Tnwday, July 31, 1962

Safety Drive Makes Impression

Dont Feel Slighted, Sam

In most experimental programs of considerable habits. It, may be because of the greater fear of magnitude, it tokes more than a few days or a few getting arrested with mor highway patrolmen on w^ks of testing to determine how effective the duty. It may be that the added highway markings proposed program might be. or devices serve as more frequent reminders to the

With that in mind, preliminary evaluation of motorist that he is the key to highway safety. It results of the new highway safety program being may be that the individual motorists, in seeking to conducted in six North Carolina counties-cannot cooperate with the experimental program in their be taken as conclusive evidence that the' experi- comities, are making a greater effort at safe driving mental program should be made a state-wdde under- ^han befdre. , ^

Driver attitude is always a factor of greater Even so, the results of the first three weeks of importance in any traffic safety program. There the experimental safety program are impressive. In ever be enough patrolmen, highway signs or

the six counties in which the program is being con- present-day traffic devices to eliminate all traffic ductedRobeson, Cumberland, Guilford, Forsyth, accidente. But there are always enough drivers with Buncombe and Haywoodtraffic movement on the driving habits to make a big difference in the

highways obviously has undergone a change. statistics if the drivers will just take it as a personal

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corresponding weeks of last year. Three liv^s have * ^

been lost

But there the similarity ends. Injury-producing accidents are down 27.5 per cent from the corresponding period last year and the number of injuries resulting from traffic accidents is down 11 per cent The total number of accidents has been reduced by 23 per cent.

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Communities Similar Course

With more than 30 cities and towns in North

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The use of a larger than usual number of planning or operating stages, it is evident that

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Tnnlrelt akn heir midst and the appearance of their communi-

seems apparent also that another important factor ties than ever before.

has come into play in the counties.

4.1 4. Recognition of the need to eradicate and re-

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er caution than previously in their routine drjving been confined to the larger cities of North Carolina.

Communities in -which such programs are being

.mDortant Date

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By ALVIN TAYLOR

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

tions, and heavy attendance at the last state convention, in-kplET -- The Republican creasing GOP registration and

state exe^tlve coninnttee wiU increased number of GOP can-

meet in New Bern August 4. didates.

a session which will hold gi-eat Importance for the party.

The Republican party leadership. and the executive committee in particular, has a difficult task.

It is called on now, in the

Solid support of the state leadership and organization is, according to these party officials, essential if this growth is to continue and the Republicans were to realize further gains.

STORY North Carolinas Re-

undertaken range from Charlotte, the largest city in the state, to Hot Springs, a town of less than 1,000 population in Madison County.

Many of the communities now in the process of effecting redevelopment programs are towns of only a few thousand population. The fact that these smaller communities are actively interested in re development programs reflects growing concern over present slum conditions even in the small Took a trip to Hobgood yes-towns. It also suggests a far-sighted approach to ,

conditions within small communities in an effort it-iSeL you S^hap^ned to avoid the righ rate of deterioration that has to notice it as you headed developed in some larger communities that too long toward U.S. 30i.

have closed their eves to blighted areas. Hobgood Is a small town by

any standards. It is located on-Greenville, where proposals for redevelopment ly a few miles this side

Work

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in the Shore Drive area has been one of the most Scotland Neck. It grew up as a

IS ujtiicu uii now. 111 me siuKX iNonn uarouna s Ke- "y uceii one ui uie must ^111.00(4 center back in thp riavs

space of a week, to find some- publicans have been hit^g controversial public issues in years, is just one of -^.^en the mighty steam engine

one to pick up tte pi^es left hard on the theme of a realistic many communities which is taking a positive step furnished the main mode of trav-

tw^P^rty gs^ toward community improvement through redevelop- el.

GOP nominee for Congress From the list of names of communities in My brothers ^d I m boys

which such programs are underw^ay, it is evident relatives in Hob-

that manv comparable communities of the state Many passenger trains stop-

as well a.s communities considerably larger and Ped in the town in those days

considerably smaller than Greenvillehave chosen population was

a similar approach to attacking the problem of urban blight.

by the Cobb affair and iry.Jto put them together in the next few months.

