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iThose Vital Highways Must Come

HE HAD HIS CHANCE !

Lack of adequate majar highways still is the big issue among most Eastern North Carolinians. What governor-elect Bob Scott does to Correct the deplorable highway situation in the East during the next four years is bound to have an impact upon I.:1the voters of this area.

'*!' During the recent campaign, Scott talked a good bit about the highway needs of the state, with particular emphasis on the need for major East-West highway. It was talk not unlike that whch -lias been heard in other political campaigns in other years. But this time it came from a Scott, and that wnade a difference, based on past experience. Most "Tlastem counties gave Bob Scott a majority of their votes last week, and at least in part this was due to the expectation that the deplorable major highway situation which exists in the East today will finallv be corrected, n The total lack of appreciation by many offic-"!ale of th#* maior highway needs of the section wss Illustrated again recently when additions to the in-

'-ew Promises -?or Bob Scott

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES - Reflector Raleigh Bnreao

Bob Scotts successful campaign for the governorship indicates he pretty well kept ^is word to be short on pro-vll^ises.

rr This does not mean that the lieutenant governor dkl not offer a program. He did, and It was a rather lengthy and detailed program at that.

But last January, at the ^ time of his long-awaited for

mal announcement, Scott said .,.he would not knowingly make campaign promise that 1 ^ cannot reas(iably expect to fulfill. And looking back, it I^ppears he made few firm promises and comnttments. t This disappoinked aoiae of Scotts supporters and followers who wanted him to display more of the blunt, some-. times earthy candor of his fa-.ther, the late Gov.-Sen. W. ' Kerr Scott They felt Scott ^ should deal less in general]-j ties and be more specific.

Promised Action

At the first session with the press last winter, Scott said he would examine, study and listen and that as the campaign progressed he would spell out a program.

After that If elected, he pledged action.

The major points in his program included these;

Law and order, education, ^ tecreasinj per capita income, " roads, strengthening of local governments, continuing a ba-m lanced budget.

Scotts Program Perhaps the closest Scott came to specific promise was that he would support and work for a minimum 10 per cent salary increase for state ^ employees and bringing tea-cher pay to at least the nation

al average.

He called for liberalizing the state retirement system, increasing per diem travel allowances lor state workers, and proposed a department of urban affairs to work with local governments.

He promised t| support a pilot program for public kindergartens.

He said he sees no justification for secrecy in government except where there are salary negotiations and land purchase discussions.

Aavantage of Studies Scott, during his administration, will have the advantage of numerous studies which were initiated during the present administration or ordered by the 1967 legislature Many of these are now near-, ing completion and most will be available by the time Scott assumes office and the 1969 General Assembly convenes.

One is concerned with possible changes in the state constitution. During the campaign, Scott said We need to examine in light of modern times such constitutional matters as the short ballot, veto power for the governor, terms of office for the governor, more authority for local governments.

Still another study is being conducted into various facets of local government problems and needs, and this includes Scotts proposal for a combined urban affairs department.

Roads and Elducation Scott Indicated repeatedly that primary empasis during his administration would be placed on education and highways.

He said he believes strongly that education is the key to increasing the states per "capita income. In addition to a pilot program for public kindergartens, he called for expanded industrial arts and vocational education programs at the junior high school level, for more and better classrooms and facilities, clerical help for teachers. He stressed attaining at least the national average in teacher pay scales.

terstate system were tentatively outlined. News re-lases irom tne oiciais put heavy empnasis on what the iEst was going to get. But the accompanying map of the additional supei-highway mileage did not bear out the promises the words seemed to contain. Unless the tentative program is altered, the East will continue to be without adeqijtate major highways even when the additions td the interstate system are completed.

It was the same old story; the same old bad joke of the East getting only crumbs from the table while other sections of the state got the bread and meat.

The situation must change, and it is up to governor-elect Bob Scott to see that it changes in the next four years. If the East is to reach its economic potential, it must have major highways. If its' tourism is to continue to develop as it should, highway 17, long neglected, should become a superhighway rather than a mediocre modern-day farm to market road. There must be several major connecting highway links from the East into the Piedmont* heartland.

