ImiidAy, Sntember 0, 1982

Govmt Gears Are Well-Meshed

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There is a certain degree of*satisfaction to be being cbnsideredi' * found in the news of recent days. The promptness of Washington's handling the

For instance: protest was something of a record, and it may be

We're reassured Uncle Sams intelligence considered indicative administrative gears are very branches are doing a superior job down Cuba-way; meshed.

and there was poise and confidence in the handling A sane, reasonable handling of the incident

of Soviet protests over trespassing by a U2 plan^ averted a big propaganda clamor. At the same time As to Cuba, the President disclosed the govern- ^^cre no abject attitude in the face of the crude ment knows a surprising amount of detail as to just cPP^'obrium raised by Tass, the Soviet news agency.

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what equipment is being shipped to Fidel Castro.

This U2 incident is also a giveaway that the

Zeal Should Contagious

The public was told more about those shipments Kremlin knew of the overflights well before Francis than quite possibly even Castros own people Know. Gary Powers was brought to earth in 1960, and

This kind of disclosure isnt ordinarily made nothing that would disclose inability to

public unless much, much more is actually knowr.. ^cal with the situation.

And on that basis, it is quite possible Washington even has a list of serial numbers stamped on the individual missiles shipped into Cuba.

At any rate, U.S. officials know enough so that ^ _

they show no signs of dismay. And, in the long view, tiSCOHlG It may be that before much longer the Cuban

people may be wishing Castro was importing fooa- When Governor Terry Sanford comes to Pitt

stuffs instead of wasting their scant wealth on un- County later this month, it will be part and parcel needed military hardware. of an energetic one-man campaign in behalf of his

In the case of the 2 trespassing, there was quality education program, the to-be-expected indignation and menacing threats North Carolina has seen nothing like it since

from Moscow; but administration officials didnt the days of the fabled Aycock.

panic. rriu o J

Their reply was not an apology, but an ex- , ^ itinerary is prodigious. Only yes-

planation that if a U2 plane did flv over the Soviet giving nine speeches in Northeastern

frontier it was^ccidental; that U.S. policy on such . Tuesday he made five speeches

And the theme is always the same: that parents and teachers should set such standards of excellence that it will spread throughout the state.

If this campaign were a one-week affair, or a month-long effort, so much intensive travelling and speech-making would not be out of the ordinary. But Governor SanforiJs zeal and evangelism has been manifest since he ibame into office, and whenever time permits he is preaching the gospel of

an education program second to none.

policy

flights was unchanged and some safeguards were

Highway Work Needs SDeed-U

By WnXlAM A. SHIRES

. MONEY Problems of financing more highway projects, at a faster rate, are under intense study by state officials.

These problems a boil doi^-n to a matter of making more highway mcHiey available. The questioi is how to do it.

The public will likely become more conscious of this question in the coming weeks and mcmths. It is certain to be one dealt with by the legislature.

North Carolinas highway department spends millions of dollars a montliat a rate presently estimated of 99 per cent of the funds available from all sources, state and federal. During the past year more secon dary roads have been paved In the state than at any time in the past 10 years.

Still, the needs are growing and unmet. State omcials talk with increasing frankness about the states falling behind, lagging in keeping up with its highway needs.

CONSIDER - What is being COTsldered?

There are, as yet. no definite recommendatlOTS but some will be forthcoming.

A new hlgbway bond issue, a possible penny a gallon increase in the gasoline tax, refinancing of the states secondary highway bonds, further curbs on diversion of highway funds 11 these are being ccmsldered in detail.

The Highway Ctnnmlssion Is-to pTMcnt its B df new money requests for the 1963-65 biennium to the Advisory Budget Cnnmlsslon in late September.

It is likely that some definite recommendations will be made at that time.

SPEED-UP There were questions raised before by the State Highway Commission about the publicized speed-up of state-federal highway projects being made possible by release of federal mcmey.

Commissioners wanted to know what this meant. The ex-planatkm was made by highway director W. P. Babcock and highway chairman Merrill Evans.

It is simply a matter of federal funds being made available sooner, Babcock said. Instead of the state receiving about $13 million in federal money per quarter for the fiscal year, the speed-up allows the entire years amount, approximately $54 million, to be made available and spent now. North Carolina is one

of the states which can, if it chooses, take advantage of this speed-up because it has match-

By PATRICIA MOORE

The reasonableness, the necessity, the desirability of quality education in North Carolina is all ~^ T --'I , O/^'

tog lunds avaUable he said. too obvious. What is needed, and what we hope 7 I 1 V VM 1(1 I . 11 I

if adolto?to1l^ mmey^ to listeners acquire, is some of Tiis zeal and ^ y V-Xi 1 J. i 1 VV Vj. V w W1

drive to make it all come true.

not a aouar oi new money this speed-up. There may be additional federal funds later, but this cannot be counted on.

