Thuniday. August 1, 1968 ,

Over A Thousand New Jobs Helping

In Pitt as in other counties in Eastern North the peak in unemployment claims in Pitt County Carolina employment is moving to iU high point of this year was far below what the peak of claims the seasonal employment in agriculture and allied was several years ago. It reflects a leveling out of fields neaks in tie late summer and early fall seasonal changes in employment. It also suggesTs months ^hat more year-round jobs are becoming available

Even though it is common knowledge that the to meet the needs of residents of the county, situation will change in the late fall and early winter In recent years well over, a thousand new m-mnnfhs it is fitill encouraging that a point of nearly dustrial jobs have been created by new and exfull employment will be reached for at least a few panded industrial operations in Pitt County. These weeks ?ut of the year. jobsand the payrolU they represent have m

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Unemployment compensation claims have turn brought about hew jobs in other phases of dropped sharply in the past month at the Pitt office the economy of the county.

of the Employment Security Commission. The re- But Pitt, like many other counties, still has a maining 240 or so continuing claims that were filed long way to go before it absorbs its surplus labor with the office the last week in July are expected pool on anywhere near a year-round basis. The de-to dwindle to almost nothing between now and gree of success that has been realized in recent mid-October. years in the countys economic development should

The pattern in Pitt County at this time of year spur greater efforts to increase job opportunities Is not unlike the pattern in other counties of this and employment.

area. But during the late fall .and early winter It sounds good to say that Pitt will have virtu-months the trend will change as seasonal employ, ally no unemployment compensation claims for a ment drops off. Unemployment compensation few weeks this fall. But the rate of unemployment claims will rise sharply and remain at a high level at other periods of the year points to the great need for a number of months. for more year-round jobs in Pitt.

There is. however, significance in the fact that ^ T

Day Of Reckoning Is Rapidly Approaching

Uncle Samand thats usis rapidly approaching the day of reckoning with the serious balance of payments which face the federal government.

Either drastic changes are going to have to be made to curtail the flow of U.S. gold overseas, or Uncle Sam will find Fort Knox about as empty as Mother Hubbards cupboard.

Until a relatively few years ago, Uncle Sam had about all the gold he could hope for. He was sitting on a huge stockpile and more continued to

Slump Signs In N.C. Economy

Bf WILLIAM A. 8HIBE8

SLUMP There are signs of a defteilte slump in the overall business eoonomy (g Nwth Car-oUna sisoe %>rlng.

These signs include a substantial drop In building, sluggishness in department store sales and major appliances, a Isg in gptmding measured by bank debttfi snd the smallest Increase in Jobs in 18 months.

These reports come at s time when more people were at woi k earning more money than during any previous June in North Carolina and thus, to some extent. appear contradictory.

Compared with the same months a year ago. tte slump cannot be called seasonal. The downward turn has been noted for two mwilhs and when July reports are made, perhaps three months.

REPORT ~ In addition, a long-range economic ftmecast for the various states Issued by the Nstlonal Planning Asaocla-tion is causing concern and perplexity for North Carolinas economic planners.

This report predicts a decline for North Carolina in ranking for output level in the toUl naticmal economy by 1976. It puts North Carolina 16tb In the nation.

During this period, the report says gains in national economic output will be registered by Virginia. Georgia, Kentucky, Florida and Louisiana. Among the Southeastern slates, Ala-bama and Tennessee will be unchanged. North Carolina is listed In the declining column akmg with Arkansas, Mississippi. West Virginia and South Carolina.

The same report, which Governor Sanfords ec(Hi(nlc deve-k^nnent assistant, George M. Stephens, calls somewhat frightening, predicts that the state will not be able to hold its recent gains in per capita Income snd will drop back.

The projected ranking for per capita Inocnne In 1976 places North Carolina 42nd among the 80 states.

The report ranks California first. New York second snd Illinois third. Pennsylvania fourth, Texas flith and Oluo sixth. North Carolina Is behind Louisians, Florida, Virginia, and West Virginia.

PACT0R8 - All of the factors Involved In the formula for making long-range forecast are not clear. Primarily, however, it Is based on comparative rate of ecmomle growth since the late 1940s. and current trends.

It Is certain that economic progress will claim a great deal of attentlmi In reports now being prepared by state agency and department staffs. Gover

nor Sanford has asked for these detailed reports to take stock (Of) where we have come, where we are now compared to other statea and, more Important. where we are going in the next decade or so.

