Thursday, August 9; 1962

Further Justified By State Study

East Carolina Colleges request for additional college for the coming biennium, East Carolina will classroom facilities has been further justified,., by have to choose between seriously overcrowding its the recent state study which showed classroom classrooms or limiting its enrollment.

This state-wide study of classroom and labora-^rnlin state-supported college m North tory utilization on the campuses of state-supported

colleges, points up clearly the fact that North Caro-V The report showed that on an average class- linians are getting the maximum use from capital rooms at state-supported colleges in North Caro- improvements on the East Carolina campus. Al-lina are being used about 19.9 hours per week though the assertion has been made that state-sup-while laboratories are being used 14.1 hours per ported colleges have classroom and laboratory space week. Utilization at East Carolina, in contrast with for almost 50 per cent more students than now en-the state average, comes to 28.4 hours per week rolled-if facilities were utilized at recommended for^ classrooms and 19 hours per week for labora- standardsthis generalization obviously does not tories, apply to East Carolina College.

The figures for East Carolina College are far Study groups have recommended that college above the national average in classroom utilization, classrooms be used 30 hours per week, 1.6 hours and only a fraction below the recommended utiliza- ^ess than the rate of utilization on the East Carolina tion. With the Irate of increase of East Carolinas campus last year. These same groups have als3 ertronment, 11 ife obvious that its rate of classroom recommended laboratory use at 20 hours per week, utilization will be considerably above the recom- one-tenth of an hour less than the rate of

mended rate before additional facilities can he utilization on the East Carolina campus last year, constructed. If the legislature declines to provide If the enrollment at East Carolina Colege the additional classroom facilities requested by the approaches the 6,000 mark this fall as expected, it

will mean almost 20 per cent more students than enrolled last year. A corresponding increase in classroom utilization would seriously tax existing classroom facilities at East Carolina. It would put the rate of utilization considerably above the recommended rate and far above both the state and national average for colleges.

Without adequate classroom space. East Carolina cannot meet the demands being made upon it by qualified applicants who seek enrollment. Without the additional classroom facilities requested for the coming biennium. East Carolina will be faced with curtailing its enrollment rather than meeting the needs of the increasing number of young North Carolinians seeking college educations.

Could I Interest You-

Committed To Keeping System

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

FUND A persistent rumor promoted Governor Sanford to send an ui^ent telegram to the polically-powerful North Carolina Sheriffs Association meeting in Asheville last week.

The telegram committed the governor and his administration to retaining and protecting the present system of financing the N.C. Law Ehiforce-ment Officers Benefit and Retirement Fund.

This is done by the $2 item in the bill of costs charged in each criminal, case In North Carolina cmirts. and the rumor being circulated was that it would be knocked out and eliminated by the Uniform Courts amendment to be voted m in November.

The rumor was causing a great deal of confusiwi and unrest and. In fact, endangering the fate of the courts amendment one of the key points In Sanfords five - point traffic Safety program.

TELEGRAM - The Governors telegram attempted to lay these fears at rest.

Addressed to Asheville attorney Francis J. Heazel. spokesman for the N. C. Bar As.soc-lations committee supporting the amendment, the telegram saidr

The judicial amendment cm which the citizens of North Carolina will vote this Fail is <me of the mort Important amendment's proposed since the Constitution was adopted almost a century ago.

rherefore I am happy to state categorically our position or the $2 item charged in each criminal case for the Law Enforcement Officers retirement Fund.

ill The amendment will in no way effect this item.

*(2' In IcglslatiOT implementing the court improvements measure, the Administration Is wholeheartedly committed to the retention of tbis item.

f3) I am confident and I know that the sheriffs and other law enforcement (rfficers across the state appreciate the fact that the overwhelming majority of the members of the 1963 General Assembly and future General Assemblies will never permit any tampering with this Item.

SANFORD Heazel. appointed for the task by Bar Association president Isaac (Pete) Avery of Statesville, laid the governors telegram before the sheriffs, and presented a detailed explanaticm of the proposed amendment.

Iredell County sheriff Charlie Rumple, newly-elected president of the Association, brought up the Is^ and raised the question aoout it. along with retiring president Frank Caho<Hi of Dare County.

