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Tuesday, February 4, 1969

Proves Its Value PTI Once Again

Pitt Technical Institute is once again proving its worth to the area it seiwcs by taking on the assignment of training workers for th expected Burroughs Wellcome plant.

PTI president William Fulford announced yesterday that the institute has committed over $100,000 for this purpose. Fulford said his institute will train approximately 400 hourly workers and around 120 salaried workers for employment with the pharmaceutical firm. Thus these trained people will be immediately available to Burroughs Wellcome when it begins operations here. Convei*sely those who take advantage of the training offered wdll have jobs available to them -when they complete their courses.

This is not the first time that Pitt Tech has ^ - TVT 1

trained workers for an industry. It has conducted P|TT Vw OFK

such programs for Collins and Aikman, Prep Shirt, * wv/Wfc

Empire Brush, Grifton Clothing and Blue Bell. Over $200,000 has been spent by Pitt Tech since 1963 in preparing new workers for industry.

The Burroughs Wellcome training program will be one of the largest phases of Pitt Techs work with industry.

Pitt Tech has long ago proven its worth to th( community. It has showm that it can quickly dapt its programs to provide training for virtually any type industry which comes to the area. Even now it is considering a program in chemical technology for the fall of 1969 because of Burroughs Wellcomes manpower needs.

Even if the local institute gains community college status, as it is now seeking, we expect that it will continue to keep its programs flexible enough to provide training for new and expanding industries. In this way it will be offering the best servdce it possibly can to the people of Pitt County.

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Proven

By WILUAM A. SHIRES

ReRBctor Raleigh Bureau

RALEIGH Gov. Bob Scott has chosen another proven administrator and a man with a solid record of success in dealing with racial matters as new chairman of the Good Neighbor Council.

It may be a bit misleading

Chooses Success

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but the title of chairman h only a temporary arrangement. Instead of choosing a chairman, Scott picked a fulltime executive director, Fred L. Cooper, 46, of Murfreesboro, formerly of Roanoke Rapids.

Cooper assumes the title of chairman of the Council, but will in fact become its salaried e.xecutive director shortly, probably within a few weeks.

First the legislature must act on a Scott recommendation to split the present dual role of chairman-director which was occupied by David S, Col-trane. It is expected that a bill to accomplish this will be introduced and approved rather quickly.

Broader Outlook

In his recent legislative message, Scott called for separation of the jobs of chairman and director, and that the Council be given a staff.

I feel the role of the Good Neighbor Council should become more than one of mediating disputes, Scott said.

Scott wants the Council to examine state and local governmental practices in employment and In providing of services and report periodicallv to the governors office. He wants it to encourage the removal of any inequities or racial dlscrirnination, it might

find.

Further, Scott wants the Good Neighbor-Council to continue to mediate disputes and incidents of racial friction upon the invitation of troubled communities. He wants the state group to continue to encourage and aid the formation of local bi-racial councils.

Coopers CredentiaU

Cooper has been executive dii ector of the Choanoke Area Development Association, headquartered to Murfreesboro, since 1965. This group presently chairmaned by State Rep. Perrv Martin, adminis ters the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) anti-poverty program in four northeast area counties, Hertford, Hali fax, Northampton and Bertie.

Th'^sc four counties are among the highest in tne state in concentration of Negro population. Yet they have been among those less troubled by ( erta n neighboring and nearby counties have had racial tension.

In 1965, when Cooper was appointed Choanoke director Washington officials described it as one of the worst anti-poverty organizations in the nation. Today, according to the governor's press release, it is one of the most successful. Was Highly Recommended

Cooper was highly recommended by a numner of persons close to the new governor, including Rep. Martin and Sen. J. J. (Monk) Harrington of Bertie County and other influential figures in the Roa-noke-Chowan area. Quite obviously, Scott was impressed. Cooper came to Raleigh, conferred with the governor and accepted the post.

There was an understanding that for the presentand until pending legislation is enacted the legal staus would be the same as that held by Col-trane. Later, when the General Assembly approves, he will move into tie full-time directorship. No salary has been set, but this can be done by the Advisory Budget Com-rriission whenever the governor gives the word, or by the legislature.

For Economic Growth

Anyone who thinks that Greenville and Pitt County are not concerned about their own progress and development need only look at the program for an economic development meeting to be held tonight.

