iVIost Explosive !ssue Of The 6

TTedneaday, October Si, 1962 ,

Blow To Russia As Well As China

* Chinas new bid for admission the world organization. Red China has in recent

iZ represents another victory foi years shown gains in the number of nations support-

the West and a resounding defeat for both Red ing its effort. Indeed this year there were more na-China and the Soviet Union, tions voting for its admissionand the expulsion of

In its perennial attempts to gain admission to Nationalist Chinese representativesthan was the

case a year ago. At the same time, there was also a increase in the number of nations which voted against admission of Red China to the U.N. The number of liations abstaining from^ voting on the question dropped from 20 last year to 12 this year.

Certainly the conflict now going on betw^een Red China and India had a bearing on the vgte on Red Chinas membership. There can be no doubt that the course of action in the recent Cuban crisis likewise influenced the vote yesterday. /

The vote of 42 nations in favor of admitting Red China to the U.N.- fell far short of the required two-thirds of the 110 member nations. Six more nations this year voted for Red Chinas admission to the U.N. than was the case last year. At the same time eight additional nations this year voted against admission of Red China, compred with last year.

The Soviets have placed high priority in recent years on their efforts to obtain U.N. membership for their communist partner, Red China. Rejection of the proposal again by a majority of member nations of the U.N. must be viewed as no less a blow to the Soviet Union than to Red China itself. It suggests that in period since the last vote the Western position on the matter has gained more strength than the Soviet position. It also suggests that among the smaller nations of the world there is a more general leaning toward Western leadership than was the case a year ago. .

Pulling Castros Beard

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

COURTSThe courts amendment on next Tuesdays general election ballot la without QucsUon the most ccmtroversial and politicalb'-explosive of the aix constitutional proposals.

It has stirred more controversy and debate and brought about a far more vigorous campaign by both proponents and foes than all five of the others put together.

It is the best^ known and most Widely discussed of all six of the proposed constitutional amendments.

But In swne ways it still may be the least understood. Certainly it Is the most maligned.

CRUCIAL The courts amendment, alone and separately, is regarded aa the cru-elal proposal in the set of six amendments.

The others may contain seeds "controversy,~ but are not nearly so far reaching in af-fecUng a basic branch of the democratic system of government, the judiciary, within the framework of the state constitution.

The courts amendment Is far reaching. It would result in amne drastic changes.

Ita supporters call it the most Important and necessary proposal to come before the people In recent North Carolina history. Its opponents call it the most dangerous.

EFFECT - The courts amendment would affect directly the states system of inferior courts, those below the level of Superior Court, and these are numerous and widespread.

There are 400 recorders courts and approximately 900 Justice of the peace courts in North Carolina. These have be-camt known as local courts. All these would be wiped out. By 1971, they would be replaced with a system of district courts and magistrates.

The theory behind the amendment is that North Carolina needs and must have uniform administraticm of Justice in its lower courts, with uniform coirt fees and costs. These now vary greatly from court to court.

A key proviaJ<i in the amendment is that in no case shall the compensation of any Judge

that it would create * a courts czar in Raleigh.

SUPPORT The courts amendment has drawn what would appear to be overw^hel-mlng support from state officials including Governor Sanford, most superior court Judges and various statewide groups. Such groups as a North Carolina Citizens Committee for Improved Courts with statewide committees and local committees have spearheaded campaigns in favor of the amendment.

These officials and groups also have conducted an extensi\ e educational campaign seeking to explain the amendment and to answer criticisms,

EIXPLAINOne theme of the proponeots Is that courts Im-jprovement changes would hot come about overnight, nor without further study and consideration by the General Assembly.

What the amendment does principally, they say, is to authorize the legislature of 1963, 1965, 1967 and 1969 to enact court reforras. It sets up guide and enabling authority. They contend that without such authority the hands of the General Assembly are tied.

PROVIDEProvisl(Mis of the courts amendment basically are these:

It establishes a General Court of Justice which shall constitute a unified judicial system, consisting of three divisionsappellate which is the Supreme Court, a Superior Court Division, and a District Court division.

The General Assembly will establish districts, prescribe where the courts will sitwith at least one such District Court In each countyand fix the jurisdiction of the district courts on a uniform basis.

JUDGEISJudges of the district courts are to be elected for terms of four years. The senior resident judges will appoint one or more magistrates for each cwinty for terms of two years. The appointments of magistrates will be from lists submitted by the clerks of the Superior Court and the magistrates will be officers of the district courts.

