Wednesday, January 1, 1969

Safety Should Be Resolve Of Driver

The new year should bring a solemn resolve from every driver in Pitt County that he will do everything in his power to keep traffic deaths in the county this year at a lower figure than in the year iust ended.

For Pitt, 1968 tied the record for traffic deaths as the lives^ of 28 persons were snuffed out on its streets and highways. It seems incredible that so many persons could lose their lives in traffic accidents in this county in a single year. Althoygh Pitt is a large county, it does not have superhighw'ays which are heavily traveled, Although it has considerable mileage in highways, most of them are secondare roads that are normally considered low-speed, safe roads..

Pitt Countys number of highway deaths during

Moore Cites Achievements

the past year will put it among the most hazarous counties in the state in terms of automotive travel. It is a pretty good bet that the county will receive special attention during the new year from the Highway Patrol and ^other agencies concerned with traffic safety. Hopefully the county will likewise receive attention from those agencies responsible for building and improving highways, for at least a part of the blame for the number of traffic deaths must be attributed to the lack of better primary roads in the county.

But the efforts of those agencies alone will not assure that Pitt in 1969 will post a better traffic safety record than it did in 1968. The highway safety record of the county in this new year will largely^ determined by the special safety efforts of those who use the highways of the county most . . . those people who live here and drive on those highways day-in and day-out.

The stakes are too high for any motorist to ignore the JlHj;5LG?Portance of a greater highway safety effort in Pitt County during 1969.

Kennedy Attempting

By WILLIAM S. SHIRES Reflector Raleigb Bureau

R.ALEIGH In his inaugural address four years ago, Gov. Dan Moore pledged to work for total development of the state. Now, in a final report to the people on .his administration he says this total

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development haS been successful.

The overall resalt of putting a simple philosophy into practice, says Moor-?, h a s been the most busy and productive four years in the states history.

There is an impressive array of statistics and other evidence to support this da i m which Moore makes with pardonable pride.

I am proud of the many sound accomplishments which have been made during the last four years, he says. Because of them I believe that North Carolina is a better state with greater opportunities for all its citizens.

This is the goal we sought, and it is what we have attained.

Gives Credit Moore gives credit for the record of his administration to hSs* staff, state officials, the legislature and thousands of state employes and private citizens and to that simple philosophy.

v^The governor phrased t h c ^losophy of his administration this way:

Provide more opportunities for all citizens through better educational programs, through development of econo^ mic resources, through providing a broad and efficient program of governmental services.

^ Moore also points^out carefully that his administration had no pet projects no special glamourized field whichv received particular inter e s t and attention.

No single service of state government has progressed* at

the expense of another, he says.

Total Development

Thus Dan Moore is not likely to be tagged as a champion of a particular cause or effort which has been the case under every gove r n o r since Cherry.

W. Kerr Scott was known for roads. Luther H. Hodges for industrial developm e n t Terry Sanford for education.

If he has his wish, Moore would like to be known for putting a total development philosophy into practice as he promised.

Under it, he feels every aspect of the states broad array of services has been improved, expanded, strenglh-ejied and made more meaningful.

Following the governors report, Dr. Charles F. Carroll, retiring veteran superintedent of public instruction, praised Moores administration and added, North Carolina truly is a better state because of Dan Moore ...

Private Economy It is noteworthy to find in the governors report a special pride in the growth and role of the private economy.

A major part of our program has been to stimulate and develop the private economy, he said. And it is clear he considers this more impca*-tant than sheer bigness of state government and expansion of state services.

He points out that more than $2.3 billion (B) in new and expanded industry was invested in North Carolina during the past commerce conflnued to grow, and the State Ports experienced record growth.

Provides Base Sound growth of the private economy in turn provided resources for expansion of state services during the Moore ad-ministraticMi.

j^d the outgoing governor points out that because of increasing efficiency and cooperation within stare government, states taxes were not increased. Tax adjustments an overall lowering were possible, and the cost of state services in North Carolina re-tnained low in comparison with the costs of other states.

Moore who returns to private life this week spoke of the future, picturing sta t e government as so vibrant and vital that it must continue to move forward.

