Wednesday, April 3, 1963

High Time For Safety Measures

North Carolina has held back too long in Inaugurating several traffic safety programs that are imperative if the state is to reduce th: toll in lives and property being taken on its highways.

Gov. Sanford has outlined before the General Assembly a program which constitutes a minimum of legislation that should be passed this session, There will not be overwhelming approval of all parts of the program outlined by Gov. Sanford, but each of the parts is a key to helping make the highway# of the state safer. If the legislature faces squarely the highway traffic problem that confronts the state, it can not avoid the conclusion that the programs called for by Gov. Sanford are sorely needed.

Mechanical inspection proposals have been rejected by each legislature since the repeal of the first mechanical inspection law a decade ago. It was a poorly administered piece of legislation and it left a bad taste in the mouth of most Tar Heels.

It is unreasonable to presume, however, that the state cannot have a new, sound, workable mechanical inspection law that will not inconvenience motor

^Road Bond Issue '.n Quicksands

When Can I Expect Your Check, Sanuny Baby?

By WILLIAM A. SHHIE8

BOND ISSUE A proposed

new $2M)0 million highway bond issue, a hot item less than a month ago, settled in leglsla-tive quicksand last week.

It Is doubtful that anyone can rescue it now.

Gov. Terry Sanford might have pulled it out. but instead the governor chose to push it deeper.

He called It unneceaaary and aid I believe we can meet the pressing needs of the peo-{de without bonds."

Chances appeared excellent a month ago that the administra-thm might choose to back the highway bond issue. It was being prescribed as a practical answer to crying mrmey problems faced by the State Highway Commiaslcm, at least for a whilewithout Increasing tax-CB.

Legislators were flocking In droves to sign the highway bond issue bill, and its sponsors poke confidently.

SILENCEWhat came next, however, was a strange, almost painful and embarrassing silence.

Pressed twice for an indlca-Hot 'of position ( ther proposed bond issue, highway chairman Merrill Evans refused to be pinned down. He backed and filled. Finally, Evans said he was not in favor of the bond issue bill in its present form."

No word came from the governors office. Sanford said he was studying it, and would make his position known later.

No public clamor for a highway bond issue materialised. Legislative support cooled and began falling away.

ATTACKThere were several fainting attacks and criticisms in bits and pieces, ma-neuvers designed largely to gauge reactlcxi.

Then the fronal attack on the bond issue bill before the Senate Roads committee came from Sen. Ralph H. Scott of Alamance.

**The people of North Carolina aren't going to buy this bUl." Scott thundered during a Roads committee meeting a few hours btfore Sanford apimed the administration coup de grace.

Scott left no doubt as to how he stood if, as chairman Irwin Belk had hoped, the commit' tee had voted at this meeting. It was also clear that Scott had <^er committee supporters, and not even the paclftdng and eompromlse amendments offered by the sponsor, Sen. Robert Morgan of Cleveland, appea^ ed to sway them.

SCOTTScott's voice in the Senate Is being recognised as one that speaks the mind of the Sanford administration on many Buch matters, and thhi was clear evidence at it.

The Alamance Senator has emerged as a mover and prime figure behind the admlnlstra-

tkms higher educatl(m program. He is credited with the bulk of behlnd-the-ociea work on nailing down House and Senate committee aiHProval of the controversial name-cbange secticms Just a week ata

Scott had been a subtle critic of the highway bond issue bill from the start, evidenced first by his questioning of State Treasurer Edwin Gill when Gill testified about poeslble financing^ of such a bond issue. Then, in an interview, Scott said flatly he is against a highway bond issue and would vote against it.

OPPOSE In committee, speaking on the set of five amendments, Scott said *Tm not trying to kill anything yet."

But he contended that the Morgan-Saunders bond Issue bill, based on GUIs plan, is going to bring us misery."