It is, he said, the business of this conunission to spend the money that is available, and spend it wisely.

SPEND The Highway Commission spends enormous sums. For example, at the August meeting, it approved quicidy, almost routinely, more than a million dollars for purchase of equipment in addition to new lettings of contiacts and approving of page after page o various projects on primary and secondary roads totaling in the millions.

Three million dollars was allocated for use in areas of the individual highway commissioners for any specific widening, resurfacing or other projects on any primary road or urban extension-ITEMS Many of the new equipment items purchased are labor-savtug devices for use in highway maintenance, an area in which there is to be much further study. jrr This involves the recently -separated prisons department, which, by act of the legislature, still derives a great deal of its support from the highway commission. The highway commission is under contract to pay for the labor of 7,000 convicts a day m road maintenance. Actually, It uses the labor of fewer than 5,000 prisoners a day at a cost of $10,000 a day for labor it does not receive.

Something very significant is happening in the North Carolina prison system, chairman Merrill Evans said, explaining this situation. The states prison population is declining. The pris(ms system does not have the numbers of prisoners available to work on the roads that had been expected. This fact,

Evans said, has a lot to do iivith

the increased purchase of labor-saving equipment.

He aLw said that when the

Highway Commission makes its budget presentation we are going to have some very definite recommendations* about the difference in number of piisorers contracted for and paid for,

and those that actually work on the roads. He said a more realistic approach will be suggested.

Any Aggressive !deas Cautionec.

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By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) - President Kennedys sudden warning to Cuba and Russia the result of a Soviet tit-for-tat switch in the cold war boiled down to telling them not to get aggi-essive notions.

It was the climax of events building up for weeks.

In a statement Tuesday night Kennedy didnt complain about the kind of military help the Soviets have given, and are giving, Fidel Castro. The kind the President listed as going to Cuba could be considered Strictly defensive.

But he said plainly enough that If the buildup was of the kind that could be used for aggression like So\iet bases in Cuba or if Castro moved eiainst his neighbors, the gravest issue would arise. Actually, by giving military help to Castro in Americas back yard, the Soviets are doing to the United States what this country has been doing to the Communist world for years.

For example: the military help, and even alliances, this country has provided for countries around the Communist perimeter in Europe; the aid to Chiang Kai-shek on Formosa near the coast of Red China; military aid in Korea and South Viet Nam and, recently, troops in Thailand. The United States has approximately 8,000 military advisers in Communist-threatened South Viet Nam.

In recent days, as news accumulated about Soviet military help for Cuba and the arrival there of Communist bloc military technicians, a number of senators complained Kennedy was tough enough.

One senator. Strom Thurmond, D-S.C., called for an invasion of Cuba. Another, Homer Cape-hart, R-Ind., said about as much. Still another Kenneth B. Keating. R-N.Y., cricized what he called Kennedys do-nothing attitude.

Kennedy could have brushed these complaints aside. Other senators on other subjects have had complaints. But what brought the whole business to a head was what happened Sunday.

In Mt^ow there was a joint Soviet - Cuban announcement which promised Russian help to Castro in building steel mills and in farming. Then It said they discussed threats of aggression from Imperialist quarters.

It didn't mention the United States. But It added: because Cuba asked military help to protect itself. Russia would give it armaments and technical specialists for training Cuban servicemen.

The announcement didnt list

the kind of amiaments but It carefully avoided saying the military help would include Soviet troops.

In a statement Tuesday night Kennedy ticked off the kind of equipment he said he knows Cuba got from Russia: Defensive missiles, but not offensive ones, and equipment to use it. some Soviet-made torpedo boats with shlp-to-ship guided misiles having a range of 16 mfles, and perhaps a total of 3,500 Soviet technicians for setting up and teaching the Cubans To use the electrtmic equipment Castro got.

But he noted there was no sign of Soviet bases or Soviet combat troops In Cuba, or any other significant capability there In Cuban or Soviet hands.

If these things showed up, he said, the gravest Issues would arise. s

Here are some of the events In the background: ^

On Aug. 20, U. S. officials reported 15 Soviet vessels, including five passenger .hips, arrived in Suba but Ihey doubted any Communist bloc troops were landed.