The amendment provides that the General Assembly must

Extension Program Of

ECC Is The Largest By DON SCHLIENZ

A request for East Carolina College to establish its second branchthis one at Goldsborois indie-

ative of the contribution the extension program of X V-^X

ECC is making to higher education in the state.

^yhile many Tar Heels overlook the fact. East woui?doa^'ioT^toward

Carolina College has the largest extension program jazzing up the spirit of Hai-of any college or university in North Carolina Through its extension program it conducts classes in 30 cities and towns in North Carolina and it has a branch at Camp Lejeune that operates a two-year college program.

In addition to its on-campus enrollment, East Gretei is not a story condu Carolina has enrolled mow in its far-reaching ex- to dreamless sleep. Puss

tension program some 2,600 students taking courses for credit and an additional 600 students taking non-credit courses. The extent to which the program has grown broadens considerably the educational contribution and influence of the college far beyond the confines of its campus in Greenville.

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lowe'en.

One just doesnt appreciate how frightening childrens stories can be until they meet them at close quarters.

I know its a rather tired observation, but Hansel and

In Boots is a horrifying example of duplicity, wizardry, opportunism and ogre-eating.

Jack and the Beanstalk includes the qualities of folly, greed, thievery, and lastly murder.

Some months ago, succumbing to a campaign of cajoling pleas, the writer tagged along as his juveniles went to see a motion picture production of Jack the Giant-Killer.

Ho-Hum, thought the parent, more childish fairy tale prattle to spoil a perfectly good evening. Ill be glad when they are old enough to

The request from Goldsboro for East Carolina JXl

0th Editors Saying

Of Fish

The states Supreme Court and Superior courts, as presently constituted, would be aubstantially unchanged. The eifeci of the amendment would be almost entirely on the present system of lower courts, although n would authorize the General Assembly to increase the size of the Supreme Court at some time in the future from ^ix to eight justices.

OPPOSE The amendment has been attacked most sharply by Superior Court judge Frank M. Armstrwig (rf Troy and also Is opposed by several other superior court judges, ny some sheriffs and others.

Various reasons lie behind the iHJPoaltJto. "

' Superior court judge Qawson L. Williamsc Sanford saj's the amendment Is unnecessary and probably dangerous. Judge Raymond Mallard of Tabor City feela It would give the legislativo iM'tnch too much authority over the judicial Iwanch.

Oppoorata have attacked the proposal on grounds that It would be costly, that It might endanger law enforcement retirement funds, sources of revenue for financing such things as law libraries and salaries of court attendants, bailiffs, and

date all previously existing irt-ferior courts will cease to exist.

COSTSthe amendment confers on the General Assembly the authority to establish a schedule of court costs and fees within each division of the General Court of Justice and provides that such a schedule must be uniform on a statewide basis. This latter provision is the key to a uniform system of inferior courts.

It also provides that operating expenses of the Judicial department will be paid from a state fund. All court costs and fees will go Into this fund, and supporters contend that the ex-*^nse of court operation under such a system would not be very much greater If any greater than it now is.

OmCERThe amendment provides for establishing an administrative officer for the courts of justice to function in administering of the judicial system.

This w(Hild include such things as business management of the courts, assisting the chief justice of the Supreme Court In scheduling court terms and assigning judges and in assembling stat^tics and other data on the work of the courts.

to establish a two-year branch must receive approv al from the Board of Higher Education before the college can move to comply with the request. As

the state moves to boost its program of communitv . . t iiivaiiou oi ..uoa. Mr nnrusn- ^

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(Richmmid News Leader)

Mr. Khrushchevs sudden

half of all nations of this hemisphere. that there will be no invasion of Cuba. Mr. Khrush-

go alone and I can enjoy adult entertainment which they would not appreciate.

I guess the movie followed the book. I dont know fer sure, because after that horror on the screen there is no desire to refresh my memory by cracking the fairy tale reference book.

To me, Boris Karloff in his monster role, or Bela Lugosi, vamplring around, have al-w'ays been the traditional epitome of scary movies. But compared with the time-honored tale of Jack the O-K they are good wholesome fun.

The show was just a few minutes underway when my young companions were climbing in my lap, and the three o! us, shrinking under the blasts of sound, spectacles of bottomless horror, evil and black magic.

A Risk

Reyonc.

Relie::

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY Copyright, 1962, King Features Sjmdicate, Inc.