A called meeting earlier is possible but not Mkely. Sources indicated that it would not be practical to hold the formal meeting sooner than August 4. There will be informal get-togethers, of course, In an effort to reach agreement and to discuss the various problems.

The meeting in "New Bern has been scheduled for some time It was called by the resigning state chairman, William E. (Bill) Cobb.

RESIGN Cobb put his resignation as state chairman into the mall at Morganton Thursday. the day of the disclosure of his so-called double life.

The executive committee will accept the resignation as a formality and its immediate task will be to choose a successor to serve at least until the 1964 State Convention.

The secretary of the state party. J. E. Harrington, said he felt a new chairman could be chosen with harmwiy and agreement.

Harrington said the states Republican party has a wealth of competent people and a

deiXh of leadership that will carry us forward with the old zeal.

UNDERCURRENT But there Is an undercurrent of anxiety -on the part of a number of Republican leaders.

These men are concerned about re-opening old party wounds and strife which has caused division in North Carolina party ranks in the past. They are especially fearful of the damage such a split or fight might cause at the present time, in view of the gains the party was making. Evidence of this included the record Republican vote turnout in recent elec-

the Ninth district, said the idea of a two-party system had become the most popular political topic in the state. Broyhill uses this story in his campaign speeches:

I had stopped at a general stoi-e in the area between Boone and Linville the other day, and stood there admiring the scenery.

I asked the store operator, Is that the back side of Grandfather Mountain?* He replied, Nope.

I admired the mountains for a few more minutes and I asked him again, Are you sure that isnt the back side of Gi*and-father Mountain?

He replied rather heatedly, thats the trouble with you folks over at Blowing Rock and Lenoir. You think your side of the mountain is the front side. Ill have you know that our side is the front side.

That illustrates the point . . , the pendulum has begun to swing.

S'TRESS Broyhill and other Republican candidates have stressed another point which weighs heavily now on how far the pendulum might swing in the C(Higres5ional elections and other contests this Fall the claim that the Republican party can provide effective leadei*ship in all areas.

Proof of this, of course, wiU He in the hands of the man chosen at Ne v Bern to succeed Cobb. And the question to be faced by the executive committee is whether it can and will come up with effective leadership for its owTi party at a crucial, critical time and at an unexpected time, under unexpected circumstances.

employed by the Atlantic Coast

Line. For Hobgood is located on the ACL tracks from Norfolk to Rocky Mount and other points and this was once a busy track, indeed.

My brother Bill and I w^alk-ed down the main street yesterday and we found little has changed since the days when we were kids.

The stores are about the same except some of them are closed now and the building decaying.

We saw the little shop by the railroad tracks that first my grandfather, then my aunt operated. They once opened up as the trains came in to sell snacks to the crew members and passengers. The shop has long

The fact that many communities throughout th state are taking a positive approach to eradicate

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bJighted areas and stem their spread holds out the TD \ T

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dividual communities, and in the cities and towns

since been closed and It Is dark and musty Inside.

We walked by the old depot which once bustled with passengers boarding trains for Norfolk and Rocky Mount. Like many depots recently. It has been given a coat of white but the passenger office is no longer there. Its usefulness ceased with the last passenger train.

We walked along the various sidings surrounding the depot. Grass grows between the tics and the rails, over which cars once shuttled frequently, have dulled.

But one of the sidings was in use. A freight train pulled by modem diesels sat there awaiting the passage of another freight headed toward Rocky Mount.

Hobgood flourished as the railroad flourished. Now the trains are all but gone.

throughout the state.

Conservatism ..n Both Parties

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WASHINGTON (AP) - James Bryce was puzzled by the Democrats and Republicans. Theyd still have this Englishman guessing if he w'ere aliV3 now.

In his book, The American Commonwealth, he asked 74 years ago: What's the difference between the two parties: He confessed he couldnt see much.

A lot of inquisitive voters will have the same trouble in this years congression? election, while some of the others verify, the conclusion of Wilfred E. Binkley.

This political scientist, writing some years ago, asked: What motivtes the voter making a decision? He said, by and large, ^ the decision is reached by nonlogical process-es:

If there is one determining factor it is probably the climate of opinion in which the voter has lived and this w-aa originally provided for him by his fami-b.