Establish Himself

Sen. Edward Kennedys bid -or the post of Senate Majority Whip -4- second highest party office must be viewed as a bid to establish himself in a position of leadership for future years.

While it is possible that Sen. Kennedy may unseat Sen. Russell Long of Alabama from the^osition Long now holds, most observers feel that Long has sufficient support to retain the post. In addition to support he has from Southern Senators, Long likewise has broad support from Democratic sfrators in other parts of the country as well. Sen. Edward Kenne^dy and those who are boosting his candidacy

nedy is projecting himself out'of Ihe Ttitibr oT a retiring young member of. that body, a posture he has assumed since his election several years ago. He is pr9jecting himself as part of the leadership of liberal forces in the Senate and perhaps seeking a better position from which to project himself into a national candidate in 1972.

The change is not really surprising for the younger Kennedy. He has served his appreticeship in the Senate. The mantle of the family now so prominent in the nations political affairs has fallen unon his shoulders. If the organized leadership established by his two elder brothers is to be perpetuated, he must begin to move to fill those shoes emptied bv assassins bullets. -

While the challenge to Sen. Longs position a^ Democratic whip in the Senate may be a serious one, Sen. Kennedys goal obviously is something considerably beyond the party post now held by Sen. Long.

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By JAMES KILPATRICK

.Pueblo Affair A Fiasco

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BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -Lebanons emotional politicians and editorial writers say their countrys virtual neutrality in the Arab - Israeli conflict perished in the flames at Beirut Internatiimal Airport last Saturday night.

But Lebanons sihrewd merchants, whose Phenician forebears were trading with the World before Christ was born, and experienced diplomatic observers expect no change in the Beirut governments policy of lip service to the Arab cause but little else.

Not since 1948, when the state of Israel was established, has Lebanon taken an active part in the Arab confrontation with the Jews next door.------------

Rarely has there been violence along Lebanons h i 1 ly frontier with Israel, and former Foreign Minister Fouad Boutros recently admitt e d that security measures had been taken to prevent Palestinian guerrillas using t h e country as a base for raids into Israel.

Because nearly half of Lebanons 2.5 million people are Arab Moslems, the government finds it necessary to give vocal support to the other Arab nations. But in t h e

1956 and 1967 Arab wars with Israel, Lebanon played* no part. Last year during the war its troops were withdrawn from the frontier to protect Beiruts Jewish minority. An Israeli warpla n e crashel in Lebanese territory, and this was hailed as a tremendous triumph. But the Syrians shot the plane down.

Eoonomically, Leba non benefited from Israels creation. Before 1948 the Palesti-nias port of Haifa handle d much of the entrepot tra d e with the Arab world. When Haifa became part of Israel, Beiimt took over the business.

With half of its population Christians and many of them pro - Western, the Lebanese government rar e 1 y has seen eye to eye with other Arab countries. It refused in 1958 to join either the Uni-' ted Arab Republic of Eg y p t and Syria or the equally short - lived federation of Jordan and Iraq That sama year it called in U. S. Marines to put down an insurrection inspired by Egypt

Lebanon and Syria still haggle bitterly over transit charges.

After 20 years of such an ambiguous policy toward Israel, the destructive Israeli attack came as a stunn i n g

In the midst of the jubilation singing over the return of the Pueblos officers and men, it is necessary to sound a few bass growls of cautiwi and dissent. This whole affa i r, from start to finish, ought not to be ranked ammig the shining moments of naval history. It was a fiasco. Disast^ may be a better word.

From a standpoint of human interest, to be sure, the sailors release ranked among the great stories of 1968. They trudged across the Bridge of No Return; they flew back to their loved ones at home; and in the moment of reuniwi, the dams men build "^around their hearts were burst asunder.

The awful abstractions of war found tangible meaning in a childs emlM*ace.

The story cannot be permitted to end on this hap p y note. The ship was lost. FTes-tige was lost. Some of the most sophisticated intelligence equipment in the world fell into enemy hands. A court of naval inquiry represents only the beginning of the investigations that now must be conducted if anything of value is, yet to be salvaged.

The Navys formal inquiry is in (Mie sense the poorest way to begin, for the Navy itself is on trial. The conduct of Commander Lloyd M. Bucher is only part of the ito-

learned of spy ships with Israels assault upon the U.

