Wednesday September 12, 1262

Too Many Slip-Ups In The Case

Convicted spy Dr. Robe^ Soblen was successful him in the United States. Where did he get the knife in escaping the life prison isentence given him for he used to slash himself aboard the plane? Again, war-time espionage, but he left behind a tangled why was he not kept under closer watch to prevent web of circumstances which eventually ended in such an incident?

death at his own hands. With his appeals to British courts ended, Di*.

Although Dr. Soblens death ended the struggle Soblen was again ordered returned to the United to have him serve the sentence imposed by :h States, but this time he had at his disposal an over-United States courts, it added further complications dose of barbituates which he was able to take and to the web of circumstances by which he was abie lead to hie own death. Where did the drug to escape the sentence. The case should not be come from? How was it smuggled to the prisoner closed until the mysterious circumstances of the past only a few weeks before had made an attempt

two months in the Soblen story have been thorough- take his own life?

ly investigated and serious questions answered. Although the files on the Soblen trial and sen-

It all began when Soblen, using a passport of may now be closed, the files on the bungling

his dead brother, boarded an Jdtliner in New York "? ^ ^blen case in recent weeks should not be and fled to Israel, jumping the |100,000 bail he ,*' questions which remain

was under while waiting to begin his sentence. Not unanswered. There were too many slip-ups that yet answered is the question why Dr. Soblen, under together enabling Dr. Soblen to achieve

such a heavy bond and under a conviction for war- goal of escaping the life sentence . . . even it time espionage, was not kept under closer watch meant taking his own life in the process, by federal authorities to prevent his escape.

Then came his suicide attempt on the plane en-route to the United States from Israel which resulted in his being hospitalized in England while he continued his fight to avoid the life sentence awaiting

Think Theyll Ever Agree To Debate?

The Vulnerable

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES BANKS Renewed efforts by the rtate of North Carolina to save the CXiter Banks are being aimed first at lonely Portsmoui Island and Core Banks.

These Imiren, virtually uninhabited stretches of sand on the Carteret County coast are faring worse than any other part of the Outer Banks. Their faces Is In ccmstant change, the low places unprotected from the ravages of the sea and storms.

CXfcials are convinced that this area, embracing approximately 22,000 acres of sand and marsh, must receive Immediate attention. It is the most vulnerable sectimi of the coastline, lying CHI the lee side of jutting Halteras and Ocracoke.

DANGER If Portsniouih Island and Core Banks are lost, the states great inland sea, Pamlico Sound, and the entire middle coast from Beaufort to Beihaveil would lie exposed to the ocean.

And there is danger, according to the states highest off-cials, that unless something Is done this part of the Outer Banks may disappear In a generation or so.

Knowledge of this lies behind the urgency attached to the work of a recently - appointed cjommissicHi which will study the situation and make recommendations. The commission was appointed by Governor Sanford to carry on work started several years ago.

STUDY The history oft he Outer Banks is fascinating and significant to those who would act now to save the Banks. The shape, size, and lo-caticMi of the Banks has changed Islands and inlets have been bom and disappeared within the space of a relatively few years.

Acute awareness of the possi-Inlity that the sea eventually would reclaim the Outer Banks occurred during the middle 1950s, when the North Carolina coast was struck repeatedly by tropical hurricanes.

Studies of the effects of storm erosion were made. It became apparent that the changing effect was continuous. Gradually, the problem was becoming worse.

The Great Ash Wednesday storm rti the upper Outer Banks last March was graphic evidence of how quickly nature can destroy what it has taken man decades to accomplish.

GROUP The new Outer Banks study commission plans Its first meeting Sept. 14 at Morehead City. It wl receive reports and make an aerial inspection.

Roy Wilder, assistant director of Conservation and Develop

ment and secretary of the Outer Banks commission, says the tour is planned aboard a Commercial Fisheries patrol plane. There were some efforts to obtain Marine Corps helicopters for the trip.

Primarily, the inspectlMi will be from Ocracoke Inlet to Cape Lockout, the stretch that includes .Portsmouth Island. Core Banks and parts of the Shackleford Banks around Bardens Cut.

ACT It was this specific area for which the 19^ General Assembly appropriated $600,000 for a program of ccmservation, restoration and stabilization of the Banks.

The state already has acquired approximately 70 per cent of the land needed, roughly 12.000 to 14,000 acres. The acquisition, all of it by purchase from private individuals. Includes almost all of Portsmouth Island from the old tow^n of Portsmouth to Dmm Inlet, and more than half of Core Banks from Drum Inlet to Cape Lookout.

