Mofidaf, April 1, 1963

Progress Without

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Gov. Sanford hait put the mattercdof a state highway bond issue into, proper prospective by asserting that North Carolina does not need a bond issue of |200 million to move forward >vith its highway construction. '

If the bond issue is not absolutely necessary and we are^f the opinion it is notft should not be undertaken by the stale.

Through a sound pay-as-we-go program North Carolina can add to its highway system and make necessary improvements at a rather rapid pace. Such,a program would mean that instead of putting some $170 million into interest payments on bond-j, the state would have this 'amount to use for additional construction work. And it is a considerable amount.

It has been pointed out previously by highway officials that one of the major problems now facing the state is revenue with which to keep the states highway maintenance program at a sufficiently high level. It would be foolish for the state to launch a bond program to add to the system if it.is not assured of sufficient revenue to properly maintain the existing system as well as.^ the new additions which would be made to the system.

By eliminating diversions of highway revenues to other .state uses. North Carolina in the past two years has been able to increase the amount of mon^y annually available for highway construction. If other diversions of highway funds can be eliminated even more money will be available on an annual basis for road con.struction. '

If North Carolina is financially able now to fund a bond issue of some $200 million'for highway

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Speaker Choice Delays Decision

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

INVITEIndecision which re-, pottedly Is holding up plans for formal dedication of the new State Legislative Building involves the matter of a speaker specifically whether to invite the President of the United States.

There Is a difference of opinion ,among legislative leaders . aboilt it.

It already may be too late to invite, and secure the President for the occasion.

President Kennedy has ac-^ cepted an invitation to speak 1 in fiashvUIc, Tenn., and pos^slbly Oak Rldfe, Tenn., on May 18 w'hlch'is at least the approximate dSte of the State House dedication in Raleigh.

UNLIKELYIt i Is unlikely that two such ipeaking trips could be fitted .>mto the presidents busy schedule in the same week or month."'

Nevertheless, some legislators and state officials feel that if an Invitation was extended promptly the president might be able to make a Raleigh .stop on his already-announced trip to the neighboring .state.

Mention of this possibility may be made to vice president *L.vndon B. Johnson this weekend when Johnson attends the annual Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner at Raleigh.

DISAGREELegislative leadens and othens are at odds, however, over this Idea to invite the president and over certain other details of the formal dedication program.

About all that has been agreed upon Is that it must be held before the General Assembly adjourns, and that it should be an affair that will be the highlight of the 1963 session.

But thus far even a definite date has been agreeo upon.-

There Is difference of opinion over whether the affair should be a simple one. or with elaborate celebration.

SIMPLE One Mghly-placed source says mo.st legislators want it to be as simple a.s possible, and feel It i.s not nece.s-sary to Invite a nationally prominent speaker at ail.

The plan advanced by this group would include a brief, fairly simple ceremony in a joint session In which the Legislative Building Commissioii would turn over the new $6.5 million State House to the .state

of North Carolina.

There would be a, party or reception, with tea intf cakes, to the basement of the building to which everyone who had a part to constructing the building from stonemasons to carpet layiswould be invited.

DEBATED Suggestion.s

about other more elaborate plans are being debated privately.

One is .that Commerce Sec-' retary Luther H. Hodges, wl was governor when the Building Commission was established, be Invited to speak. Another which legislative leaders are resisting, is that the formal dedication be tied In with the Carolina Charter Tercentenary cele-brfion in some way.

SOONThere Ls pressure now for legislative leaders to reach a decision soon on planning the program for the dedication, and deciding upon a definite date.

Until thLs is done and announced, speculation will continue about the matter of a speaker and the oppo.'iing views on how the affair should be conduced.

The thinking in legislative circles now is that in planning the dedication it would be more in keeping with the expre.ss legl.s-lative function of the building to keep the General Assembly it-.self In the limelight.

DATES Secretary Hodges will be the principal speaker in High Point April 15 when that bustling Piedmont city accepts Us award as an all-American city for 1963

Announcement of the High Point award, which Salisbiny received last year, was made thl.s week. Hl?h Points award was based on its downtown development program, in the iri-ilal stages of urban redevelopment. and for wholesome l ace relations. ^

U.S. Attorney Gcji. Robert Kennedy will be a speaker in A.sheville May 17 at a regional conference of the governors committee on national purpose. This is the day before the presidents visit to NashJ illt and Oak Ridge, across the mountains In Tennessee.

State Insurance", commissioner Ed Lanier has switched the date of a public hearing on proposed revisions of the Safe Driver Reward Plan from April 15 to April 29 In Raleigh.

