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ThoS' Constitutional Amendments

In the midpt of *11 the candidates and campaign ppteches Of feccnt weeks, it is not surprising if most North Ca/oUna voters have overlooked the fact there are two constitutional amendments on the ballot which should be approved.

These amendments deal with the composition of the General Assembly in North Carolina and the method by which the pay of members of the legislature is determined. Both have been approved by the General Assem^y and recommended to the voters of the tate for passage. Citizens of the state, in our judgment, would be acting in their own beat interest and that of the state by voting in favor of each of these amendments.

The first of the amendments would authorize the tn/ix comnenetion of officers and

members of the General Assembly, with the explicit

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

Reflector Raleigh Bnreau

RALEIGH - Just a long weekend away from election day it remains clear that insofar as North Carolina Is concerned the bit race is that for the governorship.

Unlike some years in the past, Scott versus Gardner is not the only race to be de

cided at the polls next Tues-. day far from it. But apparently for mot North Carolinians it is the one that commands top interest and attention and it overshadows even how the state will go in the presidential election.

5>lx)tUghtlng gubernatirlal elections is something of a political tradition in the state understandable. The governorship is the state's hign-est elective office and one which carries greatest prestige. Other offices are important of course, but seldom .does any political campaign stir North Carolina voters as much as one for govenior.

Smith-Graham

An excepti(|T ferhaps was the U. S. cDBte race of 1949 between Jdt. FYank P. Graham and the late Sen. WIIU Smith. But that classic contest also Involved the governorship and, In effect, marked the beginning of a series of struggles between political liberalism and conservatism.

The defeat of Dr. Graham, who had been appointed by then Gov. W. Kerr Scott, marked the first political setback for the squirt of .Alamance. He suffered another a couple of years later when his choice for governor. Hubert Olive, was defeated by William B. Umstead.

Scott personally came back very strwig to win a J. S Senate seat himself, ousting the man Umstead had chosen now Rep. Alton A. Lennon.-

^ Relative Quiet

A period of relativf quiet pollticaly prevailed during the late 1950s. Smith, Umstead and Soott and Clyde Hoey all of whom had served in the Senate and three in the governorship died. Luther H. Hodgea, a political unknown, had slipped into the Ueutenant governorship and became the state's chief executive upon Um-steads death. He served for the next six years. These proved uneventful poUticallv until the rise of an assistant state attorney general, former Wake Forest law professor I. Beverly Lake, and a young, politically ambitious state senator from Fayetteville, Terry Sanford. The rest is recent political history, and well korwn.

Sanford and Lake were principal figures In the next two gubernatorial camp iiins. those of 1960 and 1964. Sanford. tutored under W. Kerr Scott and an apt pupil, wen in 1900. But he.was not of the Scott mold and was alto-ether distinct and different. ,here were some political similarities ~ one was that Sanford also backed a candidate to succeed him, and lost.

Next Tuesday Now next Tuesday the son 'f the late W. Kerr Scott puts his.own political future on the line. It will be the climax of a campaign unlike and ever seen in North Carolina In the past a campaign which really began years ago when Robert W. (Bob) Scott decided ne needed more political experience and announced that he would run for lieutenant governor.** Almost 'simultaneously, the man who hopes to hand Scott a political setback and give the state its first Republican governor In 68 years was also trying to gain political experience. ^

This waa Jim Gardner of Rocky Mount, a former Democrat turned Republican and wiio, afttr two tries, won the seat in Congress held for 4 years by Harold Cooley, Democrat Gardners trU umi* in I960, the a<x^-panying publicity and political impetus made him a natural to try for the big one In 1968 the governorship.

provision that any increase in compensation would not apply to the legislative session in which the increase was authorized. In effect members of one legislative session could approve an increase in compensation for the next legislature, but not for themselves.

The second amendment alters North Carolina's constitution with respect to the make-up of the Gen* eral .Assembly, making it comply with the'^ recent Supreme Court decisions with respect to representation based solely upon population. In effect, it changes the constitution to comply with the manner in which the General Assembly is now constituted.

