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Thursday, June 27, 1963

Legislators Did Seek Compromise

'Sorry To Cut Your Ship Adrift

There can be little doubt that the 1963 General Assembly in its final days made an all-out effort to compromise the controversial Senate redistricting question and hammer out an acceptable solution to the problem.

It is also evident by the legislatures own calr for a special session later this year that a majority of the members of both the House and Senate recognize that their work will not be completed until a reasonable redistricting measure is enacted.

Gov. Sanford should by all means call the special session of the legislature within a few months for the purpose of ironing out the Senate redistricting issue which has been hanging fire for more than a decade now. In the meantime those who will serve in the special session should be giving careful consideration to proposals already presented for redistricting the Senate and to new approaches to the question.

When the 1963 General Assembly convened in early February one of the paramount problems before it was the redistricting of the Senate. When the session was adjourned late yesterday afternoon, this remained the paramount problem. It is regrettable that the taxpayers of the state will have to foot the bill for a special session on the Senate redistricting pronlem. It is regrettable that members of the

Greenwood Bids

Bor SDeakership

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

SPEAKERThere have been relatively few speakers of the House from west of the Blue Ridge to serve the legislature during the past 65 years.

There have been only two or three speakers from the far west the last one being J. Kemp Doughton of Sparta, in Alleghany County, in 1957.

But the far west frequently has held the balance of power In electing a speaker according to the traditional east-west rotation of the speakership. And now it's very possible that the west is in a position to have another man wielding the gavel in 1965.

Yes, I'm definitely a candidate for speaker, says Rep. Gordon Greenwood of Buncombe County in an adjournment announcement.

GREENWOODThe fact that Greenwood is actively seeking the speakership has been well known throughout the 1963 session, and for some time prior to convening.

In fact the elect-Greenwood drive began nearly a year ago when a group of western North Carolina legislators and political leaders decided the time was ripe ior a western speaker In 1965.

They went to Greenwood, a modest, unassuming Black Mountain newspaper publisher and outlined the plan. Greenwood, then actively suppoiting the campaign of lus close friend, H. Clifton Blue, for speaker m 1963. agreed.

RACE Greenwood and the western bloc leaders are realistic enough to realize that the west alone, approximately 24 counties, must have an alignment elsewhere to elect a speaker.

They know too that a close race is shaping up for the speakership. Personable younk H. P. (Pat) Taylor Jr. of Anson County is also a candidate, and a formidable one. The Greenwood and Taylor forces have been waging a friendly but firm tug-of-war for support for several months.

Both sides claim considerable 6uppoi-t among incumbent legislators.

OUTLCX)K WhUe Taylors backers claim support of about 50 votes hi the present House membership, Greenwood is also optimistic,

Tt looks very good. Greenwood says. There has been a great deal of encouragement and quite a bit of pledged support. There is support from all sections of the state.

I would say that at this point we are about where Cliff Blue W'as in his campaign for Speaker.

Blue, meanwhile. Is being urged to enter the race for lieutenant governor next year and has picked up considerable support. Some observers say Blue is the leading candidate for lieutenant governor at this stage.

If Blue and Greenwood both should be successful, the presiding officers of both House and Senate in 1965 would be weekly new'spaper publishers. Blue is editor and publisher of the Sandhill Citizen of Aberdeen.

COMMITTEE It was veteran Rep. Jame.s Vogle rof Mecklenburg County who put the "hatchet label on the Hoij^e calendar committee.

Then Vogler himself felt the bite of the calendar committees ax on Ills bill to appropriate $150.006 for a proposed Cameron Morrison Park on a site in downtown Charlotte.

Vogler went to Detroit on a trip last week and had sent fellow' calendar committee members mimatui-e hatchets to wear in their lapels. Most of the members were sporting them when Vogler returned Monday night and brought up his Morrison park bill.

This is a good bill, he said, and if you can find the money it ought to be passed. He pointed out that Charlotte and Mecklenburg County would put up half of the funds to acquire the site and establish the park adjacent to the Mecklenburg Public Library.

"Cameron Morrison was known as the good roads gcn^- ^ ernor, and served as U. S.Senator, and was an distinguished a public servant as North Car-oima ever had, Vogler said. He said, a bronze statue would be erected in the park and would be visited by as many people each year as any park or monument in the state.

REJECT But the calendar committee had reservations a-bout such an appropriation for a tiny, 45 by 150 foot ploy of ground for ^e park. Vogler argues "that's the price of land uptown.

