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Rising Arrests Should Have Effect

WHY NOT MAKE IT A TEAM OPERATION !

The 64 per cent increase in arrests for speeding and the 54 per cent increase in arrests for driving drunk on North Carolinas highways this year is bound to have had its. effect upon the driving public.

As Maj.John Laws, chief of the Highway Patrol enforcement division pointed out, The results of good* hard enforcement pressure, dont jcome overnight. The results of the increased enforcement pressure during the first half of this year are not evident in the number of fatalaties on the state's highways. Some 85 more people died on the high-.ways of North Carolina in the first half of 1968 than in the comparable period a year ago. The number of accidents and injuries "likewise have increased during tlje first half of this year.

cent increase in arrests for drunken driving. Without this greater pressure on traffic violators, North Carolina may have seen its highway accidents, injuries and deaths soar to much higher figures than they did during the first half of this year. _

Another indication of how effctiye this harder enforcement becomes will be the number of convictions that result as these cases reach the courts in counties across the state. If the arrests have been made with good cause which there is no reason

to doubt and if the courts deal firmly with the violators which indeed they should the impact

of the law enforcement pressure will be further emphasized.

No one will ever know, however, h'ow many additional accidents were prevented by the 64 per cent increase in arrests forspeeding or-the 54 per

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No matter how many arrests are made by law enforcement officials, it is up to the courts to determine whether those arrested are guilty of the charges, and if so to mete out punishment. If the courts deal lightly with traffic offenders, the impact of more rigid law enforcement on the highways is severely reduced.

'.'966 Araument

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES Reflector Raleigh Bureau RALEIGH - The first of Rep. Jim Gardne.'-: promised position pdoers* for the 1968 Fall campaign was about what the Democrats had expected it. contained nothing very surpr'sing or shocking, an#just a little bit now.

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Raving used the same argument successfully against veteran Rep. Harold Couity in 1966, it followed that Gardner would contend again that change is neeaed in the tates political sphere.

Gardner and GUP strategists feel that the emocrats are vulnerable this year by the very fact that the Democratic party has held control of the governorship and Svate government for nearly 70 years.

This was the first point in the position paper Gardner-called it absuuie (a>n-trol and charged that the constant aim ni ine Democratic party has been to s(;!i-dify, cement and make j^er-manent control beyond anv reasonable possibii i t y of change.

Makes Charge.s He goes on to make the iweeping charge that by deliberate design and execution, -Hie rights ..of die people of North Carolina have hir yeafJ been subverted. . . . He takes the position that present state election laws encourage Irregularities and fraud.

Political manipulation, Gardner said, may De by fraudulent handling of voting machinery, by fraudulent drawing f political districts, or by intimidation and ha r r a s- met ofsrhoof teat4i-e-r-s-and state employe.-..

Attacks Scott From these broad, general charges, Gardners paper moves, into attacks mostly indirect and insinaAdagainst his opponent for ^he qovernor-ship, Lt. Gov. Bob Scott, and

the Democratic machine.

For example, he cnarges the machine, helped by the 1965 General Assembly, obtained legislation to overrule peoples majority vote and allow the machine to govern Cherokee County. He .adds that the introducer of this disenfranchising bill . is now western district manager for Bob Scott. He contends that stmilar legislation was introduced in 1967 by the Scott Assembly to control the election of county sc h o o 1 boards. Only other specifies cited in the matter of election fraud were absentee ballots voted in Yancy County in 1966 and complaints of irregularities in Swain County the same year. Both ca.:cs were investigated bv the State Board of Elections.

Gardners paper also attacks a system of electing superior court judges devised by the machine to msure that party dominatiOii of state judicial system will continue. Scott presided over the Senate in 1967 when the new court reforms bill was enacted. Gardner cont ends that while this proviaed some much needed reforms, it allowed a system to continue for the nomination and election of superior court judges that has been declared unconstitutionaT by a series of' Bupreme Court decisions dating back to 1927. . . . providing that superior court judges be nominated in the side, but elected on a statewide basis.

Race Is Still Vigorous

The most surprising thing about the race for the Republican Presidential nomination is that it appears to be going down to the wire in spite of the prevailing opinion that there is really no contest for the prize.

By JAMES KILPATRICK

In spite of the fact that Richard Nixon claims a majority of the delegates pledged to him, and in spite of the fact that many observers agree with this assertion, other hopefuls have shown no signs of joining the Nixon bandwagon. Gov. Rockefeller of New^York is still trying to keep his balloon up,

hoping it- might catch hold at the convention. Gov. -i -i O

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didate, is campaigning hard from one part of the country to the. other keeping his name and face before convention delegates and before the pu6^.