These amendments modernize North Carolinas constitution with respect to the legislature. They should have the approval of voters who go to the polls on November 5. '

Coltrane Served N.C. In A Thankless Job

Few men in modern tin^ea have rendered greater service to North Carolina and its people tiian David b. Coltrane who served as cnairman of tne Good Neighbor Council from lltB until hia death yesterday.

Through his personal, untiring efforts for the past five years, race relations in North Carolina have withstood the test of trying times without serious breakdowns. More than any other one man in North Carolina, David Coltrane kept the lines of communications open between white and Negro ctizens of this state. There are few if any communities from the mountains .to'the sea that did not benefit by the soothing hand and voice of David Coltrane when crises threatened or developed.

In a large measiire the efforts of David Coltrane helped open doors of employment in North Carolina for Negroe.s. This he accomplished not through legal channel^, not with the threat of court action or other imtimidation, but rather through quiet and careful persuasion in behalf of a transition he firmly believed in the best interest of North Carolina and all her people.

Few men in North Carolina have had as difficult or as thanlcle.ss a job as that David Coltrane has had since he spurned retirement for the Good Nei<^hbor Council. His name may soon he forgot-

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By JOY STILLEY

NEW YORK (AP) When the calendar and a series of gentle little reminder cards indicated that it was long past the time for a confrontation between my husband and the family dentist, it fell to me to arrange the meeting faced with equal dread by both parties involved.

' With the appointment made, I had only to persuade, threaten, cajole, command, beguile, urge and insist that my unspunky spouse appear as per my promise.

All went well in this Initial get-together, with the two men clapping each other on the back in comradely greeting and exchanging jokes and other pleasantries. They remained on a friendly basis throughout the encounter because the dentist on this occasion merely took X-rays. The actual work would follow lateras much later as my husband could manage.

bowed out of the picture and left them to arrange their future rendezvous. My reluctant relative decided to make the next appointment for a Thursday, planning to come home from work early.

That day arrived but the^ patient didnt His secretary had telephoned to report that he was In conference and couldnt make it A n o t h er date was set for the following Thursday.

This time I called, conveying the news thajt he had left the night before on a sudden

trip to Washington. At this point I learned that a tooth extraction was in the off i n g and the hurryup journey took on added significance. I ruthlessly and optimistically ^rescheduled the work for the following Thursday.

On this day I rushed home, ready to offer hot tea and warm sympathy to a cwiva-lescent, wily to find that an important meeting had come up and hed canceled again. Despairing of making it on a working day, he agreed to give up his Saturday jn an easy chair watching football in favor of a session in the dental chair.

We had previously planned an out-of-town trip for the weekend but in vi^w of the pending action at the dentists office we took an early train back Saturday.

The phone was ringing as we got in the houoe the nurse explained that an emergency had come up and that the appointment would have to be postponed until the next Saturday. My husband nobly 'hid his disappointment and resigned himself to an afternoon of viewing television.

Last week we actually made connections. My brave boy refused my offer to stay and hold his hand so 1 nervously waited in the outer office listening for sounds of struggle in the inner sanctum.

He emerged with a relieved look and a sheepish g r in (Coatinned On Page 5)

WASHINGTON - One of the lines that has been getting Richard Nixon a big hand in his campaigning around the country is Rather than more people on welfare rolKs, we want more people on payrolls.*

No one can argue with thus statement except possibly Nixons economic advisers. While the Republican candidate is promising ruore jobs for the people, his economic advisers keep insisting were going to have to have a lot more unemployment if weTe going to prevent inflation and a recession.

I talked to an independent. economist the other day, Prof. Ulrich Upgraph, who runs the nonprofit Economic Health Institute:

Professor, Richard Nixon says that we have to get people off the welfare rolls and onto the payrolls if we want a healthy economy. How do you feel about this?

Tcrriblq, Prof. Upgraph said. Everyone knows that when you hav^ full employment, you have inflation, which causes a recess i o n, which causes more unemployment in the end.

Then what youjB^ saying

is you need a healthy unemployment rate to have a healthy economy.

Of course. Any fool knows that. When the unemployment rate goes-below 4 percent, thsi the Lnflation rate goes up 5 percent. The only way to stop the economy from overheating is to slow it down, and the best way to

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Other Editors ^ Say How Serious Is It?