He might have added thi-s could change in moments of ji ^ national agitation, of .*1s-is, or in an election campaign with deep emotional issues.

Unless theres an explosion before November this wiU be an unexciting campaign with: out national agitation, crisis, or emotionaL..Ja5ueSj ex^pt perhaps for oldef people wHo saw the medical care plan defeated.

Even there, although President Kennedy w ill stump to get more Democrats elected, his own Democrats deflated the issue for him since they must shar responsibility with Re

publicans for killing medical care.

Just because enough of them, mostly Southerners, joined Re-pubUcans in killing that bill and other Kennedy programs, the President is in an embarrassing position in a '~z for more Democrats.

There was a sharp distinction in the depression days of the 1930s between the Democrats who W'anted action and the stand-pat conservative Re-pubUcans.

There was also a great difference on foreign poUcy be-tw'een the inteniationally minded Democrats and the isolationist Republicans before and even after World War H.

But the Republicans thereaf-, ter teamed up with Democrats to support President Eisenhowers foreign poUcy, which was President Harry Trumans policy, and team up now to support the same policy of Kennedy.

So, because there is no great foreign issue this year, international affairs can hardly be much of a ca..ipaign dispute.

At home the economy has slipped. This may have some effect, but not to the degree of r. depress .

The two parties, without any wide emotional pressure at home or abroad for change or innovation, have reverted to what both of them truly are in any fairly normal period; Theyre both conservative.

The fact that these congres-sioiial politiclgns think they can afford to be conservative seems to be a pretty good reflection of a broad popular complacency at this time among the voters.

(Christian Science Monitor) Mr, Kennedy is now talking frankly partisan language about his stalled domestic legislative program. He blames the Re-pubUcans for his lack of success. There was a long series of statements to this effect in his latest press conference.

Mr. Kennedy respects both logic and objectivity but in this case he seems to be taking leave of both. Why should he blame members of the opposition party for predictably voting against bills with which they traditionally disagiee? He could more logicaUy blame the voters. The voters gave him an insufficient number of Democrats w'ho agree.

And how' can he shrug his shoulders so fatalistically while pointing such an accusing finger at the Republicans? Where is consistency?

Mr. Kennedy also argues that because Republicans oppose

ferent strategy. He recognized the need for emphasizing national needs and deemphasizing party poUtics.

A few weeks thereafter he proposed a department of urban affairs in a highly poUtlcal manner. For whatever reason, perhaps a rising poUtical self-confidence, his approach to Congress radically changed. With this more recent approach Mr. Kennedy created his own frustration.

He has now expUcitly described his plan for the coming congressional campaign. To the degree that it can be separated from recrimination over the past. It is a partial return to logic again. The President is tackling the real cause of his difficulty in the narrow decision of the voters. The areas Ill be campaigning in are seats . . . where there will be a very clear choice between Republicans who oppose these programs

Seen along the highway: Motorist pumping up modern automobile tire with ancient bicycle pump.

In case youre wondering, those carnival rides which have set up on Memorial Drive are sponsored by the Jaycees.

The 10 attractions of Palmetto Rides wiU be in operation all this week.

Jaycees will be manning the ticket booths. So If you want to ride the Ferris wheel or the merry-go-round this is the place to go. It is located near Guy Smith Stadium.

ODinions

In

his program they are for in- and Democrats who support

action. He is for action. But In many cases enough Republicans agree with the broad aims of Kennedy domestic bills to pass them, if they had been drafted with more attention to the national need and less ' Democratic politics and pow'er.

But his frankly partisan approach to most of the major domestic bills provoked a frankly partisan answer. He knew that the conservative Democrats would vote with the opposition. Logic would suggest that his stiategy was at fault, and not either the conservative Democrats or the Republicans. He misjudged the election returns.

This Is all the more curious because at the start of his second year in the White House the President told reporters he was going to follow an entirely dif-

them. Thats where I am going to go.

The voters will be there waiting. It remains to be seen w'hether they will consciously choose to base their vote on what kind of Congress they want to give Mr. Kennedy, (Many of them probably didnt, last time.' But they have this opportunity now and they should use it.