Other Editors Say dandouts Are Costly

(Wilson Daily Times)

The story telling that North Carolina gets less than 25 cents back out of every dollar sent to Washington is interesting and alarming. We have known that it tak^ >|boyt 40 cents out of every dollar, sent to Washington, for administrative costs. But we did not know we were so low in favor in Washingtwi.

North Carolina is not going to take money from the federal government just to take .ILT go into salaries. 'There Is to much of this now. But North (Darolina needs roads, and we did not get our fair share from the last allocation.

saying with federal funds go federal control. But this does not hold true in the public works programs. All over the state funds are needed for public works. This is true of Wilson.

We are evidently not getting our share in otier lines of

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endeavor.

Some states get back more than they pay into the federal treasury in taxes;i And we have read in the past of the big sums North Carolina gets back from the tax mcmey we sent to the federal government.

We can console ourselves by

On tie other hand If the federal government gets further into the public school programs there will be more federal control. This we do not want.

Not withstanding federal regulations and controls we should investigate why we are so low on the totem poll. The state cannot improve as it should if the federal government takes 75 cents out of the dollar and returns to the people 25 cents to do all that is necessary for improvements and services.

Yes, some real investigating is needed to see where we are falling down in obtaining our fair share of the federal funds. And all the pr^ jects should be needed, not work programs in order to give the less diligent a job.

S. S. Liberty in June of 1967. The national security is not breached by saying flat 1 y that such ships are literal 1 y beyond price. We are entitled to ask especially in the light of the attack wi Liberty why procedures were not perfected for destruction of vital encoding machines in moments of manifest peril?

In the case of the Peublo, nearly three hours elapsed between the North Korean interception and the actual seizure. Here were a hostile subchaser, three hostile PT boats, and several MIGs overhead. Was it supposed they had come to pay a social call? What precisely did Commander Bucher do in these three hours? It seems a long time. What messages did he send? What orders did he receive? Whose decision was it to delay destruction of the machines and other secret devices?

These questions hava to be asked. It may be that Commander Bucher did everything that possibly could have done, both at the moment of capture and in the months that followed; he may have acted heroically throughout. I surrendered the ship, he said, because it was nothing but a slaughter out there. (Continned On Page 5)

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ryperhaps the least part. Largo* questions go to the performance of 3uchers superiors in the Pacific, in the Pentagon, in the State De-partent and, for that matter, in the White House.

What were the considerations that caused the Peublo to be sent upon its mission? Why was no air cover kept available? Why were no supporting vessels stationed within convenient reach? Civilians can only guess at the delicate nature of the Peu-blos communications equipment, but a good deal was

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON - One of Washingtons most notorious feuds, between former Secretary of Defense Robert Me amara and future Secretary Melvin R. Laird, was quietly composed in a secret meeting several days ago.

The meeting between these ancient enemies took place :n a downtown hotel bedroom and lasted well over two hours. It was requested by Laird, who wanted to pick the brains of the man who brought computer management techniques into the Pentagon in 1961 and made th e office of the civilian Secretary more powerful than it had ever been in the past.

The feud between Laird and McNamara did not really get started until the mid-60s, when spending on the war in Vietnam started skyrocketing. Year after year, Laird, acting as senior Republican member of the House Appropriations military subcorami t-itee, charged McNamara with deliberate under-calculation of the costs of the war to make President Johnson s budget look better. Year after year, the President was required to come back to Congress for supplemental appropriations to finance the war.

Thus, McNamara came to regard Laird as his hairshirt. And Laird, speaking for his party in the House, made as much political capital u he could out of McNamara.

But intimates of both Laird and McNamara say that beneath the surface both men developed a healthy respect for each others ability. Thus, McNamara intimates say that Laird was the servant of his own best interests while in the House, and that those interests were political. But in the Defense Department, they say, Lairds inter t s t s will be wholly different the security of the nation, with only minor partisan implications.

Right or not, this view apparently carried the day in the McNamara - Laird meeting. They discussed in detail and with much agreement the major questions that Laird will face, starting with Vietnam.