To assert that a couple of branches from major highways slanting through slender fingers of the huge eastern area will suffice for future years is the height of fallacy and folly. These cannot meet the highway needs of this area and its people. They will not be sufficient to provide avenues for sorely needed economic development. Neither will .they allay the impatiencenow bordef*^g on disgustof the people of the East who have leaned so long on hollow promises that their highway needs would be met and a bright new day opened for them.

Those highways must come under the new Scott administration if they are to come at all to an Eastern North Carolina loyal to the Democratic party in North Carolina.

A Question: Will Jas. Ray Ever Be Tried?

We can see it now.

Sometime in late February, 1969, the trial of James Earl Ray for the murder of Martin Luther King, will be delayed for another three or four months.

The reason?

Well, '

The accused just happened to think that It was time to appoint another defender who would require additional time to familiarize himself with the case.

A new trial date will be set; and sure enough, a few days before the scheduled trial the defendant will announce a new attorney will handle his defense.

Come now! Is Justice so bankrupt?

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America may not have the best of everytWng but, whatever it has, it can wrap and tie it up better than any other country in the world.

Packaging has become our outstanding native art form. We are even better at it than we are at finger painting or building skyscrapers.

In other lands they try to make their packages as simple as possiWe. In France, for example, if you buy a damp fish or a bimch of dowers, they usually merely inclose it in a small piece of yesterdays newspaper and hand it to you. Bread ordinarilly isnt evMi wrapped at all. You

simply pick up a loaf, stick it under your arm, and march home with it.

This merely proves how benighted Elurope has remained. The real test of a civilization is to what extent it can take a simple thing and make it more difficult, complex and complicated.

Judges solely in this respect by its art of packaging, this nation is by far the most civilized that has ever graced the earth. Our packages have become as complicated as our neuroses, and are just about as difficult to solve.

When you get a package today a package of almost any kind It is no longer merely a simple purchase or a surprise present. It is a great big problem.

On it should be printed in great bold letters: I dare you to try to open me;

No matter what die package contains a book, a shirt, a mail order cheese from Wisconsin it Is wrapped as securely as if it held the contents of Ft. Knox.

' It then becomes an endurance contest of wits, skill, patience and prayer to get it open. Attack it with all 'our might hands and feet, teeth (ContiBaed On Page I)

WASHINGTONTbere are a lot of post-mortems going on now as to why Vice President Hubert Humphrey lost the election. I have been conducting one myself, and the caiclusion I have come to is that the one person responsible for Humphreys defeat was Maywr Ridiard Daley of Chicago.

To understand what happened, you have to have some background on Cook County politics. The Democratic people of Cook County are among the most patriotic in tiie country. Some of them not ily vote once, but twice and three times if theyre interested in the election. Tradition has it in Cook County that even after you die you still dont lose your right to vote. ^

EWery election year, ballot boxes are prepared for different precincts in Cook County. Trien, depending on how many votes the Democrats need in Illinois to win, the boxes are sent in. Some years very few boxes are needed. Other years the machine needs every one they can get.

This year, everything was

in readiness for the presidential election. The ballot boxes were stuffed to the brim, and it was just a question of getting tiie word from Mayor Daley when they should be released.

But something happened this presidential election year to Mayor Daley, as we shall see.

At about 11 p.m., election night, a Cook County precinct captain called in to City Hall to find out when he could start releasing the ballot boxes.

Were not releasing' any this year, the man on the other end of the phone said.

The mayor says that he will not tolerate any skullduggery in Cook County voting.

You got to be kidding, the precinct captain said. 1 have three cemeteries stUl waiting to vote.

The man on the other end of the line said, I know its hard to understand, but something happened to the mayor at the Democratic convention. He became the symbol of law and order to millions and mil

lions of Americans, and he doesnt want to hurt that image.

But what about Cook Countys image? the precinct captain cried. Weve been able

ART

BUCHWALD

Other Editors Say Time For Greatness

(Goldsboro News-Argus)

The next four years will be a time for greatness in leadership in the land.