Meanwhile It Is curious that Mr. Kennedy should be gauche about allocating blame for his plight, when he Is supposed to excel at the political arts. It could be that he misjudges the future voting as well as the past. He may find that the same actions on his part which drove the moderate votes in Congress into opposition will cause the voters In November to prefer more conservative candidates.

The automobile has too strong an emotional hold on Americans for them to give it up as long as its even remotely possible that they might make it to their destination and back. The Montgomery Advertiser.

'The free-market economys success is due above all to its practicality; it is simply the most effective means of channeling rfouroes to productive and prosperous ends. The more its mechanisms are interfered with, the more impractical an economy is. The Wall Street Journal.

Has Its Costs

The big dog licked the childs face and the youngster screamed. Did h'* bite you?, asked the dogs owner. No, sobbed the little one, but he tasted me.Carlsbad Current-Argus.

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKy Copyright, 1962, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

One of the problems which faces every worker Is the high cost of bdng a worker. Union dues, social security, fines, as-sessm)ts bring the take home pay of the woi^er down. I have here a letter from the National Marine Engineers, Beneficial Associati(Hi, District No. 1. This union is affiliated with the AFL-CIO Marine Trades Department. Its officers arc J. M. Calhoon, Chairman, R. L. Merrick, Sec-retary-Treasurer, B. RoweU, Executive Assistant, and Lee Pressman, General Counsel.

The letter foUows:

Dear Sir and Brother:

At the 83rd National Convention held In May 1960 at Denver, Colorado, a resolution was adopted affecting members who hold Withdrawal Cards from their respective subordinate associations. As a result of this resolution any member who has a Withdrawal Card and does not reinstate his membership to the local or district, as the case may be, within sixty (60) days from the date (rf this notice, will be required to pay a $1,000.00 reinstatement fee.

AU the rest of the letter, does not matter. What, In essence, the letter says Is that, if a member had to withdraw for $1000 to be reinstated. Unless a $1000t 0 be reinstated. Unless, a man pays $1000, he cannot work at his chosen trade.

This Is one of the problems which faces the worker. His salary is reduced by the withholding tax, social security, union dues and unltwi fees. This sentence Is repetitive, but it should be printed on every pay envelope, so that a worker knows what he got in the first Instance and what is left after all sorts of pieces are taken out of his wage.

As new means of production come Into existence and as new materials are used, workers find it necessary to shift from on union to another. For instance, the flight engineers were on strike because, in the Judgement of management, some of their work should be done by pilots. The pilots agree. If the flight engineer becomes a pilot, he must join the Pilots Union. Perhaps, he might belong to both unions to be sure. If an international regulation were adopted requiring everybody In the cockpit to be a pilot, would there have to be a world-wide strike so that the Flight Engineers Union should not become extinct because Its function has ceased?

I notice that butchers have become meat-cutters, I do not know what Is wrong with the word, butcher, but persons in that trade prefer to be called meat-cutters. Suppose a man in a super-market sells vegetables but the meat-cutter goes to the telephone or to the mens room or somewhere and the vegetable man cuts a piece of top-round for a fancy lady who refused to buy ready prepared and wrapped meat. Does that,mean that they have to have a strike because the vegetable man must ^ not be a meat-cutter even If his father and grandfather were butchers in the old days and he knows all ahout cutting meat? It does.

Or maybe he was once a meat-cutter and his doctor put him on a vegetable diet and he did not want to tease himself by touching meat all day long and then coming home to some field grass. So he left the meat-cutters and joined the vegetarians.

So he changed his doctor and now he can eat meat but no carbo-hydrates. Must he, then, pay something Uke $1000 to get back into the old union?

Perhaps the union has set up a bank where the marine engineer can borrow $1000' of his own money to pay the reinstatement assessment, or maybe he can mortgage his home or his car for the right to work.

We have not yet reached the depths of this sort of thing. The vast accumulations of the unions will. In time, be as great as the hoards of the life insurance companies which take the double indemnity out of a poUcy when one reaches 65 or somewhere about there just when It is most Important to have protection. It Is all In the poUcy, but who reads a policy except the Insurance salesman who knows all the answers. (Continued on page five)

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Fherell Be No Bust In Auaust

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS

THE CANCER OF COMMUNISM

We call it cancer because it displays all the characteristics of that dread disease.

