Friday, March 1. 1963

Right Step In Bolstering SHP

North Carolina must have additional men on in North Carolina, they should aim for the more its Highway Patrol if that organization is to gen- realistic figure of 100 additional patrolmen, erate the calibre of highway safety that is expected To be sure, that number of new patrolmen will

of it by citizens of the state. cost the state considerable money. That additional

A step in the right direction has been taken number of patrolmen will increase th^ likelihood in the budget recommendation w'hich Calls for 20 that traffic violators will be apprehended. That additional patrolmen to bej, added to the present additional number of patrolmen will, at the same force. This step, howevejf, is much too small and time, increase the effectiveness of the patrols much too timid to provide what is needed in North accident prevention program and make '"North Carolir^a. Carolinas roads safer for every man, woman anJ

The proposal submitted this week to increase child.

the number of highw^ay patrolmen by 100 is far The addition of 100 new patrolmen wiW be ex-

more realistic in the light of state needs. pensive. But how can the dollars and cents cost be

There is no escaping the fact that the work of compared with the toll in lives, limbs and property the Highway Patrol is the largest single factor in that is no w^being taken on our highways because helping to create in North Carolina an acceptable the Highway Patrol lacks the manpower to ade-highway safety program. There is no escaping quately do the job expected of it? the fact that the Highway Patrol at present is seriously undermanned to do the job that is expected n. x ^ _ j

of it. If the Patrol is to continue to shoulder the 1; iQLIlIllXly primary responsibility for improving safety on

North Carolinas highways, Tt should given T

sufficient manpower with which to cope with the JOxliXly D XXx problem.

If the legislature sees fit to authorize the Announcement that another nevy manufactur-addition of onlv 26 men to the existing Highwav ing firm is locating in Farmville is good news for Patrol force, it will leave this agency seriouslv that community and forPittCountyasawhole.lt handicapped becau.se of the lack of manpower. If* represents another step in boosting the economic on the other haSd, legislators are intent on taking situation for Farmville, and that in turn will help a determined step toward increasing highway safety the economic situation in Pitt County as a

whole.

In recent years citizens of Farmville have carried out a vigorous effort to develop and diversifv their local economy by attracting new manufacturing firms to their community. Their efforts have paid off handsomely for the community in terms of new facilities, new jobs and new payrolls.

The addition of a textile plant of the firm of Collins and Aikman will further diversify Farm-delay was accomplished, villes industrial family and it will initially increa.se Strongs bill, which he had manufacturing employment in the community by

140 jobs when the new plant begins operations late this year. The addition of this new industrial payroll will be an important asset to Farmville as will the higher level of economic activity which always accompanies the development of a new industrial facility.

Industrialization and economic growth which

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Maybe Hes Got A Point!

And Work Industry

Gavin Patches

Ud GOP Snlit

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By WnXIAM A. SHIRES

GOPState Republican chairman Robert Gavin of Sanford, himself the subject of dispute within party ranks, worked hard to patch up the most recent rift in the GOPs legislative delegation.

And Gavin's efforts met successas much as could be hoped considering the circumstances.

A compromise on timing of

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been carrying in his pocket for two weeks, did not come in on Friday.

The story that was circulated was that Strong forgot the Assembly convenes at 10 a.m. on Fridays instead of at noon and that by the time he reached the legislative building the Sen-

^ThU^delw^Tve'the Repub- Farmville in recent years did not

licans a full weekend to try to happen just by chance. It has been brought about

By HAL BOYLE

tages mine Home

ft bill or bills to repeal the

sales tax on food was reached, work things out. But Strong through careful planning and diligent work on the

Basic unity on the Issue-a key could nrt be awa^^ pa,t of the community and its leaders. In its success-

finaUy sent up his bill, the Re- efforts to attract new industries, Farmville con-publican legislative leadership tinues to set an excellent example which other

issued a statement saying that communities throughout Eastern Nt>rth Carolina

pointing the state Republican political planwas preserved.

There is a tendency to magnify differences among the small, 23-member Republican Contingent. This is why Gavin was 80 concerned, kuowlng that basic unity was far more import-ftnt than timing.

The effect, apparently, was merely that most of the Republican legislators were miffed at their freshman colleague, Sen. Charles W. Strong of Guilford County.

STRONGStrong sent up his food tax repeal bill Monday night and, in effect, did it alone.

Strong felt he was committed and pledged to do It when he did-and without waiting. Ac-

the overwhelming majority of GOP legislators felt it was premature.