Scott asked that the bUl be rewrritten to include the amendments that had been drawn to meet obJiC^ns voiced by Evans, highwsp^i-dltfifitor W. P. Babcock and othereV^and tiius postponed a committee vote even on the amendments.

He claimed the formula-fUl-ed version containing the proposed tnedments was toe te-volved and confusing and the people wont vote for something they dont understand."

STUDYAt the same committee meeting, Scott made two other telling points cmc of which he had mentioned earlier and which the governor echoed in his formal statement later the same day.

This was a suggestion that the General Assembly authorize a study commission on highway financing in lieu of a bond issue this year.

Scott said such a study commission might take a "long range view" of the states highway needs and methods of financing. Sanford's statement said "I do think that we should be thinking about the future-studying needs, trends In construction costs. In maintenance costs, in urban requirements, and looking for ways to keep North Carolina in front of all the states In highways anc| roads. I hope the General As-emy wUl call for this studying and planning."

TAXThe other point Scott mentioned was this. He said a quarter-oent, half-cent or additional cent gasoline tax. whichever might be needed in addition to the one cent extra state gasoline tax now being coUect ed to pay off a 1949-51 secondary road bond issue, should be considered.

Sanford did not mention any additional gasoline tax, but said addltkmal sustaining highway revenue might be inrovided by further ending diversloni highway funds.

Thus no additional gasoline tax is likely this yearand now gasoline tax now being ooUect-

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vehicle owners and at the same time reduce sharply the number of mechanically defective vehicles on our highways.

It is high time North Carolina moved forward again in this direction to re(iuire periodic mechanical inspection of motor vehicles*

Another controversial proposal that-has been rejected by the legislature several times is the requirement for scientific tests for persons charged with driving under the influence of alcohol. When one considers the fact that one-third of all the states fatal highway accidents involves a drinking driver, it is evident that this requirement is of primary importance in the effort to make for safer highways. The legislature should not let two more years slip by without acting affirmatively to authorize such tests throughout the state.

More highway patrolmen, better training for young drivers, strengthening the states point system law for traffic regulation violators are all part (>f an overall program that could make the states highways much safer.

It remains for the legislature to say whether North Carolina will attack its highway accident problem aggressively by enacting laws to improve safety. The problem is evident on every hand, and the tools with which to cope with the problem are available if the legislature will act to put them to

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The legislature should see that these tools are put to work for the protection of the people who travel North Carolinas highways.

Migration Means A Costly Loss For N.C.

Migration of 328,000 people out of North Carolina during the decade of the 1950s represents the loss of valuable human resources primarily because of the lack of economic opportunities.

In an economic profile of the state, the Fifth District Federal Reserve Bank has pointed out that if births had not exceeded deaths during the decade, North Carolinas population would have dropped eight per cent instead of increase.

From many standpoints, the decades of the 50s brought significant progress to North Carolina. Particularly was this true in its economic development. In spite of the number of manufacturing and other jobs which were added in the state during the decade, they were not sufficient to prevent the migration of more than 328,000 people out of the state. In many areas of the state there is still an overabundance of labor in rural sections, and in all probability statistics on the decades of the 1960s will show that many persons left the state because of- lack of economic opportunity. -

Although more jobs are being created each month in North Carolina, it is a simple fact that the number of new jobs is not keeping pace with the number of workers available. Greater effo^f must be made by the state and its individual communities to create more economic activity, more jobs and more payrolls in order to meet the needs of the people.

North Carolinas loss of human resources during the decade of the 1950s represented the loss of incalculable productive potential that couldave been realized had sufficient economic-<?^poftunities been avaifeble in the state for those w'ho went to other areas.

3eware

By HAL BOYLE .

All Winter Rains Alike

NEW YORK (AP) - Every sunshiny day in summer is dlf-ierent, but in winter all rainy days are the same.

The rain begins during the night and drums city and country with billions ujx billions of nervous fingers. It seeks anything dry and tries to turn it wet.