The low - lying stretches of Portsmouth, barely a foot or two above sea level, are described as the worst part of the

Marketing Holiday In Interests Of Farmers

The three-day holiday called for tobacco marketa on the Border, Eastern and Middle Belts early next week appears a move that will be in the best interest of farmers and companies that purchase their tobacco.

High volume sales that have jumped the markets of the three belts for the past two week? have pushed redrying facilities to their capacity and has caused an overflow of leaf already sold but waiting to be processed. As officials of the Bright Leaf Belt Warehouse Association pointed out .in making their decision, alleviating the congestion in processing plants may well result in higher prices fur farmers* offerings during the remainder of the season.

The action taken by the Bright Leaf Warehouse Association is by no means unprecedented in spiLi of the fact similar action has not been taken since 1956. .During years when sales were curtailed to prevent tobacco from being sold faster than processing plants could handle it, the net effect was tc afford farmers better prices for their leaf. There is every reason to believe there will be a similar result this year.

The three-day suspension of sales on the Border, Eastern and Middle belts should not prove detrimental to farmers even on a temporary basis. It is true the Old Belt will be in operation durm.g the three-day period, but the fact that markets in that area will just be opening will not be detrimental to either farmers or warehousemen in the area of the other belts.

Unusual circumstances which have surrounded tobacco sales on the three belts has made necessaiT

Rift. In Demo Ranks

By HENRY HOWARD

Rreviewed TV To Come

TELEVISION programming for the new season on at least orte major networkproceeds catlike along the paths of proven success.

The National Broadcasting^ Companys agenda for this fall* includes further pampering and polishing of westerns, introduction of an even-tempered psychiatrist to do battle with Casey and Kildare, intrusion into the private, affairs of another TV lawyer and, by all means, the return of Jack Paar.

Theres more. And newspapermen in the area were treated to a preview of the

Outer Banks. Travel on the unusual action taken yesterday by the Bright entire new lineup last week

beach in this area is almost impossible because of inlets and severe erosion.

The area from Drum Inlet to Cape Lookout is in better shape.

OBTAIN In obtaining the land already acquired, the state has spent about $263,000 of the $400.000 earmarked for land acquisition. This was spent in about 15 or 16 different transactions vlth individuals. No corporations were involved. And there has as yet not been a single case of land condemnation under the power of eminent domain,

This acquisition by purchase is done by the Council of SUte. Land acquisition will not be part of the work of the Outer Banks commission. The commission, however, may recommend further acquisition.

PORTSMOUTH - Hundreds of fishing camps line the sounds in the area, and fishing is virtually the only industry. There are a few wild ponies and cattle on Core Banks. On Portsmouth it Is believed that there .are only two permanent resideiits. Thus, except for the fish camps, there is little development to hinder the stabilization and restoration work that may be recommended.

The alternative, apparently, is that unless something effective is done Portsmouth Island may be the first of the present-day chain of Outer Banks to disappear from the map. And if this should happen, the coasts first line of defense from the attacks of sea and storms w^ould be gone.

Belt Warehouse Association. It is action w^hich, in our opinion, will serve the best interest of farmers in spite of the fact it may delay the pace at which the remainder of their 1962 crop will be marketed

Marshalls Court Battle

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by Eastern North Carolinas NBC outlet, Washingtons WITN, Channel Seven.

The typewriter crew fashioned a collective pleased grin when the stations color monitor showed excerpts from a

new weekly story about a newspaperman, unfortunately called Saints and Sinners.

'They grinned even more widely when Channel Seven Boss Bill Roberson hollered: Yall come on out here and cook your own steaks like you like them, Needless to say, the shuffle of well-worn shoe leather didnt last long.

THE VIRGINIAN, set for its premiere Sept. 19 and for 90-minute hunks of each subsequent Tuesday, claims a slew of TV firsts and has a chance to breathe a spark of new life into efforts by the industry to re-do the Old West.

Its based on Owen Wlsters novel by the same name, sports a popular western star in Lee J. Cobb and promises 90 minutes of good western viewing, particularly for western hounds who have color sets,

Terry Moore adds spark to

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKT

Copyright. 1962. King features Syndicate. Inc.

The Founding Fathers gave the people the opportunity to declare themselves on government policies and personnel every year. Although a Presidential term is four years, and may be repeated for a second period of four years, he canes before the people every sec-oid year for judgement. The 1962 campaign concerns not only Senators. Representatives and Governors who come up for electiai but also the President.