The statement was signed by minority leader William Osteen, caucus chairman Dan Simpson and GOP senate leader T. E, Story, It said that while many members of the Republican delegate on feel strongly that the sales tax on food must be repealed it is the opinion of the Republican deiegatirai that fiscal stability demands further budget hearings and study to determine whether repeal of the food tax, alone, is enough. REASONS-Behind this is the

might well follow.

Normalcy With A Bleak Outlook

NEW YORK (AP)-A house is a place w'here you can count on it that you are sure to run out of something you need.

Every home, be it hovel or palace, has a lack.

The mountains of real loss that confront us sometime during our existence are inescapable. These we take with a gasp. The splendor of our ordinary is made extraordinary by a disappearance. and we close ranks and go on. That is all we can do. We accept the major inevitable.

But it is the minor inevitabilities that rub us raw, the small dooms that we feel we could have avoided by proper planning.

We live on the frontier of an amazing plenty, but it seems to

be our fate that we always nin short of essential items.

I dons know' how your household is, but Ill tell you how my household is.

We dont miss mink coats, yachts, and diamonds. These we can get along wlthout^tldily.

It is the things we can afford that we dont have.

For example, our home is chronically short of bathroom tissue, shoelaces, light bulbs, aspirin, soda water and canned chicken noodle soup.

Year after year I have had to face these shortages. We live across the street from a supermarket w'hich stocks some 30,-000 items.

Yet w'hen a light bulb bums out we have none to replace it. there is never enough soda wa-

tually, Strwigs Introducing the fact that the Republicanson

bill had been staved off for a week by behind-the-scenes maneuvering.

Strong, a minister, held fast on grounds that he has deep personal feelings on the issue. Gavin. In a telephone call to Strong,^ told him finally go ahead if you feel you have to do It.

EVENTSWhat had happen- ed was this.

On Thursday night, GOP legislators had agreed in caucus to wait about Introducing a food tax repeal bill and perhaps combine it with an alternate revenue-producing plan such as a tobacco and liquor tax.

They discussed whether repeal alone would not be con-eidered a negative approach.

On the same night, however. Strong was making a speech In the Piedmont in which he promised flatly to introduce the bill the next day. Applause and other favorable reaction to this promise .convinced him the time was right.

He returned to Raleigh determined and resolute. His Republican cohorts, however, were aghast at the headlines on Strongs promise to Introduce the bill immediately.

DELAY Somehow further

the advice of Gavin and others are seeking to peg their legislative prt^ram on a positive side.

They have been courting sqpie of the principal figures in a field presumably far enough removed from state government to be reasonably free from partisan politics, yet important enough to be a prime matter of public interesthagh-er education.

One of these leaders is William C. Pilday, president of the Consolidated University. Republican legislators have promised Friday that they will support the greater part if not all of the higher education program and they want credit for this along with certain specific fringe items.

For example, the Republicans have told FMday they want to introduce and sponsor legislation for an adult guidance program through auspices and facilities of the University. Such a program and others that the GOP may choose to sponsor will cost money.

And this is the main reason the GOP bloc did not want to leap Into tax-cutting so quickly and so suddenly as to appear wishy-washy later on.

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) Dismay and disarray.

Those two words paint ft world which all in a few weeks changed from cheery to bleary. What looked nice turned to ice. Peace became as slippery as grease.

Talk-big, hot, critical, nagging, and some of it just bombast-compounded the human predicament which for a short time, as it turned out, had seemed as quiet as a lily pad on a mill pond in the evening.

It was only a few weeks ago after Premier Khrushchev had meekly pocketed his Cuban missiles and shut his lipthat even President Kennedy was moved to think things might be getting better.

Then French President de Gaulle threw a match in the gasoline can.

To show' he looked upon the British almost as intiiiders in Europe, he called them Anglo-

partisan foreign policy as they understood It.

The Red Chinese had been nagging their Russian friends for talking peaceful coexistence and the Russians nagged them for being reactiwi arles for not wanting It.

Western eyes got big w'ith a luminous look; They envisioned a kind of Communist earthquake w'hich would split the Communist world. The eyes clouded, however, wherf^ Khrushchev fell all over the Chinese ambassador at a party.

The Chinese, who could recognize soft soap when they smelled it, nagged harder than ever. And two days later, with almo.st strident criticism, they showed they were not mollified at all.

Right at this point Khrushchev announced Russia W'ould defend Red China from attack. This must have astonished the Chinese since nobody had been attacking them or even talk-

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ive international club called the Common Market,

And, If this wasnt enough to up^t the alliance, he snubbed the United States by turning dowm Kennedys still vague plan for some kind of NATO pool of nuclear weapons.

