Tuesday, May 21, 1963

Commissioners Should Clear Way

No, No, Thats Not What I Meant!

Pitt County Commissioners should give approval trict. Kegardless of how rapidly these plana are to the budget recommendations of the GreenvilU* completed, however, they will not provide additional Board of Education in order that the local school facilities for the coming year. They will not help in administrative unit can meet its immediate needs meeting needs which will be present when a new for the coming school years. school term opens next fall. Positive steps must be

The recommendation are significant, and they taken to meet the needs of the coming school year involve a considerable increase in the total sum re- regardless of whether steps are subsequently taken (guested by the Greenville district. At the same time, to meet longer-range needs within the school district, the needs are pressing because of the additional 400 The requests made by the Greenville Board of students which are expected to enroll in schools of Education to the County Commissioners are, in our the Greenville district next fall. Without the pro- opinion, reasonable and should meet with approval posed upward revisions in the budget, Greenville by the Pitt Commissioners as they prepare the schools will not be able to meet the needs of these budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1. new students.

The Greenville Board of Education has re- lUTyiezM requested that the district capital outlay tax be in- XTeUJOa OL6p XOVir

creased from 10 cents to 20 per $100 valuation.

In spite of the fact that this would double the local COHtrOVrSy

district s capital outlay rate,, it must be recognized that the capital outlay rate has remained constant for almost a decade. ' advisory committee for opening dates

The increase of the GreeiVille districts share various tobacco belts in North and South

of the countv-wide capital outlay appropriation Carolina and Virginia represents a major step in from $50,000to $60,000 is reasonable considering eliminating much of the controversy and confusion the relative enrollment anticipated in the city and ^hich has accompanied tobacco market openings countv school administrative units and the relative past years,

property valuation within the Greenville district and \his new committee set up by the Bright Belt

the other districts of the county. The same thing Warehouse Association will not eliminate all the applies to the request by the Greenville school board bickering. It will not resolve all fjie problems that that its share of the countv-wide school fund be have arisen in past years. It probably will not increased from $110,000 to $125,000 for the coming recommend opening dates that will suit everyone fiscal vear. concerned in each of the tobacco belts.

Greenvilles Board of Education is now in the :ven with these shortcomings, however, the

process of mapping long-range plans for constructing additional facilities needed in this school dis-

Several Thorny

issues raded

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

FADESeveral thorny items which as late as a few weeks ago showed signs of touching off late-session fireworks in the legislature have, like old soldiers, now faded away

Some have been hashed out, settled and agreed uponeither through acceptable legislation, compromise, glossing over or outright postponement as far as this session is concerned.

It is unlikely, for example, that such matters as implementing court reforms, restricting absentee ballot use. branch banking legislation and small loans amendments- will arise again.

Some other items such as insurance law changes, public utilities, road and school bond Issues stiU contain the sparks of controversy. But in each case, the signs of flaring up have become fainter.

ITEMSNone of these items are really dead and entombed. They will remain issues in one way or another. But for practical purposes of this session they have been toned down or shelved for another couple of years.

An absentee ballot bill has been enacted. It is a compromise thrashed out in the -House Elections and Elections Laws committee, watered dowm but still embodying a number of recommended absentee ballot reforms proposed by the State Board of Elections.

The banking bill putting a convenience and necessity clause back into the bi-anching law and establishing greater capital requirements was bom out of sharp controversy over branch bank expansion

The State Banking Commission felt tremendous pressures in branch bank applications at Shelby and Hickory and decided that without clearer guidelines the law was inadequate. The study commission headed by former House Speaker J. K. Doughton, a Sparta banker, was appointed and the bill it recommended sailed through the Senate without dissent last week.

Sen. Prank Forsyth of Cherokee, official of a state bank, presented the bill and it was endorsed by Sen. Hector MacLean of Lumberton, official of a national bank.

It may not be a perfect bill, said MacLean, but it is as good a bill as can bt found. It received as full and complete scrutiny as any bill ever to come before the General Assembly.

UTILITIESThe proposed rewriting and revising of the states public utilities laws, sent to the legislature by the General Statutes commission contains Bs much dynamite as anything before the General Assembly.

But there are indications here too of possible compromise to

committee composed of farmers, warehousemen, representatives of purchasing companies and the stabilization corporation, the committee is another effort at closer coordination between each of the groups involved in the tobacco industry. It is a move toward making decisions, with all factors considered, that will be in the best interest of the bright belt tobacco industry as a whole.

