Wednesday, June 26, 196S

We Cant Wait!

Tax Reduction An Exclusive Dream

Most taxpayers have long since learned that much talked-about tax reductions are about the most elusive thing in the nation today.

Hardly a ye^r passes without talk of reducing taxes at some government level receiving broad attention. More often than not, proposals for reducing taxes come from those in administrative branches.

But by the time budgets arc firmed up, spending for the next fiscal period planned, it becomes evident that there will be no tax reduction. The hope of lightening even slightly the burden on the taxpayer has vanished.

When Congress convened this year, President Kennedy recommended a broad program for reducing taxesaccompanied by a planned greater government deficit. During the months since the proposal was made, chances of the po^ibility maturing into reality have steadily diminished. There might yet be a meaningful tax reduction by the federal government before this session of Congress adjourns, but the prospects now are more remote than they were last January.

Soon after the legislature convened in Raleigh this year, Gov. Sanford recommended a reduction in income taxes for North Carolinians. As appropriations mounted, the prospects for a tax reduction declined. Now, at best, there is the hope that a possible tax reduction may be in the offing at the end of the next fiscal year if the state can show sufficient surplus in its revenue account.

Visitors Due In N.C. This Week

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

week No doubt about it.

It was to be a busy week in North Carolina. And an unusual one.

June was drawing rapidly to a close. Only a few days are left in the month of brides and vacations. Lazy summer had come, the beach season begun and the fourth of July was less than a week away.

Things were happening all across the state. People were on the go. The calendar of events was crowded.

And in Raleigh, the General Assenibh' was still in town although adjournment surely was near.

Everyone felt certain that this would be the final w'cek of the long, tedious legislative session and that the lawmakers would adjourn just in time to beat the invasion of New York cab drivers.

EVENTS That's right. This is the week that 25 cabbies selected from a cross-section of hack drivers operating from Brooklyn to the Bronx are to come to 'North Carolina.

This is unusual, to say the least. And the very fact that the cabbies are coming as guests of the governor and the state has caused quizzical eyebrows to be raised. But wait. What else?

The cab driver tour of the state wiU cap a week that included :

MerrjTnaking on Roan Mountain and the annual Rhod-dodendron Festival at Bakers-ville that brought Gov. Terry Sanford to mountainous Mitchell County.

Clattering of ox carts a-cross the Blue Ridge, re-enacting Daniel Boones prioneers riding into Watauga County.

Singing on the Mountain at McRae Meadow on Grandfather Mountain where 30.000 braved unusual early summer cold and swirling mists on the mountainside.

Dedication of a new link of of Interstate highway 95 near Weldon and dedication of the new Virginia Electric and Power Co. Gaston dam on the Roanoke River.

Meeting called by the National Park Service to disclose its plans for a potential new * national seashore recreation area in the Portsmouth Island-Core Banks-Shackleford Banks portion of the Outer Banks.

Opening night performances of the states outdoor dramas at Cherokee, Bocme and Manteo.

CABBIES Then the cab drivers fnwn New York will fly to North Carolina by charter plane and begin their whirlwind tour of Winston-Salem on Friday, visiting Old Salem and a new, modem cigarette factory.

The tour, designed to turn the cab drivers into ambas-sador-salesmen for North Carolina back home in New York, will include a flight to Asheville and a bus lour of such attractions as Biltmore E.state, Cherokee, the Blue Ridge Parkway. Maggie Valley, the outdoor drama Unto These HilLs. and the ox-cart wagon train arriving in Boone.

Fi'om Hickory the group will fly to Raleigh to visit Gov. Sanford and tour the Legislative Building, then go to Wilmington and Wrightsville Beach for a reception and tour of the USS North Carolina and Orton Plantation. The return flight to New York will include a view of the Outer Banks and the Wright Memorial at Kitty Hawk.

ADJOURN The General Assembly returned to Raleigh Monday with mixed feelingSr-an air of expectance, a sense of pride and some misgivings.

There was expectancy among the legislators about adjourning the session this week, and perhaps finally deciding what to do about the issue of Senate redistricting. There was some expectancy that a dramatic development to break the deadlock on redistricting might be forthcoming.

There was some talk of an entirely new redistricting bill being offered, or chances that a House-Senate conference committee might settle their differences and emerge with an acceptable compromise.

