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This win bt the key to many f the GOFi hopes and aspirations to mold North Carolina Into a trut two-party sute. Alrtady dttply disappointed in

Whatever else occurrh in the sreneral election -ef Nov. 5 it appears voting patterns in Pitt County Were changed so radically that they may never be - the same again.

_ This is particularly true In Greenville where

" Pattern of voting was such as has not been seen

m modern times.

As had been predicted, the county cast a . record vote several thousands more than ever .before; and George Wallace won the county by "1,500 votes. The final totals in the presidential race showed Hubert Humphrey with 7,695: Richard Nixon with 5.744 and Wallace with 9,162. Obviously the southern flavor of the Wallace candidacy

GOP Unity Is Be Watchec.

to want to carry the fight to the Democratic majority in a more hard-hitting way. Some also say the party leadership should alternate from the House to Siate side and point out that Republicans made proportionately more gain in the upper chambw than they did in the House. It ii possible that Holshouser may be dumped frcnn his party role in the legislature but is expected to retain his party chairmanship If he wishes to stay on. The defeated candidate for governor, Jim Gardner, recently expressed confidence in Holshouser and indicated he would like for him to stay on ^ as state party chairman.

Other Aspects There are other aspects to a possible intra-party power struggle among Republican le-gislat(H*s.

One is the most of them are newcomers to the General Assembly. Only a few Reserved mwe than two terms-publican lawmakers have served more tian two terms.

Holshouser is one. Roby Garner of Randolph County is one. Austin Mitchell and Samuel Troxell of Rowan are serving secixid terms. Clyde H. Whitley of Stanly County is one of the GOP seniors.

James H. Carson Jr. of Charlotte is the only Republican elected from Mecklenburg County and he is recognized as a returning potential legislative leader. All of the House members from Rowan, Wilkes, Yadkin, Davie, Iredell, Catawba, Alexander, Burke and Cladwell counties (the western Piedmont) are Republican. Big Forsyth County sends five Republicans to House and two to the Siate. One of the Guilford-Randolph senators, a total of three, is a RepublicanCoolidge Muir-ow of High Pdnt. Rowans senator is a RepublicanOdell Sapp. Republican T. R. Bryan of Wilkes will represent Watauga, Wilkes, Yadkin and Davie in what likely is the states most solid Republican political district. The two senators from Alexander, Catawba, Iredell and Lincoln are Republican. So is the single senator from Burke and Caldwell, the two from Buncombe Maaison, Mitchell and Yancey; some-from Haywood, Henderson and what surprisingly the one from Haywood, Henderson and Polk, and one from (^erokee, Clay, Graham, Jackson Macon, Swain, and Transylvania.

the loss of ita strongest bid for the governorship, Republicans now are assessing what they might accomplish in the legislature.

Still in the minority, the G-OP is beefed up and boasts its largest representation in the General Assembly since 1928.

Of 170 members, 41 are Republicans. There are 12 Republicans In the 50-member Senate and 29 in the 120-member House.

GOP Power Struggle? There are reports of a power struggle developing within the GOP legislative ranks, along with a great deal of jealously and divlsiveness-These will be denied, but they are circulating nevertheless.

Sen. R. T. (Ted) Dent of Spruce Pine, a second ter.mer, has received considerable support for the post as minority leader-chairman of the Republican legislative caucus.

If true this would be somewhat unusual because the state Republican party chiarman, Rep. James E. Holshouser Jr. of Bome, also won re-election. As party chairman Holshouser has been recognized as chief spokesman for the GOP both in party and legislative affairs.

Incidentally, Holshousers House district includes Dents bome county of Mitchell.

More Aggressive There are complaints in Republican raiAs that the past leadership has faiM to be as aggressive and outgoing on behalf of GOP policies and programs as it should have been. Dents supporters are said

brought oiit many Pitt County citzens who had never voted before.

In Greenville, however, the top vote getter among the three candidates was not George Wallace, but Hubert Humphrey. In the city's nine precincts Humphrey received 3,416 votes; Not a great distance behind in Greenville was Nixon with 3,260. Wallace was third with 2,635.

Intere.sting patterns developed in Greenville a precincts. Only two of them gave Wallace the highest number of votes. Greenville 1 (Meadowbrook) and Greenville 6 (Amercan Legion) were Wallace precincts. Both of these are semi-rural areas.