For several years now, each element of the By ALVIN TAYLOR bright leaf tobacco industry, manufacturers, ware- _

housemen, growers and independent purchasers, has ^ Qj A "D ^ ^ ^

recognized the increasingly serious threat being I I LS L I 1 TV I 1C 1 JI

posed to the industry as a whole by foreign com- X -I XI J.

petition and other factors. There have been various -r- ^ a f

efforts'to bring about closer coordination between therTa^Tl^\uto faS'ea various groups in the interest of the industrv as a Street Saturday after

whole. The setting up of this new 20-member com-

mittee to recommend opening dates on the various At^his toy bISfy ^lept belts is in the best interest of every segment of the peacefully in an infants car tobacco industry ' seat. The father patiently held

It is an effort that reserves the .support of the ifceTpile'ittCihlT

industry as a whole as well as the members who sun.

make up the individual segments of the tobacco ___

industry in the bright leaf tobacco area.

cloud of chalk dust, and covered the student, but it got the erasers clean.

It also worked well as punishmentexcept in this case it was done after school.

It isnt all that we wanted, keep dowTi the winds of con-

says Elections chairman Bill Joslin. But it is something we can live with.

Insurance law changes pro-po.sed by Insurance commission-Edwin S. Lanier also face dilution and some compromi.se. Court reforms implementation has been put in the hands of a special study commission and that will he the ^tent of for this session.

Nothing at all has been raised about changing small loans legislation enacted two years ago, and the feeling Is that any revisions should wait until at least ige,-!.

BANKING-A bill on branch banking worked out by a special committee authorized by the State Banking Commission falls into the acceptable solution category. Few observcra last F^Il thought it would be that easy.

troversy. The legislation has been handed to a utilities subcommittee reported to be seeking an anicable solution

DRIVEThe recoid $1.8 billion biennial budget bill and Senate redistricting appear at this point to be the major remaining controversial is.sues. These, of course, are certain.

The General Assemhly is. gathering steam now in its drive for adjournment about mid-June. The speed-up in legislative floor work will become clearly evident this week.

Adjournment Itself is not the goal, legislative leaders say. Rather the goal is to clear un all remaining major bills, and when that is done adjournment can come.

Nevertheless, the legislative pay runs out on June 6 and the session is expected to close a week or so after that.

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By JACK BELL

WASHINGTON (AP>An intensive reassessment ok the political situation will be' the order of the day for New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller when he returns from his honeymoon.

What his private pollsters tell him about the political effect of his marriage to divorcee Mar-garetta Fitler Murphy could have a direct bearing on whether the governor plunges into an active drive for the 1964 Republican presidential nomination or merely coasts along awaiting developments.

If the indications are that his marriage has built up resistance to his nomination, the governor can be expected to tread water for a while until a new canvass can be made this fall. If relatively clear sailing is in prospect, he may step up his campaigning.

Rockefeller is a great believer ih polls. He also is a man who plays his politics close to his vest, .seldom confiding his plans in advance even to party allies. For example, he told Sen. Kenneth B. Keating. R-N.Y., only 20 minutes before the ceremony that he was going to be married.

Although Rockefeller has made all of the familiar motions of a candidate for the nomination. his remarriage after being divorced last year by his wife of 31 years has injected a new element of doubt about his intentions.

Krailng, who declines to specr niate about the political impact of the govenior's matrimonial course carries the impression that Rockefeller has never made a final decision about seeking the nomination, for which he has generally been regarded as the front runner.

He ha.s never told me whether he expects to become a candidate, " Keating said.

The mater is of prime interest to the senator, who already is running for re-election in New York next year.

What Rockefeller's marriage has done to his prospects for the nomination and to his chancos of lx>ating President Kennedy, if the governor should be the GOP standard bearer, remain a sub-.iect of dtscu-ssion and disagreement.

Senate Republican leader Ev-

erette M. Dirksen of Illinois, w'ho has adopted a neutral stance on the choice of a nominee. said in a separate interview he thinks the whole matter will blow over In few weeks,

You wont hear much about It in 1964, he said.

This is essentially the same view taken in private conversations by Sen. Barry Goldwa-ter. (R.lAriz.i regarded as a rival of the governor for the nomination.