RATE There is also concern In economic development circles about a disturbing slowdown In the rate ai new industrialization in North Carolina.

This slowdown has been noted for more than a year. The rate d non-farm Job Increases per month has been declining gradually since last January. Total non-farm employment dropped 2.500 from May to June, but most of this decline was of seasonal nature.

During the 12 months ending June 30. total manufacturing employment rose by 5,100 Job.s and this was despite a loss of almost 3.000 Jobs In textiles.

JOBS The State Labor department reported June employment figures were at a record high for the month, with a total of 1,280,300 employed In non-agrtcultural work. This was 17.-400 above the job total for June, 1962, but down 2.500 from May. Percentagewise, the gain was only 1.4 per cent over June, 1962.

A breakdown showed 525,400 employed In manufacturing jobs and 734.900 In non-manufacturing jobs. Weekly esmlngs of factory w'orkers advanced 34 cents to an average of $68.64 In June.

BUILDING Building actlvl-ty in the state suffered a 15.4 per cent decline compared with the same month In 1962. The labor department reported building permits In 36 cities of more than 10.000 population totaling $19.215.669 for the same month a year ago.

The building total for the first six months of 1%3 was fractionally higher than for the same period in 1962, but the decline has been continuing for sevend months.

LAO The monthly North Csrolins business index issued by Wachovia Bank and Trust Co. declined in June for the second ccmsecutlve month and Wachovia economists reported the early summer economy was sluggish.

Bank debits, a reliable Indicator of business activity, declined 1.9 per cent between May and June. The bauik said, however, that the drop was not uniform and no trend was established. There were gains In Charolotte, Durham. Asheville. Wilmington and Kinston and drops In Raleigh, Greensboro and Winston-Salem,

At the aame time, the bureau of labor statistics reported Its cost of living Index hit a new high during June.

By PATRICIA MOORE

pour in from foreign countries every day. The ex- \

perts of the day couldnt get but just so worried kO Lv,/

when the balance began to change and a little ' X

gold flowed out instead of in. The backlog was ^

sufficient to meet most any demand, and anyway, metropolitan Green-

in the eyes of most experts, the change in balance viiie and a non-stop jet service was just a temporary condition which would quickly Greenville airport to Ay-

rever.se itself. in our fanciful little mind

But that was a few years ago. The outflow of (there are two of u^s in our

U.S. gold to other nations that began as a trickle ^^<1) it doesn^t has now become a steady stream that is draining picture a rolling g r e e n air-the reservoir. The seemingly inexhaustabb supply port with long paved runways

et Service

of gold Uncle Sam had only a few years ago has youTnoS!

proved to be exhaustable.

It could well be there ia a parallel between

the situation with the balance of payments and the

philosophy which still insists that Uncle Sam

doesnt have to worry al>out continuing deficits in

his annual budget. It is evident now that Uncle Siam

cant continue for very long the present trend in

his balance of payments to other nations. -------- _

..... . - , - way. glamorous people dlsem-

How long will it be before it becomes sufiici- oreenvuie. the

ently obvious that neither can Uncle Sam continue home of East Carolina College to live beyond hie means without the nation en-

countering serious, if not disasteroua, iinancial confusing maze of one-

difficulties?

sort of like bright beach cabanas. And lovely music like Percy Faith and orchestra doing Somewhere Over the Sea floating through the air.

Sleek limousines ferry passengers from the airport to the big hotel downtown (of course, there isnt one anymore). Okay, so they go to the motels. Any

way streets In the world, especially to tobacco fanners who come in this time of the year.

At any rate, there are glamorous people, some of whom are important national executives, and even movie stars and stage personalities like Joey Bishop.

They wear big sunglasses, and leopard 'skin scarves on their heads.

And have French poodles running all over main street.

You <jan hardly tell the movie stars from the college coeds.

Anyway, its a big time. And the best thing of all is when you ge|t reatjy to take a trip and get all dressed up, too. and go out to the airport. There, like the glamorous ones, you walk up the plane ramp and get a seat beside some stuffy person who talks too much.

Then you buckle your seat belt and the jet engines begin to warm up. There are the townspeople throwing tobacco

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Other Editors Saying. One Thoughtless Act

leaf leis around peoples necks and it is most entertaining.

Finally, the plane begins to move and the hostesses spill coffee all over the place. Somebodys baby comes rolling down the aisle because he didnt have his seat belt on and the awful flowered hat on the lady in front falls in your lap.

Like we said, it is very entertaining.

