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Although construction has not yet begun on - In the months and years ahead, the industrial Pitt Countys industrial education center, it is signif- education center will be of increasing importance icant that the centers training program will be in pushing upward the economic level of the county

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initiated in temporary quarters within the next twu weeks.

The first course of training offered under th? program will be in power-sewing operations for prospective employes of the new plant of Prepshirts.

and its people. It will provide a source of trained personnel for businesses and industries already located here as well as for other businesses and industries which may consider this county as a potential location. It will equip many Pitt citizens

inc. which expects to begin operations in GreenviUe skills which will enable them to improve their

in early October. In addition to this particular train-ir,g program, plans also are being made to offer during the fall and winter months other courses which wdll not involve the use of heavy equipment.

Plans for establishment of an industrial education center in Pitt this fall was a major point of consideration in attracting the new plant of Prep-shirt, Inc. to Greenville. As the training program moves into operationeven before the new center is completedthe very fact that a constant source

individual positions in the economic structure of the county.

Of utmost importance, the program is getting underway now rather than several months or a year from now.

0 trained personnel for industries exists in Pitt will make the entire county more attractive to industries looking for new locations.

It is encouraging that those in charge of planning for the industrial center operations have decided not to wait for the new center to be constructed before starting the educational program. The decision means that some training courses will be offered many months before they would have ,f the educational program had been delayed until completion of the center. By putting the training program into operation, even on a limited basis, new advantages wdll be afforded Pitt and its people.

High Court Does Need Experienced Jurists

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Whoi^ets Your Vote In 1964?

The naming of Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg to the U.S. Supreme Court brings to the high tribunal another capable, experienced and scholarly attorney, but one who has had no previous experience on the bench.

Perhaps the lack of previous experience as a judge or justice is not a valid consideration when a person is considered for appointment to the highest court in the land. Certainly in the past it has not been a hard and fast rule that men appointed to the Supreme Court first qualify themselves by service as state or federal judges. It is also true that men who have come to the court without previous extensive experience on the bench have often rendered outstanding service. An immediate example is the 23 years of distinguished service by Justice Felix Frankfurter, whom Goldberg has been nominated to succeed.

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

GUESSThe guessing game has begunwho are you going to vote for in 64?

Right now its anybodys guess. But the game will get better and more interesting as the mcmis go by, and as various devel(^ments affect the situation.

There is already a list so-called unannounced candidates for governor.

Some of the names are based on nothing more than pure speculaticHi. There are ifs and buts attached. R Is more definite as to the ambitions and intentions of a very few.

LISTHouse Speaker (1961) J(^ph M. Hunt Jr., of Greensboro appears to be the most active unannounced candidate at this time.

Hunt has been busy making plans, shaping an organization and seeking support. He could become the first candidate to make a. formal announcement for 1964.

It is considered very likely tha* Dr. I. Beverly Lake of Raleigh, runner-up to Terry Sanford in the 1960 primaries, wiH run for the states No. 1 (rffi< again, with a carryover core of support.

Rep. A. Paul Kltchin of Wadesboro is (me of those wUh a big If attached. Kitchen would become prime gubernatorial timber if he defeats Republican Rep. CSiarles R. Jonas In the Eighth district in November.

LONG-Thc list is a fairly l(mg one for the Dazmcrats. It includes the present state chairman, Bert Bennett of Winston-Salem. the mas wbo n^ht get the Sssford organization Uesshig.

There have been trial bal-kxms far Judge L. Richardson Prcyer wi Greensboro and for__ former Gov. Lather H. Hodges, the Secretary of Commerce.

Od the Re^bliean side, however, there is (mly <me big name so farJonas.

And the wish on the part of the GOP f(w Jonas to make the race for governor apparently would not be diminished if he Is unseated by Kltchin. And a Jonas victory In November could make him just that much more formidable.

BUDGETThe Advisory Budget Commission moved ^to Raleigh this week, entering the final stages (tf its hearings on new money retjuests before It begins shaping biennial budget

rec(nmradations.

The budget commission earlier (mmpleted a two-part tour of instkuti<ms and agencies located in various parts of the state and has assembled the reports and requests frwn them.

There was urgency attached to many of the new money budget requests but unlike presentations hi the past most of those this week were crisp and brief.

The Department of Motor Vehicles, for example, made no formal presentation of its B budget retjuests and merely filed request forms.