A friend of mine, a knowing man, writes to me:

The other night I hcaitl (President Kennedys) Cuban speech in my car alone. I could not believe I was tearing correctly the quaver in his voice. I dont believe, had I just walked up to a radio without advance warning, I would have known it was Kennedy speaking. The oratorical flourishes, the heavy Harvard accent. . .But it was-hard, as I say, to believe that here was a President of the United States talking in one of the most critical periods of our history (probably the most) and scared to death. ^ _

It just goes to show how differently men respond to the same thing. President John Kennedy, in that Cuban speech, committed his nation to the prospects of Immediate nuclear war. He committed unk n o w n numbers of human beings to death. He knows, from personal experience, what death in war can do to a family. By one decision, by a few spoken words, by several signatures on documents, he gave up the Immediate prospects of a negotiated peace.

What does my friend want? Does he expect the President to do a jig? Does he expect him to put on a politicians smile? Of course, the Presidents voice had in It a quaver, a tremor^ a suppressed emotion. Of course, he was frightened by the crasequences ot his act.

The country responded more realistically than anyone anticipated. Practically, there is no opposition to the Presidents blockade of Cuba; the only criticism has been that he waited too long.

The NATO Powers have stood firmly with the United States. The Organization of American States has stood solidly behind the United States. Only U Thant, the Acting Secretary General of the United Nations, delivered a ridiculous speech which missed the point altogether, namely, that the missile bases aimed at us from Cuban soil must be completely and totally dismantled.

It Is difficult for, me to understand the complaint in the paragraph which I quote above. The objection seems to be that the President uses the English language well but with what has become noiTnal speech in the Boston - Cambridge area whence he comes, a manner of

pat to be completely believable. The very blandness of his letter, the honeyed tone of his voice suggest the weaving of some new st.ratagem. Come into my parlor, said the spider to the fly. Who ever knew a master chess player to give

proposed branch at Goldsboro. It remains now for the Board of Higher Education to weigh the merits of the request and to authorize or reject the proposition.

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mere Worse

By JA.MES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) absence of public gloating the Kennedy administration over Premier Khrushchevs retreat on Cuba is understandable. There could be worse than Khrushchev.

There are also two other good reasons for something less than wild rejoicing: Khrushchev still has to make good on his promise to pull his missiles out of Ciuba: and the trouble with Fidel Castro hasnt been settled at all.

If right now there is Kremlin conflict over the Soviet blunder and embarrassment in Cuba, open glee by American officials might be enough to tip the scales in favor of Khrushchevs tougher-line opponents and thus wreck him.

Over the years he has made noise, been a pain in the neck, and often been dangerous. But because he was more human and flexible than Stalin, he was an improvement on the old tyrant.

For example: When Stalin got the notion to drive the Allies out of Berlin, he blockaded the city. This eventually faUed, but it could have meant war. Khrushchev wants to seal off Berlin, too, but he has stalled for four years In trying it.

If Khrushchev should lose out now in a power struggle because of his backdown in Cuba, it seems certain his successor would be a hard-nosed Communist more like Stalin than Khrushchev.

It was sheer clumsiness for the Soviet Union to put missiles in Cuba and not be prepared for something more impressive than a complete cave-ln if the United States forced a showdown. as it did.

That there is conflict in the KiTmlln over this blunder seems likelv. Obvious confusion and indecision showed up In the contradictory messages Khrushchev sent President Kennedy before finally giving in.

Ju.st Ix'cause an internal Soviet leadership .stnig|.>le may l>e going on now, Kliru.sliclievs pro-nii.se to take iiis inl.s.slles back home can't be accepted as fact until he actually does It. This Is sufficient reason for the Kennedy administration to keep Its

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a logical step. While such a branch of East Carolinp College wouM not, in technical terms, be a community college, it would afford educational opportunities to people in the Goldsboro area similar to those of a community college.

The Board of Trustees of East Carolina College tu give

has given its approval to the establishment of the up a knight and a bishop, and

^ ^ pawn in return?

We ought not to be so suspicious. Experience has demonstrated that the Soviet Union will retreat whenever its aggressive-probings encounter ser

ious resistance. As we remarked editorially ^just a week ago, the Kremlin does not want war; its object is to win Communist victories without actually fighting for them. TTie pat-tem of the past fifteen years In this respect is remarkably clear.