The elderly feel its advance warning first in herald twinges of pain in foot and hip and wrist and hand, and they reach for the aspirin bottle as they realize they are in for another long siege of the rheumkUz."

The middle-aged hear the ratejmtter, drop fey drop,, upon the air conditioner outside, and turn over in bed and seek an extra half-hour nap after the alarm clock goes off.

Lulled as by a multitudinous surf of sound, the young sleep on and on. When they awake, they rush to the window to look out, and hurry through breakfast so they can imt on boots and go out and wade In alde-walk torrents.

Only the child and the farmer lo^ a wteteriate, and ttie fanner is too wise in the ways of the weather to be overly grateful.

Probably be a drought come

July," he says, scanning tht heavy sky.

Many a persmi gazes (mt at the chill, dripping landscape from home or hotel and is swept by the eternal Icmeliness of life. They feel old wounds again, old hurts of the spirit, past dismays of h(^.

Who'd buy anything In this weather except a duck and ducks doot have miey, muses the traveling salesman, and he stays in his motel nxn and turns on the radio and starts filling out his expense account.

The housewife decides she can do without going to the supennarket for a day and the department store bargains can wait until tOTiorrow, Bums, th|tr coat collars turned up. huddle b(H>ele88ly in the doorways of vacant stores, knowing few passers-by will pause to shell out a quarter of a rainy day. Pigeons, those aerial handout artists, share the same problemthey squat droop-feathered in overhead cornices.

Everybody thinks we get rich when it rains. grumbles the cab driver sourly. ActtnUJy, we make less. Business falls off. Nobody with any sense goes out in the rain."

A damp stray dog with no

(me to love it sniffs f(N*lonily at a covered garbage pail, then it pauses at a street corner, knowing It makes little dlnerroce which way it turns.

Outside the cold rain* falls alike on the jurt and the unjust. and falls, and falls, and keeps cm falling, as if this were to be the fate of man forever.

m winter all rainy days are the same.Strength.ater Down To Recrl Bargaining

The Lessons Emerging

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) The President Is like a unlcm and Congress like a management negotiating a new ccmtract every year when its time to put through anc^her foreign aid program. Its that time now.

The President Invariably asks more than he must realistically expect to get. Congress invariably and indignantly rejects the (enlng reqimst as out of the question.

Then the two sides get down to the real Imrgainmg for something they both can live with. The public, like football specta-lor watching the end runs, hears the speeches but doesnt see the Infighting in the line.

This Is where both sides put on the pressure and do the arm-twisting. If a president winds up with about $1 billion less than he asked he probably feels he came out all right.

Its been that way in the past. Its probably that way now with President Kennedy who arranged to send his special message on foreign aid to CKmgress today.

He already told Congress in his budget sarller this year be wanted |4.9 billion for foreign aid. Thats what he asked last year and Congress gave him $3.9 billion. Hed probably settle for that this year gladly.

He probably wont get more. The message Itself is usually the frosting on the cake. It has s<nne noble and urgent passages abcmt the needs of mankind and the American obligatiixi to help the backward and the impoverished.

But It also notes the aid, particularly the military part of it is a sensible investment in nar tional security. All this Is routine. like a union starting negotiations by laying down its contract demands in general terms.

The President has one advantage starting out, like a union which knows management wont argue about its right tof contract but (xily the terms of it.

Congress wcmt argue about the need to continue foreign aid. Its generally accepted the Uhlt-ed States will have to provide foreign aid for ytvn. The only airument Is over how much it will cost and the details.

This is where the frosting melts and both sides dig into the cake to explore whats in it, who gets what and how much, what country needs less, ' what country needs more, and what one can finally do without any.

In this operation the White

House and the State Department, which have to handle foreign policy are all for delicacy in opening the cake. Compared with their approach. Rep. Otto Passman. D-La., is a man with a meat ax.

Last this this dapper congressman talked of cutting about $2 billion from Kennedys request of almost $5 blUiMi for foreign aid.