(Washington, N. C. News) Seven persons have been arrested in Chapel Hill on charges of possession of mari-jauna, a hyperdcrmic needle, and a syringe.

Each of theseven has been placed under a bond (>i $1,000. According to he news story, the raid on the place is but one of many which has taken place over a period of time.

It would appear that arrests on charges of possession of marijuana' are becoming rather common today particularly on college campuses, harmless weed tiiat some cwi-tend it is? Or is it a dioboli-cal narcotic that others claim it is?

We of course do not have the answers, but the time is long past due in America that we had some better answers than iftce we are now using. ^ ^

Befwe America ever accepts marijauna as a harmless drug or narcotjc, tiien we ought to have as many facts before us as possible.

Over the years it has become gospel in this country to treat use of such stimulants as criminal actions. As far back as we can remember when someone has been arrested cm such a charge, we have come to look upon /it as a great and almost un forgivable sin.

When we read where some leaders today tend to pass off this marijauna business as something far-fetched, we be-n to wonder just ^hat it all means.^

We have never heard it

claimed that marijauna made any person better. But how much worse does it make one? Is the law wrong, and arc those charged with pos-sessicm* and use being unjusi-ly treated?

We feel this way. Its use must be on the definite increase. And it appears that either our laws are wrong or somewhere alwig the line we are failing in our responsibility to enforce the law and to educate the pecle correctly.

slow an economy down is to have 4 or 5 million people out of work.

That seems hard to believe.

Look, stupid, if* you have full employment, then you have a shortage of labor, and that means labor demands pay raises. This causes prices to go up and natur-\ally causes inflation.

, I know Im dense about econcnnic affairs. Professor, but what I dont understand is how you can get people off the welfare rolls onto the payrolls if you have to increase the rate of unemployment.*

You raise a very interesting question, Upgraph said, particularly when eyeiy*' is so mad at so many ^opie being <m welfare. TTic answer is that you have to find jobs for people and then lay them off so that you dont have a booming economy running away from itself. My solution is to change the name welfare to something else, like economic health insurance.* Nobody will get angry if someie else is collecting economic health in-(Conttniied On Page 5)

By JOE FLANDERS Oiarlotte News Staff Writer

CHARLOTTE Charlotte-Mecklenburg voters strongly support a state zoo for the Queen City, but not if t h e y have to pay for it.

They do, however, feel inclined to put up some money as an incentive to locate it here.

Local voters also solidly favor creation of a state department of urban affairs to help solve urban problems.

And again for tiie record, they overwhelmingly endorse state legislation authorizing a local referendum on the liquor by the drink question.

These are the results of th* latest post card poll by State * Sen. Charles K. Maxwell. He mailed 16,000 questionaires to both city and county residents and got back 1-138 repUes-about 11 per cent.

But the mood of the votersas indicated by the comments wi the cardsis far from'Umited to the questions posed by Maxwell.

They fear the dtyrocketing crime rate and rioting and lawlessness in the streets. They decry inflation and zooming taxes which seem to have no ceiling. They see the financial plight of teachers.

They petition for to^co and liquor by the frinlr^Sx-es, hoping they vill break the vise - like grip on property taxes. They understand the need for a state system of kindergartens and other educational improvements. They ask for more and? better roads, especially a superhighway between here and Wilmington.

Maxwell, a real esate developer, Democrat and Hunt-ersvillt^Tesidcnt, is seek i n g re-election to the Senate.

Seventy per cent of those polled favored establishing a state zoo. But 51 per c e n t said they would not favor supporting it in Charlotte by local tax money.

However, 71 per cent said they would favor providing local financial support as an incentive to bring the zoo to the Charlotte area.

On establishtog an urban affairs department, 64 per cent said they favored it.

On the qucsticm of state legislation authorizing a liquor by the drink referendum here, 78 per cent favored it.

Maxwell said that each of these proposals are "certain to be introduced in the 1969 General Assembly, \

He introduced in the 1967 session a biH calling for a referwidum in Mecklenburg on liquor by the drink but it failed to get passed.