But Rep. Liston Ramsey of Madison County said Im not in the real estate business, but that'^ a million dollars an acre and thats too much.

Rep. George Uzzell of Rowan, finally extended Vogler a bit of preliminary courtesy. "Do you w-ant it postponed indefinitely or an unfavorable report? he asked.

"Whats the difference? Vogler replied.

Rep. Mark Bennett of Yancey volunteered that one "is for Democrats and one for Republicans. The bill was postponed Indefinitely.

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legislature, after serving in a session which" equaled the longest on recoi*d, will have to return to Raleigh soon for another special session. This, however, is the price that the state and its legislators is required to pay for the failure of the Assembly to enact a Senate redistricting measure during the regular session.

It is imperative that the issue be rsolved in a positive and reasonable manner by the legislature at the earliest possible date. North Carolina can ill afford to have the matter of Senate redistricting thrown into the courts because its legislature is unable to agree on an acceptable redistricting methoE

Welcome Reflects A Bond Of Friendship

The welcome President Kennedy has received on his current trip to Europe, .particularly that at West Berlin, reflects a strong bond of friendship between the masses of those European countries and the United States.

If the United States and its policies toward international affairs were not highly regarded by the people of Europe, the President, as representative of the government and people of this country would not have received the overwhelming welcomes where he has visited.

Reaction to the Presidents visit suggests that ties are now stronger between the United States and its allies in Europe than they were several years ago. In spite of the rifts that have taken place at top levels of government between the Western nations there appears to have been a strengthening of the bonds of friendship and unity of purpose. Particularly along the frontier with the communists, the people have been most enthusiastic in welcoming President Kennedy. This tends to reflect not only appreciation for U.S. policic.-^. but likewise confidence in the ability of the Western powers to contain communism and eventually roll it back.

The entire tenor of the visit reflects the feeling on both sides of the Atlantic that the well being of individual nations which make up the Western world are inextricably lied together. A unified front to deter communist advances and to meet the challenges hurled from Moscow is vital to the interest of each individual nation,

(Tn-tainly this current visit of President Kennedy to Europe is one of the mo.^t successful of any by a President of the United States.

A Patient Wait To Get DeGaulle

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Settled Over A Phone

A nice man in a nice neighborhood, whom we shall call Man No. One, had retired for the evening. In other words, the hour was late and he was in bed asleep.

The telephone rang and an irate voice, which we shall assign to Man No. Tw'o. said "Will you shut that dog of yours up. His barking is disturbing my sleep.

Man No. One recognized Man No. Two's voice but said nothing (he didnt have a chance because the receiver slammed down).

The ne.xt evening, when the hour again approached very late. Man. No. One dialed the telephone number of Man No. Two and said, "I dont have a dog.

thing here of the valuable art objects missing from East Carolina College, especially since we had written here so much of the more invaluable ones the teapots and coffee pots.

So far our investigation has turned up a lot of people who would like to have had the objects, and who .speak enviably of the takers, but they are "clean.

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) Pres-dent Kennedy waited six months until he got to Europe to do an cxtrordinary job on French President Charles De Gaulle for the damage he had caused the Western Alliance.

In a rough, deliberately planned major policy speech Tuesday at Frankfurt, Germany, Kennedy, with all Europe listening, ripped into De Gaulle for .suggesting America might run out on its Allies in case of attack.

This was probably the harshest critici.sm even though Kennedy did not mention De Gaulle by namethat any U. S. president has made on an Allied leader since the war.

This made the relationship between the two men frigid. It was already cold. De Gaulle pointedly had not asked Kennedy to stop off in France on his trip that takes in West Germany, Ireland, Britain and Italy.

Of all the days in the year on which he could have belittled the United States, De Gaulle picked the worst one, last Jan. 14, the day Kennedy delivered his State of the Union message to Congress.

That was an extremely sunny, optimistic Kennedy message which said: "How fares the Grand Alliance? Free Europe is entering into a new phase of its long and brilliant history.

De Gaulle made the words look ludicrous before Kennedy got them out of his mouth. The Frenchman held a news conference just a few hours before Kennedy spoke, The timing was no accident. He hold few such conferences.

And, when he does, the questions have to be submitted beforehand. In summary. De-Gaulle did these four things:

1. He rejected this countrys proposal for a multinational nuclear force and proclaimed hi.s determination to build a seperate French nuclear force.

This was exactly what Kennedy didn't want. It meant one more nuclear power in the world and would be encouragement to other countries to do the .same.