At his Aug. 22 news conference Kennedy said he knew supplies had been landed but he didnt know that any troops were.

Two days later a group of Cuban refugee students, in two small boats that stood offshore, fired on a Havana hotel. They admitted It. On Aug. 27 Capc-hart voiced his complaint.

At his news conference last Wednesday, Kennedy said he still had no knowledge that Communist troops landed in Cuba. As for economic help from the Communist bloc. Kennedy sadd Cuba was in such bad shape it needed help.

Last Thursday two vessels, believed to be Cuban, fired on an American Navy trailing plane near Cuba. Senators Keating and Thurmond had their say Sunday, and on that same day,, the Russian-Cuban announcement came.

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No state has benefited more than North Carolina, not only in the enrichment of its life bur in the enrichment of its economy by tourism, from the wildernesswhether it lies in the Smokies or the Outer Banks, Without the protection of the National Park Service, both would be, or would be on the way to be-coming, honky-tonks, Greensboro Daily News^

Help! Save Our Country the sign on the billboard said.

Save it from what?, we wondered. Then we read, Impeach Earl Warren. There were analler letters telling where to get informatlt) about the slogan.

We were driving along . S. Highway 301 in South Carolina when we saw the big red Help and read the rest of it. Admittedly, a sign like that, concerning a high official of the country, is something of a jolt.

Thereve been stories and movies about Highway 301. Truly it is a fabulous view of a part of the American way of life. Chains of motels and restaurants. brightly lit for miles, then nothing for a long time, then more. Every kind of come-on advertising imaginable. Fuchsia-colored buildings, gold buildings, elephants everything.

We got on a little further after the impeachment sign and saw a gobbled mess in the road ahead. At least at first It certainly looked all gobbled up; It was rather early in the morning. Cows? Dogs?

Nope the Goat Man. Youve heard of him. Before and af

ter. on both sides of the road, traffic was at a standstill anHind the goat man and we joined in. A black goat, obviously dissatisfied with all the attenm, struggled to crawl under the mans low cart, which was loaded with rusty pots, pans, souvenirs, post cards, license plates and whatnot.

We clicked our pictures and moved on. We recalled the time the goat man came through North Carolina and almost created a statewide uproar. There were highway patrol escorts and all. We heard him telling a woman this trip that he had been on the rwwi for 30 years. (Thats a lot of goats.)

One day after we got hcane We flew down to picturesque Key West, which, like the map shows, is pretty far out in the water. Though there are other little Islands beyond Key West, which continue the Florida keys, Key West is the end of the United States mainland and its highway, A good portion of the island is built up with -shells and sand combinatira from nothing.

We took the well known Conch Train tour, which showed

0th31 Editors Saying... Area Concepts & Airport

(The Sanford Herald)

New federal support for area airports appears to be in the offing. A Civil AeitwiauUcs Board request for an area airport probe in the Greenville vicinity, with an idea of developing a major regional airport for Eastern North Carolina, seems encouraging to the Gieenville area and the area-airport concept.

Rocky Mount, Kinston and Goldsboro are towns that also have requests pending for federal aid to expand airports facilities in their citit. Wilson and Rocky Mount banded together to seek yet another location of the area airport.

Despite the confused action as an outsider it would appear the CAB is correct to strive to establish an area airport that will afford larger runways and facilities for larger planes. The prediction is that In the years ahead there will be expanding surbia, even in wide-open Eastern North Carolina farmlands. Changing conditions, spurred by development of industry, will make a major airport a major concern. Breaking up federal aid In small sums to many small airports can not be justified. In fact, if there is one thing that is clear, it is that Tar Heels must stop thinking in county line terms. In tha com

plex economy of today, they must turn to thinking and working al(Mig area lines that will more nearly ccmform to trade and business interests.

Foam Rubber Piltows Goldsboro (N.C.) News-Argus

Foam rubber pillows have become standard for most hotels and motels. We wish they hadnt. Few sleeping aids . are as tranquillzing as the feather-filled case you knew as a boy. Remember how sweetly your head was snuggled into the featherpillow?

Trouble with foam rubber pillows is that there are pillows and pillows. Too many of them are resentful of having to serve and they fight at you all night long.

They refuse to surrender and serve you. They keep pushing back, pushing back, with a ccm-tinuing shove that leaves a strain in the neck. And dont get peeved and slam at the pillow with your head. It will only slam back the harder and laugh at you the more quietly and deeply.