In the end, just as in any typical union - management ne-goUation there was a compromise. The cut was about |l bU-li(Ml.

Passman, chairman of a House A]H>rQprlati(ms subc(wn-mittee whi(ib handles Intema-ti(mal spending, has made a career of whackiDg foreign aid funds. The favorite ford in his vocabulary Is economy.

This year again Passman stands in Kennedys patch. But this year he got some j^icul-arl.^ distinguished outside help: from a 10-man committee appointed by Kennedy, and headed by Gen, Lucius Clay, to study foreign aid. ii

It recommended economy. But it was such a hedged and confused report that It never clearly said whether it suggested a $1.5 . billion cut, a $500-mlllion cut, or no dollar figure at all.

It got more publicity than, it seemed, its recommmdaticms were worth. It produced not only a Jumbled report but one which ccmtatned practically nothing really new.

It said foreign aid must continue indefinitely. Everybody knew that. It said some of the mcHiey being spent <mi aid was wasted. That seemed to be generally recognized. It called for tighter c(Hitrols and more ec-(xiomy. That appeared to be the general attitude, too. ' .

When the man who runs for-eigh aid, administrator David Bell of the Agency for International Devel(^ent. agreed with the Clay c(nmittee, there wasnt axiy argument on the need for economy or that the amount would be cut.

The only question left was getting down to details on control and economy. Thats where all In the in-flghtlng occurs every year anyway. Cimgress will be batting it around for months to come.

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"Pass on a yellow line and youre likely to meet on a golden street,Atlanta Constitution.

(Kinstwi Free Press)

The New York printers strike finally has been settled. It la unfortunate that there were two or three (rther suiticipated settlements that were held up by failure of union members to agree with leaders. As the presses of New Yorks major dallies begin to roll again after Idleness that has cost over $450,000.000 and a 114-day blackout for the newspaper readers, it is well to ponder some of the lessons that emerge. Losses have been felt n(A only in New York City, but throughout the Eastern Seaboard and in Canadas newsprint Industry as well.

It should be said in behalf of Mayor Robert Wagner of New York aty that his determinar tion to biteg about a settlement figured heavily In expediting an agreement. The photoengraver holdout, which ended in agreement late Sunday, prolonged the strike over a week longer than had been anticipated. The fact that it was settled on an amicable basis, however, should indicate that' oettcr relations will exist in the future. Walter N. Thayer, president of the Herald Tribune, expressed the view: "We think we havt something we can build on something which will better labor relations In New York." He added that

there were no winners or losers" in the strike settlement. At least two of the papers upped prices from five to 10 cents a copy.

The lessons from this costly trike stick out in vivid detail and should never be forgotten by either management or labor. Such a strike, in the first place, affects the public Interest snd Welfare. Compulsory arbitrar tion ahould be resorted to. if necessary, before another such strike is allowed to happen. Seo-(Hidly, both sides owe It to the public they serve to work harder at keeping good relations good, working Uvether to advance the welfare of all. Finally, the Congress should see in this strike another sample d what happens when Mg labor (or big management) takes matters into Its own bands. The pendulum has swung too far toward the advantage M labor czars and s(xne restrlctlons--such as Taft-Hartley and antimonopoly restraintsshould be considered for the welfare of the general public.

It is good that the strike has been settted, even at the tragic cost encountered by all concerned. It will be even better if all parties now resolve it shall not happen again and work to that end.

By EARL L. DOUGLASS RELAXA'nON

There is s(nething positively mysterious and deeply fascinating about relaxation. A person cannot become . a great athlete unless he learns how to relax his muscles. The tense person never learns to play golf or tennis well. The business executive who is on tension all the time ^nerally has a auriy and rebellious office force about him. and usuaily finds his profits declining as his tensioa Increases.