2. He .slammed Europes Common Market door In Britains face, treating his British ally as an outsider.

This gummed up American-British hopes for a united European economic effort and weakened both economic and political unity among the Allies.

3. He said France opposed a Common Market "under American leadership and domination.

This was a slap in the face. It galled the United States, which resented the suggestion it was trying to run Europe.

4. He complained that while the United States talked of a multinational NATO nuclear force for Europe, that force would remain under U. S. control.

He hit the mark there. Under law' passed by Congress, this goveiTiment must retain full control of nuclear weapons, deciding whether or not to use them.

On April 19 De Gaulle kicked the United States again by suggesting France could not be sure of the intentions of its Allies, much less of its enemies.

In short, from the American view, he had endangered the W'hole alliance.

Against this background tt is understandable why Kennedy on his present European trip has repeatedly assured the Allies the United States would defend Europe from attack even if it meant attack on the United States.

He said Tuesday that "the United States will risk its cities to defend your because we need your freedom to protect ours.

But he went far beyond that by implying De Gaulle was playing into Soviet hands by casting doubt on the alliance and American intentions.

He said: "Those who would cast doubt on our pledge those who would separate Europe from America or split one ally from another would only give aid and comfort to the men who make themselves our adversaries and welcome any 'Western disarray.

He called separate "national deterrents meaning De Gaulle's plans for a nuclear force separate from NATO's turning "the clock back.

He went beyond the political and military and calle(i again In most earnest terms for the kind of European economic unity De Gaulle has prevented.

Any former coziness in the Kennedy-De Gaulle relationship is gone.

It behooves us to say some-

Speaking of takers, it was ju.st recently that the situation of shop lifting in grocery stores was brought to our attention. We learned that evidently there are large nvunbcrs of people who spend time scheming about how to get more for their money not by careful buying but by careful selecting.

For instance, they put an ex-

Other Editors Saying... Scared Of Our Children

The Charleston (S.C.)

News And Courier Much is being said and written these days about unemployment among youngsters, especially those seeking their first job on leaving school. Last month it was reported that 18 out of eveiy 100 teen-agers w'ho wanted Work could not find a job. Much headshaking and soul-searching goes on about this situation. Secretary of Labor Wirtz has warned that teenage idleness may become one of the most explosive social problems in American history. Noting Mr. Wirtz comment. The New York Times says in an editorial:

"When young people find the doors of opportunity locked against them in their first attempts at economic independence. they look for an outlet in revolt. It may take the form of the retreat from reality of the beatnik: it may express itself in crime or street fighting; it may mean enlistment under the demagogic banner of political or racial extremists. The frustration of German youth in the late 20s and early 30s provided Hitler with much of the impetus for his Brown Shirt movement . . . Our automated industrial society has less and less use for those without skills or the schooling to acquire skills. . .If anyone wonders why Negroes refuse to w'ait longer for equal treatment, he need only compare this figure (one out of ten Americans who failed to finish elementary school has no job) with the Presidents report that in some states 40 per cent of the nonwhite population has completed less than five years of school, as against 7 per cent of the white population.

The News and Courier cannot accept the doleful view of an oncoming generation with blood in its eyes. The notion that "the world owes me a

living Is not new, but the picture of a great country quivering with fear of youngsters having that attitude is both novel and frightening. The Times and other responsible spokesmen seem to be painting such a picture. Their solution is education and more education.

The News and Courier also favors education. It does not believe, however, that classrooms can cure every economic and social ailment. Some individuals simply cannot take more than a limited amount of education or, as the case may be. technical training. For them, the prospect of manual labor still ought to be preferable to starvation, welfare handouts or enlistment in the ranks of revolution.

Despite automation, plenty of work remains to be done by hand. Social status and high wages have not removed the necessity for performing old-fashioned chores. Not ev-ery-body can be an executive or a high-priced technician. In a free country, any one can find a niche for himself unless he is a physical or mental cripple. A great deal of the trouble today, as we see it, is in the universal habit of spoiling people children and adults alike In the name of "opportunity.

The founders o our country made their own opportunities. Plenty of work needs doing. Those who regard themselves as too good to take the only jobs they are qualified to do ought not to be coddled, or allowed to become emblems of fear. Necessity always has been the greatest Incentive to make man fully exert his talents and his energies. It is no favor to treat the human race as a mass-of incompetent and potentially dangerous babies in need of constant nursing lest they turn savage and devou rtheir brothers.

pensive Item In the bottom of a paper bag and cover it up with less expensive items and are just charged for the latter. They take seals off canned goods and .substitute less expensively priced seals.