Goldw^ater has told friends he thinks if the electiim were this year the remarriage might damage Rockefellers chances. But he has said he thinks the issue will be eclipsed in 1964.

Sen. Abraham A. Ribicoff, <D-Conn.,) who managed Kennedys successful I960 convention bid for the Democratic nomination, came up with a Demo-cratic slant.

Ribicoff said he thinks Rockefeller already has concluded from his private polls that he cant beat Kennedy in 1964 and wants to wait to try for the 1968 GOP nomination.

If the remarriage prevented his getting the presidential nomination, Ribicoff said, Rock-efeUer could try for a third term as governor in 1966. If he won that, he would be in a position to challenge any Republican except an incumbent president for the 1968 prize.

The goveniors marriage has served to spotUght Reijublican difficulties over the religious issue in a form somewhat different from that which plagued the Democrats w'hen they nominat-

Automation can have Its more pleasant side, as any adult who read a certain article the other day will agree.

The story said the Toronto Board of Education had approved spending $3,967 for 114 electric erasqf cleaners. The machines will be operated by the jan-itora.

Your columnist can recall the days when kids got to leave the classroom for a short period to bang erasers together outside the building. This created a

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An interesting little pamphlet came my way the other day. It was in regards to the new Citadel planned for the Salvation Army here.

It is rare, indeed, to hear an unkind word about the Salvation Army and I leam frwn the leaflet that Its first Citadel was organized here May 8, 1929.

It is pointed out that the Salvation Armys source of incwnc Includes the United Fund, Tobacco Effort and money received at services and at Christmas. The funds cannot be set aside for capital improvements.

So the Army will endeavor to personally contact businesses and individuals who It is believ-

Opinions '.n Brief

When most of us "ho are employed work only 40 of the 168 hours in a week and look ahead to several years of leisure after retirement, the occupations of the cultivated mind are the only defen.se again.st the perils of boredom. Dr. Edward Hodnett.

Other Editors Saying... Eoreign Aid Deals

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

Occasionally, some congressional committee takes a hard look at the manner in which our foreign aid program Is operated. Occasionally such Inquiry pays off. There have been cases of scandal, mismanagement, misuse of funds. These things do not make pretty reading. It is always hoped that, if there must be foreign aid prt^ram at all, it can somehow be operated in the most efficient, honest manner possible.

It w'ould appear that such hopes are either premature or ill-founded. The Senate investigations subcommittee Is now looking into charges of foreign aid corruption which if borne out could be one of the biggest scandals in the countrys history. Committee Chairman John McClellan has announced he has ordered a preliminary check to determine whether full-scale hearings are warranted

The allegations and supporting documents come from the Khaibar Khan, leader of the Bakhtiari tribe of Iran These documents, if corroborated, point to gross corruption and misuse of funds In excess of

ed Kennedy, a Roman Catholic, $1(X) million in connection with

three years ago.

Many Republican CathoUcs might not accept a divorced and remarried man as a GOP candidate.

The Rev. Marshall Smith, who married Rockefeller, a Baptist, and Mrs. Murphy, an Episcopalian, in a Congregation-alist ceremony has been rebuked by his church superiors.

In the Protestant areas of the Middle West, where Rockefeller has been trying to build up his image as a regular Republican, divoi'ce and remarriage are generally frowned upon. But In the big cities of the hidpstrial states, where he would be expected to Continued on Paee .5)

the administration of U S. aid to Iran. Subcommittee members w'ill not discuss details of the allegations until a further check is made on the Khans documents.

The evidence was first offered to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which normally oversees the foreign aid program, but this group que.s-

tioned its authenticity It has been reported that the foreign relations group was approached some weeks ago with an offer of documents allegedly showing certain payments to American individuals related to programs in Iran.

There is some question about the Khans real identity. The press counselor at the Iranian Embassy in Washington has denounced McClellans informant and challenged the allegations. When the Kha.i offered his documents to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee he was referred to the Justice Department. No word has been heard on the outcome,

A Justice Department spokesman said the Khan had already been interviewed by department officials before the Khan contacted McCHellan about the charges. Whether the Khan has been getting the run-around In Washington remains to be seen. One thing is certain: John McClellan, one of the best watch dogs of public interest in Washington, wont let the Incident go by unchecked.