Tax Reform Junked

Taking his lead from t h e White House, the chief Congressional tax - writer Chairman Wilbur Mills of the House Ways and M e a n . Committee is dropp i n g plans to open the year with the first broadscale tax-re-form hearings in a decade.

Mills had planned early hearings based on the comprehensive tax - refM'm plan that President Johosw is required to submit to Congress under a provision of the 10 percent surtax act. Believing that Congress has no right to tell the President what kmd of proposals to send to it, Mr. Johnson has no Intention of complying.

With neither the old nor the new President show i n g the slightest interest in tax reform, Mills feels his long dream of comprehensive restructuring of the tax system must be delayed a bit longer. He may well conduct exploratory hearings later in the year. But lacking the framework of a Presidential proposal, the hearings a r unlikely to be fruitful.

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THE DOOR

I am the door: by me if any man enter in he shall be saved (John 10:9).

Every year on the first day of the first month we open a door. We step into a new area. We confront a situation wholly new. One week ago we were reminding ourselves of the celestial light which spread over a dark World with the coming of Christ. Today we carry the spirit of that hope into a new season. We walk into new pathways we have never trod before. There has been a definite break with the past. There is on New Years Day a hopefulness and expectation that mark a new beginning. There will be probelms ahead, and some will be liard ^ to solve. There will still be burdens to bear and griefs to be assuaged. But the patiiw a y

which we are now enter i n g stretches into a future which in spite of problems and obstacles is characterized by light and hope.

For Christian belivers New Years Day is particularly significant. Christ referr e d to himself as the light of the world, the bread of life, the door through which if a n y man enter he shall be saved. The new year means something to a Christian believer that it can mean to no one else. Here is a new Pathway in which to walk. Here is a new Companion to accomp-My us on our journey. Here is a new Hope to sustain us. Here is a new Destiny toward which we press, with confidence.

I am the door; by me if any man enter in he shall be saved.

By ELMER ROESSNER

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This is our annua! book review: the review of 1969 calendar, which not only comes in book form but may be had in desk pads and other devices, in watch bands, ot easels and in wall hanging.

Review of the last might be left to the art editor. But in passing, it might be observed that the trend contin u e s away from nakedness. Apparently calendar makers are giving up efforts to compete with fashion designers, swimsuit makers and Playr boy magazine. ,

But to get to the mtty-grit-ty, the calendar wont be of great benefit to businessmen, although there have been Worse assortments of dates.

Easier falls on April 6; it was on April 14 this yea r. Thats almost midway in the possible season, since Easter

can be as early as March 22 and as late as April 25. Good Easter sales are likely. Ash Wednesday falls on Feb. 19. Short Summer Season Because Labor Day comes on Sept. 1 this year, the traditional July 4 n to - Labor Day vacation season will b only 60 days long, one day less than this year. While this will tend to shorten the season a bit for the vacation and resort industry, it will get back - to - school promotions started a day earl i e r than this year,

(The traditional shopp i n g season from ^Thanksgiving Day to Christmas Eve will be 23 shopping days, one more than this year. Thank*-gi-ving Day falls one day earlier, on Nov, 27.

The number of weeks spilt by liolidays is less llian average. a g(K)d thing for retailing, which IS oiten hit by

split weeks. So many customers leave town for long weekends when weeks are split.

New Years Day and Lin

colns Birthday fall on Wednesdays; Veterans Day on a Tuesday and Christmas and tile toUowing New Years Day on Thursdays.

However, Washingtons Birthday falls on a Saturday,

Memorial Day and July 4 oj Fridays and Columbus day oj a Sunday.

Five Payday Months The four m<mths with f i v Fridays, when the extra paj day usually swells sales, wi be January, May, August a October. That will rev end-of-month sales in tho^ months.

The more important Jewij holidays will be Purim, star ing at sundown Tuesd< March 4; Passover, sundo\ Thursday, April 3; Rosh Hs hanah, sundown Sund< Sept. 13; Yom Kippur, si down Monday, Sept. 2 a Hanukah, sundown Fridi i>ec. 5.

Hanukah in the year 5< starts at sundown tonKHrj night.

St. Patricks day comes Monday in 1969, so if you a green tie for Christii you can wear it then.

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