They empty small Items Into hidden linings and pocketbooks and even eat some food before getting to checkout counters.

They substitute wrappers as well, and take things from one carton and empty them into a less expensively marked carton.

We have felt very naive about this whole business, because In our history of grocery shopping we have never suspected any of these things happened, yet statistics say they do.

However, shortly after discovering all this, we w'ere in the grocery store one day and suddenly realized that someone had taken our whole grocery cart.

We guess one learns by experience.

Ooinions

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The entire Kennedy family Is said to be pleased, understandably, over the prospect of a new addition to tlie First Family. Understand theyre hoping its a governor. Lexington Leader.

"There is stm. whatever

the validity of arguments for equality for women, a general feeling that jobs for men should come first.Birmingham (Ala.) News.

Escape from routine Is delightful. But those fleeing to the seasohe or the mountains arent going to enjoy it if they spend their two weeks analyzing the reasons for the flight. Huntington (W.'Va.) Herald-Advertiser.

"Man and boy weve been plugging highway safety for seems-like ninety-nine years and the nearest we ever came to success was when a blonde, turning left from a rlght-turn lane, leaned out the window and yelled: Sorry. Mister.

She still turned left.Asheville Citizen.

"Freedom without fear; strength without coercion; pride without arrogance; and an endless sense of the worth of man, not only in the mass but in the one these are marks of The Good Society. Industrial News Review.

"A genus Is sui^one shrewd enough gnd lazy enough to do things right the first time." Dawson County (Ga.) Advertiser.

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1963, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

It has become ritualistic with a certain type of "liberal to bewail the "image that the United States presents abroad because of its racial troubles. The self - flagellating liberal does nothing to state the case for the truthful image of America, which is one of halting, hesitant, spotty but nonethel ess genuine progress in relations between the races.

The very fact that the Negro has reached the point of daring to organize marches and counter - marches to demand new civil rights all over the na-tiwi bespeaks a confidence that rests on a slow long - term development that the self - flagellating liberal never mentions when he is busy apologizing to the rest of the world. To Usten to this type of liberal you wouldnt know that the Negro has staged a dramatic break-through in virtually every Important realm of self - expression. The Negro has certainly not been in btHidage here.

To put things in perspective, lets run over the lists for a bit.

In the world of the dance Negroes have been doing marvelous things. There is James Mitchell In ballet and Mary Kink-son In the Martha Graham Modem Dance Company. The Talley Beatty Group astounds audiences with its ferocious energy, Donald McKayle, or Danny, as he is know-n to everybody, has just carried off the Capezio Award for 1963 for hLs translation of deeply rooted American folk material street games, modem blues, and so on into first - rate theatrical dances.

In music there are Marian Anderson and Leontyne Price. Everybody knows Louis Armstrong, of course. Long ago both Charles Gilpin and Paul Robeson broke a pathway to the Broadway stage, using Eugene O-NeUls The Emperor Jones* as their vehicle. Before becoming an actor with an international reputation who played a remarkable Othello in London, Robeson was an All-American football player at Rutgers,

In aU varieties of sport lha Negro has been writing a fascinating and substanal history. No one could crack a line to beat the late Ernie Davis of Syracuse University. The fans of Birmingham. Ala., who have never had a chance to watch Willie Mays make one of bus basket catches In center field have no idea what they hava been missing. "Satchel Paige, who has continued to pitch great baseball well into his fifties. Is not only a fine athlete with public acceptance in at least forty-eight states, but a droU with whose remarkssuch as never look back, .somebody might be gaining on you are repeated everywhere.

This columnist is now fifty-nine years old. The first essay he ever had published in a magazine was called "The Negro as Writer. It appeared in the now defunct Bookman more than thirty years ago, and it concentrated, as I recall It, through the mists of time, on the work of such nineteenth century Negro novelists as Charles W. Chestnutt and the Negro poet. Paul Laurwice Dunbar. Since then Negro writers have been appearing all over the place. James Baldwin Is wily the most recent in a group of vibrant protestors against the fates reaching back to Claude McKay, author of an excellent novel called "Home to Harlem. which appeared in the nineteen thirties. McKay was also a fine poet, as witness his sonnet that begins with the line "If we must die, let It not be like hogs. Other Negro writers who never had trouble getting through to white audiences include Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, Coun-tee Cullen and Gwendolyn Brooks.