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Even the dark horses for the GOP nomination are vigorously maneuvering, hoping to be in just the "ight spot for lightning to strike at the crucial moment during the convention. ^

AH of this is going on with a little more than a week left before the Republicans gather in Miami. It gives the impression that the Republicans are going to^ give the public a good show even if their nomination now remains -nly a matter of formality. On the other hand, there is still the possibility the GOP convention could turn out to be the most exciting, surprising, and explosive national political conventions in many years.

The businessman who runs for public office ordinarily pitches his campaign to a familiar appeal: If elected, he^ will bring business princi-fries to government, and will run his office in a businesslike way. Once he manages to get elected, he discovers sadly that it cant be done. Government and business are two different things.

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TTie contrasts were pointed up vividly last week in the excellent report of the Presidents special study commission on postal organization. Headed by Frederick R. Kap-pel, retired board chairman of American Telephone & Telegraph, the commission was composed of men who have speht their entire lives dealing with problems of labor, mangWTienr and Invest fhent in the private sector.

Other Points

Other points of criticism in the first Gardner paper, titled integrity in govern men t, are on open meetings md pos-

the part of legislators, legislative committee chairmen and other public officials While no miscondu^t may exist, such conflicts of interest often cast a shadow of public suspicion on public officials, Gardner said.

He charged that it is disgraceful that teachers and -_state enT|doyes ^'should be continually abusedT Tie said these groups are sometimes subject to forced political contributions and harrassments... forced to vote the right way, and in some cases to buy cars and even homes from the right people. __

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By JOY STILLEY

NEW YORK (AP) - It's nice to get away from it all from vacations, that is and get back home where you can rest.

Taking it easy is hard to take. Theres nothing like a planned program of rest and relaxation to tire you out.

Gelting JhjCTe may be half the fun, but foT me its twice-the work. Just lugging the luggage out is a major task, since its always stored on a high shelf, wedged in among neighbors it resists parting from. But coaxing it down, while no job for an amateur, is just the beginning.

The suitcases have to be emptied before they can be filled. Theyre invariably loaded with out-of-date clothing, childhood attempts at embroidery, one-eyed teddy bears and old love letters, which have to be relocated while their home is away from home.

Then theres the packing. No matter how many lists and charts I make, so that well only have to take out one bag on overnight stops, it never works out that way. The toothbrushes or so m e other essentials always manage to do a little traveling on their own and end up in the case at the bottom of, the pile.

We once made an extended trip through Canada, stopping at a different motel every night. There were six people along on the jaunt, as well as a dozen assorted o v e r-

night cases, hat boxes, solf-sided luggage, hard-sided luggage and shoe tote bags, plus numerous container of souvenirs acquired along the way.

To get all this into the car trunk, everything had to be fitted in a precise way like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Each morning my husband had to mastermind this half-hour exercise, as he was the only one who could remember just where it all had to be placed so the lid would go down.

Our most recent attempt at taking our ease wasnt much more successful. Feeling that a restful weekend away from the cares of work and home was in order, we accepted a standing invitation to visit relatives in nearby city. Two florious days with nothing to do!

When we arrived, my sis-ers greeting was followed by an enthusiastic recital of all the things she had planned for our enjoyment. And the crowning touchshe was giving a dinner for 20 guests Saturday night.

It was hard to squeeze the whole schedule in, but by getting a running start Saturday and going at a great pace we managed to do most of it, including shopping for groceries and preparing the big meal.

We really didnt have to leave as early as w'e did Sunday morning, but we figured it was better to be sleepy than run the risk of getting any more tired.

Thus they brought to the critical prblems of the United States Mail a point of view wholly removed from politics and bureaucracy. They looked

at the postal^ system as a businessas much a business as selling soup, dry* good, heavy equipment, home appliances, and telephone service. They looked, and they were appalled.

Their report amusingly reflects their shock at what they discovered. They asked for the sort of cost accounting data on the mails that big business demands as a matter of course. Postal figures never had been compiled that way. They asked for marketing studies; there were none. The more they looked iarte aortual postal operations, the more they were confounded. The hauling of the mail is the closest thing to a business operation in the Federal government; but no private business possible could stay afloat if it followed the Federal pattern.