_ The British promptly criticized him. So did the Unlt^ States. And, as if things werent fouled up enough, the United States criticized Canada, which had been minding its ow-n business, for not using U. S. nuclear w'eapons.

The Canadians criticized back. And in England, meanwhile, Prime Minister Macmillan was being criticized for accepting Kennedys offer of Polaris missiles instead of Sky-boli missUes which Americans now' said werent as good.

Dismay swept Congress when it began to realize Khrushchev was playing w'ith a marked deck. He had pulled his missiles out of Cuba but not thousands of Soviet troops. So. it ,turned out, he wasnt being so meek after all.

Republicans in Congress criticized Kennedys foreign policy. Democrats in Congress criticized Republicans for criticizing Kennedy which, they said, was certainly contrary to bi-

Meanwhile Khrushchev had set the Americans to biting at one another by suddenly promising to remove some of his troops in Cuba but not all. He didnt have to be a magician to figure what came next: Demands in this country that Kennedy get the Russians out of Cuba although how he could do it without getting into war with Russia is something no one has explained yet.

While all this got the kettle boiling like in the olden days of a few months ago, two planes, which the United States said had come from Cuba, attacked a shrimp boat between this country and Cuba. FTdel Castro denied the charge.

The boat was unmarked and unhit and the two-man crew' w'as uninjured. But some members of Congress called for hot pursuit the next time it happened although they didnt know how or why it happened the first time. _

Americans were still nursing their feelings over this escapade when Soviet Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky although why he butted in isnt clearannounced an American attack on Cuba meant war with Russia.

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TO THE EDITOR:

In view' of the recent statements made to the press by North Carolina Young Democrat Chairman, Dave Reid, the East Carolina College Young Republicans Club feels it must issue a truthful response. Here in the stronghold of one party politics, and Mr. Reids hometown, the ECCYRs have had an increase in membership of 874 percent in the past year.

Mr. Reid reveals that he has been w'ell schooled by his State Democratic Party hacks W'ho dictate every move to the YDC. He has resorted to smear tactics (the oply ai-ea in political activity where the North Carolina Democratic Party truly excels to quench his (irst for publicity in his first big political job. The smear tactic employed is that of tiTing to establish a John Birch Society affiliation within the North Carolina Federation of Young Republicans, neither one of which he admittedly knows anything about. His reason for relating the two is the recent election of a NON-Birch Society member to prominent statewide office in the California YR organization. His statement that it has been clear for several years that the extreme right wing of the Republican Party, led by the John Birch Society, is making a bold attempt to grab control of the GOP. is neither founded on fact, nor does it contain any degree of accuracy. We hasten to add that it is already an established fact that the ADA in all its socialistic splendor has already captured control of the Democratic paity. and that The Liberal Papers have become platfoiTn and adopted policy a.s far as many of his own following are concerned. Mr. Reid fails to mention that shortly after the election of a NON-

Birch member to office in California, a prominent labor official was elected to head another and more influential statewride organization.

it is hoped that Mr. Reid himself is not disillusioned to the point that he plans to be trampled in the mad rush of YRs to the YDS. And, if that mad rush should materialize into a reality, we tnily hope'^that he will have a proper reception committee composed of his prominent bedfellows to wit: Soapy Williams, Walter Reuther, Walter Heller, Joseph Raugh, Hubert Humphrey, and other prominent members of the ADA together with Bert Bennett, Adam Clayton Powell, Norman Thomas, all the Kennedys and their in-law's plus as many other prominent members of the Socialist-Labor Party (now flying the banner of the Democratic Party that can be assembled. Such a group would be fitting and proper for the reception committee.

No, Mr. Reid, it is truly you W'ho iis disillusioned. Among the ranks of the Young GOP of this State you will not find one W'ho is anxious to desert the following of such great American ^triots and Repub-licaiis as Dwight Eisenhower, Barry Goldwater, Walter Judd, Everett Dirksen, Charles Hal-leck, Kenneth Keating, Charles Jonas, James T. BroyhlU, George Romney, William Scranton. Bill Osteen and Dan Simpson.

To quinch your insatiable thirst for publicity during your tenure of office, we direct you to other grounds with which you are more familiar, namely the North Carolina Young Democrats. * * "

The Executive Board Ea.st Carolina College YRC Roy L. Morris, Chairman

ter in the refrigerator, and there is rerely a can of chicken noodle soup. On the other hand, half a dozen cans of beef and vegetable soup always adorn the shelves.

L,spent five years with the U S Army on three continents avoiding canned beef and vegetable stew, I frigidly inform my wife. Prances. And I'd rather die now than eat a can of beef and vegetable soup

Oh, go ahead and die then. she says placidly. *Tm on the way to the laundromat, and can't be bothered with you now."

