Thursday. Aujrust 16, 1963

Solutions Rest With The Citizens

How many of the top-ranked student from they made excellent ^rade.s in high Hchool. Enti^nce high school graduating classes in this part of tho requirements for college admission has moved up state will not be entering colleges this fall either for rapidly in North Carolina in the past few years, financial reasons, or because their high school Requirements for passing grades of those who are career didnt adequately equip them for college in admitted have likewise been stiffened by most col-snite of high scholastic rating in the particular leges in the state. The re.sult ha.s been that marv rhool ^ ranking graduates from .smaller high schools

, . . ru,.niin if hav6 found it difficult to gain admittance to colleges.

Time and again in Eastern North Carolina it gained admittance have

has been pointed out that a large number of the themselves hard pressed-because of lack of

ranking scholastic graduates from smaller hi^gh educational backgroundto keep up with

schools do not enter college. By and large oas required in the first couple of years

been assumed that these youngsters have failed U

go to college because they The situation constitutes a two-fold problem

cial resources. Even with the many Hcho a 8 p Eastern North Carolina. There is the need for

able today, many of them ^ additional funds to assist qualified young people in

together sufficient funds to defray the cost of a col ^ college education. There is abso the

lege education. need for providing in many of the smaller high

Another factor that is becoming increasingly j^chooland some of the larger ones, tooa higher important to many of these youngsters is the defu- Hchola.stic program to meet the needs of stii-

ency in their high school curriculum even though desire to attend college.

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

AAiNC -- The state-owned Atlantic and North Carolina railroad, once 10 bankrupt that Gov. Clyde R. Hoey tried to five It away, haa now paid dividends of nearly $35.000 for each of the past three yean.

And, perhai more Important for future economic development along the route of the Old Mullet Une, Southern Railway will renew Its lease of the AliNC next year for an addlt-kmal 30 years.

Aouthem already has Investr ed more than $1 million In Im-provtns and rebuilding the once-defunct railroad and In long-range economic development from OoldsbcMt) to the coast at Morehead Qty. Operation of the line U In the black and freight volume la increasing.

STOCK The state of North Carolina, which laid the A&NC track more than a century so. owns 73 per cent of the 17,972 hares of outstanding AStNC stock.

Thus in a small but significant way. the current $2 per share annual dividends are beginning to repay the Investment the state plowed Into the A&NC when Ita operatlow were deep in the red and its crossties and trestles buckling and crumbling.

Barring unforseen calamity, A&NC president O. Akers Moore of Raleigh says, there's no reason why It slrould not go on paying dividends year after year."

The stock was worthless for so many years that matuxlng dividends on certificates that are lost or tucked away forgotten are accruing to the University tt North Candna escheats fund at a rate of more than $500 a year.

LEASE ~ The A&NC, after the colorful heyday of the Old Mullet Line'a excursions to the coast. feU upon bad times during the depression years. Its freight and passenger business dwindled away and its rails rusted from disuse.

Hoey, trying too save the states credit and weather the depression with ecwiomles, offered to give the line away but had no takers. Gov. R. Gregg Cherry later begged companies to take over and ball the line out of trouble.

FlnaUy. in 1939, a 2.5 year lease was negotiated. Norfolk Southern took over and tried to make a go of It and an Independent operating cimipany ran the railroad for several years. In 1957. Southern acquired the operating company, Atlantic and East Carolina raUroad (A&EC) by stock purchase, and also wanted to get the government - owTied Camp Lejeune line, but was refused Southern's acquisition fulfilled an old dream of establishing trunk line rail service to the North Carolina coast, a n e e d stressed by the State Ports Authority and state officials. RENEW Southern formally

notified directors and stockholders of the ANC last week that it wUl exercise its option to renew the lease for 30 years, extending control through AEC until 1994. This coincides with the term of Southerns lease on another state-owned line, the North Carolina raUroad, from Gold.sboro to Greensboro

Under terms of the leas e, Southern pays the state an annual rental of $60.500 plus ex-ce.ss rental of 10 per cent of volume In excess of $800,000 a year. This excess volume is increasing.

In 1962 there was an 8.1 per cent increase In total freight traffic and a 4.1 per cent Increase wa.s registered for the first six months in 1963.

FINANCIAL - A financial report at the 109th annual meeting of A&NC directors and stockholders showed total receipts from rentals and Interest of $136,689 for the year ending June 30.