Three precincts went to Humphrey. These wera Greenville 8 (Third Street School); Grenville 4, (West End Fire Station) and Greenville 6 (Fifth Street Fire Station. All of these are precincts which embrace large numbers of Negro voters.

The real surprise of the election, however, is the fact that four Greenville precincts went for Nixon. Thse are Greenville 2 (Court House); Greenville 7 (Elm Street); Greenville 8 (Rotary) and Greenville 9 (Gardner Fire Station>. These are predominately white areas and they include the affluent sections of the city.

Outside Greenville there were no surprises. Every other precinct went for Wallace, although in the larger towns it was fairly close. In Farmville, for instance Wallace received 937 votes to Humphreys 912 and Nixons 418. In Ayden it was Wallace 877; Humphrey 748 and Nixon 448.

The voting pattern of 1968 poses a great challenge to leaders of both the Democratic and Republican parties in Pitt County. It can be seen that, for one presidential election at least, the Republicans have established themselves in four large and growing precincts of Greenville. Then there is the countys big Wallace vote which, depending on what happens to Wallaces Amercan Independent Party, could be sought by the two established parties four years hence. Finally there Is the ever growing Negro vote which will become more and more crucial in the years ahead.

The varied voting pattern of Greenvilles nine precincts should serve as a signal to political leaders; for the countys urban vote, represented in Greenville and the other municipales, Is steadily growing in relation to the rural vote.

Inter party politics has taken on a whole new loolc in Pitt County as a result of the 1968 election. It can be expected that Republicans will be more active than ever and Democrats will redouble their efforts. It is also possible that the Wallace American Independent Party will become a permanent poltical entity in Pitt County.

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NEW YORK (AP) Many busy people begin the morning by sitting down and writing pompous little memos to themselves headed: Things Simply Must Get Done Today.

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By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON-A condiden-tial blueprint now being drafted by Rep. Melvin Laird of Wisconsin warns in somber terms that Presidentelect Nixon cannot coma close to balancing the Federal budget until his third year in office.

This blueprint being drafted by Laird, the most influential and powerful Republican in the House, amounts to a five-year legislative plan. Helped by staff experts on the House Appropriations Committee, liird is preparing it in extensive consultations with Mr. Nixon.

When completed, the Laird memorandum will dramatize one hard fact: the incoming Republican administration can have no real leverage on Federal programs its first year and only a little the second. It will have to wait until its third year to stamp its own unique Imprint on Federal programs and the budget.

Thus, Mr. Nix<m is being warned that promises for sudden program and budget innovations cant be fulfilled. It is essential, tee Laird study suggests that the new Presidents State of tee Uniwi, budget, and economic messages be geared not to an impossible pledge for immediate ma-jcM* changes, but to a long period of gradual change.

In short, what Laird pro-p(es is a five-year planironically, a concept of Communist economic planning from a party traditionally skeptical about long-range planning of

any kind.

But Laird has the evidence on his side. His study shows that the Johnson administration underestimated the cost of public assistance grants to the states by $1.1 billion in the present fiscal year, ending June 30.

To correct that error, a supplemental appropriation was passed this fall. Furthermore, Laird, senior Republican on the House Healte and Welfare Appropriations Subcommittee, estimates that public assistance will go up by 12 billion in fiscal year 1970, the first full year of the Nixon administration.

Laird calculates that the Nixon administraticm can halt this rapid spiralling of welfare payments only bit by bit. His pri^osal: switch from outright welfare grants to a work-incentive program, as Mr. Nixon promised in many campaign speeches. Even that will take time.

The Laird study also proposes a slow approach to another major fiscal change long backed by Republicansbloc grants to the states from Federal tax revenue, without restrictions.

Laird will propose A two-step move toward bloc grants, starting modestly with pay-<mts from Washington limited to single broad categories such as education.

Ody after this would there be outright bloc grants.

It is on defense spending teat tee Laird study Is most pessimistic. Even after the (Continaed On Page I)

The Rev. Leon Howard Sullivan, all six - feet - five of him, turned up here in San Juan the oteer day to address a meeting of the N e w York State Savings Banks Association. His hosts may not have known quite what to expect from a Neyro Baptist preacher in tee San Gerwii-ino Hilton. What they got was a black capitalist preach i ng the beauties of black capitalism, Sullivan style. When be wound up, they gave him a

standing ovation.