In Parliamentary countries, such as Great Britain, a vote of confidence or lack of confidence can be Indicated either by the defeat of government measures or by the by-elections; that Is, the filling of seats in Parliament which for oie reason or another have become vacant.

In the United States, there ia no method by which a government falls because we do ncA elect a government in the Parliamentary sense; we elept a President and Vice President for stated terms four year terms. Come what may, they remain in office.

In the present Congress, the Democrats have a majority which normally would mean that Caigress would support the Presidents program for legislation. This has not proved to be 80. So far as one can discern without taking recourse to polls President Kennedy remains a popular figure with the people. Nevertheless, the Democratic Party is splitting up in an amazing manner.

In New Yoric City, for instance, the Reformers, led by Governor Lehman and Mrs. Roosevelt, wtm a victory in the last Mayoralty election. They killed off the State Boss, Carmine De Sapio, but they managed to split the party. This has been aggravated by the search NEWSPAPER ears perked - for a gubernatorial candidate.

the modern twist to western programming, called "Empire, that stars Richard Eagan. Also in color, Empires first wheels roll Sept. 25 and continue on following Tuesdays.

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By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP^ - Presidents have appointed four Jews ^ and six Catholics to the Supreme Court, But none has ever named a Negro to this highest tribunal.

The closest to that for a Negro has been the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. One is there now, Judge William Hastie on the appellate bench in Philadelphia, Tuesday another came before the Senate for approval.

' He is Thurgood Marshall, whom President Kennedy appointed over a year ago to the . S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, which serves New York, Connecticut and Vermont. Marshall has led a dedicated Hie, Since the 1930sas chief counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People he has steered this nations most famous racial desegregation cases to suc-ces.s in the Supreme Court.

It was a long, historic fight. It made possible the more dl-i-ect action being taken today in the South by Negroes and whites in freedom rides, pas-

him on the court until the Senate retuiTied this year.

From January until last week a Senate Judiciary subcommittee, headed by'Olin D. Johnston, South Carolina Democrat, prolonged consideration of Marshall until finally Kennedy and Northern liberals protested.

Last week the full committee, headed by Sen. James Eastland, Mississippi Democrat, approved Marshall. The vote was 11 to 4, Four Southern Democrats voted against.

Then the nomination went to the full Sfenate ft- approval or disapproval and, no doubt, debate.

The fight Marshall made had its immediate roots in 18% when the Supreme Court made racial segregation in the U n i t e d States official with a decision which said it was all right to segregate Negroes in public places provided the treatment they got was equal to that given whites.

As history showed, the treatment Negroes got turned out to be anything but equal.

In a country which prides Itself on equal justice under law.

sive resistance and other forms XNegroes, in view of that 1896 of protest against riwial segrega- Mcourt verdict, could take one of

tion.

Almost certainly these protests would have been impossible without the work done by Marshall and the NAACP. Ironically, some anti-segregationists today seem to think the Mar-shall-NAACP tactics are too slow, too negative,,

Kennedy named Marshall to the 2nd Circuit Court on Sept. 23.1961. It was a cinch he would run into some bottlenecks, before he got approval, in a Senate where Southern Democrats hold powerful positions. \

The Senat^ quit for 1961 without acting bn the Marshall nomination. On Oct, 23. President Kennedy gave Marshall an Interim appointment, which put

two cources; direct action even though peaceful in the form of demonstrations or passive resistance. Or, fighting in the courts In hope of overtuni-ing eventually the decision of 1896.

Marshall and the NAACP took the road through the courts, knowing it would be a long, case-by-case struggle, based on the idea of chipping away at the 1896 verdict by repeated victories in a later Supreme Court.

This was not a fantasy. If the Supreme Court in the end reversed the ruling of 18% it would not be the first time in history that the court had done that to itself.

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(Henderson Dispatch)

Even the best of the seers sometimes miscue, and they did on the ti*end of employment in the United States for the month of August. They had said there would be a quarter of a million fewer persons employed than in the previous month. But instead Employment climbed by two hundred thousand. Adding both extremes, with fact at one end and fancy at the other, there was a miscalculation of almost half a million.

Now, as the busy autumn season approaches, seventy million persons have been supplied jobs in the economy of the American system of free enterprise. These jobs were not fictitious, imaginary nor just made for the record. They were real and peimanent, in so far as permanence could be foreseen.