Maybe the problem ccHild be solved by assigning to each guest a pillow in proper balance to the size and weight of his head. A pillow which would be snuggly and not keep bouncing up at you.

through the Key West Naval station where rested the submarine which was painted pink for the movie Operation Petticoat. We saw Ernest Hemingways former home there, with its high wall and shade trees; the old lighthouse, located inland: and the mixture of modem homes and little frame houses.

In the bay were rows of little wood boats, paint peeling from the elements. They were the Cuban refugee boats, which now ride the sea alone. Their pilots and passengers are quickly transferred to Miami upon arrival, where they go through official custmns and Immigration.

The boats cant be sold unless the passengers can prove ownership, our cab driver told us. Apparently many of them dont think about papers when making the get-a-way across the 90-mile gap between Cuba and the United States.

You can teU how bad they want to get here if you ever see how many they crowd Into those little boats, the driver said.

Our chief disappointment was in not seeing <Mie of those fleeing boats come sailing into Key West while we were there. They are supposed to arrive a couple of times a week.

Each trip has its moments. We saw the sign again oa the way back home.

And some of the goats were along the roadside way up in South Carolina, apparently being bedded down for tbs night beside a very nice looking motel.

Ooinions

Remember when posters outside the post office said Join the Navy and see the world? Now they could say join the Secret Service, get assigned to the White House detail, then see the world with one of the Kennedys.Daily Oklahoman.

A shorter work week for the same pay will drive prices to inflationary levels or employers to bankruptcy. Richmond News-Leader,

The ending of summer will bring its problems, though, one of the first undoubtedly will be whether you have kept your waistline enough in bounds to be able to wear the winter clothing youll soon be getting back from storage. The Raleigh Times.

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By GEORGE E. S0K0L8KY Copyright. 1962, King Features Syndicate. Inc.

As President Kennedy had to appoint a successor to Justice Felix Frankfurter on the United States Supreme Court, it is only fitting that he should have found a moderate liberal, (me who believes in a humanitarian capitalism and who respects the law. It is always to be priumed that when a President makes a principal appointment, he Is likely to follow his own ideas and his own copsci-ence. President Kennedy is developing into a moderate liberal.

When Justice Felix Frankfurter was appointed to the Supreme Court, he was abacked as an excessive liberal, as a socialist, as an enemy of our way of life. During the whole of his career. Frankfurter had been a Jeffersonian Democrat, a firm believer In our law, based on the Constitution. When his ideas ctmflicted with those of some (d his colleagues, many conservatives took him to their hearts as the leader of the conservatives (m the bench. Actually, Frankfurter was motivated neither by the excesses of doo trinalrc liberalism nor by the excesses of doctrine conservatism.

He believed in the lawin the law as an inurnment to safeguard the individual human being from the brutality of tyranny, any kind of tyranny. And there can be a tyranny of the majority, of minorities or of individuals. This is a Jeffer-stmian concept of Americanism and is Incorporated In the Deo-laration of Independence as well as in the Constitution of the United States.

In Arthur GoldbeiY, Frankfurters successor to the Supreme Court bench, the country w^ find a jurist of the same cast mind. Arthur Goldtmrg emerged to prominence out of the big labor unions just as Frankfurter reached prominence as a professor in the Harvard Law School who was deeply concerned with the problems of labor. But wherever Arthur Goldberg served labor, ho was a stabilizing personality because he believed in the law and in the sanctity of a contract and in the need for establishing a system in Industry which would keep up the productivity of the United States by a labor-management relationship based (Ml binding contracts. The Communists want no contracts because, in effect, they are a limitation on revolutionary tactics.

Ooldbeig has undoubtedly been the most active and most effective Secretary of Labor in the history of that offlce. He brought to his work a new concept, namely, that in every Industrial dispute a third party, the people of the Unlteil States, sits at the table. They have rights, too. When the engineers strike on aircraft, depriving the people of an essential service and wasting capital Investmenf, ^e people as customers, as investors, have rights which must be represented.

He has not taken the position that labor is always right or that management and the Investor are always wrong. But he has taken the position that the welfare of the United States must come first. We cannot afford the luxury of labor laissei faire any more than we can afford the luxury of ' capitalist lalssez falre. We are in trouble and we must face our troubles courageously. The time when the Individual can sacrifice the general welfare and the survival of his country to satisfy pers(mal whim or even purposes Is gone and is not likelyj^ return.