A Bond Issue

needs, it should be. financially able to put into construction annually the millions 'which wot^ b re-^ quired to amortize such a bond issue. <

In terms of getting the most highway construction for each dollar, the state would be wise to follow a pay-as-we-go highway construction program rather than, a bond program. The needs can be met without d bond issue," and this factor alone makes the bond'program unwise. ^ .

Speed Laws Value To

Hinge On Application

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North Carolinas new law setting the legal speed limit at 65 on some highways will be good or bad for the state, depending upon the wisdom exercised in implementing this new law.

The measure permits the State Highway Commission to increase to 65 miles per hour the speed limit on interstate routes and other four-lane highways. It also gives the Commissior^#uthority ,to increase the legal speed limit to 65 on any other highway if certain conditions are met following engineering studies. .

We trust those responsible 'for designating which highways will be accorded the new higher ^speed limit will give the matter^a r e f u 1 and 'thorough consideration. There are many sections^ f four-lane highways in the state which should noCbe allowed the higher speed limit because of congested conditions and other factors. Certainly there are few ^ecions of highway outside the four-lane category "whi.ch appear to qualify for the 65 mile ner hour speeS limit.

Aside from the importance of care in designating Ihe^ highways on which the new" speed limit will be effettive, it is also important that greater attention! be given to keeping motorists within the lower limits on highways that do not qualify for the 65 maximum.

tn itself, the measure passed by the legislature should not, contribute to greater highway "hazards. Tf the hew law" i.s improperly implemented, however, the result can be a serious increase in nighway traffic hazards in North Carolina.

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By RALPH ROBEY

President Kennedy, in a press conierence a lew days ago, was askd about his use of the argument of a pos.sib!e recession if the Congress docs not pass his tax bill. His reply was that he now sees no danger of such a downtum because the business .stati.stics are "more encouraging" than they were in January. The President did not take the time to cite specific examples of this improvement, but there are quite a few that he might have mentioned. Of most Importance, howcvet. i.s the swing in the Cliiei Exieii-tives views.

I.ast fall there was general agreement that we probably would Ijave a recession starling .sometime this year. Then, for reas-ons which have never been entirely clear, there was a sudden and almost complete shift. The result was that nearlv everyone started .aying that this would be a good business \ear. It may be that the belief. we w'ould ha\c a tax reduciion was responsible in a major way for this change of outlook. At least in one survey amon private economists an even fifty percent .said we would have such tax action by the middle of 19fi3.

In general this moderate optimism has continued, not only among private economists but with eovernrnent analvst'; as well. Whether there still is as wide confidence in tax reduction effective- the middle of the year is an open question. We were never amone those who thought action could come that early, and we still are of that opinion. We think there will be a tax bill this year, but that any and all reductions will be made effective not earlier than January 19frt. And we are firmly convinced that jhe b U 1 which passp.s will not be the President's program. We hope it will be the Hcrlong - Baker proposal, or at least something close to that. There is enormous sentiment for this pjkicu-lar rate - reform bill, ibyf tf everyone works hard it snbuld be possible to get the Congress to pa.ss it. *

_ Now as to some of the favorable developnmnt.^ which the President might have cited, almost all of which refer to February as compered with the preceding month:

Personal income up $2 billion; housing starts in a sharp rebound: manufacturing, s a 1 e ,s, new orders and unfilled orders all up; retail sales at a record level; automobile production and sales continuing at an annual rate of 7\i miUioo; a mild

increase- in manufacturing inventories. and more expected in the second quaiter; business investment in plant and equipment for the year to be up 5 percent.

The one disturbing note is that seasonally adjusted industrial pi'Dduction has been unable so far to break out of iLs long stability. This is measured by the index of the Federal Re-serv'e Board, whlch uses 1957-.59 as equal to 100. Since June of last year this index has been between 119 and 120. In February it was 1)9.

Pc.'iident Kennedy was thoroughly cbrrect, therefore, in saying that business statistics are more cheeriul than they were in January. We still have many serious problems, and there is no indication of a sharp rise in the business trend. But there is less and less reason for anyone to forecast a recession starting in 1963.

ODinfoiis

n Brief

"Like it or not, the graduated income tax Is here to stay-It has a sini.'-ter past. It has been described as a tax system based on the fair proposition of ability to pay. But it was pro-Pased oi^ginally by Karl Marx in the Communist Manifesto as a tax for the redistribution of wealth. The Sanford Herald.

NEW YORK (API Britain's champion towm crier today foresaw little future for his art in this coimtry,

Everrthing to America is far more mechanised than in England. .said Herbert Waldron.