BIGThe biggest area of

state spending, educatiimand the biggest requests for additi(Mi-aJ funds, schoolswill be heard from in about a m(mth. The budget commission schedule

calls for presentation' of the public education, higher education and mental hospitals requests the week oi Sept. 24.

It is the B budget re<iuests that determine largely how much bigger the state budget will be.

The A budgets, most of

them already approved by the budget commission, are the

amounts needed to maintain

services at the present levels. There is solfee built-in increase In these to take care of growth, increments and the like.

The B budgets are re<iuests for additional services improvements, enrichment and betterment and new programs.

SIGNSThere have been definite signs of determination by the budget-planners to hold the line wherever possible, and the major new programs that win approval apparently are going to be the exceptions.

Most of the B budget requests presented during the Raleigh hearings so far have been relatively modest. The big ones, of course are not yet in.

BUILDINGA request may b forthcoming for a new building to house the state department of archives and history In the captol (implex. It may not win approval in the 1963 legislature, although there is a good chance It could. And it is almost certain that eventually the state will build such a building.

The new statehouse Is the biggest single addition to the captol complex in many yearsexceeding even the highway building completed a decade ago, and the new building of the department of motor vehicles completed within the last decade.

selves concerned Jest the high court become over- -p r> a T ptJ PO"RFV balanced in favor of justices with no previous ex- xl IvwJ3il/1

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perience on the bench. Normally it is expected that justices of state supreme courts or judges in federal courts have had more experience with the kind of complicated legal questions before the Supreme Court than do attorneys w'hose experience has been largely in a specialized field.

When the matter of interpreting the law of the land rests in the hands of nine men, from whose opinion there is no appeal, every effort must bff m.ade to select the best qualified pe'rson in the nation to fill a vacancy when one occurs. We seriously question the practice of looking to other specializeil

Oplni(xis on the future of c(n-m(i stock prices are extremely varied at the moment. Our impression is that the majority of professiiMials Is not optimistic for the maricet as a whole. This has to be a mere impression since it Is not feasible to make a tabulation of the views of all those who make a

fields in the legal profession for filling Supremo living through buying and sell-

Court posts before careful consideration is given potential candidates with experience on the bench.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - Arthur J. Goldberg was an organiza-tHi man and Martin P. Durkin wasnt. But the difference between these two secretaries of labor went way beyond that, and in more ways than one.

Yet. each started out with prearranged burdens. The Republican platform in 1952 and the Democratic platform in 1960. Both, in a bid for the labor vote, promised to make changes in the Taft-Hartley labor lawr

Durkin, a lifelong unionist and president of the plumbers, concentrated on trying to make good on the Republican promise after President Eisen-hower named him secretary in 1953. He quit in nine months.

He said Eisenhower ran out on an agreement to send proposed changes to CcHigress. Eisenhower denied there was an agreement. Durkin went back to his union and died in two years of a brain tumor.

Goldberg, a lifelong labor lawyer, didnt cop(ientrate on trying to make go<xl on the Democrats 1960 promise after Kennedy made him secretary in 1961. Kennedy still hasnt sent proposed T-H changes to Congress.

Goldberg not only didnt quit but became such a success as secretary that this week Kennedy appointed him to the Supreme Court. And George Meany. president of the AFL-CIO. Isnt mad at Kennedy or Goldberg for the T-H failure.

Recently Meany told reporters he is a realist and knows sugge.sting T-H changes to this conservative C(mgress would be useless. He blames Congress, not Kennedy or Goldberg, for the things that didnt get done.

Goldberg had worked for the AFLrCTO as special counsel. But the labor organization didnt get mad .at him either, at least publicly, when he came out against its demand for a 35-hour work week.

Nor i.s busine.ss clawing Goldberg although he and Kennedy worked side by side in the steel dispute whieh tnmed busine.ss agaln.st th< Pre.sident.

To ton it all when Kennedv announeed Goldhe-g's aonef'^t. ment to the court Wednesday.

Republicans joined Democrats in saying what a fine thing this was.

How did Goldbei^ manage to come through all this smelling like a rose?

He has been probably the most active and hard-working labor secretary in history. And the court is no place for a slouch.

Although he has spent his life working for labor organizations, Goldberg when he became secretary detached himself, financially and mentally, as a labor partisan.

