ^11 i ^11

of the county, Vernon White is eminently well qual- ^ ^ f J. L LA X X

ified to represent people of this four-county senatorial district in the North Carolina General As- WASHINGTON-Vice presi- will see through this attempt- what Hubert Humphrey had

sembly.Certainlv he is the best qualified of the three r'''?.

, ,, I-Liie uiiee announcement that he bert Kennedy had the decency have reassi^iwed his nKitmn.

candidates to represent the people of Pitt County in was a candidate for the Dem-

only senatorial candidate ocratic presidential nomina-

who olives in Pitt. ^ tjon caught newspapermen in

, The 1967 session of the General Assembly wasWashington flatfooted, the first session in more than a century in whieh a For ^ waiting less than a

Pitt Countian did not occupy a eat in the Senate. President Johm^er.

if I liad a n jT countv sclnatonal di.<,trWran, Hum{tey has been ac- might get a sttmeht from

to send his brother Teddy to see Sen. McCarthy at 3 oclock in the morning before he announced. But Humphrey wouldnt even send his sist-

county senatorial district were occupied by residents

of Edgecombe and Halifax Counties, respectively, tic and ruth"leS'by''bakers of It IS reasonable, we think, for Pitt, as the largest Sens. ugene McCarthy and county in the district to have one of the two seats Robert Kennedy during the coming term. By voting for Vernon White ^ McCarthy manager, when tomorrow, Pitt voter<=! can help assure that one of of the news, said,

this senatorial districts two seats will be occuDied typical of Hubert Hum-

I,,-., .....Q,; Phrey to disregard all the

by a Pitt Countian during the 1969 semblv.

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and mail work in the soils di-visiwi at a lower salary. Further, he says, his salary has been frozen going on seven years.

Now, at age 60, Bourke has asked for a hearing. He says the Highway Commissions ""rsonnel office. J. Ravnor Woodard, has blocked this and delayed his repeated requests on grounds of policy and other excuses. He says State Personnel officials have refused to hear bis case or agree to a hearing.

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phrey to disregard amenities of politics and try to steal the nomination away from Eugene McCarthy. But I believe the American people

McCarthy.

Tile reply was, The senator will soon have a poem which he will release to the press.

Over at Kennedy headquarters things were even grimmer. Tiie Vice President is dividing the Democratic Party, a spokesman said. Even more than Eugene McCarthy. If Bobby had any hint of

have reassessed his position.

Another Kennedy worker added, The Vice President hopes to cash in wi the Humphrey nafhe, but hes going to discover that people will resent it. And if he thinks^ he can buy this election with liriiltens- hC'S adly

mistakeiq.

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By JOHN BECKLER

WASHINGTON (AP) - It would be hard to design a more haphazard, inefficient system than that by which the United States nominates its presidential candidates. It would also be hard to find one better suited to the national temper in this election yar.

At a tme of national uncertainty, a hovering between war and peace, a grouping for answers to racial, urban and economic problems, the system is keeping the political situation fluid.

It permits Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York to become a full-fledged candidate for the Republican nomination and score et least a psychologically important victory in Massachusetts little more than a month after he declared hhnself out of the race.

It permits Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey to go from noncandidate to strong contender in the Democratic contest without having faced a rival in a single primary.

It permits Sen. Eugene J.

McCarthy, D-Minn., to turn a quixotic one-man crusade into a full-fledged campaign; and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, D-N.Y., to avoid casting the first stone and then come into the fray swinging.

^ver since George Washing-mn became unavailable for another presidential term the nation has experimented with a variety of methods for nominating presidential candidates.

Having settled in 1832 on the national party conven-ventions as the best way to make the final choice, it has been tinkering ever since with the method of choosing delegates to the conventions and giving the voters a large role in the nominating process.