Relaxation is especially noticeable in the case of skilled musicians. The conoert pianist has a wrist that appears perfectly relaxed and .perfectly under control. We watch a ccmoerl violinist and w(der why everybody cant play the vloliQ as well as that it looks so easy. The singer who Uea benelf into bowkn(^ is tiresome and disgusting. The men and women who thrill us with tbelr vou^ are relaxed, smiling, in complete ccKitrol (a themselves.

We indeed have to push alaog in this world to be successful, but there is a time to push along and there Is a time to relax. In fact, effort and relaxation must go together if one's career Is to be successful. Relaxation foU(wlnff activity is good, but relaxation in activity Is better. The harder we work the more relaxed we should be. The truly great In almost every line are people who never appear to be in a hurry, who seem to be taking tbelr woik very lightly.

We all know if we think about it for a moment that "easy does it.", Letters

The Dally Reflector welcomes letters from readers on timely topics, but some guidelines are in order. They must be no longer than 250 words; they must bear the signature of the writer and the writers address; they must conform to socopted standards of good taste.Of The -'Ordeals

By JOHN ABNEY

MEXICO CITY There was this letter came In the other day from a group of Journalism students in Michigan and they wantecl to know how foreign correspondents (H)eiate in Mexico.

Of course such things cannot be made public without wrecking the entire system of news gathering but it can safely* le said that the life of a correspondent here is one of great hardships.

For Instance. Mr. Charles GuptiU and I were sitting in a bar a lew nights ago when Mr. GuptiU said, "Have y(w noticed what lousy Martinis they serve now2^ So we had to catch a taxi to another place, all of which is time - consuming and often makes correspondents xnlss a deadline.

Then you have editors with an insatiable curiosity like Mr. J(*n T. O'Rourke of the Washington DaUy News. Mr. ORourke wrote that be wanted a column (xi the hot spring resort of Ixtapan de la Sal.

This means that some day wa will have to get up early, drive for three hours to Ixtapan and ait in the radioactive waters to gather atmosphere.

And later somebody will want to know about Aoapteco and you have to go down ti^re to check the beach action and put out a few sheets of copy. But there Is nothing doing in Acapulco. The beach Is cluttered up with girls and persons who want to put you cn a paddle board or in a sail boat.

- A ffew days of working on the expmse account here and you go back to Mexico City. The climate in Mexico City is enough to wreck a strong man. Thera Is no place to ski nor ice skate and you cant stay in condition doing things like shovel sixne mow. The thermometer h a n g around 70 degrees so long you finally say, "Gee, I wish I could watch the Chicago Bears play the GlanU in a bllssard."

Maybe one morning around 10 oclock when you are having breakfast the phone rings. Pick it up and Mr. John Alius ot Uhlted Press international shouts, "Hey, my horse la running this afterno(xi. Let's have a snack at the Jockey Club and watch him."

Ibis louses up a column but to stay in good with Mr. Alius you go. And ot course while youre slMng at a table slicing your sirloin editors will be calling your office or house to find out what happened to a story they asked for last week.

On such oceasloos, you were out with a government ctfficial and the bundle you lose on Mr, Alius' hayburner goes on the ex- ^ pense account as "Entertaining Oovernment Official. . . .$50" to prove your whereabouts*. >

Next (tey lift. ^ Chamberlain probably flies in from London and wants you to go somewhere for the weekend so he can teU you aboit a film call ed "The Looking Olsss he is getting ready to make in Naples. This Is a must because Mr. Chsmberlain is an old cheas poncnt and bealdes, fal is traw> cling on an expense account.

All the time you have editora and publishers (other than your own) coining down and they want to see the place. You have to be nice and go with them to Swiss reatguriDts, Chinese restaurants, Polynesian restaurants and tour the night spots.

It is impossible to remamber , who picked up the tabs so to , be safe you maka it "Bhiter-talnlng Officials Prom .Presidency. . .$188" on your expense account.