Arthur Goldberg will be a worthy successor to Felix Frankfurter as a moderate Jurist who probably will oppose making the Supreme Court a third legislative body. Frankfurter opposed that because it is essentially unconstitutional. The Court has to do with interpreting law not with making law. The temptation for a Supreme Court justice or any justice to pursue obiter di(rta rather than the law Is not unusual. Enormous restraint is required to remember that even Solomon had to thtak twice before rendering a final decision. On the other hand, were It not for (Continued on page five)

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Strength For Today

Bv EARL L. DOUGLA&S IHE DAY APPROACHES

Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering. . .and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works; not forsaking the assentbling of ourselves together as the manner of .some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more as ye see the day approaching (Hebrews 10:23-25).

Here is a portable little directive as to how we can and should live the Christian life. We are first of all to hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering. A few people will scorn us. More perhaps smile good naturedly and call us naive. A few will get an-Ri-y and argue with us. The Important word here is the word "profeiMion. Every truly religious person professes to be

lieve something. Let him stand up for his belief. Let him do it without wavering.

And let him provoke (encourage) his fellow men to love one another and to live righteous lives. Think it over. You may without realizing it- be encouraging someone to live a SDiritually indifferent or evil life. Provoke (encourage) unto love and good works.

And do not forsake the assembling of yourself with others of like faith. The person who claims he is a Christian but never goes to church has a lot of things to prove to the world and to himself.

Exhort, encourage, one another. T1*2 end is approaching for every living soul. The books wUl be closed at last. The race as a whole will eventually be judged. For every living soul the (Jay approches.

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By ELMER ROESSNER

Efforts are being made to retrain workers laid off because of automation. The obvious first step, of course, is to train the disemployed to be Internal Revenue agents or income tax advisors.

Whichever side of the street they choose to work, there la bound to be a constantly expanding demand for their services.

But those without an Inclination for tax work might well be trained for jobs in the trading stamp business.

The economics of trading stamps is fantastic. The stamps, books, catalogues, redemption centers and the premiums all cost money. If the stamps increase business for the mer-chajit. he can afford to absorb these costs. But when every competitor Is also giving .stamps, there can be no increase of volume c profit from them, and prices must be raised to cover their costs.

Thus .shoppers pay. in higher prices, for the so-called gifts they get.

THE GIRLS WANT THEM

Nevertheless, the shoppers want them. Many seem to prefer higher prices with stamps than lower prices without them. The A & P chain, which resisted stamps for years, apparently thinks so.

Shoppers have low preferences for stamps, according to some indications. One shopper I know demands stamps wherever she goes. She has collections of at least seven different kinds and not one book yet filled.

The mad expansion of stamp collecting has produced some curious results.

The Two Guys chain of stores in New Jersey and adjacent areas has been giving out its own stamps, and at the same time has been accepting almost all other stamps In exchange for goods from its store. The only exceptions are the stamps from two companies who obtained an injunction on the claim that the stamp companies, not the shopper, owned (he stamps. And while this system is leaving the Two Guys with a vast collection of other peo

ples stamps, it is also packing in shoppers.

BARGAIN IN CUSTOMERS

The two guys, Sidney and Herbert Hubschman, figure that if other merchants will give up about 2 per cent of their gross to attract customers, they will pay a somewhat lesser figure in merchandise to woo those customers away.

Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago finds that trading stamps have been one of the fastest growing types

ed the mortician.

Just think: some undertaker Is losing publicity in this column simply because he doesnt give trading stamps. Black ones, of course.

BIG BANK CORROBORATES NO-SLUMP FORECASTS Business reports for the summer months show that the vacation-time letdown in activity was no greater tlftm usual, says the l^ptember monthly eo-

_ , _ onomic letter of the First Na* of sales promotion during the. tional aty Bank of New York.

past 10 years. It estimates that 2 per cent of all retail sales were made by stores giving stamps in the early I950s and 15 per cent of total sales were made by stamp-giving stores In 1961.

In Southern California, trading stamps are now redeemable for accident and life insuran policies. Your reporter has been trying to trace down a rumor that an undertaker is now giving trading stamps on funerals. Hundreds of readers have joined the search and. while one found a tombstone-maker who gave stamps, none have l(x:at-

This confirms predictions here.

LATIN AMERICAN SNAIL MAY CLEAR U.S. WATERWAYS

A large South American freshwater snalJ, now under observation In two canals at Port Lauderdale. Fla., is said by U. S. Department of Agriculture authorities to be a possible control for aquatic weed growth In Inland waterways. Many southern rivers are choked and made useless by plant life. However, the snail may be injurious to young rice shoots, and further tests are underway.