Once I got so irritated over the problem of broken shoelaces that I bought a dozen black pairs. Sure enough, the very next morning I snapped a shoelace. It was browm.

One of these days I am going to go across the street and bring back 1,000 rolls of bathroom tissue. 875 light bulbs, 45 cases of soda water. 112 bottles of aspirin. and hundreds and hundreds of cans of chicken noodle soup.

One of these days. . ,

Opinions in Brief

The mealy-mouthed ta.'-te-le.si; prose of the di.sarinament spoke.smen has a dreary .sameness that drains public inter^ est aw'ay; and at the same time, the monotony has concealed a steady .S. willing-ne.ss to surrender to unreasonable concessions. Richmond News Leader.

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN Copyright, 1963, King Features Syndicate. Inc.

Reading through a mass'of manuscripts last week as mie of ie judges for sports editor Irving Marshs annual selection of the Best Sports Stories of the Year, I was struck by a single ugly theme that kept recurring. The theme was that of the growth of a shameless spirit of savagery In our sports contests.

It wasnt merely a matter of the prlzef^ game, though there wer^ number of stories bearing on the mercUess clobbering that resulted in the death of the Cuban boxer, Benny Pa-ret. The growth of a vicious, calculated spirit of savagery, often with Intent to malm, evidently is being extended to baseball. the race track, and even to college football. For the first time in years certain of the stories submitted in Mr. Marsh's contest made for some dlsheaiV ening and dismaying reading.

The evidence of collegiate football mayhem Involving boys W'ho are supposed to play for the fun of the game was probably the most frightening thing to contemplate. Some of the coaches complain about the growth of the hard-nosed spirit in football, but there are other.s, apparently, w'ho deliberately encouraged it. The result is the tackle deliberately intended not merely to bring the ball carrier down but to maim him and put him out of the game. Films of games have shown tacklers .senselessly veering off course to land on ball carriers who are already lying flat on their backs out of bounds, sometimes with an elbow being planted in the relaxed carrier's face with fores enough to shatter the cheekbone.

The growth of such wholly unnecessary tackling, though it is excused by coaches as the pi-oduct of over-excitemei.T has bt*en too steady to bo regarded as accidental. Obviouslv it is the result of hard-nosed doctrine which does not frown upon the use of such tactics as the "bull block, the trade name for using the new plastic helmet as a battering ram

In professional baseball the spirit of savagery is evidently being cultivated by managers and even club owners who know that the way to pull down a front-running winner Is to maim a couple of stars. The duster derby has. according to some becbnTe

Any community which has industries to keep young people gainfully employed is a thriving and growing community. Taney County (Mo.) Republican.

With the kind of eloquent evidence of Cuban danger that Caracas can present before its neighbors, it is time the foreign ministers of OAS were asked once more for action. Christian Science Monitor.

We subscribe to the belief that freedom is a gift of God and not a political grant. We believe that freedom is corsis-tent only with Christianity. We believe that our welfare shall depend on our own initiative and ability, we believe in maintaining a society In which the citizen nas fullest individual freedom and the * governments primary and paramount role Is the protection of that freedom. Pecos (Tex.) Independent,

Tlmpires, beebrhe common thing, with the managers of two feuding teams instructing- pitchers to become head - hunters* as a matter of deliberate policy. First baseman Ernie Bank.s of Chicago has openly accused the San Francisco Giants of attempting to put him out'of baseball for good. Players speak of the .shooting gallery era i i baseball. The umpires, who knoM what i.s going on. slap S.50 fin- ^ on recognized spot control pitcb ers who suddenly go wild and cant seem to put the ball anv place but ju.st in back of the batter s head.

As Dizzy Df'an, the old-time St. Louis Cardinal pitcher, t-plains it. the best beaner aimed like you lead a dnci, only backward. The d u c ' dives back, right into the pitch.

The managers excuse themselves for ordering the bean ball on grounds that they piust retaliate in order to pf-otec* their own players. But the retaliation never seems to end. Feuds are created, and one of the.se days a batter is going lo be killed in spite of his protective helmet.

Among the race track stories submitted in Mr. Marshs con-_ test there was the one about the Panamanian jockey. Carlos Man uel de Ycaza. A polite, orderly fellow when he Is not on a horse. Ycaza has been suspended for a total of 403 racing days since his track debut in 1955. Ycaza has gone dowm in several pile-ups that might have killed him or someone else, and has had suspensions for roughness that have cost him an estimated $150,000 in fees.