If there Is wind of a big scandal in foreign aid, it should be checked out. Perhaps the Khaibar Khan is a phony; perhaps his charges are false. We cannot afford to ignore such charge. It is the job of congressional investigations committees to look into .such matters to determine whether they are indeed only rumors. Where there are charges involving millions in foreign aid, that is all the more reason for being doubly sure.

The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary Vefiulting from an explosion in the printing shop. biologist Edward Conklin.

Don't ever worry about our government being overthrown There's entirely too much of it. The Wall Street Journal.

What We can't figure out Is. if everybody has so much trouble finding a parking place, who do all those parked cars belong to?^ Changing Times. The Kiplinger Magazine.

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ed are sincerely Interested In the work of the SaJvaticm Army.

It would be, indeed difficult to picture Greenville without its Salvation Army. Its benefits have been made known many times. Heres my wish that the new Citadel becomes a reality In the near future.

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1963, King P^aturef Syndicate, Inc.

When a minority, whether rir clal or otherwise, la denied tha use of public facilities that art open to everyone else, one can fully understand the gnawing sense of resentment and frustration that will grow out of tha sltuaOT. Rights are rights, deriving from the inner nature of man without reference to tha color of his skin, and eventually they will be claimed by everybody in any free nation. But the questiwi Is: can injustice ever be rectified by taking it to the streets for a decision?

In the Nineteenth Cientury, especially (Mi the amtlnent of Europe, men thought the street* could be substituted for parliaments and courts. It was an old habit of the French people in particular to seek to speed up the forces of change by pouring out into the public squares whenever a grievance became notoriously intolerable. The French opened the doors of tha Bastille by public clamor; they got rid of Bourbons and Orlean-ists by shouting and erecting barricades but always some fatality seemed to dog the attempt to consolidate what had been won by demonstration.

The streets had a way of falling in the end to the man with the strtmgest nerve. A Corsican named Napole(xi Bonaparte, who did not scruple to rule the Parisian streets with what he called a whiff of grapeshot, put an end to the first attempt of the French to rule by publio . clamor. Later, in 1848, a nephew ot Napoleci became the dem-ocrj^tically chosen leader of the French by using the demonstration as his key to office. Then, having learned the techniques of dispensing with parliaments and courts. Louis Napoleon had himself crowned emperor.

Now, any person whose owti unalienable rights have never been called into question runs the risk of seeming offensively smug if he says that Negro leaders are shortsighted In their attempt to take the question of individual rights to the streets in Birmingham and elsewher* for adjudication. But when Negroes themselves are un e a s y about trying to by-pass legislatures and courts in the campaign to force predominantly white communities to remov* the causes of their grievances, the charge of smugness fall* flat when applied to them.

No smugness attache.s to George Schuyler, a Negro journalist and author who has reflected on the failure of street pressure in c(Mitinental Eur(^an history and who even distrusts the longterm efficacy of the boycott.

Speaking of Birmingham. Mr. Schuyler has a feeling that the turn to the .streets for satisfaction in touchy communities could be a provocation that mu.st boomerang. He thinks the Negro has too much to lose in the way of dearly won galn.s to risk everything on a few throws of the street demonstration dice. Says Mr. Schuyler: The mere fact that the Birmingham police didnt mow people down in tli^ recent C(Mifrontation Is proof that things have changed greatly for the better in the past few years. Sure, the Negroes of Birmingham have their grievances. But you can't sink the country Just because of your wrongs.

Mr. Schuyler fears the snowballing effect erf the resort to clamor in the streets. The temptation to push up intransigence just one more notch has a heady effect on leaders. The Uncle Toms 'among the Negroes give way to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. This organization is more militant than its predecessors. But it, in turn, yields leadership to men like Dr. Martin Luther King, who have taken a leaf out of the book of Gandhi in India, who made mileage out of the peaceful sort of civil disobedience that was recommended by Henry David Thoreau. But Gandhi was lucky in having the phlegmatic British to deal with. If the governors of states and the mayors of cities in the Deep South or in the North', for that matter do not prove to be as patient as the British in India, what then? Will the Kings give way to the leaders of the Black Muslims? Where is the stopping point of pressure and reaction to pressure if it is persistently exerted outside of parliaments and courts?

Elijah Muhammad, writing in a Chicago Black Muslim (Continued on Page 5)

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By EAKI. L. DOUGl.AS.S lea.son.