After payment of $54.931,88 in federal, state and local taxes, expenses for minor repairs, $11

The .solution to both parts o tbis problem reyt with the public.. If citizens of any community are sufficiently intere.sted, they can find ways to increase the amount of financial help available to young people who want to go to college. If citizens of a community are .sufficiently interested in improving the academic standards of their local high .school, they can likewise see that the desired improvement is brought about.

But without sufficient intere.st on the part of rank and file citizens, little will can be done to solve either part of the two-fold problem.

The public school program must not be pointed entirely toward preparing youngsters for college, because, many of them will not enter college under any circumstances. It is a serious mistake for any community, to condone for itself a public school program which neither adequately prepares its youngsters for college nor adequately prepares them

i.0 move into the labor market on a competitive gy JJ^L BOYLF basis.

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NEW YORK (AP) Jumping to conclusions and how many do you agree with?;

Its not an easy task to draw a line and abide one big reason American wo-bv it when all the human instincts urge a violation men generally are poor athle-orthe rule in an emergency situation. ^orS^^

Certainly it was not an easy task for Greenville They are pampered and made officials and city firemen yesterday to stand by and to feel superior from birth, wT.23 for corporate operating ^ ^ a.ssHtance while the local Moose Temple, Therefore the only fole man^

S'alSt "cm. 20 feet outride Greenvilles corporate limits, Ond _;^erab,e a. Me ts the win-

increased to $85,153.82. was heavily damaged by fire. But in sports competition

But under the regulations governing the local somebody always has to lose.

fire department, the choice had to be made either

to abide by the rule or jeopardize the fire ratin*. They don't want to take the of all property witlpn the citys corporate limits, chance of losing particularly

In fairness to the city as a whole, the choice to in public. _

stand by and watch . . . and abide by the regulations, was the only one which could be made.

While Greenvilles fire department was pro

of guy who keeps most of the champagne corks popping In night clubs and pays the rent for most of the nations love

nests.

lionaire

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Is to a multimillion-

A phony, when asked what bores him most, almost invariably replies, "Phonies.

Toothaches are natures way of showing that all men are equal.

Secretary of State Thad Eure who haa attended almost every meeting of the A&NC since Hoey, described the report aa "vastly different from those of the lean years,

"Its now in the finest shape anybody living in the atate has ever seen It, he said.

Years ago, Eure slad, "the worry was how to keep the raUroad aUve. The Council of State worked on that more than all other matters before it."

STATUS The Inspections report also showed that the A&NC is fast becoming a first class line In terms of maintenance. roadbed, track, trestles, bridges and safety factors.

In respect to maintenance, "the lessee haa more than fulfilled the terms of their lease," the report said.

"The fiscal year 1963 has seen great strides in the betterment of the ballast situation consisting (A placing rock balla.st on better than 50 per cent of the main line; equal progress in the improvement of the trestle picture consisting of ellminat-

You can put it down as a fact that people who loudly object to contributing to organized charities are pretty stingy when it comes to private charity, too.

Fat men who go to iat doctors always enjoy life more than fat men who go to skinny doctors.

Other Editors Saying, abor Issues & Public

A wife with a balding, potbellied, middle - aged husband usually feels serenely safe from

- --- . ,1- feminine rivals. She couldnt be

vented by fire underwriter regulations from lending more wrong. This is the type assi.stance at the Moose Lodge blaze, equipmenL from 14 volunteer departments in the county responded to the call.

The .situation strongly suggests that efforts should he made to get fire underwriter approval for reciprocal agreements betw'een volunteer rural fire departments and municipal tire departments which would permit them to lend each other mutual assistance in emergencies. It also suggests that ^pe-cific fire districts in areas outside corporate limits of the county be established in an effort to cope with situations such as that which existed Wednesday morning. _____________

It should prod })roprietors of buildings adja- gress, the Department of Lab-

eent to (Ireouvilles corporate limits to consider an- or. the administration and num-pjciure consusung ui cmiuimi,- 11 ^ tm* v hnvA ^rous private citizens are al-

hig nine per -cent of exLstlng nexation by the city in ordei that the.v m.j nave sorting through the fam-

wooden structures; Increasing protection and other .services offered b.v depart- remedies in search

Never marry a girl who tries to catch the brides bouquet at a wedding with a first basemans mitt. Theres such a thing as carrying eagerness too far.

Most fellows hate to sit in even a friendly poker game wdth a preacher. They cant help feeling he may have a secret edge.