Its a non-stop takeoff by jet to Ayden. By that time the plane is really in the air and youre on the way.

It is obvious we took off a long time ago.

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BY JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) Southern politicians have attacked President Kennedy's civil rights bill, now in Congress, from seven main directions.

But Mlssisslppians particularly have personally attacked the President and his broqicr, Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy.

Although the announced purpose of tlie bill Is to guarantee Negroes equal treatment, the Southerners, all Democrats, have spent little time on Negroes rights.

Here are the seven directions theyve taken so far in statements at congressional committee hearings:

The Kennedys are trying to grab more power and have encouraged the Negroes, demonstrations; Communists must be mixed up In the Negroes, activities: and the bill Is unconstitutional. is a shortcut to tyranny, is an invitation to violence, and would deprive all Americans of personal and property rights.

The most controversial part of the bill the one which has brought the mast strenuous Southern objection.s involves public accommodations.

It would ban discrimination against Negroes in business places catering to the public, such as stores, restaurants, motels.

The personal attacks on the President and his brother came from three Misslssipplans Gov. Ross Baniett. Atty. Gen. Joe T. Patterson and Sen. John P. Stennls and from Alabama's Gov. George C. Wallace.

Barnett accused the President of "Sowing seeds of hate and violence, said his brother is personally respoi>sible for putting mobs in the street. and blamed both Kennedys for encouraging demonstrations, sit-ins and local law violations.

Patterson said Robert Kennedy has "demonstrated his immaturity, Irresponsibility and fiendish delight in wielding power and that the two Kennedys are far more responsible for racial violence than the ruthless leaders who are promoting racial unrest.

Stennls called the clvU rights bill a colossal grab for power by the attorney general. Wallace accused the President of bringing the nation to the brink of civil way by what he termed an attempt to appease the leaders of the Negro civil rights demonstrations.

South Carolina Gov. Donald Russell denounced the bill as coercive legislation which will breed resistance and perhaps violence.

Louisiana Rep, Joe D. Wag-gonner Jr. said the President has issued an open invitation to if Congress fails to enact his bill Negroes will seek a remedy in the streets.

Wallace, South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond and Arkansas Atty. Gen Bruce Bennett thought they saw Communist influence behind Negro demands for equal rights. None proved anything of the kind.

Sens. Sam J. Ervin Jr. of North Carolina and James O. Eastland of Mississippi, members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, hit the bill from another direction.

Ervin called It a short-cut to government tyranny and Eastland denounced It as a complete blueprint for a totaJitar-ian state.

Ervin, once a justice on the North Carolina Supreme Court in civil rights fights in Congress over the years usually has challenged the constitutionality of a bill. He challenged this one, too.

He said it would deprive all Americans of personal and prop-(Continued On Page 5)

(Washington Daily News)

When we read in the new's-papers or hear or see over radio and television about some r xial demonstration, we seldom stop to think that each one of them is fraught with many dangers.

We do not realize sometimes that a thoughtless act could actually turn a demonstration into a riot. Someone might make some remark, or someone might throw something into the marching demonstrators that could serve as the spark to set pandemonium in action.

We are told that something like this happened in our neighboring town of Williamston recently. A teenaged boy threw a firecracker Into a group of Negro demonstrators injuring three of them. The noise of the firecracker under conditions which at best are tense Is a dangerous act. We know full well that the boy who threw the firecracker did not realize the possible consequences of his act. Fortunately cooler heads prevailed and there w-as no riot and yet the possibUltles are clearly there.

We are of the opinion that p lot of troubles experienced in so manl communities might have come as the result of some thoughtless act on the part of some person who did not stop to think.

We are living In a day and in a time when little incidents are often magnified all out of proportion to their real importance. We talk of human rights every day now in America, but in reality we need to give more thought to human understanding and then human rights will

come out of mens hearts.

The fight for human understanding is a never ending one. Deep-seated prejudices still prevail, and if we are honest with ourselves and with each other, we must also recognize facts as they really are. We must also recognize that we are living in a world of change, and that we have only two choices trying to buck the prevaling tide and lose, or sitting down and trying to find solutions in a peaceful manner. Failure is always a recognized possibility, but demonstrations, riots, bitterness, and unrest are distinct realities in so many communities. All wx have to do Is to look about us to see what is happening. To say it cannot happen here is to take a most shortsighted and impractical view, ing problems and avoid the heartrending scenes so many communities have and are still experiencing, who can say that the wrong road has been chosen?