Roughness, of course, is a byproduct of the will-to-win, which is not a deplorable thing in itself. But when a spirit of calculated ferocity that is carele.ss of life and limb spreads from sport to sport, it may be evidence that something evil is happening to a whole civilization. The progressive brutalization of the sports world may b a reflex of a wider callousness, (Continued on Pag* 5)

business More Perky In March

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS all in the will-pow'er. If we al-PEACE OF HEART low' ourselves to do so we can

There is no gift people seek easily sink into irritability, frus-after more ardently than the tration, and near hysteria. A gift of peace. sharp action of the will can

We are trying by evei-y known bring us to a realization of the politiqal means to bring peace absurdity of what is going on. among nat uns. Whether we Agahi peace of heart arises from shall succeed or not depends a quiet conscience. If one knows upon a multitude of circumstanc- that he is doing wrong or if es over which we have but lit- there is wrwig in the past which tie control. has not been faced and correct-

Peace of heart and mind for ed. then peace is sought af-the individual, however, is ter in vain. Nothing can stir something quite different. Peo- the emotions more -deeply or pie probably sought such peace render peace more impossible a thousand or two - thousand than a sense of *6Ullt, years ago. and from the writings Religious faith is the greatest of ancient ph losophers it ap- source of peace. When people pears that many.in those times* have faith, they have indeed achieved a peaceful state oj within them a well of water mind and heart. And always the springing up into everlasting condltton has appeared to have lilt.

the same origin and the same Peace is one of mans great-pattera of development. est achievements, and one of

Peace of heart arises first ol Cods greatest gilts.

By ELMER ROESSNER Business will be a little more perky in March.

The weather, which has held back activity more than usual in February, will improve. Christmas charge accounts, largely paid off, will allow consumers more spending room. With Easter on April 14, a week earlier than last years spring buying will start in mid-March.

Following the trend of recent years. Increased (efforts will be made to make men more fashion conscious. For many men, last years raiment simply wont do.

However, among the women, sales may be a bit disappoints ing. The Paris fashlon-setters are not united and many of the styles are play-backs of 1962. However, because the country was in an off period a year ago, total volume may be satisfactorily higher.

MORE AND MORE AUTOS The unusually high demand for new cars shows no signs of abatement. This year, 2.7 bil-Uoa young obes will become 18

and, for the first time, more than 3 million will become 17. Since owning a car has become a coming-of-age symbol in the United States, this will further Increase the demand for used cars, thereby insuring high trade-in values for their fathers, And high trade values swell sales.

Sales of boats and equipment, which have been rising steadily in recent years, will resume the rise again in March. The in-creaseingnumber of older teens is buoying this market also and boat ownership is becom ng more and more a status symbol fiUbong their elders.

I Sales of boats may run 10 per cent above last year. The accessory market is growing even faster and scores .of new gad-geth are being put on the market every month. In March and April, the numbers will run into the hundreds. Cookery at sea is getting considerable attention and the outdoor cooking industry. which saw nowhere to go a few years ago, has found a new. expanding market. FASHIONS ALL AT S^A

The fashion Industry has rediscovered boating,*" too. The yachts of the mllll(xialres, in days before high taxes, were settings for special fashions. But the industry, having lost that hlgh-fashion business, has found the American family Robinson an even richer market. Spring and summer fashions have already hit the market pud interest Will grow during Marqh, April and May.

Whole commodity prices, have just been sitting there for several years, may begin a long, slow upward movement in March. Labor and transportation costs have been rising and it is inevitable that commodities will be effective. However, since inventory positions are fairly strong, the price increases 'will be moderate. The first Increases will be in metals.

Attacks on President Kennedys tax reform proposals will intensify in March. His proposal to put a floor under deductions has already evoked so much opposition that it appears to be doomed. During March other proposals will comt un

der fire and by the time it comes to a vote In the House and the Senate, tax reform will be a mangy cat.

YES. BUT IT IS WORTH THE COST?

New York, Denver and Cincinnati have the highest debt burden per capita of all citiea of 300,000 population and more, according to the 1963 editkm of Moodys Munlclpate & Oovem-ments. New Yorkers owe $42 per capita; Denverites, $460 and Cincinnatians $450.

Next are Phlladdpbla, $339; Baltimore. $333, and San Francisco. $330. At the other end, Omaha has the lowest, $58; Seattle, $77 and Chicago, $79.

TAX INFORMERS MAKE $587,000 IN A YEAR The Internal Revenue Service paid $587,000 .to tax informers in the year ended last June 80, according to Commerce Clearing House. On the basis of the information, the Treasury got $13 .6 million in additional taxes. The 665 Informers got an average of $883.

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