The participating associations include the Greenville Chamber of Commerce and Merchants Association, Mid-East Economic Development Commission, ECU Regional Development Institute, Economic Development Administration and other organizations.

Among the subjects to be discussed are: Development Planning for Pitt County. Agriculture and the Pitt County Economy, Greenville A Hub of the Coastal Plains, The Growth Center Concept, The Development Process.

FFank Kevitt, executive director of the Mid-East Commission has said, Eastern North Carolina is on the brink of a massive breakthrough in the development of its economy.

We believe this to be true. The reason It is coming about, we feel, is that all of its citizens are actively working now to produce a better economy and a more abundant life. There are many problem.s facing us, but when concerned people begin to faqe them no task is too difficult.

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GRAFENWOEHR, G e r-many (AP) U. S. Army leatiers are stiffening their resistance to further cuts in the combat troops America has stationed in Europe.

This was made plain here this past week by both Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer, the American who is the Supreme Commander Europe.

The Army desire to k e e p what it has got at least, is perhaps the most significant development to come out of the current military exercise, Carbide Ice, that will end Tuesday.

Lemnitzer declared that although air transport capability has vastly improved, the bringing of forces from the United States to Europe was a Reinforcing action, noth i n g more.

Lemnitzer emphasized that the U. S. troops now here are at a bare minimum to keep up their commitments. U. S. forces in West Germany have 230,000 men.

Lemnitzer asked newsmen not to overlook the great number of supply personnel it took to get the equipment ready for the incoming troops to use and what it will take to put that equipment back in storage.

The inference was clear: It would take time and many men to put any airlifted unit into the field to the event of any emergency.

More than lacficvil con-slde-rations are involved it h Army's resistance to los i n g more men.

The dual-based concept of keeping troops In the United States and flying them to Europe when needed never has been popular with the West Germans, who have been asked to beef up their own forces.

The population has been im

pressed with the deploying of 17,000 men and 4,500 vehicles for Carbide Ice, in mud and mire near the Czechoslovak border. The last half of the transatlantic airlift, in which C141 Starlifter Jets landed 5,-100 men in 33 hours impressed the technically mind e d Germans immensly.

But some press comments have run from critical to caustic, with the writers seeming to feel that it was too little and too late to ha v e much political impact in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.

What many Germans were looking for in the wake of the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia was a demonstration of something new in response to the new tactical threat the Red Army poses to Western Europe generally, and to West Germany in particular.

Lemnitzer declared that th North Atlantic Treaty Organization is planning is up to date and no new planning is necessary. Rut as one German tank officer put it- Before last August, the Russians were still pretty far aw a y from here. Now they are just across the border from my unit. That makes a hell of a lot of difference to me.

Quotes

In this world it is not what we take up but what we give up that makes us rich. Henry Ward Beecher.

Charity is injurious unles it helps the recipient to become independent of it. John D. Rockefeller Jr.

If wc are to keep our democracy there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.Judge Learned Hand.

Strength For Today

LEARNING OR WISDOM

We often speak of the wisdom of Solomon. The more accurate expression would be the learning of Solomon. Certainly this ancient Jewish leader was one of the most learned men not only jn antiquity but one of toe most learned persons ever to have lived upon the planet. The list whelms even the mind of modern man, which has become acciustomed to achievements.

The trouble with Solomon was that he built his great empire on slave labor. Hi.s tcmulc, the resnlendent buildings which graced Jerusalem during his reign, the achievements in every field if learning astounded the pcopto of his day and continue to a.s-tound U.S. But slave labor, the tyranny of man over man to accomplish his purposethe.se bring results which arc inevitable, unrelenting and severe. Solomon compromised fa-

By JAMES KILPATRICK

Where Are You From?

To remark that Americans are a people on the move restless, mobile, constan 11 y packing and unpacking is to say nothing very novel. From the earliest days of the Republic, our custom has been to pull up stakes ano

head somewhere else.

It is sobering, nonetheless, to reflect upon the profound change that todays mobility is bringing to American cities. The old sense of community of place is diminishing everywhere. And it is not mere-

Other Editors Say Ports And Highways

(The Wilson Times)

A logical argument for East-West highways was contained in the report favoring the development of the ports at Morehead and Wilmington. The four-month study by independent navigation experts, paid for by a grant from the U. S. Water Resources Council, recommends the Mor e-head City harbor be deeoen-ed by 45 feet and the deepening of the port of Wilmington.