After Heazels explanation and presenting of the governors telegram on the subject, the sheriffs voted to have a cwn-mittee study the matter. The sheriffs thus stopped shoit of immediate endorsement of the courts amendment.

Sanford personally assured delegates to the N. C. Police Executives Association in Raleigh that the retirement fund system would not be affected, and further stated that he favors strengthening this fund.

This came in off-the-cuff remarks by the governor in an address to the police executives in Raleigh on the same day that sheriffs received Sanfords telegram.

STRENGTHEN Strengthening of the retirement fund could come about this way:

There already are a number of counties, acting <hi local legislation, which tack an addition-

Must Facf/Up To The By HAL BOYLE

Featherbedding Issue To Make HistOiy Human

American industrial management, organized _ j.

ia_bor and government at last appear to be moving yearn to win lasting fame and into a position where they must face squarely the the gratitude of future genera-problem of what to do with the wasteful practice

commonly known as featherbedding. hardly do it

mi j 1 j j .e 1 Ping up wealth,

llie long-delayed day of reckoning appears to You could do It by writing a

have been brought closer by the nations railroads, Perfect poem nr song, but that an industiy which more than any other has seen

SSvfdeaS"diSnf;J^rbedding grow through the decades taa*lSatl?e *d?nled

?nr whei'e it IS killing the goose which lays to all but those of genius.

the golden eggs. t there Is a simple avail-

.f 4.- 4.4 4.- 4. able way for you to earn a place

After three futile years ot attempting to rea^ii in history. That Is-to keep an

curtailment agreements with the unions over feath- honest, detailed diary through-erbedding, the railroads have announced they are ^

eliminating some 40.000 unnecessary jobs begin- Kry

ning in mid-August. The unions are expected to be A hundred years from now, ready to strike in protest against the move. But it historian seeking to find

is also expected that the President will order the

tirement fund benefits for local law enforcement officers. In keeping with the amendments providing for uniform court costs the present statewide $2 Item would be raised to $3.

In addition to the law enforcement retirement fund item, most counties in the state collect still another $1 per case to finance law libraries.

ENDORSE The Police Executives Association endorsed the courts amendment lanfely due to the efforts of State Sen. Cutlar Moore of Robeson County. Moore, chairman of a statewide committee for the amendment, was Introduced at a business session and pleaded an

out what life was really like In the mid-20th century, will stumble on that diary in some dusty stack. Opening and reading it, he will call your name blessed.

This has been called the Age of Anxiety and the Age of Cilsis. But it may finally go down in history as the Age of the Bystander, a period when people were so busy watching the exciting spectacle of life that few bothered to put down how they felt about It all.

Later historians will find no lack of material to study about this generation* There will be tons and tmis of official papers to peer through.

The chronology of wars and diplomatic conferences makes

railroads to <:ontinue operations during a 60-day

period in which a special Presidential committee v_>^lilv3x JLjLJ.LL/ o OLJ.yiliy ...

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Fights For NATO Policy

will investigate the matter and make recommendations.

(The Montreal Gazette)

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friend police officers of North Carolina ever had. At the conclusion of his talk, Moore received a standing ovation.

And after submitting Its prepared report the police associations legislative committee added a recommendation to endorse Governor Sanfords five-point traffic safety program which includes chemical tests, strengthening the highway patrol. additional traffic engineers, special licensing of teen-a g e drivers and court reform.

MOORE Moore told a reporter he plans to appoint a day ccwnmittee chairman in e a c h county and the respective chairmen will, in turn, appoint two additional members. Judge J Will Pleas of Marion will appoint a similar committee in the legal profession.

Moore feels the greatest danger to the court amendment lies in misunderstanding. He said he is preparing letters to editors of every newspaper In the state explaining the amendment and asking support.