But experience should have taught us something else of the nature of Communist leaders: The crudeness of their bluster is at least equaled by the slyness of their cunning. The Khrushchev who pounds the table with his shoe, and the Khrushchev who drafts his polished letter of withdrawal, are the same man. I set it down, said Hamlet, that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain: at least Im sure it may be so in Denmark.

Were sure It may be so within the Kremlins yellow w'alls. Mr. Khrushchev has agreed to dismantle some non-operational missile sites, and to ship the missiles themselves back to Russia. These are grim weapons, he says agreeably to the President. Both you and I understand what kind of weapons they aie. So he will take them away. In return, the United States is to abandon its blockade and make a pledge, on be-

fingei-s crossed until the missiles are gone.

Khrushchev has handled Castro in all this as If he were a nobody. Yet, just becausethe Soviet Uni(Mi has been his main source of supplies and his only real hope of survival, Castro can hardly afford a break with Khrushchev.

The Russians made no promises to keep Castro quiet. And Castro hasn't been. So long as he bosses Cuba he will be a menace to the rest of the Latin American countries through the internal trouble he can create for them.

While Kennedy promised if the missiles were withdrawn that the United Stales would not invade Cuba, this did not say this country and other American republics would not work for liis downfall.

Their problem is now, without a dbect American invasion. Yet, they cant sit idly by while Castro, through his agents and local Communists, tries to wreck one Latin American country after another.

Since Castro couldnt survive wlthoiJt Soviet supplies for instance, oil then any subversion he attempts against hi.s neighbors must be considered Soviet subversicm as much as it is Castros.

Therefore the withdrawal of the Soviet missiles, instead of being the end of a chapter, was like a printer'.s error in a story only partly written and far from finished.

to liquidate with greater speed the dangerous conflict, to serve the cause of peace, to give confidence to aU peoples longing for peace, and to calm the people of America. It is a pretty speech.

We are back where we were six months ago. before this missile buildup started. Mr. Kennedy has gained a good deal, but we doubt exceedingly that Mr. Khrushchev has lost very much. Such is the perversity of public opinion that he may even emerge from this growling match with an international olive branch in his teeth. Six months hence, it may be forgotten that Mr. Khrushchev started aJl this: it will be remembered only that he ended it.

But we dont believe the incident has ended at all. There has been some loss of face on the Communists part, especially within subjugated Cuba itself, and we find it hard to imagine that some effort will not be made very soon to, rebuild the Image of Communist invincibility. What Mr. Khrushchev has lost on the swings, he expects to gain on the roundabouts.

The whole sequence of events leaves us uneasy. Unmistakably, across the Caribbean waters, comes the faint smell of fish. Suppose these bases are dismantled. Suppose the missiles are withdrawn. What next? And wher^?

As Mr. Kennedy said, we now step back from danger. But let us never forget that in the cold war, the clock is stopped at high noon. Our adversary is still armed; his capacity for treachery is not diminished in the slightest. Let us not be deceived by a too sudden victory Into thinking the hour of peril has passed.

you could cut it with a knife.

On yes . . . there were giants; but almost as an afterthought. They all died; violently, one might add.

The special effects department of the movie studio brought the sound track to a degree of perfection in spectral shriekings and howling winds, and background music that invites heading for the nearest exit.

Would you like to go home?, I asked my juvenile companions. No, no, no, they cringed . . . eyes never wavering from the ghastly horror on the screen., ,

So we stayed until the last ,giant suitably died and the evil magician and his forces were overcome.

When we finally emerged I was wrung out. The kids were bouncing.

Wasnt that a swell show?, they kept asking. And me in a state of near-shock.

As I was saying, childrens fairy tales and Halloween dont rightly seem to have much in common. Not, that is, until you give those fairy tales a closely appraising look.

Just one shudder after another.

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The British, more perhaps than most others, know that freedom has to be defended and the spread of dictatorship, particularly by* force or threat of force, resisted whatever the hour. Christian Science Monitor.

. ieasarit a that of a southern colonel. But my friend seems to feel that the President was scared to death. Not to death, but scared certainly, as any decent man would be in the face of the decision he had to make.

But President Kennedy did make his decision and it was carried forward by staff work that astounded the world. As a matter of fact, Khmshchev, with all his brilliant espionage, was caught off base and it took days to catch on to the completeness of the boycott and the certainty that if his ships attempted to run through our network of ships and planes, they would be shot down. Many pi the Russian ships turned away.

I cannot be partisan when my country is in peril. The record of our errors In Cuba is a long one. It began with our failure to spot Fidel Castro in the Bogotaza of 1948 and it has C(hi-tinued for many years, through many Admlnlstraticms, including the Eisenhower and Kennedy Administrations.