Those who favored liquor by the drink and tobacco taxes said this was a badly needed new source of income.

One man who favored a liquor by the drink tax said: I am a cured (?) alcoholic (18) years and also a Hard shell Baptist and I understand liquor from every point of view.'*

Another said: The survi-al of Charlotte as a business and convention center will depend on it.

A man who endorsed both said: I drink I smoke. ^Tigaret and whisky by the frink taxes would help greatly, another said.

The anti - liquor by the drink folk said: I am strong-y opposed to liquor by the drink. I have lived many years where this was the (CoQtiniied On Page i)

Strength For Today

No Votes For Wallace Program

By EARL U DOUGLASS MIRACLES Do miracles occur today?

If they do not, then there can be some real doubt as to whether they ever occurred, Science appears to be working miracles today in many^. areas, rhcre are literally millions oT people In world who are confident toat something of a miraculous nature either in their lives or in the lives of their loveo ones. Here was a person who the doctors said could rot live three months and that same person is living after thirty years. A roposition was set forth and inunediate-Jv denounced as impossible. *The proposition became a project and thR^oject surpassed the most ardent hopes of its supported.

If there was ever an age that should believe in miracles it is the age in which we

live. They are taking place all around us every day. People are recovering from ailments that were diagnosed as incurable. In laboratory, operating room, and around the council tables of business executives things are happening that even a decade ago would have bei termed impossible and swept into the

discard. ____

The growing wwld is a miracle. The extent of the universe in which we live over*' whelms us, with iU immensity. Tlie advance of science and the strkfont protest cf leaders everywhere agt'mst selfishness and evil constitute events of truly miraculous nature. Jesus assured his disciples: He that belioveth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because 1 go unto my Father (John 14:12).

This is the third of three columns on what the American economy can expect if each of the three Presidential candidates is elected.

By ELMER ROESSNER

If George Wallace is elected President next Tuesday, or becomes President by ac-. tion of the House of Representatives if there is no majority in the Electoral College, Congress will rule the country for tije next four years.

If Wallace wins, he will have no members of hii par-ay in (Congress. All Representatives and Senators are likely to Republicans or Democrats. A- few, of course, may align themselves with his party, but these wll bo few inde^. It will be a sorry nucleus for a dtrive to vote Wallaces program.

The 9lst Congress will probably give Wallace, or a n y other President, the courtesy approving his Cabinet ap

pointees.

Wallace would have two other powers. He would have the power of other appointments. Congressmen Who would not CQpperate could not get their key supporters named to government posititms. The Nixing Power

As President, Wallace would also have the veto. He could refuse to sign legislation he did not, approve.

Congress cold, of course, pass almost any legislation over his veto. Wallace, on the other hand) could nullify much legislation by instructing appointees to procede cautiously in enforcing new laws. However, in the nd. Congress would wield the greater power. It bold* the pursestrings. It couM even neglect to apinr^iate money for the salaiw of a President it dkbit Bke.

In that event, the dominant Senate both li|ely to be Democratic woii(ld be cal

ling the tune for the next four years and all of us, including Wallace, will be dancing a Democratic jig. Wallaces Program Wallace has gwie on record^ for bringing the war in Viet-" nam to an honorable con-

dusioR. With Gen. Curt I LeMay as bis Vioe Presidont, with the supp<^ of tbc Pentagon lobby and hawks in Congress, Wallace could probably authcH'ize an all out, lets be beastly to the com-muniste campaign to Viet

nam that could dear up the mess in a reasonable time.

On other matters: Wallace has gone on record to use tax incentives to ere a t e more jobs for minwities, to rc-cxarnine tax-free status of foundations, and reform the tax structure.

He has also declared for consumer protection, impo r t limits to protect farm e r s from foreii imports; to gi^e labor a louder voice in government; to aid interurban transportatidn, and to increase Social Security and Medicare benefits as the cost of Uving increases. He also wants to end tnfUtion, to end the surtax, giva Negroes better education, to provide noore defense spettdini* motion of ; N.S. exports, strengthen the dollars, and better control of the securities market

Bui remMDhex: Congre t s, not Wallace, would have the final say in all these matters.