"Thats a big wound to us town criersmechanization. It has virtually destroyed us. Bert, an elfln-faced little man of 59 who is known as Whisper, is official towm crier of Great Torrington, a Devonshire textile center. He came here for a two-week visit to demonstrate his skill at a Paramus, N.^., shopptog center.

Looking somewhat like a

cross between a- robm and a blackbird in his 17th gentury costumecrimson vestj black top hat. black gloves, black frock coatWaldron said the medieval gloi-y of the town crier has fallen upon evil times.

"There are only about 100 of us left In all England and Wales. he remarked, "and it's now wily a part-time job.

Bert works as a machinist in a glove factory. The Town CouncU provides him with his uniform and pajs him $2.80 a week to go about the towm mak-^ing municipal announcements. Serving also as a kind of strolling television contunercial, he

Other Editors Saying... 6th Star For Gen. .Clay

Leadership of the Democratic party in the state .should make some statement on this denial of the publics right to know If its official attitude is not .Substantially different from Czar Whites, chance of Congressman Jona*. the Republican. becoming t.be next governor have gone up substantially With this secrecy business. Hertford County Herald.

"There are laws governing and protecting everything else, maybe it is time liow for a law protecting the people from the government. Florence (Ore I Siuslaw News.

TTie people who still believe American taxpayers billions can buy us friends would do w ell to consider the example of GodHe gives u.s everything, even life itself, but even He s not universally loved and respected W'ynne <Ark.) Progrts.

(Christian Science Monitor)

The text of the Clay committee report makes good reading. Anyone who is tempted to plunge directb' from the headlines into an argument over how large this years foreign aid budget should be. ought to submit himself to what the committee really said. Its text Is constructive, lucid, and surprisingly readable for a class of document that usually has a high component of sludge. The committee has done the citizen a seTvice. It explained itself. ^

The important thing now is to separate the committees proposals from the hatchetry in Congress that threatens this year's appropriation. The CHay report is aimed, for this year, not at Congress but primarily at AID. the foreign aid administration. Even with speed the suggested reforms will take.time to decree and carry out. They will proride some tidy savings in the years ahead starting with next year.

But right now. anyone like Representative Otto Passman who offers General Clay a sixth star for his shoulder in return for services to those who would sla.sh the appropriation by nearly half this year, is simply missing the point. That is not what the Cly group Intended or said.

Some cuts in the administrations request have always been expected. The exact amount ought to wait for the President's message later this week. General Clays appearance on the Hill, and the resulting debate.

Meantime the committee deserves a special sort of congrat-ulatiOTi. It contahis a group of men whose positions and inclin- ation would rank them a.5 oOn-probably in their general out-seiw'atives. certainly on a question like fwclgn aid and probably to their general out

look.. They and their colleagues have come up with a chaiter ior political and .social as well as economic reform both in United States foreign policy and for much of the underdeveloped world.

This newspaper believes that these refoiTns are not the kind that proceed from a left-wing Ideology. On the contrary. The most hard-headed econon^lc sense requires them, and the necessary political changes deal with abuses that any authentic American con.seiwative would consider beyond the paje. Nevertheless It must have required courage, and certainly the kind of intel^ence whiclT looked at the merits of the problem and was willing to leave ideological labels to one side, for these men to put their signatures to this document. ,

The country should be grateful to them. Even in the section requiring the maximum emphasis on free enterprise and the minimum financing of government enterprise by foreign aid. there was a highly Intelligent and supple discussion of the pros and c(s and no categorical * iwohibitions were laid dowm.

By the same token the more liberal cast of this report. |is c(xnpared with its iM'edecessor , by the Draper cwnmittee. is a tribute to totematimia lists on General Clay's committee who were not afraid to j^troduce hard efficiency into tn\opera-tion wjdch also depen^ for "Its effect 00 generosity. They also followed the path (rf totelnqer^., and found common eround wTSii the rest of the commifiee.

So the <3ty group went- into matters which the Draper committee, with its heav'y concern on the military side, paased This is a throughgoing revl^. a tribute to everyone concem-

pick.: up a few extra pennies shouting business messages anu news of bingo parties.

As Bert Ita.s the loudest voice and biggest town crier's 1^11 in England it wcigh.s 7'z poundsbe is al.so In sea.sonal demand by neighboring fanners who employ him to scare away crows.

Five times. Bert ha.s won the British town crier championship held annually at Hastings, where William the Conqueror landed in 1066. Each victory brought him $140.

The big problem is competition from the wind, the waves and the ti-affic.* he said.

"The judges are hidden. They judge you on diction, tone, volume, andabove allon correct Etoglish. No mumbling. It simply wont do.