The outcome will affect not only the railroads, but a large segment of the nations industry. Basic-

eloquent and persuasiye case. question to be resolved is whether artificial ......vz.44C4444

He was introdued by Inspec- Padding of employment by filling unnecessary jobs Gavin as American ambassa-

tor Bill McCoU of the'c:harlotte 5S ill the best interest of the citizens, the workers, Prance, coming so soon

police department as the best the companies and the nations economy. ^^ Gen-

n-4.1. -J . eral Norstad as commander of

V\ ith rapid progress made in automation in re- nato, throws further light upon cent years, the question has become increasingly ^ the Western al-

important.

* It will no doubt be said that In railroads or any other industry, it is difficult General Gavin, as well as Gen-to see how there can be justification for such a Norstad, wished to resign,

waste of human and other resources as entailed in ^mSo the widespread featherbedding practices. icy. But these changes, when

It is sood that the nation has finally come face- trd!

ic-iace with the problem which has been growing indicate that President Kennedy for many years throughout the economy. It should ^ clearing the decks, that he not be side-stepped again as it has been many times in the past.

time the Kennedy administration gave support to this policy, but it now seems to have been laid aside. General Gavin is known to have advised that the United States help Prance in building her nuclear weapons, as the only way to avoiding a rift in the Atlantic alliance. Mr. Kennedy has turned down this

up only the dry bones of human history. It is like learning about extinct animals by studying their fossils.

The only way to make human history really human is to find out how the Individual person reacted to existence. What stirred him to dream, what caused him to despair? What did he really think about himself and others while he lived?

In the past men were most eloquent about themselves. Our ancestors were more frank about their reaction to Mfe. They kept diaries: they wrote long letters and did not hesitate to speak freely what they thought and felt.

Such outspoken documents as the diary of Samuel Pepys, or the letters between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, illuminate their times in a way no treaties or proclamations can.

Today we seem to be losing the ability to write as well as to walk. We celebrate our anniversaries by sending each other cheap comic greeting cards bearing a rented wisecrack.

Few of us bother to record In any permanent way problems of our hearts and minds as if we were ashamed to show our private feelings. We run the risk of having future generations decide we actually had no feel-

advice, and his Secretary of De-

____ through our time on earth like

stumbling zombies.

So, why not keep a diary?

Celebrezze Is A Cautious Man

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By JA.MES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) Anthony J. Celebrezze sounds even more cautious than Abraham Ribicoff, the man he succeeded as secretary of health, education and welfare.

Ribicoff, a politician and now running for the Senate in Connecticut, never built any fires here that would make people mad at him.

He was a very mild member of President Kennedys Cabinet.

And he was quite a man for compromise. For example, the way he was willing to compromise with the conservatives in Congress on Kennedys plan of medical care for the aged.

So far the most distinguishing mark of Celebrezze, five-time mayor of Cleveland, has been a great unwillingness since getting his new assignment to stick his neck out even a little bit on anything.

After the President had picked him, but before the Senate approved his nomination, Cele-. brezze declined to say where he stood on the big national issues.

Thi.s was understandable since he still didnt have the job and the Senate could be unpredictable.

But he's here now. with the job, and Tuesday at his first Washington news conference he had his first chance to say where he stood on the two biggest Issues involving his department.

These were federal aid to public elementary schools but not parochial schools and medical care for the aged.

When the conference was over'Celebrezze still hadnt said anything tp make anybody mad at him or really to Indicate exactly where he stood on those two touchV problems.

One of Kennedys earliest act.s as prcsiflent was to propose federal aid to education, leaving out parochial schools. This got

Catholic leaders angry.

It would seem that between then and now Celebrezze, particularly since he was mayor of Cleveland and had school problems, would have had time to study the ald-to-education plan backward and foi'ward.

But he told his news conference he hasnt completed a study of the problem.

He praised the Kennedy medical care plan on the grounds that its cost would be financed through Social Security taxes on workers covered by Social Security rather than at the expense of the general taxpayer.

This was a little hard to follow since the Social Security system now covers nine out of 10 working Americans, most of whom pay Income taxes and Social Security taxes.

Celebrezze said he thinks

there will always be a need for the Kerr-MiUs program of medical aid through the public assistance progi-am. But he said its full effectiveness is being delayed by lack of action by the legislatures to bring their states into it.