A penniless bum is never as deferential to anyone as a mil-

One of the things that puzzles me most is why the first thing God did was to invent invent Monday, But He proved His compassion when He got around to creating Friday.

Never trust a man who says hes "just an old country boy trying to get along. Real country boys dont brag about it.

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

The question of how far the federal government should go in controlling the collective bargaining process is being studied anew as the railroad manage-ment-rail union issue continues unsettled. Members of Con-

the strength of all remaining trestles 38 per cent; and permanent betterment of the cross-tie situation by Installation of 45,760 long-life creosoted crossties. The foregoing work is all In excess of the maintenance requirements of the 1939 issue.

The report added that major strides toward raising A&NC standards to that of a trunk line carrier were illustrated by the fact that 22.5 per cent of gross i-evenues were expended for Improvements and regular maintenance, compared with an average of 13 per cent spent for average maintenance by major trunk carriers.

ments of the city.

Washingtan Is In Slaw Swirl

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BY JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP' Washington is in a slow swirl. psychologically and politically.

It waits for the massive civil rights demonstration Aug. 28. hoping that whole memorable day will go off peacefully.

Negotiations between railroads and unions are stalemated. Unless some way is found to stop it, there will bo a railroad strike Aug. 29.

Tlie arrival and departure of l(H),0(K) or more demonstrators In one day, 'ven if everything l.s p< accful, will be an unforgettable burden.

But to have tlie denion.stralion followed the next day by a rail stiike would be piling elunax on climax.

While the city wait.<. Congress, hunihliiig along at the slowest puce in years, continues to drag its feet and may be here until the end of the year.

The center of this quiet stage is occupied now, and will be for a couple of weeks, by Senate liearings on the limited nuclear test-ban treaty.

That treaty, once approved, could be a fiendish emharra.s.s-inenl to the Kennedy adinlnis tration if tlie Ru.s.siuns tlien try tricks to American disadvantage.

II nothing goes wrong. U will Ih* an asset to President Kennedy in .seeking re-election If It goes wrong it will be an Issue in the 1964 campaign.

The udniini.stration. con.sciou.s o( both po.s.sibllilies, acknowledu es risk but InsLsls the treaty s advantages outweigh tlie disadvantages.

The two most likely Repnlili-can presidential candidates of now New^ Yorks Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller and Arizona s Sen. Bari-y Goldwater - are conscious of the for and against possibilities too.

Both have provided themseh e.s an "I told you so" if the treaty pioved a dud.

The treaty has wide popular .support. It .stoms sure to pa.'^.s the Senate by a wijle margin, and neither Hockili'ller nor Goldwater has come out agan^sl

it.

Rockefeller, in fact, has suggested it be approved but then he added a list waniing of things to look out for.

But most of the things he wanicd about already had been discussed in one way or another by the administration.

For Instance, he said this country should "pursue research and development in the vital area of antimissile defense.

He said that Sunday. Aug. 11. But on Aug. 1 at his news conference Kennedy said developing an antlniLsslle missile is "tieyond us and beyond tlie Soviets

He was supported in this Tuesday b.v SecrotaiT of Defense Robe il S. McNamara, testifying be--fore the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

He said developing an antl-mi.ssile system is something neither the United States nor Russia has solved. But he didnt say it was impossible.

And Tuesday Goldwater. who hasnt yet gone as far as Rockefeller in saying the treaty should be supported, added his warning. )

He hammered on the antiinis-.sile bu.sine.s.s. too. saying he waut.s "iion-clad as.surance de-\c!opmeut in this field w'ont be inhlliiteil by the treaty.

Goldwater l.s an Air Force Re-sei ve major general.

McNamara told the committer

I know of no one 0 fmy senior seie.stifu' advLseis and no one on the Joint Chiefs of Staff who recommend agaln.st the treaty with salewuards

Argument.' about the treaty .should provide the most excitement in W'ashington until the civil rights demonstration two weeks from today.

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The day the pes'umi.-'t rails liartly clmidy i." p.d'tly'4e,r"'to the optuni'^t. Dexter iMe.' Ila-teru tla/ettc.

of one that will protect the public against strike emergencies without unduly restricting free bargaining.