The reform movement in the early 20th Century that replaced boss dominated state nominating convention with direct primaries appeared for a time to be leading toward a universal system perhaps even the direct national primary w4iich Woodrow Wilson, among others, ad-(Continued On Page S)

(Lexington, Ky., Leader)

The four-minute mile is obviously here to stay. So now were to have the one-minute presidential race. It is no secret that in p nitical circles the air waves are regarded as a primary battleground in the fight for the White House. And this year, it appears, the accent is to be on 60-second spots for the candidates, rather than on half-hour speeches.

There are several reasons for this. One is that one-minute spots are cheaper than half-hour time slots on the air. So the other reasons arent too importan!. But there is also the factor that people are likely to listen more intently for a minute than for a half hour. Also, .a candidate is more likely to preserve his charm and cool in a carefully produced 60-second spot than he is in a half-hour tirade.

So the presidential aspir

ants are slated to compete for audience attention with all these pretty girls in miniskirts and with tlie ladies and gents seeking relief from splitting headaches, nagging backaches, ugly hands, bad breath and other afflictions each performer earnestly plugging a splendid commercial product.

One thing is certain. Come Nov. 5, 1968, the audience ratings of the two candidates will be definite, conclusive and final. One will win and one will lose. The winner wil get a four-year contract and the assurance of prime timo on the air whenever he wants it. (And he will want A!)

And the loser? WeV, any man good enough to be runner-up for the presidencv of the United States can usually find steady employment in some line of work. Or he can spend his time second-guessing the winner.

I asked the Kennedy backers if they though Vice President Hubert Humphrey would be able to change his ruthless image by convention time.

Theyll do anything over there to make Hubert look like a good guy. But it wont work. Dont forget Hubert Humphrey was in the Senate when all the wiretapping was going on in Washington, and he cant say he didnt know it was going on,

A third Kennedy backer said, Hubert may have the college kids and they can tear his clothes off and muss up his hair, but I would like to know how they translate that into votes.

One of the Kennedy volunteers blamed Humphreys entry into the race in fatigue.

He said, If we all hadnt been so tired in 1960 we would never have chosen Lyndon Johnson as Vice President, and then he would never have chosen Hubert HumjArey as his Vice President in 1964.

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By ROWLAND EVANS AND ROBERT NOVAK

NEW YORK - A major reason why Gov. Nelson Rockefeller changed bis mind one month ahead of schedule and announced his candidacy Tuesday was the (oreceful argument by one pillar of the Eastern Republican establishment: Walter Thayer.

Thay, president of Whitney Ckimmunicattons Corp., put in (U) the line to Rockefeller. The big businessmen that Thayer and his boss, former Ambassador John Hay (Jock) Whitney, had lined up for Rockefeller were about to de^ feet not to Richard M. Nixon but to a Democrat, Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey. One liberal Republican angel, in fact, was all but lost to Humphrey.

Even though any Rockefeller campaign is largely self-financed, he could scarcely run without the big names of Eastern money. Thus, Thayer last week strengthened his pleas that the Governor could. lose no more time.

Threats of imminent Refection by money men wfe paralleled by similar ultimatums from politicians. Sens. Edward Brooke of Massachusetts and Clifford Case tof New Jersey informed Rockefeller they could not Wait much longer. Even S^. Thruston B. Morton of Ki-tucky. Rockefellers most important and long - suffer!^ champion, told him his patience was nearly g o Many advised him to sm-nounce^ this week and thps avoid the dangers of the Republican Governors* travelling circus, beginning platform hearings Monday (May 6).^ These arguments, plus JC-ports ofRockefeller strength among ^thodox Republicans, were enough to sway both the Governor and his most respected political advisor. National Committeeman George Hinman. When Hinman, a Week ago,"dfoppedljis Ad^ ^ cy of non-candidacy, it was only a matter of time before Rockefeller became an active candidate.

What is significant, however, is that Rockefellers belated announcement comes principally not from mining new veins of political support, as his propagandists claim, but from the threat of fatal defections should he keep silent. His press conference statement in Albany was a tacit admission that the politics of procrastination had failed.