It was tw'enty years ago when Henry Wallace, Roosevelts secretary of agriculture, said the time would come w'hen sixty-five million jobs would be provided in this country. Wallace guessed wrong, too, but on the bright side of the picture. It was President Truman, wasnt it, who when he was in office, envisioned the time when the gross national product would exceed $300 billion. Today, it is actually knocking at the $500 billion level, a figure which will be reached in the not distant future if economic growth continues at the rate oi the last several years.

Despite all this expansion, however, millions are unemployed. That is liecause of population growth and greater availability of workers, and the

willLigness to work on the part of those who could but who prefer free government handouts instead.

Unemployment declined by 86,0(X) last month instead of the seasonally expected 450,000 another instance where the statisticians missed the mark, and pleasingly so. Unemployment dropped to below the four million figure In August. That represents a lot of people who are without work, and most of whom presumably would like to have jobs. Probably included, however, are many women in the home who are willing to accept employment but who can hardly be rated as idle. There are, too, that element, as mentioned, who are idle by choice and prefer it that w'ay. ^

Seventy million persons at work in gainful occupations represent about forty percent of the countrys population, including men and children, with many small children at that.

America isnt going to st<trve to death nor become poverty stricken as long as the economy can provide employment for seventy million persons, a figure ..hich is constantly rising.

While 1 riy tour mllon are classed as unemployed, the plain fact Is that there W'ill never be a time when every individual is working. That was not true in the years of w'ar when there was a so-called .orclty of labor.

The August figures are highly encouraging. Seventy million persons constantly eai..ing their upk;ap, with money to spend and w'ho are spending it, w'ill keep the nation on an even keel, barring great emergencies.

with the announcement that Jack Paars new weekly hour would not be a part of the preview. One reporter observed: Thats Paar for the

course,"

Preview or not, NBC says Mr. Paar (they say we should use Mister on him) will again be in the network lineup. Reduction from nightly to weekly appearances may mean the weeklies now, not the dailies, will come imder nationwide Paar-fire.

In other categories of entertainment, the press boys learned that: Wendell Corey becomes a psychiatrist on The Eleventh Hour once a W'eek (Wednesdays, 10 p.m., beginning Oct. 8); Edmond OBrien joins the Saturday night legal practice as "Sara Benedict (beginning this Saturday at 7:30); and Andy Williams, with or without a swivel-stool, now has a Como-type show (Thursdays, 10 p.m., beginning Sept. 27).

PERHAPS most impressive, though, w^as the early glimpse of the networks public affairs and special projects schedule.

With anchormen Chet Huntley and David Brinkley still holding the regular spotlight, NBC news has prepared at least four special hour-length features worthy of any viewers hour.

Th2 preview Indicated painstaking documentary work in preparation of a dual study of Communisms six critical years. First of the two is a film documentation of Joseph Stalins fall. Quite naturally, tlie second describes in the same manner Nikita Khrushchev's rise to the top Red perch.

Making the most of color, the network has on file two

hour-long colorcasts: a film

expedition of the Nile River from source to mouth and a poetic study of the Arizona desert.

ODinions

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The federal highway network now under construction is expected to give fresh momentum to the national wanderlust, and fruBtration to anyone who wants to stop long enough to see anything. Boone (Iowa) News-Republican.

To discover the right man. the leadership forsook all political experience and knowledge and resorted to a pollster who came up with an obscure personality who has been In the business with the pollster.

The result is that the Democratic split has widaied. Secretly it was argued that because the President is a Roman Catholic and the Mayor is a Roman Catholic, the candidate for Governor should be a Jew. This is an insult to both the Roman Catholics and the Jews. Jews are sensitive about being catopaws for politicians. In recent years, two popular and respected Jews were nominated for Mayor of New York, Judge Jonah Goldstein and Attorney General Louis Lefko-witz. Both were defeated.

But when the pollster, Louis Harris, produced a poll indicating that the hardly known Robert Morgenthau could defeat Nelson Rockefeller for Governor, it made everyone laugh. It was so obviously wrong. Whereupon the split in the Democn^-tic Party widened.

In Massachusetts, the struggle between Edward McCormack and Ted Kennedy has produced a bitterness which will reflect Itself in Congress. The Speaker of the House should not have been made a personal antagonist.

In the so-called Solid South, the split is on an ideological basis, nainely. the opposition to the A(iministrations attitude toward desegregaticm. The Solid South is Democratic because of the ClvU War and the Ku Klux Klan during the Reconstruction. On other questions, the South is not so solid.