MISGIVINGS The noticeable misgivings among a majority of legislators concerned the legislature's failure to reach a settlement on redistricting. The political implications of this are feared.

There were misgivings that unless some settlement is reached, a special session of the legislature might be neces-sary and that even then a lawsuit might force the issue into the federal courts.

There were some further misgivings, along with a good sense of pride, about overall accomplishments of the session although enactments included spending a record amount of money several millions more than anticipated revenues for the 1963-65 biennium.

Taxpayers may find some consolation in the fact that talk of tax reductions this year has been more prevalent than has been the case in any year in recent history. At least on both the state federal levels there were concrete proposals for reducing slightly the tax load for support of government operations. Maybe in another year, or years or four years there may be a downward w^nd in specific areas of taxes on the state and federal level. A longed-for tax reduction which has Proved so elusive in the past may actually be enacted by Congress or by the legislature . . . even if it is on a temporary* basis as have been most of the tax increases so prevalent in recent decades.

Peak Season Near For Third Largest Industry

North Carolinas third largest industry tourismis reaching its peak season of the year and across the state literally millions of dollars are being pumped into the economy by vacationers.

To a great extent the bulk of tourist dollam are being spent in the better-known resort areas in the Mountains and along the coast of the state. But all the way in between, at service stations, in restaurants, motels and even in the shops and department stores, some dollars are being left behind by tourists.

In spite of the growth in tourist business in North Carolina in recent years, this is one of the many industries which still has great potential for growth. Particularly is this true of the areas between the extreme western section and the extreme eastern sections of the state. Some few communities have put forth considerable effort to develop their potential for tourist attractions. Most communities, unfortunately, ha\^ taken for granted they had little to offer tourists and have not carefully evaluated their own back yards for possibilities.

With TFe states reputation as a Variety Vaca-tionland already established, many visitors annually are coming to North Carolina. It offers an exceptional opportunity for every county and community of the state to search carefully its history and its present physical assets for with an eye toward attracting for itself more of the tourists who are cruising from one end of the state to the other.

By HENKY HOWARD

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By JAmIiS MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) President Kennedy stopped short in his civil rights program of asking Congress to give the attorney general all the authority some integrationist leaders want him to have.

But, if Congress granted all the President did ask. the attorney general would have far more muscle in civil rights cases.

Southern Democrats will fight this just as they will Kenedys request for a law to make private business places stop discrimination against Negroes. Both are sore points.

It was in 1957 that Congre^ passed the first civil rights bill in this centiu-y after strenuous opposition by the South, particularly on this issue:

A provision in the bill that year to give the attorney general power to seek a court injunction against anyone depriving anyone of his civil rights in any field. That covered the whole show.

In the end the Southerners won and this provision was knocked out but they had to make a concession. They didnt win a full victory. The bill which passed Congress did strengthen the attorney general's hand in the voting field.

The 1957 law said he could seek injunctions when an individual w as deprived of his voting rights.

Then in 1960 Congress passed a second civil rights bill. This added a bit to the attoraey general's authority by giving him the right to demand voting records for 22 months back in federal elections.

And federal courts, in districts where the records were questioned, could compel voting officials to comply with the attorney general's demand.

All this could be considered progress but it slow. And the results were hot dazzling. Just last month Berl I. Bern-hard, staff director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, told Congress;

Since 1957 the attorney general's office had instituted 38 lawsuits in voting rights cases but a substantial number of Negroes were being denied the right to vote in about IIX) counties in eight Southern states.

In his civil rights proposals last week Kennedy asked Congress to give the attorney general much broader sphere of action by authorizing him to step in directly in two additional fields:

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1. To seek a court Injunction against a business place that discriminated against a Negro if the Negro couldnt afford the cost of a court suit or 'was afraid to start one.

2. To seek a court Injunction against a segregated public school which refused to a^mit a Negro child if the parent couldnt afford a legal fight or was afraid to start it.

Even this wouldnt be as simple, direct or fast as it sounds in trying to get a business place to stop discriminating against Negroes.

Under Kennedys plan there would be room for a lot of delay before the attorney general w'ent to court to put an end to the discrimination. The court ao-ti(m would be the last resort.

First the effort would have to be made through talk and attempted persuasion to get the proprietor of a business place to stop discriminating. If that failed, the attorney general would go to court.