Recent events have resurrected old and still unresolvd questions about public intervention in labor-management disputes. The dilemma sometimes involved has been stated in this manner;

There exists a class of disputes in which the rights of the parties to resoit to unlimited economic warfare may have to be subordinated to the claims of the public to continued production and service. There is little disagreement with this principal itself. However, there is also little disagreement with a second principlethat the freedom to engage hi strikes is an essentail ingredient of collective bargaining which in tuiTi is considered desirable national policy. Yet it must be patent that instances can occur when the two prhiciples wlU conflict with each other. This, in esence. is the problem of national emergency strikes.

Judgments as to where the line should be drawn differ sharply. In general, most experienced exports on labor-management relations have been inclined to interpret the

concept of "emergency strictly, applying various criteria and even mathematical formulae to measure consumer dependence on the struck product or service w'hich neither stocks nor substitutes have been able to cushion.

Secretary of Labor Wirtz has pointed out that "popular reactions to a matter of this kind cannot properly be ignored, even though they may conceivable be the products of what experts in the field consider regrettable lack of complete understanding.

An Illustrative and only suggestive list of some public attitudes which may well be "wrong but which, nevertheless, probably prevail very generally would Include these; that we have had some serious national emergency labor disputes; that an emergency exists when the newspapers say it does; that the causes of emergencies which take the form of stoppages of production or services in essential industries are strikes rather than whatever causes strikes; that union demands are in general more likely to be unreasonable than management offers; that the monetary loss of a strike to the strikers will never be made up; that stopping a major interruption of the national economy Ls more important than the terms on which it is stopped.

The experts proof that we have never has a real emergency strike is probably less important than the fact that the public thinks we have. In any case, the public has not been deterred from attacking the problem by doubts of experts as to whether any such problem exists.

A poor woman who steals things from a department store is a shoplifter. A rich woman who steals things from a department store is a kleptomaniac. But theyre both trying to get something for nothing.

Only a gravedigger looks for opportunity in a town in which the cemetery is twice the size of the business district.

Opinions '.n Brief

"Now the administration l.s launching moves to correct the balance of payments deficit and its a relief to have something to worry about that We dont understand. Port Mysers (Fla.) News-Press.

"Contrasting the dollar with its pre-war value, the National Industrial Conference Board recently put it this way; An American family with annual income of about $7,500 in 1963 has the purchasing power of the $3,000-a-year-family of 1939. The reason: inflation and increased Federal Income and Social Security taxes. Nashville (Tenn.) Banner.

"With the hue and cry of school officials that more and more money is needed, the taxpayer Is beginning to question the sense of letting expensive buildings be idle the three months of summer. Air conditioning can make them as comfortable in July as in December. Laurel (Miss.) Leader-Call,

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

The United States baa Khrushchev over a barrel. The only drawback to the situation at this exceedingly prwitloua moment In history la that we have a positive genluB for failing to exact anything worthwhile when we make a trade.

How do we know that Khrushchev is In trouble? We get signals, sometimes obliquely relayed, fronq all over the idace. Khrushchev Is taking It as he has never taken It before. Mao Tse-tung, even though he Is in a position of exposed economio weakness, Is utterly careless when it comes to flouting the Kremlin. The East Europeans lack Maos vast temerity, but in their own sly way they are managing to tell Moscow what they think. The Rumanians, hearing that the most badwrard new nations in Africa are demanding complete eijuallty, let their Soviet masters know that they are tired of giving up more than they are getting when the terms of trade between the satellites and the Russian economy are set. Prom Czechoslovakia the news comes that the Supreme Court is juridically pardoning Communists who were hanged in 1952 for the great crime of trying to tie Czechoslovakias economy to the West."

All of these items go to paint a picture: Khrushchev must appease the peoples of Eastern Europe if he is to brazen It out with Mao Tse-tungs new "Fifth International In Asia.

So what does Washington do to capitalize on Khrushchevs troubles? It lets slip the information that Marshall Plan-type funds might still be available to any nation west of Asia." And it releases a story that the U.S. Is preparing to resume full diplomatic relations with Hungary. This sort of thing Is tantamount to announcing at an auction Just how high you are prepared to go even before your competitors have entered a single bid.

True enough, the story about resuming relations with Hungary contains a cautionary word that the move Is contingent on a "positive sign that the Ka-dar government wants better relations. And the name of Cardinal Mindszenty, who has been living in political asylunj In the U.S. Legation tl "Budapest, is mentioned. But freedom !>. the Cardinal to go into exile ix hardly enough If that is all that js to be proposed for a trade.