Goldberg, who had been chief negotiator for the steelworicers in getting them better c<K)j;racts an(? higher wages, even when it meant a deadening strike, has repeatedly stated this Kennedy-Goldberg policy:

We in this country must do everything within our power to prevent inflation and maintain price stability. Translated, this meant: Try to keep wage increases and price increases do\^gi.

In this way, Goldberg has sought to act as a public servant whose primary purpose is the general welfare and not that of a special group.

But n(Kie of Goldbergs progress in his job could have been possible if he and Kennedy had not shared an outlook on what they thought was needed and should be done and how. For-this reason although some credit should be given to Goldberg for adaptability in fitting into the Kennedy administration smoothly he has managed to sail along.

ing securities.

The high of the maricet as measured by the Dow-Jones industrial average was last December 13 at just under 735. This average Is based upon 30 major industrial stocks, which is an extremely small number, but it is used more than any other measure of the market because it is the only one which is carried by the Dow - Jones stock tickers into brokerage offices from one end of the country to the other. Another important aspect of this aver

age is that it serves as the basis for the so-called Dow Theory.

the high of December the market bumped along until the middle of March, and then It began a slide of major proportions which carried the Dow-Jones average down to under 536 at the end of June. Since then there has been an irregular upw'ard movement and as this Is written, the market is appreciably above 600. That is a good rally, but it does not tell us anything c(Hicluslvely about the future.

Before the big break in stock prices every one knew securities were selling at extremely high prices. As a multiple of earnings they were at a fantastic level. And in terms of yield they have less than one could get on top-grade bonds. Since highly rated bonds involve much less risk than almost any com-

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The way these jets are. you can have dinner on one continent and heartburn on the next.Taney (Md.) Record.

(Washington Daily News)

Americans all over this country are today W(jndering whether or not the government had anything to do with the shelling of Havana recently by a group of Cuban refugees.

Despite denials from our government officials In Washington, D. C., the feeling seems to persist that this country must know more about this incident than it is wUllng to admit.

However, to our way of thinking, no reputable government would allow such an attack to take place under the circumstances it took place. For one thing, the presence of two small craft was an almost suicide attempt. It might have some nuisance values, but even then the world does not look at nuisance values, but only that an attempt was made and failedto do something once more about the Cuban matter.

The lU-fated attack at Pigs Bay last year served to put America squarely on the spot. Had the venture then enjoyed any measure of success, America might have been In the role of saying we helped. By the same token when the invasion failed, America found herself able to say this was without our help or sanction.

As Cuba builds up a communist state, America sits by and watches, fearful of what might happen next. The day might well come when we will have to make a real decision. That decision might be on where we will either have to go in with all the facilities at our command, or admit before the bar of world opinion that we just can

not cope with the Cuban buildup, v

As events happen, and as tension mounts, the time seems to be in the not too distant future when our government must take a firm stand. We cannot continue to pussyfoot with a situation as explosive as the Cuban atmosphere is right now. America cannot afford a communist outpost at our very doorstep. Yet, we seem to be witnessing the formation of exactly that type of outpost at our back door.

The very fact that the two small boats came from Florida Involves America. We should make no mistake about that. The feeling in our country today. if we interpret it correctly, is that if we are to be involved, let us be Involved with force and not with hit and run attacks of the bootlegging type.

America does not wapt war, even with Cuba. The truth Is that if it comes to war between the United States and Cuba, America would overrun the Islands there in short order. But with Russia standing in the background, no one knows what to expect. But Russia could well be drawn into a struggle through hit and run warfare as well as all-out warfare. We should not forget that.

Right now America must be > taking a very serious look at the picture. What might happen in the future, we do not know. But this thing of incidents happening in our name ought to be stopped. We are getting a bad name, and such incidents furnish terrific ammunition for communist propaganda.

mon stock, It is most unusual for stocks to yield less. At the bottom of the break there were a few days when the bond yield fell below that for stocks, but the rally o the past couple of months has restored the earlier relationship.

One of the factors which lead to the high level of last year was the fear 6f Inflation and the widespread belief that common stocks, offer the best protection against such a develop-rnent. This belief, of couf^, has some basis since common stock prices can rise as commodity prices advance. But this parallel moverhent is not Inevitable, and many .persons have gone broke attempting to protect themselves against Inflation through the - purchase of common stocks. Fundamentally the value of a share of stock is dependent upon the profits*^ actual and potential of me company, and when prices rise without Increasing earnings there Is no lasting Justificaticm for a higher value for the stock.