The Kennedy admin Utratlwi explanation for proposing its program was that the Kerr-

MiUs anungement was much

too inadequate to meet the needs of people over 65,

But the Kennedy program got smothered in Congress, along with, Ribicoffs proposed compromise.

Nevertheless, Celebrezze said. Something must be done and I am sure the next session of Congress will come out with some program.

At this point it seems fair to conclude:

Celebreeze would like to avoid the savage jungle of Washington politics, If he can, and try to operate as a manager of the department, which R<bicof( complained was too big and should be split up.

wishes to remove men w^ho have advocated policies different to those he has adopted.

This is especially evident in the question of nuclear weapons for France, or for other European countries. The strategy which Mr. Kennedy is promoting for the NATO alliance is different from the policies that these men have supported,

Mr. Kennedy wants the military forces of the United States and Europe to be generally complementary the United States to furnish a sophisticated nuclear deterrent, and the European states to furnish a mass, conventional army. He evidently feels that the spreading of

fense^ Mr. McNamara, has publicly "opposed the French nuclear deterrent. ,

But even by appointing to high office men who will promote his policies, and wrill not give him advice he does not want, President Kennedy will not change the fundamental problem. And the fundamental problem Is that France and Britain, if not other European countries, do not accept a strategy that leaves the Western deterrent in the hands of the United States.

Britain is not likely to give up its deterrent, and President de Gaulle will certainly not cease building his, merely because President Kennedy opposes this. A policy always looks markedly different to a have, than to a have-not, No doubt the New American commander of NATO, and the new American ambassador to Paris, will advise General de Gaulle to lay aside his ambi-

Itll help you find out yourself what kind of person you are while aliveand it could make you famous after youre gone. It might make you more important later than you feel you are now. and isnt that worth a gamble?

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The tailor looks at your clothes, the dentist at your teeth, the bootblack at your shoes, the barber at your scalp, the girls look at your smile, your generosity, and your exploitable stupidity. The Asheville Citizen.

nuclear arms would not merely, tions. But if General de Gaulle

be wasteful but would tend to foster competition, rather than cooperation, within NATO, would have a decentralizing effect that would encourage Europe to become independent of the United States.

General Norstad has publicly proposed that NATO be given nuclear weapons and become a fourth nuclear power. For a

acts according to his character, this will only make him even more resentful of American predominance in NATO.

The resignations of General Gavin and General Norstad indicate that President Kennedy Is going to fight for adoption of his strategy and leadership by NATO, even If this causes strain within the alliance.

American society is a matriarchal society only when the .sun is shining, .birds sing ih the trees, the plumbing is happily functional, termites bypass the kitchen, (and Papa comes home on schedule), in the face of a major problem, matriarchy retreats behind a veil of tears. . . . But beautifully. Even Papa puts up with it,The Asheville Citizen.

; Dollars

Require

Golc.

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY Copyright, 1962, King Feature Syndicate, Inc.

Unquestionably the mose serious problem that faces the United States today Is our moneyyours and mine. The law says that the dollar must be backed by 25 per cent gold. If the European countries continue to demand gold for dollars, we shall either have to take all gold protectlrai away from the dollar or we shall be forced to refuse to give the Europeans goKT for dollars. In either case, the value of the dollar will depreciate and we shall suffer a severe economic crisis.

There Is no use arguing that gold Is of no Importance. The fact Is that the world accepts gold as the yard-stick for measuring the value of currency. When some other yard-stlck wUl become equally acceptable, then the other yard-stlck will be significant.

When some of the Wall Street bankers suggest that we go off gold, they are asking for trouble. It is quite, possible that Europe will drive us off the gold standard. The Europeans can do that if they insist on taking gold instead of dollars. It will not be the Communists who will bury us, but our former allies whom we assisted so beneficently after World War I and World War n.

The Europeans can do this by sending back the dollars we gave them or that they earned and demanding gold therefore. Their demands are growing so pressing that the supply Is running short. Today, we pay $35 an ounce for gold; we shall probably have to pay $50 an ounce. In which case the dollar will be devalued. But devaluation is more sound than the elimination or even the reduction of our gold reserve.