The Bible .speaks a great God's grace! Gotl's giaciou.s-

deal about the grace of God. ne.s.si Tliere comes lo us a pow-This really means the gracious- er from above to enable us to

ness of God. It Is the divine live the human - sniritnal

willingness to forgive us our ^s. although we do not deserve w be forgiven.

But the grace of God means more than that. It is that coming down into our heart.s of spiritual powers whicli enable us to maintain our faith, to stand firm in the, hour of temptation. The grace of God guides us. and the least reflection upon life's bewildering situations reveals to Its how much wc nerd that .miid-aiicc, With the best of inten-lion.s wc can go astray Without realizing it wc can fall irho Icmpt.attoii Wc can gci in-con eel ideas about religious matters into our minds and continue to hold Uiem in spile of

human - spiritual life with which God has endowed us Within our bodies, tom by appetites and passions, within our mind, full of prejudice and distorted by wrong and immoderate concepts. God comes with His Illumination, with an Irrestlble po\Ver, and we are saved.

Salvation is something more than just one great experience in which we foresake the world and tuni to God. Salvation is standing by those re.solutions sincerely and .solemnly made.

The grace of God Is our suf-fic'cncy. Without it we would be rolled along by life's cti'cum-stance.s a.s pehble.s are rolled before the mighty rush of the torrent.

by EI.MER ROESSNKR

Unless Congress acts quickly, American jet tourists to Europe this summer will have their pockets picked of $30 million by the international airline cartel with the happy connivance of European governments.

Round - trip economy jet ratesby tar the most popular form of transatlantic aii travel will go up 5 per cent. Since more than 60 per cent of the transatlantic travel is by Americans, they will pay most of the $30 million increase.

The cartel, or trust is the In-temtional Air Transport Association. consisting of most foreign international airlines and the American international lines It is not against antitrust la for American lines to join sv.v.i price - fixing organizations. LONG BOOSTED PRICES The lATA has long forced up prices on transoceanic flights.

Its high rates have resulted In the curious anomaly that it l.s more expensive to Oy over water than over land With its new transatlantic rat-

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es, It costs $513 to fb home from New York to London and back, by jet economy class, a trip of 3,453 miles each way, or 7.4 cents a mile

But flight over land, say from New York to Los Angeles and back, jet economy class, a trip of 2.74 miles each way, is $290.20, or "S.O cents a mile.

The new lATA transatlantic rates were put into effect against the wishes of the American airlines and with the connivance of the State Department.

Last fall the lATA met at Chandler, Ariz., to discuss rates. Most of the European airlines were in sorry straits. All had invested heavily in jet planes; all were owned in part at least by govemmeuts and were subject to the inefficiency and nepotism of political management.

The American inteniational airlines, privately owned and in competition, were doing better. STOCK THE TOURISTS >

The memlier.H voted to cut ihe round-trip discount from 10 to

5 per cent. This raised the price for round-trippers, lai'gely tourists, about 5 per cent.

Since then, the foreign airlines made the raise; the American Airlines refusecl to do so; the British threatened to seize American jets that had not raised prices and then Secretary of State Rusk asked the Civil Aer-^-onautics Board to request the American lines to raise rates.

This provoked a storm In C(m-gress. Senator Warren G. Mag-nussen (D., Wash.) roared protests and the White House asked C(Migress for legislation giving the CAB authority over rates charged by American lines and by foreign lines touching down in the U. S. This storm la still rumbling. ^

HOW TO SAVE

Meanwhile., American. wishing to fly to Europe this summer can try to book flights on Icelandic Airlines, which is not a member of the cartel and which charges rate.s about 20 per cent lower than lATA members. They can also route their trips trrough Canada, whose

airlines, through a; legal quirk, do not have to charge lATA rates.

Or they can Inquire among their own and th"feir families associations. clubs, churches and other organizations and try to find a low - rate chartered excursion for which they are eligible, and save enough money for several week* extra vacationing in Europe.

BRIEF \nD significant BUSINESS NEWS ITEMS The British dcxit seem to cars ' for cake mixes and General Mills Is giving up producti(m there. . .Department store sales through May 4 were 8 per cent ahead of a year ago. with the Dallas Federal Reserve district up 8 per cent. . .The Iflno, Japans newest sports car, will be assembled In Italy for export to the United States, . .Passenger \ autos leased to a state are not considered sold for the purpose ; of refiind provisions of the man- ufacturers excise tax. the Internal Revenue Servic* would hav* you know.

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