One'of the largest areas of failure, they concluded, is a failure in top management. The Postmaster General ordinarily is a political appoin-

Other Editors Say

oud In' The Skies

(Henderson Dispatch)

A cloud in the skies no big-er than a mans hand, as the saying has it, it evident on the horizon with respect ' to the possibility of the 1969 Legislature imposing an excise tax on cigarettes and tobacco products. And that cloud is increasing in size all the while. Tobacco people who oppose such a levy have been given fair warning in advance, and will do well t ) allow no grass to grow .under their feet.

North Carolinas current biennial budget is roughly about two and three-quarters billion dollars, and predictions have been heard that it may rise to three and a half billion next year. All sorts of claims are made for new and heavier spending by the State, resembling the argument in Congress.

One thing we have not been able to understand is why itiere is always a clamor fw increased revenue instead of holding back on excess i v e spending as a means of balancing the budget. Does this

trend mean that Hiere, will never be an end to imposing higher taxes on the public, until government assumes responsibility for craale to the grave welfare of all citizens? When that point is reached, who will be left to pay the taxes, and will government own and operate everything, as in communist countries? Here in America we denounce communism, while at the same time moving. steadily and with accelerated speed toward precisely such a system.

The only sensible remedy for legislative problems is to cease such heavy spending. There would then be no necessity for increased revenue.

The people who earn their livelihood from tobacco and those who are consumers and who would pay the tobacco tax have their work cut out for them. It will be more dif-, ficult than ever in the Legislature next winter to beat back the demand for a tobacco tax, and it is not too early for the opposition to begin making'itself heard.

tee, not a career man; he stays in office a couple of years and then moves on. He may have career people around him, but their divisional authority is sorely limited by laws and regulations.

On down below, the individual postmasters are more helpless still. For the most part, they too are products ot the patronage system. Many of the postmasters are able men, but they have little authority over tieir operations. The Post Office Is a nationwide system, "but it is not operated as erne: It is operated rather as an aggregation of semi-autonomous post offices held together by a common source of funds.

This common source of funds, of c(Hirse, is the Con-- gress, which fixes postal rates, postal pay scales, and general postal appropriations. These congressional decisions often are influenced by political or budgetary considerations that have nothing whatever to do with the postal system as such. 'Hie mails muddle along. A crisis point i s fast approaching.

The commissions proposal is to put this vital public service in the hands of a publicly - chartered corporation. Such a corporation couid institute far - reaching improvements in personnel practice?. One obvious innovatimi would permit the promotion and transfer of outstanding postmasters from city to city. This is now impossible, with the result that ordinary avenues of executive promotion are effectively blocked.

Kappel, as chairman of the commission, was too tactful to make some striking comparisons between telephone and mail service. Back in 1915, when coast-to-coast telephone calls became possible, it cost $20.70 to call 'from New York to San Francisco. It then cost two cents to mail a first-class letter. As of August 1, it will be possible to telephone coast-to-coast during business hours for $1.70. The rate on a first-class letter is now 6 cents.

The comparison is invidious and in some ways unfair, but it speaks volumes nonetheless. Professional management, bold investment, and imaginative research have given the United States a (Continued On Page 5)

By ROBERT D. HAWORTH

NEW YORK (AP) Some leading bankers have expressed approval of recommendations by a Federal R^erye study group for reform of the Federal Reserves discount system. Others have expressed reservations arid a number have declined to comment at this time.

The recommendati(is came in a report issued Monday by a committee of four board members and four district Reserve bank presidents headed by board member W.

Mitchell,

Mitchell said the committee would seek reaction and comments from the financial community over the next two or three months before any action would be taken on the rcrom-mendations.

A key feature of the report, which culminated three years of study, is a recommendation th,it the Federal Reserve open its discount window for much wider borrowing by commercial banks.

Discount window is a term used in the borrowing from Federal Reserve banks by member banks. Interest charged fv>r these loans is called the dis-^(Hint rate.

Wesley Lindow, executive yice president of the Irving Trust Co. of New York and chairman of the banking and financial research committee of the American Bankers Association, called the report "very constructive.

The discount window h3.i been very inactive lately and its time to revive it, he said.

For years many banks have been bypassing the discount window and going to other sources for funds, such as buying excess reserves from othei banks or selling due bills.

A " bank said over the last six or seven years 95 pf i cent of Federal Reserve credii has been supplied by open mar ket operationsthe purchasi and sale of U.S. government se curitiesand only one per ceni through the discount window.