The truth is that Cardinal Mindszenty would regard it as a great defeat if he were foro ed, by Vatican pressure, to accept exile in Rome as a gift" from the Kadar government. Such a defeat is not in the works, for neither the present Pope nor his predecessor has considered putting any compulsion on the Cardinal, who is still Primate of Hungary, to quit Budapest under any terms other than his own. The Vatican may have hopes for the "opening to the East, but it is apparently not even asking lesser church figures than Cardinal Mindszenty to make unpalatable concessions to the Kadar government as the price of a "relaxation of tensions.

To make a case for hia own "leniency, Kadar released six Roman Catholic bishops from internment some time ago. But three of these bishops, Peteri, Badalik, and Szabo, have elected to take the same stand that Cardinal Mindszenty has taken. They were willing to accept release provided they could either return to their old dioceses or take up residence In Budapest. When these alternatives were denied to them, they freely chosen to return to their Internment quarters In the village of Hejcze.

Before Washington makes any deal with Kadar involving the resumption of diplomatic relations, let the proper conditions for such resumption be stated firmly. Condition Number One would be freedom for Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty to return to the seat of his diocese in Esztergom, there to take up his life from where he left off before 1956 when the Hungarian revolution was so brutally suppressed. Condition Number Two would be complete freedom for Bishops Peteri, Badalik, and Szabo to resume their ecclesiastic duties. Condition Number Three would be to let ths church, not the secretary of the Hungarian CommunLst Party, pass on the qualiftcatlons of candidates for seminary study.

Beyond all this, there should (Continued on Pagt I)

Wide Open Field Far Sauvenirs

BY ELMER ItOE.SSNER

What Ameiica need.s. ii seeni.s, is .souvenirs.

The National Retail Merchants As.sociatlon has flashed the word to the di'partmenl ami .speciality Stores of America; "Visitors 'from abroad complain that they find too few souvneirs of America to take home with them. Instead they find boutique items that come from their own lands. Since tlie number of foreign visitors IS constantly growing, and since were Uying to attract more to reduce our dollar exchange deficit, it makes good setuse to put the stores buyers on the trail of American sou-\enirs. and the U. S. has infinite variety.

Violent exception is hereby taken to the last clause.

The U. S has the .sparsest, lousiest souvenirs of any nation in the world Villages in Mexico have better assurUnenl.'^

THE .MEA(iRE SI PPLV As a reporter who has tiavel-

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ed in every state In the union, I can report that mo.st of our .souvenirs are made in Japan; that in New York, our iavored port of entry and departure, they consist largely of garish replicas of the Statue of Liberty, and that in Washington they consist of even worse replicas of the Washington monument and tiny Washington monuments in glass balls which create llie illusion of snow falling on the monument Or, there are many other bits of junk and decks upon decks of post cards. But are postcards souvenirs?

There are, of course, some tnae souvenirs available, such as Floridas canned rattlesnake meat, cans of fog sold in San Francisco, redwood burls for the Northwest, and some of the Indian crafted items, although Japanese-made imitations arc competing with the native item.s.

And in otlirr areas, most of the souvenirs are only trinkete. No sell respecting Indian would

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sell Manhattan for a freight car ful of them Union Station, in Washington, is a monstrous caveni of sleasy, inferior, disgraceful junk, foisted on loyal Americans as well as the suckers from abroad. So are many of the shops in other Stations and in airline and bu.s terminals.

WHAT AMERICA NEEDS So lets get with It and produce souvenirs that will ready give visitors constant reminders of their trip to Amertca and ' the greatness of the U. S. Here are a few suggestions:

A miniature jug of moonshine stoppered with a com cob.

A cubic inch of the soil of Texas, smelling of oil.

Miniature Maine lobsters, whittled out of pine in the winter.

Canned pizzas to show Italians how they should be made.

Small Swis.s cheeses for taking back to Switzerland.

LP records (A sound tracks of best-rated TV commercials.

Small tins of tha New Orleans hot suace for shrimps.

Used razor blades recovered from the Grand Canyon.

Bottles of fireflies recharged in the Tennessee Valley.

Silver replicas of FBI badges.

Sound tracks of nolst on tha Los Angeles Freeway.

Collections of 1,000 dllTerani-American trading stamps.

Toys discarded by Carolina Kennedy.

Canned hush-pupplea.

The list of REAL mementoes of the U. S. A. tha tldngs that would forever bring back memories of that once-ln-a-life-time visit to America could be much longer. If you have any Ideas on w^hat the real souvenirs of America should be. send them to me. Ill report the best and send tha rest to the National Retail Merchants Association.