The Morehead City harbor handles the phosphate fr o m the Texas Gulf mining operation in Aurora. The third recommendation calls for developing Southport as a th i r d shipping center and Fayetteville as an inland port on the Cape Fear River.

Now this state, only recently, recognized the importance of developing its ports. We recall, so vividly, the interest of the late John D. Gold, founder and editor of The Wil-Daily Times, in ports development and Rye Page, publis-hor of The Wilmington Star-News and father of the present publisher Rye Page Jr. They along with other newspaper men in the area worked for toe improving of the Wilmington port and the development of toe port at Morehead.

Now the ports traffic is increasing at a rapid rate and we are recognizing what a

mistake it has been to overlook this important area of navigation. But ports development requires highways to take the traffic and cargo to the points of interest in the state. At present Highway 70 is being completed. There is only small sections which have not been four-laned.

But this is only one route to the industrial section of the state. Texas Gulf representatives came to Wilson to testify as to the need for four-laning 264 when the Chamber of Commerce held the meeting here to promote the project.

Port development is contingent upon highway development. They must come together in order to benefit both. So the report on the development of the ports emphasizes anew the need for lour-lane highways to the other sections of the state. This section is developing industrially and at the same time increasing our agricultural potential. We need highways in brder to establish an easy flow of traffic and without the East-West highways the ports cannot develop nor can the Industrial potential of this section.

Yes, one thing calls for ano-other, and all hinge on highways, the main arteries of transportation.

ly tht act of physical migration the move of a family from, say, Chicago to St. Petersburg that accounts for the decline in l|)cal involvement Many other factors play a part These factors need to be better understood if the problems of our cities are ever to be solved.

Roughly one out of i i v e Americans about 35,000,000 human beings moves somewhere every year. The great bulk of them, of course, move from one house to another within the same commun i t y, but six to seven million persons actually move fr o ffi on State to another. The se patterns have held generally constant for the past 20 years: Young people marry and leave the nest; oldste r s retire and head to Flori(ia executives move from one branch plant to another; farm laborers migrate to the supposed better life of the cities.

These familiar manifestations of American mobility may be seen vividly in St. Petersburg - Tampa. The metropolitan area had. a population in 1960 of 700,000 persons. Nearly 446,000 of them had lived somewhere else in 1955; and of those 446,000 more than 264,000 had come from a different city of State altogether. Thus, St. Petersburg - Tampa in only five years acquired 1,500 residents from Akron, 1,400 from Albany, 4,200 from Boston,

10.000 from (^icago, 7,300 from Detroit, 700 from Flint,

1.000 from Hartford.

In many ways, of course, the west Florida retirem.ent coast Is not typical. Census Bureau studies show the same criss - cross migration, at lower level, for other cities. In this same five - year period, between 1955 and 1960, Pittsburgh gained 150,000 re-(Coottoned On Page 5)

ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON - A bitter struggle now building up behind the scenes in Alabama between Gov. Albert Brewer and formiM* Gov. George Wallace now points to a Wallace-Brewer clash fcM* the goveiw norship in 1970,

Brewer got to his present position as a loyal* Wallace lieutenant. As speaker of the house, Brewer was named by Wallace to run for lieutenant governor in 1966, toe year Lur-leen Wallace was elected governor.

Brewer became governor himself when Mrs. Wallace died last year. Ever since, the Wallace-Brewer relationship has been souring, with Brewer asserting more and more Inde^dence.

Now Wallace wants Brewer to run for governor in 1970 as a memb*. of Wallaces American-Independent party, setting the stage in Alabama frur Wallace to make another run for President on his thinH>ar-ty ticket

Brewer is buddng. Somewhat reserved when he first took over the govemws office, he now glories in his job. He to to 00 mood to run as a Wallace stooge.

The possible result: e smasb-lrng, head-on gubernatorial biattle between Democrat Brewer and third-party Wallace with some politicians giving Brewer, incredi-biiy, e tiny chance.

Running IWrd would be Re-piiblican James Martin, the former Congressman who was beaten by lrleen Wallace to 1966 and wants another crack at the govem<^hip.

The Rarick Purge

Besides humiliating Speaker John McCormack and toe regular Democratic leadership, the vote by toe House Democratic caucus to strip seniority from Wallaceite Rep. John Rarick of Louisiana buried the myth that liberals do better on a secret ballot.