Nationally and in North Carolina our people are divided in groups of almost equ a 1 size.

In the naticm, Presidentelect Ridiard Nixon will go in office with the voted sup-pcHTt of fewer than half of his fellow Americans.

An almost equal number of peddle jM*eferrcd his chief ponent. Vice President Hubert Humphrey. Five states and 14 per cent of the populace favored third party candidate George Wallace.

The presidential election was not a personality contest. In large measure it was a battle over issues issues on which our people have decided and omxising convictions.

In Nortii Carolina, Bob Scott emerges by a hairs breadth

as the governor-elect after a bruising, name - calling, down-to-the-wire battle with Congressman Jim Gardner.

exposing factions in many parts of the state made charges and counter charges that left deep, not easily to be forgotten wounds.

But all candidates, in the state and nationally, want the same thing for the people of North Carolina and the people of America.

We all want peace, an honorable peace, in Vietnam. We want prosperity and a good life for all our people. We want governments that are sound economically and in integrity.

The task of our next President and our next governor will be to pull us together as united people in a united nation and in a united state.

Their mark of greatness will be how well they rise to that challenge.

to deliver the vote here for . 50 years. If Cook County cant control filinois, the election ' will be 14) fw grabs.

The mayor told me to tell you that if he hears of one false ballot being cast this year, hell send the police into your precinct and break every car window in the neighborhood.

I cant believe it. Weve worked day and night on these ballot boxes. We registered people who moved away from Chicago 20 years ago. Weve had people voting who havent been bom yet. Dont tell us all our work has been for naught. What are we suppose to do with all the boxes? The mayor doesnt care. He told me to tell you that if he cant win honestly in Cook County, he doesnt want to win at all.

Even if it means losing the Presidency of the United States?

I asked him that and he said, What is a man profited if he shall gain the election but lose his soul?

I got to hear it from him, the precinct man said unbelievingly.

You cant. Hes out in Grant Park planting chrysanthemums that the Yippies tore up in August.

The next morning, as the sun came up over the Conrad Hilton hotel, ballot boxes were being burned in every part of Cook County, and with them, going up in smoke, went Hubert Horatio Humphreys chances of becoming the 37th President of the United States.

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By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK CHICAGO - As the 45Ui Precinct of the 24th Ward inside Chicagos West Side Negro ghetto opened its polling place at the James Johnson Scbod election day, the voting was clearly going to be dominated and directed by one man; the Democratic precinct captain.

Although the legal status of a precinct capain is merely the passive one of p 011-watcher, this Democratic functionary traditionally u n s Chicagos voting precincts. It was not the only violation of law in the 45th PreciiKit wi Tuesday. Indeed, the voting there was a travesty on democracy, solely an instrument enabling the Democratic precinct captain to meet Ibis vote quota.

Demo(Tatic officials here bar newsmen from polling places, a prudent decision considering what goes jin. However, we obtained po.II watchers credentials, perrmt-ting us to observe demoora-cy, Clhicago-style, in sev^al polling places on the black West Side. What we saw showed that lurid Republiaa charges levelled for years have been exaggerated. ''

In, the 45th Precinct, i-or example, voter registration was meaningless. A nod from the Democratic precinct captain allowed an unregistered voter to vote by merely signing an affidavit. Whether..the might vote in anofher precinct as well would be impossible to determine.

Even more remarkable was what happened inside the voting bootii. Without asking whether the voter wanted help, the election judge an attractive young lady in a bright red dress entered the booth with every voter and instructed him to pull tht Democratic straight party lever, breaking the state law.

Once the curtain had closed and the voter was alone inside the booth, tiie judge would hover just outside so that tiie vote was anything but secret. If the voter tarried mwe than 30 seconds and thus appeared to be splitting his ticket, the judge would reach inside to tap him on the shoulder or even reenter the booth with him.

Nobody was permitted close to the four-min u 11 maxumum time in the booth. When one voter had spent more than a minute inside, the precinct captain shou ted across the room to the judge: Come on, get her out (rf there.