"The letter aitch plays a big part. lif you drop too many aitches. you lose poinLs. I'm veiT bad there. But there s always more than wi ^ay of taking a pig to market.

Bert says the biggest public misconception about the town crier is that he begins his cry by saying. Hear ye. hear ye. hear yef Actually he calls out "Oyez, oyez, oyez! an old French demand for silence.

It takes Bert about two*hours to make the four-mil^ tour of hi.s home town during which he makes his cry some 50 times.

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''Years ago no doctor would pas.s an accident without helping the victim. Said to tell this courte.>y today is rare. But theres a lot to be said for the doctors dilemma. He wont help becau.se he fears a lawsuit -charging neglect or malpractice. ^us the victirp is neglected and the doctor maligned. Because these law-suits have gojien out of hand, 14 states have enacted so-called 'Good Samaritan laws to protect the doctor in such emergencie.s. King Ferry iN.Y.i Southern Cayuga Tribune. ?

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Atomic

Stress

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyrigm, 1963. King Features Syndicate. Inc.

Fifteen years ago, when he was head of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, anything that David Lilienthal bad to -say about the uses of the atom w as front-page stuff. Ten year* ago. ^ when he had left the government service to bees me a Wall Street man, Lilienthal could still command a big audience. 'His conversion jis a free lanes publicist to the idea that mtrit things could be safely left to private enterprise had a shock effect that was good for di-ama-tlc headlines to the early Nineteen Fifties.

Today, however. Lilienthal is like a tiKHisand other publicists: he has to be satisfied with casual notice. And 'so the three lectures which he recently delivered at Princeton. New Jersey, bearing on the current status of the atom, made no particular splash.

This is a shame, for what Lilienthal had to say at Princeton was informed with the sort of common sense that is ttl too uncommon. As to what might be caUed the "war hea 1 atom, Lilienthal attacked the "m.riho-logy of nuclear disarmament with refreshing reference to the history of the Nineteen Twenties and the Nineteen Thirties, when Britain and the United States were cutting back on battleships vls-a-vis Japan. What happened to the wake of this disarmament was that the Japanese got a relatively free hand to do what they liked on the mainland of Asia without fear of interruption from tlie naval might of the West. And Germany, using glider tratotog to produce a crop of young aviation enthusiasts, vulually created the Nazi Luftwaffe when the victorious World War I Aes, ^bent on creating a peaccRvl image, were permitting their own aviatiw programs to dwindle.

Spelling things out with reference to the world 1963. Lilienthal wonders just what sense it would make for either the U. S. or Soviet Russia to surrender an existing lead-time in the development of nuclear military power when de Gaulle's France is busy making atomic tests in tlie Sahara and when Red China is working covertly to explode her own pioneer atomic bomb.s. Disarmament by the top dogs, even vf it were possible to get an effective agreement, would simply hand the world over to the middle dogs, who would surely be just as intractable as Japan. Italy and Germany were some thirty years ago. Thus, as., long as Mao Tse-lung and dc Gaulle are acting on their own. Lilienthal thinks it -only official rhetoric' when either the Russian or the American government says it seriously hopes for major disannamenl in the future.

Coming to the peaceful atom Liilenthal thinks the time has come for the federal government to cea.se plowing millions into its promotion. T h e federal stockpiling of uranium, he .say.s. will be 1966 produce a surplus of a billion dollars w orth ^ of fissionable material over the amount needed for weapon.s. The effort to use up some of this potential fuel by creating atomic electric plants must inevitably be limited by the economics of the power industry, which has recently made vast strides in cutting the cost of kilowatts derived from the burning of coal. Though he is by no means an enemy of atomic power plants, Lilienthal largues that at the time and place the economics of power show manufacturers of equipment and the utility Industry, private an dpubllc, will supply that need without Government prob-bing.

What particularly . distresses the Lilienthal of 1963 Is that discoveries to such things as biology and chemistry languish as "two-thirds of our* research energies are absorbed by the atom and Its allied space and defense phograms. ' Oddly enough. Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, present head of the Atomic En-. ergy Commission, lent some unwitting support last week to Lilienthal's position. In a speech at Tacoma, Wash., Dr. Seaborg spoke of a dizzy future when nuctear-powgred rockets will be a commcmplaM In travel to the (Continued on Page 5)

More Look-Aheods For Business

Streng'tH For Today

By EARL L. DOUGI.AIS .