Veteran leaders in toe Democratic Study Group (DSG) well remembered 1965 when they ooimted a 40-vote bulge in the caucus to deprive Gold-water Democrats of swority but, in fact, squeezed by with only 15 votes on a secret ballot.

In private discussions among DSG leaders, consequently, it was decided to go for an open roll-call vote (a motion successfully made by Rep. Ridiard Bolling of Missouri). Wobbly Northern moderates exposed to public view had to vote against Rarick, and the liberals won by a surprising 28 votes.

A footnote: The Rarick loss could prove a setback in the leadership ambitions of Rep. Daniel Rostenkowski of Illinois, the majority caucus chairman, who backed McOm-mack while his Illinois colleagues voted with the DSG. Simultaneously, it boosted the stock of the new DSG chairman, Rep. Donald Fraser of Minnesota, who led the Rarick purge.

Rockys Archives?

Republican politicians puzzle as to why (3ov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York has asked key 1968 aides to send him exhaustive critiques of his losing Presidential campaign last year.

The governors explanation to intimates seems too simple; he wants the study for his archives. But the only other explanationthat he is eyeing a possible third Presi-(Continned On Page I)

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Hikes Going To 30 Million

tally when he allowed many of his wives to bring iheir priests and religio is systems into his kingdom, thus corrupting the pure religion of Jehovah. Solomon lived in his castle, but a large percentage of his population must have lived in hovels. Everyone admired Solomon. We can imagine, however, that few loved him. He was an intellectual that has left a profound impression on the minds of every generation, but he was anything hut a good and wise ruler. When his son, Rehob-oln. a'^ctndcd the tiirone, the people decided that they Iiif! about enough of unrequited toil, and since Rcho-boam* paid no attention to their picas for mercy, they split the tribes of Israel into two nations.

-It is hard to reconcile great harnirio with tyranny and stupidity.

By Earl L. Douglass

By ELMER ROESSNER

More than 30 million workers get pay rises this week.

Under the 1966 amendments to the Wage-Hour Act, workers who were brought under the law that year get increases in minimum wages from $1.40 to $1.60 an hour starting February 1 this year. Furthei-more, they must be paid time and a half rates after 40 hours. It was 42 hours last year and 44 hours in 1967. This will affect 29 6 million workers, Commerce Clearing House estimates.

In addition, about 1.5 million workers in retail and sr-Vice establishments, restaurants and motels come under the law for the first time. The law is extended to cs-tnblishments with more than $2.')0,000 in gross sales. Previously (he limit was $500.000 in sales.

In addition, workers brought under the law in 1967 and farm workers get Increases

from $1.15 to $1.30 an hour.

Employees of nursing and residential care places continue to getno overtime until after 48 hours a week, and farm workers get ao overtime, as always.

Expect higher restau rant hotel, and motel prices. Competition will keep rises down to retail and service places.

United Air Lines adopted nold suggested displaying a his suggestion of sending 2,- >45-foQt transparent column of

Heres An Idea Man Who Makes Ideas Pay

How often have you heard somebody say, I get wonderful ideas. If I could only market them Id be a r<ch man.

Stanley Arnold, New Y orx promotion man, markets his and is doing very well.

He spent three years getting Gcwdyear to bring out its Great Songs at Christma.s album and sell it for $1 at only Goodyear stores. li a s t year Goodyear sold three million albums, bringing it* five-year total to 18 million.

500 roses each week to executives secretaries who make air reservations for their bosses. Result: a substantial rise in reservations.

Ford used his idea o: a prize equal to Arnold Palmers winnings in three tournaments. Free chances were

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money for the closest guess of the total. It attracted 500,-000 visitors the first year, 1,-500,000 the second.

So have good ideas. But then sell them.

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give to people who vLsit e d showrooms. Car sales .acreas-ed. Piels Beer ran treasure hunt on a Caribbean island, with the island itseli as the top prize. Pet MUlj had a .small, third floor exhibit at the 1964-65 Worlds Fiir. Ar-

Media Monopoly Oiarged The Justice Department has asked the Federal Communications Commiaaion to withdraw a license for the only TV station in Cheyenne, Wyo., from Robert S. Mc(iaken because it says he and his family have a monopoly of communications there, m addition to the TV station, they own the two newspapers, a leading radio AM station and have a permit for an FM station and a cable-'TV system. McCraken, fighting back, denied he has a monopoly because of competition from Denver newspapers .and TV stations and many nearby radio stations.