Our major problem is to drive Russian Imperialism out of the American cmtinents. If Khrushchev has used the Cuban episode as a diversion from our adamant position concerning Berlin, he has made a mistake. We shall defeat him In the Caribbean and we shall defeat him at the Berlin WaU of Shame. The efficiency of the first 24 hours of our blockade of Cuba ought to prove beyond doubt not only that we are ready and that we are stout of heart but that the American people are united.

Khrushchev assumed that because President Kennedy is soft-spoken and well-mannered, he is a softie. Khrushchev does not know the cold, steely anger

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"A study recently made * in Chicago of the main causes of dependency is revealing. That city, which spends $16.5 million monthly to support 282.000 relief recipients, found that the basic reason is illiteracy. More than half the aid recipients te.sted in connection witli the .study could not meet reading an<l vocabiilary achieveiuent levels of filth grade puplJ.s. Under this lian-dicap they were unable to find employment to make them i^lycs self-supporting. Roanoke (Va ) Times.

By ELMER ROESSNER The spiff may be on the way out.

The National Retail Furniture Association, meeting in Roanoke, Va.. came out firmly against sub-rose handouts to floor salesmriiion bedding and other specialties in hard good items.

It was talking about spiffs, push-money payments or PMs trade terms for premiums by manufacturers or' retailers to salesmen who pushed . or sold certain Items, usually items overpriced or slow-moving. *

It Is curious that today I am writing about spiffs. I might have gone hungry as a child if my father, a shoe salesman, had not been skillful in augmenting his Income by earning spiffs or PM's. I recalled, as a child, his story of fitting a country customer with a pair of out-ragcou.sly fancy shoes. The customer wa.s a IjU .susplciou.s of trimming on the .shoes.

Thats a spiff .style, my father said earnestly. Tliats a genuine spiff I

Imprcssd, t h e customer

bought the pair and dad increased his weekly earnings from $22 to $22.50. That Sunday we had chicken.

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Spiffs, push-money payments, PMs and sub-rose handouts have long persisted in merchandising. Push the hash, rest-auranteurs have urged waitresses, offering a dime for every dish sold. Theres a $1 PM on every pair of lavender slacks sold today, retailers have told salesmen.

The premiund-s began with individual merchandisers, willing to split profits with salesmen who would or could sell slow-moving merchandise.

Then manufacturers moved in. They began offering retail salesmen commissions for each sale of their product at retail. This has been most common among bedding manufacturers. Many makers offer a.s much as $2 to .sale.sinen who clo.se deals for their braiid. It has also spread Into furniture and into electric coinponen'ii.

A friend found himself unable to buy the brand of electric equipment ha wanted: the sales

man Insisted he take another br^d. The second brand was inferior and cost more; the friend deduced that it carried a fat spiff.

At first, retaers liked this Piish-money idea. Manufacturers seemed to be paying part of* their employees salailes. But recently they began to discover that the salesmen were working for the manufacturers instead of themselves, while they were still paying wages and Social Security taxes.

^ISE IN PROTESTS ' In the last few years, an increasing number of merchants have been protesting p u s h-money dealR- Some have announced they will not handle lines of manufacturers that bribed salesmen. But protests have been mild until the NRFA exploded at Roanoke. While it referred only to ^bedding and other .speclaltie.s." the statement reflected dealers atlltuU-e.i on all pu.sh-money deals.

The significant point of all thl.s Is that the Federal Trade Commission, which has approached the push-money issue with considerable caution, now

has a green light from Industry itself. It can charge into this field, Interdicting push-money offers by manufacturers and retailers both, knowing that it has Industry, as well as legal, support.

The spiff, which meant chicken for me as a child, may be on the way out as a tool in American merchandising.

SALESMAN WHO WON ^LINCOLN TAXED ON $3,900, INCOME

The problem of Larry McCoy was posed here the other day. McCoy won a $4,500 auto, drove it 10 days, and turned it in on a $2,600 station wagon, getting $1,000 to boot. McCoy said he owed Income taxes on $3.600; the Internal Revenue Service said on $4.500.

The Tax Court's decisicm: McCoy owed taxes on $3,900. His income was a car priced at $4.-.500, But since he could not Si'll It at that price, tiie court held that $3,900 would have been a fair resale price when new. What happened after that was McCoys own doing. (McCoy 38 TC N a i