We must avoid thoughtless acts and provoking incidents and this means both races. We need to try to sow the seeds of accord and understanding and not try to set off the sparks of discord and prejudices.

The road ahead might be a difficult one. Frankly, perhaps we need to worry more about the present than the future. How ever, if we approach all our problems with a determination to find solutions, both the present and the future will take care of themselves. We have that much confidence in the judgment of our own people.

"Technological advances have made kids unnecessary, a tongue-in-cheek speaker told a group of educators the other day, because weve automated our kitchens and furnaces and put motors on our lawnmow-ers. Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune.

Its a toss-up which is worse: the sound of a transistor radio outdoors or the sight of the person who lovingly carries it, usually walking about open-mouth andor glassy-eyed."The New York Times.

Some people are concerned less about what the future will bring than about how they will finance It. Another thing about the future which amazes those who worry about it is the rapidity with which it arrives.Mattoon illl.) Journal-Gazette.

"In spite of seeming difficulty in solving some of his problems, man is an optimist. And he should be. Were It not for this inherent optimism his difficulties would appear Insurmountable and would present permanent stumbling blocks In the path of his progress. Laurinburg (N.C.) Exchange.

"Retirement is a misnomer. Its really the time for your second career. Time for the old dog to perform new tricks, not to rest and rust.Mattoon (111.) Journal Gazette.

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

COPYRIGHT, 1963, KING FEATURES SYNDICATE, IDC.

The worst aspect of our heavily emonial preoccui;nUon with the integiatira issue is that it is almost certainly bound to be used to prevent a broad-scale political test next year between liberalism (modern statist style) and conservatism, or individualism. Unless there Is a revulsion frMU current fashions in argument nobody will be able to discuss any subject ratkHially untU the first Wednesday after the flret Tuesday after the first Mraday of November, 1964.

The difficulty of keeping a conversation or a "dialogue, to use the current cliche from descending immediately to t h e shooting stage was illustrated last week at the Governor Cton-ierence In Miami Beach. For example, when Governor Rommey of Michigan tried at one point lo canvass the subject of encroachment by the federal government of the state governments In matters of taxation and welfare programs, the response he got was a heavily loaded question, "Are you for Birmingham? If Romney had not made a quick switch from problems that beset the community of Birmingham in his own state of Michigan, his answer might have been vastly misimder-stood.

Whenever Senator Barry Gold-waters name came up at the Governors Ccmference, It evoked a simplistic, or simple-minded, respcmse. A single question w'as hurled at various governors re-

repeatedly; Do you consider Goldwater to be segregationist? Pat Brown of California said he did: Romney said he didnt know what Goldwater was: New Yorks Nelson Rockefeller ducked the question by observing that his good friend Barry had not extricated himself from the clutches of the radical right.

Nobody seemed to consider that It inight be relevant to consult Goldwaters record in promoting integratiwi in his home state of Arizona, or to quote the Senators often-reiterated contention that the states should ex* ercise moral responsibilities on their own. And certainly nobody cared to broaden the discussion of Goldwaters views to cover the Senators attitude toward Cuba, taxes, radioactive fallout. aid to education, or Secretary McNamaras ideas about running the Pentagon.

Since In a pre-election year politicians are bound to spend practically all their time either politicking or answering leading questions prompted by politicking, the Governors Conference might be written off as just one of those things.

Unfortunately, the Idea that it might be good for all-around clarity to get a vote on the Ub-eral-versus-conservative issue next year is also being shouted down at the grassroots. A businessman friend of mine who is a person of influence in t h e Reading region of Pennsylvania tried the other day to bring his daughter, a recent graduate of Smith CoUege in Northampton, Mass., into an adult caucus on national politics. The girl objected to the very Idea of letting Americans have a chance to express themselves by vote on the liberal - versus - conservative theme. When her f#her and her fathers friends tned to draw, her out on the subject of majority rule, she simply stuck to her feeling that it would be bad for everyone to allow a conservative to secure power even by a legitimate consensus of fifty-one percent of the population. ^ ^

The daughters state of mind has her father worried about the antl-democratic implications of Ivy League college education.

"My daugher, he says, "considers herself a liberal. So do all the teachers and educators who have influenced her into this frame of mind. As I define the word, they are not liberals at all. They are simply community casuists. They know better. They want a dictatorship of the intellectuals. They will force us to be liberal.' as they define the term even though they have to jail us to do it.

And what better way of preventing a democratic showdown next year between statist liberals and anti-statist conservatives than by making the race issue, as defined by those who consider Goldwater a segregat-Iwilst. the single test in choosing candidates for both parties?