The ovation was deserved, for the Rev. Dr. Sullivan makes powerful sense. At 46, he is tee restless, driving spirit behind one of tee nations most encouraging programs of economic advancement for the Negro- He is an innovator, t builder, a dreamer, an organizer and 1m still preaches every Sunday at Philadelphias iflon Baptist Church. If Richard Ni.xon is looking for an Afro - Ameri-

Other Editors Say Give Him A Chance

(HenderaUn Dispatch)

Already it is evident that the liberal press, commentators and television newsmen are out to discredit Richard Nixon, now president-elect who is to assume hii duties some two months hence. From what one reads, sees end hears, the conclusion is that as many flaws as possible are being turned up about tee man who won the election Nov. 5.

It is true that Nixons popular vote majcxity was slim, but no less than that by which. John F. Kennedy was elected in 1960. This same group never tried to pick Kennedy to pieces either in advance or while he was in office until his tragic death. But they are going after Nixon by keeping tee public reminded of the ra-sor slim margin of the popular vote.

Actually, Nixons electoral college vote was well in keeping with that received by Kennedy eight years ago. Very little was heard in 1960 and the years that followed about el-hninating the system. But Ni

xons sizable majority of electoral votes is being made the basis for a clamw to do away with that method of electing presidents.

The electoral college rule has been effective since the beginning of the republic, and not until recently when the liberals have not fared so well, has there been a rising crescendo of agitation to abolish it. They probably would have not been so vocative had results been in their favor.

The agitators should at least give Nixon a chance. He is entitled to the opportunity to demonstrate what he has to offer and what he can do by way of getting the government back upon a sound footing from the mess the liberals have produced in their eagerness to translate the country hito a socialist state. It is amazing that they cannot or do not envision tee threat such a system would be to their soft jobs and inflated incomes under the s<xt of regime the leftists would impose upon the country.

can of Cabinet status, he might well cast an eye 00 Sullivan: He is the hott c s t thing around.

Four years ago, without a nickel in Federal aid, Sullivan set in motion his plan of Opportunities Industrialization Centers (OIC). He envisioned fomething mors than mere vocational training for the jobless blacks of his community. If his dead - end adqlts were to make something of their lives, they had to learn not only the tedini-ques of plumbing or metel-work, but also the basic skills of reacting, writing, and arithmetic; and they would have

develop the job attitu d e s that would keep teem moving ahead.

Sullivan raised $100,00 In seed capital from his poor community. His church made a loan of $40,000 more. Without asking advice from a single bureaucrat or educator,, he plunged into the venture. Seven thousand trainees now have been graduated from the PhUadlphia OIC. Ninety per cent of them have obtained jobs, and 80 per ^ent of them have held their jobs f<Mr a year or more.

The OIC concept has spread to 75 cities. Federal aid now figures in a third of the training centers, but the ot h e r s are making it on their own. Some 35,000 trainees are currently oirUled for the six-month courses; another 10,000 are on a waiting list W h i 1 e the centers serve Negroes predominantly, the OIC in Olahoma City has a number of Indian students and a center in West Virginia serves Appalachian whites.

Sullivans success grows out of his conviction lhat effective programs cannot be auperimposed on the people. (Continaed On Page S)

"Drop by bank and xpliln why overdrawn. Set dentist about loose bridge. **Call Myrtle. CaU Joe. *CaU Jim.

It is by dealing with these minutiae of daily emergency that we spend most of our walking hours. But they are on the dull side, aren t they?

How much more exciting it might make living seem if we started off each day by writing memos about our imachl-evcd daydreams. These could be headed; Things Must Be Sure to Do By Day After Tomorrow At the Latest.

Here are a few luggested possteilities:

Become a pool shark on tea ily and beat Minnesota Fats.

Swin tec English Channel, using <mly the butterfly stroke.

Run for sheriff and create the (mly truly crime-free county in America.

Invent a new international currency that would take the place of money and never have its value dented by In-flation.

Organize a sociable eociety or unsociable hermits.

' Find a way to improve parents so noticeably that they would become impressive even to tHeir teen-age children.

Present tee worlds largest white elqjhant to your Bcxt-docff wdghhor, who now has tee worlds noisiest dog..