Now a Democratic Administration has smashed the solidity of the South. Texas has elected a Republican Senator. There Is no telling what will happen in the 1962 Congressional Election, but whatever happens, the Democrats are antagonistic to this Administration.

It may be that the President Is pursuing a policy of ignoring opposition when he is sure that he is in the right. That is a sound porition to take in a second term; in a first term as President usually seeks to hold the Congress with his party in the majority and to arrange to be re-elected. Surely if the President is concerned only with re-election, he would not have opened the way for Nelson Rockefellers victory in the current gubernatorial election by permitting the leadership to support a totally unknown candidate, Robert Mor* (Continued on Page 6)

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By EARL L. DOUGLASS VARIETIES OF FEAR

There ai'e all sorts of fears some are good, some are not so good, some are bad. The fear that one would have of poisonous snakes, of a friend with a lying tongue, of a reckless car driver, are all real fears. Fear is an emotion conferred upon us by nature to make us aware of things that would harm us. Without these fears most of us would long since have perished.

There is a fear, also which one miglit better tenn suspicion. It is the feelhig of distrust one manifests toward persons in gen-, eral. "That guy is trying to get the better of me. I rather think she is talking behind my back. You cant tnist people like that - they afe naturally unstable. He is a bigot, a fanatic, and everything he

says is twisted." This can easily go on to such an extent that a person becomes miserable and warped in his judgement.

The really bad kind of fear is morbid fear. Some people have such fear because of unfortunate childhood experiences. Others have a particular fear of certain things and brought in contact with circumstances involving these things they are Inclined to lose whatever Judgement they have. Worst of all, of course. Is the brooding type of fear which causes one to lie awake at night thinking about things that undoubtedly never will happen incurable diseases that will never come, accident and disaster to loved ones.

Train your emotions as you would train vour mind. Ko^p your fear whclesoms. Lciun to laugh at morbid fears and to reject them.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Is this t. i time or a good time to start a business? I have been asked. Inquirers worry w'hether the recent dip in the stock market, the recession talk going around, and the fear of a drop in retah sales make it vriiser to put dreams back on the shelf.

The answer is easy; It all depends.

Cyclic trends do, of course, affect th pi-Lop of small new busL.esses. But the effects are largely rei-.ote. The success or failure of a new business depends mostly on circum stames close to home.

National trei.ds have almost no qffect on a new business in a :cam town, ..ot t.i a ew' business in a sick area A new birs-ines;, in a coal town where mines are being closed cant have hope of succeeding even when the national economy is booming- And a new business ncai a new missile base may have good prospects even if the economy is scraping bottom.

EXCEPTIONS

Of course, it may not be prudent to open a tavern across the street from a factory that is in danger of being shut down. It might be better to postpone the opening of a cocktail lounge next to an auto plant just before the lay-offs for model changeovers.

And if a plant has just been awarded a big government contract, it may be well to speed the process of opening a new service business in the neighborhood.

The prospects of a new business are closely tied to local, rather than national, economic conditions. And they depend on ju.st how local conditions develop.

An eager enterpriser got advance infonnation about a big new highway about to cut through his part of the country. He quicy leased a tract of land adjoining the new high-Way route and put his savings into a restaurant. His site was just at the start of a long straightaway on the road. And

autoists, after the winding uphill section, see the restaurant just after they have seen the straightaway. Most roar down the clear highway.

Of eourse, it could have been w^orse. The new highway could liave been a limited access road, with through travelers unable to get, to the restaurant at all.

WHAT TO DO

Enterprisers planning new businesses should, of course, survey the local economic picture carefully. Is local personal Income rising or leveling off? Are the community industries likely to expand or contract? 'Has the community got room to grow?

There are many other factors:

What are local tax rates? Is the popr .tion explosion likely to force ruinous increases in school taxes?

Is the fire department efficient? Is the police department honest? What are license regulations? Must a new business kick In to the dominant political pai*ty or certaiu politiciaos

or be plastered with summons?

Are the unions successful In dealing with management? Or are strikes likely in the future?

Or are union demands so tough factories may close?

Are the city gf^vemment and chamber of commerce active? ,What will the commuhity be like five years from now? Ten?

Are racial troubles brewing? Are there racial blocs that prefer to trade with members of their own race? Will local attitudes prevent the bustoessman from setting his own hours?

Then there are these big questions:

If there 1* a reccssltm, will the community bear it reascm-ably well?

If there is a national boom, will the community get its share of increased business?

Answers to these and related questions are far more significant to the man planning a new business than the answer to where the gross national product figure will be next month ot next ^ear.