Under the committee propos als, member banks would b< granted automatic rights to bur row within an individual quoii scaled to its total capital ant surplus. Under present regul tions such loans are considerci privilege-^not a righto

membership and repeated over a long period are consid ered inappropriate.

A bank official said over th( last six or seven years 95 pci cent of Federal Reserve credi has been supplied by open mar ket operationsthe pirchas and sale of U.S. government se curitiesand only one per cen through the discount window.

Under the conranittee propos als, member banks would b< granted automatic rights to bor row within an individual quoti scaled to its total capital an( surplus. Under present regul scaled to its total capital ar.( surplus. Under present regula tions such loans are considerec privilegenot a righta

membership and repeated loan over a long period are consid ered inappropriate.

Another feature of the com .mittee proposals is that the dis count rate could be changed a: often as weekly to keep it close! in line with other money marke rates. The discount rate ha; been changed twice this year-first in March from 4.5 per cen to 5 per cent and again in Apri to 5.5 per cent.

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Every time you pray. If your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it which will give you fresh courage.Dostoievsky.

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By FOY H. DUNCAN July 25, 1928 Mad DOg Bites Fleming Child

Mary Elizabeth Flem i n g, nine year old daagnter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Fleming of Ridgeway Street, was bitten by a supposedly mad oog yesterday afternoon about six oclock. Mrs. Roy Wilson, owner of the dog, is aKo said to have been bitten. The animal was killed and its head shipped to Raleigh h r examination. Both the Fleming child and Mrs. Wilson will take treatment for the disease as soon as medicine reaches here from Raleighj where it was ordered immediately after examination of the injuries by local physicians. . . .

Mrs. George F. Had 1 e y charmingly entertained at

bridge last evening at the home of her mother, complimenting Mrs. J. E. Kirkpatrick. . . .High score prize, an attractive boudoir pillow, was won by Miss Clara Louise Moye. Miss Louise Cooke of High Point and Miss Mattie Barnes of Wilson vere presented dainty handkerchiefs. The honoree was remembered with a lovely piece of lingerie. . . .

Entertains Bridge Club

In Honor Of .Mrs. J. E. JUrkpatridi

Yesterday afternoon at her .home on Evans Street, Mi^s Katherine Smith deligijt^ully entertained the members of her bridge club . . . For the game Miss Frances Sniiih assisted the hostess in sc'ving a tempting ice cousse.

By ELMER ROESSNER

The immediate future of the American economy may be determined in the next seven days. In that period the United Steel Workers and the steel companies must reach an agreement on pay and working conditions for a new contract, or there is grave danger of a strike August 1.

Of course, if the negotiators are close to an agreement, a strike call may be delayed. However, the negotiators do not appear to have come to grips with the wage issue itself yet.

There is even more likelihood that the federal govern-^ment will ^se the Federal Mediation fervice and White House pressure-s to postpone or avert a strike. In event of

a strike, companies produc-, ing 15 per cent of the na

tions steel would not be af

fected but it is doubtful that their production could meet the heeds of the war in Vietnam. These companies have contracts with different expiration dates.

Effects of a Strike

If the strike is called, it could do more to end the current wave of inflation than the surtax plus the cut in government spending. It would put almost a quarter of a million men out of work immediately, followed by layoffs in businesses and industries that are supported by steel companies and steel employees spending.

While it would not immediately disrupt auto and other steel - consuming industries because of the enormous backlogs of steel built up in fjear of a ,stri'c. it would op-eiithe market wider for in*-ported steel.

Steel sources estimate that 17 million tons if steel may be imported this year even without a strike, far topping the old record of 11.5 million tons. Even without a strike,

a sharp'wage increase would so increase the cost of producing steel in America that the rest of our export market, except Where subsidized by the government, will probably vanish anyway.

Effects On Inflation

The effects of the strike and the surtax in spreading unemployment could hav an arresting effect on inflationary pressures. The Federal Resrve Bank of Chicago, In its current publication Business Conditions holds that the root cause of tlie current inflation is the excessively strong demand for labor.

Others will dispute this, holding that inflation has resulted from.our rubber, flat money, and point out that inflation persisted even during rises in unemployment in the last decade. However, there is no doubt that labor shortages do have an effect.

Minimization of unemployment has been a major goal ^of public policy since ear- ly 1930, the bank points out, but now the country may have to live with a somewhat'high-er employment rate.

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