Today total corporate profits are being squeezed. In the first three m(mths of this year the aggregate was below the final (juarter of 1961. Some companies, it is true, are doing better today than in the initial quarter of this year, but many are not, and quite a number of concerns can find no further ways for curtailing expenses or otherwise increasing their earnings. This over-all profit squeeze is a fact, no matter how one measures profits.

In view of this, is It legitimate to expect the current rally of the stock market to continue? Logically the answer has to be "no, but the market does not depend upon logic.

History shows that when there has been the type of break we had the first half of this year, it is followed by a rally which recovers some fifty per cent of the lost ground. The current rally has not yet gone that far. On the historical record, therefore, the Dow-Jones industrial averi^e should rise a bit farther, but then, and this is the important thing, the market should decline and test the previous low.

Whether this historical precedent will be followed this time Is a matter of opinion. We believe It will be and therefore we are convinced one must be extremely careful in making common stock purchases today.

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A man pays a luxury tax on his billfold, an income tax on the stuff he puts into It, and a sales tax whenever he takes an3Tthing out. Blue Rapids (Kans.) Times.

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By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKT .

R has. for some years, beea eusUxtnary for polittdans to have polls taken by professional pollsters to discover whether they are worthy of boldine particular public offices. Pro-sumably they do not themselves know whether they are good or bad or Indifferent but they require a poll to give them a clue to themselves.. One of tho first and most persistent poU-users was Thomas E. Dewey, wbo did not, of course, succeed in his admirations.

PrlcH to the Invention oi the polls, a man Mmpeared befcHW his fellow-cltizens as a candidate for office, willing to take hij chances as a man should. Now-adas^, what with elections so cosUy, many candidates would like to know s(nethlng about what their chances are.

I have before me a poll taken by Louis Harris and Associate, Inc., dated August 22. 1962, which is designed to establish that James A. Farley cannot defeat Nelsc Rockefeller for Governor,

T1 word, designed, wUl bo premeditated result. Not being a psychiatrist, I Ciuinot determine anyones motives. However, this poll Is represented to be a cross-section of 802 voters in every part of New York Statt. which has a population of 15.000.-000 persons and in the 1958 gubernatorial election showed n vote of 5,712,482 for all parties. If a sample of 802 votes is representative of a population of 15,000,000 in a state which consists of 49,576 square miles, why hold an election at all? Why not send out Louise Harris and his associates to take a sample and call It a day. Surely, Harris costs less than wi Election, and takes less energy of les persons.

I look at the tail of this report and find a sub-head, by Religious Groups. This has become a curse up<Mi our body politic. It used to be that Americans voted as Americans. They did not vote on the basis of religious groupings or ethnological groupings. Harris puts under this heading: White Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Negro.

Apparently In the sample of 802 voters, these are represented. I have never before known that the Negroes were a Religious Group, although the followers of Elijah Muhammad so claim. But what shocked me was that Harris and Associates, Inc., show in this poll that James Farley gets a maximum of 60 percent of the Catholic vote. This is taken on the sample of 802 voters, but there is no statement as to how many of them were Rinnan Catholics. Farleys maximum of Jewish voters is 57 percent, which no pollster can know to be true because Jews usually do not vote as a bloc, appearing in birth parties, depending on various situations.

The poll which gives the Democratic Party a 54 percent Catholic vote and a 72 percent Jewish vote does not say that that was so in any Election, but rather I assume that this refer to the 802 voters used as a sample. Obviously, .a large part of the Democratic' vote in New York City is among the Irish and Italian Catholics and in Buffalo, among the Polish Catholics and 54 percent looks mighty small to me. Also, the 72 percent for Jews in the Democratic Party does not look right as Nelson Rockefellers greatest support in 1958 came In those areas where more Jews than Christians or atheists live.

In a word, I find this poll of 802 voters too selective to be informative and unless I saw the list of names and addresses of those polled, it would be hard for me to accept it as more than a response of 802 perswis. As a guide to how 5,712,482 voters would vote on Election Day, I think so small a sample is meaningless.

The pollsters say that they can learn much from these samples. And some politician go by these polls until they are retired to silence and memories. A strong man depends rather on his ability to attract the voters, to state his case and to prove able and competent. Strong men take risks.