No, the Negro has had no great difficulty making himself helper. But as George Schuyler, xHe Negro journalist and historian, writes, the Negro has not always used his money wisely to solve his own economic problems. "If we can build million-dollar churches, says Mr. Sch-cyler, "we can build plenty of $40,0(W houses for the talented tenth or buy into cooperative apartment houses. There must be a half thousand cities and towns Where Negro - owned businesses could do as well as white - owned businesses. Funds now being sought to bail plcke-ters out of Jail would certainly help finance a holding con> (Continued On Page 5)

Gheaper TV Sets Are On Way

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS ........HE IS HERE

What does the New Testament teach about Christ?

It tells us that he was a great tcacherthe greatest that ever lived. He was an astounding personality. He performed miracles which transformed multitudes of afflicted people into joyful men and women Uv-inp life to its full.

But this Jesus waus crucified. He ro.se from the dead. He al-cended into heaven. And although he has left the world he has not really left it. He Is in the world spiritually, and his spiritual presence is even more potent and significant than was his physical presence two thousand years ago. He is a vast spiritul force, a personality touching tf)c live.s of everyone who will permit him entrance to their thoughts and purposes.

He forgives sin and gives that coveted second chance, the third chance, the three himdredth chance, or the ten thousandth chance. He is the Light of the World. Even when we walk With him we may stumble, but we will not fall, or if W'e do fall we have a helping hand lifting us again to our feet.

Every Christian should think of Jesus Christ as an inner spiritual force in his life. He renovates mind and soul and causes us to live with cleanness of thought and high purpose. He gives guidance and inspiration. He enables us to do the impossible.

He is right here. Become awaie of him and live. His requirements are not achievement but sincerity, faith, and the desire to be better and do better.

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By ELMER ROESSNER

The American television industry has been jolted by the introduction of a 16-inch receiver for $99.95 by Emerson Radio. The set is all American made.

This cracks the $100 price line for a 16-inch all - American set. It has double significance:

1. It shows that American efficiency can offset cheap Japanese labor.

2. It shows that manufacturers are able to sell sets at less than previous prices.

It may also underscore the trend to smaller sets. Large 24-lnch and 2-Inch sets are no longer status symbols. CHEAPER SETS A TREND

There has been a trend toward cheaper* sets. Manufacturers have long been aware of the fact that expansion of their markets waa.possible only at the lower end.

Last moatb General Electric

introduced an all . American 11-inch set at $f)9.95, the same price as Emersons 16-inchcr.

In January, a Japanese 16-inch set was introduced in the U. S. at $79.95. However, this tumed out to be a promotional price, and was later raised to $95. In March, a Japanese 16-inch set was offered in Philadelphia for $59.88, but this was also a promotional deal and was soon sold out.

The Emerson set. coming close on the GE offer of its 11-inch set. appears to have upset Japanese manufacturers, according to reports from Tokyo to Home Furnishings Daily. WHERES MARGIN

For some time Japan, with Its low wage scale and tremendous drive to outproduce other nations, has been taking over more and more parts of the worlds electronics market.

Japanese transistors have become so cheap that many American firms have given un try

ing to compete, and Defense officials have become concerned over the possibility that a war might find the U. S. with much of its electronics capacity rusting, dusting away.

But the new low prices now being offered for all - American sets seem to provide an end to the worries.

Other benefits to taxpayers may be these:

American-made receivers may become constantly cheaper as 'other manufactures are forced to meet Emerson and GE prices;

Color TV sets may become cheaper as manufacturers are forced to close the greatest gap between color and black and white.

There might be other benefits. Manufacturers might get oa with development of a receiver that projects Its picture on a 10-by-10-foot screen, and the receiver that hangs on the wall like a Picture.

SHORT & SIGNIFICANT BUSINESS NEWS ITEMS Metal tubes developed for space craft may save lives on earth; such tubes used instead of auto bumpers might cut injuries by half, according to the ITT Research Institute. . .The toy bcsiness is getting away from fads and novelties and is returning to such basics as trucks, guns, etc., according to Robert Silverstein, president of Eld(xi Industries. . .The Coast and Geodetic Survey. In keeping with inflationary trends, is Increasing its Radio Fac 11 i t y Charts 40 to 60 per cent, but some other chart prices have been cut or, as the government says, "revised downward. . . c An employer who took his staff to Florida for a vdation discovered he had to pay Social Security taxes on their vacation expenses as wages, and employees had to pay Income taxes on the value of their vacationa.

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