HOURS OF CRISIS '

How can we approach the crisis of life? Only by having in our hearts some quality which ,will keep up our courage, sharpen our perception, stimulate our resources, deepen our faith For when we come upon those ghastly situation* in life which threaten to overwhelm us. we need to remind ourselves that llK*se are primarily spiritual situations. They may appear to be d<tones-Rc, or ftoaiidal. or they may actually be physical as we worry over some symptom about-the serioufi>es8 of which the doctor cannot assure us wrlth confidence. Yet all such crises are spiritual situations They .have to be met and overcome by trfe reinforcing of our wouls with power !rom God Himself.

Ziicnds hfcip. Our oa n

powers must be used to the ut-mcLst. Yet to the end the crisis w;ill be resolved (imd triumph will be achieved only if the hand of God reaches down, touches us. does .something to our mind.s and souls^

Here is the message we need to ponder crtse.s arc primarily spiritual situations. Usually they arise a.s the result of.swric dislocation or disturbance to our spiritual lives But even when they arise as the result of some leas matters primanly spiritual to nature, <

Such situations are only to be handled by faith, by prayer, by dellly to the best we know. Let us be assured that to the'hour when we need divine help the nwrt. ft will be given us. <3od does not speak or act Until an appointed time but iHe al-w a^ s 'speaks and acts w hen that time

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By EIJHER ROESSNER Here are more look - aheada in business, based on analyset of developing trends:

New fold drop: The drain on American gold has not stopped. The next figures will show a further decline. The deficit for the (Biarter ending Sunday will be painful so much so that it will .stir demands that the United States restrict spending abroad by tourists and by servicemen. However, the Administration will resist, at least for a while.

SvbsidiziBf exports ta be arg* ed: Because of the loss of gold, the government is considering plans for subsidizing exports, w'hlcb would be a means of re-gatolng foreign gold. The General Agreement on Tariffii and Trade prohibits direct subsidies. But It seem* to permit tax ere dlt* on income earned from export*. which would do the trick-However, many Congreasmen would oppose suti a hidden subsidy.

LIVING EXPENSES TO RISE -iUgher cost of liyiagi: Despite ecoiRHnlsts protestations that the coasumefspik) index wili

decline,.the actual cost of living will rise in the next .few montos. Meat and ogier foodstuffs will drop to price, but the cost 0 prepared foods w'ill continue to rise. Autos, a big item on family budgets, will continu to go up. Other desirables will onttoue to increase to price to match higher wages wrought by unioD negotiatimis The only thing atm costing no more will be true love, and how did that statement creep to here?

SecSed - set market; The big gain to T sales IhM year may not be to color reddyera but in second sets. DemanV for smaller sets for playrod^, chUd-rens rooms, kitchem^and studies is rising. ThreatsW Japanese cotnpetliion in th^ markets. long ago cited b^, is gain to TV sales this yeaAmay causing American manulalrtur-ers to bring out smaller, cheaper sett. General Electric has shewn dcgiers aa li-incb set; Admiral is reported to be ready to unvgil one of the same size, and" severtl other manufactui-era are known to be working on desk and sink sizes.

DAY NEEDS HELP

New post legislation:

Cbngress wiU pro-poee pWieral subsidies for parcel post or drastic changes in the rate structure. Postmaster General J. Edward Day says the Pot Office cannot continue present rates without more losses. If there are no subsidies, he may ask C(mgress to set sustaining rates. Such rates may wipe out parcel post, turning the business over to the Railway Express Agency.

itehliide to Congress; In its ruling on the Schlude case, the Supreme Court held that advance payments, such as for dance lessons, were taxable on receipt. Because of. Its apparent unfairness (thats the way the law was written), new legislation may be Introduced deferring taxation until services are delivered.

Jute prices to rise: There has been a sharp decline to jute supplies and prices may rlae. However, plantings todicatf iMXBer fuf^lles later this year and price rises wiU be moderate.

CoatUer sugar: E agema In

evitable that the ri.sing price of sugar outside the United States wlU. have an effect on domestic prions. The govemment6'complicated system of having housewives support diplomatic strategies In the sugar - growing nations ha.s fouled up Blame Castro, not Kennedy and so often the case, families will pay the costs.

OLD PROMOTER PREDICTf CHANGES IN AUTOS Now that we are having our biggest year in autos, the Old Promoter announced on his visit today. I think you should hear out my predictions for 1964.

Since he had predicted this years auto boom, 1 listened.

There wiU be more stainless steel and leas chrwne. AfV.r IS ycara, people are beglnnfngi discover that chrome cracks and iteel underneath matt.

But Uwrt will bt nwwt glB^ cracitt than ever. Aznericang 0w running over with money, auto makers know It. and the 1W4 cars will have more extm than you can shake an extra at.* I'm afraid ha's right.