When we questi(Hied the precinct captain about these irregularities, he was enraged: You white folks show up here on election day and try to run things. All the people here is of the same color and they all want to vote Democratic nothing else. The judges just show th e m how to vote straight Democratic. Now, you sit down and shut up.

Such activity by judges is no less illegal than the conduct of the assistant Democratic precinct captain, who roamed about the po 11 i n g place wearing Humphrey but-twis still another violation.

The assistant captain wwld usher certain voters into the school, then retire outsi d e while they voted. When each left, the assistant capt a i n would hand him what looked like a white chit. Without variatiouj the voters carrying chits would walk halfway down the block into an alley.

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Strength For Today

Business Overcame The Surtax

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By EARL L. DOUGLASS BUT DONT LET IT Have you ever heard peo-WORRY YOU Have you ever heard people say, Our family is a funny family?

Every famify is a fu n n y family. There is just as much difference between fami lies as there is between individuals. Every family has something about it which causes certain of its members to regard it as peculiar and queer. Young people especially are inclined to maintain that the standards set up by their parents are unprecedented. No other parents in the community make such demands upon Uieir children at least, so the children say.

The I*ord set us in families for the purpose of maturing UR Wfk i>d the support of

those round about us. We need their good cheer, tiieir encouragement, their love. But one of the things which makes us grow strong is the discipline we get from living with people whose ideas do not always accord witii ours.

We usually c(xisider pe<^le queer because they dU f e r from us. We miibt just as well get used to the fact that we live in a queer world.

We will find thousands of people who hold ideas quite contradictory to ours. We had better get ready in the home to live amicabfy with people unlike ourselves. We only waste time quarreling about things we can never change.

And then, who ever told us that we are always ri^t? Who has given us the privilege of sitting in judgment 0V others?

By ELMER ROESSNER In the first three months corporations and their customers were paying the surtax, corporations did lovely.

A Wall Street Journal tabulation of 438 corporations reporting earnings in the July-September quarter shows that their profits were up 13.6 per cent over the same 1967 quarter.

A First National City Bank tabulation of 1,214 corporations shows that their profits were 12 per cent higher than a year ago.

First National said the main reason was the sustained sales volume in-the quarter, especially in aCitos, whidi also aided rubber manufacturers. And this was despite the fact that consumers, too, were paying the surtax.

No Dirty Words The New York-based bank did not use those dirty words,

fight from the dollar, but there is a suspiciwi that many people would rather have goods than money, which has been showing an annoying habit of buying less every month.

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There was another reason for tiie surge, National City pointed out. The largest year-to-year increases in profits occurred among industries

which were hit by Strikes a year ago: autos, rubber and

nonferrous metals.

Tidrty-six auto and parts corporations showed a gain of 117 per cent in profits over the same 1967 period; 24 rubber and allied products corporations showed a 47 per cent rise, and 29 nonferrous metals companies upped pro-its by 55 per cent.

Only two manufactur ing groups showed declines in nets after taxes: 48 iron and steel corporations, down 34 per cent, and 8 tobacco products firms, down 2 per per cent.

Why Steel Dipped

The iron and steel industrys drop was due to the fact that a year ago steel sers were beginning to st-^pile the metal in fear of a steel strike but after the strike was settled cut purchases sharply and lived largely off their inventories.

Tobacco profits drop p e d

partly because of highertaxes and partly because of a drop in sales resulting from fear of lung cancer and dther health hazards from cmoking.

The 898 manufacturing ..iOor-porations in the First National study showed a better-than-average gain, increasing-profits 15 per cent compared with the 12 per cent total for all corporations.

Among the groups showing even better profits were 32 paper and allied products companies, up 29 per cent; 18 office and computing corporations, up 36 per cent; and 23 aerospace manufacturers, up 42 per cent.

Among nonmanufactur i n g companies, 22 railroads gained 29 per cent and 28 trade cor|X)rations were up 28 per cent. Twenty-four air and other transportation corparatcmi suffered a 19 per cent decline, but still nette^ $126 million.