The most horrifying aspect of cancer is that It spreads. It appears not to be content un-tU its tenticles have reached oat and adversely affected everything it can cling to. Healthy tissue on the other hand never spreads except to repair damage. It simply functions.

Now apply this figure to despotism of any kind and espec ially communism. The outstanding characteristic of despotism

Ing out and destroying. Hitler was the same. Now communism must reach out and take in all nations or as a cancer it must destroy them.

When we established a free form of government in the United States we did not try to extend it to other countries. If they wanted to accept It. well and good. They had our bless-In But we would not force our form of government on tpyone.

Communism has all the characteristics of cancer, and true democracy has the characteristics of healthy tissue. If the world went communistic tomorrow not a present injustice would be rectified and tHe

is that it must spread. The na- hungry of the world would grow

tions of the world offered complete security and acceptance to Napoleon if he would confine himself to France, but he had to spread himself over the wliola o Europe- cancer reach-

Into a riotous multitude.

The usual approach to cancer is by the way of surgery. Extraordinary and firm action will alone suffice in dealing with oonmi*mism.

My ELMER ROESSNLR

No matter what you read elsewhere, despite doleful predictions and despite clamor for tax cuts, there wiU be no bust in August.

There may a few minor declines. But on the whole, the economy will continue fairly level with July.

There will be no panic-mongers, as usual. High officials, corporation chiefs and labor manipulators will talk about the dangers to business; they will declare that cyclic recessions, signalled by the May drop in stock prices, portends troubles in midsummer. Only cuts in taxes, a few more swings of Inflation. and made-work jobs can keep the company prosperous.

Nonsense. August Is going to be a reasonably good month. REASONS

Here's why:

The public just hasnt bought ajl this talk about slump, reoes: sion and roller-coaster rides.

Personal income totals have kept on incieasing since May,

although at slightly lower rates. Total employment has also mov-ed*'steadily higher, against slower rates.

And the public has kept on buying, not frightened by Wall Street prices, not scared by talk of recession.

The auto makers are winding up a fantastically prosperous season. They are - now switching over to 1963 models.

Despite the fact that new cars will out-mode present models, the 1962 concepts are stiU seU-ing. With 63 models in the offing, dealers will shave prices. This wUl help maintain the present volume. ^

OTHER STRENGTHS ^ Here are other reasons w'hy business will keep up in August;

1. Demands for new homes is still strong, despite recent drops in housing starts. New building projects in June set a new record. just as they had done in May. July figures may record a dip, but the number of families keeps on rising. Govern-nieut displacement ol families

in urban renewal projects wUl can put fresh Income into less put more people in the market, speculative investments, or 2. Consumers stiU hold enor- spend it

mous amounts of unqommltted credit. Credit commitments as noted here, have often been recklessly high. But there is still a large margin for spending for new goods in the month ahead.

3. A speed-up of government spending will tend to create more jobs, more spending power.

4. Talk about tax reductions

even though they never come

will tend to instill confidence In business. Consumers already have confidence, but tax-cut talk can strengthen It, too. STOCK LOSSES DISCOUNTED

5. The small investors who lost money In recent stock toboggans have already written off their losses. Federal Reserve regulations, since softened. which required high margins, meant that small investors could lose no more than they could afford to lose. The accounts are squared. Investors who fear to be signed agtdn

6. Orders for steel, now dragging, will be increased as soon as new auto models start rolling off assembly lines.

7. Businesss capital expenditure plans have been reached only slightly, according to a Mc-Graw-HUl survey. This means there will be a good-weather increase In jobs and spending for materials.

8. The new tax bill, whatever It amounts to. will tend to Increase corporate spending for new plants and equipment.

9. The Internal Revenue Services new depreciation schedule will do even more, freeing more money for spending for capital goods.

10. The defeat of the medicare bill relieves corporations of the danger of additional taxes.

So If someone tells you that a new recession is certain in the month ahead, look him in the eye, bang your heel on his toe and ask, According to whof