Auaust Will Continue Sluggish

Strength For Today

BY EARL L. 1>0UGLASS HAYDNS JOYFUL HEART

Some one asked the great composer Haydn why his religious music was so cheerful. "I cannot. he said, "niakt* it* otherwise: I write according to the thoughts I feel. When I think upon God. my heart Is so full of Joy that the notes dance and leap, as it were, from my pen. And since God has given me a cheerful heart, it will be pardoned me that I serve Him with a cheerrful spirit.

And why should we not worship God with a cheerful spirit? The one continuous promise of the Bible, Old and New Testament alike, is tliat when God gets hold of mens hearts. He gives them joy. We distort our religion when we make, our

faces long and our voices solemn and our words censorious. One of Satans most subtle temptations is to make us believe that this sort of things if of God. The Bible insists that what is of God is good cheer, joy, peace, a radiant spirit.

No wonder Haydn wrote so cheerfully when hs though upon God. A consciousness of Gods purpose m^es even the most unmusical neart to sing. The note of yoy runs through all our religion, and he who has "got religion has, with it, laid hold cm joy immeasurable.

The term, a long-faced Christian Is mistaken and ridiculous Jesus came to bring us Joy, to give us a joyful mind. Let us cheer up. and do it definitely for Gods sake and our own.

By ELMER ROESSNER Spotty sluggishness whicli developed In business in July will continue in August. Both negative and positive Influences will be felt during the month. In balance. the positive Influences may outweigh the others a bit but not enough to tip a new boom upward.

On the negative side:

The stock market will be under considerable pressure. The bearish effects of the Securities and Exchange Commission have not been fully discounted yet. The New York Stock Exchange stood up bravely under the adverse publicity and stocks faltered no more than they might have otherwise during a summer week. But it is significant that a seat on the exchange was sold for $160,000, compared wdth prices of $210,000 on June 10 and $205,000 on June 15. Insiders obviously expect less trading on the big board.

INTEREST RISE TO BE FELT

The Increase in the rediscount rate the rate at which member banks can borrow from the Federal Reserve ais tended

to slow business a bit. And since tlie rediscount rate influences mortage and consumer credit rates, the change may directly affect business in August.

Mortgage rates are certain to rise and they w'ill go up just at a time home building is faltering. Housmg starts in June w ere 6 per cent below May starts, although 11 per cent higher than those of June, 1962. August rates may show a drt^) from July figures, not yet tabulated.

Increases in consumer credit rates will probably not have much affect on Instalment sales because many buyers never check on interest charges.

Walter W. Heller, qhief economic adviser to President Kennedy, said that while business was still going ahead, "its not an expansion that'wiU eat into the unemployment unless we have a tax cut. (We wont.) ON THE OTHER HAND

On the plus side are these factors:

President Kennedys propovsal to levy taxes on foreign iiivest-

divert considerable investor money to American exchanges, thus counteracting beailsh Influences on stocks to a limited extent.

Personal income, which rose in June and probably in July, will rise further in August, thereby bolstering retail sales.

However, retail sales, which have been running 4 per cent above year - ago marics, wUl slow dow'n a bit, partly because consumers are a bit uneasy: partly because comparative figures last year were run up In the post - Black Monday recovery. Sales will shoot ahead when the 1964 auto models appear In the showrooms.

Construction will continue to rise over last year, partly because of tax concessions enacted last year. P. W. Dodge Corp. reports that construction Is running ahead of his optimistic predictions of last fall.

Business will be accelerated during I August as many companies speed up orders and deliveries to beat the threatened railroad strikes. It looks as if

ther in final talks between railroads and unions, or in Congressional action. Many companies are planning as if a strike were certain. Theyll win if a strike comes but they cant lose if it doesn't.

But a quick settlement of the dispute can give the economy an even more powerful lift than if received when the steel strike was averted. The prosperity and good will generated could keep the economy humming for the rest of the year.

ments. van If never acted, wUl ^ the last showdown is near, ei-

SHORT & SIGNIFICANT BUSINESS NEWS ITEMS. ... , The average salary of an office worker in the United States rose from $77 a week in 1962 to $80 a week this year, according to the National Office Management Association. . Weekly department store sales through mid - July were 4 per cent higher than in the same period of 1%2. All Federal Reserve districts showed gains ex-cept that of Cleveland, no gain, and Philadelphia, down l per cent. The Atlanta district was up 9 per cent, the mostes.