There is one way, however, In which the attorney general could skip the talk and go directly to court for an injunc-ti(Mi: if he felt any effort to get voluntary compliance was useless.

All of this has been an explanation of Kennedys proposal as he laid it before Congress. But what Congress does with it, in view of Southern opposition, is something else.

rDont Take Chances^ with Ihronie Cough or

Shortness of Breath

You take the wife and the three-year-old son for a drive on Saturday afternoon.

Youre going nowhere in particular. Just a short trip away from the four walls. Just a breath of fresh air is what youre after.

Its pleasant. Real pleasant. No hurry, no speeding, no tension. Everythings fine.

But then the bottom drops out. Too many huge raindrops enter before the windows are closed. You get stuck in the mud. Things happen so fast theres only time for good-natured lamentations from wife and hubby.

Soon, though, you are resigned to a rainy excursion. Things level off a bit. All Is calm, except for the outside pitter-pat.

About this time, junior, from his back-seat observation post, gets things going again.

He lets you know first that he thinks its about time for a hamburger. ,

You edge as close as possible to the hamburger stand to set up the driest possible sprint

to the counter and back. You cut the engine and turn to take orders. But junior Is alarmed at the now unmolested pelting on the windshield.

He cant sit or be reasonable until Daddy has again turned on the wlndshipers.

That dime, he relaxes against the back seat and orders some of that chocolate milk In a little box that you drink through one of those. . .those. . .those long things.

Soon hamburgers and boxed milk complete with straws and all the trimmings are brought into the car. Its amazing how unoggy they are. considering the dowTipour.

The youngster chomps heartily into the burger, which, he discovers with an outburst, has cheese on it. too.

Then he settles back against the back seat and right out of thin air he observes that when I eat my hamburger and drink my milk. I'U grow up to be a

big boy.

With burger - laden fas. Mom and Dad acknowledge how

true with an understanding nod. But juniors not through:

Yes. . .and when I grow down. Ill be a baby.

Still full-mouthed. Mom and Dad see the logic. Cant argue.

With hamburger wrappings and milk cartons stowed in the white container on the comer, you make sure the windship-ers are working properly and you head for home.

Junior returns to his duty: unleashing a creative index finger on the fogged - over rear window.

Mom tells Dad shes not crazy about whipping up supper at home and wonders 1 It 11 ba okay to pick up a pair of pizza* at RathskeUer. Dad agrees.

The back-seat artist has another two-cents worth;

Yes, Daddy. Lets do go to the Red Skelton.

No answer for that one. either. You strain for a moment to piece together some ideas of three-year-old inipresslwis. No

luck. ^ ,

You just look forward to another rainy Saturday afternoon.

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When the Supreme Court a year ago decided against Bible reading and prayers in the public schools, at the behest of some atheists in New York, there was widespread criticism from many parts of the country. There was also the deci-sicMi in many localities to continue the practice, regardless of the ruling.

Then only this week the court came back with another similar edict, in which it was held that Scripture reading and reciting the Lords Prayer could not be compelled in the schools. Now there is another outburst of resentment toward the court's action.

Although the latest ruling merely said these pracUces could not be required. inference was that it was unconstitutional, and the effect much the same. At least that appears to be the interpretation placed upon the order, and the basis for objectiMK.

Bishop Nolan B. Harmon, of Charlotte, of the Methodist Church, said of the most recent decision that it will be of positive hurt in carrying on of the great ideals which built this nation and brought it to the preset hour. The bishcH? added that the decision is saying in effect that no religion whatever 1 needed in public life, nor Is necessary, and every child will so understand. Those religious leaders who state that this is a good ruling are just kidding themselves. A ning against any reUglon being taught or expressed is a ruling for anti-religion. What more do the powers of evil want than for all religlwi to be silent or ruled out of order hi the normal education for

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The bishop summed up the objection completely and in a few words. What the court was saying, stated differently, is tha.t the founding fathers were all wrwig in building this nation upon the basis of faith in Almighty God. If a few atheiste can have the highest court in the land on their side in ruling out any reference to religion in the public schools, they could next attack the idea of removing the phrase In God We Trust from our coins and currency, and from the speaker's rostrum in the House of Representatives, and, in opening daily sessions of House and Senate ^^Tth prayer and those ol legislative bodies all over the land.