When the United States or American bankers make new loans to foreign countries, no matter which countries, the indenture should contain a clause that they can only get gold for dollars at the price of gold at the moment that the loan is made. Interest and principle should be repaid at $35 an ounce. In a word, the Europeans must not be able to hold us up by demanding expensive gold for cheap dollars.

Our econoniic troubles started at the end of World War II when wisdom indicated that a ceiling should be put on prices, wages, dividends, rents, interest, everything until an adjustment could be made between the costly waste of war and the reconstruction of peace. Instead, two elements of the population, agriculture and labor. were selected for protection and special privileges. The soldiers, professional groups, middle class personnel, business enterprises, etc. were not equally protected.

Instead of meeting the economic problems head-on back in 1945 to 1948, as Bernard Baruch suggested, we issued short term obligations which are now a plague upon us. The problem was handled politically, not economically.

It is difficult to get a fair estimate, but we probably lost over $100,000,000,000 (billion) in our world-saving effort. We did not have the money to lose. We do not have it now. During the 1960 campaign, John F. Kennedy made an Issue of the economy. He found it stalemated and he demanded that it be got moving. Kennedys diagnosis that the American economy was sick and stalemated was correct, but his problem was not growth as much as that we were over-produced and that we would have to have a good old-fashioned fire-sale.

It is difficult to find a solution to the fiscal problem, except to confess to our mistakes and to recognize that our domestic situations cannotbe solved until the Berlin question is solved so that the cost of impending war can be reduced. We cannot afford to continue to pay for the preparation for war and at the same time maintain the value of our currency and do all the things we would like to do.

This involves a very serious dilemma for President Kennedy.

If any solution Is found over Berlin by compromise, the (Continued ,on Page 5) _

New Price-Fixina Bill- Advances

By ELMER ROESSNER

New legislation providing for price-fixing has been quietly moving through Congress. With considerably less fanfare, it has been going ahead smoother and faster than the Administrations bill to turn a satellite communications sy.stem over to private ownership.

The new price-fixing legislation Is caUed quality stabilization. Previous such proposals have been termed fair trade bills, but fair trade has become so associated with price fixing, and so many fair trad? bills have been declared unconstitutional in state courtst that the term Is in disrepute. Hence quality stabilization.

The new legislation is embodied In similar, though not identical. House and Senate bUls.

HOUSE BILL AIDS DRUGGISTS

The House Interstate Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce and Finance la.st week approved th'e House bill, H. J. Re,", r.36. arid it is riow before the whole committee. It may take action waAk

A Senate Commerce Subdom-mittee has approved the Senate bill. S, J. Res. 159. Members of tile whole committee have asked for printed copies of the subcommittees Jiearings. This has delayed conslderatfn until next week at the earliest.

Both bills permit manufacturers of trademarked products to fix the retail price of their products, The manufacturer must give written notice of his fixed prices, and It authorizes the manufacturer to revoke a retailers right to handle his products if the retailer cuts prices, employs bait advertising or other deceptive practices.

There are spme difTerences in the bills. The House bill includes prescrlptiMi drugs and medicines, which the Senate bill does not. This will rally support by the drug Industry, which is powerful, as it showed in the fight over the Kefauver drug biU.

PRICE RANGES

The House bill permits the manufacturer to set a range of' retail pricfcs within which hLs products may be sold. The SAnatA hill rpnuires stipulated

prices for each item.

The Senate bill exempts six categories of goods, but the House bill exempts only bulk commodities when sold without wrappers or container? whicf? means gasoline.

If each house passes its own bill, the differences could be ironed out in a conference.

But whether the bills come to the floor for a vote, and whether they can pass, are problematical. Much depends on how tight the legislative jam as Congressmen rush to get home to electioneer.

If it comes to the floor of the House, Congressman John Dingell (D., Mich.) is expected to fight it, possibly to the extent of filibustering. And should the bill pass both houses, there is still the need for the Presidential signature. Attorney General Robert Kennedy has gone on record against legalized price fixing and is assumed to represent the views of his brother, the President, 't'here are neither time nor portents for passing the legislation over John F. Kennedys veto.

However, businessmen and customers with strong opinions

on the legislation may help themselves by writing to their senators and representatives now.

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