Pass the buck back to someone at the office who has been passing it to you for 20 years.

Raise a turkey with enough meat on it to last through both Thanksgiving and CSwistmas.

Build an agile, four-legged, ferocious automatic robot that would scamper across tee front yard and bRe the ankle of tee postman every time he tried to deliver junk mail to your doOT.

Purchase a small, economysized computer that would help your kids solve teeir algebra problenas and also fill out government tax forms.

Concoct a happiness pill or spray that would cause a restaurant waiter or a cab driver to smile wite utter bliss whenever you gave them a nickel tip.

Yep, if youre in the habit of scribbling teings-to-do memos to yourself, why not make them more fun by giving priority to those really most worthwhile?

Always put your daydreams first.

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By EARL L. DOUGLASS threat of CATASTROPHE

The New Testament frequently uses the word compassion. A modern word which in many ways resembles this Biblical word is concern. With all our failings we can truly be said to be a concerned generation. We are concerned over national issues. We are concamed over the f^ct that mjch as we may try to forget it tiiere is indeed social injustice running like ugly streaks through our social structure.

But we are concerned about these things and therein lies our hope. The nobles of France were not amcerned about the condition of the common people. When they had no bread to eat M a r i t Antoinette was said to have remarked, Let them eat

cake. Certainly the Czar of Russia was not an evil person, but he was surroumled by a nobility'teat, as Tolstoy said, was willing to do everything for tee peasant except get off his back.

Tha alarming thing about our present concero is teat some of those most concerned are extremists. They print placards and organize parades and riots. They stir up one group against another. Now they arc getting on our college campuses, rushing i n to the offices of college presidents, shaking their fists and making threats.

This is not concern this is catastrophe. Injustice tfb-quently needs to be dramatized if it is to be noticed at all. but there is a dlfferenca between dramatisation and disaster, between protest and mob violence.

By ELMER ROESSNER

All of the jingit-jingle from now to the id of tee year wont come from Santas sleigh bells or department store cash registers. Some will be the jingle of cash in the pockets of the fake directory pnxnoters.

This is clean-up time because most of tee le^timate directory publishers are preparing 1968 editions. Businessmen who ixofit from listings in trade and other directories expect to riew their listinip and when a statement come in, perhaps, with their listing attached, cut from such a directory, it is almi^t automatically (cayed for payment.

But in many cases, say several millioa dollars amrth, the mwiey goes to promoters of ph^ directories. Some of these terectories are never printed. Others are simply copies of typewritten lists kept on hand in case postal Inspectors become nosey.

The Off-YfUow Pages In recent years promoters

have been using the popularity of the yellow-page telephone directories. The Louis Better Business Bureau reports that as of last July, there were 23 fake directory operations in the United States.

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Of these, 6 were operatii^ out of various adteesses in California, three in New York State, two in Chicago, one in Indianapolis and one in St. Louis.

Two of these companies, op

erating out of Sherman Oaks

and Tarzana, Calif., use punchcard solicitatiois. Each bears tee picture of an open yelow book that suggests a yellow-pake directory.

Both cards bear tee statement now required by the Poet Office: This is a solicitation for the ordfer of services and not a bill, invoice or statemoit of account due. You are not under any obligation to make any payments on account of this offer unless you accept this offer.

Faintly Conforming

The legend of the Sherman Oaks card is printed in shadow type while the rest of tha card is printed in solid type.

Apparently farepressible, the promotors of make-believt directories who like to make their unwary businessmM prospect believe tiiey are actually the Yellow Pages of the telephone coinpany) are at it again despite a postal amid-

ment enacted in 1967 designed to curb their activities,! tee St Louis BBB comments.

The lesson is obvious.

Biting The Hand That Feeds The JJtIr

Four of the mdlL-favored industries in tea United States are the radio and television business, which geta free use of the afar; tee trucking industry, whidb does not have to maintain the highways as the railroads do teeir tracks, and tee book publishing and phonograph record businesses, which are charged only token rates for books or discs by the Post Office.

For example, It costs only 18 cents to mail a twopound book or disc package from New York to Loe Angols, but it would cost you $1.15 to mail a twoiHMind tex of candy tha samo distance to your giit.

Thas one reason why you have to pay 6 cents to mail a letter.