This is another instance where a litUe handful of citizens is dictating the practices and rights of the vast majority of the people. Minorities are running the country and have the executive and judicial branches of government on their side by way of appeasement and in the hope of garnering a bloc of votes in an election. Why should a few atheists tell the rest of the nation what it can and must do

The religion decision Is but another stroke In slicing away the freedom of the many. The minorities have their rights, yes, but so also do the majorities. But the court ignores the latter In appeasing the former. It is striking at the very foundations upon which this nation, under God, was established and by which it has existed to this day. One of the great evils of this day In America Is the gradual turning away from God, and the court's ruling is adding impetus toward implementa-tlwi of the tragedy.

One of the writing cooks reports that dieting can be fun.^^ For those who arent, of course. The Raleigh Times.

Early to bed and early to rise simply means that you are tired of television. Sparks tGa.) Eagle.

A man with a sense of humor doesnt make Jokes out of life; he merely recognize* the ones that are there. Mattoon (111) Journal Gazette.

Managing the news is much like trying to manage a woman. It cant be done for any great length of time.-Craig (Colo.) Empire-Courier.

Only one family in our neighborhood live.s within Its income. They borrow money to do it Atkinson County (Ga.) Citizen.

'To u.s, no eucatlonal television is preferred to a system which ha.s to operate under a committee of legislative monitor.s. The Greensboro Daily News.

The Government says it will take all necessary steps to prevent raids on Cuba b> refugeeu. Maybe Casro would let us install some U.S. defensive missiles there.'Fort Myers News-Press.

It Is not at all difficult to find two persons who will talk about a citys problems, but it's harder to find two who understand what the problem* are." The Daily Oklahoman.

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

We can bounce message* off Telstar, we can call anybody anywhere in the United States (Ml the phone for a pittance after a certain hour, yet as the mechanical marvel* of commu-nlcaticm increase, our ability to formulate and project what we think becomes more and more imperiled by political acts.

The recent Supreme Court decision regarding Bible reading in the schools, for example, is almost certainly bound to have the hidden effect of making us a less literate nation. Thus, by a tortured construction of the freedom of religion clause in the First Amendment to the Consti-tuti(m. the Supreme Court may be helping to negate the freedom of specdh clause that is to be found in the same amendment. This Is an irony that would have dumbfounded the Founding Fathers, even though it seems to have escaped eight out of nine of the present Supreme Court justices.

The fact is that the riches of Eiiglish prose style have been passed along for generations by bringing children into early ccm-tact with the King James version of the Bible. To the extent that this columnist knows how to make use of rhythm and alliteration and metaphor, he owes it to a happy combination of youthful circumstance. His grandmother, for one thing, paid him fifty cents for each bo<^ of the Bible he read from beginning to end an admittedly crass and unspiritual transaction. but it worked. Then, in grammar school religious exercises and. later, in compulsory chapel (which I hated at the time simply because it was compulsory, our generation was treated to the daily rise and fall of King James prose from teachers, headmasters, deans, and visiting clergymen. The jargon of "educati(Kiese. as espoused by the meet the needs school of utilitarian educators, had not yet invaded the schools to drowTi out the King James style and. paradoxically, this helped to meet the needs of the fledgling writers who hoped to go on from college to careers In journalism or book authorship. v Since the world has become Increasingly secularized in the past thirty years, many young people now owe their sole contact with King James English to Bible reading and recitation in the grammar grades. But now the Supreme Court has cut the last connection with a tradition. In the future we can look forward to fewer, and less versatile. writers.

Of course, there is a way around the difficulties imposed by the Supreme Court decision. No doubt some bright ed-ucato)- will come up with a grade school course to be called The Bible as Living Literature. I

Or, just In case this might be regarded by the courts as a subterfuge designed to mask religious indoctrination, the bright educator will call his course The Cultural Foundaticms of the West. and texts from Greek and Latin literature will be Included along with the Lord* Prayer, the Tweniy-third Psalm, and the Gospel According to St. Luke. There are way* of retaining the cultural advantages of exposure to religiou* texts in the schools.

My own particular generation was fortunate that the t r u e-false question had not displaced the essay as the measure of a pupils ability to get a passing mark in a course. The elec-tnmic scoring of tests had not yet been devised, so we wrote, and wrote, and then wrote again, in the effort to convey to our teachers what we had learned. This did not make us Into whizzes as quiz kids, but it did teach us to put words together actively. R is too bad that the Supreme Court did not outlaw the use oi the mechanical computer in grading tests instead of zeroing in on the Bible and the Lords Prayer.