Indeed, practical politicians now running the Rockefeller-for-President operation admii that his statement of n o n-candidacy March 21 wa.s a horrible mistake whose ramifications may prove fatal. Although some Rockefeller aides elevate this boner to the realm of high strategy, the political pros know he lost six weeks never to be reclaimed.

To be sure, there are enough manifestations of support to justify Rockefellers running. The Governor was particularly impresse^i by some 10,000 telegrams of support from around the country last week. Several private reports from the recent Womens National Republican meeting in Washington (including one from past president, Dotty Elston) indicated a friendlier attitude toward Rockefeller by the girls.

Most important was the glowing report given Rocke-(Continoed On Page 5)

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By EARL L. DOUGLASS HEROISM

A brave young soldier in Vietnam recently threw himself over a bomb, allowed it to explode and tear him to pieces, and all this that his buddies might be saved.

Put yourself in that boys place. Would you do that? Ni-nety-ndne out of a hundred of us would have to say No. It just takes a quality of courage to do a thing like that most of us do not possess. The young chap had only one life to live and without hesitation he gave it for others. No doubt he will be posthumously decorated and his family commended. But that \yjU not bring the youngster back; He was brave according to Gods highest standards. Greater love hath no

man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

And yet we should always remember that there is probably as much courage in the ordinary come-and-go of life as there is on the battlefield. Many a humble woman who could not get up courage to fall on a bomb acts out a sterling heroism every day in the way she serves those under her care. There is heroism in the way m'any bear their sorrows and burdens. The person who in everyday life puts himself or herself aside that others may live better has something in him or her that characterizes the glorious life of the soldier in Vietnam.

Heroism is real and it can be manifested wherever we happen to be.

By ELMER ROESSNER

The Federal Trade Commission has published its regulations under the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act and they will go into effect on next Jan. 1. The major rules, with my comments in parentheses, are;

Prohibition against the use in the name of a commodity on a component or ingredient not present in significant counts. (Canned corned beef hash must have some corned beef in it.)

Required declaration of street address, city, state and zip code in the declaration of place of business of the manufacturer, packer or distributor on the labels of consumer commodities. (Consumers, to be fair, should give their zip code rHwiil)ers wlien complaining to canners about the lack of corned beef in corned beef hash, etc.)

Required distinguishing be

tween the names of a manufacturer, packer or distributor on the labels of consumer demand. Private brands should not only say who they were put togettwr FOR but who they were manufactur-ered by.)

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Prohibition against the use of misleading and qualifying words in conjunction with net quantity declarations. (Goodbye "large quart; goodbye, giant gallon.;

Separation of the required net quantity declaration and placement of the declaration on the principal display panel within the bottom 30 per cent of the area of the label panel. (Good, whatever it means!)

Required declaration for the first time of net quantity by weight of all bar soaps. (If it floats, how much is air?

Required declaration of measure f(M* bidimensional commodities. In paper products, this would require declaration of length, width and area for such articles as tissues, towels, wrappings, etc. (Thickness and strength might be more important.) Now More Itsy-Bitsy

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S|>ecification discourag I n g use of small fractions In the i-equhedjiet quantity declarations. (Seven and 167-168th ounces might seem like a lot.)

Mandatory 'type sizes for

the required net qnantity declaration set in relation to area of the principal display panel. (To the siideniles, men!)

Required declaration of net quantity of servings, uses or applications represented to-be present in a container. (Rs amazing how thin you oan slice bologna.)

Most of these requirements make sense. But will they liicir pr^ucts from foreign copn tries that do not have kp

codes?

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Rise In Consumer Spenitii^ Forecast In Months Ahead

Commercial Credit (to., in its quarterly report, pred^ts that sales of new autos will be up 8 pei;cent in the six months started April 1; thiii major household durables will rise 3 t)er cent and the single family housing starts will go up 5 per cent in the same period.