When a politician says of any Election that this year the candidate must be a Protestant or a Catholic or a Jew, I am tempted to reply that I h^ that this year the American voter will vote for an American.

The youngster who fails to get his education while he tan is simply writing his owui hard times ticket for the future. Shelby <N.C.) Daily Star.

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God lias often, tluoughout history, used evil men to achieve good ends. William the Conqueror was violent and cruel, yet he prajCtically abolished cap ital punishment during h i s reign, insisted that men appointed to church ufics should be of sound character and p.e-ty. and also stamped upon the Slav-* trade and w'ould allow his country to have nothin]? to do with it.

Heniy the Eighth wa.s a monster and throughout his life appeared to do only .such things as would satisfy his passions and his personal ambitions. Yet the achievements of his reign were so stupendous a.s to put him high on the list of England's great kiiig.s,

George the Third was one

the best men that ever sat upon a tin one, but he tried to turn back the hands ot the clock and would have destroyed for the people of Britain, as well as those of the colonics, the liberties which had been won in the Bloodless Revolution of 1688.

Richard Wagner, the composer, was one of the outstanding scallagwags of his age. Yet if we ever reach the pearly gates and heaj the heavenly niu.sic as it cornea forth, much of it will probably remind us of Wagners gloriou.s compositions.

Why this .strange employment God appears often to make of l)ad m('n for good ends, and the bad policle.s often prrascd .so \igorou.sly by good but mistaken men ?

Don't a.sl; inc. Think about it yourself.

By ELMER ROESSNER

September will bb a good month, largely because of sea-.sonal influences.

The annual after Labor Day pickup will take place. Executives, back from vacations and summer contemplations, will start placing additional orders, inaugurating improvements and generally giving a lift to business.

Salesmen, held in leash during summer months because so many prospects were vacationing, will be hitting the road and taking the air again.

Cooler weather will stir the tempo of all business excepting, of cour.se, the air conditioner business. Even there some excitement may be expected as dealers cut prices to move unsold stock and canny shoppers move in for the bargains theyve Ix'cn waiting for since June.

OTHER INDIAN SUMMER PICK-UPS

Here are other .sca.sonal In-ilurnce.s which will tend to keep ScpU'inbi'r's chm up;

Rack to school sales: While a large part of these sales take place before Labor Day, there i.s heavy shopping during the first two weeks of September, tending tojlift department store and other retail showings.

Autos: The new models are emerging and, with them, a sharp increase in orders. Each year initial sales have been strengthened by orders of rental agencies, fleet owners and others who find it good business to have new models.

Drop in unemployment: This w'ill be partly statistical, partly-real. Youngsters withdrawing from the labor market to return to school will create an apparent decline in the unemployed. The upturn retail sale.s, including autas, and the seasonal stimulation of Industry will also put more men to work. At the sanie time, agricultural employment u.sually reaches a pesik in September,

Christmas stocking: On the

retail level, merchants will start * gathering In Christmas stocks this month Another good toy

year Is in prospect and gift-giving can be expected to increase, as It has In most of the last 15 years.

Travelers return: The majority of the trippers to foreign countries will be back In the States, no longer spending the mtlUcMis of dollars they have beenleaving in foreign countries.

Defense spending: This Is

slowdy gaining momentum, and will rise steadily through the rest of the year.

However, there will be some negative seasonal factors. CHos-Ing of summer resorts will throw many people back .on unemployment rolls. The decline of travelers abroad will be paralleled by a similar decline in the United States, with less free spending.

Industrial construction does not seem to have snapped out of rec'&Ht doldrums. Housing construction, which has been laggijig lately, will be further .slowed by inclement w'eather and an unwillingness to start

projects with winter ahead Threats of heavy wal hang over the economy, industrialists are holding expansion plans until the. out what the Kennedy tax on January 1 will amount But all In all, there are mor pluses than minuses, and September should be a good month for business as well a colorful leaves.

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OLD PROMOTER SUGGESTS TAX WATCH ON CONVENTION PHOTOS A postal from the Old Promoter, received today, said: Off on Labor Day holiday. Agree with you that big shots at conventions err when they pose for trade mag photos holding drinks. Bad for- plant, un-tlon relations.

Woi-se. T-men may start reading trade publications and question deductions for attending conventions that are pictured as one big whoopee.

There you are. Mortimer U. Caplin 1

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