WhUe the Spreme Court has, unwittingly, dcme its best to undermine the freedom of speech clause of the First Amendment by indirection, the Natkxial Labor Relations Board threatens to strike another indirect blow at the same Constitutional guaranty. The General Electric Company has devoted a lot of careful study to the business of communicating the bread and butter facts of International cMnpctitlon to its many employees. But a National Labor Relations Board trial examiner has suggested, In a preliminary finding, that General Electrics (Continued on Page 6)

Seeking Passports For U.S. Broileri

Strength For Today

. By EARL L. DOUGLASS DO SOMETHING

At the employment office the person in charge asks the question. What are you especially fiUed to do? Ai frequently the person to whom this question IS directed rubs his hands together and smiles with self-confidence as he replies, Oh, Im handy at most anything. I can do practically anything I set my hand to.

The persOT who says this is a drifter. He cannot do anything well or he would have a good job doing it right now. He slipped through school and through the time he should have been learning some special technique without giving any thought to the future. Today he is sort of a handyman, and a

poor one at that.

Prepare yourself in some special field so that when you go to an emplojrment- office you can look the receptionist In the eye and say, I have had three years definite training in this field or that, and am fitted to do a def-finite and useful piece of work.

Girls should be prepared for life work as well as men. They will probably marry, but they will make better wives if they have been subjected to the disciplines involved in learning some technigue. Purthiermore, they they may someday be widows cast upon their own resources.

Learn to do something definite. Prepare yourself for a definite and useful service in the world. Parents would do well to explain the significance of all this to their c)itK|ren.

By ELMER ROESSNER

This Is Chicken Day. American diplranats are meeting with the executive council of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade In Geneva. They will try to persuade the council to bring an end to the campaign against American poultry in the Common Market.

American ingenuity has brought automation to poultry. A farmer, with no more land than is necessary to erect a brooder, can ccmvert a few thousand day-old chicks into that many broilers, each weighing two and a quarter pounds, in six or seven weeks. The reclaimed fertilizer alone can almost pay for the next batch of chicks. Thats why Mrs. Calabash can buy ready-to-cook broilers for as low as 29 cents a pound, and sometimes cheaper.

This is one of the most fantastic bargain* of the world:

Americans can buy fresh, young, tender chicken at prices less than half of what they pay for bologna, and less than what they pay for scraps for the dog.

The techniques for converting eggs into succulent chicken meat are amazing. I know; I have gone through the plants in East Texas and watched the process. There is no waste motion, no waste grain and, most important of all, no waste time.

These techniques have enabled American chicken farmers to sell up to $60 million a year in chickens to Commtm Market nations.

But European promoters, adopting American techniques, have been producing chickens and demanding their governments limit the imports of American broilers. Their lobbying has been so effective that tariffs have been raised up to 50 per cent and imports have been cut 120 million a vpar.

COUNTER ATTACK

American exporters have demanded that GATT reduce tariffs to former levels. That is the demand to be presented to the executive council today.

The remarks will be quite formal. But behind the American ministers statement* will be the suggestion that America may impose retaliatory tariffs, and that European autos, fruits, wines and other products may find it more difficult to get to to bupers in the U. S.

In addition, the presence of President Kennedy in Europe at this time is expected to give added weight to American demands for lowering trade barriers. It is expected that he will make it clear that unless Europe buys more American products, the United States will have to react by raising barriers against European produce, and by cutting U. S. expenses in umlniftinlng trooQ* In

Europe.

HOW TO HIT BACK

Removal of American troop* and family spending units from Prance aiid Germany would be costly w those countries. They would lose some of their best, craziest free-spending customers. It would more than offset gains irom the bro* Uers tariffs.

The situation Is bigger than all of us chickens. The Common Market has already taken steps to limit other American exports, such as grains. If those countries can shelter local chl-cken-raisers by barring . S. broilers, then they can just as easily bar American grains and other farm produce and, perhaps, other products.

The chicken has become a symbol. If It and other American products are barred from ur(H>e, then the U. S. will bt forced to bar comparable Ear rooeaii goods.

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