Finally, the grind Is ko strenuous you run down to Veracrua for a short rest. And whUe you are sitting at a sidewalk restaurant putting away shrimp, a tourist in Mexico City slips off the curb and sprains his foot.

What ha(g>ens? You missed a great news story and if youvs ever been around editors you know how furious tiiey get.

8o children, its much too risky and Id suggest you stay where you have fringe benefits, the security o regular hours and 5 p.m. traffic to guide you honw.

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"Pew people are opposed to real progress, but a great many are convinced that change and progress arent al-*' ways the same." Lubbock (Tex.) Avalanche-Joumal.

franchise System Is Endangered

By ELMER R0ES8NER

The franchise system, the method by which auto compan--les and other large manufacturers distribute their products, is still under attack.

The decisicm of the United States Supreme Court in the White Motor case, and the rul-* Ing of Justice Thurmcmd Clarice in the General Motors case in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, have not bathed the aya-tem in constitutional Immunity forever.

The Department of Justice, headed by that young lawyer whats his name? appears to be continuing to fight (m the broad basis that franchise can be an Illegal restraint of trade.

In the White Motor case, the Supreme Court ruled that vertical territorial limitation, which is what g franchise is, may or may not be a restraint of trade.

ANSWER IN 19M

The case has been In the courts since 1957 and the Supreme Court, in remanding it back to lower courts, makes It iinHifpiy that a final declsion vrill

be handed down before 1969.

The govemipent originally alleged that the motor company violated the law by granting territorial rights to distributors, and by trying to maintatn prices In each territory. The Supreme Court said that granting franchises and trying to maintain prices did not akme restrain trade. R wcnild have to know more about the actual impact of these arrangements on competition" and sent the matter back for Jury deciaiaii.

In Loa Angeles, Judge Clarice, after a three-month trial, threw out the governments case against General Motors.

The government alleged that by setting up franchised dealers and then refusing to let them scU through discount stores and referral agents. General Motors was violating the law against restraint of trade. This, note well, was a criminal action and. in addUion to GM. Involved 950 individuals, which made it bonanaa for lawyers. ATTACK ON SYSTEM

The Judge ruled Uiat the case Was an attadc on the franchise aystemj that franchised

dealers do compete, and that the system benefited and manufacturer. OM requires franohie-ed dealers to maintain certain standards of service, but it cannot require discount stores pr referral agents to maintain repair and replacement fadUtiea. etc.

Judge Clarke addtod: "Tba best way to furthar the interest of the (xmsumer is to allow business, large and small, to avail itself of tiie free enterprise system with as little government ioterferenee u poe-sible." Thats no it on the head for that young lawyer, whatever his name is, who heads the Department of Justice.

And while both decisions favor tho franchise system, these points should be noted:

1. The White Motor ciMe is back in thp lower courts and when it again c(xne6 up to the Supreme Court, the personnel and the thliudng of the court may be ohsaged. However, none oi these things will happen for quite a while.

2. Judge Clarke threw out only the criminal charges. A parallel action alleging civil

fenaes la still pending and goi^ eroment attomtys woridng for tha young Attorney General, whose name will pop into your mind in a moment, are detei> mined to prese the dvU action.

Tho trouble, of course, is not with Congress, the courts or that young fellowRobert Kenne<iy, X think he is. Ccmgress has never slmdlfled the law enough to lay the franchise system is or Is not in restraint of trade. And when Congress decides to mete a decision, It is praotioally cer tain that It wUl h(^ that the franchise system, like mothers apple pie, is part of Amei^ lean way of lUe.

U.S. CHANGING BUTTER INTO BUTTEBOIL GHEE

The U. S. Department of Af> riculture is engaged in*haVlng 100 million m( pounds irf' butter converted Into butteroU, paokrtl in 5^-pound cads. It has prevloualY had 105 mllBoo pounds of batter conveited Into butteroU and ghee, which are much thq^ same. BuUeroll and ghee are easier to bold in atorage. Eventually, it wlU all probaddy be given awiy.